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Liu Xia and Liu Ling took the bus at 23:09 on the day of Jizao 30, and they returned home when it was dark. When I got home, I was so tired that it took too much effort to hold chopsticks.

Walking down the steep mountain road with things on the back in snowy weather, even Liu Ling, who often maintains high-intensity exercise, felt that the muscles of his whole body were tense and stiff.

Starting from the snow on Liu Xia's birthday, there were several snowfalls in the middle, big and small. From that day on, almost no one in Liujialing went out of the mountain again.

This year, Wangning transferred a new secretary, who is relatively young and has less troubles in his stomach. The relief food has been distributed early, so even though the mountains are covered by snow and they have lost contact with the outside world, people in the village feel that It’s very down-to-earth, most people don’t think so much about New Year’s goods or not, and it’s enough to have food and not be hungry.

Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun’s family’s New Year’s goods were no less than last year, most of them were brought back by a group of children on the day of offering sacrifices to the stove, and some were prepared by Liu Kui and Liu Yu because of the bad weather.

The hydrology team sent out more items than last year. Liu Xia and Maoer kept some things that they usually couldn't easily buy, and brought back everything else.

Liuchuan's family is basically divided into two according to the ratio of Sanqi. Su Xiaohui's family has three, and Liu's seven. There is no way, there are many Liu families.

The two little guys, Liu Yun and Liu Lei, started celebrating the New Year ahead of schedule, and made up for the other types of meat they ate less in the past few days.

I say this because the two little guys actually did not eat less meat. There was a lot of snow this year, and Liu Changqing and Liu Kui had a lot of rabbits. The two little guys could eat meat every day, but there was only one piece of rabbit meat. The big meat or beef and mutton that mom brought back on Sunday or uncle bought from Wangning were gone, so Chang'e Sun and Xiumei still felt that the two greedy cats had been wronged.

On the day of offering sacrifices to the stove, it snowed all night again. The next day, the entire Fengxi Mountain was completely white.

There are too few recreational activities in the mountains in winter. A big family only has a pair of badminton rackets and a swing, which is not fun to play.

Liu Ling asked everyone to sprinkle all the clean snow in the yard on the slope, increasing the snow on the slope to about forty centimeters thick, and then let a few little guys slide and play on it.

The little ones played like crazy, each of them rolled their heads and faces covered with snow, and in winter, they were all sweating profusely from playing, and they couldn't even be called into the house to eat.

The adults stood at the slope and watched the children play, only Liu Xia was pulled by the cat, and he sat on the upside-down bench with him and slid down the slope, having a great time .

After being trampled back and forth, the snow becomes more solid. Although it slides faster, it can no longer roll and play on it.

Liu Yun, a little guy, came back from taking a piss, and unexpectedly fell in love with the soft and thick snow on the slope of the nursing yard. The little guy was only over three years old, and he was still stupid. When the adults were not paying attention, he sat on the edge of the yard, As soon as the calf stretched out, the little butt slid straight down, and finally rolled down and fell into a bush before stopping. Even though the little guy was so skinny, he was so frightened that he burst into tears.

A group of people hurriedly jumped down to get him up, inspected it carefully, and encouraged the little guy to jump a few times to try, and found that he was covered with a few light red marks on his exposed face. No injuries at all, Liu Kui ran around the yard for a few laps with him on his back, the little guy burst into laughter immediately, and rode on his little bench to continue skiing up the slope.

The air after the snow was cold and fresh, Chang'e Sun also carried Liu Xuan out, the ugly child with a wrinkled face would howl from time to time, plus Liu Yun, Liu Lei and Mao Er shouting and laughing, the phoenix in the world of ice and snow In the depths of Xishan, Liu's courtyard was full of excitement.

Liu Xia and Mao'er carried the big bench and climbed up the slope step by step, supporting each other. They accidentally raised their heads and saw Liu Ling standing on the edge of the slope. Although there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes seemed to be looking at They, but their eyes were empty and unfocused, Liu Xia felt that Liu Ling's heart seemed to be far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, with nowhere to follow.

Liu Xia continued to fight back and forth with a group of little guys on the slope, but most of his thoughts were on Liu Ling. He felt that such Liu Ling was too distressing, but he didn't know what to do to help him. He even I feel that at this time, I shouldn't bother Liu Ling.

For several days in a row, Liu Xia watched Liu Ling silently. When Liu Ling was with everyone, he talked and laughed, and everything seemed to be normal. But once he calmed down, Liu Xia found that he was often in a daze, looking depressed and dazed, and With heavy uneasiness, Liu Xia felt more and more uncomfortable.

At night, Liu Yun, Liu Lei, and Liu Xin, who were so noisy in Liu Xia's room and fell asleep, were taken away, and Liu Yu, who played with Liu Ling here every day until midnight, also left. Sleeping on Liu Xia's body, he became a kitten chanting scriptures.

After being quiet in the dark for a long time, Liu Xia grabbed Liu Ling's hand next to him and said softly, "Fifth Brother, can't you tell me?"

Liu Ling's hands trembled slightly, and he didn't move for a long time, then he turned over and rested his head on Liu Xia's shoulder: "My child, don't ask me, don't ask me anything."

Liu Xia stretched out his left arm and hugged Liu Ling's thin body: "Zhong, fifth brother, I don't ask.

But fifth brother, remember, no matter what happens, you are still from our family, and you are my best brother. Fifth brother, I am your brother.

If you do something wrong, even if everyone in the world hates you and makes fun of you, no one in our family will dislike you, let alone me.

Although I don't know what happened to you, but I know that you will never do anything with a bad conscience, so fifth brother, there is nothing to be afraid of, we can't live outside anymore, we can still go back to our home, back home Liujialing, with our uncle, mother and elder brother, what are we afraid of? "

Liu Ling didn't speak, but put her head on Liu Xia's arm more comfortably.

"Fifth brother, the sky won't fall, you should sleep well, it's been several days, and you haven't slept much."

Liu Ling rubbed against Liu Xia's arm twice, and closed her eyes: "I get it, baby, you go to sleep too, don't worry about me, I'm fine."

At dusk on 27, Liu Chuan came back, together with Liu Mao and Nana.

The little girl had short hair cut similar to that of a boy, and wore new clothes that didn't fit well. She followed Liu Mao timidly. She wasn't so restrained until after dinner. She sat on the kang with Liu Xin and Liu Yun. and Liu Lei playing kitten fishing together.

Maoer can now basically completely ignore Liu Mao's existence. When Liu Mao sat on the kang and talked with Liu Changqing and Liu Kui, he watched Liu Ling and Liu Chuan prepare steamed meat and eight-treasure rice by the stove. dishes.

Since Liu Mao took the initiative to talk to Maoer before the Spring Festival last year about whether Maoer was going down to worship his ancestors, Liu Xia's resentment towards Liu Mao has been dispelled a lot.

The second brother who has been hurting him for ten years, Liu Xia has persisted for so many years with the posture of being at odds with Liu Mao, but in fact he is not uncomfortable in his heart. Now there is a chance for reconciliation, as long as Liu Mao does not let the cat Without him, Liu Xia could sit with Liu Mao calmly.

But the previous intimacy seems to never come back, and they can't even find a common topic. Although they are no longer tense, it is inevitable to be awkward in the cold.

So after Liu Ling and Liu Chuan finished their work on the stove, Liu Xia found an excuse and took the cat back to his cave dwelling. Soon, Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, Liu Ling, Liu Yu, and Liu Wei also came over. Yes, the cave was full of excitement.

Although Nana was carried back by Liu Chuan and Liu Mao in turn, the little girl was also exhausted after walking for eight or nine hours on the mountain road covered by frozen snow for more than 30 miles, so He wanted to sleep early, but he had to ask Liu Mao to sleep with him.

Sun Yufang hasn't confinement yet, even if the two families are very close, the rule that a confinement woman can't go to other people's house can't be broken casually, so in order to prevent Sun Yufang from being bored by herself, as long as she finishes her own things these days , Xiumei and Su Xiaohui would go down to chat with Sun Yufang.

When the group of little ones couldn't bear to fall asleep, and Liu Yu went down, Liu Kui suddenly pulled Liu Ling's hair and asked, "Boy, did you encounter any difficulties while leaving the army? Brother, why do you think you sometimes seem like Isn't Yee happy?"

Liu Ling looked at Liu Kui with a calm and inexplicable expression, and before he could say anything, Liu Xia pointed at him and said, "Look, I'll tell you what's on your mind, I'm sure you can't hide it from my uncle and elder brother, what's up, my elder brother You can see it, isn't it just a small mistake during the exercise, you have only graduated from the military academy for more than a year, and you don't have enough combat experience, how normal is it, why do you want to be serious?"

Liu Chuan asked: "Boy, did you make a mistake and was criticized by the superior, or did someone else in your team make a mistake, and you are the company commander, so you have to take responsibility?"

Liu Ling said: "I did not command properly. I lost my honor for several years. I think..."

Liu Kui smiled: "Boy, I thought it was a serious matter, isn't it just a drill, your third brother and I have also served in the army, why do I think it's best if something goes wrong in the drill, you say Chuaner ?

Exercises are meant to discover problems. Our country has been at peace for so many years, and even the heads of several levels above you have never personally fought a war, right?So now this kind of exercise is often taken for granted by the higher-ups. Your third brother has been on the battlefield. You ask him to tell you that when there is a real war, it is the same as the exercise, right? "

Liu Chuan patted Liu Ling: "Boy, in front of real shells and bullets, honor is not as good as a fart. Training is absolutely important, and you can't slack off at any time, but the kind of exercises that are arranged in advance, the results are really unnecessary Take it to heart..."

Liu Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the feeling in his heart was not at all relaxed.

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After Liu Kui and Liu Chuan left, Liu Ling was silent for a long time, and said to Liu Xia: "Yaoer, if I apply for discharge, you will..."

Liu Xia blurted out: "Fifth Brother, what happened? Why do Brother Zhenbei and you both want to retire? What I said just now was just a nonsense, I didn't want to make our eldest brother worry about it. Fifth Brother, you and Zhenbei Isn’t it true that something went wrong during the exercise?”

Liu Xia felt that Liu Ling's whole body was stiff, and after a long time, he asked, "What did you say just now? Chen Zhenbei wants to retire from the army? How do you know? When will he tell you?"

Liu Xia regretted so much that he wanted to slap himself a few times, so he closed his mouth tightly and did not speak.

Liu Ling sat up in the dark: "Yao'er, Xiaoxia, are you worried that something will happen to me, so you wrote him a letter, and he wrote back to you? Where do you put the letter? Home or Rongze? Yaoer..."

Liu Xia lay on Liu Ling's lap, and said lazily, "Let's put Rongze aside. Brother Wu, Brother Zhenbei doesn't want you to know that he replied to my letter. He didn't say anything in the letter, so he just told me to let me People in our family don’t need to worry too much about you, your work and health are normal, other things, other things, I don’t know how to tell you, or, when I return to Rongze after the Chinese New Year, you will be with me Come on, I'll give you the letter, you can read it yourself.

Fifth Brother, if you are angry, just call me out, don’t blame Brother Zhenbei, I am always worried about you, and I wrote to him on my own initiative to ask you about your situation. My uncle specifically said that I would not be allowed to write letters, he said Zhenbei No matter how nice Brother Bei is to you, he is still an outsider. It is not appropriate to inquire about your private affairs with an outsider. "

Liu Ling leaned against the wall, gently stroking Liu Xia's hair: "What do you mean you? You didn't do anything wrong."

Liu Xia said: "Fifth brother, you, you are so uncomfortable, is it really because of Brother Zhenbei? Is he serious about playing the role of a high-ranking son in front of you?"

Liu Ling sat silently in the darkness, and said after a long time, "Sleep, baby, it's fine."

At dusk on 28, Liu Miao and Wen Yongfang came back. The two of them went to Wen Yongfang's natal home with Wen Yongsheng on the third day after their marriage.

The two of them took half of the souvenirs they brought back to Liu Changqing's house, and bought Sun Chang'e a dark green coat, which looked like it would not be cheap.

Xiumei and Su Xiaohui cooked a few appetizers and left the newlyweds to have a meal. Liu Xia also accompanied them at the wine table and drank some wine.

Seeing Liu Xia's painful expression while drinking, Mao'er originally planned to go over and drink the remaining half of the glass for him, but looking at Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun, he thought it would be better not to go there: if he dared to go over and drink baijiu Well, my uncle may have to be reprimanded by his grandpa and his forehead pointed at him by his grandma. In front of so many people, my uncle must lose face. It would be better to just forget about drinking and being uncomfortable.

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, seeing Sun Chang'e and Xiumei preparing sacrifices, Mao'er said to Liu Xia, "Uncle, please wait for me at home. I'll be back after a while."

Then he ran a few steps, yelling "Oh ho ho", and slid down the slope gracefully before Liu Mao.

Liu Mao spent the New Year at home this year, and returned to work in Luogezhuang on the tenth day after the festival.

After eating the dumplings on New Year's Eve, the little ones in the family wanted to take a bath to remove the dust accumulated on their bodies. In order to prevent Liu Yun and Liu Lei from washing together too much, Liu Chuan washed Liu Yun alone, and Xiumei and Su Xiaohui washed Liu Lei and Liu Lei together. Xin is washing in a big basin.

Just like that, the two little Yamas were still uneasy, and they took the little yellow duck and sprayed water on each other, spraying Liu Chuan all over his head and face.

Amid the laughter of everyone, Liu Xia pushed a stack of money to Liu Changqing: "Uncle, hehe."

Liu Changqing looked at the money for a while, but didn't take it with his hands: "You are nervous about buying a house. There is no shortage of money at home. You can keep this money for yourself. When you save enough, you can decorate the house like others."

Liu Xia grinned: "It's only 360 and [-] yuan, uncle. I earn several hundred a month, and sometimes it's almost a thousand. I only give you one yuan a day. If you don't want it, people will say that I am not filial. "

Mao'er crawled over from Liu Xia, picked up the money and stuffed it into Liu Changqing's hand: "Grandpa, take it, my uncle will give it to you, it would be nice if you don't want my uncle."

Liu Changqing said: "Boy, as the old saying goes, filial piety comes first in all things, and care is not in mind; all evil and prostitution is in the first place, and care is not in mind.

I think the second part of the sentence is not quite right, those women who have been ruined by the wicked can’t say that;

But the first half is the opposite, if you have filial piety, you will win. If you are in trouble, you can borrow money everywhere, and the parents and the elderly will still give you money. That is not filial piety, it is fake, and it is for others to see;

Think about it, if you let others know that I am a parent, I am obviously not short of money, and I have to ask for money from the children who are in debt, what will people say about your mother and me?

Tell others to poke your mother's spine and say that I depend on the filial piety of the children to make trouble for the children, so you are filial? "

Liu Xia still smiled: "Uncle, I have not owed my debts a long time ago, my son and I have saved more than 1000; hehe, Mom, don't stare at me, I am not lying.

When we moved, brother Fenghe told me about the job in Lisandaohe, do you still remember it?Before I came back from vacation, I had agreed that the project budget would be determined by Captain Ma, and I gave them a 30.00% discount. They would pay me [-]% of the project cost first, and the rest would be paid within one year.

The staff is also Captain Ma to help me as a staff member, and they are all capable and strict;

By the way, Uncle, Mom, Brother, if it doesn’t snow anymore, I will leave a few days earlier after the Chinese New Year, and I will start working before my unit goes to work. This time, my salary is my salary for several years.

So," Liu Xia lay down on the kang table with a playful smile, took Liu Changqing's hand, and stuffed the money into his padded jacket pocket: "Bo, just keep it, maybe I can give you ten yuan a day every New Year's day in the future! "

Liu Changqing rubbed Liu Xia's head: "Boy, don't make yourself hard, your monthly salary and bonus is enough, money is not enough to earn, we have enough to spend, if you don't lack food or food, you will win. At such a young age, I dare not put my body to the disadvantage.”

Liu Xia grinned and sat back, leaned on Liu Kui, and said shrilly, "Uncle, I'm a technician, I don't work hard, I just move my mouth, and the hard work is done by others!"

Liu Xia said it very easily in front of his family, but in fact, after the Spring Festival, on the bone-chilling construction site, he was used by one person as three people.

It was the first time for private work and the first time to do mine survey independently. Liu Xia asked himself to do his best. He personally went to draw sketches and asked all the data and drawings to be the most accurate. Zheng Chaoyang, Gao Qun, Wu Kobayashi also cooperated with him very carefully.

Their temporary surveying and mapping team consisted of only seven people. Except for Wu Xiaolin, the others were recommended by Ma Qianli to Liu Xia. They were all subordinates of Zheng Chaoyang. If you don't complain and can control your own mouth, there is another important condition: the family members must also have the same quality.

Du Tao was excluded by Ma Qianli because of his wife Shi Ruiling's love to gossip with other women in the team. Liu Xia originally wanted to use Du Tao as a driver.

Both Zheng Chaoyang and Gao Qun knew how to drive when they were in the army, and Ma Qianli minimized the number of people in Liu Xia's team, so as to keep the secret as much as possible.

On the first day, Mao'er refused to wait in the car by himself, and was wrapped up like a ball and followed Liu Xia all the time.Back at Rongze's home in the evening, after dinner, Liu Xia began to sit in the bedroom and calculate the data, Mao'er sat opposite him and flipped through his college textbooks, with the same concentration as Lin Tie.

Years ago, Liu Xia moved the small dining table to the master bedroom in order to keep the cat warmer while doing homework. There is a large electric stove, and the master bedroom is much warmer than the outside.

Every day after that, Mao'er took Liu Xia's textbooks to the construction site with him. Liu Xia was doing homework outside, while Mao'er sat in the cab and read. When they got home, one of them did calculations, and the other used college textbooks as extracurricular books. look.

Many of the basic knowledge of cats are not up to date, and it is impossible to perform complex calculations, but it is still possible to look at the basic parts and the concept of surveying and mapping.

Liu Ling left Liujialing and came to Rongze on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. It was also the first day for the hydrology team to work officially, and Liu Xia and the others did not go to Sandaohe.

When Liu Xia came back from the meeting, as soon as he saw Liu Ling sitting in the master bedroom reading a book, he took out Chen Zhenbei's letter.

Liu Ling started to read the letter. Liu Xia and Maoer went to the kitchen to cook together. After they finished cooking, they came to call Liu Ling. Liu Xia found that Liu Ling had packed the letter and put it on the table. He was standing by the window. Looking at the bleak scenery outside, he was in a daze.

After the meal, Mao'er asked Liu Ling to take more photos of him and Liu Xia. Most of the photos of the two of them were taken alone, and only a few photos were taken by Liu Chuan. Mao'er was very dissatisfied with this. satisfy.

Liu Ling was obviously taken aback when she got the camera, but then she skillfully installed the lens and took a picture of the two of them.

In the afternoon, when Liu Xia and the others went to Sandaohe, Liu Ling also offered to go with them and help them take some photos in the wild.

On the first day of work, Liu Xia took over the surveying and mapping project of widening and diverting the road from Rongze to Sandaohe. He also heard the news that the province has planned to develop the Fengxi Mountain Scenic Area, but it is not their place. , but the part of Fengxi Mountain in Sandaohe Township.

It is said that it is mainly because of the discovery of karst caves that are of great ornamental value here. At the same time, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, a famous general was stationed in the Central Plains. Fengxi Mountain in Sandaohe, whether it is natural Both the landscape and the cultural landscape have greater development value than Liu Xia and his family. In order to meet the needs of the development of the scenic spot, the state of the road from the national highway to the scenic spot must be improved first.

Because of the snow a few years ago, the hydrological team had several projects interrupted midway, and they needed to catch up with work after the year. They also undertook most of the surveying and mapping tasks in the Central Plains Province on the national road that passed 300 meters south of them, so after the year As soon as they got to work, all the front-line personnel were dispatched, and the personnel of each temporary surveying and mapping team were reduced. Liu Xia and his team only had seven people, so it didn't look out of the ordinary at all.

Mao'er started school on the twelfth day of the lunar calendar. He couldn't follow Liu Xia to the construction site. He was very unhappy, but now he won't be particularly disappointed because of this. Call it a day and go home early.

Liu Xia made the most of his time. They set off earlier than Mao’er went to school every day. They worked until the afternoon when they could no longer see the data on the meter before calling it a day. They didn’t cook at noon and only took 8 minutes to eat instant noodles. And ham sausage, they work no less than ten hours a day, so that he can squeeze out time to complete all the projects at Sand Mountain.

After the most efficient work of their group of people, the project of the coal mine in Sand Mountain is almost done. What Liu Xia is going to do on his side now is the two buildings that Sand Mountain plans to build.

Sand Mountain does have the intention to change from a black mine owner to an entrepreneur. In order to show that he has a mining license and distinguish himself from the orthodox identity of other black mine owners, he plans to build two small buildings first, and an office building. , a building for the workers to live in.

This was decided by Sang Deshan later, and it was not included in Liu Xia's original surveying and mapping scope. Sang Deshan didn't plan to do surveying and mapping because of building a house, but later I heard many people talk about the county school building That matter, and looking at their mountainous terrain that is much more complicated than that in the county, they decided to ask Liu Xia to help make a measurement.

For the surveying and mapping of the two small buildings, Liu Xia gave Sang Deshan a big discount. He explained that it was because of Chu Fenghe.

However, as a friend of Chu Fenghe, he can work for Chu Fenghe's face, and he can't ask others to do the same. What he receives from Sang Deshan is only the most basic wages of the other people.

Sang Deshan said: "Forget it, little brother, I spent too much money to apply for a mining license, and now every penny is expensive, I accept your love.

However, your business is really awesome. When my child grows up, I will also ask him to take the exam in your school. It will take a few days without much effort. A few ye who are a little bigger can measure it when they look at the instrument. Do the math, and the money is in hand. "

Liu Xia smiled, and didn't say much. When Sang Deshan got the measurement report, he probably wouldn't think so. However, he must feel sorry for Qian.

Liu Ling cooked meals for Liu Xia and Mao'er at home for three days. On the morning of the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, before Liu Xia and Mao'er left home, Liu Ling said to them: "The third brother has just appointed the captain. He must be busy. Don't do it this year." Let him run home, I will call him later and tell him, I will go out today to buy some Lantern Festival, take the car at 09:30 to send it home, and come back tomorrow morning."

Liu Xia said: "Fifth brother, not many people in our family like to eat Yuanxiao. Besides, since last year, Wangning has also started making Yuanxiao. The eldest brother won't let the third brother send it home, so don't run away." , When you came, didn’t you already tell our uncle and mother that you will go back to the army directly from me?”

Liu Ling said: "It's okay, I have nothing to do when I'm idle, I heard from my fourth sister-in-law that Wangning's Lantern Festival is not as good as Rongze's, it's too porcelain, and it's not soft when cooked, I'd better buy some from Rongze and send it back. "

Liu Ling was leaving in two days, Liu Xia couldn't bear it, he didn't even want to go to work, he wanted to stay at home with Liu Ling, but Liu Ling wanted to send Lantern Festival home, he really had no reason to stop him, even though he knew Liu Ling If Ling was sent back, in all likelihood, she would be scolded by Sun Chang'e.

When Liu Xia came home these few days, the lights were on, and there were warm meals prepared by Liu Ling. The most important thing was that Liu Ling was there, so he felt warm in his heart. When he came back today, he saw the black Huhu's home, he felt very uncomfortable. He didn't feel this way when Liu Ling was in the capital before. He really wanted to see him and wanted him to be by his side.

The ease and happiness that Liu Ling tried to show these days made Liu Xia feel the lingering loneliness that seemed to be entwined with him. Liu Xia looked at him as if he was in Jiangcheng at school late at night. Thinking of how Maoer felt when he was squatting under a tree and playing with dirt alone, his heart ached to death.

Liu Xia took out Chen Zhenbei's letter and read it again very carefully, hoping to find some clues to know what happened to Liu Ling.

However, he still couldn't see anything.

It's just that when he folded the letter again, he felt that the letter seemed to be wrinkled a lot.

Liu Xia felt very sad. He thought, Brother Wu should also care about Brother Zhenbei's friendship, right?No matter what the reason, Fifth Brother must be very uncomfortable after losing his best comrade-in-arms and friend, especially when he happened to encounter something that he couldn't solve.

There is not even one person around Fifth Brother who can help him, or even understand and comfort him.

Thinking that Fifth Brother might return to the situation he had been in the past few months after he returned to the army, and also knowing that he and Chen Zhenbei might have become cold and estranged, Liu Xia felt heavy again.

Mao'er is sensitive and accurate to Liu Xia's emotional perception. He raised his head between homework and saw Liu Xia who was holding a pencil in a daze. He walked over, squatted in front of him, put his arms around his waist, and comforted him: Uncle, don’t worry about Uncle Wu so much, he will definitely get better slowly, Uncle Wu is so good, even if he teases Baoer, Uncle Zhenbei won’t be angry with him, Uncle Zhenbei will definitely not be angry with him when Uncle Wu returns. I will coax Uncle Wu to come here and make him happy every day."

Liu Xia shook his head: "Good cat, although I don't know what's going on with your fifth uncle, but I know that it must be very serious, otherwise, with your fifth uncle's disposition, he will definitely not be what he is now. Your fifth uncle has never made your family worry about something as big as the college entrance examination."

Mao'er said, "I know, but I just believe that Uncle Wu will definitely get better."

Liu Xia nodded: "I also believe that your fifth uncle will definitely."

After Liu Ling came back, Liu Xia found out that Liu Chuan didn't let Liu Ling go home alone, he went with Liu Ling.

At noon on the fifteenth, Liu Xia discussed with several other people, and they called it a day: Liu Ling was going to Yuancheng to take the train in the afternoon, and Liu Xia was going to see him off.

With Liu Chuan's police uniform and police officer ID, even though they didn't get a platform ticket, Liu Xia and the others entered the station together with Liu Ling.

Without Liu Hai's company, Liu Xia looked at Liu Ling who was about to leave alone, and felt more uncomfortable than when he left.

Crowded platforms, crowds of children and women yelling and running, China's railway stations in the early 90s were not a suitable place to express sadness, but Liu Ling smiled and rubbed his hair before turning around to get on the train At that time, Liu Xia still stretched out his arms to hug Liu Ling.

"Fifth brother, remember what I said, no matter what happens, you are a member of our family, and I will always stand by your side."

Liu Ling hugged Liu Xia tightly: "I remember, you have to take care of yourself, don't let Fifth Brother worry about you."

Liu Chuan embraced Liu Xia, stretched out his hand and plucked the short broken hair on Liu Ling's forehead: "Boy, what Xiao Xia said is what the third brother wanted to tell you, remember, there is no past hurdle in the world, no matter you What happened, the third brother will always be your third brother."

Looking at Liu Ling's instantly reddened eye circles, Liu Xia's eyes blurred for a moment. He didn't want his two brothers to see him like this, so he pretended to lie on Liu Chuan's shoulder casually, and looked forward unconsciously. But he saw a familiar figure in the chaotic crowd in the distance.

Liu Xia thought he was wrong, wiped his eyes with his hand, and looked up again.

The crowd running back and forth filled his sight, but the huge pillar where the figure stood just now was already empty.