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Go out of the high-rise building and cross the dangerous road. There is a mountainside on the dangerous road, and a small village (lao) hangs on the mountainside. Every household in the village grows jujubes, and they take a pole to beat the jujubes. The red ones are more green than the green ones.A tree of jujubes, half-empty jujubes, full of jujubes, a mouthful of jujubes, all jujubes in the stomach.

"The ones that are red are more than the ones that are green." Song Hailin chanted a jingle that he adapted while setting up a ladder and climbing up a tree to hook dates.

This year, Song Qing was catching up with a big case to be dealt with, so he called and said that he was not free to come back to help beat Zao'er.Grandpa Song and Grandma Song have an elder grandson who is by his side every day. This son has long since fallen out of favor, and hung up the phone without even giving him a chance to say a few more words. hit it down.

Song Hailin had already knocked down a yard of jujubes with a pole on the ground, the ones that fell on the cloth were not in a hurry, but the ones that jumped on the ground were scattered and hard to pick up.Grandma picked them up and down several times before putting them into the bag.

The red dates on the lower branches basically fell off. Grandpa Song walked around the tree and found a clump of red dates on the top.

He stood on tiptoe, but he couldn't reach the pole on the ground, so he had to climb up.

The task of climbing up was naturally handed over to Song Hailin.

He stepped on the ladder and grabbed the thickest branch of the tree. He lifted his legs and rode up, holding the trunk with one hand and grabbing the tallest branch with the other hand, and gave the thinnest branch to the tree. It bent a large arc.

After snoring, Zao'er fell down crackling.

Grandpa Song was busy picking up dates, and Grandma Song watched anxiously from under the ladder, and kept shouting, "Slow down, slow down."

After climbing up the tree, the sight became much wider, and the surrounding small bungalows could be seen in all directions. Song Hailin unintentionally took a look at the neighbor's yard separated by a wall. Grab the branch and plant it down.

Su Shen was sitting under the vine trellis in the yard, and the small table was covered with test papers.

The draft in the yard lifted the thin paper, and the book that was pressed on the test paper was also scratched a few pages.He scribbled the question with the pen in his hand, stopped after writing for a while, took a sip of water from the water glass, and continued writing.

The autumn wind smelled of earth, Song Hailin stood on the tree overlooking the small yard below, the wind was still blowing, as if he could smell some pen and ink.

It turned out to be neighbors, them.

During the meal, Song Hailin pretended to ask casually, "Who lives in our neighbor's house?"

"Neighbor?" Grandma snorted and took a sip of the soup, "The back neighbor lives with your cousin, across the alley is your sixteenth grandfather, and opposite is your cousin's in-laws..."

Song Hailin doesn't know these aunts and aunts at all, but the current situation in the countryside is like this. When you go out, you can find some relatives when you meet anyone. His grandma almost counted them to the head of the village. When it came to the person he wanted to hear, he didn't know if he didn't say anything on purpose or what.

He interrupted Grandma Song, "Grandma, I'm asking about the house separated from us by a wall."

"Su family," grandma picked up a chopstick, "do you still remember your uncle and grandpa? He gave you lucky money when you were young."

Song Hailin didn't understand why his uncle was involved, and shook his head.

"You children are all dead now, and you don't know anyone when you go home." Grandma said, "It's just Qiqi's grandpa."

Who is Kiki?He didn't even know.

"Grandma," Song Hailin said quickly, "I remembered, uncle and grandpa."

Only then did Grandma Song continue with satisfaction: "In the family where your uncle's granddaughter married, there is a cousin who married the son of the Su family next door."

After Grandma Song said this, Song Hailin finally understood why the Su family was emptied in the first place.The older generation is used to introducing family members according to their relatives, and they must first pick the ones who are close to them and introduce them first.

"Second son." Grandpa Song added.

"Yes, married to the second son, but his second son is not a good person," said grandma, "The eldest son is a kind person, and he is also very promising, but his life is not very good..."

Song Hailin frowned and asked, "What?"

Grandma Song's biggest hobby is to talk about the family affairs of the parents in the village. When she heard that her grandson was interested, she was so happy that she couldn't even care about eating, so she said, "There are two people living in the Su family in the neighboring courtyard. Grandma has a grandson, the grandson is as old as you, what is his name? Is it called Tie Daner? Originally, the family was an intellectual, and his grandfather was a civil servant before. During the Cultural Revolution, I heard that he made some literary mistakes The problem was persecuted to death, and my grandma gave birth to two sons, the eldest son is a promising reporter who works as a reporter in a big city—that’s Tiedan’er’s father.”

iron egg...

What a bad name.The name of the co-author of this family has such a number of names?

Don't you mean intellectuals?

"The second son is teaching in the county." Grandpa Song interrupted.

Grandma Song obviously didn't bother to mention the "second son", and continued to say: "Originally, the family was fine. When Tie Dan'er was young—it must have been ten years. The family had a car accident, and only one child survived. I was paralyzed by the crash, and I can’t walk around until now.”

After all this was said, she talked about the second son. She scolded a few words for being a wolf, and then said: "The second son thinks his mother is dragging him down, so he started a family in the county, leaving the old and the old at home Don't care about it. One is his own nephew and the other is his own mother! It's not a thing!"

After finishing speaking, Grandma Song spat.

car accident...

Song Hailin recalled how Su Shen sat under the grape arbor and did his homework. He was dignified and polite, always indifferent to people and things, and occasionally languid.

Such a character can be raised in this small village after suffering an accident.

Song Hailin thought that he had never encountered any obstacles since he was a child. At most, he was scolded by the teacher for mischief at school, and beaten by his parents for poor grades.

However, he once had a classmate in junior high school who suffered from depression because his parents divorced. He usually lay on the table and cried while in class. His personality became more and more gloomy, and he dropped out of school altogether.

According to him, the punishment Su Shen suffered was probably ten or twenty times worse than that of his deskmate.

But Su Shen is different.

I can't say exactly how it's different, it's just different.

Because he is so normal.

Normal, so not normal.

Song Hailin tossed and turned in bed at night, unable to sleep.

He was bored looking at the posters on the wall in a daze. After an unknown period of time, he suddenly remembered that their family and the Su family shared the same wall, and the one next to the Su family was the side he was leaning against.Whose house is over at Su's house?

It may be an unoccupied house, or it may be Su Shen's house.

may.

He suddenly bent his fingers and tapped the wall three times with his knuckles, the sound was very clear at night.

After knocking, he slapped himself on the head. Go crazy, what are you doing knocking on the wall.Although he thought so on the surface, he still vaguely looked forward to it, in case there was a response.

After about a minute, there were three "tuk-tuk-tuk" sounds from the other side of the wall. The sound was separated by just the right distance, and there was a feeling of laziness in the ears.

Song Hailin was shocked when he heard it.

Then he knocked three times jokingly, but this time there was no response.There was no sound until he fell asleep.

Grandma Song packed several bags of the crushed dates. First, she picked out the reddest and biggest ones and packed a big bag for Song Qing and his wife. Then she left the sweetest pot for Song Hailin, and the rest came to the next day. In the morning, I went door to door to deliver to the neighbors.

Song Hailin took the dates packed for his parents and went for a walk to the Siji express delivery point in the town. When he passed by the large army of drying wheat, he exchanged a few words with them, such as "what did you eat" and "the weather is fine" and so on. if.

amazing.

Qingshui Township is a place where it is easy to assimilate a person, and it is easy for people to blend in and become a part of it. With a little enthusiasm for hanging around the door after dinner and tea, people can live comfortably here candid.

It is true to say that a small place is xenophobic, but when it comes to tolerance, it should not be underestimated.

Passing the street ahead, Gu Yan, who was only wearing a white vest, was holding a wooden tool that Song Hailin couldn't name to pull the wheat on the ground back and forth. Seeing Song Hailin passing by with dates, he stared at him and shook his fist.

Song Hailin ignored him.

During the non-class time, if you can't find Su Shen at Su's house, you will be able to find Su Shen at Zhe Zhe Meat Shop.

Su Shen weighed the small parcel in his hand in a daze.

Tian Zhe was busy feeding and teasing the cat, and took the time to raise his head and ask, "Aren't you going to open it?"

Su Shen frowned, "This thing may not be a good thing."

"You don't open it," Tian Zhe touched Goudan'er's head, and accidentally got a little stronger, Goudaner jumped out from under his hand, and "grunt" from his throat in dissatisfaction, he stopped. After a while, he continued, "I don't even know if it's something."

"Schrödinger's express delivery." Su Shen muttered.

"What is Xue?" Tian Zhe frowned, "You guys who have completed the nine-year compulsory education speak the same way?"

Su Shen didn't want to talk to him at first, and before he had time to talk to him, someone shouted at the door, "Boss, send a courier."

When the man showed his face, Su Shen slightly raised his eyebrows.

Song Hailin?

Song Hailin also saw Su Shen.

Because it was the weekend, Su Shen didn't wear a school uniform, but a black hooded sweater with a huge SpongeBob SquarePants printed on the front, which didn't match his temperament very much.

Pretty funny, to be honest.

As soon as Song Hailin's thought came up, he couldn't help laughing. The more he looked at that SpongeBob SquarePants, the more he couldn't hold it back. Tian Zhe took a courier slip and shook it in front of his eyes before he stopped laughing. He bent down and filled out the delivery form.

Give Pan a heartless bag, and Song Tiemian a bag of selflessness.

Before leaving after filling out the form, the dog egg that was originally nestled in the cardboard box turned out, patted his shoe upper with his small paw on the ground, and let out a "wow" like a baby.

He squatted down and hugged the cat, and shook it at Su Shen, "I'll just say it's my cat."

Goudaner also squinted his eyes and arched in cooperation.

"Fuck me?" Tian Zhe scolded.

He originally thought that this cat was not clingy, and that Su Shen's broken personality deserved not to be liked by cats, but he tried his best to eat and drink for such a long time, and the cat owner usually treated him with the attitude of "you wait for the common people". To explain this cat is arrogant.

Who knows, it's not about not sticking to people, but about who they are.

Being cuddly and cute to a stranger, isn't that plausible!

"Mine." Su Shen looked at Goudaner in Song Hailin's arms nonchalantly.

Song Hailin laughed, and put the reluctant cat back into the cardboard box. When he looked up, he saw Su Shen's SpongeBob SquarePants again, with two front teeth dangling there as if declaring war. He couldn't help laughing again long time.

That posture can be called looking up to the sky and going out laughing.

"Do you know this person?" Tian Zhe packed the two bags of dates.

"Student." Su Shen answered neatly.

"Your classmate Shinji." Tian Zhe commented.

"It's Ting Er." Su Shen took the courier bag, gritted his teeth and opened it.

Tian Zhe was still immersed in the last topic about "two". At first glance, Su Shen switched to the next one, and immediately widened his eyes and looked at this Xue Xinghe courier.

The inside of the courier was indeed the same as it looked on the outside, very thin, and only a half-torn newspaper and an old photo came out.

The time of the newspaper was ten years ago, and the headline read, "Large truck collided with private car in Zhucheng City, two dead and two injured."

Su Shen scratched the two black-and-white photos with his finger. He was familiar with the people in the photos, but he was not familiar with them either.There is no impression in my mind, but they live in the photo album and in the exaggerated stories from neighbors.Relying on those unreliable stories, Su Shen has gradually sketched out the image of his parents in his heart since he was a child, like he usually writes novels, things that he didn't have in his mind, Relying on imagination to complete bit by bit.

Parents, more precisely, should be two words. For him, the closest understanding can only be characters in novels.

Seeing them appear in the newspaper in a different form now, seeing another story of them—the last story of their life being succinctly and coldly narrated in the form of prints, Su Shen unexpectedly had a kind of feeling. The feeling of relief.

That feeling of relief when a novel that has been over a decade in the making is finished.

All these years of tossing and trying to give this novel an ending has drained away all the original passion and emotion. At the end, there is no reluctance, just as if I can't slow it down, "I'm finally, it's over?"

On the old photo is a photo of his parents and a middle-aged man, with words written on the back: Records of Miners, Commemoration.

Su Shen is very familiar with that font, and the annotations on the inside pages of their old books are all clearly in this font.

His father's words.

My own story has only just begun.Su Shen stared at the photo and suddenly remembered this sentence.

"Isn't this..." Tian Zhe looked at it for a long time before speaking. Are your parents?

As soon as he exited, he held back again.

Su Shen pinched the photo and didn't know what he was thinking.

Tian Zhe called him, "Su Shen?" Seeing him raise his head, he continued, "That kid said he wanted to meet you."

After saying this, he answered for Su Shen himself, no see.

Certainly so.

Su Shen didn't even want to make a phone call, let alone meet.

That kid's brain circuit may not be quite normal. The request for a meeting is obviously not even an inch.

Su Shen stretched out her hand, "Give me a cigarette."

Tian Zhe glanced at him, didn't speak, took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and threw the lighter along the way.

He lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, held it in his chest for five or six seconds, and then slowly exhaled the smoke, then pinched the cigarette holder with two fingers, staring blankly until it was about to burn out. Then he said, "I'll think about it."

Tian Zhe was surprised.Su Shen was extremely firm at first, saying that she would not contact her if she didn't want to contact her, but because of such a small courier, even the demanding request to meet her turned into "think about it".

This express delivery should not be called Xue Express, it should be called Magic Express.

Tian Zhe had a point in his mind, and after thinking about it, he basically agreed.It seems that I will have to look up that phone number again later.