What about the food you owe me?

Early the next morning, Jiang Ran was obviously much quieter than usual, and he had no appetite. The breakfast was almost unchanged.

Later, it was Ye Chen who insisted, so he reluctantly ate some bread.

Jiang's mother probably hoped that Ye Chen would say something to Jiang Ran in private, so only the two of them went to visit the grave.

When he arrived at the cemetery, Jiang Ran bought a bag of paper money and walked into the cemetery with the barrel stove, bucket and spoon he had prepared.

The cemetery is a cemetery, and there are rows and rows of tombstones along the way. If you look around, they are neat and tidy, and it is impossible to tell who they belong to.

Jiang Ran led the way. He passed through rows of tombstones, stopped in one row, walked a little further inside, and stopped in front of the fifth tombstone.

The three words on the tombstone are colored with golden lacquer, showing that the person with this name is no longer alive.

Jiang Ran turned to look at Ye Chen, twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled stiffly, "This is my dad."

He handed the bucket to Ye Chen and pointed in a direction, "There is a faucet over there, can you help me fill some water?"

Ye Chen looked at him, nodded slowly, picked up the bucket and left.

Jiang Ran watched his back silently for a while, then knelt down, pulled out the weeds growing around the tombstone, and threw them into the prepared plastic bag.

The faucet was not far from here, and Ye Chen came back with water in no time.

Jiang Ran asked him to put the bucket next to the tombstone, then picked up the water spoon, scooped up the water, and slowly poured it on the tombstone.

After the tombstone was cleaned up, Jiang Ran put the barrel stove in front of the tombstone, and then took out a stack of paper money and put it in the barrel stove.

He took out new paper money and took out a few pieces from it.

He looked at Ye Chen and said softly, "Did you bring a lighter?"

Ye Chen said "hmm", took out a lighter from his pocket and handed it to him.

This was the first time that Ye Chen stood in front of a tombstone and visited the grave outside the Ching Ming Festival.His grandparents, grandparents, parents and brothers are all alive, so he has not faced the death of close relatives.

Jiang Ran took the lighter and lit the paper money in his hand. After the paper money was half burned, he put them into the barrel furnace and lit the other paper money inside.

Both of them picked up new paper money and put it into the barrel furnace bit by bit.

The burning paper money gave off a fragrance, which was faint and pleasant.

But Ye Chen felt that he smelled a smell called "sadness".

As the breeze blew, the ashes flew up with the wind, brushing the cheeks and shoulders of the two of them.

For some reason, Ye Chen felt a lingering tenderness from the wind.

After burning the paper money, the two cleaned up the surrounding area and kowtowed again.

After getting up, they didn't leave immediately.Ye Chen looked at Jiang Ran, and Jiang Ran stared at the tombstone.

He felt that Jiang Ran was talking to his father, but he didn't know what he said.

Or, Jiang Ran didn't say anything, just stared at the tombstone in a daze.

Ye Chen looked at the tombstone again, and suddenly said, "Uncle, don't worry, I will take good care of Jiang Ran and won't make him sad, I promise."

Jiang Ran was stunned for a moment, only to feel the warmth in his hand, it was Ye Chen who held his hand.

Ye Chen looked into his eyes seriously, and solemnly repeated, "I promise."

Jiang Ran stared at him for a while, then bent his eyes, "Well, let's go."

The two left the cemetery and returned to Jiang Ran's house. After putting away the barrel stove and everything, they picked up their luggage and set off for the airport.

Jiang's mother was afraid that her son's condition would not be good, so she drove herself to see them off.

Nor did they object.

Mother Jiang didn't drive away until they passed the security check and sent her a message.

They fell asleep as soon as they got on the plane, and when they woke up, the plane landed.

Back at Ye Chen's house, Ye Chen finally said what he wanted to say all the way, "You obviously remember it all."

Jiang Ran was sitting on the sofa watching TV, but when he heard this, his body froze, and the remote control slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

He remembered what Fang Yi had said to him.

—Actually, you can’t forget it, right?

Jiang Ran said dumbly: "My mother told you?"

Ye Chen didn't answer right away, but turned around and went into the kitchen to pour Jiang Ran a glass of warm water, hugged him and fed him for him to drink.

Ye Chen said softly, "Auntie is also doing it for your own good."

"I know."

"Auntie said, you seem to forget every time, but you haven't, right?" Ye Chen said slowly word by word, trying not to stimulate Jiang Ran too much, "Otherwise you won't It would be so easy to find my uncle's tombstone, and I wouldn't know what to do to sweep the grave."

Jiang Ran's performance didn't look like a person who didn't know how to sweep the grave. Ye Chen could tell at a glance that Jiang Ran not only knew what to do, but was also very proficient.

Jiang Ran was silent and did not speak.

But Ye Chen, who was holding him, could feel the other person's body trembling slightly.

Ye Chen immediately comforted him: "You don't need to answer, but it doesn't matter."

"But of course, you know the answer yourself."

He hugged Jiang Ran tightly, trying to convey his body temperature to him, hoping to give him a little more sense of security.

"Of course, I want to know about your past." Ye Chen kissed Jiang Ran's forehead, earlobe, cheek and chin, "I want to know how much you like your father, what you were like in school when you were young, and also want to know Fang Yi's place in your heart."

Jiang Ran's eyelashes trembled.

"Of course, I want to know why you don't want to remember your past." Ye Chen gently kissed his eyelashes, "If you want to know, I can also tell you about my past. It's just that my past is boring , I'm afraid you'll fall asleep after listening to it. The rest... is the bits and pieces of Shengge, and you already know the most important ones. "

Before Jiang Ran could speak, Ye Chen began to recount his childhood events, focusing on his connections with his former classmates after graduation.

Later, he kept talking about when he joined Shengge, got to know Bai Gui, and many of the first batch of singers in Shengge, and said that some of them fell out of the circle, some quit the circle, and some went to other places.Some lived happily after leaving, and some had no choice but to leave.

He, Bai Gui and Chi You are the only remaining first batch of singers in Shengge. In the past six years, the singers of Shengge have come and gone, and they are no longer the original Shengge, nor are they the same.

Faced with the departure of their friends, although they were reluctant to give up, they still insisted on going on the road they wanted to go.

After all, if you don't keep going, how will you know who is waiting for you in the future?

Ye Chen kept talking until very late, even when the two of them were having dinner, Ye Chen was still talking.

For the first time, he knew that he had so many memories, and it wasn't that all memories were meaningless.

However, Jiang Ran never responded, and Ye Chen wasn't even sure if he was still listening.

Jiang Ran seemed to put a shell on himself. He kept everyone out of the shell and hid in it thinking about his own affairs.

It wasn't until Ye Chen got up to wash the dishes that Jiang Ran suddenly said, "Do you think it's wrong not to let yourself be sad?"

The author has something to say:

emmmmmmm grave sweeping, I'm actually not very clear about the details, I hope I don't make any taboos... But to be honest, I wrote it out of my head while searching for information.For example, use that water spoon to sprinkle water on the tombstone... For me, what I wrote should be a custom in Japan _(:з」∠)_ At least so far I seem to?I have never seen anyone in the Mainland clean up tombstones like that, although there is indeed cleaning in the process of sweeping tombs?

I originally gave Father Jiang a name, but it would be very bad if I had the same name with someone, so I deleted it

When writing this paragraph, my cousin was talking with my sister, feeding her chicken soup, and I was desperately researching the information on the tomb sweeping. ? ?

It's impossible for Jiang Ran to figure it out just because of what Ye Chen said, otherwise Chi You would have succeeded emmmmm, although their way of persuading Jiang Ran is actually a little different.

Originally, I wanted Ye Chen to enlighten Jiang Ran in a stimulating way, but when I wrote this, I realized that Ye Chen seemed reluctant, so he could only do it gently and gently.

By the way, Ye Chen and the others all know that Jiang Ran has undergone some changes since his father passed away. They know that it should be because of his father, but they don't know what is the reason for him to become like this, for example, the fear of death. , or the sadness of parting relatives, or something, they don't know which one it is