Journey of a Thousand Miles

Qianli's smiling face is his greatest comfort, it can slightly appease his lingering guilt.

Until one day, Qianli asked a knife-like sentence out of the blue.

"dad."

"Ok?"

"Does mom not want me?"

His father turned his head and looked at him in astonishment.

There was no expression on Qianli's face, as if he was simply asking a question.

"What's the matter." The father stretched out his hand, pulled him over, and hugged him tightly, "Mom is poor dad, I know dad can't do without little chess."

"really?"

"Really."

Silly boy.

Mom doesn't want you anymore.

Mom doesn't want dad anymore.

Mother.This word, in Qianli's heart, is very strange and far away.No matter what, he never imagined that in the future, the reunion with his mother would be in such a way.

My father didn't know that Qianli's little heart had unknowingly filled a lot of things.

He had seen his father wipe tears secretly by himself in the dead of night, and he thought that Qianli had fallen asleep, so he finally let go of his guard.

Why is daddy crying?

Thousands of miles to think.

Because mom isn't there?

Because life is too hard?

Qianli vaguely understands that many things are not as simple as they appear on the surface.

And his father also taught him invisibly what perseverance is.

When I was 9 years old, one day, my father was browsing the web when he suddenly yelled, which scared thousands of miles away.

Father stood up, picked him up high, and twirled in mid-air, "Xiaoqi, QL won! Blue won! We won!"

Father suddenly spit out a bunch of new words, Qianli was stunned when he heard it.

It turned out that QL is a domestic team, and Blue is the ace player. This year they won the domestic championship in a certain game competition, represented the country in the world competition, and finally won the third place.

"What is the third runner-up?" Qianli asked.

"The third runner-up is..." Father thought for a while and said, "No.3. But it's already very good!"

"Why don't you take No.1?" Qianli asked again.

Father was startled, looked at Qianli for a while, and then said, "We will definitely win the championship, one day."

Someday.

These four words echoed in Qianli's heart for a long, long time.

At the age of 10, in order to celebrate Qianli’s birthday, his father took him out of Liyuanmen. It was Qianli’s first long-distance travel, although the place they went to was actually very close, a city in the same province, just over 100 kilometers away.

But that place is in a very remote mountain corner...

In the past, they would play games at home or go out to play games during Chinese New Year... Shopping or other entertainment venues are not for the two of them, just eat enough to fill their stomachs, playgrounds... Since that encounter, Qianli never wants to went.

After trekking for several hours under the hot weather, just when Qianli felt that he was going to faint from the heat, he finally arrived at his destination.

"Wow--"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Qianli screamed.

It was a horse farm.

The racecourse is not big, but it is surrounded by mountainous areas. In theory, you can ride anywhere you want.

The owner of the racecourse is an old friend of his father. He reunited after a long absence and was very enthusiastic. The food and drinks were all ready, but Qianli didn’t care about the food. His whole heart was attracted by the horses.

"Hahaha, don't worry, we can play here for several days." Father touched his head.

Can't wait to finish the meal, the boss personally showed them around, but the first thing they went to was not the stables, but a special place.

archery range.

This boss is not an ordinary boss, he is a... mortal with a dream.

The boss has always been obsessed with traditional culture, mainly riding and archery, especially archery. He has not only studied deeply, but also has excellent skills. However, this field is really small and the market cannot be expanded. It is too difficult to make money from this.But the boss did not give up, and opened a horse farm in this remote place with minimal cost, and insisted on archery as a hobby.

My father played with him for a while when he was young, and learned a lot. More importantly, the two people's dedication and enthusiasm for the things they like are exactly the same, so they are very speculative. Although their pursuits are different later, it does not affect their relationship. friendship.

The boss specially found a children's bow for Qianli. Qianli took the bow and looked at it curiously. After a while, his eyes were attracted by his father who came to the field.

Qianli watched his father's every move intently. He stood up straight sideways, turned his head, looked ahead, raised his arms flat, straightened the longbow, raised his right hand, raised the arrow, and drew the string.

aim.

let go.

boom--!

Hit the bullseye!

Qianli opened his mouth wide.

"Amazing," the boss clapped his hands. "Honestly, did you secretly practice by yourself?"

"No way," my father scratched his hair and smiled sheepishly, "I'm blind, good luck."

On this day, that handsome figure and that heroic figure piercing Yang with a hundred steps were deeply imprinted in Qianli's heart.

At that moment, Qianli had a firm idea.

His father was his hero, always will be.

"I want to play too!" Qianli yelled and ran to his father, impatiently following his father's example and drawing the bow.

"You're not doing it right—" Father corrected him.

"Ah?" Qianli looked at his father suspiciously, let go of his hand, and flicked back the bowstring he had just tightened.

"Hey," my father's expression became serious in an instant, "You can't leave the bow empty, or it will break the bow. Remember it in the future."

"Oh," Qianli nodded vigorously, "Remember it!"

Under the hands-on teaching of his father and the correction from time to time by the boss, Qianli finally shot the first arrow with his own strength.

It was a little crooked, it stuck to the edge of the target, and almost missed it, but Qianli was very happy, and immediately shot the second and third arrows...

Until the archery target was densely inserted, a few arrows were only one step away from the target.

"The kid is learning so fast." The boss couldn't help but praise.

"Hey." Qianli laughed without humility at all.

"Does it hurt?" Dad asked.

"pain!"

"Are you still playing?"

"Play!"

Father smiled, "Okay, let's play for a while."

"En!" Qianli responded, turned around and ran to the archery target again.

People who like to play games probably have one thing in common.

Willing to challenge.

Qianli stayed at the archery field for a long time, until the sun went down, and he was still unsatisfied. After eating, Qianli hopped in the yard, while the boss and his father drank a small wine while reminiscing about the old days.

"I haven't seen you for so long, I didn't expect so many things to happen to you." The boss sighed.

"Ha," my father shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile, "I can only blame myself."

"I'm not much better than you," the boss filled his glass. "My wife doesn't want to come here with me, and she doesn't want to quit her job as a civil servant."

"Then you now..." the father asked tentatively.

"That's it. I'll go back when I'm free, and she'll come over when she's on vacation. Let's live like this."

"Where's your daughter...?"

"My wife brought it with me."

"It is said that a daughter is father's little princess, but you are an exception." The father laughed.

"Yeah, I'm not like you, I'm not a good father." The boss sighed.

"It's not easy for her," said the father.

The boss was silent for a while, not knowing what to say, so he raised his glass. Seeing this, his father also picked up his own glass, and with a clang, they collided in the air.

No one has it easy.Life itself is not easy.

"How are you doing now?" the father asked again.

"Difficult. What's your job?"

"almost."

"We are really brothers and sisters." The boss said cheerfully.

"I believe it will be fine." Father's eyes were firm.

"It's really unimaginable that you will have a day of raising children." The boss said, looking at Qianli who was having fun not far away.

"I can't even imagine that Xiaoqi's birth was an accident."

marriage?family?child?All these, he thought so far away at first, but because of an unexpected pregnancy, they were forcibly packed and stuffed into his life.

During the dating stage, he discussed with Xue Feng again and again. It wasn't that he didn't want to get married or have children, he just wanted to give him more time.

He still has a lot to do.

Later facts proved that his original foresight was justified. It takes a lot of energy to maintain a family.

So, he failed.

"However, many things are uncertain." Father murmured, "Maybe I am really old and I feel a little unable to fight. Sometimes looking at Xiaoqi is like looking at the future."

"What? Want to train your son to be your successor?"

"It's not that serious." Father laughed.

But it would be deceiving to say that there were no expectations at all.

However, making Qianli grow up healthy like a normal child may be the greatest achievement.

The next day, after breakfast early in the morning, the boss took the two of them to Ma Peng to pick a horse, and then asked the horse trainer to train the two of them in basic skills. Qianli clamored to ride a horse by himself, but his father refused to let him. No matter how high Ren Qianli's mouth was pouted, his father still carried him onto his horse.

The subsequent activities were also different from the galloping horses that Qianli imagined. A group of people rode a string of horses, forming a line back and forth, and leisurely left the racecourse and walked towards the mountain road.Although it is not as pleasant as in TV dramas, it is also full of pleasant interest.