In the city [entertainment circle]

56

Shen Xiao's house is still there.

It's just that compared with the surrounding buildings built together, the dilapidated and old three-story bungalows look so abrupt.

The house has been unoccupied all year round. Not only are weeds overgrown, most of the walls have collapsed, and other people's houses have also taken the opportunity to occupy half of the open space, making this one-story house squeezed in the middle of the building look so pitiful.

Shen Xiao told Li Ruosen and Wu Tao not to come down, and walked in to have a look by himself.

The wooden door has been rotten, and the original white wall has not been maintained for too long, and the red bricks inside are exposed, everything looks defeated.Shen Xiao bypassed the spider webs and mud, and walked in slowly.

But I found that the situation inside was even worse than I imagined.

Shen Xiao came to the room in his memory. There were only some posters on the wall that could no longer see their true colors, and some useless sundries were still on the ground.The ground is gray and black and the original color cannot be seen clearly.The smell in the air was not good either. After Shen Xiao stood for a while, the cobwebs on the wall were almost as thick as veils.

Leaving his room, he went to his mother's room to take another look. Shen Xiao found that this room seemed to be leaking, so the situation was much worse than his. Everything was in its original position, but after a long time, basically All rotten.

Shen Xiao actually thought about what would happen to the old house here before he came here. He thought there would be cobwebs and dust, but he didn't expect that the actual situation was worse than he thought.

There is a window in this room, and the road can be seen directly through the iron bars. He saw their car, and an old man who walked slowly and talked to Wu Tao.

Shen Xiao naturally couldn't hear what the old man was saying, but he felt that the old man should be very excited at the moment, so he suddenly turned around and shouted to himself, "Qianshan——"

who is he?For a moment, Shen Xiao couldn't think of anyone who could match up with this old man. He walked out of the room and looked at the old man, "Who are you?"

"I'm your second uncle." The old man said, because of his age, he was a little slurred, and his accent was a little heavy, but Shen Xiao could easily recognize what he meant.

Uncle?Shen Xiao carefully recalled that in his memory, his mother had no relatives who were still alive... He looked at the old man in front of him again, and found a birthmark on his neck, and finally remembered who he was.

It is said that it is the second uncle, but in fact it is a distant relative who is so far away that he has almost lost his relationship.

Now that he remembered who it was, Shen Xiao smiled, "It's the second uncle."

"After so many years, you are finally back." The second uncle's surname is Xie, so let's call him Second Uncle Xie for the time being.He hunched over and looked back at the expressionless Wu Tao, "...they are all your friends?" His expression was a little disturbed, perhaps because Wu Tao looked too serious.

"They're all my friends." Shen Xiao said, looking back at the old house.

"The house is like this." Uncle Xie said, with his hands behind his back, "It feels very desolate without popularity." He motioned Shen Xiao to follow him, "Take your two friends with you."

Shen Xiao turned around and wanted to ask what Li Ruosen meant.

"Let Wu Tao carry me." Li Ruosen whispered, "You can talk to him."

"...I don't know what to say." Shen Xiao leaned against the side of the car, this is his sincere words, he is definitely not a popular type of person in this village.He really didn't know what to say, and he didn't know what he could say.He looked at the back of Uncle Xie in the distance, squatted down, and signaled Li Ruosen to lie on his back, "I can't remember many things and people in the past." He felt Li Ruosen's arms wrapped around his neck , then grasped a little more, and then lifted his body up a little.

Only then did Shen Xiao stand up, carrying Li Ruosen on his back, and followed Second Uncle Xie.

Uncle Xie stopped and walked, and he didn't know if it was because he was too old and physically weak, or because he couldn't remember the way.

The eyes under his drooping eyelids looked at Li Ruosen who was being carried on the back by Shen Xiao, and then he seemed to want to ask, but he turned his head again as if he was a little embarrassed.

"He's not in good health." Shen Xiao explained.

Uncle Xie nodded.

He seems to be not good at words, except when he saw Shen Xiao, he showed a little emotion, but now he is silent again.

Uncle Xie's house, walk along the cement road, then turn five corners, and you will arrive.

Shen Xiao stepped on the concrete road under his feet, feeling a little emotional in his heart. He remembered that at the beginning, there was only a dirt road here, and then when he left, there was a layer of stones, and now it has all turned into a cement road.

The low bungalows were almost completely replaced by new buildings.

Including Uncle Xie's family.

There is a huge transparent zenith in the yard, which covers half of the open space in the yard, and only the remaining half is exposed to the outside.

Shen Xiao looked up for a while.

"Sit down." Uncle Xie pointed to the round table under the transparent glass, surrounded by some stools.

Shen Xiao lowered his head and wiped the stool before letting Li Ruosen sit on it.

"Mr. Shen, you don't need to do this." Li Ruosen said in a low voice, "I'm not that delicate." Of course he was referring to Shen Xiao wiping the stool.

Hearing this, Shen Xiao just patted his shoulder and didn't speak.

Li Ruosen has always felt that since Shen Xiao came back here, he has become more silent than before. He seems to be immersed in memories, but when he speaks occasionally, he can find that he is still awake.

He looked up at Shen Xiao who was standing beside him, looking around.

In fact, in Li Ruosen's heart, he was not so clear about the reason why Shen Xiao came back.Shen Xiao asked him if he would like to come with him, and he was willing, so he came.

As for why Shen Xiao came back, he actually didn't know.

He thought it might be because Shen Xiao missed his hometown, and the fallen leaves returned to their roots. As he got older, this kind of thought would always linger in his mind.

He felt that Shen Xiao was the same way.

But now he is not so sure, he feels that Shen Xiao seems to want to know something, not just want to take a look at his hometown.

After Second Uncle Xie came out of the house, Shen Xiao went up to him and talked to him.

Shen Xiao and Second Uncle Xie spoke very quickly, and there were dialects mixed in. Li Ruosen listened for a while, but couldn't understand what they were saying.It can only be seen that Shen Xiao seems to be asking something.

He saw Uncle Xie shaking his head first, then said a few words, and then shook his head again.

Shen Xiao looked anxious, and he said something again.

Uncle Xie just shook his head.

In the end, Shen Xiao seemed to give up, "Thank you, Second Uncle."

Li Ruosen understood this sentence, he saw Shen Xiao coming over, and said to him and Wu Tao, "Second Uncle said that it is rare to come back, why not stay with him for one night." After he finished speaking, he asked Li Ruosen Views.

Naturally, Li Ruosen would not object.

After everyone finished their dinner, Shen Xiao moved two reclining chairs and sat with Li Ruosen at the entrance of the courtyard.Li Ruosen looked at the pond outside the yard, but still couldn't help but wonder in his heart, "... What did you say this afternoon?"

"I don't seem to have told you about my childhood." Shen Xiao took Li Ruosen's hand, "It was about my childhood, not what was said on the Internet later."

Li Ruosen really didn't know about Shen Xiao's younger past. He looked at the fingers that Shen Xiao had grasped, and the other party was massaging his knuckles. He knew that this was actually a sign of Shen Xiao's nervousness.

Then he heard Shen Xiao slowly talking about his past, his lonely and boring childhood, his indifferent mother, and the name he abandoned.

"She kept telling me that Qianshan is because there are many mountains here." Shen Xiao said with a sigh, "She also said that my father has passed away for many years, but the memory in my mind is not the same as She didn't agree with what I said, so I asked my second uncle."

"He said that my father did go out to work, but the people who worked with him in the same village said after returning that he went to a farther place, and after that, it was the news that he didn't want to come back..."

"Maybe there is a new family outside?" Shen Xiao talked about people's speculation back then.

"But I don't think so." Shen Xiao said, frowning, as if trying to find his own memory, "I remember what he said to me before he left home...he shouldn't be that kind of person."

"But Second Uncle only remembers which city he went to. The people from the same village who went out to work together have either moved out of here or passed away." Shen Xiao said.

"Do you want to find him?" Li Ruosen asked.

Shen Xiao was silent for a moment, "Think." He said to Li Ruosen, "I still want to know an answer."