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Xu Wenyuan really took Xu Zhiyuan to his hometown on the second day of the new year.

Before leaving, Xu Zhiyuan carried a huge travel bag, Xu Wenyuan laughed at him and said, "We just go back and have a look, and we don't plan to stay there for a year or so, are you planning to bring all your belongings with you? "

Xu Zhiyuan sold it out mysteriously.

Before entering the village, Xu Wenyuan was still thinking about where to park the car, because in his memory, their area was a dirt road, and it was okay to drive the tractor stumblingly, but he really didn't dare to take risks with the chassis of his new car.

Unexpectedly, he was stunned when he got there. There was a wide and brand new concrete road, and there was a row of new houses with white walls and black tiles, and warm sheds were built at the door of every house.

Xu Wenyuan almost thought that he had come to the wrong place, but Xu Zhiyuan was not too surprised.

After entering the village, the secretary of the village party committee rubbed his hands in a hurry to greet him. Xu Wenyuan thought he was looking for him, and he murmured in his heart that he was not very familiar with this newly appointed cadre comrade, so why was he so enthusiastic.

It turned out that they didn't come to look for him. The old branch secretary grabbed Xu Zhiyuan's hand and greeted him politely. Xu Zhiyuan smiled and answered, and asked him, "How is the school situation?"

The village party secretary said as he walked: "It's all done, it's been built early, and I'll take you to have a look ahead."

Xu Wenyuan walked beside his younger brother without saying a word, and the two of them appeared to be in peace on the outside, he didn't look at Xu Zhiyuan, and Xu Zhiyuan didn't look at him, but when he was walking, his brother's hand brushed the back of his hand intentionally or unintentionally, He quickly hooked his little finger in a corner that no one noticed and pinched it.

The village party secretary saw at a glance that he was also a sweet potato, a golden thigh that he must not neglect, and kept warming up beside him, introducing to him that this "Mr. The village donated a large amount of money to build roads and houses, which has greatly improved everyone's life in the past few years, so it is "the benefactor of the whole village".

Xu Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Secretary Wang, my brother used to be here too."

Secretary Wang was very surprised: "Then this...Mr. Xu should know the situation in our village very well."

Xu Wenyuan shook his head: "I haven't come back for many years, so I don't even recognize him."

The houses in his memory are all gone. I don’t know if the third aunt and the others have moved out, and that Chen Mazi who always likes to taunt him, and those whose faces he can no longer remember, or even their names. people.

Seeing that he was in a daze, Secretary Wang answered quickly: "Recently in the past few years in the village, the rich have all moved out, and the rest of the young people have gone out to work, and some old people and children have stayed, but not Many, it was a problem for children to go to school in the past, but now it is better, two days ago, two new college students came to the village to support education, but they were very happy."

While talking, they had already walked to the gate of the new school, just next to the physical activity class, and the children flew out of the building like birds, chattering around the young teacher back and forth, very happy.

The teacher and Secretary Wang introduced this beautiful brother to the children, and the children knew only a little about it, but they were distracted by Xu Zhiyuan's backpack of snacks and toys—there were candies, chocolates, and some small toys that both boys and girls liked.

He squatted on the ground and greeted the children in a soft voice: "Everyone line up and come one by one. Don't worry if everyone has something."

The children liked this pretty brother very much, and they clamored for him to play with him. Because Xu Wenyuan really didn't know how to get along with children, he could only stand by the side with Smiley in an attempt to get away with it.

But how could his precious brother let him go so easily?

He took Xu Wenyuan's arm and said, "This big brother told me just now that he wants to play a game, and the children who win and those who actively participate will have prizes."

A child asked naively: "What prize?"

Xu Zhiyuan glanced at his brother, and replied with a smile: "I don't know about that, you have to ask big brother."

Children are easily aroused by curiosity, and a large group of people scrambled to shout: "Uncle, what do you want to reward us?"

Xu Wenyuan twitched his face: "Call me brother."

"Oh, good uncle."

Xu Zhiyuan squatted on the ground laughing until his whole body trembled. Xu Wenyuan really couldn't care about a group of children, so he could only silently step aside and make a phone call, asking his assistant to hurry up and bring over some food. The children keenly grasped the key words. The "uncle" who was about to secretly reward them with foreign fast food behind their parents' backs was very satisfied. Except for some shy and introverted ones, the other bold ones had already started to tear his trouser legs.

"Uncle, we haven't played the game yet..."

Xu Wenyuan hung up the phone and said kindly: "Uncle can't play games."

"That's okay! We will teach you!"

Xu Wenyuan wanted to refuse, but seeing the excited faces of the children, he swallowed all the words that came to his mouth.

The games that children like are nothing more than "Eagle Catch Chickens" or "Pieces" and "Cockfighting". They are all about physical strength and ingenuity. Barely let go once.

He is different from others. He struggled for survival almost throughout his childhood. When he was a little older, he went to the city to study. He has basically never experienced what games are, so he knows nothing about rules and skills. The children joined hands to play around, running back and forth, sweat running down their necks and down their backs, and Xu Zhiyuan's cheeks flushed from playing.

The secretary quickly delivered the fried chicken burgers, and the children cheered and lined up to wash their hands to get food. The two were able to catch their breath, and each took a bottle of water and sat on the steps beside the playground.

The small white building on the third floor of Hope Elementary School is next to the back mountain. From their perspective, they can just see a mountain of persimmon trees.

Xu Wenyuan helped his younger brother wipe off the sweat from his forehead, Xu Zhiyuan raised his face slightly, and looked at Xu Wenyuan with sparkling eyes.

"Brother, don't you blame me?"

"What's your fault?"

"Hide it from you."

Xu Wenyuan knocked his brother's head with his knuckles: "Do you think I don't know good from bad?"

Xu Zhiyuan smiled "hehe" and leaned his head on his brother's shoulder.

"That's impossible, I'm afraid you will be angry with me."

Xu Wenyuan pinched his nose, which made him almost unable to breathe: "Are you still afraid that I will be angry?"

"Scared! Why am I not afraid! I'm scared!"

"Are you still hiding it from me?"

Xu Zhiyuan blinked, his eyelashes gently gliding over Xu Wenyuan's fingers like a fan.

"Didn't you also buy the ring without telling me? Why don't you allow me to prepare a wedding gift for you?"

Xu Zhiyuan is a domineering person. He failed to participate in his brother's childhood. He wants to forcefully intervene in another way. He wants to supply him with everything that his brother didn't get when he was a child. He needs to tell him in another way that there will always be someone Come to you and help you realize those unfulfilled dreams.

He wants to love this person's hometown together.

Xu Zhiyuan grabbed his brother's hand, snapped his thumb and forefinger, put them together with his own, and posed for the camera, aiming at the back mountain and sweeping from right to left: "Look at those trees, they are all covered by trees now." I claimed it, and I named them from the one on the left to the right! This is Da Niu, that is San Niu, the ones behind are called Si Niu, Wu Niu, and Liu Niu, and the one on the last side is called 46 Niu. They are all your brothers and sisters, Er Niu is not alone!"

Xu Zhiyuan's face was full of pride and apprehension, like a child carefully holding out a treasure, looking forward to the adult's feedback.

Xu Wenyuan watched for a while in silence. Some of the children were still eating, some sneaked to the back mountain to pick persimmons after eating, and some were playing games in groups.

The bold "Ceng Ceng" ran over and squatted in front of them and asked, "Hey, brother and uncle, what's the matter with you? Why are you holding hands?"

Xu Zhiyuan bent his eyes: "Uncle is too excited, brother is comforting him."

In the afternoon, the two went to pay homage to the ancestral grave of Xu Erniu's family. Xu Zhiyuan took his brother away and secretly told his ancestors what he didn't let his brother know. A life photo of the two of them was placed where the tribute was placed.

Xu Zhiyuan pulled him away and explained: "Don't worry, I didn't say anything about marrying you. I'm afraid that the old ancestors won't accept me kidnapping their good grandson, so they will come to me in the middle of the night to settle accounts."

All he said was that he would take good care of Xu Wenyuan for the rest of his life and not let him suffer any more, but he was also a person who wanted face and would not tell Xu Wenyuan. Prove it with actions.

On the way home in the evening, Xu Zhiyuan was probably a little sleepy, and fell asleep in the car in a daze. When he woke up, he found that his body was covered with Xu Wenyuan's coat, and his brother was not in the car.

Subconsciously, he wanted to open the door and find Xu Wenyuan talking to a woman outside with a cigarette in his mouth.

The woman was Xu Wenyuan's biological mother. They had met each other in the hospital before, but she might not know Xu Zhiyuan.So Xu Zhiyuan didn't get out of the car after thinking about it, and silently peeked through the window pane.

The car window was closed, and Xu Wenyuan turned his back to him, so he couldn't hear what the two of them were saying. The only thing he could feel was that the atmosphere of the conversation was quite harmonious, but Xu Wenyuan and her were separated by a safe distance of a few meters. And rusty.

In the end, the woman didn't know what to take out of the bag, and gave it to Xu Wenyuan, but he refused. The two pushed and shoved many times, not like mother and son, but as if they were here to do business and bargain.

Xu Wenyuan pinched his cigarette, turned and walked back, just took a step and stopped, then turned around and said something, the woman froze on the spot.

Xu Zhiyuan quickly closed his eyes and lay back, pulled off his suit jacket and put it on to sleep.

Xu Wenyuan opened the car door and got in, and started the car and called him: "Get up when you wake up, you have no acting skills at all."

Xu Zhiyuan sat up in a huff: "How do you know I'm pretending?"

Xu Wenyuan chuckled: "The cover of the suit is turned over, and your eyelids are shaking."

The car turned a corner and went on the road again smoothly. Xu Zhiyuan looked in the rearview mirror, and the woman was still standing there motionless, just like Xu Wenyuan who was in the hospital that day.

"Did you call her mom in the end?"

This "Mom" Xu Zhiyuan lowered his voice, learning so well, Xu Wenyuan couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "How do you know?"

Xu Zhiyuan was triumphant: "I saw your mouth shape, but I didn't guess the last half of the sentence."

Xu Wenyuan replied lightly: "It's nothing, I wish her a happy new year."