After dinner, news of Zong Ji and Liu Wang's return spread throughout the village. Aunt Sun put the dishes and chopsticks into the sink and washed her hands with soap.

"Do you want to go out for a walk to digest food?"

They set off in the morning, and it's six o'clock in the evening, and it's still light outside.

Zong Ji shook his head sadly: "Ma'am, I want to visit my grandma first."

Aunt Sun's uplifted mood also fell a lot, she took off her apron: "Okay, wait for me to decorate the joss sticks, let's go together."

Liu Wang didn't speak, and stroked the child's hair soothingly.

The three of them walked together to the hillside opposite the yard. On it was a new grave that hadn't yet grown grass, and the wreaths inserted during the burial still had bright colors.

"Go see grandma Zong?" The uncle from the same village ran into him, and he sighed softly when he saw the sacrifice in Zong Ji's hand.

After lighting the joss stick, Zong Ji knelt down and kowtowed three times towards the new grave: "Grandma, I'm back to see you."

Liu Wang also knelt down. When the old man passed away, he was not able to come back, which made him feel very sorry for a while.

The sky was dry, and the three of them did not leave in a hurry after worshiping the old man, waiting for the candles and incense to burn out.Aunt Sun and Liu Wang walked a few steps to the foot of the mountain, leaving room for Zong Ji so that he could talk to the old man at ease.

In the past, the two families lived next door, and Aunt Sun could often hear children saying "Grandma, I got [-] points in the exam today", "Grandma, I picked up two eggs in the chicken coop", "Grandma, the yellow flowers at the intersection are blooming, we will eat yellow flowers tomorrow morning Is the noodles good?", the lively chatter made people feel refreshed.

After staying in northern Hebei for three months, the child must have a lot to say to the elderly.

Sure enough, Zong Ji's voice sounded from the mountain, but it was so soft that he couldn't hear it clearly in the mountain wind.

"Is everything okay outside?" Aunt Sun asked Liu Wang. Although she often talked on the phone, she couldn't say the same in person as on the phone.

"It's all good, my brother is still making a movie." Liu Wang didn't talk too much about himself, because the content was the same every day, knowing that Aunt Sun wanted to hear Zong Ji's, so he picked up interesting things and talked more.

After a while, the joss stick burned out, Zong Ji walked down the path, his eyes were red, obviously he had cried.

After returning from the mountain, Zong Ji was in a low mood. Mrs. Sun lit the upstairs bedroom with mosquito coils. Children are especially attracted to mosquitoes. When they came back from the mountain, their arms and legs were covered in bruises. where.

Before people even entered the door, Aunt Sun knew it was Zong Ji when she smelled the scent of toilet water.

"Ma'am, you keep this bank card. There is 5 yuan in it. Please return it for me."

After wrapping up, the crew sent over the rest of the money, and Zong Ji stored it all in a card, and usually spent money earned by playing tricks.

"Didn't I tell you that you don't have to pay it back? The money for your grandma's burial was collected voluntarily by everyone." Aunt Sun didn't accept bank cards. She knew that the money was earned by Zong Ji from making movies. People thought about asking Zong Ji to pay back the money.

"I have to pay it back." Zong Ji was usually very obedient, but once he became stubborn, he couldn't pull ten cows back. "If I can't earn money, forget it. Now that I can earn money, I must pay it back."

He took Aunt Sun's arm with both hands and shook it gently, just like when he was a child: "Mother, I will make more money soon, just trust me."

"Then you can't take out all the money, you have to save some for yourself, the prices outside are so expensive, how can you live without money?"

Seeing that Mrs. Sun showed signs of letting go, Zong Ji took out his mobile phone and showed her his change: "I still have 2000 yuan, which is enough! Besides, there is Brother Wang."

Knowing that the two brothers have a good relationship, otherwise Aunt Sun would not let Zong Ji go to Liu Wang at ease.

"Then I'll help you pay it back, but if others don't accept it, I can't force it. I'll give you back the rest." Aunt Sun put the bank card back in Zong Ji's hand, "I'll give you the bank card number. Just transfer the money to me, and keep the card.”

"Auntie, you can transfer money with a bank card." Zong Ji laughed, and Aunt Sun shot him a look: "Your aunt, I know a lot."

After transferring the money to Aunt Sun's card, Zong Ji finally went back to his room to sleep contentedly.

The next morning, Zong Ji went to Granny Yang to get peanuts. Aunt Sun murmured to Sun Wang about Zong Ji's repayment of the money: "Your grandmother Zong is kind, and most people in the village have received her kindness. When she died, everyone wanted to let her go." She walked away in style, discussing how to raise money for her funeral, but no one said that she would pay it back."

"Your brother doesn't know where he found out that everyone collected [-] yuan and insisted on paying it back." Aunt Sun couldn't help sighing. Everyone in the village has similar conditions, and Zong Ji has the ability to return the money.

"I just said why he was anxious to make money as soon as he came to Hebei." Liu Wang sipped his porridge, smashed a boiled egg on the table, peeled the shell and threw it into the porridge, and bit off half of it in one bite, " Well, and me, I will never let him go hungry."

According to his ID card, Liu Wang was six years older than Zong Ji, but no one knew how much older he was, because Zong Ji was picked up by Grandma Zong from outside, and the exact date of birth was unknown.

Liu Wang still remembers the appearance of Zongji’s milk doll. He was eight years old that year. He heard a child crying when he came back from school. After asking, he found out that the grandmother Zong next door had picked up a child. He immediately ran over to see the milk doll. I can't even put my schoolbag in time.

Aunt Sun's family had a hard time in the early days. Liu Wang's father was in poor health and took medicine all year round.At that time, Grandma Zong was a well-known spirit crying person in all villages and villages. The first thing that came to mind was Grandma Zong, so she was relatively well-off, and she often lent money to Liu Wang's father for medical treatment.

Every time after crying, the host family would pack a lot of meat and vegetables for Grandma Zong to take home. According to Aunt Sun, most of them went into Liu Wang's mouth.A half-child eats a poor old man, and his appetite is like a bottomless pit.

Grandma Zong picked up Zong Ji and came back, and Aunt Sun often helped her take care of her.Crying Spirit couldn't take Zong Ji with him, fearing that the child would be hit by something, so he put it next door.

Since then, Liu Wang stopped playing with his friends every day after school, and hurried home to take his younger brother home.

It can be said that the two brothers are no different from their own brothers except that they are not related by blood.Many brothers of the same mother are not as good as the two of them.

"Brother Wang, eat peanuts!" Zong Ji came back with the peanuts he got from Granny Yang. Of course, he didn't go empty-handed, but took a box of shortbread suitable for the elderly, which is a specialty of northern Hebei.

"Do you still have fresh peanuts now?" Mrs. Sun has dried and bagged the peanuts she planted this year, and the peanuts just dug out of the ground are still stained with mud. They will be washed and eaten as brine peanuts.

"Grandma Yang said she planted late this year." Zong Ji washed his hands under the tap, "Where's Madam?"

"Driving a tricycle to the town to buy groceries."

Zong Ji let out an ooh, and sat down to shop for peanuts with Liu Wang.

"Don't get your shoes wet, go and bring me that Shau Kei." Liu Wang refused to let him touch it, and sent him to the kitchen. A bag of peanuts doesn't need two people.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Mrs. Sun went to weigh two catties of mooncakes after buying vegetables.

"We bought mooncakes back." Liu Wang hasn't eaten the old-fashioned mooncakes sold in the town for a long time. When he was a child, he thought they were very fragrant, but he didn't like them so much when he was older.

"The ones you bought are not like mine." Aunt Sun put the mooncakes on the table and greeted Zong Ji, "Come and try, I bought your favorite sesame stuffing."

Liu Wang glanced at the mooncakes bought by Mrs. Sun, okay, most of them are filled with sesame seeds.

The two came back for a total of three days and left after the Mid-Autumn Festival.In the evening, the family went for a stroll at the entrance of the village, and the old banyan tree was full of people enjoying the shade.

"Zong Ji is here!" The toothless grandfather narrowed his eyes when he saw Zong Ji smiling, "I heard you went to make a movie?"

Most of the people left in the village are old people. Some Liu Wang has forgotten how to call them, but Zong Ji can call them one by one.

"Well, I'm going to make a movie." Zong Ji sat down on the stone pier next to Grandpa.

"What movie? Can I watch it on TV?" The old people surrounded me curiously, talking non-stop.

"I can't watch it on TV now, and the filming hasn't finished yet. When I can watch it on TV, I'll call my aunt and ask her to tell you."

The old people were satisfied, and asked how Zong Ji's film was made, and whether northern Hebei was different from our county.

Zong Ji answered one by one. It was getting dark, and if we went back late, we would not be able to see the way clearly. The people under the old banyan tree gradually dispersed.

"How can they talk so well?" Liu Wang was buzzing, admiring Zong Ji very much.

"When I go back, I either watch TV or sleep. Some of them have never been out of Xiangshi in their entire lives, so they are just curious."

At eight o'clock in the evening, when the village in northern Hebei was bustling with activity, there were bright lights everywhere, but the village was so quiet that only the sound of autumn insects could be heard.

Three days passed in a flash, Aunt Sun packed a bunch of souvenirs for Zong Ji and the others to take, and sent them to the town as an excuse to take a car.

"Come back when you have time, take care of yourself outside."

Zong Ji hugged Aunt Sun: "You too, Auntie, I will call you often."

After getting into the car, Zong Ji saw Aunt Sun watching them from behind.

Qi Chongyan went to Zong Ji's circle of friends again. The nine photos were full of all kinds of food, and in the middle was a tree full of oranges, which looked very attractive.

[Are the oranges sweet? 】

After receiving the news from Qi Chongyan, Zong Ji was not as surprised as last time, maybe the other party is such an easy-going person in private.

【sweet! 】

Zong Ji just sent a word, and Qi Chongyan stared at the phone waiting for the next message.

what happened?Why is this kid so unreasonable?Say it’s sweet and it’s gone. Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t you then ask him if he likes oranges, and then continue the chat?

How many people wanted to give him oranges, but he didn't give anyone a chance!

Xiao Zhao squinted at Qi Chongyan's face, and secretly groaned in his heart, who offended this master again!

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