uncle and nephew

The two stayed in the snow for a while before they got up, helped each other pat the snow on each other, and walked towards home side by side.As soon as he reached the intersection, a dirty puppy suddenly rushed out from the neighbor's house. Su Shi was stunned, looking at the puppy's bright eyes, he turned his head and smiled at Sun Letian.Sun Letian was puzzled by his laughter, "What are you laughing at?"

Su Shi took off his gloves, knelt down and rubbed the dog's messy fur, "Don't you think you two look alike?"

"Hey! You look like a dog." Sun Letian also squatted down, "Come on, little one, bite him!"

Su Shi looked at the puppy with a smile, "So you're called Xiaozhi." The puppy licked Su Shi's hand and hummed a few times.Su Shi felt the warmth in his palms, and looked up at Sun Letian, "Whose dog is this, can I borrow it to play for a while?"

Sun Letian pointed, "This is Mrs. Lin's dog. Mrs. Lin is easy to talk to, but she is only Mrs. Lin's grandson's baby. Usually, he won't let others tease her for a while."

Just as Su Shi was about to speak, there was a sudden "bang" not far away, which made him tremble in fright, the little one's fur almost stood on end, and it kept barking.

A child rushed out from the yard, who looked only [-] years old, pointed at Su Shi and shouted, "Hey, give me back the little one!"

Su Shi stood up and looked at Sun Letian in confusion, Sun Letian raised the corner of his mouth, "Can Xiao Zhi play with Brother Letian for a while?"

The child glanced at Sun Letian and then Su Shi, squinted his eyes and shook his head, "No! Give it back to me quickly, or I will blow you up with dynamite!" As he said, he took out a cannon from his pocket, and scratched it. Then, with a hissing sound, he threw it at Su Shi's feet.Before Su Shi came back to his senses, he was pulled behind by Sun Letian, and then he saw Sun Letian stepped forward and stomped out the burning cannon.

The child covered his ears and waited for a long time, but he didn't hear the sound. He leaned over and found that his precious cannon had been stepped on and extinguished. He raised his eyes to look at Sun Letian, and burst into tears.

Sun Letian was simply baffled, "Hey, why are you crying?"

"You snatched the little one, and even stomped out my cannon, hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow" the cries of the child grew louder, sounding aggrieved.

"Hey, who snatched the little one? It rushed out by itself. If you don't let us play with it, you can take it back. If you bomb us with a cannon, why don't we have to wait for it to bomb?" Sun Letian felt that he couldn't help it. Communicate with this child.

Su Shi saw it amused. He leaned over and picked up the little one, and put it down at the child's feet, "If you like to play with the little one, watch it. There are so many cars on the road, just let it run. Or if you are caught Did the bad guy take it away?"

The child looked at Su Shi and blinked, then stopped crying, looked back at Sun Letian, pouted, and carried the puppy home.

Sun Letian yelled angrily, "Why are children like this now!"

Su Shi tugged at him, "Go home. Don't act like you're not a child. You were more unreasonable than him when you were young."

"You are only one year older than me, why don't you just talk to me in this tone!" Sun Letian hummed dissatisfied, "I don't know who was more unreasonable when he was young."

Su Shi stayed in Yongning Town for half the winter vacation. He didn't go home until the end of the year when his father came back from the south. Before leaving, he went up the mountain with his elder brother and Sun Letian to visit his grandfather's grave.

It stands to reason that Su Shi is a grandson, and he is still a half-grown child, so he didn't need to go to the grave.However, he grew up under his grandfather's lap, which is probably the only thing he can do now.

Grandpa was buried in the mountains, where Su Shi's grandmother and grandpa's brothers were also buried.At that time, the way of worshiping ancestors was still relatively traditional. The eldest brother prepared burning paper, tobacco and alcohol, firecrackers, and other things to be worshiped, and packed a whole sack.After the tie was made and the rope was tied, Su Shi and Sun Letian dragged it along the snow.

The further you went into the mountains, the deeper the snow was, almost covering Su Shi's calf. The eldest brother walked in front very skillfully, and he and Sun Letian pulled each other and followed behind.

I don't know how long he walked before the elder brother stopped. Su Shi saw several graves and realized that it was there that his grandfather was buried.

The eldest brother took all the things out of the sack, offered fruits, pastries, tobacco and alcohol, and lit the burning paper in front of several graves. The eldest brother glanced at Su Shi, "You talk to your grandparents first. I go there."

Su Shi nodded, and knelt down in front of his grandfather's grave.In front of him was a burning paper fire that scorched Su Shi's face, making him feel like crying.The grandmother he has never met is buried here, as well as the grandfather he respected all his life.

Grandma has been in poor health after giving birth to her mother, and finally failed to survive the turbulent era, leaving grandpa alone.A hundred years later, my grandfather was sent here by his family to be buried with his grandmother.

Sun Letian added some burnt paper to the fire, knelt down and kowtowed three times without saying a word.Then he stood up, patted Su Shi on the shoulder, turned around and went to the other side.

Su Shi thought he would cry again, but he just knelt there and kept adding paper to the fire without saying a word.He understands that the dead are gone, but he also knows that what his grandfather taught him will never disappear.

Later, Su Shi knelt until his knees felt a little cold, and was pulled up by Sun Letian. He went to kowtow to other graves, then stood aside and watched his elder brother light firecrackers, and then extinguished all the fires to confirm whether he was right or not. There was Mars again, and then I packed up and left.

After half a year, when Su Shi thought of his grandfather again, he finally didn't feel such a piercing pain.

Su Shi returned home the next day. After a year of busy work outside his father, he was finally able to come back to have a family reunion and spend a good new year together.

Su Shi spent the shortest time with his father since he was a child, and the two of them were inevitably a little strange, but after all, they were connected by blood, and the father and son had too many similarities in appearance and personality.When Su Shi went back to his hometown, he heard about too many fathers outside.It wasn't until he saw that the mountain-like man in his memory was not as tall and straight as before, that he suddenly realized that the stable life he had now was the result of this man's hard work outside.

He worked hard alone in the strange south, unaccustomed to the climate, and had no acquaintances.I am exhausted outside every day, and when I come home at night, I cook a bowl of noodles to fill my stomach.The weather in the south is hot in summer and there is no heating in winter, but his father is reluctant to install an air conditioner.

Su Shi never knew all of this before.He only knew that his parents had been working outside since he was a child, and he didn't have time to accompany him, so how could he say he didn't care.But now, he began to understand them.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Su Shi poured wine for his father, refilled his mother's drink, and then poured himself a glass of beer.He picked up the wine glass, his ears were reddish, and he said softly, "Mom and Dad, Happy New Year, and, I love you both."

Then raise your glass and drink it all in one gulp.It was Su Shi's first time drinking beer, and the bitter taste slid down his throat, occupying his sense of taste.At that time, he really began to feel from the bottom of his heart that the two people in front of him were important to him, because no matter where they were, home was where they were.

After the Lantern Festival, my father left home and went to the south again, and my mother started to go to work from nine to five.Su Shi does his homework at home every day, previews the content of the next semester, and occasionally makes an appointment with Zhang Ning and the others to go to the gymnasium to play ball. The rest of the time is mostly counting the calendar at home.

Finally, with the warmth of spring and the beginning of the new semester, Sun Letian transferred to No. [-] Middle School.

Originally, Su's mother had discussed with the elder brother and the others, and Sun Letian would let him live at home directly when he transferred. He would go to school with Su Shi every day and go home together to be good company.But the eldest brother and the others felt that Su's mother was very busy at work, and it would be hard enough to take care of Su Shi every day, so they simply sent Sun Letian to the boarding school, so Sun Letian was assigned to the first class.

But for Su Shi and Sun Letian, being assigned to a school was enough to make them both happy.Sun Letian lives on campus with peace of mind, and goes home with Su Shi every weekend to improve the food.

Sun Letian's personality quickly adapted to the new class, and he also became familiar with Su Shi's two good buddies, Zhang Ning and Tang Xing.Sometimes during the lunch break, he would play basketball with this group of people from Class [-].Even the girls in Su Shi's class knew very quickly that Su Shi had a tall and handsome relative who was in class one of their school.