For the favor of Mr. Shen
Chapter 22 Moonlight
Enter v three-in-one, thank you for your support——
Shi Yiqing felt like a bird taking off, no matter how his mother shouted behind him, he didn't want to hear or respond.
The size of a child can slip through the gaps in the crowd, but soon Tan Xiaoli lost it, anxiously holding her mobile phone, the ticket has already been bought, and if she doesn't leave, she won't be able to make it back for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Tan Xiaoli struggled for a few minutes, and walked towards the ticket gate while making a phone call.
Shen Mu sat on the sofa, and after sending Shi Yiqing away, he continued to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. He was stewing chicken, and he wanted to add white rice to the stewed chicken soup to make porridge.
His mother was married from the southwest, and the local ancestors would cook this porridge.
Shen Mu stirred the half-cooked porridge in the pot like an emotionless robot. The gas on the stove was turned on very low, and it took a long time for the porridge in the pot to bubble.
He held on and stirred for a while, but he still couldn't hold back, and was instantly discouraged.
Shen Mu turned off the fire, sat down on the sofa for a while, and felt that he should not be like this for a big man, so he got up and wanted to marinate the chicken wings.
But chicken wings are what Ah Qing wants to eat. He said he wants to eat chicken wings with cola, but he is not here anymore. Who will eat them.
Shen Mu repeated cheering up and downcasting like this, and finally sat on the sofa in pain and remained silent.
The desertedness of the house made him flustered.
Almost everyone has told him how risky it is to raise an unrelated child.Shi Yiqing is not an orphan, he has relatives and a mother, who may be taken away at any time.
He knew it all, but at this time his thoughts were complicated, he was sad and wronged, and he couldn't think rationally.
There was the sound of setting off firecrackers outside the window, and the old block can still be set off. Shen Mu also bought a large roll, but the food is not ready yet.
He watched the news broadcast on TV and began to doubt himself.
Can you really raise Ah Qing well?Is it really acceptable for him to leave when he grows up?Will he accept Ah Qing to spend with his family in so many festivals in the future?
"Alas..." Shen Mu sighed bitterly, and was about to get up and continue making food to sacrifice to the ancestors, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice mixed with the sound of firecrackers.
"Uncle Shen!"
Shen Mu looked towards the balcony in disbelief, and hurried over to look down.
It was Ah Qing, it was Ah Qing who was running panting and blushing!
After Shi Yiqing ran away from the train station, he huddled among the crowd for a long time without getting out of the square. Finally, he found a policeman who was maintaining order and asked him where the bus stop was.
Dad said that if you have any difficulties, you should go to the police uncle.
The policeman asked him: "Little friend, where are your parents? Why are you alone?"
Shi Yiqing: "I want to go home, uncle."
"Then you answer Uncle first, why are you here alone?" The police worried that they might get lost with their parents or be trafficked or something.
Shi Yiqing rolled his eyes: "I got lost with my uncle, I want to go home, Uncle Policeman, can you tell me how to get to the bus station?"
The policeman was dubious: "Then do you know where your home is? What's the name of your parents?"
"My home is on the second floor of No. 61, Daxiguan Street, Chengguan Town, Baiyun District. My uncle's name is Shen Mu, and my name is Shi Yiqing. I study in Chengguan Second Primary School." Go find the bus station.
Sure enough, the police saw that the child spoke so clearly and was well dressed and clean, so he told his colleagues to take Shi Yiqing to the bus station.
"Little friend, do you know the phone number at home? Uncle called your family and asked them to pick you up. It's not safe to take the bus by yourself."
Shi Yiqing took the policeman's uncle's hand and said, "No need, I'll take the bus by myself, and the No. [-] bus can take you to Daxiguan Station."
The policeman laughed: "Oh, this kid has big ideas."
The Spring Festival travel is really busy, the police didn't have time to take him back, so he took a pen and paper and wrote down his mobile phone number to Shi Yiqing: "Little friend, when you get home safely, call your uncle and let him know that you are safe, okay? "
Shi Yiqing readily agreed.
The police took Shi Yiqing to the bus stop. The No. [-] bus had just arrived. The police took Shi Yiqing on the bus, gave him a coin, and told the driver: "Master, this child is alone. Please help me watch it at Daxiguan Station." .”
"Okay, don't worry!"
Shi Yiqing was arranged to sit very close to the driver. The policeman got out of the car. Shi Yiqing turned to the policeman outside the window and said, "Thank you, policeman! Happy New Year!"
The policeman smiled happily, but the kid was bold and sweet-mouthed: "Goodbye kid, happy new year!"
She will be happy, Shi Yiqing thought.
He held onto the railing next to his seat tightly, watching the bus slowly pull out of the platform.In fact, he is not a bold and sweet-mouthed kid, but he knows that only in this way can he return to Uncle Shen.
After getting out of the car, I ran home and fell down on the road. The aunt who was selling vegetables at the side of the road saw it and said with a smile, "Oh, be careful! Where are you going, Xiao Qing?"
Shi Yiqing waved his hand: "We're going home!"
The little Shi Yiqing was full of strength and ran home in one breath. The sound of firecrackers along the road and the excited cries of children whizzed past his ears. He was only thinking about Uncle Shen, no matter how cold the wind was, he was not afraid.
He yelled for Uncle Shen downstairs, and Uncle Shen appeared on the balcony immediately.
His Uncle Shen is the one who will appear in front of him whenever he calls out.
Shi Yiqing ran upstairs, Shen Mu ran downstairs, two people, one big and one small, met in the narrow corridor, Shi Yiqing was picked up by Shen Mu.
"Why are you back?" Shen Mu hugged Shi Yiqing, heartbroken with joy.
Shi Yiqing chuckled: "I want to celebrate the New Year with Uncle Shen."
Shen Mu looked at him: "Where's mother?"
Shi Yiqing blinked his big eyes, pursed his mouth and said nothing.
Shen Mu hugged him and walked home, staring into Shi Yiqing's eyes: "Did you tell mom? How did you come back?"
Shi Yiqing turned his head to avoid it.
"Ah Qing, you can't do this." Shen Mu put him on the sofa.
Shi Yiqing pursed her lips and looked at Shen Mu, but still didn't hold back: "I talked to my mother, and then ran away. The police uncle sent me to the bus and I came back by myself."
"This child..." Shen Mu let out a sigh of relief, and then said dumbfoundedly: "Then mom doesn't know you're home now, we're going to call mom."
Seeing that Shen Mu didn't intend to educate him, Shi Yiqing smiled and said yes.
Shen Mu took Shi Yiqing downstairs to the barber shop to borrow a phone to call Tan Xiaoli.
"Sister-in-law, Ah Qing has already arrived home."
Tan Xiaoli was already on the train, she was a little angry, "How dare a child be so bold! Shen Mu, you can't teach children like this."
Shen Mu said softly, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect him to come back by himself, where are you now?"
He thought that if she was still looking for Shi Yiqing, he probably wouldn't be able to go back in time, and he thought about asking her to come over for the New Year's Eve dinner together, and then go back tomorrow.
When she asked this question, Tan Xiaoli lost her confidence and just said, "On the train."
Shen Mu was startled, did she just get on the train after her son ran away at the train station?
"Okay, all the best."
Tan Xiaoli: "Oh, that's fine, hang up."
Shi Yiqing lay on the table and looked at Shen Mu: "Uncle Shen, did mother scold you?"
Shen Mu rubbed his soft hair and smiled softly: "No, mom has gone home, and we will also go home for the New Year."
"Okay! Let off firecrackers!" Shi Yiqing said excitedly.
When going out, Shi Yiqing thought of something again, grabbed Shen Mu with an oops, and took out a note from his pocket: "Uncle Shen, the police uncle told us to call him."
"what?"
"Tell me to report peace."
Shen Mu was almost frightened. It turned out that he was reporting safety. He took the note and went back to make a phone call, telling the police that the child had arrived home.
After being taught a few words by the police, Shen Mu accepted it humbly, nodded and agreed.
"You kid, you are really courageous. Fortunately, you are smart and know how to get home. I have never seen a kid who can explain his own situation so clearly." The policeman said.
Shen Mu looked at Shi Yiqing thinking, and smiled: "I didn't expect that either, sorry for your trouble, happy new year."
This little episode ended like this, Shi Yiqing took Shen Mu's hand and bounced back home with Shen Mu, when passing by the snowman downstairs, he found that Lin Lian had already fitted the snowman with a nose.
Shi Yiqing shouted at the clinic door: "Lin Lian! Sister Lin!"
Lin Lian quickly ran out, saw that Shi Yiqing was back, and ran over yelling, the two embraced together: "Aren't you going to your mother's house for the New Year?"
"Not going!"
"Wow! That's great! Let's go to the park tomorrow!"
Shen Mu looked at the excited two children and smiled very softly, the sudden appearance made him feel very happy looking at Shi Yiqing now.
When the child came back, Shen Mu took the time to finish all the dishes that had been ordered.
The firecrackers outside were almost set off, it was close to six o'clock, and the sky was completely dark, Shen Mu hurried and finally finished all the dishes.
Shi Yiqing was helping to put melon seeds and fruits on the plate, and after they were done, they put them on the table and set them up.
A photo of Uncle Shen's father hung on the wall, and a framed photo was placed on the table. It was a photo of Shi Yiqing's father, looking at the camera energetically in military uniform.
The TV is still playing the interview before the party and so on, the volume is turned on very low, not too noisy but it can make the house not so deserted.Coupled with the sound of children walking around in the house, it really feels like a home.
Shi Yiqing took the incense sticks given by Shen Mu, and Shen Mu himself took three sticks. He knelt down and kowtowed three times before inserting the sticks.
Shi Yiqing kowtowed three times to his father as he knelt down with the incense stick in his hand.
"Come on, let's set off firecrackers."
Shi Yiqing happily took Shen Mu's hand downstairs, and when he got downstairs, he happened to see Mr. Xiang coming back from get off work.
"Just set off firecrackers?" Mr. Xiang was holding a box in his hand.
Shi Yiqing didn't even pull up the temporary coat, and ran over to grab Xiang Jun's hand: "Aunt Xiang Jun—"
Xiang Jun pinched his face: "Good boy, what did Auntie buy for you?"
Shi Yiqing looked at the box she was carrying, there was a cute little cake under the transparent shell.
"Wow! Cake!"
"Firecrackers are set off, come quickly." Shen Mu flicked lightly, and a large roll of firecrackers rolled out, it was quite long, and when the lighter was turned on, it immediately crackled.
Shi Yiqing covered his ears and hid behind Mr. Xiang, his eyes were full of jumping lights.
There was no New Year's Eve dinner later than they ate, and it was past six o'clock when they sat down at the dinner table, Shi Yiqing shook his legs excitedly, and raised his glass of orange juice.
"cheers--"
"Happy New Year!"
"Healthy body!"
Shi Yiqing came back, Jun Xiang just got off work, and Shen Mu's food was still hot.
For many families, 06:30 is too late for New Year’s Eve dinner, but for them, it’s just right.
Shi Yiqing was already hungry after running around this afternoon, Shen Mu left chicken legs for him, made his favorite cola chicken wings, and picked out the shark fins for him to eat fish.
The child's mouth was full of oil, and he was so full that he hiccupped.
The two adults drank some wine, got a little drunk in the second half of the trip, and talked about the incident two days ago.
Shen Mu asked if it affected his work.
"No," Xiang Jun said while eating peanuts, seemingly not very concerned, "Colleagues can just say a few words if they want to, as long as the customer doesn't know, and besides, I..."
She wanted to say that she was not wrong, she was the one who was deceived.
But how to put this kind of thing clearly?You say you don't know, who knows if you know, once you are in this kind of whirlpool, you are already standing in the moral abyss, and everything you say is wrong.
Moreover, even if I didn't know it and was deceived, the harm to the original spouse and her family was real.
The mental setbacks I brought to myself are also real.
Adults don't have so many excuses, Mr. Xiang can only sigh, take a sip of wine and bear it.
"Don't worry about passing by, just look ahead." Shen Mu raised his cup: "Toast to you."
Shi Yiqing imitated raising his glass: "Look ahead——"
Mr. Xiang smiled: "Okay, let's move on."
After dinner, the three of them watched the Spring Festival Gala together. This year, Uncle Benshan brought "Selling Cars".Shi Yiqing sat in Shen Mu's arms and watched TV, opening his mouth from time to time to eat the melon seeds that Shen Mu fed.
The adults were chatting about last year's "Selling Abductees". The two works were compared and commented on, especially Xiangjun. She went to see Uncle Benshan every year to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
"Then it must be "Selling Abductees". If it's not good, there won't be "Selling Cars". Is this the truth?"
Shen Mu felt that everything was okay: "It's all pretty good."
Mr. Xiang turned his head: "Ah Qing, tell me, which one looks better?"
Shi Yiqing hadn't watched "Selling Abductions" at all, because his grandfather didn't have a TV at home. Last year, he ate the New Year's Eve dinner at his grandfather's house while it was still light. Grandpa fell asleep drunk, and he went to sleep when he sat until he was sleepy.
But when Aunt Xiangjun asked, Shi Yiqing said, "I think Uncle Shen is right."
"Hmph, you guys are ganging up again to bully me." Mr. Xiang curled his lips and ignored them.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala together until nearly twelve o'clock, seeing that the time was almost up, Shen Mu asked everyone to go down to set off the fireworks, and he bought a big one.
This is the first time he has spent money to buy this kind of thing. If he is celebrating the Chinese New Year, he will not buy it. It is not cheap. He can just look at it for a few minutes and hear it.
But Shi Yiqing said he likes to watch fireworks, so he bought one.
When I went downstairs, I saw Lin Lian's family also came out. Lin Zhizhi's health was not good, and the Chinese New Year was quiet, and she was already asleep at this time. Only Grandpa Lin brought Lin Lian out to open the door of wealth.
Shi Yiqing still had melon seeds in his pocket, and ran over to Lin Lian: "Do you want to eat melon seeds?"
Lin Lian stretched out her hand. She had just woken up from a nap, and stuffed melon seeds into her mouth before she fully opened her eyes.
"Ah Qing, you haven't told me how you came back yet."
Shi Yiqing told her how he got back, and the two children squatted on the side of the road eating melon seeds, watching Shen Mu and Grandpa Lin let go of the firecrackers from Caimen.
After the set off, prepare to set off fireworks.
Firecrackers and fireworks were set off in all directions, the sky was brilliant, Shi Yiqing and Lin Lian were wowing non-stop, Shen Mu told him that he didn't even hear it.
After Shen Mu lit the fireworks, he ran away and called Shi Yiqing, but he didn't hear him, so he went to Shi Yiqing's side by himself.
Seeing Uncle Shen approaching, Shi Yiqing stood up and reached out to hold Uncle Shen's hand.
The two looked at each other, smiled contentedly, and looked up at the sky. Shi Yiqing was now as tall as Shen Mu's thighs, a small one with tender hands.
His pure and beautiful eyes when he looked at the starry sky healed more than anything else, Shen Mu squeezed Shi Yiqing's palm and hugged him.
"Does it look good?"
Shi Yiqing nodded: "It looks good."
Chinese New Year is the happiest time for children, with food, drink and red envelopes.Shi Yiqing woke up early in the morning and received Shen Mu's red envelopes. Later, Aunt Xiangjun also gave it, and Grandpa Lin also gave it. The barber shop downstairs, the grocery store, and the grandma upstairs all gave Shi Yiqing red envelopes.
As if back when he was with his father, Shi Yiqing was the little baby that everyone liked.
He and Lin Li took the lucky money to buy food everywhere, and went to the canteen ten times a day. Shen Mu didn't care too much when he saw it, and just let the child be happy for a few days.
On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Yiqing was still soundly asleep when she was woken up by Shen Mu.
He has eaten too much recently and always feels sleepy, and sleeps more than before. He is often woken up by Shen Mu to drink milk for breakfast at seven or eight o'clock, and after eating, he lies down on the sofa and falls asleep again.
Shen Mu rubbed his face, "We're going to worship Buddha today."
"Huh?" Shi Yiqing was dizzy, what is worshiping Buddha.
"Well, come on, get up." Shen Mu picked up Shi Yiqing, Shi Yiqing draped over Shen Mu like a koala, let him play with himself, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and then sat at the dining table to drink porridge.
Shi Yiqing was still thinking about going to the park with Lin Lian today.
He was dragged downstairs by Shen Mu to take a taxi: "I heard that the lake in the park is frozen."
"Really?" Shen Mu coaxed Shi Yiqing softly, holding the schoolbag in his other hand.
"Well, Uncle Shen, what if the lake freezes the swans?"
Shen Mu smiled: "The swan will leave before it freezes."
Shi Yiqing: "Then do they have a place to live?"
Shen Mu didn't think about this question, he thought for a while and explained: "There is a caretaker in the park, and the caretaker will find a place for the swans to live."
Shi Yiqing nodded, winked to clear his face, and took a taxi with Shen Mu to go to Tianyun Temple on the outskirts of the city.
In the past two days, the snow has started to melt. When the wind blows, the residual snow can't hang on and fall from the trees. When waiting for the traffic lights, there is often a sound on the top.
Shi Yiqing got into the car and fell asleep again, lying on Shen Mu's lap and sleeping.
When he arrived at the place, Shen Mu simply climbed the mountain with Shi Yiqing in his arms. Shi Yiqing grew a lot after raising him for half a year, and he was no longer the same weight as when he first came.
There were many people who came to worship the Buddha along the road, and seeing Shi Yiqing's seven or eight-year-old child still relying on his parents, they all laughed at him.
Shi Yiqing pouted, thinking that Uncle Shen just wanted to hug me.
After thinking like this for a while, I woke up, "Uncle Shen, I'll go down by myself."
"What's wrong?" Shen Mu looked at him, "Are you shy when others laugh at you?"
Shi Yiqing hummed coyly.
Shen Mu smiled: "Don't worry about them, Uncle Shen likes to hug you."
Shi Yiqing still said: "No."
Shen Mu still put him down and walked away holding hands.
They didn't go to worship Buddha first, but walked up the hill for a while. There was a smaller temple with few people and very quiet.
Shi Yiqing followed behind Shen Mu, looking at the temple, the one with a large crowd below was called Tianyun Temple, and this one was called Tianxi Temple.
"Uncle Shen, why don't we go to the big one."
"Let's come here to see your father first." Shen Mu said, and stepped in.
Because the relationship between Shi Yang and Grandpa Shi Yiqing was not good, he stopped living in his hometown when he was very young, and he didn't have much contact with him except for support obligations. Although Master didn't say why, he respected him.
The funeral was held in the city, and the ashes were later sent back to the village for burial.
After Shen Mu took Shi Yiqing over, he thought that the child was going to live here, and also thought of such a good master as Master, and when he returned to his hometown where he had no feelings, he always felt uncomfortable, so he bought him a memorial tablet in the temple.
They can come to pay respects at any time, and hope that Master's soul can rest in peace.
Shi Yiqing doesn't understand these methods, but wonders why Dad has them in so many places.
There are many memorial tablets in the temple, and Dad's is the third from the left in the fourth row. After Shi Yiqing found it, he excitedly held Shen Mu's hand: "Uncle Shen, Dad is there!"
"That's right, come on, let's burn incense for Dad." Shen Mu said.
Shi Yiqing took it, and knelt down on the futon like Shen Mu.
Shen Mu taught him how to pray, "Ah Qing can talk to Dad when he has something to say."
"Okay." After Shi Yiqing responded, he opened his eyes and looked at his father's tablet: "Dad..."
Shen Mu hurriedly reminded him: "Say it in your heart."
Shi Yiqing chuckled, and said in his heart: Dad, Dad, are you okay?
Other than that, I don't know what to say. He is doing well now. If he was at his grandfather's house, he would probably have to talk for half an hour.
After thinking and thinking, Shi Yiqing said: Dad, please be well, I miss you very much.
Only after worshiping Shi Yang did they go to worship Buddha. There were quite a lot of people. Shen Mu didn't have this habit before. He only wanted to come to worship after he had placed a memorial tablet for Shi Yang.
He didn't have any particularly strong beliefs, and he wondered if the Bodhisattva would blame him for his behavior.
Shi Yiqing didn't understand even more, he would do whatever Shen Mu did.
The statue of Bodhisattva is so big that Shi Yiqing dared not speak when he walked in.
He and Shen Mu bought incense and knelt on the futon. The child Shi Yiqing looked at the solemn and kind Bodhisattva in a daze, feeling the inner peace.
Shen Mu prayed in his heart, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless Shi Yiqing in good health and grow up happily.
After speaking, he secretly turned his head to look at Shi Yiqing.
He heard his most obedient little Ah Qing whisper: "Bodhisattva, I wish you good health."
The Chinese New Year is fast, Shen Mu will take Shi Yiqing to pay New Year's greetings to friends and relatives, with Shen Mu here, everyone is very friendly to Ah Qing.
The winter vacation was over in a blink of an eye, and Shi Yiqing followed Shen Mu to enroll at the school with an expression of "That's it".
Grandpa Lin was busy, and Lin Zhizhi was not in good health, so he asked Shen Mu to help register Lin Lian and pay the tuition fee.Lin Lian is different. She thinks about starting school every day. The classmates who play well at school are a little far away from her home, and she hasn't seen her a few times during the whole winter vacation.
Lin Lian bounced around beside Shi Yiqing.
"Ah Qing, do you still go to the factory after school?"
Shi Yiqing shook his head, he didn't look very emotional, Shen Mu had two schoolbags on his shoulders, turned his head to look at the two children, he thought Shi Yiqing didn't answer, so he said: "No, the factory is not so busy now, I'm off work will come to fetch him."
Lin Lian wanted to leave school with Shi Yiqing, "Why don't you leave school with me, several of our classmates take the bus home together."
Shen Mu smiled, "Does Ah Qing want to get out of school with Lin Lian?"
"No." Shi Yiqing immediately said, "I want Uncle Shen to pick me up."
Lin Lian said earnestly, and quickened his pace: "Then I won't play with you anymore."
Then the formation became Lin Lian angrily walking in front, Shen Mu walking in the middle, and Shi Yiqing walking in the end holding his mouth shut.
Shen Mu couldn't see through the petty thoughts of seven or eight-year-old children, but let them solve the children's affairs by themselves.
Shi Yiqing's idea is very simple, he just wants to go home with Uncle Shen, he likes to sit on the back seat of Uncle Shen's bicycle, like to drop by the vegetable market with him, and discuss what to have for dinner together.
Lin Lian is a bit more complicated. She has been very annoyed and troubled recently.
After my aunt came home, most of my grandfather's thoughts were on my aunt. He didn't take care of himself like before. He didn't supervise his homework, his meals, whether he was picky eater, whether he ate the vegetables in the noodles, etc.
Of course she knew that her aunt was not in good health, and she felt sorry for her aunt, but how could a child understand the state of mind of an old man in his seventies after facing such a thing as Lin Zhizhi?
Especially Shi Yiqing, this Shi Yiqing who promised to be a good friend for life, clings to Uncle Shen all day long, even if he asks him to go out to play, he often fails to get anyone.
Moreover, Uncle Shen is really good to him, and she also wants Grandpa to treat her like this.
There is another person who has the same trouble, monitor Zhang Liang.
In the afternoon, when Shi Yiqing allocated seats next to Zhang Liang, Shi Yiqing was surprised to find that he was about the same height as Zhang Liang.
The small squad leader came to report by himself today, and he brought the money and signed it himself, because the mother gave birth to a younger brother, and the whole family was around the younger brother.
Of course, he didn't tell Shi Yiqing.
"Squad leader, the labor committee member said that we will take out the trash after the general cleaning." Shi Yiqing talked to Zhang Liang while sorting out the books that had just been handed out.
Zhang Liang was wrapping the book for himself in the kraft paper he bought, and he let out an oh.
Shi Yiqing watched him wrap the book clumsily, it was ugly.
"Squad leader, let your parents pack it for you, it doesn't seem to be done like this here."
Zhang Liang glanced at him, with impatient eyes under the thick glasses: "I'm too lazy to take it back."
Shi Yiqing shut his mouth and stopped talking.
But Zhang Liang was more and more irritable while wrapping the bag, and finally stuffed it directly into the table hole and stood up before finishing the bag: "Let's go."
"Oh, good." Shi Yiqing quickly got up and followed.
The weather is still cold, and the students are not very interested in cleaning, especially the work of cleaning the glass and taking out the garbage. After a winter vacation, a lot of fallen leaves and garbage have accumulated on the playground. Shi Yiqing and Zhang Liang are wearing thick clothes. To and from classrooms and dumps.
Shi Yiqing could see that Zhang Liang was in a bad mood, but he didn't know why he was unhappy.What he is best at is to be quiet and accompany obediently.
So in the process of taking out the garbage again and again, Zhang Liang seemed to feel the gentleness of Shi Yiqing's silent companionship.
"Aren't you tired?" Zhang Liang asked standing next to the garbage dump with his arms akimbo.
Of course Shi Yiqing was tired, but he didn't want to drag Zhang Liang down, so he said, "It's okay, I'm a little tired."
Zhang Liang hummed, turned and walked back, Shi Yiqing followed.
Last semester, they walked back to the car factory from school one after the other. Shi Yiqing was absolutely sure that the class monitor was a very good friend. He was much more mature and sensible than other students. Although he spoke little, he was very responsible.
Shi Yiqing followed Zhang Liang, thinking about going to buy some snacks for the monitor later.
"Hurry up." Zhang Liang suddenly turned around and said.
Shi Yiqing's eyes lit up and hurried to follow: "Squad leader, do you think I've grown taller?"
Zhang Liang looked Shi Yiqing up and down, "It seems to be."
Shi Yiqing: "I drink milk every day and eat a lot of rice."
Zhang Liang: "How tall are you?"
Shi Yiqing was stunned, he didn't know, he hadn't measured it for a long, long time.
So after returning home from school, Shi Yiqing followed Shen Mu into the kitchen: "Uncle Shen, I've grown taller, so I need to measure my height."
"Really?" Shen Mu didn't stay with Shi Yiqing for a day, but he really didn't feel any obvious changes.
He knelt down and took a closer look: "It seems to be."
When the child first arrived, Shen Mu squatted down and was able to look at Shi Yiqing at the same level, but now he has to look up slightly.
He took Shi Yiqing's hand: "Come."
Shen Mu found out a tape measure and a marker pen, and searched for a place at home where he could record his height. After searching, he decided to record his height at the place where he recorded his height when he was a child, and changed to a red pen to distinguish.
Shi Yiqing stood upright with his back against the wall according to Shen Mu's request.
Shen Mu pulled away the soft ruler: "Don't tiptoe."
Shi Yiqing laughed and stood up.
"133cm, not bad." Shen Mu said while stroking Shi Yiqing's head with satisfaction: "Our Ah Qing has really grown taller."
Shi Yiqing looked back at the wall, pointed to the mark with a black pen next to it and said, "Is this Uncle Shen's?"
Shen Mu took a step back and looked at the wall: "Yes."
Shi Yiqing tilted his head: "It's so tall."
Shen Mu smiled and said, "Do you know how tall Uncle Shen is now?"
Shi Yiqing said he didn't know. The last time Shen Mu looked at the records was his first vacation at the police academy. He grew crazily in school, from 1.7 meters to 1.8 meters in an instant.
Later, he didn't go home much, and his height was recorded at school. This height wall recorded since he was four years old has never been updated.
Shen Mu thought about it, he stood against the wall and put down the soft ruler, then picked up Shi Yiqing: "Uncle is holding you, draw on the top of your head with a brush."
Shi Yiqing took a marker and drew a line on the wall against the top of Shen Mu's head.
Shen Mu pulled out the measuring tape again, stepped on one end with his toes and pulled it up: "187cm."
"Wow." Shi Yiqing covered his mouth with both hands.
Shen Mu couldn't help laughing, and snorted his hair: "We, Ah Qing, will also grow taller in the future, maybe even taller than Uncle."
"really?"
"Of course, as long as you eat more and exercise more."
After dinner in the evening, Shi Yiqing started to do his homework as usual, his academic performance has not improved much, Shen Mu thinks it's nothing, the child is still young, as long as he can be happy and healthy.
At the beginning of school, the teacher just let me familiarize myself with the first text, there is no other homework, and it will be finished soon.
Shen Mu was reading books related to automobiles. Wanzheng Automobile Factory has always focused on large trucks, and it is also firmly ranked No. 1 among its domestic counterparts.
However, with the rapid economic development after the millennium, people's demand for family cars has also increased.
The leadership has long been aware of this, has been doing market research, and is preparing to increase efforts in this area.
However, the business of large trucks is extremely stable. More than 60.00% of the factory employees are old employees. They have worked in Wanzheng Automobile Factory for ten years. To be realistic, many of them are old and have families. , It is very difficult to find people to let them do new business.
There are not many young people who are stable, and it is a big problem to build an internal team that can cooperate with research and development.
And Shen Mu is one of the steady and motivated people of the younger generation. He has a good personality, is patient, and is not afraid of difficulties or tiredness. The only shortcoming is that he is not a professional, and he has not been in the industry for a long time.
Last week, the factory manager talked to him and said this, and told him this when he asked him if he would like to join the new project. Shen Mu did not avoid these shortcomings of his own. He is indeed lacking in cultural theory and experience.
"The wave of young people selected by the factory needs a team leader, and there are R&D personnel for technology. I think you can do it." The factory manager said.
Shen Mu's good popularity in the factory is obvious to all, and he himself is determined to climb up. He is very optimistic about this new project in the factory.
So, recently his study intensity is much higher than that of Shi Yiqing.
"Uncle Shen, wrap the book cover." After finishing his homework, Shi Yiqing crawled along the sofa to Shen Mu's side, resting his little head on Shen Mu's lap.
"Okay," Shen Mu folded a small triangle at the corner of the book to close it, shook his legs to get Shi Yiqing up and put the book on the coffee table.
"Let me see what books we Ah Qing have published."
Shi Yiqing carried her schoolbag over.
There are only a few books for elementary school. The paper that Shen Mu bought last semester has not been used up. He will continue to use it this semester. It is light blue with a white paper airplane pattern on it.
Shi Yiqing propped his chin with both hands, watching Uncle Shen use the book to draw the size on the wrapping paper and cut it out with scissors. After wrapping it up, he wrote the subjects on the cover with a marker.
"Chinese," after Shen Mu finished writing, he picked it up and admired it. His handwriting was always good. He turned to look at Shi Yiqing, and the child was already dozing off.
Shen Mu put down the wrapped book, gently picked up Shi Yiqing and put him on the bed.
He sat on the bed and looked at the child's quiet and steady sleeping face. The bedside lamp was dim, shining on Shi Yiqing's white and tender face, pulling his eyelashes to cast a long shadow, naive and cute.
Shen Mu can hardly remember what Shi Yiqing was like when he first came here. He only remembers that day in the town, at dusk, he looked at the scar on the child's chin, his dirty and worn-out sandals and his frightened eyes, and decided to To bring him back.
Shi Yiqing was dreaming, dreaming that he was walking in a very comical forest, and he could bounce into the air with a light touch of his toes.
He jumped onto a huge leaf, and was about to continue to jump up. He didn't know what pulled his feet, and he immediately lay down on the big leaf.
The leaves are soft and warm, and when I feel drowsy, my eyes will go dark and there will be no dreams.
Shen Mu tucked in the quilt for Shi Yiqing to prevent him from kicking the quilt indiscriminately, looked at the clock, it was after nine o'clock, and went back to the living room to read a book.
Since you want to be the team leader, you have to have at least some material in your stomach. Although there will be a professional R&D team at that time, in order to avoid incomprehension when communicating at that time, you still have to do your homework in advance.
After being at the same table with class monitor Zhang Liang, Shi Yiqing felt that life in school was much happier, because Zhang Liang didn't talk much, he didn't chatter, and he didn't always come over curiously to see what he was doing.
On the contrary, Shi Yiqing became a little clingy, occasionally he would go back to the car factory with Zhang Liang, and when Zhang Liang came home, he went to find Uncle Shen who was working overtime.
He likes the class monitor, has good grades and is a very nice person.
In the art class of the new semester, a new art teacher came. She is a beautiful long-haired big sister, about the same age as Uncle Shen, always smiling, and the students all like her.
Shi Yiqing likes it the most, because she always praises Shi Yiqing, saying that he draws very well and is very creative, and then makes extensions on his works and tells him how to draw better.
Shi Yiqing, who was mediocre in other subjects, gained confidence in art class.
Shi Yiqing's school life is getting more and more stable, he doesn't hate going to school so much anymore, there is a monitor in class,
Shi Yiqing felt like a bird taking off, no matter how his mother shouted behind him, he didn't want to hear or respond.
The size of a child can slip through the gaps in the crowd, but soon Tan Xiaoli lost it, anxiously holding her mobile phone, the ticket has already been bought, and if she doesn't leave, she won't be able to make it back for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Tan Xiaoli struggled for a few minutes, and walked towards the ticket gate while making a phone call.
Shen Mu sat on the sofa, and after sending Shi Yiqing away, he continued to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. He was stewing chicken, and he wanted to add white rice to the stewed chicken soup to make porridge.
His mother was married from the southwest, and the local ancestors would cook this porridge.
Shen Mu stirred the half-cooked porridge in the pot like an emotionless robot. The gas on the stove was turned on very low, and it took a long time for the porridge in the pot to bubble.
He held on and stirred for a while, but he still couldn't hold back, and was instantly discouraged.
Shen Mu turned off the fire, sat down on the sofa for a while, and felt that he should not be like this for a big man, so he got up and wanted to marinate the chicken wings.
But chicken wings are what Ah Qing wants to eat. He said he wants to eat chicken wings with cola, but he is not here anymore. Who will eat them.
Shen Mu repeated cheering up and downcasting like this, and finally sat on the sofa in pain and remained silent.
The desertedness of the house made him flustered.
Almost everyone has told him how risky it is to raise an unrelated child.Shi Yiqing is not an orphan, he has relatives and a mother, who may be taken away at any time.
He knew it all, but at this time his thoughts were complicated, he was sad and wronged, and he couldn't think rationally.
There was the sound of setting off firecrackers outside the window, and the old block can still be set off. Shen Mu also bought a large roll, but the food is not ready yet.
He watched the news broadcast on TV and began to doubt himself.
Can you really raise Ah Qing well?Is it really acceptable for him to leave when he grows up?Will he accept Ah Qing to spend with his family in so many festivals in the future?
"Alas..." Shen Mu sighed bitterly, and was about to get up and continue making food to sacrifice to the ancestors, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice mixed with the sound of firecrackers.
"Uncle Shen!"
Shen Mu looked towards the balcony in disbelief, and hurried over to look down.
It was Ah Qing, it was Ah Qing who was running panting and blushing!
After Shi Yiqing ran away from the train station, he huddled among the crowd for a long time without getting out of the square. Finally, he found a policeman who was maintaining order and asked him where the bus stop was.
Dad said that if you have any difficulties, you should go to the police uncle.
The policeman asked him: "Little friend, where are your parents? Why are you alone?"
Shi Yiqing: "I want to go home, uncle."
"Then you answer Uncle first, why are you here alone?" The police worried that they might get lost with their parents or be trafficked or something.
Shi Yiqing rolled his eyes: "I got lost with my uncle, I want to go home, Uncle Policeman, can you tell me how to get to the bus station?"
The policeman was dubious: "Then do you know where your home is? What's the name of your parents?"
"My home is on the second floor of No. 61, Daxiguan Street, Chengguan Town, Baiyun District. My uncle's name is Shen Mu, and my name is Shi Yiqing. I study in Chengguan Second Primary School." Go find the bus station.
Sure enough, the police saw that the child spoke so clearly and was well dressed and clean, so he told his colleagues to take Shi Yiqing to the bus station.
"Little friend, do you know the phone number at home? Uncle called your family and asked them to pick you up. It's not safe to take the bus by yourself."
Shi Yiqing took the policeman's uncle's hand and said, "No need, I'll take the bus by myself, and the No. [-] bus can take you to Daxiguan Station."
The policeman laughed: "Oh, this kid has big ideas."
The Spring Festival travel is really busy, the police didn't have time to take him back, so he took a pen and paper and wrote down his mobile phone number to Shi Yiqing: "Little friend, when you get home safely, call your uncle and let him know that you are safe, okay? "
Shi Yiqing readily agreed.
The police took Shi Yiqing to the bus stop. The No. [-] bus had just arrived. The police took Shi Yiqing on the bus, gave him a coin, and told the driver: "Master, this child is alone. Please help me watch it at Daxiguan Station." .”
"Okay, don't worry!"
Shi Yiqing was arranged to sit very close to the driver. The policeman got out of the car. Shi Yiqing turned to the policeman outside the window and said, "Thank you, policeman! Happy New Year!"
The policeman smiled happily, but the kid was bold and sweet-mouthed: "Goodbye kid, happy new year!"
She will be happy, Shi Yiqing thought.
He held onto the railing next to his seat tightly, watching the bus slowly pull out of the platform.In fact, he is not a bold and sweet-mouthed kid, but he knows that only in this way can he return to Uncle Shen.
After getting out of the car, I ran home and fell down on the road. The aunt who was selling vegetables at the side of the road saw it and said with a smile, "Oh, be careful! Where are you going, Xiao Qing?"
Shi Yiqing waved his hand: "We're going home!"
The little Shi Yiqing was full of strength and ran home in one breath. The sound of firecrackers along the road and the excited cries of children whizzed past his ears. He was only thinking about Uncle Shen, no matter how cold the wind was, he was not afraid.
He yelled for Uncle Shen downstairs, and Uncle Shen appeared on the balcony immediately.
His Uncle Shen is the one who will appear in front of him whenever he calls out.
Shi Yiqing ran upstairs, Shen Mu ran downstairs, two people, one big and one small, met in the narrow corridor, Shi Yiqing was picked up by Shen Mu.
"Why are you back?" Shen Mu hugged Shi Yiqing, heartbroken with joy.
Shi Yiqing chuckled: "I want to celebrate the New Year with Uncle Shen."
Shen Mu looked at him: "Where's mother?"
Shi Yiqing blinked his big eyes, pursed his mouth and said nothing.
Shen Mu hugged him and walked home, staring into Shi Yiqing's eyes: "Did you tell mom? How did you come back?"
Shi Yiqing turned his head to avoid it.
"Ah Qing, you can't do this." Shen Mu put him on the sofa.
Shi Yiqing pursed her lips and looked at Shen Mu, but still didn't hold back: "I talked to my mother, and then ran away. The police uncle sent me to the bus and I came back by myself."
"This child..." Shen Mu let out a sigh of relief, and then said dumbfoundedly: "Then mom doesn't know you're home now, we're going to call mom."
Seeing that Shen Mu didn't intend to educate him, Shi Yiqing smiled and said yes.
Shen Mu took Shi Yiqing downstairs to the barber shop to borrow a phone to call Tan Xiaoli.
"Sister-in-law, Ah Qing has already arrived home."
Tan Xiaoli was already on the train, she was a little angry, "How dare a child be so bold! Shen Mu, you can't teach children like this."
Shen Mu said softly, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect him to come back by himself, where are you now?"
He thought that if she was still looking for Shi Yiqing, he probably wouldn't be able to go back in time, and he thought about asking her to come over for the New Year's Eve dinner together, and then go back tomorrow.
When she asked this question, Tan Xiaoli lost her confidence and just said, "On the train."
Shen Mu was startled, did she just get on the train after her son ran away at the train station?
"Okay, all the best."
Tan Xiaoli: "Oh, that's fine, hang up."
Shi Yiqing lay on the table and looked at Shen Mu: "Uncle Shen, did mother scold you?"
Shen Mu rubbed his soft hair and smiled softly: "No, mom has gone home, and we will also go home for the New Year."
"Okay! Let off firecrackers!" Shi Yiqing said excitedly.
When going out, Shi Yiqing thought of something again, grabbed Shen Mu with an oops, and took out a note from his pocket: "Uncle Shen, the police uncle told us to call him."
"what?"
"Tell me to report peace."
Shen Mu was almost frightened. It turned out that he was reporting safety. He took the note and went back to make a phone call, telling the police that the child had arrived home.
After being taught a few words by the police, Shen Mu accepted it humbly, nodded and agreed.
"You kid, you are really courageous. Fortunately, you are smart and know how to get home. I have never seen a kid who can explain his own situation so clearly." The policeman said.
Shen Mu looked at Shi Yiqing thinking, and smiled: "I didn't expect that either, sorry for your trouble, happy new year."
This little episode ended like this, Shi Yiqing took Shen Mu's hand and bounced back home with Shen Mu, when passing by the snowman downstairs, he found that Lin Lian had already fitted the snowman with a nose.
Shi Yiqing shouted at the clinic door: "Lin Lian! Sister Lin!"
Lin Lian quickly ran out, saw that Shi Yiqing was back, and ran over yelling, the two embraced together: "Aren't you going to your mother's house for the New Year?"
"Not going!"
"Wow! That's great! Let's go to the park tomorrow!"
Shen Mu looked at the excited two children and smiled very softly, the sudden appearance made him feel very happy looking at Shi Yiqing now.
When the child came back, Shen Mu took the time to finish all the dishes that had been ordered.
The firecrackers outside were almost set off, it was close to six o'clock, and the sky was completely dark, Shen Mu hurried and finally finished all the dishes.
Shi Yiqing was helping to put melon seeds and fruits on the plate, and after they were done, they put them on the table and set them up.
A photo of Uncle Shen's father hung on the wall, and a framed photo was placed on the table. It was a photo of Shi Yiqing's father, looking at the camera energetically in military uniform.
The TV is still playing the interview before the party and so on, the volume is turned on very low, not too noisy but it can make the house not so deserted.Coupled with the sound of children walking around in the house, it really feels like a home.
Shi Yiqing took the incense sticks given by Shen Mu, and Shen Mu himself took three sticks. He knelt down and kowtowed three times before inserting the sticks.
Shi Yiqing kowtowed three times to his father as he knelt down with the incense stick in his hand.
"Come on, let's set off firecrackers."
Shi Yiqing happily took Shen Mu's hand downstairs, and when he got downstairs, he happened to see Mr. Xiang coming back from get off work.
"Just set off firecrackers?" Mr. Xiang was holding a box in his hand.
Shi Yiqing didn't even pull up the temporary coat, and ran over to grab Xiang Jun's hand: "Aunt Xiang Jun—"
Xiang Jun pinched his face: "Good boy, what did Auntie buy for you?"
Shi Yiqing looked at the box she was carrying, there was a cute little cake under the transparent shell.
"Wow! Cake!"
"Firecrackers are set off, come quickly." Shen Mu flicked lightly, and a large roll of firecrackers rolled out, it was quite long, and when the lighter was turned on, it immediately crackled.
Shi Yiqing covered his ears and hid behind Mr. Xiang, his eyes were full of jumping lights.
There was no New Year's Eve dinner later than they ate, and it was past six o'clock when they sat down at the dinner table, Shi Yiqing shook his legs excitedly, and raised his glass of orange juice.
"cheers--"
"Happy New Year!"
"Healthy body!"
Shi Yiqing came back, Jun Xiang just got off work, and Shen Mu's food was still hot.
For many families, 06:30 is too late for New Year’s Eve dinner, but for them, it’s just right.
Shi Yiqing was already hungry after running around this afternoon, Shen Mu left chicken legs for him, made his favorite cola chicken wings, and picked out the shark fins for him to eat fish.
The child's mouth was full of oil, and he was so full that he hiccupped.
The two adults drank some wine, got a little drunk in the second half of the trip, and talked about the incident two days ago.
Shen Mu asked if it affected his work.
"No," Xiang Jun said while eating peanuts, seemingly not very concerned, "Colleagues can just say a few words if they want to, as long as the customer doesn't know, and besides, I..."
She wanted to say that she was not wrong, she was the one who was deceived.
But how to put this kind of thing clearly?You say you don't know, who knows if you know, once you are in this kind of whirlpool, you are already standing in the moral abyss, and everything you say is wrong.
Moreover, even if I didn't know it and was deceived, the harm to the original spouse and her family was real.
The mental setbacks I brought to myself are also real.
Adults don't have so many excuses, Mr. Xiang can only sigh, take a sip of wine and bear it.
"Don't worry about passing by, just look ahead." Shen Mu raised his cup: "Toast to you."
Shi Yiqing imitated raising his glass: "Look ahead——"
Mr. Xiang smiled: "Okay, let's move on."
After dinner, the three of them watched the Spring Festival Gala together. This year, Uncle Benshan brought "Selling Cars".Shi Yiqing sat in Shen Mu's arms and watched TV, opening his mouth from time to time to eat the melon seeds that Shen Mu fed.
The adults were chatting about last year's "Selling Abductees". The two works were compared and commented on, especially Xiangjun. She went to see Uncle Benshan every year to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
"Then it must be "Selling Abductees". If it's not good, there won't be "Selling Cars". Is this the truth?"
Shen Mu felt that everything was okay: "It's all pretty good."
Mr. Xiang turned his head: "Ah Qing, tell me, which one looks better?"
Shi Yiqing hadn't watched "Selling Abductions" at all, because his grandfather didn't have a TV at home. Last year, he ate the New Year's Eve dinner at his grandfather's house while it was still light. Grandpa fell asleep drunk, and he went to sleep when he sat until he was sleepy.
But when Aunt Xiangjun asked, Shi Yiqing said, "I think Uncle Shen is right."
"Hmph, you guys are ganging up again to bully me." Mr. Xiang curled his lips and ignored them.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala together until nearly twelve o'clock, seeing that the time was almost up, Shen Mu asked everyone to go down to set off the fireworks, and he bought a big one.
This is the first time he has spent money to buy this kind of thing. If he is celebrating the Chinese New Year, he will not buy it. It is not cheap. He can just look at it for a few minutes and hear it.
But Shi Yiqing said he likes to watch fireworks, so he bought one.
When I went downstairs, I saw Lin Lian's family also came out. Lin Zhizhi's health was not good, and the Chinese New Year was quiet, and she was already asleep at this time. Only Grandpa Lin brought Lin Lian out to open the door of wealth.
Shi Yiqing still had melon seeds in his pocket, and ran over to Lin Lian: "Do you want to eat melon seeds?"
Lin Lian stretched out her hand. She had just woken up from a nap, and stuffed melon seeds into her mouth before she fully opened her eyes.
"Ah Qing, you haven't told me how you came back yet."
Shi Yiqing told her how he got back, and the two children squatted on the side of the road eating melon seeds, watching Shen Mu and Grandpa Lin let go of the firecrackers from Caimen.
After the set off, prepare to set off fireworks.
Firecrackers and fireworks were set off in all directions, the sky was brilliant, Shi Yiqing and Lin Lian were wowing non-stop, Shen Mu told him that he didn't even hear it.
After Shen Mu lit the fireworks, he ran away and called Shi Yiqing, but he didn't hear him, so he went to Shi Yiqing's side by himself.
Seeing Uncle Shen approaching, Shi Yiqing stood up and reached out to hold Uncle Shen's hand.
The two looked at each other, smiled contentedly, and looked up at the sky. Shi Yiqing was now as tall as Shen Mu's thighs, a small one with tender hands.
His pure and beautiful eyes when he looked at the starry sky healed more than anything else, Shen Mu squeezed Shi Yiqing's palm and hugged him.
"Does it look good?"
Shi Yiqing nodded: "It looks good."
Chinese New Year is the happiest time for children, with food, drink and red envelopes.Shi Yiqing woke up early in the morning and received Shen Mu's red envelopes. Later, Aunt Xiangjun also gave it, and Grandpa Lin also gave it. The barber shop downstairs, the grocery store, and the grandma upstairs all gave Shi Yiqing red envelopes.
As if back when he was with his father, Shi Yiqing was the little baby that everyone liked.
He and Lin Li took the lucky money to buy food everywhere, and went to the canteen ten times a day. Shen Mu didn't care too much when he saw it, and just let the child be happy for a few days.
On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Yiqing was still soundly asleep when she was woken up by Shen Mu.
He has eaten too much recently and always feels sleepy, and sleeps more than before. He is often woken up by Shen Mu to drink milk for breakfast at seven or eight o'clock, and after eating, he lies down on the sofa and falls asleep again.
Shen Mu rubbed his face, "We're going to worship Buddha today."
"Huh?" Shi Yiqing was dizzy, what is worshiping Buddha.
"Well, come on, get up." Shen Mu picked up Shi Yiqing, Shi Yiqing draped over Shen Mu like a koala, let him play with himself, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and then sat at the dining table to drink porridge.
Shi Yiqing was still thinking about going to the park with Lin Lian today.
He was dragged downstairs by Shen Mu to take a taxi: "I heard that the lake in the park is frozen."
"Really?" Shen Mu coaxed Shi Yiqing softly, holding the schoolbag in his other hand.
"Well, Uncle Shen, what if the lake freezes the swans?"
Shen Mu smiled: "The swan will leave before it freezes."
Shi Yiqing: "Then do they have a place to live?"
Shen Mu didn't think about this question, he thought for a while and explained: "There is a caretaker in the park, and the caretaker will find a place for the swans to live."
Shi Yiqing nodded, winked to clear his face, and took a taxi with Shen Mu to go to Tianyun Temple on the outskirts of the city.
In the past two days, the snow has started to melt. When the wind blows, the residual snow can't hang on and fall from the trees. When waiting for the traffic lights, there is often a sound on the top.
Shi Yiqing got into the car and fell asleep again, lying on Shen Mu's lap and sleeping.
When he arrived at the place, Shen Mu simply climbed the mountain with Shi Yiqing in his arms. Shi Yiqing grew a lot after raising him for half a year, and he was no longer the same weight as when he first came.
There were many people who came to worship the Buddha along the road, and seeing Shi Yiqing's seven or eight-year-old child still relying on his parents, they all laughed at him.
Shi Yiqing pouted, thinking that Uncle Shen just wanted to hug me.
After thinking like this for a while, I woke up, "Uncle Shen, I'll go down by myself."
"What's wrong?" Shen Mu looked at him, "Are you shy when others laugh at you?"
Shi Yiqing hummed coyly.
Shen Mu smiled: "Don't worry about them, Uncle Shen likes to hug you."
Shi Yiqing still said: "No."
Shen Mu still put him down and walked away holding hands.
They didn't go to worship Buddha first, but walked up the hill for a while. There was a smaller temple with few people and very quiet.
Shi Yiqing followed behind Shen Mu, looking at the temple, the one with a large crowd below was called Tianyun Temple, and this one was called Tianxi Temple.
"Uncle Shen, why don't we go to the big one."
"Let's come here to see your father first." Shen Mu said, and stepped in.
Because the relationship between Shi Yang and Grandpa Shi Yiqing was not good, he stopped living in his hometown when he was very young, and he didn't have much contact with him except for support obligations. Although Master didn't say why, he respected him.
The funeral was held in the city, and the ashes were later sent back to the village for burial.
After Shen Mu took Shi Yiqing over, he thought that the child was going to live here, and also thought of such a good master as Master, and when he returned to his hometown where he had no feelings, he always felt uncomfortable, so he bought him a memorial tablet in the temple.
They can come to pay respects at any time, and hope that Master's soul can rest in peace.
Shi Yiqing doesn't understand these methods, but wonders why Dad has them in so many places.
There are many memorial tablets in the temple, and Dad's is the third from the left in the fourth row. After Shi Yiqing found it, he excitedly held Shen Mu's hand: "Uncle Shen, Dad is there!"
"That's right, come on, let's burn incense for Dad." Shen Mu said.
Shi Yiqing took it, and knelt down on the futon like Shen Mu.
Shen Mu taught him how to pray, "Ah Qing can talk to Dad when he has something to say."
"Okay." After Shi Yiqing responded, he opened his eyes and looked at his father's tablet: "Dad..."
Shen Mu hurriedly reminded him: "Say it in your heart."
Shi Yiqing chuckled, and said in his heart: Dad, Dad, are you okay?
Other than that, I don't know what to say. He is doing well now. If he was at his grandfather's house, he would probably have to talk for half an hour.
After thinking and thinking, Shi Yiqing said: Dad, please be well, I miss you very much.
Only after worshiping Shi Yang did they go to worship Buddha. There were quite a lot of people. Shen Mu didn't have this habit before. He only wanted to come to worship after he had placed a memorial tablet for Shi Yang.
He didn't have any particularly strong beliefs, and he wondered if the Bodhisattva would blame him for his behavior.
Shi Yiqing didn't understand even more, he would do whatever Shen Mu did.
The statue of Bodhisattva is so big that Shi Yiqing dared not speak when he walked in.
He and Shen Mu bought incense and knelt on the futon. The child Shi Yiqing looked at the solemn and kind Bodhisattva in a daze, feeling the inner peace.
Shen Mu prayed in his heart, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless Shi Yiqing in good health and grow up happily.
After speaking, he secretly turned his head to look at Shi Yiqing.
He heard his most obedient little Ah Qing whisper: "Bodhisattva, I wish you good health."
The Chinese New Year is fast, Shen Mu will take Shi Yiqing to pay New Year's greetings to friends and relatives, with Shen Mu here, everyone is very friendly to Ah Qing.
The winter vacation was over in a blink of an eye, and Shi Yiqing followed Shen Mu to enroll at the school with an expression of "That's it".
Grandpa Lin was busy, and Lin Zhizhi was not in good health, so he asked Shen Mu to help register Lin Lian and pay the tuition fee.Lin Lian is different. She thinks about starting school every day. The classmates who play well at school are a little far away from her home, and she hasn't seen her a few times during the whole winter vacation.
Lin Lian bounced around beside Shi Yiqing.
"Ah Qing, do you still go to the factory after school?"
Shi Yiqing shook his head, he didn't look very emotional, Shen Mu had two schoolbags on his shoulders, turned his head to look at the two children, he thought Shi Yiqing didn't answer, so he said: "No, the factory is not so busy now, I'm off work will come to fetch him."
Lin Lian wanted to leave school with Shi Yiqing, "Why don't you leave school with me, several of our classmates take the bus home together."
Shen Mu smiled, "Does Ah Qing want to get out of school with Lin Lian?"
"No." Shi Yiqing immediately said, "I want Uncle Shen to pick me up."
Lin Lian said earnestly, and quickened his pace: "Then I won't play with you anymore."
Then the formation became Lin Lian angrily walking in front, Shen Mu walking in the middle, and Shi Yiqing walking in the end holding his mouth shut.
Shen Mu couldn't see through the petty thoughts of seven or eight-year-old children, but let them solve the children's affairs by themselves.
Shi Yiqing's idea is very simple, he just wants to go home with Uncle Shen, he likes to sit on the back seat of Uncle Shen's bicycle, like to drop by the vegetable market with him, and discuss what to have for dinner together.
Lin Lian is a bit more complicated. She has been very annoyed and troubled recently.
After my aunt came home, most of my grandfather's thoughts were on my aunt. He didn't take care of himself like before. He didn't supervise his homework, his meals, whether he was picky eater, whether he ate the vegetables in the noodles, etc.
Of course she knew that her aunt was not in good health, and she felt sorry for her aunt, but how could a child understand the state of mind of an old man in his seventies after facing such a thing as Lin Zhizhi?
Especially Shi Yiqing, this Shi Yiqing who promised to be a good friend for life, clings to Uncle Shen all day long, even if he asks him to go out to play, he often fails to get anyone.
Moreover, Uncle Shen is really good to him, and she also wants Grandpa to treat her like this.
There is another person who has the same trouble, monitor Zhang Liang.
In the afternoon, when Shi Yiqing allocated seats next to Zhang Liang, Shi Yiqing was surprised to find that he was about the same height as Zhang Liang.
The small squad leader came to report by himself today, and he brought the money and signed it himself, because the mother gave birth to a younger brother, and the whole family was around the younger brother.
Of course, he didn't tell Shi Yiqing.
"Squad leader, the labor committee member said that we will take out the trash after the general cleaning." Shi Yiqing talked to Zhang Liang while sorting out the books that had just been handed out.
Zhang Liang was wrapping the book for himself in the kraft paper he bought, and he let out an oh.
Shi Yiqing watched him wrap the book clumsily, it was ugly.
"Squad leader, let your parents pack it for you, it doesn't seem to be done like this here."
Zhang Liang glanced at him, with impatient eyes under the thick glasses: "I'm too lazy to take it back."
Shi Yiqing shut his mouth and stopped talking.
But Zhang Liang was more and more irritable while wrapping the bag, and finally stuffed it directly into the table hole and stood up before finishing the bag: "Let's go."
"Oh, good." Shi Yiqing quickly got up and followed.
The weather is still cold, and the students are not very interested in cleaning, especially the work of cleaning the glass and taking out the garbage. After a winter vacation, a lot of fallen leaves and garbage have accumulated on the playground. Shi Yiqing and Zhang Liang are wearing thick clothes. To and from classrooms and dumps.
Shi Yiqing could see that Zhang Liang was in a bad mood, but he didn't know why he was unhappy.What he is best at is to be quiet and accompany obediently.
So in the process of taking out the garbage again and again, Zhang Liang seemed to feel the gentleness of Shi Yiqing's silent companionship.
"Aren't you tired?" Zhang Liang asked standing next to the garbage dump with his arms akimbo.
Of course Shi Yiqing was tired, but he didn't want to drag Zhang Liang down, so he said, "It's okay, I'm a little tired."
Zhang Liang hummed, turned and walked back, Shi Yiqing followed.
Last semester, they walked back to the car factory from school one after the other. Shi Yiqing was absolutely sure that the class monitor was a very good friend. He was much more mature and sensible than other students. Although he spoke little, he was very responsible.
Shi Yiqing followed Zhang Liang, thinking about going to buy some snacks for the monitor later.
"Hurry up." Zhang Liang suddenly turned around and said.
Shi Yiqing's eyes lit up and hurried to follow: "Squad leader, do you think I've grown taller?"
Zhang Liang looked Shi Yiqing up and down, "It seems to be."
Shi Yiqing: "I drink milk every day and eat a lot of rice."
Zhang Liang: "How tall are you?"
Shi Yiqing was stunned, he didn't know, he hadn't measured it for a long, long time.
So after returning home from school, Shi Yiqing followed Shen Mu into the kitchen: "Uncle Shen, I've grown taller, so I need to measure my height."
"Really?" Shen Mu didn't stay with Shi Yiqing for a day, but he really didn't feel any obvious changes.
He knelt down and took a closer look: "It seems to be."
When the child first arrived, Shen Mu squatted down and was able to look at Shi Yiqing at the same level, but now he has to look up slightly.
He took Shi Yiqing's hand: "Come."
Shen Mu found out a tape measure and a marker pen, and searched for a place at home where he could record his height. After searching, he decided to record his height at the place where he recorded his height when he was a child, and changed to a red pen to distinguish.
Shi Yiqing stood upright with his back against the wall according to Shen Mu's request.
Shen Mu pulled away the soft ruler: "Don't tiptoe."
Shi Yiqing laughed and stood up.
"133cm, not bad." Shen Mu said while stroking Shi Yiqing's head with satisfaction: "Our Ah Qing has really grown taller."
Shi Yiqing looked back at the wall, pointed to the mark with a black pen next to it and said, "Is this Uncle Shen's?"
Shen Mu took a step back and looked at the wall: "Yes."
Shi Yiqing tilted his head: "It's so tall."
Shen Mu smiled and said, "Do you know how tall Uncle Shen is now?"
Shi Yiqing said he didn't know. The last time Shen Mu looked at the records was his first vacation at the police academy. He grew crazily in school, from 1.7 meters to 1.8 meters in an instant.
Later, he didn't go home much, and his height was recorded at school. This height wall recorded since he was four years old has never been updated.
Shen Mu thought about it, he stood against the wall and put down the soft ruler, then picked up Shi Yiqing: "Uncle is holding you, draw on the top of your head with a brush."
Shi Yiqing took a marker and drew a line on the wall against the top of Shen Mu's head.
Shen Mu pulled out the measuring tape again, stepped on one end with his toes and pulled it up: "187cm."
"Wow." Shi Yiqing covered his mouth with both hands.
Shen Mu couldn't help laughing, and snorted his hair: "We, Ah Qing, will also grow taller in the future, maybe even taller than Uncle."
"really?"
"Of course, as long as you eat more and exercise more."
After dinner in the evening, Shi Yiqing started to do his homework as usual, his academic performance has not improved much, Shen Mu thinks it's nothing, the child is still young, as long as he can be happy and healthy.
At the beginning of school, the teacher just let me familiarize myself with the first text, there is no other homework, and it will be finished soon.
Shen Mu was reading books related to automobiles. Wanzheng Automobile Factory has always focused on large trucks, and it is also firmly ranked No. 1 among its domestic counterparts.
However, with the rapid economic development after the millennium, people's demand for family cars has also increased.
The leadership has long been aware of this, has been doing market research, and is preparing to increase efforts in this area.
However, the business of large trucks is extremely stable. More than 60.00% of the factory employees are old employees. They have worked in Wanzheng Automobile Factory for ten years. To be realistic, many of them are old and have families. , It is very difficult to find people to let them do new business.
There are not many young people who are stable, and it is a big problem to build an internal team that can cooperate with research and development.
And Shen Mu is one of the steady and motivated people of the younger generation. He has a good personality, is patient, and is not afraid of difficulties or tiredness. The only shortcoming is that he is not a professional, and he has not been in the industry for a long time.
Last week, the factory manager talked to him and said this, and told him this when he asked him if he would like to join the new project. Shen Mu did not avoid these shortcomings of his own. He is indeed lacking in cultural theory and experience.
"The wave of young people selected by the factory needs a team leader, and there are R&D personnel for technology. I think you can do it." The factory manager said.
Shen Mu's good popularity in the factory is obvious to all, and he himself is determined to climb up. He is very optimistic about this new project in the factory.
So, recently his study intensity is much higher than that of Shi Yiqing.
"Uncle Shen, wrap the book cover." After finishing his homework, Shi Yiqing crawled along the sofa to Shen Mu's side, resting his little head on Shen Mu's lap.
"Okay," Shen Mu folded a small triangle at the corner of the book to close it, shook his legs to get Shi Yiqing up and put the book on the coffee table.
"Let me see what books we Ah Qing have published."
Shi Yiqing carried her schoolbag over.
There are only a few books for elementary school. The paper that Shen Mu bought last semester has not been used up. He will continue to use it this semester. It is light blue with a white paper airplane pattern on it.
Shi Yiqing propped his chin with both hands, watching Uncle Shen use the book to draw the size on the wrapping paper and cut it out with scissors. After wrapping it up, he wrote the subjects on the cover with a marker.
"Chinese," after Shen Mu finished writing, he picked it up and admired it. His handwriting was always good. He turned to look at Shi Yiqing, and the child was already dozing off.
Shen Mu put down the wrapped book, gently picked up Shi Yiqing and put him on the bed.
He sat on the bed and looked at the child's quiet and steady sleeping face. The bedside lamp was dim, shining on Shi Yiqing's white and tender face, pulling his eyelashes to cast a long shadow, naive and cute.
Shen Mu can hardly remember what Shi Yiqing was like when he first came here. He only remembers that day in the town, at dusk, he looked at the scar on the child's chin, his dirty and worn-out sandals and his frightened eyes, and decided to To bring him back.
Shi Yiqing was dreaming, dreaming that he was walking in a very comical forest, and he could bounce into the air with a light touch of his toes.
He jumped onto a huge leaf, and was about to continue to jump up. He didn't know what pulled his feet, and he immediately lay down on the big leaf.
The leaves are soft and warm, and when I feel drowsy, my eyes will go dark and there will be no dreams.
Shen Mu tucked in the quilt for Shi Yiqing to prevent him from kicking the quilt indiscriminately, looked at the clock, it was after nine o'clock, and went back to the living room to read a book.
Since you want to be the team leader, you have to have at least some material in your stomach. Although there will be a professional R&D team at that time, in order to avoid incomprehension when communicating at that time, you still have to do your homework in advance.
After being at the same table with class monitor Zhang Liang, Shi Yiqing felt that life in school was much happier, because Zhang Liang didn't talk much, he didn't chatter, and he didn't always come over curiously to see what he was doing.
On the contrary, Shi Yiqing became a little clingy, occasionally he would go back to the car factory with Zhang Liang, and when Zhang Liang came home, he went to find Uncle Shen who was working overtime.
He likes the class monitor, has good grades and is a very nice person.
In the art class of the new semester, a new art teacher came. She is a beautiful long-haired big sister, about the same age as Uncle Shen, always smiling, and the students all like her.
Shi Yiqing likes it the most, because she always praises Shi Yiqing, saying that he draws very well and is very creative, and then makes extensions on his works and tells him how to draw better.
Shi Yiqing, who was mediocre in other subjects, gained confidence in art class.
Shi Yiqing's school life is getting more and more stable, he doesn't hate going to school so much anymore, there is a monitor in class,
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