Demolition of the bridge across the river

The last pile of soil fell into a pile, and Gou Xiaohe stood in front of the grave, still feeling unable to recover.

"Kowtow to your grandma again."

Someone pushed him from behind, but he couldn't tell who it was.

Gou Xiaohe kowtowed a lot in the past few days and met several relatives whom he had never seen before.

He didn't understand anything, and the uncles and uncles who helped in the village came in and out of the house, telling him to kneel down, burn paper when he asked him to burn paper, and throw the basin when he asked him to throw it.

The village chief lighted the whip, and Gou Xiaohe knelt and kowtowed in front of the grave. The earthy smell mixed with paper ashes rushed into his nostrils.

The touch of the soil against his forehead was too cold, and it was only at this moment that Gou Xiaohe suddenly realized that his grandma was really gone.

"My poor old sister, you just left!" The aunt came to him and leaned on the ground, "How old are you, you were exhausted to death by your ignorant daughter!"

Gou Xiaohe turned to look at her. He always knew that he had an aunt who lived in the town, and this was the first time he had seen her.

"Mom." The aunt's son frowned at the side, looked at Gou Xiaohe, and then turned to look at the field.

Gou Xiaohe turned his head with him, and the "naive girl" of grandma just hung up the phone and was walking towards the grave facing everyone's eyes.

She kowtowed three times to her grandma, burned a stack of papers, then pressed Gou Xiaohe's head, took him to kowtow again, let go of her hands and stood up.

"Auntie." Gou Xiaohe pulled her arm, his hand had been shaking since just now, his teeth were also shaking, and tears poured out uncontrollably.

"Hey." Auntie pulled him up, bent down to beat the dirt on Gou Xiaohe's knees, "Let's go."

The mourning team was still crying, they were invited by my aunt—not only them, Gou Xiaohe just cried while guarding his grandmother’s body, my aunt went home overnight after receiving news from the village, bought clothes, cremated, set up a shed to keep vigil, And today's burial... all the big and small things were arranged by my aunt.

She was terribly calm, except that when she first arrived home, she saw her grandma's corpse with red eyes and hugged Baogou Xiaohe, and then everything was handled swiftly and swiftly.

It's like throwing Bian Qiao home without saying a word, and taking Bian Qiao away without saying a word.

Seeing Auntie walking back with Gou Xiaohe, the funeral singing team stopped and packed up and followed.

"I've never seen such a girl."

Someone in the helping crowd spat, Gou Xiaohe wiped his eyes and peeked at the auntie, as if she didn't hear her, she went straight home without looking back.

"Auntie." Gou Xiaohe called her.

"Huh?" Auntie lowered her eyelids to look at Gou Xiaohe, and wiped off the ashes on his forehead and eyelids, "Are you tired?"

Gou Xiaohe nodded, then shook his head again.

"I haven't had the time to talk to you properly these days." Auntie picked up Gou Xiaohe's hand and squeezed it, "Go back and sleep for a while, and when the banquet is finished at noon, everything will be over."

"Don't be afraid."

Gou Xiaohe is not afraid, his own grandmother who raised him lives and dies, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

He just didn't understand why Auntie wasn't sad.

He couldn't figure out many things about their family, such as why my aunt didn't come home all the year round, why the relationship with grandma was so bad, and why grandma disappeared when she said nothing.

But at the moment, these issues are not as important to him as another issue.

"Isn't Bianqiao coming back?" He looked at his aunt.

"He's taking the exam." The aunt's tone was understated. After she finished speaking, the corners of her mouth curled up into a smile, "Do you miss him?"

Gou Xiaohe nodded, and asked again: "Is there a final exam?"

"Yes, aren't you all freshmen in high school?" My aunt looked at him, "How did you do in the exam?"

"I didn't take the exam." Gou Xiaohe said, "When I came home from school the day before the final exam, my grandma collapsed in the yard."

Auntie didn't speak any more, she stroked the back of Gou Xiaohe's head, and put her arm on his shoulder.

The banquet was set at Hu Yuan's restaurant at the entrance of the village, and the helpers came from the grave to the house, and there were more things to deal with than Gou Xiaohe imagined.

He followed behind his aunt, watching her busy, not knowing what he could do.

Several aunts and aunts came to talk to him and comfort him. No matter what they said, all the words finally condensed into one sentence: "What will this child do in the future."

Grandma said this too.

Just in the thirties of this year, he and his grandma watched the Spring Festival Gala eating dumplings. Someone in the village secretly set off fireworks. Gou Xiaohe ran out to watch with a bowl. When he came back, his grandma looked at him and sighed, saying: "I will leave later." , what can you do?"

Gou Xiaohe knew that grandma was sad, and she would always be sad every year and festival.

At that time, Gou Xiaohe didn't take it easy, he thought it was a very distant thing, and he thought that grandma would never leave one day.

He didn't even think about it in the past few days when his grandma passed away.Setting up funerals created a false excitement, with people coming and going around him, he couldn't concentrate on fantasizing about his future life.

Sadness and pain always explode in the stamina. Gou Xiaohe looked blankly at the people in the courtyard, as if he was standing on the grave and realized that his grandma had gone. He only realized now that the death of grandma meant a lot to him What.

"Go to the house and lie down for a while." The aunt came over, patted him on the back, and took him away from those aunts and aunts.

Gou Xiaohe couldn't sleep, his heart was flustered and empty, he stood by the bed and called "Auntie".

My aunt held the doorknob and looked back at him.

"When are you leaving?" Gou Xiaohe asked.

"It's time to leave when we're done." Auntie took out her phone to check the time, "I can't get away either."

She is really busy. She has been running around at home these past few days, and the phone has never been disconnected.

Gou Xiaohe let out a soft "oh", his eye sockets and the base of his nose suddenly sore, he hurriedly lowered his head and sat on the edge of the bed, the corners of his mouth uncontrollably drooping.

"If you don't want to sleep, pack your things." My aunt said, "Pick up the important ones, and buy what you need later."

As she spoke, she looked around the old house and sighed: "I don't think there is anything to bring."

Gou Xiaohe was still secretly wiping his eye sockets, he was stunned, and looked up at her a little dullly.

"You will live with me in the future, it's not like our house is deserted." Auntie closed the door, came back and wiped Gou Xiaohe's eyes, and smiled, "Why are you crying? You can't leave yourself here."

Gou Xiaohe's tears that had just been suppressed opened the gate at once, and he buried his head down hard, but he couldn't hold back the sobs of "hang heng" in his throat.

"Don't you want Bianqiao?" Auntie patted Gou Xiaohe's back, "Go to my place, you two can be a companion, just like when you were young."

The name Bianqiao brought a little light to Gou Xiaohe's sad and confused mood.

He really missed Bianqiao. He didn't think about it that much at ordinary times. Once his grandma left, he thought about it very much now.

Bian Qiao is not a child of their Gou family, but he came to their house when he was very young and was brought back by his aunt.

She hadn't been home for many years, and when she suddenly brought a strange child back, it was like bringing a big thunderstorm, causing the whole village to be lively.

Grandma was trembling with anger, had a big fight with my aunt, dropped the old photo frames on the wall, and sweared a lot of nasty words.

Gou Xiaohe just remembered one sentence: Grandma asked my aunt to take this bastard away and send it wherever he came from, otherwise she would throw the bastard into the river and drown.

The two adults were arguing in the main room, and Bian Qiao was sitting on the bed in the back room by his aunt, with eyes drooping and tearing off the dead skin on his hands, neither crying nor fussing, just quiet.

Gou Xiaohe was only in the first grade at the time, and he always remembered his appearance, because Bianqiao was too white and looked like a little girl, so he ignored people.The children in the village are all leather monkeys, and they have never seen anything like this.

He walked around beside Bianqiao, first deliberately made noise, then gave Bianqiao his gadgets and snacks, and talked to Bianqiao, but Bianqiao ignored him.

It wasn't until Gou Xiaohe asked him: "Are you my aunt's child?" Bian Qiao stared unhappily: "No."

Gou Xiaohe was also beaten.

My aunt left this child who was not her, and left like the wind.Grandma cried and scolded all day at home, but in the end she didn't throw the bridge into the river.

Bian Qiao just stayed at Gou Xiaohe's house for six years.For Gou Xiaohe, Bianqiao is a wonderful existence, like a child who fell from the sky.

Until he was taken back by his aunt in the first year of junior high school, they have never met again until now.

"What laughing."

Auntie buckled up the trunk and greeted Gou Xiaohe to get in the car. When she turned around, she saw him staring at the side of the road in a daze, with a little smile on his lips.

"No, I remembered that Bianqiao had a fight with me as soon as he got home." Gou Xiaohe got into the passenger driver and looked at the locked courtyard door through the car window.

"Who wins." My aunt also smiled.

"Bian Qiao." Gou Xiaohe said, "I can't beat him."

"I've had a bad temper since I was a child." Auntie started the car, held the steering wheel and looked at Gou Xiaohe again, "Shall we go?"

Gou Xiaohe nodded, and then looked in the direction of his grandma's grave, with a heavy heart, he hugged the schoolbag in his arms tightly, closed his eyes and leaned back in the seat.

Auntie's movements were as swift as her plan.

After finishing her grandma's funeral, she went to the team headquarters and the town government. The procedures should be followed, and the water and electricity at home should be stopped. Then she went to grandma's grave to collect soil again, kowtowed three heads, and waited for Gou Xiaohe Pack your things and drive back to the city.

Gou Xiaohe actually had nothing to gain.Everything in the old house remained the same as it was when grandma was there. My aunt wouldn't let him take the clothes. He rummaged around at home, and the only thing he needed to take away was a flat schoolbag.

"I'll buy some clothes for you when we get there," the aunt drove out of the village silently, and the aunt turned on the fan blades of the air conditioner, following Gou Xiaohe's plan, "It's just that it's a holiday now, and the school will let your uncle run around. I'll be free in a few days , take you to have fun."

Gou Xiaohe listened quietly, not knowing what to say other than nodding.

His aunt is his only support these days, but after all, he gets along too little, leaving the familiar hometown, the sense of distance subtly grows.

"Thank you, auntie." In the end, he could only think of this sentence.

My aunt reached out and patted his face: "Go to sleep."

Gou Xiaohe suffered from motion sickness, he didn't know it, he just felt confused, the leather smell in the sealed compartment was mixed with the smell of the air conditioner, it was stuffy and made him feel uncomfortable.

It's not too far to drive from my hometown to my aunt's city. It takes more than four minutes to drive into the city.

Gou Xiaohe was drowsy all the way, except for being called up by his aunt in the middle to ask if he wanted to pee, the rest of the time he was half asleep and half awake with the bumps, and he could hear his aunt answering the phone from time to time.

"Little river."

When my aunt woke me up again, the car had already parked and turned off the engine.

Gou Xiaohe was a little dazed, so he quickly sat up and looked out. There were cars all around, the light was dim, and it was a big parking lot.

"Are you home?" he asked his aunt while holding the handle of the car.

"No, the mall." The auntie unbuckled her seat belt and pushed the door to get out of the car, quickly pressing her phone with one hand, "I have something to do later, let's hurry up."

Gou Xiaohe hurriedly got out of the car and followed her. He originally wanted to put his bag on the car, but he carried it on his back in the face of a completely unfamiliar environment.

The shopping malls all over the country are similar, with basic necessities of life, food, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, and entertainment, each floor is the same, and everything is available.

Goujia Village is a big village, not far from the town, and Gou Xiaohe also likes to visit their shopping mall.However, as soon as he got out of the elevator following his aunt, he was still a little apprehensive by the atmosphere of the big city.

Obviously he was wearing his favorite set of clothes, but suddenly he felt a little tight at the moment, his shoes were a little muddy, and it became very glaring when he stepped on the large shiny tile floor.

When I lowered my head and wiped the upper of my shoe, my aunt had already walked several meters, and Gou Xiaohe quickly followed.

My aunt is really busy.

After visiting two stores with her, Gou Xiaohe made this point even more clear.

She never left her mobile phone. When she was in the first store, she asked Gou Xiaohe to try on the clothes first and see the effect before buying.When she came to the second store, her cell phone rang again before she even stepped into the store door.

The aunt turned around and went out to pick it up. Gou Xiaohe, facing the waiter's eyes, pretended to choose by the outermost hanger, and secretly looked at the price tags.

The last one was very expensive, and the price of this one is even hotter.

Gou Xiaohe knew that his aunt was very rich. Although she didn't go home, the money she sent to grandma every month was not a small amount.

But I didn't expect to be so rich.

"Is there anyone you like?" In the middle of a trance, my aunt came back after answering the phone, walking very fast and speaking very fast.

No Yuxi Tuandui waited for Gou Xiaohe to answer, she said hastily again: "No Xiaohe, we can't go shopping today, I have something urgent there, we have to go there now."

"You can take two casually first, is this okay?"

"Ah." Gou Xiaohe quickly waved his hands and moved out, "It's okay, auntie, let's go."

Auntie ignored him, chose two pieces at random compared to Gou Xiaohe's size, and rushed to pay the bill.

When she came back, she put the paper bag on Gou Xiaohe's hand, hugged him and went straight to the elevator: "Hey, I really don't have time to take you home. I'll give you the address, and you can call a car." Go back first, Bianqiao should be at home right now."

Gou Xiaohe was taken aback.

"Do you have a cell phone?" My aunt asked.

"No." Gou Xiaohe shook his head.He didn't use a mobile phone in his hometown, and his grandma didn't mention it, so he was too embarrassed to ask for it.

The aunt opened the bag with a "swish", took out an eyebrow pencil, wrote a string of addresses on the shopping receipt, and stuffed it into Gou Xiaohe's hand together with two red tickets.

The author has something to say:

Happy Children's Day, be a kid today!

The two children in this book are quite noisy, let's grow up with them

(not brothers, no kinship / two days off in the early stage)