The red-eye flight took off in the early morning and landed at three in the morning. Xue Youka booked the best hotel nearby.

Cheng Yu asked in the car: "Why don't you take a taxi home?"

Now, if you take a taxi, you can arrive in Shanling County at five or six o'clock, and you can see grandma early in the morning.

Xue Youka said that he was too sleepy and put his forehead on his shoulder: "Let's rest until tomorrow morning and then go back." In fact, he was not sleepy and could sleep in the car no matter how sleepy he was. He was worried that a young man like Cheng Yu would suffer.

It’s too hard to run around on the road in the middle of the night.

When they arrived at the hotel, they simply washed up and went to bed. The two of them didn't bring much with them when they came out. They only had a schoolbag stuffed with their own clothes and toiletries in different categories. The conditions were not satisfactory, so Cheng Yu didn't care and fell asleep next to him.

At noon, the taxi drove into the old county town.

After Xue Youka finished talking to Xue Tianliang on the phone, he rolled down the window and saw that the old county town was different from before. Many new buildings, high-tech storefronts, and famous brand and Huawei stores were all settled there.

Passing through the old county town and then driving on a long road with sparse traffic, the taxi crossed the bridge and saw the river under the bridge.

Cheng Yu looked at the blue river through the foggy car window.

The air is filled with the fruity aroma of lychees.

Xue Youka pointed the way: "Master, turn right here?"

"Small road? Can the car be driven on this small road?" the master asked in dialect.

"It should be possible."

The master said we need to pay more.

Xue Youka nodded.

After all, he hadn't been back for seven years. He Xiaoyou took him back to his parents' home, but he didn't go back for the first two years. His grandma called and said, "Even if you get divorced, your grandson can't let him see me, right?"

"

He Xiaoyou refused because he was busy studying and under great pressure, and school was about to start and he still had to do homework.

Later, Xue Tianliang came back from hiding from debts. The reason was that the old man sold the tea garden and rented out the orchard. In addition, the house that Xue Tianliang got during the divorce was also sold, and he borrowed some from neighbors at high interest rates.

It's almost enough.

Xue Tianliang found a new job at a car wash shop, and his life was barely back on track, but occasionally he couldn't help but secretly buy a few lottery tickets.

The last time I saw Xue Tianliang, Xue Tianliang came to Hunan with the old man. He Xiaoyou was not very happy, but facing the old man, it was hard to say anything. He just made it clear to Xue Tianliang alone: ​​"When we divorced, the house

Leave it to you, leave the child to me, I made it very clear, don’t come if you have nothing to do.”

"A child cannot live without a father." Xue Tianliang said with a bitter face.

He Xiaoyou was very cold: "I will find him a good father, and that person will not be yours."

After the relationship became like this, Xue Youka acted like a thief every time he received a call from Xue Tianliang. Xue Tianliang would also ask him: "Your mother is not here, right?"

Saying that he was not there allowed the father and son to speak freely, but they could not say much.

Today Xue Tianliang suddenly received a call. It was so unexpected that he had no time to tidy himself up. He changed into some decent clothes and walked out to pick him up. Xue Youka couldn't remember the road clearly. Just when he was hesitating which way to go, suddenly

I caught a glimpse of a neatly dressed middle-aged man standing on the roadside in front of me, but with a thin face and stubble covering half of his face.

Probably because he saw himself, he happily bent down and raised his hand, waving to him: "Mimi!"

"Master, stop the car." Xue Youka scanned the QR code and gave the money, then whispered to Cheng Yu: "That's my dad."

Cheng Yu bent down and got out of the car.

Seeing the man with vaguely handsome features directing the taxi to reverse and turn out, Xue Youka introduced Cheng Yu: "Dad, this is my... friend, I just told you on the phone, he is here by the way.

Just for fun."

"Hello, classmate, I am Mi...Xue Youka's father." Xue Tianliang felt a little uncomfortable when he saw his son's classmate, because this classmate's appearance and temperament seemed very out of place, and he was worried that this classmate would laugh at his son because of him.

"Hello, uncle." Cheng Yu nodded in greeting formally, "I am Cheng Yu."

"Hello, hello." Xue Tianliang's impression of him immediately improved.

"What I got when I came out were lychees picked freshly from the orchard." Xue Tianliang gave them the fruit and said as he walked, "Why did you come here suddenly and didn't say anything in advance?"

"I'm coming back to see grandma. I have to leave tomorrow night."

"Ah? Leaving so soon?"

"Well, I have to go to work on Monday. How is grandma?"

"It's been a few days since I was discharged from the hospital. I've been crying all day long. I just called to say you're back and your grandparents will be here soon."

"Aren't they home?"

"The one your aunt picked up is in the county seat."

The father and son did not hug each other when they met, and they were still a little unfamiliar. When they walked to the door of the house, there was no one in the house. The cement floor in the yard was very clean and desolate, with only a few fallen leaves on the ground.

Xue Youka raised his head and looked at it. The old house overlapped with the memory, but there was something different. It seemed that the walls were painted whiter. In the memory, it was a yellowish color, and the window glass was a greenish color.

The rusty color is more transparent and bright to the naked eye.

Cheng Yu had been here before, and without any photos, what he remembered most clearly was that Xue Youka's small room was covered with cartoon posters, and there was a dilapidated tree house, and the animals in captivity in the backyard were about to fly.

Pecking his chicken.

"The house is a little messy and I haven't prepared anything in advance." Xue Tianliang poured water for them: "Whether you want to drink kiwi juice or not, there is a juicer."

Xue Youka said no, "Dad, please sit down and rest for a while."

Xue Tianliang sat opposite him, and the topic between father and son was still the same: "Why did you return the money that dad transferred to you? You also got an extra 20,000 yuan. Where did you get the money?"

"A bonus from the school."

While they were talking, Cheng Yu went out and stood in the yard, looking at the fig tree in the yard. The tree house was no longer there. He looked around and finally saw a doghouse that looked like a "tree house".

It turned out that it was dismantled and thrown in the corner, and a big yellow dog was raised. Cheng Yu took a look, and the dog started barking at him. If it hadn't been for the chain around its neck, the driver would have pounced on it.

As soon as Xue Tianliang heard the dog barking, he ran out and scolded: "Don't bark, shut up!"

He said to Cheng Yu kindly: "Little classmate, you'd better come in and I'll lock up the dog."

Close the door in front of the dog cage so that the dog can't see people and won't bark.

Xue Tianliang asked his son: "Mimi, where will you and your classmates stay tonight?"

"It's not decided yet." With the development in recent years, there are also good hotels in the county.

"If you live at home, I'll clean it up for you. Your room is still there."

"I want to go up and have a look."

The three people walked upstairs. The entire house had been painted, and the walls were all white. The white walls were lined with gray old furniture, giving it a sense of loneliness as people left the building.

Xue Tianliang opened the door to his room: "It hasn't been touched, it's still the same."

In the small room, the walls were covered with animation posters, dust was floating in the air, the floor was also covered with dust, and the desk and bed were covered with a layer of plastic sheeting.

"Dad, where is our old home?"

It refers to the two-bedroom apartment in Shanling County.

The son didn't know it had been sold to pay off debts. Xue Tianliang was worried about how to explain it when he heard the sound of a car and looked down to see a red Volkswagen sedan.

Xue Youka asked: "When did aunt come back?"

"This year, your uncle was released from prison and she came back."

The car stopped and a few people got out of the car. In addition to the grandparents, there was also a short-haired woman in a skirt. She put on light makeup and red bean paste-colored lipstick. Her complexion looked good against the makeup. Xue Youka thought it should be

My aunt whom I haven’t seen for a long time.

Then my uncle got out of the car with Cake Cake. My uncle had been in the class room for several years, and his temperament had changed drastically. Cake Cake was only eleven or twelve years old, probably because he had asthma. He was not very tall, about 1.5 meters tall, and wore a

She was wearing overalls and had a watermelon haircut. She looked very well-behaved, but she didn't like to yell at anyone. Then, a tall girl also got out of the car. She had a high ponytail and chestnut hair.

Xue Tianliang: "Yeah, your cousins ​​are here too."

Standing in the corridor on the second floor and looking down, grandma raised her head and saw him. Tears filled her eyes and she called him Mimi. My aunt was also very happy and called him: "Mimi looks so handsome now, so tall!"

Xue Youka also waved and called out to her grandparents and aunt, but her eyes fell on her cousin.

The person I saw in the studio that day was indeed my cousin.

Turning to look at Cheng Yu, Xue Youka regretted that she shouldn't have let him accompany her. She just came to see her grandma, but she didn't know there would be so many people, including her aunt's family of four whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

But Cheng Yu obviously didn't recognize that the girl he had just met not long ago.

Xue Youka took the initiative to introduce Cheng Yu to his family as his classmate who came to play.

Auntie asked Cao Gao to call him brother. Cao Gao glanced at him and realized that he had completely forgotten about this cousin.

"Don't you remember? When you left, you gave your brother Totoro, your favorite Totoro."

Gao Gao didn't remember either, so she kept her mouth shut coyly.

My aunt apologized: "Mimi, I'm sorry, I've spoiled you."

Xue Youka was concerned about her grandma's health and ignored others.

Instead, it was my aunt who saw Cheng Yu and heard that he was Xue Youka's classmate at University T. She greeted him politely: "How long will you be playing here?"
To be continued...