Shen Yuxiu didn't know what was missing, but she could also feel that Grandma Fang was different from usual. When she looked up, she saw that the old man who had always had a loving face had red circles under his eyes and looked like he wanted to cry.

appearance.

"Grandma, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yuxiu didn't understand what happened. She gently grabbed the corner of the old man's clothes with her little hands and raised her head to ask her.

Grandma Fang looked at the piece of land in her memory, feeling indescribable sadness in her heart, but she didn't want to scare her child, so she forced a smile and comforted Shen Yuxiu: "It's okay, grandma is okay."

After saying that, Grandma Fang looked again at this land that was completely different from what she remembered, with indescribable disappointment in her eyes.

Not only is the locust tree gone, but even the ditch in her memory has been leveled and turned into several dirt roads and farmland. How could she possibly find her son in this condition?

"Don't be disappointed yet. Let's go to the surrounding villages and ask around. Maybe we can find it!" Fang Youshun comforted her softly.

In the past twenty years, the appearance of this place has changed, which is normal. If you really can't find it, there's nothing you can do about it.

"Grandpa, what are you looking for?" Shen Yuxiu asked Fang Youshun suspiciously.

"I'm looking for your second uncle, back then..." Grandma Fang told her about the past leisurely.

Although she knew that even if she said it, this little girl might not be able to understand it, but she still wanted to say it and wanted her to know that she once had a second uncle who was buried in this land.

Shen Yuxiu just listened to the old man talking about the past quietly, her eyes slowly filled with crystal tears, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.

She felt that her second uncle who died was so miserable, her grandma and mother who fled that year were also miserable, and her grandpa, grandma, uncle, and uncle who were swept away by the flood who didn't know where they were were also miserable.

It's all so miserable.

Because she knew this, Shen Yuxiu became extremely well-behaved. She no longer complained about the pain in her buttocks from sitting on a tricycle every day. She allowed Fang Youshun to take her and Grandma Fang around the surrounding villages, constantly asking about the trenches of the past.

Did anyone see the child's body during the removal?

But unfortunately, no one knows about this, and no one has found child-sized bones there.

For eight or nine days, the two old men visited the surrounding villages but did not get any useful information, so they finally gave up.

"It's almost June 6th. Let's go back to our hometown to pay a grave. Let's tell our ancestors that if they see our parents and son there, we can help them. Although they are not in the same place, in case they can see them,

What?" Fang Youshun comforted Grandma Fang with a gentle voice.

Grandma Fang nodded sadly, that was all she could do.

She had also heard from Fang Youshun a long time ago that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, people settled in the place where her hometown was originally flooded and formed a village. There was also a cousin who was several houses away from Fang Youshun in the village guarding the ancestral grave.

Moreover, the two of them had also agreed that while they were alive, he and Grandma Fang would live a good life guarding their only daughter. When one day they closed their eyes, they would return to their roots and be buried in their hometown.

Their ancestors, as well as their sons who died early or do not know whether they are alive or dead, are probably on this land. They have to guard their sons and parents after they die.

In this way, Fang Youshun took his mother and daughter back to their hometown. However, the closer they got to their hometown, the worse their faces became.

The situation here doesn't seem to be very good either. The crops in the fields are all curled up with wilted leaves, not to mention wild vegetables, of which there is no trace at all.

As for Shen Yuxiu, who was sitting on the tricycle, she didn't understand what this meant, but she felt that the wind in the air was dry and hot, causing her lips to swell.

Grandma Fang saw that her hot little face was flushed. She was afraid that the harsh sun would burn off the skin on her little face, so she covered her little face with a face cloth and kept fanning her with a cattail leaf fan.

At this time, Grandma Fang felt a little regretful. She regretted that she should not have brought Shen Yuxiu out and let her suffer this at such a young age. Fortunately, she was not far from her hometown now. She should be better there, right?

However, Grandma Fang still thought too well. When Fang Youshun took the two of them to the place with difficulty, she realized that this place was not much better than the place they passed along the way.

Shen Yuxiu looked curiously at this strange village. There seemed to be people moving around in every house, but no one came out. Finally, she saw a child who was older than her. She felt that he was like those wilting crops, especially lack of energy.

He is also extremely thin, and his eyes don't even have any sparkle.

Shen Yuxiu looked at the child curiously, and the child looked at her blankly, until they turned a corner and interrupted their gaze.

As soon as Shen Yuxiu looked away, she felt the tricycle stop, and then she heard her grandfather's voice asking: "Is Youcheng at home?"

Shen Yuxiu looked back at the place where Fang Youshun stopped, and saw that it was a very ordinary yard, with sparse fences and a few mud houses, and the smell of dryness that hit her face.

As Fang Youshun's questioning ended, a dry old man with a wrinkled face walked out of a room.

As soon as the old man saw Fang Youshun, his eyes suddenly lit up and he walked over excitedly: "Brother, why are you here?"

"My family is having a hard time, so I have to come over with food and pay a visit to the grave of our ancestors." Fang Youshun smiled back at him and asked Grandma Fang to get out of the car. At the same time, he also hugged Shen Yuxiu down.

When the old man, that is, Fang Youcheng, heard that Fang Youshun was here begging for food, the light in his eyes immediately dimmed, and his mouth felt bitter.

"Brother, we are experiencing a severe drought. I'm afraid you won't be able to get anything." Fang Youcheng said with a bitter taste in his mouth.

As soon as Fang Youshun heard what he said, he knew that he might have misunderstood, but it was difficult to explain it outside, so he asked him instead: "Do you have anything to eat? I asked for something along the way and left it for you.

A little bit."

Fang Youcheng didn't expect him to say that. After being stunned for a moment, he was about to refuse when he saw the adults and children coming out after hearing the noise. His lips trembled, and finally he could only bite the bullet and said: "Brother, yes

It’s no use, brother, I’ll have no shame and no skin to keep what you want.”

"What are you talking about? We are brothers, why are you being polite to me?" Fang Youshun said and began to unload things from the car: "There are wild vegetables that I dug and dried along the way, and there are also some that I want.

I will leave some coarse grains and dried steamed buns for you."

Fang Youshun waited for all the things to be unloaded. When he saw no one was moving, he glared and called to several adult men in the yard: "What are you looking at? Move inside quickly."

The adult men looked at Fang Youcheng subconsciously after hearing this, and seeing him nodding, they hurriedly moved things into the house. At the same time, Fang Youcheng also hurriedly pulled Fang Youshun into the house.

"Come on, come and sit in the room."

Seeing this, Grandma Fang also pulled Shen Yuxiu and walked into the house with her. She didn't even notice that the boy who had looked at Shen Yuxiu by the fence outside the yard was watching everything that happened in the yard.
Chapter completed!