"The sun is setting in the west."

"It's quiet on Weishan Lake."

"Play my beloved earthen lute."

"Sing that beautiful ballad ......"

The train was swaying, He Ting was holding my arm against the window and humming a catchy tune, looking at her like a twenty-year-old little girl who had just fallen in love, her face was flushed and she looked very happy and excited.

I couldn't help but smile and asked, "Don't you dislike me for taking you to a hard seat?" ”

"Don't dislike it!" He Ting said happily, "Who asked me to decide temporarily, I can only buy a hard seat...... You've changed your sleeper with someone else to a hard seat to accompany me, and it's too late for me to be happy! ”

Women are really easy to satisfy animals sometimes, in fact, this is only the second time I have taken the train, the carriage is crowded with people, there are as many people without seats as there are people with seats, although it is winter, but many people are still hot and sweaty, and the carriage is filled with the smell of instant noodles and sweat acid......

I remember the last time I came to Jiangcheng, my grandfather and I were sitting in the smoking place in the middle of the train without a seat, and there were many people who looked at us with disgust, but my grandfather was calm, but I was uncomfortable and inferior at the time, and now I think about it, I can't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" He Ting stared at me and asked strangely.

"It's fine." I smiled and said, "It's just that when I think of Jiangcheng, grandpa and I don't even have seats, I think it's quite interesting!" ”

"Hehe, you can be regarded as returning home this time, right? Happy? He Ting said with a smile.

"Happy is happy, but not to show off, but finally worthy of grandpa, can make his old man happy, after all, so many years, grandpa alone pulled me up, I went out for the first time and has been outside for so long, he must be very lonely in the mountains alone......" I said with a long face.

"In the mountains...... What does that look like, I'm curious? He Ting said with a yearning face.

"Surrounded by green mountains and green waters, but the mobile phone may not even have a signal, the toilet is very smelly, there is no bathroom, and you can only take a bath with a basin through the curtain...... Haha, I see what you will do then? I couldn't help but look at He Ting and laughed.

He Ting didn't seem to be worried at all, she didn't retreat as soon as she heard me say that the countryside was not good like Tang Ruoxue, but pestered me to tell her interesting things in the mountains, I thought that the car ride was very long and boring anyway, so I slowly told her some interesting things when I was a child, which made her giggle all the way, until I was talking, she fell asleep with my arm on my shoulder, I felt warm to stop, looking at different people and different faces in the carriage, I can't help but be more desperate to go home!

The train took 19 hours, then transferred to the bus, then transferred to the train for another 3 hours, and then the shuttle bus, and when there was no car to sit on, we could only go over the mountain, He Ting and I each carried a big bag and began to trek, from the place where we could take the car to our family's village, to hike 40 kilometers of mountain road!

At first, He Ting was quite excited, but people are lazy in winter, and their physical strength is not as good as in other seasons, He Ting only climbed more than ten kilometers and was a little unbearable, panting and looking at me with a pale face and a wry smile: "This ...... That's a little too far, right? ”

I laughed and said, "It's less than half the way, we have to hurry up and get home before it gets dark, otherwise it's going to be very cold when it's dark!" ”

He Ting couldn't laugh or cry.

I thought about it and helped her take the bag down and put it in her hand, He Ting was a little more relaxed, but even so, after walking more than 20 kilometers, we still stopped to rest for a while, until the time was close to the afternoon, He Ting picked up her bag again and followed me to continue to climb the mountain!

The mountain road is difficult, along the way with He Ting is much slower than my own, originally I only need half a day's journey, I was stunned until dark to see the village located in the mountains around, He Ting is already tired and pale, and the backpack is still in my hand!

I also sweated profusely, pointed to the faintly visible village at the foot of the mountain and smiled: "See, that's my home!" ”

"Hmm...... Let me...... Take a breath, exhausted......" He Ting clutched her chest and gasped for breath.

I waited for her to rest enough, and then began to take her down the mountain, and when I returned to the village, almost every household was burning firewood and cooking, and a few people on the road saw me at the door of their own house, and they were all stunned for a moment before greeting me, and their eyes looked at He Ting in surprise!

Our village is not very big, so I didn't meet a few people on the road before I arrived at my door!

Opening the small door surrounded by a bamboo fence in the small courtyard, I shouted loudly to the house: "Grandpa! I am back! ”

"This is your home?" He Ting followed me and asked a little embarrassed, a little restrained.

I nodded, but my brows furrowed, and I looked strangely at the wild grass in the yard and the closed wooden door over there, and suddenly felt a little apprehensive in my heart, there was no fire at home, and the wild grass in the yard seemed to have grown crazy for a long time, what was going on?

"Grandpa?" I shouted again.

No one answered me, and the wooden door was still closed!

I dropped the backpack I was carrying, walked over and pushed the wooden door, I couldn't help but look at the big lock locked from the outside, it was already rusty, my heart suddenly became dazed and confused, judging from the rust of the iron lock, it was definitely not locked in the past few days, grandpa?

The lock in the countryside can't prevent thieves, I shouted a few times, with a bad feeling directly pulled the door up, and then got into the house, turned on the flashlight of the mobile phone, only to find that the house was a spider silk vertical and horizontal, on the table and on the altar of Buddhist shrines, there was thick dust everywhere............

I couldn't help but get scared and hurriedly went out of the house again!

"What's the matter, your grandfather doesn't seem to be at home?" He Ting also frowned at me and said in astonishment.

"You're waiting for me here!" I said to He Ting and asked her to wait for me in the courtyard first, and then I ran quickly towards the village, and then went to the house of the widow Wang in the village.

Widow Wang was cooking, and was startled by me when she pushed the door open, and her daughter was also there, looking at me with wide eyes in surprise and muttering, "Are you ...... Brother Yan? ”

Widow Wang seemed to recognize me at this time, and couldn't help wiping her oil-stained hands on her apron, staring at me in surprise and saying, "Oh, it's the inkstone baby who is back, what are you...... Coming back for Chinese New Year? ”

I nodded, then frowned and asked, "Aunt Wang, where is my grandfather, why isn't he at home?" ”

"Huh?! Your grandfather? Widow Wang's eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at me in astonishment and said, "The time you were sent out to study, your grandfather came back once, and then left again not long after, he said that he went out to live in the city, wasn't he with you?" ”

I'm confused!

Looking at Widow Wang blankly, I frowned and asked with a puzzled expression, "What are you talking about?" My grandfather was out of the mountains after I went to school? ”

"Yes...... Widow Wang stared at me suspiciously and muttered, "Since Old Man Yang is no longer in the village, we have to go through dozens of miles of mountains to the countryside to see when we are sick, and everyone still misses him, thinking that he lives a good life in the city with you, isn't he with you?" ”

I was completely stunned!

The brain is a little short-circuited!

Grandpa is gone, not in the mountains?

So where did Grandpa go?

Could it be that in this world, does grandpa have other relatives?

My face was blank.

Widow Wang seemed to ask me a few words, but I didn't hear them all, until her daughter ran over and stared at my clothes, saying that I looked so imposing, and my clothes were beautiful, I came back to my senses, frowned tightly, and smiled bitterly: "Aunt Wang, my grandfather is not with me, do you know if my grandfather has any other relatives?" ”

Widow Wang shook her head, looked at me with a complicated expression, and said, "You go and ask the old village owner, maybe he knows ......"

I nodded, only to feel that my heart was full of shock and loss, but I still smiled slightly and said to Widow Wang and her daughter Xiao Yezi: "I brought some gifts back, and I will go to the owner of the village to ask about my grandfather later, and I will send you over in the evening, there are new clothes for Xiao Yezi!" ”

Xiao Yezi was suddenly so happy, and Widow Wang was a little embarrassed to say that she couldn't stand it, but when I went out, she rarely shouted to me: "Yan baby...... You didn't turn on the fire at home, come back to my house for dinner, I'll cook a piece of bacon first! ”

I let out an 'um' and walked in the direction of the old villager's house with a full stomach full of doubts.