Have you ever been too ashamed to face someone?Do you feel that it is too late to do some things now?

It snowed again this winter.

Tao Ming wrapped up his down jacket with a hood, and he looked fatter.He also put on his fluffy hat, fully armed and went out for a morning run.

When he walked around the park, he saw a middle-aged man in his 40s lying on a bench, curled up motionless like all homeless people.

Tao Ming was stunned, then ran up and said, "Uncle, don't you run?"

The middle-aged man turned his head, vicissitudes were written on his deeply wrinkled face.Seeing that it was a very young child, he barely sat up and replied in a hoarse voice: "Don't run, don't run."

"You need to exercise more." Tao Ming said, "Let me tell you, if you go to the community in front of you, there will be free hot water supply!"

The middle-aged man felt that his throat was getting drier: "Hot water..."

"Yes, there is hot water." Tao Ming nodded again and again: "There are many old women and grandfathers opposite the community. I helped them set up chairs, and they gave me hot buns, which were just made!"

The middle-aged man quickly understood Tao Ming's words: "Is that a nursing home?"

"Ah? I don't know." Tao Ming shook his head and asked again, "Do you want to run?"

The middle-aged man hesitated for a while before saying, "Okay, let's run."

Sure enough, there is hot water supply at the gate of the community.The middle-aged man washed his face by the sink, raised his head and poured several glasses of water, and finally felt his strength return to his body little by little.

Tao Ming ran over from the opposite side again, squatting on the side and staring at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man turned his head and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Can you help me?" Tao Ming said, "There is a lot of snow on the place where grandpa plays chess. Can you sweep it with me? If I sweep it alone, I will be late for school."

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Okay."

Two figures, one big and one small, were busy under several big banyan trees for a long time, and the snow finally cleared away.Tao Ming spread his legs and ran in to move a chair, and the middle-aged man followed in a daze.

Seeing him moving three or four sheets at once, Tao Ming pointed out: "This is Grandpa Zhang's. The armrest is covered with stickers, which his granddaughter put on! Put it here, put it here. It's Grandpa Liu's, he has a bad waist , to lean on a pillow, put it this way, this way."

At this time, a few old people came out from the inside with hot steamed buns. When they saw Tao Ming and the middle-aged man, they immediately asked with a smile, "Hey, little guy, is this your father?"

"No." Tao Ming said: "We ran together, and then he came to help sweep the snow. Also, he helped move out the chairs of Grandpa Liu and Grandpa Zhang!"

The old people smiled and narrowed their eyes: "Oh? Really? Then sit down and eat buns together."

"Okay!" Tao Ming leaned over to the table and bit one, beckoning to the middle-aged man: "Eat buns, eat buns!" Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and jumped up: "Ah, no, I'm going to be late! I'm going first Bye bye!"

"That's a good boy." Watching Tao Ming go away, the old man turned his head and said to the shy middle-aged man, "When we first met, he was talking to a stray cat across the street. He is as lonely and lonely as us old men who no one wants. It is only after we have known each other for a long time that his parents are actually very good and famous. But ah, it is not good to be too good. Once my son came to pick me up for dinner, far away I saw him sitting under the streetlight opposite his house and looking at the dark house. When I got out of the car and asked, he said that he forgot to turn on the light when he went out, and he was afraid of the dark, so he dared not go back.”

The middle-aged man was a little lost.

The old man smiled and said: "Hehe, people talk too much when they are old. Eat more, eat more, this is what we have figured out by ourselves. Since the little guy came, those old women have also become more energetic, and they always change their ways to cook. Baozi, we've got a lot of money. By the way, what do you do?"

"I'm..." The middle-aged man paused and said, "A veteran, I just got off the battlefield not long ago."

"The battlefield is far away." The old man sighed and said, "It's hard, isn't it?"

"It's nothing. We are staying in a friendly country. It's not a hard life, and our comrades-in-arms are all good..." Mentioning these things, the middle-aged man stood up straight, as if he had returned to the army.But soon he sighed again and said, "It's just been there for too long..."

"Has everything changed at home?"

"Yes." The middle-aged man had a bitter look on his face.

"Why don't you come back sooner? According to the policy, you can retire as long as you stay on the front line for three years."

The middle-aged man said: "There are many reasons. It is different from China. If you want to return to China, you can only wait for the arrangement from above. When you have the opportunity to return to China for the first time, the brother and daughter-in-law in the lower bunk are about to give birth. Happy event, I just think about it." Let him go back first. The second time, a brother's child was very ill, and a big man cried out, so I gave him the opportunity. The third time...in short, it was a delay."

"Is it not good at home?"

The middle-aged man pressed his eyes to stop himself from crying: "It's not good. My daughter-in-law was seriously ill, but she didn't inform me. She said to the child, 'Your father is going to the battlefield, don't let him be distracted. '. As a result, she didn't wait for me to come back. The child, the child blamed me all the time, he looked at me as if he was looking at the enemy. I have no face to go back."

The old man patted him on the shoulder silently: "Go back, no child will hate his father. It's like all parents love their children. You have missed his childhood, don't you want to miss his next one?" Grow up?"

The middle-aged man stood up abruptly, bowed his head and said, "Thank you, old man."

"Thank you for what I did," the old man said with a smile. "You can figure out these things yourself. It's just a matter of time. Go back soon."

When Tao Ming passed by the park the next morning, the middle-aged man was no longer in sight.

After telling Shen Gu what the old people had relayed, Tao Ming leaned on the table again and said, "When I see him, his child must be very happy."

For the first time, Shen Gu did not refute, but nodded and said: "Yes."

The breeze sneaked in through the crack of the window, blowing a few thin snowflakes.

And that evening, the middle-aged uncle stood outside Tao Ming's house with a man much younger than him.

"Ah, it's you, uncle?" Tao Ming ran up happily: "Are you reconciled with your child?"

"Reconciled." The middle-aged uncle said: "I heard that you live here, so I came to see you. It turns out that you are the same age as our Dongsheng, but you look a little small. Unlike Dongsheng, you are young and mature." That being said, when he mentioned his child, he was full of pride.

"His name is Dongsheng?"

"Yeah, he's doing physics research with his uncle now."

"It's amazing!" Tao Ming admired him sincerely.

"In the past few years, thanks to his uncle's care, he has been very up-to-date." Speaking of his children, the middle-aged man was very proud, but he said, "But your father is even better. They both regard your father as a The target, always talking about him."

"It's not the target, it's the opponent! The opponent! And he didn't keep talking about it, he was already my defeated opponent! He will say my name, right? Little guy, don't you think so?"

"Ah? What's your name?" Tao Ming was puzzled.

"Han Zhaohui!"

"Oh, never heard of..."

The man's face froze, and he changed the subject angrily: "That man is known as a myth in the mathematics world. He has pushed a lot of projects now. Did he teach you by hand? He must want to start from a child like me! Think Compared with our Xiaodong student? Come on, let me test you first, the simplest one first, can you solve Karomewski's basic equation?"

"This... so familiar." Tao Ming counted with his fingers: "Two years old, yes, my father asked me when I was two years old."

"It seems that he has found a genius." The man seemed very shocked: "I won't admit defeat, Xiao Dongsheng is not in a good mood recently, I will bring Xiao Dongsheng to compare with you face to face after a while!"

Seeing the man walking away, Shen Gu turned his head and asked, "What equation can you solve?"

"Dad asked me when I was two years old...but I still don't know how to do it." Tao Ming was a little frustrated: "Am I very useless?"

"...No, sometimes you can bluff people."

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