15 years in business

Li Yu got into the car, crossed the driver's seat and hugged Ninagawa tightly.

Ninagawa remained motionless and let him hug her: "What's wrong?"

Li Yu maintained this awkward posture, the tip of his nose lightly brushed Ninagawa's chest, and finally stopped on his slender neck.

"It's nothing, I just miss you a little bit." He spoke with a strong nasal voice

Ninagawa raised her eyebrows: "Somewhat?"

Li Yu changed his words: "I miss you so much, I'm going crazy."

The two cuddled each other for a long time before Li Yu got up reluctantly.

He started the car, reached out and squeezed Ninagawa's face: "It's all here, I'll take you to meet someone."

"is it far?"

"Not far."

"Then can I drive?" Ninagawa hadn't driven for a long time, staring at the steering wheel eagerly.

The scene of the little ancestor's passionate racing last time is still vivid in his memory. Li Yu recalled the feeling in his stomach, hugged the steering wheel, and firmly rejected him: "No."

Today's vicissitudes don't take hundreds of years at all, ten years is enough, the town has been completely refurbished, even if Li Yu grew up here, he doesn't know his way now.

He made a big circle around the town and saw many unexpected scenery.

"Look, that's my uncle's house."

When passing a cabin, Li Yu slowed down, rolled down the car window to signal Ninagawa to look to the right.

There are two ridges in front of the door of "Uncle's House", and there are lush and lush crops that Ninagawa can't name.

Ningagawa looked inside, but couldn't find any traces of people living there: "Are people still living inside?"

"Uncle passed away in April this year. He was tired after sowing the seeds. He said he went back to the house to rest, and then he never got up again." Li Yu held the steering wheel, looking a little depressed, "I was kicked out of the house by my dad. After a while, he often invited me to eat, and he was young and vigorous at that time, and even said he didn't want his charity, but now that I think about it, I'm too ignorant of current affairs."

The person who planted that crop is no longer there.Looking at the khaki field ridge, Ninagawa also felt a burst of sadness.

"Let's go." Li Yu closed the car window.

Perhaps it was because the enthusiastic uncle had a spirit in the sky and wanted to stay with his nephew for a while, when the words fell, a cat suddenly sprang out of the wooden house, because it was also yellow, and it seemed to blend into the ridge of the field, Li Yu only found it when he rushed to the front of the car .

The fur on the cat's face was white. It must be quite old, and it was quite invisible. It ran to the hood in two steps in three steps: "Meow!"

Li Yu opened the car window and called out cautiously: "Cat?"

The old cat sat on the hood generously, with its tail coiled around its side, the tip of its tail dangling back and forth. Hearing Li Yu's call, he responded leisurely, jumped into the car, and landed silently .

There is a table for storage between the driver and the co-pilot. It safely climbed up and sat down, stretched out its paws and put Li Yu's shoulders, as if saying, "See? He, the young man, me, the old man."

Li Yu felt that he seemed to be despised by a cat, and silently removed its paw, "This is raised by my uncle. It has no name, so it is called 'cat'. I thought it had died a long time ago."

The cat put its paws back on again, with a dignified and inviolable look on its face, as if to say "I won't die if you are all dead".

"Uncle is gone, it's lonely and pitiful." Ninagawa reached out and touched the cat, "Why don't you take it home?"

Li Yu spread his hands: "The cat is very smart, even if it comes up, there is no way to drive it down."

"Meow."

The meaning of the cat should be, "It's good that you know it".

After resting for a while, the two of them and the cat went back on the road. The cat sat on the storage table as steadily as Mount Tai, looking like a general.

Animal lover Ren Ninagawa tried to give it a new name, picked out several words that sound similar to cats, and called them one by one: "Mimi? Meow? Maomao?"

The old cat turned a blind eye to his enthusiasm, shook his head in a daze, and ignored it. Ningagawa was a little tired of entertaining himself for a long time, and couldn't moles the old cat, so he had to take the next best thing to moles Li Yu: "What do you want? Where are you taking me? Why do I feel like we've gone so far."

The town has become so fast that even the cemetery has been rebuilt. Li Yu didn't know what to do, so he pulled the handbrake on the spot and judged the correct direction based on his memory: "I want to take you to see my mother, but I haven't come for a while. Grave sweeping."

The night was as cold as water, Li Yu took out the thin coat from the car and put it on Ninagawa, told him not to move, and looked around by himself: "I think it's near here, I recognized it the year before last..."

Li Yu almost took him into the ditch that time at the Lion Terrace, and Ninagawa no longer trusts his ability to find the way: "Are you sure?"

"I don't know, my hometown has changed too fast." Li Yu also felt guilty.

There are all the tombs of the ancestors nearby. Most of the people who live nearby are surnamed Li. The surnames are the same, and the names are also arranged according to the family tree. , can only bump around in the fields like headless flies.

At this time, the cat got out from the gap in the car door, slipped to Ninagawa's feet, and raised its head: "Meow."

Ninagawa's heart moved, and she called Li Yu back: "You come here first! It seems to recognize it!"

"Who knows?"

"cat!"

As soon as the voice fell, the cat had already set off, and ran in another direction without looking back. Ning Chuan and Li Yu, who were also dead horses as live horse doctors, followed behind it one after the other.

The cat shuttled among the shadows, its amber eyes were shining brightly, it stretched out its sharp claws, grabbed the trunk of an old locust tree, climbed to the branch in one breath, howling.

Li Yu arrived after him and found the tombstone next to the locust tree: "This is it!"

The year of birth and death of the deceased is written on the marble tombstone, and there are six characters of "Tomb of Mrs. Zhang Ying".

As if a long-distance traveler finally returned home, Li Yu's strength was drained the moment he saw the inscription.

He lowered his head and called softly, "Mom."

There was a breeze in the cemetery.

Then he said something in dialect, which Ninagawa couldn't understand, it felt like "I'm back".

"I brought someone to show you." Li Yu pulled Ninagawa forward.

Obviously what I want to see is just a tombstone, and it's not a big living person who can move or talk, but Ningagawa twitched for no reason, even more nervous than when she saw Li Jianhong: "Your mother...would you mind?"

"Her." Li Yu started to pull out the weeds around the tombstone, "Even if she minds, she won't say it in person, at most she can give me her opinion in private."

Ninagawa looked at the faded inscription: "She has a good temper?"

"Well, it's because of my good temper that I'm always bullied." When Li Yu pulled the weeds too hard, he accidentally twisted his waist. He didn't say anything, rubbed his hands secretly twice, and then buried himself in his work. ,

Throughout Zhang Ying's life, because she was too timid and weak, she was often bullied and never played a positive role model. Every time Li Yu didn't know what to do, she thought about what her mother would do, Then do it the other way around.

"I don't know if you will be satisfied with this daughter-in-law. In fact, apart from being a man, he has no other shortcomings."

Li Yu talked with the tombstone alone, put one hand on his waist, and pinched the sore spot a few times.

"I saw it, don't be brave." Ninagawa massaged him quietly.

Li Yu started to twitch again: "Is your daughter-in-law considerate?"

"Give you three points of color and you will open a dyeing workshop." Ninagawa said to him, but his hands didn't stop.

When the pain was gone, Li Yu pulled Nina Chuan away, and knelt down in front of the stele with a plop.

Li Yu didn't say a word about the hard work of the past years, because if Zhang Ying was still alive, he would probably cry in fright when he heard this. He knew how to make people around him feel at ease, until he also met someone who could make him feel at ease.

"Mom, when something happened in the past, you would only ask me what to do. I was only very old at that time. In fact, sometimes I didn't know what to do. But you told me while crying, life is still going on, and the family can't There is no one who makes up his mind." Li Yu said.

Ninagawa's knees softened, and she also knelt beside Li Yu.

He paused, and said every word loudly: "Then let me make up my mind again. I want to live with this person in this life, nothing else."

The leaves of the old locust tree rustled, splitting the sky into irregular pieces. The cat squatted on the branch, watching the two-legged beast in front of the tomb prostrating the lump of loess, with the tip of its tail dangling unwillingly.

After Li Yu kowtowed his head, the breeze suddenly turned into a stroke, bending the new branches of the old pagoda tree, as if the soul of his mother returned by the wind after hearing his words.

After sweeping the ancestor's tomb, Li Yu took Nina Chuan to see the middle school he attended. The name of the school has not changed, it is still called "Yancheng No. [-] Middle School".

It was getting late, and foreign vehicles could not get in. Li Yu sat in the car, turned on the headlights, and pointed out the scenery in his memory to Ninagawa: "There is a large sweet-scented osmanthus tree next to the teaching building, can you see it? During the flowering period, the sweet-scented osmanthus should have bloomed."

Ninagawa suddenly made a new discovery: "Hey, look, there is a person under the tree!"

"who?"

"It's just under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree," Ninagawa narrowed his eyes to recognize the silhouette, "he seems to be sitting in a wheelchair, holding something in his arms."

Li Yu didn't wear invisibility today, and he couldn't distinguish between humans and animals a hundred meters away, let alone standing or sitting: "Your eyes are so sharp, why didn't I see it?"

"Maybe I got it wrong?" Ninagawa wasn't sure if he confused the tree shadow with the human shadow, "Let's go before it's dark, it's not safe to drive late."

When the parents saw the tomb, they also swept the tomb, visited all the places that should be visited, and even got an extra cat. There was really no need to stay any longer. Li Yu packed up the nostalgia that had been flooding the whole day, stepped on the gas pedal cruelly, Go away.

Li Yu turned on the lights of the car to the brightest, and walked majestically on the road leading to the national highway. The figure under the tree watched him go, pushing the wheelchair, running over the fleeting light on the ground.