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"Everyone, be careful where you step, the alley is very narrow, come, take a look at the houses on both sides!"

"This is one of the points we visited in Pingshan Village today. Jingde Hall, Jingxian Hall and Ren Auditorium, known as the Pingshan Three Halls, were basically built in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. There are still people living there. Everyone takes pictures outside. Just take a photo, and the group members who have finished taking the photo will follow me..."

Standing behind the two women standing at the door, a tour guide wearing a small horn led a group of people to stroll around like going to a market. Some tourists in the group were not satisfied with admiring the appearance of the building. They stretched their heads to look into the Ren Auditorium. The two women Seeing this, he finally stopped blocking the door and walked to the atrium, where a woman with short hair came towards Tao Xuan and Wang Hongli.

"Mother."

Wang Hongli looked at the woman who shouted at Tao Xuan, with neat short hair, a professional dress, a small bag and a white paper bag, and Wang Hongli's calm expression made Wang Hongli's heart tighten when he looked at it, just like the teaching director, he thought .

"Hello, Auntie." Wang Hongli also yelled, and after yelling, he silently carried his homework to the small yard behind to write, leaving space for them.

In the backyard of Ren Auditorium, Grandma Tao was watering the vegetables, "Yuzi, why did you come to the backyard?"

Wang Hongli was very eager to talk, so he threw his homework book on the stone table, and immediately made a small report, "Grandma Tao, Mama Yizai is here!" He wiped his wet hands and entered the house.

In the backyard, a shed was set up above the stone benches and tables to avoid direct sunlight, but it could not block the heat. Wang Hongli took off his shoes, squatted on the stone bench, opened his homework and continued with the simplest Chinese. He likes to write first. Simple and difficult to write, the pencil was spinning randomly in his hand, distracted to eavesdrop on the conversation in the hall, but he didn't know what the people in the hall were doing, and he couldn't hear the sound at all.

"The thread in the loving mother's hand, the clothes on the wanderer's body, the seams are dense before leaving, what's behind it?" After thinking for a few times, I couldn't remember, so I put down my pen and put on my shoes, and quietly approached the little girl. Door.

There is a water tank next to the small door, which is filled with water, and there is a lotus leaf floating on it. Wang Hongli lifted the lotus leaf, turned it around, and the water drops fell down. The pattern has been deformed, but it can still be vaguely seen that there are two small people holding hands. Wang Hongli thought for a while, it seems to be the lotus leaf given to Tao Xuan last year. At that time, it was to commemorate their becoming good friends. The cutout villain on the stamp.Wang Hongli likes to collect some strange things, such as duck feathers, snail shells, locust tree flowers, willow leaves, moss grown in small pots... His grandma always said that he brought some useless things home, He often throws things away when he is not paying attention. Sometimes he will give things to Tao Xuan and ask Tao Xuan to keep them secretly for him.

Wang Hongli carefully pawed at the door frame, revealing one eye to take a peek, damn it, most of his vision was blocked by the carved screen.

"I haven't seen Yaozai for a long time. I'm not very busy these days, so I came to see you." Tao Yao's mother wanted to hug Tao Yao, but Tao Yao stiffened and let her hug her. The hug was very gentle, But the smell of perfume that Tao Xuan had never smelled on his body made him feel strange again.He didn't feel like crying when he saw his mother. From the time he could remember, his mother hadn't hugged him very much. The mother he was most familiar with was the one who came home and left in a hurry. Mom with several phone calls.

Tao Xuan's mother took Tao Xuan's little hand, "Actually, I object to your father bringing you here in Huizhou. The conditions in Guangzhou are better than here. I'm afraid you won't learn much here."

"I was in the United States at the time, and I didn't know he sent you here quietly."

Tao Xuan lowered his head, his black bangs hanging down, covering his eyes.

"Yuzi", Tao Xuan's mother paused, "Mom is going to live in the United States, and it may be more difficult to see you later." After she finished speaking, she took out two thick red envelopes from her satchel and looked at the sitting Grandma Tao who was at the side said, "Mom, keep it."

Grandma Tao looked at the red envelope handed over, but did not accept it, "The child is so young, you don't think much about the child before making a decision."

"Mom, Tao Feng and I, to be honest, we really can't go on. The wife he wants is the one who takes care of the children and does housework every day. He has a career, but I also have my own. I feel ashamed too. As for Yaozai, I thought about taking him to the United States, but Tao Feng refused, saying that if I dared to take him away, I would sue him in court." Tao Yao's mother was helpless.

Grandma Tao sighed, "Will you be able to take good care of Ling Zai if you take it away?"

The hall was silent for a while, the candles enshrining the portraits of the Tao family ancestors flickered on and off, and the candle oil dripped down the wax body and landed on the plate.

Rhubarb wandered around in the hall, avoiding the messy human legs, and ran to lie down under the altar.

"My very good friend has opened a new homestay here. If you have something to do, you can ask her for help." Tao Huan's mother broke the silence, told Grandma Tao, and waved to the woman standing in the atrium of Ren Auditorium, " Lu Jing!"

Watching the woman who was younger than Tao Xuan's mother approach with a smile.

"This is Aunt Lu, my mother's friend."

Tao Xuan looked up, and the woman with curly brown hair looked at him kindly, "Yuzi, Auntie Lu can teach you how to play the piano. Don't lose the piano." His lessons didn't let him down at all. After a rough calculation, he hasn't taken a piano lesson for a year.

Tao Yao's mother opened the bag, took a pen and a sticky note and wrote a series of numbers, "If you miss your mother, you can call me by dialing the number on your mobile phone." After speaking, she took out a small box from the white paper bag at her feet , opened it, and there was a mobile phone lying inside, she turned it on and stuffed it into Yao Zai's hand to teach Tao Xuan how to use it.

"Have lunch here?" After all, Grandma Tao didn't make up her mind to chase her away, she got up and asked the woman.

"No, the high-speed rail in the afternoon", Tao Xuan's mother looked at the watch on her wrist, and declined, "Then I will go", she said goodbye to Tao Xuan and Grandma Tao, "Yuzi, goodbye", and put the red envelope on the Eight Immortals table on, and left with the curly-haired woman.Wang Hongli, who hid behind the carved screen and overheard some news, quietly went back to the backyard after they left. As soon as his butt touched the stone stool, Tao Xuan came in with his homework, sat down next to Wang Hongli and began to do his homework.Wang Hongli pretended to glance at Tao Yao casually. Tao Yao's face was no longer as numb as when he saw his mother just now, and he was erasing a handwriting with an eraser. It didn't seem too sad, Wang Hongli thought.

"Yuanzi, what's the last sentence before leaving?"

The rhubarb in the hall followed Tao Xuan to the backyard, dangling under the stone table, its tail kept sweeping against Wang Hongli's leg, the dog's hair was scratching, Wang Hongli was impatient, and clamped the restless dog with his leg , turned his head and asked Tao Xuan.

The alley in front was still full of voices, the tour guide’s small trumpet sounded from time to time, chirping like sparrows, Wang Hongli saw that Tao Ling was writing quietly and didn’t answer, so he thought he didn’t hear, so he asked again, “Before leaving. What's behind the seam?"

Tao Xuan lowered his head, Wang Hongli saw that he still didn't respond to him, and turned his face to face him with his hands.

Wang Hongli looked at Tao Xuan, Tao Xuan's big black and white eyes were wet, there were no tears on his face, but his eye sockets were red, and his fair face was reddish, he kept sniffing his nose, blinking, swallowing hard , wanting to swallow the cry, "I didn't cry," Tao Huan slowly calmed down, and argued before Wang Hongli asked.

What did Tao Xuan say that foreigners taught him before?Wang Hongli thought for a while, and then answered his question with actions.

Wang Hongli's slender arms were wrapped around Tao Yao, and the two children hugged each other like glutinous rice balls accidentally stuck together, "Look at me, I was thrown at my grandma's place, let's encourage and help each other, the worst will happen in the future Depend on each other for life!"

The idiom "depending on each other" was learned from the 10 o'clock TV series that his grandma must watch every day. In the TV series, a 8-year-old sister and an [-]-year-old brother are pitifully begging on the street, wearing a tattered coat, kneeling On the side of the road, there was a chipped broken bowl in front of him, and he shouted to everyone passing by: "Good man, have pity on our brothers and sisters who depend on each other for life!"

"What you say means what you say. We can't be separated and we must depend on each other." Tao Ling buried himself in Wang Hongli's arms, muffled.

"Of course, we are like brothers!"

"Puchi!" Tao Ling raised his head, laughing so hard that his chin knocked on Wang Hongli's shoulder. Wang Hongli, who had little flesh, was hurt by the knock, but he didn't move away.

"What are you laughing at? My grandma said it. She said that we are like brothers!"

"What about Awan?"

Wang Hongli said disgustedly, "Smelly boy Ah Wan is just a younger brother!"

"Why are you two, Yuzi, not going home?"

Grandma Wang came to the Ren Auditorium to look for someone, and as soon as she entered the backyard, she saw two children sticking together, as if they were playing some game.Seeing Grandma Wang, Rhubarb turned around and escaped from between Wang Hongli's legs, sticking out his tongue and wagging his tail.

The two children were embarrassed to separate.

"Grandma, I still want to sleep at Yaozai's house tonight."

"Awan came quietly to me this morning to apologize to you, and said I'm sorry brother, don't be angry, Yuzi." Grandma Wang thought that Wang Hongli was still angry with his cousin, so Wang Hongli shook his head and glanced at the small door There is a small paw, and a small face is accidentally exposed on the paw. Ah Wan's small face is peeping.

Wang Hongli held back his smile, looked at Grandma Wang, and became aggrieved again, "Grandma, Grandma Tao said yesterday that she would cook fish for me at noon today..."

Grandma Wang had no choice but to say, "Hey, let's stay. The two families are so close, and I don't get tired of coming here to play every day. Remember to go home tomorrow. I always stay at other people's houses and cause trouble for Grandma Tao."

"Don't worry about it. You Zai and I live in the Ren Auditorium, and it's more lively if you have more children." Grandma Tao also came with a smile when she heard the movement.

The life in Pingshan Village is like this day by day.

There are still many people taking pictures by Qingchi. The gate of the Tao Family Ancestral Hall is open for tourists to visit. Grandpa Liu spread a layer of cloth on the edge of the ancestral hall, and weaves dragonflies and grasshoppers with the palm leaves picked in the morning.

Grandpa Six's hands are full of wrinkles, the skin is loose, rough like a snakeskin bag, the veins on the back of the hand are coiled, the palms are deeply lined, as if carved by a knife, the knuckles are thick, and the seemingly clumsy hands are very Flexibly, the thumb, index finger, and middle finger work together, hold the slender blade and wear it left and right, fiddle with it a few times, then up and down, fiddle with it a few more times, a few back and forth, a grasshopper with a beard When it was finished, Wang Hongli sat next to him with a cold drink in his mouth and helped Sixth Grandfather collect the money.

A few children brought by their parents to Pingshan Village for tourism refused to leave in front of Liu Grandpa's stall, and their eyes were fixed on dragonflies and grasshoppers.

From the second day after his mother left, Tao Xuan went to Aunt Xiaolu’s inn to practice the electric piano every afternoon except weekends and summer vacation. Wang Hongli had nothing to do except to do homework. The other children in the village called Wang Hongli to join him Playing, sweating profusely after being crazy outside for an hour on a hot day, Wang Hongli is used to reading books, reading comics, watching TV and chatting with Tao Xuanan at home quietly, so he is no longer willing to hang out to dry.

"Yuzai! Hurry up and go home! I'll collect the money for Grandpa Six." Sister Tao hurriedly ran from Jingdetang, rushed to Grandpa Six's stall, and pushed Wang Hongli.

Wang Hongli staggered from being pushed by her, inexplicably, "What's the matter?"

"Oh, you'll know when you get home!" A child dragged his parents to the stall, and the sixth grandpa handed him a dragonfly. Sister Tao took a banknote and quickly gave the change to the child's parents.

Tao Xuan's piano practice was good today, Auntie Xiao Lu finished his class early, and he carried the piano score to Jingxian Hall. Grandma Wang mentioned it to Grandma Tao yesterday, telling them not to cook. For family food, Wang Hongli's uncle made a very good mandarin fish. Grandma Wang is going to show off her cooking skills today, and she is a master at cooking: Huangshan stinky mandarin fish.

The Jingxian Hall in the evening is very lively.

When Awan saw Tao Xuan walk to the door, he immediately ran over to greet her. Grandma Tao and the Wang family were there. Uncle Wang Hongli was helping a few girls in the hotel to register. With wisps of heat.

"Where's the fish?" Tao Xuan wondered.

"Run away!" Ah Wan said nothing, and ran around the train.