Return to the top of the road to champions

Although he rejected Wan Yonggui and Geng Erfeng's persuasion, Tao Wei still stayed in Wan's house for a week to recuperate. He didn't return to his home wearing the new jacket Geng Erfeng made for him until his parents finished burning Erqi.

Standing in the small courtyard made of fences, the eager Tao Wei paused in his eager steps, staring blankly at the dilapidated courtyard.

I don't know how long it took, until there was a light touch on the shoulder, and after blinking his warm eyes, Tao Wei raised his head and smiled at Geng Erfeng who was standing behind him with a worried face.

Geng Erfeng's nose felt a little sour with a shy smile, "Second Aunt, go back."

Gently speaking with a hint of pleading, he opened his mouth, and Geng Erfeng patted Tao Wei's head, "Erba, Second Aunt is going back first, and I'll go over to have dinner tonight."

Tao Wei, who didn't say a word, nodded silently, and slowly pushed open the courtyard door while Geng Erfeng turned around step by step, and moved into the small courtyard with unusually heavy steps. Raising his eyes, Tao Wei, who had just taken two steps, suddenly stopped, and saw a cart rack on the right side of the yard next to the house, and there were bundles of corn stalks piled up on and under the cart, one by one. The neatly placed corn stalks made Tao Wei's eyes red.

"Son, next year dad will plant some sweet stalks for you to eat."

The soft coaxing voice is still in my ears, but people have already left. Since then, the sweet stick has become the thing Tao Wei desires most in his heart. The ones planted by my aunt are not as sweet as those planted by my father, and not as fragrant as those planted by my father. Even the chocolates of later generations are not as sweet as my father's.

Thinking that the forgotten memory was rediscovered at this moment, he closed his eyes, blocking the swarming enthusiasm in his eyes, and endured for a long time before Tao Wei sniffed and turned his head to look at his two huts, The dusty half-brick and half-mud house was built by his parents after three years of hard work when Tao Wei was six years old.

Although after three years of wind and sun, Tao Wei could never forget the joy of living in a new house. The carts of brick embryos were all fired by Tao Wei and his father in the earthen kiln at the entrance of the village. Every piece of mud has traces that cannot be copied.

Touching the hard wall with eyes closed, Tao Wei endured the tears that flowed down the corners of his eyes for a long time. In winter, the rare sun shone on his body and warmed Tao Wei's thin body but could not warm Tao Wei's dry heart. Gently stroking, as if looking for which brick was built by the father and which brick was built by the mother.

From the front of the house to the back of the house, Tao Wei, who turned around, opened the half-covered door with tears on his face, and a gust of hot air hit his face, "Mother, the second baby is back."

Standing at the door, a choked-up murmur came out of Tao Wei's mouth, "Mother, Erwa came back to see you, Erwa is disappointing and hasn't come back for so long, you are angry, mother, I miss you and I miss my father... …”

Tearing step by step, Tao Wei, who murmured, walked to the small bench where his mother would cook and cook on weekdays, stroking the marks on it with trembling fingertips, "This is my mother's. "A rusty ax by the stool is Daddy's.

Big drops of tears fell on the small stool under Tao Wei's hand. He raised his wrist and wiped away the tears with his sleeve. Tao Wei wiped his face, sniffed his nose, put the small stool and ax away, and moved the numb The legs came to the parents' room.

Apart from the stove room in the middle, the two-and-a-half-brick house has only two rooms on the left and right. The left side belongs to his parents and the right side belongs to Tao Wei. But when he was a child, Tao Wei was coquettish and didn’t like to go back to his own room. He often crowded with his parents on the big Kang On the next day, Tao Wei opened half of the cloth curtain, and walked into the small room that only exists in memory.

At that time, Tao Wei, who followed Yu Chengfei and left the small mountain village, came back frequently except for the first few years when Geng Erfeng was still alive. Later, after Geng Erfeng and Wan Yonggui passed away, he never returned to this small mountain village, even to pay homage to his parents. He also came and went in a hurry, never returning to his little house.

It was only later that I vaguely heard that the old house collapsed after a rare heavy snow because of disrepair. Although it was a pity, Tao Wei, who was immersed in training, was only a pity. Until something happened, he came back from a distance to see Tao Wei only knew what kind of existence the old house was to him at a glance.

Shame and guilt flashed in his eyes, full of regret and deep thoughts, Tao Wei looked at the picture depicted in his memory. There was a big kang, a kang cabinet, and a homemade wooden cabinet near the right wall. A kang cabinet is all the items in the hut.

He touched the cabinet built by his father himself, and touched the dirty kang table next to him. Although the grain of the log was a bit blurred, Tao Wei could still clearly remember that the nails at that position were nailed by him with the help of his father.

"Father, Erwa's craftsmanship is not bad, isn't it? You see, the small table is still so strong after all these years..."

Squatting in front of the small table, Tao Wei, whose eyes were full of tears, twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, as if his honest and honest father was right in front of him, muttering nonsense, at this moment, everything buried deep seemed to be A clear old movie played slowly in Tao Wei's mind. The parents' voices and smiles, the once happy laughter, the picture of a family of three sitting together to celebrate their birthday, everything resurfaced.

Tao Wei, with blurry eyes, slowly got up and opened the cabinet. The package that fell on the ground along the open cabinet door made Tao Wei sniffle and wipe away his tears, then bent down to pick it up. The unusually soft package made Tao Wei Wei was stunned for a moment, then his whole body trembled violently as if remembering something, and he untied the opening of the package with flustered trembling fingers.

A brand-new set of black cotton-padded jacket and trousers appeared in front of Tao Wei. With trembling fingers, he picked up the black cotton-padded jacket that accompanied him everywhere. Tao Wei buried his face in the cotton-padded jacket and cried bitterly, "Mother... . . . "

This set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers made by his mother before winter became a pain that Tao Wei dared not touch. He was afraid that the clothes would be torn, and Tao Wei did not even dare to wear them. But any ridicule is not important to Tao Wei. Tao Wei insists that as long as he wears cotton clothes and trousers, his parents will follow him all over the country.

It can be said that this set of black cotton-padded clothes and trousers has become Tao Wei's entire spiritual sustenance. This set of cotton-padded clothes followed Tao Wei into the sports team, followed Tao Wei into the national team, and even followed Tao Wei out of the country until after the accident. Tao Wei, who was heartbroken, left alone and was left in the national team by Tao Wei. During the seven years, if you want to say what Tao Wei regrets the most, it is that this set of clothes that entrusts all of them is not brought together. Walk.

But now, the cotton-padded jacket that entrusted all Tao Wei’s thoughts appeared in Tao Wei’s sight again, and Tao Wei collapsed. The longing for his parents, the guilt for his parents, the debt to his parents, everything made Tao Wei lose his voice cry bitterly.

It seems that tears can wash away all the sins and deep thoughts.

Crying in the dark, crying out with soreness and loneliness in his heart, Tao Wei, who was muttering about his parents, squatted on the ground and wept bitterly and aggrievedly, making Wan Yonggui who was standing at the door red-eyed.

Instead of entering the hut with the door open, he quietly squatted aside and smoked a cigarette. The pungent dry tobacco stimulated Wan Yonggui's tears, "The tears are so fucking shallow."

Wan Yonggui, who was crying while scolding himself, felt pain in his heart whenever he thought of his brother-in-law and brother-in-law, especially Wan Yonggui hated that he didn't even know who did it.

As soon as Wan Yonggui thinks of this, Wan Yonggui's teeth itch with hatred, and he slightly raises his head to look at the warm winter sun hanging in mid-air, and Wan Yonggui, who has Tao Chengcai's simple and honest face, has red eyes, "Brother Chengcai, don't worry, two Baby, I will feed you."

Wan Yonggui, who secretly felt ruthless in his heart, wiped his face vigorously, stood up and strode towards the hut where bursts of crying could be heard, lifted the curtain and looked at Tao Wei who was crouching on the ground crying bitterly with his cotton coat in his arms, Wan Yonggui Gui's nose was sore, tears almost fell down again, and he took a deep breath, Wan Yonggui stepped forward to lift Tao Wei who was squatting on the ground.

Forcibly lifted Tao Wei's tear-stained face buried in the cotton padded clothes, "Second baby, second uncle knows you are uncomfortable, but we are men, so we don't cry, what's wrong with second uncle, you can't fall to the ground, don't cry anymore , crying, your parents are even more reluctant to leave."

Wan Yonggui's soft coaxing made Tao Wei, whose crying eyes were swollen, suddenly remembered the rules of his hometown, no matter how much he couldn't bear to part with his dead relatives, he couldn't cry endlessly before May [-]th, otherwise the relatives who couldn't bear to leave home would find him If you can't find the way to reincarnation, you will become a lonely ghost.

Once he was lucky enough to start again, Tao Wei believed that all the rules made by God were reasonable, so he quickly and carefully put down the padded coat in his hand, and Tao Wei wiped the tears on his face in a panic, "Second Uncle, I won't cry, I don't cry anymore."

But the more he talked, the more tears seemed to flow. Tao Wei anxiously raised his arms and pressed them tightly on his eyes, holding back the cries that kept rolling in his throat with his clenched lips, and his face flushed red. Tao Wei, who was trembling all over, made Wan Yonggui's eyes turn red, and Wan Yonggui, who raised his head and held back his tears, gently patted Tao Wei's trembling body.

After a while, Tao Wei, who finally swallowed back all the tears, hiccupped and tried to force a smile to look at Wan Yonggui, "Second Uncle, heh, look, heh, okay? Slightly."

Wan Yonggui's heart froze with the forced smile on his raised little face. He raised his big hand and patted Tao Wei's head, then nodded vigorously, "Okay, why not. The second baby is a man now."

Wan Yonggui, who was full of bitterness, uttered these words like a blunt knife cutting flesh against his will, and then turned his head to look outside the room. Except for Wan Yonggui's distress that could be seen in the reddish eye sockets, the dark room covered everything.

Tao Wei, who was relieved, smiled. Although the tears were still rolling in the eye sockets when he laughed, they did not fall out. He picked up the brand new cotton coat and trousers again. Tao Wei wrapped it in a parcel and put it back in the cabinet. Looking at it, Tao Wei, who was still emotionally out of control, looked at the dusty room because no one lived in it for many days, walked out of the room, went to the kitchen, took out the face plate, fetched water from the water tank, and took out the face plate hanging on the shelf. Put the last relatively new towel in the basin.

After washing and wringing it out, he went back to the house and wiped the dust in the house carefully. Wan Yonggui, who silently watched Tao Wei looking for something to do, felt very sad, but Wan Yonggui didn't say anything, just told Tao Wei to go to dinner at night Walking out of the room, Wan Yonggui burst into tears when he saw the towel with many holes on the face shelf at the door.