If the world had no daylight

At nine o'clock in the morning, when Bai Tian and Ye Wan were packing up and preparing to leave, Xing Yun called.

Ye Wan listened to the phone for a long time, and responded as usual, but her face was not very good-looking.Bai Tian turned his head to look at her frequently, and after she hung up the phone, he quickly dragged Ye Wan into the yard and asked, "Auntie is calling?"

The person holding the mobile phone nodded and said, "Mom told us to stay here today and not go anywhere. She will come to see us at night."

Even if he didn't understand Ye Wan's mother's character, Bai Tian felt that something was wrong.

She asked tactfully, "Do you know where Auntie works at?"

Ye Wan shook her head silently, and said after a while: "She only gave me my address, and I don't know anything else."

Bai Tian also fell silent.

The two of them are children, and it's inconvenient to ask about adults' affairs, so no one has asked Xing Yun the bottom line after coming here for a day.

But that doesn't mean they're stupid and don't notice anything.

Why did Xing Yun lose contact for so many days?Why live in a tube building that is obviously no longer inhabited?And why didn't you open the door that night?Ye Wan and Bai Tian knocked on each other for more than 10 minutes, but she didn't make a sound. In the end, she must have heard Bai Tian calling Ye Wan's name to appear.

But now, she doesn't let Ye Wan and Bai Tian go back, she has to stay in this suburban farmhouse far away from the city, the faint meaning revealed in it is really unsettling.

Ye Wan is Xing Yun's daughter. She must know Xing Yun very well, so she ran here desperately because of Xing Yun's loss of contact, just to confirm Xing Yun's safety.

In other words, with Ye Wan's keenness, she knew that this incident was not unusual at all.And Bai Tian knew that Ye Wan would not make a fuss, so he hurried to follow.

Even if the two of them don't have much ability, they might still be in danger.

Grandpa Liu didn't seem to notice that the two little girls were out of their minds. Although he was old, he was in good health. He went out to work in the fields early by himself, and prepared lunch for them when he came back.

Bai Tian cheered up and helped him cook together.Ye Wan sat in front of the TV, but couldn't watch anything.

"Grandpa Liu, how long have you known Aunt Xing?" Bai Tian was washing dishes in the kitchen, Grandpa Liu couldn't hold her back, so he could only let her do some non-tiring work.

She looked very natural, as if she was chatting casually.

Grandpa Liu thought for a while, and while shaving the ribs, he replied: "It's been a while. Your Auntie Xing is a warm-hearted person, and she has helped me a lot over the years. My wife went to visit me the year before last, and she came to see me. I bought a bunch of supplements."

Bai Tian listened carefully, and then asked with a smile: "I hear your accent is from the north, when did you come to City C?"

"It's too early." He shook the ribs, picked up the kitchen knife and started chopping.

"I can't remember exactly which year. I'm getting old and my memory is poor. My wife is from here. She suffered a lot with me in the early years. After her life got better, I came back to settle with her. We started together With this shop, I am self-sufficient and can live a decent life.”

Bai Tian put the washed vegetables into the vegetable basket, picked up the potatoes and peeled them, and asked curiously after listening, "What about your children? Are they not in the local area?"

Grandpa Liu didn't answer immediately this time.

He looked at the ribs on the cutting board and chopped them into evenly sized pieces with his hands and feet.Bai Tian felt that he had asked something that shouldn't be asked, and was about to change the subject, but Grandpa Liu suddenly said, "I have three sons, and the youngest is almost 40 years old."

Bai Tian was a little surprised. She thought that Grandpa Liu had no children, otherwise how could he be doing business in a foreign land by himself in his later years.

Grandpa Liu smiled, poured a little rapeseed oil into the big iron pot, and continued: "Boss committed a crime when he was young, and squatted in it for half his life. After he came out, he disappeared and never came back."

"Second brother, he is promising. He was admitted to a prestigious school through work-study programs, and even started his own business to become a big boss. He wanted to take me to live in a big house, but I couldn't take it easy and couldn't bear to part with this hotel, so I never went. "

Bai Tian listened, feeling a little sad.

Grandpa Liu must love his wife very much. For the sake of her and the two of them, he didn't even go to the happy life.

"What about your third son?" Bai Tian asked along.

The movement of the old man's hands paused, and then he let out a long sigh.

Bai Tian raised his head, somewhat at a loss.This sentence may have touched Grandpa Liu's sadness. She opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Grandpa Liu took her peeled potatoes, cut them neatly into pieces, and said calmly, "I don't know, I haven't seen him for ten years."

"He suffered a lot of grievances at home when he was a child, and he should hate me. I just hope that he has a good life and doesn't ask for anything else."

After hearing this, Bai Tian felt depressed. With her experience, she couldn't comprehend Grandpa Liu's mood at the moment.But she still couldn't avoid feeling bad about it.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable processes that people go through, and the essence of this process is actually "parting".

"I was seven years old when my parents died." Bai Tian said suddenly.

Grandpa Liu looked at her in surprise, but Bai Tian didn't have much emotion, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

"Because I was young at that time, I didn't know much about death, so I didn't feel particularly sad."

"And I have a third uncle who is very good to me. After my grandfather passed away, only me and my third uncle are left in the family. He has not married because of me. I don't know if he doesn't say it. He is afraid that he will have a family. I will become that outsider and be wronged."

Potatoes and pork ribs are put into the pot, overflowing with oil, and mixed with the sauce, the fragrance is released, which makes people feel more refreshed.

Bai Tian looked at the dishes in the pot, and continued: "But I'm not afraid of being wronged at all. As long as he lives well, it doesn't matter if I leave this family. Because even if I don't live with him anymore, we are still a family." Man, this isn't going to change."

After hearing this, Grandpa Liu fell silent. The old and the young were busy in the kitchen. They didn't talk for a long time, but the atmosphere didn't seem strange.

Some words will not lose weight because of age, just like meeting by chance can be more important than Mount Tai.

All these heavy things will be brewed into mellow wine in the jar of the heart.

On the last day of December, the eve of the approaching New Year, three people in a foreign land passed the time with sweat.

Ye Wan was wearing rain boots, a straw hat, and a padded jacket that Grandpa Liu had turned out temporarily.Because she had never worn such clothes before, and had never been on the ground, her whole face was stinky.Bai Tian stood in the field and laughed at her, from time to time he caught a caterpillar and ran over to scare her.

She was wearing thick coarse cloth gloves, pinching the disgusting bug and chasing Ye Wan all over the place, her laughter and Ye Wan's raised decibel "go away" could be heard from a long distance away.

People from nearby villages who had finished farm work passed by and saw the two naughty little girls, and they all smiled knowingly, and asked, "Lao Liu, is your granddaughter coming to see you?"

Grandpa Liu smiled but didn't answer, and let the two of them fight in the field.

When it was dark, the three returned to the hotel sweating.

Ye Wan could not help but occupy the bathroom first, and dawdled in it for more than half an hour. Bai Tian felt that she must be deliberately taking revenge.

"If you can't wait, you can come in and wash together."

"You think beautiful!"

Bai Tian yelled at her angrily outside the bathroom door, then sat on the stairs enduring the itch on his body and continued to wait.

Ye Wan deeply regrets this.

Time always flies by, and after several people washed up and had their meals, Xing Yun, who had agreed to arrive at night, still disappeared.

The relaxed and happy atmosphere slowly became dignified as time went by.Sensing Ye Wan's emotions, Bai Tian even turned off the TV.But the root of the problem was not external factors. In the end, Ye Wan simply moved a chair and sat in the yard, facing the gate and waiting.

It was windy outside, and the temperature in winter night was very low. It was useless for Bai Tian and Grandpa Liu to persuade him. She could only let Grandpa Liu go to bed first, and then she wrapped her thick clothes and came out to wait with Ye Wan.

Two people, two bamboo chairs, and two cotton-padded jackets covered their bodies, silently waiting for someone who might not come.

Bai Tian looked at the phone furtively. After eleven o'clock, her face was numb from the cold, and Xing Yun still didn't show up.

But she couldn't ask Ye Wan to go back to the house. Sometimes, waiting might be a good thing.

Ye Wan didn't ask Bai Tian to go back to the house, she was very selfish, she needed Bai Tian at this time.Even if she is not aware of it at this moment.

In fact, it's not that Ye Wan is too stubborn, but for her, her mother is a very promise-abiding person.Everything she promised to herself since she was a child has been perfectly fulfilled to the end, without exception.

So she has to wait, even if the longer she waits, the more despair she can't restrain.

It's approaching twelve o'clock, and it seems that this year is about to pass.Bai Tian looked up at the dark sky, then stood up suddenly and went back into the house.Ye Wan didn't ask, she looked at the gate of the courtyard motionlessly, like a stone statue.

Not long after, footsteps came from behind, a voice Ye Wan was already familiar with.

Bai Tian, ​​who was wrapped in a padded jacket, carried a box of things and placed it on the muddy floor in the yard.Ye Wan finally regained consciousness and looked over, and found that it was an old box with colorful things piled up in a mess.

Bai Tian raised his head and smiled at her, then took out a small object from his pocket, it was too dark, Ye Wan couldn't see what it was.

Then, Bai Tian bent down and rummaged through the box, picked up a long and thin thing, and with a "click", flames shot out of her hand.

The faint flame swayed in the cold wind, reflecting Bai Tian's flushed face.She carefully ignited the slender thing, and in the next second, silver light burst out, shining brilliantly, like silver flowers that exploded.

The girl was wearing a rustic padded jacket, holding the burning fairy stick and gently spinning it in the dark night.Then, she looked at Ye Wan who was sitting there.

Bai Tian laughed, waved to Ye Wan, and called her name: "Ye Wan, look quickly."

The long-haired girl huddled on the bamboo chair looked at the dazzling silver light, and the pure black eyes reflected the scene, filled with soft colors.

"Well, I see it," she replied.

In the distance, the sound of firecrackers suddenly exploded, and countless fireworks rose into the night sky, welcoming the coming of the new year together with the people on the earth.

The panting woman pushed open the courtyard door, took a deep breath, put on a perfect smile for herself, and shouted in a gentle voice:

"Wanwan, mom is here."