Yang Shuting saw her mother busy in the kitchen. She put down her handbag and went into the kitchen to help her mother.
She went to the second floor to accompany Xin Yan.
“Shu Ting, mother wants to tell you one thing.” In the kitchen, Zhang Qin said to Shu Ting while washing vegetables.
“What is it, say it!” Yang Shuting helps cut pork. She often goes to the kitchen. She is very skilled in such things.
“It’s the same thing. I want to go back to my hometown for a while.” Speaking of this matter, she stopped washing vegetables, and the water rattled. She turned around, looked at Shu Ting and said.
She knew clearly that her daughter would not agree to her, but she lived here and was somewhat bored. Besides, she hasn’t returned to her hometown for a long time, and the old house there needs someone to go home to live. Go home and see!
When Yang Shuting heard her mother mention this matter again, she couldn’t help but stop, turned to look at her and said, “Mom, didn’t you say it before? Living here well, why go back to live? Besides, your health is not very good. Here, we can take care of you again!”
She didn’t quite approve of her mother going back to her hometown. Although it was not far from the city and countryside, it took four or five hours. If her mother went home and lived, she was alone at home. If anything happened, she didn’t know and couldn’t take care of it.
“I haven’t been home for a long time.” Zhang Qin turned around and continued to wash the vegetables. After washing, she put them in the vegetable basket, turned off the water pipe, took the rag, wiped the water drops on his hands, and continued, “I am not saying that I am not used to living here. At least it will be more comfortable to live at home. In the old house at home, someone must go home and take care of it!”
Yang Shuting was silent. She didn’t speak. Her mother was right. She always had to go back and take care of it. After all, she was born there and had good childhood memories there.
“You can come back and see my old man when you have time.” Zhang Qin said again, anyway, she doesn’t ask for anything. When people get old, they are homesick, and they want to take root.
“Mom…” Yang Shuting heard her mother say so, frowning slightly, some sour feeling in her heart, and shouted her softly.
“Don’t say anything, it’s settled!” Zhang Qin didn’t want her daughter to say more, and she didn’t want to continue discussing this topic, so she said to her.
What else can Yang Shuting say? As long as her mother’s decision is good, she is not allowed to do so.
After dinner, Yang Shuting went back to her room and didn’t see Ling Weihao. Maybe he worked in the study. She went to the dresser and sat down, thinking about what her mother said in the kitchen before.
She laments the relentless passage of time and the cruel loss of her father’s life by God. Anyway, it is useless to complain about this kind of thing, because it has been so many years.
“What are you thinking?” At this moment, Ling Weihao came in and saw Yang Shuting staring blankly in front of the dressing table. He walked behind her, put his hands gently on her shoulders, and asked warmly.
Yang Shuting recovered, turned to look at him and said, “I didn’t think about anything, that is, my mother told me something just now.”
“What is it?” Ling Weihao looked at her with gentle eyes like water and asked doubtfully. When she was eating just now, she was a little unhappy and absent-minded. It turned out that her aunt had told her something.
“She still wants to go back to her hometown.” She turned to look at the two of them in the mirror and said.
“What do you think? Let her go back to live, or what?” He asked, the old man usually wants to go back to his home, because it is the place she is most familiar with.
“She has always been in poor health. I am afraid that she will go back. We can’t see it and can’t take care of it. What if something happens?” She frowned worriedly and said.
“We can go home and see her once in a while.” Ling Weihao said.
When Yang Shuting heard him say this, she said exactly the same thing as her mother. She raised her eyes and looked straight at him in the mirror.
Seeing her staring at herself with such eyes, Ling Weihao felt that she had said something wrong, but he did not panic, but calmly said: “I mean, she wants to go back, we can let her go back, she may not be used to the environment here…”
“I just don’t feel at ease.” The slight frowning brow frowned more tightly, and she sighed softly.
Ling Weihao knew she was worried, I didn’t say anything, When she went to the bathroom to take a bath, He personally went to talk to his aunt, hoping that she could consider it, but she insisted on going back, feeling that she was at this age, and only wanted to have a quiet home to accompany her wife… Finally, he said, I hope he can take good care of Shu Ting and Xin Yan, and ask them to come back to see her once in a while.
Ling Weihao listened silently and said nothing later, because he knew her mood.
At nine o’clock, he went to the second floor and went back to his room. He saw Shu Ting lying in bed. Knowing that she was not sleeping, he went over and leaned over her, smelling the fragrance of shower gel emanating from her.
Yang Shuting, with her eyes closed, didn’t sleep. She opened her eyes slightly, saw Ling Weihao, saw him smiling at herself, and asked, “Why?”
Ling Weihao looked at her gently like moonlight, lowered his head and kissed her cheek, and said softly, “I just want to kiss you.” He showed a naughty expression.
Yang Shuting glanced at him angrily, saw that he was still wearing today’s clothes, and said, “Don’t hurry to take a bath.” “I’m going to take a bath.” He got up, went into the bathroom and took a hot bath.
Yang Shuting heard the sound of water in the bathroom. She was awake, so she got up and came to Xinyan’s room. She thought she should sleep, too. She gently pushed the door open, walked into the room softly, and saw Xinyan lying quietly in bed.
She went to the bed and gently tucked in the quilt for Xin Yan. She sat by the bed and looked at her quietly. She grew up slowly. Her daughter used to be like her, but now she is more and more like Ling Weihao, which is simply carved from the same mold.
Stretched out his hand and stroked her cheek. With such a small action, Xin Yan woke up. She opened her eyes slightly and saw that Mommy came in. She opened her mouth slightly and shouted, “Mommy!”
“Did Mommy wake you?” Yang Shuting saw Xin Yan awake. Her eyes were full of gentleness and spoil. She looked at her and asked softly.
Xin Yan shook her head and said, “Mommy, is Grandma going back to her hometown?”
Yang Shuting was shocked. She didn’t seem to tell her daughter about it. Either her mother told her or Ling Weihao. She took a deep breath and said, “Yes, Grandma is going back to her hometown.”
“Did Yan Yan make any mistakes? Grandma is going back to her hometown?” Xin Yan looks sad, a pair of black bright faint look at mommy, said. At eight o’clock, she was going downstairs, but she heard her uncle talking to her grandmother. Only when she heard the conversation between them did she know that her grandmother was going back to her hometown.
“Yan Yan didn’t make any mistakes. It was grandmother who was homesick, missed grandfather, missed folks there, and wanted to go home.” Yang Shuting said softly to Xin Yan.
“Grandpa?” Xin Yan blinked her eyes and whispered to her relatives she had never seen before.
“Yes, but Grandpa has gone to another paradise. Even so, he always lives in Grandma’s heart and Mommy’s heart…” she said.
“I heard the teacher say that when I go to another paradise, I will die.”
Yang Shuting stared blankly for a moment, only to find out that her daughter has really grown up, and there are many things. Needless to say, she can know these things through the surrounding environment, things and people’s conversations. She chuckled and smiled. “Yes.”
“Mommy, grandpa really got another paradise? So what will that paradise look like?” Xin Yan blinked as bright as stars eyes, curious asked, she listened to classmates said, after death there will be a soul, soul will float to another world.
Yang Shuting thought for a moment. She didn’t know how to answer her daughter’s question. She said, “A paradise leading to light…”
“Oh…” Xin Yan suddenly nodded.
“It’s late, rest early!” Yang Shuting looked at the time. It was already 10:30 in the evening. Her daughter had many questions to ask her. She was afraid that she could not answer or explain, so she said softly to her.
Xin Yan nodded, closed her eyes slightly, and gradually went to sleep.
Yang Shuting sat there quietly and watched her fall asleep slowly. After a long time, she left the room and returned to her room. She saw Ling Weihao taking a bath, leaning against the bed, wearing cotton pajamas and reading a magazine.
Ling Weihao saw her coming back, raised her eyes and looked at her, and said gently, “Did you go to see Xin Yan?”
“Well!” She responded softly to him, went to the bed and sat down.
Suddenly, she thought of the questions her daughter had asked her just now. She remembered that when she was a child, she also asked her mother these questions. At that time, her mother also told her that her father had gone to another heaven, but he would never come back. She still remembers that when her mother mentioned her father, her eyes were glistening with tears.
“What are you thinking?” Ling Weihao saw that she was in a daze and didn’t know what she was thinking. He closed the magazine, put it on the counter and asked doubtfully.
Yang Shuting recovered and said, “I didn’t think about anything.” She lay back in bed, with her back to him, and looked thoughtfully at the night view outside the French window, where the breeze blew and lifted the white gauze curtain cloth.
Ling Weihao saw that she didn’t want to answer, so she didn’t continue to ask her, turned off the desk lamp and lay down.
Zhang Qin insisted on going back to her hometown, but Yang Shuting didn’t say anything, so she had to drive her back with Ling Weihao.
It is an old-fashioned building. It hasn’t come back for a long time. The front door is covered with grass. The couplets posted on the door have faded after being exposed to the wind and rain.
Zhang Qin took out the key, pushed open the door, and came in. There was also a school-like building, two-story, made of red bricks, with a hall in the middle, which was dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva and incense burner, and the upper area was full of soot. There are three or four rooms on the left and right sides…
“The building in front was where my grandparents used to live, but they all died. Those s all had their own careers. They made some money outside, so they got married outside. ..” Yang Shuting walked into this old building, Looking up at the building in front, recalled and said to Ling Weihao standing beside