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Chapter 22 Father Disappeared

"Ma Jun, where are you going to go during the May Day holiday? How about I take you to Wuhua Mountain in the county for a tour? My dad's comrade-in-arms is the second-in-command in Wuhua Mountain. It's convenient for us to go!" After school this afternoon, the dormitory Several people were walking on the playground, Liu Mingyue asked everyone.

"No, I haven't been home this semester, so I'll take advantage of this holiday and go home!" Ma Jun said.

"How about Changli?" Liu Mingyue asked Changli again.

"I agreed with my sister last time that we will go home to see our parents together during the holidays."

"An Yi, what about you? Do you want to go home too?"

"I want to go home and see my mother!" An Yi said thoughtfully.

"Linzi, you have to come with me, you are my life-saving straw."

"I want to go home and have a look too!" Nan Linzi stammered.

"A group of dishonest buddies, well, I can only go by myself!" Liu Mingyue said with a little disappointment.

"How can you be lonely, rent a girlfriend temporarily!" Ma Jun said jokingly.

"Go away, I'm a serious person, and I'm doing serious things!"

"Only you know whether it's serious or not, hahaha!" Seeing Liu Mingyue's pretentiousness, everyone booed.

Nan Linzi has been back for two months, but he still hasn't come home. He is a little afraid of facing the reality, and some inexplicable things make him unable to do what he wants.Hearing that his roommates said they wanted to go home, his heart was touched, and he decided to go home and have a look.

"Qingya, it's May Day soon, where are you going to play? I want to go home and have a look!" Nan Linzi asked Lin Qingya while get out of class was over.

"I'm not going anywhere, just stay at home and help with the housework! Or should I accompany you home to meet your parents?" Lin Qingya said while staring at Nan Linzi.

"Okay, come with me to my house, and identify the door by the way." Nan Linzi pretended to be serious.

"Hehe, I'm afraid your parents won't let me in!"

"What are you afraid of? Just say that you are my real girlfriend and their daughter-in-law in the future!" Nan Linzi said more and more vigorously.

"If you don't dare to be a daughter-in-law, just let her be your girlfriend! Besides, I'm not such a casual person, I just go home with you casually!" Lin Qingya gave Nan Linzi a haughty look.

"I'm not a casual person. The threshold of my family is very high, but you can just reach it." Nan Linzi was not to be outdone, and held on.

"My family's threshold is higher, you may not be able to reach it! Go to class." Lin Qingya ended the chat.

"Haha, I just like to see you angry!" Nan Linzi forced a large basket of spinach to Lin Qingya.

The school is finally on holiday, and the faces of the students are filled with the joy of "labor is the most delicious", and it is time for Nan Linzi to set off.At that time, the transportation in this remote mountainous area was very inconvenient. There was no shuttle bus to the village, so Nan Linzi had no choice but to take his own 'No. 11 bus' and set off.

It is still the familiar mountain road 20 years ago. The Yangchang trail stands out from the high mountains and connects small villages. It can be called "mountains surrounded by isolated villages".A few hours later, Nan Linzi finally arrived at the door of his house.

"Mom!" Looking at her mother who was busy in the yard, Nan Linzi burst into tears. Her mother was still young 20 years ago, but her body was much thinner.

"Linzi, I'm back. I guess the holiday will be longer this time. You should come back. I just made you your favorite potato stewed rice. Eat it while it's hot!" Mother said as she walked to the kitchen to serve the meal. .Potato stewed rice is Nan Linzi's favorite hometown meal, and it was also the staple food when he was a child.

"Mom, are you in good health? I saw that you have lost weight." Nan Linzi put down his schoolbag and followed behind his mother.

"You are in good health! Some time ago, the doctor came to the town for an examination, and there is nothing serious about it. Look, I have grown a lot of vegetables in the yard!" Mother pointed to the vegetable garden in the yard.The yard is still the same as before. Every spring, my mother will always plant all kinds of fruits and vegetables so that the family can be self-sufficient in summer and autumn.

"Hurry up and eat, you must be hungry on the way!" Mother urged.

"Hey!" Nan Linzi gobbled it up.The furnishings at home have not changed much, but there seems to be something missing.

"Have you had the mid-term exam at school, how did you do!" Sitting next to Nan Linzi, his mother asked.

"You did well in the exam, No. 1 in the class, No. 5 in the whole school, you have improved." Nan Linzi replied casually.

"That's good, that's good, learning is our only way out!" Mother smiled gratifiedly.

"Oh, by the way, give your dad a stick of incense after dinner, and report your grades to him!" Mother continued.

Incense?His father passed away? In the last era, Nan Linzi clearly remembered that his father had been working in other places to earn money. He would only return home during the plowing and autumn harvest. Later, Nan Linzi died of illness when he was in high school. Why is he not here now? , Nan Linzi was stunned holding his rice bowl.

"Linzi, what's the matter with you, I also know that your father's death has hit you hard, but he left just like that, and when he left, he still worried about our mother and mother!" The mother said while touching her tears.

"It's okay, I just miss my dad." Nan Linzi could no longer swallow half a mouthful of food.

It turned out that the father's things were missing in the house, and the mother packed up the father's relics in order to alleviate the missing of the father.Under Nan Linzi's perverted questioning, he learned from his mother that his father died of illness a year ago. After his father passed away, his mother supported the family alone, which made the poor family even worse.

Nan Linzi knelt in front of his father's grave for a long time. He didn't expect that when he came back this time, his father passed away prematurely. His mother and himself took the pain of losing their loved ones prematurely. Through his own efforts to make life better, but things backfired, and all this was caused by himself, Nan Linzi regretted it.By the way, the death of Lin Qingya's father was also caused by herself.

"Mom, I'll help you with these jobs." Seeing his mother busy hoeing the ground, Nan Linzi snatched her mother's hoe.

"What can you do? I haven't seen you do it before!" Mother said with a smile.

"I can do it, how old am I, and if I can't do it, I will have you to guide me!" Nan Linzi picked up the hoe and started to do it.

"Slow down, don't scratch yourself, and don't hoe the farmer to death, the grass is still there!" The mother worried about the instructor.

"Don't worry, I'm the only seedling of the Nan family. I'll come back to help you with your work during the holidays! Serve you!" Nan Linzi said while wiping his sweat.

"Actually, you hoe well, like a farmer!" Mother said.

"Of course, I'm the son of a farmer!" Hearing his mother's praise, Nan Linzi worked harder. Labor was really the most enjoyable. Looking at the fruits of his labor, Nan Linzi's heart calmed down a little. .It wasn't until dusk that the mother and son returned home talking and laughing together.

"Mom, let me cook tonight! I'll make you some noodles in clear soup." Back home, Nan Linzi said to his mother while picking vegetables.

"Have you learned how to cook?" Mother looked puzzled.

"The school organized us to have a picnic, and the canteen master taught us." Nan Linzi lied.

"Oh, this is still taught in school! Then I'll light a fire for you." Mother said.

"Okay!" Nan Linzi picked tomatoes, green peppers, and eggplants, and skillfully chopped them up.In a short while, a pot of hot noodles in clear soup is ready.

"Mom, try it!" Nan Linzi filled a bowl for his mother.

"Well, it tastes good, but it's a bit bland." Nan Linzi remembered that he didn't add salt when cooking.

"I forgot to add salt, haha!" Looking at the dough made by Nan Linzi himself, the mother suddenly felt that Nan Linzi had grown up.

"Mom, it would be nice if my dad was still alive." After dinner, Nan Linzi asked his mother while he was enjoying the shade.

"Your father passed away so suddenly. He always wanted to buy a bicycle, but unfortunately he left before saving enough money," the mother choked up.

"If we can go back to the past, we can buy Dad a bicycle." Nan Linzi said.

"Stupid child, it's all over, how can we go back." After finishing speaking, the mother entered the kitchen with the dishes and chopsticks.

The night in the countryside was surprisingly quiet, with occasional dogs barking, Nan Linzi tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.In the past few days of the holiday, Nan Linzi worked hard in the fields, and by the way, he became a chef, cooking all kinds of meals for his mother, so that Nan Linzi would feel at ease. He felt that he was a sinner. Everything that was normal was smashed to pieces.He wants to change this status quo, but he doesn't know where to start.

(End of this chapter)