The old lady asked, "If you don't want to eat, there are a lot of things at home."
"Rice, noodles, everything is available."
"Whatever you want to eat, I'll cook it for you."
...
Although they didn't eat dinner -
After all, it was so late, this was a rural area, and there wasn't much place to eat. Besides, he was about to go home, so why was he eating out?
But, "Mom, you don't have to do anything."
No matter how old they are, there is no point in asking the elderly to do all the work for them?
"You go watch TV."
"I'll be fine if I come."
"Classmate Xiao, what do you want to eat?"
The middle-aged man looked at Xiao Xiao and rolled up his sleeves, "Although my craftsmanship is not as good as my mother's, I can still impress people."
"You know you can't compare to me and you let your guests eat what you cook?"
The old lady shook her head, "Besides, what are you busy with?"
"I'm not at the age where I can't do anything anymore."
"Okay, don't talk too much."
"The TV series has just finished one episode."
"Hurry up."
The old lady waved her hand, somewhat as if to drive her away, "You all go sit in the living room for a while."
"You're tired after all the way here, aren't you?"
"We can eat soon."
Seeing that the old lady was resolute and the middle-aged man was not insisting, he smiled and said, "Mom, just order two bowls of noodles."
"knew."
The old lady responded.
...
After finishing dinner, the middle-aged man walked up to the old lady.
Xiao Xiao followed the middle-aged man.
The two of them also looked at the TV together.
It is a family ethics drama.
The old lady looked at it very seriously.
It's unbearable to disturb.
Fortunately, they were lucky.
An advertisement screen appeared on the screen.
The old lady turned to look at the middle-aged man, "What's the matter?"
"mom."
The middle-aged man sat down next to the old lady.
Xiao Xiao sat down on the single sofa next to him.
"Ask you something."
The middle-aged man didn't delay and got straight to the point.
"What's up?"
The old lady was puzzled, and then she looked stunned, "Oh, you guys came here because you have something to ask me?"
She thought they stopped by because they had something to do nearby.
Not feelings.
"What's wrong?"
The old lady's face looked a little more serious.
I came here specifically to ask her... what could it be?
"Mom, don't be nervous."
The middle-aged man waved his hands with a wry smile on his face.
Why did the old man think something had happened when she asked her about something?
Does he usually give the old man such an unreliable impression?
"It's not a big deal."
"I just want to ask, do you know a woman named Jin Ling?"
"Jin Ling?"
The old lady muttered and repeated the name from her son's mouth, frowning slightly, "It seems a bit familiar..."
"real?!"
The middle-aged man was overjoyed and said, "Mom, if you think about it carefully, her cemetery is right next to dad's cemetery."
"cemetery?"
The old lady was stunned, "She is dead?"
"Um."
Realizing that he had only said the woman's name at first but not the circumstances of her death, the man smiled sheepishly.
"She has been dead for many years."
he explained.
Why did he forget to tell the old lady such important information in the first place?
The middle-aged man found that he was really unreliable.
...
"Have you been dead for many years?"
The old lady frowned and thought.
"Um."
The middle-aged man nodded, "She died when she was very young."
"You're only in your thirties, right?"
He recalled the appearance of the woman in the photo and guessed.
He had even forgotten to write down the woman's birth and death years on the tombstone.
"Thirty-six years old."
Xiao Xiao, who had been quiet all this time, opened his mouth and gave the woman's specific age.
"Oh, thirty-six years old."
The middle-aged man told the old lady, "Do you have any impression?"
"It seems a bit..."
"Mom, you always look like..."
The middle-aged man was a little helpless.
"No hurries?"
The old lady glanced at the middle-aged man and said, "As we get older, our memory is bad."
"Besides, how can you think of someone who has been dead for many years?"
"Yes Yes."
The middle-aged man responded repeatedly with a sneer on his face, "You should think about it slowly."
...
"ah!"
The old lady suddenly let out a low cry.
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, "Remember?"
"The TV series has started."
The old lady watched TV happily.
The middle-aged man twitched his lips as he quickly immersed himself in the plot.
Is this TV series really that good?
He doesn't like to watch short family dramas like this, or war movies are enjoyable to watch.
He sighed inwardly and turned to look at Xiao Xiao with an apologetic smile.
Xiao Xiao shook his head slightly.
Show that you don't mind.
...
When the ending song came out, the middle-aged man's troubled spirit suddenly became alert.
It's finally over.
He looked at the old lady, and when he noticed the unfinished expression on the old lady's face, he couldn't help but twitch his face a few times.
"mom."
he shouted.
"Are you still there?"
The old lady was a little surprised.
Middle-aged man:......
"You also think this TV series is good, right?"
When talking about the TV series she was following, the old lady looked very interested.
"Mom~"
The middle-aged man was helpless, "Do you remember Jin Ling?"
He reiterated his previous question.
"Ah, oh."
The old lady nodded, with a look of realization, "That's right, Jin Ling..."
"mom."
The middle-aged man's tone became even more helpless, "My classmate Xiao is waiting."
"Ah, is this what Student Xiao wants to know?"
The old lady was surprised.
"Why else would he be sitting here?"
The middle-aged man couldn't help rolling his eyes, "Listen to our mother and son chatting?"
How can classmate Xiao be so boring?
"Hey, you should have told me earlier."
The old lady glanced at the middle-aged man angrily, then smiled at Xiao Xiao, "Classmate Xiao, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting."
"Give me some more time and I'll think about it again."
"Not urgent."
Xiao Xiao smiled, "Grandma, just think about it slowly."
"Hey, how about that?"
The old lady smiled and waved her hand, "I am really familiar with this name, but I almost feel it and can't remember it..."
Looking at the old lady who suddenly became active, the middle-aged man said:...
You can take your time by answering his questions, and you have to think of other people's questions quickly?
The old lady is really his biological mother.
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly.
...
"Jin Ling, Jin Ling..."
The old lady kept mumbling and frowning.
"She has a daughter named Chu Kexin."
Xiao Xiao added.
"Chu Kexin?"
The old lady was stunned, "This name..."
"cocoa?"
"oh!"
The old lady slapped her thigh excitedly, "I remembered!"
"It turns out it's her!"
"Mom, do you remember?"
The middle-aged man was also a little excited, "You really know her."
The countryside is not the city.
Everyone basically knows what houses are nearby.
Therefore, he always felt that the old lady should know about the woman on the tombstone.