"One? One is not enough. Don't you have several girlfriends now? One for each of you. Of course, two, I don't think the more the better." After saying that, regardless of the dull look on Liu Dong's face, he patted him
He looked over his shoulder and walked towards his wife with a smile.
"Liu Dong, what did uncle tell you just now?" After Liu Jianqing left, Mei Xue, who was too shy to come with him just now, came over and asked curiously.
Looking at his father who was comforting his mother, Liu Dong's mouth twitched. Although his father seemed to be tolerant, he was actually more demanding than his mother.
"The more the merrier, do you still want me to create a football team?" Liu Dong smiled bitterly in his heart.
"Liu Dong, what's wrong with you?" Mei Xue asked again when she didn't get an answer.
"Nothing, let's go there too"
"You haven't answered the question I just asked?"
"My dad just said, are you his future daughter-in-law?" Meixue's pretty face immediately turned red behind her ears.
…
After picking up Liu Jianqing and Song Xiangmei, the group also left the airport together. Of course, the Song brothers and sisters, who were reunited after fifty years, sat in a car.
"Little sister, please tell Fifth Sister, how have you been these past few years?" Song Xiangjun held her sister's hand and asked with concern.
Facing the brothers and sisters who suddenly met, Song Xiangmei had been thinking about it for decades, but it was still a bit unfamiliar. However, the family ties that were thicker than water still made her hesitate for a while and then said: "I am living a good life, Liu Dong
This child is also very competitive and filial."
"Little sister, where are you now? Are you still in Yangcheng?" Song Yuzong asked.
"Yes, little sister, please tell us. Our Song family has almost turned over the entire Guangdong Province in order to find you these years."
After Song Yujian finished speaking, Song Xiangmei was moved by the love of several brothers and sisters for her brothers and sisters, and also smiled and said: "I am now in Qingzhou, Dongshan Province."
"Qingzhou? Isn't our hometown in Yangcheng? Why did you go to Qingzhou?" Song Xiangjun said.
"I went to Qingzhou later. Before I was ten years old, I lived with my grandmother in the countryside outside Yangcheng. Then there was a famine in the 1960s. I went to the capital with my grandmother, where I finished middle school and not finished college.
, I went to Qingzhou and settled in the countryside," Song Xiangmei recalled with a trace of memories.
Although everyone heard her talk in an understatement, Song Yuzong and others also had some guesses about how much hardship they suffered.
Let’s not talk about anything else, but the girl’s class status issue was enough for her to bear in China in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Little sister, I have suffered so much for you these years," Song Yujian said with a choked voice as he looked at his older sister.
"Second...Second brother, it's actually not as hard as you think. I've been used to it since I was a child. Moreover, with Jianqing, although our life is not rich, we have Xiaodong and Xiaofei, a family of four
I am already very happy."
After listening to his wife's words, Liu Jianqing, who was sitting next to her, silently squeezed Song Xiangmei's already slightly old palm. Feeling the temperature and feeling on each other's palms, a kind of love that has been truly tempered by years after being together for a lifetime.
Passed between the two people's eyebrows.
This emotion is no longer simply the love heard and seen in books. It has become a tacit understanding, a habit, and even a belief.
And this is the kind of love that can truly lead to growing old together and spending a lifetime together.
Therefore, when Song Yuzong and the others saw this scene, they looked at each other and almost simultaneously showed a trace of emotion and relief on their faces.
Although the younger sister may not be as rich as them in material terms, the emotional gains are enough to make them, the older brothers and sisters, deeply gratified.
"By the way. The eldest brother, the second brother, the fifth sister..." The words suddenly paused, and after some hesitation, Song Xiangmei tried her best to suppress the excitement in her heart and said: "Dad... Mom and Dad, now... how are you doing now?"
In fact, Song Xiangmei doesn't have much impression deep down in her heart. Just like her brothers and sisters sitting in front of her now, her knowledge and understanding of her parents come from her grandmother's description and her own later
Some imagination.
But Song Xiangmei, like all children in the world, longs for both parents to be able to enjoy father's and mother's love.
At the same time, this is what Song Xiangmei desires most in her life.
But facing the longing eyes of their little sister, Song Yuzong and his sister showed hesitation in unison.
Seeing them like this, Song Xiangmei's face turned pale and she asked in a trembling tone: "He...are they all gone?"
"No, mother is still here, but..." Song Xiangjun hesitated for a final moment.
"Just what? Fifth sister, please tell me quickly."
Fifty years of longing and expectation for her parents, fifty years of suppressing inner emotions, have made Song Xiangmei completely lose her usual calmness when she is closest to her goal. She is most afraid of hearing anything that is related to her goal.
Bad news for the left.
Even if I don't think about it at all.
"Xiangmei, don't get excited first. Let's listen to what elder brother and the others have to say." Liu Jianqing quickly held his wife's hand and comforted her.
"Brother...?" At this time, Song Xiangjun didn't know what to say.
Seeing the eyes of his brothers and sisters focused on him, Song Yuzong let out a long sigh and then said with a hint of sadness: "Little sister, my father passed away five years ago..."
"Dead?"
Hearing this, Song Xiangmei's face suddenly turned pale. All the imagination about her father that had been accumulated in her mind for fifty years suddenly collapsed at this moment.
"...However, my mother is still alive now." The second half of Song Yuzong's sentence was nothing more than a life-saving straw placed in front of Song Xiangmei.
"Mother... mother, is she still alive? Brother, is this true?" Song Xiangmei said with excitement.
"Of course I can't lie to you about this kind of thing," Song Yuzong said with a smile.
"Take me to see my elder brother quickly, take me to see her old man quickly," Song Xiangmei said earnestly after grabbing Song Yuzong's little arm.
"Little sister, don't worry. You have flown here for more than ten hours, and you must be tired. Why don't I take you back to have a rest first? When you regain your energy, I will take you to see your mother..."
Before Song Yuzong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Song Xiangmei, "No, I want to go see it now. I don't need to rest. I'm not tired at all."
"This..." Song Yuzong's face showed a hint of contemplation.
"Brother, Xiangmei and I came here on Xiaodong's private plane. We had rested enough on the way. Moreover, look at Xiangmei's state. If you don't let her see her mother-in-law, I'm afraid she will be dead even if she lies down on the bed.
I can't sleep," Liu Jianqing said quickly.
Seeing Song Xiangmei's eyes turned red and her face full of urgency, Song Yuzong also knew that his brother-in-law was right. Now, even if the little sister is settled down, she will not have a good rest.
"Brother, I think it's better to tell my little sister about my mother's situation. It will be inevitable sooner or later. Now that I have told her, my little sister will be prepared," Sun Yujian said with a slight sigh.
But his words made Song Xiangmei pause, and she quickly asked: "Second brother, what's wrong with mother?"
"well"
After sighing heavily, Song Yujian looked a little sad and said: "My mother's health doesn't have much problem. It's just that her spirit is not very good."
"Spirit? What's going on?" Song Xiangmei asked quickly.
"My mother is suffering from Alzheimer's disease," Song Yujian said in a serious tone.
"Alzheimer's disease?" Song Yumei was stunned for a moment, her face full of questions. She didn't know much about the medical meaning of this name.
And just when she was about to ask more details, the car slowly stopped.
At this time, Song Xiangmei also noticed outside the car window, surrounded by a half-person-high green fence, a two-story villa about 10 meters high.
Compared with Liu Dong's manor in Quancheng, the area of this villa is really incomparable. In terms of area alone, this villa is nearly ten times smaller. At first glance, it is only more than 300 square meters.
Moreover, judging from the mottled walls and decorations outside, this small villa is not too old.
However, combined with the exquisitely trimmed flowers and trees in the yard, as well as some simple furnishings, the exuberant vitality and greenery combined with the mottled buildings behind create a unique charm that makes people unable to help but
I cast my eyes on this beautiful little courtyard.
Song Xiangmei was the same at the beginning, but when she saw the man sitting on the lounge chair at the door, his face was slightly shriveled, his hair was completely white, wearing a white cardigan and gray loose trousers, he seemed to be asleep in the morning sun.
When the figure appeared, his body suddenly trembled, and two lines of clear tears instantly fell from the corners of his eyes.
And his right hand immediately covered his mouth, and his body began to tremble violently.
Although Song Xiangmei had never seen her mother since she was three years old, when she saw this old woman, a strong electric current instantly spread from the bottom of her heart throughout her body.
This feeling was so unfamiliar, but it also made Song Xiangmei understand that the old figure lying on the chair was her mother.
The emotion of blood being thicker than water made her understand instantly when she saw the other person.
"Little sister, let's go down," Song Yuzong said after sighing inwardly.
"Yes." Song Xiangmei, who couldn't stop crying, nodded vigorously.
"Little sister, don't cry. Wipe your tears. It's not good for mom to see." Song Xiangjun, who also had red eyes, advised.
"I know Fifth Sister" responded, quickly wiped the tears on her face, and then Song Xiangmei got out of the car.
But when she saw the old woman lying on the chair, the tears on her face couldn't stop rolling down again. To be continued.