Mint-Stained Shirt

Mingshu's wish to go to the seaside with his brother failed.

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the competition class finally had a holiday after taking the exams.Mingshu moved the packed luggage to Xiao's house that day, and waited to leave the next day.

He hadn't traveled far before. In the first semester of the fourth grade, his class organized a ski trip, and the ski resorts in the suburbs were the furthest places he had ever been.This time he had already reported to his grandfather, and Uncle Xiao chatted with him for a while, before his grandfather agreed that he and his brother should go out to celebrate the Spring Festival.

A week ago, Uncle Xiao bought the ticket.Sister Jinlan came back from college, and yesterday she took him to the shopping mall, ate western food, and bought two sets of festive clothes.

"Children must be happy during the New Year." Sister Jinlan patted on his new clothes.

Mingshu liked his elder sister when he was a child. Although he disliked the new clothes being too fancy, he put them on happily. He wore them to show his brother at night, but was kicked out to take a bath, and got into bed immediately after the bath.

He won't be going back to his home tonight, and Uncle Xiao will pick him up tomorrow morning.

"Go over." Xiao Yu'an had been busy for a whole semester, and he just relaxed after the exam today. At this time, he was sitting by the window and brushing his hair.

Mingshu used to roll on his bed, and he just found it annoying, but at that time Mingshu was small, and the pancake didn't take up much space.

It's different now, he and Mingshu have both grown taller, and if they squeeze into one bed like this, they will inevitably bump into each other.Usually he doesn't let Mingshu come up, no matter how much Mingshu begs, he will drive Mingshu home.Today is a special situation, so Mingshu is allowed to stay.

This thing is as fun as a trampoline in a playground.

"If you're not honest, I'll throw you out." He threatened.

How could Mingshu be afraid of such a threat, and continued to roll on the bed with the quilt rolled up, "Brother, how long will the plane take?"

Xiao Yu'an said, "It's about three hours."

"Brother, how big is the sea?"

"Boundless."

"Brother, can I go into the sea to catch fish?"

"The sea is not a river."

"elder brother……"

"I really threw you."

Mingshu giggled, but suddenly saw the light of a car headlight sweeping outside the window.

It was very late at this time, after 11 o'clock.The compound is very quiet at night, and there are usually no cars coming in and out at this time.

Xiao Yu'an went to the window to take a look, and found that after the car passed by, it slowly stopped at the door of Ming's house, and a woman in a coat with curly hair got out of the car.

From a distance, he couldn't see who the woman was.

"Brother, what are you looking at?" Mingshu wanted to get out of bed.

Xiao Yuan didn't let him down, but turned off the light, "Sleep, I'll wake up at 6 o'clock tomorrow."

As soon as the room got dark, the movement outside became clearer. There was some noise coming from the direction of Ming's house, but the car stopped and did not move.

Mingshu was excited and held on to his brother's hand.Xiao Yu'an was a little distracted because of that woman.

Who is that?Why did you go to Ming's house so late?

Soon, there were footsteps outside the door, and then a knock on the door. Grandpa said from outside: "Yuan, open the door."

Xiao Yu'an turned on the light again, his grandfather's tone made him aware that something was wrong, but Ming Shu was still dazed, sat up from the bed, looked towards the door, and didn't immediately recognize his mother whom he hadn't seen for two years.

My mother used to visit my grandfather's house at least once a year, but then it became less and less, almost never.He was no longer sad, and accepted the fact that he was not liked.Many times he even felt that his surname was not Ming, but a child of the Xiao family.

He didn't expect his mother and father to spend the Spring Festival with him for a long time, but in the year when he was going to the beach with his brother to celebrate the Spring Festival, they came back together and wanted to take him away from his brother.

Mom's eyes were red, as if she had been crying for a long time, and Dad stood behind her with a serious face.

Mingshu looked at them as if looking at two strangers.

He didn't spend as much time with them as Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao.Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao are very affectionate, and they will hug each other in front of children like them, unlike his parents.

It was a chaotic night, the adults were talking in low voices, his ears seemed to be blocked by a piece of water, he couldn’t hear clearly, his brother quickly put on his coat and scarf, his shoes and socks were put on for him by his brother of.

He actually heard what they were saying, but he forced himself not to hear it, not to think about it.My brother dressed him and put on his shoes. It was morning, and Uncle Xiao's car was parked outside. They were about to leave, and he was too lazy to get up. My brother had nothing to do with him, so he helped him with these things.

He was pushed to his mother, who took his hand and walked downstairs.

Mom's hands were cold and trembling.He felt that he should huhu his mother, but he couldn't do it.When he went downstairs, he kept looking back, and his brother was right behind him.

But why didn't my brother change his clothes?Didn't sister Jinlan buy new clothes for her brother?

Why doesn't brother take the suitcase?Before going to bed, he put his small suitcase next to his brother's.Why did my brother only take his own small one?

Why is brother frowning?

What is brother worried about?

What are these sounds around?What the hell are they talking about?

He was pushed onto the car, and at this moment, the piece of water covering his ears disappeared.He heard everything clearly. Mom's father—the grandfather he had never seen before—passed away, so Mom and Dad came to pick him up suddenly. The three of them were going to attend the memorial service of grandpa.

The car slowly drove out of the compound. Besides his parents, there were two people he had never seen in the car.

They are taking him away.Take away from that beach with a brother.

He has never seen the sea.

Suddenly, he grabbed the car door and shook it vigorously.If the car door hadn't been locked, he would have fallen straight out.

Wen Yue was obviously taken aback and pulled him back.

Just a pull, not the usual hug of a mother when she realizes her child is in distress.

"What are you doing?" he heard his mother scold him.

"Let me get out of the car! I want to go back!" He struggled in the car like crazy, "I won't go! I'm going to see my grandpa with my brother tomorrow!"

"Pa——" a slap greeted him on the face, he was slapped sideways, his forehead hit the car window, and there was a muffled sound.

There was a buzzing in his head, but he kept shouting, "I want to go back! I'm not going with you!"

"Your grandpa passed away. Whose grandpa are you going to visit?" Mom was supposed to be his closest relative, but she not only slapped him, but also yelled at him hysterically.

He stared at her, staring at her, and still had only one thought in his mind - get out of the car, go back to find his brother, and go to the beach with him to celebrate the New Year.

But how can a fifth-grade child win over his parents?The car has already left the compound and is heading towards an unfamiliar street.

His face was hot, his mother was crying, and his father was silent.

After a brief daze, he gradually had a real feeling about "grandfather's death".But this feeling is not sadness.

Of course he knew that the old man was his relative.

But what about that?He remembered that when he was very young, the year he first met his brother, he heard that his brother was going to visit his grandfather at the beach, so he begged his grandfather to call his mother, and he also wanted to visit his grandfather.

But what did mother say?

I forgot, but for so many years, his mother never took him to see his grandpa.

Nor did I have a reunion dinner with my father during the Spring Festival.

Why should they come and take him away now?

He doesn't want to see grandpa anymore, and he doesn't need them anymore.