My old gong is a ghost?

After eating, Tong Xiaoyan told her mother: "You stay at home alone, I will take Xiaosong up the mountain, and I will be back in a while."

Tong's mother smiled: "I'm not alone, no, someone is with me."

Tong Xiaosong's face was pale, and he looked around in a panic.

Tong Xiaoyan sighed, closed the door and locked it: "Don't take it to heart, when you were not at home, Mom was seriously ill, and I was also to blame, I locked her in a dark room all day long, alas..."

Hearing this, Tong Xiaosong hurriedly shook his head: "No, I don't blame you! It's me, if I..."

"Xiaosong!" Tong Xiaoyan knocked her younger brother on the head, and scolded with a smile, "Your good books are the greatest help."

Tong Xiaosong lowered his head and did not speak.

I blame myself for not living up to expectations, which is why my sister and mother are so difficult.

In comparison, what I suffered at school is nothing.

He was not locked in a dark room all day, nor was he carrying things on his shoulders all day, basking in the scorching sun.

***

The two siblings walked into the mountains. The road in the mountains was still difficult. Weeds and trees grew wildly everywhere. The ground under their feet was wet and sticky. It was hard to tell whether it was rotten leaves or something else.

The leaves that cover the sky and the sun block the sun, and the wind blows over, making it cold and gloomy.

Finally, the two reached their father's grave.

Because there is no ancestral tomb, a single tomb seems very lonely.

This is not the best cemetery in the village, but it is easier to find because it is close to home.

Tong Xiaoyan stepped forward to take care of the weeds on the grave, and Tong Xiaosong also knelt down to help.

Until the hands of the two people were covered with mud, and all the weeds on the grave were removed, exposing the soil.

The two sat on the rock, blowing the wind, Tong Xiaoyan asked softly: "I heard you were bullied at school?"

Tong Xiaosong took a deep breath, what was supposed to come finally came.

He lowered his head and whispered: "I didn't get bullied, but I just don't fit in well. Just get used to it. The principal is a good man. There are so many things happening in school. He worried that I was afraid and said he would change my dormitory. When I left He bought the ticket for me with money, and he gave me 3000 yuan, saying that when I go back, he can help me apply for school subsidies, and I can get some money.”

He laughed: "In this case, sister, you don't need to bring me any more money. The money I spend on school subsidies is enough."

Tong Xiaoyan looked at the sad smile on her younger brother's face, her eyes instantly turned red.

When my younger brother came home last time, he still had a little flesh on his body, but this time he was so skinny that he was a little scary. He was at the age of growing up, so he looked pitiful.

Seeing that his sister's eyes were red, Tong Xiaosong couldn't control it, and the eye circles were also red. He hurriedly lowered his head, pretending to be relaxed and said, "Don't be like this, I'm much better outside than you at home."

Tong Xiaoyan sniffed, and smiled sadly: "Xiaosong, don't comfort me, I know that it's hard outside, maybe worse than at home, at least I have my sister at home to protect you, so you won't be bullied. Not necessarily outside."

"No." Tong Xiaosong whispered, "Don't think about it."

Tong Xiaoyan took a deep breath, raised her head, held back her tears, and said firmly: "But Xiaosong, you are different from others. If you want to live well, you have only this way. I can't protect you for the rest of my life. When I am alive, send you to a better place, no matter how difficult it is outside, you have to be strong, but making you strong is definitely not letting you be bullied."

Tong Xiaoyan looked at the distance and recalled: "I remember when I was young, someone came to bully me and my mother. You were only eight or nine years old, so young, and you went out holding a sickle. The scar on that person's leg is still there, aren't you Timid, sister knows you are not timid, you have backbone."

Tong Xiaoyan couldn't hold back the tears, and wiped the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand.

"Sister knows why you were bullied at school. You wear poor clothes, don't dare to spend money, don't fit in with others, and are afraid of causing trouble for sister. I'm afraid that if something happens, I won't have the money to pay for it. I know..."

Tong Xiaosong was speechless, he lowered his head, his half-length hair covered his face, tears fell drop by drop in the mud, but he gritted his teeth and didn't even make a sound.

Tong Xiaoyan sighed: "But why don't you think about it, my sister sent you out so hard, I just hope you can have a better life, my sister didn't send you out to be bullied, when others bully you, you are like Like when I was a child, fight back, and my sister at school will deal with it. If you hurt someone, you will be expelled from school or go to jail if you are more serious. Live in Xiaosong, even if my sister starves to death, she doesn’t want to see you being bullied, you know?”

Tong Xiaosong fluttered his nose, opened his eyes wide, and splashed tears into the mud, unable to utter a word.

His sister spread her body under his feet, how dare he step on it.

Tong Xiaoyan: "Sister, I hope the principal will call again next time. Even if he says you hurt someone, I don't want to hear that you have been bullied. Can you promise me?"

Tong Xiaosong nodded vigorously, his face covered by his hair was distorted from crying.

Tong Xiaoyan: "You take the money that the principal gave you, and my sister will give you some. When the subsidy money comes out, you also put it in your own hands. My sister guards the land here, and there is no shortage of food. Yes, everyone in the village eats the same food. It’s different when you go outside. You can buy what the students around you buy and use. If they go out to have a meal together, you go with them. Don’t be afraid to spend money. ,otherwise……"

Tong Xiaoyan gritted her teeth, wiped away her tears, and said angrily: "Otherwise they look down on you, they are not bullying you."

"Sister, don't, don't say it..." Tong Xiaosong cried out, shaking his body and choking, he said: "I don't lack money, I don't want money, I won't let them bully me, if you let me hold the money, I will I won't go to school anymore, sister, don't force me..."

Tong Xiaoyan also cried, and she hugged Tong Xiaosong tightly.

"Sister." Tong Xiaosong cried out of breath, his eyes were covered with tears, and he couldn't see clearly: "You wait for me to graduate from high school, and I will take you and mom out when I am admitted to university. It’s not that big, I can work part-time to make money, and we work part-time together, earning more than farming!” Love at first sight “tidy up”

"Yes! My brother is right!" Tong Xiaoyan cried and laughed: "The hard times are only temporary. In the future, you will lead me and my mother to live a good life together. We will stay in the city and never come back to farm. It's time to enjoy it."

The siblings hugged each other and cried for a long time, talking for a long time.

The father's grave is on the side, dead and silent.

***

At night, Tong Xiaosong covered himself in the quilt and secretly shed tears.

Sobbed until he fell asleep.

In the bright spring in the dream, a man whose face couldn't be seen asked softly, "What's wrong? You're crying so pitifully."

Tong Xiaosong didn't know who it was. In the dream, he was defenseless, and cried, "My sister lied, she said she was waiting for me to lead her and mom to live a happy life, but she didn't think so at all, she just wanted to put me When I was sent to the city, she didn't expect me to be successful at all, she just wanted to send me out, so I was useless..."

His eyes were red and swollen, tears kept flowing, and his thin and fragile body seemed to be unable to hold back any time. My sister is worried about me, I'm not a man, I'm so useless..."

The man who couldn't see his face sighed softly, stretched out his hand to stroke Tong Xiaosong's hair, and hugged him into his arms: "Cry if you want to, it's been too hard for you, but this kind of life will soon be over. After the end, you will have a big comfortable house in the city, you can take your sister and mother over, you will have a lot of money, beautiful clothes, nice cars, and you will have many things that others envy .”

"You liar!" Tong Xiaosong grabbed the man's clothes tightly, buried his head in the man's chest and sobbed: "You are all liars..."

"I'm not lying to you, you remember my name, my name is Zhixian, Zhixian who knows what I mean by hearing the sound, if I lied to you, then come and settle accounts with me, okay?" The man chuckled softly.

"Zhixian, Zhixian..." Tong Xiaosong murmured, trying to remember the name in his heart, he choked up and asked, "Am I... really useless?"

Zhixian chuckled: "You are very good, your study foundation is worse than anyone in the school, but last time you took the No. Everyone shines."

"But I can't do farm work. I'm not as strong as a girl. I'm a waste." Tong Xiaosong cried.

"You are not a waste. Your strength is weak because you eat too little. You have to eat more. Eat more to grow taller and protect your sister and mother." Zhixian gently stroked Tong Xiaosong's hair and back, soft voice: "Don't be afraid, I will always be by your side, you will see me soon, I will give you everything you want, and you will have it."

***

Tong Xiaosong opened his eyes, it was already dawn.

He murmured: "Zhixian..."

It was a dream.

No wonder it's so beautiful.