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Although Gu Cheng'an knew that Lu Youxi's mother was recovering from illness in the countryside, he had no idea that the so-called countryside was a county below the city.According to Lu Youxi, although his mother was not born in Manchuria, her hometown can be regarded as a manchurian. When she was recovering from illness, Lu Youxi's grandmother was still alive, so she was arranged to go there.

This was the first time Gu Cheng'an heard of these words, and it was also the first time Lu Youxi said them to others.

For this day's trip, both of them slept a few hours early the night before, and went to do a routine inspection of the car together in the morning before driving on the expressway.The four-hour drive was neither long nor short, but Lu Youxi sat aside, neither talking nor sleeping.

Looking up, it is clearly a rare clear sky, but it seems to have become a little heavy because of today's special.

Along the way, because of the silence of the people around him, Gu Cheng'an didn't say much.The stand-up comedy on the radio stopped temporarily when it reached the service area of ​​the small town in the middle.Gu Chengan parked the car in the parking space, took off his seat belt, and asked, "Do you want to eat something? Or buy water?"

Lu Youxi turned his head to have a look, but didn't move, just tilted his neck slightly, and said as if he was uncomfortable, "You don't need the water, do you have a pillow in your car?"

The people next to him didn't answer him after hearing it, but got out of the car. When he came back, he was carrying a white bag in his hand, which seemed to be something he had just bought.The rear door was opened, and Gu Chengan took out a headrest from inside, and then handed it to the person in the passenger seat, saying: "You didn't eat a few bites of breakfast this morning, the bread here is not good, so take the fruit cushion first." Let's go. Have lunch in Manshi before going to the cemetery, okay?"

The car started again and drove out of the service area, Lu Youxi felt a little more comfortable with his head resting on the pillow.In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to talk, and it's not because today's day is a bit special that his heart is heavy.Speaking of the reason, in the end it was because of a dream I had suddenly last night, dreaming about how I was sitting in the dormitory on an ordinary day that year when I received the news of my mother's death.

If you have to say it, from the perspective of him who has gone through everything now, that period of time is indeed a period of time to go back and forth. He felt that the world was too unfair.

But until today, he turned his head slightly to look at the person next to him holding the steering wheel with both hands, and suddenly felt at ease, thinking, if this is the result now, then it can only prove that some of his thoughts in those years were wrong. up.

He lowered his eyes and remained silent for two seconds, bit his lower lip, and finally turned around without saying anything.

There were two boxes of cut mangoes in the bag. After Lu Youxi took them out, she immediately tore off the plastic seal on the box, inserted a piece with a fork and stuffed it into her mouth. sweet.

The smell of mango immediately permeated the carriage. Gu Cheng'an, who originally only wanted to let Lu Youxi eat it, heard the voice of the person next to him chewing carefully, and finally couldn't help moving his Adam's apple up and down, and asked: "How about it?" Okay? Is it sweet or not?"

Lu Youxi turned over embarrassingly, and asked without swallowing, "Well, would you like to try it?"

How can a driver have time to fish for mangoes, let alone on the highway.Lu Youxi had no choice but to insert a piece, put one hand under it, and feed it with the other.

Gu Cheng'an took advantage of him leaning closer to observe the other person's expression quietly, and felt that the other person seemed to be in a much better mood, so he calmed down and chewed it casually, and said, "Well, it's quite sweet."

"Then you still want to?" Lu Youxi smiled after hearing it.

"Give me another one, you can eat the rest." After Gu Cheng'an finished speaking, he picked up another one from there.

When they arrived in Manshi, it was still noon, and the two of them didn't go to Uncle Cao's side because they were afraid of troublesome people. Instead, on the way to the cemetery, they found a random restaurant and ordered a few signature dishes before continuing to leave. .

Lu Youxi had been able to touch the ground a little recently, so he went to get into the car by himself.Seeing that the door on the other side hadn't been opened for a long time, he realized that Gu Cheng'an seemed to have gone to the next door shop.

He looked around to no avail, so he had no choice but to wait for the person to come back quietly. After a while, he saw Gu Chengan holding a bouquet of white chrysanthemums in the hand that opened the door.

The cemetery is on the hillside of a hill in the suburbs. Fortunately, the investor has repaired the road well, and it didn't take much effort for the car to drive all the way up.

Holding the bouquet in one hand, Gu Cheng'an followed behind half a step away to protect him from falling.The rows of tombs from bottom to top became tighter and tighter. After walking up a certain distance, Lu Youxi walked in sideways.

The tombstone is single, and it seems a bit out of place in the surrounding joint burial tombs.There is no empty monument of the other side, as if unaccompanied, here alone, very lonely.

After Lu Youxi took the bouquet, he was left here alone, staring at the stele for a long time without saying anything.His eyes were fixed on the photo, and he couldn't even remember the last time he saw her eight years ago.He put the crutches aside, took out the tissue that Gu Chengan had prepared for him from under the bouquet, wiped off the dust on the photo, then slowly knelt down on one knee and put down the bouquet, then turned his head and walked out slowly.

The whole process, in fact, did not exceed 30 minutes.But Lu Youxi just felt relieved, it's been the fifth year, and he probably won't come back regularly like this in the future.

He walked down in silence, while Gu Cheng'an followed behind as he wanted to come.He only nodded and smiled back when the grandma who looked after the cemetery saw them coming out and said "walk slowly" to them with a smile.

After leaving the cemetery and standing in front of the car, Gu Cheng'an asked from behind: "It's still early, do you want to go to see Uncle Cao?"

"Huh?" Lu Youxi turned her head for a while, thought for a while and said: "Forget it, your feet are like this, and you can't eat. If you go to Uncle Cao, you can't help but worry."

Hearing this, Gu Cheng'an nodded and didn't object, but he still didn't ask him about his mother or anything that happened in Manchuria.

After getting in the car, I started to walk back slowly. Although the city is not far away, it is still late at night when I go back and forth.Lu Youxi counted the time in his mind, and suddenly said: "Do you still remember the casserole noodles we ate that year?"

"Well, what's the matter? Want to eat?" Gu Cheng'an was a little surprised that he would mention this suddenly.

Lu Youxi nodded slightly and said, "Go and eat, I haven't been there for a long time."

"But isn't that area demolished?" Gu Chengan couldn't stop asking, not to mention the demolition of the store, even the old residential building where Lu Youxi's family used to be.

After hearing this, Lu Youxi didn't pay attention, just looked over, and said with a smile: "I know, their family moved to the back of No. [-] Middle School, you can just drive there, and the car can be parked under the shopping mall."

"Okay." Gu Cheng'an finally agreed.

Probably because I just finished sweeping the tomb, or because I mentioned the old house.Lu Youxi breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly said, "Suddenly I miss my mother."

And he didn't wait for anyone to answer, just leaned on the back of the co-pilot's seat, watched the camphor tree slipping away from the car window, and continued slowly as if talking to himself: "But when my mother left , I actually don’t know exactly what happened, I had already returned to Jiangcheng to go to college at that time. It was an aunt I hadn’t seen since I was a child who called to inform me that she died of illness.”

Gu Cheng'an didn't answer, what can I say, comfort?Or keep asking?Fortunately, Lu Youxi just sighed and didn't say anything more.

The radio in the car chatted about the latest interesting things in Manshi dialect.Gu Cheng'an's family grew up speaking Mandarin, without dialect talent, naturally he couldn't understand the words here, but Lu Youxi had lived in Manchuria for two years, so he was amused after a while.

"What are you listening to? It's so funny." Gu Chengan couldn't help asking.

Lu Youxi smiled and stretched his legs a little more, leaned back on the chair, and said with a smile in his voice: "This station broadcasts the latest news in dialect. It is said that two Northeast brothers are arguing on the train about who Knowing more about Northeast Rice, they fought and one person was detained for ten days.”

"I just thought of it," he laughed uncontrollably, paused for a while before continuing, "I just thought of that photo of you that looks particularly gangster, and I thought it was very funny, hahaha."

Hearing these words, Gu Cheng'an's brows and eyes, which were still stained with worry, were all twisted together in an instant. It seems that the meme that he looks like a gangster is endless.

Four hours to go, four hours to come back.But for some reason, the sense of distance when I came back was much faster than when I went there.

When I passed the Jiangcheng Tollgate, it was still dark, but it happened to be the rush hour in the city, and the No. [-] Middle School was near the old city center, so the traffic was severe.

When they arrived at the place, both Gu Lu and Gu Lu felt that they were going to starve to death.Fortunately, it was late, and the shop was about to close, so there were not many people.

Lu Youxi leaned on crutches, hitting the plastic floor with a muffled sound.When he walked in, the boss was still busy greeting other guests. When he turned his head and saw Lu Youxi sitting down, he smiled and said, "Hey, Youxi is here, long time no see. Are you still busy with work?"

"It's all okay." Lu Youxi replied with a smile, and then ordered two casserole noodles that he used to eat.

The boss served the dishes quickly, and they happened to be idle when they were served at the last table.The boss just stood there and chatted with Youxi.But who would have thought that the boss would actually recognize Gu Cheng'an's face during such a few words of concern.

He smiled and said, "Hey, isn't this the guy who used to come with you back then? It's great that you two are still together, I still remember when he came to me alone and said you two We quarreled, and I still ask you? I said, where did the young people get their overnight feud? It’s great to reconcile, and I will still come to eat noodles often in the future, huh?”