Mingshu's wish to go to the beach with his brother came to nothing.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the competition class finally had a holiday after a dark day. Mingshu moved the long-packed luggage to Xiao's house on the same day and waited for the departure the next day.
He hadn't traveled far yet. In the last semester of the fourth grade, he organized a skiing trip. The ski resort in the suburbs was the farthest place he had ever been. This time, he made a report to his grandfather long ago. Uncle Xiao chatted with his grandfather for a while, and then his grandfather agreed that he and his brother would go abroad for the Spring Festival.
A week ago, Uncle Xiao bought the ticket. Sister Jinlan came back from college, and yesterday she specially led him to the mall, eat western food, and bought two sets of festive clothes.
"Children have to be happy for the New Year." Sister Jinlan patted on his new clothes.
Mingshu liked his sister when he was a child. Although he disliked the new clothes too fancy, he put them on. He wore them at night to show them to his brother.
He won't go back to his house tonight, and Uncle Xiao will come to pick him up tomorrow morning.
"Go ahead." Xiao Yu'an was busy for a semester, and he relaxed after the exam today, and was sitting by the window wiping his hair.
Mingshu used to roll on his bed, and he only found it annoying, but Mingshu was small at that time, and the pancake didn't take up much space.
It's different now, both he and Mingshu have grown taller, so squeezing a bed like this will inevitably bump into each other. He usually doesn't let Mingshu come up, no matter how much Mingshu asks, he will drive Mingshu home. Today is a special situation, so Mingshu is allowed to stay.
This thing is as happy as a jumping bed in an amusement park.
"If you're not honest, I'll throw you out." He threatened.
Why is Mingshu afraid of this threat, he continued to roll on the bed with the quilt, "Brother, how long will the plane take?"
Xiao Yu'an said, "More than 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 away."
Mingshu giggled, but suddenly saw the light of the headlights sweeping across the window.
It was late at this time, more than 11 o'clock. The compound is very quiet at night, and generally no cars come in or out at this time.
Xiao Yuan 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 with a coat and 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 Yu'an didn't let him down, he turned off the light, "Go to bed, I'll be up at 6 tomorrow."
As soon as the room got dark, the movement outside became clearer. Some noises came from the direction of Ming's house, but the car was still parked.
Mingshu was excited and held onto his brother's hand. Xiao Yuan was a little distracted because of that woman.
Who is that coming? Why did you come to Ming's house so late
Soon, there were footsteps outside the door, and then a knock on the door. Grandpa said from outside, "If you're safe, open the door."
Xiao Yu'an turned on the light again, and his grandfather's tone made him realize something was wrong, but Mingshu was still stunned, sat up from the bed, looked at the door, and didn't recognize his mother who he hadn't seen for two years.
My mother used to come to my grandfather's house at least once a year to see him, but then it became less and less and almost never came. He is no longer sad and accepts the fact that he is not liked. Many times he even felt that he 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 and his brother were going to the beach for 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 solemn expression.
Mingshu looked at them as if looking at two strangers.
He hasn't spent as much time with them as Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao. Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao are very loving and hug each other in front of their children, unlike his parents.
This night was in chaos. The adults were talking in a low voice. His ears seemed to be blocked by water, and he couldn't hear it. His brother quickly put on a coat and a scarf for him. His shoes and socks were worn by his brother. of.
He actually heard what they were saying, but he forced himself not to listen or think. When my brother dressed him and put shoes on, it was morning, Uncle Xiao's car was parked outside, they were about to leave, and he was too lazy to get up, so my brother couldn't do anything about him, so he did these things for him.
He was pushed to his mother, who took his hand and walked downstairs.
Mom's hands were cold and shaking. He felt that he should woo his mother, but he couldn't. As he went downstairs, he kept looking back, 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 didn'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 little one
Why is my brother frowning
What is brother worried about
What are these sounds around you? What are they talking about
He was pushed into the car, and at this time, the patch of water covering his ears disappeared. He heard everything clearly, that his mother's father—the grandfather he had never met—had passed away, so mother and father suddenly came to pick him up, and the family of three was going to his grandfather's memorial service.
The car slowly drove out of the compound. In addition to his parents, there were two people he had never seen in the car.
They are taking him away. Take it from the beach with my brother.
He has not seen the sea like it yet.
Suddenly, he grabbed the door and shook it vigorously. If it wasn't for the door being locked, he would have fallen out immediately.
Wen Yue was obviously startled and grabbed him.
Just pulling, not the usual mother's hug when she realizes her child is in distress.
"What are you doing?" he heard his mother ask him.
"Let me get out of the car! I want to go back!" He struggled in the car like crazy, "I'm not going! I'm going to see my grandpa with my brother tomorrow!"
"Pa—" A slap greeted him in the face, and he was beaten to the side, hitting his forehead against the car window, making a muffled sound.
His head was buzzing, but he was still shouting, "I'm going back! I'm not going with you!"
"Your grandfather passed away, whose grandfather are you going to see?" His mother was supposed to be his closest friend, but she not only slapped him, but also shouted at him hysterically.
He stared at her and looked at her, but there was still 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 beat his parents. The car had already left the compound and headed for an unfamiliar street.
His face was hot, his mother was crying, and his father was silent.
After a brief period of confusion, he gradually had actual feelings about the "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 went to the beach to see his grandfather, so he begged his grandfather to call his mother, and he also wanted to see his grandfather.
But what did mom say
Forgot, but for so many years, his mother never took him to see his grandfather.
I also didn't have a reunion dinner with my father during the Spring Festival.
Why did they come and take him away now
He doesn't want to see his grandpa anymore, and he doesn't need them anymore.