After having breakfast together, Mei Youyuan and his two friends casually strolled around the street. As the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was approaching, not only people returning from work but also some college students began to return home one after another, so the street was obviously much quieter than in the previous few days.
Mei Fang accompanied Xia Yuanlin Youxi to buy some small accessories at Sanfu Boutique, and then prepared to go home to do homework.
On the way home, Mei Fang asked the two kids, "School starts on the 17th of the first lunar month. When do you plan to go there?"
"Aren't we going back together?"
Mei Fang explained, "I'm leaving tomorrow. I have to go to Hakushu for a day, and then my dad will take me there early in the morning."
"Then... Youxi, you and Aunt Liang—and your mom can come with me. My dad will drive us to Jiangcheng."
Lin Youxi smiled and shook her head, "Don't worry, my mother isn't that early yet."
"You, are you going to Jiangcheng later?"
Well, in that case, wouldn't it be possible for Ah Fang and I to live at home alone
"That's not the case." Lin Youxi shook her head. "My mom has some things to deal with at home, so I have to go there first, so I have to take your car."
"Well..."
"You sound like you're very lost, Yuanyuan."
Xia Yuan's thoughts were exposed by Lin Youxi, and she immediately argued, "No, no, Youxi, you are too sensitive."
"Look at you, your ears are all red."
Lin Youxi smiled and said, "After all these years, you still don't know how to lie."
"Hmm..."
Xia Yuan mumbled without saying anything. Mei Fang patted Xia Yuan on the head and said, "Go back and do your homework quickly. You haven't done any of it."
"About the same... How about you?"
"Of course I didn't touch a single thing," Mei Fang said with a smile, "but I can just copy yours."
"Do it yourself! You're so lazy."
Lin Youxi smiled as she watched Xia Yuan and Mei Fang bantering, then suddenly interrupted, "By the way, Fang, before you leave, would you like to accompany me to visit the grave this afternoon? You haven't seen my mother in many years, and it seems that Yuanyuan has never had the chance to go either."
"I've never been there." Xia Yuan nodded, "But is it appropriate to visit the graves in the first month of the lunar year? I remember the elders in my family said that visiting the graves in the first month of the lunar year would dilute the joy... Of course, I'm not saying I won't go. If you don't mind, I'll go too."
"I don't really care about that. And neither does Alfang."
"Of course I won't."
Mei Fang smiled slightly and said, "It's good to go once."
"Youxi's mother..."
Xia Yuan let out a long sigh, "Indeed, I should go visit him."
The three of them did their homework at Xia Yuan's house, went to Mei Fang's house for lunch at noon, and after lunch they took the bus to the Heaven Cemetery.
The situation here was just as Xia Yuan had said. Not many people visited the graves in the first month of the lunar year. There were only a few passersby.
The three of them bought incense sticks, yellow paper and paper flowers, as well as some fruit offerings, and strolled forward under the guidance of Lin Youxi.
Xia Yuan trotted beside Mei Fang, raised his head and asked him:
"Fang has accompanied Youxi to sweep the grave before, right?"
Mei Fang nodded and said, "I've been here two or three times before."
"I don't know..."
"It's quite a coincidence, and it's easier to explain—"
As soon as Mei Fang finished speaking, Lin Youxi, who was walking in front of him, suddenly spoke loudly.
"The first time was when I was in fourth grade. I accompanied Ah Fang to the hospital to visit his grandmother. I saw a victim of a car accident and suddenly remembered what happened to my mother at that time."
As Lin Youxi spoke, he turned around, walked backwards with his hands behind his back, and looked at Xia Yuan with a smile.
"I was very scared at the time, but Ah Fang didn't come over. When he came over, I kept beating him up unreasonably, and then we had a big fight in the hospital."
Mei Fang smiled and shook his head, "You still remember it so clearly."
"What happened next? What happened?" Xia Yuan was very anxious about the follow-up situation.
"Later..." Lin Youxi said softly, "Ah Fang was about to leave because of me, but in the end he came back to coax me and said he would go with me wherever I went. I cried and told him that I wanted to see my mother."
Xia Yuan's eyes softened when he heard this, "Later, Ah Fang took you there..."
"Yeah, this is the first time he comes to visit my mother."
Lin Youxi stopped beside a little lion lying on the ground and said, "My mother is here."
Lin Youxi brought Xia Yuan and Mei Fang to her mother's grave.
Lin Youxi's biological mother's smile on the tombstone is still bright and cheerful, but the tombstone and the photo seem a bit old.
However, the yellow paper and paper flower tributes on the tombstone were very new. Lin Youxi had come here with her father when she bid farewell to the old year.
"Youxi, you look alike to your mother! Especially your eyes, but your temperament is completely different..."
"But if I have to say, Youxi's temperament in elementary school is quite similar to her mother's."
Mei Fang lit incense sticks and inserted them in front of the incense burner in front of the tombstone. When he was about to spread the plastic bag and kneel down to kowtow, Lin Youxi stopped him and said, "Just bow casually. Don't be so polite every time you come."
Lin Youxi clapped her hands, clasped her hands together, and knelt down alone in front of her mother's grave, making a prayer gesture:
"You have met Ah Fang before, so I won't introduce him. This is Yuan Yuan..."
As Lin Youxi was speaking, Xia Yuan knelt down stubbornly. She knelt beside Lin Youxi, imitating her, clasping her hands together and smiling.
"Hello, Auntie. My name is Xia Yuan... I'm sorry to come to see you so late. I'm Youxi's childhood sweetheart. We grew up together and we are best friends..."
Xia Yuan paused, then smiled and said, "They are also my closest family members."
"Yuanyuan, there's no need to say these."
"Ah! Don't you need to tell me why? " Xia Yuan finally got into the mood to be sentimental, but now that the atmosphere was broken, he seemed a little hypocritical.
"I have been repeating your name in front of my mother since I was very young. My mother knows everything about you."
Xia Yuan stuck out her tongue mischievously: "Then isn't it even more inappropriate for me to come to see your mother so late?"
"That doesn't matter... My mother probably doesn't care about this, um... You can tell by her temperament."
Lin Youxi actually doesn't know what kind of person her mother is.
In the memory of her father Lin Guochuan, she has always been a cheerful, warm-hearted and virtuous wife.
Mei Fang waited for the two little ones to finish kneeling down, and finally after thinking about it, she knelt down and bowed to her.
Mei Fang and Xia Yuan could probably understand Lin Youxi's intention of coming here specially to pay tribute to her mother.
[Mom] is the entity that Lin Youxi has never been able to truly touch in her childhood memories.
Although Xiang Xiaoxia could give her some care close to her mother, and Liang Meijuan could make up for the maternal love she lacked during adolescence, Xia Yuan and Mei Fang both understood that—
The lack of maternal love in childhood can never be compensated even if you spend your entire life.
Lin Youxi had cried herself to sleep countless times while missing her mother. Missing her mother had almost become one of her most important spiritual sustenances.
This is the softest and most sacred part of her heart.
After Lin Youxi finished paying respect to Mei Fang, he said softly:
"Actually... I really hated Mommy Meijuan's entry into my family at first, because I was afraid that she would replace the mom I missed day and night. Just like I said to Ah Fang before, I was afraid that my mom would be forgotten by Dad, forgotten by me, and forgotten by everyone, and would enter true death."
"But in the past few years of getting along, Meijuan's mother not only treated me very well, she treated me like her own daughter. In addition, she also respected my mother very much."
"Before, I always had a grudge against her, and always thought she was pretending to please me... But I don't think so now."
Lin Youxi's words were not only spoken to Xia Yuanmei, but also to her mother.
"I gradually began to understand that no one can replace anyone else. There are only excuses for not loving someone."
"Now I still come to visit my mother every year, six or seven times a year. It's just that... now I have two mothers."
"One is to protect me in heaven, and the other is to accompany me on earth."
Xia Yuan was an extremely emotional person. After hearing Lin Youxi's words, he couldn't control his emotions and hugged Lin Youxi tightly and got close to her.
"Yes, that's very well said."
Xia Yuan choked up and said to Lin Youxi, "You should also tell Aunt Liang this. She will definitely be very happy."
"No... that's not the case, right?"
Lin Youxi patted Xia Yuan on the back, "That's so embarrassing..."
"These are words that can only be said in front of you. Please keep them secret."
"Yeah, I see..."
Lin Youxi's willingness to look forward made Mei Fang feel that she was shining.
Lin Youxi may not have been born excellent. In her previous life, her growth was always accompanied by suffering.
She experienced the death of her mother and her best friend, and Mei Fang had no intersection in her life trajectory.
When all the light in life disappears, one still has to face studies, life, and the exploitation of the family by his uncle.
However, these hardships will not knock her down, they will only make her tougher and stronger.
Whether [Xia Yuan] is with her or not.
Whether or not [Mei Fang] lends her a helping hand.
ha…
Just as Mei Fang was thinking this, Lin Youxi hugged Xia Yuan and called Mei Fang over.
"What's wrong?"
"I want to hug you both." Lin Youxi said softly, "Is that okay, Ah Fang?"
"Yeah, okay..."
So Mei Fang slowly squatted down and moved closer. Lin Youxi opened her arms and hugged Mei Fang tightly. Mei Fang was a little uncomfortable at first. Seeing this, Xia Yuan moved out one arm to hug Mei Fang and rubbed her tears on Mei Fang's face.
The three of them hugged each other for a long time.
"It's great to have you here."
Lin Youxi's voice was filled with infinite tenderness that she presented specifically for Mei Fang and Xia Yuan.
Another leader gave me a reward... So tonight is also 2+1
(End of this chapter)