The plan was decided, and the two of them went out to buy clothes, and the shopping guide girl looked at us with a bright smile watching us pick clothes.
";I don't know what kind of clothes the two want to choose?";
";Go home to see the old man.";I said.
";Then I recommend two people to choose home-style clothes,"; the shopping guide gave us two ways while flattering. ";It is really blessed for the elderly to have such two outstanding sons.";
Ning San and I laughed weirdly. The old man was stubborn and rigid all his life, and he did not make any mistakes in his style. He was forced to have an extra wild son.
";The two gentlemen are very suitable for wearing the same series of clothes that we have newly launched here. This kind of clothes is mainly for family gatherings, especially suitable for two successful young people in this kind of career... ";
The two rice bugs can’t help but feel a little ashamed. After all, the money was spent by Gu Tang. I really don’t have any money. Ning San is to spend Ningshan’s money as a rice bug, and Gu Tang’s money is also a rice bug. , It doesn't matter.
Seeing that the shopping guide lady wanted to boast again, I quickly said, ";Let’s buy this series and take two sets of the blue and white ones.";
The shopping guide glanced at the two people suspiciously, thinking in his mind, are these two twins going back to play with the old man at home, and they will buy exactly the same clothes.
What she didn't know was that the two of us didn't need to wear exactly the same clothes to be able to make a big difference in front of the old man.
I bought two more pairs of shoes. When I changed the shoes, I raised my mouth. Since both of them are people in the mirror of Ning University, they are all left-handed, so don't show your stuff.
Ning San actually found out that he was left-handed after returning to Yuanshan Garden. He had been consciously practicing for a while, and I was like this, so now I basically don't show up.
The old man's house is far away from Gu Tang's house. When the two of them arrived, it was already time for lunch, and finally decided that I would go in first.
The door of the old man's house was closed tightly, and it was indeed a human appearance. Ning San stood far outside the alley, watching me knock on the door.
The big wooden door was solid, and I knocked, but no one answered. After waiting for a while, the old man doesn't have the habit of taking a nap, so he shouldn't be taking a nap now.
I knocked a few more times, then increased my strength and smashed the door. The neighbors' dogs were all frightened and barked.
This area is good for keeping dogs. Since I was a child, I have to take a dog stick when I go out, but now the management is strict and the dogs are kept in my yard.
But being locked in the yard couldn't stand people wanting to bark. A dog started to bark and the dog in this area began to bark, scared Ning San outside the alley and turned around and ran away, hiding in a corner.
If the neighbors see that there is an extra son in Lao Ning's family and call the door, my dad's innocence in this life will be gone, then I am not, go to one and he will kill one with a shovel, or two and he will kill a pair.
A door in the alley opened, and an old lady poked her head out and looked around. "Oh, Xiaoning, come back to see your dad.";
I smiled and said hello, ";Grandma Song, are you in good health, is my dad at home today?";
The old lady has a clear ear and a loud voice. She frowned and said, "Speaking of which, I haven’t seen your dad for a while, but I hear the chickens in his yard still croak every day. I guess it’s at home, you. Knock on the door again, the old man probably didn't listen.";
"Sure, thank you Grandma Song.";
"Hey."; The old man responded with a smile, ";Xiaoning also wants to come back to see your dad more, your brother hasn't come back recently, the old man is not easy to live alone.";
The old lady had something to say to Ning Xuejun about injustice. Ning Xuejun’s two sons didn’t come back like this. To put it bluntly, the old man died at home. It can only be known by the neighbors who are watching the movement in the yard next door. .
The old people in this yard raise dogs and chickens. Isn’t it afraid that on the day they left, there wasn’t even a messenger in the house.
I was beaten by the old lady, but I still knew that she meant my dad was at home.
I kept knocking on the door again, and after a few minutes, the door finally answered, and there was a slow sound of footsteps.
The wooden door opened with a creak, and my dad's face peeked out of it and glanced at me, "Here's here?";
Turn around and let me in.
I went in and closed the door, and saw two or three chickens in the yard dozing off. Most of the rows of plants in the corner were dead. It is estimated that cold protection measures were not taken in winter, and the leaves of the trees in the yard had not been swept for a long time.
I went over to bring him out the rocking chair, and he sat under the eaves watching me sweep the floor.
The broom is still a big broom made of bamboo branches and leaves. It is very heavy, but useful. If it is swept down, a few holes will be caught in the muddy ground.
I said while sweeping, "When I was a kid, I didn’t want to sweep this yard, and said I would saw this tree, but I haven’t saw it yet.";
The old man shook the rocking chair slowly, ";What do you know, how long is this tree? The Feng Shui things in the town are said to be sawed and then sawed?";
I looked up at this old tree of unknown age, "It's all in spring, why haven't the leaves come to the fore?";
The branches were bare, and there was no sign of spring.
";It may be dying.";The old man said casually, ";He is too old.";
I was stunned when I heard the words, and looked back at the man lying on the rocking chair. He was still the same, stubborn and rigid, and he had never received any warm feedback from him.
But why, just haven't seen him for a few months, he seems to be so old? It seems that the rocking chair tailored for him has become too big.
A person's aging is a shrinking process. His interpersonal relationship shrinks rapidly. The old man died one after another, and his children became families and businesses. In the end it seemed that he was the only one left. Even the body is getting more and more rickety, dry, and the thin body is loosely wrapped in the old clothes, only a gray and scattered hair can be seen.
I don't know what to say, ";Have you eaten, Dad?";
The old guy glanced at me. Although he was too old to walk, he still noticed the pity of his son's tone. He disdaind the pity, but did not express too much.
When I said that sentence, I noticed that it was wrong, because I basically wouldn't take the initiative to call him Dad. When I was a child, I called Ning Xuejun directly. Later I learned something and I just called him Father.
";not yet.";
Unexpectedly, I really didn’t eat, so I hurriedly swept the yard, went to buy some rice and boiled, cleaned up and went out to buy groceries. The old man didn’t eat takeout. He has been in this inexplicable stubbornness all his life Come here, no takeaway, no nanny, no move out, no smart phone.
When I went out, I chose some fresh seasonal vegetables at the nearby vegetable market. After thinking about it, I carried a bag of rice and a bucket of oil. When he walked back to the alley, Ning San was already waiting there sneakily.
";I'm coming.";He said.
I gave him what I was holding, and he pushed the door in and said loudly, "Dad, I'm back.";
Yes, this is also nervous.
I listened to the old man in the yard saying, ";Just go out, why is his face so pale?";
I'm afraid of Ning's third answer, the wax applied in cold weather. Fortunately, he said that a stray dog ran out outside and was taken aback. The old man didn't think much about it. It’s hard for me to keep listening to the wall, so I waited for a while, almost an hour later, Ning San wiped his mouth and slipped out and said: "The old man is going to add food, you go in.";
I said, ";How do you let the old man serve his own meal?";
";Have me come here pretending to be a filial son? Is he the one who let people serve him?";
Ning Xuejun is of course not. When he taught me and my brother before, he said that he is old and does not rely on us, that is, the hospital said, this old guy is dead, pull out the oxygen tube, he has to pull out the oxygen tube by himself, no. other people.
It's scary.
As soon as I went in, the old man was already sitting at the table eating one bite at a time, and he didn't ask me why I went, "Why is my face red again?"
"Energetic."; I said.
After a meal, the old man began to listen to the radio. The phone bill in his old man's phone was thousands of dollars. My brother charged him when he remembered it, but he didn't make a few phone calls. The old man used it to listen to the radio.
I think he is rushing people, so he no longer waits, saying that I am leaving first, he nodded and said, "; find a job earlier, find a partner, and I will give you enough sausages during the Chinese New Year. Do you want to eat?"; (End of this chapter)