"I'm calling you Grandpa," said the little girl with a ponytail naively, "I have a portrait that looks very similar to you at home and my sister's house. But you seem to look older than the portrait.

My father and my uncle said this was their uncle, and then every year during the Chinese New Year, we would kowtow to the portrait."

The little girl with a ponytail asked again: "Then are you Grandpa Ah? My sister said you are not, I think you are. I can't tell him, so I want to come and ask you directly."

Ada squatted down and asked the little girl, "What's your name?"

The little girl with a ponytail smiled and said, "My name is Xier."

"Xi'er." Ada asked nervously, "Does your father often have a stern face and ignore everyone? And does your uncle have a chubby belly and like to smile at others?

”

Xier pouted and shook her head and said, "No, my dad is so nice to others. Everyone says my dad has a good temper. But my uncle, he is usually very fierce to people outside, and he is not fat.

, and don't like to laugh at all."

The girl with a braid came over and pulled Xier behind her, scolded Ada: "Don't come over and get close to you. My father is so amazing. Even if he only has one hand, he can knock you down."

Ada originally thought it was just a coincidence. After all, the two people described by Xier were too different from Ada's memory. But he heard the girl with pigtails, "My father is amazing,

Even if you only have one hand, you can knock you down." After Ada was stunned and he asked softly: "Can you take me to your house to see?"

Although the girl with pigtails kept shaking her head at Xier, Xier still felt that Ada and the others were very kind-hearted, so she took Ada and Shiwu to her home.

The village is not as the name at the entrance of the village. It is not rich because of the mine. The houses here are all made of wood, so it is not an exaggeration to say they are sheds. Perhaps it is because they are close to the mine.

When Yamato Ishitake walked in the village, he could smell the smell of coal floating from afar.

Xier took Ada to an old wooden house and said to Ada: "Grandpa, this is my home. But my father and my mother both went to the mine to mine. I usually have dinner at my sister's house.

, Look, it's the next door." After saying that, she pointed to a slightly larger wooden house next to her. In the middle of the two wooden houses was a simple small cottage similar to a kitchen, which should be connected to the wooden houses on both sides, and above the cottage

There was still smoke in the chimney.

Ada asked, "There are people in your sister's family now?"

The girl with a pigtail looked at Ada vigilantly, covered Xier's mouth and said, "Why did you keep asking questions? Do you want to kidnap my sister? I'll tell you, I'm going to

Mom is at home!" After saying that, the girl with pigtails shouted to her home, trying to call her mother out.

Hearing the shouts of the girl with a pigtail, a thin woman walked out of the wooden house next to her. She said to the girl with a pigtail: "Xuan'er, what's the noise?"

Seeing that his mother came out, the girl named Xuan'er quickly pulled Xi'er over and said, "Mom, these two people have been asking Xi'er this and that, but they don't look like good people."

Shi Wu said unjustly when he heard this, "I didn't ask a word, and I don't look like a good person like this."

Xuan'er's mother led the two children behind her and said to them softly: "Xuan'er, there is a pottery jar in the cabinet where my mother put the quilt, and there are a few more in it. Your father bought it for him last time.

Is it okay to take the candy dates you eat with your sister?”

When Xuan'er heard that she had sugar dates to eat, she was so greedy that she was about to flow out. Xier, who was beside her, was even more excited and rushed to her aunt's house first.

Xuan'er said anxiously: "You little greedy cat ran away faster than me when you heard that there was food!" As she said that, she rushed into the house, afraid that Xi'er would eat all the sugar dates.

Xuan'er's mother smiled and saw the two children running to the house, then looked at A Da and said, "Brother-in-law, I wonder why you are here?"

Ada replied, "I'm disturbed. We originally wanted to stay in your village for a night. But when we heard the kid call me Grandpa A, we came over to see if it was the child of my two nephews?"

When Xuan'er's mother heard this, she looked at A Da carefully. It was really similar to the portrait hanging on her home, but she remembered that his husband and uncle both said that their uncle was dead. So

She still said cautiously: "Maybe the two children are young, so they admit their mistakes."

A Dadao: "I wonder when your husband will come back?"

Xuan'er's mother said vigilantly: "Why are you asking these?"

Ada explained: "I just want to take a look. I have two distant nephews in my family. More than ten years ago, I accidentally fell off a cliff outside and recuperated for a long time. When I went back, my two nephews were no longer in my original life.

It's a place."

"I wonder where my father-in-law lived before?" Xuan'er's mother asked.

Ada thought for a while and replied, "It's in Anjun, dozens of miles away."

Xuan'er's mother shook her head when she heard this, "The father-in-law must have admitted his mistake. My husband and my uncle both live in Songfu City hundreds of miles away, and their household registration and names are well-founded."

When Ada heard this, he wanted to talk about it again, Xuan'er's mother had already rushed the guest and said, "If my father-in-law wants to stay, go to another house to have a look. It is not convenient for us to stay at home." As he said that, Xuan'er's mother bowed down.

Then he went back to the house and locked the door from the inside.

Shi Wu looked at the vigilant Xuan'er's mother and said to A Da: "Grandpa A, she doesn't believe us at all after you talk about where you used to live."

A Dadao: "I said the wrong thing myself. A Wu and A Liu must have used the hometown identity arranged by Wuyougu, so when Xuan'er's mother heard that I used to live in Anjun, she was very suspicious.

She was right to do this, so she could protect her two children.”

Shi Wu found a wooden board next to the wooden house and sat down, and said to Ada: "Grandpa A, let's sit and wait together."

Ada sat next to Shi Wu and looked at the road extending from afar with anticipation.

They waited until the sky was dark and the lamps gradually lit up in the wooden houses here, but there were still no pedestrians coming out. It was not until halfway through the Xu hour that people began to return to the village with lanterns. They must have just left the mine.

When they came back, they were carrying a large basket of coal behind their backs. While walking, they were discussing how much money they could get when they handed in the end of the month. Who would just go to the end of the month to make a living, and it was a surefire at the end of the month.

No food to eat.

After saying goodbye to the villagers who were mining together, three people walked over here with a lantern. One of the three people had empty sleeves on their right, but they were strong in figure and steady and powerful in their feet. The basket of coal on their backs was the most.

. When he was walking, he made a sound of creaking wood and limping unbalancedly. The basket on his shoulder was not big, but his back was still very difficult. A woman was helping them light up in front.

But they are both burly and they are not lighter than the baskets on their backs, which weigh at least fifty or sixty pounds.

When the three of them walked to their doorstep, they suddenly saw two figures of an old and a young man sitting next to the wooden house. They were so scared that the woman holding a lantern cursed: "Where are the two old and a young man?"

If you are stupid, wouldn’t you deliberately scare people while sitting next to someone else’s house?"

The man with a wooden leg behind him said angrily: "Woman, stop yelling here, go home for dinner."

Seeing that her man didn't help her, the woman said with a slight slap: "You are a useless thing, I will accompany you to the mine to help with work every day. Why don't you help me scold me a few more!"

The man with one wooden leg obviously didn't want to argue with the woman too much, so he said to the strong man next to him: "Brother, help me see if Xier is in your house, and let her go home and sleep."

The man with empty sleeves on the right nodded and was about to enter his wooden house, but found that his wooden house was locked from inside. He knocked on the door in wonder and said, "Wife, open the door. It's me, Gu Wu."

Before the wooden house door opened, Ada, who was sitting next to him, stood up. The woman holding the lantern thought that Ada was scolded and wanted to take action. She was not afraid to hand the lantern to her man behind her.

He raised his sleeves and exposed his strong arms and said, "What? Are you going to fight?"

Ada's body gradually walked out of the darkness, and the light and shadow of the lantern reflected his entire face.

The man holding a lantern said tremblingly: "A Wu, come and take a look. Hurry!"

Seeing that the man holding a lantern looked wrong, Gu Wu immediately came to them and said, "Gu Liu, what's the matter!"

"Do you think he looks like a person?" Gu Liu moved closer with the lantern, and Ada's face was photographed more clearly.

Gu Wu leaned forward and saw it, and was startled and said, "Is it my death day for Uncle A?" Then he saw the white and glowing Shi Wu next to A Da.

Gu Wu said sternly: "Brother, Uncle A has made a good friend from below and he will be together for dinner."

Gu Liu said angrily: "Can you have a positive shape? Both of them have shadows."

After hearing this, Gu Wu plucked up his courage and poked Ada with his left hand. After finding that he could really poke Ada, he screamed: "Aliu! He is alive!"

Ada was so excited that his hands were trembling and shouted: "A Wu, A Liu!"

When Awu heard the voice that had not been heard in more than ten years, tears flashed in his eyes: "A Da!"

Ada stepped forward and hugged Awu and Aliu tightened. Aliu retreated back, and Aliu said, "Ada, we are dirty."

Ada laughed and cried, and pulled the two of them over and hugged them tightly, "Don't they be dirty, I want to hug you now."
Chapter completed!