On the day of Xiao Sheng’s parents’ memorial day, the weather was pretty good.
The palace mother prepared various sacrifices early, and the etiquette was very thorough. She prepared more sacrifices than Grandma Xiao prepared every year.
The two families made an appointment to have a simple dinner together in the evening.
"Shengsheng, what do you want to eat tonight?"
Before leaving the Gong family, Mrs. Gong specifically asked Xiao Sheng.
Xiao Sheng was about to take the apple from the sacrifice when she was intercepted by Gong Shiheng. She retracted her hand and leaned through the car window to talk to the palace mother: "I can eat anything."
The palace mother smiled and looked at Gong Shiheng.
"She loves to eat meat." Gong Shiheng said concisely and to the point.
"Okay, okay, then I understand." The palace mother smiled broadly and took a step back, "Okay, you go quickly."
Xiao Sheng said hello and put his head in the car.
The two of them set off from Gong's house and first went to the cemetery where the martyrs were buried.
Gong Shiheng discovered that Xiao Sheng's emotions were much deeper when facing Xia Ge than when he was worshiping his parents.
When his mother got up early and went to see her parents deliver the sacrifices, she looked quite relaxed, but now that the car was driving towards the Martyrs Cemetery, her expression became forced.
Since it wasn't Xia Ge's memorial day, they just came to take a look, and didn't meet anyone familiar along the way.
When getting out of the car, Gong Shiheng helped with the things.
"Lao Xia also likes to eat meat." Xiao Sheng muttered.
Gong Shiheng paused, thought for a moment, and said, "Go and look in the small drawer in front of the passenger seat."
Xiao Sheng folded his hands and said dullly: "Is there meat in it?"
"I've prepared the small sausages you like to eat," he said.
Xiao Sheng raised his eyes and glanced at him, turned around, climbed into the passenger seat, and opened the drawer.
Sure enough, there are a lot of snacks inside.
Six small sausages in a row were a common snack in the army at that time.
Xiao Sheng took it in his hand and his eyes immediately turned red.
"Shengsheng?" Gong Shiheng's voice came over.
"Coming."
Xiao Sheng got out of the car with her things in her arms and put them all in the box Gong Shiheng was carrying.
It was an impromptu visit to see Xia Ge. She didn't go out to prepare the sacrifices. The most important thing was that she felt that the process of preparing the sacrifices was too torturous. She had to recall the most familiar person's favorite food in her life little by little before going.
The emotion of collecting and purchasing in person is really terrifying.
"Do you want me to go in?" When he reached the end of the long path of pine trees, Gong Shiheng suddenly stopped.
Xiao Sheng nodded, "Of course."
She sniffed twice as naturally as possible and said in a relaxed tone: "Come on, I dreamed of her last night. I told her about us and she didn't believe me. I have to let her see the real chapter."
Gong Shiheng felt uncomfortable when he saw her laughing, so he freed his hand and stroked her head.
"Okay, let her meet."
"Let's go."
The two of them walked up the steps side by side and walked all the way to the inside.
At the end, Xiao Sheng stopped.
She glanced at Gong Shiheng, as if she wanted to make an introduction, and opened her mouth, but found that no sound came out, so she just twitched the corner of her mouth towards him, and then frowned.
Gong Shiheng remained silent and laid out everything for her.
Xiao Sheng moved to the front, sat down next to the monument, opened her mouth several times, and then made a little sound, but Gong Shiheng didn't hear what she said clearly.
"You tell me, you are unlucky enough." She reached out and patted Xia Ge's tombstone. She wanted to say something, but couldn't.
Gong Shiheng stood aside, looking at the young face on the tombstone, and recognized it at a glance, it was the female soldier who was with Xiao Sheng that year.