my cutie

Chapter 21 5234

After burning the paper money, Xiao He took out a bundle of incense from a bag on one side, lit the whole bundle of incense on fire, and shook it in the air a few times to shake out the open flame on the incense, then unpacked the incense and surrounded it. I watched the graves of the two old people put incense on them.

In the end, he kept three sticks in his hands. He knelt in front of the tombstone, looked at the words and photos on the tombstone, rolled his throat, respectfully inserted the incense into the soil in front of the monument, and kowtowed three more incense sticks to the two old people. a bang.

"The second elder takes good care of himself, don't worry about me, everyone treats me very well."

After speaking, he stood up, did not pat off the dirt on his knees and forehead, but quietly watched the paper money on the side burn to ashes, and when he could no longer burn the open fire, he picked up the backpack on the ground and carried it on his back. Standing up, he bowed deeply to the tombstone.

"Grandpa and grandma, I'm going down the mountain."

Looking at the photo on the tombstone for the last time, Xiao He turned and went down the mountain. He glanced at the gray-white sky, and remembered the day when the two elders were buried in his mind. It was also the same as today's sky. Back then, it was just that he changed from a brat who could only hold an urn and cry, to an adult who can do everything by himself today.

He was a little uncomfortable. It was different from the cowardice he felt when he didn't dare to go home last night, but it came from a deeper emptiness, which made him feel that he was not a person at the moment, but a wandering soul.

A homeless, lonely wandering soul.

He walked slowly along the way he had come. His footsteps made a slight sound on the grass, but it was covered by the sound of the wind. In the empty mountain, there were occasional birdsong, but at this moment, a bell rang.

Xiao He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. After a pause of two or three seconds, he answered the phone, but he didn't say anything.

The person opposite was still the same as before, his mouth was like Gatling's.

"What's wrong with you? Are you still angry? I've called you so many times, why don't you answer them? It's shutting down and out of service area for a while, what are you doing? Do you know how worried I am?"

Song Yi asked several questions in one breath, but didn't mention why he didn't broadcast live.

Xiao He took the receiver a little further away, and put it closer to his ear after he finished speaking, and said lightly, "It's okay."

Hearing his voice on the other side seemed to be relieved, "It's fine, I sent you WeChat messages and you didn't reply, and you didn't answer the phone calls. This kind of feeling is not good at all. What's the difference? I thought you were going to dump me and disappear."

Xiao He could hear the worried but slightly dissatisfied emotions in his tone. He could understand the meaning of Song Yi's emotions, but he couldn't figure it out.

"Why are you so attached to me?" Xiao He asked the doubts in his heart.

The other party replied very simply, "Because you are Xiao He."

I heard him say slowly again, "I liked you when you were playing professionally, but I didn't know it was you when I first met you in the game. After adding you on WeChat, I realized it was you after watching your live broadcast. "

"So before you knew it was me, what was the reason for dating me online?" Xiao He asked sharply.

"Ha, so what, girls in this game have privileges. I used false voice to conquer many boys before and took me to eat chicken, but you are different. You don't even dump me at all, and then you are in a row. Well, I think this is fate, so I wanted to try to conquer it, but I didn't expect it to be you."

He seemed a little excited when he said this, "If it's you, this is a godsend opportunity! After all, it's all the choice of Steins Gate! I can't escape my fate!"

Xiao He bent his mouth unconsciously when he heard this, and this noisy feeling pulled him out of the huge emptiness.

"By the way, what are you doing? Why don't you answer the message or answer the phone?" Song Yi asked him again.

He said softly, "I'm going home to visit my family. The signal in the countryside is not very good."

Song Yi was stunned holding the phone over there, this was the first time he heard the topic of family from Xiao He's mouth.

"So that's the case, is the family okay?"

Xiao He turned around and took a look at the grave that was no longer visible, "Grandpa and grandma are all fine."

When Song Yi heard it, his heart probably became clearer, "That's good, grandpa and grandma must be very happy to see you go back, right?"

Xiao He answered him softly: "Well, I'm very happy."

"It's late autumn, let grandparents pay attention to their bodies, wear more clothes, and keep warm."

"Will it be very cold in winter in the countryside?"

Song Yi was also worried that his grandparents were too lonely in the country, "Have you thought about taking your grandparents to live with you when you go back this time?"

"Now that you have retired, you should spend more time than before. You will spend more time with your grandparents in the future. When the elderly are old, they actually hope that their families will be by their side."

Xiao He's nose felt a little sore when he heard these words from him. This nominal online love partner of his would be worried when he couldn't be contacted. When he learned that he was back home, his tone was full of joy, and he cared about his family so much.

"Ahe? Why don't you speak?"

Listening to the sound of wind blowing the leaves, Xiao He said softly, "I lied to you."

Song Yi was a little confused, "What?"

"Grandpa and grandma passed away eight years ago."

Xiao He said this sentence very lightly, but it was very heavy in Song Yi's ears. His hand holding the mobile phone trembled slightly, and his heart thumped even more, making him speechless for a long time.

He opened his mouth several times before finally saying, "Ahe, I'm sorry."

Xiao He had already descended the mountain, and told him, "It doesn't matter."

He didn't hate Song Yi's questions, not to mention he didn't know anything, but still cared so much about his family.

Song Yi didn't know what to say over there, he felt a little worried, when he was worried that Xiao He would delay his time with his family because of his career and games, he realized that Xiao He had lost everything, Only then did he focus on the game. If there was no game to support him along the way, what would he look like?

He couldn't imagine it.

In the eyes of everyone in the e-sports circle, Xiao He was born for games, but everyone didn't know that games were the only thing he relied on to paralyze himself and seek a sense of security.

And now, with a serious hand injury, he retired.

His sense of security and dependence is gradually disintegrating.

Song Yi was very sad. The person he liked for a long time, after he really got to know him, he realized that behind all his halos were heavy wounds.

Both of them were silent for a long time, Xiao He had already arrived at the door of the house, he looked at the lock on the iron gate of the yard, but he was not in a hurry to get the key to open the door.

He called Song Yi, and Song Yi replied in a low voice, "I'm here."

After this exchange, the two sides became silent again, but he knew that Song Yi was waiting for him.

He looked at the door lock for another 2 minutes, as if he had decided on something, he took out the key from his pocket and opened the lock.

Xiao He put the key into his pocket, and held onto the railing of the iron gate, but did not push it open.

He called Song Yi again.

Song Yi still replied that I am here.

At this time Xiao He smiled slightly, he pushed open the iron gate of the yard, stepped in with his left foot, and then said to the person on the other end of the phone: "Welcome to my world."

When he heard this sentence, Song Yi relaxed naturally, and he changed his hand to hold the phone.

No matter what purpose Xiao He agreed to date with him online at the beginning, he is not very interested at this moment. He only knows that after Xiao He said these words, their online dating relationship, which was in vain, officially entered In the state of "love".

"Then I won't leave."

After speaking, a nice smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he was very happy to enter Xiao He's world as a boyfriend.

After Xiao He got home, he wanted to tidy himself up, and after talking to Song Yi, he hung up the phone first.

In the next two days, the two of them just exchanged a few words on WeChat.

Xiao He felt that Song Yi was busy recently, so he didn't bother him.

He lived alone in the country for a few days, and when he was free, he went to the mountains to accompany his grandparents. After the neighbors knew that he was back, people sent him vegetables every day, not many, and some bought more for him. , Some were picked fresh from the field and passed by the door to give him some. The old people were very enthusiastic, and he couldn't refuse their kindness, so he had to accept it.

He doesn't know how to cook himself, so he was worried about these vegetables. Zhang Diaia happened to push open the iron gate of the yard to deliver fruits to him. He probably saw that he was in trouble, so he asked him to bring the vegetables to his home and cook them for him. .

Xiao He didn't want to bother the old man at first, but the old man took him and wanted to take him to his home, so he couldn't refuse the old man too much, so he followed.

He lived in the country for more than a week, and he always went to Zhang Diaida's house for dinner, and he was too embarrassed, and he was almost ready to pack up and go back.

Just when he was about to call Zhou Yan and ask him to help him book a flight ticket to go back in the next two days, Zhou Yan called himself.

"Ahe, when are you going to come back?" His voice was a little tentative.

Xiao He frowned unconsciously, his first thought was that something might have happened in the team, "What happened in the team?"

Zhou Yan didn't seem to know how to tell him, "There's nothing wrong with the team, Happy and the others are doing well, and Mianfeng is also working hard. They have won the training games these days, and it's Song Yi, your online dating partner. , something may have happened."

Xiao He frowned more and more tightly, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Yan didn't know how to tell him on the phone, "I won't be able to tell for a while, so let's talk about it when you come back. When do you plan to come back?"

Xiao He was silent for a while and said: "I'm leaving now, and I'll arrive at the airport at around two o'clock in the morning. You book a ticket for me at three o'clock."

As soon as Zhou Yan heard that he was in such a hurry, he hurriedly said: "In such a hurry? If you want to leave tomorrow, I will book you a ticket for tomorrow afternoon, and it will not be a day or two away..."

"Brother Yan, listen to me."

Zhou Yan listened to his tone of refusal, sighed, and agreed, but he didn't understand why Xiao He, who didn't take online dating seriously before leaving, suddenly took it so seriously.