Chapter 164

Han Ting smiled and said, "Back then you said you didn't want him at all, but now you think of him?"

In those days

After knowing that Su Yun was pregnant, he wanted to marry Su Yun immediately.

He is not a coward who hides away when encountering problems. As a man, he is of course responsible for his own woman and his own children.

But at that time, Su Yun didn't want this incident to affect her return to the city, so she cried with him for a long time and asked him to hide the fact of her pregnancy with her.

At that time, he and Chaozi Guogai worked to earn food and take care of Su Yun. She usually stayed at the educated youth center to take care of her pregnancy, so she didn't often appear in front of everyone. She didn't have much contact with the girls in the same dormitory. After she became pregnant, she didn't show much, so she successfully kept it a secret until full term.

When the birth was about to begin, Han Ting brought up the idea of ​​marriage with Su Yun again.

Su Yun still didn't want to leave the child behind and affect her return to the city, so Han Ting finally agreed. He and she secretly found a midwife in the next village, and agreed with the midwife to give the child away after it was born.

So when Su Yun started to have stomach pain and was about to give birth, she quietly went to the midwife's house and gave birth to the baby in secret. She then left the baby with the midwife and asked her to give it away.

As for who the midwife gave the baby to, they agreed not to ask or tell.

Thinking back to those days.

Su Yun's lips trembled again, and she said, "Wasn't it a last resort at that time?"

Due to the policy at the time, they could not take the child back to the city no matter what.

Han Ting turned around and walked forward again, "What's so good about seeing a child who was abandoned right after birth?"

Su Yun looked at his back and called him again: "Han Ting."

Han Ting didn't look back at her again.

The voice replied emotionlessly: "Don't come to me again."

He feels sorry for many people.

He did not love Chuxia well in his previous life, and he let her down in this life; when he went to the South, he was unable to help Chaozi and Guogai build a career; and he made his parents worry a lot about him.

I also feel sorry for my son whom I only met once in this life.

But the only thing he didn't do was to let Su Yun down.

He loved her all his life in his previous life and gave her all his heart. Even when she was suffering from cancer and had no one to take care of her, he took care of her financially and physically until she passed away.

In this life, he never owed her anything.

***

Han Ting didn't care how long Su Yun stayed outside.

He went home, washed up, and lay on the bed, thinking calmly about many things.

Think more and think more deeply.

He went over everything in his past and present lives in his mind, including what he had seen in the past few days and what Chaozi and Guogai had said to him at the dinner table a few days ago.

I thought about it until the second half of the night before falling asleep.

He didn't get up early in the morning and slept until he woke up naturally.

After getting up, I went to the yard to brush my teeth and wash up.

The Jiang family and the Tang family have both moved away, and now only the Han family is left in this yard.

After brushing his teeth, he put down the toothbrush and cup, then lowered his head to wash his face.

After washing my face with tap water, I was about to reach out for a towel to wipe my face, but as soon as I raised my head, I was suddenly startled.

Because a boy of about fourteen or fifteen suddenly appeared in front of him from nowhere.

The boy seemed to be very curious about him and was staring at him.

After the shock subsided, Han Ting asked, "Who are you, kid?"

The boy smiled at him and said, "Tang Haikuan is my grandpa."

Han Ting was stunned.

That is Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia’s child.

Both of their children are this big now.

He suddenly felt as if he was in another world.

Chaozi and Guogai were right. He had lived for more than ten years, and so had others.

Seeing that the world is about to become the property of the next generation, he is still clinging to things that have long been a foregone conclusion.

I've been working outside for fifteen years but haven't achieved anything significant.

He should have known it long ago - he couldn't live the same life in this life as he did in his previous life.

No matter how unwilling he was, he would never be able to possess again in this life what he had in his previous life.

If he continues to struggle with regret and unwillingness, he will only lose his self-esteem, his mentality will become more and more unbalanced, and in the end he will most likely end up with nothing.

Han Ting wiped his face with a towel and looked carefully at the child in front of him.

He looks like Lin Xiaohan, but not as gloomy and annoying as Lin Xiaohan. From his eyes to his whole temperament, he gives people a very clean feeling, like early summer.

Especially when she smiles, people can't help but feel good.

Seeing Han Ting didn't say anything, Yi Yi asked him again: "Are you the third uncle of Grandpa Han's family?"

Han Ting hummed, "You seem interested in me?"

Yi Yi said, "Isn't it? I've heard about you since I was a kid."

Han Ting asked again: "What did you hear about me?"

Yi Yi said, "I heard that you went to the south when you were young and suddenly disappeared."

Han Ting: "Do you want to know why I suddenly disappeared?"

Yi Yi: “I am indeed quite curious.”

Han Ting: "Are you so familiar with everyone?"

Yi Yi: "It's not that bad, but I do have a lot of friends."

Han Ting: "Then you are really different from your father."

Yi Yi: "My dad and my mom are enough."

Han Ting looked at Yi Yi and chose to smile after a moment.

He asked Yi Yi again: "How old are you this year?"

Yi Yi said, "According to the age, fourteen."

Looking into Yi Yi's eyes, Han Ting subconsciously calculated in his mind.

His son, in terms of age, is twenty years old this year.

Before Han Ting could say anything else, he suddenly heard Wu Xuemei's voice coming from the front yard: "One by one."

Yi Yi heard the voice and turned back to answer, then said to Han Ting: "My grandma is calling me, I'm leaving first."

Watching them run out of the second door one by one.

Han Ting stood by the sink with a blank look in his eyes for a moment.

His son.

Looks like him too.

***

Two months later.

Han Ting pulled his suitcase and left Tianxian Temple again.

Before leaving this time, he bought a house and gave the key to Han Qingtian.

Chaozi and Guogai knew that he was leaving again, so they came to see him off.

Chaozi asked him: "Are you still going to the south?"

Han Ting said: "Go to Tanxi Brigade."

Chaozi and Guogai were stunned when they heard this.

Guo Gai asked in confusion: "What are you going to do in Tanxi Brigade?"

Han Ting added: "Go and atone your sins."

***

The autumn sunshine is golden.

The yard is filled with old clothes drying in the sun, each piece bearing the marks of time and age.

Wang Cuiying and Li Lan folded the clothes that had been dried in the sun and put them into boxes and bags.

Han Qingtian and Han Lei had golden smiles on their faces as they moved the boxes and bags out of the yard one by one and put them on the three-wheeled motorcycle in the alley.

A neighbor came over and asked them with a smile: "Are you moving?"

Han Lei smiled and said, "Yes, San'er bought a house when he came back a while ago, and he just cleaned it up and made it ready for living. The weather is good today, so he packed up and moved in."

The neighbor said, "Wow, San'er has become rich after more than ten years in the south."

Han Lei simply responded: "What kind of fortune do you want to make?"

The neighbor smiled and said a few more words to them.

After the last bit of luggage had been moved, Han Qingtian returned the key to the east room to Tang Haikuan, and then he and Wang Cuiying got on the three-wheeled motorcycle and prepared to leave.

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei stood side by side in the alley and watched them go.

Han Lei turned around and said hello to Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei one last time, "Uncle, aunt, we're leaving now."

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei warned him, "Go slowly on the road."

Han Lei let out an "eh" and stepped on the accelerator.

Han Qingtian and Wang Cuiying sat behind the luggage pile and waved to Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei, "Let's go."

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei also waved at them and watched them leave the alley.

***

In the evening, the driver brought Yi Yi to the alley after school.

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei packed up, locked the gate of the yard, got in the car and went home with Yi Yi. In the car, they listened to him talk about some things at school.

Go home and watch TV for a while.

After Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan came back, the family sat down to eat together.

Chu Xia asked Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei: "Did the Han family move away?"

Tang Haikuan nodded and said, "Everything has been moved away."

I thought of the scene when the Han family moved away.

Wu Xuemei couldn't help but sigh: "When we lived together, we were noisy. Now that everyone has moved away, I feel empty inside."

Chu Xia smiled at her and said, "We have lived together for decades. It's inevitable."

The alleys used to be so lively, with neighbors living together and uncles and aunts everywhere. They went to work together in the morning light and gathered together to pick vegetables and cook after get off work.

Living close together has its ups and downs.

When it's time to say goodbye, all that's left is regret.

Wu Xuemei also smiled and said with relief: "It's a good thing. The country is developing better and better, and everyone's life is getting better and better."

Yi Yi followed up by asking, “How hard was it in the past?”

Tang Haikuan said, "Compared to now, it was really hard back then. Food, drink and daily necessities were all distributed per person. Each family only had so much per month, and after eating and using, there was nothing left, so everything had to be saved. Rice and flour were pitifully scarce, and we usually ate more coarse grains. Even cloth was distributed per person, and we couldn't wear two new sets of clothes a year."

Yi Yi looked at Tang Haikuan and listened to him.

As soon as Tang Haikuan finished speaking, Lin Xiaohan continued, "Life in the city is still good. Everyone has a stable job and a fixed salary every month. At that time, your mother and I went to the countryside to work in the production team. We could only eat meat and fine grains twice a year. The rest of the time we had coarse grain buns."

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to this topic.

Chu Xia continued, "We lived in adobe houses. You may not be able to imagine that the bricks were made of mud, straw and other things mixed together. At that time, your father and I built two houses."

It’s really hard to imagine.

He asked again: "Are there any photos?"

Wu Xuemei said, "I can hardly eat, how can there be any photos?"

Lin Xiaohan looked at Yi Yi and said, "I'll draw for you after dinner."

So after dinner, Lin Xiaohan took a sketchbook and a pen.

The pencil fell on the white paper, sketching out two old desks. On the left desk was a girl with two pigtails, and on the right desk was a boy repairing a horse-head clock...

The simple pictures are colored by memories, and come alive in my mind one by one.

At dusk, in the fields and rivers, the jumping girl stepped on the boy's shadow...

Beside the lotus pond sprinkled with moonlight, the boy and the girl sat side by side. The boy lowered his eyebrows and played the harmonica in his hand...

The boy and the girl sat in the yard, with a rabbit lantern in front of them...

In front of the newly built house, the boy and girl drove the hens into the fence...

They fetched water, collected firewood, and dug wild vegetables together...

They parted ways after getting off the train.

Reunited at night school.

Go to the same university.

Become each other's family.

They had a child of their own.

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