……

Teacher Song left contentedly after eating, and did not forget to turn around and tell me that I should come back for more meals next time, and she would prepare the ingredients!

"Aunt, how far have you progressed?" Xiaoling turned around and stared into her aunt's eyes.

"Little... little kid, don't meddle in adult affairs." When the aunt heard this, her face turned red with shame, and then her eyes revealed a trace of loneliness, "We haven't made it public, only you know about it."

"Come on, aunt!" Xiaoling clenched her fist and cheered her aunt up, "We will all support you."

"Yeah, I also think Teacher Song is great." I nodded in agreement.

"What's the point of you agreeing? Whether you can pass the test of Mr. Song's family is another matter." Aunt sighed, "Hey, why do I have to say so much to you. Let's go to pay a visit to your parents in the afternoon."

"it is good……"

We brought some fruits and flowers and took a two-hour drive to the cemetery.

During the Spring Festival, everyone has the habit of worshipping their ancestors. Unlike tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival, the Spring Festival worship is more about expressing remembrance and gratitude to the ancestors. Therefore, a large number of people gather in the local cemetery to worship their ancestors.

"arrive."

My parents' grave is located in the third area of ​​the cemetery. It is not big, only a few meters wide. There are only a few lines of words on the tombstone, engraved with their names and relationships, but no photos. The surroundings are clean, and it seems that there are staff members who clean them regularly. Because it is all poured with cement, there are no weeds growing, but it looks a bit deserted.

I placed flowers and fruits in front of the grave and said to my aunt, "I can hardly remember what my parents looked like."

My aunt was stunned and didn't know how to answer me.

"I can't remember it at all." Xiaoling stood aside with her hands behind her back, looking a little stiff.

"Xiao Meng...Xiao Ling..." My aunt's voice was a little choked.

She turned around and clasped her hands together: "Brother, sister-in-law. I will take good care of Xiaomeng and Xiaoling, please rest assured. The children are very well behaved, study well, and are very caring."

"Mom and Dad, the three of us are doing well! Aunt takes good care of us, and Xiaoling is also very well behaved." I miss them very much, but they are gone, and the heart-wrenching pain of the past has now been mostly smoothed out by time, leaving only endless sadness.

"Mom and Dad, I wish you live happily in heaven." Xiaoling was still young when her parents passed away, so the blow might not have been that big for her.

"Take the fruit and let's go back." After a moment of silence, my aunt motioned for us to go home.

"it is good."

On the way back, Xiaoling asked her aunt: "Aunt, I have always wanted to ask a question. I wonder if you will be angry?"

"Just ask."

"Mom and Dad, how did they leave us?"

My aunt stopped and I saw her biting her lips. "Xiaoling, do you know? Your father and mother are heroes!"

"Hero? Did mom and dad sacrifice themselves by doing something great?"

"Yes! But there are many heroes who saved the world silently and unknown to the public." Aunt half squatted down, her eyes level with Xiaoling's.

"Then mom and dad..." Xiaoling looked a little confused.

"In 2006, you were 5 years old and Xiaomeng was only 8 years old. A super typhoon named 'Shan Shen' made landfall in our city. The wind force at the center exceeded level 17, making it a super typhoon that occurs once in a century. Your parents were grassroots investigators at the Agricultural Bureau and were tasked with arranging for the villagers to be forcibly transferred to disaster shelters. On the night the typhoon made landfall, several villagers ignored the advice and went home to get their belongings, but were trapped in the mountain torrents. Your parents were on their way to rescue them and never returned."

Under the seemingly calm words of the aunt, one can see the huge waves in her heart, and the tears flashing in her eyes make people feel distressed. After all, the aunt is just a child who has just grown up, not to mention that her grandparents passed away early, and she only has her brother as a relative.

"Mom and Dad..." Xiaoling's eyes were red, "Why did they go back to save people? They obviously didn't have to go."

"Xiao Ling, this is called a hero. A hero doesn't need any applause and will save the world in places where no one knows!"

Xiaoling cried unexpectedly, with big tears rolling down her face. Her aunt hugged Xiaoling and patted her back gently, "Don't cry, don't cry, let's go home."

I helped Xiaoling wipe her tears and held her delicate little hand. "Don't cry. Mom and Dad will be sad to see you sad."

"Well..." Xiaoling wiped her tears vigorously, "I will never cry again."

"Good~"

I sighed. Why couldn't I have traveled back to this parallel world a few years earlier? Perhaps if I had traveled back a few years earlier, I would have been able to stop my parents who were rushing to work that night.

But maybe, it can't be stopped... Who knows.

"Sister, do you think mom and dad will be reincarnated?" On the way back, Xiaoling, who had been holding my hand, looked at the sky outside the car window with a melancholy look on her face.

"Yes! Mom and Dad are such brave people! God will definitely marry them into a good family! They will live their whole lives happily and carefree as a loving pair of mandarin ducks." I nodded vigorously.

"But why did God take them away?" Xiaoling turned her head, somewhat puzzled.

"Maybe... maybe God doesn't have enough people in heaven, so he might want mom and dad to help him do things. Maybe mom and dad are gods now!"

"Pfft! Sister, you are so childish." Xiaoling suddenly laughed, "If you ask me, my parents might have gone to another world to be the protagonists!"

Xiaoling's words stunned me for a moment. Since I can go back to the past, then it seems reasonable for my parents to go to another world, another time and space? Maybe in a certain world, my parents are returning as heroes!

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Thank you for your hard work in serving the people, and I hope those parasites will die soon!

Chapter 51 Homework

[Xiao Meng, I finally visited all my relatives!] On the fifth day of the first lunar month, when I was bored and doing my test papers, Tang Xin sent me a WeChat message.

[Do you visit relatives for three days? Your family is a big family. ]

[Yes, grandma has ten brothers and sisters. Dad also has two brothers and a sister.]

[How exaggerated... I don't have many relatives to visit.] But it's normal, because family planning was not implemented in that era.

[Is Xiaomeng a small family? ]

[Yes, I haven’t contacted distant relatives for a long time. After all, there is no profit in my family! ]

【Then do you want to go out and play? 】

【Have you finished your homework? 】

[Can you please not mention this? ]

[No, you must finish your homework before going out to play.]

[Then, I come to your house to do my homework? ]

[Huh? Are you serious?] My heart was pounding. I was caught off guard. Tang Xin was coming to my house again.

【Are you not welcome? 】

【Welcome, hehe. 】

【Then you can open the door for me! 】

【Huh?】 I was so shocked that I almost fell off the stool.

【Stop, I'm right at your door. 】

I hurried downstairs and opened the door. As expected, Tang Xin was standing in front of the door with a smile.

"Hehe." She was holding a bag of books in her hand, and it seemed like she had planned it in advance.

"Are you predicting that I'll let you do your homework?"

"No way. I originally wanted to ask you to help me with my homework." Tang Xin looked triumphant.

……

"This is not even a homework assignment!!"

I watched her unfold the exercise books and homework notes one by one. They were all blank, just like they were newly handed out.

"Hey."

"Just hurry up and do it!" I rubbed my brows, feeling worried. "School will start in 4 days, and you haven't done anything with your homework."

"I'm writing, I'm writing. Stop scolding me." Tang Xin pretended to be pitiful, as if I was bullying her. But from what I know about her, she was just pretending.

"Then hurry up and write. I'll get you a glass of water."

I just got up and opened the door of my room, Xiaoling was standing at the door with a stack of books.

"Xiaoling?" I was startled. "What's wrong with you?"

"Sister, I'll do my homework."

"Ah? Why did you suddenly come to my room to do homework?" I was confused.

Xiao Ling pouted, "Is it not possible? Can't I just ask you if I don't understand something?"

"Oh, sure. It just felt quite sudden."

"Hmph." Xiaoling snorted softly, walked past me and sat down beside the square table in my room which was not very big to begin with.

Tang Xin stopped writing, looked at Xiao Ling curiously, then turned to look at me, her eyes seemed to be asking, "What is your sister doing here?"

I shrugged, ignored her, and went downstairs to pour them both some water.

As soon as I went downstairs, I saw my smiling aunt.

"Come, I've prepared it for you. Take it up and give it to them." She held a snack plate in both hands. On the plate were three glasses of orange juice and some small snacks such as biscuits and bread.

"Thank you, auntie." I was a little surprised why my auntie would take the initiative to help me today.

"Do your homework well~" Aunt left a puzzling message.

……

"Come, do you want a drink?" I carefully took the three cups off the plate and put the snacks in the middle of the table. "There are also snacks to eat~"

"Okay." "Thank you."

Before I sat down, picked up my pen and started doing my homework, Tang Xin spoke first, "Xiao Meng, your sister has grown up a lot!"

"Really? You're a little beauty now!" I felt a little proud that my sister was getting more and more beautiful.

"She really looks like you. At first glance, I thought she was you in junior high school."

"Do your homework well and don't let your mind wander." Seeing that she wanted to continue talking, I interrupted her and told her to focus on her homework.

"Oh……"

"Sister, have a cookie!" Xiaoling suddenly put a cookie in front of my mouth after writing a few words, "Ah, open your mouth."

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