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Love the kite

Jung Isong is a writer.

By pomfret wisePublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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Depend ON CODE WORD TO MAKE A LIVING, SIT IN FRONT OF COMPUTER ALL DAY, EVERY EVENING IN THE WIFE URGES BELOW, JUST LEAVE THE STUDY TO TAKE A WALK.

One day Zheng Yicheng is walking in the square, suddenly, something slammed into his body. He was so frightened that he found it was a kite.

An old man ran to Zheng Yicheng and repeatedly apologized: "The kite is mine, accidentally hit you, really too sorry, didn't hit you?

The old man in front of us was grey and about seventy years old. Zheng Yicheng smiled and said nothing. The old man was worried and asked him if he was really all right. Zheng Yicheng smiled and said, "Grandpa, I am still young. Don't worry, I'm all right." Then he gave the kite back to the old man, waved his hand, and left.

The next day, ZHENG Yicheng took a walk in the square, and something "shout" hit the leg, it was still a kite, looked up, yesterday the old man is running from a distance.

What a coincidence, thought Zheng?

The kite in the sky needs the help of wind, there is no wind these two days, the old man is flying a kite in such weather, it is strange not to fall down. The old man came to Zheng Yicheng and said, "I'm sorry, brother. My kite hit you again."

Zheng Yicheng smiled and said it didn't matter. He picked up the kite and prepared to return it to the old man. When he looked at it, the kite was painted with a three-layer cake of the eldest brother.

Zheng asked curiously. The old man smiled sheepishly and said, "Because today is my wife's birthday."

Originally, the old man's wife has passed away, the old couple has been very good feelings, before leaving his wife said to the old man, people died to go to heaven, a heaven a ground, if the old man wants her, can go to fly a kite, because the kite, the distance between them narrowed, two people are equivalent to meet.

The old man remembered his wife's words and came to the square every day to fly a kite. But today is the old man's wife's birthday, so the old man painted a cake on the kite, for his wife's birthday in heaven...

Zheng Yicheng was deeply moved by the old man's story: What he flies every day is not only a kite, but also his heart for his wife.

The OLD MAN HESITATED FOR a moment and said to Zheng Yicheng: "Little brother, ask you something, do not know you can help a favor not?"

Zheng Yicheng nodded and said, "Grandpa, what can I do for you? Please tell me."

The old man took the kite, carefully rubbing the painted birthday cake said: "I am old, legs have no strength, not fast, yesterday did not put the kite into the sky, today is my wife's birthday, although there is no wind, but I would like to ask you to help me in any case to put the kite into the sky......"

Looking at the old man's face of expectation, Zheng readily agreed.Under the old man's guidance, Zheng soon mastered the essentials of kite flying. The old man held the kite, and Zheng Yicheng held the spool. After Shouting "One, two, three", the old man let go of the kite, and Zheng Yicheng ran with the string.

It had been too long since he had run with all his strength. He kept cheering himself on in his heart and said to himself that he would help the old man put the kite into the sky anyway.

Fortunately, the kite finally succeeded in rising into the sky.

Zheng, panting heavily, handed the spool to the old man. The old man let go of the line bit by bit. The line went longer and longer, and the kite went higher and higher. Two people looked up at the small kite in the sky, for a long time, as if time solidified in general...

For a long time, the old man closed the line, put the kite down, and sincerely thanked Zheng Yicheng. Zheng Yicheng said, "You are welcome. I come to the square for a walk every afternoon. If you don't mind, I can fly a kite with you every day."

The old man smiled: "line, that tomorrow let's be good or bad!"

Therefore, Zheng Yicheng accompanied the old man to fly a kite every afternoon. The two cooperated with each other and cooperated happily. When they watched the kite flying in the sky, they were also the happiest. The old man surnamed Chen, Zheng Yicheng called him old Chen, he called Zheng Yicheng small Zheng, two people became a pair of forget the years without words.

Zheng Yicheng's wife is grateful to old Chen, because Zheng Yicheng is too inactive, did not meet old Chen, walk an hour a day plan is not carried out in the end, often jerry-built. Zheng has been much more active since flying kites with Mr. Chen. To this end, Zheng Yicheng wife specially picked a day, cooked a few good dishes, invited Lao Chen to dinner at home.

Lao Chen came, and the three of them began to eat, talking and laughing.

Zheng YICHENG WIFE POURED A CUP OF WINE FOR EVERYONE AND RAISED THE GLASS: "Mr. Chen, YOU HAVE HELPED MY LITTLE ZHENG A LOT. Here, I respect you AND express MY gratitude."

Lao Chen laughed and said, "That's nice to say. It is NOT I who HELPED Xiao ZHENG a lot, BUT Xiao ZHENG WHO helped me a lot. It is I who should say thank you..."

Zheng Yicheng's wife said: "Mr. Chen, you do not know that little Zheng is good at everything, but he is too lazy, does not love sports, and sits in front of the computer every day to write, his health is not good, more serious is young got cervical spondylosis, even pain at night can not sleep. After flying kites with you for a month, his cervical spondylosis is much better and he sleeps much better..."

Old Chen holding the hand of the cup inexplicably shook up: "What? You say flying kites has curative effect on cervical spondylosis?"

"Yes, that's what the doctor said. The key is to strengthen the neck movement after cervical spondylosis, and in the process of flying a kite, people want to look up and see the kite, so that the neck does not stop doing up and down activities, so that the cervical spine and surrounding muscles and tendonia are adjusted to relax, so insist on flying a kite can help cure cervical spondylosis...... Why, what's the matter with you?"

Lao Chen rolled out two crystal tears in his eyes, mumbling: "No wonder, no wonder...... So it is, so it is!"

Zheng Yicheng and his wife are stunned, what no wonder, what so?

"I used to suffer from cervical spondylosis, and the pain was so severe that I was dying. I hardly felt any pain in the past six months, but it was all the effect of flying kites. That's not the point, the point is..." Lao Chen wiped away his tears and added, "Now I know what my wife really meant when she asked me to fly a kite. She wants me to treat cervical spondylosis and relieve the pain caused by cervical spondylosis by flying kites..."

Old Chen child like whine cried: "I do not have patience, if the wife said is to treat cervical spondylosis, estimated that I can not insist on a few days to give up, but said that flying a kite is to meet with her, reading her love her love, I can persevere. Wife, when I was alive, you tried your best to take care of me for most of my life. After you left, I wanted you to miss you, so I went to fly a kite. For so long, I always thought it was for you to do all this, but I did not expect that in the end, it is you who take care of me with the peripheral vision of life..."

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