"real?"

The child looked at his grandfather.

The old lady hit the old man with her elbow.

The old man nodded immediately.

"real."

"Grandpa and Lele work hard to make it bloom?"

...

"good!"

The child responded happily.

"Bloom, blossom..."

The child happily waved the branches in his hand.

Jumping around in place like a little jumping bean.

...

Both old men bent their eyebrows.

This kid...

...

Since they agreed to their grandson, the two old men have done a lot of homework.

I have looked up a lot of information and asked many people who have an understanding of this aspect.

The moment they finally planted the branches, the three of them seemed to be performing some extremely cautious ceremony.

...

Every day after that, the child would run to the place where the plum branches were planted, hoping that the branch he picked up by digging out the snow would bloom into the beautiful plum blossoms he remembered.

“Red, white, yellow…”

The child muttered.

The old lady passing by asked curiously, "Lele, what are you talking about alone?"

"grandmother."

The child held his chin with both hands, and his eyes were still staring at the branches.

"I'm guessing what color the flowers it blooms."

“Don’t plum blossoms have many colors?”

...

"What color of flowers does Lele hope it will bloom?"

The old lady asked as the child said.

"Um……"

The child's thin eyebrows were tangled together.

“White looks great…”

“Red looks great…”

“Yellow looks great too…”

...

Puff ~

The old lady couldn't help laughing.

Are they all very good-looking?

In this case, if the child wants to choose the best one, I don’t know when it will be.

"Grandma understands."

The old lady smiled, "No matter what color of flowers this plum branch blooms, Lele likes them very much, right?"

"......Um."

The child tilted his head and then smiled and opened the corners of his mouth.

“I like it all.”

"So, let's bloom soon~"

...

In the child's eager expectation, the plum branches never bloomed.

The two old men didn't understand which of their steps was wrong.

However, they couldn't bear to look at the disappointed look of their children.

Taking advantage of his grandson being taken out to play by his parents, the two old men bought a small plum tree and came back.

Really small.

After all, even a child who is still in kindergarten will not believe that he will go out for a few days, and when he comes back, the branches of the former tree turn into a mature plum tree.

......

The two old men hesitated for a while, but still did not pull up the branches that the child picked up.

They knew that although they couldn't figure it out, the children liked the branch very much.

I am looking forward to the branch blooming.

This is probably what is called eye contact.

......

The two old men planted the small plum trees they bought on the edge of the branches.

......

At the end of winter, the two old men finally let the children who came back and headed straight to the plum trees in the yard to see the blooming plum blossoms.

At that time, the children's happy smiles remained in their minds.

There has never been a trace of dullness.

......

So much so that the children left them forever. Looking at the plum tree, they still felt that the children were still by their side.

They took care of the plum tree.

It seems like nothing has changed.

But......

“Changed…”

The old lady lowered her eyes and looked at her wrinkled hands.

"Plum Tree is sick..."

"We don't know when it starts to get sick..."

"When we found out, the situation was already very serious."

"... They all said that this plum tree is beyond salvation."

“But we don’t believe it.”

"This is the plum tree that the child cared for with us."

"That kid likes this plum tree very much."

"Every time I come to us, the first thing I see is this plum tree."

......

"The child... has left because of our negligence."

The old lady's voice was dull and her voice was trembling.

"...This plum tree he cared for must also be due to our negligence..."

"I don't agree."

The old man's voice was very light, but he exuded a strong will.

"I don't believe what those people say..."

"This plum tree will be fine."
To be continued...