Get out of bed, walk to the balcony, and look down.
Aunt Liu stood under the sycamore tree, wearing a floral light shirt on her upper body, a pair of blue trousers, wood-colored sandals, and a shawl with her hair.
Compared to when she was at her grandfather's house, she looked much brighter and looked like a female teacher who had just been married for a few years in college.
Li Chaiyuan waved to her.
Aunt Liu smiled and pointed in front of her, signaling the young man to pick it up and come down.
Li Chaiyuan went to wash up first, then left a note for Tan Wenbin on the desk, and then walked out of the dormitory building.
"Xiaoyuan, you seem to have grown taller again."
"Aunt Liu, you are younger too."
"Hehe, let's go, your grandma Liu is waiting for you to go over and have breakfast together."
Li Chaiyuan followed Aunt Liu out of the north gate, walked along the road for a while, and then turned into a villa area.
It is said to be a villa area, but the area is not large, and the villa houses inside are not built to uniform specifications.
"That's it."
Aunt Liu pushed open the courtyard door, and inside was a three-story bungalow, not tall, but very wide, and the courtyard had obviously just been renovated and rearranged.
When I entered the courtyard, I raised my head and saw Ah Li in a white dress sitting on the balcony on the second floor.
The moment he saw the girl, Li Chaiyuan felt that his whole body was relaxed.
He even began to reflect on whether he was too indifferent to Runsheng and Yinmeng, and to the people and things around him.
There are countless beautiful things in this world, but there are really not many that can make teenagers empathize.
The girl also found the boy, she stood up, put her hands on the white railing, did not wave, did not stomp her feet, and did not even speak, but the amplitude of the corners of her mouth could be clearly seen even when she was standing downstairs.
Aunt Liu stood on the side, looking at the top for a while and looking in front of her for a while, as long as these two children were together, it was very eye-catching.
Of course, some people are happy to see it, and some people are unhappy when they see it.
The screen door of the side room on the ground floor was pushed open, and Liu Yumei stood there, her eyelids drooping slightly:
"Hey, are you going to starve me, an old lady?"
Aunt Liu hurriedly looked away, for fear that she would laugh out loud at this time.
"Grandma Liu."
"Hey, here it is."
Liu Yumei's low aura was obviously retracted when the boy walked towards her.
When we live together, it doesn't feel obvious, and when we really separate, we often miss it.
After getting along for a year, I can see each other almost every day, and I can barely say that the boy grew up watching her.
There was a small round table in the restaurant, Liu Yumei sat in the main seat, and Ah Li went downstairs and sat with Li Chaiyuan.
Liu Yumei asked: "Is the school still adapting?"
Li Chaiyuan: "It's all very good."
"Look haggard, didn't you rest well last night?"
"Well, a little."
"What are you doing without sleeping at night, sneaking to set fire?"
"No, it's a big fire."
Aunt Liu brought the side dishes first.
Li Zhuiyuan took a salted duck egg, and Ah Li also took one, both of them took the duck egg hollow end and knocked it on the table, then carefully peeled off one head, and then exchanged it naturally.
Aunt Liu in the kitchen shouted: "Do you want vinegar, and sugar and garlic?"
Liu Yumei: "No, it's already on the table."
A basket of soup dumplings, a basket of siu mai, and a plate of fire dumplings were put on the table, all of which were made by Aunt Liu herself.
Next, there is a bowl of Yangchun noodles per person.
The soup is clear and attractive, the noodles in the bowl are very regular, and people who don't like to eat will find the taste bland or even the noodles are sandwiched.
But people who love to eat love this kind of freshness and strength, and putting any toppings on it is not beautiful.
"Aunt Liu, thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard, it's not healthy and strong, it's easy to cook."
Liu Yumei asked: "What do you usually eat?"
"School hasn't started yet, the cafeteria is basically closed, and I usually go to eat outside the school."
"If you are greedy, come here and let Aunt Liu make it for you, but it's just a matter of adding extra bowls and chopsticks."
"Okay, thank you, grandma."
"If Runsheng and the others are coming, they have to say hello in advance, so I can add a big pot." Aunt Liu reminded.
"Well, it will."
After breakfast, Liu Yumei stood up and walked to the door: "You and Ah Li should be stubborn first, I'll go for a walk first, and you will come down later, I have something to say to you."
"Okay, grandma."
Li Zhuiyuan and Ah Li went upstairs.
Ahri's room was spacious, with a desk and a drawing table.
There are several paintings hanging on the wall, depicting the main house of the grandfather's house, the dam, the east and west houses, and the view of the rice field village seen from the house.
Apparently, the girl did not like it here, she preferred her original life.
The building doesn't have to be that high, the room doesn't have to be that big, after getting up early to dress up, you can come to the juvenile's room and wait for him to wake up and see yourself for the first time.
In the details in the painting, there is a small table made of wooden benches during meals, a terrace on the second floor, and a pair of rattan chairs made by Uncle Qin himself.
Li Zhuyuan stopped in front of the painting, and at this moment, he was also missing.
"Ah Li, do you want to go back?"
The girl nodded.
At the door, Aunt Liu, who came in with a fruit tray, stopped.
Originally, Liu Yumei wanted to hang it for a while before calling Xiaoyuan home, but she was still afraid that her granddaughter's condition would go back.
Li Zhuyuan pointed to the paintings on the wall and said: "Because we came out, these past pictures and memories are more beautiful."
Ah Li took the initiative to hold the boy's hand, and when she looked up at her paintings on the wall, her eyes had a lot of brilliance.
Aunt Liu smiled silently, knocked on the door gently, brought the fruit plate in, and pointed to it: "You can go to the top floor."
Chase Li came to the roof with the fruit plate and Ah Li, which had also been renovated, with two identical rattan chairs under a parasol.
The two of them lay down and started playing chess, still playing three games at the same time.
While playing chess, Li Chaiyuan told what he experienced after coming to school.
Every time she spoke of a key point, Ahri's fingers would exert slight force, and she was trying to respond, proving that she was listening carefully.
After speaking, Li Chaiyuan was a little dry and ate the fruit sideways.
Forked up a piece and handed it to the girl, who shook her head and blinked her eyes.
Li Zhuiyuan understood, put down his fork, lay down again, and closed his eyes.
What ordinary people call "going into each other's hearts" is an exaggerated description that only stays in words, but for the two of them, it is the most straightforward realism.
When he opened his eyes, Li Chaiyuan felt the scorching wind and the cold sun.
Looking up, the sun in the sky and the halo around it emitted a kind of paleness.
In front of the fields and streams, there are terrifying beings, working and playing.
But while they are doing their own thing, they deliberately look here with their eyes, with a sense of joke and playfulness.
It seems that everything here is absurd and weird tailor-made for oneself.
Looking back again, I saw the house and the threshold behind me.
Ahri, who left home, also walked out of that threshold, and she put herself in a "terrifying wild" environment.
When he opened his eyes again and returned to reality, the boy's face was covered in cold sweat.
He deliberately held on for a while, wanting to experience the feeling of Ah Li after closing his eyes.
The girl wiped the boy's sweat with her cuffs with a smile in her eyes.
"Our Ahri is really strong."
Happiness can be enhanced through contrast, and pain can also be weakened, and their companionship is to draw confidence and strength from each other.
After lying down for a while and calming down and feeling dizzy, Li Chaiyuan sent Ah Li back to the room first, and he went downstairs.
"Your grandma Liu hasn't come back yet, well, that's the study, you can go there and wait for her."
"Okay, Aunt Liu."
Li Zhuyuan pushed open the door of the study and walked in, there was no traditional desk inside, there was a coffee table, a stack of books on the coffee table, an envelope below, and a bed at the back.
Sitting down on the stool opposite the coffee table, Li Chaiyuan's eyes involuntarily swept to the book at the top - "Liu's Qijie".
I reached out and flipped through it, and found that the handwriting on it was clear and neat, well, this is the regular version, there is no need to read it.
Li Chaiyuan simply brewed a pot of tea first, and as soon as the tea was brewed, Liu Yumei walked in, sat down on the couch, and leaned back against the soft pillow.
Her eyes glanced at "Liu's Qi Technique", and noticed that the pages of the book had been turned, and she couldn't help but show a hint of pride in her eyes.
"Grandma, drink tea."
"Hmm."
"Grandma, didn't Uncle Qin go to Jinling with you?"
"He is busy, has a lot of things, and will come back when he is done."
"Oh."
"What book have you been reading lately?"
"Some scriptures."
Recently, I have been reading the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra" seriously, and it is also thanks to this book that I was able to manipulate it so freely in the memory screen last night.
"I didn't come across any interesting books?"
Liu Yumei took a sip of tea, if this kid said to borrow it, then she would take advantage of the situation to borrow "Liu's Qiwang Technique".
Take a look in advance, learn slowly, and ask yourself if you don't understand, so that the efficiency can be higher.
"There is an interesting book, but because it is so interesting, I am afraid of 'losing my mind', so I didn't dare to read it for the time being."
That book with a white seal and black background will also give people "flattering eyes".
"It doesn't matter, books are written for people to read, and the books that can be placed in front of you are all fate."
Liu Yumei chuckled in her heart, this kid knows how good books are.
"I don't think it's the right time, I want to wait for myself to grow up and be more confident, and then muster up the courage to watch it."
Just like the copper coin buried in the cemetery of Shigang Town, one day I will go back and dig it out and face it.
"Books are meant to help you grow, and they are actually the same at any time, if you don't even dare to face it, it will be too contemptible."
The more the young man declined, the more useful Liu Yumei felt in her heart.
"Grandma, do you really think so?"
"Of course, if you don't look at it, you can't understand it, maybe you look at it now, and when you grow up and mature, it is another feeling.
"Hmm." Li Chaiyuan nodded.
Although he is very confident, everyone who opens that book, which one is not full of confidence and thinks it is special?
"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I'm actually a little scared in my heart."
"As the old saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, what are they afraid of, encounters are fate, people and books are also fate, if you don't look through it, how can you know if it is specially prepared for you?"
"Yes, I understand."
"Hmm."
Liu Yumei put down the teacup and waited for a while, but she didn't see the young man mentioning borrowing books to her.
She wasn't in a hurry, she just thought that the young man was polite and wanted to wait until the conversation was over and before getting up and leaving, before formally making this request.
"Runsheng and the others have all followed you to school, what are your plans?"
"I don't have a specific plan, let's take it one step at a time."
Li Chaiyuan didn't say anything dejected and negative, because he had a big job when he first came to school, and after leaving his hometown, life was all of a sudden.
"The road, you can watch it step by step, but there must be a goal, according to the old saying, it is the king to find the bottom of the pond, and the dragon needs to go to the river, it depends on your own spirit." "Go to Jiang?"
Yin Fuhai said to himself, "After so many years, someone from the Liu family has finally left the river again."
"For example, lofty ambitions."
"Grandma Liu, I want to know what it originally meant?"
"What did you mean by that?
From the head of the river to the end of the river, the people and things you encounter should be leveled, and you should deal with them.
new doors and new households have to rely on the river to establish a court;
The mansion in my hometown has to rely on the river to stabilize the lintel.
The river feeds people, and people are easier to turn into dragons than pythons."
"Then Uncle Qin ...... back then"
He was no longer at his grandfather's house, so he could say some things more relaxed, but Li Chaiyuan noticed that Grandma Liu still had some scruples while talking, probably because Ah Li's illness was not completely cured, and she hadn't spoken yet, so she might have to go back to her grandfather one day in the future to "make a wish".
"Ali naturally walked across the river back then, but he didn't finish it and almost broke.
Liu Yumei's eyes showed a hint of remembrance.
"Did something happen?"
"Well, don't mention the matter of Chen Sesame and rotten millet." Liu Yumei opened the topic, "What about you kid, what are you thinking about in the future?"
"Grandma, how do you get to Jiang Xiang?"
"Hehe." Liu Yumei smiled and said, "This question is the same as where the rivers and lakes are, how can there be an exact mention, if you want to leave in your heart, isn't it the river under your feet?"
Li Chaiyuan was silent.
"Grandma said something profound?"
"I understand."
"Oh?"
"Once you enter this door, you don't want to stop, so you will keep walking."
When you want to make a fuss, while you are looking for trouble, things will also come to you by themselves.
This is very similar to the "cleaning ball" he said to Tan Wenbin in the truck when he came to Jinling.
But this seems a bit idealistic.
Li Chaiyuan couldn't help but look up at the roof, thinking of the way he and Mao Chang'an fooled the way of heaven, as if the way of heaven was also a bit idealistic.
In addition, the Yin family genealogy also records the travels of the ancestors, but they did not use "walking the river", which is probably a special name for families like Qin Liu, just like ordinary people who go to scenic spots to visit cannot use "visit".
There is a characteristic in the travelogues of the ancestors of the Yin family, no matter how high-spirited they were when they set off, they all returned to their hometown in Fengdu after encountering some kind of setback in the end, well, there are many people whose travelogues only recorded half of them and ended abruptly, and they should not even be able to come back home.
For example, the four ancestors of the Yin family who carried the bed to the snake girl in the underground palace.
Therefore, sitting in the dock is actually similar to seclusion, going to a dock and giving birth is not really to divide the sphere of influence, but more like bowing to fate.
Li Chaiyuan refilled Liu Yumei with a cup of tea, stood up and handed it to her, and asked: "Grandma, it was before, and now it is now, can the situation be the same?"
"In the past, foreigners' amethyst ships drove into the river, but now they haven't, is it because the foreigners don't want to come?"
"What you mean is that the face is different, but the fundamental contradiction has always existed, right?"
"Another explanation, this sounds awkward to me."
"The scenery on both sides of the river has become better, but the undercurrent under the river is still the same as it was a hundred years ago?"
"Hehehe." Liu Yumei smiled and stretched out her finger to the young man, "I think I know why Ah Li likes to stay with you, I heard your grandfather say before that your grandmother loves your mother very much.
Li Chuiyuan: "......"
"No matter how many dams are built on the river, no matter how calm the river surface looks, the sediment at the bottom of the river can still easily bury people, and this river is still not easy to walk.
However, these are still early for you, so you just need to study and grow up with peace of mind."
Saying that, Liu Yumei lowered her eyebrows and glanced at the "Liu's Qi Technique" placed in the most conspicuous place.
Li Chaiyuan also lowered his head, he felt that if he took Runsheng Binbin Yin Meng and the others to take pleasure in killing him, then he might already have a tendency to walk the river now.
Uncle Qin didn't succeed back then, but he could become so powerful, what if he succeeded?
If you want to continue to improve and improve, you can only take the initiative to accept the gift of fate.
"Stay here for lunch, I'll let A Ting do it."
"No, I'll go back to school first, I'll come to see Ah Li tomorrow."
"Okay."
Li Zhuiyuan stood up: "Thank you for your teachings."
Liu Yumei nodded, which was considered a send-off.
Then, Li Chaiyuan walked out of the study and he left.
Liu Yumei looked at the book on the coffee table with some doubts, did this stinky boy forget something?
Aunt Liu pushed open the door and walked in.
"The stinky boy is gone?"
"Well, let's go. Hey, why is this book still here, you are too strict?"
"Old lady, I have never been so kind to any outsider in my life, for fear that this kid would be embarrassed to speak, so I comforted and encouraged him."
"That is, your attitude is not obvious enough, you are thin-skinned, and you are embarrassed to say this."
"Not obvious enough?" Liu Yumei picked up the book "Liu's Qijiao", "I almost presented the book to him respectfully, begged him to read it, and then came to guide me!"
"That shouldn't be, this kid is clever, is it really careless this time, didn't I hear what you meant?"
"Forget it, let him go."
"Are you really willing? I was just outside but I heard your laughter."
"How far is this from his school?"
"It's not far, just walk a little out of the school gate."
"Isn't the diagonal front the school wall, can you open a door closer?"
"I'll coordinate the arrangements."
"I think there is also a room in that school?"
"That house is small, it is where retired teachers and professors from the school live, I'm afraid you won't be used to it."
"Heh, I've lived in the small east house, are you still used to this? You go and arrange for a family to vacate the house, it's really not possible, just swap houses and live in the school, closer to it."
"You just said you didn't want him."
"Am I doing that for him, hey, as soon as I saw him coming, we Ah Li stood up and looked at him, I felt distressed."
"Okay, okay, just do as you say, but this house is still not changed, and there is no basement in the school that can hold so many things in our Ah Li."
"You go get it, I'll go upstairs and lie down for a while, this stinky boy, I didn't borrow a book."
As soon as Liu Yumei walked out of the study, she saw Ah Li walking out of the opposite room.
The room was specially used for setting up the table, and a new set of tablets was made from the best thunder wood.
Ordinary thunderwood is not difficult to find, but it is priceless for specific tree species, specific products, and even specific ages.
At this time, Ah Li came out of the room, holding four tablets in her arms.
Ah Li did not rush upstairs, but looked at her grandmother.
Well, as soon as that kid comes, his granddaughter will be a small worker for him.
Liu Yumei opened her mouth, but still waved her hand:
"Be good, hold it up quickly.
A Ting, A Ting, go and bring her our A Li's toolbox."
……
When Li Chaiyuan returned to school, it was almost noon, and he wanted to go to the dormitory building to see if Tan Wenbin was awake, but when he passed by the door of the cheap store, he saw Runsheng.
Runsheng was still the same white vest, and bandages could still be seen on the leaked shoulders.
"Xiaoyuan."
Runsheng trotted over, his arm swing was not very coordinated.
Li Chaiyuan stood still and watched Runsheng come over.
He has been trying not to perform in the "intimate" relationship network, hoping that he can give some emotional feedback.
The advantage of doing this is that it may promote your own progress, but the disadvantage is ...... It's easy to hurt people.
After all, even if you are a normal and not sick person, it is easy for friendship to break down or even become a grudge if you "be honest" with two friends.
"How is the injury?"
"It's not good, but I can get out of bed, anyway, I've been fine lately, I've been discharged from the hospital, and I can't feel good lying down all day, hehe."
He was not discharged from the hospital yesterday because he was afraid that he would be discharged from the hospital, which made everyone feel that he couldn't wait to participate in the action, and he didn't want to put pressure on the team, let alone become a burden.
Li Zhuiyuan opened his arms and stepped forward, but halfway through the movement, he only slapped Runsheng's hand with one hand.
Then, he turned around and walked back to the dormitory.
"Hey, hey." Runsheng looked down at the back of his hand that had just been patted by Xiaoyuan, and walked towards the store.
Yin Meng, who was standing on the steps at the entrance of the store, witnessed this scene and whispered: "It seems that our Brother Xiaoyuan is still angry with you."
"No, Xiaoyuan is very enthusiastic."
……
In the next few days, Li Chaiyuan's life was very regular.
Fishing to death is very similar to fishing, and the happiness of a fisherman lies in enjoying the short tranquility in his busyness.
For Tan Wenbin, he started the preview mode for university courses, learning every day until the middle of the night before going to bed.
After Li Chaiyuan woke up in the morning, he went to Liu Yumei's place for breakfast, and after staying with Ali for half a day, he went to Runsheng Store for lunch at noon, and then packed a copy and took it back to Binbin, who woke up in the afternoon.
Originally, there was no such step, but when Binbin woke up hungry in the afternoon, he would habitually go into Lu Yi's dormitory to get a red sausage on the way to wash up, and I heard that dumplings were also placed later.
In order to prevent Binbin from continuing to harm others, Li Chaiyuan could only bring him food.
The main reason is that last time Lu Yizhong broke the door of the dormitory herself, and she couldn't lock it when people were not there, so Binbin could open the door every time to go in and enjoy the offerings.
The repair master has to wait until the official start of school before going to full-time classes, and during the holidays, he will come every once in a while to deal with a number of problems, but he can go to the dormitory aunt to report for repairs, and he will be able to repair the door lock in two days.
Lu Yi went to the logistics maintenance place and asked, and the person on duty said that the newly appointed logistics director in charge of this work was also missing.
Runsheng also went to report the disappearance case of Sun Hongxia, although he knew it well, but the process he should go still had to go.
When the freshmen in other classes were organized to lead the military training uniforms, Li Chaiyuan and Tan Wenbin's class and the two nearby classes did not move because school had just started...... Their counselor is missing!
Recently, police cars have appeared very frequently in schools.
In the university, five people disappeared at once, which is already a very remarkable thing, and a little investigation can make it clear that the source points to the case seven years ago, which naturally attracts great attention.
That evening, when everyone was cooking hot pot in the store, Xue Liangliang, who was on a business trip to the mountain city with Luo Gong, specially called the store and asked directly:
"What did you catch again?"
After all, he was the owner of the store, and Sun Hongxia was his employee, and he immediately saw through the reason behind this disappearance case that caused a sensation on campus.
Tan Wenbin answered the phone and replied:
"Fishing for fresh tripe and mille-feuille tripe, Ba is very comfortable, do you want to come back?"
Xue Liangliang understood the hint and said he would wait for him to come back.
After all, the table that was specially opened last time to arrange school study and life for Xiaoyuan, but the specific person in charge of the three greetings disappeared directly.
This means that after returning to Jinling, another table will have to be reopened.
After Tan Wenbin hung up the phone, Yin Meng asked: "We will also have phone monitoring?"
"No, I just don't want to talk nonsense with Brother Liang, for fear of burning my belly old."
Tan Wenbin sat down and began to scoop with chopsticks.
At that moment, a few people came towards the store from outside.
Runsheng looked up and said to Tan Wenbin, who was still concentrating on fishing:
"The police are here, it's your father."
Tan Wenbin said without raising his head:
"Fart, my father is just a small squad leader of the township police station, if he can rise to the provincial capital in one go, there is only one possibility, and that is our ancestral grave!"
Li Chaiyuan moved his position a little further away from Tan Wenbin.
Yin Meng and Runsheng also held the bowl and leaned to the side.
Tan Wenbin wondered: "You guys are going to get old, hehe, if you don't eat me, I will be full of it!"
"Bang!"
Binbin was kicked out.
(End of this chapter)