My grandfather had to set up a stall to sell cooked vegetables.

This is unacceptable to the eldest aunt Lin Yufang and Qin's mother Lin Yuhua no matter what. Grandpa before the founding of the People's Republic of China, they didn't know it at that time because they were young, and grandpa and grandmother didn't talk about it. When the sisters grew up, they gradually knew that their grandfather was the first spoon in Gao'an City, and often when leaders from the province or other places came to Gao'an City to inspect the work, they would have a car to take their grandfather to take charge of the spoon.

Qin Fan also met twice when he was a child.

Once I accompanied my grandfather for a walk and walked not far from the Gao'an Hotel, (Gao'an Hotel is not an ordinary hotel, it is a hotel for Gao'an government departments to receive leaders and generals, after all, Gao'an is the hometown of hundreds of generals.) It covers an area of about ten Gao'an middle schools, which is like a forest park in later generations, and the buildings inside are also imitation Soviet buildings, and there are soldiers on duty at the entrance of the gate. At this time, a small car drove behind him, and the person in the car saw his grandfather, stopped and asked politely: "Leader, where are you going, we will send you." ”

Qin Fan remembered that his grandfather replied with a smile at that time: "Thank you, I just took my little grandson for a walk." The person who came heard it and said, "Then let's go first, and the leader will see you again." Grandpa just waved his hand. Xiao Qin Fan asked his grandfather, "Why do they call you leader?" and his grandfather replied, "They recognized the wrong person." Xiao Qin Fan also believed it at that time.

Another time, Qin Fan went to school, it should have been the first year of junior high school, walked to the alley, saw a car parked there, the driver opened the back door of the car, and his grandfather's fat body stepped out of the car, when his grandfather dangled towards his little daughter's house, Qin Fan was not far away, and clearly saw the driver behind him, and said respectfully: "Leader, go slowly." ”

Hearing my aunt say that my grandfather wanted to set up a stall to sell cooked vegetables, the whole family strongly objected.

Qin Fan was not surprised, in his previous life, his grandfather set up a stall and sold cooked vegetables until he died. Every day, the stall is out at five o'clock on time, and the stall is closed at half past six, and the wind and rain do not come out. It's just that my aunt pushes the stall back and forth every day, which is very hard. Qin Fan came back from winter vacation one year, and he and his cousin who were on winter vacation together, one night, after his grandfather came back from collecting the stall, he took the two of them all the way to the Phoenix bath and blocked an old man in the bath.

There was an aunt's chattering voice in the living room outside, and when Qin Fan came out of it, he saw that his mother's face was not good-looking, and Qin's father was also calm. Qin Fan knew that they felt that their grandfather was doing this to make them very shameless in the unit, and some people would definitely say that they were unfilial to be daughters.

Seeing Qin Fan coming out of the back room, his aunt hurriedly hugged him and said, "Fanzi, your grandfather loves you the most, tomorrow you go and persuade your grandfather to let him not set up a stall." Qin Fan also knew that the place where his grandfather set up his stall was only a few steps away from his aunt's unit, and said to his aunt with a smile: "Auntie, don't cry, I'll go to your place tomorrow morning to talk to my grandfather." ”

After his aunt left, Qin Fan was thinking about his grandfather's identity. In his previous life and later life, Qin Fan didn't understand what his grandfather did before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but when his grandfather and grandmother were arguing, he heard two or three sentences. Like "When I was in the Red Army that year, I was gone and gone." ”

"Maybe it's gone. ”

and "It wasn't you and your dad who stopped me at the time, I ......"

"Pull it down, it's the Red Army that doesn't accept you as a baby, saying that you are too young, what does it matter to me and my father?"

Qin Fan sometimes deduced from these sporadic words that his grandfather was about ten years old back then, which was too young. But I think that the Red Army had a cadet regiment at that time, and there were many people who were battalion commanders at the age of 14 or 5 and company commanders at the age of 13 or 4.

Qin Fan suddenly remembered what his grandfather said when he was chatting with his grandmother, and his grandmother asked: "I don't know if you saved those people back then, and now you are ......" Grandpa snorted and said, "Old woman, you talk too much." ”

When chatting with my mother, I also asked my grandfather and grandmother about it, according to her: my grandfather fled with his parents and arrived in Gao'an City, and after his parents died, he and his younger brother, who was also his grandmother's father, took in the two brothers and became young men in the restaurant opened by his grandmother's father. My grandfather and my grandmother were in the same year, and when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, I became a son-in-law, and then my grandmother's father died, and because I had no son, I left the restaurant to my grandfather.

Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a public-private partnership was implemented, and my grandfather worked in the state-run hotel until his retirement, and then returned to work for more than a year, and was dismissed in April 88.

The next day, when Qin Fan came to his grandfather's house, the three old men were still in a cold war with each other, but when they saw Qin Fan, they all showed smiling faces. Qin Fan winked at his grandmother and aunt, and said to his grandfather, "Grandpa, my aunt told us last night that you want to set up a stall?"

My grandfather also knew that my aunt went to her sister's house last night, so he was not surprised, and asked with a smile: "My eldest grandson, do you disagree too?"

Qin Fan stepped forward, gave his grandfather a cigarette, and said, "Grandpa, I agree very much." ”

Grandpa was slightly surprised "oh", grandma and aunt were anxious, and one said, "Fanzi, you didn't say that yesterday." One said, "Fanzi, what are you talking nonsense?" ”

Qin Fan waved his hand and said, "Grandma, auntie, listen to me, although my grandfather is over sixty years old, he likes to cook, so let's open a restaurant, how about it?" Before they could speak, Grandpa was not happy anymore and asked: "Fanzi, I set up a stall, I just have something to do, and now I am allowed, you want to open a restaurant, first, you don't have so much money, and second, even if I agree, my energy can't keep up." Don't make a mistake, no, no. Grandpa shook his head.

Qin Fan originally had this plan, and continued to persuade: "Grandpa, the location, layout, tables, chairs, and back hall of the restaurant are all done for you, you only need to burn two tables a day, and when you don't want to do it, we will rest." Grandpa laughed and said, "Fanzi, are you here to make me happy?"

Seeing that his grandfather didn't believe it, Qin Fan continued: "Grandpa, give me two months, I'll do everything I said for you, do you think it's okay?" Grandpa still shook his head, grandma and aunt were tempted, grandma scolded: "Dead old man, you, what do you want to do?" Grandpa asked unhurriedly: "The place is too far away, and it is not okay to open a restaurant without anyone, so what can I do alone?" Qin Fan said busily.

Grandpa and Grandma looked at each other and said, "Okay, you can take me to see it in a few days." The aunt pulled Qin Fan aside and asked, "The money you got to rent a house, and it will cost a lot of money to buy those things." Qin Fan didn't tell her the truth, but said: "It's the house that my teacher bought." Check it out in a few days. My aunt was also relieved when she heard this, as long as the old father didn't set up a stall in front of her unit, otherwise, she would be ashamed to death by her colleagues.

Two days later, Qin Fan pulled Ding Yun and Lao Zhao to the mouth of Cotton Hutong, and walked only more than 20 meters before coming to the place.

In front is two two-story wooden buildings, the lower façade, the upper is the house, between the two facades is a passage, through the aisle, suddenly there is a small patio, there is a well in the courtyard under the patio, the courtyard is also a two-story wooden building on both sides, but facing a two-story high gable, behind the wall grows three tall ginkgo trees. Although the corridor in the back is blocked by a white wall, there is a small door in the middle that leads to the back street. In the past, on both sides of the aisle, at the end was the stairs to the second floor, and the feet made a creaking sound, and when I went up to the corridor on the second floor, I looked down by the railing, and the bluestone slabs on the courtyard floor were covered with a layer of green moss.

Ding Yun dragged Qin Fan and asked softly, "Can we afford this?"