Chapter 7 Sugar gourds are cold
The snow is beginning to fall.
The sky had not yet cleared completely, and the lead clouds were still pressing overhead, indicating that snow was likely to follow, and the occasional ray of sunlight leaking through a gap in the clouds was exceptionally bright.
The whole city looks a little "dirty".
Especially the further you go to the city center, the more "dirty" it becomes.
The main street had been cleared, but the cars and people who came and went, carrying snow-covered meltwater and a winter's dust, were rolling through the streets, leaving a trail of muddy water.
But there are still more and more people and vehicles.
Dirty, damp, but vibrant.
Yuan Liyang rode his bicycle, wandering around unhurriedly, almost greedily looking at the city in his memory - even if the more than 1,000 years of the Dalan Star Boundary were crossed out, the prosperity of this place still only existed in memory.
In about two or three years, with the gradual completion of the XC area, this LC area began to decline slowly but irrepressibly, and after more than ten years, it finally began to move, but because of the issue of demolition compensation, I don't know how many negotiations have been unreachable, and it has never been possible to negotiate, so until Yuan Liyang died unexpectedly in this world, this LC area still maintained a decaying appearance.
Don't ask Yuan Liyang how he knows so clearly, his grandparents, grandparents, aunts, aunts, uncles, and second uncles, even including their family, all live in the LC district.
Even until now, he still roughly remembers that he had been in the imperial capital for several years after graduating from college, had no girlfriend, and was urged to marry when he came home. At that time, the grandfather was in his seventies, and after the reunion dinner in the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone was sitting idle, and the old man suddenly took his hand, avoided the eyes and ears of the two aunts, and hid on the balcony.
He was smiling at the time, even the age spots were red with laughter, and whispered: "Dayang, don't worry about them urging you, grandpa knows why, when the money for our house comes down, grandpa will give it to you, and you can take it to pay a down payment......! Don't worry, your grandmother agrees! But there is one, don't tell your two aunts, let's talk about it when we're done...... Do you understand?"
Yuan Liyang remembered that he was stunned for a long time, so he couldn't cry on the spot.
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From the central park to the old department store, and then to the Xindian clothing wholesale market, together there are three or four stations, crisscrossing several streets, which are also mixed with several particularly old communities, as well as tube buildings, which together are the most prosperous old city center in Suzhou City.
Yuan Liyang rode a bicycle for dozens of minutes, and he probably turned around.
He even stopped at the gate of the central park and specially listened to a Henan opera sung by ticket holders in the park.
Chenzhou put grain.
Tsk, this old man's mid-air is quite sufficient, and he shouldn't need to look at his grandson.
There was a seller of sugar gourds at the entrance of the park, Yuan Liyang rode over, paid for three strings of sugar gourds, including a bunch of oranges, took a set of paper bags, turned his head and turned into a smaller street.
Not far away is the family home of the Construction Bureau.
It's been a thousand years, and I still clearly remember what the old man looked like.
Familiarly turned in, and soon saw from a distance that a group of old men downstairs were playing chess around watching people - such a cold day could not stop the leisure of these old men.
However, this old man in our family must only watch it, because he plays chess too stinky, and his temper is stinky and popular, and most of the time no one wants to play chess with him.
The one standing on the side with his waist straight behind his back is him.
"Grandpa!"
At this shout, the six old men all turned their heads to look.
"Ah, why are you here?"
Yuan Liyang shook the paper bag in his hand, "It's delicious!"
The old man was stunned for a moment, laughed, and his face was full of red light.
"Oh, okay, Lao Yuan, your grandson has something delicious and I still want to bring you some!"
"Hahahaha, that's! You don't look at anyone's grandson, the education is good!"
"Boasting again! Can you educate well? That's what his father taught well!"
"Huh!"
"This is Dayang, right? What kind of delicious food did you take?
", my grandson sent it to me! I want to eat it and let your grandson buy it for you!"
"My grandson is only in elementary school, so it's early......"
The old man's waist was straight, and while gossiping, he walked over with a sneering face, "Go, go home!"
"Where's my grandmother?"
"Watching TV at home! It's cold outside! What are you buying?...... Tsk, what are you buying this for! This thing is cold......"
Waiting for Yuan Liyang to put away the bicycle, the two of them walked into the corridor, the old man's face suddenly darkened, and his eyes were terrifying, "Why don't you go to school?"
"I miss you and my grandmother. ”
"Nonsense! Lack of money? Or do you want the teacher to scold?"
"None of them. ”
"! That's a lack of money!"
"Oh, grandpa, I really miss you, didn't I come here to ask for money! I own my grandson, don't you even have the slightest sense of trust?"
"! You're more slippery than your dad when he was a kid! Tell me it's the Five Elements Underwhelming! Bring it to me and taste it...... Hey, why is there an orange?"
"This is for my grandma, sweet, it's good to bite!"
"Hmph, let's go, go upstairs...... Oops, it's so cool!"
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When the old lady saw her grandson coming, she was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.
I didn't watch the electromagnetic therapy device on the TV shopping anymore, and took Yuan Liyang's hand and asked for warmth. When he took the sugar gourd of oranges, he smiled so much that he even pulled the folds on his face.
"It's better to be my eldest grandson, remember grandma!"
So the family of three sat on the old sofa and ate rock sugar gourd.
This house is the standard pattern of the family home of the Construction Bureau, three bedrooms and two living rooms in the early sixties, an old house built in the early eighties, Yuan Liyang's parents got married here, and Yuan Liyang also grew up here to be twelve or thirteen years old, and their family moved away, just a few years ago.
Even the furniture and household appliances in this house, many of them were purchased when Yuan's father and Yuan's mother got married.
The sofa was very old, loose and creaking to sit on.
"Grandma, isn't it sweet?"
"Sweet!
The old man interjected and frowned, "It's Teliang!"
The old lady was furious, "You go aside! You won't say a good word for the rest of your life! The grandson bought it, you don't eat it and stay, I'll eat it later!"
The old man also stiffened his neck, both cowardly and hard, "Who said not to eat! Who said not to eat!!"
Yuan Liyang ate the sugar gourd with a smile and listened to the old two bickering.
Suddenly, the phone in his pocket vibrate.
He took it out and looked at it, but he didn't care, but he still subconsciously stood up and walked to the balcony to connect, "Mom?
"Yuan Liyang, where are you?"
"I ...... What about the streets?"
"On the street, good, good, good, so good, tell me, what day of the week is today, should you appear on the street, in the Great Hall of the People, or in the classrooms of the third and fourth classes of the city's No. 1 middle and high school?"
"Uh...... Mother...... I...... Our old class called you?"
"Nonsense! It's the third year of high school! Do you know what to count in your heart! Recently, I saw that you were in good shape, what's the matter, suddenly I wanted to open and decided to let go of myself? Or did Peking University admit you early?"
"No, I'm not ......"
"Don't talk nonsense, honestly, why did you go!"
"Uh...... I rode around the Central Park, bought a string of sugar gourds, and ate them!"
"You ......"
The word "you" suddenly stopped on the other end of the phone.
It was as if she had taken a deep breath.
"Mom, don't be angry, I'll ...... in a while"
"Okay, since you're out, just have a good time, eat something you want, find a place to eat at noon, go to a movie if you want to watch a movie, and your mother will reimburse you when you go back." ”
"Uh......"
"Uh-! Take a little vacation, do you understand? After eating, I'll honestly go back to class! Your homeroom teacher, I'll call him back later, don't let him talk about you, okay?"
"Okay!"
"That's it, hang up...... That's right...... Forget it......"
"Say whatever you want. ”
"I'll go during the lunch break, your grandmother called yesterday and said that the heating in the house is not hot. I'd better go, you don't care, don't worry about yours!"
With that, the phone hung up.
Yuan Liyang turned his head and walked back, and saw that the old man and the old lady had not eaten, and were looking at himself.
"Did your mother call?"
"Hmm. Trained. ”
"That's it! This kid skipped class!"
"Don't talk!"
"Grandma, why isn't the heating hot?"
"I don't know, I just feel cold. ”
"Don't pay attention to your grandma, she's just afraid of the cold, in fact, there's nothing going on! It's just snowing, it's fine on a sunny day, there's nothing to do with heating, it's hot!"
Yuan Liyang also felt that the temperature in the house was not low.
However, he still ate the sugar gourd in a few bites and said, "Grandma, I'll show you, it may be that you have gas, I'll just let it go." ”
He had just tossed and brought a basin and a plastic bag over, ready to deflate the heating pipe, when the mobile phone rang again - take it out and look at it, a very familiar name.
"Hey, old fang, what's the matter?"
"You're awesome, Lao Yuan! The old class's class, if you can't come, you won't come! Tell you, the old class can look at your empty seat more than once during class!"
"Look! That's all you called?"
"Of course not! Where are you? I'll go out and find you!"
"What are you going to do?"
"What's the matter, if you go out to play, you won't allow me to skip class? Damn, I'm suffocating, hurry up, say, where are you?"
"You run away, I'll fix the heating for my grandfather and my grandmother!
"Don't talk nonsense! Which Internet café the hell?"
"I'm really fixing the heating here!"
"Then I'll go too, your old family's home, right?" Wait for me ......."
"Don't! Don't! Lao Fang, are you stupid, what are you skipping class? Do you know that the college entrance examination is coming, you don't know it, you don't count it, do you?"
“……”
"What, you honestly leave me for class, I'll go back in a while and bring you something delicious!"
"What's delicious?"
"Is it okay to string children?"
"Listen!"
"! You're a glutton!"