(8) The east gate
The next morning, my parents and I drove to my grandfather's house. After arriving, I found that I happened to meet Gu Lao who came to play chess with my grandfather. Speaking of Gu Lao and his grandfather, the two grew up together as neighbors since childhood, and later served as soldiers together, so it can be said that they have a friendship of sixty or seventy years. The Gu family has a unique knowledge, that is, tea ceremony pots, and in ancient times, the teapots made by the Gu family were all court tributes. To this day, the reputation of the Gu family in the tea ceremony is still powerful, among which Gu Lao is especially good at purple sand, all of which are rare treasures, and several purple clay pots have been auctioned at sky-high prices, which are quite respected by fellow practitioners.
I greeted Mr. Gu and my grandfather: "Hello Grandpa Gu!" "The two old men were very happy to see me. Seeing me, Grandpa Gu couldn't help but complain to his grandfather about his grandson, "Look at your family, you are well-mannered, you are gentle and intelligent, and then look at that kid in our family, it's just a difference between cloud and mud! ”
As he was talking, a joking voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Yo, grandpa, this time I can catch you talking bad about me behind my back again." "The person who came was the grandson of the Gu family, Gu Qingchen.
"How can such a big person be so big and not small. After Gu Qingchen greeted all of us, Grandpa Gu couldn't help but accuse him. "Grandpa, you have wronged me here, as soon as I heard that you came to Grandpa Lin's place when I came home, didn't you hurry to saddle you before and after?" Gu Qingchen hurriedly stepped forward and said flatteringly. "Eh, Xiao Gu is when he was young, young people are naturally lively and active, Lao Gu, don't be too harsh and light. Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, my grandfather hurriedly smiled and played a round.
"It's still Grandpa Lin who loves me. Gu Qingchen said with a dog's leg.
"I don't have time to play tricks with you, Youyi is here today, and you haven't seen you for a long time, let's talk together." Grandpa Gu waved his hand and drove Gu Qingchen away.
"My Great Scientist Chu, when did you come back from Country M?" Gu Qingchen still looked out of tune. Hearing his ridicule, I pretended to be angry and said, "If you do this again, I'll tell Grandpa Gu that you are bullying me again." ”
"Don't, don't, you've bullied me since I was a child, and when have I ever bullied you. Gu Qingchen hugged his head. "Why did you come back all of a sudden? To tell you the truth, others don't know, I don't know about you? If I hadn't encountered some insurmountable obstacles, I wouldn't have come back like this. Gu Qingchen changed the insincerity just now, and suddenly took it so solemnly, which shocked my heart, and pretended to be casual: "After being in a foreign land for a long time, you just think that I miss my homeland and return to China to serve?"
A trace of obscurity flashed on Gu Qingchen's face, and he changed to that cynical look again: "Chu University scientist Gao Feng Liangjie, Xiaosheng admires, admires." ”
I was anxious to divert the topic, and hurriedly said, "Don't just talk about me, and don't ask Tan Yi how she is doing? ”
Sure enough, at the mention of Tan Yi, Gu Qingchen's face immediately collapsed. "Can you stop mentioning that little ancestor, I'm avoiding her now!"
I, Ye Tanyi, and Gu Qingchen grew up together. The Ye family and the Chu family are world friends, and they are familiar with the Gu family, Ye's father is the current mayor of X City, and Tan Yi, as the mayor's daughter, has no eldest lady at all. The Ye family is in politics, the Chu family is in business, and the Gu family is a scholarly family, but the three of us never had any estrangement when we played together when we were children.
"What the hell happened to you and Tanyi?" I couldn't help but wonder. I only studied for two years in college and completed enough credits to graduate and go to country M, leaving Tan Yi and Gu Qingchen in China. Who knew that Tan Yi, this girl, didn't know which tendon was wrong, so she went to confess to Gu Qingchen.
At first, when I heard the news, I was really shocked, thinking that thanks to the fact that we grew up together, I didn't see that Tan Yi was good at taking care of Qingchen. Later, I heard that Gu Qingchen rejected Tan Yi and accepted such two exciting news in a short period of time, and my little heart couldn't stand it.
Thinking about the day in country M and the night in country C, Tan Yi dialed my phone and listened to the background sound chaotic, as if I was in a bar. Tan Yi poured wine and counted Gu Qingchen's crimes to me, which simply flaunted Gu Qingchen as a heinous and unspeakable sinner. I listened to Tan Yi's voice as if she was drinking too much, so I advised her to drink less.
As a result, I only heard Tan Yi's voice with a crying voice, "I don't, today is Friday." "So?" "We're 50% off at the little bar outside our school. ”
Okay, Xiaocai fan Tan Yi, you don't even want to let go of the opportunity to discount yourself because of your injury and alcoholism.
In the end, he was really helpless, thinking that it was the third watch in Q City in the middle of the night, and there was only Gu Qingchen a more reliable acquaintance, so he gritted his teeth and dialed Gu Shao's phone. "Gu Qingchen," I felt that I was gritting my teeth a little, "please do well, old man, go out and turn right to bring back the Tanyi girl who is drinking." I thought about it, and then said: "I don't care about the grievances and entanglements between you, in short, for the sake of everyone growing up together, I will ensure Miss Ye's safety tonight, OK?" At that time, Gu Qingchen happened to be invited to participate in a world-class design competition at Q University and lived in Q University.
Gu Qingchen seemed to be stunned, "Tan Yi, alcoholism, now, where is she?" I repeated the name of the small bar to him again, and he dropped a sentence, "I know." He hung up the phone in a hurry.
I don't know exactly what happened next. In short, after this turmoil, Tan Yi and Gu Qingchen became lukewarm, and later Tan Yi stayed in Q City to work after graduating from graduate school, while Gu Qingchen returned to X City. The connection between the two is just so salty, and I can barely understand some of each other's recent situation.