The stairs of this self-built house were very narrow, barely enough for Lin Yu and his wife to pass side by side, and the driver followed behind the two people, saying that it was to prevent his wife from falling down on the stairs.

As Lin Yu expected, climbing six floors was not easy for his wife, perhaps because of chemotherapy, her physical strength was not as good as before.

Lin Yu tried his best to use his own strength to lift half of his wife's body up, so that she could use a little less strength, plus she rested for a few minutes every time she climbed a floor, and after a full twenty minutes, the lady finally came to Zhou Shan's door.

There is an upside-down blessing word posted on the wooden door, which should have been pasted on it during the Chinese New Year, and it has not been torn off. Madame remembered that she seemed to have not had a Spring Festival for a long time, and every time she needed to reunite with her family, Madame would ask the housekeeper to buy a plane ticket and fly to a place where there would be no Spring Festival and lights everywhere. Mrs. used to always comfort herself with the excuse that she didn't care about the traditional festival of the New Year, but now think about it, every year during the Spring Festival, a couplet and a blessing word are pasted at the door of the house, and then a happy reunion dinner with the family, which is the happy memory of his childhood.

Madame raised her right hand, and after a slight pause in mid-air, she tapped it lightly. There was a quick response in the room, but it was a little girl who looked to be about four or five years old.

"Uncle and aunt, who are you looking for?" In the eyes of the little girl, Lin Yu and his wife have become peers.

Before Madame could reply, another figure opened the door, her hair was a little gray, and asked with a wrinkled smile, "Are you...?"

Mrs. quickly guessed the identity of the other party, her age looks older than herself, perhaps because of neglect of maintenance, the state of the whole person is older than her real age, since this is Zhou Shan's home, then the one in front of her must be Zhou Shan's wife.

"Hello, I am Zhou Shan's old friend, now, I want to come and see him," Mrs. said directly and clearly, after years of hard work in the mall, Mrs. can be said to have read countless people, and has also practiced a kind of ability to know the other party's temperament when they meet for the first time. The woman in front of her, at first glance, is a very good-tempered and very housekeeper type, although her face is now old, but it can still be seen from her facial features that she should still be a little beautiful when she was young.

Mrs. didn't expect that the first time she saw the 'rival in love', she felt this way, without a trace of jealousy and regret, but was pleased that her brother had a good vision and chose a good woman to accompany her for the rest of her life.

"I see, come in and sit down," the woman greeted warmly, and she took the little girl behind her, so that there would be plenty of room for the guests to come in.

Lin Yu helped his wife in, and looked around him, the facilities in the room can only be described in two words, basically the same as the appearance of this building.

There is a four-seater leather sofa in the living room, but due to its age, a lot of the skin on the surface of the sofa has fallen off, leaving obvious spots. In addition to the sofa, there are a few ordinary bamboo and rattan chairs, a TV on the wooden table opposite the sofa, a few bottles of drinks next to it, and an old clock.

The screen of the TV is very small, it looks like it should be less than twenty inches, but just such a TV is covered with a tablecloth, which gives people a very cherished feeling.

Lin Yu found that although this man named Zhou Shan moved to the city, his living conditions were not much better than those in the countryside, and even worse than the living conditions of some villagers.

Lin Yu silently looked at the side face of his wife, and found that she did have a lot of disappointment, although she stood in front of the sofa, she didn't sit down for a long time.

Zhou Shan's wife saw the dress of his wife, and knew that this person must be a rich and noble family, and the situation in her own family was indeed a little shabby, but she still slapped the dust on the sofa with a smile on her face, and said to the group, "There is nothing to entertain you, let's sit down and drink tea first." ”

Mrs. didn't want to embarrass the other party, and after seeing her slap the sofa, she sat down without a trace, and said, "Don't be busy, I just want to come to see Zhou Shan, Brother Zhou, is he not at home now?"

From the moment she entered the door, Madame noticed that there were only two people in the family, one old and one young, and she did not see the shadow of her brother in her memory, and her nervous heart slowly relaxed.

Despite hearing what his wife said, Zhou Shan's wife brewed three cups of tea and brought them to the guests, and she sat down on the bamboo chair next to the sofa, her face suddenly becoming a little gloomy.

"You're a little late, my wife, who died this time last year," the woman said with startling news.

This sentence almost made Mrs. drop the teacup in her hand to the ground, but she still desperately suppressed the emotions in her heart, and asked while her hands were trembling, "You are talking about Zhou Shan, Brother Zhou, he has gone?"

The woman nodded slightly, there was still some unresolved pain in her eyes, "He walked quickly and didn't suffer much, which is already a kind of luck for a family like ours." ”

Receiving an affirmative answer, Mrs. took a few deep breaths in a row, in front of Zhou Shan's wife, she had to stay calm, but the emotions tumbling in her heart couldn't be suppressed.

Before coming here, Madame thought about many different results, such as maybe he couldn't find Zhou Shan's location at all, or the little ambiguity of decades ago was nothing to him at all, and even worse, he might have forgotten himself a long time ago. No matter which of these results it was, Madame felt that she was mentally prepared to accept it, but what she never expected was that there was another possibility that Madame had never thought of at all, and Zhou Shan would leave so quickly.

Madame couldn't accept this fact for a while, and when she was climbing the stairs just now, Madame was still thinking about what she should say to her brother in the first sentence, and how he would react when she saw her now, but now, everything was in vain in an instant.

Seeing that the guest had not spoken, Zhou Shan's wife asked tentatively, "Are you very familiar with my wife, if you are willing, you can help my deceased husband put a stick of incense?"