"Brother, your phone."

The next afternoon, that is, at five o'clock in the afternoon of August 15, Wu Ming, who had just returned from shopping for vegetables on the street, because he had money in hand, so he planned to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival with his sister, entered the door and saw Wu Xin holding the mobile phone he threw in his backpack and never took it out, and couldn't help but ask casually: "Who called?" ”

"I don't know. When I was packing your luggage, I didn't care when I saw a missed phone on it, and when I didn't want to look at it again after a while, I had already dialed it three times in a row. ”

Wu Ming took it and saw that it was a local unfamiliar number, so he didn't pay attention to it. Just as I was about to throw the mobile phone that was still in silent mode on the coffee table, the mobile phone screen flashed, and the number dialed in again.

"Hey, who's that?"

Here, Zhou Guang, Zheng Lei, and Wang Luo occasionally take the initiative to contact themselves, and of course, the old man who is sometimes not very approachable. It's just that Wu Ming knows the numbers of Zhou Zheng and Wang, and the old man has always used that special number to find him, so in the face of such an unfamiliar number, and on such a day, Wu Ming's tone seemed extremely impatient.

"Why don't you answer the phone?"

It turned out to be the old man who called in, and Wu Ming muttered even more impatiently: "August 15 is not quiet. ”

"It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, who doesn't know the hearts of good people." The other party was obviously also angered by Wu Ming's tone. "Since you're with that attitude, forget it."

"Wait, what's the matter?"

"The benefits of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival. Since you're not rare, I'll go out and give it to the homeless man on the corner in a moment. ”

"Who says I'm not rare?"

"Rare?"

"It was originally mine, how could it not be rare." Speaking of this, Wu Ming suddenly asked in a surprised tone: "You just said that it was this year's welfare, but what about last year's?" And the year before last, the year before last, the year before last, the year before last, are you all greedy for ink?! ”

Click. One sentence made the old man so anxious that he hung up the phone.

Wu Ming looked at the mobile phone in his hand, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Let's dial it back, it's a little embarrassing. If you don't dial it, won't you be able to get your own benefits?

After hesitating for a while, Wu Ming pressed the replay button slightly embarrassed.

"Is there something wrong?"

"Where can I get it?"

"Want?"

Wu Ming didn't squeak, and the two people on the phone chose to be silent at the same time. However, in the end, it was the old man who spoke first: "No. 96 Xianggong Hutong." Don't blame me for not reminding you, there's a lot of stuff, and it's best to bring your sister along. ”

After hanging up the phone again, Wu Ming was somewhat suspicious in his heart, the old man has always been not joking with himself, but what kind of benefit will it be, listening to the old man's meaning, he can't even take it alone?

looked up at his sister Wu Xin, who had been standing beside him, and saw the expectant look on her face, he knew that he must have heard the content of the call. Come to think of it, since he was admitted to this hospital, Wu Xin has never been out for almost a year and a half. So there is no need to ask, Wu Ming also knows what Wu Xin is looking forward to.

"Pack up, I'll take you out." He turned his head to look at the food he had just bought and said, "Well, let's eat out tonight." ”

Wu Xin jumped on the spot excitedly when he heard this, and then turned around without saying a word and ran into the bathroom to freshen up.

If you only knew that your brother Wu Ming relied on odd jobs to make up for his medical expenses, but from the appearance of Zheng Lei last time, and from Zhou Guang and Wang Luo, who often came to see him in the next period of time, Wu Xin already felt something in his heart. In addition, what welfare is not good as what was said in the phone call just now, that is, my brother Wu Ming must still have a stable job.

What is the job? Why does my brother never tell himself? And looking at my brother's demeanor just now, he didn't seem to plan to tell himself.

After a while, when Wu Ming went to ask the doctor on duty for leave, Wu Xin took off the hospital gown that he had been wearing for sixteen or seventeen months, and changed into his favorite, which was also a set of clothes that Wu Ming gave her at the beginning of spring this year - a loose and casual light blue turtleneck pullover, cropped pants, white casual shoes, a dark green windbreaker, and a faint aqua red scarf. In addition to his face being slightly pale, and because of excitement and excitement, a faint, not very healthy tidal wave rose on his cheeks, and inadvertently seventeen-year-old Wu Xin had already become a young and beautiful girl.

So much so that Wu Ming, who walked in the door in one step, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly blurted out: "Jun, Wu Xin is getting more and more handsome." ”

"Brother, let's go."

Proudly raised their heads and took the initiative to take Wu Ming's arm, the brother and sister quickly walked out of the inpatient department, walked out of the hospital gate, stopped a taxi, and in Wu Xin excitedly looked left and right to watch the long-lost street scenery, the taxi had stopped in front of No. 96 Xianggong Hutong in less than forty minutes.

When he saw a typical courtyard house in front of him, Wu Xin asked with some uncertainty: "Brother, why do I feel like a family here?" ”

"It's kind of like that."

"Brother, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, isn't it okay to enter the door empty-handed like this?"

"What's so bad? We're here to pick things up, not to be guests. "In addition to treating my sister and never hurting money, it is simply too difficult to let Wu Ming spend on other people." Let's go, let's get our things and go down to the restaurant. ”

Walking in from the wide open courtyard door, Wu Ming, who was a little suspicious of whether the old man had said the wrong address, heard the familiar and not very popular voice coming from the room, and immediately stopped hesitating, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.

"Who, please come in."

Well? It sounds like an aunt in her fifties or sixties. Could this be the old man's home? If this is the case, Wu Ming suddenly felt that it was a little unpleasant to come to the door empty-handed on August 15. Although I didn't like the old man very much, it had nothing to do with his family.

Wu Ming's thick-skinned face was better, but Wu Xin behind him was embarrassed, he lowered his head with a red face, and wanted to find a place to hide his thin body. If the person in front of him wasn't the best brother in the world, he might have turned around and ran out a long time ago.

"Hehe, come in." This was the old man's voice: "There's nothing to be embarrassed about, it's like this for the first time." ”

No, there is a problem. I heard it, but Wu Ming didn't want to think about it, the fifty or sixty-year-old aunt who spoke first had already pushed open the door and greeted her. He said very enthusiastically, "Please come in, please come in." Let Wu Ming enter the door first, grabbed Wu Xin's hand and looked up and down, and praised sincerely: "What a handsome girl." ”

Wu Xin was almost pulled into the house by the strange aunt. When I entered the door, I heard the aunt point to a large pile of gifts placed next to the sofa and say to their brother and sister: "Now is the time when you need money the most, how can you spend so much?" ”

seems to understand a little, where is this to let yourself receive any benefits, obviously deceiving yourself to come here as a guest. Fortunately, I was able to think of buying a gift for myself in advance ....... No, that means it's not the old man's home?

Wu Ming looked up at the old man who was sitting there motionless, smiling but not smiling, and hurriedly greeted an old man in his sixties and seventies who was standing up next to him, "Hello, uncle." ”

"Come on, come and sit down."

Waiting for Wu Ming to sit down opposite the two and take a cup of tea from the strange uncle, Wu Xin was also pulled by the aunt just now to sit next to him.

A little confused, who is who? The annoying old man didn't know to take the initiative to introduce him.

"Dad, Mom, Uncle Jiang, I'm back."

Needless to introduce, Wu Ming took the teacup and didn't have time to deliver it to his mouth, as soon as the door behind him rang, a familiar voice immediately came. Wu Ming turned his head to look, and when the two eyes met in the air, they were obviously stunned. At this time, Wu Ming finally understood what the old man meant by the words "nothing to be embarrassed about, it's like this for the first time" that the old man said through the door just now. Unexpectedly...... It turned out to be .......

I have to say that Lin Jia, who took off her police uniform, is no worse than Zhong Caini in terms of figure and temperament. What is especially outstanding is that the charm of a mature girl from Lin Jia is something that Zhong Caini does not have.

"Sister Lin Jia." Wu Xin reacted quickly, hurriedly stood up and greeted Lin Jia, who was standing there in a slight daze, and walked over, thus breaking the temporary embarrassment in the room.

"Wu Xin is here." The tone did not reveal the meaning of his prior knowledge at all, his eyes quickly looked at Wu Xin, and Lin Jia sincerely admired: "Sister, you are so beautiful." ”

"Sister Lin Jia, you are more beautiful."

The two girls didn't know what to say next, but fortunately, Lin Jia's mother came over in time and said, "Let's go, let your dad accompany the guests to drink tea and chat, and let's go to the kitchen to cook." ”

"Auntie, can I help you?"

"Okay." Holding Wu Xin's hand, Lin Jia's mother couldn't stop praising as she walked. "What a good girl, the more you look at it, the more likable it becomes."

How did Wu Ming know that the old man Jiang and Lin Jia's retired father, who he didn't like very much, were once a pair of comrades-in-arms who had experienced the test of life and death. Although Lin Jia calls Jiang Gongqing the leader at work, she always calls him "Uncle Jiang" in private.

And Lin Jia also didn't know that Uncle Jiang Gongqing would invite Wu Ming's brothers and sisters to his home without knowing it. Thinking of the conversation when he was transferred to General City, in the end, Uncle Jiang once showed concern about his marriage, and even mentioned Wu Ming, so he immediately understood Uncle Jiang's intentions.

From the eyes that his mother handed over to Wu Xin behind her back, Lin Jia knew in her heart that this was something that her parents and Uncle Jiang had already discussed. In other words, if the phone call made by my mother yesterday morning was that she was busy with work and couldn't come back, then she would definitely receive a call from Uncle Jiang, the old chief. Lin Jia can also guess the content of the phone call - come back and report on the work in the recent period.

What's funny is that after spending two hours in Uncle Jiang's office in the morning, the other party didn't even say a word.

was hurriedly cleaning up a two- or three-pound perch that Lin Jia bought, and the fine fish scales were falling everywhere, Wu Xin, who was already a little embarrassed, occasionally noticed the smile on Lin Jia's face, and immediately asked embarrassedly: "Sister Lin Jia, am I too stupid?" ”

"No, no. When I was seventeen or eighteen years old, I couldn't compare to you. If you don't believe me, ask my mom. ”

"Hehe, speaking of which, your sister Lin Jia only learned to get out of the kitchen in the past two or three years. Before, let alone picking fish, I couldn't even cook a bowl of noodles. It's either cooked raw or rotten. ”

(End of chapter)