It was already late at night, and the taxi drove me and Xiao Ai to the direction of the nursing home, but I couldn't be sure if my grandmother had rested at this time, so I felt that Xiao Ai was going to see my grandmother at this time, and she must have a special idea in her heart.

After the taxi drove us to our destination, we turned around and left, and the road to the nursing home was quiet, only to hear the sound of frogs and insects chirping in the wheat fields across the road.

I stood at the door, knocked on the glass door of the communication room with my fingers, and after the doorkeeper yawned heavily, he took the flashlight to open the non-electric stretch door for us, and his habit of using the flashlight also made this place more full of old atmosphere, as if it was a pure land outside the city.

I handed my uncle a box of cigarettes to express my apologies for coming over so late to bother me, and then walked into the nursing home with Xiao Ai.

At this time, the room where my grandmother was living was no longer bright, I knocked on the door, and my grandmother walked out of the room a moment later with a pampa fan in her hand.

She was very surprised and asked me with a hint of surprise, "Why did you bring the girl to see me so late?" ”

Xiao Ai replied before me: "Grandma, Jiang Qiao and I just suddenly wanted to come and see you, didn't bother you, right?" ”

"What do you say to disturb such an outsider, sleep more in the summer, sleep less for a while, and don't say much." Grandma said and said to me as if she remembered something: "Grandma bought a watermelon today and is freezing it in the refrigerator, I'll take it out and give it to you...... Let's just talk outside. In the house, your Grandma Li is already asleep, let's not disturb her. ”

Xiao Ai and I nodded, and sat on a bench not far from the door to wait for grandma, and after a while, she brought me a piece of watermelon, and the kind of natural and unpolite way she handed the watermelon to us is only available to the closest family members.

Grandma was not in a hurry to talk to me, and kept using the pu fan in her hand to drive away mosquitoes for me and Xiao Ai, and reminded us to eat the watermelon she just gave us, but I was not in the mood to eat at all. So, after putting the watermelon aside, he whispered to her: "Grandma, I came to you today to sue you about the house being demolished......

Grandma looked at me, and the fan that had been driving away mosquitoes for me and Xiao Ai also stopped fanning.

I can understand her mood better than anyone else at this time, because the old house that is about to be demolished was built brick by brick with her deceased grandfather, and the house is there, and her thoughts about her grandfather are still there.

After a while, my grandmother waved the fan in her hand again, smiled and replied to me, "It's good, it's good...... If my grandson is dismantled, he will be able to get married in a serious way. ”

I don't know why even people in my grandmother's era think that having a commercial house is a serious marriage, and about demolition is not as simple as I think, it is really a general trend.

I turned my head to look at Xiao Ai beside me again, she seemed to be a little worried, so she didn't eat a few bites of the watermelon in her hand.

My grandmother asked me again: "Qiao, our house is demolished, how much compensation can we get for the demolition?" ”

I replied conservatively: "At least two houses, there should be hundreds of thousands of demolition compensation." ”

Grandma nodded, and she smiled again, her smile full of relief after a heartfelt incident. She seemed to want to say something to me and Xiao Ai, but she couldn't say anything.

At this time, my hand finally reached into my pocket, and I wanted to take out the ring for Xiao Ai from it, but when this scene that I had imagined many times was really coming, I felt inexplicably nervous in my heart, and this nervousness stemmed from the fact that I was not so confident in my heart.

But I didn't want to, at this time, Xiao Ai said to my grandmother before me: "Grandma, I have thought about it, after I and Jiangqiao's piano shop develop steadily, we will come to the nursing home to take you back to live...... If we are busy with work, we can hire a nanny to take care of you, and you live here as a concern that we can't let go! ”

Xiao Ai's words made her grandmother's face look happy, but what she cared about was not Xiao Ai's saying that she was going to take her back to live, she took Xiao Ai's hand and asked, "Girl, are you already dating our family Xiaoqiao?" ”

Xiao Ai looked at me, her breath was close to me, like the most simple but bright flower standing beside me, my heart was beating fast, because Xiao Ai and I couldn't talk about any relationship between lovers until now. During these days, we can be very close, and we can miss each other a hundred times at night, but we have never held hands, and she has never snuggled up to me and said something emotional......

Xiao Ai patted me on the shoulder with his hand and complained: "Don't swallow saliva at me, look at the panic!" ”

I realized how nervous I was at the moment, I was about to pinch the box with the ring in my pocket until it was deformed, so my head was hot, I took the box out of my pocket, and then my right hand hung in the air, my brain was blank, and there was almost no way to organize words.

Xiao Ai didn't seem to notice it, she reached for the box that I was holding tightly, and tried several times but couldn't get it out of my hand.

Of course I don't want to give it to her just like that, because I have to say something to her at this time, and the more affectionate the better, so that we will remember each other deeply this night when the night was calm but we were not peaceful.

Xiao Ai raised his hand and twitched my hand heavily, and said to me in an unhappy tone: "Can you not hold your claws so tightly, let me see what it is!" ”

As soon as I hurt, my hand loosened a little, Xiao Ai took the opportunity to pull out the box from my hand, and then opened it in a daze, so that the gold ring, which still carried my body temperature, appeared in front of her eyes in the darkness with little light.

Her expression changed, and she was looking at me...... In her eyes, I seemed to see sparkling waves, just like the sea level in the early morning, gathering the river and river water from afar, as if the love we have accumulated for so long has reached the end of the sea level in an instant.

I was still a little speechless, but Xiao Ai himself took the ring out of the box and put it on his finger without grinding at all.

After looking left and right for a while, she asked me, "Was it given to me?" ”

I nodded hurriedly.

At this time, my grandmother held my hand with her left hand, and Xiao Ai's hand with her right hand, and then folded our hands together, but said to us with a little complaint: "You two children, you talked so much with me last time, it turns out that we have been together for a long time...... Speaking of this, she smiled again and said: "I am relieved to see you like this...... Actually, whether to pick me up or not, grandma doesn't care at all, anyway, I've lived here for so many years, and I'm not necessarily used to changing the environment, but Jiangqiao, you must treat Xiao Ai well, you have to look like a man, you know? ”

When my grandmother said these words, Xiao Ai's eyes stayed on me, and her hands were very warm and overlapping with me, which made me feel a sense of pleasure that I hadn't felt for a long time, and we confirmed the relationship of the couple in front of my grandmother.

Although, I have never been able to say anything sensational, but seeing with my own eyes Qin Miao's experience, we have no longer pursued formal prosperity, although we are not too old, but we are willing to accept the concept of ordinary life is true, just like our small courtyard, there is no luxurious decoration, but it can comfort the trauma we encounter in life in the plain.

I held Xiao Ai's hand tighter, and after exhaling softly, I finally said to her: "Grandma is right, you will follow me in Nanjing in the future......"

"Messing around?"

"No, it's a mixed life!"

Yes, we can't say anything too sensual in front of grandma, but isn't this a kind of back-to-basics. Anyway, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that after a year of ups and downs, Xiao Ai and I are finally together. From then on, we can hug, kiss, hold hands and walk to every corner of Nanjing, is there anything more beautiful than this?

Oh! I also forgot that we have to work hard to do a good job in the piano shop, which can ensure our lives, and then after getting the demolition house, we will take my grandmother back to live together.

As for Jiang Jiyou and Yang Jin, it doesn't matter so much whether they appear in my life or not, because I am about to have my own small family and I don't want to live in the shadow they bring anymore.

……

Late at night, there were no more taxis, and Xiao Ai and I just walked on the spacious road with sometimes there and sometimes no lights. When you are tired, you sit on the curb and rest. I smoked while she played with the ring I had just given her.

She didn't want to leave when she pressed the cigarette butt in her hand, so I squatted down and said to her, "Come up, I'll carry you." ”

"I've gained weight recently, aren't you afraid I'll crush you?"

I turned my head to look at her, and after looking at her for a while, I replied, "Where are you fat, are you all fat breasts?" ”

Xiao Ai glared at me fiercely, scolded "bad taste", put his arms around my neck, and with a force of his feet, he lay on top of me. I snorted, then got up, feeling her weight, like a green leaf, warm as spring in the sun.

I ran hard, leaving the dust of life far behind, and she whispered softly in my ear, tickling me. This plot is like happening in a novel, her laughter after her success is the most beautiful plot, the houses and wheat fields in the distance of the street lamps are all blessings for our audience, and my gasp is a prayer, a prayer for the person who wrote our lives, to let this happiness continue forever.

In my life, I no longer want to encounter Qin Miao-style pain, Su Han-style sadness, Chen Yi-style regret, Qiao Ye-style madness, Zhao Mu-style rifts, Yang Jinjiang, step-friend-style unknown......