Chapter 228: The Four Cuckoos

Although this person is disgusted with each other, the person "Six-Eight" generally does not take care of anything else before completing the matter at hand, even if he has a personal vendetta with someone who is not pleasing to the eye, he will not immediately retaliate, and the matter at hand is important.

Therefore, in the next period of time, Zheng Si's life is still peaceful. Sometimes I will go to the residential area by the lake to hang around, and if I go in the afternoon, I can also mix an afternoon tea to temporarily fill my stomach, and all Zheng Si has to do is listen to the old lady.

The old lady's son often goes to visit her, even if he can't go, he will call to greet her, and the family has hired a nanny to take care of the old lady, for the old lady, in addition to going out for a walk, eating, drinking and sleeping at home, they are very bored, and they can't travel far, because the body has not fully recovered. As a result, Zheng Si became a good listener.

From the old lady's words, Zheng Si knew that "Xiao Gao" had come twice, but Zheng Si hadn't touched it. The old lady said that she had a good conversation with "Xiao Gao", Zheng Si knew as soon as she heard this evaluation that the old lady must have been tricked out, and there was not much vigilance and precaution when talking very happily, think about the "Xiao Gao" who was thick-skinned and had superb acting skills and a twisted belly, and then look at the old lady, it is conceivable that when Zheng Si did not destroy it, what kind of "happy talk" scene it was, "Xiao Gao" was probably happy to death.

However, in recent days, "Xiao Gao" has not appeared again. Without "Xiao Gao" chatting with the old lady, occasionally when Zheng Si came over, he would hear the old lady's feelings, as well as the things she recalled deep in her memory because of Xiao Gao.

The old lady said. When I was young, I also had a relationship, and I almost achieved a positive result, but unfortunately I separated for some reasons, although the two sides still communicated through letters for a few years, but another accident happened, since then, the old lady moved to Chuhua City, and the other party has no news.

Zheng Si felt that the old lady should be quite lonely now. Although her son has always remembered her, it is also because he is too busy. The old lady felt sorry for her son. didn't let him come over all the time, and asked his daughter-in-law to take care of him more, she only needs to hire a nanny here, as for the grandson. Now he has been sent abroad to study. No one is seen all year round. Occasionally, I would make a transatlantic phone call.

Zheng Si has heard the old men and old ladies in the compound say that people nowadays like to send their old parents to the nursing home at every turn. It's trouble-free, but they, the old men and old ladies, don't want to go to the nursing home when they die of old age. Zheng Si didn't know what the nursing home looked like, but when he often listened to the people in the compound chatting, he knew that many old people were very reluctant to that place.

It's not as good as it is in the newspapers, and some elderly people can only sit in front of the window every day, silently looking out the window, perhaps hoping that their relatives will visit them often, but most of the time they should be disappointed. There are also some elderly people, as they grow older, their memory declines, they stay in nursing homes for a long time, and they don't even know their relatives, and if they grow older, their biological sons and daughters may also forget.

Qualified families, such as the old lady's family, her son is a well-known entrepreneur in Chuhua City, and he is filial enough, although he can't come over often, he can't wait to hire ten or eight nannies for the old lady.

In front of her son and daughter-in-law, the old lady must be all kinds of good, but she is actually quite lonely in her heart, and the nanny is not a relative after all.

"Little black cat, you say, should I also have a small pet such as a cat and a dog? But at my age, I don't know how long I can live, what if I can't take care of it then? The old lady looked at Zheng and sighed.

Zheng Si avoided the hand that the old lady stretched out to touch the cat's head, and thought: Where is Lao Tzu small?

In a situation like this old lady, Zheng Si has actually seen a lot, and there are also many old people in the compound whose wives have gone early and their sons and daughters are not around, such as the old lady of Da Fat's family. However, although the old lady of the big fat family lives in a smaller place than here, and the accommodation conditions are not as good as here, the old lady is quite comfortable, accompanied by the big fat at home, and there are various old men and old ladies in the courtyard chatting and singing jokes outside, which is really much better than the one in front of her. It's no wonder that the old lady of Da Fat's family is only willing to stay in the compound and does not allow her son to move out.

On this day, Zheng Si walked to the residential area again, and when he got into the iron fence to visit the old lady and listen to her nagging, he found that the house was very lively today.

There were a few cars parked outside the house, all of them were million-level high-end cars, and I looked at the license plates, and there were two license plates that were not local, Nancheng.

There were a few people sitting in the room, Zheng Si only knew the old lady, her son and daughter-in-law, and the others didn't know each other. The old lady's daughter-in-law, the middle-aged woman who always looked at Zheng Si unpleasantly, smiled brightly at the moment, and the whole revealed a rare sense of closeness, and the two middle-aged men also had a smile on their faces, and they were talking, but the voice was not loud and noisy.

But what about the old lady?

Zheng Si poked his head out at the door and looked inside, and the old lady and his son saw this and beckoned Zheng Sian to go in. The unhappiness in the middle-aged woman's eyes flashed, she felt that it was not good to let such a black cat in when there was a distinguished guest, but she also did not want to refute her husband's face.

Zheng Si thought about it, but walked in in front of everyone, looked around, and didn't see the old lady.

"Your cat?" The strange middle-aged man asked.

"No, I don't know whose family, but my mother said that she had a relationship with this cat, and when she was in the hospital......" The old lady and her son briefly explained the matter, causing the two to be surprised.

"Although it doesn't look like a famous cat, it doesn't look like a stray cat, it's so strong, it's not afraid of people, and it's really spiritual." The stranger laughed.

Zheng Si listened to these two words, and didn't rush to find the old lady, he saw that there was a room on the first floor that was closed, where the old lady usually took a lunch break, and now it is estimated that it is inside. From the conversation of these people, Zheng Si also got a message - in addition to the old lady, there was a little old man in the room?!

Zheng Si's gossip heart suddenly ignited, two days ago, I heard the old lady sigh that the past was like smoke, and now there is an old man, this is the rhythm of finding a wife for the old lady.

But. The more he listened to these people's conversations, the more Zheng Si felt that something was wrong. I heard that these two old men were engaged when they were young, but then they went their separate ways, and it has been almost 60 years since they separated.

In fact, what surprised Zheng Si the most was not that the two old men got back together after nearly sixty years, but what the strange middle-aged man said when he talked about "Xiao Gao" with the old lady and her son.

The middle-aged man said that "Xiao Gao" was the manager of a department in his company, and he had business contact with the old lady's son some time ago. Now he's been transferred elsewhere. Therefore, I am no longer in charge of some business here in Chuhua City, and new people will come to contact here soon. Hearing what the other party said, the old lady and her son didn't ask any more, and praised "Xiao Gao" as a very good and capable young man.

Zheng Si carefully observed the strange middle-aged man. The other party didn't talk too much about the meaning of "Xiao Gao". After a while, hehehe. Zheng Si thought about it in combination with some previous things. Listening to the conversation of several people here, it is speculated that the strange middle-aged man wanted to find someone because of his father's relationship, so he contacted "Xiao Gao". As for how "Xiao Gao" and the other party did the transaction, how they mixed up the title of "department manager", and how they found out here, Zheng Si didn't know, and he didn't need to figure it out, and he didn't believe that the strange middle-aged man said that the "two old people recognized each other" was a coincidental event, he just looked at the current results.

In any case, regardless of whether the "two old people recognize each other" is planned by the other party, now that the two old people recognize each other and come together again, it is a good thing for the old people on both sides, and the business cooperation between these two successful people is estimated to be further, no matter how you look at it, it is a good thing.

Zheng Si didn't stay here long and left, and it is estimated that the two old men who got together again after nearly 60 years would definitely talk more.

For Zheng Si, the old lady's family is just a passerby in life, and he doesn't need to spend too much energy and too much affection on those people, even if they have a lot of money and an extraordinary status. What really matters is the Jiao family.

At night, the three members of the Jiao family and a cat nested on the sofa to watch the martial arts drama that was playing on TV, Zheng Si looked drowsy, yawned, and suddenly heard the little grapefruit next to him say: "The sound inside is not right!" ”

Zheng Si looked at the picture on the TV, and listened to it with his ears, the picture on the TV was the protagonist in a deep mountain, and the background sound was the song of birds, and there were several pictures dedicated to those birds. Zheng Si took a closer look at it several times, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the bird and the call.

Jiao Yuan thought thoughtfully, "Are you saying that the bird inside should be a big cuckoo, but what came out of the TV was the sound of four cuckoos?" ”

"Hmm!" Yuzu nodded.

"Hey, you can see this, it's so careful, I haven't found it yet!" Jiao Yuan patted his thigh excitedly, then ran to the master bedroom and took out a book from Jiao's father's bookcase, flipped through it, and began to discuss with Xiaoyuzi the difference between several types of cuckoos in the genus Rhododendron and which one is a "cuckoo".

Jiao's mother doesn't know much about these, but she doesn't object to the behavior of the two children, sometimes it's an advantage to be more honest, and it's not bad to find a bug occasionally while watching TV, at least it can make them learn more. As for Zheng Si, he had seen this kind of bird in school, and he had heard them call, the kind of four-tone one-time, that is, the four-tone cuckoo that Xiao Yuzi said.

Zheng Si was thinking about taking a closer look at the cuckoo birds that were always jumping around the compound when he was walking outside tomorrow, when he heard Jiao Yuan chanting over there: "Cuckoo and swallow are both symbols of male roots, and the ancient countryside sacrificed to them during the Spring Festival to pray for fertility ......."

Before Jiao Yuan finished reading, Jiao's mother slapped it over, forcibly pulled out the book in Jiao Yuan's hand, and put it in the highest compartment of the bookshelf.

"Watch TV well, take a shower and go to bed if you don't watch it!"

Seeing Jiao's mother speak, Jiao Yuan pursed her lips and came to the living room to sit down, Xiaoyuzi didn't say much, she didn't really understand what Jiao Yuan read just now, but looking at Jiao's mother's helpless face, she still didn't ask Jiao Yuan.

Zheng sighed and pulled his ears, it is not a worry-free thing for children to be too serious.

The next day, Zheng Si'er didn't run to the residential area by the lake today, and didn't want to disturb the old lady's reminiscence, so he began to wander around looking for the four cuckoos that the two children said last night.

Zheng Si was about to change the path and continue to look for it again, but suddenly his steps paused and he looked diagonally ahead. More than ten meters away, there was a man standing, I heard yesterday that this person had been transferred to another place, and I will see him here today.

Standing there is "Xiao Gao", at this moment this person is no longer dressed as an elite, although he is wearing glasses, but he is not the gold-rimmed glasses before, but black-framed plate glasses, wearing a casual sweatshirt, carrying a bag of more than ten yuan cross-body, his hair is not covered with hairspray and is not taken care of, he looks like a student of Chuhua University. (To be continued)