When Jia Yi and Gao Qu arrived at their destination by long-distance bus, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the phone at home rang on time when they landed.

Jia Yi avoided Gao Qu and walked to the other side to answer the phone, her hand holding the phone all the time, her head tilted, and her long hair hanging to the side.

When she finally hung up the phone, she didn't turn back immediately, but kept looking in the direction in front of her, as if thinking about what to recognize, and it took a long time to slowly turn her head and greet Gao Qu.

"What are you going to do next?" She asked.

"Well, I'm looking for a hotel...... Hotels closer to you. ”

"You still put the quality of the hotel first, or it's in the city center, my home is not far from the city center."

After Jia Yi finished speaking, he directly carried the luggage, but he grabbed him and shouted in surprise: "What? You just put me here? I don't even know where you're going. ”

Like a child, he begged to let Jia Yi take him to the hotel first, and then let him follow her home.

"But you're not allowed to enter the house, I know!" Gao Qu immediately added.

Jia Yi had to agree, she accompanied him to the city's largest Yucheng Hotel to check in, and called a car, and the two rushed to the direction of Jia Yi's house together.

When she arrived at the destination, Gao Qu just wanted to get out of the car to help her carry her luggage, but she immediately closed the car door after getting out of the car and shouted at the driver: "Master, please send this gentleman back to Yucheng Hotel!" With that, she picked up her luggage and walked towards a building behind her, ignoring Gao Qu shouting behind her.

Gao Qu had no choice but to give up, looking at the building in front of him, this is a very old residential building, as regular and featureless as a few lattice, from the outside it seems that there are at least hundreds of families living in the whole building, and there are many people living in each house, because he can vaguely see people at this time that people have not had time to collect clothes hanging on the balcony, which undoubtedly makes this small building even more crowded.

This is a building to be renovated with countless lattices - Gao Qu can only judge so, he watched Jia Yi's figure disappear into these lattice, and had to turn back to the master and say, "Let's go!" ”

Jiayi's home is on the fifth floor, but the building is not only old on the outside, but also dilapidated on the inside, with peeling wall plaster on the passageway, like a primitive residence in the city.

Like the rest of the city's buildings, clinging to the same land with the support of reinforced concrete, this small building was eventually knocked down by the rising wave of housing prices, desolate and crowded.

At half past seven o'clock in the evening, there was background music from the end of the news broadcast in the corridor, Jia Yi carried her luggage out of the stairs on the fifth floor, and couldn't stop panting, and some strange neighbors walked by scattered, and they all looked at this glamorous woman curiously, as if looking at some incompatible monster.

The lights in the corridor were on, and it was not quiet everywhere, and a few women who were sitting idly chatting talked about her directly.

Jia Yi didn't pay much attention to it, but was glad in her heart that she had let Gao Qu leave in time just now, and didn't give him a chance to help her take her luggage upstairs, otherwise at this time, she would have already become the after-dinner conversation of this group of women who have worked hard, forever, even more permanently than their age.

As soon as he looked up, he saw his younger brother Jia Xing, he was just going out to take out the garbage, Jia Yi hurriedly waved at him, Jia Xing shouted "old sister", and then shouted to a dimly lit room behind him: "Hey! The old lady is back! ”

With that, he brushed aside the trash can and ran towards Jia Yi in a hurry.

Jiaxing was obviously much taller than Jiayi, and he smiled as he helped Jiayi carry things in, saying, "Why don't you let me pick you up?" ”

Jia Yi touched Jia Xing's head, those unscrupulous hair was obviously sprayed with some qualitative gel water, very hard, and she also replied with a smile: "I don't have much things, besides, don't you go to class?" Didn't you hear that you live on campus? ”

"Yes, but I came back from class this morning, took a leave of absence for evening self-study, and will go back tomorrow morning." He replied cheerfully.

Jiayi and Jiaxing said and walked to the door, the mother greeted them first, I haven't seen them for many years, my mother is really older than I remember, but she is still so powerful, she took the suitcase, let Jiayi into the house first, and immediately turned back to Jiaxing and yelled: "Do you want to give the garbage can to others?" Why don't you bring it over quickly......"

Jiaxing had no choice but to turn around and pick up the trash can that had just been thrown on the ground, and followed her into the house with a babbling mouth.

My father was sitting on the sofa, and when he saw Jia Yi coming in, he also stood up, and he smiled and said, "I arrived so late, your mother and I thought you would be home at 7 o'clock." ”

Jia Yi didn't want to tell her parents that it was delayed because Gao Qu was looking for a hotel, so she nodded and said, "I couldn't wait for a taxi for a while, so I delayed a lot." ”

Mother quickly opened up to eat, Jia Xing sensibly went to clean up the table and took out the dishes and chopsticks, while Father continued to sit on the side of the sofa without saying anything, his eyes always quickly returned to the TV program.

Jia Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, maybe Dawei's idea didn't work very well, even if he hadn't seen him for many days, his father was afraid that he had nothing to say to her, he was still the same, staring at the TV, and when his mother brought the food to the table, he slowly turned off the TV and sat down on the table.

However, not necessarily, I have to admit that his appearance has indeed become older, but it is very different from before, his hair is gradually decreasing, the back of his head is half-bald, his stomach is also a lot bulging than before, his chin is relaxed, and the whole person sits down like a leaking leather ball stuck between the tables and chairs, hissing - the twenty-year-old wooden dining table has been moth-eaten and left a lot of gaps, and the bite is no longer secure, and people will naturally touch and make various sounds as soon as they sit at the table.

The father suddenly looked at her and said, "Are you okay outside?" ”

The question was very inexplicable, she was caught off guard, just wanted to clip the meat slices in the dish in front of her but only a slice of chili, she lowered her head, hid her eyes in the bowl, and replied hesitantly: "It's good, but it's ...... I...... I'm not in Beijing anymore. ”

The father squinted, frowned, and said, "You're not in Beijing, where are you?" ”

Seeing that Jia Yi only took a piece of chili pepper and hurriedly took back the chopsticks, the mother knew that her daughter rarely ate spicy, so she helped her clip the chicken, and just wanted to hand it to her bowl, hearing this, the meat in the chopsticks also inadvertently fell on the table, she quickly asked: "Not in Beijing?" When did it happen? ”

Jia Yi was still smiling reluctantly and said, "Well, it's actually last fall, I came back to N City, and I opened a shop with my friends." ”

The father stood up instantly, the table babbling, and he asked, "Open a store?" Aren't you working well in Beijing? Why did you come back to N City to open a store? ”

The mother had no choice but to sweep the pieces of meat that had fallen on the table into the trash can in distress, and whispered, "Why are you still open?" That...... What kind of store do you open? ”

The father's face was obviously displeased, and the mother was worried, Jia Yi had to lower her head, although she already knew that it would be such a scene, but she still hoped that there was always such a possibility, her parents could support her, her father no longer lost her temper, her mother no longer always looked worried, and the first meal she ate after returning home was extremely warm and even touching.

But apparently when she said what she had just said, she was slapped by herself, and she shouldn't have expected anything - this meal could only be as cold and awkward as every meal she remembered before.

Like the old wooden dining table, it is gradually decaying, but those discordant moans are always in the ears.

"A good shop, selling flowers, gifts and drinks." She continued to answer her mother.

The father snorted in his nose, did not speak, and got up and went to the cupboard to take out the Xinghua Village, which he had always been inseparable from.

The atmosphere at the table was so similar, similar to years ago, to all the times she had grown up, that her father drank without speaking, and when the strength of the wine came up, he began to lose his temper.

Jia Yi couldn't help but look at Jia Xing who was sitting on the side, she just didn't want Jia Xing to experience a discordant family relationship like herself, so she tried her best to let him go to live in school, from elementary school to high school, she didn't want to destroy a growing teenager because of the immaturity of two adults, like her.

Jia Yi carefully took the rice and put it in her mouth, her throat was blocked in panic for a while, but she didn't dare to put her hand on the table, for fear of making a more discordant sound.

Finally, my father spoke: "Why did you resign?" ”

Jia Yi saw her mother poking her father with her elbow in time, but she still replied: "Because I am not very happy in the company, I have found a suitable place in N City to do what I want to do, and now the business is still very good." ”

"So you've invested all the money you've earned over the past few years?" His tone was full of reproach.

Jia Yi nodded, and her father asked, "Have you borrowed money?" ”

"Nope." She heard her mother breathe a sigh of relief, but her father, as if he had heard even more disgruntled news, raised his glass and drank it up. (To be continued.) )