Yuan Lu appeared in Lao Qiao's house coldly, and some kind of ritual was being carried out in the courtyard of the villa belonging to the military region at this time.

The original heron glanced at the French plane trees in the yard, and new leaves grew on the thick branches, and the originally vigorous new leaves were covered with a layer of gray and cold under the miserable white light.

Someone on the balcony upstairs was calling her name, it was Aunt Qiao.

"Heron, why did you come to ......? Come on. ”

Yuan Lu looked up, and saw the eldest aunt's eyes red from a distance, obviously crying again.

Everyone around was watching the original heron, who had just been crying in the car for a long time, and now he was being stared at aggrieved by the people around him, and the fog in his eyes rose again.

As soon as the eye sockets began to blur, the hand was held strongly by a large palm.

She drowned the mist in her eyes, and turned her head to see that Qiao Zhengqi's lips were tightly pursed into a straight line, and the deep pupils shrouded her like quiet stars.

"Grandma'......"

She wanted to apologize, but he interrupted: "Go up, it's all upstairs." ”

He took her hand and led her through the crowd, and although everyone couldn't interlock their fingers, the thick temperature of his palm had a penetrating power that reached her heart.

Yuan Lu was pulled up the stairs by Qiao Zhengqi, and a Mr. Yin and Yang blocked the staircase, this gentleman is the deepest spiritual sender in City C, and he can ask for a magic thing if he is not powerful.

Mr. Yin and Yang glanced at it lightly, and said in his mouth, "It's here." ”

Yuan Lu was slightly stunned, and was in awe by his cold eyes.

"The old lady's spirit can be carried down." Mr. Yin Yang has a gossip plate in his hand, he held the gossip plate and walked around Yuan Lu, and said: "Bingshen eighty-eight, it should be joy and mourning, avoid great sorrow, the old lady should be waiting for this young lady before her death, and the young lady should remember not to be sad and mournful when she goes in to visit the old lady, and to send the spirit to pay attention to peace and piety, the deceased has already gone on the road, and should not be disturbed by the dust again." ”

As soon as Yuan Lu was told by him, he found that several relatives standing in the corridor upstairs were all red-eyed, and they didn't even make a sound of crying, it turned out that it was because of this.

She nodded, and Qiao Zhengqi gradually let go of her hand.

Yuan Lu walked to the door of the old lady's room, and suddenly remembered the glance at her sleeping back when she stood at the door last night, but now she has been separated forever, and her grandmother has fallen asleep forever.

She breathed a sigh of relief, opening her eyes a little wider to hold back the tears in her eyes.

She walked lightly to the old lady's bed, the old lady had been scrubbed, her face was still not completely defeated, Yuan Lu was not afraid of the taboo of life and death, knelt in front of the old lady's bed, held the old lady's already cold and stiff hand, and whispered in a very soft voice in her ear: "Grandma, I'm here." ”

The tone was so soft that it was like she really was just asleep.

The old lady held a silver ingot in her other hand, and Yuan Lu rubbed the back of her hand repeatedly, and the two cold hands rubbed together for a long time and couldn't warm up.

Yuan Lu hung her head, tears were dripping silently, the old lady was a believer in Buddhism during her lifetime, that year she took the college entrance examination, the old lady also went to Wutai Mountain to ask for a talisman for her, the old lady came back and smiled and said to her: "I asked for a sign, the sign said that you should be a female sergeant Lin, the Bodhisattva told me to put a hundred hearts." ”

Yuan Lu didn't disappoint her and came back with a liberal arts champion. It was the first time she was so eager not to live up to the expectations of her loved ones, not from external pressure, but from the bottom of her heart.

During the summer vacation of high school, she would come to the old house every year to live alone with the old lady for a period of time. The old lady was too old to take the plane, and she accompanied her to the local train for more than 30 hours, and there was no nanny or guard around her.

It was the first time that Yuan Lu traveled far away, and everything is still fresh in my memory.

The old lady bought an oil-paper folding fan from a roadside stall under the scorching sun, and kindly helped her play the fan, and the wind blew on the top of the original heron's head, but the old lady's short-sleeved floral shirt was half soaked with sweat.

The old lady helped her fan while walking, passing by an ice cream cart that sold ice cream, she asked her if she ate ice cream, her eyes were very playful, Yuan Lu had never seen an old lady who could live an eighty-year-old to an eighteen-year-old look.

She is the elder who spoils children the most in the world, and she is the grandmother who loves her the most in the world, but she is gone, but she has not been able to accompany her to the last journey of her life.

Yuan Lu couldn't suppress the sadness in her heart, and cried dumbly beside her, her shoulders trembling violently uncontrollably, like a lost child, and kept muttering grandma in her mouth.

Deng Han couldn't bear to see this scene, turned his head away, put his fist under his nose, and choked up: "Your grandmother has been waiting for you for a long time, waiting and waiting, the phone just can't get through, and then I really can't wait......"

Yuan Lu cried even more violently when he heard this.

"It's time to ask the Spirit to go downstairs." Mr. Yin and Yang reminded on the side.

It's no one else, it's the person who loves her the most in the world is gone, how can she not be sad.

All night, she didn't close her eyes, and together with her relatives, she continued the lantern for the old lady and kept a wake for her.

Mr. Yin Yang invited an auspicious time, and the burial was scheduled for three days later, Deng Han and Qiao Haiyang were in the list of relatives, friends and media to be invited, the obituary had been sent, and the phone was overwhelmed, some were transferred to the secretary desk, and some could only deal with it by themselves, Qiao Zhengqi's phone calls were also constant, and several aunts and uncles were also busy, only Yuan Lu sat beside the old lady from beginning to end.

Her mobile phone was not turned on, she wanted to accompany the old lady quietly, the obituary had been sent out, there must be a lot of calls coming in, she was so tired that she didn't want to deal with it, so she simply closed the door completely and didn't see anyone.

The day is getting brighter, and the ritual of the front hall of the suspended spirit has been being done, Qiao Zhengqi gave her a glass of water, and said softly: "You go up and sleep for a while, I will guard here." ”

Yuan Lu shook his head, took his water and took a sip, wetting his lips slightly.

"Scared?" Qiao Zhengqi thought that she didn't dare to go up alone.

Yuan Lu took a sip of water and said, "I'm not sleepy, I can't sleep even if I'm lying down, it's better to guard my grandmother here." ”

Qiao Zhengqi stared at her miserable little face, without a trace of blood, only after one night, it seemed to have disappeared by several catties, his heart was slightly distressed, and his tone became hard: "If you don't sleep, you can't do it, your state is not right, I'll accompany you up to rest, you sleep, I'll look at you." ”

Yuan Lu's temper sometimes even Qiao Zhengqi can't help it, but when it comes to her physical health, Qiao Zhengqi will not give in, directly pull her up, and say to the people next to her: "I will explain it to you first, and she will go to rest first." ”

Yuan Lu was pulled upstairs by him, passing by the door of a room, and it could be seen that a person was sleeping on the bed.

Yuan Lu went to gently close the door and said, "Uncle is asleep inside, I'll go to another room." ”

Qiao Zhengqi didn't say anything, and took her to the penultimate room in the corridor, which was the room in the old mansion when he was a child, and it was usually unoccupied, and it remained the same for so many years.

Yuan Lu also entered this room for the first time, Qiao Zhengqi opened the door with the key and said, "You go to bed and sleep for a while, others can't enter this room without a key, you have a good rest." ”

He pushed open the door, and Hara Lu walked in, but he turned and left.

Yuan Lu immediately asked nervously, "Where are you going?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi turned around and smiled: "Don't be afraid, I'll go downstairs to help you get a breakfast, and you can eat and then sleep." ”

Yuan Lu retracted his neck and muttered, "I'm not afraid."

Qiao Zhengqi soon returned, with a sandwich and a bottle of milk in soft packaging.

Yuan Lu took the breakfast he handed over and asked, "Have you eaten it?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi nodded, pointing to the chair in the room and motioning for her to sit down.

Yuan Lu tore open the package of the sandwich and took a bite, she didn't eat it last night, she tossed it for a day and a night, and now she still has no appetite.

As she ate, she looked at the layout of the room, which was very simple black and white, with two large bookshelves embedded in the wall, many of which were children's comic books and children's English books that were out of print.

Qiao Zhengqi looked around with her eyes and explained, "This is my room when I was a child, and my parents were busy with work at that time, and I followed my grandparents. ”

Yuan Lu nodded and said, "Few people like such monotonous colors as black and white in childhood. ”

Qiao Zhengqi said: "It's not that I like it, it's more comfortable than those colorful ones." ”

He poked the milk straw for her, handed it to her, and asked, "Where were you yesterday afternoon?" Your department head has called all your colleagues on the phone and can't find you. ”

Yuan Lu thought about it for a while, probably at that time, she was planning with Zheng Qiuyu and Nalu how to get into the cordon to save Liu Lu. Zheng Qiuyan and Na Lu were suspicious of the phone coming in at this time, disrupting their thinking, so they simply turned off their mobile phones.

Yuan Lu didn't dare to tell the truth to Qiao Zhengqi, after all, he had always objected to her having too much contact with Liu Lu before, so she avoided the important and said lightly: "I was with my colleagues, everyone put their mobile phones in the car, and we went around to a distant place, maybe no one else found it." ”

Qiao Zhengqi frowned: "You and your colleague's mobile phones are in the car?" ”

Yuan Lu paused for a moment and nodded a little unconfidently: "Well, it's not very convenient to take it on your body, and it's too messy and easy to throw away." ”

Qiao Zhengqi had been staring at her, obviously not quite believing what she said. But at this time he couldn't bear to force her, she looked physically and mentally exhausted, more pitiful than a puppy in the water, she cried so sadly last night, he almost thought her tears were going to drain.

She should be in his arms when she was in pain, but in front of everyone, he could only stand aside and watch her cry silently like everyone else, she regretted it, and she was in pain. This powerless frustration made him feel deeply guilty, and no one had ever been so distressed by his tears.

When Lu Shijing's family was destroyed, he listened to her whimpering on the phone, more helpless and sympathetic, but Yuan Lu's cry made him feel so distressed that he wanted to catch every drop of her tears, and then collect them properly, and then extract the sodium chloride in the tears, so that her tears could no longer taste salty and bitter.

If love is so distressed that he wants to cherish every tear of the other person, he thinks that he must be completely in love with this woman.

His eyes were fixed on the crumbs at the corners of her mouth, and his gaze was deep.

She tilted her head to look back at him for no apparent reason and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The corners of the mouth."

Yuan Lu was stunned for a moment, then reached out and wiped the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and smiled shyly: "Is there anything else?" ”

The crumbs hit the ground.

Qiao Zhengqi stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of her mouth, his fingers ran between her soft and warm lips, his breathing became heavier, and he said, "It's gone." ”