Chapter 198 333 Chenghuang Road 2
It's just a meal, and they really don't pay so much attention when they go out, so they eat casually and then pay for the meal, and they go out of the dining room to the opposite side.
Directly across the street, the girl was talking about a tailor shop here, probably because it was all remodeled, so the tailor shop looked quite modern. However, after entering the tailor shop, the equipment in it is still an old antique from a long time ago, and this tailor shop should also be divided by this pair of old people when they were demolished, Xu because he didn't want to forget his old business, so he continued to open it.
The current clothes are not very valuable, and they can be thrown away after they are bought for dozens of yuan, so the tailor shop opened by the old man looks quite deserted and does not have much business.
The inside of the tailor's shop was clean, without the mountains of fabric and clothes piled on the floor as they expected. In addition to some old antiques that are also old, there are only a few small stools and an old rattan rocking chair. There was a copy of today's newspaper on the rocking chair, and the spread out newspaper was placed there, and I should have just seen half of it because I had to get up and get busy.
When he walked to the door of the shop and knocked lightly, he saw that no one responded, so he shouted, "Is there anyone?" ”
The inquiry was not loud, but it was definitely not small, but no one was heard. The old man's ears were a little old, and it would be normal if he didn't hear his shouting inside, and he stood there and shouted a few more times, but he still didn't hear anyone respond, and then he walked in.
The first thing I did when I entered the tailor shop was to look inside. This is really a tailor shop with little business, and it may be because the two old people are reluctant to open it now.
Just as he was looking around, he heard the sound of someone coming out of the house, and it seemed that the old man had noticed a guest and was walking outside.
Before the two old men came out, Xudu took off his coat, and then directly tore a hole, just when the opening was called Xudu's tearing open. He saw an old woman come out.
Although it is not very fast. However, the old woman still looked quite tough, and when she saw a handsome young man standing outside, the old woman smiled and said, "Young man, is there something wrong?" ”
"That's right. My clothes were torn. Can you help me make it up here? ”
"Mending clothes? Ok Ok. "I don't know how long it's been since I saw anyone in the tailor's shop mending clothes. When she saw a guest come to the door, the grandmother was obviously very happy. While telling them to find a place to sit down, the old woman began to look for needles and threads.
Even if there have been no guests in the door for a long time. However, the things in this store are still well received by my grandmother, and I found the needle and thread not very quickly. He told him to take the broken coat to himself, took out a needle and put on reading glasses, and the old woman wore the needle and thread seriously. Although she is old, the old woman's eyes are still good, and it didn't take much effort to put on the needle and thread, while helping the young man sew the opening on the clothes, the old woman said with a sigh.
"In this day and age, it's rare for a young man to send me a broken shirt to make up for it. So young people are all the same, the torn clothes will choose to throw away to buy new ones, and there are not many people like you who send them to mend. ”
It's really not much, that's why the grandmother is so emotional, the mouth of the elderly just can't stop, and they always like to talk to someone, which is understandable, so after listening to the grandmother's sigh, the grandmother said with a smile: "The clothes are pretty good, so it's a pity to throw them away." ”
"yes, the clothes look so good, it's a shame to throw them away. We couldn't have imagined such a beautiful dress when we were young. As he spoke, only the governor could mutter a few words to the old woman, and after muttering these few words, the governor suddenly paused, and then listened to him ask as soon as the conversation changed.
"By the way, grandma, have you been open for a long time?"
"Yes, when I was young, I married the old man in my family, and my store has been open until now."
"Then it's going to take years."
"It's been a long time, and it's been almost sixty years now."
"More than sixty years, so it seems that grandma you have a very long life."
"It's almost eighty." Laughing and saying, it is good to have someone to talk to you, seeing grandma like this, Xudu also smiled, looking at the needle and thread in grandma's hand, Xudu continued to ask.
"Then before the city was renovated, grandma should have been here."
"Yes, I've always been there."
"So can I ask you one thing?" It can be regarded as leading the topic to the top of what he wants to ask, and when he heard that his grandmother had been here since he was young, he said in accordance with this.
"That's right, my parents went abroad when I was very young, and I grew up abroad when I was young, and now my parents said they wanted me to go back to my ancestral home, so they gave me an address. But I don't know here, and it seems that many of the place names are different from before, I asked a lot of people but they don't know, I don't know if grandma can help me see it here. ”
With that, he pulled out the note.
As soon as he heard that the young man in front of him had come back from abroad to look for relatives, he thought that this grandmother liked Xudu even more, so she nodded and said, "Know how to return to the roots, okay, your parents are good." Don't know where that place is? Take it to grandma, I don't remember this old bone. ”
It happened to help the governor sew the clothes, and the old grandmother took the piece of paper from the governor's hand by the way. The eyes are still not so good when I am old, and I stared at the words on it for a long time, and the old grandmother muttered in her mouth.
"This place ......"
"Well, do you know where this place granny is?"
With reading glasses, I had to squint and stare at the name of the place on the note for a long time. The old grandmother kept muttering.
"This place looks so familiar."
It should be a place to know, so grandma will feel familiar, but because it has been a long time, she doesn't remember it very clearly. As long as grandma knows, it doesn't matter how long it takes to think about it, it's just that I'm worried that my voice will make grandma forget something, so I don't dare to squeak here, but squatting there and watching grandma think about it.
After thinking like this for a moment, I suddenly saw my grandmother's eyes wide. He raised his head sharply and looked at the governor seriously. The old grandmother suddenly asked, "Are you a child of this family?" ”
In the words of inquiry, there was surprise, but the governor still saw a little surprise in the old woman's eyes and the deepest horror.
That's right, stunned and frightened.
The old grandmother seems to be because of this place name. Frightened.
What frightened the old grandmother was that she didn't know if it was this place or the people who lived in this place before. But these two things are not admitted. When even said.
"No, the family didn't live here before, but my parents left here a long time ago. So they don't remember the specific address of the home at that time, but they still remember the name of the place, saying that this place is quite close to our home, and if we find it, we can almost find our previous home. ”
Saying this, it is quite natural to lie anyway, even if he lies and deceives this old woman, he will not feel uneasy in conscience.
Fortunately, the old grandmother breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what the governor said, and then said: "It's okay, I thought you were a child of this family." ”
"Children of this family, grandma, why do you say that? But then again, I think it's quite strange, obviously my parents can't remember the specific house number of my house, how can they remember this one, which is really strange. ”
"There's nothing surprising about that."
I don't remember my own house but I remember someone else's house, which would be strange if I put it there, but this grandmother said that it was not a strange thing, and sure enough, this address.
Is there a problem?
Rubbing her hand lightly on the paper, the old woman sighed and said, "I'm afraid many of us know about this place, and if your parents have lived here before, it is normal for them to remember it so clearly." ”
After sighing so faintly, the old grandmother said only when this sigh was over.
"This place, it's haunted."
The town has been rebuilt, and the place names of many places have been changed, and the new place names have been heard for so many years that they have forgotten some of the old places before. If I hadn't remembered it well, I might have forgotten where it was. Looking at this familiar and somewhat unfamiliar word, the old grandmother didn't remember it at first, but when she remembered where it was specifically referring to, many of the previous memories came back.
This place is also quite famous in their area, because it is haunted, so it is remembered by many people. Even if the address doesn't say that the place is on that street, the grandmother knows where it is by looking at the house number on it.
They didn't answer but kept looking at the address, although it seemed a little unkind to interrupt grandma's memories like this, but they were busy looking for that person now, so they had to be unkind once.
After a slight dry cough, he asked, "Grandma, can you tell me where this is?" ”
"This place, you just need to ask people where Chenghuang Road is, this place is on Chenghuang Road, it's quite far from here."
"So which building is it now?"
"I can't tell which one it is, but you don't have to worry about finding it, this place is eye-catching, as long as you pass by, you can recognize it at a glance."
Now the commercial building is like a clone, a row of buildings in the past are quite similar, especially the residential building is more like, I didn't tell myself an accurate place but told myself that as long as I went to know which one it was, what the grandmother said was really abstract enough.
Because he didn't quite understand what the old grandmother meant by this, he couldn't help but ask more, but the grandmother's answer was the same as before.
"You don't have to worry, as long as you find that street and walk in, you will naturally know where this place is. It's really easy to recognize, people in the past can see it at a glance, and there is no need to worry about it at all. ”
After replying to Xudu's words, Xu Shi said for so long, and grandma was also a little tired, and waved her hand slightly to mean that they could leave here. After waving her hand, the grandmother got up, and then walked towards the house, and walked a few steps slightly to the door, and when she walked to the door, she didn't know if she suddenly thought of something, the old woman stopped and turned to look at the governor and said.
"By the way, young man, I forgot to tell you one thing, you must not go in that place after you find it, just go straight to your house. That place is really very evil, I didn't scare you, you don't want to be like some of us who are not afraid of dying young, go to such a place to risk, if you do go in, you will be the one who suffers. ”
Such a haunted place is taboo for the older generation, but the younger generation does not believe in these ghosts and gods, so this place, known as a haunted house, often welcomes some explorers.
Those people didn't believe it, but the governor was a person who came back from a foreign country, and the grandmother couldn't help but say more, such an advice was naturally in exchange for the governor's thanks, looking at the grandmother with a smile, the governor said.
"Grandma, don't worry, I'm here to find the ancestral house, and this place is not my house, of course I won't go in, besides, grandma, didn't you say that this is haunted, of course this haunted place can be entered, otherwise something will happen."
"Listen to the advice, you are a really good child, unlike some of us who are not afraid of death, what kind of adventure do you always play."
"There are a lot of things in this world that can't be explained, and it's better to believe them than to believe them."
"Hey, there are too few people like you who are as sensible and believe in these old traditions."
With such a faint sigh, the old grandmother didn't want to say any more, and after receiving the words, she trembled into the inner room, and when the old woman returned to the inner room, the old lady picked up his coat and walked out of the tailor shop with Mo Qiqi.
After the two of them walked out of the tailor shop, Mo Qiqi asked, "Teacher Xu, what do you mean by what that person said?" ”
"How can classmate Mo be so rude, no matter how the other party says it, he is also an elder, and he wants to call the other party grandma."
At this time, he was still thinking about it, and he was really free enough, and he didn't change his words because of his words, Mo Qiqi continued to ask. This kind of inquiry was exchanged for a smile from the Governor, and after laughing, the Governor said.
"Who knows, but this place is going to be an interesting place." (To be continued.) )