Jingsheng Huayuan is the name of the community where Xu Ziling is located, and the opening of the county is famous for its high price. At the beginning, I felt that the house that I had lived in for almost ten years could not meet the needs of life, and when I wanted to buy a new house, Xu Ziling fell in love with this place at a glance, in the eyes of others, it was ridiculously expensive compared to other real estate in the county, but in Xu Ziling's eyes, this price was quite real, not only because of the good service attitude of the property, nor because the floors were real area, but the developer spent a lot of money to build a small park in the community.

I got up early in the morning, ran a few laps in the small park, punched, and waited until my body was slightly sweaty before I came to the door of the community, ready to buy some breakfast and go back. Entered an inconspicuous breakfast shop, "Fat uncle, give me dinner." ”

Fat is probably a common characteristic of all restaurant operators, and the fat uncle in Xu Ziling's mouth is also chubby, not tall, with a slightly round face, which looks a bit like Coach Anxi in "Slam Dunk". "Ziling, are you here? Looks like I haven't seen you in a long time? ”

Uncle Fat's breakfast shop existed before Xu Ziling moved to the community, and since he moved over, most of the time Xu Ziling solved his breakfast in Uncle Fat's shop, and he was very familiar with each other when he came and went. "I went to play for a while, and I only came back yesterday."

It's almost time to go to work, and there are more people eating breakfast in the breakfast shop, chatting with the fat uncle casually, eating a bowl of noodles, and before leaving, he brought two servings of soy milk and fritters to Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan, and left after paying the bill.

When he entered the house, he saw that Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan had already gotten up, Xu Ziling put breakfast on the dining table, and went upstairs to take a bath.

I washed off the smell of sweat and changed my clothes, and came out with a change of clothes, and saw my father and mother sitting at the dining table eating breakfast. Hearing the sound of Xu Ziling getting out of the car, Zhang Lan raised her head and said, "Wait for noon to go to Mingsheng Hotel, let's go early." ”

"Good ......"

The radio in the car was playing the weather forecast: "Affected by the typhoon, there will be a significant cooling ...... in our city today and tomorrow" Xu Ziling pressed the glass of the car window and looked at the sky, the sun was gone, and a layer of gray clouds in the sky was blowing. The temperature was already dropping, and I didn't bother to pay attention to the weather forecast, so I turned off the radio and simply opened the windows and sunroof to let the wind blow into the car. The speed of the car was a bit fast, and the wind blew to make a "boom" sound, but Xu Ziling felt exceptionally refreshing.

The noon banquet was very lively, and some friends and colleagues of my parents came. My father is an only son, my grandfather and grandmother died early, and my mother's brothers are all out of town, so I didn't notify any relatives to come over. I went to the hotel early in the morning to decorate and welcome the guests, and with the arrival of the guests one by one, Xu Ziling felt that his face was getting stiffer and stiffer. Everyone who knows and doesn't know everyone praised Xu Ziling in front of Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan, and Xu Ziling could only smile at each other.

After eating, I really don't want to deal with those unintentional enthusiasm. said hello to Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan, and said that he wanted to go back to his hometown in the countryside. When I left, I found Wang Jian, only to know that Wang Jian couldn't go with him because of something, so he had to agree to go to the provincial capital together when school started.

I went home and put some wine and cigarettes in the car, turned the car around and headed to the countryside.

The wind blows all the way, far away from the forest of concrete and steel, and the endless rice fields on both sides of the highway are golden, and a gust of wind passes, like a golden ocean, and the waves rise and fall with each other. It looks refreshing.

I came to Xujiang's store, parked the car, and took a cigarette and a bottle of wine from the car. The noon banquet was not something that needed to be mobilized, so Xu Jiang was not notified, but before that, Xu Jiang had already handed over a red envelope of 10,000 yuan to Xu Haoran. The cousins have been together since childhood, and the relationship has always been close, so it is natural for someone to take it as a matter of course. As far as Xu Ziling is concerned, if there is anything, of course, he must prepare a copy for this uncle who treats him as his own son.

At this point in the afternoon, the people who had lunch left, and it was not time to finish eating, it was the free time of the restaurant. Walking into the hall, I saw Xu Jiang behind the counter looking down at a notebook, and pressing the calculator next to him from time to time with one hand, thinking that he was settling accounts. Xu Ziling walked to the counter and knocked on the counter, "Uncle, are you settling accounts?" ”

Xu Jiang, who was really attentive, suddenly heard the voice, was stunned, looked up and saw Xu Ziling, and then was ecstatic. "Good boy, I've taken the national top spot in the exam, didn't I hear that your family had a dinner for a few days, why did you come back?"

"It's all a small thing, I'm afraid of your trouble, I didn't dare to let you run over. Bring a cigarette and a bottle of wine to make up for not having the meal. Xu Ziling raised the cigarette and wine in his hand.

"Feelings: Your uncle is such a stingy person in your eyes?" Xu Jiang walked out of the counter and snorted, "Hey, where did you get these cigarettes and alcohol." Seeing the cigarettes and wine handed to him by Xu Ziling, he asked in surprise.

"It was given by the Yang Kaiming family who came with Uncle Li's son Li Cheng last time." Xu Ziling replied casually.

"No wonder ......"

Xu Jiang asked, Xu Ziling replied, the two uncles and nephews chatted for a while about what happened for more than a month, which could be regarded as satisfying Xu Jiang's curiosity. "I still have to go to the public security bureau, will you go?" Xu Ziling said to Xu Jiang.

"Looking for your Uncle Li and Uncle Zhang?"

"Well, I'm back, and I should pay a visit too. I'll go back to my grandfather's house after a while, why don't you go back to dinner with you?" It's the same here anyway with you or without you. ”

The two of them came to the public security bureau, Li Mingwu and Zhang Kaiming were both there, and Xu Ziling also took a cigarette and a bottle of wine each, and said goodbye after greeting for a while.

When they arrived at Grandpa's house, Grandpa and Grandma were quite surprised by Xu Ziling, who came back without notice.

I don't know when the road went, the clouds dispersed, the sun set, the sun fell through the big trees in the yard mottled on the ground, the temperature was not high, and a few people sat down in the yard. Xu Ziling took out the university notice he brought to show his grandmother, and said that he was specially recruited by the army, and several people were happy in the courtyard.

took out the military ID card and gave it to the grandfather, only to see the old man take it, but he didn't open it, just stroking it with his big rough hands. The eyes are extraordinarily focused and affectionate. Xu Ziling thought that the old man was probably reminiscing, remembering his own military years, and thinking of his comrades-in-arms who died in battle. The illiterate grandmother on the side looked at the red admission letter without blinking, as if she wanted to remember everything it looked like in her heart, and she didn't know what she was muttering.

Xu Ziling and his uncle Xu Jiang looked at the appearance of the two old men, and they didn't say anything, for fear of disturbing them. I don't know how long Lu Dao was silent, Xu Ziling felt it for a long time, and it felt like it was just a moment, grandma first sobered up, looked at the grandfather who was still immersed in emotions, wiped the tears in his eyes with his hand, and scolded Xu Ziling's grandfather with a smile: "Old man, do you think of your old yellow calendar again?" It's been decades, what else is there to think about? ”

Listening to the meaning of grandma's words, she also knew what happened to her grandfather back then. Grandpa came to his senses, opened his military ID card and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Ha Luha...... Today is a happy day, and I will salute our grandson in the future. Old woman, wait a few good dishes, Jiang Yanzi is also there, let's have a few drinks together. ”

"Grandpa, I brought something here, and I also took some food in Uncle Jiang's shop just now, so don't go and prepare other dishes. I'm going to move down. Xu Ziling touched Xu Jiang, who looked a little puzzled, with his hand, and motioned for him to move things to the car together.

Xu Jiang was doing catering outside in his early years, and the people who came and went had a lot of knowledge, and he also became a shrewd and sophisticated person. Seeing Xu Ziling's grandfather's abnormality, he never thought that the elders who had been with him for decades still had a side that he didn't know, so he was puzzled.

"There were some things in my grandfather's early years, I didn't tell others, probably because my grandmother and my dad knew about it, and even I only listened to others when I went to the provincial capital this time, otherwise I would have kept it hidden. It's not a bad thing, you can rest assured. It's not convenient to talk about it now, so I'll explain it to you another day. Xu Ziling whispered to Xu Jiang.

took the cigarettes, wine and vegetables from the car, Xu Jiang sent the dishes into the kitchen, Xu Ziling showed the tobacco and wine to his grandfather, "It turns out that when I was a soldier, I also rubbed such cigarettes and wine at the chief's place, but the cigarettes at that time were not the current brand, and the wine was also Moutai at that time." In the blink of an eye, I haven't tasted this kind of taste for decades......" Xu Ziling's grandfather sighed.

This night, even the grandmother, who usually doesn't drink, accompanied a few people to have a drink, and Xu Ziling and Xu Jiang accompanied Xu Ziling's grandfather to slowly get drunk before leaving.