The shop sign was damaged in several places, and the stainless steel frame was also exposed, but Ye Xiao could still recognize the words on the store card, this was the small commodity store that he used to take care of with his father.

After all these years, why are you still here?

The location here is better in Qingyang County, it is a nearby commercial street, and there is no possibility that there is a problem of not being able to rent out.

"Little leaf?"

Just when Ye Xiao was wondering why this storefront was closed and why the store sign had not been replaced, an uncertain voice came from behind Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao took Long Jingyun's voice, followed the voice and looked behind him, and saw a middle-aged woman wearing a down jacket and dressed brightly dressed standing on the street, looking at him with a look of surprise and surprise.

"Aunt Cheng!?"

Ye Xiao also looked at Cheng Li behind him depressedly.

"It's really you, little leaf." Cheng Li stepped forward, looked at Ye Xiao and said, "I didn't dare to recognize you at first, I haven't seen you for a few years, you have grown so tall and more handsome." ”

Cheng Li noticed Long Jingyun standing beside Ye Xiao and asked Ye Xiao, "This is your girlfriend?" ”

"Aunt Cheng is good." Long Jingyun said hello to Cheng Li.

"Xiao Yezi, your girlfriend is so beautiful." Cheng Li said with praise.

"This Aunt Cheng is the landlord here, and many stores here are hers." Ye Xiao introduced to Long Jingyun and said: "She used to take good care of us, and sometimes she couldn't pay the rent for the goods, and she wouldn't rush to urge. ”

"It's not easy for your dad to pull you alone, who doesn't have a difficult problem at home, these are all trivial things."

Cheng Li waved her hand and asked Ye Xiao: "When you and your father went to Skokinscha to buy goods, I heard that there was an accident, and we all thought that you two had an accident. ”

"Something did happen in Skokinscha, and then my dad and I went to the capital."

Ye Xiao didn't explain much to Cheng Li, and asked, "What's going on with Aunt Cheng's shop, why is the previous store still there?" ”

"After you and your father disappeared, I was going to dispose of the contents and sublet them out."

Cheng Li explained to Ye Xiao: "But when I contacted the next family, someone came over and paid for the shop. ”

"Someone coiled it down?!"

Cheng Li's answer surprised Ye Xiao even more.

Cheng Li nodded, remembered something, opened the bag in her hand, took out a key from it and handed it to Ye Xiao, and said, "After that person took down the store, let me keep the key, and said that if you or your father come back one day, I will give you this key." ”

"Since then, that person hasn't been here, and this store has been shelved, and many people have asked who this store belongs to and want to rent it, but I can't contact that person at all, and I can't contact your father and son, so I can't call the shots."

"Did the guy who took the store down say what his name was?" Ye Xiao took the key handed over by Cheng Li and asked Cheng Li.

"He didn't say this, he only said that his surname was Zhao." Cheng Li recalled: "Although he was wearing civilian clothes, from the way he walked, he should have been a soldier." ”

surnamed Zhao, and a soldier, who ordered this storefront, the answer is already coming out.

Zhao Tianyu!

In addition to Zhao Tianyu, Ye Xiao didn't expect that there was a second surnamed Zhao, who was a soldier, and would come to take down this store.

But why did he do it?

This is a question that Ye Xiao can't understand.

"Now that the key is given to you, Aunt Cheng's task is complete."

Cheng Li also had to go to other stores to collect rent, and after handing over the key to Ye Xiao, she didn't stay longer.

"Why did you say that Chengying secretly took down this shop?" Ye Xiao turned his head to Long Jingyun and asked, with Long Jingyun's cleverness, he might be able to guess Zhao Tianyu's intentions.

But this time Ye Xiao was disappointed.

Long Jingyun shook her head and replied, "Chengying's mind is really hard to speculate, this estimate still has to be asked by you to ask him in person to know." ”

Since he couldn't guess, Ye Xiao stopped guessing, opened the roller shutter door with the key, and walked into the store with Long Jingyun.

The furnishings in the store have not changed, they are still the same, and even the tumbler that Ye Xiao used to practice boxing is still in the same place.

It's just that all the things on the shelves have been cleaned up.

Although the doors and windows are usually closed and no one comes here, there is still a layer of dust on the shelves, cash registers and tables.

"If it weren't for the Skotinscha incident, I would have been my 15th birthday in three days."

Ye Xiao looked at the store in front of him and said to Long Jingyun: "I've been looking forward to drinking my father's stewed chicken soup, but it's ......"

Long Jingyun shook the hand in the pocket of Ye Xiao's down jacket as a comfort to him.

Coming to this place where I grew up and lived in the past will indeed bring back a lot of memories, and these memories will inevitably sting Ye Xiao Some things that he doesn't want to remember.

After taking a turn in the store, Ye Xiao took Long Jingyun out from under the roller shutter door and locked the roller shutter door again.

Since Zhao Tianyu took down this shop and kept it as it was, Ye Xiao didn't plan to sublease this shop again.

Now, I don't have a shortage of rent for subleasing my shop.

After leaving the commercial street, Ye Xiao took Long Jingyun to the place where he used to live, the old family home of a state-owned factory.

The old family home is some distance from the commercial street, and it used to take almost an hour to walk, and now there is snow on the road, which takes longer, so Ye Xiao and Long Jingyun can only take a taxi to the old family home.

"In the past, I used to come to open the store every day with a five-kilogram sandbag and a 10-kilogram weighted backpack."

Sitting in an air-conditioned taxi, Ye Xiao said to Long Jingyun: "Go to the store for breakfast, and then go to school." After school, I practiced boxing in the store, did push-ups, and at night, closed the door of the store, tied a sandbag and ran back with a weighted backpack, 365 days a year, except for my birthday, there was no interruption. Not to mention the wind and rain, even if there are knives in the sky, training is not allowed to be interrupted. ”

This kind of training is nothing now, but for Ye Xiao at that time, it required him to do his best to complete it.

The taxi stopped in front of the old family home, and after Ye Xiao paid the fare, he opened the door and got off.

After Long Jingyun got out of the car, Ye Xiao immediately grabbed her hand and stuffed it into his pocket.

"You used to live here, huh?" Long Jingyun looked at the old family courtyard in front of her and asked Ye Xiao.

(End of chapter)