Gui Rong...... But a hard-working person, he lost his father and mother since he was a child, and lived with his uncle's family, and later her uncle also died, and her aunt remarried, so she was kicked out of the house. As a teenage girl, I don't even know how she survived. Later, she got married, and the man was nearly twenty years older than her, and he was still deaf, but it didn't matter, she finally had a home, and even if the days were difficult, the husband and wife would work together to make it no worse than before. Unexpectedly, a few years after she gave birth to a child, the man was killed by a serious illness, and Gui Rong became a helpless person again. ”

When I saw Gui Rong again a few years later, she was selling noodles at the Guandi Temple. At that time, her son also grew up, he was born white and pure, he called people when he met, he was a good child who understood etiquette, and was taught well by Gui Rong. At that time, I learned that Gui Rong opened a noodle stall after she left, she was good at craftsmanship and could endure hardships, so the business of the noodle stall was quite good, and later she rented a shop in Guandi Temple and became my neighbor. It was not easy for me to watch her pull the child up with one hand, and to take care of her elderly mother-in-law. ”

"Later, we began to have a food disaster here, the land was deserted, and the farmers fled, so Gui Rong's noodle stall naturally couldn't do it. So in that year, she also left, dragging the old and the young, and left Qianxi Town. A few more years later, I heard? She opened a restaurant in another town? Business is getting more and more prosperous, huh? She has also become a well-known 'Aunt Rong'. It's just that I didn't expect that? This restaurant turned out to be the Wubi Pavilion, the famous Wubi Pavilion. ”

"But then I thought? Maybe this is called 'there will be great blessings after great tribulation', Gui Rong is such a child who grew up in bitter water? turned out to be the proprietress of the world's largest restaurant? Who could have imagined this. ”

"Oh, by the way, you're asking about the Chen family, how can I ...... How did it get to Gui Rong. "The old man with a gray beard smiled embarrassedly?" Old? I'm a little confused, don't mind. ”

"It's okay, the affairs of the Lin and Chen families are intertwined, and they can't be separated if they want to."

A low voice came from under the hat, and the old man glanced at the girl? Puzzled, "What...... What root and what section? The old man's ears are almost deaf? I really can't hear clearly. ”

"Sir, it's okay for you to continue to say that the Chen family? I just heard from you that Chen Rui's brother Chen Yuan disappeared ten years ago, right? The little man next to the woman half-leaned over? I leaned over to him.

"Huh? Chen Yuan? That's really a good boy, with a smile on his face forever, he is so kind to everyone, after he disappeared, several of our neighbors were so sad that they couldn't do it, and they have been helping the Chen family find someone, but this year has passed, and the hope is getting slimmer and slimmer, I think, the child should be gone. Speaking of this, the old man slapped his thigh, "I remember why I went to the Lin family, Chen Yuan, his best playmate is Gui Rong's son, Song Yao, the two of them are as good as one person, I don't know, I thought they were brothers." ”

"Chen Yuan is Lin Songyao's best friend?"

"Isn't it? The two children are both good-looking and have a good temperament, I remember that Chen Yuan stayed at Gui Rong's noodle stall every day, helping their mother and son sell noodles together. He doesn't know how to work, although the Chen family is not rich, but he especially spoils children, Chen Yuan has been weak since he was a child, so he was raised as a young master. Oh, but what about that kid, when he arrived at Lin's house, he did everything, and I often saw him helping out in the noodle stall, and he looked decent. ”

Chen Yuan...... When did it go missing? ”

"When?"

"Was it when the Lin family moved away?"

The old man tried to widen his half-closed eyes, "After you say this, it seems that yes, I remember that Chen Yuan didn't see him for a few days, we all helped to find someone, but I didn't see the Lin family, and then I heard that they moved away, because of the food disaster, the supply of things in the countryside was not available." ”

"You haven't been able to find Chen Yuan since then?"

The old man sighed, "You may not believe it, not only did Chen Yuan not find it, but the Chen family also disappeared one after another, you see, the courtyard on the corner of the street is the original house of the Chen family, and now no one lives in it, it is an empty house, and since Chen Rui left, no one has lived in it anymore." ”

"Chen Rui?"

The old man looked at the two people staring at him, and smashed his shriveled mouth a few times, "What, didn't you come to find Chen Rui?" ”

"You then said, when did Chen Rui leave?" The woman wearing the hat still looked calm, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

"Chen Rui is the youngest son of the Chen family, and when Chen Yuan disappeared, he was probably five or six years old. Later, the Chen family became fewer and fewer, and I heard that they went out to look for Chen Yuan. But Chen Rui is still in this house, and he always says that he is afraid that his brother will not be able to find his family when he comes back, so he will stay here until ...... It was about a year ago. ”

"A year ago, Chen Rui also left?"

The old man said "um", "That day, like today, it was a weather when the snow was about to fall, I went out to buy some hot oil tea for my little grandson, and when I passed by Chen's house, I saw Xiao Rui going out, with a package on his back, I asked him where he was going, and he said that he was going to find Chen Yuan." I'm very strange, Chen Yuan hasn't heard from him for so long, where is Xiao Rui going to find his brother. So I asked, do you know where Chen Yuan went? He didn't speak, only nodded at me, but after a few steps he turned back and said something very strange to me. ”

"What did Chen Rui say?"

"He said, 'I may never come back like them this time, and if I don't come back in a year's time, please help our family of five burn a stack of paper at the annual sacrifice, so that we don't become lonely ghosts.' With that, he also took me a string of money, and then, before I could react, turned around and left. Later, I thought about it, what did Xiao Rui mean by this, could it be that the rest of the Chen family is gone, and he may also follow in their footsteps? ”

"You're right." After a long time, the woman wearing the hat said lightly, she looked at the short man opposite, and said word by word, "Moreover, I already know who he is." ”