(Due to the excessive number of words in this chapter, it has been updated in two parts, and the following is the first half of "32 Down".) ）

On Tuesday morning, Manager Ma, who was in a meeting, suddenly received a call from her second brother Xingsheng, she quickly hung up, and only called her second brother back after the meeting.

"Hey, brother?" As soon as Gui Ying opened her mouth to call her brother, her face suddenly bloomed with joy.

"Hmmm! Yingying, are you busy! Xingsheng answered the phone, feeling guilty that he had just disturbed his sister's work.

"I was busy just now, but now I'm completely idle."

"How did you get the purslane I mailed you?"

"Zhiyuan steamed the noodles for me, then adjusted the ingredients of soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and green onions, and finally poured it with hot oil, which was very delicious! I took it to the office and ate it several times! Oops, I'm drooling again now! You eat all your big bags of wild vegetables like this, I love to eat like this! In the end, I ate and only me and I were eating, and the three people surnamed He didn't touch it later, and they were greasy to eat! Hahahaha! Gui Ying smiled and recalled the happiness of eating wild vegetables some time ago.

"If you love to eat, that's good! What's the big deal? Xingsheng asked his father.

"I had a fever two days ago, and the fever just went away today!" Gui Ying apologized.

"Why do you have a high fever?"

He thought that the house was suffocated and he had to sleep on the ground if he didn't sleep on the bed, and he was cold from the typhoon two days ago, and he was tired from going out to play a few days ago, which is not ...... Sick! ”

"Oh! Did you show him the sea? ”

"What sea?" Gui Ying was puzzled.

"When he was at home, he always yelled that he wanted to go to Shenzhen to see the sea, see the statue of a great man or something, and you haven't taken him there yet?"

"Hurry! Where is the time? Besides, he didn't mention it to me? It's not in line with his style! ”

"It's not that I'm afraid of delaying your work! I was so stubborn that I didn't open my mouth! Xingsheng explained.

"Uh...... Well, I remember, brother, don't worry. Gui Ying promised.

"Oh yes, I called specifically to tell you that Xinghua will arrive at the train station at nine o'clock tomorrow night, and you will pick it up then."

"Yes."

"Yingying, brother told you, don't keep her longer!" Xingsheng scratched his ears and reminded cautiously.

"Huh?"

"Don't care what you mean, you listen to my brother, don't leave them alone! Needless to say, you'll understand when you see it! Besides, if you think of an excuse to say that you don't have any money in your hand, you must think of a good excuse in advance, the two of them don't know what they're doing in the past few years, and they borrow money everywhere to ask for money...... Hey, anyway, you remember what my brother said, did you listen? The girl on the other end of the phone was still a little girl twenty years ago, and her tone was full of clumsy admonitions and instructions.

"Well, I remember what you said!" Gui Ying frowned and nodded.

After hanging up the phone, Gui Ying sighed, and the society was tired. Thinking that she and her eldest brother had not been ventilated for more than a month, Gui Ying directly dialed the eldest brother's phone. After the phone was connected, the brother and sister first laughed, and then talked about the old man, the children, their respective jobs, and the things in Xingxing and their hometowns...... The two brothers and sisters, who hadn't talked for a long time and were doubly affectionate, made a phone call for an hour.

In the afternoon, Ma Guiying continued to ask the business manager of Lijie Company, but the other party was shining. I have made four phone calls in the past two days, and I haven't talked about anything yet, and Gui Ying is in a hurry. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Manager Ma went to visit a company she had made an appointment in the morning, which was a technology company in the business card given by Mr. Qian, I don't know if I can negotiate the business, Gui Ying left the result, and first saved up enough energy to promote her company, and this run is another day.

I don't know when it began, the old horse and Yangyang's year-old friendship has quietly risen to a new level, and the old and the young have been glued together all day long, like iron buddies. Lao Ma called his little buddies and followers to his heart's content—taking medicine, pouring water, taking cigarette pouches, and charging mobile phones...... Every task was successfully completed. When the old horse is playing, he also watches and participates from time to time, the old one plays with the young, and the small one accompanies the old pastime.

Today's happiest thing for Yangyang is the first time that her grandfather visited her cottage, which means a sublimation of their friendship for the children. When the old horse entered the house, he saw a small table, a small chair, a small sofa, and a small wardrobe...... The low bed is suitable for the old horse to sit for a while. After the grandfather sat down, Yangyang took out the posture of the little master to introduce his toys to the grandfather, and this introduction took more than half an hour.

The old horse looked around at the toys in the house, from the small building blocks with jujube cores to the children's piano with benches, the soft ones with all kinds of puppets, the hard ones were all kinds of plastic and even steel toys, and there were schoolbags with toys and toys and clothes that could be worn...... A house of about ten square meters, under the two walls is full of all kinds of toys.

The old horse held a rippling car in his hand, and the apricot-sized car was embedded with a complete compartment, wheels, headlights and the driver in the car, and the old man held the car to feel very novel and fun. Thinking back to my childhood, more than half a century ago - the early forties of the twentieth century. At that time, I was so poor that I couldn't eat all day, how could there be such a beautiful car to play with? Most of the children play crickets, butterflies, sparrows, sticky ants, spinning tops, crabs, and occasionally play a dozen cotton balls and kick bamboo balls are the most advanced games, but they are so poor but so interesting, so interesting that they do not envy the childhood of children piled up with a room of toys now.

At this moment, Yang Yang was lying on the ground and drawing, and it was the old horse who was painting. Next to the white paper is a complete set of colored pencils, seventy or eighty at first glance. For an old man who cares about the end of the needle, the current set of brushes can be described as spectacular. The old horse in the painting has golden hair, blue eyes, red cheeks, short legs, a big head, black teeth, and red toenails...... Yang Yang looked up at her model while painting, and when she saw the model staring at the car and getting distracted, Yang Yang couldn't help but shout back.

She was worried about the confusion of waking up in the morning, so she asked, "Grandpa, when will you buy me food?" ”

"Huh?"

"It's the grandfather in the morning who said you'd buy me food...... Will you buy it for me? Yangyang raised his head and looked up at the old horse, his eyes full of antiquity.

"Uh...... What do you want to eat? ”

"I want to eat...... Yo-yo, chocolate and chips! ”

"Do you have it at home?"

"...... I don't have at home"

"Then grandpa will take you to buy it." The old horse patted his knee.

"Really?" Yangyang sat up and asked in surprise.

"Really, grandpa bought it for you." The old horse smiled and looked down at the ripples.

"So when are we going to buy yo-yo candy? And chocolate...... And potato chips......" Yang Yang put down his pencil and stood up and asked.

"Now! Do you know where to buy? The old horse held the head of the cane in both hands and said heroically.

"Know! I know! I'll take you! Yang Yang pulled the edge of the old horse's coat and dragged it to the door.

"Okay, let's go!" The old horse stood up and really wanted to buy it.

He took Yangyang to find Zhiyuan first, the door of the room was open, there was no one in the room, Lao Ma went to the kitchen to look for it, and there was no kitchen, so he went to the room to find it. At the door of the bathroom in the couple's room, Lao Ma and Yangyang finally found someone - He Zhiyuan was sitting on a small bench and scrubbing Gui Ying's underwear. Lao Ma glanced at the woman's underwear, and was too ashamed to look at it, so he quickly turned to the side and said to Zhiyuan: "I'll take the baby to buy some candy." ”

The old horse was so embarrassed that he couldn't do it, but Zhiyuan was very calm holding his underwear with both hands and didn't move, only reminded: "Dad, don't buy more!" Kids can't eat too much sugar! ”

"Hmm." The old horse turned his back to leave.

"Dad, aren't you dizzy now?" Zhiyuan was worried about the old man's body.

"Nope."

"Do you still want to eat out? I'll cook later, let me know if you eat out! ”

"Don't eat out!" Lao Ma said and walked out of the room, and an indescribable emotion welled up in his heart.

"Yangyang, go get the bracelet and take it with grandpa, don't get lost." Zhiyuan shouted in the bathroom.

"Okay!" When Yangyang heard that he was going to buy snacks, he was so happy that he hurried to the house to get the bracelet. When the old horse changed his shoes, she put the kind of anti-lost bracelet for children on her wrist and on her grandfather's wrist. A plastic bungee more than one meter long was pulled between the two, and the old horse couldn't help but smile happily. Yang Yang led the old horse in front, like a boy herding a cow; The old horse dragged the ripples behind him, like an old man playing monkey.

The grandparents and grandchildren who went out together for the first time were obviously a little excited. After getting out of the elevator, Yangyang led the old horse remotely and went all the way to the familiar convenience store downstairs. After entering the store, Yang Yang consciously took a small shopping basket from the door of the store, no longer having to wait for a long time, the little man picked out a few of his favorite snacks in a few minutes, and then called Grandpa to come and pay the bill.

The old horse walked to the payment desk, took out his wallet from his pocket, and then touched the money from his wallet. The waiter who had already scanned the QR code over there looked up and said to the old horse: "A total of one hundred and thirty-six." ”

"How much?" The old horse was so shocked that his face changed and his jaw dropped.

"One hundred and thirty-six!" The waiter repeated it out loud.

Lao Ma took out two hundred yuan from his wallet, and then stared at a few bags of snacks in the basket, showing an indescribably complicated expression.

"Do you want a bag?"

"Does the bag cost money?" Lao Ma had heard that plastic bags in the city also collected money, so he was vigilant.

"Three cents is a small one!"

"No, no, no!" Lao Ma shook his head, and then took three bags of snacks with Yangyang and walked out of the convenience store. There are six bags in total, two bags of potato chips have almost no weight, and the remaining four bags of snacks have no weight, why is it so expensive, Lao Ma is puzzled.

Yang Yang was so hungry that he opened a bag of potato chips and ate it first, holding a bag of snacks in his elbow, holding a bag of snacks in his left hand, holding a bag of snacks in his left arm, humming a song happily, and eating potato chips behind his grandfather. The old horse peeked at the potato chips like paper, and wondered why the potato chips were so expensive. When he entered the stairs, Yang Yang opened another bag of chocolates, licked the chocolate and ate it black, the old horse didn't know anything, only resented why the muddy stuff was so expensive. He secretly thought that the merchant must have deceived the doll, and along the way, he didn't know how many manufacturers' fathers and mothers were scolded and counted a few accounts for selling fruits.

Although I was very distressed, I was overjoyed and intoxicated when I saw the child eating, and I thought that it was difficult to buy a doll. There is no suspense, and the matter of buying snacks for Yangyang has pushed the friendship between the old and the young to a peak. When I arrived at the door of the house, the old and the young had no keys, so Yangyang knocked on the door and called Dad, and Zhiyuan came to open the door.

"Bought so much! You can't eat too much at once! What did Dad tell you? "Zhiyuan carefully reviews snacks.

"Eat too many teeth and get worms!" Yangyang was very obedient and obediently handed over the snacks. Zhiyuan only gave the child a little in his hand, and Yangyang still ate very well with snacks.

The old horse glanced at his son-in-law, a good and dignified big man, wearing a red plaid apron, recalling the scene of washing women's underwear just now, the old man's face couldn't help but darken. He didn't want to talk and went straight to the balcony to smoke. After dinner, Tsai returned happily, and when he saw that his grandfather was cured, he quickly started a small abacus to ask for a bonus.

"Grandpa, I got into the twelfth place in the exam, didn't you say that you want to reward me with money? My dad already gave him his share last night! Tsai Tsai hugged his grandfather tightly and asked him to look at the transcript taken on his mobile phone.

"How much did your dad give you?"

"Two hundred and five!" The young man deceived the old man.

"Two hundred and five is ugly, grandpa will give you three hundred!" The old horse took out his cowhide wallet and prepared to give money.

"Cash! Oops, can you give the money to your daughter and ask her to send me a WeChat red envelope? Who's using cash now! Tsai pouted and complained.

"Do you want it or not? If you don't want it, you won't give it! I've overspent today! "The old horse took back the money and molested the boy.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Tsai snatched the three red tickets from Lao Ma's hand, and immediately got up to find his father, intending to exchange the cash for WeChat red envelopes.

After being close to him for less than two minutes and leaving, Lao Ma looked at his grandson's back and suddenly felt lost, and what was even more desolate was his own money. Prices are high here, and the money in the hands of the peasants is simply not money! A few packs of snacks are more than a hundred, and a red envelope is three hundred, Lao Ma sucked cold air from between his teeth and shook his head. Staying in my hometown, one hundred and thirty-six can buy a large straw basket of grapes, a cart of watermelons, a few large pots of large lili winter dates, and a few large bags of flour...... 300 yuan to take out the door, in the village is not a small portal, here is just a little pocket money for children.

The meaning and value of money have changed because of the region, and it is no wonder that people are pouring into the city, and the money in the city is easy to spend and must be easily earned.

Zhong Xuemei, who got off work on the first day, worked twelve hours in one go, but she didn't feel tired at all. After taking the bus home, it was already nine o'clock when I got home. Bao Xiaoxing was closing the stall, and Xuemei stuck behind her mother and told her mother about her first day of work. Hyosung just smiled on his face and didn't speak. Grandpa Zhong Neng sat on the side and couldn't help but keep asking this and that, Xuemei danced and chatted with grandpa while working.

There were two people sitting next to them. One is Zhong Xuecheng, who is sitting at the top of the stairs, holding the rusty iron pillar of the staircase, yawning and smiling at his sister. He didn't come forward to shout around his sister, nor was he as curious as his grandfather, he smiled quietly in the distance like an adult. The other person is Zhong Li, who is sitting on the sofa and looking at his mobile phone, looking at his mobile phone from beginning to end, not asking his daughter if she is tired or how she is on the first day of work, just looking at her mobile phone.

Hyosung dragged the ground away, Xuemei also left, Zhong Neng dragged Xuecheng to sleep, and Zhong Li was the only one left in the bright shop. After his family left, he put down his phone and looked up at the irregular cobwebs on the wall and the layers of old paintings on the wall. After a long time, he began to smoke, one after the other, until Lao Tao came and asked him to drink, and the smoking stopped.