Chapter Seventy-Three: Xiaoxue's Yard
It's still the same highway, it's the same day, it's still the same direction......
On this day last year, I walked through here in Zhou Haoran and Luo Qian's car and went to Rao City, with a backpack full of chocolates and skin care products. At that time, I was just a worthless salesman in the company, and I spent more than a month's salary to meet Hu Shanshan.
At that time, my idea was very simple: I just wanted to see her.
When I think of this, I still can't help but snicker. Because the feeling at that time was really good, as if it was facing the morning sun, and every pore on the body was absorbing heat.
Xia Xue, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had a complicated expression, looked out the window and looked at me again: "Lu Xia, you really want to play one out and one out." There are so many places to go for a spring outing, why do you have to go to my hometown? You don't know that my parents see you like ......."
Halfway through the words, Xue clicked her throat and rubbed her forehead in annoyance: "Forget it, just go, don't worry about what my mother says when the time comes, you don't have to make too much movement."
"We're just passing by your house on a spring outing, and we won't give them too many opportunities." I calmed Xia Xue and glanced in the back mirror of the car, where a black Santana followed closely behind......
Although Xia Xue complained, she was actually very emotional. The back seat and trunk of the car were stuffed with the things she wanted to take home, and I was not a stingy person, and I bought cigarettes and alcohol at an expensive price.
Glancing at the back seat, Xia Xue suddenly said to me again: "Lu Xia, do we bring a little too much stuff?" It must have cost you a lot of money! ”
"What a cost! It's just that Xue is too virtuous and housekeeper, and the money spent on this little thing is not enough for the few boxes of chocolates I bought when I met Da Shanshan last year. ”
I don't hold back. After finishing himself, he was also stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the snow beside him.
Xue Jingying's big eyes looked at me, pursed her lips and asked, "Lu Xia, did you also Qingming when you saw her last year?" ”
I nodded, but I couldn't make a sound in my throat.
"You went to her house too?" She asked again.
"Nope!" I explained: "She didn't have a holiday at that time, so I went to her school. Later, we went to the Lingshan Scenic Area together. ”
Xue didn't ask anything more, stared at my face for a moment, and slowly turned her gaze out the window.
The car drove all the way, more than two hours to the Huangshan snow home in the ancient city of Shexian County, if you are not in a hurry to climb up, you can go to the ancient street first, take a look at the ancient buildings of Huizhou.
What is surprising is that Xia Xue's home looks very simple, with a high gatehouse of blue bricks and tiles, and a few steps inside is a courtyard paved with a whole large bluestone.
Park the car by the pond in front of the door, and the ducks resting on the pond ridge flew to the water, and the wings were full of feathers and floating dust. A big black dog tethered to a ginkgo tree dragged a chain and roared at us, and Snow got out of the car and stamped its feet, before it licked its nose and wagged its tail.
When Mother Xue greeted her out of the door, she was still wearing a scarf, and Le's eyes narrowed into a slit. I opened the trunk and took things out one by one, she didn't know which one to take with a pair of empty hands, and when she saw that there were too many, she complained that we were spending money indiscriminately, and then shouted to the house, asking Daddy Snow to come and help.
Mother Xue is also a loud voice, and the neighbors who shouted all poked their heads out to take a look, and when they saw me and Xue, they all projected strange eyes.
"Mother Snow, who is this guy? Son-in-law? "An old man with a cane limped towards us.
Mother Snow waved her hand and told him not to ask. Then he introduced me: "Lu Xia! This is Uncle Xue's grandfather. ”
I hurriedly called my uncle and grandfather politely, and greeted him and handed over the cigarette attentively.
The old man looked at me with a cigarette in his hand, looking at me again and again, and smiling. Gray beard cocked old high.
Snow Daddy is a teacher in the neighborhood and rushes home from class at noon. On the contrary, he was a little shy, holding a handful of unpicked chives in his hand to welcome him out of the door, standing in front of the door and not knowing what to do. Mother Xue snorted, and he put down the chives in hindsight to help with things.
"I'm tired on the road!" Mother Snow welcomed us through the door, and her apron wiped a stone bench in the middle of the yard and motioned for me to sit.
I bowed slightly and thanked him, looked around the courtyard, and found that this was a typical courtyard of ancient Hui architecture. In the middle of the yard is a leafy pear tree, which is full of pear blossoms and bees in April. In the center of the courtyard is a large round stone table with four stone benches surrounding it. Mother Xue brought tea and pastries, put them on the stone table, and wanted to peel apples for me, but I politely refused.
"Auntie, if you're busy, you don't need to be polite, otherwise I'll be restrained."
Mother Xue squinted: "Then you sit for a while and take a sip of tea?" ”
I nodded hurriedly, and was complacent about seeing her off when the old white-bearded man limped in with a cane.
I diligently sat the old man down at the table and poured him a glass of water.
"Uncle, you drink tea"
The old man happily held the teacup, and after a long time, he asked, "What's your surname?" ”
"Oh, Lu!" The old man looked up and down again and again, and said something strange to me.
Later, Xia Xue told me that the old man's mental state was not very good, so just talk to him, and there was no need to be too enthusiastic.
On the basis of the original ancient street house, Xia Xue's family extended back to build a two-story self-built house. Passing through an old gatehouse covered with moss, a few steps inside is a self-built house painted with white lime, with plastic steel windows, security doors, and tiled floors, which looks a little out of place with the antique style of the front house at first glance.
Xia Xue wanted to help her parents pick vegetables and make a fire, but her father was afraid of snubbing me, so he asked her to accompany me for a turn and get acquainted with it.
"Lu Xia, let me tell you, the pears grown from my pear tree are delicious. It's the kind of big yellow pear, which can't be bought in the market. ”
Xue pointed to a sawn branch stump on the tree, and said to me: "There used to be a branch in this place, and my father tied a swing, and I spent my childhood on that swing. ”
Listening to the snow, I seem to close my eyes and see the scene of the girl with big watery eyes, rippling happily and laughing on the swing.
After introducing the tree, Snow took me upstairs and led me around her boudoir.
"Look at this! It's all the awards I've ever received since I was a big guy. ”
I saw a shelf in front of a wall with all sorts of trophies and medals. There is the second place in the essay contest in the school days, the gold medal in the computer contest in the high school era, and the medals in the sports meeting in the college days, ...... dazzling!
"That's amazing!" I couldn't help but feel dwarfed by my fingers running over those exquisite rewards.
At this time, Xia Xue took me to the window, pushed open the window and took a deep breath in the wind: "Look, my environment is not bad, right!?" ”
I approached the window and saw a field of rape flowers as far as the eye could see. My heart trembled for no reason, the spring breeze was blowing, the rape flowers were floating and sinking in the sun, the air was fine, the bees and butterflies were lingering in the sun, and the air was filled with the faint fragrance of flowers.
The perspective of this window is too similar to what Hu Shanshan Geyuan saw in the dormitory, and I saw Xia Xue as Hu Shanshan in a trance, and I couldn't help but hug her in my arms
Xia Xue struggled, revealing a delicate red face from my chest: "Let go, don't show my mother it." ”
I let go of her in a trance and scratched my scalp: "I'm sorry, I just ...... When you see a bee flying in, you're afraid she'll sting you. ”
Xue pursed her lips and stared at me in disbelief, and sneered stupidly for a while before pointing downstairs: "Let's go down!" It's time to cook. ”