Leaving Xiaonanguo, the car drove through the streets where night was quietly falling, along the way to the Suzhou Creek, quietly immersed in the moonlight and street lamps.

All the way through the old streets and new bridges along the river, mixed with the short trivial whispers of the parents of the large and small alleys on both sides of the Suzhou Creek, meandering.

Anne sat in the co-pilot's seat, saw Dad lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, the thick smoke suddenly spread in the car, Anne choked and coughed a few times, Dad quickly opened the panoramic sunroof on the roof of the car, and the smoke was blown away by the sultry wind.

Anne looked out the window at the glittering street and said, "Where do I stay at night?"

Dad frowned, groaned slightly, and said, "Don't I have a small apartment, can you live there?"

Anne let out a mosquito-like "um" and tilted her head out the window.

The car drove for a few minutes and came to Jing'an Park.

Jing'an Park is centered on 32 century-old trees on Central Avenue, and the entrance to the north is Ginkgo Square.

Nowadays, the elderly and children have become the protagonists here, casual people dance in different styles in the same venue and the same music rhythm, Yangge and disco dance together, weight loss exercises and recess exercises have their own place, friends or couples sit on the benches around, and there are many chasing children around.

As the music faded away, the car stopped at the intersection and waited for the traffic light, and Dad threw the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray in the cup slot in the armrest of the seat, and said, "Nini, do you want to go back to Jiangcheng to study?"

Anne was silent, helplessly looking out the car window, the past experience told Anne that the result of going back to the old path must be a repeat of the past, Anne was fed up and didn't want to think about it anymore.

Anne reached out and closed the panoramic skylight overhead, and the August day was really hot, leaving the blessing of the air conditioner. People get sweaty in minutes.

Dad said, "Nini, the car is dirty, let's go wash the car first." I also remembered it later," he said, made a U-turn at the intersection in front of him, and the car drove in the direction of Yanjing West Road.

There are large and small hardware appliances and auto repair stores in the vicinity, as well as several small and medium-sized supermarkets for daily necessities.

The car beauty shop that Dad found was the second shop at the south end of the road, mainly dealing in car beauty, but also concurrently engaged in car circuit repair, car audio installation, pneumatic tire repair and other miscellaneous items.

There are several cars parked in front of the car beauty shop, and several young men in uniform orange overalls, some washing cars, some waxing and polishing cars.

One of the older middle-aged men was wearing the same overalls as the employees, except that his overalls were older, stained with stains of oil that could not be washed off, and he was repairing the electrical circuits of a black Toyota sedan, with oil stains on both hands.

At this time, a Santana police car drove over, the headlights shone, the middle-aged man habitually stopped his work and walked towards us, as soon as he walked in, the other party was suddenly stunned, and stepped forward to his father enthusiastically and restrainedly: "Mr. Chang, you are a rare guest."

Dad's greeting contained an inquiry, and asked casually, "So busy, why are you still working by yourself now?" Just let the apprentices do it. ”

The middle-aged man cautiously replied: "It's okay, it's okay, it's hot, and it's not busy."

Dad said bluntly: "If you are still interested in the matter over there in Century Park, you can go and talk to him when you have time, he is in Pudong during the day, and I will give you the address." As he spoke, he handed a note that had already been prepared to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to take it, and his hand immediately printed a black grease stain on the note, he looked at the address and realized that this was actually a message that indicated a certain possibility, so he said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Chang!"

Dad smiled and said, "Don't thank me, it's not done yet, thank me again if you become it."

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, and turned around and called the workers to come and wash the car.

The father said, "I'll take my daughter to buy some daily necessities nearby, and you're busy, so I won't bother, and I'll come over to pick up the car later."

Turning, Dad and Anne walked diagonally across the street to the FamilyMart store.

When crossing the street, my father turned his face to Anne and said, "I only live in that house occasionally, most of the time it is a lunch break, there is nothing in the house, buy everything you need."

As soon as he said this, he arrived at the door, and the door of the whole family had just opened, and the air conditioning inside the store and the heat outside formed a white psychedelic smoke.

Due to the large temperature difference between inside and outside the store, Anne couldn't help but shiver as soon as she entered, and her father took a bottle of Head & Shoulders shampoo and a bottle of Liushen Ice Cool Body Wash.

Anne chose two towels. One blue, one white, and bought another bottle of Blue Moon's laundry detergent.

Ah sneeze ~ Dad sneezed hard and said: "You don't have to buy a big bucket of drinking water, I'll have someone send it to you tomorrow, take two small bottles, and drink enough when you're thirsty at night."

Anne walked over to the freezer and saw the Bright Brand bricks inside. Open the freezer and take a square brick. Speaking of this bright brick, there is an interesting little story......

That's right! It's this boxy blue paper packaging. In the past, the lining of the square bricks was food paper, but later it was changed to a plastic lining. I also have a more interesting episode about this kind of brick that accompanies childhood.

There was a period of my childhood when I lived with my grandparents. It's a summer vacation, and it's very hot, just like now, it's over 37 degrees. In the heat of summer, bright snow bricks are a great way to beat the heat, and they are very tempting and delicious.

At that time, my grandmother gave me a small bamboo basket every time, and then gave me a calculated amount of money, and told me to go to the nearby cold drink wholesale store to wholesale ten bright brand bricks, because ten pieces were wholesale, and every time I wholesaled the bricks, I trotted all the way home and hurried home. When I got home, my grandmother piled up in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.

Then according to the rules set by my grandmother, I can only eat one piece a day, and I can eat two pieces at most. The white and glutinous, sweet square bricks are fatal to the attraction of children.

One piece is definitely not enjoyable, and every time I lick the enamel bowl with ice bricks, I start looking forward to the next day.

I remember that time, the cold drink shop gave a large discount, but the amount of one-time purchase was also increased.

So that time, an excess was more than double the usual purchase amount, a full 20 square bricks!

The entire refrigerator compartment is crammed to the brim. On the day when the remaining 14 of the 20 bricks were eaten, an accident happened.

At the hottest time of noon, "Smack! "There was a sudden power outage in the whole house, the TV went out, the fans stopped, and after a while there was no sign of recovery. After a while, I went out to take a look, and the neighbors also came out to see the situation, and it seemed that there was a power outage in the surrounding area. There was a lot of discussion among the neighbors about what was going on. A message came from the noisy discussion: "There was an accident at the nearby power supply station, it seems to be a fire, and the power station is on fire." In short, it is not a temporary power outage, and it is not known when it will be restored. ”

All the cooling equipment that is driven by electricity is not usable, televisions, electric fans, etc......

At that time, there was no air conditioning in the house, the sun was scorching outside the house, and the weather forecast was 38 degrees yesterday.

I can only pick up a fan, and the room is very quiet because there is no noise from various electrical appliances. The noise from the fridge is also gone.

At this time, grandpa noticed the problem - the refrigerator. "The air conditioner should last for a while, wait a minute," Grandpa said.

Two hours passed, and nothing improved. It's not the way to go.

The adult finally decided, opened the refrigerator, and began to eat the 14 square bricks. The task of these 14 bricks can only be completed by me and my grandmother, who can't eat cold things because of his physique.

In this case, if the power supply cannot be restored in time, then everyone is tasked with eating 7 square bricks.

At that moment, I was so happy in my heart, you must know that I usually wait until after the o'clock every day to start enjoying the ration of that day, and I still can't get enough after eating.

And now the opportunity has come, and you can eat as much as you want. After experiencing that kind of mood, you will experience the joy of the mouse falling into the rice tank.

The first batch of four pieces were moved out, the outer packaging was torn apart, the inner lining was lined with soft paper, and the ...... was eaten

The first piece is eaten up, and then the second piece is activated.

Delicious! YUMMY！

After the second piece was gnawed, the third piece was directly distributed, and the melted snow water in the bowl was not removed at all, and the whole thing was directly started to be eaten if there was that effort.

After eating the fourth piece, by the time the fifth piece was finished, it began to feel a little full, and the allure of the sweet taste began to plummet, losing its usual brilliance.

A lot of time has passed, and the temperature inside the refrigerator room can't be kept after a few openings and closings, and the square bricks taken out again have begun to melt, and when the shell is opened, the ice bricks in the lining paper have been soft as paste, and they are no longer the shape of scraping when the air conditioning is sufficient.

"Eat!!" Grandma said.

At this time, eating square bricks has been like a lazy donkey grinding, and the ice bricks that used to have deadly temptation taste the same as chewing wax in the mouth, and the melted ice cream water is so greasy and sweet.

In the evening, when it was dark, we could no longer eat at all, so we could only unpack the remaining bricks and put them in a large bowl, and soon they all melted into snow.

Looking at this big bowl full of white ice cream water.

Anne Geyou slumped in her chair, and according to the current words: it felt like she would not love anymore.

For two years after that, I never wanted to see the Bright bricks again.

For many years after that, Anne did not eat the Bright brand bricks again.

Dad said to Anne, "Nini, Daddy is going to drive the car first, you stay here, it's very hot outside, you sit here on the stool." When you see the car coming, you go out again. After saying that, Dad went out and braved a pot of frozen heat and walked to the street in steamer mode!

Anne sat on a high stool near the floor-to-ceiling window, biting the ice brick in her hand.

Suddenly, Anne saw that her father had just crossed the street, and turned back again, and came in with the heat of steamed buns.

Dad took out a few hundred-dollar bills from his bag and handed them to Anne, and said with a smile: "Dad is in a hurry, I forgot that I haven't given you the money yet."

Anne hesitated for a few seconds before taking the money.

Dad plunged into the 'steamer' again in the night.

Not long after, Anne watched her father ride across the street, paid for it, and waited at the door with a large plastic bag.

The car stopped in front of Anne, Anne opened the back seat door and put a large bag of plastic bags on the back seat, Dad smiled and turned his head and said, "The bricks are eaten so quickly?" Fast enough! ”

Anne lifted up and turned to close the door, opened the passenger door, and sat in. The car is moving again......

It seemed that it was almost there, and it was obvious that the car had slowed down to idle, and Dad raised his hand and pointed to a high-rise commercial and residential apartment in the 90s in front of him and said, "Nini, here it is." That's where you live. ”

The car turned right to the alley on the west side of the apartment, Anne pressed the window, and the car hesitated in the quiet alley, surrounded by trees on the long wall, which was a quiet alley.

The quietness of the place is the same as the bustling streets of the city that never sleeps.

Entering the courtyard gate of the community, the car drove straight into the underground garage, which is really big. Hundreds of parking spaces are full.

Dad found his parking space, stopped, the car turned off, Dad turned around and opened the door of the back seat, and lifted the large shopping bag in the back seat. Anne silently followed her father to the elevator.

While waiting for the elevator, Dad put down the plastic bag in his hand, fumbled for something on his body, took out a key from his pocket, took one of the keys, and handed it to Anne.

Dad said, "Dad will hand over the key to this house, and you can come back to live at any time in the future."

The moment Anne took the key, the elevator door opened, Anne entered the elevator, habitually stood in the elevator button operation area, and asked like a mosquito: "What floor?"

Dad reached out and pressed the button on the 30th floor, and just as the door was two inches away from closing, a hand reached in and blocked the elevator door.

Anne was a little frightened, her body instinctively shrank back, and a middle-aged man came in, and kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

When Dad saw the man, he said, "Han Gong, it's you."

The middle-aged man raised his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, smiled and greeted his father and enthusiastically stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Chang, are you still coming to the company so late?" Hard, hard! ”

The two of them greeted each other politely and politely, and the elevator door opened and closed, closed and opened.

The middle-aged man reached out and pressed the button on the 35th floor, and Anne began to look at the Han Gong in front of him, this is a middle-aged man who looks to be about 35 years old, he is tall, very burly, his face is angular, and there are a few locks of slightly sparse hair hanging on his forehead, wearing a moon-white casual shirt, without buttons, and revealing the vest inside. Don't have a chic temperament.

Han Gong held a laptop bag in his right hand and stood side by side with his father in front of the mirror at the back of the elevator.

Dad said, "Are you done with that project in Yanjing?"

Han Gong held a handkerchief with his left hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead and replied, "No, I have to go to Yanjing tomorrow to continue to do it, and I can't do it for half a month."

Dad said: "Yes, Yanjing's work is not easy to do, and Yanjing is often restricted, limited numbers, sometimes engineering vehicles can't drive in, stop in Jizhou and be in a hurry, just can't get in......"

Although there are vents in the elevator and an electric fan is installed on the roof, it is still stuffy and breathless.

Ding~ It's finally here.

Anne took a deep breath and got out of the elevator, leaving her father to say goodbye to Han Gong politely.

Dad is really a master of socializing, why do you have acquaintances and friends everywhere you go.

It used to be like this, go out for a meal, acquaintances in the corridor, go out of the community bar, meet acquaintances, it's easy to have a meal, and there are often guests at other tables who pat their shoulders and toast. There is an idiom that suits my dad very well, left and right!

Entered the room and turned on the light, this is a small single apartment, only about 40 square meters.

One bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, the decoration style is the most common decoration of the hotel's simple style.

On the left hand side of the door is a three-meter-long kitchen counter, which is said to be a kitchen counter, but in fact there is a sink, which is empty.

On the right-hand side is a row of large wardrobes with three doors embedded in the wall.

Inside, there is an IKEA-style single sofa and a palm-sized miniature wooden coffee table with a box of paper and an ashtray with a half-extinguished cigarette butt in the ashtray.

On one side of the single sofa and coffee table is a floor-to-ceiling hallway made of frosted glass. It looks like a bamboo forest in the blur.

Further inside is a large double bed, the bed sheets are the pure white sheets that Dad has always liked, yes, the same white and bright sheets as the hotel.

Anne watched the white sheets glow silver under the LED lights, as white as the sun glows from the thick snow of a northern winter.

Anne put her backpack in the closet that came in, took out the shopping bag and bought it, and handed the water to her father, who walked to the window and closed the window and closed the curtains.

I opened the drawer under the coffee table, took out two remote controls, and turned on the TV and the air conditioner at the same time. While turning on the air conditioner, he nagged and said: "The air outlet of the air conditioner should not blow directly on the bed, otherwise it is easy to be blown crooked at night."

This sentence can be said to be very familiar to Anne. Because when I was a child, my father would repeat this sentence every summer.

When I was a child, there was no air conditioner at home, and I used that kind of floor-standing electric fan, and Anne sweated every time she got out of school, threw down her schoolbag when she entered the door, took off her school uniform, wore a vest and pants, and went to the bathroom sink to flush her face and flush, wash and wash, and did not dry the water after washing. I stopped in front of the electric fan, turned the gear to the maximum gear, and enjoyed the rare coolness.

Whenever my father saw this scene after work, he would always nagging and keep saying the sentence: "The electric fan can't blow at it, let alone open such a large gear, otherwise it is easy to blow your mouth crookedly."

Anne still can't understand why people's mouths are blown crooked by electric fans or air conditioners!

Daddy must be alarmist!

I've never seen anyone who has been blown crooked by an air conditioner or a fan!

Dad sat at the end of the bed, turned on the TV and fiddled with the TV, changing the station back and forth, this is a habit that Dad used to have, because he was too busy at work, he never had time to watch TV, and occasionally once or twice turned on the TV in prime time at night, and he couldn't find a TV series that could be understood and received by flipping through. Ha ha~

Anne went to the bathroom and went to the toilet, the bathroom is not big, only 5-6 square meters, but it is very clean, there is a small window next to the shower, and there is a plastic hanger hanging on the stainless steel pole of the shower curtain.

Annie came out, and Dad got up from the end of the bed with a yawn and said, "Nini, you are catching a plane today, tossing again, and you are tired, take a shower, rest early!"

Anne said, "You can help me book a plane ticket tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I want to go back."

Dad was a little surprised, and said a little helplessly: "Don't, you just came, what are you going?" Stay a little longer, isn't there still half a month left in the summer vacation? It would be nice to tell your mom no another day. You just stay steady, and besides, Dad's office is upstairs, and you can find Dad at any time. ”

Anne bit her lip with her teeth, and for a moment she didn't know what to say, as if she had finished talking all by herself, and Anne said anything else, so she was silent.

Dad took out a small pile of 100 yuan bills from his bag and handed it to Anne, Anne didn't answer, Dad put it on the kitchen counter, and suddenly said: "Drinking water tomorrow I will call someone to bring it to you, by the way, there is an aunt who cleans the room around 10 o'clock in the morning, if she knocks on the door, if you don't need her, just let her go, just let her come in and clean if you need to."

Anne picked up the money from the kitchen counter and gave it back to Dad. He bowed his head and said, "I still have the money on me, and when I run out, I'm afraid of losing so much money."

After saying that, he pushed his father out, turned around and closed the door, and Anne collapsed on the bed in all directions.