Chapter 61: Mother's Graceland

The embroidery building where her mother Tang Mengluo lived back then is still retained, but it was renovated to be more spacious when the old house was renovated a few years ago, which is suitable for a family of four. During the New Year's holidays, Xiaoyi's family lived in her mother's original courtyard when they returned to Tangmen.

Someone led the way in front, because Xiaoyi didn't come back often, and the old house had been renovated a few times, so they weren't very familiar with the road inside. It was already dark, and when I came out of the old man's courtyard, I first walked through a corridor, and there were glazed palace lamps hanging on both sides of the corridor, exuding colorful dazzling light, not as dazzling as neon lights, soft but mysterious.

Turning the corridor, there is a zigzag path, planted with flowers and plants on both sides, it is dark and it is a little difficult to see, and the street lamps that are slightly higher in the grass are dim and dim, and in the quiet night, there are some seeps. But fortunately, people come and go, and you can often see people walking around, which adds a lot of popularity.

Du's mother has the word Ya and alcohol, and the word "Ya" was given by Mr. Tang when he was a girl, but "alcohol" was given by Du Dad after marrying Du Dad. Therefore, the courtyard where Xiaoyi and they live now uses the words of Du's mother, "Graceland".

The structure of Graceland is very similar to Xiao Yi's home in Yunyin Town. A small building on the second floor, with a study and a large room downstairs, and two small rooms upstairs. There are also two rooms on the west side of the courtyard, which were originally occupied by the lower people, but later there was no one in the courtyard, and those two rooms were also converted into guest rooms. There is no kitchen, there are two bathrooms, one upstairs and one downstairs.

Xiao Yi's parents have always lived downstairs, so Xiao Yi and Yun Feng divided the two rooms upstairs, and similarly, the one with a balcony went to Xiao Yi. In fact, there is no need to divide it, the room with a balcony, at first glance, the decoration inside is for the boudoir girl's house.

The luggage had been placed in the main hall, Yun Feng helped Xiao Yi carry the luggage and put it on the second floor, and Xiao Yi slowly dragged it into the room. I'm going to stay for a week, so I'm going to have to pack up.

A little tired, as soon as she entered the house, Xiao Yi was not busy packing up her things, sitting on a chair and looking around the room, although she had been here many times before, after all, she hadn't been here for four years, and she had renovated it once in the middle, so there were still a lot of changes.

The house is a typical classical wooden building, and the hardware facilities are also very antique. The wood-style carved retro shelf bed, the curtain has two layers, the outer layer is a thin light gauze, the inside is a purple osmanthus pattern inlaid with silver thread, and the curtain and quilt are also smoked with osmanthus fragrance.

The writing desk still houses paperweights and the four treasures of the study, and in the recessed closet there are several ancient books in the form of threads, interspersed with discs of cloisonné enamel and porcelain from Jingdezhen. The incense burner of Zisha lit a soothing incense, next to it is a small red clay stove, if you feel cold at night, you can let the people come over and light it for a while.

Someone knocked on the courtyard door outside: "Miss, the meal is ready, can you use it now?" "It turned out that people came to deliver food. I don't think I think it's a little hungry when I say it.

I heard Du's mother open the door downstairs and said softly, "Put it on the table." Just come and pick it up in a moment, you don't need to be here. The outsider agreed, and the sound of plates and bowls being placed on the table was heard.

Every time I go back to Tangmen and see where my mother used to live, Xiao Yi can't help but think, back then, how much her mother loved her father, so that she could go from a daughter who didn't touch her fingers to a woman who washes her hands and makes soup and takes care of the family's affairs.

"Yiyi, Xiaofeng, come down to eat. I'm cleaning up after eating. "Mother is downstairs calling the two of them to eat like she is in Yunyin Town." Halfway up, you're out for dinner. ”

Xiao Yi sat on a chair and shouted, "It's coming." He moved his neck and yawned as he walked out of the room.

As soon as I got out of the house, I smelled the unique spicy aroma of Sichuan cuisine. There weren't many dishes on the table, but it was enough for four people to eat. Although the Tang Gate is large, it is never extravagant and wasteful. A pot of boiled fish, a plate of Geyue Mountain spicy chicken, a bowl of husband and wife lung slices, plus a plate of bean curd. Xiaoyi likes to eat Sichuan cuisine very much, and always feels that the chili peppers in Sichuan cuisine have a unique fragrance.

The four of them had a simple dinner, and it was nearly 9 o'clock. Yun Feng touched Xiao Yi under the table with his foot, "You wash it first, I'll wash it first?" ”

Seeing that Xiao Yi was a little hesitant, Yun Feng continued, "Why don't I wash it first, I just went in to take a look, it's still a little cold, you can go in again when I'm done washing and it's warmer." ”

Xiao Yi nodded. Yun Feng said a word to Du's father and Du's mother, and then went to take a bath.

"Yiyi, you go up and clean up, go to bed early tonight, and get up early tomorrow morning to have breakfast with your grandparents." I'm going to be a little tired in the past two days. Mother Du looked at Xiao Yi, who was a little tired, and stepped forward to hug her and whispered.

Du's mother always has an indescribable fragrance on her body, not a perfume or shower gel, and then went abroad, I miss it very much, and gradually, I understand that it should be my mother's smell. Until now, as long as her mother is by her side and smells this seemingly special aroma, Xiaoyi will become extremely dependent.

"Hmm." nodded, "Dad, I'm going up, you two go to bed early." Xiao Yi got up, walked to Dad Du's side, and kissed him with a "poof", "Good night, Mom and Dad." ”

Dad Du touched Xiaoyi's head, "Go up." ”

Slowly holding on to the staircase handle, he went upstairs and placed the clothes in the box one by one to the corresponding position in the wardrobe.

After a while, I heard Yun Feng knocking on the door outside, saying that he had finished washing himself, and asked Xiao Yi to hurry up and wash it. Xiao Yi agreed, took a change of clothes, and went into the bathroom.

Pushing open the same antique wooden door, Xiao Yi was still thinking about not knowing what the bathroom would become, but she was taken aback. Inside is a completely modern set of equipment, from spraying to the jacuzzi, petals, foam, and essential oils on the edge of the bath. Although it was her grandfather's house, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh if her original bath was all in vain.

It's a pity that I'm too tired today, and when I wait for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I must take a good bath. After a hasty wash, he climbed into bed.

Xiaoyi doesn't recognize the bed, because she always has to move when she is abroad, and she doesn't buy a bed, so she always has to sleep in the bed provided by the landlord's house. But Xiaoyi can't sleep on a hard bed, because she is a little thin, if she sleeps on a hard bed, it will be difficult for Xiao Yi to sleep all night, so the Tang family added a thick two-layer mattress to her bed, and the whole person is very comfortable lying on it.

I was so tired just now, but now I can't sleep when I'm lying in bed. The surroundings were quiet, and the insects in the grass could be clearly heard. Because it is far away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, there is no splendor of neon lights, and the Tang Gate at night is plunged into darkness. Xiao Yi knew that there were not many security guards patrolling the Tang Gate, but no one would be afraid, because no one would come to the Tang Gate to steal or rob without their lives. All the Tang people began to learn how to protect themselves when they first knew how to walk.

Turning on the bedside night light, she couldn't sleep anyway, Xiaoyi got out of bed and took out her mobile phone from her bag and jumped back into bed. When I took my phone and looked at it, I remembered that I turned off my mobile phone when I was on the plane early this morning, and then I was so busy that I didn't turn it on for a day. However, I don't think anyone will look for me, so Xiaoyi is not panicked.

Sure enough, when the machine was turned on, only "Didi" sounded twice, and when I opened it, I saw that it was rain.

- Have you arrived? This one was sent at ten o'clock in the morning.

- Stinky Xiaoyi, people are happy, but now that you are in Shu, you will not be happy. Text messages are not returned. This one was past seven o'clock in the evening.

Xiao Yi shook her head funny, sure enough, it was Yuhan's tone. Seeing that the time had just arrived at ten o'clock, I thought about it and replied to a text message

- I'm sorry, I forgot to turn it on, I just saw it. When did you get back?

remembered that she didn't go back to the dormitory after the exam last Friday, and she and her brother went back to Yunyin Town on the weekend, and they never contacted Yuhan, and they forgot about it when they were busy. She was clearly in the wrong mood when she left.

After seeing the prompt that the message was successfully sent, Xiao Yi was not waiting for her to reply, seeing that the system prompted that the memory was about to be full, Xiao Yi clicked on the text message sent in the past.

Xiao Yi does not have the habit of deleting friends' text messages and phone calls, and if the memory allows, Xiao Yi will keep almost all the text messages. Since returning to China and using this phone, Xiaoyi has not touched text messages and call records.

Looking at the previous text messages, I deleted some irrelevant content, and the memory didn't increase much, I thought about it, and opened the call record again, and among the names of people, an 11-digit number without a name is particularly eye-catching. Xiao Yi was stunned, that is, the number Gu Wenhao used to call on Friday.

Meeting him was last Friday, it seems like only two days have passed, how does it feel like a long time ago, a little trance.

At that time, he seemed to have said that he would memorize this number by himself, but he had no time for the past two days, and he forgot about it. After thinking about it, Xiao Yi still wrote down the number according to her words. After memorizing, I wondered why I listened to him so obediently. But I didn't want to delete the number anymore.

Looking at the three words "Gu Wenhao" displayed on the screen in a daze, Xiao Yi remembered what happened on Friday with some confusion. Thinking of his figure downstairs in the music building, thinking of the ambiguity in the car, thinking of his care in the alley, and his embarrassed appearance in the hotel, and then looking around the wood-style retro shelf bed lying now, I suddenly felt that my current self and myself at that time were not alone, like people from two worlds.

Don't know what he's doing now? When he returned to his dorm that night, on campus, he seemed to tell her that the week was going to be very busy.

The more she thought about it, the more Xiao Yi realized that she remembered every word he said so deeply.

turned off the night light, the moonlight spilled into the room through the window paper, reflecting the patterns on the window paper on the ground, Xiao Yi did not hang the curtain inside, but put down the white gauze curtain outside. Looking at the images on the ground, Xiao Yi suddenly understood why the ancients liked to miss the moon so much. Because she suddenly found herself a little confused, thinking about everything about Gu Wenhao, thinking about the intersection that she could count with one hand. When did you remember him so clearly?

In a daze, I don't know how long it took, after vaguely hearing the mobile phone "Didi" ringing twice, Xiaoyi fell asleep completely.