When I was leaving, I remembered, and I forgot something important, so I took out the compass from my bag: "Ji Ran compass for you." ”

Ji Ran looked at me with some disbelief, "Why are you willing to give it back to me?"

"I thought about it last night, this compass belongs to you, and it can be worth more in your hands than in mine. I didn't give it to you for nothing, you have to use it well, or I'll regret it, be careful that I come back. ”

Ji Ran took the compass: "It's already in my hand, it's mine, how to use it is my business, what I gave, don't think about going back." Looking at Ji Ran's smug look, it made me a little unhappy, but it was obviously too late to regret it.

"Let's go, don't waste time." I obediently got into the car with Zhou Xuran.

"When did you and the people of the Ji family become so acquainted?" Zhou Xuran asked me coldly in the car.

"I'm not very familiar with it, it's just for this incident that Ji Ran came to me, and I saw his family yesterday."

"I think Ji Ran's mother is unusual to you, this Ji family, including Ji Ran's mother, is not a simple character."

"You can also see that she is enthusiastic about me, I feel very burdened, could it be because of my marriage contract with Ji Ran." Zhou Xuran was originally closed and careless, but at this moment he looked at me with wide eyes: "In the past few days, you have made a marriage contract with Ji Ran." ”

"Of course it's not the matter of these two days, I thought you knew it, Ji Ran told me a few days ago, that Master Fang told him, that Master Fang and my grandfather had been engaged to me and Ji Ran since childhood, so he was hostile to me when I first met Ji Ran."

Zhou Xuran looked at me, "Why do you think of me like this, this can't be taken seriously, what age is this, there is still this kind of thing, I have never heard my family mention it, so sloppy, and like Ji Ran, don't say that he doesn't look down on me, I don't like him yet, we are the type to deal with at first glance." Zhou Xuran closed his eyes that widened in surprise just now: "Just the two of you, think about it." ”

As soon as we returned, Zhou Xuran began his usual busy work, with meetings and new projects. I started a more boring and blank working life than before, I used to have a compass when I could still stare at the compass, now I am alone in a daze, but after staying for a long time, my mind is blank.

Even when I had lunch with Zhou Xuran, I didn't even have to say a word. In the past, I routinely talked about whether there was anything abnormal in the compass, this kind of thing, but now that the compass is in Ji Ran's hand, there is no longer even an awkward topic to talk about, and I don't know what the situation of the compass is now.

Ji Ran and I have completely lost contact, I haven't had any news from him for a few days, in fact, to be exact, there was news about him just now, but I knew it from the gossip news on the web when I was bored, last night he was photographed visiting the boudoir of a new supermodel late at night, the last incident, I think others are not bad, and they don't look like any playboy, but there are pictures and information, I am really simple and impulsive, I can't help but think that the compass is in a worrying situation in his hands, I want to regret it, and I will definitely not come back. I wanted to ask him about the recent situation of the compass, but Zhou Xuran looked indifferent, I thought why should I bother to do it, or calm down.

I thought about it for a while, I can't go on like this, I have to find something to do, to show my value, otherwise I will really become an idle eater.

When I dined with Zhou Xuran today, I looked at him very sincerely: "If there is anything, say it." "I think Zhou Xuran really understands me, we don't talk much, but he seems to understand me with one look, and even understands me better than my unreliable best friend Beibei, who grew up with me since childhood.

"I want to take annual leave, so I'll take a few days off with you."

"You don't do anything during your working hours now, every day is not the same as a vacation, and you are not satisfied, and I have recently considered whether I should find something for you to do."

Working in Zhou Xuran's company is annoying, and Zhou Xuran knows everything about me like this. I want to refute him, but I don't have enough confidence.

"I want to go back to my hometown, my ancestral home, I thought about it some time ago, my grandfather had a lot of ancient books when he was alive, and after he left, none of our family found those books, so I want to go back and find out if I can have any clues about the "Ancient God Book". Zhou Xuran listened to it and happily approved my vacation.

I went back to my hometown and visited my grandmother. I followed her to our ancestral house, the one where my grandfather stayed the longest, and he set it up as his study, where he liked to read and practice calligraphy.

It is also full of memories of my childhood, because when I was a child, my grandfather used to teach me to read and write, and all the ancient words and runes I knew were learned there.

After my grandfather died, I had a deep relationship with my grandfather, and I never stepped into it again, because I would miss him, I was afraid that I would cry, and I was afraid that my grandmother would be sad when she saw me.

When I came to this study, I slowly remembered that my grandfather was drinking tea here in the afternoon, and the scene of teaching me to read and write was vivid, and I still couldn't hold back my tears after all.

The room was spotlessly cleaned, and I knew that my grandmother would come over regularly to clean it, and then she would sit quietly at her desk in a daze.

I looked at the notebooks and some records left on my grandfather's desk, and when we first disposed of his relics, we just sorted them out and basically kept them in their original form.

I remember that when I was a child, I did see some old books from my grandfather, but we didn't find them when we were sorting them out. I remembered the ancient books of God, and wondered if it would be in those ancient books, and I began to look through the relics on the table. I know that my grandfather had a habit of keeping notes and taking notes every day. I saw the notes he wrote, most of them were daily records, and I didn't find any clues.

I still found a record on the table, some years old, even a little worn, pressed at the bottom inconspicuously. When I opened it, it was a record of my growth that my grandfather had left me.

It has a scene where he first met me when I was born. There was writing that I was coming earlier than expected. The first time he saw me, I was skinny with dark eyes, and he was the first person to hug me.

I was raised by my grandfather and grandmother as a child, and I ran for the first time and read for the first time. There are even some scenes in it that I don't remember, such as being in a car accident and being in a coma, the situation at that time was not optimistic, and his worries. I felt more and more uncomfortable, and the tears that I could not hold back were still flowing uncontrollably.

I sat at my desk and watched the scene as before, except that my grandfather, who loved me the most, left here.

I saw the huge pot of gardenias next to my desk, my grandfather liked to grow flowers, he planted a lot in the small yard, but this one he liked very much. He kept it in this study, and took care of it with great care, and this gardenia grew exceptionally luxuriantly, and many people sighed that they had never seen it grow so vigorously. Now, the flower has withered.

Within a few days of my grandfather's death, the gardenia withered, and I think everything has a spirit, even plants. I stroked the dry branches of the gardenia, and remembered vividly the scene when my grandfather used to take care of it.

At this time, I still found out that this gardenia is different from before, and I don't know when the pot of this gardenia has been replaced. Because I used to come here as a child, I am very familiar with the things here, and my memory is very clear.

This gardenia grandfather has been raising for more than ten years, grandfather likes old things, including the flower pot he raised in this yard, I don't remember when it will be replaced with such a fancy plastic flower pot, this is not his favorite style, I guess who else has touched this pot of flowers, think about it carefully, it seems that ordinary people are not very interested in flowers and flower pots, a thought flashed in my heart, I found tools to dig down this huge flower pot, I seem to have really dug something.

This gardenia may have withered for this reason. Buried at the bottom of the flower pot is a boxy wooden box that is not too big, I did see it when I was young, I opened it and there are four books in it for some years, the last two I can recognize are the "Perpetual Calendar" and the "Kangxi Dictionary", and two I don't know what the book is, they are some ancient words and runes, my grandfather taught me to know some when I was a child, but I don't know all of them, so I can't be sure that the remaining two books have anything to do with the ancient gods.

I packed the box and put the withered gardenia back in place, and I remembered that there was still my growth notebook on the table, and I was ready to take it with me.

I accompanied my grandmother to eat together, helped her clean the ancestral house, every time I came back there was always a little reluctant to part with her, she often said that I was already a big girl, but in front of her I always couldn't help but be coquettish, reluctantly said goodbye to her, I told myself that I would come back to accompany her more when I had time in the future.

Walking along the familiar streets, there was some inexplicable sadness, and I looked around, I don't know how long the peace and comfort of this once beautiful village will last, because in the near future, it will face development and transformation.

The next village has already begun relocation and demolition work. It is said that the urban area has been saturated with land use, and this area as a suburb has been included in the new trend of development investment, and according to the new plan, this area will be transformed into a new high-tech zone.

Or five years later, maybe not in five years, it will also face relocation.

During my time at my grandmother's house, I heard her say that there were many unpleasant things in the village next door because of the relocation and demolition. The neighbors who used to be lively and harmonious with each other had disputes over the division of land occupied by the house, and the brothers turned against each other because of the competition for real estate, causing family disharmony, and even a few elderly people who had lived alone for many years felt cold because their children were fighting for the ancestral house and chose to commit suicide to end their lives.

The renovation work here may be full of joy for the younger generation who yearn for urban life, but it is full of nostalgia and reluctance for the older generation.

My grandmother said that most of the young people in the village have gone out to work and started families in the city, and most of the old people are left here.

Their generation grew up here, got married, and hoped to die here, because this is their home, and their roots are here. For the old people in the village, it is peaceful and peaceful, and they do not like it and do not know how to adapt to the so-called city life. Therefore, there is a sad atmosphere here, young people actively respond to the demolition and new construction policy, and the old people can only sigh for the sake of their children.