I also paused, nodded, and said, "...... Yes, Grandma, is it convenient for you? ”

Her eyes flickered from side to side: "Of course...... Convenient. Well, I'll close the stall when I'm done selling these later, you ...... Just come back with me. ”

Seeing that she agreed, I quickly thanked her, I don't know if it was an illusion, I suddenly felt that something was wrong in her flickering eyes.

I didn't think much about it at the time, so I found a stool to sit on, and waited for Grandma Hu to close the stall while munching on chicken feet.

The pickled pepper dishes have been sold out, and there are still some cold dishes with pork head meat or something on the stall, and Grandma Hu sat down and took a sip of hot tea. The tea leaves look black and have a large soaking in water, while the raw tea is lumpy and bitter in taste.

Grandma Hu said to me: "This person is old, he really has all kinds of diseases, I have high blood pressure, Lao Zheng also has high blood sugar, drinking this Kuding tea can relieve it a little, but the treatment is not curable." ”

Looking at the folds on her face, I felt that time was a magical thing.

Just as he was about to say something, a voice came from outside the stall: "Mrs. Hu, you are still shameless, do you want to dominate the house and not leave?" ”

It was a woman in her thirties who spoke, very fat and with a meaty face.

The comers are not good.

The woman's movement was not small, and some of the people around her looked at her curiously.

I saw the woman sticking her waist in, pointing at Grandma Hu and scolding: "You who ask for food, if my father hadn't taken you in, you would have starved to death!" ”

Hearing her say this, I recognized her despite the fact that she had gained weight over the years.

This woman is Zheng Dali, the daughter of Chef Zheng.

Chef Zheng has a son and a daughter, and the eldest daughter has a pungent personality since she was a child, and she is a well-known powerful character in the tube building, and she is not convinced. At the age of the person who should be married, no one will tell her about the object.

In the end, he overcame public opinion and married an unemployed vagrant.

Later, I heard that she was still divorced and had a daughter, but in short, life was not very good.

The youngest son, Zheng Erzhuan, also does not learn and has no skills, graduated from junior high school and mixed with a group of people, and later robbed with a knife, was arrested and sentenced, and will not be released in a few years.

Chef Zheng has been diligent and honest all his life, but his children and descendants are not very happy.

Thinking about it, he is getting old, and he is also anxious.

Fortunately, Grandma Hu is a person who does not fight or grab, no matter how bad her life is, as long as she does not die of hunger, she will smile, probably because she has suffered before, so she cherishes her later life.

I don't know why Zheng Dali quarreled with Grandma Hu, there is no blood relationship, but the two are still mother and daughter in law.

At this moment, I saw Zheng Dali pointing at Grandma Hu and continuing to scold, verbally insulting.

There were a lot of people watching the excitement around.

It is said that every family has a scripture that is difficult to see, and this is true.

In recent years, there are fewer and fewer people who can think independently, and it is not their business, so they are naturally talkative, but if they are in it, who can be calm.

When Zheng Dali was scolding, Grandma Hu always stood behind the stall, without saying a word, fiddling with her cold dishes with both hands, and her face was very calm.

Gradually, from the woman's words, I understood what she was trying to do.

All the reasons are attributed to the tube building.

That's right, the red brick tube building that has been built for almost 50 years.

A few months ago, the staff of the demolition and relocation office wrote a big word "demolition" downstairs, and from that moment on, all the owners, including my father, were excited.

"Demolition" is synonymous with "getting rich overnight".

Although it is only a set of tube buildings, although the area is less than 50 square meters, it is better because of its good location, and it is so good that it can't be stopped.

According to reliable sources, this land was favored by a developer.

The developer is a listed company, and many of the country's top luxury homes are built by them.

It can be seen that the financial resources are indeed not small.

Most of the residents of the building, except for the tenants, are low-level people like my dad who have lived in it for many years. Come to think of it, if life had been a little better, I would have bought a house and moved away.

Nesting in such a house, people will get moldy.

Moldy is also better than living on the streets, and you can't buy a new house without money, so you can only live there.

Now that it is going to be demolished, everyone's mood is naturally "happy".

The compensation for demolition and relocation shall be one per person according to the person on the household registration. From the day the policy came down, the hukou of the tube building could only not enter and exit.

Then Zheng Dali was dumbfounded.

Why do you say that, at that time, she had to marry the unemployed vagrant, and Chef Zheng disagreed.

The father and daughter fell out because of this, and when Zheng Dali got married, Chef Zheng said that he would not go. In the end, Grandma Hu went to the round and wrapped a red envelope of 10,000 yuan, which avoided embarrassment.

To say that Grandma Hu, the stepmother, deserves to be perfect.

But some, in the face of interests, all the feelings are not worth mentioning.

Zheng Dali hated that her father did not come to her wedding, and after getting married, she moved her household registration away to show her break with Chef Zheng.

God knows she did it just for a momentary moment.

Zheng Dali never imagined that the 50-square-meter house would be demolished.

Seeing that the fat in her hand was leaving, Zheng Dali was not convinced.

So, she ran around.

I don't know where I heard that the hukou can be exchanged for one, that is, how many people are now in the hukou in the building, and if you want to come in, you only need to move out one more.

Therefore, Zheng Dali found Grandma Hu and asked her to move out of the household registration so that she could move in.

This request is very excessive, and Grandma Hu naturally refuses to agree.

So, Zheng Dali started to make trouble.

During the whole quarrel, Grandma Hu acted like nothing had happened, and kept tidying up her stall. When it was noisy, no one came up to buy her cold dishes, and everyone craned their necks to see how this farce ended.

Quarrels also need to be responded, a person is not interesting, and he is not angry.

scolded alone for half an hour, Zheng Dali was tired, and finally she pointed to the tip of Grandma Hu's nose and said: "You dead old woman, dominating my house is not tolerated, don't be complacent, I won't give up!" ”

With that, she turned around and left.

Watching her sway away, there were people around her who sighed:

"What kind of person is this, the elder hasn't died yet, so he is in a hurry to push people out. No matter how you say it, she was also brought up by your Grandma Hu, and she still called her mother in front of her, she really doesn't have a conscience at all......"

When the man said this, he said it to Grandma Hu, probably because he wanted to hear what Grandma Hu responded.

But Grandma Hu just laughed and didn't answer her words.

I understand Grandma Hu's thoughts, this is her own family's business, outsiders must be ill-intentioned to get involved, and if she has something to do, she finally closes the door and says, there is no need for others to say more.

I know this very well.

Back then, my mother ran away with someone, and there was a group of old women in the tube building who pulled me all day long and asked me questions, ostensibly caring about me, but in fact, everyone knew what they thought.

Whenever they gathered around me to ask me, I closed my eyes and covered my face with my hands.

That feeling is still very uncomfortable in retrospect, and people who haven't experienced it can't experience it. So, until now, I didn't really like to explore other people's privacy.

A person's life is too short, and sometimes they lie in a hospital bed before they can react.

Like, my dad is now.

The nosy people saw that they couldn't ask anything from Grandma Hu, so they left in a huff. Grandma Hu looked at the remaining cold dishes, and she didn't want to sell them, so she simply closed the stall.

After closing the door, she asked me to go back to the tube building with her to get the old salt water.

I followed behind her, looking at her somewhat slumped back, and couldn't help but feel a little worried about her.

Grandma Hu has lived a good enough life in her life, she married a man more than 20 years older than herself at a young age, and became a stepmother early, but she was not treated by her children.

Those who have no children and no daughters all their lives don't know who to rely on when they are old.

My family's tube building is in the center of the city, and it is very convenient to go anywhere, so it is no wonder that people have taken a fancy to it and want to demolish it.

It was a small three-story building, with more than a dozen households on each floor, and my family and Grandma Hu both lived on the second floor, about five families apart. They have a large family, but they live as big as my family, and it is too crowded.

It's no wonder that Zheng Dali wants to move out even if she marries a trash.

Since I moved to the noodle shop, I rarely come back, and the building still smells familiar, slightly moldy and smelly of old bricks.

The light in the hallway was broken, and I followed Grandma Hu closely when I went upstairs.

Walking around the corner, I felt a gust of wind blowing, and at the same time, I heard a woman whining and crying.

The sound was terrifying to hear.

Facing Grandma Hu's back, he called softly: "Grandma, who is crying?" ”

She paused, not turning.

The gust of wind in the corridor was very cold, I couldn't help but shiver, and asked carefully: "Grandma, who is this person......

"Zhang Ying."

"Zhang Ying? She's ......"

To me, Zhang Ying is an unfamiliar name, at least not heard of it when I lived here.

"She's a tenant and only moved in last year, and you don't know her."

When Grandma Hu spoke, she was very soft, very quiet, and never looked back at me, and I couldn't see her expression. Through the faint light from outside the corridor, her small figure looked a little strange in front of me.

Probably sensing that I didn't follow, Grandma Hu stopped.

She turned around: "Tang Xiaofan, why are you standing still?" ”

"I ......"

"Come with me."

With that, she continued to walk upstairs. The woman's crying continued, and my scalp tingled as I heard it, and an inexplicable sense of fear swept through my body.

Looking at Grandma Hu's figure, I stood there and paused for a while before I followed again.

The tube building is a corridor, one side is the residents, and the general balcony.

It's half past six in the afternoon, and it's getting dark outside. The hallways were quiet, the doors of each room were closed, and the woman's crying was getting closer.

I followed Grandma Hu, and I noticed that although she was not tall, she walked very fast.

When she walked to the door of her house, Grandma Hu didn't open the door immediately, she put her ear to the door and listened. After that, he took out the key and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, there was a cool air.

It felt like opening the door of the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.

The cold air is leaching out.

I shuddered again.

Standing at the door, I watched Grandma Hu enter the house, and at that moment, my heart felt like something had been pulled, and an ominous feeling filled my body.

In the dark room, behind Grandma Hu, there seemed to be an invisible whirlpool.

And my gut told me that there was something mysterious and unfathomable in her house that was beckoning to me. It was as if an unpredictable danger was coming at me.

I suddenly froze, not daring to take a step further.

At this time, Grandma Hu stood in the door and looked back at me, she waved at me, and her expression was indescribably weird: "Tang Xiaofan, you, come in......"

Her voice was faint, with an irresistible gravitational pull.

Oh, I'm in the house......