"Boom, boom, boom"

There was a knock on the door three more times, but it was still quiet inside, as if there was no one inside. Chu Xiaoxiao has been home from work for almost half an hour. She went to work at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already six o'clock in the evening. Within three and a half hours, Chu Xiaoxiao bet that Li Qin had never come out of the house. But this also proves that he loves his grandmother very deeply, otherwise he wouldn't have looked at the relics left by his grandmother and seen the present.

"Lee... Grandpa, are you still in the house?" Chu Xiaoxiao originally wanted to call Li Qin, but he always felt that although he looked only two or three years older than him in terms of age, he could be regarded as his grandfather's generation, so he changed his name to Grandpa Li.

"Squeak"

The door opened, and Li Qin poked his head out. Chu Xiaoxiao found that he had already changed his clothes, I don't know if it was an illusion or something. The trace of sadness in Li Qin's eyes and the cold haggard on his handsome face made Chu Xiaoxiao suddenly feel a heartbeat.

"Huh, what's the matter?"

Chu Xiaoxiao shook her head, pointed to her mobile phone and said, "It's half past six, let's go to dinner?"

Li Qin nodded, and Chu Xiaoxiao immediately opened his mobile phone and dialed a call.

"Hey, Aunt Zhang, book a table. My friend and I went over to eat. ”

"Oh? No, it's a colleague from the company. ”

"Mm-hmm, yes, that's a must. ”

"Okay, Aunt Zhang, you do it first. I'll be out right now. ”

Chu Xiaoxiao hung up the phone, grabbed Li Qin and continued: "Grandpa Li, clean up, clean up." ”

Li Qin was just about to change into his old cloth shoes, Chu Xiaoxiao immediately took a shoe box from the shoe cabinet and said, "Change this on." Your shoes don't look good with my grandmother's clothes. ”

Li Qin shook his head: "This is what my grandmother made for me." ”

"Then it's time to take it off. And your clothes, when you find a way back, you can wear them again. ”

Li Qin couldn't resist Chu Xiaoxiao and put on his shoes. Walking down the unit door, Chu Xiaoxiao pulled Li Qin and walked forward quickly.

"What are we going to eat, why are you going so fast?" Chu Xiaoxiao's current appearance is very similar to the appearance of his childhood friend when he asked him to fight.

"Of course it's delicious, the store is not big but full every day. If you hadn't eaten there since you were a child, and you would have been familiar with the store, you would definitely not be able to grab a seat. ”

"What did you just call and say you had to say?"

"Oh, Grandpa Li, you really look about the same age as me, and this question is just like my own grandfather. ”

The two of them came out of the gate of the community and walked about fifty or sixty meters to the left to the Tianjie Bridge, and then turned right after walking to the opposite side of the bridge. This route made Li Qin feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

After turning right a few steps, Chu Xiaoxiao stopped in front of a door. This is a small fried restaurant, and the typography on the façade reads: Liu Sangu Stir-fry Restaurant.

After seeing these six big characters, Li Qin was stunned. Chu Xiaoxiao dragged Li Qin, took a step forward, opened the glass door and said, "Don't be stunned, Aunt Zhang should have done everything." ”

Li Qin followed Chu Xiaoxiao into the restaurant. The tables and chairs in the store are all new, but the statue of the God of Wealth is still the same as before. Li Qin was reminiscing about the long history of this old shop, when a refreshing woman's voice floated over, "Hey, smile, this way, this way." Box 10. ”

I saw a woman in her early forties, but who looked very energetic, took Chu Xiaoxiao's arm and walked towards the innermost box with a small sign of number ten hanging on the door frame. Li Qin followed behind the two, the box was not big, and there was no door. There was only a long curtain of doors. The curtain was lifted, and there was only a round table and six chairs just enough to enclose it.

Meals were already on the round table. A plate of sour and hot shredded potatoes, a plate of fried pork with fungus, a plate of stir-fried yams, and a large plate of fragrant stewed crispy pork in the middle, accompanied by a mash soup, two bowls of rice, and two cutlery. It's all neatly laid out on the table.

"Aunt Zhang, this is too much. ”

"Look at your little arms and legs. After Aunt Lin left, you didn't come to the store to sit. The woman grabbed Chu Xiaoxiao's hands and looked them up and down. The two of them now look like their daughter, who hasn't been home for a long time, has met her mother.

The woman noticed Li Qin behind Chu Xiaoxiao, she looked at Li Qin and smiled and said, "Yo, the young man is the one on the phone with Xiaoxiao." Hey, people are handsome and spiritual. It's a good match with Xiaoxiao. ”

Chu Xiaoxiao's face was slightly red and said, "Aunt Zhang, we are just colleagues. ”

The woman glanced at Chu Xiaoxiao and then at Li Qin, squinted and said, "Okay, that aunt won't bother you." Sit down, young man, for the first time, and try our craft to conquer your gut. Then my aunt went out to get busy. ”

The woman exited the box, and Li Qin and Chu Xiaoxiao sat down face to face. Li Qin looked at the food on the table and said lightly, "How did you think of coming to eat crispy meat?"

Chu Xiaoxiao picked up a piece of crispy meat and said: "Grandma likes to eat in this restaurant very much, this is an old shop, it seems that I have heard that it has been a few lifetimes, the one I called Aunt Zhang just now is the daughter of the previous owner, called Zhang Huaxue." Hey, you try this crispy meat, my grandmother loves to eat their crispy meat the most, and I love to eat it too. Chu smiled and said and put a piece of crispy meat in Li Qin's bowl.

"This shop was originally opened by Sangu and Liu Sangu. Well... It's still that taste. Li Qin tasted a bite of crispy meat, and his right hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly.

Chu Xiaoxiao noticed Li Qin's right hand, and asked with some concern, "Grandpa Li, what's wrong with you?"

"This shop was first opened by Liu Sangu, who lived in a compound with our parents. Later, our family moved to Honor, and she happened to open a restaurant nearby. When I was a child, my parents and Xiaoyan's parents were very busy working in the factory and had no time to cook, Xiaoyan and I would come to Sangu's place for dinner. The third aunt treats us like our own children. Among the children of the third aunt's family, only the eldest and youngest have been helping the third aunt in the store. You just called that Aunt Zhang, her father is Zhang Jiao, right?"

"Yes, it's Mr. Zhang. That's right, Grandpa Li, Old Man Zhang is still alive. Or... Shall we go to him and ask him about 40 years ago?"

Li Qin shook his head and said, "Brother Jiao is more than ten years older than me and Xiaoyan. Now, they should all be almost eighty people. If he is allowed to see me, the old man will not be able to bear this blow. ”

After Li Qin finished speaking, he picked up a piece of crispy meat and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly.

There's so much in this bite of crispy meat. If someone thinks that crossing is a rare and lucky thing, then Li Qin will mercilessly laugh at those who have this idea. Overnight, the home, the familiar people, and the familiar era have long since dissipated with the sand of time. I am like a beggar who has been rejected by time, and only the memories of the past accompany my lonely self.

Li Qin closed his eyes, and with the aroma of crispy meat, he seemed to see Liu Sangu, Brother Jiao, and Xiaoyan. He was reluctant to open his eyes, for he knew that he was now like the little girl in a foreign country, the match was extinguished, and his illusions were over.

Chu Xiaoxiao looked at Li Qin, who had his eyes closed, and tears slowly left from the corners of his eyes, not knowing what to say. She didn't expect that this store would have such a memory that belonged to him, a time traveler.

"Grandpa Li, old man Li, stop crying, cheer up!" Chu Xiaoxiao whispered to Li Qin.

Li Qin opened his eyes, tears had already moistened his eyes.

"We'll find a way back. Definitely, you think about it, as long as you go back, all this will change. ”

Chu Xiaoxiao's sentence of chicken soup for the soul gave Li Qin motivation. After calming down, Li Qin thought of a question, so he asked, "Miss Chu, why are you helping me?"

Chu Xiaoxiao glanced at the dishes on the table, lowered his head and whispered, "Of course... If you could go back in time, you'd marry your grandmother. Grandma may still be alive now. ”

"You're not telling the truth. ”

"I...?"

"You've got too many small movements. You didn't say it all, you have other purposes. ”

"Okay, how did you old man suddenly become so shrewd?"

"I used to be a journalist. ”

"No wonder, okay, I said, I said no. Chu Xiaoxiao filled herself a bowl of mash soup and said, "Do you remember what I said about my grandmother's box? My parents said that my grandmother was still holding that box in her arms when she died." It's just that when I was collecting my belongings, the box was gone. Along with the missing is a pair of red embroidered shoes, which my grandmother had had a long time ago, but she never wore them. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I don't think it's a coincidence that your appearance and grandmother's disappearance are also because I feel that you might be able to find my grandmother that way. ”

"Didn't your parents say that Xiaoyan died?"

"I told you, they're all liars. My grandmother was in such good health, how could she suddenly pass away. My grandmother's funeral was not attended by my family. Half a month ago, I went to the crematorium and found the cremation records at that time through some connections. My grandmother is not in the list at all! And I told you at noon that I saw my grandmother the day before yesterday!"

"So, so Xiaoyan is still alive?!" Li Qin was a little uneasy when he heard Chu Xiaoxiao say this.

Chu Xiaoxiao nodded firmly and continued: "Grandma may just run away from home to find something." Because she had been holding that box before and saying that she had found it, and finally found it. ”

"She, did she leave anything behind before she left?"

Chu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and took out a rusty but still usable key from her arms, "In addition to the photo album, there is only one red sachet in her wardrobe, and the only thing in the sachet is this key and the photo given to you at noon." Oh yes, and what's in your cupboard. What's in there?"

Li Qin shook his head, and Chu Xiaoxiao put down the chopsticks in his hand with some loss. After the two were silent for a few seconds, Chu Xiaoxiao raised his head again and put on a smiling face and said, "It's okay, let's look for it little by little." I'm sure I'll find my grandmother and you'll go back in time!"

"How are you going to find it?"

"Didn't you say that you work in Qingyang, can't we go to Qingyang tomorrow?" Chu Xiaoxiao said, took out his mobile phone and began to look for a high-speed rail ticket to Qingyang tomorrow. She fiddled for a moment and suddenly shouted, "Oh no!"

"What's wrong?"

"You need to use your ID card to buy a ticket, and you have to go through the security check! Alas. Let's drive tomorrow. When I go back, I will ask Momo to ask her to make you an ID card. ”

"That thing, how can you mess around?"

"Hey, old man Li, don't worry. Momo has some background in his family, and this kind of thing can be done. And, you need that. Chu smiled and continued to eat. It's as if nothing happened to me just grieving.

Li Qin knew that it was not that Chu Xiaoxiao was happy now, but that she didn't want to let herself be immersed in a sad atmosphere. Li Qin also smiled, lowered his head and ate the food on the plate.

Early the next morning, Chu Xiaoxiao went downstairs to buy breakfast and scrubbed the car again. Then he took Li Qin and set off towards the station in his "memory".

Sitting in the car, a voice that made Li Qin feel familiar but unclear who it was sounded in Li Qin's mind, and the voice said: "Li Qin, I will tell you this secret." When he comes, tell him that you can leave. ”