The old man's birthday is the festival of the entire nursing home. The courtyard is full of lonely and widowed old people, and after the redevelopment of the city, the surrounding towns and villages have moved to other places, and it has become remote and deserted, and there are very few outsiders to visit, not even people from social welfare groups. "Didn't the government plan a new nursing home at that time?" Shi Jiaojiao listened to the dean's half-talking, and the dean pinched off the roots of the water celery and said: "It was to enter the county nursing home, there were more than ten old people in the yard at that time, and they were reluctant to leave. ”

Shi Jiaojiao raised her head and asked curiously, "What happened later?" The dean pursed his lips, "The nursing home in the county town didn't want to accept it, and the old people didn't want to leave, so I was in my thirties and had no home or job, so I stayed with them." At that time, life was difficult, just rely on a little subsidy, to be honest, it is really difficult for us to die with one mouth of many old men, but there is no way, where can he go as a lonely old man? "Huh?" Shi Jiaojiao's work stopped, "Doesn't he have Mr. Zhang?" ”

The dean looked around and said, "It took seven or eight years for Mr. Zhang to find the courtyard." Thanks to him, life in the yard is better. "This ...... Did something happen in the middle, grandpa was lost, why did it take so long to find it, and Mr. Zhang was also young at that time, right? ”

The old woman nodded and shook her head, "I don't know the specific situation, Mr. Zhang was in his early twenties when he came, oh yo, what a rich son, and he was charming and modest." He wants to change the environment for the old man, the old man is very stubborn here, and he is not willing to move a step, Mr. Zhang has no choice, so he raises the whole yard, and it will be 20 years. ”

"Miss Shi," the courtyard suddenly called Shi Jiaojiao emotionally, Shi Jiaojiao raised her eyes to look at her, and she said, "I know that some words are not our turn to talk more, but let me tell you, Mr. Zhang is a good person with a cold face and a warm heart." More than ten years have passed, except for a Miss Jiang, he only brought you here to show the old man. The old people in the courtyard look forward to having someone to accompany him every day, and I hope you are this good girl. Shi Jiaojiao avoided the dean's eager gaze and did not speak.

When cutting the cake, Zhang Kun sent a video over, and Grandpa Zhang babbled with Shi Jiaojiao's mobile phone, and the most he said was, "Jiaojiao came to see me, which makes me happier than you coming!" Shi Jiaojiao understood that this was a matchmaker, and was forced by her grandfather not to appear on the camera, so she had to keep her eyes down in front of Zhang Kun's eyes, the man never smiled so gently, and spoke more and more bluntly, and said: "Then I will follow her to see your old man!" "Haha......" The old people at the table all clapped their hands and laughed.

"Jiaojiao, can you read me a book?" In the afternoon, the nurse urged the grandfather to take a nap, but the old man did not want to reduce the time with the young man because of sleep, and looked at Shi Jiaojiao beggingly and asked. Shi Jiaojiao put up her grandfather's empty arm and said, "Of course it's good, but I can't read "Three Kingdoms" this time, the more I listen to it, the more energetic I am, this is for you to read it more slowly." "Hiccup, okay, it's all right, I like to hear it."

On a quiet afternoon after dinner, the sun crawls through the clean but old hallway, climbs up the windowsill, and then back down the hallway, and the sun turns to the other side of the sky. The grass in the small courtyard smelled of grass steamed by the midday sun in late spring. In the last combined ward in the corridor, there was a loud and small sound of reading:

He was forced to admit that goodness exists. This penal prisoner is kind. And he himself, who is really unheard of, has also done good. Therefore he has fallen. He felt cowardly, and he hated himself. The ideal for Savoy is not to speak of humanity, greatness and nobility, but to seek innocence. ”……

Reading and reading, Shi Jiaojiao heard the old man's slightly muddy breathing, so she closed the book and stretched out her head to look, the white skin of the eighty-year-old was covered with the unique folds and spots of the years, and the loose eyelids trembled slightly and closed together. "Grandpa......" Shi Jiaojiao whispered tentatively, ready to call the nurse to come in and change the old man to a comfortable position to sleep.

"Is there kindness in this world?" The rough voice stopped Shi Jiaojiao's movements, and she sat back in place, only to find that the old man's eyes were exposed and he had not fallen asleep. Shi Jiaojiao lifted the sliding blanket to the old man's chest and replied, "There should be one, right?" The old man nodded, "Yes, there is." Shi Jiaojiao didn't understand what the old man meant, and after listening to the novel, she was moved, so she asked, "Do you still listen?" The old man shook his head, "I don't want to hear it anymore today." "Then you sleep for a while, I won't go, sit here with you." Shi Jiaojiao said softly, the old man refused to lie down, and said, "I don't sleep, our grandchildren talk." "Okay."

At first, it was just the two of them talking about some painless family routines from the next generation, and gradually the topic focused on Zhang Kun. "Jiaojiao, grandpa doesn't know how long he can live, and he is often so confused that no one remembers." The old man's voice was already a little tired, "You are so much younger than Ah Kun, I was really shocked when Ah Kun told me that he wanted to marry you." But everything he decides has his reasons, so grandpa hopes that you will not disappoint him. He's actually a hard-working kid who can't stand any storms. ”

Shi Jiaojiao didn't know how to answer, so she had to bury her head in silence. "Jiaojiao," the old man cried, slowly stretched out a withered hand, and hung tremblingly under Shi Jiaojiao's eyes, "There are some things I can't tell you, and no one can tell you." However, I can see that Ah Kun has a heart for you. You don't care what kind of boss he is, just accompany him, help grandpa watch, and take him to live a happy life as an ordinary person. If one day grandpa is gone......"

"Grandpa, don't say it!" Shi Jiaojiao grabbed the old man's rough and warm hand and stopped him from saying what he didn't say. "If one day I'm gone, I'll have to go down and have an explanation with his short-lived father." The old man stared at the slightly yellowed ceiling, but still spoke. Shi Jiaojiao suddenly remembered the feeling of being covered with sadness when she talked to this old man for the first time in the middle of a New Year's night.

This is a time-consuming companionship, after accompanying the old people to dinner, Shi Jiaojiao and the driver embarked on the way home, and neither of them was willing to speak. Shi Jiaojiao leaned back on the chair with her eyes closed, obviously tired but unable to sleep. In addition to the doubts in her stomach and the sadness in her chest, she also felt a kind of pursuit, a pursuit from Zhang Kun.

"Big brother, how long have you been driving for Tongyu?" Shi Jiaojiao cheered up and asked, not only because she couldn't sleep, but also because of the ups and downs of the mountain road, it was easier to get tired when driving at night. The driver looked intently ahead and replied, "Seven years soon." Shi Jiaojiao propped her head and said, "It's been a long time, it seems that he trusts you very much." The driver grinned, "There's no trust, probably because I don't speak in front of him." Shi Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows, and the driver boldly asked, "What about you, did you know him when you entered the Tong Domain?" ”

This question is really difficult to answer, Shi Jiaojiao Nunu mouthed, "I met it once in college, and the real acquaintance is after entering the Tong Domain." "The first time you got in the car, I knew there was something wrong with the two of you." The driver's eldest brother smiled very meaningfully, "But I never said anything about it, just to talk to you today." Shi Jiaojiao raised the corner of her mouth and said, "It's different to drive a car for a long time, I'm still confused!" "Hey, hey." The driver smiled stupidly and said, "Miss Shi, you can do it, I think you will definitely be able to win the big boss." ”

Shi Jiaojiao was reluctant to answer this sentence, turned her head to look at the black shadow of the mountains and forests with a faint white mist outside, and said nothing.

The driver's eldest brother's home is in the north of the city, although it is not too late to arrive in the city, but if he sends Shi Jiaojiao back to the community and returns, then he is afraid that it will be midnight when he arrives home. Shi Jiaojiao remembered that in the past, the driver's eldest brother still sent her and Tang Jianyu to City A on Chinese New Year's Eve, so she said: "Big brother, I will call a taxi here, you can go home early, save more running." The driver's eyebrows were crossed, "What is this, driving is my job!" Shi Jiaojiao laughed, "You watched me get in the car." "No, it's not that I'm dedicated, and if my boss knows about it, I'm sure I'll be unemployed." The driver is colored. Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help it, so she had to send it back with him.

When she arrived at the gate of the community, Shi Jiaojiao was just about to get out of the car, but the driver stopped her with a shy face and said, "Sister, I feel that you are angry with your eldest brother." Shi Jiaojiao was stunned, "What are you angry about?" Don't let me take a taxi? "Seriously. The driver scratched his head, "I shouldn't have said anything to take down the big boss, you're not such a person." Shi Jiaojiao moved her eyes when she heard this, and laughed, "Haha! Then as compensation, let me ask you a question! ”

The man nodded solemnly, "You ask, I know everything." Shi Jiaojiao tilted her head and thought for a moment, and asked, "The big boss's sister, Miss Jiang Qian, knows each other, right?" "yes, yes." "Has she ever been in your car?" Shi Jiaojiao unbuckled her seat belt after asking, lowered her head and found the key in her bag. The driver looked up and thought about it seriously, and said, "I just sat there once." She came back from abroad with a baby and I picked it up at the airport. Shi Jiaojiao nodded, "Oh." Then I'm leaving, you stay safe on the road. "Okay."

Although it is completely reasonable for Jiang Qian, who is nearly forty years old, to have a child seven or eight years ago, Shi Jiaojiao was still surprised when she first saw her face and posture: she already had a child, and she was completely unaware of the existence of this child on the night of Jiang's house.

It was almost twelve o'clock after taking a shower, Shi Jiaojiao looked at the phone that had just been turned on before going to bed, only to find that there were many unread messages in it, and the most conspicuous was Vice President Liang's text message: Grandma, you are too good to ask for leave and turn off the phone! Don't come to the company tomorrow, go directly to the office of the development zone to prepare for the entry of American professors. It's going to be done before next week, your man brought us back, and we'll pick up the airport together when the time comes.

Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help rolling her eyes when she saw the words "your man", but she didn't resist so much in her heart.