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Shen Mo's home is in a small town in the south, and after getting off the train, he has to take that kind of Wupeng boat to shuttle through the water alleys for a long time, and it takes a lot of twists and turns to get there.

I, a man who had never been dizzy with any means of transport, had been rocking around that boat for an hour, and my head was starting to get a little foggy.

I asked Shen Mo:

"Where the hell do you live? If this level of mystery is placed in the Anti-Japanese War era, I am afraid that it will take a few years for the little devil to find your home. ”

Shen Mo slapped me with a smile and said angrily:

"I know countless eight ways all day long, just your current flamboyant appearance, it's no wonder that my dad doesn't kick you out! You said that you too, usually always look deep and unfathomable, why did you drop the chain for me at a critical moment? ”

I smiled at her and said:

"You don't understand that, do you? Usually, that's really my true temperament, but now that I'm going to marry a daughter-in-law, can't I be happy yet? ”

Shen Mo glanced at me and said:

"I don't know if you're so careful? Don't you just want to know what my parents think of you? How? Scared? It's not like you! Do you want me to buy you some diapers? Don't pee your pants as soon as you see my mom and dad! ”

The boat swayed through the water alley for more than an hour, and finally stopped at the mouth of a deep and quiet alley.

I looked at the bluestone tile houses around me, and even had a feeling that I had crossed over, as if all this was a little too mysterious.

Those buildings are at least 100 years old, and in such places, there are more or less strange things happening, at least not necessarily being discovered.

Although it was my first time here, I felt like I had fallen in love with this secluded and mysterious place.

Reaching out to help Shen Mo down from the boat, I teased her and said:

"Did you ever fall into the river when you were younger?"

Shen Mo smiled and said:

"Yes, I heard my mother say that when I was young, I played with the neighbor's children again, and accidentally fell into the river, don't look at some narrow rivers here, only more than a meter deep, but it is still very normal to drown a small child. Not only that, but even if you fall into the river after getting drunk, you will basically be drowned. ”

After listening to her words, I don't know why, I feel a little weird, it stands to reason that a child of a few years old fell into the river, and it is difficult to have a chance to escape, unless someone rescues her.

I pretended to be unintentional and asked Shen Mo:

"Did your mom say when you fell in?"

Shen Mo thought for a while and said:

"It seems that it was dinner in the afternoon, and there was basically no one on the river, thanks to a grandmother who happened to come out of the dirty water to save me."

I nodded, and didn't say anything more, this explanation is very reasonable, if she falls into it after dark, I'm afraid she really won't grow up.

After walking around the quiet alley for a long time, I finally saw a closed black gate at the end of an alley.

From a distance, it feels a little depressing.

Shen Mo saw that I was a little hesitant, and said jokingly:

"What's wrong? Scared? Do you want to turn around and run away? ”

I reached out and patted her ass as a warning. She slapped me a few times in disgust, looking around to see if anyone was seen.

Maybe it's because of my own reasons, the more I walk into the door of her house, the more depressed I feel, and I don't know what her parents think, living in such a corner is a complete dead end.

The brick courtyard wall is more than three meters high, and it looks like a prison wall from the outside, but there is no electricity grid on it.

I asked Shen Mo with a smile:

"The wall of your courtyard is so high, are you afraid that the people inside will run out?"

Shen Mo raised his foot and kicked me, and said angrily:

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, the walls of our courtyard here are so high, haven't you noticed? This is because the house is built in this kind of place, and the foundation will naturally be higher and thicker to be strong, otherwise it will collapse long ago after soaking in such a place full of water for many years? ”

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the row of steps at the door, and said proudly:

"See that staircase? The courtyard is more than a meter higher than the outside, and the wall is very high from the outside, but when you look out from the inside of the courtyard, it is not high at all. ”

I nodded in realization, and didn't say anything more, but the weird feeling didn't go away because of the plausible explanation.

Came to the door, Shen Mo went up and knocked on the door, the time was not big, the door opened, a very temperamental middle-aged woman opened the door with a happy face, and directly hugged Shen Mo in her arms, muttering words I didn't understand.

At the beginning, I was surprised to think that Shen Mo's mother was a foreigner, but when I heard it carefully, it was still Chinese, but it was a dialect that I didn't understand.

Shen Mo talked to her mother for a long time, and seemed to remember me behind her, so she hurriedly came over and took my hand and introduced to her mother:

"Mom, this is Liu Wu, my boyfriend, haven't you always wanted to meet him? Now that it's delivered to the door, you can interrogate it casually! ”

Shen Mo's mother patted her in disgust, and said to me with a smile:

"Xiao Liu, please come in, please come in."

Although she speaks Mandarin, she still has a thick accent, and if I don't listen carefully, I really can't understand it.

At this time, I had the opportunity to say "Auntie is good", and followed the mother and daughter into the courtyard.

In fact, I felt a little uncomfortable at that time, because when the door was opened, I didn't see Shen Mo's father, and I don't know if he wanted to suppress my arrogance or was dissatisfied with me.

But when I met her dad, I didn't even know whether to call her uncle or grandpa.

Shen Mo didn't tell me that her father was so much older than her mother, and looking at his father's appearance, I am afraid that he is more than sixty years old, at least more than ten years older than her mother.

But the truth is not as I thought, although her father is a few years older than her mother, he is actually only in his fifties.

I don't quite understand why he looks so old.

The conversation with her parents lasted more than an hour, and they basically made it clear about my household registration.

Back in Shen Mo's room, I told her the doubts in my heart, and Shen Mo said to me with a smile:

"In our place, the son-in-law came to the door for the first time, and the father-in-law could not come out to greet him, which is to show the majesty of the old man, let me tell you, our ancestors are officials in the court!"