"What time is it?"

Lin Chao glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall, "It's past nine o'clock, I'm going in to catch up on sleep." By the way, do I sleep on the top bunk or on the bottom bunk?"

"Nonsense, what should you do if you sleep on the top bunk and the bed collapses? You think everyone can afford this one hundred and fifty pounds?"

Hearing Tang Chen's words, Lin Chao smiled "hehe" and entered the bedroom with a salute. Lin Chao's face was a typical big man, but only Tang Chen knew that there were many bad intentions hidden under his honest face. At the beginning, in the countryside of Gao Prefecture, he instigated Tang Chen to steal sweet potatoes and corn in other people's fields and harm other people's orchards. Every time he was caught, he pretended to be pitiful in the back, only Tang Chen ate his grandfather's "rattan stewed pork" one after another.

Of course, this did not affect the friendship between the two, until Tang Chen transferred to Gao Prefecture in high school, they rarely played together.

When I was a sophomore, I heard the bad news that my grandfather passed away suddenly. Tang Chen held back his tears and rushed back to his hometown from Huadu, but he still didn't see the last time the old man saw him.

My grandfather only has a son and a daughter, but he loves his grandson Tang Chen the most. In the will, in addition to the house deposit to Tang Chen's uncle, the rest of the books, jade pendant and some of his handwritten notes were left to Tang Chen. By the way, he also left a small shop in Panzhou for Tang Chen.

Looking at the pendulum clock on the wall, Tang Chen's hand intentionally or unintentionally took out a jade pendant from his chest.

This is a jade pendant that looks "cheap", Tang Chen doesn't know anything about jade, so naturally he can't tell its age, but he knows that his grandfather likes this jade pendant very much, and finally left it to him.

Perhaps it is often played, the friction on the upper surface of this jade pendant is very smooth, which seems to form the "pulp" in the professional term of jade.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no carving on this jade pendant, it was a whole piece of jade, glowing white, with a hole at the top and a rope hanging on it, maybe it would still look good. - "No, wasn't it cyan before?" Tang Chen played with this jade pendant, and he didn't know what had happened, so that the jade pendant turned from cyan to white.

"Is it a fake?"

This jade pendant is a relic left to him by his grandfather, and his old man usually loves this jade pendant the most, and often takes it out to play. When he was a child, his parents were busy with work and left Tang Chen at his grandfather's house, it can be said that Tang Chen was brought up by his grandfather since he was sensible.

"Fakes are fakes, and what my grandfather left me should be kept safe. Tang Chen was a little bit of a seeker.

When I was a child, I didn't think that my grandfather was a very kind old man, who often bought him delicious food, and he didn't have to worry about food and clothing since he was a child. Although often this kind of verbal reward is based on the premise of endorsement. For example, "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules", every time he memorized it, his grandfather would additionally reward him with "delicacies" such as sugar man, popcorn, and marshmallows that he had "coveted" for a long time.

When he was a little older, his grandfather taught him more esoteric "Snow Heart Fu", "Urging Officials", "Pingsha Jade Ruler Sutra", "Funeral Book", "Yuan Yun Fa Wei", "Yang Gong's Funeral Law Inverted Staff", "Tianji Nine Stars and Nine Changes", "Zhou Yi", ...... Every winter and summer vacation, because his parents were too busy with work, Tang Chen spent it at his grandfather's house.

Grandpa was very talkative, but except for one time, when he was teaching him to read, he was very strict. When I was a child, I was greedy for fun, and I didn't pay attention to my back, so I often slapped my grandfather with a ring ruler, and my mother was so distressed that Tang's mother shed tears, saying that my grandfather was a private school teacher in the old society, and he treated his grandson so harshly. If it weren't for the majesty of the old father, Tang's mother would have wanted to resign and go home to take care of the children.

In fact, my grandfather was very spoiled by Tang Chen. When he doesn't endorse books, he buys him delicious food, buys fun things, and often tells him stories. The stories told by my grandfather are often not vivid, but they are very real, and most of them are about local customs and people.

As he grew up, Tang Chen realized that his grandfather had traveled from south to north before, and he had seen a lot of things. But Tang Chen couldn't be happy, because his grandfather was a feng shui gentleman, and there were red and white happy events in the village, and almost every family came to visit and ask his grandfather to help. My grandfather is also very talkative, and he agrees with a smile. The remuneration is never too much, about hundreds of dollars, which can be regarded as earning a little water and wine expenses.

According to Tang's mother, my grandfather was originally very broad, but in the ten-year catastrophe, he became a capitalist roader and was imprisoned in the bullpen for half a year. The family property was also confiscated, and he had to hold a red book and memorize quotations every day. Fortunately, the villagers he had helped before were rescued.

But since then, the root of the disease has fallen, the heart and lungs have been injured, and the legs and feet have also suffered from rheumatoid arthritis because they slept in the bullpen. After all, in his sophomore year, my grandfather couldn't bear the torture of illness and passed away.

Since Tang Chen went to high school, he has lived with his parents, and his studies are very tight, and he rarely goes back to see his old man. After the college entrance examination, Tang Chen only stayed at his grandfather's house for three days, and then ran out to play crazy. Looking back now, I feel remorseful. Tang Chen hated himself for not seeing it at the time, his grandfather endured the pain, talked and laughed with him very happily, and even went to the market to buy vegetables and cook for him. It wasn't until he heard the bad news that Tang Chen knew that he had lost his grandfather who loved him the most forever......

Unconsciously, Tang Chen touched the jade pendant, and his eyes became rosy.

"When !!"

The pendulum clock sounded the time, Tang Chen turned his head to see that he was stunned for a while, and it was more than two hours later, and it was already half past eleven.

This pendulum clock is also old, Tang Chen remembers seeing it in this shop when he was a child, it can be said that he has witnessed the passing years of the shop, and he has been with his grandfather for many years.

Now that my grandfather is gone, only the pendulum clock still makes a "tick-tock" sound day after day, which is crisp and pleasant.

When Tang Chen took over the shop, the pendulum clock had stopped swinging because no one had been winding it for a long time. After taking over the shop, Tang Chen clocked the pendulum clock on time every few days, and added some lubricating oil to it from time to time. This old-fashioned pendulum clock hangs on the wall and chimes the time and never misses the mark.

"Xiao Linzi, what are you going to eat for lunch?" Tang Chen called twice, and Lin Chao's voice came from the bedroom: "Whatever!"

"By the way, have you found a job? I'm a small shop, I can't support you as a god!"

Tang Chen's mouth was a little poor, but in fact, he asked casually.

I never thought that Lin Chao's voice came from the bedroom: "I have found it, a few days ago, there was a construction company that went to Gao (gao) Prefecture to recruit workers." When I got the news, I applied for a job, and the supervisor saw that I was quite tall and had experience in helping to build a house at home, so he recruited me......"

Tang Chen was stunned, he didn't expect Lin Chao to find a job so quickly.