As my childhood memories gradually revived, it reminded me that before my family went out to celebrate my birthday at the age of seven, my father specially called me to his study and gave me a red wood box, saying that it was a birthday present every year from my first birthday.

Maybe my father thought I could remember when I was seven years old, or maybe he calculated that his deadline was approaching, so he chose that birthday......

When I got the box, I carried it back to my little bedroom with it like a treasure, and when I opened it with anticipation, I found seven very boring things neatly arranged, and I covered the box and hid it in the dark compartment of the wooden bed.

The contents of the box, I can still remember the approximation, the wooden box is vertically divided into seven grids, and the bottom of each grid is engraved with Chinese characters indicating the age, that is, some bells, brushes, daggers... Something like that.

I used to be ignorant and didn't know what those things were for, but now that I have an understanding of yin and yang, I naturally know the usefulness of those things.

However, none of this is what I care about, what I care about is the envelope of the seventh square.

At the time, I thought it was boring, and I didn't even bother to read it with the letter......

I'm not too worried about being discovered, but I'm afraid that the wooden bed will be replaced by the owner.

Xu Rui stood at the door with me in her arms, and I rang the somewhat faded doorbell almost without the slightest hesitation, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Startled by my sudden movements, Xu Rui was surprised and asked, "Do you know the owner?"

I don't really know the owner, but it's okay to go in and see the house, right? I've lived here before......

I shrugged my shoulders innocently and said, "I don't know, let's see if it's nothing, right?"

Xu Rui was obviously a little embarrassed, but there was nothing she could do with me......

After half a ring, a trembling old man stepped on his slippers to open the door, and a few sparse white hairs on the top of his head made him look bald, raised his head and swept me down and up with his godless eyes, and said dumbly, "Young man, who are you looking for?"

Under normal circumstances, to deal with the elderly, the best thing to call is the emotional card, if you want to enter the house smoothly, you can use Xu Rui to make the old man let down his guard.

I held Xu Rui's hand tightly and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I lived here when I was a child, and after my parents had an accident, it was auctioned off here, and I want to bring my girlfriend to see where I lived when I was a child." ”

The old man moved his gaze to Xu Rui again, and when he saw our clenched hands, he said lukewarmly, "I've heard about this...... When buying a house...... Listen to past landlords...... It's a good thing for people to miss the past...... I'm not an old man to worry about you...... Come in......"

"Thank you, uncle. ”

It's not that difficult, I thanked the old man, and made a triumphant gesture to Xu Rui, so I dragged her hand and hurriedly got into the courtyard that had been there for some years.

When I was young, the houses in this area were relatively good, and every house had their own yards, and they would grow some seasonal vegetables and the like in the yard, and my family at that time set up a grapevine to cool off.

The courtyard changed owners, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw the depressed stone tables and stone benches under the crooked grape trellises in the courtyard.

In this way, the new owner of the house did not change the old layout of the yard, which can be regarded as adding a lot of confidence to me to find things.

The old man led us into the small building, sat on the sofa by himself, and said, "I'm old, so I won't be polite to you, let's take a look at it yourself, and I can give you old things I like." ”

What a kind old man......

The house is okay, although it is a bit messy, but most of the buildings have not changed, and there are many overlaps with the home in my memory.

I fumbled through the yellowwood cabinet next to the TV and wondered, "Well, hasn't this place changed much?"

The old man stared at the fiery Peking Opera sung on the TV, and said absent-mindedly, "How can it change? Who will it see, after the accident of the earliest homeowner's family, this house is like a stinky and no one wants it, my previous landlord bought this house at a low price, and my wife died of illness within a few days, and my son got married at that time and occupied my house, so he bought your house for me to live in at a lower price, and I don't need to pick it up again if I am alone." ”

A good family of three has become a murderous house that everyone avoids, and the lonely old man has been deceived by his children into living alone in a murderous house for nearly 20 years......

I wonder if the uncle's son has ever come to visit him, "They haven't come to see you?"

The old man shook his head with a wry smile and sighed, "This year...... It's useless to rely on anyone...... Whoever has it is better to have it than to have it yourself...... I'm a bad old man and I'm useless to them...... Throw me to this place, they still think they have done their duty......"

There are always all kinds of bad things happening in life, and although I sympathize with my uncle's plight, I can't help him.

I held Xu Rui in one hand, patted the cabinet that was still very strong, and said, "It's almost the same as when I was a child, nothing has changed." ”

Xu Rui bowed her head, silently looked at the living room, broke free of my hand and walked to the old man, sat next to the old man and asked him politely, "Old man, are you willing to sell this house?"

The old man's distracted eyes lit up instantly, and he looked at Xu Rui excitedly and asked, "You want to buy it?"

Really, the housing prices in this area are so low that no matter how you look at it, there is no investment value, plus this house has a background of death, once Xu Rui buys it, it will be smashed.

I know Xu Rui is for me, but buying a house is not a rational move, "Why are you buying it? We won't live here in the future." ”

Xu Rui smiled sweetly at me, waved her hand, and said, "You go to see your house, and I'll chat with the old man." ”

Xu Rui saw that I was looking for something, so she deliberately stayed in the living room and tied the old man with the topic of buying a house......

Whether it is or not, under the premise that the old man Xu Rui is not there, he has indeed created a good environment for me to pick up things.

"Hmmm......"

I turned around and groped my way around to find my childhood bedroom, but I didn't expect that nothing had changed inside, and the thick dust that filled the room showed that the room had been unattended for many years.

When I was a child, my parents seemed to deliberately tell me to remember the location of the dark grid, and always bought a lot of small gifts to hide for me to look for in the dark grid in the house.

In my small bedroom, there are no less than four hidden compartments, one at the head of the bed, one at the desk with a writing desk, one with a window sill, and one with a wardrobe......

And my seventh-birthday present is hidden at the head of the bed, the middle part of the head of the bed is hollow, just press the head of the bed, there are hidden clips at the four corners of the edge, remove these clips, pull the plank behind the back, you can see.

I easily pushed the head of the bed down, opened the dark grid and was pleased to find that the box was still there, and immediately took out the contents and put them all on my body.

After making sure that nothing was missing, I put the empty box in the bedside and set it up, and left the room as if I had finished visiting.

It's just that when I returned to the living room, there was no trace of the old man, and only Xu Rui sat alone on the sofa and asked with a smile, "Finished reading?"

I originally wanted to go to other rooms to see if there was anything to gain, but when I saw that the old man was gone, he couldn't help but see it, so I didn't dare to take action, and directly greeted Xu Rui, "It's over, let's go back." ”

Xu Rui sat on the sofa without moving her buttocks, looked around naturally, and said proudly, "No need to go, the house is yours." ”

Damn, she really bought the house, and the female tyrant has a good temperament, this is the rhythm of taking care of me?

I felt a little foggy in my mind, and I pointed at myself at a loss and asked, "I......? Bought ......"

Xu Rui looked like a hostess, got up and helped me sit on the sofa, "I made an appointment with the old man, and I will give him the money tomorrow and let him transfer the house to you." ”

Ahem, although I also wanted to buy the house, I didn't dare to think about it considering that I didn't have the money.

Regardless of considering the return on investment, wanting to buy this house is nothing more than human emotion.

Xu Rui bought the house and threw it into my arms, but let me live in the house that the woman bought for me, which made me feel very incompetent.

I didn't want to ask Xu Rui to break the bill, so I pretended not to like it, and reprimanded softly, "You are stupid, what's the use of us having such a broken house? Could it be that you still want to live here in the future!"

Xu Rui's thin eyebrows raised slightly, and said disappreciatively, "Broken house, I don't think it's broken, I want to return your home to you, and I am willing to accompany you to live in our house, not to mention that the house left by your father must have hidden a lot of things related to you." ”

It turned out that she cared about this, and I said that the house had not changed for the most part, and she could think of what my father had left behind......

It's true, our relationship is not too much of your affection for me, and it is always the most practical care and thoughtfulness, and it is not in vain for a man to meet such a woman in his life......

The atmosphere in the room was so sensational, but it was good for me to not know what to say, "Xu Rui, you are really ......"

Xu Rui threw herself into my arms, wrapped her arms around my waist and said softly, "Let's stay here tonight, I'll pack up the things I don't want, and count what new things need to be arranged." ”

Since the whole house is mine, I don't have to be afraid of others suspecting if I want to find something, and there should be something I can give to Xu Rui.

"You wait for me!"

I patted Xu Rui on the back, carefully pushed her body away, got up and ran quickly to the master bedroom on the first floor, and found a tin box in the dark compartment under the windowsill.

Xu Rui ran in after me, looking at the box in my hand in surprise, "What are ......you doing?"

All my memories have come back, I remembered it just a moment, I didn't expect it to be here for so many years, and I still feel more or less emotionally in my heart, "It's really here......"

I just don't know if what's inside is still there?

I opened the box with bated breath, and it contained two rolls of old hundred-dollar bills, as well as some valuable commemorative coins, and most importantly, a thin passbook.

When I was a child, I always saw my mother in it to take money, thinking that it should be the place where the money was put at home, and I really found it by mistake.

Xu Rui looked at the thin notebook in my hand in disbelief, and said hesitantly, "That's ...... Passbook ......"

I covered the iron box and handed it to Xu Rui along with the passbook, "When I was a child, I could always see my mother putting things here, but the old man didn't change the furniture in the house. ”

Xu Rui held the iron box, opened the passbook with one hand and glanced at it, opened her mouth wide and was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses, "Two three hundred and twenty-two thousand, which is a huge amount of money in that year...... So many years have passed...... There are also a lot of ...... in interest."

That's really not a lot, it seems that my parents are quite good at living, otherwise they wouldn't have so much savings.

I remember my mother unintentionally said that they only had one precious child, me, so all the passwords in the family were my birthday.

Of course, I didn't hide it from Xu Rui, and honestly handed over the financial power, "The password should be my birthday, and it will be in your charge in the future." ”

This time, it was Xu Rui's turn not to be calm, and she didn't know what to do with my passbook, "You?"

That look is so cute......

I couldn't help but imprint a kiss on her forehead, put my arm around her shoulders and persuaded, "In our family, men make money, and women run the house, and it should always be handed over to you." ”

Xu Rui was relieved this time, put her cheek on my chest, and said affirmatively, "Fighting for qi, I know that I didn't see the wrong person, and I know that you have no reservations about me." ”

Call...... What...... This atmosphere makes my blood gut a little...... There is an urge to have the woman in my arms completely......

My brain was hot, and I didn't think much about speaking, I hugged Xu Rui tightly and hated to rub her into my body, "I'm willing to give you everything, are you willing?"

Xu Rui raised her head hesitantly, looked at me with a blushing face, and bowed her head shyly in response, "...... May ......"

I thought that Lao Tzu would spend candles with the goddess in the cave room, but who would have thought that the second floor would suddenly make a continuous sound of "click......click".

Xu Rui, who was as shy as a puff a second ago, immediately turned a 180-degree turn, pushed my body away and walked to the second floor, "There is movement!"

God, what is so short-sighted, if it really falls into my hands, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless...... I followed Xu Rui up to the second floor, and my footsteps would make a "squeak" sound when I stepped on the old wooden staircase, which echoed the "click" sound on the second floor, which was really a bit of a horror movie......

Maruko takes into account the reader's suggestion to add the number of words.,I used to update two chapters every day.,The number of words in a chapter is two thousand words.,After the next two chapters and do a chapter.,A chapter is updated with four thousand words.,After the fifteenth day of the first month, the double change will be resumed.,The plan is one more than three thousand words.,Two more six thousand words.,I wish you all a good year.。

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