Dilapidated shop

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In the streets and alleys full of old atmosphere, a girl with a suitcase in her hand held a photo and looked at the old and dusty house in front of her...

From the fact that she kept blinking and repeatedly checking the photos and the buildings in front of her, it was not difficult to notice the discrepancies.

"Isn't this 107 Cheong Shing Street?" She repeatedly stood on tiptoe to confirm the house number, and as soon as she got in the car and reported her destination to the driver, she was sent directly here!

"Girl, what's wrong with you? Can I help you? ”

The aunt who passed by enthusiastically stepped forward to talk, since she just saw this girl standing here stupidly, as if she had been struck by lightning, such a beautiful girl, she couldn't help but come up and ask.

"Auntie, may I ask if this is Changsheng Street on Renmin Road?"

"yes, are you here for the first time? Are you here for a tourist? "Watch her stand on the street with her luggage looking for a place.

"Well, I just got here, and I'm looking for 107 Cheong Shing Street here."

She handed the photo to her aunt to see if she knew where it was.

"Isn't this the Tian family's shop! This is it, are you? His eyes flashed with curiosity and doubt.

This shop has not been visited since the Tian family moved away, and this area used to be the liveliest place in the town.

"My grandfather asked me to come over...", with a miserable and sad tone!

It seems that it is really here, looking at the decayed gate, there is not even a signboard.

At this moment, I really want to cry without tears!

"You are Tian Fugui's granddaughter? Isn't it called Tiantian..."An exclamation sounded, and several uncles and aunts came around.

"Do you know me?" Tian Tian looked at the sudden crowd and called out her grandfather Tian Fugui and her name, no wonder she felt a little familiar when she came here when she just sat in the car.

"Yes, don't you know me? I hugged you when you were a kid! As he spoke, he also drew a height, showing that he had seen her when he was so tall.

But strangely enough, although she was somewhat familiar with this place, she couldn't remember anything!

"I'm sorry, I don't remember!" She looked at the uncle and aunt who looked at her enthusiastically with an apologetic look and said.

"It's okay, how old are you, why are you coming back? We thought Lao Tiantou would never bring you back in his life, what about your grandfather? How about now, are you coming back together! ”

Many of them are shopkeepers who have been open nearby for a long time, and more than ten years have passed, but I didn't expect the people of the Tian family to come back.

Unlike these uncles and aunts who began to reminisce, some of the younger generation looked at them and looked at them curiously, except for being amazed by the girl in the middle, they didn't know much about the Tian family mentioned by the aunt and uncle!

"Grandpa went on a trip and said that he would hand over this shop to me to operate, but... Why is it so much worse than in the photo? "Obviously, the buyer's picture does not match the seller's reality!

"It's been more than ten years, and no one has lived there, and it's normal to be dilapidated, do you plan to come back and continue to open a store?" Looking at this pretty little girl, they were a little skeptical.

"Well, I don't have anywhere else to go now, so I can only stay and have a look."

If she had a choice, she wouldn't be here!

"Then you go first and take a look, you haven't eaten yet, do you want to come to my house for dinner, my house is not far from you." The first aunt to call out her name warmly invited her.

"No, thank you, I'll go check it out first!" She politely declined!

"Okay, then you go, just open your mouth if you need anything, my surname is Chen, and I am the same generation as your parents, you can just call me Aunt Chen!" Say hello when you need it, we're all people who live nearby. ”

may see that she is not adaptable, and intimately help her drive away the people who come up, all of them are old neighbors who live here!

"Thank you, Aunt Chen!"

Tian Tian looked at the aunt who helped her out of the siege gratefully, this was the first time she had heard the news about her parents since she grew up, but the current situation did not allow her to sit down and ask about her parents.

After this episode, she didn't resist this place at first, at least the neighbors around her seemed to be friendly and warm-hearted, and she was an old acquaintance with her grandfather, and she knew a memory of this place that she didn't know...

I didn't have time to think about why I had never heard my grandfather mention it, and I was already distracted by everything I saw after opening the door!

Unlike the dilapidated outside the door, the things inside look neat, although there is dust everywhere, showing signs of inactivity here for a long time.

But why has it been idle for more than ten years? Why did she grow up in another city when her grandfather never mentioned it?

She put her luggage downstairs and went in to visit the structure inside, the interior decoration is obviously Western-style, the overall white decoration style, as well as the floral tablecloth, the big crystal bead curtain chandelier overhead, a cash register, and a whole display cabinet behind it, which also has a lot of foreign wine and things.

There was also a small door under the display case, she found that it was locked and could not be opened, looking at the small drawer of the cash register, she opened one of the drawers by chance and reached out with her hand to get a bunch of keys, she didn't know how she would know, and then found one of them and opened the door, it turned out to be a utility room, and there was a single bed in it, which seemed to be a place to sleep during the lunch break.

She turned to the back and found that the kitchen on the right was quite complete, and the space was quite large, with sinks, stoves, cutting boards, and vegetable shelves...

She touched the dust on it, it was really so thick that it had been vacant for a long time!

The cruet was covered and could not be seen, and the shelves and stoves were covered with large cobwebs.

She tried to turn on the faucet and found that there was no water, patted the ash on her hand, she went to the other side, here you can go up the stairs to the second floor, the toilet and sink made under the stairs are the same, there is no water, no electricity, fortunately she is here in the daytime, in case it is night, will you think that you have arrived in a haunted house?

Especially the kind of stained glass that is surrounded by the church, the lobby can also see the bar on the second floor when you look up, it seems that the lobby is very bright and empty, and the white floral curtains around it will not look very tacky, but the choice is warm and elegant, it doesn't look like grandpa's style, is it grandma? Or is it... Mom?

The staircase is also a white carved wrought iron handrail, and when you turn the corner, you can see the second floor, and there is a vacant space on the second floor with a few tables and chairs, and there is a bar and wine cabinet near the stairs.

"And coffee? Was this a Western restaurant? It's wine and coffee again! She muttered to herself and continued the tour.

The lobby can be seen clearly from the fence, but the windows on both sides seem to be sealed off, and the light is shining through the glass above.

Standing on the terrace on the second floor, you can also see the street outside and the traffic passing through the glass.

There are a few rooms similar to private rooms inside, and there are two rooms on the other side, looking at the wardrobe and bed, it is indeed a room, but the things inside are gone, as if they have been put away!

She opened the closet, and there was nothing in it, empty...

She tried to push open the door of the room to the balcony but found that it couldn't be pushed, as if because of the age, the wrought iron sliding door was rusty and couldn't be pulled!

She didn't continue, and went to other rooms to check, and found that there was a staircase hidden behind the cabinet behind the bar, and there were actually three floors?

She went up from the back and found that it was a rooftop, with a few wires on the empty rooftop, and a sink at the foot of the wall, which looked like a place to wash clothes, and a soap box!

There is also an eaves extending from it, which seems to be to keep out the rain and hang clothes, and there are many various broken flower pots that have been washed by the rain and crooked, all of which show that there was once a small garden on the top floor!

It's just that now all that is left are broken flower pots and withered plants, and the black moss stains are dirty and lifeless!

She walked to the fence and looked down from above, there was a square not far away, with a wide view from above, and she found that the area behind her seemed to be the old town of the place, and it was not difficult to see from the surrounding buildings that it had once been prosperous.

But compared to the obvious high-rise buildings in the distance, this place looks much older and dilapidated.

Looking down from above, this is the corner of the street, there are roads extending on the left and right, and this store is located in the middle of both sides, and there are shop signs along the street nearby.

It stands to reason that this geographical location should be good, there is no reason to vacant for more than ten years, the outside is dilapidated like this, and the appearance maintained inside all shows that there is no movement at all, is it that the security here is so good that there has been no petty theft in?

It's really revealing indescribable eccentricity everywhere, wouldn't it be good to sell this place directly, why instead mortgage the place where she used to live, and instead say that this place will be left to her?

And where did this strange and familiar feeling come about?

"I don't understand, I really don't understand what grandpa thinks!" Tian Tian shook her head and didn't think about it anymore, she couldn't think of it anyway!

And the only grandfather who knows about it has also left her to start his own journey around the world, and he can't be contacted by phone, so he can only stay here and wait for grandpa's postcard!