Before dinner was finished, a guest came to the door. It was Ding Xixi whom Jian Yi had seen in the morning. She left early, still wearing the same gauze dress she wore in the morning. I brought some snacks prepared at home, saying that there were too many people here yesterday to come to the door, so I came to see the old man today.

The old man smiled, asked her to sit, and then asked her aunt to serve her tea.

She didn't sit down, saying that there was a barbecue at home and wanted to invite them over to sit and play. The old man didn't want to join in the excitement when he was old, but asked Zhou Qi and Zhou Jining to go over with Jian Yi.

People came to invite them, and there was nothing else, so they should go anyway.

The courtyard of Ding Xixi's house is much smaller than that of Zhou's house, and it was very lively in the past. In addition to a few of them, she also invited other friends, all of whom were playmates from her youth, and everyone rarely came back, so she simply invited them to the house for a reunion. Among the group, only Jian Yi and Zhou Jining are outsiders.

Young friends even when they grow up have endless topics to talk about, and everyone talks about the past troubles or interesting things one by one. Zhou Qi is the most mentioned of them, and you can imagine his naughtiness when he was a teenager.

There was a commotion in the courtyard for a while, and Jian Yi and Zhou Jining were left out in the cold. Ding Xixi brought them one after the skewers were baked, and said with a smile: "They're very noisy, right?" ”

This is said to Jian Yi.

Jian Yi smiled slightly and said, "No, it sounds interesting." She thanked her, picked up the skewer and took a small bite.

Drinks are indispensable on such occasions, and the elders of the Ding family are not there, so they go to the door, and a group of people are crazy and drink a lot of wine. Jian Yi also drank some, but not much.

There are also girls who come to play, seeing that Zhou Jining is alone, and from time to time they will come over to talk by sending food. But Zhou Jining is clear and cold and rejects people thousands of miles away, his words do not leak, and he does not give people contact information, and he returns without saying a few words.

A little later, Jian Yi received a call from Peng Tongyuan, saying that he had only come back from his parents today, brought her the zongzi wrapped by his mother and other things that his mother had prepared for the old lady, and asked her if she was at home, and he sent her over.

Jian Yi replied that no, she was like an invisible person here, so she chatted with Peng Tongyuan and asked how they spent the Dragon Boat Festival and his parents' bodies.

Peng Tongyuan on the other end of the phone said that this Dragon Boat Festival his mother rarely gave up her business, made zongzi by herself, and made a large table of meals. This was not the case many years ago. It is inevitable to remember that when I was a child, the relationship between the Peng family and the Song family was good, and everyone would get together whenever there was a festival in the past. Each family came up with their own craftsmanship, and it was very lively.

Yes, because I was still young, I used to look forward to every festival. And now, it seems that I can't find the feeling I used to have.

The two chatted for a while and hung up the phone, Jian Yi seemed preoccupied, picked up the beer and sat aside and drank it slowly.

After a can of beer, she tried to get a second can, but before she could get up, a bottle of drink was handed to her.

Zhou Jining stuffed the drink to her and said, "Drink less, isn't it raining today, be careful that drinking too much is uncomfortable." ”

Song Jianyi smiled and said thank you, senior brother.

It's superfluous and boring for her to stay here. After drinking a can of drink, Zhou Jining raised his wrist to look at the time and asked, "Do you want to go back?" ”

Jian Yi looked at Zhou Qi's side, he was still very lively there, and he didn't know what he said, so he burst into laughter. It looks like it won't be over.

She nodded and said yes. I was going to talk to Zhou Qi, but seeing that he didn't pay attention to this, he didn't go over again, and quietly left Ding's house with Zhou Jining.

It rained heavily during the day, and at this moment there was a crooked crescent moon hanging in the sky. Jian Yi didn't know what to say for a while, so he didn't have anything to say, "Senior brother, will you go back tomorrow?" ”

Zhou Jining sighed and said, "Yes, grandpa should stay here for a few days, and I will go back tomorrow afternoon." There will be a morning meeting the day after tomorrow. ”

His eyes fell on Song Jianyi's body, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't speak. The two of them walked silently until they were almost at the gate of the courtyard, and then he said: "When friends meet in the past, there will always be endless topics, don't take it to heart." ”

No one can see Zhou Qi's snubbing, and when he went over there today, he didn't even introduce Jian Yi. Some of them should know, but everyone tacitly avoided it without joking. This is probably due to the past of Zhou Qi and Ding Xixi.

The old man had already fallen asleep, and she and Zhou Jining went back to their rooms to rest. She couldn't sleep at all, listening to the loud laughter coming from time to time from the courtyard of the Ding family.

Zhou Qi came back at about two o'clock in the morning, so drunk that he didn't know where he hit it, making a ping-pong sound. But soon silence returned.

As Zhou Jining said, the old man does not plan to return to the city for the time being, and wants to stay here for a few more days. The older I get, the more I miss my homeland. When I came back here, I walked the streets and alleys every day to chat with my old neighbors, and I became much more energetic.

But after all, it's old and it's inconvenient to live here. The old man was alone here, Zhou Jining was a little worried, but he didn't want the old man to spoil the fun, so he could only tell his aunt to take care of the old man.

Because he wanted to go back, the old man let him set up dinner early, and ate dinner at four o'clock. Jian Yi thought that Zhou Qi was going back together, but who knew that when he was leaving, he said that he would not go back for the time being, and that he had something to deal with, so he asked Jian Yi to go back with Zhou Jining.

Since coming here, the two have become strangers a lot, and the intimacy in those two days seems to be Song Jianyi's imagination. He wasn't surprised at all that he wanted to keep her, as if it was normal.

Naturally, she didn't have any objections, and only nodded to indicate that she knew. The old man frowned, but because of Jian Yi's intentions, he didn't say anything.

There are only two people in the city, she and Zhou Jining, the aunt in the ancestral house is an aunt of the Zhou family, and she brought a lot of specialties made by the family from home, and the most proud of her is the sake lees fish, saying that she must try it when she goes back. Just steam, it's simple.

Jian Yi was a little at a loss under such enthusiasm, and the old man kindly asked her to talk about everything, saying that it was her aunt's mind. Then they were told to hurry away, it was not too early, it was the last day of the holiday, and the road might be very congested.