She clicked the answer button on the phone screen as she said, and a young woman's voice immediately came from the phone: "Mu Nan, is it Mu Nan?" ”

"Yes! You're—"

"I'm Shanshan, Zhou Shanshan!" Before Mu Nan finished asking, he preemptively reported his name first.

"Is it really Shanshan?" Mu Nan was immediately excited.

"Yes, I'm Shanshan!"

"Where are you? I'll come to you now! ”

"I'm in Riverside City Plaza, where are you?"

"I'll come to you right away," Mu Nan glanced at Ruan Xianchao while talking on the phone, although he looked ahead, he seemed to have a premonition that Mu Nan was looking at him, so he nodded naturally, Mu Nan saw him nod his head and continued: "I'll come to you now." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you!" The other side of the phone was also very excited, "Is your mobile phone number your WeChat ID, I will add you later and send you the address." ”

"Okay, okay!"

……

Binjiang City Plaza is a comprehensive commercial complex, which is not far away, so it will be there quickly.

In the distance, I saw a fashionable woman standing on the side of the road, as if waiting for someone. I saw that she was carrying a handbag with an exaggerated "H" letter, and Mu Nan knew that it was a luxury brand, but she couldn't remember it at once.

Mu Nan looked at the woman and felt a bit like Zhou Shanshan, but he was not sure, when the car got closer, and then took a closer look, Mu Nan recognized it, yes, that's right, she was Zhou Shanshan.

"Park, park!" Mu Nan screamed excitedly at once, and without waiting for the car to stop, he pushed the door and jumped down, shouting loudly: "Shanshan, Shanshan!" ”

Hearing the call, the woman was also very excited, and shouted while running over to Mu Nan: "Mu Nan, it's really Mu Nan!" When she came closer, she took Mu Nan's hand and jumped up, "Youguang said it was you, I don't believe it yet, it's really you!" ”

Childhood classmates, naturally very happy to meet, the two of them jumped, hugged and looked, looked at it, laughed, laughed and said, said about the past, said the future, and talked about the present......

Ruan Xianchao saw the two of them standing on the road, chatting so happily, probably forgetting the time and place, so he pressed the horn to remind them.

Mu Nan glanced in the direction where the horn sounded, immediately understood what he meant, and said to Zhou Shanshan: "Look, this happiness has forgotten that we are still standing in the middle of the road, let's find a place to eat." With that, she took Zhou Shanshan's hand and walked towards Binjiang City Square.

"Oh, yes, yes!" Zhou Shanshan also remembered something, and instead pulled Mu Nan towards the parking place, "Don't eat the meal first, you get in the car and go first, I have something to do." ”

"I'm here to play with you," Mu Nan was anxious, "what can't I do tomorrow?" ”

"This thing really can't be done tomorrow, I'll play with you in two days, okay?"

"Not good!" This is her former best friend, she hasn't seen her for so many years, she has a lot of things to say to her, so Mu Nan is not willing to let her leave in such a hurry, Mu Nan thought about it and added: "Otherwise, I can accompany you to run errands." ”

"Are you free?" Hearing Mu Nan say this, Zhou Shanshan was also very happy.

"I'm free!"

"That's good, it's better to have you with you," she didn't forget to point at Ruan Xianchao through the glass, "It just so happens that I don't know how to drive, and now I have a free driver." ”

"Then get in the car!"

"Get in the car, get in the car!" Zhou Shanshan looked anxious, and as she spoke, she opened the back door of the car, and after pushing Mu Nan into the car, she followed suit, and then said to Ruan Xianchao: "Big brother driver, drive, follow me to the countryside." ”

I really don't treat outsiders as outsiders, Ruan Xianchao thought in his heart, but he didn't show it, he took a look at Mu Nan, and after she nodded, he lit the fire, started the car, and drove towards the place Zhou Shanshan said.

"Is the tutoring strict?" This small detail was captured by Zhou Shanshan, and she joked: "But she still looks quite handsome, is it a husband or a lover?" So obedient, it should be a lover! Be honest. Ha ha! ”

"Yes-" Mu Nan wanted to introduce Ruan Xianchao to her, but he couldn't figure out what his relationship was with him. Boyfriend? She now thinks in her heart that this title is someone else. Ordinary friends? What would Ruan Xianchao think? And the husband and lover that Zhou Shanshan said are even more not......

Just when she was embarrassed, Ruan Xianchao spoke, "I'm very happy to serve the two beauties, I'm a friend of Mu Nan, just an ordinary friend, but I'm working hard in the direction of being her boyfriend." ”

I don't know if Zhou Shanshan is dissatisfied with this answer, anyway, Mu Nan is very satisfied, not only relieved the siege very humorously, but also clearly expressed their relationship.

"This appearance, this IQ, this EQ, what are you struggling for, I agreed first for our family......"

Mu Nan didn't want Zhou Shanshan to be entangled in this issue anymore, so he immediately interrupted her topic: "Miss Zhou, where are we going?" ”

Zhou Shanshan put away her smile at once: "In this way, I just received a phone call saying that my grandmother is critically ill, and I must go to see her for the last time now, and Youguang will pick up the child in a while, I originally wanted to call the past, but now I am so grateful to have you send me over." ”

So that's the case, no wonder she is in such a hurry, she should hurry over, Mu Nan was moved by her filial piety at once, because she knew that Zhou Shanshan was a left-behind child, and her grandmother brought her up, so she said to Ruan Xianchao in front: "Drive a little faster!" ”

"Okay!" Ruan Xianchao was still a little bit of a mustard in his heart at first, and he was relieved to hear her say this, this kind of help must be helped, and he was willing to help, and the right foot that stepped on the accelerator consciously increased the strength.

Because of this kind of thing, the happy air of Che Yes cooled down a lot all of a sudden, even if Zhou Shanshan consciously mentioned some topics, Mu Nan didn't dare to talk about it. However, Mu Nan was still quite moved, she encountered this kind of thing, she was afraid that she would be bored, and she tried to make her happy, and felt that she would have to socialize more with this childhood friend in the future.

But what happened next soon subverted Mu Nan's cognition.

Zhou Shanshan's grandmother is in a quiet and beautiful small mountain village with only a dozen families, and these dozen families are actually a family.

Her grandmother's house was an old rammed earth house, and the house was crowded with old people, and it was estimated that the old people from the whole village came. There were no young people in the house, and of course there were no young people in the village, so the young people went out to work.

Zhou Shanshan pushed these old people away while shouting: "Get out of the way, if a person who is dying has anything to watch, go back." ”

"Girls, they're all elders, come here to help, ahem-", an old man with snow-white hair said tremblingly while coughing, "Grandma is dying, and I can't handle grandpa, so it's just-cough-cough-"

"Help, what do you help, don't you die if you help? Ah-" Before she could finish speaking, when she saw her grandmother on the bed, she shouted and scolded Zhilai: "You old things, what do you want to do? Do you want to curse us young people to die early? This man is dying, why is he still in bed? Hurry up and get her to the ground! As he spoke, he was going to drag her grandmother.

Her grandfather was in a hurry, and suddenly threw himself on the bed and pressed on his wife, "Cub, you don't need to do it, let's do it!" Eighth child, come and help and move your sister-in-law to the ground. ”

The old men and women all came up at once, and moved the sick man on the bed to the ground with all their hands and feet.

The good man who followed Zhou Shanshan couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked her, "Is it not good for your grandmother to lie in bed?" ”

"Don't you know?" Zhou Shanshan regained that kind smile on her face because she spoke with a friendly man: "There is a custom here, if the old man dies in bed, a descendant in the family will die immediately, this is called following the bed; If you die on the ground, the descendants of the family will definitely have good luck in the next three years, which is called Wangdi. ”

"Then isn't your grandmother uncomfortable lying on the ground?"

"It's okay, it'll be over soon." Zhou Shanshan's smile is still so kind.

Mu Nan didn't understand, I didn't know if what she said was that this matter would be over soon, or if her grandmother's life would be over soon, so she wanted to ask her again, but at this time, Ruan Xianchao, who was standing behind Mu Nan, pulled Mu Nan down, meaning to tell her to stop talking.

The old people in the house were ready to leave, and Zhou Shanshan's grandfather was a little anxious, so he said to her: "Girl, do you want to ask the eighth grandfather and eighth grandmother to stay?" Ahem—"

She glanced at her grandfather and didn't speak, which meant that she acquiesced.

Everyone else is gone.

Only then did my grandfather notice the other two young men, "It's Shanshan's friend, it's hard work, cough cough - come, sit." Then he staggered and brought a long bench.

Ruan Xianchao quickly took the bench in his hand and put it next to the lying patient, moved another bench side by side, and pulled the three old people and said, "Three old people, you sit first." ”

And at this moment, Mu Nan squatted down and looked at the patient lying on the ground, she was very thin and weak, her hair was white, but her face was black, it was estimated that she would not be able to do it like that, as soon as she saw such an old man, her heart suddenly became sour, and two tears rolled down her face, just hitting the patient's face.

Probably stimulated by tears, the patient actually opened his eyes, stared at Mu Nan, for a long time, and said intermittently: "Shan-Shan-Shan-Shan, really-Shan-" While trying to stretch out his hand, he continued to say with difficulty: "Come-give-grandma touch-touch your-small-little face-"

The eyes that opened bulged a little, and then slowly closed—

Halfway through the hand, he paused for a moment, and then slowly fell back in—

"Grandma-" Mu Nan quickly grabbed the hand that had not completely fallen and rubbed it on his face, "Grandma-woo-"

The white-haired old man rolled down from the bench and pounced on his wife: "Splash--cough-cough-"

The eighth daughter-in-law also came over, knelt beside her, holding the body with her hand, "Old sister-in-law—ah—"

The eighth sat on the bench and didn't move, lifted the corners of his clothes, and wiped his eyes desperately.

Ruan Xianchao had never seen this scene, and the tears poured out uncontrollably, after all, this is a real parting of life and death, who can control their feelings.

However, there is really one person who can control his feelings - that is Zhou Shanshan.

"Cry, cry, know how to cry!" She pulled up her grandfather, who was crying, "What's the use of crying?" ”

The white-haired old man, like a child who had done something wrong, stopped crying and stood there sobbing silently.

"What will happen to the future?" She questioned her grandfather.

"What should I do? Cough-" The white-haired old man couldn't stop coughing with one mouth.

"Grandma's funeral, do you handle it yourself, or do you want me to handle it for you?"

"I-I can't do it, ahem-you'd better do it, ahem-"

"That's what you want, take out the money!"

"Money? I-" The white-haired old man raised his head and glanced at Zhou Shanshan, then lowered his head, "I don't have any money, cough-"

"No money? You're lying to the ghost, aren't you? Where did my dad take my mom's current dowry? You sold the trees on that hill and went to that money field? I thought I didn't know, you two don't spend money, I don't know how much money you saved from me, hurry up and take it out! Zhou Shanshan crossed her hands on her waist, spun around in place, and said, "Don't tell me that this old woman didn't tell you where to hide the money." ”

Mu Nan stopped crying, stood up and said a little unceremoniously: "Shanshan, he is your grandfather, you can't do this!" ”

"It's okay, they're used to it." Zhou Shanshan smiled and said to Mu Nan: "I'll take care of it, you don't care." ”

Mu Nan wanted to say something, but at this time, Ruan Xianchao in the back pulled her again, suggesting that she leave it alone, and she stopped what she wanted to say.

And the eighth and eighth daughter-in-law next to him just kept sighing.

Zhou Shanshan yelled at her grandfather again: "Hurry up, take out the money!" ”

The white-haired old man, with his head down, turned around helplessly, walked towards the wall tremblingly, took out something tightly wrapped in red plastic paper from a hole in the wall, and handed it to Zhou Shanshan.

She snatched it and opened it to see that it was a deposit receipt, "What kind of money is this?" ”

"This is your mother's dowry when she got married, ahem, I was originally going to pay you tuition, but I haven't used it since." Her grandfather was not wrong, Zhou Shanshan did not graduate from junior high school, and junior high school was compulsory before and there was no tuition fee, so it was really useless.

"What are you trembling, I don't need to say it if I didn't ask you!" Zhou Shanshan didn't have a good face, "Why is the dowry only 1,500 yuan?" She had heard of this money, and when her parents got married, they gave a big dowry, which was still a commotion at the time.

"That's really a lot, ahem, it was a huge amount of money back then." Her grandfather was not wrong, in that era when a swimming ticket was only 8 cents, the 1,500 yuan was indeed a huge amount of money.

Zhou Shanshan never thought that the huge amount of money she had been thinking about for more than ten or twenty years was only 1,500 yuan. What is 1500 yuan? She bought a bag for hundreds of thousands, so she was so angry that she tore up the deposit slip on the spot.

"Girl—" Her grandfather screamed in excitement when he saw that she had torn up the deposit slip, and at the same time pounced on it, trying to rescue it. For him, it was not a deposit receipt, it was the pride and hope of most of his life, and now he looked like it was about to be shattered, so from his old sick body, a powerful force was stimulated, which made him pounce at once. However, due to insufficient strength and too slow movements, he did not succeed in grabbing the deposit receipt, not only did he not grab it, but he also threw his body on Zhou Shanshan.

This sudden pounce startled her, and she scolded angrily: "Old thing, look for death!" At the same time, she raised her hand and gave him a slap, and then gave him a hard push.

At the moment when her grandfather was about to fall to the ground, Mu Nan and Ruan Xianchao, who were standing next to him, shot at the same time and caught him steadily, so that he did not fall to the ground.

"Shanshan, you have to be kind to your grandfather!" Mu Nan was very puzzled by this former friend.

"This old thing, it's not honest—"

Ruan Xianchao interrupted Zhou Shanshan's words, "It's illegal to beat someone, and besides, it's an old man who beats him, and he still has a grandfather." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhou Shanshan immediately put on a smiling face, "Don't hit people, didn't it happen suddenly just now, besides, I'm just defending!" Munan's family! ”

Mu Nan and Ruan Xianchao didn't have time to reason with her now, so they helped the old man who had been coughing to sit on the bench next to him.

"Old immortal, don't pretend," Zhou Shanshan didn't let go of her grandfather so easily, and immediately put on that cold face again, "Hurry up and take out the money from selling trees!" ”

The old man who was about to sit down couldn't sit down anymore when he heard this, he shook his arms to both sides, which clearly meant to tell Mu Nan and Ruan Xianchao to let go of him.

After the two of them let go of his arm, he turned around slowly, still coughing like that, "Ahem, that money is even less, you can't look at it." ”

"I don't like it, is it you who have the final say, or am I the one who has the final say?" Zhou Shanshan was very unhappy, "The old immortal, if you are told to take it, you will take it, there is so much nonsense." ”

What kind of thing is this, there is a dead man lying next to her, but she still forces another sick old man to hand over the coffin. Alas, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs, who can control this? The few people present could only sigh secretly. However, Mu Nan and Ruan Xianchao were both thinking that they couldn't ask her to beat her grandfather anymore, this was the bottom line, forget about the money being taken away, and just help this old man find some way in the future.

The white-haired old man shook his head helplessly, and walked tremblingly towards the other room. This room is the room where Zhou Shanshan used to live.

They followed him into the room, where he struggled to reach out and fumbled for a long time on top of a high cabinet, and finally took down something that was also tightly wrapped in red plastic paper.

But when he was taking something, he took down a plastic bottle from the top of the cabinet, and when it fell to the ground, the cap was loosened, and the dark liquid seeped out.

But this time, she didn't immediately grab the small red package, but yelled at the white-haired old man: "Old immortal, if you are so careless, you can't afford to accompany you if you break it and kill it." Don't pick it up yet! ”

He also felt frightened, and immediately dropped the small package, picked up the bottle on the floor, tightened the cap, and put it back on the top of the cabinet with a trembling voice.

When he had done all this, he squatted down again, picked up the small package on the ground, and held it tightly in his arms.

"Bring it!" She reached out to him.

"Don't tear it up, ahem—" her grandfather begged, "this is the last bit of money he has for him, and I want to buy her one last piece of clothing." By the end, the voice was choked.

Mu Nan felt that her nose was very sour, she reached out to wipe her eyes, and walked in front of the old man, "Grandpa, give it to me." I promise not to let her tear yours. "She didn't call grandpa this time, but grandpa.

After Mu Nan took it, he carefully opened the small package layer by layer, and saw that it was a deposit receipt of 300 yuan. Her tears came out again, but this time she didn't wipe it, but carefully flattened the deposit slip and handed it to Zhou Shanshan, "300 yuan - you can see it clearly!" ”

Mu Nan didn't wait for her to speak, he took the deposit slip back, folded it carefully, wrapped it in the red plastic paper just now, and handed it back to the old man.

After Zhou Shanshan glanced at the deposit receipt, she was extremely annoyed, "You are an old immortal, and you are too dishonest, how can it be only 300 yuan?" Where did all that money go? ”

Indeed, she really didn't believe that there were only 300 yuan. She has followed her grandparents since she was a child, and at that time she just began to remember, and the village divided the trees, and she remembered that there were many in each family. For the next half a year, my grandparents were happily busy every day, going up the mountain to cut down the trees on the first day, tidying them up that night, and carrying the trees to the town to sell them the next day, and the cycle repeatedly. She remembers that it was her happiest days, and every time her grandmother came back from town, she would bring her a piece of candy, and she would no longer have to swallow while watching her little friends in the village eat candy. Of course, that time was also the happiest day for my grandfather and grandmother, and every night they counted the money under the pine oil lamp, and after counting, my grandfather would take a thick stack of money and say to her: "When you get married, you will buy a dowry, and when our daughter gets married, we will also have a beautiful scenery." ”

"It's really only 300 yuan, I didn't lie to you, ahem-" The old man was helpless and pitiful. He really didn't lie to Zhou Shanshan, at that time he got more than 40 trees, worked hard for half a year to cut them down from the mountain, and then sold them, a total of more than 300 yuan, which was a great thing for a peasant family who had never had an extra income at that time, so they were very happy every day, so they would make an exception to buy a candy for Zhou Shanshan every day.

"Is there anything else?" Zhou Shanshan was still unwilling, "Did you hide something I don't know and take it out." ”

"Yes, this bracelet, ahem-" The old man said as he squatted down, took a jade bracelet from the hand of his recently deceased wife, and then handed it to Zhou Shanshan, and said, "This bracelet was left to you by your grandmother, and when the eldest son gets married, I will give it to his daughter-in-law." ”

Zhou Shanshan took it and glanced at it, feeling a little disgusting, raised her hand and fell to the ground, "You guys surnamed Zhu, you don't pee to take care of yourself, what kind of people are you, and you want to use a broken bracelet to tie my son, phew!" ”

And at the moment when she threw the bracelet on the ground, the old man, the eighth and the eighth daughter-in-law were all frightened to death, and they all threw themselves on the ground.

"Can't fall!"

"Can't fall!"

"Ancestor! Iniquity! ”

The three of them each shouted out a word.

Fortunately, there was a good man standing next to her, and I saw her leaning out slightly, a sea fishing moon, and at the moment when the bracelet was about to hit the ground, she took the bracelet firmly in her hand.

When the three old men saw that the bracelet was not broken, they all kowtowed to Mu Nan and thanked him. The old eighth daughter-in-law also said vigorously: "Bodhisattva bless, ancestors appear ......"

After Mu Nan and Ruan Xianchao helped the three of them up from the ground, they wanted to return the bracelet to the old man, but the old man waved his hand again and again, and said: "Girl, cough cough, you are Shanshan's friend, please help us persuade us, cough cough, tell her to put away this bracelet, and don't have any more accidents." ”

"A broken bracelet, I can't possibly ask for it!" Zhou Shanshan remembered that when she was a child, her grandmother never let her touch this bracelet, and her grandmother also told her that this bracelet could only be worn by the Zhu family's daughter-in-law. Now she wants to give her such a broken bracelet, which means that she is the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, and she wants her to pass the bracelet to her son's future wife, which means that she wants her son to become a member of the Zhu family, which she must not accept.