When I woke up in the morning, the three of us sat in the dining room for breakfast.

Susie found that Qiao Yan was radiant today, his hair was combed and smooth, and the shirt on his body looked like new, snow-white and crisp, and Susie suspected that Qiao Yan was locked in the bedroom last night and ironed his clothes.

Qiao Mu obviously also noticed the difference between Qiao Yan today, he exchanged a look with Susie, and the two smiled tacitly.

After breakfast, a few people took their luggage and got on the bus to go to Shencheng.

Shencheng is the main focus of Qiao Yan's work in the future, and the time he lives in Shencheng will definitely be longer than that of Yangcheng, but the housing conditions in Shencheng are poor, so Qiao Yan only brought some books he had read recently and clothes.

Yangcheng to Shencheng is more than 100 kilometers, now there is no highway, the road conditions are not good, the maximum speed can only do sixty or seventy yards, many can run forty or fifty yards.

Qiao Yan also took these problems into account, and set off at half past six, not only to meet Yun Ruolan as soon as possible, the Shencheng Special Economic Zone had just been established, and the work to be done was simply a thousand things, and Qiao Yan didn't want to delay time.

Drivers on the road dare not drive fast, to the leader to drive, the most important thing is a "stable" word.

It was ten o'clock before we arrived in the deep city.

Nowadays, there are not even a few decent streets in Shencheng, the car drove to the train station, everyone got off the car, Susie took a look, the station is not better than the railway station in Sibei County.

There are very few people on the passenger train from Gangcheng to Yangcheng, and there is only one bus from Gangcheng every day, and then go back in the afternoon.

The departure time was fixed, and Susie took it several times, knowing that the train would pass through the deep city at about half past ten.

Susie and Qiao Mu were waiting at the exit of the station, while Qiao Yan looked around, and when he met a passerby, he walked over to talk to people.

Susie knew that Qiao Yan was definitely not idle, but was understanding the people's livelihood.

After waiting for almost half an hour, the train finally arrived.

Qiao Yan also quickly ended the small talk, and walked over to stand beside Qiao Mu and looked inside the station.

For a while, there was no one in the passage.

Qiao Yan, who has always been calm, rarely became a little anxious, and began to think crankily in his mind, could Yun Ruolan not get on this train at all today.

Just as he was thinking, a figure appeared at the corner of the passage.

Wearing a shallow lotus lotus-colored skirt and a slender figure, Qiao Yan looked at this figure, his breathing became short, and his heart was beating faster and faster.

Susie waved beside her, "Aunt Yun—"

Yun Ruolan had already seen a few people, her gaze stayed on Qiao Yan for a moment, and she quickly moved away as if she was burned, and then deliberately stopped looking over there, and showed a gentle smile towards Susie.

There was an iron railing at the exit, and several people were standing outside the railing.

Qiao Mu went around the railing to meet him and took the suitcase in Yun Ruolan's hand.

As soon as Susie turned her head, she saw that Qiao Yan's eyes were full of tears, and he stepped forward excitedly and shook Yun Ruolan's hand.

Susie poked the arbor with her elbow, pursed her lips and smiled, and walked forward quickly.

Qiao Mu put his luggage on the side of the road and got into the car with Susie.

Susie leaned through the window of the car and quietly looked out, and Qiao Mu leaned over, resting his head on Susie's shoulder and looking out.

Qiao Yan was holding Yun Ruolan's hand and said softly: "Ruolan, you are still so beautiful, just like when I first saw you, but I am already old." ”

He was already more than ten years older than Yun Ruolan, he was almost sixty, and Yun Ruolan was only in her forties, looking young and beautiful.

Yun Ruolan's tears couldn't stop flowing down, Qiao Yan in front of her, her hair was gray, and the corners of her forehead and eyes were engraved with deep wrinkles, when she left, he was still an elegant middle-aged man, but now he is a real old man.

For more than ten years, I don't know how he survived alone.

Yun Ruolan smiled softly with tears in her eyes: "Jing will coax me, I am also old, and I am no longer the little girl I used to be." ”

She looked at Qiao Yan gently, "It's good that we grow old together." ”

Qiao Yan's hand trembled slightly, he hadn't seen him for more than ten years, he had countless words to say to Yun Ruolan, he squeezed Yun Ruolan's hand hard, "Let's go, let's go home first." ”

Susie's eyes were also a little moist when she saw it, she remembered that sentence, and held her hands to look at the tears, this situation was exactly the same.

Seeing Qiao Yan and Yun Ruolan coming this way, she hurriedly poked Qiao Mu, "You go to the co-pilot in front." ”

Qiao Mu got out of the car and opened the car door, "Mom and Dad, you sit in the back." ”

Yun Ruolan looked at Qiao Mu, and the smile on her face became gentler.

After getting into the car, Yun Ruolan smiled and said to Susie: "I haven't seen you for a long time, I've been busy lately, right?" ”

Susie nodded, "It's a little busy, in addition to the jewelry store, there is also a newly opened luggage company, which has been mainly busy with this recently." ”

Yun Ruolan touched her hand lovingly, "You are too capable." ”

"Recently, those peers have been jealous of you, saying that your jewelry store is doing well in the whole port city."

She turned her head and looked at Susie with a smile, "If it weren't for my daughter-in-law, I wouldn't be jealous of you." ”

"I don't know how you have a good mind, there are always so many new styles in the store that I have never seen before."

Susie just laughed.

A few people chatted easily in the car, and the car drove towards the municipal party committee.

The city party committee was the former county party committee, and the car drove in through the gate, and the old man in the communication room came out to take a look, and when he saw the license plate number, he hurriedly went back to the communication room to make a call.

Not far from the car, Qiao Yan's secretary Xiao Chen was waiting on the side of the road, the driver stopped the car, opened the window, and Xiao Chen pointed forward, "Director Qiao's residence is arranged over there, and I will take you there." ”

Xiao Chen trotted in front, and the driver drove behind.

Turning to a bungalow in the back, Xiao Chen signaled that he had arrived.

The car stopped, and Qiao Yan said apologetically to Yun Ruolan: "The conditions here are a bit difficult, right now-"

Before he finished speaking, he was gently interrupted by Yun Ruolan, "It's okay, this house is very good, and it's not that I haven't lived in a worse place." ”

Qiao Mu got out of the car and carried the luggage with Xiao Chen and the driver, and Yun Ruolan took Susie into the house.

There was an aunt standing at the door smiling nervously at the two, she wanted to call them but didn't know how to call them.

Susie smiled at her, and looked around the house, although it was an old-fashioned bungalow, it was quite large.

In the middle is a hall house, with two rooms on the left and right sides.

There is a wooden floor on the ground inside the house, which is different from the wooden floor of later generations, that is, the wooden planks are laid on the ground, and they are very elastic when you walk up.

The door was an old-fashioned carved door, and Susie felt that this might be the house left by some former landlord.

The house is fully furnished, even the pillow sheets on the bed are laid out, and the standard bag is used to move in.

Qiao Yan didn't know what to explain to Xiao Chen outside, Xiao Chen nodded and left after listening.

Qiao Yan entered the door, and the aunt hurriedly introduced herself to him, "Director Qiao, I am sent by the organization to take care of your life, my surname is Ma, Ma Chunmei." ”