Chen Xu was talking to Liu Yun when he received a message from Li Chang: Chen Xu, you have a good rest in the past two days, and there are new work tasks on Monday. Chen Xu felt a little inexplicable, and felt that Li Chang's words were a bit clueless. But after half an hour, she seemed to understand Li Chang's intentions a little. Chen Xu just returned to the dormitory and received a message from Wang Ran: Chen Xu, I have something to do tomorrow, you can do me a favor (fist hugging expression)! Tomorrow a classmate gets married, I want to be a bridesmaid, Director Li arranged a job for me today, I didn't finish it, I have to report it tomorrow afternoon, the document is on my desk, please, please! Chen Xu looked at Wang Ran's information and suddenly understood Li Chang's intentions. Li Chang should have guessed that Wang Ran would push the job to her, and vaguely reminded her not to be a good person. Chen Xu thought for a while and replied: I'm sorry, I'm going back to Beicheng tomorrow to see my grandmother, I can't help you. Wang Ran did not reply to the message.

The next morning, Chen Xu had eaten and changed into a set of clothes he wore at school, and was going back to Beicheng to help his grandmother clean her room. This set of clothes was placed in Liu Jingsheng's house with his luggage, Liu Jingsheng was not allowed to bring it when he came to work, Chen Xu said that the clothes were not broken and kept for labor to wear, Liu Jingsheng was still laughing at that time, he said that there is no opportunity to work, the opportunity to work so soon will come, right? As soon as Chen Xu walked out of the door of the procuratorate's office building, he saw Wang Ran hurrying over, Wang Ran saw that Chen Xu was a little unnatural, and asked, "Why are you going?" Chen Xu said generously: "I'll go back to Beicheng to clean my grandmother's house." Wang Ran sighed, and then walked into the office building.

Chen Xu didn't look back, she sneered, Wang Ran didn't have any classmates getting married as bridesmaids at all, she just wanted to push her work to Chen Xu, and she had pushed her work to Chen Xu several times before. Chen Xu thought that he would do it by the way when he was okay after dinner, and he didn't bother with her. But she didn't expect that she would say such unacceptable words the afternoon before yesterday, and then asked Chen Xu to help, and really used Chen Xu as a soft persimmon. Although Li Chang didn't say it explicitly, he also secretly called Chen Xu. Chen Xu got on the bus and rushed to the Longcheng bus station and got on the bus to Beicheng. When she was about to get home, Chen Xu bought some fruit and carried it, wondering if it would be General Tie who would guard the door again. Unexpectedly, when she came to the door of the house and pushed the door open, she felt a little incredible: the last time she came, the yard was full of waste, but this time it was cleaned up, as if she had returned to 20 years ago, when her parents were still there. Chen Xu walked into the yard and looked at it suspiciously, the window glass was also very clean, not like the last time he came, he couldn't see inside, Chen Xu opened the door of the outhouse, walked in, heard someone talking in the house, Chen Xu shouted grandma outside, and the people in the house hurriedly walked out, it turned out to be Liu Jiaxin's grandmother and Chen Xu's grandmother. When you enter the door, the kitchen is very clean, and the harsh white of the walls is repainted at a glance, and it is no longer a dirty mess of flies. Liu Jiaxin's grandmother Liu pulled Chen Xu into the house, and the furniture in the house was still old, but it had been wiped clean. The walls are as clean as the kitchen. Liu Jiaxin's grandmother said quickly: "On the day you came back last time, your grandmother contacted the collector to sell all the rags in the house, and she said that the house was too dirty and you had no place to live when you came back." No, your grandmother has been cleaning up for the past few months, saying that she will clean up and wait for you to come back to live. Chen Xu walked to the house where she used to live again, and it was also clean. Chen Xu was in a trance for a while, she couldn't hear what Grandma Liu was chattering about, as if she had returned to more than 20 years ago, when the family was in harmony, Mom and Dad went to work every day, Grandma took herself to sleep in the hut, Mom and Dad lived in the main house, and the home was always spotless. Grandma is a cleanliness lover and always keeps the house tidy. After Mom and Dad divorced, grandma took Chen Xu to move to the main house, and then later, grandma stopped cleaning, and later Chen Xu moved to the hut after going to school, and cleaned every day.

Chen Xu sat on the edge of his bed, touching the new bedding, and Grandma Liu invited credit on the side, "Your grandmother prepared it for you, but I picked it, she hasn't gone shopping or buying anything all these years, and her vision is not good." ”

Looking at everything that his grandmother had prepared for him, Chen Xu felt very complicated in his heart, is this belated love now? She really wanted to shout: I have grown up, I don't need it anymore, how good you used to be to me like this! But looking at her grandmother's cautious attitude, she couldn't bear it anymore. Forget it, let's pass the past, isn't the video with grandma during the New Year very revealing? I'll be back today to help her clean up.

Looking at the bright and clean home, Chen Xu's mind always drifted unconsciously to twenty-one years ago, she shook her head on the kang and recited "Silent Night Thoughts", which was taught to her by Liu Jiaxin, Liu Jiaxin went to elementary school, and came back to live the addiction of being a teacher and let Chen Xu be a student. Chen Xu learned Tang poems, came back and recited them to his parents and grandmother, and received unanimous praise, although his grandmother couldn't recite poems.

Grandma went out to buy vegetables, and Chen Xu said to accompany her. Grandma Liu followed out unsatisfied.

Lunch was made by Chen Xu, two rice dishes were simmered in a rice cooker, and four home-cooked dishes were cooked, and grandma was still nagging Chen Xu not to spend money indiscriminately, because Chen Xu rushed to pay when buying vegetables. After eating, grandma pulled Chen Xu and made sure to let her stay for one night and then go back, Chen Xu did not refuse, Chen Xu tossed and turned this night and couldn't sleep. She didn't know why she came back, maybe everyone needed a home, even if it wasn't warm.

When the day was about to dawn, Chen Xu fell asleep dimly. Grandma got up early in the morning and cooked the meal. When the rice was cooked, he quietly waited for Chen Xu to wake up. The moment Chen Xu woke up, she found her grandmother sitting on the edge of the bed, and she was shocked, her grandmother was so old. More than 20 years ago, my parents went to work, and my grandmother would sit on the edge of the bed like this every morning and wait for Chen Xu to wake up naturally, and then eat together. At this moment, Chen Xu was in a trance, was it true that his grandmother treated him harshly in the years after that? Chen Xu didn't sleep well and was a little confused. She sat up, and her grandmother handed Chen Xu the coat that was on the railing of the bed, just like the morning many years ago.

At breakfast, Liu Jiaxin's grandmother came again, the old lady and Grandma Chen Xu recently resumed diplomatic relations, and came over every day for the past two months to gossip with Grandma Chen Xu and help her clean. The son and daughter-in-law had already moved away, and the old man had died in the first two years, and the old lady was reluctant to live in the building, so she lived alone in the old house.

After eating, Chen Xu cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks with his hands and feet, brushed the pots and washed the dishes. The two old ladies praised Chen Xu in the house, and Chen Xu's grandmother said proudly: "We Xu have been sensible since childhood. In those years, no one cared about our mother, so she followed me to pick up the rags and spend her life together, not squeamish at all, hey, in those years, it was really difficult to live! I don't know how to read, I don't understand the benefits of learning culture, and then she went to school, and I heard that learning is good, and she picks up books thrown by others every day at school, and now think about it, such a child does this at school every day, how do others look at her? The child is a good child, but the life is hard, and the parents only give birth but do not raise. At that time, I was soaking in the garbage heap by myself at a sky-high price, getting older and older, and I couldn't grab others when I picked up the rags, so I felt that I was holding my breath and couldn't take out my anger with my children at every turn. Later, the child went to her mother's, I regretted it, the child could still help me cook at home, she left, I was tired half to death every day, and I had to cook when I came back. I thought this kid hated me and would never come back to see me, but I didn't expect that wow, she had a better conscience than her parents! ”

It was almost noon, and Grandma Liu went back. Chen Xu made lunch, and grandma moved a small bench to sit and watch. Chen Xu's eyes were a little sour, when she was a child, her grandmother cooked, and she sat on a small stool. After lunch, grandma suddenly took Chen Xu's hand, and tears raged, "Xu, grandma can't stand you!" In those years, your parents didn't care about us and my mother, and I was angry. I think you're a burden, and I've struggled to support myself at my age, and I have to support you. I forgot how good it was for them to go to work in the past, and how good it was for us to be together every day. Xu, I'm so old, I don't want anything else, you can still come back to see me, I'm happy and shameless. Chen Xu smiled, "Grandma, it's all over." I only want to clarify one thing, I didn't steal your money, it was Wang Yu who took it. ”

Grandma sighed, "Later, I also knew that I lost money twice after you left, both after Wang Yu came." I wronged you at that time, I wasn't afraid that you would be angry, at that time I wished you took it, then I could still come back, if Wang Yu took it, I didn't dare to ask for it. You take care of the calf, and she can't admit that her son is a thief. ”

That afternoon, grandma told Chen Xu about her life experience, which made Chen Xu feel a little more sympathetic. Chen Xu's grandmother was sold to the kiln by her father, who smoked a lot, at the age of thirteen. The old bustard didn't make a loss-making deal, dressed her up and named her Xiaohong, and began to let her pick up customers. The inferior brothel does not use the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the ones who come are all some peddlers and pawns who do coolies, just to vent their desires, and it is not easy for the poor to save enough money to visit the kiln, so they always have to toss enough to give up. Xiaohong said that the earth should not be called every day, and she was tortured so much that she hanged herself, and after being rescued, the bustard was more strictly guarded. After two years of liberation, the brothel was closed. The women who were struggling could marry themselves. Xiaohong was married to a grain depot worker, and the man treated her well, but more than ten years later, the man fell ill and died. Because Chen Xu's grandmother had no children, she was kicked out by her mother-in-law and brother-in-law. In desperation, she found another man with a dead wife, who was Chen Xu's grandfather. At that time, Chen Zhihua and Chen Zhigang were only a few years old, and she did her best to take care of her sister and brother, and the family was originally happy and harmonious. After Chen Xu's grandfather died, the two sisters and brothers were also good to their stepmother. never thought that overnight, Chen Zhigang and Zhou Fenglan were both laid off, and then their families were separated. At that time, Chen Xu's grandmother was sixty years old, and it would not be a problem to find a stepwife to eat, but she didn't want to find it. Relying on the mountains and relying on the rivers and rivers, it is better to rely on yourself, and now Grandma Chen Xu is still embarrassed. Chen Xu patted his grandmother and comforted: "Grandma, it will be a good life in the future, you take good care of your body and live a long life." ”