The eastern suburbs of Nancheng are the old towns that were developed earlier in the Nancheng area.

The old town was developed early and retains many old buildings, but now that it is no longer the center of the city in the city of high-rise buildings, it is still a treasure trove of history and culture - it is said that the eastern suburbs of the southern city were already a bustling city in the early dynasties.

Even if the times change and no longer the center of prosperity, the eastern suburbs have long become a well-known treasure in the eyes of the people of Nancheng, and it is rumored that this land has gathered wealth, and it has also gathered a lot of luck accumulated over a long time.

Therefore, many families who have lived in Nancheng for generations have almost all owned some properties or sites in the eastern suburbs of Nancheng, and even some famous and promising people who have only later integrated into the city often like to buy a property in the eastern suburbs of Nancheng.

In addition to the ordinary old city and old city scenic spots, there is also the largest villa area in the whole southern city, many families or wealthy people who have been in the southern city for some years love to build villas there, even if they don't come to live often, there will always be a building there.

The old mansion of the Tang family stands on the edge of the villa area, which is close to the site of the old city scenic spot.

It is said to be an old mansion, but in fact, the current villa mansion of the Tang family has not been built for too many years, but it is just a building erected from Tang Yuanyuan's grandfather's generation. In fact, the Tang family was not a particularly famous family in the past, or Tang Yuanyuan's grandfather was not the one who inherited the old Tang family, his father was the illegitimate son of the old Tang family in the old era, and was not treated by the original so-called family, so he did not have a famous young master life when he was young, but later he and Tang Yuanyuan's grandmother Ran Lin met, and the two supported each other on their own, and worked hard in the business world until now, so that there is today's Tang family.

It is said that the land of the old mansion of the Tang family today was personally screened and selected by Ran Lin in the past, and the house was also built under her command, which has been decades.

So Tang Yuanyuan actually prefers to call her old house her grandparents' house, or her hometown, because she often lived in the old house when she was a child, and at that time their family lived happily together until everything changed.

Now she has moved out to live alone, except for going home during the long vacation, she has only gone back once in the past year during the winter and summer vacations, and she usually doesn't stay too long.

Because as long as she returns to that old mansion, she will think of the happy times of her family in the past, think of her dead mother and missing grandmother, which is very painful for her, even if her mind matures after so many years, she can't easily bury those scars.

But something seems to have to be faced... This is true of grief, and so is fate.

So nearly a week after the official winter vacation, Tang Yuanyuan took Yi Huai and Xun to the Tang family's old house by car as planned.

The driver was their driver, Lao Chen, who heard that the young lady was going back to the old house to live for a long time, so he happily drove her all the way home.

In fact, Tang Yuanyuan's hometown is not too far from where she now goes to school and lives, after all, it is still the same city, although the southern city is large, it is not far from 108,000 miles, even if the old house is located on the outskirts of the city, it can be reached in about two hours by car.

Tang Yuanyuan often sits for two or three hours by car, and he is not interested in the scenery along the way, but Yi Huai and Xun, who have never been far away, are not the same.

They are all the first time to ride a human vehicle, they used to just see this kind of iron shell running on the road from the outside, and it is extremely rare to sit in by themselves, this kind of thing that will automatically change the scenery all the way without their own actions is also rare for them, Yi Huai's evaluation is that although there is no movement efficiency of some soul transfer techniques on the other side, it is extremely interesting.

He is not bad, even if he thinks it is interesting, he just sits by the window and occasionally glances out, Xun is lying on the window the whole time, Tang Yuanyuan sat in the co-pilot and looked back at them and giggled, saying What is the car, next time I will take you to the high-speed rail plane.

Tang Yuanyuan said that it was just that the high-speed rail plane would be more difficult to do than a private car, after all, that thing still had to get a document, and it would be classified as a pet and sent to the cargo cabin, and Yi Huai would obviously not have an ID card, unless he had been following him in the form of a ghost.

And just when Tang Yuanyuan was chatting with Yi Huai casually, Lao Chen, who was sitting next to her, couldn't help muttering in his heart.

In fact, from the time he went to pick up Tang Yuanyuan, when he saw Yi Huai and Xun, the two extra people and a fox out of thin air, he was already shocked and frightened, Tang Yuanyuan gave the explanation at the time that it was her friend, who lived in her house temporarily, and then went back to his hometown with her this time.

The fox is nothing more than a special pet raised by the young lady on a whim, he has seen it twice before, but another "big living person" is not so simple.

Lao Chen shouted in panic, and said in his heart, "What! He didn't know when there was a strange man in the young lady's house, and he didn't report it to the master, so he actually had to take it back to his hometown directly, and the relationship was too complicated."

The main reason is that although this extra man has the face of an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man, the temperament on his body inexplicably makes Lao Chen, a middle-aged man, feel frightened, especially those red eyes are intimidating, let alone looking at each other, he even feels cold behind his back when he is watched.

So as a retainer, he didn't dare to ask about the origin of the young lady's friend, but silently sent a message to the old man Tang who was far away in the old mansion of the Tang family, so that the other party could be prepared.

The car drove on the national highway around the city for a long time, and finally re-entered the city when it entered the eastern suburbs of the southern city, and drove for a long time.

Lao Chen glanced at Tang Yuanyuan and turned on the mobile phone in front of the driver's seat.

The old man's voice on the other end of the phone sounded energetic, and he spoke with full of energy:

"Xiao Chen, where did you drive? Has my baby granddaughter arrived? ”

"Master, we're on the way, just entered the villa area, it's coming soon, don't worry." Lao Chen responded again and again, knowing that the old man Tang on the other side was looking forward to his granddaughter, so he comforted him and cast a look at Tang Yuanyuan for help.

Tang Yuanyuan immediately understood, and shouted at the mobile phone: "Grandpa, we are almost there!" Just a few more steps away, you'll be able to see the house! ”

The old man on the other end of the phone heard Tang Yuanyuan's voice, and his tone immediately brought joy to him: "Ouch, fate!" It's almost here, it's almost here, grandpa is waiting for you at home, ask your Aunt Mei to cook you your favorite dishes, just waiting for you to come back! ”

Tang Yuanyuan smiled at the phone: "Okay, okay, we'll be there soon." ”

Just when Tang Yuanyuan thought that Old Man Tang would hang up the phone after two more words of advice as before, the other side actually asked something that surprised her a little.

"Yuanyuan, I heard that you brought your friends home to play this time, right? Why didn't you tell me earlier, I didn't have time to prepare, I will ask Xiaosheng and them to clean up the guest room later, you rarely bring a friend to the house once, don't snub the guests. ”

Tang Yuanyuan turned his head when he heard this, and looked at Lao Chen, who didn't dare to meet her gaze while driving, and the latter seemed to want to pretend that nothing happened.

Seeing that Lao Chen didn't say anything, she sighed a little helplessly, first answered her grandfather and said that it was no problem, and she could go back and ask her friends for their opinions before arranging, and then waited until the phone hung up, she asked again: "Lao Chen, did you tell grandpa in advance?" ”

"Miss... I just think that I really have to talk to them in advance when I bring my friends home..."Old Chen said with a smile, seeing that Tang Yuanyuan was just helpless and not angry, and he was not so nervous, "After all, you live alone outside, and the master and the old man have never seen your friends, and if you don't say anything in advance, your family will always be worried." ”

"Okay, I know you mean well, I didn't tell my grandfather in advance that it was just some other small reason, but in fact, it doesn't matter."

Tang Yuanyuan actually knew that Lao Chen had always been very wary of Yi Huai in his heart, after all, as the driver of her family who almost watched her grow up, he had always cared about her as the youngest daughter of his own family, and he could basically be regarded as half of her elder, thinking about it, whether it was that elder who saw a man of unknown origin popping up next to the girl he was looking at as his daughter, he would be a little wary, right?

Lao Chen estimated that it was just because of his identity and he didn't want to talk to Yi Huai that he didn't want to ask more, otherwise he would have to get to the bottom of it a long time ago.

Although every time he saw this situation, Tang Yuanyuan wanted to complain in his heart, and said in his heart that in fact, Lao Chen, Yi Huai is not the first time to ride in your car, didn't you say before that there were two times when you drove and the back was cold, that is, Yi Huai sat in the back in the form of a ghost...

Of course, she won't say these things, because Yi Huai's identity is not so easy to explain, he is a transparent person with no identity in the real sense, if anyone really wants to ask about his personal background, it really can't answer a word.

It can't be said that he has no belonging, no identity, no education, he is laid off from the prefecture, and now he is working as a full-time bodyguard and nanny for her at her house, right?

Xun can disguise himself as an ordinary fox and get away with it, but a "person" who can see it can't, but if Yi Huai has to follow her all the time, it is not convenient for her to only show people in a ghost state all the time, so her original plan was to make up a world identity for him.

It's just that she hasn't thought about it yet, so she temporarily called Lao Chen his friend... As for grandpa and dad, Tang Yuanyuan planned to tell part of the truth.

Although her father has no yin and yang eyes and no spiritual power, he can only occasionally feel a little bit of something that is not very clean, but her grandfather is different, the old man is born with a special physique, a little yin, and is very sensitive to these things, Yi Huai is not a human being, and he basically can't hide it. So she didn't think about hiding Yi Huai's existence in the first place, just because both his origin and identity were a bit complicated and needed a better opportunity to explain.

At first, she planned to explain it to her grandfather in detail when she got home, but now it doesn't matter if she knows in advance, it's just a pity that the excuse of her friend has been passed from Lao Chen, which is estimated to disappoint her grandfather a little... Well, after all, grandpa always said in the past that she should bring some friends back to her hometown to play, but she really doesn't have a really close friend except Gu Yuan, and only Gu Yuan has been to her home at school, let alone go back to her hometown...

Thinking of this, Tang Yuanyuan shook his head helplessly, looked at the old mansion of the Tang family that could really be seen at this time outside the car window, and looked back at Yi Huai who was sitting in the back seat, who saw her gaze and immediately focused on her, and then looked at her with a smile and stretched out his hand to point to the building outside the window.

"Look, that's my old house."

Yi Huai followed the prestige, saw an antique Chinese-style mansion in the distance outside the car window, nodded lightly, and said:

"It's beautiful."

Lao Chen saw that the atmosphere in the car was very relaxed, and finally passed the hurdle in his heart, and said with a smile: "Oh, the old mansion of the Tang family is beautiful and magnificent, it is said that all the construction was done by Mrs. Tai herself, this Tang family and this old mansion are really their houses." ”

"In the past, many people loved to build all kinds of small western-style houses, but Mrs. Tai chose the feng shui of this land and said that it was a Chinese-style mansion, and the old Tang family's house was quite famous nearby. Many people in this neighborhood want to learn the design of Mrs. Tai back then, but unfortunately they haven't learned the taste, the Tang family, the land is a good land, the house is a good house, and the people are all good people...."

Lao Chen babbled so much, inadvertently recalling the time when he was young and just following Tang Qi and Ran Lin to do things, and so many years have passed in a flash.

Now the house is still there, but there are some things that are wrong... Thinking of this, Lao Chen suddenly came back to his senses, realizing that he had said too much, and he hadn't had time to say hello to Miss's guests after driving all the way, so he smiled again, and finally glanced at the young man who was sitting in the back seat and always looked at Miss, and asked:

"Heck, it's not a thing of the past, and there are very few new guests here. Speaking of which, you are a friend of the young lady, and I haven't had time to ask you what to call it along the way, so please bear with me. ”

Yi Huai was slightly stunned when he heard this, he was used to being treated as a transparent person, he was rarely asked for his name, and he didn't like to tell his real name to those who were not very familiar with him, he wanted to report the code name of No. 4 again out of habit, but after realizing it, he remembered a name again.

"Huai Yisheng." He said, "You can call me Huai Yisheng." ”