Chapter 40: Tracking
Si Nian rode an electric motorcycle out of the house.
So as soon as Jiang Sui went out, he hurriedly stopped a taxi and asked the driver to hurry up.
As soon as the driver saw this situation, modern society also staged a tracking drama, there must be a situation.
He immediately gossiped and asked Jiang Sui: "Girl, are you going to catch the adulterer?" Is it your boyfriend who rides an electric motorcycle in front? ”
The degree of gossip of the driver made Jiang Sui a little irritable.
She said impatiently: "You drive attentively, don't lose it!" ”
"Don't worry, girl!"
After saying that, the driver stepped on the accelerator and went straight ahead to chase after him.
The taxi drove on the main road for about ten minutes before turning into an urban village.
The environment in the urban village is somewhat dilapidated and old, and even the roads are getting narrower and narrower.
The gossip driver master began to doubt again: "Girl, why did your boyfriend choose this kind of place, it seems that the strength is not good!" If you catch it right today, let's divide it quickly! ”
Thank you!
Jiang Sui was almost annoyed to death by this gossipy driver.
But taxis didn't get much further in the urban villages.
In the end, the driver had no choice but to stop the car at the mouth of an alley that looked narrower.
The driver's master was a little unsatisfied, and he said regretfully: "Girl, I can only send you here, and the car in front can't get in." ”
Jiang Sui was afraid that he would lose the person after stopping for a while, so he immediately took out his mobile phone to scan the code and pay the driver.
She pushed the door and got out of the car, and the driver was still shouting in the back to comfort her in advance: "Hey, girl, even if you really caught it, don't be too sad, there are two-legged people!" ”
It's noisy.
Jiang Sui walked briskly along the alley, and before he had gone far, he saw two more forks in the road.
She didn't see which way Si Nian was turning.
She just scanned the code, and as soon as she looked up, the person and the electric motorcycle were out of sight.
Jiang Sui stood in place and was stunned.
Whichever way she went, she had to go in and have a look, in case she could find it.
So she could only try her luck and choose a random path to look for it nearby.
But this place is like a labyrinth, full of residents' private construction, and after a while, Jiang Sui got lost.
Si Nian didn't find it, and he went around in it several times in a row.
In the end, there was no way, Jiang Sui could only catch a resident passing by and ask, she wanted to go back to the fork in the road before she came in.
Because she probably had a hunch that she must have gone in the opposite direction from Si Nian.
After several inquiries along the road, Jiang Sui finally returned to the original fork in the road.
This time she didn't stop for a moment, and went straight to another intersection.
Since they are all in urban villages, the situation here is not much better than just now.
After walking for a long time, not to mention Si Nian's figure, Jiang Sui didn't even see his little black.
Could it be that she went the wrong way and was delayed, Si Nian had already left, right?
At this moment, Jiang Sui had been walking around this urban village for two and a half hours in a row.
She was too tired to walk, so she squatted on the side of the road to rest for a while.
Jiang Sui was thinking that if she couldn't see people or cars anymore, she would have to ask people how to go out and take a taxi.
At this moment, at the door of a dilapidated low-rise two-story house not far away, the familiar low magnetic voice came.
Jiang Sui tilted his head to look, and it was indeed Si Nian.
He was turning around and talking to an old man standing in the doorway with a cane.
Jiang Sui was afraid that Si Nian would find her, and asked her why she was here, but she couldn't answer, so she had to take a few steps back and squat behind the low flower wall of a house to hide.
It wasn't until Si Nian saw his little electric motorcycle leaving that Jiang Sui dared to stand up.
Jiang Sui stood by the flower wall and looked at the house that Si Nian had just gone to for a long time.
She couldn't help but wonder in her heart, who this old man was, and what he was doing in his house.
"Hey, little girl, what are you doing standing in front of my house for so long?"
Coldly hearing the voice behind him, Jiang Sui was also startled.
She immediately turned to look.
A middle-aged woman was looking at herself defensively.
Jiang Sui smiled a little embarrassedly at the person and apologized.
"I'm sorry, Auntie, I'm looking for someone, I'm lost around here, I'm tired and just take a break here, I'm really sorry to disturb you."
Middle-aged women may see Jiang Sui's sincere attitude, and his appearance is simple and pure, and she doesn't look like a bad person at first glance, so she also takes off her guard.
"Oh, I see. There is a small bench at the door, so you can go and sit down when you are tired. ”
Jiang Sui was about to refuse the kindness of the middle-aged aunt, when he caught a glimpse of the old man at the door of the house just now, limping out again and washing something in the pool outside the house.
She couldn't help but turn her head and look twice.
The middle-aged woman also followed her gaze.
"Oh, this poor Grandma Xue! is old, and there is no one to take care of around. ”
Jiang Sui looked at the middle-aged woman suspiciously and asked, "Auntie, does she live alone with this grandma?" Don't have any relatives either? ”
"Yes, I broke my leg some time ago, and I was sent to the hospital with the help of the big guy, so I was able to walk on the ground just now! She, it's not that she doesn't have no relatives, she also has a granddaughter, she went abroad, and she hasn't been back for a few years, Grandma Xue really raised a little white-eyed wolf! ”
The middle-aged woman's tone sounded particularly sympathetic to Grandma Xue, and at the same time, she was very angry when she mentioned Grandma Xue's granddaughter.
"The old man has a granddaughter?" Jiang Sui couldn't help but be even more puzzled.
"Not really! Her granddaughter is beautiful, and Grandma Xue pulled her from such a point to a big one, and then her own wings were stiff and she flew. ”
The middle-aged woman gestured to Jiang Sui under her waist while sighing at Grandma Xue's misfortune.
Grandma Xue was widowed when she was young and grew up with a son alone.
When the son was older, he finally married a daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law couldn't give birth, so the couple adopted a little girl.
Life is passable.
But the little girl was only four or five years old, and Grandma Xue's son had an accident on the construction site, and her daughter-in-law ran away with someone not long after.
That's all left for the grandparents and grandchildren to depend on each other.
But when this girl is older, she is a little disgusted that Grandma Xue is old and poor, and she doesn't come back much after going to college.
What's even more annoying is that her granddaughter didn't have a chance to study abroad three years ago, so she left Grandma Xue, who was sick, and left without looking back. Grandma Xue didn't know what evil she had done in her previous life, but she raised such a white-eyed man! ”
Jiang Sui listened to the middle-aged aunt angrily recounting about Grandma Xue's granddaughter, and couldn't help but start thinking in his heart.
Why did Si Nian know Grandma Xue and rush over after receiving the call?
Grandma Xue has a granddaughter who has studied abroad......
Jiang Sui seems to have grabbed some key information from it.
She immediately nervously asked the middle-aged woman, "Auntie, what is the name of Grandma Xue's granddaughter?" ”
This question made the middle-aged woman seem to fall into deep thought, and she really couldn't think about it for a while.
But Jiang Sui couldn't wait, and she asked again: "Is it called Xue Dan?" ”
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she suddenly opened her mouth and said loudly: "Yes, yes, that's the name." ”
After receiving the affirmation of the middle-aged woman, Jiang Sui's heart immediately sank by half.
It turns out that the rumors in the school are all true.
Although Jiang Sui still didn't want to believe that this was true.
"What? Little girl, do you know Grandma Xue's granddaughter? ”
The middle-aged woman also began to ask Jiang Sui suspiciously.
"Oh, just know the name, don't know. She's kind of a senior sister of mine, and we went to the same university. ”
Jiang Sui explained to the middle-aged woman seriously.
Finally, the middle-aged woman asked, "Then you are here to find her?" ”
How should Jiang Sui answer this?
She didn't come to find Xue Dan, but she couldn't explain to the middle-aged woman why she was here.
"Hey, Grandma Xue, this little girl is here to find your family."
When Jiang Sui was hesitating what to say, the middle-aged woman suddenly shouted at Grandma Xue, who was still standing by the pool.
Jiang Sui was dumbfounded, and the middle-aged aunt in front of her seemed to be a little too enthusiastic.
Grandma Xue had already looked over to them.
Jiang Sui had no choice but to say hello softly: "Hello, Grandma Xue, I am a student at the School of Foreign Languages of Shenda University. ”
But Grandma Xue looked at her blankly as if she hadn't heard it.
The middle-aged woman reminded Jiang Sui in time on the side.
"Little girl, go over and talk! Grandma Xue is old, her ears are not very good, you are so quiet, she can't hear it. ”
"Oh, thank you!"
After Jiang Sui thanked the middle-aged woman, he walked towards Grandma Xue's room.
Grandma Xue also stood in front of the room and waited for Jiang Sui, and did not walk away.
Seeing Jiang Sui approaching, she looked at Jiang Sui with some confusion.
"Are you looking for our Xue Dan? She is not at home and has not come back after going abroad for several years! ”
Jiang Sui smiled: "Grandma Xue, I didn't look for her, I passed by, I heard that she was your granddaughter, I was curious, I came to see you." I am also a student at the Outer Courtyard of Shanghai University. ”
In order to allow Grandma Xue to hear her clearly, Jiang Sui also raised her voice a little.
As soon as she heard that Jiang Sui was a student of Shen University, Grandma Xue enthusiastically asked Jiang Sui to sit in the house.
Jiang Sui couldn't refuse Grandma Xue's sudden enthusiasm, so he had to go in with her.
The house is small and there is a kitchenette as soon as you enter, but it is very clean.
Further inside was a small room with a bed and a table.
It seems that it should be where Grandma Xue lives.
Same neat and clean.
"You students are good boys. That, Xiao Si, just left! It's also your Shen Da! ”
Grandma Xue let Jiang Sui sit down on an old-fashioned single sofa, and she also sat down on the edge of the bed, and said to Jiang Sui with a smile.
Jiang Sui knew that the Xiao Si in Grandma Xue's mouth was Si Nian, and she had just seen him leave from here with her own eyes.
"Does he come often? That's it, Xiao Si? Jiang Sui couldn't help but start asking Grandma Xue about Si Nian.
"Yes, he often comes here this year, and when he comes, he will help me clean up, and he will buy me some daily firewood, rice, oil and salt."
When Grandma Xue mentioned Si Nian, there was a smile in the corner of her eyes.
"A year?" Jiang Sui was surprised.
Grandma Xue nodded: "Well, about a year ago, Xiao Si came to me here, and at first he also came to inquire about my family, maybe he saw that I was a lonely old woman living a difficult life, and then he would often come to see me and help me do some physical work." Slowly, when I have some difficulties, I will also ask him for help. ”
I see.
"Then do you know what he's looking for Senior Sister Xue for?"
Grandma Xue shook her head: "He didn't tell me, he just said that they were friends, and there were some things to ask her clearly, but the girl in my family was also stubborn, as soon as she said who was looking for her, she immediately hung up the phone, and she didn't answer if she called again." ”
Jiang Sui thought that Si Nian took care of Grandma Xue like this, probably because of her granddaughter.
Listening to Grandma Xue intermittently talk about her granddaughter and Si Nian, Jiang Sui could vaguely feel that Xue Dan was deliberately avoiding Si Nian.
He couldn't find her.
That's why I found Grandma Xue here.
But because he loved Xue Dan deeply in his heart, no matter what she did to him, he still took the initiative to take care of Grandma Xue.
Si Nian wants to wait here for her to come back, for her to change her mind?
Thinking of this, Jiang Sui felt a little dull and uncomfortable in her heart, she really couldn't stay any longer, she urgently needed some fresh air to relieve her discomfort.
Jiang Sui excused that it was not early and there were still some things in the school, and told Grandma Xue that she would have time to come to see her in the future, so she got up and left.
It turned out that Si Nian ran out in a hurry today to help Grandma Xue.
It was the love of the house and Wu that made him ignore his injuries and run to take care of Grandma Xue on call.
The sky was getting dark, and Jiang Sui walked slowly on the potholed path of the urban village alone, looking in a trance.
The mobile phone vibrated in the pocket of the windbreaker, Jiang Sui took it out, and when she saw that it was Si Lai's call, she pressed it casually.
She doesn't want to answer anyone's phone just yet.