After rubbing for a while, the color of Jiang Sui's fingers finally returned to some normal.

Sensing Jiang Sui's gaze, Si Nian pinched Jiang Sui's nose with one hand: "Fool, what kind of god are you stunned?" Move your fingers and see if you feel better? ”

Jiang Sui nodded, curling his fingers and moving.

Si Nian looked at the water basin on the side and said, "The water is cold, don't get it, sit down and rest for a while, and I'll do the rest." ”

In this way, for the rest of the time, Si Nian was busy working, and Jiang Sui either sat on the side and watched, or followed him around the front and back.

When Si Nian cleaned the whole house, collected the basin and came out of the bathroom, Jiang Sui was curled up on the small chair at the door of the living room and swiping his mobile phone, occasionally breathing into the palm of his hand.

Si Nian pulled down his sleeves and walked towards her.

"Is it cold?"

Jiang Sui nodded honestly.

"Don't you have heating at home?"

He asked Jiang Sui suspiciously, he remembered that when he was a child here, his grandmother would light a coal stove in the house in winter to keep warm.

"Yes," Jiang Sui lowered his head and said, "But it seems to be broken, I tried it just now." ”

When she was cleaning just now, she had already tried to plug in the electric heater in the house, but after a long time, the heating was still cold.

"Where? I'll take a look. ”

Jiang Sui got up and took Si Nian back to her bedroom, pointing to the corner to show Si Nian.

Si Nian squatted down and carefully tinkered for a while, shook his head and said, "No, it's already burned." ”

Jiang Sui sighed and complained: "This is also too undurable, I bought it back and only used it for a winter." ”

Si Nian was surprised: "I bought it last year?" ”

Jiang Sui nodded.

"So how did you heat your home in the winter before last year?"

Jiang Sui thought back for a while and said: "When my mother was still there, the floor was renovated at home, as if the floor heating had been paved, but I had to manually burn a stove, I thought that thing sounded quite complicated, so I never paid attention to it, and it was always used by my mother and grandmother." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Sui's expression darkened a little, and she said, "After Grandma is gone, the stove has never been used again." I bought this electric heater and put it in the room, the temperature was okay, and it was not cold in the bedroom. ”

Jiang Sui seemed to be very relaxed.

Si Nian frowned when he heard this.

How can it not be cold?

In this season in the Northeast, there is only one room with an electric heater plugged in, and the inside and outside of the house may be the feeling of ice and fire, and you can imagine how inconvenient it is for Jiang Sui to come out and go in this house.

He sighed and looked at Jiang Sui.

"Where? Take me to see it. ”

Jiang Sui led Si Nian out of the door of the main house, and came to a slightly low house on the side of the courtyard, and she stretched out her finger.

Si Nian looked at the past, and his thoughts went back to more than ten years ago.

This room, he recalls, used to be a utility room.

When he was a child, he and Jiang Sui would often play hide and seek in it.

At first, he hid here first and asked Jiang Sui to find it.

But the little girl couldn't find him when she searched for him, so she cried at the door in a hurry.

When my grandmother heard this, she came out of the main house and asked her what was wrong, and she cried and said, "My brother Nian Nian can't be found, and Nian Nian brother is lost, and I am so sad."

At this time, Si Nian got out of the pile of debris by himself, came to the little girl, picked her up and coaxed her: "Don't cry, where is my brother lost?" Isn't this holding us years old? ”

At this time, usually the little girl will soon be able to burst into tears and laugh.

When Jiang Sui was a child, he knew that as soon as he cried, he would immediately run out by himself.

But then she probably cried many, many times, but he never showed up again.

Thinking of this, Si Nian's mood was a little heavy, and he silently opened the door of this low room.

The layout was completely different from before, and the clutter he used to hide from was gone, replaced by a man-tall household boiler.

From the outside, the upper part should be the water tank, and the lower part is the furnace mouth that ignites the fire and adds coal.

Si Nian bent down and walked into the low house, and saw a few bags of things standing in the corner, and when he got closer, he opened them and saw a few bags of black, shiny coals.

Jiang Sui didn't come in, so he leaned against the door and waited for him.

Si Nian turned to Jiang Sui and said, "Take the basket of fallen leaves under the tree and start the fire, the boiler will be lit, and the house should be warm." ”

Jiang Sui looked at him with round eyes, a little incredulous, she asked, "Will you use this guy?" ”

Si Nian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, but you can try, it's no more difficult than writing programs and speaking foreign languages, right?" ”

Jiang Sui looked at Si Nian and saw that there seemed to be a smile hidden on the corner of his lips.

She frowned, a little reflexing.

"You're laughing at me for being stupid?"

Jiang Sui was a little unhappy.

The curvature of Si Nian's lips seemed to increase again, and he smiled and said, "No, I just think that everyone has their own strengths, and you just aren't good at this." ”

He pretended to cough lightly and said, "And I happen to be bad at everything, and I seem to be good at everything." ”

Now Si Nian can say such a thing, Jiang Sui said he was shocked.

She seemed to see the proud and confident Si Nian again.

This made her mood feel better all of a sudden.

She immediately ran back into the yard and brought in the basket of fallen leaves.

Si Nian filled the boiler tank with water, and then added some fallen leaves and coal to the furnace and lit it.

Jiang Sui didn't know where to move two small benches, and the two of them sat in front of the stove together.

Looking through the mouth of the furnace, the fire slowly ignited, and it became more and more vigorous.

In the small house, the temperature rose accordingly, and the coldness on Jiang Sui's body gradually disappeared.

Jiang Sui was idle, so he grabbed the leaves from the willow basket on the side and threw them into the stove one by one.

"I didn't expect you to really light it!"

Si Nian picked up an iron hook from the ground and hooked the fire twice, in a casual tone.

"How hard can this be!"

Jiang Sui pouted, it was not difficult for her to either.

"Anyone?"

Suddenly there was a voice outside the courtyard gate.

Jiang Sui and Si Nian followed the sound together and looked towards the door.

At this time, there were already footsteps walking in.

Jiang Sui got up and leaned out half of his body from the door of the low house.

"Ah, Grandma Wang, you're here!"

Jiang Sui said, and the person had already gone out.

Si Nian also got up and followed out.

He saw an old lady with gray hair who was not very dexterous in walking, limping in from the courtyard gate.

After she saw Jiang Sui, the wrinkles on her face were stacked together with a smile.

"It turns out that the old girl is back? It's winter vacation, right? I saw smoke coming from the chimney in your yard and thought I'd come over and see if you'd come back? ”

The old man took Jiang Sui's hand with kind eyes and kept asking.

"Well, Grandma Wang, it's me back for the winter vacation."

An old man and a young man stood in the courtyard holding hands and greeting each other.

Si Nian wanted to say that it was cold outside and let them go into the house to talk again, but seeing the enthusiasm of the two of them, he really couldn't bear to disturb them.

He had been standing behind Jiang Sui and watching them silently.

The two chatted back and forth for a while, and the old lady noticed the handsome guy behind Jiang Sui.

She quietly squeezed Jiang Sui's hand hard, raised her white eyebrows towards Si Nian, and asked Jiang Sui in a low voice: "Our young girl has brought her partner back?" If your grandmother could see it, she would be very happy. ”

Jiang Sui also followed Grandma Wang's line of sight, looked back at Si Nian, and then turned around, she suddenly looked at Grandma Wang and smiled.

"Grandma Wang, you really don't recognize who he is?"

Jiang Sui asked this because Grandma Wang is an old man who lives alone next door to Jiang Sui's grandmother's house, and she is the old sister of Jiang Sui's grandmother.

Hearing Jiang Sui ask, the old man's radiant eyes began to look at Si Nian again.

After looking at it for a while, she frowned slightly and said, "The young man is indeed very handsome and has a good face, but I really don't know him." ”

Then she asked Jiang Sui suspiciously: "Isn't he your object?" ”

Si Nian snickered behind Jiang Sui, and Jiang Sui couldn't help laughing.

It made the old man even more inexplicable.

After Jiang Sui laughed for a while, he pulled Si Nian close to Grandma Wang so that she could see more clearly.

She patiently said to Grandma Wang, "Look at it again!" You must know him, he's Si Nian! ”

Grandma Wang was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes swept back and forth from Si Nian and Jiang Sui a few times.

Asked in disbelief: "I often took you when I was a child, and you stole our girl, and then he trained the hairy boy for you?" ”

Jiang Sui couldn't laugh or cry, Grandma Wang finally remembered who Si Nian was, but how could she still remember such a shameful thing she did when she was a child?

Isn't there anything else that the old man remembers about Si Nian besides this?

Si Nian couldn't hold back either, and laughed on the side.

He said to Grandma Wang, "Yes, Grandma Wang, it's me!" You remember it's not wrong at all, it's all because someone is greedy, and I can be criticized by you! ”

So saying, he let the old man into the living room of the main house to sit.

After sitting down, Grandma Wang also smiled: "It's not that Grandma Wang won't allow you to eat at that time, but the little villain of the old girl, I have pulled out the roots of the seedlings together, can I not be angry?" But you still protect her, saying that you did it! ”

Si Nian and Jiang Sui glanced at each other, Jiang Sui stuck out his tongue at him, recalling those ridiculous things when he was a child, and they couldn't help laughing.

After the three of them laughed for a while, the old man suddenly looked at Si Nian and asked, "Boy, you have been gone here for more than ten years, right?" ”

Si Nian replied honestly: "It's been ten years, Grandma Wang!" ”

Grandma Wang listened, but suddenly sighed and sighed.

"Time flies too fast, ten years have passed, and the mother and grandmother of the old girl are gone, if they can see you come back, they must be very happy."

Hearing this, Si Nian and Jiang Sui's smiles gradually faded.

Si Nian didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only nod to Grandma Wang.

Grandma Wang didn't seem to notice anything, and still talked to herself.

"As soon as you leave, there will be no news slowly, your aunt and grandmother are very worried about you, and they will often mention you to me, saying that they don't know if you are doing well, hey......"

Grandma Wang sighed unconsciously, and pulled Jiang Sui's hand aside and caressed it in her old hand.

"Old girl, these years have been difficult, at first her mother was sick, and then her grandmother, she had to take care of the sick while studying, and no one helped her, even I couldn't help but feel distressed when I saw it, how good would it be if you could come back to help her?"

Although Grandma Wang's words were not reproachful, they fell on Si Nian's ears, but they made his heart feel uncomfortable like a pinprick.