"Come, sit, kid!" Uncle Pan was very enthusiastic about Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan, and while beckoning them to sit, he turned around and entered the kitchen, and soon came out again, with a plate of fruit in his hand, "It's a hot day, it's hard for you to come here, right?" Let's eat some fruit!"

Ning Shuyi couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw Uncle Pan greeting them so warmly, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like the stubborn old man that Sister Zhou said.

Uncle Pan misread Ning Shuyi's expression, thinking that she saw the fruit in her hand, so she was like this, and hurriedly said, "This fruit, I went out by myself yesterday and went to the supermarket outside to buy it.

After I bought it, I found a place outside, washed it all, and then came back with a plastic bag, and it was all clean! Eat it!"

"Uncle Pan, you don't have to greet us, you can just keep the fruit and eat it, we are not thirsty!" Ning Shuyi hurriedly said to him, and pushed back the fruit he handed over.

"I'm too old to eat a few bites, you two children, come out on a hot day, come to me with one foot deep and one foot shallow, it's not easy! Eat!

Uncle just take it! I'll be angry if you're polite!" Uncle Pan's eyes widened, his face was tigerish, and he put on an attitude like scaring children.

Ning Shuyi smiled, everyone was so enthusiastic, and she speculated that it would make people sad, so she happily thanked her and took it.

"Uncle Pan, let me explain to you first, we are criminal police officers from the Public Security Bureau, and we came here to understand the situation, and we can't control the contract disputes between you and other neighbors and developers." Considering Sister Zhou's misunderstanding, and looking at Uncle Pan's enthusiasm at this moment, he was afraid that he would be disappointed after staying for a while, Ning Shuyi decided to say it in front.

I thought that Uncle Pan's reaction would be similar to Sister Zhou's, but I didn't expect him to wave his hand: "I understand! Although I am not a police officer, when I was in the factory before, I was the head of the security section!

It's none of your business, I know! You don't have to worry!

And I'm different from them, I don't want to move at all! I don't want to move how much money I am given, so I don't care who comes to me for ideological work! I'm in my early seventies, and I've lived enough!

Even if they forcibly demolish it and bury my old bones in it, I don't care."

After saying this, Ning Shuyi believed Sister Zhou's words before, this Uncle Pan was indeed a little stubborn.

"Uncle, you live here by yourself? Didn't anyone else in the family live with you?" Ning Shuyi asked.

"No, I don't have any family." Uncle Pan shook his head, "I'm just a lonely old man!

My wife was not in good health when she was young, and she couldn't have children, so the two of us didn't have children in our lives, so we just got by, and the relationship was very good.

I don't fall every day, and all my thoughts are in this house.

She used to be an employee in our factory, since the time we got married, the two of us have lived in this house, it was originally allocated by the factory, and when we could buy it ourselves, we immediately saved up money to buy it!

Now that she's gone, if I don't even have this house, everything in this world is strange to me, what's the point! Then I don't have much hope of living, so I might as well guard this house, and when they demolish it, they will demolish it for me!"

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan were a little surprised, they didn't expect that Uncle Pan was so stubborn to guard this house, not for more compensation, but to keep the memories of him and his wife for a lifetime.

"Look! This is my wife!" Uncle Pan pointed to the photos under the glass plate of the coffee table, "Look, this is the wedding photos of the two of us back then!

The two of us were almost the first batch of people in our city to take wedding photos! It was the latest and most fashionable at the time!

Look at my wife, isn't she beautiful?"

Ning Shuyi looked at Uncle Pan as he pointed out, and the photos pressed under the glass plate were indeed photos of the two of them, and it seemed that they were indeed a couple with deep feelings

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"There is no water and electricity here, how do you usually live?" Huo Yan frowned and asked.

Although Uncle Pan's living situation was not the central purpose of the two of them this visit, seeing this well-organized home and hearing what Uncle Pan said about the reason why he was a nail household, Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan were embarrassed to go straight to the point, and they felt a little uncomfortable.

"Hey! I'm so old, it doesn't matter! I don't play on the computer! I don't have to watch TV!

A bad old man, he can eat a few bites!" Uncle Pan is quite optimistic in this regard, "My old neighbors also walked around with me a lot, although they moved away, but I heard that I was still here, so I asked my children to come over every once in a while, help me bring a few buckets of water, and help me change the gas canister or something.

I go to the public bath outside when I take a bath, drink water, have water from them at home, buy groceries and cook no problem, I'm in good health!

My parents died young, I had a sister who died when I was a teenager, and the closest thing in this life is my wife, and the only thing that makes me feel grounded is our family.

Now my wife is gone, but the memories of both of us are still there, all stored in this house, I live here, I feel that my wife is not far from me, I am not alone in these two worlds.

As long as the house is not demolished, it doesn't matter if he has water or electricity! I'll live here for another ten or twenty years, and I'd like to!".

As he spoke, he couldn't help rubbing his fingers against the glass plate on the coffee table, and under the glass plate was the wedding photo he and his wife had taken when they were young.

Ning Shuyi looked at Uncle Pan's distracted appearance, and almost had a sour nose.

Huo Yan was silent for a while, reached out and patted Ning Shuyi's back, got up and walked out.

Ning Shuyi nodded to him, adjusted his emotions, took out a small tape recorder from his pocket, put it on the table, and said to Uncle Pan, "Uncle Pan, my colleague has gone out in advance, I want to learn something about your neighbor Yan Dayuan, so I need to record a sound, I hope you understand!"

"Understood! In broad daylight, what you say is not nonsense, just record it!" Uncle Pan was open-minded, and he wasn't curious about what Huo Yan was doing out, "You want to inquire about Yan Dayuan? This old thing isn't going to get in any trouble out there, is it?"

"Looks like you're quite familiar with him?" Ning Shuyi was a little surprised by Uncle Pan's response.

Uncle Pan was happy: "Can you not be familiar! I used to be in the Security Division! That old boy didn't find anything to do with me when he was young!"