Chapter 14: The Past

I felt my heart bleed, but I kept a smile on my face, took 112 out of my pocket and handed it to the boss, "If it's okay, we'll go first." ”

I didn't greet the girl, but when she saw me walking towards the door, she glared at the boss and followed me.

Out of the hotel at a corner I stopped, turned to look at her, the dim street lamp reflected her beautiful appearance, just now in the hotel too noisy I didn't look carefully, now I can see clearly, the young face is dotted with watery eyes, looking at me that look at me reminds me of my sister's expression in the mother's arms beckoning to me, the same way.

I coughed lightly, "You can't eat the Overlord meal next time, you know?" No one will be kind enough to help you. ”

The girl nodded obediently, completely losing the domineering temperament of the quarrel just now.

"It's so late, I'll take you home."

I saw the girl's body tremble slightly, "No... No, they... Don't like outsiders. ”

I frowned, "They? Is it your parents? ”

The girl nodded slowly and shook her head violently, and I sighed, "Forget it, then you should go home early by yourself, so as not to worry your father." ”

I turned around and had just taken two steps when I heard the girl shout timidly, "Tang Yiran! My name is Tang Yiran! What's your name! ”

I chuckled, it's still a little girl, "Qi Tianlei, Qi of the prince of Qi." ”

"That's... Do you have time tomorrow? ”

I looked back, "yes, what's wrong?" ”

The girl rubbed the corners of her clothes, "You helped me pay for it today, and my father said that he would be... Know how to repay! So I'd like to invite you to my house tomorrow! ”

I hesitated, but then agreed, looking at her eyes I always unconsciously think of my sister, maybe this is fate.

After I walked away, the girl looked at the direction I left and clenched her fists, "Qi Tianlei... It's really... It's so familiar..."

When I returned to Grandpa's Pavilion at night to rest, I saw that the door was unlocked and the light inside was still on, so I pushed the door and went in to see Grandpa lying on the ground looking for something.

I closed the door, squatted in front of my grandfather, lowered my head and asked, "Grandpa, are you... What about catching rats? ”

Grandpa didn't even raise his head, and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and help me find it." ”

I followed my grandfather's example and lay on the ground, "What are we looking for?" ”

"A bead, a small bead." My grandfather gestured it to me with his hand, and it was about the size of a fingernail on my little finger.

I pursed the corners of my lips, "It's so small, can you still find it?" ”

Grandpa ignored me and searched for it on my own, and I continued to bend down and continue to look for it as if I was fated. After looking for a long time, I realized that this store was really not small, and I usually didn't pay attention to it.

I hammered my waist, twisted my head slightly, glanced at my eyes, and saw a small bead next to the stone pier, "Grandpa!" Isn't that the bead you're talking about? I picked it up and held it up to him.

Grandpa raised his head sharply and looked down my arm to see the pale blue beads in my hand.

"That's right! That's it! Grandpa stood up on the ground, didn't even bother to pat the dirt on his body, and came straight to me.

Grandpa carefully took the bead from my hand, wiped it with his sleeve repeatedly, and then held it firmly in the palm of his hand.

Filled with curiosity, I tentatively asked, "Grandpa, this bead... Matters to you, right? ”

Grandpa nodded slowly, put it into the small iron box on the counter like a baby, and put it in his arms. I leaned over with my arms around my chest and pushed him on the shoulder, "What?" Is it a token of love? ”

Grandpa lowered his head and sighed, "Boy, do you know, sometimes you feel that you suddenly don't want to do anything, you are exhausted, you keep spinning in place, wandering and refusing to move forward, but everyone knows that you are just cowardly." ”

I've never seen my grandfather look so lost, I don't know who I remembered.

Thinking of the purpose of my return, but feeling that it was a little inappropriate now, my grandfather saw my twist, cheered up, looked at me and asked, "Didn't I give you two days off, so anxious to come back to work?" ”

I waved my hand in a panic, "No, no, I just wanted to come back and ask you something." ”

Grandpa poured me a cup of tea and asked me to go down, "Today I helped a girl who ate a bully meal in the restaurant, and after leaving the hotel, she said that she wanted to return my favor and invited me to their house tomorrow, but I always felt that something was wrong, so I thought about coming back and asking you." ”

I saw my grandfather looking at me with an ambiguous smile, I was embarrassed to be looked at, and coughed lightly twice, "Look at what I'm doing." ”

Grandpa took a sip of tea, put down a cup and said, "Is that girl good-looking?" How old is it? What is it called? "Grandpa's unserious appearance is back, I gave him a blank look, but I still answered, "The eyes are very bright, and she looks like she is sixteen or seventeen years old, and she said that her name is... I tilted my head slightly and thought for a moment before saying, "Tang Yiran." ”

With a "snap", the teacup in my grandfather's hand smashed on the ground, and he stood up and rushed to me and squeezed my shoulder tightly, "What did you just say?" ”

I froze in place and stammered, "My eyes are pretty big..."

Grandpa snorted impatiently, "It's not like this!" What did you just say her name was? ”

"Tang... "It's the first time I've seen my grandfather so flustered."

Grandpa let go of my shoulder, I pinched it painfully, my hand was really strong, and I shook my hand in front of my grandfather, "Grandpa, are you okay?" ”

He sat down slowly on the edge of the table, "I'm fine, it's okay..."

I picked up the fragments of the teacup on the ground, replaced it with a new one, poured water on it and handed it to him, "Are you still okay?" It's like a ghost, isn't it just a name? ”

Grandpa frowned and closed his eyes, "The Tang family is much more terrifying than ghosts. ”

I took out a small Mazha and sat next to my grandfather and asked, "Grandpa, what is the origin of this Tang family?" Can you scare you like this? ”

Grandpa touched the iron box in his arms, his heart was slightly relieved, and he looked at me with complicated eyes, "The Tang family is a very mysterious family, the first head of the Tang family once assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in founding the Ming Dynasty, and made very prominent achievements. ”

"Ming Dynasty? Isn't that more than 600 years ago? Could it be that the Tang family existed 600 years ago? ”

I saw my grandfather nodding and continued: "After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Tang family disappeared completely, until the founding of New China suddenly had an extra family in Beijing, and this suddenly rising family was the Tang family that disappeared for a whole hundred years. ”