Sweetness

At the age of 18, Tian Tian came to Jincheng for the first time.

Looking down from the pedestrian bridge near the train station, a road across the east and west separates the entire city, like the boundary of time and space, with tall buildings rising from the ground on one side, and the mottled old city on the other.

Wrapping the crowd down from the pedestrian bridge and crossing the time-space boundary, Tian Tian made her way to the bus station under the high-rise building.

Jincheng in midsummer is extremely hot, and even the wind is mixed with scalding heat.

The scorching wind blew away the ripples on Tiantian's cotton dress, and her exposed white calf became dimpled. She couldn't help shrinking back into the platform, and looked up at the bus information on the platform.

Take No. 12 to Exhibition Center Station, transfer to No. 4 at the same station, arrive at Heze Station, get off and walk about 500 meters to the right... Tian Tian recalled the route in her heart, and sat quietly on the bench on the platform.

The bus she had been waiting for hadn't arrived for a long time, and there were more and more people parked at the platform. The weather was too hot, and everyone's expression was mixed with a bit of impatience. The tight skin was like a fully inflated balloon, which was about to explode when touched.

Finally, the No. 12 bus came, and the waiting people flocked to the small gate like bees eager to gather honey. Tian Tian sat and looked around, watching the bus that finally arrived was full of people and left.

After a car, there were still many people on the platform. A silver-haired grandmother approached. Tian Tian picked up her bamboo suitcase and got up, giving her the seat: "Grandma, please sit."

"Thank you, little girl." The old lady sat down, wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, and looked at the little girl standing beside her.

She has a fair side face, wearing a long plain dress, straight black hair, and a clean demeanor.The weather was very hot, she just stood there quietly, neither anxious nor irritable, it was easy to make people like her.

Xu Shi was old and loved to chat with such a clean little girl. She asked her: "Isn't the little girl a local?"

"Ah, no."

The temperament is clean, and even the words are soft-spoken. The old lady is satisfied at once, and said: "Your bamboo box is well woven. It's rare to see such an exquisite bamboo box. I don't know where to buy it? It's everywhere now." It’s a trolley case, and it’s so noisy when you drag it around.”

Tian Tian looked down and smiled, "My grandma made it up."

The old grandma could hear the pride in her tone, and exclaimed, "What a skillful hand."

Tian Tian smiled proudly, and heard her ask again: "Little girl, is she coming to Jincheng alone, visiting relatives?"

The little girl had a rare meal, she was silent for a while, and replied: "It is."

"Are you visiting relatives? Visiting relatives is good. This relative should walk more while he is young. Don't wait until he is old. He can't walk if he wants to... Oh, the car is coming--" The old woman got up and gave her back the seat , nagging: "The old woman's car is here, so I won't tell you."

Tian Tian said goodbye to her, and sat back on the bench at the bus stop with a dazed expression.

Her visit to Jincheng this time is not considered to be visiting relatives, to be precise, she should be getting married.

Tian Tian has lived with her grandma since she was a child. Some time ago, her grandma passed away suddenly. Before she died, she told her that she had a marriage contract with someone in Jincheng. When she left, she must bring a token to get married.

Tian Tian was shocked when she was about to get married suddenly.

But after taking care of grandma's funeral, after thinking about it again and again, she made up her mind and came to Jincheng with grandma's token.

In a blink of an eye, another trip to No. 12 came, Tian Tian didn't hesitate any longer, picked up the bamboo box at hand, and got on the bus in the crowd.

**

The city of Jincheng is very big, and two buses were diverted. By the time Tian Tian arrived at her destination, the sun was already going down.

Turning along the long alley for 500 meters, across the spacious road, there is a palace garden, which is the old house of the Xu family.It is said that it was passed down by Xu Jiazu. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, it is still elegant and elegant.

Tian Tian approached and rang the doorbell.

There was a quick answer over there, and the voice came from nowhere, asking her who she was looking for, Tian Tian looked around for a while, and tried to speak to the small speaker: "Excuse me, does old man Xu Yushuo live here?"

"You are……"

"I'm Meng Yi's granddaughter, and my grandma has a letter for me to pass on to him." The words fell silent.

Tian Tian stood there for a while, when the iron fence in front of her suddenly opened, she raised her head subconsciously, and an energetic old man strode over, followed by a trembling nanny aunt.

The old man has gray hair and is leaning on crutches, but his steps are very big, his steps are breezy, and he looks very energetic: "Are you Meng Yi's granddaughter?"

"Grandpa, hello, my name is Tian Tian, ​​and I'm Meng Yi's granddaughter."

"Okay, okay!" Grandpa Xu said "Okay" twice excitedly, but at this moment his serious and accustomed eyebrows were looking at Tian Tian kindly, and couldn't help saying: "Like! You look exactly like your grandma when she was young." The eyebrows are exactly the same."

Grandpa Xu took the bamboo box in Tian Tian's hand attentively, and looked at her: "Good boy, are you tired all the way? Grandpa decides, stay here for a while, okay?"

Tian Tian didn't answer, but the nanny at the side said: "Master, don't be busy talking, why don't you let this young lady come in for a cup of tea first?"

"Yes, you see, I was so happy that I forgot." Grandpa Xu slapped his head, handed the bamboo box to the nanny beside him, and led Tian Tian into the house eagerly.

Xu Qingai was rarely free on weekends, so she brought a rare chessboard to the old house to play chess with her grandpa. Unexpectedly, just halfway through the game, she heard from her aunt that someone's granddaughter was coming, and the old man who always sat like a bell followed her. The fuse of the fire, Bass stood up.

Xu Qingai had never seen this scene before, so she also put down the chessboard, who knew that when she went downstairs, she saw her grandfather leading a young girl in.

The girl has clean eyebrows and eyes, her skin is almost transparent, and she has a warm smile on her cheeks, like a ray of breeze in summer, blowing away the dryness in her heart.

Xu Qingai was curious: "Grandpa, this is?"

"She is Tian Tian, ​​the granddaughter of one of my comrades-in-arms." Grandpa Xu obviously didn't intend to say much to her, and took Tian Tian's hand kindly all the way to sit down on the sofa, and couldn't help asking: "Is this journey tiring?" tired?"

Tian Tian shook her head lightly, took the water handed over by the nanny, and thanked her sweetly.

It was the first time for Xu Qingai to be so seriously ignored by her grandfather. While wondering where this was, she found a seat consciously and sat down.

"How are you and your grandma doing? How about your grandma, how is she doing?"

"Well, I had a good time. Grandma...has always been concerned about Grandpa's body, ah, yes—" Tian Tian thought of something, took her own bamboo box from the side, and took a small boxy one. The box was handed to him: "This is a gift prepared by grandma for you. It is the Ganoderma lucidum we picked in the mountains before. I wish you good health."

"This is a letter from grandma." Tian Tian handed over another letter.

Grandpa Xu opened the letter and asked her keenly: "In the mountains? You and your grandma have been living in the mountains all these years?"

"Yes, at Qiulang Mountain."

Grandpa Xu glanced over a few lines, his cloudy eyes widened suddenly, and his tone couldn't hide his shock: "Your grandma passed away?!"

"Yes." Compared to his grief, Tian Tian seemed very calm: "It's a happy funeral. Grandma didn't suffer much when she left. Grandpa, don't be too sad."

Xu Yushuo nodded slowly, read the letter again and again, finally folded it up, and put it in his breast pocket: "I was just thinking, your grandma passed away, and you are the only one left, right?"

Tian Tian lowered her head: "Yes."

Xu Yushuo put away his sad eyes and said to her, "Then stay here with grandpa for as long as you want. From now on, you will be grandpa's granddaughter."

"Master, dinner is ready—"

Xu Yushuo heard this, and smiled sweetly at Tian: "Are you hungry all the way here? Have a meal with grandpa first? Let's have a good chat after dinner?"

"it is good."

Seeing the two people who had a good relationship walking towards the dinner table, Xu Qingai couldn't help but say: "Grandpa, you have a granddaughter."

Tian Tian also noticed Xu Qingyu who was on the side, remembering the purpose of her visit this time, she bit her lip and asked, "Are you Xu Qingning?"

"Sour?" Xu Qingmai got up from her seat, a little curious: "Do you know Sour?" After asking Xu Qingai, she felt that something was wrong, she probably didn't know him, otherwise the name and person wouldn't match.

"Are you looking for sour?" Grandpa Xu led the little girl to the dining table, handed her chopsticks for the first time, and was also curious.

Tian Tiandian nodded, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and said seriously to the kind old man: "To be honest, I came here this time to marry Xu... Suan Suan."

Seeing the two stunned, Tian Tian got up and took out the wedding post and token from the bamboo box, and handed it to the old man: "Grandpa, do you remember this?"

After a long time, the paper of the wedding post turned slightly yellow. The old man glanced at the lines on the wedding post, and finally smiled: "Remember, remember."

He looked at her with interest: "Then Tiantian is here this time to marry Sour?"

Tian Tian plucked up her courage and looked him in the eyes: "Yes."

Xu Qingai was completely shocked by the wedding post, and even more surprised by her grandfather's happy eyes, and asked in a daze: "Grandpa, this... sour, didn't you just finish the college entrance examination? This..."

"What's the hurry, you can get engaged first before you reach the age!" Grandpa Xu turned his eyes and looked at Tian Tian: "Do you think so?"

Tian Tian was noncommittal.

What age is this? Xu Qingai felt that the two of them might be crazy, so she couldn't help but stop her: "Grandpa, think about your sour personality, you arrange a marriage, she can't agree." She can't wait to say loudly: It's sour!

Grandpa Xu snorted, and didn't take it seriously: "As far as her precious temperament is concerned, she should settle down sooner. I think Tiantian is wronged with her. She has nothing to disagree with."

Seeing that the timing was not right, Xu Qingai quietly dialed a phone number, walked to the window with her mobile phone, and heard her grandfather asking with concern: "Then what does Tiantian think about this?"

"If possible, I would like to take her back to the mountains."

"?"

Xu Qingai's cell phone almost frightened her, and finally the phone got through. She covered her mouth and said quickly and softly, "Hurry up and come to Grandpa's place!"

"Sister, I've already finished the college entrance examination, why do I still have to be punished? You said before that you don't care about me after the college entrance examination..."

The music on the other end was noisy, and the voice could not be heard clearly, so Xu Qingai simply interrupted her: "Grandpa found you a fiancee, come quickly."

Xu Qingning was silent for a while, then exploded: "...What?!"

"Your fiancée, who came from the mountains, will take you back to the mountains. If you don't come, you can wait for the rest of your life to enter the mountains."