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On the trip to the provincial capital, as always, I went to visit the grave first, and my grandfather asked a few comrades who were still alive to have dinner together.The next day, Grandpa lingered in the National Museum where he had worked, and narrowly missed the train.

The return train departs for half an hour, and it enters the sales process as usual, tearing unbreakable stockings, constantly cutting belts, milk slices from Inner Mongolia, dried fruits from the United States, and snack carts "borrowed" and "borrowed". .

Yan Ji asked for a bag of milk tablets, opened it under the scrutiny of his grandfather, and handed over a piece fawningly.

Grandpa glanced at the round white milk candy lying in Yan Ji's palm, and recalled Yan Ji's first time taking her on the train when he was a child, and he also bought a bag of milk tablets.The little girl hugged the bag and shared it from the front of the car to the back of the car, very happy.

Grandpa: "I don't eat, you eat."

Yan Ji glanced at Grandpa, and stuffed the milk tablet back into the bag.

The green leather car wobbled, started and stopped, bumped for several hours, and finally heard the familiar name of the platform.

"It's raining heavily."

"Take a taxi."

The grandpa and grandson finally took a black car, and it was past eight o'clock in the evening when they got home.Yan Ji faltered and wanted to go out, but was strictly stopped by his grandfather.

"Okay." Yan Ji retreated, "Tomorrow I want to have morning tea, can you give me five dollars."

Grandpa replied: "I'll take you to eat crab roe soup dumplings."

Yan Ji refused straight away: "No."

Grandpa took out ten yuan from his pocket: "You spend more if you don't go to school."

Yan Ji grabbed the money and stuffed it into his pocket: "Skipping school doesn't mean skipping meals. Grandpa, take a shower first, it's too late."

When it was Yan Ji's turn to take a bath, she was so sleepy that she couldn't keep her eyes open, she fell into the bathtub and almost hit her head.After taking a shower, he felt refreshed, counting money at the desk in a tank top and shorts.

"Fifty cents, one yuan, one yuan and five..."

"One, two, three..."

"Five, ten, fifteen, twenty..."

"One hundred, two hundred, three hundred..."

Stacks of green, red, blue paper tickets, and stacks of lead, copper, silver, and silver coins are stacked and counted separately.

Yan Ji was lying on the table, scratching his half-wet hair, and poking Pikachu next to him: "Ah, if I knew it earlier, I wouldn't use it indiscriminately."

The money was saved years ago, including New Year's money and New Year's envelopes, plus the red envelopes I received this time when I went to the provincial capital.For junior high school students, it is a huge sum of money, but it is definitely not enough to install water heaters and showers for Dengdeng's home.

"Ugh."

What's more, this was originally saved for Yan Deng's college tuition. There are always young ladies on TV who can't pay the tuition because they can only work part-time and get bullied, bullied by all kinds of people, and cry every day.

"Ugh."

Yan Ji, who is about to enter the second year of junior high school, lay on the bed tossing and turning, sighing, only thinking about money.

The telephone rang in the living room—

"Ding ding ding ~ ding ding ding ~ ding ding ding ~"

Grandpa came out with his clothes on, glanced at Yan Ji's room, fell asleep?

Picking up the phone, a girl's breathless voice came from the receiver: "Yan Ji?"

Grandpa: "Yanji is asleep."

Yan Deng said anxiously: "Grandpa, can you please ask Yan Ji to answer the phone..."

Before she finished speaking, a tall man walked out of the alley, and his voice passed through the rain: "Yan Deng? Yan Deng! Come back quickly, your mother is ill! Do you hear me, come back quickly!"

Yan Deng was shocked: "Grandpa, tell Yan Ji, I have something to do, definitely."

Grandpa looked at the microphone, there was a "beep beep" busy tone inside, and then he looked up to look outside, it was pitch black, and only heard the pattering rain.He shook his shoulders, gathered his clothes and walked back to the room.

A few minutes later, the door opened, and the neatly dressed grandpa walked to the door, put on his leather shoes, and went out with an umbrella.

In the room, Yan Ji, hugging the silk quilt, fell asleep amidst the wild ideas of making money.

There was thunder and lightning outside, and the rain was like a knife.

Yan Ji slept like a pig, got up on time at six o'clock in the morning, and went to the yard for routine exercises.Grandpa took her like a little radish soldier, full of food, drink and clothing, dignified, healthy and healthy.

After two rounds of military punches, Yan Ji was covered in sweat. He raised his arm and wiped it, took the milk tablet, grabbed the key and ran out the door: "Grandpa, I'm leaving. I won't come back for lunch at noon."

Bicycles are spinning, bells are tinkling, and cicadas are hiding from the sun on the trees.

Yan Ji rode into the old alley and stopped at the door of Yan Deng's house. When he saw that the door was locked, his smile froze on his face.She stood on the threshold and supported her bicycle, her face was lying on the crack of the door and she looked in, her eyes rolled, looking left and right.

"Dan Deng?"

Yan Ji shouted cautiously, keeping his voice in his mouth.

"Why don't you wait for me at home, really, I'm going back."

Yan Ji kicked her foot, and the bicycle slid out half a meter, close to the wall, she rolled over and got off, and she straddled the back seat, facing the entrance of the alley.

After eight o'clock, the sun began to show its power, and the cold and dilapidated stone alley could not escape the scorching.Children are already very angry, Yan Ji is hot like a puppy, leaning against the blue brick wall and wilting.

Seeing her familiar face, the owner of the small supermarket at the alleyway greeted her warmly: "Kids, come and play with your classmates."

Yan Ji picked up the ice coke and put it down again, picked up a bottle of soft purified water, and took out a dollar from his pocket.Seeing this, the owner of the supermarket lost the interest in talking, opened the drawer and squeezed Huang Chengcheng's fifty cents, and pressed it against the glass cabinet, making a loud sound.

Yan Ji took the coins away, and as soon as she went out, she saw a familiar figure pushing a bicycle into the alley, and she quickened her pace to follow.

The short squad leader hadn't grown much this year, and stood in front of Yan Deng's house with two books in his arms. Look through the crack of the door.

"Lu Yan!" Yan Ji shouted, "What are you doing sneaking around?"

Lu Yan stepped back in shock, letting the uneven blue brick trip over his heels, and squatted on the ground.

Yan Ji suddenly lost his fighting spirit: "Cut."

She strode over with disdain on her face: "Why are you here? What are you doing here?"

Lu Yan got up from the ground, patted his clothes, "Why should I tell you?"

The two of them have never been very confrontational, and it's okay not to talk, but when they talk, they always have to quarrel.This meeting was at the gate of Yan Deng's house, each of them became less angry, and stared at each other, neither said a word.

Occasionally, people walked around in the alley, and they saw two students standing there, one on the left and the other on the right.As noon approached, there were more people coming off work. After being stared at for a long time, Yan Ji and Lu Yan were a little embarrassed. They walked out of the alley and hid in the shade of a tall ginkgo tree.

Lu Yan looked at the phone booth across the road: "Do you know Yan Deng's home phone number?"

Yan Ji glanced at the people coming and going on the road, but didn't speak to him.

Lu Yan was annoyed: "I knew you didn't know, it wasn't even on the registration form."

Yan Ji suddenly realized, and jumped up angrily: "I knew it, Yan Deng would not tell you that her family lives here, you peek at the registration form!"

Lu Yan said anxiously, "I didn't!"

"Humph!"

In spring, summer, autumn and winter, three meals a day are indispensable. The smell of oily smoke and vegetables is wafting, and Yan Ji's stomach growls.

Lu Yan squinted: "Go home and eat."

Yan Ji was very anxious, because she knew that it was impossible for Yan Deng not to go home to cook for her mother, not to mention the wind, rain and hail, even if she was given the opportunity to give a speech at the city's three-good student commendation meeting, she would still be on time go home.

Lu Yan could see that she was anxious: "You go home first, I will definitely tell classmate Yan Deng that you came to find her."

"You don't know!" Yan Ji said, then turned and walked into the alley.

Lu Yan followed behind her: "I won't lie to you, a gentleman keeps his word, you know? I will definitely tell Yan Deng...you, you, what are you going to do!"

Lu Yan rushed up to support the rickety bicycle: "Get off quickly, are you crazy? Hey, Yan Ji, be careful..."

Yan Ji stepped on the back seat of the bicycle, grasped the wall with both hands, rolled in with one leg first, and sat straddling the wall, looking inside: "Don't make noise."

The yard is very quiet, no one feels there.

Yan Ji was riding on the wall, at a loss.

She was not afraid of climbing over the wall, nor was she afraid of being discovered by climbing over the wall, and she couldn't even say what she was afraid of: it was Yan Deng's mother who suddenly fell ill; it was Yan Deng who calmly said "Yan Ji, you go back first"; Escape yourself.

"Yan Ji, what did you see?" Lu Yan asked in a low voice, looking around the alley in fear.

Without saying a word, Yan Ji jumped off the wall.

First look at the small sheds on the left and right. The kitchen is neat and clean, and the bright red plastic buckets in the utility room are eye-catching.

Yan Ji took a deep breath and walked towards the gloomy main house.There is a couplet written by Yan Deng on the mottled brown wooden door. The red has faded, but the ink is still strong——

Good luck

Teruto

Yan Ji read it several times, and boldly asked, "Auntie?"

He yelled several times, but there was no sound in the room.Lu Yan outside the door was waiting impatiently, lying in the crack of the door and asking: "Yan Ji? Is there anyone?"

Yan Ji stretched out his fingers, tapped on the door and pushed gently, the wooden door creaked half open: "Auntie? I'm Yan Deng's classmate. My name is Yan Ji."

Yan Ji stood at the door and waited for a while, the room was silent, she stretched her head to look inside.The old-fashioned bungalow was low, the sun was shining brightly outside, the room was cold and dark, the living room had a panoramic view, a low table, a stool, and a chair.

Yan Ji was frightened and anxious, so he pushed both doors open with all his strength.

"Yan Deng?" She shouted boldly and walked to the right.

There was no one in the room, the bed was very small, and a bed took up most of the room. There was a mat on the bed, and a small electric fan was hung on the top of the gauze tent.Next to the wall is an old, polished rattan chair with a radio on it, and an elementary school workbook next to it.

In the homework book is a pencil drawing drawn by Yan Deng, which tells the story of a little dragon with fangs and claws, which looks quite cute.Yan Ji would not be in the mood to take a closer look, flipped through the homework and put it back on the rattan chair.

The room on the left looked extremely crowded, with a chest of drawers at the end of the camp bed, and two peeled camphorwood boxes stacked next to it.There is an old-fashioned sewing machine in front of the window, on which there are sheets of Mathematical Olympiad papers, which have been written to the back, and a ballpoint pen is placed on the draft pad next to it.

Yan Ji was dizzy: "Impossible."

It is impossible for Yan Deng to put down the half-written test paper and go out to play. Could it be that her mother is sick?She took her mother to the hospital?

Yan Ji left in a hurry, moved a stool and climbed over the wall.

Lu Yan supported the bicycle: "Be careful."

Yan Ji clung to the wall and jumped down, pushed the bicycle and went outside.Lu Yan followed behind and asked, but Yan Ji remained silent, how could she tell others about the affairs of Yan Deng's family.

Lu Yan was quick-witted and thoughtful. Seeing her like this, she always felt that something was wrong, so he chased after her on his bicycle, but Yan Ji couldn't get rid of him.

Yan Ji and Lu Yan ran to three hospitals like chickens without their heads, and returned to Yan Deng's house in the evening.Seeing that General Tie was still guarding the door, the two children were completely discouraged.

Lu Yan drooped his head: "Will Yan Deng go on a trip with his family?"

Yan Ji rolled his eyes and didn't want to talk to him.

Waiting left and right, it was getting late, the two had no choice but to go home first.

"Grandpa, I'm back." Yan Ji called out first, but when no one responded, he breathed a sigh of relief and took out a key from his pocket.

Yan Ji was so hungry that he entered the door and went straight to the kitchen, only to see that the cold pot and stove were empty.

"Ah, why didn't you even cook the rice?" Yan Ji turned off the rice cooker, turned on the gas stove, and hummed a song, "No gun~ no cannon~ the enemy made it for us, no food~ no drink~ classmate Yan Ji did it himself~ "

After eating the boiled noodles, Yan Ji wanted to find Yan Deng, but was afraid that he would lose his temper when his grandfather came back, so he was in a dilemma, so he simply turned on the TV.

Sometimes he was fascinated by watching it, and sometimes he was uneasy. When the two episodes of cartoons were finished, Yan Ji saw that his grandfather hadn't come back yet, so he couldn't help complaining: "I don't know how to go home so late. I must be watching others play cards."

Grab the key and go out, go straight to the small park.The card players, chess players, and dancers went around twice, but they didn't see anyone.Yan Ji went home angrily, and when he entered the corridor and saw a light in the house, he immediately shouted: "Grandpa!"

"Open the door! Grandpa!"

Yan Ji stood in front of the anti-theft door, holding the key in his hand.

"Open the door quickly, I went to the park to look for you for a long time!"

Yan Ji frowned, inserted the key and opened the door, the living room was brightly lit, but there was no one in the room.Yan Ji was stunned outside the door, and suddenly remembered that he forgot to turn off the lights when he went out.