Mindful

Liang Cheng and Qiao Yuanlin were both overtired. On the first day of the new year, they hugged each other and slept until the sun was up. If the mobile phone hadn't vibrated from the pillow and bumped into their foreheads, they would have confessed in bed on New Year's Day.

Liang Cheng didn't open his eyes, he groped until he slipped away: "Hello?"

There was silence for a few seconds, and Wang Ruizhi's voice came: "Is it Yuan Lin?"

Liang Cheng woke up instantly, sat up and looked at the caller ID.Qiao Yuanlin's pillowed arm was suddenly pulled away, and he woke up after rolling half a circle: "What are you doing..."

Liang Cheng clutched his phone and said, "Your grandma."

After waiting for three minutes, Wang Ruizhi finally heard his grandson's voice, which was sticky and hoarse due to dryness, and Qiao Yuanlin said, "Grandma, I was sleeping just now."

Wang Ruizhi used to pamper him and said: "I hit the wrong time, why don't you sleep for a while?"

How could Qiao Yuanlin be embarrassed: "Don't sleep, Grandma, Happy New Year's Day."

Wang Ruizhi had already guessed who answered the phone before, and said, "You and Xiao Liang are also happy. Bao'er, I miss you."

"I miss you too." Qiao Yuanlin got out of bed and flipped through his schedule. "I'm on a business trip in Beijing. I'm done. I'll buy a ticket to go back to see you in these two days."

"Really?" Wang Ruizhi said happily, "Then you bring Xiao Liang along."

After chatting for a while, Qiao Yuanlin didn't feel sleepy after hanging up the line, went into the bathroom to wash his face with Liang Cheng, and said, "It's just a rest, let's go home and go to my grandma's place."

"Okay." Liang Cheng hardly thought about it, and after agreeing to think of one thing, "Grandma lives with your mother?"

Originally, it was, but Wang Ruizhi was old, and Lin Chengbi's child was too young, so she rented another place because she thought it would affect her rest.

Qiao Yuanlin misunderstood, thinking that Liang Cheng asked him to visit together, and said: "Let's not see my mother for now, it will be embarrassing if we meet that child and his father."

Liang Cheng nodded by mistake.

Going out for a stroll in the afternoon, Beijing is too vast, you may have to walk [-] steps to transfer within a subway station, and there are so many scenic spots and places of interest that you lose sight of which one to visit, so they simply went to Qiao Yuanlin's alma mater.

Counting it, Qiao Yuanlin graduated less than a year ago, and the school is as good as ever.He is a graduate student directly admitted to this school, and has spent six or seven years in this top domestic institution.

The library, the garden, a green lake, fat stray cats and dogs, and the unique beauty of the campus can be seen at a glance. For Qiao Yuanlin, university life is a kind of hard happiness.

There was an association setting up a stall on the side of the road to engage in activities. Liang Cheng asked, "Is it difficult for your news agency to enter?"

Qiao Yuanlin said: "Of course, we are special cattle."

"Lei Junming can be the vice president, how good is it?" Liang Cheng was perfect, and he was happy, and then he said something nice, "What position do you, a top student, hold in the club?"

Qiao Yuanlin worked as a reporter, editor, and occasionally took charge of photography.Because the members of the news agency are expensive and not expensive, they are often not enough.

The news agency undertook the publicity and reporting of all school activities, which made the Propaganda Department of the Student Union very passive, but they couldn't help them.They didn't have time to pay attention, the usual weekly news was busy enough.

Apart from studying in class, Qiao Yuanlin spends his spare time on the news. Looking back now, it seems that every article is quite Octopus-like.

A kissing contest was held in front of a shopping mall in Wudaokou. He wanted to steal his first kiss, and watched for a long time, just to interview No.1's acceptance speech.

A brother from the Department of Mathematics and a student from the University of Geosciences dated online, and they met for a semester, and they turned out to be juniors; they had a debate with students from Beijing Normal University, and the loser had to invite the winner to have a big meal in the school cafeteria; The foreign students played football, were abused to the point of wanting to jump off the building together.

Qiao Yuanlin has interviewed many people, and talked about himself in a big circle.

The dormitory is a four-person room, and he is the fourth child, and only he folds the towels into tofu cubes.I have lost umbrellas, U disks, and baseball caps. I set up a stall to sell old things in my senior year and bought a pot of prickly pears.

He didn't attend physical education class, and went to the laboratory building to see the students of the biology department.He would definitely stop when he heard someone calling his name Liang on the road.The beef pot knuckle was actually not tasty, but he could never taste the taste that was delivered to him during self-study that night.

He went to the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, Wangfujing, all crowded places, major medical schools, and alleys to read the QR codes on the poles.

Qiao Yuanlin stopped under the slack locust tree, and told Liang Cheng: "On the day of the wedding, my father said that Aunt He's son had studied in England, and then I saw it was you."

He was shaken at that moment.

Forget-me-not was placed between him and Liang Cheng. It was the only time in his life that he finished a meal so quickly. He didn't dare to dawdle, otherwise he would probably ask if there was a gap——

Have you pursued me too?

Liang Cheng answered him at this moment: "Yes, just like you are after me."

After leaving school, they went to the local supermarket to buy some special products to take home. Qiao Yuanlin used to buy traditional pastries and send them to Wang Ruizhi. The old lady liked them very much.

They booked air tickets for the evening, checked out on the morning of the [-]nd, and they flew directly to the city where Wang Ruizhi lived.

Qiao Yuanlin didn't come here many times, and even if he did, he rarely went to the house. He usually asked Wang Ruizhi and Lin Chengbi to meet up.Now it is more convenient for the old lady to move out.

The location of the community is good. There are a row of shops on the street that cater for basic necessities, food, and entertainment. Whenever the sun is shining, the open-air tea room is always full of old people gossiping.

Wang Ruizhi couldn't wait to come to the side of the street to wait. Her eyesight had deteriorated and her reading glasses had thickened, but the earrings were still shining silver.

More than a dozen taxis sped past, and finally one slowed down and stopped. She looked at the passengers in the car and immediately smiled.

Qiao Yuanlin opened the car door: "Grandma!"

Wang Ruizhi trotted over to hug him, as if his grandson hadn't grown up yet, and said, "Bao'er, let me hug you."

Liang Cheng got off the car from the other side, and returned to Wanping Alley in a daze.The old lady was a little older back then, but she still loved beauty. She wore a velvet cheongsam under her coat and half-inch high leather shoes, as if she had not changed her demeanor as the captain of a model team.

Wang Ruizhi moved his eyes and called out, "Xiao Liang?"

In the past, Liang Cheng rented a house in a cheongsam shop, and kept away from strangers. He met each other every day but never called him by name.

Wang Ruizhi smiled and said, "I won't let you go upstairs without saying hello."

Liang Cheng pursed his thin lips and said, "Grandma."

Wang Rui held one hand and the other, living alone is unavoidably lonely, she has always envied the neighbors in front of her children and grandchildren, and today she came here suddenly.

Upstairs to the home, one bedroom and one living room, the owner has carefully decorated it, and Wang Ruizhi added some things to make it more warm.The sewing machines in the cheongsam shop are still there, and they are placed on the brightly lit balcony.

Qiao Yuanlin asked: "Grandma, do you still make cheongsams?"

"It's very slow to do it, and my eyes are not working well." Wang Ruizhi replied, "Besides, the sewing machine is old and breaks down all the time, and the repair shop is not willing to come to fix it."

Liang Cheng had done this job before, and said, "I'll help you take a look later."

The kitchen was boiling soup for them, and Wang Ruizhi followed suit. As the only elder who knew, she asked, "How are you...?"

Qiao Yuanlin scratched the pinna, perhaps shy, and said, "It's pretty good."

Liang Cheng said, "I'm fine too."

Covering his mouth, Wang Ruizhi laughed, and laughed at the two people: "Back then, they were either arguing or arguing. It was so troublesome to jingle bells on the second floor. Have you become shy when you grow up?"

Qiao Yuanlin smirked, opened the gift box to take the pastries, and confirmed, "Grandma, you don't object to us at all?"

"You are in full bloom, what do I object to as an old woman." Wang Ruizhi said the truth, "Bao'er, I am different from your parents, I don't care, as long as you are happy than anything else."

Liang Cheng didn't understand the rules of "meeting the parents", but felt that a promise should be made.

However, before he could organize his sentence, Wang Ruizhi turned to him first and said, "Xiao Liang, you are a child with a hard life, but fortunately you have survived. From now on, you will be good with Yuan Lin. You have just passed a little half of your life, and your happiness comes sooner rather than later." Later, but not necessarily less than others."

Liang Cheng was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, he said awkwardly, "Thank you grandma."

Wang Ruizhi opened the enamel color box on the coffee table, and there were two wrapped red envelopes inside, and she said: "Your parents are married, and Yuan Lin's father is a man of good manners, so the friendship between the two of you is not easy to explain casually." But no matter what, I’m already an adult, so I told my family one day that I have to solve the difficulties by myself.”

Qiao Yuanlin assured: "We can handle it well."

Liang Cheng said: "I will not let him be wronged."

"Okay, be good." Wang Ruizhi handed a red envelope to each of them, "Then I don't care about others. For me, these two red envelopes are my official response as an elder."

Qiao Yuanlin caught it and squeezed it: "It's so thick, is the face value of the leaflet [-]?"

Liang Cheng also said, "Could it be too much?"

Wang Ruizhi secretly thought that there are people who think too much money, she replied: "Young people don't understand, if you give it according to the wedding tea ceremony, that's all you need."

Liang Cheng and Qiao Yuanlin looked at each other, they felt throbbing in this small living room after getting married, and they felt a little bit ashamed, they blushed slightly and didn't say a word.

The old lady couldn't bear to laugh at them anymore, so she went into the kitchen to make lunch. At that time, she cooked porridge, fried noodles, stewed meat and glutinous rice balls, and left many memories on the small dining table on the first floor.

Subconsciously, she didn't completely think that Liang Cheng and Qiao Yuanlin were a pair of lovers, but always felt that they were two children, one older and one younger.Meet together and turn the unlucky self into the other party's greatest luck.

After lunch, Liang Cheng checked the sewing machine on the balcony.

Qiao Yuanlin followed Wang Ruizhi into the bedroom, and there was an old photo frame on the bed, which contained photos of grandpa when he was alive.When he was ready to say what he wanted to say today, Wang Ruizhi had already dug it out.

"I have to tell him, you know how much he loves you, and you definitely want to hear it."

Qiao Yuanlin held up the photo frame with both hands, and said to himself, after talking about all kinds of things with Liang Cheng, he talked about work matters, but he was only happy.

Wang Ruizhi laughed while listening, feeling that everyone loves her grandson, she suddenly asked a whisper: "Bao'er, how is the stepmother treating you?"

When Qiao Yuanlin mentioned He Jie, his tone softened: "Auntie treats me very well, and her appearance made up for some of my regrets."

Wang Ruizhi couldn't understand better, and patted his head distressedly.

Qiao Yuanlin also whispered, "Grandma, who do you care about more, your little grandson or me?"

He didn't feel right when he asked. The palms and backs of his hands were all his own, so why make things difficult for the old man.Unexpectedly, Wang Ruizhi replied: "Bao'er, your mother has another child, and this will not change. But I will always care about you the most."

Qiao Yuanlin had long since given up seeking love from Lin Chengbi.Wang Ruizhi loves him and feels indebted to him, but he is content.

He had He Jie, and his grandparents and grandchildren knew that that healthy child made up for Lin Chengbi's regret.

Qiao Yuanlin took a deep breath and said, "Grandma, don't you want to move back to Pinghai?"

"Yes." Wang Ruizhi said, "My old friends are all in Pinghai, but your mother disagrees, saying that she is worried about me being old."

Qiao Yuanlin said: "I can take care of you, so what if you miss me?"

Wang Ruizhi pulled out a box from under the bed and put the photo frame back.In the box were my grandfather's relics, the odds and ends left over from the cheongsam shop, and a few photo albums.

She took out a copy and said, "When I miss you, I look through your photos."

Liang Cheng repaired the sewing machine and walked in. His freshly washed hands were very cold, and Qiao Yuanlin naturally held them and stuck them to his face.

The three formed a circle, and Wang Ruizhi opened the hard cover of the photo album. The first page was Qiao Yuanlin's birth photo. She was born with big eyes like black grapes. She was definitely the most beautiful doll in the delivery room.

Later, he was full moon and one year old. Although he was thin, his cheeks were plump, which looked like milk glutinous rice balls.A little older, with overalls and a small shirt, wearing a woolen hat of various colors for fear of the cold, and a cartoon water bottle that is thicker than the arm.

Qiao Yuanlin was hospitalized at the age of five, wearing a hospital gown, wearing a fever-reducing sticker with tears in his eyes, and playing with a magnifying glass with his grandfather, who was hugged by the young Qiao Wenyuan but looked unhappy, sitting on the ground and dismantling Lin Chengbi's camera... From a child to As a teenager, he accidentally found a photo of 13 years old, and the appearance he saw for the first time flooded into Liang Cheng's mind.

Wang Ruizhi said generously: "Xiao Liang, whichever one you like, take it."

Liang Cheng said, "Give me all this book."

Wang Ruizhi smiled: "You are welcome, you are robbing me."

There are still seven or eight pages left, Qiao Yuanlin flipped through it, it wasn't him anymore, it was a photo of Lin Chengbi when he was young.

He pointed it to Liang Cheng and introduced, "This is my mother."

The photo was taken nearly 30 years ago. It is a group photo of Lin Chengbi and his second and third classmates before he graduated from university. He is young and smart, but the boy next to him is gentle.

Qiao Yuanlin remembered seeing this photo and asked, "Is this my mother's college classmate?"

"It was her classmate when she was studying law." Wang Ruizhi poked the head on it, "They are all top students. Your mother's personality makes her look down on those with poor grades."

Qiao Yuanlin was a bit impressed, and said: "The person next to me seems to be number one in the whole department. I heard her praise it when I was young."

"Well, it seems to be." Wang Ruizhi has also heard of it, "What is it called..."

Liang Cheng stared at that person with a gloomy complexion and a suppressed hostility in his lowered eyes.

He stretched out his hand, intending to turn the page.

It happened that Wang Ruizhi remembered it and said, "My surname is Zhao, and my name is Zhao Jianzhe."