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Lu Song suddenly suffered from mental illness when Jiang Chu was not in elementary school. At that time, Jiang Xuyang had divorced her for two years.

At that time, their family lived in Jia County. Jiang Xuyang fell in love with Lu Song because of her beauty, and parted ways with her because she was too beautiful.

More than ten years ago, they were synonymous with perfection in the eyes of many people. Their family of three consisted of a beautiful mother, a successful father, and a smart and cute child.

Later, Jiang Xuyang gradually became dissatisfied with his ability but could only use it in a small place like Jiaxian County. He felt that he was Kunpeng, and ponds like Jiaxian County were temporary residences that he despised.

Later, he went to the south, maybe he was really capable, maybe it was good luck that fell on him, in short, he was really happy when he came back, and the rumor is that this seemingly good little family was split from then on.

Jiang Xuyang once suspected that Jiang Chu was his own. For this reason, he did DNA and found a private detective. At that time, Jiang Chu was young and didn't know what those strange uncles who suddenly appeared were doing, but every time they appeared, Lu Song then quarreled with Jiang Xuyang hysterically.

It was also from then on that Jiang Chu knew that they would not be able to go to the south.

Recalling the past, grandma couldn't help sighing, she cut off the excess scraps from the edge of the dumpling wrappers and wiped them aside: "They divorced, and no one noticed the change in Xiao Chu, he never went out to play during that time, and later we Only then did I know that when he went out, he could hear those ugly words, all of which were slandering his mother, and every time he went out, he had a fight with someone. Later, he didn’t like to go out.”

Gu Zhi squeezed the soft dough, and his thoughts seemed to follow the old man to more than ten years ago, witnessing another person's bumpy childhood, he was powerless to change anything, but he couldn't help feeling sad.

It didn't know when it started to snow outside the house, and the dazzling frost suddenly became gloomy.

So is it because of this that Jiang Chu treats everyone like a stranger?

"Later." Grandma said without opening her face, as if someone was finally willing to listen to her thoughts that had been accumulated for many years.

"His mother gradually became ill." Grandma pointed to her head: "It's a problem here, and it can't be cured. Xiaochu is afraid that she will hurt others when she goes out, and she is also afraid that she will hurt herself. Looking at her, following her every step of the way, how old is he, other people's children have snotted and cheated in their parents' arms, his heartless father thought he had something wrong and refused to recognize him, and his mother was insane."

The old man shook his head, his eyes were a little red, soaked in those dusty memories and couldn't calm down for a long time, she bit her nose and said: "Looking at it like this, something happened, he is still a little man, he dozed off in a daze How normal, in the blink of an eye, the house was set on fire, if the people passing by heard the cries and could be saved quickly, there would be Xiao Chu."

Gu Zhi was stunned for a long time as if struck by lightning, this was the first time someone had told him about Jiang Chu's childhood, it was as tragic as a drama.

No wonder, no wonder when we first met, he just said that you were sick, which caused Jiang Chu to fight him.

"Our place is small, and there are many people who have never read a book. They dare to say anything. After his mother passed away, he never went out. Those people said that the disease is very hereditary, and that Xiaochu and her Like a mother, let alone let her children get close to him."

The old man raised his eyes and looked at Gu Zhi, his eyes were full of water: "So you said that you are Xiaochu's classmate, I am really happy, he has never brought a classmate home, not only I am happy, Xiaochu is also the same, he is very happy Don't laugh, after you came, he was happy all morning, don't look at his mouth, but don't mention how happy he is in his heart."

Gu Zhi was dumbfounded for a long time and choked up for a while. When he came back to his senses, he blinked quickly, and the sourness rushed into his heart. Before he came, he thought that Jiang Chu's uneasiness was only caused by Jiang Xuyang, but in fact it was just a very small one. part.

Even if it was only because of Jiang Xuyang, he might not feel uneasy at all.

It was only then that he realized that Jiang Chu would only show such emotions to those who cared. He was like a cat that was docile on the surface but would explode at any time. After a few gentle calls, the flag will die down, or it will show its sharp claws to scare the other party away.

The word "frighten away" stayed in Gu Zhi's mind for a short moment. With flour on his hands, he only raised his arm but retracted it, and said, "I'm happy too."

After talking so much, grandma finally showed a little smile in this sentence, with a bitter smile, she said: "Xiao Chu didn't cause you any trouble, did he? He didn't have any friends since he was a child, so sometimes he didn't speak well. Not pleasant."

Gu Zhi was very clever, he could tell that what grandma meant was that if Jiang Chu said something nasty, it was not his intention.

Gu Zhi said: "No, he has many friends, the monitor of our class, the school committee, and the sports committee, all have a very good relationship with him. But..." Gu Zhi said: "It's best with me."

Grandma was amused by his inexplicable desire to win and lose and said: "I don't know Xiao Chu, those people you mentioned must be better than you." Grandma didn't have any confidence in her own grandson, he said: " When I was a child, I was afraid that he would always be like that, but now that I see you, I am not so worried."

Gu Zhi's grandmother's tone of voice, which seemed to entrust Jiang Chu to him, was so proud that he couldn't help but peacock: "I'm so good?"

After hesitating for two seconds, grandma couldn't help laughing, and the sad memories just now were swept away.Gu Zhi's ability to make the old man happy is at his fingertips, he followed suit with a laugh, then set his gaze on a plate of red beans next to the stuffed dumplings, and asked, "I haven't eaten dumplings with red bean stuffing before, is this a new taste?" ?”

Grandma was successfully led astray by him, and her attention fell on the plate of red beans. She said: "You child, what are you talking about, there is no red bean stuffing, this is called Jifu."

Gu Zhi: "?"

"Look, it looks like this." Grandma said as she spread out the dumpling skin in her hand, added a spoonful of meat filling, then picked a plump red bean from the plate and put it inside, and slowly pinched it along the edge of the dumpling skin Tight, "Mixed in ordinary dumplings, whoever eats this one will be the luckiest person in the coming year."

Gu Zhi felt that this statement was very new. He heard it for the first time, so he stuffed one dumpling into each dumpling as if he had discovered a new world.

He thought, with Jiang Chu's kind of shit luck, he had to spread the net so widely in order to accumulate blessings on him.

Jiang Chu followed his grandmother's instructions, after buying salt, he heard a burst of laughter coming from the house as soon as he entered the yard. He was silent for a moment, and couldn't help feeling that Gu Zhi was very powerful, and coaxing the old man was something he couldn't do.

He stepped into the door and asked the people inside with a loose expression on his face: "What are you talking about?"

Seeing that he came back, grandma took the salt in his hand and said, "Then you play, I'll boil water and cook dumplings."

Jiang Chu: "?"

Grandma brought all the dumplings to be used into the kitchen, and the remaining flour was really for them to play with.

Gu Zhi owes his hand, he can't do serious things well, he has a bunch of crazy ideas, he pinched a pig's head for a while, and pinched a cat's head for a while.In a few minutes, the table turned into a flour zoo.

Jiang Chu didn't know why he went out to buy some salt by himself, so he was so happy, he asked suspiciously, "What did you say to my grandma?"

Gu Zhi pretended to be reserved and said, "I learned how to make dumplings."

As he spoke, he picked up a dough ball and made it into a dumpling shape, "Look, does it look like a little white boat?"

Since the dumplings had no filling, they looked like that from the outside. Jiang Chu picked them up and took a look, and they really looked like that.

Gu Zhi has a strong learning ability. He has been taught in the past when he was studying. He did not expect that he is also talented in making dumplings. It was not until his grandmother came out with a plate of cooked dumplings that Gu Zhi looked embarrassed. .

I really believed your evil.

He picked up a broken belly dumpling with the vegetable stuffing exposed, and said, "Are there any passengers on the little white boat?"

Gu Zhi turned over the remaining broken dumplings on the plate, but there were too many broken dumplings that couldn't be covered. He said embarrassingly, "The gap between theory and practice, please understand."

Jiang Chu understood, and the way he understood was also very simple——

He ate all the broken dumplings, but it was strange, every time he ate one, his complexion became ugly. Of course, the dumplings with water in them would not taste good, but that wasn't what Jiang Chu frowned.

Gu Zhi's expression was even weirder than his.

He muttered, "It shouldn't be." He thought to himself, why there is no reaction at all after putting so much in, could it be that the dumplings got into the water when they were not wrapped and boiled?Probably not so much going into the water.

While giving Jiang Chu some broken dumplings, he thought, if he didn't have any, he would have to accept his fate.

As soon as I said this, a red bean popped out of my mouth.

This luck, but also no one.

While proud of himself, Gu Zhi tried to test the person who concentrated on eating dumplings: "Do you think there is any difference in this dumpling?"

Jiang Chu chuckled: "It's different, none of them are complete."

Gu Zhi wanted to say that I didn't mean it that way, but Jiang Chu was telling the truth, so he bit the bullet and continued to ask, "What else?"

Jiang Chu: "..."

In fact, Jiang Chu really wanted to say that the dumpling soaked in water was really unpalatable, and it hurt his teeth, but when he saw Gu Zhi's expectant eyes, he could only shake his head and said against his conscience: "It's delicious. of."

After that, Gu Zhi was a little sluggish, and Jiang Chu didn't ask any questions.

It wasn't until I was helping my grandma clean up after dinner that I saw a half plate of red beans left on the microwave.

He asked curiously, "What is this for?"

Grandma's hands were stained with water, so it was inconvenient to hold them. She said, "It's for making dumplings. I told Xiao Gu that whoever eats dumplings with red beans will be the luckiest person in the coming year, and the child keeps stuffing them in. How can this..."

Jiang Chu didn't pay much attention to what grandma said after the rambling, he seemed to know why Gu Zhi picked out all the broken dumplings and gave them to him, and what those things that almost jumped to the teeth were.

He stared down at the plate of red beans for a while, and fell into deep thought for a while. Through the glass, under the dark sky, he didn't know when the sporadic light snow turned into heavy snow, and the figures on the street began to fall. Fuzzy, Jiang Chu turned his head and looked lost.

After the old man cleaned up the kitchen, he happened to see his neighbor passing by the window. He finally came back to his senses when he heard the voice of his grandmother greeting the neighbor. To Gu Zhi's shadow.

The previous haze has been swept away, Gu Zhi is like a child who went to the zoo for the first time, standing in a certain corner of the yard, where a thin layer of snow has accumulated, he is dying like kneading dough A delicate snowman was piled up under the stump.

Then he picked up the dead branches on the side, took a step back, and wrote a name on the clean snow.

Jiang Chu.

Jiang Chu looked at him from under the eaves. After writing, he seemed to feel that there was something missing, so he awkwardly drew a heart next to his name.

Satisfied this time, he clapped his hands, put down the dead branches and stood aside to admire his masterpiece.

Suddenly, as if he had sensed something, he raised his head abruptly. Rows of lanterns were reflected on the steps a few steps away. Jiang Chu stood in one of the faint lights. He was flushed, and even the corners of his eyes were smeared with a slight redness. He pursed his lips and leaned against the door frame calmly, without any wind and snow between his brows.

Gu Zhi was a little stunned, and he only took a few steps to come to Jiang Chu. When Jiang Chu raised his hand, he was a little puzzled for a moment, and finally Jiang Chu's hand fell on his shoulder, and he wiped away the few spots on his head. flakes of snow.

He was wearing Jiang Chu's jacket without pockets, and he had nowhere to put his red hands from the cold, so he put them into Jiang Chu's pockets logically.

The snow fell harder and harder, and the wind also picked up. The lantern on the beam swayed from side to side, and something seemed to be overflowing from his chest, and Jiang Chu's hands were rarely hot.

Gu Zhi didn't dare to move, he let the warmth of his palm slowly transfer to his wide pocket.

The snow slowly covered Jiang Chu's pile of little people, and the cheers of children outside could be heard through a door. Gu Zhi pinched one of Jiang Chu's fingers, and unconsciously said, "We will put it on at night." Fireworks? I've never played with them."