Lingering heart palpitations

It rained for two consecutive weeks at the beginning of September, the sky was very dark and gloomy, and we didn't know when it would rain.

It has been raining for several days, and water has accumulated in many places in the city. A large section of the subway in the south has been suspended, and many companies have sent employees off work in advance.

Everyone goes out with an umbrella, but the umbrella alone is not enough, the strong wind that blows from time to time can bend some of the not-so-strong umbrella ribs.

Xu Zixin left school to help his brother pick up his son home.His nephew's school is not far away. It takes 10 minutes to get there from the school.

A section of the school gate is under repair recently, so we have to bypass the front section and take the underground passage.

Xu Zixin was on the phone and walked down the underground passage.

There are many concentrated small shops, most of which are food and drink fruits, and there are some mobile vendors on both sides.

A few girls with ponytails were buying candied haws next to it, and next to it was a stall for buying hair ties and issuing cards, and an old man who was selling vegetables sitting on two scrapped newspapers.

Xu Zixin walked down the stairs, and before turning the corner, he was a little annoyed by the mixed smell of the snacks in the underground passage, so he quickened his pace and left.

A black bag was slung across his body, which contained a folding umbrella and some fruit-flavored lollipops—he prepared them for his nephew.

The red and white sneakers under his feet were inevitably stained with some mud spots. He was wearing a very eye-catching red T-shirt with a big tiger head print on the back, which matched his temperament very well. striking.

He picked up his nephew and took him home by taxi.

"Uncle, will you have dinner with me later?" The nephew liked him very much, and would cling to him whenever he saw him.

"No, my uncle will go back to school soon, there will be training tonight." Xu Zixin probably only spoke softly when he was with children.

"Training? Basketball training?"

Xu Zixin patted his head and replied, "Yes."

"Uncle, can you come and teach me how to play on weekends? You haven't been here for half a month." The nephew asked him in a childish voice with a lollipop in his mouth.

Xu Zixin readily agreed, took him into the house and handed him over to an aunt at home before leaving. Before leaving, his nephew gave him a box of Nagasaki cakes, "Uncle, eat this, this is delicious."

Nephew remembers he loves this.

Xu Zixin put the cake into his satchel, but the other party grabbed his trouser legs again, and asked him cautiously, "Can I share the lollipop my uncle gave me with Zimo?"

"Who is Zimo?"

The aunt next to him smiled and explained that it was his deskmate, a little girl carved with jade, who also lived nearby.

Xu Zixin smiled, rubbed his head and said yes.

After leaving their house, Xu Zixin took another taxi and returned.

It started to rain again, but the rain was not heavy, and the patter was not depressing.

He got out of the car and walked through the underground passage. He felt depressed again when he smelled the smell, so he quickened his pace.

The car couldn't pass the road under construction, and had to make a detour, and there was a traffic jam ahead.

When he was about to leave the underground passage and go up the stairs, he took out a folding umbrella from his satchel and opened it.

Just as he was about to leave, he glanced casually at the small vendor next to him from the corner of his eye, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

There is an old man selling vegetables sitting next to the stall for buying hair rings and issuing cards.

To be precise, he was an old man who was skinny, wrinkled, and gray-haired.

Wearing a washed and whitish blue cloth shirt and green rubber shoes covered in mud, he sat on two old newspapers with a shoulder pole behind him. His exposed ankles and calves were shockingly thin.

There were only two small wooden baskets in front of him, full of green peppers.

Xu Zixin glanced at it.

It is not difficult to find that the pile of green peppers is exactly the same as when he left, and there is nothing missing.

Yes, most of the people who buy things here are students, how could anyone buy this.

He reached for his satchel and found that he had no cash with him.

There was no QR code posted on the wooden frame. Xu Zixin frowned, walked back to the underground passage, and exchanged some cash at a fruit shop.

He closed the umbrella again, squatted down, picked up a green pepper, looked at it seriously, and asked, "Grandpa, how much is a catty of green pepper?"

The old man leaned forward and looked up at him, his eyes were a little cloudy, he stretched out three fingers a little stiffly, and said vaguely, "Three yuan a catty, you can buy more and get cheaper."

"Yeah." Xu Zixin nodded and put down the things in his hand, "I want ten catties."

The old man froze for a moment, then confirmed again, "Ten catties?"

"Yes." He nodded.

The old man showed a smile, he couldn't see a few teeth, but he was very sincere, "Oh, young man, even if you buy all these, you still don't have ten catties!"

"......." He didn't have a very conceptual idea, and asked, "Then I want all of them."

The old man laughed, his thin body swaying slightly, "Young man, I know you are kind...but you students don't have much money, so don't waste it! If you really want it, I'll give it to you." Weighing two catties is enough for two days."

Xu Zixin wanted to continue to say something, but the old man waved his hand to stop him, "You bought them all, what if other people's homes don't have anything to buy later? It's just raining now, so I can't leave, just wait and see." Are there any other buyers?"

I had no choice but to stand aside and watch the old man pick up an old-fashioned scale and weigh two catties in a rather awkward manner.

Green peppers are not heavy, and two catties seems to be quite a bag.

Xu Zixin reached out to take it, and handed over a 100 yuan card.

The old man took the one-hundred-dollar note without even looking at it. He took out a dusty money bag from his trouser pocket, turned out a stack of neatly folded banknotes, and started counting the change.

Before he could count out nine and ten yuan, the person in front of him had already walked into the rain with green peppers.

"Hey—boy! I haven't given you any money yet!"

The figure continued to walk in the rain as if it hadn't heard his words.The old man's eyes were a little blurry, he couldn't see things that were too far away, so he hurriedly looked for the boss who sold hair ropes next to him, "Girl, stop that young man for me!"

The boss turned his head and glanced at the leaving figure, then looked back at the wooden basket with green peppers, and said, "Just rest, I don't think that classmate wants your change, well, isn't that Have you left all the umbrellas?"

The old man stood up in a panic, muttering "how good this is" "how good this is".

But that figure has gone too far and can't be chased back. He thought about returning the money to others next time, and looked down at the wooden basket that contained two catties of green peppers. The folding umbrella was placed inside, and under the umbrella was a delicate transparent square box, inside which was a piece of cake with flat corners.

"Oh--what a treat! Maybe it's his supper!"

The boss who sold the hair rope was obviously much calmer, and he said consolingly, "I saw that he took it out of the bag on purpose, and the young man just now didn't look like he was short of money, just relax! It's a bit late today Now, why don't you go back early, isn't it quite far from home, I'm afraid it won't be safe."

It's useless to be anxious, the old man turned around twice, thinking that he must find someone to return the money and things to them next time he comes here.

It was indeed getting dark, and he took out a metal pocket watch from the other pocket. It was past six o'clock, and the journey home would be two hours faster.

The old man was about to pack his things when a figure stopped in front of him.

"Grandpa, how do you sell green peppers?"

"I want two pounds too."

Yu Ji squatted down, put green peppers into the bag by himself, turned his head slightly, and saw a student ID card with a blue background next to the checkered umbrella.

The old man only found out about the student ID card, "Why did that kid leave such an important thing behind!"

Yu Ji said without hesitation, "Give it to me, it has the class and name on it, and I'll give it back to him."

"Oh! Thank you so much, lad."

"..."

He was just buying milk tea for Yu Ran in the underground passage, and while waiting, he caught a glimpse of what happened around the corner.

But there was unconscious attention afterwards.

It turns out that in the same school, two people of different grades and different classes have so many opportunities to meet each other.

Gatherings, cafeterias, playgrounds, big class breaks, and every time I went to find Yu Ran.

At first it was probably just a vague appearance, but then it gradually became fuller and clearer.

The student ID card was taken back to school and home by Yu Ji, until now, it is still placed on the bookshelf in the room.