Xingyu Street

At 08:30 in the morning, when Duan Xuyan and Mo Xiaoyu went downstairs to the next door, the grandma of the hotel had already prepared breakfast.

On the table in the dining room, there is a breakfast in front of each seat, and there is a very beautiful white peony floating in a bowl.

Duan Xuyan recognized at a glance that the foreign peony was from the yard, and asked casually out of curiosity.

Homestay grandma: "Last night, the strong wind blew it away. I woke up in the morning and saw it. It was a pity. I heard that adding some water and letting the flowers stay for two more days."

Speaking of this, grandma tilted her head slightly to look at Mo Xiaoyu, who was standing next to Duan Xuyan, who was looking down at the bowl of flowers, and rolled her eyes with a smile, "Does Xiaoyu like it?"

Mo Xiaoyu nodded, "I like it."

"Xiao Yu, come and sit down. Grandma specially made your favorite seafood cake today. Look, there are prawns and squid."

Because they were worried that the food would be cold, everyone covered their breakfast with a plate. The grandmother of the homestay opened the plate while talking, revealing the golden fried seafood cake underneath.

Mo Xiaoyu especially likes to eat this seafood cake. Seeing the prawns and squids covered on it, his eyes lit up and he let out a wow.

The grandma at the homestay laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. She opened the chair and asked Mo Xiaoyu to sit down. "Come on, Xiaoyu, sit down and eat. It won't taste good when it's cold."

The grandmother of the homestay loves Mo Xiaoyu very much, and always prepares more delicious food for him. Knowing that Mo Xiaoyu likes to eat sweet food, she even cooks sweet chestnut and millet porridge.

Duan Xuyan was sitting on the seat next to Mo Xiaoyu, and was using chopsticks to divide the seafood cake into bite-sized pieces for Mo Xiaoyu to eat.

Mo Xiaoyu sat obediently in the chair and watched him, and when the seafood cake was divided, he couldn't wait to pick up a piece with chopsticks and feed it to Duan Xuyan.

Duan Xuyan looked at the seafood cake that had been delivered to his mouth with a big shrimp on it, opened his mouth to take it, tried his best not to touch Mo Xiaoyu's chopsticks, and nodded while eating, "It's delicious, Xiaoyu also eats it. "

Mo Xiaoyu pursed her lips and smiled shyly, and then happily enjoyed his seafood cake and sweet porridge.

Duan Xuyan looked at him for a while, then turned to look at the grandma at the hotel, "Grandma, I decided to go back to city A with Xiaoyu."

The grandma of the homestay was stunned for a moment, but she laughed again after she was stunned, and nodded again and again: "That's fine, I'm afraid that Xiaoyu will be sad after you leave, if you are willing to take him back together, that would be great .”

Mo Xiaoyu was drinking porridge with his head down, when he heard his name he raised his head in doubt.

When the grandma saw it, she asked him with a smile, "Xiaoyu is going to City A with Xuyan, are you happy?"

Mo Xiaoyu nodded, the smile on his face was completely joyful, without any anxiety or fear.

The grandma of the homestay looked at it with emotion, "To meet you, Xiao Yu's life is not considered hard, she is still a blessed child."

Mo Xiaoyu couldn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, he turned his head to look at Duan Xuyan in doubt, and called his name in a low voice, "Xuyan..."

Duan Xuyan raised his hand and pinched his earlobe, and said softly: "It's okay, grandma is praising you."

Mo Xiaoyu's earlobe is very fleshy, and it feels so good to pinch it. He also likes being pinched by Duan Xuyan. As long as Duan Xuyan pinches his earlobe, he will quickly calm down.

Seeing Mo Xiaoyu lowered his head and continued to eat his breakfast, Duan Xuyan continued: "I don't know if he can get used to it or not, so I just want to try it first. I'll take him back for a few days. Of course it's best for him to get used to it." , if he can't get used to it, I'll send him back, and then I might have to trouble grandma to take care of him."

The grandma of the homestay nodded in agreement.

After breakfast, Duan Xuyan took Mo Xiaoyu back to Xingyu Street, and asked Mo Xiaoyu to find out his ID card, and pack a few close-fitting clothes, and don't bring anything else that is not needed.

When Mo Xiaoyu was packing up, Duan Xuyan went out and greeted all the neighbors who had a good relationship with Xiaoyu, Grandpa Bai who collected waste, including the street neighborhood committee, and left a piece of his own for the neighborhood committee. Business card, Mo Xiaoyu is a special group after all, even though he is 19 years old, Duan Xuyan still needs to say hello and tell them when Duan Xuyan takes him away.

When I got back to Mo Xiaoyu's house, I saw a woven bag on the ground on the first floor. It was the same woven bag that Mo Xiaoyu usually took with him when he went out to pick up bottles.

And Mo Xiaoyu was squatting on the ground, trying to stuff his box of luxurious colored pens into the woven bag.

Duan Xuyan was taken aback for a moment, then raised his hand and patted his forehead, and said to himself, "I missed it..."

Mo Xiaoyu was still trying to stuff the set of colored pens into the woven bag, Duan Xuyan called him softly, "Xiaoyu."

Mo Xiaoyu stopped what he was doing and looked up at him, "Huh?"

Duan Xuyan walked over and took him by the wrist to lift him up from the ground, "Xiao Yu first take out all the things you want to take away, and put them together with Xuyan's when you go back later, okay?"

Mo Xiaoyu looked at her woven bag, and gradually realized that it might not work with this bag.

Duan Xuyan said softly: "This bag is too small, Xuyan has a big box, which can be used with Xiaoyu."

Mo Xiaoyu widened his round almond eyes and looked at him, "Big box?"

Duan Xuyan nodded, "Yes, it's a big box."

When Duan Xuyan said that the box was very big, Mo Xiaoyu finally looked at the woven bag hesitantly, and nodded in agreement.

Duan Xuyan took out the things in the woven bag, two big bowls with peonies, the cartoon character wall lamp he bought for Mo Xiaoyu, a small fan, a drawing book...

Many of the things in the woven bag were bought for him by Duan Xuyan, and at the bottom of the woven bag were several pieces of clothes wrapped up in a ball. Duan Xuyan wanted to fold these clothes, but when he opened it, he saw that There is a picture frame lying in the clothes.

The photo of Grandma Mo Xiaoyu hanging on the wall was taken down by Mo Xiaoyu. He was afraid that the photo would be crushed, so he wrapped it tightly with his clothes.

Duan Xuyan held the photo frame and looked at it quietly. The old man in the photo was always gentle and kind. He had imagined more than once that when the old man was dying, she must have left very reluctantly, and would not be at ease until she died. light rain.

Duan Xuyan can understand that kind of worry, and it is because of understanding that he loves Mo Xiaoyu even more. He is so distressed that he wants to tie him on his trouser belt and take it with him wherever he goes, so that no one can bully him.

"Xuyan?"

Duan Xuyan looked up and met Mo Xiaoyu's puzzled and worried eyes, and smiled softly, "Xiaoyu, we have to go to Grandma Ying's house later, and tell her that Xiaoyu is going to Xuyan's house to play."

Mo Xiaoyu nodded.

Duan Xuyan asked Mo Xiaoyu to check again if there was anything to bring, and after finishing all the things to take away, Duan Xuyan took Mo Xiaoyu out to grandma Ying's house.

Grandma Ying lived in an old neighborhood across the street from Xingyu Street.

Mo Xiaoyu knew the way, and took Duan Xuyan to the old street. On the road, when he saw an old man selling fruit on a tricycle, Duan Xuyan stopped the tricycle and bought two bags of fruit.

The houses on the block across the road from Xingyu Street are also hidden under the lush green shade like Xingyu Street, and they look just as old and peaceful.

Grandma Ying's house is also on the first floor like Mo Xiaoyu's house, with a very small yard.

When the two arrived, Grandma Ying happened to be out to take out the trash.

Mo Xiaoyu called her, "Grandma Ying!"

Grandma Ying turned her head when she heard the voice. The old man's eyesight is bad and she couldn't see clearly. She didn't recognize them until Duan Xuyan and Mo Xiaoyu came up to them.

Duan Xuyan: "Grandma is good."

Grandma Ying is a serious and unsmiling old man. Because she has a bad leg, she always walks with her back bent and one hand behind her back, which makes people feel that she is not easy to get along with.

Hearing Duan Xuyan call her, Grandma Ying just nodded with a serious face, and then looked at Mo Xiaoyu, "What's wrong, Xiaoyu?"

Mo Xiaoyu was very happy, "Grandma Ying, Xiaoyu, Xuyan, let's play at home!"

This sentence almost jumped out in two words, but Grandma Ying still understood, she frowned slightly and looked at Duan Xuyan, "You want to take Xiao Yu to your house?"

Duan Xuyan nodded.

Grandma Ying is not a neighbor in the neighborhood, nor is she a street neighborhood committee. She is a friend of Grandma Mo Xiaoyu's life, and after Mo Xiaoyu lost her grandma, she can be said to be the only person who is taking care of Mo Xiaoyu.

Her ability is limited, the clothes and shoes on her body have traces of mending, and even the clothes in the yard are worn out as if they have been worn for many years. Mo Xiaoyu has been there for two years.

Regarding the fact that Duan Xuyan wanted to take Mo Xiaoyu away, Grandma Ying didn't quite agree, so she frowned and said nothing.

The atmosphere froze for a moment.

Mo Xiaoyu is a very sensitive person, he can feel the changes in the atmosphere, but compared to Granny Ying who he has known for a long time, it is Duan Xuyan who Mo Xiaoyu subconsciously seeks asylum.

He grabbed Duan Xuyan's arm with one hand, and hid his whole body behind Duan Xuyan.

Duan Xuyan held the fruit in both hands, so he could only tilt his head to comfort him softly, "Xiao Yu, it's okay, Grandma Ying is just worried about you."

Mo Xiaoyu didn't even show her face, and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"Grandma Ying is afraid that Xuyan will bully you."

"Huh?" Mo Xiaoyu felt that Grandma Ying had misunderstood Duan Xuyan, so she poked out half of her head from behind Duan Xuyan to help Duan Xuyan explain, "Grandma Ying, Xuyan does not, bullying, no, bullying, Xuyan is good."

Grandma Ying looked at Mo Xiaoyu first, then at Duan Xuyan, and finally at the fruit in Duan Xuyan's hand with some stern eyes, and said lightly: "Xiaoyu is willing, but how can I, an outsider, have the right to say anything? There is one thing I want to ask you."

Duan Xuyan nodded, "Grandma, tell me."

Grandma Ying looked at him straight, "I know you are a good person, but if one day, you feel that this child is a burden and you don't want to take care of him anymore, you can send him back."

Duan Xuyan opened his mouth. He wanted to say a lot at this moment, but in the end he only said one sentence, "Grandma, I don't think he is a burden."

Grandma Ying just glanced at him, then turned and went back to the house.

Mo Xiaoyu looked at Grandma Ying's back in a little helplessness, and Duan Xuyan handed the two bags of fruit to Mo Xiaoyu, then took out the wallet and took out all the cash in it, about ten and one hundred into the fruit bag, for Mo Xiaoyu Xiao Yu said: "Xiao Yu, go and give this to Grandma Ying, remember to say thank you to Grandma Ying, I will come back to see you."

Encouraged by Duan Xuyan's eyes, Mo Xiaoyu chased into Grandma Ying's house with two bags of fruit.

After waiting for a while, Mo Xiaoyu came out, holding three 100 yuan bills in his hand.

The money looked a little old, as if it had been pressed under something for a long time, and it could still smell a peculiar smell of old money.

Mo Xiaoyu held the money and looked at Duan Xuyan helplessly, as if he had done something wrong, "Grandma Ying gave Xiaoyu..."

Duan Xuyan had already guessed that Grandma Ying would give money to Mo Xiaoyu. For Grandma Ying, the 300 yuan was probably all her savings that she could use to ensure her daily living expenses. money.

"Grandma Ying gave this money to Xiao Yu, so Xiao Yu will keep it well." Duan Xuyan said as he took his wrist and led them to Xingyu Ancient Town.

Under the lush green shade, the delicate light and shadow swaying all over the ground gently draped over the two of them, and the conversation between the two on the quiet path was very clear.

"Did Xiao Yu remember to say thank you, Grandma Ying?"

"Have."

"I'll come back and see if you said anything?"

"Have."

"Did Grandma Ying say anything?"

"No, Grandma Ying's eyes are red, give Xiaoyu money."

Duan Xuyan looked back at Mo Xiaoyu, Mo Xiaoyu had a good expression, there was no special sadness or reluctance, he was more in a daze.

He only knew that he was reluctant to part with Duan Xuyan and didn't want to be separated from Duan Xuyan, but he didn't know that there were also people who would be reluctant to part with him, just like Grandma Ying, just like Duan Xuyan.