Miss White Rose

Although the house that my aunt lives in is basically a rural residence style, Grandpa Xu felt sorry for her at the beginning. In order to ensure the comfort of living, not only the water, electricity and heating facilities are complete, but also relevant architects are invited to design, lighting, garden layout, bathrooms and toilets. ...all fully consider the safety and life experience of the elderly living alone.

The indoor heating was fully turned on, Xu Xingyan took off the down jacket as soon as she entered the door, and hung it on the hanger behind the door together with her bag.

On the ground near the door, two cushions were placed against the wall, and a big clean white goose was lying on one of them. Perhaps because of the warmth in the room, it looked lazy and drowsy.

Xu Xingyan went over and touched it, "Xiaobai, sister is here, are you happy?"

Xiaobai shook her wings and rubbed her long neck on her arm. Xu Xingyan stretched out her index finger and rubbed its little head, then went to the table and poked an apple with a toothpick to tease it.

The little aunt came in with a hot water bottle, just bumped into her, and laughed and scolded: "Don't feed it, be careful and drag it into the house again, then you slap your butt and leave, I'm not the one to mop the floor."

Xu Xingyan smiled, stood up, went to the sink to wash her hands, and then took the teacup from her little aunt, "Why, last time I peeled corn for you all afternoon, don't you remember my order?" of."

"Yes," my aunt sighed while peeling the pine nuts for her, "I peeled less than a bag of corn, and my back hurts so much that I can't straighten up, and I have to spend money to take you to a Chinese medicine clinic for a massage. Now think about it, I feel ashamed."

"Oh, that's right," the little aunt said suspiciously, "Didn't your dad call and say he would be back this month? Why is there nothing?"

"I've come back, but I'm still in quarantine," Xu Xingyan said while holding her teacup, "Something happened in the mine in South Africa before, and it was delayed for a while. The winter solstice will not be able to catch up. Yesterday, during the video call with me, I asked me to represent He, go kowtow to grandparents."

"I knew that Xu Yuming was unreliable." My aunt frowned, and said in distaste, "Everything is work all day long. Why do you need so much money? You can't earn and spend it all."

"You can't learn from him!" The old lady poured a handful of peeled pine nuts into Xu Xingyan's hand, patted her palm lightly, with a serious expression: "Did you hear that?"

Xu Xingyan said helplessly, "I heard that."

Then the little aunt smiled kindly, with a distant voice, "I used to have an old aunt who was over 80 years old at the door of my house. She taught me a word, and I still remember it. She said, 'Money is a thing, use Use it, the Bodhisattva will give it to you, save it, save it, and wait in the hole.' The key is to grasp a degree in your heart and not be too obsessed."

Rough hands brushed over Xu Xingyan's shoulders, brushing off the falling pine nut flakes for her.

"I said this to your grandfather, to your father, to your aunt and second aunt, and now I'm telling you again, Yanyan, you have to remember what my aunt said."

"I will remember it," Xu Xingyan smiled calmly, "Dad must also remember it, but he took over the company from his grandfather, and with so many employees under him, he naturally hopes to make more achievements."

The little aunt gave a disdainful "hum" at first, then laughed again after a while, "Your father has raised a good girl, and she always looks after him."

Before she finished eating a handful of pine nuts, the courtyard door was knocked again. Xu Xingyan was about to get up to open the door when she was held down by the old lady, "I'll just go, you just stay here and don't move, come in and out, It's hot and cold, don't catch a cold again."

The old lady ran out in a hurry, and after a while, she led a fat middle-aged woman in, "Yanyan just said that she would send it to you, so you came to the door."

Xu Xingyan took advantage of the situation and stood up, called "Aunt Biao", washed a cup and made tea, and said with a smile: "I brought all the books here, they are all in the trunk, I will take you to get them."

Then quickly put on the down jacket, and went to the parking lot in the yard with my aunt looking a little unhappy.

While opening the trunk, he also said: "I have been reading books since I was a child, and I don't like to write and draw. This book is as if I have never read it. Now I am working and have no time to read it. I still want to read it all the time." It's a pity that it's on the bookshelf, but it just so happens that you called."

"Also, last time I heard you said that Xiaohui's grades were a little bit backward. It happened that a friend of mine opened a cram school. After listening to the situation, I recommended a few exercises. Look, if it works, I'll bring a few more sets of papers."

Aunt Biao held up the stack of practice questions in surprise, grinning from ear to ear, "Oh, how embarrassing this is," and praised the old lady who was smiling kindly at the side: "I have already said , among our juniors surnamed Xu, Yanyan is the one who cares the most."

"Last time, the daughter of the old six family next door..."

Seeing that she seemed to want to make a long story, Xu Xingyan couldn't help wrapping her down jacket tighter. The old lady saw that something was wrong, and said quickly: "Let's go, let's go into the house and sit down. I'm not in a hurry to burn it. Meal, drink two cups of tea and go home."

Don't look at the appearance of Aunt Biao, who is loyal and honest. The gossip in her belly stunned Mrs. Xu. The daughter of the old sixth family next door found a boyfriend from out of town. The family was very dissatisfied. Her son was taken advantage of... After a series of trifles, she finally brought up today's theme.

"Yanyan is also 27 this year, is there someone to talk to?"

Xu Xingyan was startled, and immediately sobered up, and said with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry, the cousins ​​above me are not married yet."

"Hey, you can't say that. Could it be that they haven't been married, so you don't want to talk to each other?" Aunt Biao said as if imparting experience, "You have to do things at any age, and no one can avoid it... ..."

The little aunt coughed lightly, and said sharply: "Her aunt, why are you talking about this all of a sudden, who came to ask you to be a lobbyist?"

"Look at what you said. Even if I don't understand things, I know what a good family is. What are our conditions? The young men in my hand, let alone Yue Ming and his wife, even I don't like them. , How dare you bring it out and bring it out to make a fool of yourself."

"On the contrary, some time ago, my sister-in-law and her natal sister-in-law came over and asked me to make peace with her son. I scolded her back on the spot, and I didn't go home to look in the mirror. Just a project manager, my head was high all day long. Look down on people, like someone who inherited the throne in Europe, you must have a fairy-like princess to match."

Aunt Biao turned her head to complain to the old lady, but Xu Xingyan took her hand back by surprise.

The old lady seemed to be listening very carefully, and sighed: "That's not okay, nothing else is a big deal, the key is to have a good family style, Yanyan, the water bottle is almost out of water, you go to the kitchen and boil a pot."

"Okay," Xu Xingyan quickly responded, and ran out in two or three strokes.

Aunt Biao still shyly shouted: "No need to burn it, it's enough to drink."

Auntie: "It's okay, it's okay, pour me another glass."

……

more than an hour later.

The old lady cut a peach and brought it to the second floor.

Seeing her enter the room, Xu Xingyan lay on the bed watching TV, and moved to the side to make room for her, "Going away?"

The old lady leaned back on the pillow and breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go, thanks to you running fast, the rest of the time I was talking about her old classmate's son, who majored in jewelry design, graduated with a master's degree, went abroad, and the father at home Mom is a civil servant and has several suites."

"Then how did you come back?" Xu Xingyan turned her head and asked.

The old lady laughed twice, sat up straight, and pointed to the bowl of juicy peaches, "Let me tell you, you are just like this peach pit, you have kindness in your heart."

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The author has something to say:

When I was a child, I especially liked to crack open the peach pits and take out the kernels inside to play with.

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