Don't move the old man's bounty

But later, Jiang Juan was dragged into the car by Xiao Shi with the reasons of "my mother's belongings are still at home" and "it's not far away, it's just over an hour's drive", and set foot on the road back to his hometown.

In order to appease Jiang Juan, who hadn't had enough sleep and was feeling irritable at the moment, Xiao Shi stopped on the way and found a convenience store to prepare a bunch of snacks for him.

Now he has figured out Jiang Juan's temperament. He looks gentle and calm, but in fact he is stubborn and temperamental, but in some respects he is still a child.It's like eating, I'm always under my control, I can fade out of my mouth, and I can't wait to bury myself in junk food and eat as much as I can whenever I get the chance.

Xiao Shi has always been dissatisfied with this, whether Jiang Xun, Song Shensi, or even that annoying Lian Xiao knows that Jiang Juan is greedy, but that person hides it from him alone, and would rather hold it back than hold it in. Is it fair to let him enjoy feeding?

Xiao Shi comforted himself, that person must treat him differently because he was always in charge of him. It was a rare opportunity, and he really wanted to put the entire convenience store in his pocket.

Should we be more enthusiastic this time?Xiao Shi thought.

But to his disappointment, three or four big bags were handed over to Jiang Juan. The man looked at the colorful bags inside and pursed his lips, "Children only eat these, don't, take them away.

Pretend, hey, you just pretend.

Xiao Shi glared at Jiang Juan, and said in his heart that you don't want you to hug him so tightly and let go, even if you don't want to blink.

This is textbook-level duplicity, right?

But Jiang Juan is a soft-bodied person, and if you follow his lead and say "Since you don't like it, then I won't give it to you", he will obediently return the bag to you, but Liangzi must have ended up like this , Maybe he can remember it for ten years, eight years or even a lifetime, then it is no longer something that can be easily coaxed by a few bags of snacks.

Xiao Shi also gave him face very much, moved his head closer, and the little bird rubbed against his shoulder in a gentle way, begging in a low voice: "What do you want, they prepared it for you..."

It was a bit overacted, but fortunately Jiang Juan was very useful. He tore open a bag of potato chips and ate them, and didn't complain about him bringing him out.

Seeing that the situation is good, Xiao Shi couldn't help teasing him: "Tired, you said that chickens like to eat chicken food, and piglets like to eat pig food, so why do you like to eat snacks?"

Jiang Juan: "..."

Xiao Shi laughed loudly, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, you eat less, your stomach still hurts, you can eat whatever you want when you are well."

The road was clear at night, and after nearly an hour and a half of driving, Jiang Juan regained his energy after eating and drinking, and Xiao Shi looked at the bag of garbage in pain, but he still didn't control it, and let him spin most of it.

When Jiang Juan got out of the car, he still had a milk-flavored lollipop in his mouth, but Xiao Shi snatched it and stuffed it in his own mouth, "Don't eat it, it's almost done, it's my turn."

Jiang Juan hiccupped, removed a grape-flavored one with his backhand, raised his chin before Xiao Shi reached out again, and pointed at the deserted village in front of him, "Are you going to trick me into burying me here?"

"Where can it be? This is my hometown."

Xiao Shi leaned on the front of the car, staring at the dilapidated and desolate scene in front of him with melancholy, "I grew up here when I was a child, and when I was this older, I didn't feel ashamed to run all over the mountains with bare buttocks. I was quite impressed, the mountain village is remote and difficult to develop, the villagers either went to the city to work or moved away, there were not many houses from the beginning to the end of the village, and they couldn’t even light up a few lights during the Chinese New Year.”

He pointed to an old wooden structure not far away and said: "That is my house, a big house, which used to be very grand. I heard that my ancestor was Tanhua in the late Qing Dynasty, who was demoted to Yancheng as an official, so he built it here. Anhui-style house, in today's terms, is considered to be a fashion leader, and people around here like to use wood, bricks, and stone carvings to decorate the house. Unfortunately, within a few years, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the capital, and Empress Dowager Cixi The Buddha fled westward with Emperor Guangxu, and the political situation was in chaos. My ancestor passed away in such a chaotic era, so he left this property for future generations."

Yanxi is an ancient city with a long history. In the early years, it vigorously developed the tourism industry relying on cultural relics and historic sites, and paid great attention to the protection of ancient buildings. This is also an important reason why this ancient house has been preserved to this day.

"Having said so much, why don't you go there?"

Jiang Juan bit the candy into pieces and stuffed the plastic stick into Xiao Shi's mouth, as if treating people like trash cans.

"I'm waiting for the dawn." Xiao Shi babbled, "There are still several hours, it's a bit difficult, why don't we do something?"

"Then you brought me here in the middle of the night, are you sick?"

"...I really didn't expect this place to become like this, woo woo woo, it's like a haunted house, with no light at all, I dare not..."

"Are you afraid of going home?"

Jiang Juan felt that he had misunderstood Xiao Shi before, and that his fear of ghosts might not be an act, but a real illness.

Heart disease.

"You said before that all your mother's belongings should be in the old house, right?"

Xiao Shi nodded and said: "They are all here. After my mother left, Cheng Sanshi remembered that there was a son like me, and asked me if I wanted to recognize my ancestors and return to the clan. After I refused, the two sons of the Cheng family were afraid that I was playing hard to capture. If you want to cheat more property, you want to kill me."

He made a movement of wiping his neck with a knife in his hand, "I met your brother at that time, you know that. He helped me pack up my mother's belongings and sent them to my mother-in-law's old house with me. In the house, I will live in your house afterwards."

"Why do you want to receive it here?"

"My mother-in-law passed away when I was in high school, and my mother took me to the city. I lived in a school district house, which was quite ordinary. I didn't know that the house was rented until after she left. She didn't leave me any money. , I have no source of income, and I can’t even afford to eat, so I can only move back to my hometown.”

Jiang Juan secretly took a cigarette from his pocket, bit it indistinctly, and said, "Let's go, go and have a look, I'll accompany you."

Xiao Shi grabbed his hand that was committing the crime: "...can you stop pretending nothing happened while reaching into my trouser pocket to get a lighter when you are so affectionate?"

Jiang Juan gave a "tsk", a little impatiently, "Let me take two sips."

"That house is made of wood, it will be destroyed if it burns!"

"That's why I want to take two puffs now."

How could Xiao Shi be more stubborn than him?After a few words, he was defeated, and he let Jiang Juan smoke for half a minute, then grabbed the cigarette butt and stamped it on the ground.

The two took the wolf-eye flashlight that had been confiscated in the trunk, and approached the village side by side.

Xiao Shi hugged Jiang Juan's arm and said, "It's too late now, and there's no one with a light on. I don't know if there are still people living in the village."

Jiang Juan took a few breaths, "It should be gone."

"Huh? How do you know?"

"It's so quiet."

Jiang Juan stopped and stomped vigorously on the spot.

Only echoes echoed them in the night.

"If there are people living in the village, at least one or two dogs should be raised to watch the nursing home. The dogs will not be so quiet when they hear strange footsteps. Also, there is no smell of poultry and livestock in the air. The village should have lived a long time ago. No one lives there."

Xiao Shi panicked even more when he heard this.

"But this is not a bad thing for me. At least I can be sure that the only ones who should appear here are you and me. If there is a third person... Yuxi"

"Don't say that horrible thing!"

"...I mean, it's okay to attack."

Seeing Jiang Juan say this with no expression, Xiao Shi felt that he was worrying too much.

...Ghosts are not as scary as him!

The two of them walked in the village like this, passing the houses on both sides of the path, Xiao Shi always felt as if there were ghosts flashing around him, but when he turned his head, he couldn't see anything.

The more Jiang Juan remained silent, the more frightened he became. In the end, almost his whole body was attached to Jiang Juan's body. The latter felt that his steps were getting heavier and heavier, and he could barely lift his legs.

"It's here." Jiang Juan couldn't bear to shake off Xiao Shi's hand, and pointed at the locked door with a flashlight, "Go."

Xiao Shi swallowed his saliva: "...the feeling of being close to the hometown is timid."

"speak English."

"I am afraid."

"I'm not timid, but if I demolish the door, does that count as destroying the ancient building?"

Xiao Shi was forced to be helpless, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go over, glanced at the padlock on the door, and turned his head dejectedly: "...I can't open it either."

"Is this your house? Don't you even have your own house key?"

Jiang Juan's fists were hardened. If this dog tossed him to this wilderness in the middle of the night and couldn't do anything serious, it would be strange if he could let him go back alive!

With a mournful face, Xiao Shi dug out a bunch of keys from his pocket. There were brass, cast iron, and different materials, but without exception, they were all old-fashioned keys with a sense of age.

"I have, but that lock is not my house's door lock. I don't know who locked the door of my house, deliberately not letting me go home. This is..."

After Jiang Juan heard this, he asked Xiao Shi to hold a flashlight to illuminate, and went to the front to carefully observe the lock hanging on the door.

The padlock was made of brass, a circle smaller than a fist, and it was thickly rusted.

He scraped off the rust and dust on the lock body with the key brought by Xiao Shi, and saw the engraved trademark on it. It was a well-known industrial brand in the 80s and [-]s of the last century. Later, it was made by hand. The technique cannot keep up with the efficiency of mass production on the assembly line, and has been eliminated by the times. Now it is rare to find old objects of this brand.

"Are you sure it's not yours?"

Xiao Shi said firmly: "Absolutely not! My mother-in-law is a retro school, and her aesthetics are still in the period of the Republic of China. She likes things with complicated and beautiful patterns. Here, they are the ones that match the keys in your hand. She Certainly not in this minimalist style.”

Seeing Jiang Juan's eyes brighten, he hurriedly asked, "What did you find?"

"It's not a discovery, it's just a little accident." Jiang Juan turned to Xiao Shi and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is my door lock."

"what?!"

Xiao Shi's broken voice shook Jiang Juan's eardrums. He punched him on the shoulder and pushed him away. He even took off his hearing aid and put it in his hands. "Go away, don't put it in my ear." call."

Xiao Shi knew he had made a mistake, so he asked cowardly in a low voice, "Are you sure?"

"Probably, I remember that when I was young, there was an identical lock in Su'an's hometown, and I don't remember where it went. If I guessed correctly..."

With that said, Jiang Juan began to untie his belt.

Seeing his abnormal behavior, Xiao Shi was stunned, "Jiang Er...have you been caught? Don't scare me!"

"Screw you."

Jiang Juan unbuttoned his belt, revealing the small cloth bag attached to the inside.

"Amulet?" Xiao Shiqi said, "You still believe in this?"

"My brother left it for me. After I got it back from Mr. Wen, I kept it close to me."

This is part of Jiang Juan's relics that Jiang Juan took back when he visited Wen Sinan at the OUHK.

Jiang Juan opened the bag that was tied with a knot, and took out a key from it. It was also rusted, but it was much better than the weathered padlock, and it was almost impossible to tell that it was matched.

"My brother left me this key before he left, saying that he hoped that no matter how far I travel in the future, I can find my way home. It's a strange thing..." Jiang Juan whispered: "As early as that time, he helped me Get home now."

Every time the cold and heat change, migratory birds have to travel long distances to migrate. Not all birds can find their former home, and they always have to go through the process of rebuilding their nests.

It is both a privilege and a destiny to have a place to live.

"Why don't you choose a good person..." Jiang Juan murmured with a wry smile.

"Jiang Er." Xiao Shi, who kept his mouth shut for a while, called out, "Today's moon is red."

Jiang Juan glanced up, and sure enough, a blood moon was hanging in the sky. No wonder the moonlight was so dim tonight.

He was annoyed, and he didn't have the patience to speak, "Come closer if you're afraid, shut your mouth, and stop disturbing me."

Xiao Shi leaned over and pressed his head against his head, before he could swear, he kissed the tip of his nose first.

"Tired, welcome home."

The author has something to say:

Surprise question, where does every pair of CP like to kiss their lover?

Song Yuzhi: Lips, no matter how cold a man looks, his lips are soft and soft, and there are earlobes, right bro?

Jiang Xun: ...Kiss everywhere, even kisses and bites, I like the Adam's apple the most, it's like turning on the engine switch.

Zhou Xuan: There are two gunshot wound scars on the left shoulder and right abdomen. I didn’t protect him well and almost let him be killed by Bailishu. I feel guilty and want to erase his scars every time I see it.

Pei Qian: I kissed my lips when I hit him, and my neck and collarbone when he hit me.

Shen Jinsu: Depending on the occasion, the little beast bites directly when it is messy, and kisses everywhere when the child is obedient, and the inside of the wrist is the most favorite.

Song Shensi: Is it permissible to say that the teacher is most sensitive?

Xiao Shi: Kiss the tip of the nose, you will know the reason later.

Jiang Juan: ...don't want to kiss a dog.

Thank you for reading the text, cute~

Thank you brother Xun, did you blow up your hair today, mine x1

Thanks for feeding! !