I'm fishing for you

Qi Yuchi walked very slowly, and when he reached the courtyard, the dining table had already been set.

He didn't look up until his grandma called him, rolled up the newspaper in his hand and ran over there.

A table of dishes, full of color, fragrance and taste.

A stewed chicken with red dates and lotus seeds, delicious and nutritious, stir-fried twice-cooked pork, spicy and stimulates the taste buds, tomato beef brisket, sweet and sour beef with tomato, vinegar and cabbage, refreshing and relieves greasy.

Finish off with boiled rice dumplings with honey and brown sugar.

The way the farmer cooks is different from what he usually eats.

The lotus seeds are picked in the pond, the chickens are run all over the mountains, the cabbages and tomatoes are pulled up from the vines and picked off the vines, and the leaves of the rice dumplings are still covered with morning dew when they are thrown into the basket, everything is fresh.

Qi Yuchi sat down, flattened the newspapers, and distributed them one by one to make a table for grandpa.

Unexpectedly, the front page of the first one was a factory explosion, and the second and third ones were all about the same incident.

Qi Yuchi couldn't help asking: "It seems that you were here when this happened, right?"

Grandpa looked down and knew what Qi Yuchi was talking about, so he nodded.

"No, but the factory was in the county at that time, a bit out of the way." Grandpa said and looked at grandma, who also sighed: "At that time, we chose the countryside for the environment, and we don't want to live in the city when we get old. Wait, I feel tired seeing your mother being so busy."

"I didn't expect such a thing to happen later." Grandpa held the chopsticks and tapped his fingers on the newspaper again.

"In the past, many people here went to the county to earn money. In our town, several of them left because of this incident."

Qi Yuchi lowered his head, pressed the rice grains with the tip of his chopsticks, and hummed.

"Is the boss called... Xie Tingzhi?"

"Is it called this?" Grandma glanced at grandpa, "The main reason is that I remember his son's name, why do children choose such a name."

"What's your name?" Qi Yuchi raised his eyes.

He put down his chopsticks and picked up the spoon in the soup bowl next to him.

In summer, the humidity is heavy, so my grandmother specially stewed chicken soup with lotus seeds and goji berries.

Just after taking a sip, Qi Yuchi had a sweet taste in his mouth.

He was still waiting for his grandmother to say the child's name.

"Apologize." Grandma shook her head, "It's very unlucky to start like this."

A drop of soup fell from the bottom of the spoon and stained the table. Before Qi Yuchi could wipe it off, she turned her head to look at grandma and frowned.

"what?"

"Thank you, sin."

Grandma thought he didn't hear clearly, so she separated the two words and said slowly: "The sin of sin."

In a flash, Qi Yuchi had read these two words many times in his mind.

Familiar with.

Sometimes people feel that they have seen the scenes in their dreams before, and Qi Yuchi's feeling at the moment is similar to that.

I think I should have heard of it, but it is impossible to think about it carefully.

Grandpa pulled the last newspaper away, and was about to put it down, when Qi Yuchi suddenly raised his hand to stop it.

"Grandpa, keep this one for now." Qi Yuchi said.

Grandpa froze for a moment, but didn't say anything, folded it up and put it aside for him.

In the evening, Qi Yuchi played chess with grandpa, and grandma went to the entrance of the village to dance in the square.

The courtyard was lush with vegetation, but fortunately, mosquito repellent grass was planted, so Qi Yuchi was not bitten badly.

Grandpa likes traditional Go. When Qi Yuchi was very young, the thing that grandpa took him to teach him most every day was to play chess. Unfortunately, Qi Yuchi himself is really not a particularly quiet character, so even though he has been studying for a long time, he is only better than ordinary people. better.

"Hey, you shouldn't play like this." Grandpa stretched out his finger and pointed at Qi Yuchi's move just now, and then moved along the board to the other side, "Look, your chess should go this way."

Qi Yuchi understood after such a quick call, and then hey and patted his hair.

"I really," Qi Yuchi smiled, "I'm not this material."

After he said that, grandpa also laughed.

When Shang Ruolan first met Qi Shitang, he was just a poor student.

But Shang Ruolan's family background is superior, although she is not arrogant, her temperament cannot be concealed.

The day Shang Ruolan brought Qi Shitang home, everyone was surprised, especially some relatives who were not very familiar, took the opportunity to ridicule a few words, and finally grandpa went to take him away, saying, Xiao Qi, come and accompany me to make a deal chess.

There are not many people who can play Go, let alone those who can play Go well.

So when Qi Zhitang sat at the small table and started playing chess, many people's expressions changed.

The most important thing to play Go is to have a stable mind. What you play is not only the skill, but also the state of mind.

A game of chess in Qi Shitang's hands has a certain amount of advance and retreat, and it goes straight to the heart of grandpa.

Afterwards, Shang Ruolan and Qi Shitang's relationship was not hindered by Shang Ruolan's family. Of course, the facts also proved that Grandpa did not misunderstand the person.

"You are not like your father, you are more like your mother." Grandpa didn't blame him, he raised his hand to mess up the chess.

"In the past, every time you came here to play during holidays, I wanted to teach you how to play chess. If you can learn how to play chess early, what do you expect from you now?" Grandpa smiled and took a sip of tea.

"You want me to sit peacefully for hours, just move my hands a few times, I will feel tired." Qi Yuchi leaned back on the chair, half looked up at the scenery in the yard, "When I was young, I really liked to come here to play. There are mountains and rivers here, and you can run around. Hey, grandpa, how did I pick the peaches on the tree over there before?"

"You?" Grandpa couldn't stop laughing, "You don't have enough solutions? You have removed all the ladders in other people's houses. Why don't you dare to do it."

Speaking of this, Grandpa suddenly stopped for a while, and then sighed, "It's a good thing to say that you are more courageous, but sometimes it is really worrying. Do you remember the time when you ran to fight? Your parents are terrified."

"Well," Qi Yuchi nodded, "I remember, but not particularly."

"You were still young at that time." Grandpa shook his head and said, "There were very few people in that alley, and the firewood of the innermost few households was piled together, and there were a lot of wood. When we passed by, your grandmother saw the firewood in your hand With such a long stick, I thought something was wrong, especially when there is blood beside you, think about it, how scary it is."

Qi Yuchi picked up the small teacup that belonged to him, paused with his hand in mid-air, and hummed.

Qi Yuchi couldn't forget that day, and probably will have to remember it in this life and the next.

He has never experienced anything special in his life, but that one was particularly thrilling.

"Grandpa, did you know who that child was later?" Qi Yuchi suddenly thought.

Grandpa nodded, casually picked up a chess piece and tapped it on the table, "I've always known it, I can guess that kid without looking."

"Really?" Qi Yuchi put down his teacup, "No one told me, and I didn't see him when I came here later."

Grandpa waved his hand and turned his face sideways.

"Your grandma mentioned it just now," he pointed to the side. "It's the one called Apology. Their house is next door. Didn't your grandma ask you to deliver rice dumplings? This child is very miserable..."

Looking at his grandfather's finger, Qi Yuchi was taken aback for a moment.

Apology?

next door?

Qi Yuchi scratched along a small section of the table with his fingertips, and Qi Yuchi felt dizzy.

As if a very messy matter was suddenly sorted out, he frowned and lowered his head.

Why was he beaten?

Can't beat it or don't resist at all?

Qi Yuchi thought vaguely.

Grandpa put away the chess pieces, and the jade-carved chess pieces made a slight crisp sound one by one.

Suddenly there was a creak, the door was pushed open, Qi Yuchi was startled because his mind was distracted.

Suddenly tilting his head, the person who entered was grandma, Qi Yuchi let out a sigh of relief.

Summer nights are also hot, and the heat emanating from the land seems to be steaming people.

Grandma was so hot that her forehead was sweating, but she wasn't enjoying herself enough. When she came in and saw them, she waved her fan and hummed a few tunes.

"Suddenly I saw a young man strolling by the lake, just like Luoyang Road met Pan An by chance."

"This heart has been stagnant for thousands of years, but why is it making waves today?" [1]

After listening to it with a smile, Qi Yuchi praised a lot, stood up with her mobile phone, and said, "I'm going out for a stroll."

"Be careful not to get lost at night." Grandma reminded.

"It's okay," Qi Yuchi pointed forward, "I'm going to the town, not the village."

The grandfather who was cleaning up the chess game heard it, and hurriedly said, "Buy me a pack of cigarettes, Xiaoqi."

Grandma frowned and patted Grandpa's arm, muttering: "Why are you smoking again..."

Qi Yuchi touched the tip of his nose and laughed.

A street lamp was set up outside the courtyard, Qi Yuchi stood there and clicked on Xie Yueye's WeChat.

Qi Yuchi: 【Have you gone back yet? 】

Xie Yueye didn't reply right away, so Qi Yuchi turned off his phone and walked down the street.

The shops facing the street were still open at night, and there were more people than Qi Yuchi imagined.

The ones who haven’t left after the square dance, the ones who took their kids out for a walk, the ones who went out shopping like Qi Yuchi, the ones who just finished farm work... You know me, I know you, it seems like you can chat with anyone you meet .

Qi Yuchi walked along the street and saw a convenience store in front of him.

A light bulb hung from the ceiling on a string, illuminating the smoke in a glass case.

Qi Yuchi knew what brand his grandfather was smoking, but he didn't know the name of that brand, so he stood in front of the counter and bent down to look at them one by one.

At this moment his phone rang, and the name was Xie Yueye, the corners of Qi Yuchi's mouth curled up involuntarily.

"Have you gone back?" Qi Yuchi asked first.

"Go back." Xie Yueye said.

It was pretty quiet around him.

"That's good." Qi Yuchi said, seeing the kind that grandpa used to smoke, and tapped his finger on the glass twice.

The boss took out the cigarettes and said the price, Qi Yuchi agreed in a low voice.

"Shopping?" Xie Yueye asked.

"Well, buy a pack of cigarettes for my grandfather." Qi Yuchi took the cigarettes in his hand, turned around and walked towards the way he came.

He remembered what he said to Xie Yueye about smoking, Qi Yuchi smiled.

"My grandfather didn't smoke in the past. He only smoked when he got old. He said that he wanted to try something that he had never tried in his life."

"You have similar personalities," Xie Yueye said, "I think this is something you can do."

Qi Yuchi: "Really?"

The two children ran past like the wind, Qi Yuchi stopped and let them go.

A boy was chasing another boy, still muttering something, probably playing some kind of game.

There was an alley in front, Qi Yuchi went on and asked Xie Yueye: "How is Auntie?"

Xie Yueye: "It's much better, it's just that the foot injury healed a little slower."

Qi Yuchi heard the sound of him inhaling and exhaling from his mobile phone.

"Are you smoking?"

Xie Yueye hummed vaguely.

"In the past, it was because of too much pressure, when I was taking the postgraduate entrance examination," Xie Yueye paused, "I was just too tired, carrying my studies every day, and once I couldn't bear it anymore, I started smoking."

Qi Yuchi passed by the alley, hummed to Xie Yueye, and just glanced in casually.

There were no street lights in the alley, it was pitch black except for a little scarlet against the wall.

The moonlight outlines a figure, Qi Yuchi pauses, and moves the phone away a little.

The man noticed his stop and was about to turn his head when someone in front suddenly shouted: "Brother Xiao Zui!"

The man's tone was raised, his voice was clear, and he uttered the three words clearly, but the transmission from the mobile phone became distorted again.

Qi Yuchi stared at the person in the alley, his eyes widened slightly.

The two voices in the ear overlap, Qi Yuchi will not hear it wrong.

The man looked in the direction of the voice, turned his back to Qi Yuchi, and said a few words to the person who called him.

Qi Yuchi from the back would not admit his mistake, even though their voices were indistinct, it was difficult for Qi Yuchi to mishear.

Eat and play together almost every day, send a few messages from time to time, chat on WeChat, the person who is always thinking involuntarily, the person who was on the phone just now...

Qi Yuchi was taken aback for a moment, touched his upper and lower lips lightly, and said incoherent words: "Thank you..."

With the phone screen still on, he lowered his hands and ran into the alley.

The wind was blowing in his ears, his heart was suddenly as hot as this summer night, many stones were scattered on the road under his feet, Qi Yuchi was stumbling as he ran.

Looking at the figure in front of him, he felt dull for the first time.

Why is Xie Yueye here?Didn't you go home?Could it be that his home is right here?

What did that person call him just now?Little Sin?Which is younger, which is guilty, which brother?

Is that right?

No way?

The two people in front were about to turn their heads, when Qi Yuchi ran behind Xie Yueye and hugged his waist.

Not caring about other people's eyes, Qi Yuchi closed his eyes and put his face on his shoulder blades, his chaotic thoughts finally calmed down.

After taking two breaths, Qi Yuchi's chest was still heaving violently, and his voice was uncontrollable, so it was light.

"Brother, why are you here?"

The back of his hand was stuck, Xie Yueye held him, and first said to the people around him: "I still have something to do."

The man hummed hesitantly and left. Xie Yueye put out the cigarette butt, stroked Qi Yuchi's hair with his hooked hand, and said, "My family is here."

Qi Yuchi wrapped his arms around his waist tightly, turned his head with a hum, and tapped the tip of his nose on his back.

Xie Yueye smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qi Yuchi shook his head, his hair brushed against his clothes.

The two just hugged each other like this, Xie Yueye tried to take a few steps forward, but he couldn't move, so he grabbed Qi Yuchi and pulled him to the front of him.

Qi Yuchi entangled him again, arms crossed behind him as if unable to leave.

"What's wrong?" Xie Yueye looked down at the top of his hair.

Qi Yuchi didn't know how to tell his speculation, and really wanted to ask if that person is you?But it felt ridiculous.

How can there be so many coincidences?

Will not.

He comforted himself.

This is an inaccurate sixth sense, which cannot be explained clearly, and must have not slept well.

Lips opened and closed, Qi Yuchi finally bit Xie Yueye's collarbone and swallowed.

He smiled and said, "It's okay."

Xie Yueye hummed, relaxed a little, and looked at him calmly.

This glance threw Qi Yuchi back into a state of anxiety, Xie Yueye took his hand and said, I will take you somewhere.

Not knowing where Xie Yueye wanted to take him, Qi Yuchi followed him in a daze.

It was too dark in the village at night, so Xie Yueye used the flashlight of his mobile phone to illuminate the road under his feet, flashing it with his hand from time to time.

Alleys are the characteristic of this town. If you look down from mid-air, the whole town is crisscrossed like a maze.

Qi Yuchi followed Xie Yueye, and when he looked up, he found that he had entered another alley.

Green bricks and black tiles, weeds grew along the side of the road along the stagnant water.

There are so many alleys Qi Yuchi has never distinguished, but there are always one or two that are particularly familiar, such as here.

Turning to the right is grandma's house, and walking to the left, there should be a small shop at the entrance of the alley.

Qi Yuchi stopped, grabbed Xie Yueye's hand, and pulled him to a stop.

Xie Yueye turned his head and saw Qi Yuchi's dazed expression under the dim light.

He held Xie Yueye very hard.

"The owner of the canteen is a woman. The child should be in junior high school now. The orange-flavored candy they sell is very delicious, and you can weigh a lot for one yuan. Every morning, the flower roll seller will pass through this alley on time at seven o'clock. My grandma likes to eat very much, so I followed her out to buy it several times.”

Qi Yuchi stopped suddenly, her voice choked with disbelief.

"Isn't it you? What did that person call you just now?"

Continuing sentence by sentence, Xie Yueye sensed Qi Yuchi's agitation, and brought his hand to his side, and hugged Qi Yuchi.

"You know." Xie Yueye said almost with certainty.

"I don't know," Qi Yuchi pushed him away a bit, and smiled wryly, "You said it wasn't you."

The forearm was pulled back by Xie Yueye, and Qi Yuchi bumped into his arms, with his hands hanging down, clenched into fists by his side.

Xie Yueye was silent, and heard him say in a low voice: "When I was a child, there were some very bad children here. Grandma wouldn't let me play with them, saying that they always like to bully others."

"I picked up the stick at the end of the road. I didn't think much of it when I rushed up, but I was really scared afterwards."

After a short pause, Qi Yuchi gritted his teeth and finally admitted.

"Why were you... so thin?"

Xie Yueye tightened his arms, lowered his head and touched his ear with his lips.

"I'm not thin now."

The author says:

[1] "Legend of the White Snake"