The streets were rebuilt, most of the yards in the hutongs were demolished, and there were still more than a dozen households left. Judging by the drastic posture in the district, it was not far from demolition.Although the house is old, the people who live in it are not all short of money. Some children want to take the old man to the new house after earning money.

The Dragon Boat Festival was on holiday, and Cheng Qinghong was busy again. Her daughter, who was working in a hospital in another city, finally had time to go home. She put on an apron, cooked a few side dishes skillfully, and grinned so hard that she grinned.Speaking of it, Cheng Qinghong regretted letting her daughter study medicine. She was so busy that she didn't see anyone a few times a year. When you see the news about the medical trouble, you can't help but feel frightened.

Jiang Lai was attracted to the kitchen by the smell of food, she took a sip of tea from an old iron teacup to satisfy her cravings, and said coquettishly: "Mom, you can move in and live with me, I don't feel at ease here alone , move here and help me cook.”

Cheng Qinghong blamed her: "You little greedy cat, you just like my stutter. I'm used to living here. The neighbors are all acquaintances. If I want to play mahjong, I can join a table immediately. The old lady Li next door often brings me It would be nice to order some side dishes. Not to mention the trouble of moving to your place, I feel lonely myself, you work too much overtime and don't have time to accompany me."

Jiang Lai pursed her lips, and failed to persuade Cheng Qinghong to move in with her for the fifth time, she could only sigh helplessly.

Cheng Qinghong smiled and changed the subject: "When did you fall in love? Although my mother is open-minded and supports the freedom of love, you are not too old, why don't you like it? If you get married and have children, I will Move over to help you take care of the children..."

"Mom! How can I have time to fall in love when I'm so busy at work?"

"Why not? Don't there be male doctors in the hospital?"

Jiang Lai pretended to be angry: "No, no, don't rush me."

Cheng Qinghong shook her head: "You child, you can't say it, and you will get angry if you say it."

Jiang Lai quickly laughed along with him, and squeezed Cheng Qinghong's shoulder to show his goodwill.But she didn't lie, the surgeon was doing surgery day and night all year round, and had no time to accompany the object at all.Although she has pretty features and is still an intellectual, few people can stand her working so hard that she doesn't even have time for a date and a meal.More importantly, Jiang Lai strictly adheres to DINKism, and when the man hears that she is DINKism, he is ready to run away. No matter how good-looking she is, it is useless to improve her genes.

The mother and daughter were talking and laughing, when suddenly someone knocked on the door outside.Cheng Qinghong wiped the water off her hands, and hurried to open the door. It was Aunt Cai from the next yard who came.

Cheng Qinghong asked: "Lao Cai, what's going on? See how panicked you are..."

Aunt Cai waved her hand, frowning tightly: "Mrs. Li, I disappeared last night."

"..."

Things happened so urgently that neither Cheng Qinghong nor Jiang Lai could react.Cheng Qinghong couldn't believe that Mrs. Li, who was always in good health, would suddenly disappear from a cerebral hemorrhage. The old lady gave her a plate of peas just two days ago. How could it be gone?

Jiang Lai couldn't accept it for a while. When she and her sister went to school when they were young, the old lady would often wave to them on the side of the road, and then give her and her sister a piece of candy. Everyone was poor at that time, and candy was a rare thing.

As neighbors for many years, it is necessary for Cheng Qinghong and Jiang Lai to follow Aunt Cai to Mrs. Li's house.Mrs. Li's youngest daughter and son-in-law rushed back to the Cen's old home overnight, but the eldest son was not there. It is said that he could not leave for the time being on a business trip.

Cheng Qinghong said to Jiang Lai in a low voice: "This son doesn't know how to be a son, and he doesn't know how to go home after his mother left."

Jiang Lai held her back: "Shh, Mom, don't say a few words."

While talking, Jiang Lai smelled a faint scent of perfume. Looking back, a young woman in a black coat stood behind her at some point.Jiang Lai was stunned, she didn't expect to see Cen Miao again in this way after many years.

Since Cen Miao broke up with her family and ran away ten years ago, she seemed to have evaporated from the world and never returned to the alley.There are many rumors about her. Some people say that they saw her sitting in a valuable luxury car, maybe she was taken care of, and some people said that she got involved in the underworld and became the woman of the big boss.Jiang Lai laughed off such rumors.

With a cold face, Cen Miao went straight to the old lady's bedroom, and when he came out, his face was still cold, only his eyes were slightly red, which could not be noticed unless he looked carefully.She sat on the wooden chair with folded arms, unaware that there was an outsider present, and asked her aunt Cen Yuzhen in a bad tone: "Cerebral hemorrhage? I don't remember grandma having this problem during the physical examination. Auntie, you seem to be short of money recently... ..."

Cen Yuzhen's face changed: "Cen Mi, what do you mean? Would I still harm my mother for money? You white-eyed wolf, you have never come back after leaving the gate of Cen's house, how dare you question me?"

Cen Miao said coldly: "It's not interesting. Grandma's accident insurance is quite expensive. If she has an accident, you can get a lot of money. Congratulations. In addition, I have already notified the forensic doctor. If you want to prove your innocence, you can wait for the forensic examination results in the living room." Bar."

Cen Miao's uncle couldn't stand it anymore, and interjected: "Cen Miao, no matter how short of money your aunt is, she won't do anything to your grandma. Is she still human? Don't hang around outside for a long time, thinking that everyone is like this. It's dark, there are still neighbors here, you have to be responsible for what you say."

Cen Miao said: "You mean I have a dark mind? That's okay, everyone knows that I don't have a tutor, and it's normal to be dark."

Cen Yuzhen said angrily: "You should really show your father to see what you look like, you deserve a beating!"

Cen Miao snorted and raised his eyebrows: "Do you think he has the face to come today? He dared to hit me in the past because I couldn't fight back. Now... you let him try again?"

When Cen Yuzhen wanted to say anything more, Cheng Qinghong stopped her, and she persuaded her kindly: "Forget it, don't be angry, now you have to think about the old lady's funeral, right? Xiao Yao is joking, how is it possible?" Really ask the forensic doctor to come..."

Cheng Qinghong was slapped in the face before she finished speaking, and two forensic doctors asked loudly at the door with a toolbox, "Is this No. 308 Lexiang?"

Cen Miao stood up: "It's here, I'm calling, two forensic doctors, please come with me." As he spoke, he brought the forensic doctor into the old lady's room. stared back.

Knowing that Jiang Lai's mother and daughter came at an inconvenient time, they said a few words of condolence to the Cen family, and then left silently. When they went out, they saw two bodyguards in black standing by the door, and a car parked in front of the door. White gloves, it should be the driver.Cheng Qinghong said with emotion: "I used to think that Xiao Cen was very smart and cute, but I didn't expect that she would be so cruel to her family now, but thinking about it, she is also quite pitiful. She severed ties with her family when she was a teenager. How did you get here?"

Jiang Lai didn't make any comments, but thought about Cen Miao's red and swollen eye sockets.Are you cruel? Not necessarily.She has always felt guilty for this girl who is two years younger than herself. On the day Cen Miao ran away from home, Jiang Lai happened to bump into her. She wanted to catch up with her and let her stay at home for a few nights, but Jiang Lai just After chasing an alley, I gave up.If she persisted in finding Cen Miao, would it be any different?Jiang Lai shook his head thinking of this, maybe it can't change anything.

Because of the news of Mrs. Li's death, neither Jiang Lai nor Cheng Qinghong could be happy.The people in the Hutong have known each other for many years, and they are friends who are closer than relatives, and they have gradually disappeared one by one over the years.Cheng Qinghong secretly wiped away tears, Jiang Lai knew that she thought of her sister again.

Jiang Lai's elder sister, Jiang Zhen, has a very different personality from Jiang Lai. She is usually carefree, busy with things, and her academic performance fluctuates. However, she is very popular in school because she is outgoing and cheerful.In comparison, Jiang Lai is much more boring, a poor-spoken and introverted top student with very few friends.

Jiang Zhen is a movie fanatic and loves all kinds of movies. The most common thing Jiang Lai did when he was a child was to collect pocket money with his sister to rent discs and go home.They have an old-fashioned TV and DVD player at home, so Jiang Zhen and Jiang Lai spent many winter and summer vacations while wrapping up the sheets and watching movies.From Pride and Prejudice to Titanic to Lan Yu and Farewell My Concubine.Until Jiang Zhen suddenly suffered from acute leukemia and died half a year later.

Jiang Lai also has the habit of watching movies now. She bought a projector, and even in the Internet age, she has been tirelessly buying Blu-ray discs. The house is full of discs, and the collection is quite rich.It's just that now she looks at it alone, and she feels that something is wrong.

When Jiang Lai was a child, she always felt very lucky to be born in this family. Although her parents divorced, she would have such a good sister, and she would not give anything in exchange. If she was born in another family, she would not know her sister.From the year when his sister died, Jiang Lai began to understand that all good things don’t last forever, and loss is forever loss. The pain of loss will ease with the passage of time, but it cannot be cured.

In the evening, the results of the forensic examination came out, and it was determined that the old lady died of a cerebral hemorrhage.Thinking about it, no matter how short of money Cen Yuzhen is, she would not dare to do stupid things like being struck by lightning.Cen Miao was cold-blooded, and he was willing to let Cen Yuzhen go only after he got the result, and then contacted the best funeral home in the city to deal with the funeral.

Seeing Cen Miu whom he hadn't seen for ten years, Jiang Lai felt inexplicably uneasy, she lied to Cheng Qinghong to go out to buy something, hid in the corner of the alley and smoked.After Jiang Zhen passed away, she had the habit of smoking. She tried to quit when she was in college, but failed.

Under the dim street lamps, the sparks flickered, and the smoke was lingering.

"Doctors also smoke?" It was an abrupt question, so abrupt that it made people feel like they didn't want to answer it.

Jiang Lai narrowed her eyes to see who was coming through the smoke, and the corners of her mouth raised: "Of course."

Cen Miao stretched out a hand, with a smile on his face: "Can I borrow a cigarette?"

Cen Miao's attitude towards Jiang Lai was not as aggressive as his aunt and uncle, on the contrary, he was much more friendly, making Jiang Lai temporarily forget about the cold-blooded woman he saw during the day.Jiang Lai gave Cen Miao a cigarette, which was a Marlboro popping pearl she bought casually at the entrance of the alley, which was quite bland to Jiang Lai.

Cen Miao took a puff of his cigarette, then coughed violently until tears came out.

Jiang Lai was a little surprised: "You don't know how to smoke?"

Cen Miu was about to roll his eyes: "It's not normal not to know how to smoke."

"I thought……"

"You don't think I'm in the underworld, do you?" Cen Mi laughed, "It's just a stereotype of a boring person. If a girl wants to get ahead, she must rely on unspoken rules, sleeping with others, and being taken care of by others. The truth I just worked my ass off to make some money."

Jiang Lai shook his head: "I didn't mean that... I just almost forgot that you are two years younger than me, but you look much more capable than me, so I subconsciously thought you should be able to smoke."

"Doctor Jiang, what you said is not cute at all, it sounds like you are calling me old." Cen Miao pretended to be dissatisfied.

The way Cen Mi pretended to be angry was cute, and Jiang Lai seemed to see the little sister next door again, and the strangeness he hadn't seen for ten years disappeared.

"I dare not scold you, your two tall bodyguards look creepy."

"I'm not usually so flirtatious. The bodyguards are specially paid to scare my bullying aunt, and I really don't believe Cen Yuzhen's nonsense. Who knows how far she can go." Cen Mi took another puff. Cigarette, still choked, she coughed and continued: "They are all bullies, none of them are good, only grandma treats me well, after I earn money, I send money to grandma every month, guess what? Grandma didn't receive a single penny, and Cen Yuzhen cut it off... forget about it, it's annoying." Cen Miao raised his head, not wanting to lose his composure in front of Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai doesn't know how to comfort others. She touched her pocket, but luckily she had a wallet with her, so she gained confidence: "There's a good bar nearby. Have a drink?"

Cen Miao, who is so smart, of course noticed Jiang Lai's movement of touching his wallet, she was amused, Jiang Lai really hasn't changed much.

"Not today, I have to deal with grandma's funeral. I will make another appointment in the future. This is my business card." Cen Miao took out a card bag from his pocket and handed Jiang Lai a business card. A doctor in Jiang Lai is useless The business card habit, she dialed Cen Miao's number on her mobile phone and then hung up, leaving a contact information for the other party.Cen Miao extinguished his cigarette, said goodbye, turned back to the car and left the alley.

Often people say that if they have the opportunity to date again in the future, they will not date again, but Cen Miu is not. She was able to make a name for herself in the society at a young age. Naturally, she is a sophisticated human being. Besides, she has a good impression of the Jiang Lai sisters. Yes, it's okay to have a get together after a long time.

Jiang Lai looked carefully at the business card in his hand: Dingyuan Wealth, Cen Miu.Jiang Lai felt that the name of this company was quite familiar, but he forgot where he had seen it before. After thinking about it for a while, he didn't have a clue, and quickly forgot about it.

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