Old Cannon's Infatuation

In winter, Beijing is getting colder every day, and the whole city is glowing with a cool dark gray.

Lampshades have been having a rough time lately.He was confiscated by the urban management for three rounds of selling goods early in the morning yesterday, and he was slapped in the street. If the sixth brother hadn't come over and ran the urban management team leader away, he would have ended up in the police station.The car was confiscated, and the business could not be done.When I got home, my wife said a few words, and the lampshade just listened.When he was young, he was afraid of his wife, and now he is older.Fortunately, Brother Six said he would get a new car for him today, so he hurried to Brother Six's house early in the morning with materials and tools.

As soon as I walked into the alley, I saw a girl standing in front of Liu Ge's house from afar.Just looking at the silhouette, the lampshade felt familiar, and wanted to get closer to see the front face, but the girl had already walked towards the other side of the alley.

He felt strange, felt that the girl was really familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he could only enter the courtyard.

"Let me tell you, apply for your business license quickly, or the city management will come and you will be caught blind again." The sixth master Zhang Xuejun said while planing wood.

"I'm doing it, they keep procrastinating... I can't help it." Lampshade struck his hands, thinking about his own business for a while, and thinking about the girl at the door for a while, and his reaction was a little slow.

"If you are dragged by the higher-ups, you can ask more questions, and go if you have time... hey, where do you wind up your wire, not that." Master Liu hurriedly pinched the work in the lampshade's hand, "You want this I'm so entangled, I've been busy for half a day."

"Hey, I didn't pay attention just now."

"You're dazed early in the morning, what are you thinking about?" Sixth Master glanced at him wonderingly.

"Oh... I saw a girl at the door just now, and I thought it looked familiar, but I couldn't remember it."

"Girl? Who is it?"

"I don't know who it is, I just can't remember."

"What does it look like?"

"I didn't see her face. She's not very old, and she's quite thin."

"You can see the familiarity without seeing the face? It's really you." Liu Ye looked disapproving, and was about to continue insulting him, when a thought flashed across his face, and the smile froze on his face.

Lampshade didn't pay attention to Master Liu's expression, and was still working dully, "Brother Liu, do you think you came to see Bo'er? That's not right, why do I look familiar when I came to see Xiaobo..."

Sixth Master was slightly stunned, a pair of stubborn eyes appeared in his mind, and that sentence with a slightly immature voice——

"Just pretend you never gave birth to me as a girl, I will never come back again, you two live on your own!"

No, it won't be hers.She said that all those years ago, and she hasn't entered the house once in nine years, how could it be her?

Thinking about it, Liu Ye snuffed out a little bit of hope in his heart, and the plane in his hand was grinding louder than before.

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Zhang Xuan has not been back to Beijing for nine years.The city was changing too fast. Walking through the streets, she felt like a foreigner, and she could no longer find any traces in her memory.There are a lot more cars on the street, and there are tall buildings everywhere.Even the alley where I used to live is a bit different. There used to be creepers all over the walls, which looked good even in winter.Now only the bare walls are left, and the sundries of this house and that house are piled up at the bottom of the wall.

On the morning when I went back, Zhang Xuan woke up just after dawn.After entering the alley, she stood at the gate of the courtyard without moving.It may be said in a literary and artistic way that this is called "feeling timid near the hometown", but Zhang Xuan knows that she is not.

Feeling timid?She didn't have any feelings for the old man in the yard, but she couldn't explain why she wanted to come and see.

Fortunately, the tofu nao sold by the store at the entrance of the alley still has the same taste, which has not changed.She finished her breakfast there, and in the middle of it, she saw pinballs riding a bicycle everywhere.When passing by her, Pinball took a look and passed by without any other reaction.Zhang Xuan smiled, that's right, it's been nine years since she left here, and Pinball was probably five or six years old when she left, so how can she still remember her.

But seeing him, Zhang Xuan suddenly missed her brother Xiaobo a little bit.

"It's unbelievable, doesn't it? I don't know my hometown anymore." Wen Qian said with a smile while drinking coffee.

"Hmm...it's unbelievable." No longer looking at the busy traffic outside the window, Zhang Xuan looked away and smiled at his friend.

"Speaking of which, I really didn't expect you to go back to Beijing to study for graduate school." Wen Qian said with emotion, "Before you told me that everything was fine in Shanghai, and that your job and relationship were stable, so I thought you were living there. did not expect……"

Zhang Xuan pursed her lips and smiled, but said nothing. Wen Qian was her best friend, and she could understand what it meant just by looking at him.

"Emotional matters can't be forced. Chen Wenzheng wants to break up with me. I can't help it if I don't agree. Actually, if I knew that he cared about my past affairs, I wouldn't talk to him from the beginning. "Zhang Xuan's tone was indifferent, as if he was not talking about himself at all.

"Hey, don't mention this. The more you talk about it, the more I feel guilty." Wen Qian's exquisite brows frowned, "If I hadn't recommended you to be a tutor for Xiao Fei, I wouldn't have... "

"Hey, don't talk about it." Zhang Xuan quickly interrupted her, "It's all over, don't mention it."

Wen Qian also realized that she had said the wrong thing, she lowered her head and dug a spoonful of cake into her mouth.

Speaking of which, Wen Qian and Tan Xiaofei are cousins, not directly related, but the Wen family is also in the officialdom, and they are very close to the Tan family.When she was in Nanjing University, she and Zhang Xuan were bedmates. Knowing that Zhang Xuan did not rely on her family to study abroad and was always short of money, she recommended her to her cousin, Mrs. Tan, and asked her to teach Xiao Fei.

Wen Qian knew the inside story of what happened back then, and she always felt guilty towards her best friend.Later, I heard that Xiaofei went abroad and returned to China, and his life was quite rebellious and decadent.Wen Qian understood that her cousin was always thinking about Zhang Xuan.But until she got married and came to Beijing, she never told Tan Xiaofei where Zhang Xuan was or how she was doing.

The two chatted for a while, talking about trivial matters from Zhang Xuan's graduate school to Wen Qian's newly conceived child.Wen Qian is a person who can't hide her words. She pondered in her heart for a long time, but still couldn't hold back, "Xuan'er, do you know? Xiaofei is also in Beijing now."

After saying this, she looked at Zhang Xuan cautiously, for fear that the other party would show a little hatred or sadness.But to my surprise, Zhang Xuan didn't show any expression. She just lowered her eyes, looked at the coffee cup in front of her, and smiled, "Oh, that's right."

"Well, he came back after finishing his studies in the UK. He didn't go back to Nanjing, so he insisted on coming to Beijing. But after he came, he didn't study or work, so he played every day, and got a modified car with A Biao and the others. club……"

"Qianqian, do you want to try that blueberry pudding?" Zhang Xuan interrupted her suddenly, "Shall I order one for us to share?"

Wen Qian glanced at her and said nothing more, "Okay, let's order one."

This is really a bad relationship.Wen Qian thought to herself.This knot is twisted together, I am afraid it will be difficult to untie.

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When I received a call from the police station, saying that my brother had been arrested for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, Liu Ye didn't say anything else, so he went to raise a fine.The first thing to find is the chatterbox.

"I don't have any money." Hua Xiazi said slowly, wearing a bathrobe and with wet hair, "It's not like you don't know what my business is like."

Sixth Master also took his time, but he was in a hurry, "The Public Security Bureau asked someone to pay the fine, and I'm making it up for him."

"How much did you collect?"

"I took all my current booklets for him, and it's more than 2000."

"What's the matter with that buddy Mensan'er?" Huaxiazi lit a cigarette and leaned on the sofa, "I'm already old, what are you doing?"

"Then you can't just watch Men San'er staying in the cell, don't worry about asking."

"You said you, what did he have from the stall? Forgot the eighteen stitches on your leg and the knife on your neck?"

"Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Liu Ye knocked his wine glass on the table, "In a word, should I borrow it or not?"

Chatterbox sat up slowly, and glanced at him coldly, "Dog face? Change as you say. What if I don't borrow it?"

Sixth Master stared at her without saying a word.If she doesn't borrow it, Liu Ye really can't do anything to her.

But a chatterbox is a chatterbox after all. Although there are many words, people are righteous.The money was still borrowed.

"Otherwise, it's better for the girl to settle down." Liu Ye took the money and muttered.

"Be quiet? Who are you talking about?"

"No one."

"Be quieter, hmph, don't you have a girl in your family who is quieter? I let you run away a few years ago, forgot?"

Sixth Master didn't look up and didn't speak.

"Now I'm being run on by taking Anfen. I said Liu Ye, what you took just now was my money."

"Look at how hard you are. If you say that you are worth three sentences, it's not like you won't pay back the money."

"..."

"Anfen? Hmph, Xuan'er is not an Anfen girl either. Nine years, if you don't come back, you really won't come back."

"That still makes you angry." Chatterbox rolled his eyes.

"...Speaking of which, lampshade told me something yesterday."

"what's up?"

"He said he saw a girl standing in front of my house early in the morning. He thought it looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was."

"..."

"I reckon... Tell me, could it be Xuan'er?" Sixth Master frowned and looked at Chatterbox.

Chatterbox was also stunned, and after reacting for a while, he put down his cigarette and said in surprise, "...Xuan'er? Zhang Xuan'er?"

"Ah."

"She's back?" Huaxiazi asked, and the image of a thin and introverted girl immediately appeared in his mind.

"...Probably not."

It's useless to rely on guesswork, Chatterbox thought for a while and said, "Sixth Brother, how about I go and find out?"

Sixth Master didn't speak, but looked out the window.This is the second floor, and the view is much better than in the alley.Outside the roofs were pressed against dead branches, and the sky circled with flocks of pigeons.It may be that this winter is really too cold, Xiaobo is not around, and neither is his brother. He has been thinking more and more recently that he still has a daughter.

"Brother Six?" Chatterbox was still asking.

"...No need." Sixth Master frowned and said in a low voice, "If she is willing to come back, she will come back by herself."

"..."

"If she doesn't like it, it's no use looking for it. It's like me."