Xiangyu

Even though the road was closed, Qiao Yusong still saw his grocery store open from a distance.

Today, with the development of electronic commerce, not to mention such an old commercial street, even the emerging large commercial plaza, there are few people shopping until the holidays.A few years ago, a large supermarket opened near this street, which caused the turnover of the nearby grocery stores to plummet, and Qiao Yusong's grocery store was naturally not immune.

However, Qiao Yusong knew that the small shop at home was still open, and his parents no longer had the idea of ​​earning money to make a living.If not open a shop, what are they doing?Qiao Yusong didn't ask, he couldn't imagine it.

The world is changing rapidly, but the family grocery store seems to be always open on this street.It may stay in time stubbornly, or it may be forgotten by time.

Many shops on the street were closed. Qiao Yusong passed by the downstairs of each house and smelled the aroma of dinner.

Some noisy voices came from everywhere, and many of them didn't sound like local accents, and probably the people living in these houses were not the original people.

Qiao Yusong dragged the suitcase back to his door.

Xu Aojun was watching a TV series with his mobile phone standing upright, eating melon seeds while watching, because the corner of his mouth was always hooked into a smile, accidentally, the melon seeds he put in his mouth fell out.The sound of the phone was turned on loudly, and Qiao Yusong heard it was a popular TV series recently.

"Mom." Qiao Yusong shouted, "I'm back."

Xu Aojun raised his head to see him, was startled, glanced into the distance, and then looked back.She put half a handful of melon seeds back into the packaging bag, clapped her hands, got up and said, "Oh, let's eat." Then, she quit the TV series that was playing on her phone and walked inside.

Qiao Yusong came in and asked, "Where's Dad?"

Xu Aojun replied without turning his head: "Let's watch TV upstairs."

Qiao Zhenhai probably heard them talking upstairs, and he came to greet them at the stairs, saying, "Are you back? Put your luggage away, I'll heat up the food."

After listening, Qiao Yusong found that the dishes were already set on the table. It seemed that he knew that he would come back around this time, so he made them in advance.But it is cold in winter, and the air conditioner is reluctant to turn on at home, and the dishes on the table are cold very quickly.

"Put your luggage away, the hot food will be served quickly, it only takes a few minutes." Xu Aojun urged.

Qiao Yusong agreed, picked up the suitcase and went upstairs, and heard Xu Aojun say to Qiao Zhenhai: "Just warm it up for a minute and a half, it's still warm."

Thinking of Song Yuqiao coming tonight, Qiao Yusong planned to make the bed.

But to his surprise, when he returned to the room, he found that everything was packed.Not only were the dust-proof newspapers covered on the furniture taken away, but even the bed sheets and quilt covers looked like they had just been changed.

Still, a pillow is needed.

Qiao Yusong heard Xu Aojun's voice urging him to eat, he agreed loudly, and hurried downstairs.

"Did you come back smoothly? It's cold today, huh?" Qiao Zhenhai poured wine into the glass and said to Qiao Yusong who was seated.

"It's okay." Qiao Yusong replied, and found that not only Qiao Zhenhai, but also Xu Aojun had a wine glass filled with wine, but the wines of the two looked different, one purple and one white.

Qiao Zhenhai smiled and asked, "Will you have some? Your mother's wine is made by ourselves, and this is rice wine made by your uncle."

Qiao Yusong asked in surprise: "You made wine? When did it happen?"

"This year, when the grapes are ripe." Xu Aojun asked, "Do you want to drink?"

Hearing her impatience, Qiao Yusong couldn't help but feel helpless, thinking that if he refused to drink at this time, Xu Aojun might have to say something further, so he said: "I'll go get the cup."

This was Qiao Yusong's first time drinking with his family. He didn't realize until the glass was filled with mellow and sweet wine.

He had expected a toast when their glasses were full.But no, for Qiao Zhenhai and Xu Aojun, it seems to have become a habit to accompany meals with wine, and it is not worth celebrating, and it is unexpected to celebrate.

The family of three ate while watching local news on TV.

During the Spring Festival, the news will inevitably mention the Spring Festival travel.

Suddenly, Xu Aojun asked: "Where do you plan to go this year?"

Qiao Yusong guessed her intention and said, "I have no plans now, I guess I won't be able to go anywhere. Do you want free tickets?"

Her expression froze and she didn't answer.

Qiao Zhenhai looked at his wife and said with a shy smile, "This year is the 35th anniversary of my marriage with your mother, and I want to go out for a while. We don't know how to travel abroad. We don't understand foreign languages. If we go with a group, the air ticket will definitely be worth a fortune." cost. So I plan to find a place to play in China.”

"It's definitely okay to give you free tickets, but Minghang Airlines has relatively few routes, mainly because there are more cities in the west. It depends on where you want to go." Qiao Yusong said.

Xu Aojun asked strangely: "Minghang? Aren't you in Beihang?"

After hearing this, Qiao Yusong remembered that he had never told the two about his resignation and job-hopping, and his face turned red.

"You couldn't be dismissed because of what happened last time?!" Xu Aojun stared straight.

Qiao Yusong felt ashamed for forgetting to tell his parents about such an important matter, but after a long time, he was unwilling to start from the beginning, so he said, "No. I resigned on my own initiative. I want to go to Minghang, because There are more airlines flying to the western city. Song Yuqiao often goes to the western city on business trips."

After the words fell, Xu Aojun's excited expression seemed to be frozen on his face.After a while, she curled her lips in embarrassment and said, "Oh, okay."

Qiao Yusong looked at Qiao Zhenhai, only to see him smile shyly, obviously feeling relieved.

Seeing that the two believed, Qiao Yusong was quietly relieved.

After a while, Xu Aojun asked: "What about him?"

Qiao Yusong paused for a moment with his chopsticks, put the mustard greens into the bowl, and said, "I'm going home."

"Go back to his parents?" Xu Aojun asked further.

Qiao Yusong didn't understand why her tone sounded so sharp, and said, "Well, we went back to Yuetang together. He went home."

"Oh." Xu Aojun agreed, and after a long time, he snorted slightly, and said in a flat tone, "It seems that in my life, I will never be able to have a fourth person at the dinner table."

Qiao Yusong resisted the urge to roll his eyes, bowed his head to eat, and did not answer.

"Other people's sons get married and marry their daughter-in-law, and they can bring her back to have a New Year's Eve dinner together during the New Year. What are you two? Hey, who is your daughter-in-law? Are you going to his house or him to our house, or are you planning to spend your whole life together?" In this way, go back to each house during the holidays?" Xu Aojun asked.

Qiao Yusong really doesn't know why Xu Aojun is still criticizing.He took a deep breath and said, "Song Yuqiao will come to live here tonight, and tomorrow I will go to their house for dinner."

After listening, Xu Aojun was stunned.

Qiao Zhenhai asked in surprise, "Xiao Song is coming tonight?"

Qiao Yusong blushed and nodded.

"Why do you come to sleep at night? You don't even eat, come to sleep, do you think our house is a brothel?" Xu Aojun dissatisfied.

Qiao Yusong tried hard to control his emotions and asked, "You are the only one who said that. What do you think of me when you say that?"

Xu Aojun opened his eyes wide in surprise, and looked at Qiao Zhenhai. Seeing that he was silent, he looked at Qiao Yusong again.

"I don't mean anything else." Qiao Yusong said lightly, taking a bite of his meal, "Anyway, I think it's normal for Song Yuqiao to go home. He hasn't been back for a long time, and he might not know when he will come back next time." Since it’s rare to come back once, shouldn’t it be natural for me to go back to my parents? Going back is my duty, and coming at night is the relationship between me and him, it’s that simple. If it’s you, if you want me to go back to Yuetang Go to his house?"

Xu Aojun was usually eloquent, but at this time Qiao Yusong was speechless.After a long while, she said in a rough voice, "That's why I said you have a problem. But if he is a woman, it is a matter of course for him to return to our house during the Chinese New Year. There is no entanglement about which one to go to!"

"It is impossible for me to like women in my life. Besides, even if he is a woman and we are together, I don't think he has to go back to my house during the Chinese New Year." Qiao Yusong retorted rudely.

"Hey, hey, what you both said makes sense." Qiao Zhenhai hurriedly interrupted them, "However, now that everything has been settled, why are you arguing about it? Forget it, forget it, let's eat Right. —Ah, there is a 'stewardess' in the rocket that flies to the moon?"

Hearing this, Qiao Yusong looked back and saw that it was an excerpt from a paid movie on TV. Several people in spacesuits boarded a spaceship flying to the moon. There were flight attendants on the spaceship, and asked the leading actor if he Need hot towels.

The three watched TV, and the previous dispute was interrupted.

After a while, Xu Aojun said disdainfully: "Is this a science fiction movie? How can there be such a thing?"

Qiao Zhenhai said with a chuckle: "Not now, maybe in the future. In the past, movies imagined that humans would go to space, and people at that time thought it was impossible. In fact, Laomei's Mars rovers have been wandering on Mars for almost 20 years."

"Tch! You know a lot." Xu Aojun rolled his eyes at him, but there was clearly admiration in his eyes.

Qiao Yusong saw the charming look in her eyes for a second, and immediately stopped being angry. He just chose to eat in silence and listen to what they usually talked about when they ate.

I don't know when Song Yuqiao came over. After dinner, Qiao Yusong went back to the room to find a pillow.

He accidentally saw the mottled spots on the wall, and was slightly taken aback.

Putting the pillow on the bed, Qiao Yusong turned on his phone, found the movie he saw on TV during dinner, and put on his headphones to watch it from the beginning.

With 10 minutes left before the end of the movie, a call from Song Yuqiao popped up on the screen of the phone, and Qiao Yusong quickly answered, "Hello?"

"Hello?" Song Yuqiao said with a smile in his voice, "I'm downstairs at your house."

"Wait, I'll go down and open the door." After Qiao Yusong finished speaking, he took off his earphones.

He got up and wanted to go out, after thinking about it, he chose to open the window first.When he looked down, he really saw Song Yuqiao downstairs, holding two big gift boxes in his hand, looking up and smiling at him.

Qiao Yusong waved to him, and immediately turned and went downstairs.

When Qiao Yusong opened the door, Song Yuqiao was already standing outside.

Welcoming him into the room, Qiao Yusong smelled the fragrance on his body and asked, "Have you taken a bath?"

Song Yuqiao nodded and asked, "Are uncle and aunt asleep?"

When Qiao Yusong went downstairs, he saw that the light in the living room was still on, and there was the sound of the TV inside.He replied, "Not yet. What is this?"

Song Yuqiao laughed and said, "My mother asked me to bring Korean ginseng and bird's nest."

He was stunned, wondering: "It's too expensive."

"It's not expensive, it should be given by someone else, and there are two boxes at home." After Song Yuqiao finished speaking, he looked up, his back stiffened, and he smiled, "Hello, Uncle!"

Qiao Zhenhai stood on the stairs a little cautiously, and said with a smile, "Xiao Song is here."

Song Yuqiao said: "Come here so late, I'm sorry to bother you."

Hearing that Song Yuqiao would exchange greetings, Qiao Yusong was very surprised in his heart, and then he was a little bit dumbfounded, as if his own child finally had a human appearance in front of others.

"Hurry up and go upstairs and sit upstairs." Qiao Zhenhai greeted.

"Okay." Song Yuqiao glanced at Qiao Yusong, followed Qiao Zhenhai upstairs, and asked, "Where is Auntie?"

"Oh!" Qiao Zhenhai stopped suddenly, turned around and smiled at him embarrassedly, hurried downstairs, and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, "Hey! Xiao Song is here!"

Xu Aojun asked inexplicably: "What Xiao Song is here? Didn't he stay at home all the time?"

After hearing this, Qiao Zhenhai gave Song Yuqiao an embarrassed look, and hurried to the kitchen.

Song Yuqiao and Qiao Yusong looked at each other amusedly.

After a while, Xu Aojun, who was wearing an apron, came to the kitchen door, with a smile on his face, and said, "Xiao Qiao is here? Come, Auntie cooked glutinous rice balls, let's eat a bowl first! ——Oh, come here, why not?" Still bring something? Son, take Xiaoqiao upstairs and put the things away. I'll bring the glutinous rice balls up."

"Auntie is not busy, I put something away, just come down and eat." Song Yuqiao said hurriedly.

"It's okay, it's okay, you two go up first!" Xu Aojun said, and turned back to the kitchen.

Looking at her enthusiastic appearance and thinking of her attitude at dinner, Qiao Yusong really didn't know whether to be helpless or lucky.

"Put your things in the living room, I'll serve glutinous rice balls." Qiao Yusong pushed his hand.

"So virtuous?" Song Yuqiao joked.

Qiao Yusong glared at him and threatened, "I'll bite you again."

"Oh, then I won't talk about it." Song Yuqiao said, "It hurts you to bite someone."

Hearing this, Qiao Yusong's face was hot. Seeing him turn around, before he could walk, he grabbed his arm and hit him on the buttocks.