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Zhao Ying gave me a small cup of dark beer and said, "You've worked hard today, let's drink some beer."

"Yeah." I took the beer and took two sips.

Then I realized that she was looking at me all the time.

I held the cup in my hand and didn't know what to say.

"Shuwen, follow me upstairs to see grandma."

I stared blankly at her.

"Yesterday she entrusted me with a dream, saying that she... misses you."

I couldn't help crying: "I miss Grandma Zhao Zhenhua too...I miss her so much."

"Shuwen, she looked at me with a smile and said, "Why are you crying again?You always cry every time you talk about her.She will be angry, won't she?Don't cry, follow me to see grandma. "

So I stopped, followed her to the second floor, and burned a stick of incense for grandma.

I stared at the picture of grandma in silence.

"Remember the past?"

"Well... I remembered..." I stared at her and said, "That night, the only time in my life, I saw you cry."

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This is the first time I recall the past about Zhao Ying after those 5 years.

One year after we became teachers and sisters, we are already very close.She seems to remember what Teacher Dan said, and has always been very kind to me (although she often teases me), so I naturally became friends with her.

That day she was praised by Teacher Dan for her painting, and she was embarrassed in front of Jiachuan and me.

"Comrade Wang Shuwen, Comrade Zheng Jiachuan." She asked us: "Have you been praised by Teacher Dan?"

"No," Zheng Jiachuan shook the painting bucket to remove the water: "Grandma's praise is too rare."

"Hey." She lightly touched my left shoulder: "Shuwen, go to my house for dinner, I'll make it for you."

"Hmm!" I joked, "I'm also happy."

"I'm neither married nor have children. Why are you so happy?" She rolled her eyes slightly.

"That..." Zheng Jiachuan seemed to want to go.

"Jia Chuan," she said with a smile, "I'm sorry."

"Hey!" Jia Chuan had already placed the tools in the sun: "What's the point of saying I'm sorry?"

He muttered: "It's just the two of you playing well."

"Jia Chuan," I put my arms around his shoulders, "I'll bring you chicken legs next time~"

"Go, go, go," he said with a naive smile, "Are you a senior brother or I am a senior brother, go back quickly."

Zhao Ying's home is an old courtyard.

The old courtyard of her house is more flavorful than Jiachuan's villa.

The walls around the courtyard are covered with ivy, and another unknown plant is attached to the ivy, with faint white flowers blooming, pulling my feelings.

My gaze swept over the fence, the irregularly shaped stone road covered with moss, the old rocking chair, and... a dignified grandma.

"Hello," she stretched out her hand to me, and said, "I am Zhao Ying's grandma, you can call me Grandma Zhao Zhenhua."

We shook hands, and I looked at her face and felt that she was benign, but still majestic.

"Grandma Zhao Zhenhua is good."

She nodded with a smile,

"Grandma," Zhao Ying slightly rolled up his sleeves, and said, "Please chat with my friend and my junior sister, Shuwen, and I will cook for you and Shuwen today."

"Well, let's go." Grandma Zhao Zhenhua turned around and said, "So you are Shuwen."

"Yes, Grandma."

"My girl, hehe, I often mention you."

……

In less than a month, it's the rainy season.The downpour could last for a week with no sign of letting up.

Zhao Ying opened the umbrella first and waited for me.

Then when I swished open my umbrella with Chopper (both before and after Chopper's transformation), it also shattered into pieces with a "boom".

Zhao Ying looked at me with some reproach.

"Shuwen, you have to be gentle, so things won't break easily," she walked up to me holding an umbrella, "Take it as a lesson this time. Don't forget it next time..."

"Zhao Ying." I watched her umbrella move to my head: "What shall we do?"

"I'll take you home first."

I thought for a moment and suggested, "Then it will be late when you get home...can I stay overnight at your place?"

"Well...Okay." She smiled and looked into my eyes: "But there are only two beds in my house...you can sleep with me tonight, can you?"

When we arrived in the yard, grandma helped us take off our soaked coats and put them to dry in front of the stove.

"Walking in this heavy rain, even if you hold an umbrella, you will get wet to some extent. Be careful when holding an umbrella in summer rain, girls."

"Grandma Zhao Zhenhua, it's actually my fault. I broke my umbrella today, so Zhao Ying and I went home with only one umbrella."

"Hehe, Miss Shuwen, I'm just giving instructions, and I don't blame you."

That night, grandma told me a story about Zhao Ying.

It turned out that when she was six years old, she lost her parents in a car accident.

She can only fly back to China from the United States to live with her grandmother.

Grandma Zhao Zhenhua said that she was waiting for little Zhao Ying at the door, and saw her walking in front of the person who saw her off with a calm expression.But when that person left, little Zhao Ying suddenly hugged grandma's leg, sobbing quietly, without hearing the cry.Feeling that the pants were slowly soaked by her tears, grandma put her hand on little Zhao Ying's back and patted it gently.

"Grandma..." Xiao Zhao Ying raised his head.

Grandma Zhao Zhenhua squatted down and said softly, "Xiao Yinger."

"Goose photo for the other." Little Zhao Ying cried and said vaguely.

"Huh?" Grandma leaned slightly towards her.

"I want to take care of you." Xiao Zhao Ying was still sobbing.

"Grandma, don't be afraid."

……

After that, I went to visit Zhao Ying's house every now and then.Grandma Zhao Zhenhua told me a lot of her own stories.She would knit a sweater for me every year; make all kinds of snacks for me and Zhao Ying; tidy up my clothes, and then said: "Walk on the road, tidy up and sit down."

I feel like I have two grandmas, the one who died when I was in elementary school and the other is her.

The author has something to say: the sky is about to enter the night, and it turns into a beautiful golden yellow.

And Zhao Ying and Wang Shuwen walked along the river bank.

"Zhao..." Wang Shuwen squeezed his hands tightly and called out, "Ying'er."

Zhao Ying stopped.

"Don't be afraid," she said stiffly.

After Zhao Ying heard Wang Shuwen's lame comfort, he burst out laughing.She looked at each other and said, "Shuwen, I was a little scared when the incident happened, but we all escaped. What's the point of being afraid?"

"Ying'er, I'm so useless, you took me to escape in the end, I..." Wang Shuwen's voice trembled.

"Shuwen," Zhao Ying said seriously, "don't think so."

She stared at Wang Shuwen and said: "I'm not afraid, and I won't let the situation of running away in a hurry happen again... I almost killed you."

"I came here by myself. I want to save you myself, and it's none of your business." Wang Shuwen suddenly had a sore nose.

"You are my junior sister, I should protect you."

"Teacher Dan said 'to be one body', we should not divide who is older and who is younger."

"It's for three people. I'm talking about the two of us. To me, you are my junior sister."

(About Chapter 1 "When she was entangled by a disgusting man after she lost her way in the maze-like villa area".)