Little shop of the people of the earth

Liu Ze felt that he should refuse.

In his life plan, he did not show his affairs to others frankly.

Likewise, since he has no intention of being completely honest with others, he does not have the option of getting married and starting a family in his life plan.

He looked at Ye Hongshu, and was just about to shake his head, but when he met Ye Hongshu's gaze, his movements subtly froze.

In fact, it is really uncomfortable to hold back many things in my heart.

It's just that Liu Ze has long been used to holding back - after getting used to it, it's no big deal.

But it was the first time someone told him so bluntly that he wanted to know him.

There were people who wanted to get close to him before, and Liu Ze still remembered it very clearly, but in the end they basically ran away because of his casually familiar yet alienated attitude.

After the break-up meal before, colleagues revealed that the nicknames they gave him in private almost all have the same meaning.

After all, not everyone has the patience to spend several years getting to know someone slowly.

What's more, Liu Ze is still the type who spends several years and may not give people a chance to understand. This kind of thing that has hit the head without getting any real response is really easy to make people frustrated and angry.

Liu Ze was a little taken aback, and with so many surprises, he looked at Ye Hongshu carefully.

"I want to know more about senior brother." Ye Hongshu reiterated, "I want to be like senior brother."

Hearing this, Liu Ze thought about Ye Hongshu with his character, and said sincerely, "Forget about someone like me."

Ye Hongshu paused, and realized that his straight kick seemed to be a failed shot.

"Then I..."

"Alright." Liu Ze's answer was unexpected, "But the conditions in my hometown are not very good."

Ye Hongshu was taken aback for a moment, but before he could react, Liu Ze left a sentence, "I'll go and pack my things", before turning around and heading back to his room.

Liu Jia nodded to Ye Hongshu, and then disappeared in place.

Liu Ze returned to the house, muttering inwardly while packing up his things.

He couldn't tell why he let go. It might be because Ye Hongshu broke a secret of his, or it might be because Ye Hongshu's behavior of telling him bedtime stories in the past few nights had softened him a bit, or it might be because Ye Hongshu had been in love with him all along. After being in close contact with someone, he unconsciously became tolerant...

There are many reasons that can be found, but if he really wants to find out one, he really can't tell which one it is.

After Liu Ze packed his things, he turned around and saw Ye Hongshu standing at the door of the room, with the dog rubbing against his feet, one person and one dog staring at him without blinking.

Ye Hongshu brought a few sets of clothes to change and wash, and there was no need to prepare anything else.

Liu Ze stuffed the packed things and a pile of unopened daily necessities into the trash, booked two high-speed rail tickets for the day, and took Ye Hongshu on the train with ease.

The destination is about six hours away from Shanghai by high-speed train.

Ye Hongshu travels by plane most of the time, and high-speed trains usually use business seats.

Taking this into consideration, Liu Ze also bought a business seat ticket.

Ye Hongshu was holding Liu Ze's notebook for a video conference, and when he looked up, he saw Liu Ze half lying on the seat, looking at the rapidly passing scenery outside the window, looking extraordinarily quiet.

Ye Hongshu felt that with Liu Ze's background and current achievements, returning to his hometown in the countryside could be regarded as a return home, and found that Liu Ze's expression did not reveal the slightest joy of returning home.

"Brother." Ye Hongshu called him.

Liu Ze turned his head and snorted suspiciously.

"Don't you need to call back?" he asked.

"Huh?" Liu Ze shook his head, "No need."

Ye Hongshu said: "I should go buy some gifts when I get off the car later..."

"No need." Liu Ze interrupted him, "There is no one in my house."

Ye Hongshu was taken aback: "No one?"

"Yes." Liu Ze nodded, thought for a while, and explained, "My father died of illness, and my mother ran away."

Ye Hongshu was in a daze, unable to speak for a while.

Liu Ze didn't think it was a big deal, seeing that Ye Hongshu had stopped talking, he looked out of the window again.

Ye Hongshu looked at Liu Ze who didn't think it was a big deal at all, opened his mouth, closed it again, and opened his mouth again.

The words of apology and consolation lingered on his lips for a long while, seeing that Liu Ze didn't need comfort in the slightest, he silently stopped.

Liu Ze's hometown is in a remote mountain village in Hunan Province, not a tourist attraction, nor well-known.

After getting off the high-speed rail, you can take a bus to the Township Passenger Station, and then take a motorcycle to deliver it home.

The soliciting passengers at the passenger terminal were all young and middle-aged men with skin tones that looked weather-beaten. Standing in the dilapidated and dull passenger terminal, Liu Ze and Ye Hongshu looked a little out of place.

It's not that Ye Hongshu hasn't experienced this kind of transportation, but it's rare, and he only comes into contact with it when his previous school arranges summer sketching.

Liu Ze looked around at these motorcycle drivers, but didn't find any familiar faces.

He took Ye Hongshu into one casually, and said to the driver, "Go to Liusan Village."

The driver responded, and the motorcycle drove like an airplane, and rushed out of the waiting line with a whimper.

Ye Hongshu looked around, and found that although there were high mountains everywhere, few people and few buildings, the road conditions were quite good.

"Is there any plan here? Cement roads have been built." Ye Hongshu was worried that the wind would blow his words away, so he leaned into Liu Ze's ear and asked.

Liu Ze ducked to the side: "No."

Hearing this answer, Ye Hongshu looked at the clear river flowing down the mountain in front of him, and seemed to have noticed something. Following the speeding motorcycle, he looked around, and after a while, he bypassed a mountain, approached the river, and revealed the rear When reaching several mountain peaks, he showed a dazed expression.

"Senior brother, this is not the one you completed..." Ye Hongshu stopped in the middle of speaking.

He probably guessed why Liu Ze was so obsessed with his Bi She.

In all fairness, the scenery here is beautiful, the air is good, and the road has been built. It is indeed a very suitable place to develop into a resort.

It's a pity that there is nothing that can be regarded as a gimmick.

In fact, there are many villages with this kind of environment in China. If there is no special feature, no developer will take a fancy to this place.

Ye Hongshu's eyes flicked to the back of Liu Ze's head in front of him, and he wanted to say something, but he felt that it was not appropriate to say anything.

The motorcycle driver sent them to the entrance of the village. The two got out of the car and gave ten yuan. They watched the driver rush back like flying an airplane, and disappeared from sight.

Liu Ze took out two small pendants of insect repellent wood scratching from his pocket, one for himself and the other for Ye Hongshu: "There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, you take this with you to avoid attracting insects."

Ye Hongshu accepted it obediently, followed behind Liu Ze, looked around, and saw a monument at the intersection of the village head.

When Ye Hongshu passed by, he glanced at it and saw the word "Liu Ze" at a glance.

He froze for a moment, stopped, and saw other words on the tablet.

This is a monument of gratitude, a monument of gratitude to those who contributed to the construction of the road. The inscription is from the township committee, the donor is Liu Ze, the donation amount is 58 yuan, and the road is two kilometers long with a fraction.

The cost was out of proportion to the length of the road. Ye Hongshu reflexively glanced at the concrete road under his feet. The road surface was not spacious, and it was only 3.5 meters wide by visual inspection, and it was impossible for two cars to run side by side.

Liu Ze took a few steps forward, saw that Ye Hongshu hadn't followed, turned his head to look at him, and followed his line of sight to see the monument.

Liu Ze was a little puzzled, stepped back and took a look, then stopped in place.

Ye Hongshu glanced at the astonished Liu Ze, and then looked at the back of the stele.

On the back of the monument of gratitude is a merit poem, which is not worth seeing.

He withdrew his gaze and looked at his senior brother: "Brother donated it?"

Looking at the stele, Liu Ze came to his senses in a daze, and nodded vaguely.

Ye Hongshu didn't know what to say.

He is very clear about Liu Ze's salary level, 58 is almost the whole year's income of Liu Ze after excluding the cost of living in Shanghai.

Liu Ze was also a little confused.

He hasn't come back for many years, and he didn't just donate this road. In order to prevent the money from being stolen, he always entrusted his friends in his hometown to supervise the work. Later, he heard that the local township committee also applied for funding after learning about it. Together with his donations, the roads in three nearby villages have been repaired in one go in the past few years, and they have been connected to the main road along the passenger station.

But he didn't hear anyone say that there is a monument of gratitude for him here.

Liu Ze was stunned for a while, then slowly looked away: "Let's go."

Ye Hongshu nodded and followed behind Liu Ze.

The permanent population of Liusan Village is not that large, but we bumped into a few along the way.

Ye Hongshu looked at those people curiously. After seeing Liu Ze, he recognized them blankly for a while. He seemed to recognize them, but he didn't greet them with a smile. Instead, he quickly avoided Ye Hongshu's gaze.

Without squinting, Liu Ze led Ye Hongshu across an arched bridge.

After crossing the bridge, the treatment was completely different from before. Liu Ze had just met a woman who was sitting outside the door choosing vegetables, and the woman laughed loudly and shouted loudly: "Ze Yazi!"

Hearing this shout, Liu Ze relaxed instantly, raised his head and smiled at the woman: "Aunt Ling, I'll go back first."

"Okay, okay!" The woman smiled all over her face, "Hey, finally someone came back, not a courier, and brought someone back."

Ye Hongshu watched Liu Ze happily respond to the other party. His senior brother finally felt a little relaxed and happy when he returned to his hometown. The steps became much lighter.

Liu Ze bypassed the house, walked along the river for a while, and then stopped in front of a house whose entire courtyard wall was occupied by creepers.

The iron gate is stained with rust, and in the courtyard behind the iron gate, moss has covered the steps of the bluestone slabs, and a lot of weeds have grown in the gaps in the concrete floor. White, very different from the well-kept yard next door.

Liu Ze took out the key, unlocked the iron gate, walked into the yard, looked at the bugs that moved quickly as they entered, raised his hand and waved away the spider web, and opened the electric switch outside.

He pushed open the door, just holding his breath to avoid the dust, only to find that the house was cleaned up.

Liu Ze was taken aback for a moment, and when he heard a few mutterings in his local accent, he suddenly turned his head and looked outside the iron gate.

A white-haired old man walked out of the next door, leaning on a cane, with a bad back, but in good spirits. When he saw Liu Ze coming back, his eyes turned red, and then he rushed over with a cane, walking briskly. Still scolding: "You still know how to come back! You still know how to come back!"

Liu Ze glanced at the crutch, quickly withdrew his foot from entering the house, and quickly dodged behind Ye Hongshu before the old man waved the crutch in his hand.

Ye Hongshu had question marks all over his face, watching Liu Ze and the old man follow him around in circles, chasing each other to hide, after wandering around a few times, the old man gave up and threw away his crutches, sat down on the ground and wept.

Liu Ze stopped and looked at the old man, looking extremely at a loss.

Ye Hongshu took a look at Liu Ze, who was always calm and calm, but now he was at a loss like a child who did something wrong. He quickly helped the old man who was crying miserably, and looked at Liu Ze questioningly while giving comfort Ze.

"My grandfather." Liu Ze whispered, "It's not my relative, but he raised me."

After finishing speaking, Liu Ze pursed his lips, looked at the clean house, and then at the sobbing old man, feeling even more at a loss: "I heard that his son took him to the city..."

So Liu Ze rest assured that he hasn't come back for so many years. His impression of his hometown is not good, and he is too embarrassed to disturb the life of the old man's biological family. Except for giving gifts during the Chinese New Year, there is almost no thought of coming back.

He didn't know when the old man would come back. He occasionally called the old man and didn't mention his affairs, so he just said whatever happened.

Ye Hongshu helped the old man into the house, and Liu Ze ran to the old man's house to bring a kettle, poured water for his grandfather, and listened to the old man's scolding and nagging obediently.

After the old man's counting was over, and his heart calmed down, he asked, "Where's Uncle Xiong?"

"That unfilial son!" The old man became angry again, "He took me there just to ask for your monthly payment, and I told you many times not to give it!"

Liu Ze was scolded all over his head and face, and he was as well-behaved as a primary school student.

Ye Hongshu was listening by the side, looking at Liu Ze's appearance. After a long while, he heard the old man's scolding gradually subside, and then held Liu Ze's hand, and shed tears again, saying that it would be good to come back.

"This is your friend, right?" He finally turned his head to look at Ye Hongshu, copying a mouthful of Mandarin with a strong local accent.

Ye Hongshu was a little nervous, and nodded: "Well, my name is Ye Hongshu, and Liu Ze is my senior brother."

"That's a nice name." The old man smiled, then turned to Liu Ze and said, "I usually tidy up the living room and the room. You don't even say a word when you bring your friends back, go clean it up yourself!"

Liu Ze obediently said "Oh", knowing that his grandfather must be trying to distract him from talking to Ye Hongshu.

As for what to say, I can think of it with my feet.

It must be because he understands his life in Shanghai. After all, he raised Liu Ze, and Liu Ze's temperament follows him. He always reports good news but not bad news.

The old man was stubborn, but he cared about Liu Ze from the bottom of his heart.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Liu Ze said to Ye Hongshu a little embarrassedly.

Seeing Liu Ze's appearance after returning, Ye Hongshu felt novelty all the time, he shook his head, expressing that it was okay.

Liu Ze walked back and forth to tidy up the room.

The old man looked at his back for a long time before turning his eyes away: "Hong Shu... Our Ze Yazi, is he doing well?"

Ye Hongshu thought for a while, then nodded: "Very good."

The old man seemed to be relieved: "Ze Yazi's life is hard, his father left early, and mother couldn't bear to gossip about those people in He, so she ran away when he was three years old. He has no rice at home after a few days of winter." There was no food, and I almost starved to death in the house, but fortunately I found out, it is not easy for him to grow up."

Ye Hongshu listened silently to the old man's rambling, telling him about Liu Ze.

Liu Ze's father had a serious illness when he was one year old. The family was poor and had no money to treat him, so he simply went home and waited to die. His mother dragged him by himself until he was three years old. There is no man in Liu Ze's family, and Liu Ze's mother listened to what he said in such a messy and ugly words.

After a few months, Liu Ze's mother couldn't bear the rumors, took the last savings of the family, and ran away, without Liu Ze, and locked him at home.

It was New Year's Eve when we left, and it was freezing cold, Liu Ze couldn't get out, and he was too small to climb over the wall of the backyard, so he barely cooked and ate the last rice noodles and vegetables left at home, hungry. For two days I had to drink water.

When the grandfather who lived next door realized that the door of Liu Ze's house next door had not been opened after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, he slammed the door and rushed into the house after realizing something was wrong. The three-year-old child had passed out from hunger and lay motionless on the bed.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in rural areas.

Grandpa simply raised Liu Ze, and Liu Ze also strived for success. He passed the junior high school entrance examination, and even rushed into the provincial key points in high school, and even won a scholarship.

Liu Ze didn't come back for many years, and gossiped a lot about He, about what kind of life and what kind of cub, and he ran away like his mother, and didn't come back without gratitude.

As a result, within two years, a friend Yanagisawa entrusted came to build the road.

When the old man said this, his eyebrows were beaming, and he looked elated: "Those people in Duihe only know how to play cards and talk about it every day, and they have nothing to do!"

Ye Hongshu listened quietly until Liu Ze tidied up the room and came out with the quilt in his arms, the old man told them to go to his house for dinner.

Liu Ze said yes, and watched his grandfather walk home like the wind.

Ye Hongshu looked at Liu Ze and asked him, "Why did senior brother let this place develop...? I mean, your graduation project."

Liu Ze was taken aback for a moment, realizing that his grandfather probably read his life history in front of Ye Hongshu.

"Grandpa told you already." Liu Ze said casually, "They told me that before my mother left, she told people that she couldn't stay in this shabby place, so I want to make this place less shabby, maybe she Someday I will remember this place, and I will secretly come back to have a look and see me."

Ye Hongshu was taken aback: "Brother, do you still want to see your... mother?"

Liu Ze nodded: "I still want to see her again."

"What are you doing?" Ye Hongshu asked.

"Ask her if she has any regrets."

After Liu Ze finished speaking, he looked at the overgrown weeds in the courtyard in front of him, paused, and said in a calm tone, "I want to ask her again, if I have grown up to the present, does she feel a little proud?"