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Ren Yan led Duan Chuiyu into an old alley, which was very close to Mingjing Lane, near the Tenth Middle School.

The two walked all the way to the depths of the alley.

The more he walked to the end, the more peaceful Duan Chuiyu felt, the sound of traffic gradually faded away, and all he could hear was the singing of birds.

There are many old people living in the alley. At dusk, rattan reclining chairs are placed at the door of many people’s houses. Those old people just lie on the rattan chairs leisurely, talking to each other, occasionally laughing loudly, waving their hands Medium and wide cattail fan.

Duan Chuiyu followed behind Ren Yan, the sound of chaotic footsteps interspersed with bursts of laughter, becoming light and fast.

Ren Yan stopped at the gate of a courtyard, and he knocked on the gate.

"Here we come." Someone in the room responded, "Who is it?"

The person who opened the door was an old lady with gray hair that was combed neatly. She wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a chain, and looked down at the people outside the room through the lenses.

The old lady's face was old, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were piled up one after another, but her spirit was hale and hearty, and her eyes were even a little sharp, but the moment she saw Ren Yan, she suddenly softened: "Yan Yan is here?"

"Grandma." Ren Yan called out.

"Hey!" Zhou Yizhen responded, only then did she notice a tall and thin boy standing beside Ren Yan, her eyes fell on Duan Chuiyu's face, and stayed for a moment.

"Hi, grandma." Duan Chuiyu greeted politely.

"Ouch." Zhou Yizhen took off her glasses, her eyes were extremely clear, "Where did this little doll come from—"

Zhou Yizhen paused, then looked at Ren Yan, hesitating for a moment: "Yanyan, this is you...?"

"He's my student." Ren Yan said, "I'm working as a tutor recently."

"Tutor?" Zhou Yizhen frowned slightly, "Your father doesn't give you living expenses, why are you still working as a tutor."

Ren Yan helped her enter the door, holding the watermelon he bought on the side of the road in his hand, and comforted her: "I have enough living expenses."

Ren Yan turned his head and waved to Duan Chuiyu, "Come in."

Zhou Yizhen turned her head and stared at Duan Chuiyu, her eyes curled up with a smile: "This boy looks so handsome. His eyebrows and eyes are like your grandpa's."

Ren Yan doesn't know what his grandpa looked like when he was young, maybe Duan Chuiyu is really similar to him, otherwise his grandma wouldn't be so warm when they first met, with all his love written on his face.

Zhou Yizhen never treats people too affectionately, but she smiles happily when facing Duan Chuiyu.

She was a teacher when she was young, and she taught as many students as a cow's hair. She has a relatively sharp temper. After retirement, she is still full of energy, and her vigor remains the same as before.

Later, until Grandpa Ren Yan passed away, she seemed to be deprived of energy and softened a lot.

But she also lost her anger, her eyes were not as bright as before, Ren Yan sometimes saw her sitting alone for a long time in a daze.

This is a small courtyard house, more than enough for one person to live in, but it is also a little deserted.There is a grape trellis in the yard, a wooden seat is hung under the grape trellis, and wooden benches and wooden tables of the same color are placed beside the seat.

Duan Chuiyu glanced around, but did not see any other residents, the old lady should live alone.

Duan Chuiyu caught a glimpse of a chubby cat lying on the hanging chair, and with a "meow", the cat jumped off the hanging chair and trotted to Ren Yan's feet.

Duan Chuiyu saw the cat's face clearly, it was fat and orange.

It's Ren Yan's WeChat avatar.

Ren Yan didn't pay attention to this enthusiastic and clingy fat orange, and walked straight into the house with a watermelon in his hand, and the fat orange chased after him shaking his body fat.

It was the first time I saw a shit shovel so indifferent to the cat owner.

Duan Chuiyu chuckled lightly.

Is this identity reversed?

"Where's Zai Zai?" Duan Chuiyu heard the old lady raise her voice and asked, "Why don't you come in?"

Duan Chuiyu almost didn't realize that the "baizai" was calling him, Ren Yan was also stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Grandma, his name is Duan Chuiyu, don't yell."

Zhou Yizhen slapped him on the arm, "Grandma can scream whatever she wants."

She asked again in a low voice, "What did you bring him here for?"

"Have a meal."

"Haven't you guys eaten yet?" Zhou Yizhen took off her glasses and searched for an apron everywhere, "You child, I didn't say it earlier, I didn't cook a few dishes today."

"It's okay, just eat."

"I'll go to the kitchen to warm up the dishes for you."

Duan Chuiyu stayed outside the house for a long time, only to hear Zhou Yizhen call out: "Zai Zai, don't stay with the courtyard, come in."

Why did he become a "Zai Zai" inexplicably?

Duan Chuiyu twisted his face.

"Not coming in?" Ren Yan leaned out half of his body and asked him.

The twisted "Zai Zai" replied: "Oh."

"Are we eating here?" Duan Chuiyu asked Ren Yan in a low voice, "Why didn't you say earlier, I didn't bring anything."

Duan Chuiyu has a good tutor, but he didn't bring a gift when he came to someone's house as a guest, so he felt a little restless.

"It's just a meal. If you bring an old lady, you may not accept it." Ren Yan found a bucket to fill with water, and put the watermelon in it. "She doesn't like to accept favors."

"Then I'll help in the kitchen?" Duan Chuiyu rubbed his hands.

Ren Yan raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were strange.

Sometimes Duan Chuiyu is so willful that he is full of young mastery, like a gentle little beast, but in fact he is very educated in his bones.

"Why?" Duan Chuiyu frowned, feeling uncomfortable with Ren Yan's eyes.

Ren Yan squatted down and patted the watermelon, with a deep voice: "Going in is not just adding to the chaos."

"..."

Duan Chuiyu couldn't refute these words, he had stayed in that house for so long, and almost never set foot in the kitchen.

Fat Ju let out another coquettish "meow", and Mao Fei's voice was soft, with great contrast.It sticks to Ren Yan's feet, seeing that Ren Yan still ignores him, after being left in the cold, he wags his tail and walks towards Duan Chuiyu.

Duan Chuiyu squatted down, tapped the tip of its pink nose with his fingertips, and asked Ren Yan: "Is this cat your WeChat avatar?"

Ren Yan let out a "huh".

"It's really fat." Duan Chuiyu withdrew his hand, took out a tissue from his pocket, wiped his fingers, and asked, "Is it famous?"

Ren Yan didn't answer, but glanced over from the corner of his eye, and glanced at Duan Chuiyu's hand clutching a tissue in an unclear manner.

"What are you looking at?" Duan Chuiyu stood up, pursing his lips, "Don't be so eccentric, you just hate it when you look at it."

Ren Yan's eyes clearly said: You are a boy, why are you so pretentious and so particular, and you feel dirty even if you touch a cat's nose.

Duan Chuiyu rubbed his nose, and said in a muffled voice, "This is my personal habit."

"Did I say anything?" Ren Yan said and walked into the house.

Duan Chuiyu followed behind and said, "You? Just you? You think I don't know what you're thinking? Don't you just think I'm a problem."

Ren Yan lowered his head and gave a short laugh.

He doesn't smile often, and the occasional smile is fleeting, but grandma saw it at a glance, and asked with a smile, "What are you laughing at, Yanyan?"

Ren Yan coughed and recovered that paralyzed face: "I didn't smile."

Now it was Duan Chuiyu's turn to laugh, he laughed wantonly and his voice was crisp.

The old lady was also happy: "Why are you so happy?"

Duan Chuiyu took the plate in her hand and replied, "I'm very happy. Grandma, your grandson is so cute."

Ren Yan glanced at Duan Chuiyu, his handsome face changed in a second.

"Ouch." The old lady snorted, "It's the first time I've heard people praise us so much."

The orange cat in grandma's house is called "Mr. Orange", which was picked up by Ren Yan under the school dormitory. There are regulations in the dormitory that pets are not allowed. He couldn't bear to lose the kitten, so he raised the cat with grandma. .

Zhou Yizhen changed from her previous state of reticence, and chatted non-stop with Duan Chuiyu during meals. It was the first time Ren Yan saw his grandma chattering so well.

"I heard from Yanyan that your name is Duan Chuiyu, right?" Zhou Yizhen asked.

"Yes."

"That's a good name." Zhou Yizhen helped him pick up vegetables, "Do you mind if I call you Zai Zai?"

Duan Chuiyu couldn't tell because he was suffering, so he said with a dry smile, "I don't mind, as long as you like it."

Duan Chuiyu is usually arrogant and cold, but now he talks a lot with the old lady, whatever the old lady asks, he will answer whatever, he is extremely obedient.

"It's better to be a baby." Zhou Yizhen clamped another chicken leg for Duan Chuiyu, "We Yanyan is just too bored, and we are like dumb when we come back, and we don't want to talk to this old lady like me."

Zhou Yizhen complained, but she didn't think so in her heart.Ren Yan often comes here, he is not very talkative, even if the two of them eat in silence every time, he still comes here whenever he is free.

He accompanied the old man in the way he was used to, and this companionship fell into silence.

"Is Zai Zai still used to my cooking?" the old lady asked Duan Chuiyu.

Unknowingly, Duan Chuiyu has gotten used to the name "Zai Zai", so he naturally responded, "I'm used to it, it's delicious."

The old lady smiled and said, "If you think it's delicious, come here when you have time."

The old lady was quite avant-garde, and suddenly fumbled for a smartphone from her pocket, put on her glasses, squinted her eyes and looked at the screen, and flicked a finger on the screen of the phone unskillfully.

"Let's add a WeChat." The old lady finally found the green icon, "In the future, grandma will contact you on WeChat when she asks you for dinner."

"Your grandma is quite fashionable." Duan Chuiyu leaned into Ren Yan's ear and said quickly, and then replied: "Hey, give me your phone, and I will add it for you."

Ren Yan raised his hand and rubbed his ear, the root of his ear was a little hot, and there was still the heat from Duan Chuiyu's whispering.

After adding WeChat, the meal was almost finished. The old lady asked the two children to go to the courtyard to enjoy the cool, and was busy in the kitchen alone.

"How about I go to the kitchen to help?" Duan Chuiyu couldn't sit still, got up and said.

"No need." Ren Yan grabbed his wrist, then let go immediately, and said, "She doesn't like people hanging around her when she's working."

Ren Yan was sitting on the hanging chair, and suddenly reached out and touched President Ju's head, "I used to help, but she beat me out every time."

Duan Chuiyu stared at his hand touching the cat's head for a while.

That hand was holding his wrist just now.

Cold to the touch.

There are small star-shaped lanterns wrapped around the grape racks, and the lights are weak, barely illuminating the grape leaves on the racks.The faint light fell on Mr. Ju's body, and Ren Yan's hands with well-defined finger bones melted into a warm color.

The old lady cleaned up the dishes and wiped her hands and came out, asking Ren Yan: "By the way, Yanyan, you were not sick last time, right?"

"Huh?" Ren Yan didn't respond.

"Just last time, you were covered in water, so you didn't catch a cold when you went back?"

Duan Chuiyu seemed to understand which time the old lady was talking about.

"No." Ren Yan said.

"Fortunately, I'm not sick." The old lady complained to Duan Chuiyu, "Tell me about people nowadays, they have to drag others to suffer together after a drink. Last time Yanyan came to see me and was on the phone with me. I heard a "plop" sound, and then there was no sound on the phone. Later, he came over with his head full of water, and told me that he fell into the water, which scared me."

Duan Chuiyu sneered twice: "There is such a thing."

The old lady had a regular schedule and went to bed early, so Ren Yan and Duan Chuiyu didn't stay here for long.

When she returned home, the lights in the study were still on, Xu Yafei was dealing with work matters inside, when she heard the movement, she came out of the study.

"came back?"

Duan Chuiyu gave a "hmm" and went upstairs to his room.

Xu Yafei smiled helplessly at Ren Yan, and followed her upstairs.

"Xiao Yu?" Xu Yafei knocked on the door of Duan Chuiyu's room. Duan Chuiyu's room was a forbidden area of ​​the house. Normally, even the aunts at home would not come in to clean at will, so Xu Yafei dared not go in rashly.

"What's wrong?" Duan Chuiyu's voice came from the room, "I'm changing clothes."

He must not be changing clothes. Xu Yafei knew it. She sighed and said, "Mom has a plane at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

Xu Yafei flies around all year round, Duan Chuiyu has long been used to it, he was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone, and he replied: "Got it."

Xu Yafei leaned against the door and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't say anything. She wanted to make up for something, but Duan Chuiyu didn't seem to need it.

Let the child be more comfortable.

So much the better.

"Go to bed early." Xu Yafei said softly.

Duan Chuiyu lay on the bed and absently swiped at the phone screen.

Duan Xifeng has gone back to work, and Xu Yafei is leaving tomorrow, so what will happen to the parent meeting next Saturday?

He heard familiar footsteps outside the door, light and steady.

Ren Yan went back to the room.

Although his parents hadn't attended the parent meeting a few times before, this embarrassing situation was nothing to him at all.

But now, isn't there a teacher here?

Duan Chuiyu opened WeChat, clicked on the portrait of the orange cat, and typed.

Ren Yan was going to prepare for next week's pre. He turned on the laptop, but stared at his fingertips in a daze, and then heard the phone ring.

Ren Yan came back to his senses and clicked on WeChat to take a look.

Mouth: I have a very important meeting here, I think you can attend it.

Mouth: [Shining back gif]