My deskmate always wants to heal me

The sun is still hot at the end of August, especially in the afternoon.

As soon as He Chu arrived at the entrance of the alley by bicycle, the cell phone in his trousers pocket rang. He Chu stopped the car and took out his cell phone to answer it.

"Ok?"

"You..." Gong Lixiao paused for a few seconds, "Have you returned to Tianshui Lane?"

"Well, I just arrived at the entrance of the alley." He Chu straddled the bicycle and propped his feet on the ground.

Gong Lixiao said "Oh" and didn't know what to say, the phone was silent for a while.

After a few seconds, Gong Lixiao faltered: "Then what, you...you...then..."

"I'm fine." He Chu interrupted him, "Eat well, sleep well, and I'm in a good mood."

"... Oh." Gong Lixiao didn't know what to say again. He Chu's grandfather had just passed away a week ago. He Chu grew up with his grandfather. words mean nothing.

"It's been windy for a week on this small broken island. There will be a boat tomorrow, and I can finally go back. I bought you special products on the island and will deliver them to you when I go back." Gong Lixiao said.

"School starts tomorrow, you will come back tomorrow?"

"Don't mention it, the wind is too strong and there is no boat. I am so full that I ran to this poor place to travel." Mentioning this matter, Gong Lixiao was depressed. He finally had a summer vacation. He originally wanted to stay at home for a summer vacation. His father Mom insisted on taking him out for a trip, so let’s go on a trip, but he came to such a clean island, and when the wind blows, there will be no boats, so that after hearing that He Chu’s grandfather passed away, the family planned to go back to attend the funeral but died. Can't get out of the island.

He Chu: "Have you told Lao Wang?"

Gong Lixiao: "Say it, Old Wang said that I don't have to go back to school if I stay on the island."

He Chu: "I think it will work."

"Get out." Gong Lixiao sighed, "It's over this time, Lao Wang will kill me." Lao Wang is the head teacher of Class 20 and [-], and this time he will be the head teacher of Class [-] and [-] as soon as school starts. It has been more than [-] years, and the students have been packed up in sets.

In the past two years of high school and high school, Gong Lixiao suffered a lot from Lao Wang's hands.

"It's really sympathetic." He Chu said.

Gong Lixiao cursed and hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, He Chu rode his bicycle home, passed by the Limin canteen in the middle of the alley, stopped his bicycle and went in to buy water.

It was still very hot at the end of August, and it took him more than three hours to ride back from the town, and he was already sweating profusely.

The refrigerator in the commissary was right by the door. He Chu opened the refrigerator directly, took a bottle and unscrewed the cap and drank half of it before picking up his mobile phone to scan the QR code to pay.

"You don't need to pay, just drink it." The proprietress leaned her elbows on the counter and talked to He Chu, "Is Mr. He's funeral settled?"

"Yeah." He Chu paid while nodding, and the sound of two yuan being charged came from the store.

"Oh." The proprietress sighed, feeling, "What a wonderful person He is."

He Chu lowered his eyes.

After the proprietress finished speaking, she realized that what she said was a little inappropriate, and she was busy trying to make up for it, but before she could speak, someone entered the store.

"Boss, did you buy me the mineral water I asked for yesterday?"

The person who came in was an old man with gray hair, who looked about 70 or [-] years old, hale and hearty, with a kind face.

He Chu met him a few times, and he lived next door to He Chu's house.

Tianshui Lane is located in the border area of ​​Chenxian County. There are three alleys. It used to be called Tianshui Village. After the urban and rural transformation, it became the current Tianshui Lane.

The houses in the three alleys are all traditional small courtyard houses rebuilt by the streets at that time. There are three tile-roofed houses with a small courtyard and two side rooms.

In the past few years, it has been said that it will be demolished, but there has been no movement.

The old man must have moved here for more than half a month. He Chu met him a few times, and saw him riding a small tricycle, with some waste paper shells and plastic bottles on the tricycle.

Tianshui Lane is so big, everyone can find out who moved here quickly, and chat together when they have nothing to do, saying that this old man has no children, and the house is also rented, and he usually lives by collecting waste. Very poor.

Thinking about it, at such an advanced age, I still have to step on a tricycle to collect waste products. If it wasn't forced by life, no one would be willing to suffer.

The proprietress greeted the old man first: "I bought it, but I only bought one box. You can take it home and give it to your grandson to taste and see if it is like this."

grandson?

Didn't it mean that he has no children?

He Chu took a few bags of instant noodles from the shelf and came to the counter. The old man smiled at him when he saw him, and He Chu politely called out "Hello, Grandpa".

The two are neighbors. After He Chu knew that he collected the waste, he never threw the waste at home into the trash can, and put it directly at the old man's door without asking for money.

"How much?" asked the old man.

"130, I'll give you the wholesale price, and I won't overcharge you." The proprietress said.

The old man took out a wrinkled plastic bag from his pocket, opened it, and then took out a white handkerchief from the plastic bag. Inside the handkerchief was a wad of money, fifty, ten, five, one, and zero. With a big push, there are some steel coins in it.

The old man counted slowly, and finally counted out 130 yuan and put it on the table.

The proprietress looked at the scattered money and couldn't help it: "Master, to be honest, this water is really not good to drink. This grandson can't get used to it. The tap water is also water. Drinking it won't kill you..."

The old man wrapped the rest of the money in a handkerchief and put it into the previous plastic bag. The proprietress took a new one and handed it to him: "Change it, this one is almost broken."

"Thank you." The old man took it, put the handkerchief in a plastic bag, wrapped it carefully, put it in his pocket and put it away.

"Master, it's just water. It's just Evian. It's very cheap abroad. My cousin's neighbor's uncle's son is abroad. People say that this water is not rare for foreigners to drink. It's very cheap." The proprietress couldn't help talking again.

The old man was not bothered either, and smiled and said, "My grandson is delicate, so he likes to drink this, and he doesn't like to drink anything else."

After the old man carried the water and left, the proprietress said angrily, "What do you want to drink? I have been drinking tap water for more than 40 years without any problems. This child is just used to it. Who would be willing to drink a bottle of water that costs more than ten yuan?" , a catty of waste paper shells is only fifty cents, how much waste do you have to collect to make a bottle of water?"

The proprietress was muttering, and when she turned her head, she saw He Chu standing in front of the counter with several bags of instant noodles, "You're not at home these days, don't you know, a child came to the old man's house a few days ago and said it was his grandson, and he said yes I will live with him from now on."

"Didn't it mean that he has no relatives?" He Chu put the instant noodles on the counter.

Most of the people living in Tianshui Lane are elderly people. They like to sit and chat on the street when they have nothing to do. Some things don’t need you to inquire about them deliberately, and they will drill into your ears when they pass by.

"Who knows, anyway, there is such a child here. He was brought by a car and saluted. I didn't see him. He was wrapped tightly with a mask and a hat. He looks very thin from the back. It must be a little bit strange. ..." The proprietress counted on her fingers, "It's been four days. The day he first arrived, he came to buy mineral water for his grandson. He thought my two yuan mineral water was not good, so he said he would buy Evian for his grandson. , I don’t have Evian here, I just said to bring him a box when I buy the goods, this is too spoiling my grandson, it’s true to say that it’s the next generation.”

"I heard that this house is still rented, yes, our house is said to be demolished, and it's not something anyone can buy if they want to. To raise such a grandson, you have to pay the rent. These days..."

The proprietress could talk all afternoon, but He Chu hurriedly took out her mobile phone: "Aunt Zhao, how much is it?"

The proprietress just scanned the QR code and reported the number.

He Chu quickly scanned the QR code to pay: "Aunt Zhao, I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first." He Chu squashed the bottle and threw it into a cardboard box for collecting beer bottles, and got on his bicycle to leave.

"If you have nothing to eat, come to my house to eat. You have to cook anyway, and you don't need a pair of chopsticks." The proprietress leaned out behind him and shouted.

"En." He Chu replied vaguely.

"Oh, this child has no parents around since he was a child, and now his grandfather is gone, so he is the only one left in his family. It's really pitiful." The proprietress muttered a few words in a low voice.

Walk 100 meters forward from Limin Commissary, and when you turn a corner, you will find He Chu's house.

Three alleys, each with two houses side by side, separated by a wall, with streets on both sides.

Tianshui Lane is only a 5-minute ride away from the County No. [-] Middle School, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk. Therefore, some houses in Tianshui Lane are rented to parents who accompany the students, and some are rented to teachers who run remedial classes.

The rent is not expensive. After all, in a small county like Chen County, even a building cannot be rented, let alone a bungalow. Although it is a house in the school district, most of the students come from the countryside. Parents Naturally, they will not be accompanied by students, and students who live in the city basically do not need to rent a house. It takes less than half an hour to ride an electric car from Dadongtou to Daxitou.

After all, He Chu has never stepped into the society, nor suffered from poverty, so he doesn't know whether the rent of a few hundred yuan a month is too much or too little for the elderly.

He Chu opened the courtyard door, pushed his bicycle into the courtyard and parked it by the courtyard wall. Before he could return to the house, he heard voices coming from the courtyard wall.

"Xiao Xun, try this water, is it the kind you often drink?"

"Let it go."

The lazy boyish voice is quite nice.

This should be the grandson of the old man that Aunt Zhao mentioned.

Still a spoiled grandson.

He Chu didn't have a habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations, so he turned around and entered the house.

The house that has not been lived in for a week looks very deserted. The deck chair that grandpa used to sit on is now empty, and no one will lie on it and wave to him: "Come on, Xiao Chu, come here."

He Chu stood there in a daze.

He Chu thought that he could be relatively calm about his grandfather's death. After all, before that, his grandfather often told him that life, old age, sickness and death, life and death are all human, and people will leave when they are old, so don't be reluctant.

Grandpa also said that at the age of 70, every day of extra life is earned for nothing. On the night before leaving, he held He Chu's hand and said to him: "Xiao Chu, after your birthday, you are an adult. Adults don't cry."

Grandpa said he would not let He Chu cry, but He Chu really did not shed tears. From the moment grandpa closed his eyes to the end of the funeral and the funeral in the past few days, He Chu has always maintained a calmness that is different from ordinary people, but at this moment Arriving at the house where he lived with his grandfather for more than ten years, He Chu's tears flowed down without warning.

It was empty and deserted, and it was only at this moment that He Chu really felt that he was the only one left.

His gift of coming of age is the loss of the most important person in his life.

Seeing that Zhou Xun didn't drink, Chen Bo put the bottle aside. Zhou Xun was lying on the recliner in the courtyard shaking up and down, fiddling with the phone in his hand.

Uncle Chen moved the scraps collected in the morning from the tricycle to a corner of the yard, planning to save them and sell them together at the scrap yard.

Although the nearly 80-year-old man looked much younger than his actual age, he was still at this age after all. He was a little out of breath after working for a while, and he leaned on the window sill and hit his waist twice.

"You are old." Zhou Xun said lazily.

"76, almost eighty, can you not be old?" Uncle Chen turned to look at him, "You are already this old."

"Yeah, I'm already this big." Zhou Xun twitched his lips, "Didn't expect me to grow so big?"

"..." Uncle Chen was choked up by him, but he was used to it, "Don't talk like that from now on."

Zhou Zichen asked him on the phone: Where do you put it?My car is parked at the back door of your house, you let the small oil bottle block in front of it, and you come out through the back door.

Zhou Xun: Didn't I tell you that I was kicked out of the house?