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Ruan Gai didn't expect that he could fall asleep while sitting, he was so tired.She was so tired that she wanted to open her eyes, but she couldn't.

After taking a deep breath, she suddenly opened her eyes.

I fell asleep a little bit.

After a few seconds of slowing down, I realized that there was still a person sitting beside me.

It turned out that she was able to sleep so deeply because she was by his side.

Ruan Gai hugged her: "I'm sorry, I'm too sleepy."

Lin Du patted her shoulder lightly, "I'm sorry for making you wait for me for so long."

Ruan Gai shook his head: "It's because I didn't tell you in advance when I came back."

Lin Duqing took the words: "I went out and didn't tell you."

Ruan Gai: "It's me..."

Lin Du lightly thought about what she said, "Okay, it's rare for you to come back, do we really want to keep arguing whether it's you or me?"

"I'm hungry."

"Okay, then I'll go eat something delicious. I just have something to tell you."

There is a food court near Moda.

There is a sixtieth vermicelli in it that is particularly delicious. It is mixed with minced garlic, and the entrance is full of fragrance.

The two sat in the corner, ordered two orders of Huajia vermicelli, and also ordered two bottles of soy milk in soda cans.

Every time two people come, they always match like this.

The slightly sweetness of the soy milk is just enough to relieve the spicy taste of the sixty-year-old vermicelli.

This store has been here since Nguyen Gai's undergraduate days.

Ruan Gai ate from seven yuan at the beginning to fourteen or fifteen yuan now.

The soaring prices, like the increasing age, do not leave any sympathy.

Fortunately, the taste has not changed.

that's enough.

While sitting in the corner waiting, Lin Duqing suddenly remembered that when she was very young, she had eaten the same delicious food in Lin Town.

Ruan Gai also took her there.

She asked Nguyen Gai to think about it.

Ruan Gai began to say, "Candied haws?"

She shook her head, "No, guess again."

Ruan Gai thought for a while: "Small shop in the alley?"

Lin Du snorted lightly: "Not really."

She wanted to see if the two of them had a tacit understanding.

Ruan Gai raised his eyebrows lightly: "Is that the bun shop at Laojiekou?"

Lin Du was very angry.

"Those stores, how can they compare with that store!"

Ruan Gai smiled mischievously.

Only then did Lin Duqing realize that she was teasing herself.

She gritted her teeth and said, "If you tease me on purpose next time, you're finished!"

Ruan Gai stuck out her tongue, "Okay, I know." Then, she opened the lid of the soy milk with a screwdriver, inserted a straw for her, and pushed it in front of her, "How can I not remember that store?" shop."

A dumpling shop in Laojiekou.

It was their favorite at that time.

only--

Not long after, the owner of the store closed the store due to physical reasons.

But from time to time, there will still be people who are working or studying outside. When they return to Lin Town, they will stop by the old street to ask.

Can I have another bowl of dumplings?

Even though he knew that the store had already been closed, he still made a habit of asking.

A few years later, I heard that the old street was about to be demolished.

Part of the reason is that the house is too old, and it is listed by the government as an old house remodeled into a new house.It is also because the per capita living standard has been raised, old equipment and facilities are gradually being eliminated, and some residents themselves want to renovate into new houses.

The place name of Laojiekou has not changed.

It's just that some shops no longer exist.

There are also more stores.

For example, the audio-visual store where Ruan Gai bought tapes has been eliminated.Added several barbershops.There are also a few more clothing stores selling children's clothing, and there is only one bicycle repairing store left.The tailor shop and the lock buyer are crowded together, to the farthest corner.

Brother Zhou's shop was already empty.

At the beginning, his shop was rented from the old Li's house at the corner, and when he left, he didn't want anything.Later, many people always asked Lao Li if Xiao Zhou had come back, and the thread of my clothes had been ripped for several days.

Lao Li will come back at first, but not yet.It should be soon.Wait a second.

Waiting, waiting, still not waiting.

Someone chatted with Lao Li again and asked about this, Lao Li said that he hadn't answered yet.It should be soon.

Some more days passed.

Lao Li was smoking by the river, her husband was working outside, and Aunt Wu, who was at home taking the children to school, asked him again, saying that Lao Zhou hasn’t come back yet, my electric fan has been broken for a long time, and I want him to fix it for me.

Old Li took a sip of his cigarette.

After saying something, I didn't reply.

Since then, Lao Li has become less and less fond of going out for a stroll.

He would often go to the shop left by Brother Zhou to help clean up the dust, but after a long time, some things are useful without just dusting.

In the evening after dusk.

He is cleaning.

Grandpa Zheng from Hexi saw the door opened and walked in excitedly, but when he saw that it was Lao Li, his eyes dimmed, and he said with some disappointment, I thought it was Xiao Zhou who came back.

Lao Li couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

He had thought about continuing to open the shop.

But he didn't want Brother Zhou to come back and see that all the things he left were gone.

So I kept it for him.

Until two years ago, when the winter was cold, when Lao Li went out to buy vegetables, he fell.He has been bedridden.Not long after that, he left.

After he left, the neighbors suggested to his sons to burn all the things in the shop to Lao Li, as a way of thinking about it.

When Lao Li was very young, his wife passed away due to dystocia with his second child.

Two sons remain.

He worked hard to bring them up, and his sons also strived for success. They started a family and started a business in the city early. He wanted to take him to live in the city, but he also said he would find a companion for him.But Lao Li refused anyway.

So the sons also helped him set up a shop in Laojiekou, so that he could earn some income every month.In addition to collecting rent, they also give him money every month.

Materially, Lao Li is enough to enjoy his old age comfortably.

But in life, he is still that lonely old man.

In the past, when Brother Zhou was around, Lao Li would go to him to drink tea and listen to ditties in the afternoon.Occasionally, he would encourage Brother Zhou to smoke a pipe too.

All in all, great fun.

Later, after Brother Zhou left, Lao Li smoked a lot of dry tobacco for a period of time.

When the sons came back to visit, they knew about this, and they couldn't persuade them no matter what.

Also got into a fight because of it.

The sons feel that the old man is stubborn, but they don't know that sometimes, people who have experienced vicissitudes know better how to relieve the loneliness deep in their hearts.

These are all what my mother heard when she came home later.Then he told Ruan Gai again.In the end, Ruan Gai told Lin Du these things lightly.

After she finished speaking, it happened that the sixtieth fan was ready.

Ruan Gai pushed the first bowl in front of her, and changed his tone, "I came back from the hospital this time, and I have something to tell you."

Lin Duqing probably guessed what she was going to say.

Nodded, "Yeah."

She reached out and took two pairs of disposable chopsticks.

One pair was placed in front of Ruan Gai, and the other pair was opened by himself.

The way two people get along has never been that one person is taking the initiative and giving.

It's about two people seeing what each other needs.

"I went to inquire about it. There is indeed a female patient living in that ward. Then, the family member of that patient has the same name as that person. In the registration book, it is written that the two are cousins."

"I……"

"I can't be sure that it's that person. I can't be sure that the patient and that person are just cousins."

After Ruan Gai finished speaking, he let out a breath.

She told her the truth in the slowest tone.

It's obviously very short, but when he said these words, he felt an inexplicable sense of heaviness.

Lin Du gently mixed the sixty-year-old vermicelli with chopsticks.

Then he hummed lightly.

"Ok, I know."

Ruan Gai was taken aback.

What do you know?

Lin Du pursed his lips lightly, "I told you the other day that I went back to school. In fact, I went back to that ward to see it later."

Even though she knew that many things had become true.

It has nothing to do with her.

But for some reason, she just couldn't ignore it.

and so--

She went back again.

She saw what Ruan Gai saw.

The moment her eyes saw it, she didn't seem to have such a strong idea that she had to find an answer.

It's just that she suddenly didn't know what to say.

Ruan Gai didn't say anything else, "Okay."

Lin Du smiled softly, "Yes."

Since then, the two have not mentioned this matter again.

It didn't take long for things at the hospital to settle down, and Ruan Gai also moved back to the school.

What happened to that person later, Ruan Gai didn't ask again.

Until one year, when the two went home and helped Mama Lin tidy up old things, they found a diary.

It wrote some old things about that year.

It turned out that the person left his hometown and came to the city where Lin's mother was located, not because of love.But want to forget and escape.

While he was with Mother Lin, he loved her cousin deeply.

That was the Lin Huaiqin that Ruan Gai and the others saw later.

But they are close relatives, so there is no result.

After being discovered by her family, Lin Huaiqin was forced to marry a man from the next village, and Lin Yimin, in order to forget this relationship, left his hometown.

But what he didn't expect was that somehow the news about the two of them reached the ears of Lin Huaiqin's current husband, who was a miner who dug coal in the mountains.He has great strength, and after knowing the concealed past, he beat and scolded her.

Lin Huaiqin tried to ask her natal family for help.

But no one was on her side.

Just tell her that this is fate, marry a chicken as a chicken, marry a dog as a dog.

In such a life of domestic violence, Lin Huaiqin finally couldn't bear it.

One night, she escaped.

Lin's mother didn't know how she contacted Lin Yimin, anyway, they met again.And Lin Yimin secretly supported her.

With a woman's keen sense of smell, Mother Lin noticed it.

When she noticed these clues, she sent Lin Duqing back to Lao Mo's house.

At that time, she came to Ruan Gai's side.

And Mama Lim, alone, was dealing with her married life.

The two cried and confessed to her how difficult it was for them to get to the present.

Mother Lin was naturally broken.

But her head is clear.

She filed for divorce.

But Lin Yimin disagreed.

His salary is not as good as Lin's mother, and he doesn't have a house in Lincheng, and he doesn't have much savings.

After the divorce, he still needs to support Lin Huaiqin.

At that time, Lin Huaiqin had mental problems because of her long-term life of violence.But it only shows up occasionally, mostly normal.

However, long-term medication is still required for relief.

Therefore, Lin Huaimin disagreed.

The two chatted for a long time, so long that Mama Lin was tired.

He proposed that divorce is possible, but——

The house has to be sold and half of the money will be given to him.

This house was Lin's mother's personal property before marriage. Lin's mother didn't know how long they had calculated before they concluded this condition.

At that time, she was exhausted physically and mentally.

Apart from answering, she didn't seem to have the energy to struggle anymore.

But just after they came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Mother Lin had an accident.

But Lin Yimin and Lin Huaiqin disappeared so far.

If half of the house is sold or not, there is no time to take care of it.

This is the first half of Lin's mother's life.

After Lin Duqing knew the truth of everything, she cried until she fainted.

Ruan Gai's chest was also very suffocated.

But everything seems to be helpless, and there is no way to pursue anything.

I hope everything will be reincarnated.

The author has something to say: reality will always be better than stories

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