60s Splendid Life

The day after the Ghost Festival, the tractors in the village happened to be pulling grain to the grain station in the town. Lu Jin took his younger brother to the town for a ride. After getting off the car and saying goodbye to Lu Enhua, he He left with their little baby in his arms.

Every time they came to the town, they first went to Shen's house to borrow, and this time they were no exception.

Bringing little Bao'er to find the Shen's house, seeing the lock on the door, Lu Jin felt a little strange, why the old lady and Shen Yu are not at home?Why is the door locked?

"Maybe Grandma Shen and the others have gone out for something. Let's go inside and wait for them to come back." Looking at the child with puzzled eyes, Lu Jin took out the key he was carrying. This was the first time he came to Shen's house to borrow the key. Shen Yu gave it to him when he was staying, and later he went back to Shen Yu, but Shen Yu didn't want it, saying that they would come to live in the future, so he let him take it with him.

Originally, they knew that the master's house was not at home, so it was not easy for them to go into other people's houses, but they lived in Shen's house for so long, Lu Jin knew that the old lady and Shen Yu would not mind if he used the key to open the house when they were not at home. The one who went in through the door, at this time, he was just thinking about going in and waiting for Shen Yu and the others to come back, and he didn't think that the master's house would take a long time to come back.

The lock was the same as before, so it opened as soon as the key was inserted.

It's just that after going inside, Lu Jin felt a little strange in his heart. The vegetables in the vegetable garden seemed to have been neglected for many days. The weeds inside had grown tall, and the ground inside was very dry. The seedlings are all wilted by the sun, obviously no one has watered them for a long time.

Why have the old lady and Shen Yu and Shen Xing been away for a long time?

As soon as he came in, he felt that something was missing in the yard. After looking carefully, he found that the few chickens raised in the chicken coop were gone. Lu Jin had a faint guess in his heart, but he was not sure.

Xiao Baoer followed his brother in, looked left and right, saw no one, and looked at his brother with a little doubt on his face, and asked, "Brother, grandma?"

"Grandma and the others may not be at home, and they don't know where they have gone." Lu Jin knew that the child was asking why Grandma Shen was gone, because usually every time they came, they would see the old lady smiling and welcoming them in, and every time Shen Xing They all ran out to play with them, but this time they didn't see anyone, so the child asked where they went.

But at this moment, Lu Jin didn't know where he went.

It's just that the door of the main room is also locked, and he doesn't have the key to the door here, so he can't open the door, and they can't get in.

"Sit here, Xiaobao, I'll go get some water to irrigate the vegetables in the garden." Lu Jin put Xiao Bao'er on a stool under the eaves and sat down. It happened that there was no sun here, so he went to carry it Two buckets of water to water the melons, vines and shallots in the garden.

The water was poured in, and the dry and cracked ground quickly sucked in the water, but the ground was still wet.

Seeing that there were still many ripe melons hanging on the melon vines, Lu Jin hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't pick them. What he thought in his heart was to deal with them when he was free. There are quite a lot of melons here. I can't pick so many.

"Let's go, brother will take you to see Dr. Liu first."

"Brother, Xingxing?"

"Xing Xing is not at home, maybe he went out to play with Grandma Shen and the others, and will be back soon."

But seeing such a big melon growing in the yard, Lu Jin felt that the master left in a hurry when he left home, so he left without even having time to clean up the vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Because the door of the house was locked, they couldn't get in, so Lu Jin had no choice but to take Xiao Bao'er out. When he left, he didn't forget to lock the outside lock back, hugged Xiao Bao'er, turned and left.

From Shen's house, it's not very far to Master Liu's side, and it takes only a few minutes to get here.

Not long after Liu Cunfeng woke up this morning, he heard someone knocking on the door, so he opened it, and seeing Lu Jin and Xiao Baoer coming out, he said, "You guys are finally here."

Um?Is this still waiting for them for a long time?Lu Jin felt strange when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Hi Doctor Liu, don't we come here every month at this time?"

"I knew you would come at this time, and someone left something for you here." Liu Cunfeng opened the door and let Lu Jin carry Xiao Bao'er in. He pinched Xiao Bao'er's face and pointed to the courtyard to close Show Lu Jin the chickens, "Shen Yu sent some chickens to me, saying they are for you."

Lu Jin looked in the direction Dr. Liu pointed, and really saw the chickens he bought for Shen's house, two hens and one rooster. He bought them half a year ago, and now they are better than his. It was much bigger when I bought it.He felt a little strange and asked, "He sent you here?"

"Well. He sent it. He still left a bunch of keys with me, saying that they are the keys from the other side of the house. Let me help you give them to you. Come in with me, and I will get them for you." Liu Cunfeng led Lu Jin went into the room, he took out a bunch of keys from a pen holder on the table, and handed them to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin felt a little strange when he got such a large bunch of keys, looked at Dr. Liu and asked, "Did something happen to Shen Yu's family?"

"Well, something happened. The old lady's health is not good. Fortunately, Shen Yu sent someone to me in time that day. If it was a little later, the old lady's people might be gone." Liu Cunfeng knew that Lu Jin lived there. In the Shen family, the relationship with the Shen family should be very good, so I told him about the poor health of Mrs. Shen, "They have gone to the Shanghai stock market now, and the time of their return may be uncertain. The day Shen Yu left He also came to my place and told me that when they are not at home, let you come to town and live in their house, let me give you the key, and let you look after their house."

"Oh, yes, he also said that there is still some food in the kitchen, and he asked you to take the food home and eat it, so as not to let it rot in the house."

"Okay, thank you, Doctor Liu." Lu Jin felt that the bunch of keys in his hand was heavy, and those chickens outside, why didn't Shen Yu kill them and make soup for the old lady to eat to nourish her body?But when I think about Shen Yu, the eldest young master doesn't seem to know how to kill chickens, and it may also be because the old lady always thinks that he bought those chickens, and thinks they are his things, so she won't kill them and eat them. .

Knowing that Shen Yu and Mrs. Shen went to the Shanghai stock market and handed over the house to him, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart... probably the feeling of being entrusted with a heavy responsibility and trusted by others.

After Xiao Bao'er finished acupuncture, Lu Jin simply killed the big rooster at Master Aziliu's place, made it into a boiled chicken, steamed rice, and cut a few cucumbers to make cold salad. Uncle Liu had lunch here.

One chicken was not finished for three people, and there was half of the chicken left. Uncle Liu said that he could not finish so much chicken alone. When he left, he took a quarter of the chicken with him. Uncle Liu refused to take those two hens, so he took them back to Shen's house.

This time with the door key, they opened the door and entered the house smoothly.

The things in the room were the same as they had been placed every time they came here, that is, a thin layer of dust fell on the tables and chairs in the room, telling them that the master was not at home for some days, Lu Jin suddenly felt very sad, no I don't know if it's because the master is not at home, or because I know that Mrs. Shen is not in good health, and I feel like crying.

Brought little Bao'er to the room where they usually lived, and there was also a layer of dust in the room. There was a mat and pillows on the bed, and the quilt was folded and placed next to the pillows. It was packed when he left last time .

"You are here, my brother is going to fetch water and come over to wipe your face." Lu Jin left the child in the house, went out with a wooden basin and brought in a basin of water. This wooden basin was at the time when the guest house lived I bought it and kept it in the room of the Shen family.

"You sleep here, and my brother will go outside to pack things later."

"elder brother."

Lu Jin twisted the towel and wiped the boy's face. Seeing the boy grabbing his hand and calling him, he knew that the boy was going to ask why Mrs. Tian and Xing Xing were not there. He explained to the boy that they had something to go back to their home in Shanghai. .

"return?"

"It's uncertain. They may come back tomorrow, or they may not come back until the next time we come again."

The child understood what he said, with a little disappointment on his face.

There are also clothes they put in the closet, which they brought when they came to borrow in the past, and some clothes that the old lady gave their Shen Xing to wear when he was a child.Lu Jin took out a set of sleeping shorts and a vest for the child to change into. After putting the child to sleep, he went out with the basin.

I went out and wiped all the tables and chairs in the main room, wiped off the dust on them, and packed the pile of toys scattered in the corner into boxes, restoring the house to a tidy appearance.

After thinking about it, he still pushed away the room where the old lady slept. From the arrangement of the things in the room, it can be seen that the old lady is a very clean person, and everything in the house is tidy.In the past, the old lady often took Shen Xing and their little Bao'er to take a nap in her room, so Lu Jin had entered the old lady's room a few times.

Because he didn't know when the old lady would be back, he thought for a while, and simply removed the mosquito net hanging on the bed, and the washable mats and pillows, took them out and put them outside for a while to be washed together. He took them all out to dry.

He hoped that when the old lady came back, he would see a clean room, just like every time they came, the old lady would clean up the room they lived in.