During the call between Bai Yuan and Xi Jing, Grandma Bai had been waiting curiously, seeing that he had hung up, she asked eagerly, "What, when is Xiao Sui coming?"

Bai Yuan replied helplessly: "He is going out now, I don't know when he will arrive."

Granny Bai stood up on the table with one hand, and said, "Then you have to start preparing the ingredients earlier, otherwise it would be too inappropriate for the guests to arrive and not cook anything. Go, Xiaoyuan, you hurry to buy some food. By the way , what does Xiao Sui like to eat?"

eat air.

While complaining in his heart, Bai Yuan still recalled it, but he couldn't remember what Sui Jing particularly liked to eat.But the two of them seldom dined together...Facing grandma's expectant eyes, Bai Yuan couldn't say he didn't know, so he could only guess and answer: "I don't see what he particularly likes, but he probably doesn't like food with a particularly strong taste." Once Li Li came to their dormitory with a durian in his arms, and was almost thrown out of the window by Xi Jinglian and his durian.

Granny Bai nodded in agreement when she heard the words: "The taste is light and good for health. Let's make a crucian carp stewed bean curd hot pot. The weather is getting colder. This is warming up and nourishing. I will think about making some side dishes... ... Hey, don't leave yet, wait for me to make a list."

Bai Yuan, who had already taken the keys and was about to go out, had to stop and wait.

Ten minutes later, he took the shopping list from his grandma, only to think that the ingredients on it were enough for both of them to eat until he started school.However, seeing grandma so happy, he felt that even if it wasted once, he could forgive it, after all, money is hard to buy a smile.

After such a delay, when Bai Yuan came back from the vegetable market, Xi Jing's modified motorcycle had already parked at the door of his apartment building.Several little boys from neighbors were spinning around the motorcycle, arguing about what model it was—this surprised Bai Yuan, although nine out of ten boys liked cars, the average age of this group of children seemed to be about 7 years old , already understand so much?He himself still can't recognize the logos of various mainstream car brands.

"It's okay, don't touch it randomly, be careful that the car backs up and hurts you." To prevent accidents, Bai Yuan watched for a while and reminded.

Seeing that it was him, the group of little boys scattered and ran away as if they had seen a ghost.

This scene is just like the scene when he wanted to play with other children in the compound but was excluded when he was a child.It's just that Bai Yuan now understands the reason why he was hated by his peers in the first place, and naturally he won't feel sad because these children have no malicious conditioned reflex.

He climbed upstairs with a heavy shopping bag, and saw that the door of his house was open, and grandma's hearty laughter came from inside the door.

"That's garlic sprouts, not leeks."

"I see they all look alike."

"You child... that's all right, all right, you go outside and watch TV, I'll do it myself."

"I don't watch TV, it's more interesting to watch you cook."

"Then you stand far away, ah, be careful of the oil splashing out."

It was Xi Jing who was talking to grandma... Bai Yuan stood outside the door, listening to the conversation between the two inside, and suddenly realized that his house hadn't been this lively for a long time.When he was still living at home, his grandma was mostly watching dog blood dramas at eight o'clock in the living room, while he was reading in his room.It is said that they live together, but in fact they spend very little time with each other.

It's no wonder that grandma always wanted to invite him to play at home after she felt that she had hit it off with him.

At this moment, Bai Yuan forgot about the cold war between him and Xi Jing, and thanked him from the bottom of his heart for coming home to accompany grandma today.In fact, Sui Jing at this moment didn't talk too much compared to usual, but every time he could pick up Grandma Bai's words just right, so that the old man could keep talking in a comfortable mood.

"Want to help?" Xi Jing came to the dazed Bai Yuan and stretched out his hand.

"No, it's all here." Thanking the other party for his kindness, Bai Yuan entered the door to say hello to grandma, and put down the vegetables he bought.He rolled up his sleeves to help, but the old man kicked him out of the kitchen.

"You can play with Xiao Sui! To save him from standing here sucking oil fume, and he is so big, he can't even turn it in the kitchen." To show her determination, Grandma Bai closed the kitchen door directly after she finished speaking.

Bai Yuan could only look at Xi Jing who was also "expelled", and the latter returned him with a slight smile.

Today's Sui Jing seems to be in a good mood, this should not be his illusion, Bai Yuan thought to himself.

"It will take about an hour before dinner, you should play the mobile game first." Bai Yuan said.

In the end, Xie Jing was not satisfied with his arrangement, and took Grandma Bai's words as an arrow, and reminded Shi Shiran: "Grandma said that letting you play with me and throwing me aside to play mobile games is your way of hospitality?"

"Then what do you want to play?" Bai Yuan had expected that the other party would not be so easy to deal with, but at this time, he suppressed all the emotions that were churning in his heart before.

"Play with that." Xi Jing raised his hand, pointing to a flat wooden box placed under the TV cabinet, "Is there chess inside? I noticed it when I came last time."

Bai Yuan opened his eyes slightly in surprise.

Noticing the change in his expression, Sui Jing was also taken aback, and asked, "Is that okay? Don't tell me you can't play chess."

"...I will." Bai Yuan said, walked over and took out the heavy wooden box containing chess and the chessboard underneath, gently stroked the spotless surface of the box with his fingers.Afterwards, without waiting for Xie Jing to ask, he returned to normal, put the chessboard on the tea table, took a small wooden stool and sat down and said, "You sit on the other side of the sofa."

"Red chess guessing?" Putting down the question first, Sui Jingke sat down casually and asked.

Bai Yuan nodded his head, and the two played a game of fist guessing, and Bai Yuan won.

Xi Jing fixedly looked at his two fingers holding out the scissors for a while, then suddenly said: "Forgot, you are a guide, you have a strong sixth sense, and things like finger-guessing are your strengths."

"Then give you the red chess?" Bai Yuan asked.

"That's it, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat." Obviously, Xi Jing didn't want to delay on such trivial matters, so he waved his hand, indicating to start.

Both of them originally participated in this game of chess just to pass the time, but as they played, they gradually became more serious because they found that they were evenly matched.When Grandma Bai came out to look for the electric stove to set the table for hot pot, she saw the two young men staring at the chessboard with the same frowning expressions.She was stunned for a moment, then she showed an extremely gentle and nostalgic smile, and said softly: "This chess set is a good thing left by Xiao Yuan's father. It has not been used for many years. Last time I was thinking about whether to give it The old man next door is Xie Yong."

Hearing this, Bai Yuan immediately turned his head to look at grandma.

Xie Jing finally found a loophole at this moment, pushed his car to the most critical position with a "shua", and said happily: "General, you will not be able to escape this time."

Bai Yuan looked at the chessboard, he was indeed besieged on all sides, and there was no way to turn this game around.

"Since it's just over, let's eat." Grandma Bai pressed Bai Yuan's shoulder reassuringly, and went back to work in the kitchen.

"Let's play another game later." After saying this, Bai Yuan hurriedly got up and went into the kitchen to help serve the hot pot.

After he walked away, Sui Jing couldn't help but covered his mouth and laughed silently - he hadn't played together before, and he didn't even know that the student god in the eyes of this classmate still had such an unyielding side, even if he came here today A windfall of a trip?

As a guest, it's not easy for Sui Jing to compete with the grandfather and grandson, so he takes the initiative to clean up the chess game.

When putting the oblate wooden chess pieces back into the box one by one, Sui Jing noticed that although these chess pieces were said to have not been used for many years, it was obvious that someone had taken good care of them all the time. It wipes clean and feels very moist in the hand.When he closed the lid of the box, he also saw a word "Yuan" written crookedly on the inside of the lid, which was obviously a masterpiece of Bai Yuan when he was a child.

Through this chess box, Sui Jing can imagine the warm interaction between father and son when Bai Yuan's father was still there.It's no wonder that when he said he was going to play chess just now, Bai Yuan showed that expression of surprise and a little bit of disappointment.

Feeling that he had caught a glimpse of Bai Yuan's true temperament hidden under his calm and calm appearance, Sui Jing didn't reveal what he had discovered, but closed the box as if nothing had happened, and went to the dining table to enjoy the ordinary but exciting food with the grandparents of the Bai family. Comfortable dinner.

The familiar guide was by his side, and the food was light in taste that catered to the sentinel's sensory needs. This meal, Xi Jing ate not at all reluctantly, even a little too full.

After the meal, he took an action that basically added to the chaos, and while Bai Yuan was hesitant to speak, he washed the dishes with the other party, and then set up the chessboard as agreed to restart the battle.

Grandma Bai didn't know much about chess, so she just turned on the TV and tuned to the dog-blood drama she was chasing as usual, watched TV for a while, and then watched the two young people who were fighting hard, feeling at ease.

When Bai Yuan and Xi Jing regained their senses from the chess game a little tiredly, they realized that it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.

Grandma Bai, who had long been dozing off in a thin blanket, was startled by the sound of the two of them tidying up, opened her eyes and said, "It's already this time, it's not safe for Xiao Sui to go back by bike, so why don't you just stay here, anyway, it's not like you haven't lived here before." .”

Bai Yuan: "..."

Seeing the vague reluctance of the other party, Xi Jing was about to make a few jokes and leave when suddenly there was a loud sound of rain outside the window, as if someone's full basin was accidentally knocked over.The downpour was accompanied by lightning, forming a turbulent momentum in the blink of an eye, and there was no sign of stopping for a while.

Grandma Bai smiled and folded the thin blanket and said, "There is an interesting saying in the ancients? 'Reserve guests on rainy days', Xiaoyuan, change the sheets or something."

"grandmother……"

"Oh, I can't stand it because I'm getting old, so I'm going to wash and rest first." The old man squinted his eyes, beat his waist, and walked slowly to the bathroom, without giving Bai Yuan any chance to object.

Bai Yuan, who wanted to ask Xi Jing where to sleep, had to keep his mouth shut.

But Xi Jing said generously: "There's no need to deliberately change anything, anyway, I slept in the last time I came here."

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