The old-fashioned pressure cooker makes the sound of "cracking" and the rich aroma of stewed meat wafts out of the kitchen, which makes people feel warm in the winter.

If it was before, Hu Tao would have sat at the dining table long ago, tapping on her chopsticks, urging Yang Lin to hurry up, but now she just wants to leave.

"My mind is in a mess now." She told Yang Lin that way.

But Yang Lin didn't believe it.He recalled the words that made Hu Tao silent just now: When he was young, he had a good relationship, but when he grew up, he used various reasons to hurt her.

"Are you worried..." Yang Lin held her hand to prevent her from leaving, and said with uncertainty, "Are you worried that I will hurt you in the future?"

Walnut's answer to him was still silence.

"Tell me, how can I make you feel at ease?" Since the last time he took the initiative to reconcile, Yang Lin has become more and more thick-skinned, not shy at all, and more and more direct.

"I hate games." Walnut shook his hand away.

"I know." Yang Lin took a step back, "You hate games, you don't want to go back to Tivat, you want to stay here. But why are you losing your temper with me? Am I going to stop you? Where did you see what? Hear what, think I'm going to hurt you? That box my dad left?"

Hearing the box, Hu Tao's heart skipped a beat.She has been in a world-weary state these days, and she has forgotten about it.Perhaps there are some key clues hidden inside.

"No. I don't know what to tell you, but it's just annoying." Hu Tao said righteously, with her arms akimbo, "Either bear with it, or don't come to me."

"Okay." Yang Lin spread his arms, as if accepting his fate.But he knew in his heart that if Hu Tao could say such unreasonable words to him, it was a signal of change.

After dinner, Yang Lin sent her back to digest food.

At the dinner table, because of Hu Tao's appetite, Yang Lin's mother looked at her so many times that she was too embarrassed to let go of it.So on the way, Yang Lin bought her another fried chicken leg.

Yang Lin held his nose, because people who eat too much will feel greasy when they smell the oil.The walnuts are eaten with relish.

"Although she has been fighting against the past, she can't change her big appetite." Yang Lin watched her gnaw on the chicken leg and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Hu Tao took the paper and wiped her paws carefully.

"You didn't eat that much in Tivat, did you?"

"..." Hu Tao glanced at him angrily, "You really don't know which pot to open and which pot to carry."

Yang Lin was speechless.

When sending walnuts to Wedding Invitation Street, I could vaguely hear the sound of mourning at the end of the street.

"Is that family?" Hu Tao stretched her neck, and with just one look, Yang Lin knew that she wanted to see it.

Deep in the alley at the end of the street, far away from the shops, the people who are doing funerals have just finished setting up their banquets. Several people in sackcloth and mourning go in and out of the door. The busiest figure is the middle-aged man who came to place an order in the afternoon. woman.

"This is your classmate's house?" Hu Tao glanced wildly.

"Yes." Sure enough, it was the same family.

"Are you interested? I thought you wouldn't do it." Yang Lin and her squatted on the side of the road, like two thieves, staring at someone's dining table with piercing eyes.

"I'm not interested. I won't do it." Hu Tao snorted coldly, hoping that Yang Lin would stop dragging her to do these things in the future, and she wanted to change her ways and start a new life.

"It's a pity. This is the last chapter of Zhishengtang Paper Shop." Yang Lin gave a fake sigh, and then got an angry elbow from Hu Tao.

Yang Lin covered his chest and laughed, chasing her footsteps, "Hey, Hu Tao, let's make a bet." Hu Tao tucked his neck into his thick collar, and always felt that the tone and tone of this sentence seemed familiar. Thinking about it carefully, Isn't this what she told Yang Lin when she first came here?

"Why?" Hu Tao felt that this person was too good at holding grudges, and he remembered what he said to fool him before, and he still used it for an eye for an eye.

Yang Lin hecked twice, took out a coin from his pocket, placed it in front of her eyes, bent slightly, as if talking to a child, "I wanted to advise you, don't be so eager to break up with your past self, listen to your heart Thoughts, but you said your heart is in turmoil. Why don’t you use a coin toss to help you decide.”

Yang Lin spread out his palms, his palms were covered with a thin layer of calluses due to making paper ties for more than half a year.Hu Tao's eyes were all on the cocoon, ignoring the coin next to it.

After a long time, I came back to my senses and picked up the coin that I had been waiting for for a long time.

"Okay." During the days in Yangjia Town, Yang Lin supported the two of them with his own hands. No matter what the future holds, at least for now, she has no right to question him.

"Do it on the front, but don't do it on the other side."

With a flick of Walnut's thumb, the coin spun into the air, reached the highest point, and fell unsteadily into the palm of her closed hand.

Yang Lin looked at her clenched fist, and raised the corners of his lips as if he knew the result, "How? Have you thought it through?"

Hu Tao punched him in the face, without even looking at the final result, he took the coin for himself, then shook his head coolly and left.

"Hiss. It's getting more and more violent." Yang Lin covered his face and watched her go back.

This method is what he has just learned recently. When he has hesitation in his mind, he flips a coin.The result is not important, what is important is the flash of expectation in my heart before the result is released.

Obviously, when flipping the coin, Walnut has made a choice.

At noon the next day, when the sun was warming up, Yang Lin took the sleepy-eyed walnut everywhere to collect materials.

Yangjia Town is located at the junction of Fujian and Guangzhou. The architecture has the style of the southern water town, the style of the Hakka enclosure, and the style of the arcade in Southeast Asia.For example, on Xitie Street, the outer streets are basically arcade-style arcades suitable for doing business, but the inner streets are different, with everything, old and new, and a combination of Chinese and Western.

The task of Yang Lin and Hu Tao today is to determine what kind of house the old lady likes.

"I heard that the old lady who passed away was very envious of the neighbor's new house. We can refer to it." Yang Lin held a stack of drawing paper under his armpit, and prepared to draw seven or eight sheets of it.

But when it comes to the field, it turns out that it is very difficult.

The alleys are narrow and the line of sight is not wide, making it difficult to see the panorama, let alone draw it.

The two of them turned into an old man walking mode, walking around, teasing the kittens on the side of the road, eating some snacks, and only started discussing when they got near the family at the end of the street who was doing the funeral.

"Their house is indeed a bit old." Hu Tao and Yang Lin stood in the dark alley and looked at their house.

My vision was dim last night, so I didn't look carefully.I just found out today that the surrounding people have built new houses, small western-style buildings, Chinese-style buildings that incorporate local styles, and the worst are refurbished buildings.Only their house, the oldest tile-roofed house in the south, has a history of at least 30 to [-] years.

"No wonder the old lady envies her neighbors. This house is comparable to yours." Hu Tao complained.

"Hey, what are you talking about! My house is better than this!" Although it's not much better, it's still good.

"Looking at your squad leader's attire and what uncle said, I don't feel that I'm in too much trouble. If I grit my teeth, I should be able to build a new house." Hu Tao didn't answer his words, and said to herself.

"Oh, it was originally agreed to be built, but the dead woman heard the news from somewhere, saying that it will be demolished in the future, and the building will not be allowed!" An old voice sounded behind them.

Yang Lin's hairs stood on end, his eyes widened, and he squinted at Hu Tao, his eyes were not only frightened but also suspicious, as if to make Hu Tao sure whether it was a ghost or not.

Hu Tao was also very surprised, looking up and down the soul body.

"Huh?" The old lady's voice and Walnut's voice sounded at the same time.

Yang Lin gritted his teeth, and grabbed Hu Tao's sleeve in slow motion, not daring to turn his head. If Hu Tao was not there, if his legs hadn't softened, he would have run to the sun-shrouded place in front of him.

"Can you see me?" The old lady rubbed her hands, looking at Hu Tao with surprise and fear, "Are you a ghost messenger?"

"I'm not. Do you have a ghost?" Hu Tao was surprised. She had never seen a ghost in how long she had been here, so why did she suddenly see it today.

"I don't know." The old lady was about the same height as her, with big eyes and small eyes.

"Hahaha. Then where were you before..." Hu Tao looked at her like Grandma Ping, and chatted with her kindly.

Yang Lin beside her was shaking her legs and tugging at her sleeves, wanting to cry.

"So you became conscious only after hearing our voice?" Hu Tao summed up the old lady's words.

"Ah yes yes yes." The old lady was very happy,

Hearing her laughter, Yang Lin was frightened to death, squatted on the ground covering his ears, and silently recited the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra.

"Young man, don't be afraid, the old lady won't harm anyone!" The old lady was even happier when she heard his wailing.

"Come on, you have to ask about other people's needs." Hu Tao pulled him by the back collar and pulled him closer to the dark alley.

Yang Lin shook his head desperately, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs, so he went in anyway.

"Don't be silly! What are you afraid of when I'm here?" Hu Tao was afraid that the old lady would leave at any time, so Yang Lin could ask quickly.

"I can't ask, I don't believe it, %@#&?..." Yang Lin's voice was trembling, and he was incoherent at the end.

Hu Tao snickered inwardly, without showing any signs of expression, and told the old lady about the entrustment in a serious manner.

"That woman is so kind?" The old lady didn't say anything else, and had a lot of opinions on her daughter-in-law.

"You, don't say these parents are short-sighted, tell me what kind of house you want?" Hu Tao took out his notebook and prepared to record.

The old lady raised her head, thought for a while, lowered her head, and sighed, "Oh, everyone thought I wanted a house? Why do I want a house when I'm old? Don't I hope that the family of three can live a decent life? But that Dead woman, she keeps trying to fight against me, defrauds me of my money, and provokes my son and granddaughter, I can't swallow this breath! I hate it!"

The old lady complained for a long time, but it was of no use except to make Yang Lin more afraid.

"Stop, stop." Hu Tao waved her hand to stop her crying. She seemed to have regained her power to suppress the ghost. When she shouted to stop, the old lady really stopped.

Hu Tao was also taken aback for a moment, coughed before saying, "Well, you really don't want a house?"

The old lady shook her head.

"No, according to my experience, if ghosts can stay in the world, they must have unfulfilled wishes. You don't want a house, so what is your wish?"

"I want that woman to be punished!" The old lady lowered her white eyebrows, looking pitiful.

"But." Hu Tao looked into the opposite house, "What we saw yesterday and today is that she is managing your funeral."?The uncle had just complained to them in the afternoon, and played mahjong in the evening. The little granddaughter was probably busy with her studies and disappeared completely. Only the middle-aged aunt was busy and kept things in order.

"It's her guilty conscience, she is guilty, she is afraid that I will come back to find her." The old lady said excitedly.

Hu Tao sighed, and asked the old lady if her ideal house would be a three-story building with a pavement for small businesses, a larger room for the elderly on the first floor, and a big balcony on the second floor. Western style.

The old lady nodded suspiciously.

"Of the three people who came to us to place an order yesterday, your son couldn't remember what house you wanted, and your granddaughter said it was a private house in the south. Only your daughter-in-law remembered what you wanted." Hu Tao rubbed her temples , seriously said to the old lady, "The one who has been thinking about you from before and after I was alive, has always been her."

Guilt must be there, but it's not fake.

"..." The old lady had nothing to say, her eyes followed Hu Tao to her former home.

When Hu Tao looked away, the old lady had already disappeared.

Yang Lin squatted on the ground, hadn't heard anything for a long time, and asked softly, "Are you leaving?"

Hu Tao simply hummed, his brows still furrowed.

"I should have watched her carefully just now, at least I can know where she disappeared."

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