fall in love by chance

Liang Ruixi's grandmother is only 71 years old this year, and she is also a petite old lady. When she learned that her grandson was coming, she began to look forward to it early in the morning, and now her face was wrinkled with a smile.

But she can only speak the local dialect, and Zhou Yan didn't understand her chatter with them, so she just called "Grandma" after Liang Ruixi.

Liang Ruixi took him into the house, and said to him: "I'll chat with my grandma first, you can sit down as you please."

"Yeah." Zhou Yan put down his things and looked at the environment in the house.

I saw a few bunches of dried peppers hanging on the cornice, sundries piled up in the corners, a few wicker chairs, a wooden table, and bamboo baskets hanging on the cement and earth embryo wall, revealing a simple beauty.

Such self-built houses can be seen everywhere in Jingang, but when Zhou Yan thought that this was the place where Liang Ruixi had lived since childhood, a soft sadness filled his heart.Just like the first time he came here three years ago, from the moment he got off the station, every breath of air he inhaled and every inch of scenery he witnessed brought a different kind of intimacy.

A scent of flowers blew into the house along with the autumn wind, Zhou Yan couldn't help feeling a little distracted, and went looking for the fragrance, and saw that the main room next door was connected to the backyard, and there was a large flower bed of jasmine flowers planted through the screen door.

It was already October, and Jasmine was still driving. Zhou Yan felt incredible, and walked out.

Liang Ruixi chatted with her grandmother in the kitchen for about [-] minutes, and brought out a plate of water chestnuts. Seeing that Zhou Yan was not in the living room, she searched around, only to find that she had gone to the backyard at some time, standing in front of the jasmine flower with hands in a daze. .

Liang Ruixi was stunned for a moment. He didn't know why, but the scene in front of him made his heart beat a little faster, as if he had never expected such a thing to happen in his 26 years of life——Zhou Yan was in his hometown, and he and Zhou Yan were in love.

Liang Ruixi quietly walked to Zhou Yan's side, and moved the plate with water chestnuts towards Zhou Yan: "Do you want to eat?"

Zhou Yan came back to his senses, took one, and asked curiously, "Didn't jasmine only bloom in May and June?"

"Those are ordinary jasmine flowers, how can they compare with ours? My grandmother has been growing jasmine for more than 30 years, and she is well-known in the town." Liang Ruixi gnawed the water chestnut triumphantly, and said, "These jasmine It opens in May every year and can be opened until November.”

"It's also the first time I've seen such a tall jasmine..." Zhou Yan was amazed. To his limited knowledge, jasmines were as short as tea trees, or potted plants.

"Hey," Liang Ruixi raised his chin and said, "This is an old root mother tree. It was more than two meters tall at its tallest. My aunt had to find a stool to stand on it if she wanted to pick flowers. My grandmother pruned it before it became a little shorter." Point to those flower paths on the side. "These few plants were transplanted, probably someone in the town asked her for it."

Seeing Zhou Yan staring intently, Liang Ruixi thought of those soaps, and said with a smile: "If you like it, you can ask my grandma to dig out a small one for you when you leave, and bring it back to Haicheng, and find a pot to raise it. Isn't it more fragrant than the soap made by my aunt?"

"Forget it," Zhou Yan smiled, and said to Liang Ruixi, "I don't know how to grow flowers, and it's enough for me to raise you."

Liang Ruixi let out a soft "chuck", thinking to himself that a person who is almost unable to survive the law firm, who will support whom in the future?

Seeing that it was getting dark, he said, "Go in, it's time for dinner."

The two returned to the house and took their seats. The old lady said something enthusiastically to Zhou Yan, and Liang Ruixi helped to relay: "My grandma told you to eat more, you are welcome."

Then the grandparents and grandchildren began to chatter in dialect, Zhou Yan vaguely heard that they mentioned Bai Yun, the old lady sighed repeatedly, frowning, Liang Ruixi comforted her, and pointed at Zhou Yan, the old lady moved Zhou Yan Liang Ruixi hastily stopped the dishes.

After dinner, Zhou Yan asked Liang Ruixi, "What were you talking about?"

"I said that when my aunt went to Haicheng to find me, I was preparing for the exam. You helped me a lot. My grandma is very grateful to you."

Zhou Yan asked again: "She just picked up food for me, why didn't you let her pick it up?"

"I told her that it's unhygienic, and it'll make your rice dirty." Tonight's dishes were filled with chili peppers, and his grandma passed by with chopsticks, and Zhou Yan's white bowl of rice was covered with red oil.

Zhou Yan laughed: "What's the matter, don't you still scoop spicy soup into my meatball soup at noon?"

Liang Ruixi curled her lips: "That won't work, only I can defile you."

Zhou Yan: "..."

While chatting, the old lady came out of the kitchen after packing up the dishes and said something to Liang Ruixi. I don’t know if there was a dispute, and she said something to Zhou Yan. Liang Ruixi hurriedly explained: "I want to take you tonight We went to stay in a hotel, but grandma told us to stay here and asked if you could sleep with me."

Zhou Yan nodded with a smile, and looked at the old man: "It's troublesome."

The self-built house is two stories high, and the bedrooms are all on the second floor, but there is no bathroom upstairs, and the two of them wash up before going up.They slept in the room where Bai Yun and Doudou lived before, and the old lady had already spread the quilt for them.

There are no entertainment facilities in this place, and the two of them looked at their phones for a while before planning to go to bed.It was not even nine o'clock when he lay down, Liang Ruixi felt that he had not slept so early in 80 years, and naturally it was impossible to fall asleep, so he turned sideways to chat with Zhou Yan.

"Before I came up, my grandmother told me that the wind blows from the west at night, so it might rain..."

"Well," Zhou Yan had heard the wind outside, he asked, "Did you live here when you were young?"

The room was empty except for a double bed. The two of them talked as if they had their own mixing effect. They could only lower the volume to a low level, as if they were whispering.

"Half of the time is at grandpa's house, half of the time is here," Liang Ruixi was silent for a moment, and said, "I just asked my grandma if I want to go to Haicheng in the future..."

This is also the question that Bai Yun is most concerned about after choosing to stay in Haicheng. I heard that she and her grandmother had talked on the phone before, but her grandmother did not agree, so when she came back this time, Bai Yun also asked Liang Ruixi to persuade the old man again.

"What did she say?"

"She said she didn't want to go."

"why?"

"She doesn't speak Mandarin, and she's afraid she won't get used to it when she's out of town, and she can't let go of the jasmine flowers in the backyard, saying that no one will water the flowers after leaving, and the flowers will die."

"Then is there anyone who stays here to take care of her?"

"There are a few distant relatives and neighbors who have a good relationship with my grandmother. Although they can't take care of each other, they can help and take care of each other. My aunt has left their phone numbers." Liang Ruixi paused, and then said, "Just now when you In the backyard, I told my grandma about my mother."

"Does your grandmother know the truth?"

"Yes, my aunt has told her... She said that she is in good health now, let us just go out and care about her, and said that my aunt has given too much, even if she needs to take care of her, she should wait for my mother to come out. Prison to give her a pension."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Yan said: "The old man's home is relocated. Your grandma may have said this because she wanted to wait for an inch of her homeland for your mother to return to. Otherwise, her hometown won't be like her hometown when people leave for tea."

Liang Ruixi felt comforted by these words: "That's right, after my grandfather left, the house over there was empty."

"Is there no one else staying?"

"I'm the only one left in the Liang family. Who will I live in? For a ghost?"

Just as he was talking, there was a sudden gust of wind outside, which made the windows rattle, adding a sense of bleakness and terror.

Both of them fell silent in fright, and waited for the sound to pass away before Liang Ruixi whispered, "It might be my grandpa who came just now..."

"Well, I saw it," Zhou Yan said to the empty room, "Grandpa, I'm Zhou Yan."

"...???" Liang Ruixi said in confusion, "Did you really see it?"

Zhou Yan looked at a point in the air, and said solemnly: "Isn't it right there?"

After being stunned for a while, Liang Ruixi stretched out his hand to hit Zhou Yan, and scolded with a smile: "Fuck, you scare me!"

"You were the one who scared me first," Zhou Yan also smiled, grabbed his hand and said in a low voice, "I'm a little cold, how about you?"

"Me too."

The dew is heavy on autumn nights, the evening wind is cold and cool, and the condition of the old house is poor, and there is always a feeling of wind leaking in.Grandma originally prepared two quilts for them, one for each person. Zhou Yan grabbed Liang Ruixi's hand and pulled him into his arms. The two rolled and rolled, turning the two quilts into one.

"If I knew it, I would have gone to sleep in a hotel..." Liang Ruixi muttered.

"What are you doing in the hotel? Isn't it romantic here?" Zhou Yan said.

Liang Ruixi laughed out loud: "Is this still romantic?"

Zhou Yan hugged him quietly, without answering, the wind was still blowing outside, and after a while they heard the sound of drizzling, accompanied by the wind, light and heavy.

"It's raining."

"Um……"

"I think of a poem," Zhou Yan said slowly in his ear, "The cloud breaks and the rain leaks, according to the agreement, the western mountains are at dusk, the wind fixes the mast and the tall beards stay here... Thousands of miles away, a crescent moon, forgetting each other is always in the rivers and lakes... ..."

From the moment Zhou Yan read the first sentence, Liang Ruixi felt as if she was about to be pulled by the other party to become immortal together.

But after listening to it, he was inexplicably unhappy, and put his arms around Zhou Yan and teased: "Zhou Daochang, you are hugging me, and you still read me 'Forgetting Jianghu'?"

Zhou Yan smiled, embraced him and said, "If you don't think about it, you will never forget it." He kissed the tip of his nose, and said, "May it be the southwest wind, and I will die forever in your arms."

"Enough is enough," Liang Ruixi couldn't resist, and kissed him for about ten minutes before muttering, "It's really romantic."

The next day the two got up very early, and it was still raining outside.They came this time for business and didn't want to stay for a long time. After lunch, they decided to catch the afternoon bus back to the city.Before leaving, Liang Ruixi did not forget to take out the red envelope she had prepared earlier and give it to her grandma. There were two thousand in it, one thousand was his and the other one was Zhou Yan's.

The day before yesterday when I heard that he was going to come to his grandmother's house, Zhou Yan planned to buy a gift box, but was stopped by Liang Ruixi, who said that his grandmother never took health care products, and buying them was a waste.But Zhou Yan was embarrassed to go empty-handed, and seeing Liang Ruixi wrapping a red envelope for his grandmother, he also forcibly stuffed a thousand.

The old man hesitated before accepting it, and moved to find two handmade jasmine sachets from the cabinet, and tied them to their schoolbags one by one.

Back on Changshui Road, Liang Ruixi touched the sachet and didn't say much until a phone call pulled him out of his depressed mood.

The call was made by Police Officer Du. After the other party assisted them in investigating the employees of the Industry and Commerce Bureau yesterday, he was interrogated by the director early this morning. Du Tai reminded Liang Ruixi on the phone: "Brother Liang, what I say may make you unhappy. The person who dealt with your aunt is not young, you better not look down, or you may run into even bigger troubles. "

Liang Ruixi hung up the phone and told Zhou Yan about it, Zhou Yan frowned: "What trouble will it be?"

"Not sure..." Liang Ruixi was also a little uneasy, but he didn't expect this trouble to come so quickly.

When the two arrived at Changshui Bus Station, they had just got off the bus when two police officers walked towards them.