After buying the watermelon, Mu Shiyi had very little money left.

Li Wan was not very interested in other things at the meeting, and after a while she muttered that she wanted to go back.

Li Xia didn't eat the noodles she wanted, so she didn't want to just leave.

"It's still early, let's go after eating the noodles." Wang Ning and Li Xia had the same idea.

Mu Shixi nodded, and led the reluctant Li Wan to the northwest.

Knowing that Mu Shishi might be out of money, Li Xia kindly treats her.

Mu Shishi waved his hand and refused: "I'm not hungry, and Wan'er doesn't like these things either, so you and Wang Ning can eat."

Li Xia didn't listen to her, and asked for a share for Mu Shishi.

Li Wan frowned and glanced at the rice noodles in red oil on the table, then curled her lips secretly.

The three of them ate happily, beads of sweat dripped from their foreheads, and their lips were so hot that they were bright red and shiny.

Seeing Wang Ning wipe his mouth with the back of his hand after eating the powder, Li Wan clicked his tongue in disgust, then silently took out a tissue and wiped the corners of Mu Shishi's lips.

Mu Shishi was flattered: "Thank you, Wan'er."

On the way back, Wang Ning was so busy talking, he accidentally stepped on a shallow cement pit, and the bottom of his trousers was splashed with a lot of dirty mud.

Li Wan frowned, pulled Mu Shishi to her side, and whispered annoyedly: "He's really sloppy."

Mu Shishi pursed her lips and said nothing at the end.

After returning home, Mu Shishi washed the watermelon and put it in the water tank.

Li Wan circled around the water tank: "When can I eat it? How long will I have to wait?"

"Two more hours." The watermelon tastes even better after the well water is frozen.

Afraid that she would be bored waiting, Mu Shiyi dragged her to the back room: "Will you teach me how to draw? I really want to learn now."

A narrow smile flashed in Li Wan's eyes: "Want to learn how to draw? Then call the teacher first."

Mu Shishi looked surprised, and after a moment's pause, she lowered her head and shouted embarrassingly: "Wan'er...Teacher Wan'er."

There was a bit of shame hidden in Li Wan's smug expression, she coughed twice, got up and went to get the drawing book.

One taught seriously and the other focused on studying. Unknowingly, more than two hours passed, and then Mu Shiyi called both the Li family and the Wang family over.

Grandma and Li Chong cut up the watermelon and distributed them to everyone.Everyone was holding melons and enjoying the shade under the peach tree in the yard, chatting and laughing, the atmosphere was very harmonious and happy...

Those simple and happy scenes seem to be just yesterday, vividly in my mind....

At 10:30 in the evening, grandma called. Jian Qiao rubbed her slightly moist eye sockets, her voice hoarse: "Well, I haven't slept yet, I'll go wash up soon."

Before hanging up the phone, Jian Qiao suddenly asked: "Grandma, if I want to stay in Jing County to develop, do you agree?"

Grandma didn't say much on the phone, she meant to talk about it in detail when Jian Qiao was free to go home.

That night, Jian Qiao didn't fall asleep until three o'clock in the morning, and the memory fragments flashed back and forth in her mind. The month she spent with Li Wan in Yong'an Town, the year after Li Wan left, she differentiated into futa, and her subsequent relationship with her grandmother Beibei. Went up to Jiyang.....

Waking up in the morning, she was in a daze. Jian Qiao leaned against the wall, leaned against the pillow and looked at the void in a daze. After a while, she slowly took out a cigarette and lit it in her mouth. …

She vaguely remembered that the day before Li Wan's departure, her grandmother helped him make a braid, which was a favorite hairstyle among girls in small towns.

At noon, Li Wan wore a pink dress and drew a self-portrait in front of the mirror and gave it to herself. She said, "Mu Shishi, don't forget me." She also said, "My family lives in Jing County, you promise me , I must go there if I go to university in the future', at the end she leaned into her ear and whispered softly, "Before you go to Jingjun, I will come back and come back to find you."

After the two parted, Jian Qiao wrote many letters to Li Wan, but all of them fell to nothing. In addition, Li Chong's cell phone was always disconnected, but she still didn't give up... In the second year of going north, Jian Qiao secretly Bought a train ticket and went to Jing County alone. When she got out of the train station, she took a taxi to a villa following the address Li Wan gave, but she couldn't get in. It took a long time to find out the location through the guard. The owner's surname is Qi but not Li.

She believed that Li Wan hadn't lied to herself, there must have been some major changes in the middle, and later her college entrance examination aspirations, including the postgraduate school, were still chosen in Jingjun according to the original agreement.

It's just that after all these years in Jing County, she has never met Li Wan, and even the person's appearance in her memory is almost blurred, but fortunately, there is still the portrait.

Thinking of the portrait, Jian Qiao got out of bed and went to the coffee table, sat cross-legged on the soft cushion, stared down at Li Wan who was young and smiling...

Influenced by Li Wan, after Jian Qiao came to Jiyang from Yong'an Township, she used her extracurricular time to enroll herself in a painting class. She also joined the art club when she went to college, and went to see various famous teachers in her free time. Exhibition...

After eating at noon, Jian Qiao carefully looked up the relevant information of Li Shi. Li Shi is a famous automobile company in Jing County, but because it is far from her own major, she did not pay attention to it before.

Jane Qiaosi thought about it, if she really wanted to enter the Li family, the only department she could enter seemed to be the logistics department?

The sudden ringtone of the phone disturbed Jian Qiao's complicated thoughts. She glanced at the phone screen and saw that it was Chi Yu calling.

She and Chi Yu have known each other for more than three years, during which time the two of them only had a few phone calls, and they basically kept in touch with each other through WeChat on weekdays.Jian Qiao pinched the center of her eyebrows, and then swipe the screen.

"What are you doing? Didn't you see all the messages I sent you?" Chi Yu walked up and down on the brown blanket in the bedroom with bare feet, "And why didn't you Update? Do you know that your comment section is blown up?" The hungry readers frantically urged, yelled, and tipped.

Jian Qiao is used to starting new articles after saving manuscripts, and rarely interrupts updates. Yesterday, because she met Li Wan again after many years, her head became chaotic and difficult to use, so she didn't care about this matter.

Jian Qiao and Chi Yu hung up the phone after a few vague explanations.After Chi Yu sent a long series of complaints, she didn't care.In the afternoon, Han Mei called and asked her out for dinner, but Jian Qiao refused.

At the beginning of May, the thesis defense began in the courtyard, and Jian Qiao went back to Jiyang the following weekend.She accompanied her grandmother to the train station to pick up a distant cousin. The girl was Jian Yu, three years younger than herself, and a relative from her mother's side.

Jian Qiao was actually very puzzled, because of her differentiation into a futa, her grandmother had already cut off contact with her acquaintances at Yong'an, and she didn't know why it was happening again now.

Leaning on the back seat of the car, Jian Qiao tilted her head and looked at the acacia tree that kept receding outside the window, her thoughts drifted away.

She clearly remembered that after Li Wan left, it was less than fifty days before October 13st, her [-]th birthday.In the following month, she experienced a nightmare of painful differentiation, and it was only then that she realized that her so-called 'biological father' turned out to be a woman.

In fact, her mother, Jian Ping, had a one-night stand with a woman named Fu Wei before she got married. This woman had mushrooms growing on her underside, which is the stuff of men.

Grandma never believed her daughter's words in the past, and felt that Jian Ping was just talking nonsense and covering for wild men outside. After all, this matter was completely beyond her cognition, and she couldn't understand it at all. Start to mutate and differentiate...

This kind of mutation is no different from monsters in small towns. Grandma dared not let others know about it. She used part of Jian Ping's car accident compensation to take her granddaughter to Jiyang to join the powerful Zhou Weijun. Zhou Weijun lost his life, this kindness Zhou Weijun has to repay no matter what.

Under Zhou Weijun's proper arrangement, the grandfather and grandson not only had a reliable place to stay, Mu Shishi was even renamed Jian Qiao, and used this identity to study in a local middle school...

At the train station, Jian Qiao gradually returned to her senses, and helped her elderly grandmother out of the taxi.

Grandma is already 69 years old this year, and her legs and feet are not as sharp as before, and her eyesight is also blurred. The reason why Jian Qiao planned to return to Jiyang to work after graduation was because she was worried about her.

"Qiaoer, do you remember what I told you just now?" Grandma kept looking around while patting the back of Jian Qiao's hand.

Jian Qiao nodded: "Don't worry, I've written it all down."

After waiting for a few minutes, Jian Qiao caught sight of Jian Yu in a white dress.

Yesterday, she and Jian Yu added WeChat to each other, and this person sent himself a photo. In the evening, grandma wore reading glasses and stared at Jian Yu's photo for a long time, and then praised her, saying that the girl looks cute. , temperament and virtuous......

"Grandma, sister Qiao." Jian Yu was pulling the suitcase and carrying the package, and the tip of her nose was dripping with sweat.

"I haven't seen you for many years. You have grown into a big girl." Grandma turned her head to tell Jian Qiao with a loving face, "Qiao Er, help your younger sister Xiaoyu carry the luggage." Jian Qiao responded and helped Jian Yu carry the slightly heavier luggage. of boxes.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Sister Qiao." Jian Yu looked a little embarrassed.

"It's okay." Jian Qiao hailed a car and took Jian Yu and grandma straight to a restaurant.

"Aunt Pan in our community, her daughter went to work abroad and rarely came back. Grandma rented her daughter's room for you. You can live there with peace of mind. If you want to move to another place after work, just let me know in advance."

After hearing this, Jian Yu thanked her repeatedly.After dinner, the three of them went back to the community. Grandma and Aunt Pan had said hello in advance, and things had already been cleaned up there.After chatting at home for a while, Jian Qiao and grandma led Jian Yu to Pan's house.

There is only Mrs. Pan in the Pan family now, so there is no inconvenience.

It was already eleven o'clock at night when we got back to our residence.

"Qiaoer, take Xiaoyu to the bookstore for an interview tomorrow, and then take her to your grandfather Zhou for dinner. He helped introduce the job." The grandfather Zhou here refers to Zhou Weijun.

"Okay, I see." Jian Qiao originally wanted to ask grandma why she suddenly contacted distant relatives who had been irrelevant for many years, and went so hard to help, but seeing grandma's tired face, she temporarily suppressed her doubts.

After breakfast the next day, Jian Qiao went to Pan's house, and then she accompanied Jian Yu to the bookstore by subway.Because of Zhou Weijun's relationship, Jian Yu applied for the job with little effort, even though she only had high school education.

At noon, Jian Qiao brought Jian Yu and gifts to Zhou's house to thank her.Before going to bed at night, Jian Qiao went to grandma's bedroom and told her that she wanted to stay in Jing County.

"After I'm working and the arrangements are made, you can come and live with me?" Jian Qiao's writing fees in the past few years can fully support the down payment of a house. In addition, if the house is located far away from the city center, She might still have money left over for a nice SUV.

"If you really make up your mind to go outside for two years, I won't stop you. It's just that I've lived here for a long time and I don't want to move." Grandma didn't know about Jian Qiao writing novels on the Internet, "Qiaoer, you Don't worry about me, there is your Grandpa Zhou here, he often sends someone to take care of me, and Xiaoyu is also here, she is close, I can ask her for help if I need help."

Jian Qiao persuaded her for a long time, her lips were almost worn out, but grandma still didn't let go.Due to overthinking, Jian Qiao suffered from insomnia until late at night, and it was around three o'clock in the morning that she gradually fell asleep...

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