February 1st, Friday, is cloudy.

Jiang Qiuyi got up from the bed, got dressed, had lunch, and finally pulled the suitcase, followed Chen Wen, and left home, preparing to take the car back to his hometown.

By the time we set off, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Seat belt." Chen Wen reminded him while starting the car as he glanced at Jiang Qiuyi, who was holding a cat bag in the passenger seat.

"Oh." Jiang Qiuyi's mood was not very high. He pulled out the seat belt a little feebly, then pulled it out a little more. After struggling for a long time, he buckled it with a snap, and finally leaned softly on the back of the chair.

.

When she thought that she would be separated from Chen Wen today, and that she might have to wait until the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month before seeing each other again, her mood dropped to the bottom, and she didn't say a word for a long time.

Chen Wen now has an open personality except when he is in bed. He is still a dull man on weekdays and can only respond twice when Jiang Qiuyi knocks on him.

Jiang Qiuyi didn't say anything at this moment, so he drove seriously, heading northeast to the neighboring Ping District of Hangzhou.

If Chen Wen and Jiang Qiuyi's home in the urban area is relatively close to the center of the West Lake area of ​​Hangzhou, Linping District is completely on the edge.

In the early years, this area belonged to the industrial zone of Hangzhou, and large areas of manufacturing factories were located here.

However, after entering the new century, Linping District gradually developed, with its own urban area, and all aspects of the economy improved. After 10 years, it took off directly and became the link between Hangzhou and Shanghai.

head hub.

The hometown of Chen Wen and Jiang Qiuyi, where their grandparents grew up, originally belonged to the rural area of ​​Linping District, which was originally a place even more remote than the industrial zone. Now due to the repeated expansion of the urban area,

It has also been included in the category of suburbs.

Chen Wen's hometown is in Hengtang, northwest of Linping District, and Jiang Qiuyi's hometown is in Xiuhe, in the northeast. Although the distance is not that far, because there are small roads and rivers in between, the drive takes about twenty to thirty minutes.

It takes at least forty or fifty minutes to get back to my hometown from Hangzhou.

Jiang Qiuyi didn't say anything along the way. He only occasionally unzipped his zipper secretly and touched his belly. If he was bitten by it, he would retract it.

She originally thought that Chen Wen would say a few words to comfort her, but Chen Wen didn't say anything at all. In order to get a little tempered, Jiang Qiu deliberately kept silent to see who could hold it in longer.

In the end she lost.

It wasn't that she couldn't hold it in, but she was a little confused when she saw that the car had entered Linping District, but the route was not heading in the direction of her hometown.

"Won't you send me off first?"

"Go to my grandfather's place first and take you to meet him."

"?!" Jiang Qiuyi was suddenly startled, straightened up and turned to look at him, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I wasn't even prepared!"

Chen Wen was confused: "What should we prepare for? This is not the first time we have met."

"Just, I just need to prepare..." Jiang Qiu clenched her small hands into fists and put them on her knees. When she thought about being suddenly taken to see Chen Wen's grandfather, her heartbeat began to accelerate, "You

You didn’t even tell me in advance…”

"Just a drop-in." Chen Wen held the steering wheel and drove steadily. "And I can get you settled first, so I don't have to send you there and then go back to me and have to stay in the car for half an hour."

"Then you have to be prepared, bring some gifts or something..." Jiang Qiuyi was a little troubled.

"If you want to take it with you, you can buy some fruit on the way."

"Then pay attention. If you see a fruit shop, stop it. I'll buy some oranges, bananas or something."

"OK."

After a while, they bought fruit on the way and the two got back in the car.

Jiang Qiuyi couldn't help but ask: "Did your grandfather know about our affair?"

"I shouldn't have known about it originally." Chen Wen thought for a moment, "But now I should know everything."

Although my mother has already told the public about her youngest son's relationship among her family and relatives, my grandfather doesn't use WeChat, so my father probably wouldn't talk about it on the phone normally, and he probably didn't before.

knew.

But now that mom has gone back to the countryside, let alone grandpa, the grandpas and grandmas next door and next door probably all know about it.

Elderly people in the countryside have nothing to do on weekdays. They either play cards or mahjong, sit together and brag, or a group of old ladies make an appointment to recite Buddhist scriptures during the day and dance in the square at night.

At this time, the spread speed of any piece of gossip can increase exponentially.

His parents returned to the countryside on the 22nd, and it was now February 1st. His grandfather lived on the west side of the street, but even the old man on the east side of the street knew that the grandson of the Chen family was in love.

, not surprising at all.

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Wen's car stopped on the side of the road in Tangning. He and Jiang Qiuyi got out of the car together, took down Chen Wen's luggage and his luggage, and went in through the opening here.

The countryside back then has now become a suburb, and the mud houses in the early years have become small single-family villas, generally four or five floors.

However, most of these houses were rebuilt more than ten years ago and now look very dilapidated, giving off the atmosphere of the old times.

Chen Wen's grandfather was very nostalgic, so the villa in his hometown had never been renovated. When Chen Wen took Jiang Qiuyi along the stairs outside and walked into the living room on the second floor, the furnishings inside were the same as they had been for more than ten years.

"Two barrels."

"eat!"

"Wait! I'm going to touch it!"

Several old men talked in dialect, played mahjong, held cigarettes between their fingers, and took a puff from time to time.

"Grandpa..." Looking at a table of old men sitting in the living room playing mahjong, Chen Wen hesitated for a moment before saying hello, "I'm back."

The old man sitting in the north position paused for a moment, looked up, and found that his grandson was back. Then he looked next to him, and immediately saw the little girl, and his eyes lit up.

"I'm back." Chen Song, who is over eighty this year, slowly stood up from his chair. He didn't care about the mahjong on the table. A daisy bloomed on the wrinkles on his face. He walked over to Chen Wen and looked at it again.

Xiang Jiang Qiuyi.

"Hello, grandpa." Jiang Qiu bowed obediently and said hello, looking like a good baby.

"Qiuqiu, right? I've seen her before, and she's getting more and more beautiful." Chen Song happily stretched out his hand and squeezed Chen Wen's strong shoulder, "You are lucky, treat others well, you know that?"

"Um."

"Grandpa, this is fruit. I bought some oranges, bananas and so on." Jiang Qiu handed the fruit in his hand to the small coffee table next to the mahjong table, "Grandpa, you can try it when you play mahjong."

Chen Song nodded, and the more he looked at Jiang Qiuyi's appearance, the more he liked her. His eyes shifted back and forth between the two, and he felt that they were two young people who were a perfect match.

However, Chen Wen still had to go upstairs to pack his luggage, so Chen Song didn't say much, let the two of them go upstairs, and continued playing mahjong himself.

However, there was more talk on the cards, and several other old men also joked and asked for a few oranges from Chen Song to try, but they were protected by him and only gave one to each of them.

The rest is his.

After reaching the third floor, Jiang Qiuyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and calmed down.

"Where are Uncle Chen and Aunt Xu?"

"I'm going to see my relatives. I won't be back until tonight."

"What about your brothers and sisters? They haven't come back either?"

"Brother is still at the company and won't be back until New Year's Eve. Sister should be back in the next two days."

"Oh, that's how it is."

Jiang Qiuyi breathed a sigh of relief again. She originally thought she was going to welcome Chen Wen and his family, but it turned out that she was really just meeting his grandfather.

Chen Wen didn't know what she was thinking, so he put his luggage in the innermost bedroom on the third floor.

Although this is a villa, the area on one floor is actually not large. There is a small living room on the third floor, and there are only four rooms in the rest, all of which have been converted into bedrooms.

Three of them were given to his parents, elder brother and sister-in-law, elder sister and brother-in-law. Chen Wen had the deepest and smallest one to himself.

As for the fourth floor, it is a room that is rented out to workers from nearby factories on a long-term basis, and they do not live in it themselves.

Although their family is not short of money, my grandfather still has the mindset of the older generation. He would feel uncomfortable if the house is empty and not rented out. He always feels as if he has lost money.

But the monthly rent for the six rooms upstairs is only a few hundred yuan, which is only a few thousand dollars in total. However, grandpa is still happy to collect the rent every month, and he has the principal to play mahjong.

"It's still the same as before." Jiang Qiuyi followed him into Chen Wen's room, trotted to the desk and sat down, patting the transparent glass on the desk, "I used to sit here and do my homework during winter vacation when I was a kid!"

"Well, I'll do my homework for a few minutes and then draw for half an hour."

"No!"

Chen Wen put the cat's litter box in the corner and took it out of the cat's bag.

After a week of training, Youzhong has taken off the protective collar, and the wound has basically healed, and there is no fear that it will lick it and cause the wound to become inflamed.

After jumping out of the cat bag, Zeng meowed and stretched, took a look at the layout of the room, jumped from the ground to the bed, then to the table, and finally jumped to the window sill, squatting on it and facing the window.

Looked around.

Jiang Qiuyi also threw herself on Chen Wen's bed and rolled around twice. The sheets had been changed by Xu Xuejing in advance, so Chen Wen didn't need to change them himself.

“The bed is so small, it feels like it would be very crowded if two people sleep in it…”

"You want to stay?"

"You have a beautiful idea." Jiang Qiuyi hummed, hugging the pillow and rubbing it, "I left a scent on it, just smell it if you miss me~"

"...I'm not that perverted."
To be continued...