The legend of Tiga

Chapter 257 People Abandoned by the Times

The city under the setting sun is still very beautiful. The glass curtain walls of the high-rise buildings reflect the red sun, and occasionally you can enjoy a beam of sunlight projected from the gap between the two buildings. car above.

What a beautiful city sunset.

But this picture of the southern suburbs of the metropolis is not perfect, there is a flaw: a dilapidated house and a small yard of no more than [-] square meters!

Surrounded by majestic high-rise buildings, the people who come and go are brightly dressed urban men and women, talking about romance, doing business worth hundreds of millions, and cars of all sizes driving on the spacious road next to it.

And this house, not to mention the backward style, also looks very dilapidated because it has not been renovated for a long time. Wearing slippers, stuffing a whole piece of steak into your mouth with chopsticks, or eating hot dry noodles with tomato sauce with a knife and fork.

The style of painting is too inappropriate.

And this style of painting has its own term: Nail House!
Chiba Makoto did not enter the house in a hurry, but visited and asked around. The neighbors had a bad impression of the owner, and they all commented on the stubborn old woman.

It is said that in the past, in order to demolish this house, the developer tried their best and provided more than ten kinds of plans for the old woman to choose from, but she refused to look at it and said, "I will not move out." .”

At first, everyone thought she wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, but one year later, two years later, and three years later, the old neighbors moved out one after another, the old houses began to be demolished, and the ruins were piled into construction machinery to level the ground and dig foundations. , Building buildings until all high-rise buildings are completed and sold.

The old woman still lives in her old house, and she has never asked anyone to say that she has figured it out and wants to sell the house. Only then did people understand that she didn't just set the price on the ground, but really didn't want to move, so the previous "greedy" ' tag was removed and replaced by 'silly'.

No one knows why she is guarding that old house. She lives alone in the old house. No one knows when she dies. She has to do everything by herself and exchange this house for a lot of money to live in a clean and bright house. Aren't nursing homes where people take care of them bad?
No one can understand, and no one knows what she thinks, because the old neighbors have all moved away, and there are very few people living in the vicinity, while the new neighbors are mostly young people, just working. They have already exhausted their minds, and they may not know who is at the door, and they are even less interested in understanding the situation of this old house.

The owner of a nearby convenience store only talked about the situation of the old woman after Chiba Cheng bought a large package of things, saying: "The old woman used to be taciturn, but she has a smile on her face when she comes to buy things recently. And the amount of things to buy is much more than before.

I think relatives from my hometown have come, and it’s pitiful to be alone, so people generally don’t care much about her stubbornness.”

The convenience store owner babbled about the old woman's "badness". She didn't know how to pay electronically. She often forgot to weigh it and took it to the cashier to check out. She also paid with banknotes wrapped in a handkerchief. After finding the money, she repeatedly Count it several times. The time she spends alone can make several people settle the bill.

After visiting and investigating, Chiba Makoto probably knew something about the old woman. Judging from the doubled amount of ingredients purchased, the red Standalian Raedel should have been taken in, so he can go directly.

Chiba Makoto brought the food bought from the convenience store to the dilapidated house that was out of place in the metropolis. He looked around, but couldn't find the electronic doorbell, so he could only knock on the old wooden door with his hands. .

After knocking twice, through the courtyard wall nailed by low boards, I saw the door was opened, and an old woman with a smile on her face came out with a stooped back and staggering steps, and said in a soft voice while walking: "I'm coming!"

'Crack! '
The wooden door was opened from the inside, and the old woman was stunned when she saw Qianye Cheng, and asked suspiciously: "You are."

"Hi, mother-in-law, I'm a volunteer in the community, and I'm here to visit you." Chiba Makoto brought up a large bag of fruits and vegetables in his hand for the old woman to see.

"Oh, please come in!" The old woman didn't know if she understood, but she brought Qianye Cheng in anyway, and when she walked towards the house, she said apologetically, "Only I, an old woman, lives with dim eyes, and I don't have much energy to clean it. , so the house is quite messy."

"It's okay, mother-in-law, I'm here to help you."

"No, no, I don't need help, just chat with me, no one has been here for a long time." The old woman said and opened the door, Chiba Makoto glanced at the room, it was clean and tidy, even the tatami was wiped spotless , has nothing to do with clutter.

The old woman walked into the inner room and came out tremblingly holding a pot of tea. Makoto Chiba, who was sitting on the tatami mat, hurriedly got up, helped the old woman make tea, and said, "Thank you, mother-in-law!"

"It's me who should say thank you. You guys, oh, volunteers, taught me how to use these electrical appliances." Get better and sound like a salesman.

Qianye Cheng held the teacup and looked around this small room, which was only more than ten square meters. All the furnishings were shabby, and there was a stove in the room with a kettle on it. It should also be the place where the old woman cooks and eats. .

The only electrical appliance in the room is the light bulb, and other modern products such as computers and intelligent sweeping robots are missing. Being in it, it feels like the last century, not the early 21st century with advanced technology. A thin wooden door, It seems like decades apart.

I didn't feel anything unusual, apparently Raider wasn't here, and Chiba Makoto was about to leave, and just got up when he saw a photo enshrined in the corner of the table, and there were two white candles burning quietly beside it, this is It is a way of offering sacrifices that has been almost forgotten by modern people.

The old lady noticed Qianye Cheng's gaze, and the smile on her face was much less, and said: "This is my old man, he has passed away. Look at my memory, I have forgotten how long it has been. I am old, old, and my memory is not good. .”

Well, if the old lady didn't say anything, Qianyecheng thought it was her son.

The fact is that the person in the photo is too young, with black hair and a handsome face, he is estimated to be around 50 or 70 years old, while the old woman is almost [-] years old.

A photo silently tells how time flies, and it is already old age in a blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)