Chapter 124
The bowl of sugar water was very traditional pineapple and grape soup. There were a few small red fruits floating on the crystal clear sugar water. Song Jin sealed it in a small glass bowl and covered it with a lid to prevent the loss of temperature.

The taste is also very good. It is much better than the syrup Yu Sheng ate yesterday. It doesn't have too many complicated tastes, but a very simple and sweet taste. The pineapple meat in it is also very greasy.

The smell of the tissue was still deeply etched in Yu Sheng's memory. She walked in the direction the old man pointed and enjoyed a lot of scenery along the way.

Yu Sheng has lived here for so long, but he didn't even know there would be such an existence. With the beginning of winter, a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the lake that used to sparkle in the past, and the reed marshes in the past also disappeared, turning into rotting grass and drowning. In the cold deep water.

There are also a few winter birds landed on the bank of the river, and a few children gathered together, covering their ears and setting off the firecrackers they just bought. It was approaching dinner time, and a smear of sunset in the sky was about to fall to the west mountain, and the sky was getting dark. The babysitter of the children's family also rushed to the river bank and told them to go back for dinner.

Yu Sheng had just eaten dessert, so he wasn't very hungry. In the street, there was an old man who was selling handmade lanterns. They were strung up with bamboo and wood, with a delicate lotus painted on it. On the back of the lotus, there were two mandarin ducks playing.

The old man looked at Yu Sheng with a smile: "Little girl, it's so late, buy a lantern to light the way home."

It was getting dark, and her mobile phone was also in the courtyard of the Song family. When she came out, she didn't even think of bringing a flashlight out. She was just about to speak, but suddenly realized that she didn't bring much cash today, so she asked the old man :"How much?"

The old man looked at the pastries that Yu Sheng brought out from the pastry shop just now, and he chuckled: "No money is needed, as long as the little girl can give me a pastry to try."

Yu Sheng opened the box, and the old man picked out a piece of plum cake, then smiled and gave Yu Sheng the lantern, and kindly helped Yu Sheng light the fire with a match.

In a dark alley, this little light is enough to illuminate everything.

As this road goes forward, the people become less and less populated, and the sky becomes darker and darker. At the end of the endless night, there seems to be a monster covered in pitch black, staring at every step Yu Sheng takes.

Yu Sheng is not afraid of anything, according to what his subordinates said in the past, if Kaiserin meets bad guys, then the ones who should run away in fright are those villains with cloudy eyes.

If it is in summer, there should be fireflies here. With the development of the times, those elves who are like little lanterns in the dark night are gradually disappearing.

When living in the courtyard of Yu's house, every summer night, these elves would decorate under the peach blossom tree. Song Jin would always catch some for Yu Sheng, and then they would go to the wild together to release them.

But now there are no fireflies, and there is no Song Jin by her side. The cold wind begins to enter this alley, penetrates into Yu Sheng's sleeves, blows her face, and makes the coldness stick to her heart.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Yu Sheng found the Tangshui shop decorated with two small stone lion heads hanging in front of the door. To be precise, it was more like a home, but the word Tangshui was roughly written on a broken wooden board next to the door.

She knocked on the door, and heard the sound of the door opening in the courtyard, accompanied by an old voice: "Here we come."

When the door opened, the first thing I saw was a white-haired old lady. She bowed her waist and squinted her eyes to look at Yu Sheng. She was wearing a calico shirt and a jade bracelet on her wrist: " Who are you looking for?"

Yu Sheng answered the old lady's question politely: "Hello, I heard from others that your sugar water is the best in the whole capital, so I want to come and try it."

The old lady's eyes narrowed even smaller, as if she was remembering something: "This happened so many years ago... It's hard for you to remember."

She arched her back very low and kept coughing, turned around and walked towards the back room. She didn't close the door, so Yu Sheng bowed slightly and went in with the old lady.

The yard is very desolate. Apart from the two wells, there is no other furniture in the huge courtyard. The silver light glows inside, making the place even more desolate and lonely. Yu Sheng noticed that there was no lock on the side room next to it, and the The hut has nearly three locks.

"We haven't made sugar water in our family for many years." The old lady said slowly: "There are so many drinks now, who can care about such simple things, and most young people nowadays drink those new-style ones. It's hard to accept sugar water."

She sighed slightly, as if thinking about it: "In recent years, only a few old customers are willing to come to this shop to buy sugar water. The only young man is probably the little grandson of the old Wang's family. He will come to order from us every time after school. A bowl of sugar water with tangerine peel and red bean paste, but he hasn't been to our place for a year or two."

Yu Sheng asked softly, "Did you make all these sugar water?"

"Me?" The old lady laughed: "With my body, how can I have the strength to do these things."

"You... live here alone?" Yu Sheng asked boldly, "Where's your child?"

The old lady waved her hand: "Let's go, they're all gone, they've all gone to live abroad, and they've always wanted to move me, an old lady, to a foreign country too, but how can my old bones bear this kind of trouble?" , not to mention... I don't want to leave this courtyard at all."

She looked at the small locked room, and said slowly: "These sugar water... are all made by the old man. He came to BJ from Guangdong to work hard, and his family has been doing sugar water business. The old man's grandfather has long been Make an oath to promote Guangdong Tangshui all over the country."

"I believe that this old gentleman must have done what he said." Yu Sheng said softly: "Its reputation has far surpassed that of other drinks."

The old lady laughed again, and she beckoned Yu Sheng to sit in the back room. There were few furnishings in the back room, not even a TV set, only an old-fashioned radio playing hoarsely from an unknown age.

The dark green sofa has faintly yellowed, and it is covered with white hollowed-out Leisa. Yu Sheng is a little unexpected about this. Generally, the people who can live in this place are rich and powerful people, or their elders. .

And the old lady's home is incompatible with this place, it's simple and monotonous, the huge back room is also deserted, there is too much open space, it looks extraordinarily desolate and lonely, Yu Sheng noticed that in the very center of the living room, there is a black and white photo, the photo The old man in the house had a kind face and looked at the room with a smile.

And beside that photo, there was a bowl of white things, Yu Sheng walked over lightly, and could smell it, it was a bowl of white sugar.

(End of this chapter)

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