Jingsheng Garden is the name of Xu Ziling's community. It was famous in the county for its high price when it opened.At the beginning, I felt that the house I lived in for nearly ten years could not meet the needs of life, but when I wanted to buy a new house, Xu Ziling fell in love with this place at a glance. In the eyes of others, it was ridiculously expensive compared to other real estate in the county. In Xu Ziling's eyes, this price is quite reasonable, not only because of the good service attitude of the property, nor because the floors are all real areas, but because the developer spent a huge amount of money to build a small park in the community .

I got up early in the morning, ran a few laps in the small park, punched once, and waited until my body sweated a little before I came to the gate of the community, ready to buy some breakfast and go back.I entered an unremarkable breakfast shop, "Uncle Fat, serve me some supper."

Fat is probably a common characteristic of all catering companies. The fat uncle Xu Ziling refers to is also fat, not tall, with a slightly round face. He looks a bit like Coach Anxi in "Slam Dunk". "Ziling, are you here? It seems like I haven't seen you for a long time?"

Fat Uncle's breakfast shop existed before Xu Ziling moved to the community. Since moving here, Xu Ziling spent most of his time in Fat Uncle's shop for his breakfast. "I went out to play for a while, and I just came back yesterday."

It was almost time to go to work, and there were more people eating breakfast in the breakfast shop. I chatted with the fat uncle casually, and after eating a bowl of noodles, I brought Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan two portions of soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks before leaving. leave.

After entering the house, Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan were both up. Xu Ziling put breakfast on the dining table and went upstairs to take a shower.

After washing off the smell of sweat, I changed clothes and came out. I saw my father and mother sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast.Hearing the sound of Xu Ziling getting off the car, Zhang Lan raised her head and said, "Go to Mingsheng Hotel at noon, let's go earlier."

"it is good……"

The radio on the car was playing the weather forecast: "Affected by the typhoon, our city will experience a sharp drop in temperature today and tomorrow..." Xu Ziling pressed the glass of the car window and looked at the sky. The sun had disappeared, and the sky was covered with gray The misty clouds and the wind blew.The temperature was already dropping, so I didn't bother to pay attention to the weather forecast's always lagging behind. I turned off the radio, and simply opened the windows and sunroof to let the wind blow into the car.The speed of the car was a bit fast, and the wind blew over and made a "booming" sound, but Xu Ziling felt extraordinarily refreshed.

The banquet at noon was very lively. Some friends and colleagues of my parents came.My father was the only son, my grandfather and grandmother died young, and my mother's brothers were all out of town, so no relatives were notified to come over.I went to the hotel very early in the morning to set up and welcome the guests. As each guest arrived, Xu Ziling felt that his smile became more and more stiff.Those who knew each other and those who didn't know all praised Xu Ziling in front of Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan, and Xu Ziling could only smile at each other.

After eating, I really don't have the heart to deal with those unintentional enthusiasm.He said hello to Xu Haoran and Zhang Lan, and said he was going back to his hometown in the countryside.Before leaving, I found Wang Jian and found out that Wang Jian couldn't go with me because of something, so I agreed to go to the provincial capital together when school started.

After returning home, I moved some wine and cigarettes into the car, turned around and headed to the countryside.

The wind is blowing all the way, far away from the concrete and steel forest, the endless rice fields on both sides of the road are golden, and a gust of wind passes by, like a golden ocean, with waves undulating with each other.It looks heart-warming.

When he came to Xujiang's store, he parked the car and took a cigarette and a bottle of wine from the car.The banquet at noon was not something that required a lot of effort, so Xu Jiang was not notified, but before that, Xu Jiang had already handed over a 1 yuan red envelope to Xu Haoran.The cousins ​​have been in a group since they were young, and the relationship has always been close. If someone gives it, it will be taken for granted.As far as Xu Ziling is concerned, if there is anything, of course he must prepare a copy for this uncle who treats him like his own son.

At this point in the afternoon, the people who had lunch left, and it was not yet time to finish the meal, and it was the time when the restaurant was free.Walking into the hall, I saw Xu Jiang behind the counter looking down at a notebook, pressing the calculator next to him with one hand from time to time, thinking that he must be doing accounts.Xu Ziling walked to the counter and knocked on the counter, "Uncle, are you settling accounts?"

Xu Jiang, who was really attentive, suddenly heard the voice, and was taken aback. He looked up and saw Xu Ziling, and then he was ecstatic. "Good boy, you got the number one national exam and came here. Didn't I hear that your family had dinner for a few days, why are you back?"

"It's all small things. I didn't dare to let you make a special trip for fear of trouble. I brought you a cigarette and a bottle of wine to compensate you for not drinking the wine." Xu Ziling raised the cigarette and wine in his hand.

"Your uncle is such a stingy person in your eyes?" Xu Jiang walked out of the counter and laughed, "Hey, where did you get the cigarettes and wine?" Seeing the cigarettes Xu Ziling handed him And wine, asked in surprise.

"It was given by Yang Kaiming's family who came with Uncle Li's son Li Cheng last time." Xu Ziling replied casually.

"That's no wonder..."

Xu Jiang asked, Xu Ziling answered, and the two uncles and nephews chatted for a while about what happened in the past month, which finally satisfied Xu Jiang's curiosity. "I still have to go to the Public Security Bureau, will you go?" Xu Ziling said to Xu Jiang.

"To find you Uncle Li and Uncle Zhang?"

"Well, I'm back, and I should pay a visit. I'll go back to grandpa's house after a while, or you go back to have dinner together? Anyway, it's the same here without you."

The two came to the police station. Li Mingwu and Zhang Kaiming were both there. Xu Ziling also took a cigarette and a bottle of wine each, and left after a while.

When they arrived at grandpa's house, grandpa and grandma were quite pleasantly surprised by Xu Ziling who came back without notice.

I don't know when, the clouds dispersed, the sun set, the sun shines through the big trees in the yard and casts mottled on the ground, the temperature is not high, a few people sat down in the yard.Xu Ziling showed his grandma the notice of admission to college that he had specially brought, and told about being specially recruited by the army. Several people enjoyed themselves in the yard.

I took out the military officer's card to my grandfather, and saw that the old man took it, but didn't open it, but just stroked it with his big rough hands trembling.The eyes are exceptionally focused and affectionate.Xu Ziling thought that the old man was probably reminiscing, thinking of his own military years, thinking of his comrades who died in battle.The illiterate grandma beside her looked at Dahong's admission notice without blinking her eyes, as if she wanted to remember its appearance in her heart, and she didn't know what to mutter in her mouth.

Xu Ziling and his uncle Xu Jiang watched the two old men and kept silent for fear of disturbing them.I don't know how long the silence lasted, Xu Ziling felt that it had been a long time, and it felt like it was only a moment. Grandma woke up first, looked at Grandpa who was still immersed in emotions, wiped the tears from his eyes with her hands, and looked at Xu Ziling The grandfather laughed and scolded: "Old man, you think of your old almanac again? It's been decades, what else is there to think about?"

According to grandma's words, she also knew what happened to grandpa back then.Grandpa came to his senses, opened his military ID card, looked at it, and said with a big smile, "Haha... Today is a happy day, and I will salute our grandson when I see it later. Old lady, cook some good dishes later, Jiang Ya My son is here too, let's have a few drinks together."

"Grandpa, I brought some things. I just ordered some dishes from Uncle Jiang's shop, so I don't need to prepare other dishes. I'll go and move them down." Xu Ziling touched Xu Jiang, who had doubtful eyes, with his hand, Signal him to move things in the car together.

Xu Jiang had been catering outside in his early years, and the people who came and went became more knowledgeable and became a shrewd and sophisticated person.Seeing the abnormality of Grandpa Xu Ziling, he never thought that the elder who had been with him for decades had a side that he didn't know, so he was puzzled.

"Grandpa had some things in his early years. He didn't tell anyone about it. Probably grandma and my dad knew about it. Even I only heard about it when I went to the provincial capital this time. Otherwise, I would keep it a secret. It's not a bad thing, so don't worry. Now It’s inconvenient to explain, I’ll explain it to you another day.” Xu Ziling whispered to Xu Jiang.

He took the cigarettes and wine and vegetables from the car, Xu Jiang sent the vegetables to the kitchen, Xu Ziling showed the cigarettes and wine to his grandfather, "It turned out that when I was a soldier, I used such cigarettes and wine at the chief's place, but At that time, the cigarettes were not of the current brand, but the wine was Moutai at that time. In a blink of an eye, I have not tasted this kind of taste for decades..." Xu Ziling's grandfather said with emotion.

That night, even grandma, who usually doesn't drink alcohol, had a drink with a few people, and Xu Ziling and Xu Jiang even accompanied Xu Ziling's grandfather to drink slowly until he got a little drunk.

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