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Si Yuqi's grandma's house is not far from the hospital where Lu Yuan and the others are staying. Lu Yuan thought about it, and instead of driving, he and Shen Qing looked at the map and walked there.

In fact, Lu Yuan also has selfish intentions. Shen Qing's exercise is too little, and his body is too weak. Although he said that he needs to apply for a fitness card, it is a luxury for the two of them to sleep every day. How can they have so much free time to strengthen their bodies? Body, so walking more is also a good way to exercise.

In the morning, the streets of Huaiyin City, which had been rested for the night, began to be lively again. The leaves of the locust trees on both sides of the street still look green. When the wind blows, the leaves will be scattered and drift down. The streets are full of early risers. The vendors for breakfast and the stalls selling fresh vegetables, after all, the urban management is not on duty in the morning, and there is no need to pay rent for occupying the roadside, and the vegetables in the morning are fresh and affordable, and everyone wants to be cheap, and it turns into a small market in the morning. The sound of frying, yelling, and bargaining made it very lively.

"What do you want to eat?" Lu Yuan looked at Shen Qing, and remembered that this person must have breakfast, and he had to eat a good one.

Shen Qing was looking at the stalls on the side of the road, looking carefully and choosing carefully, and there were many noisy voices around, Shen Qing didn't hear what Lu Yuan said at all.

After walking a few steps, Shen Qing stopped, pointed to the stall in front, and then pointed to another stall not far away, "Look here, I want two beef pot stickers, I'll go there to buy .”

Shen Qing walked a little fast, she seemed to be hungry, but then she seemed to remember something, she turned her head and shouted to Lu Yuan, "Is one cage enough?" Lu Yuan didn't hear it, he only saw Shen Qing clenched his fists with one hand and opened the other, clapped his hands together, said something, looked like "shouldn't be enough", turned around and walked towards the booth.

I have to say that there are many people queuing up at this stall for his own reasons.Lu Yuan bought five beef pot stickers. Seeing that Shen Qing was still there, he walked towards him and didn't forget to take a bite of the pot stickers in his hand. The skin was thin and the filling was thick and juicy. Although the size was small, the sparrow had small internal organs all available.

Shen Qing took the bag packed by the boss and saw that Lu Yuan had already walked over, "Small steamed buns, I think one basket is not enough, so I bought two baskets."

Lu Yuan didn't answer her, and stuffed the half-eaten pot helmet into Shen Qing's mouth, then took a plastic bag from Shen Qing's hand and stuffed a small steamed bun into his mouth, but the freshly baked steamed stuffed bun was steaming , the hot Lu Yuan inhaled straight.

"I don't want to eat your leftovers." Shen Qing muttered, but picked up the half of the pot stickers that Lu Yuan gave him, and ate it with relish.

The two of you take a bite and feed each other a small steamed bun from time to time.The people coming and going on both sides of the street are almost all housewives who get up early to buy vegetables or old people who come to buy breakfast after morning exercise. Everyone is busy with their own affairs, and no one pays attention to these two handsome young men.

The sky that had been cloudy for several days finally cleared up. I saw the sun today. Maybe the sun just woke up. The gentle and soft sunshine shines on the earth without any sense of attack.

The two entered a small alley, and the walls on both sides of the alley were covered with moss, and the paint on the outermost layer was peeled off. It looked like it had lasted for many years.

As they walked in, gates appeared in front of the two of them. The distance between the gates was close or far. It seemed that they could tell whether the family’s yard occupied a large area. No. 23 Heishui Hutong, Lu Yuan looked at the address given by Liu Feng again.

He and Shen Qing stopped in front of a door, that door was pitifully small, if you walk in front, the doors of other people's houses are all blue painted iron doors.Then this door is a small wooden door that is so ordinary that it can no longer be ordinary, even old raw ash.

Lu Yuan wanted to raise his hand to knock on the door, but as soon as his hand touched the door, the door opened by itself.Lu Yuan turned his head to look at Shen Qing, his eyes were full of questions about what Shen Qing should do next.

Shen Qing looked back at Lu Yuan, shrugged, and walked in first.

"We're like this..." Although Lu Yuan said it, he followed Shen Qing into the door.

Shen Qing stood in the yard and looked around, and found that not only the wooden door was pitifully small, but the yard was also pitifully small. There was a well drilled in the yard. Next to the well head was a wooden stake with a hemp rope tied to it. There is also a wooden barrel, which is really the most primitive way of fetching water.

There is a stone table next to it, and a wooden stool with its legs wrapped in cloth strips.

Shen Qing walked over and saw a frame made of bamboo strips on the table, inside were threads and needles of various colors, inside was a bit messy, many threads were tangled together.

Shen Qing found that only these things in this yard have almost taken up the entire space of the yard.

Shen Qing saw a closed door next to it, with a couplet on it, which was a bit torn. He pushed it, but found that it couldn't be pushed. It should have been locked from the inside. If the door just now was considered a door, Then this door should be the back room.

Shen Qing raised her hand and knocked on the door. After waiting for a while, she found that there was no movement, so she knocked twice again, and heard the sound of someone walking inside, "Who is it?"

The voice had the peculiar nasal and hoarseness of the elderly.

Shen Qing felt that the person in the room had already walked to the door, but she didn't intend to open the door for them at all.

"Who are you..." The voice in the room asked again, and coughed after asking.

"Hello, we are Huaiyin..." Shen Qing reached out and grabbed Lu Yuan who was about to answer, Lu Yuan stopped and looked at him, but Shen Qing shook her head at him.

"Hello, this is Grandma Siyuqi, right?" Shen Qing's voice was clear and sweet, with a scent of books, "We are Huaiyin University of Science and Education and also your granddaughter's tutor. Let's find out about her situation."

Lu Yuan just looked at Shen Qing quietly, with a smile on the corner of Shen Qing's mouth, and his eyes softened.

Shen Qing heard the sound of pulling the door lever, followed by the door opening.

Shen Qing looks like the old man in front of him.

She was wearing a coarse trousers and a gray sweater over her body. Her hair was gray and was tied behind her ears. A few strands of hair were sticking to her face. She must have just woken up and was a little messy.Her figure is a little stooped, her face is a little gray, and her face is almost full of wrinkles, each of which is extremely obvious.

"Yuqi... is it because she didn't do well in school..." The old man didn't doubt whether what the two of them said was true, but when he heard his granddaughter's name, he focused his attention on it.

The old man's eyes were a little white. Although her eyes were blurred, she still tried her best to look at Shen Qing, fearing that she would miss something in the next second.

Shen Qing shook her head, trying her best to keep her decent smile just now, "No, she is very good, she behaves well, and studies hard."

"That's good...cough cough" The old man finally felt relieved, but once he relaxed, he couldn't help coughing again.

Shen Qing hurriedly helped the old man into the room, trying to help her sit down, only to find that there was nothing in the room except a table, a small stove and a bed.

Shen Qing helped the old man to the bed, looked at the medicine on the table, and handed the old man a glass of water, "Are you feeling unwell?"

The old man coughed less intensely, and reached out to take the cup in Shen Qing's hand, "Thank you, young man."

After speaking, he took a sip of water, "It's just a common cold, just take some medicine and you'll be fine."

"Didn't you call Si Yuqi and ask her to take care of you?" Shen Qing looked at the bed where the old man was sitting, on which was a huge cross-stitch that was half-embroidered.There is a very ordinary style of reading glasses next to it.Only then did I understand what the basket of needles and threads in the yard outside the door was for.

"Just take some medicine for this minor ailment... Yuqi is already very busy studying at university... I can't always trouble her and make her worry..." The old man spoke very slowly, very lightly, but his words Every word and every sentence is my love for my granddaughter.

Shen Qing didn't know where these words touched him, her nose was sore.The old man didn't know that her smart, sensible, hard-working granddaughter was gone.As long as the three words Si Yuqi are mentioned, the old man's eyes full of smog will still light up.

"Can you tell us something about Yuqi's past?" The question was too sudden, and Shen Qing immediately smoothed things over, "We want to evaluate the three best things in the city, so we need to know about Si Yuqi's past."

The old man didn't doubt it, he seemed to be remembering, and nodded in confusion.

"Yuqi has been very obedient since she was a child. When I took her to live with her, she didn't cry or make trouble..." The old man's voice became louder. Like all old people, it seemed that when talking about his grandchildren, he always brought With a sense of pride.

"She is very smart and works very hard. She has always been a good student at school... Every time there is a parent-teacher meeting, the teacher will praise her as a role model..." The old man raised his head and grinned at Shen Qingqing when he said this, like A child with few teeth left in his mouth.

"Later, she was admitted to the best university in the city..." The old man lowered his head again, and his voice became softer, "Actually, her high school head teacher told me that her grades are all right in Beijing. But Yuqi insisted on staying in the city...I persuaded her...she didn't listen...I know she didn't trust me..." The old man sighed, "No tuition fee for middle school and high school, just pay for books , so I can still afford to shine someone’s leather shoes and sew old clothes.”

"But the college tuition fees are too high, my health is getting worse and worse, and my eyes are getting worse and worse. Now I can only earn a little money by cross-stitching..." The old man said very seriously, Shen Qing and Lu Yuan also listened Seriously, no one wants to break this memory in the old man's heart, this most beautiful memory that has disappeared forever.

"But Yuqi is very competitive, she gets a scholarship every year, she told me not to worry, the scholarship is enough to pay the tuition fees...but other girls go shopping, buy clothes, have a boyfriend and so on... "The old man still said slowly, at this time the sunlight has become stronger, and Shen Qing is not in a hurry or rushing.

"I told her to let him enjoy college, buy what he should buy, talk to whoever he wants to talk to, and grandma will give it to her if he has no money... She always nodded, but she didn't listen to me." The old man said Suddenly laughed here.

"But just two months ago, Yuqi told me that she had a boyfriend."