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The moment the school bell rang, it marked the beginning of the long-awaited November holiday.Students in school uniforms poured out of the school gate in a bustling manner, forming a blue ocean.

Hao Ai was pushed all the way to the bus station with the crowd. Instead of taking the bus bound for the bus station as usual, he took another bus in the opposite direction.

There were a lot of people on the bus, Hao Ai was squeezed beside the door.He got out of the car as soon as the mechanical electronic female voice reported three stops. Not far from the stop sign is a high-end residential area called Lijing Huafu. This residential area is a well-known wealthy area nearby. Only people can afford the buildings here. There is only one apartment on each floor. The apartment is of great size, with a large open-air balcony, a small swimming pool and a helipad on it.

He walked into the gate of the community, entered the building next to the gate familiarly, and the elevator stopped on the tenth floor.He entered the password he had memorized and opened the electronic lock of the gate. He remembered that when he first came here he didn't even know how to open the door, but now he is as skilled as returning to his own home.

This place can actually be called his own home, this house was given to him by Wei Guanzhou.

More than a year ago, he and Wei Jiyang were admitted to the same high school. Only then did Wei Guanzhou remember that besides Wei Jiyang, he had another son living outside. Suddenly, his father's love flooded him, so he gave him an idle house and let him live here. , It is close to the school, and it is convenient to go back and forth.

Wei Guanzhou has supported many strangers in his charitable work. In the eyes of strangers, he is a caring entrepreneur who repays the society. Those who have been sponsored by him are very grateful to him.

But every time Hao Ai received money from Wei Guanzhou's secretary, he only felt terrified, as if he was also the one supported by Wei Guanzhou, but they obviously had the closest blood relationship.

The relationship between Hao Ai and Wei Guanzhou is very weak. Over the years, Wei Guanzhou has not cared about his living conditions. He only asked the secretary to give him a card when he was in junior high school, and sent money from time to time. The father and son kept a stable amount of money. relation.

When Wei Guanzhou's secretary came to Hao Ai's grandma's house and gave him a bank card, he didn't want it, but his grandma quietly advised him: "If he gives you money, you want it, and if he gives you something, you take it, don't make mistakes. "

Uncle also said: "You need to plan more for yourself."

Hao Ai didn't quite understand why they said this before, but now he thinks what they said is very reasonable, after all, people can't get along with money.

When the secretary came again to give him the community access card and password, he accepted it without any grievances, and even called Wei Guanzhou to express his thanks.

But subconsciously, he felt that it was something given to him by others, it did not belong to him, and he would take it back one day.

He doesn't care for this kind of kindness given to him in the name of guilt, nor does he want this kind of love that is many years late and wants to make up for the relationship.

Hao Ai cleaned the dusty room briefly, and then went to the supermarket to buy daily necessities and ingredients for cooking. He planned to stay here for a few days this holiday.

He picked his favorite potatoes in the vegetable section and prepared to make potato goulash.

He doesn't know what grandma likes to eat. Although grandma's cooking is terrible, most of the time she will cook according to his taste.

He was hesitating between green peppers and mushrooms, and when he was undecided, the mobile phone in the shopping trolley rang, and it was a call from his uncle.He asked where Hao Ai was, and said that he and his grandma had already arrived at the door.

While saying that he would be right back in the supermarket, he picked up a few Pleurotus eryngii mushrooms, and found a counter where there was no queue to pay quickly.

Tomorrow is the date when grandma goes to the hospital for reexamination every two months, just in time for Hao Ai's vacation, he told his uncle to bring grandma over tonight, so that he doesn't have to travel all the way to the county to pick him up tomorrow morning she.

Grandma will also have physical therapy at a medical clinic near the hospital every Monday. On Monday, my aunt will work the evening shift. She will go to the county town to pick up grandma in the morning, and after the physical therapy, Hao Ai will send her home in the evening.

It was too late for Hao Ai to send her home and return to the urban area. The dormitory was locked and unable to go back, so he would stay in Lijinghua Mansion for one night and return to school the next morning.

If he can come back before the door of the dormitory is closed in time, he will still go back to the dormitory.

Hao Ai saw them at the elevator entrance, he stepped forward and shouted: "Grandma, uncle."

They don't have a magnetic card, so they can't take the elevator.He suddenly remembered the embarrassment that he couldn't take the elevator when he went to deliver food during the summer vacation.

He took the two of them upstairs.

It was the first time grandma came here, and she kept complaining in the living room, sometimes saying that the room was too big and empty, and sometimes saying that the room was stuffy.

Hao Ai was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and his grandma wanted to come in to help him wash, but he pushed her back to rest on the sofa.

Hao Ai hasn't cooked much at home, and her grandma told her outside worryingly: "Ai Ai, remember not to put too much oil."

Hao Ai said helplessly: "Understood."

When he was learning to cook for the first time, he poured too much oil into the pot and almost burned the kitchen when he turned on the gas stove. This was treated as a joke by his grandma and the neighbors laughed for a long time.

Hao Ai poured the potatoes and beef into the pot, turned on a low heat and simmered slowly.

The uncle stood outside the kitchen and said, "Ai Ai, I'm leaving, take care of your grandma."

Hao Ai already knew the process of going to the hospital for reexamination, and he didn't need to remind him too much. Hao Ai handled things safely, and he couldn't be more assured of Hao Ai.

Hao Ai was frying another dish of Pleurotus eryngii Mushroom Stir-Fried Pork, and he didn’t have time to spare. The crackling sound in the oil pan was too loud, so he increased the volume and said, “Uncle, shall we go back after dinner?”

"No, no, your aunt isn't off work yet. I'll pick up Tang Ziyang later, and I have to go back and cook for them."

"Two men in the family can cook, it's really not easy," grandma continued to complain in a low voice, "It's been a waste of raising you for so many years after marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting your mother."

The uncle and aunt met in college. The uncle was from an ordinary family. After graduation, he worked as a teacher in the county with a meager salary, while the aunt came from a scholarly family with a wealthy family. She insisted on marrying him at the beginning and suffered a lot from the family. big pressure.

Uncle is very obedient to her, and the two are very affectionate.My aunt is a bit spoiled, but in other respects she is fine, and she is not bad to Hao Ai.

When Hao Ai brought the food to the table, my uncle had already left, and my grandma was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room.

"Grandma, why don't you let my uncle turn on the TV?"

Grandma said: "I don't watch it, it's too noisy."

Hao Ai cooked simple two meals and one soup, and the two plates and two bowls and chopsticks looked very simple on the clean marble tabletop.

Obviously he is the only one living here, he doesn't know who decorated the house, and he doesn't understand why such a big dining table is placed here.

Hao Ai tasted the beef stew made by himself: "Is it delicious, grandma?"

Grandma said honestly: "It's not delicious."

The taste of Hao Ai's dishes is really ordinary. He clearly cooks according to the cooking process, but the taste is mediocre. He can only attribute the reason to his lack of cooking talent.

Hao Ai pretended to be shocked and said, "Why don't you encourage me?"

"I'm not like you. You always like to tell lies against your conscience."

When Hao Ai ate the food made by his grandma at home, the elderly had a bad memory and sometimes forgot to add salt or added too much MSG. Whenever he asked about it, he would say it was delicious without conscience.

Grandma asked again: "Has your father been looking for you recently?"

"No."

Grandma said earnestly: "Well, no matter how nice he is to you, you have to remember that he owes you this, and he owes your hard-working mother even more."

"Yeah." Hao Ai's ears were already callused when he heard this, and he didn't stop throwing potatoes into his mouth.

He didn't know the reason why grandma always instilled these words in him. Since she was a child, she had said such words to Hao Ai countless times.

Compared with Wei Guanzhou, his feelings for his mother are much more complicated. Someone told him since he was a child that his mother is a beautiful woman with a not-so-intelligent mind.

His mother's name is Tangyue. She suffered from a serious illness when she was a child, and her treatment was delayed because she had no money.

She barely finished junior high school, and went to work in the city with people from the same town. Somehow, she got to know Wei Guanzhou. Wei Guanzhou is a very good person. After knowing what happened to her, she felt sorry for this ill-fated beauty and treated her very well. .

Tangyue is stupid, has no concept of love, doesn't know that the gap between the two is like a gap, and doesn't know that Wei Guanzhou only loves her out of sympathy for the beauty.

Later, she became pregnant. When the Wei family learned about it, they gave her a sum of money and asked her grandma to lead her to kill the child, but they didn't expect that she was so stubborn that she gave birth to the child alive.

The day Hao Ai was born happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival. His grandmother bought wormwood and hung it on the bedside of the hospital ward, so he was named "Ai". Hao Ai took his grandmother's surname when he registered.

After giving birth, Tangyue searched for life and death, and fell into hysteria and wanted to throw away Hao Ai, who was still in her infancy, but was stopped by her grandmother. She was anxious: "What kind of evil is this? You have to give birth if you are not allowed to give birth. Now the child is born." Do you want to throw it away again?"

She cried and fussed: "I was just confused for a while, I don't want to raise him, how can I afford it, I can't afford it."

But no matter whether you can afford it or not, you still kept it for so many years.

When Tangyue passed away, Hao Ai didn't remember anything, and her appearance was already blurred in his memory. He only remembered that the woman sometimes scolded him viciously as a debt collector, and sometimes hugged him and cried.

Hao Ai has the word "Ai" in his name. It seems that such a child should be loved, but he is not.

His parents did not love him and did not expect him to come.Only grandma loves him, but even grandma sometimes calls him a debt collector, gets angry for no reason, says that she doesn't owe him anything, and asks him to ask his father for money.

Later, grandma got old, her legs and feet were not flexible, and various senile diseases were added to her body. She always felt that she would drag him and uncle down, saying that the disease could not be cured and she would not treat it.

It will be fine, Mr. Hao Ai comforted his grandma like this, but also comforted himself.Life is bad enough, it can't get any worse.

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