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At seven o'clock on Sunday morning, Jiang Suqing was already busy in the kitchen when Jiangchou got up to wash up.

It was rare for her to take a weekend off, and the mother and son went out together after a simple breakfast.

Today they are going to the old house left by their grandparents to pick up the relics - it was said a year or two ago that it would be demolished, and it was not until last month that the official notice came. Including negotiating conditions with the developer, Jiang Suqing took care of everything by herself. part, only this event required both of them to be present at the same time.

Jiang Chou has to go to school, and Jiang Suqing is busy with work, so she hasn't been here for more than half a year, and the scenery along the way has changed a lot.After getting out of the car and crossing the road, they walked into the alley for a while before arriving at the place: the old house divided by the factory, the buildings are very close to each other, and the women on the lower floors quarreled all day long about lighting.

The old house is separated by a wall with red walls and white bricks, and a new and beautiful garden area. This demolition is also because the developer wants to continue to expand its business ambitions.

With satisfactory promises, many people have already moved, and only a few nail households are still holding their ground. When the natural gas and water are cut off, they fetch water from other places and cook with old-fashioned coal stoves. It's all sewage and choking soot.

The corridor filled with small advertisements for renting houses and water and electricity repairs was dark and damp, filled with an indescribable greasy smell. When he went up to the third floor and saw the iron door with mottled paint, Jiang Shou was in a daze for a moment, as if returning to When he was young, he sat at the door with a small bench and listened to the radio and chatted with the grandmother next door.

At this moment, the door next door opened, and a young girl not much older than him came out.

"Is Grandma Liu alright?" Jiang Shou asked subconsciously.

The girl hesitated for a moment, then said apologetically, "Grandma fell a few months ago, but she didn't get over it. She just passed away last month."

Jiangchou had mixed feelings in her heart, "I'm sorry, my condolences."

The girl smiled at him, "It's okay, grandma will be happy to know that someone still misses me."

When he entered the room, Jiang Suqing had already gone to the balcony.The location of many furnishings in the house has changed. Grandpa’s armchair is gone, and a half-old sofa has been added, giving people a familiar yet strange feeling.

After the tenant quit the lease, he took most of his things away, and the rest were worthless garbage.Anyway, they were all to be dismantled, Jiang Suqing scolded a few words for being unqualified and shameless, and there was no further text.

Jiang Shou took two steps in the living room, and suddenly stopped in front of the door of her previous room.Is there something wrong with his memory, or is this place really so dilapidated, why does it look worse than he remembered?

90 square meters, an old house with two bedrooms and two living rooms. When renting out, Jiang Suqing specifically explained that some things should not be moved - most of his grandparents’ clothes were burned during the funeral, and a small part was collected with the remaining old things. Locked in these two cabinets.

Jiang Suqing found the key and opened the locked cabinet on the inner and outer floors. A musty smell mixed with the pungent camphor smell came to her face. The two of them covered their noses at the same time.

"See if there is anything you want." Jiang Suqing coughed twice, "You know, the space over there is not big, I cleared some places in front of me a few days ago, you pick up the important ones, and the rest are really out of reach Just lose it."

Important is a false proposition, Jiangchou guessed that what she really wanted to say was convenient and valuable, but it would be easy to appear cold and philistine, so she changed the term.

"Well, I see."

Even in the saddest time, sorting out the relics of relatives is still easy to touch the scene and hurt. In order to divert attention, Jiang Suqing chatted with him.

"You got more than a dozen students in the school in the mid-term exam?"

"12."

Jiang Shou took out a stack of things from the middle shelf of the cabinet, and checked everything.

"You did well in the exam." Jiang Suqing never took her eyes off him, "Is there anything you want?"

"It's nothing."

"One thing to say, you did well in the exam, as a mother, I should show something. I think our colleagues' children have computers at home to look up information..." She thought about it and rejected the plan, "Forget it, Then who complains to me every day that the children at home are addicted to studying online and have plummeted, and I will buy you a new laptop after you finish the college entrance examination and go to university. I heard from my colleagues that you need to use computers to write papers in university.”

Jiang Choi has no desire for these things, "Whatever."

"How about I take you out for summer vacation? Where do you want to go?"

"Let's talk about it, it's too expensive."

I really can't think of anything that can be used as a reward, Jiang Suqing can only use the most old-fashioned trick, "You study hard to save me a lot of money, Yaoyao's mother enrolled her in a math class, I wanted to I signed up for one for you, but when I asked, it was 12 for 3300 classes, forget it, I can’t afford it. I’ll transfer 200 yuan to you later, and you can buy whatever you want. The family’s conditions are not good, so I really need to save..."

"Mom." Jiang Shou interrupted her, and asked softly, "Can I still go to my classmate's house to do my homework? Go in the morning and come back in the evening."

Jiang Suqing hesitated for a moment, "That's fine, but you have to promise me that your grades won't drop. Once you drop, you have to stay at home."

"it is good."

There were too many trivial things, and it took them more than two hours to tidy up.

Jiang Shou brought a big travel bag, which is almost full now.

What he held in his hand was his grandmother's accounting book—a black plastic cover, yellowed inside pages, and clumsy handwriting in blue-black ink.

Jiangchou's tuition fee is 230, grocery shopping is 14.8, and new sandals are 50... Looking at the expenses, his grandmother wearing a pair of tortoiseshell presbyopic glasses is keeping accounts word by word under the lamp.

For him in the past, this picture was equivalent to the word home.

He closed the book, stuffed it into the outermost part of the bag, and zipped it up.

Jiang Suqing's bag was much smaller than his, and now it was packed full, "I'm fine too."

Before leaving, Jiang Shou took one last look at the iron door whose green paint was about to fall off—he still remembered how magnificent and beautiful it looked when it was first installed, why did it look like this now?

More than ten years passed in an instant, and he had a premonition that this was the last time he would return here.

On the way to the station, Jiang Suqing talked to him about the compensation, "The developer offers two compensation plans, money and a new house. I don't want money, but I want them to build a bigger one with better lighting. house."

"Ah."

The house in Zhuyuan Community where they live now belongs to Xie Shun, and Xie Shun has the right to drive them out at any time—Jiang Suqing has been wandering for most of her life, so she really deserves a house of her own.

Unexpectedly, she went on to say, "I plan to write your name on the real estate certificate. I asked the people in the neighborhood committee specifically, and they said that this is okay, but it will be a little troublesome, but how long will the trouble last? You will be sixteen next month. He will be eighteen years old in two years."

Jiang Shou suddenly forgot what he wanted to say, after a while, he turned his face and said softly, "No need."

"There's no need, this house should be yours. I've talked to you, Uncle Xie, and it's not a big problem, but you need a place to stay in the future. Take ten thousand steps back. The house price is so expensive. You graduated from university. , I want to talk about a friend getting married, will the little girl's family agree if there is no house?"

Jiang Suqing's eyes were slightly red, she blinked and poured back her tears, "Your grandma talked to me for a long time when she was diagnosed with cancer, she took my hand and forced me to swear that I will take good care of her when she is gone. you."

Jiangchou was stiff all over.Has she even considered getting married so far away?If she found out that she was gay, would she be so sad that she would collapse, or would she hate and dislike herself and cut herself off?

She thought he was not used to being close to her, "I know that I have a bad personality, you are not close to me, and I also know that you have always hated me and blamed me for throwing you to them. I don’t even know the man’s name until now. You have that man’s blood flowing from your body, but you are also a piece of flesh that fell from my body. If I really don’t want you, why did I give birth to you? Do you think I am alone? Is it easy for a woman to have a child without getting married?"

In those days, having a child out of wedlock meant being looked down upon and gossiped by the neighbors.

Jiang Shou took a deep breath, trying not to let her voice tremble, "I don't need him, you and my grandparents raised me, my relatives are only you, there is no such thing as that man. In my eyes, even if he appeared in front of me again, I would not recognize him."

·

In the afternoon, Jiang Suqing had to go out to do some errands, so Jiang Chou went back alone first.

He was doing his homework in the room, and when he heard the ping-pong-pong sound outside, he knew that Xie Shun had returned—Jiang Suqing had relatively light hands and feet, so she wouldn't make such a stormy city.

During this period of time, he avoided dealing with Xie Shun, and generally speaking, as long as he didn't drink alcohol, Xie Shun would treat him as a transparent person, and the two of them lived in peace.

I don't know what Xie Shun was tossing about outside, it took a while before he calmed down.The heavy footsteps did not turn to the other side as before, but got closer and closer, until the door was turned open, and Jiang Shou suddenly noticed that he forgot to lock the door when he came back.

"You are at home?"

Afraid that this man would complain to Jiang Suqing again, he bit the bullet and went forward to say hello.

"Yeah." He kept a safe distance from Xie Shun as much as possible, "School is not in session today."

Xie Shun snorted, with an uncertain expression, "Really? You're still in school."

Although he was not sure what Xie Shun was going to do, but he didn't smell the alcohol, so he felt a little relieved.

Then he was slapped across the face.

Adult men's hand strength is not covered, and Xie Shun didn't show any mercy, his mind was buzzing, and he couldn't hear what Xie Shun said for a long time.

"You eat me, use me, and talk nonsense to my wife. Why don't you die? I don't support you for money?"

His head was knocked to one side, and before he could recover, Xie Shun kicked him in the stomach again. He couldn't stand still, and his whole body flew back for a short distance, hitting the hard wooden cabinet .

Xie Shun walked over, seeming to want to continue beating him, but seeing that he didn't move for a long time, he was afraid of beating him up badly, so he scolded him not to pretend to be dead, and left angrily.

He still didn't stand up until the room fell into dead silence again.

He was as motionless as a pile of garbage, staring blankly at the moth-eaten spots at the foot of the bed.

Will it leave marks on the face?If yes, he will go to school tomorrow, if Zhuo Shuang saw it, what would he say?