Leaving Lijing of Pearl River, Ye Chen hurried to the vegetable market.
Time has been delayed a lot, so if I don’t hurry up and buy the vegetables, my wife will not be able to have lunch when she comes home from get off work.
Although Jinling is an ancient city, its modern atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. The buildings in the old city have been destroyed, demolished, and modified. Now they have basically become the style of high-rise buildings in modern cities.
In the past, many traditional crafts and markets were gradually replaced by various high-end shops and comprehensive supermarkets.
In the early years, there were many barbers on the roadside, and their craftsmanship was excellent. They could sit on the roadside for two or three dollars to shave their heads.
But now, it has long disappeared.
Instead, there are various dazzling and high-end and atmospheric beauty and hair salon centers. Teacher Tony, who has poor skills and does not even have complete hair, just cut people's hair, starts for one or two hundred yuan, occasionally
When encountering an immoral merchant, they will fool customers to apply for cards, and those who cut their heads and get cheated for thousands of dollars are everywhere.
In the past, there were many horse-drawn carriages and donkey carriages on the roadside. The farmers in the country picked vegetables from the fields in the morning and then drove them to the city to sell them. Vegetables, fruits and melons were both fresh and cheap.
However, over the years, livestock carts have not been allowed to enter the city, and even the traditional vegetable markets have become fewer and fewer, so that most people can only go to supermarkets to buy vegetables.
The quality of vegetables in the supermarket is not very good, but the price is surprisingly expensive. It costs more than ten yuan to buy a cabbage.
This also made this ancient city gradually lose the fireworks of traditional life.
In fact, Ye Chen usually doesn’t like to go to the supermarket to buy vegetables, and he always feels that he is less meaningful.
Therefore, he often went to a protected old residential area in the old city, where there was a very lively vegetable market.
The reason why I like to go to that old residential area is not only because it is more down-to-earth, but also because there is another reason hidden in Ye Chen's heart, and no one told me.
In the past, when he and his parents first arrived in Jinling, their parents particularly liked the characteristics of the old town of Jinling.
There are many old-fashioned buildings left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China. This architectural style is very different from that of the north and my parents like it very much.
It is precisely because of his love for traditional culture that his parents rented an old house in the old city. After his father's renovation, the whole family lived in a very comfortable life.
Later, when his parents had an accident, Ye Chen entered the orphanage. He would often sneak out with his friends Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen to take a look at the old city.
At that time, Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen and others thought that Ye Chen was greedy and wanted to sneak out to play.
But what they didn't know was that Ye Chen was actually just to miss his parents.
After his parents had an accident, the house was rented out for several years and replaced by batches of tenants.
Later, the house was bought by people who invested in real estate and waited for the demolition to appreciate.
Later, the house and the old buildings nearby were classified as historical building protection areas, and demolition and flip-up were explicitly prohibited, so the house was vacant for a long time.
Ye Chen also secretly inquired that it is said that the person who invested in this house was the initiator of a real estate speculation group in Wencheng. Although this old house was smashed in his hands and could not be cashed in, this little money was nothing to him.
, so the house has been thrown away like this.
Later, the real estate speculator was caught in a lawsuit because he was suspected of illegal fundraising in another place, and the house was seized by the court.
There were rumors two or three years ago that the auction was going to be auctioned, but because the person involved was a big case, the case was not closed in the last two years, so he never entered the judicial auction process.
Ye Chen went to the vegetable market for buying vegetables, which was not far from this old house, so he planned to take a look.
On the way Ye Chen rode his bike, a Rolls-Royce was already parked in front of this mottled old house.
An old man walked down the co-pilot of Rolls-Royce, who was the old housekeeper of the Du family in Jinling in Yanjing.
After the old butler got off the car, he opened the door of the rear seat with agility and said respectfully to the woman sitting in the car: "Miss Second, we are here."
The woman sitting in the car was Du Haiqing.
After getting off the plane, she first brought her two children and followed the old housekeeper back to the Du family's old house. After settling down the room and luggage, she hurriedly asked the old housekeeper to take her to see where Ye Changying had lived before his death.
.
As for Su Zhifei and Su Zhiyu, they each have their own plans.
Su Zhifei went to the welfare home to discuss donations, while Su Zhiyu held his laptop and continued to look for Ye Chen's trace from thousands of portraits.
Du Haiqing was happy and relaxed. After all, he came to the house where Ye Changying, whom he loved all his life, lived before his death. It was more or less inappropriate to bring his children with him.
Du Haiqing was in an extremely nervous mood at this time.
Although she knew that Ye Changying had been dead for many years, she could still feel a strong sense of tension when she came here.
Just like in those years when I loved Ye Changying when I was young, my heart beat faster and my breathing was rapid, and I couldn't control myself whenever I saw him or were about to see him.
Du Haiqing got out of the car with her heart that was beating wildly, and looked at this southern-style small courtyard through the courtyard wall.
The stone walls of the yard are very short, and many hollowed-out shapes are made of blue bricks in the middle, allowing you to easily see the situation in the yard.
At this time, the yard was full of withered wild grass and the broken branches and leaves falling from the trees. The osmanthus tree in the yard had long since become dry wood because no one was taking care of it.
There are large areas of dead creeping walls on the walls of the main building.
At this time, the entire courtyard seemed extremely vast, but Du Haiqing could imagine that if it was well maintained here, the courtyard would be lush and green when it was rainy in spring and summer, and the grass and green trees in the courtyard would be
The scenery must be desirable.
Moreover, although the yard is not big, it can be seen that although the yard is not big, the building seems very exquisite.
Blue bricks are used as walls, green tiles are used as roofs, and bluestone is used as paved roads.
The summer in the south is wet. If it rains, the blue bricks and bluestones will definitely be covered with moss.
Moss itself has a very natural and old feeling. For those who don’t like it, the moss is dense, smooth, and has a bit disgusting touch.
But for those who like ancient Eastern culture, this is a very poetic and Zen creature.
Whether it is growing in the yard, on the wall, beside the pond, or in the bonsai, there is a unique sense of delicacy and tranquility.
Therefore, moss has always been popular among literati and poets.
At this moment, in Du Haiqing's eyes, this dilapidated courtyard had restored the scene and charm of Ye Changying when he lived.
In her mind, the young and handsome Ye Changying was even seen playing with his children in this yard.
After being fascinated by the sight, Du Haiqing felt that Ye Changying was really in this yard, and the little boy who couldn't see his face was his son, who was surrounding him and constantly circling around him.
Immediately afterwards, the worn and closed door inside opened, and a woman with a dignified and beautiful appearance, tall and outstanding figure, and an apron around her waist came out.
The woman smiled and called the father and son to come into the house for dinner. The scene of the family singing in harmony was so enviable.
Du Haiqing, who was trapped in imagination, looked over carefully and saw the woman's appearance clearly.
The woman she imagined was not Ye Changying's original wife, but Du Haiqing herself!