After leaving the beautiful scenery of the Pearl River, Ye Chen hurried to the vegetable market.
There was a lot of time delay. If I didn’t hurry up and buy the groceries, my wife would not be able to have lunch when she got 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 renovated. Now they have basically transformed into the style of high-rise buildings in modern cities.
Many traditional crafts and markets in the past have gradually been replaced by various high-end shops and comprehensive supermarkets.
In the early years, there were many barbers on the roadside. They were very good at shaving heads and faces. For two or three yuan, you could sit on the roadside and have your head shaved.
But now, it has long since disappeared.
Instead, there are all kinds of dazzling, high-end beauty and hair salons. Teacher Tony, whose skills are not very good and whose hair is not even long, can cut hair for one or two hundred yuan. Occasionally,
When encountering unscrupulous merchants, it is common to trick customers into applying for a card, getting a haircut, and being cheated out of thousands of dollars.
In the past, there were many carriages and donkey carts on the roadside. Farmers in the countryside would pick vegetables from the fields themselves in the morning and then drive them to the city to sell them. The vegetables, fruits and vegetables were fresh and cheap.
However, in recent years, animal-drawn vehicles are no longer allowed to enter the city, and even 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. Just buy a cabbage for more than ten yuan.
This also caused this ancient city to gradually lose the fireworks atmosphere of traditional life.
In fact, Ye Chen usually doesn't like going to the supermarket to buy groceries, it always feels a bit boring.
Therefore, he often goes to a protected old residential area in the old city, where there is a very lively vegetable market.
The reason why he likes to go to that old residential area is not only because it is more down-to-earth, but there is also another reason hidden in Ye Chen's heart that no one has told.
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 in the north, and my parents like it very much.
Because of their love for traditional culture, his parents rented an old house in the old city. After being renovated by his father, the family lived very comfortably.
Later, something happened to his parents and Ye Chen entered the orphanage. He would often sneak out with his friends Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen to visit the old city.
At that time, Zhao Hao and Li Xiaofen thought that Ye Chen was just playful and wanted to sneak out to play.
But what they don't know is that Ye Chen actually just misses his parents.
After his parents had an accident that year, the house was rented out for several years, and tenants changed one after another.
Later, the house was bought by real estate investors and awaited demolition and appreciation.
Later, the house and nearby old buildings were classified as historical building protection zones, and demolition and renovation were prohibited, so the house remained vacant for a long time.
Ye Chen had also quietly inquired. It was said that the person who invested in this house was the founder of a real estate speculator group in Wencheng. Although this old house could not be cashed in, to him, this little money was nothing.
, so the house has been left like this.
Later, the real estate speculator was involved in a lawsuit because he was suspected of illegally raising funds overseas, and the house was sealed by the court.
There were rumors about an auction two or three years ago, but because that person was involved in a relatively large case, the case has not been finalized in the past two years, so it has never entered the legal auction process.
The vegetable market where Ye Chen went to buy vegetables was not far from this old house, so he planned to stop by and take a look.
Just as Ye Chen was riding his bike, a Rolls-Royce parked in front of this mottled old house.
An old man got out of the co-pilot of the Rolls-Royce. This man was the old butler of the Du family in Jinling.
After the old housekeeper got out of the car, he quickly opened the door of the back seat and said respectfully to the woman sitting in the car: "Second Miss, we are here."
The woman sitting in the car is none other than Du Haiqing.
After she got off the plane, she took her two children and went back to the Du family's old house with the old housekeeper. After settling in the room and luggage, she hurriedly asked the old housekeeper to take her to see the place where Ye Changying lived before his death.
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As for the brothers 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 her laptop and continued to look for Ye Chen among thousands of portraits.
Du Haiqing was happy and relaxed. After all, he was coming to the house where the love of his life, Ye Changying, lived before his death. It was somewhat inappropriate to bring a pair of children with him.
At this time, Du Haiqing was feeling extremely nervous.
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 those years when I was young and loved Ye Changying, every time I saw him or was about to see him, my heartbeat would speed up uncontrollably and my breathing would become short.
With his heart beating wildly, Du Haiqing got out of the car and looked at this small southern-style private courtyard through the courtyard wall.
The stone wall of the courtyard is very short, and there are many hollow shapes made of blue bricks in the middle, so that people can easily see what is going on in the courtyard.
At this time, the yard was full of withered yellow weeds and fallen leaves from the trees. The osmanthus tree in the yard had long since withered into dry wood because no one had taken care of it.
On the wall of the main building, there are large areas of dead wall-creepers.
At this time, the entire small courtyard looked extremely dilapidated, but Du Haiqing could imagine that if it was well maintained, the courtyard would be lush and lush during the rainy seasons in spring and summer, coupled with the green grass and green trees in the courtyard, then
The scenery must be fascinating.
Moreover, although the yard is not big, it can be seen that although the yard is not big, the architecture is very elegant.
The walls are made of blue bricks, the roofs are made of green tiles, and the roads are paved with bluestones.
The summer in the south is humid. If it rains, the green bricks and bluestones will be covered with moss.
Moss itself has a very natural old feel. For people who don't like it, moss is dense, slippery, and somewhat disgusting to the touch.
But for those who like Eastern ancient culture, this is a very poetic and Zen creature.
Whether it grows in the yard, on the fence, by the pond, or in a bonsai, it exudes a different kind of delicacy and tranquility.
Therefore, moss has always been popular among literati.
At this moment, in Du Haiqing's eyes, this dilapidated courtyard has restored the scene and charm it had when Ye Changying lived there.
In her mind, she even recalled the scene when the young and handsome Ye Changying was playing with his children in this yard.
Fascinated by the sight, Du Haiqing felt that Ye Changying was really in the courtyard, and that the faceless little boy was his son, spinning around him in circles.
Immediately afterwards, the dilapidated and closed door inside opened, and a woman with a dignified and beautiful appearance, a tall and outstanding figure, and an apron tied around her waist walked out.
The woman smiled and welcomed the father and son into the house for dinner, and the scene of the family playing the harp and harp in harmony was very enviable.
Du Haiqing, who was lost in his imagination, looked over carefully and saw the woman's face clearly.
The woman in her imagination was not Ye Changying's first wife, but Du Haiqing herself!