I fell asleep while writing this... This chapter was not updated regularly, it's a bit late, sorry...
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"Jani is back..."
"Who is the young man next to you..."
Several families near the stone bridge obviously knew Xu Jiani. Several aunts were squatting by the river washing vegetables. They looked back at Xu Jiani and Zhao Ruyi and asked.
"Classmate..." Xu Jiani replied with a blushing face and quickly quickened her pace.
But her answer could not stop the speculations of these middle-aged women. While washing the vegetables, they started discussing enthusiastically, "Is this Jiani's boyfriend... Oh, he looks okay... This is
The old ginger head who sent her home must not know..."
Zhao Ruyi followed Xu Jiani, looking at the dark and lively alley, as if she had returned to the style picture of the 1980s.
Xu Jiani blushed and greeted the neighbors. She probably didn't expect that leading the boy home would cause such a big reaction in the alley.
Zhao Ruyi, who was walking beside her, could see the hot expression on her cheeks even in the dim light.
Wujia Village is surrounded by a long and winding river. Although it is dark, there are still many people washing vegetables by the river. Not only because they can save a few cents on water bills, but also because of its remote location and lack of water and electricity facilities.
They are all old and it would be more convenient to wash vegetables with river water.
Many of the people who live here are low-level people working in Donghu City. They have a busy day and come home late. It is a good time to wash vegetables and cook before the sky gets completely dark.
As for those wealthy families, they have already moved out. Who will live in such a dark, humid, and inconvenient urban village? The houses they left behind are rented to migrant workers, making the personnel and security here in Wujia Village complicated.
Chaos, no one who is not a local will come in easily.
At the same time, the small alleys here also have many twists and turns. Zhao Ruyi was walking behind Xu Jiani, and he almost wondered if she was deliberately making twists and turns to make him lose track of the route.
Just by the way her face was red and she kept saying hello to the neighbors, he knew that she also wanted to get home quickly.
"Aunt Liu, Aunt Wu..."
Xu Jiani was about to enter a dilapidated wooden door when she saw two neighbors on the left and right looking at her. She had no choice but to say hello again.
"Hehehehe..."
Two middle-aged women in their fifties smiled naively, watching Xu Jiani and Zhao Ruyi enter the courtyard, and then looked at each other across the low courtyard wall.
Xu Jiani was a miserable child. If her parents hadn't been in a car accident, this well-educated and well-liked Xu Jiani would not have had to live such a miserable life.
This is the first time she has brought a boy to her home in many years.
They could still vaguely remember how many years ago, that young man and Xu Jiani were a couple that everyone envied. They always kept a close yet distant distance, stepping on the golden sunset at dusk, and returned to Wujia Village from school together.
However, after Xu Jiani's parents died in a car accident, the two families quickly became estranged. Soon, the boy's family moved out of the impoverished Wujiacun and went to other provinces and cities to do business.
At that time, Xu Jiani was standing at the bridge, staring blankly at the car leaving. It was really sad...
The faint first love was hit hard by the cruel reality before it even sprouted. Since then, the lively Xu Jiani has become taciturn and no longer has contact with boys of the same age in the village.
At this time, when the two aunts saw Xu Jiani leading the boy back, they didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
If this boy sees that Xu Jiani's family is so poor and dislikes her, it might be another blow...
well……
The two old neighbors sighed inwardly at the same time, put away the corn drying in the yard, and went back to the house to talk about this matter with their wives.
In the peaceful and chaotic Wujiacun, Xu Jiani bringing a boy home is definitely a big news...
"Grandpa, I'm back!"
Passing by the small courtyard, Xu Jiani opened the slightly moldy wooden door with a key and shouted in a cheerful voice.
"My daughter is back..."
An old man's voice came from the second floor, and with the squeezing sound of the creaking stairs, an old man on crutches walked down the stairs with difficulty.
Xu Jiani walked a few steps over, supported the old man at the last few steps, and helped him to the ground on the first floor.
The old man's eyesight seemed not to be very good. He stood firm and suddenly discovered that there was another person in the room near the door.
"Grandpa..." Zhao Ruyi shouted awkwardly.
When he first came back with Xu Jiani, he just wanted to come over to "make up lessons" and see Xu Jiani's reaction. He didn't expect to enter Xu Jiani's home. Even as shameless as him, he couldn't stand it.
What he was thinking about was to deal with Xu Jiani's parents, call her uncle and aunt, and have a casual chat. Xu Jiani should be more embarrassed. Who would have thought that she lived with her grandfather.
What gives Zhao Ruyi the most headache is dealing with an old man like his grandfather, who is old, has a stubborn personality, and is not easy to communicate with.
call……
Xu Jiani's grandfather suddenly raised his crutch.
"Grandpa, no!" Xu Jiani hurriedly stopped, "He came back with me!"
"Come back together?" Xu Jiani's grandfather looked at Xu Jiani doubtfully.
He had just seen Zhao Ruyi suddenly appear at his house, and almost instinctively thought that the hooligans who were wandering around Wujia Village had sneaked into his house. You must know that Xu Jiani is the most beautiful girl in Wujia Village, and the unemployed who came from other places to live in the village
The refugees always wanted to tease her. If the neighbors hadn't been staring at her, things would have been hard to tell.
"Well, she's my classmate." Xu Jiani said with a slightly red face.
"Classmate, classmate, are you in love? Look at him, he looks like a good guy!" Grandpa Xu Jiani raised the crutch, not towards Zhao Ruyi, but pointed at Zhao Ruyi.
"Grandpa..." Xu Jiani didn't know how to persuade her. She was afraid that her grandfather's words would anger Zhao Ruyi, and she had also seen Zhao Ruyi's fierce look.
But she didn't know that no matter how cruel Zhao Ruyi was, he would never hit the old man. Just like Wang Qi didn't know how much money he poached from the Weihao Hotel Management Company, Zhao Ruyi just let him leave without doing anything to him.
Of course, if the other party knows martial arts, let's talk about it separately.
"I just... came with her to make up lessons." Zhao Ruyi explained as gently as possible.
This kind of old man's legs and feet are not good, and his health is probably not good. If he gets too excited, he will really be in trouble.
"Really! Grandpa! He has saved me before. This time he is in the same class as me. I help him with his homework." Xu Jiani hurriedly explained.
She was also afraid that her grandfather would be agitated. He was the only relative around her, and years of hard work had left him with not only a leg injury that was difficult to heal, but also with heart disease and high blood pressure, and he might be hospitalized at any time.
Not only does she suffer when she is sick and hospitalized, but she also has to bear high treatment costs. In today's family, how can there be too much money for medical treatment? Even the medicine that her grandfather often takes is earned by her working part-time to barely make ends meet.
"Saved you?" Grandpa Xu Jiani looked at Zhao Ruyi with suspicious eyes, and slowly took back the wooden crutch.
"Hmm..." Xu Jiani nodded, not wanting to raise the issue of high school any more.
In fact, this incident in high school was widely circulated in the school, but it did not reach the grandfather who had no information. This was because Xu Jiani did not want her grandfather to be stimulated, so she simply suppressed the incident. She came back crying.
In a few scenes, she only said that she was gossiped about by her classmates at school because of her parents, which made her grandfather feel distressed.
"Why do I need you to make up a class for me?" Xu Jiani's grandfather, whose legs and feet were not good but his brain was not slow, asked again.
"He... went to serve in the army for two years and then came back. He missed half a year of classes and was two years ahead of me." Xu Jiani continued.
"Well, be a soldier." After hearing the word "soldier," Grandpa Xu Jiani's expression finally softened a little. He looked at Zhao Ruyi and said, "It's a good thing for young people to be soldiers."
Zhao Ruyi smiled and took the opportunity to observe the situation in the house and found that Xu Jiani's home could really be described as a bare house. I really don't know how a little beauty like her was born in such a difficult environment.
"Xiao Ni, my classmates didn't say hello when they came home!" Grandpa Xu Jiani shouted.
"Oh..." Xu Jiani, who was stunned on the spot, hurriedly put the cowhide bag on the table and dragged out the bench, "Sit down, I'll prepare dinner."
She knew that her grandfather was close to soldiers, but she did not expect that her grandfather's attitude towards Zhao Ruyi would change so quickly.
She didn't know that her grandfather confirmed from Zhao Ruyi's eyes, the way he stood, and the hard temperament he exuded that Zhao Ruyi was a qualified soldier, and he was also of good quality.
Soldier.
His right leg was lame in the fierce Korean battlefield, but even so, he did not hate the army or the country. Over the years, the country has treated him okay as a veteran. If Xu Jiani's parents had not died in a car accident, the family
People will live a good life.
Therefore, knowing that Zhao Ruyi came back from serving as a soldier, and seeing Zhao Ruyi's military temperament that could not be faked, his inner recognition of Zhao Ruyi increased to eighty percent.
My daughter is approaching 20 years old and it’s time to find a partner...
If their family was well off, maybe it wouldn't matter if they found a partner later, but with their family's situation, it would actually be a good thing to find someone who can take care of Xu Jiani early...
Zhao Ruyi saw Xu Jiani's grandfather looking at him like prey, and was a little nervous. Then she saw Xu Jiani turned around and entered the kitchen, so she said, "I'll help you!"
Grandpa Xu Jiani smiled when she saw Zhao Ruyi following Xu Jiani into the kitchen.
Their family is already like this. It is enough to have a good boy who likes Xu Jiani. As for his daughter, she has not opened her heart to a boy for many years. She should not hate him if she can bring him home this time...
He slowly narrowed his eyes, noticed Xu Jiani's red ears, and smiled again.