old city newcomer

Chapter 34

Gu Tong chatted with the old man for a long time, about the culture of the old city, about his youth, about Qi An's childhood, Gu Tong even missed his meal and lunch break, and was still very excited to hear it.

The old man chatted happily, he spoke not slowly, and he remembered many things very clearly.But he couldn't help being old, so he still had to catch up on sleep after a long time. In the evening, he had to watch the gala to see what new things were there, fresh hosts and silly fresh meat stars.

When Gu Tong closed the door, Qi An was a little surprised. He didn't expect Gu Tong to chat with grandpa for so long. When he watched him go in, Qi An glanced at his watch. It has been nearly two hours now. .

Several times I walked up to the window and listened to what they were talking about——

It's still not good to listen.

He even said that he peed on the kang a few times when he was a child, and he panicked.

"Qi An." Gu Tong ran to him and shook his hand: "You were cuter when you were young than now."

Cute ass.

"What did grandpa tell you?" Qi An looked at him, zipped up his down jacket, and put on his hat.

"Grandpa asked me if I liked you." Gu Tong rubbed her nose.

Qi An didn't speak, and took his hand and walked out.

"Have you told grandpa about us?" Gu Tong asked.

"There's nothing we can't say between him and me." After Qi An finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to open the door.

Gu Tong pulled him, and Qi An stood at the door and turned to look at him: "You also said that I will return to the United States sooner or later."

Qi An walked down the steps, took out gloves from the pocket of his down jacket and helped him put them on again, but Gu Tong took off the gloves again, holding his hand and not letting go.

sigh.

Otherwise, what else can I do?

What a living ancestor.

"Take you to buy flowers." Qi An closed the door, walked down the steps, and dragged Gu Tong who jumped down to the alley.

If you don't know what to say, be patient.

The yard has been cleaned up, and the bedding has been replaced by Lu Chunze, and part of the couplets with blessings on the window paper, and Pan Yang will bring some more when he comes in the afternoon. The new clothes are only worn at dinner time, Qi An doesn't want Gu Tong to stay in the yard for the rest of the time, and plans to take him to buy some flowers to decorate the room.

In fact, Lu Chunze has made some "new". In the kitchen, some garlic cloves and radish roots are soaked in a small bowl, and some of them have grown garlic sprouts, long and green.Some of them had grown purple radish flower buds the size of rice grains, and the small bowls with flower buds were taken by Qi Xin and placed on the window sills of each room.

But today when Gu Tong came, Qi An wanted to put some of his favorite flowers in the room.

Westerners like flowers.

Gu Tong's attention was quickly shifted to the flowers. When he walked out of the alley and entered Zhonggu Alley, there were not many people, and there were not many heads as far as he could see.The shops along the alley are those famous brand stores that are closed, such as the private clothing store and silver jewelry store I saw last time. They were reading newspapers in the room, and some were playing chess with the owner of a nearby shop.

Gu Tong was also very interested in playing chess, so he took a close look at it for a while.

The boss raised his head and saw that it was Qi An, he hurriedly beckoned: "Master Xiao An, have a plate."

Qi An didn't want to agree at first, but found that Gu Tong was staring at him, so he had no choice but to sit on the seat opposite, and won the game within a few minutes.

"Tsk, Mr. An has never met an opponent in this game." The boss pointed to the chessboard in frustration.

The old man who was eating melon seeds next to him took the words: "No, Mr. Qi has never been a match, and Dugu seeks defeat."

The elders sitting around the table watching chess laughed together.

Qi An walked in front, and Gu Tong followed him, pulling his arm from time to time.

Last time I came to Zhonggu Lane with a group, there were too many people, so I just stopped at the door of a few snack shops to take a look. Now the whole alley is clear at a glance, and I can stand at the entrance of each alley and look in clearly. Seeing some families, Gu Tong suddenly pulled Qi An down, and waved to a man and a woman in another alley.

It's the owner and his wife who make lotus leaf rice in the snack street.

Gu Tong's ability to recognize people is still very strong, even Qi An took a long time to recognize it.The boss spoke to the proprietress, took the lotus leaf bag in her hand, walked over and put it in Gu Tong's hand.

"Mini lotus leaf rice." The boss smiled "hehe" and said, "Eat it while it's hot."

"Thank you boss, happy Chinese New Year." Gu Tong put the gloves in his pocket, opened the lotus leaf bag and took a bite of rice, this time it was glutinous rice, with five kernels and beans, it was very soft without chewing.

"Why did you run so far away from the snack street?" There was a grain of rice on Gu Tong's face, and Qi An helped him remove it. Gu Tong grabbed his hand and ate the rice grains on his index finger. Li asked, "Why don't you open a shop in Bell and Drum Alley?"

"The rent is too expensive, and our house is not facing the street. This area has been taken over by a company and has become commercialized. We can't afford to rent the shops that can be rented." The boss said with a smile: "Before, we had to buy our yard to make a courtyard. As for the hotels, several of them have been sold and moved away, those of us who were unwilling, those who insisted on being tough, were finally scared away by Mr. An."

Qi An glanced at the boss, who was still smiling.

"Get busy." Qi An said.

The boss rubbed his hands and said goodbye to Gu Tong.

"How did you scare those people away?" Gu Tong threw the lotus leaf into the red black bag trash can at the entrance of the alley, his hands were sticky, and he was looking for the faucet with his hands raised.

"There is a flower shop in front, go there and wash your hands." Qi An pointed to a room not far away that was clearly decorated differently from other shops, and automatically ignored Gu Tong's question.

The owner of the flower shop is a very young woman. Qi An said that she graduated from the Drama Academy next door. As for why she didn't follow the path of acting like her classmates, he didn't know. He only knew that she opened a flower shop here after graduation. , and business has been very good.

The woman is wearing a long ponytail, holding a bouquet of lilies and is settling the price with a person.

Seeing Qi An, she waved her hand: "Coming?"

"Sister Li." Qi An pulled Gu Tong into the room: "Use your bathroom."

"Come in, I have guests, you can do whatever you want." Sister Li took out a few roses from a row of flower buckets at the back and continued to pack them.

The water in the faucet was very cold. After washing, Gu Tong found that she didn't bring a tissue. She waited for the water on her hand to drip in the pool before retracting it into her sleeves to warm herself.

When she walked back to the flower shop, Sister Li was tying a bow to the roses, picked it up and sprayed some water with a watering can, then turned and handed it to the person at the door.

"Why, come to buy flowers?" Sister Li looked at Qi An, but was attracted by Gu Tong beside her.

"Huh?" Sister Li walked over and looked up at Gu Tong slightly: "Hairy half-race guy?"

"Finally someone doesn't call me a doll." Gu Tong touched her chest in relief and said, "Finally someone can see that I'm a mixed race and not an American."

Qi An turned her head and smiled, and Sister Li put her hips on her hips and laughed loudly: "You still look more Asian, it's not hard to see, your blue pupils at first glance will probably make you a foreigner. "

Gu Tong nodded, still looking very relieved.

"What is Qi Xin doing?" Sister Li asked while arranging the lace.

"I'm doing handwork at home, besides making rose cakes, I'm doing handwork." Qi An got a headache looking at the rows of flowers.

"Sorry, I didn't bring me rose cakes." Sister Li picked up the watering can and sprayed it twice: "Bring it to me at night."

"Aren't you going home tonight?" Qi An picked up a handful of baby's breath and asked.

"You still don't know how to choose flowers." Sister Li took a large bunch of baby's breath from his hand and wrapped it up: "Put it at home?"

Qi An nodded.

"Do you have to ask me this question every Chinese New Year?" Sister Li wrapped the baby's breath in purple plastic paper and put it aside: "What else do you choose?"

Gu Tong saw that Sister Li was wearing a lot of beautiful bracelets, some of which were thin and wrapped around many times, and some were exactly the same as her own.

Gu Tong rolled up her sleeves, turned out the things in her hands and showed them to Sister Li: "Sister Li, did you also make them up by Sister Qi Xin?"

Sister Li also stretched out her hand in a very friendly manner: "Yes, oh baby, it's a couple model."

Qi An shook the red string on his wrist.

Sister Li narrowed her eyes: "This is embarrassing."

"What flowers do you want to buy?" Qi An turned his head and asked Gu Tong.

"Are you paying?" Gu Tong stared excitedly at the rows of flowers, and finally landed on the roses.

"Otherwise?" Qi An raised his arms and smiled.

Gu Tong thought for a while, then pointed at the roses: "Buy nine roses and send them to me."

Qi An probably guessed that Gu Tong would choose roses a long time ago, and now he is gratified that he didn't ask for 99 roses.

"I'll give you whatever you like, I'll just put the ones in the house and I'll take a look." Sister Li said while taking out flowers of various colors from each flower bucket and putting them in the wrapping paper that had been spread on the table next to her: " Don't let Qi An choose flowers this year, just stay here with me."

The two of them were holding a bouquet of hodgepodge, a bouquet of baby's breath, and nine roses. Sister Li only took the money for the roses, and the other two bouquets were her Spring Festival gifts to Qi An's family.

With too many things in his hand, he couldn't continue to walk around the alley, Gu Tong held the rose and followed behind Qi An, his eyes still staring at it.Just now I went to the flower shop to wash my hands and buy flowers, but now I look back and find that this flower shop is next to the "No Corn Juice Here" shop.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lu Chunze pushing a wheelchair and chatting with Qi Xin, while the big golden retriever and Xiaodian were squatting at Qi Xin's feet and dozing off.

Gu Tong ran over to give roses to Qi Xin, and Qi An said with a smile: "You really know how to borrow flowers to offer Buddha."

"Buddha?" Gu Tong shook his head and waved his hands, "It's dedicated to the beautiful sister."

Qi Xin smiled very happily, smelled the rose and asked Gu Tong: "Did you see Sister Li?"

Gu Tong nodded.

"Do you want you to give her rose cakes?" Qi Xin handed the flowers to Lu Chunze, put her hands on the wheels and was about to go to the kitchen.

"No hurry." Qi An held her hand: "I'll go after dinner at night."

Gu Tong returned to the room only to find that Pan Yang had arrived.

There are a bunch of window grilles and couplets with the word "Fu" on the table, and a large handful of firework sticks in the red bag on the chair.

Pan Yang lay sprawled on the first bed, without even taking off his down jacket, and slept soundly. He didn't know how he could be so tired after having lunch at home.

Qi An put the flowers in a vase on the window sill, picked up a pair of Spring Festival couplets from the table and raised an eyebrow at Gu Tong.

Gu Tong ran out the door, took the scissors tape that Qi Xin took out from the house, and together with Qi An, pasted the Spring Festival couplets on the door frame.

The rich family opens up the new spring in the north.

The purple air comes from the east, which is auspicious.

The author has something to say:

The rich family opens up the new spring in the north.

The purple air comes from the east, which is auspicious.

(This is a pair of couplets that I pasted on the doorstep of my house during Chinese New Year)

Give thanks.