Dear Chen Jiu

Chapter 20

I returned to Qingjiang at almost four o'clock.

It's very strange, obviously this is my hometown where I have lived for 16 years, but when I came back from Jiangzhou, I felt a sense of loss, as if I had left something very important there.

Later I realized that the feeling of longing is also a part of liking, it just appears in a different form.

I called Lao Xiao and told him to leave for Chen Jiu's house now. I took a taxi and met at the entrance of the alley.

"Come on, just stand there and wait, I'll come and pick you up, let's go together so there won't be any trouble."

"What could be wrong?" I was in an impetuous mood.

"You sound really sad in your tone now, just wait at the exit."

After finishing speaking, Lao Xiao hung up the phone.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, I saw the white Mercedes-Benz driven by his driver.

"Xiao Xiao hasn't caught up yet?" The driver still remembered that we followed Chen Jiu to this address last time, and asked Lao Xiao jokingly.

"Hehe, it's so easy."

Lao Xiao looked at me cautiously as he spoke.

When the car drove across the alley, we saw Lu Yuan. What a coincidence, she was wearing a dark blue dress today, which made her skin whiter.

After we got off the bus, we went to the nearby supermarket to buy a la carte and fruit.

This is why I asked Lao Xiao to accompany me to see my grandma. Xiao Wenxi can not only eat, but also cook.

Lao Xiao didn't learn it very much, but when his aunt at home was cooking, he stood by and watched it a few times. Now it is not a problem to cook vegetarian dishes and simple meat dishes.

Sometimes I follow Baidu to learn, and the taste is quite good.

It can be seen that cooking also requires talent.

Of course, part of it is also due to his greedy mouth. Sometimes when he is so hungry at night, he just cooks something for himself.

One of the best meat dishes Lao Xiao cooks is braised pork with braised pork leaves.

I happen to be able to learn to cook with Xiao Wenxi these few days, and it will be much more convenient to see grandma cook a meal in the future.

We arrived at Chen Jiu's house with a bunch of things, and felt that the yard was quite lively.

There was a seven or eight-year-old boy who was squatting in the yard playing with toys. He was not afraid of strangers. When he saw Old Xiao and me coming in, he greeted us sweetly, "Hello, brothers."

"So cute."

I knelt down and patted his head, "Brother will take you to the supermarket to buy candy later, okay?"

"Chen Jiu wouldn't let me eat it, saying it would cause tooth decay."

It's strange, we still call him brother here, but why did he use his last name when he went to Chen Jiu's place?

"Are you Chen Jiu's younger brother?"

The little boy put down the toy in his hand and raised his head proudly: "No, I am Chen Jiu's friend."

Well, I have worked so hard for a long time, and I am not as good as a child.

At this moment, Lu Yuan came out of the house with a ceramic medicine jar.

"Let me help."

Old Xiao seemed very active, and walked to Lu Yuan's side in three steps and two steps.

Grandma didn't use a wheelchair today, but walked behind with a cane.

"Hello grandma!"

"Xiaozong is here. It just so happened that I asked Aunt Wu to cook some more rice today. You must stay and eat."

Originally, I wanted to come with Lao Xiao to cook for grandma, but now it's become a casual meal again.

I wanted to help grandma, but suddenly remembered that when I came here for the first time, I wanted to help push the wheelchair, but grandma refused.

It seems that grandma's condition is better than I thought. Although she has limited mobility, she can still walk.

It was only when I got closer to the kitchen that I could smell the food. The dishes cooked by Aunt Wu were very light, and it might be because Chen Jiu had told me to make them light before he left.

Chen Jiu doesn't use too much oil or salt when cooking, but because of his good cooking skills and well-controlled fire, the taste is quite good.

I consciously went into the house to move tables and chairs, and subconsciously turned my head to look at Chen Jiu's room to the west, the door was closed tightly.

Hey, I wonder what Chen Jiu is doing now?

On the way back, I looked up the name 'Boyi'. It is a well-known studio in Jiangzhou with fully enclosed management.

"let me help you."

The little boy followed me into the house like a gust of wind and rushed in front of me.

A boy of this age should be playful, but this little boy who claimed to be "Chen Jiu's friend" was quite sensible, so I squatted down and asked him, "What's your name?"

"My name is Wang Jin."

"My name is Gu Zong, what are the requirements to be friends with you?"

"Do you want to be friends with me? As long as you are as good as Chen Jiu."

After the child finished speaking, he moved the chair solemnly and walked away from me.

Oh, little brother, when I catch up with Chen Jiu in the future, I will still change my identity.

After finishing my work, I went into the kitchen with the vegetables and fruits I bought to see if there was anything I could do, and I stuffed the ingredients into the refrigerator by the way.

"Hi Aunt Wu, is there anything I can do for you?"

In the kitchen stood a middle-aged woman with plain clothes and a thin body.

The movements seem to be very neat, the meal is almost done, and the countertops are also cleaned up.

"It's okay, kid, I'm almost done, don't touch your hands anymore, just wait and eat."

"Then let me serve the bowl."

After all the food was served, grandma's complexion was not very good, perhaps because she had just drank the traditional Chinese medicine, but she still sat down at the table, "Xiao Yuan must stay here for dinner today, you are all Xiao Jiu's friends, you can still sit down." Let's chat together."

It seems that because of Chen Jiu, maybe Lu Yuan never stayed for dinner once, so this time grandma's tone was very insistent.

"They are all classmates of Chen Jiu."

Little friend Wang Jin pointed out the words and corrected them.

"Xiao Jin, don't be rude."

Aunt Wu came out with a pot of crucian carp soup with a serious tone.

"Oh."

Wang Jin lowered his head and sounded a little aggrieved.

"Hey, you and the children care about these things."

Grandma took Aunt Wu's soup.

"It's okay, the skin boy has no memory.

By the way, there is spinach vermicelli fish ball soup in the pot. The fish balls are homemade. Try it. If it tastes good, I will make it next time. "

The three of us nodded in tacit understanding, and grandma added another bowl of soup after drinking, so she didn't move her chopsticks much.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jiu has such a reliable relative, and the dishes on this table are quite sumptuous.

I secretly took a photo of Grandma Zhang laughing with my mobile phone, and I planned to send it to Chen Jiu when I went back at night.

Because of Wang Jin, the meal was never boring.

During the dinner, we chatted and laughed, which made grandma and Aunt Wu very happy.

After the meal, I put a pot full of lychees and washed grapes on the table.

Wang Jin was sitting on the small bench with his chin in his hands, feeling unhappy. I guess he was still angry because of the sentence, "They are all Chen Jiu's friends".

Children's attention points are sometimes weird.

When you eat, you can have food to divert your attention, and you will definitely remember it after eating.

"Wang Jin, do you think Chen Jiu is good?" I put the fruit on the table and squatted in front of him and asked him.

"Of course, Chen Jiu is the best in the world."

"Then why does such a powerful person have no other friends? Even if he doesn't want to make friends himself, others will take the initiative to approach him."

Wang Jin was taken aback by what I said, and I quickly brainwashed him, "But you must be Chen Jiu's most special friend."

"really?"

"of course it's true."

After all, you are only seven years old. It is impossible for Chen Jiu to have a friend who is younger than this age. You are the most special.

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Aunt Wu will take Wang Jin home after washing the dishes.

"Thanks a lot."

Grandma has already put on a wheelchair and sent them to the gate of the courtyard.

"Don't say that. After moving away from here, Xiao Jin talked about you at home every day, saying that she missed you and Xiao Jiu. It is rare to have this opportunity now. We can see each other every day. It feels like we are back in the past. It is our Xiao Jin. It's noisy, I'm afraid he will affect your rest."

"How could it be? Chen Jiu and I watched this child grow up."

"You should go to bed early and take care of your body. I have left food for you in the refrigerator. If you are hungry at night, just heat it up a little. After you finish eating, put the dishes there. I will clean them up tomorrow. Take care of yourself."

It turned out that Aunt Wu and Grandma were neighbors and good friends who hadn't seen each other for several years, and this child was actually raised by Chen Jiu.

After Aunt Wu and Xiaojin left, we chatted with grandma while eating fruit.

After it was completely dark, grandma asked us to sit in the house. Because the screen door was installed, there were no mosquitos in the house, and she brought us a bottle of toilet water.

I told my grandma about the environment in Jiangzhou, and by the way, I showed her a few photos, one of which was secretly taken by me when Chen Jiu was standing at the stone in Victory Square, grandma saw this Photo frowned slightly.

I quickly changed the internal environment map of the "Boyi" studio to show to my grandma. Later, grandma got a little sleepy, and we left Chen Jiu's house.

When I got home, took a shower and lay down on the bed, I took out my phone and sent Chen Jiu a text message.

Attached are two photos taken today, one is a group of us eating fruit in the living room, and the other is a photo of grandma being amused by Wang Jin at the dinner table.

"Grandma is very happy today!"

"Wang Jin said he was your friend?"

"Then why don't you be friends with me??"

I sent out a series of messages before I realized that maybe Chen Jiu was still studying at night in the studio.

Then I randomly picked up the magazines on the bedside table and flipped through them.

'Didi-'

The phone receives a text message.

I turned over and sat up and picked up the phone, it was sent by Chen Jiu.

"Thank you."

It's kind of easy to avoid.

I glanced at the time, and it had been an hour and a half before Chen Jiu replied to me, maybe he just finished class.

All of a sudden, I felt embarrassed to continue messing around, "Have you returned to the dormitory?"

"No."

"Come back early and have a good rest."

"Ah."

After sending the text message, I looked through the photo in the photo album that I took secretly today. I never understood why Chen Jiu wanted to take the Jiangyi exam, but now that I think about it, he might have a reason to go.