After Yan Zhuo and Shen Ji had breakfast, Shen Yan'er went to school. When she left, her eyes were covered with hot towels, but they were still a little red. Shen Ji's second aunt and second uncle both worked as teachers in the elementary school in the village, and they left with Shen Yan'er.
Yan Zhuo stood by the door, watching Shen Ji bend slightly to boil water, his eyes were attracted by the dragonfly landing on the blue tile, he blinked his eyes lightly, the dragonfly stayed for a while and then flew away up. Shen Ji poured hot water into a cup and put it into a small basin filled with cold water until the water was no longer hot.
Yan Zhuo followed Shen Ji into the room one after the other. When Grandma Shen saw Shen Ji approaching, she half sat up and leaned against the pillow behind her. Grandma Shen's fever has subsided, she just took medicine in the morning, and now she is sweating, Shen Ji stretched out his hand to help the old man tuck the corners of the quilt, and fed her two mouthfuls of hot water.
She was already old, with white hair all over her head, trembling unconsciously when she spoke, Yan Zhuo heard her ask: "Is Xiao Song back?"
Shen Ji shook her hand and put his fingers through his grandma's tiger's mouth. He still remembered that grandma often held him like this when he was a child. For him, his grandma and grandpa had replaced his parents for a long time .
She was a little confused and couldn't recognize people. Shen Ji said: "He didn't come back, grandma, I'm Shen Ji."
The old man rubbed the back of Shen Ji's hand, and continued to say without paying attention: "I haven't come back for so many years. Mom misses you every year. I'm too busy with work to ignore you. You've been like this since you were a child..."
Shen Ji responded, helped the old man to lie down and said, "Take a break, sweating, what do you want to eat?" Shen Ji bent down, and she whispered something in Shen Ji's ear.
Facing the strange atmosphere of the Shen family, Yan Zhuo was a little out of breath, he thought that the old man called Xiao Song was calling Shen Ji, but it was not, Xiao Song seemed to be the old man's son.
Seeing Yan Zhuo standing at the door in a daze, Shen Ji asked him, "Go shopping, shall we go?"
Yan Zhuo raised his hand to fiddle with his hair, and immediately responded, "Go!"
The two turned into a narrow alley, the morning market was approaching closing time, and there were not many people there, Yan Zhuo followed behind Shen Ji, watching Shen Ji pick and buy vegetables quite familiarly. Shen Ji didn't wear a shirt, but only put on a hoodie, and the stern aura around him was softened a bit. He had the illusion that Shen Ji had always lived here.
However, Shen Ji turned around and put the freshly packed vegetables in Yan Zhuo's arms. Yan Zhuo paused, and seeing that Shen Ji had already carried three or four bags in his hand, he ran over and said without words: "Shen Ji, the temperature here is much lower than that in City A, it's obviously only a few hours' drive away."
Shen Ji responded, and said: "When it rains in summer, it's cold and humid, and the cold air penetrates into the bones."
Yan Zhuo had realized this point yesterday when he came here. They had already started to walk back, and there were fewer and fewer people around him. Yan Zhuo turned his head curiously and asked, "How did you survive the rainy days when you were young?"
Shen Ji didn't answer him, and turned his head slightly to glance at the middle school in the village. Yan Zhuo turned his head to look, and asked, "Did you graduate here?" Yan Zhuo walked towards the gate of the middle school as he spoke. water. Shen Ji took a step in Yan Zhuo's direction, when someone behind him suddenly stopped him.
Yan Zhuo turned his head and saw a young girl, she was wearing a denim dress, she was very beautiful, her eyes were curved, she said: "It's really you, Shen Ji. I haven't seen you for a long time."
Shen Ji nodded his head slightly, and said, "I'll come back and take a look when I'm free." They were acquaintances, maybe they had known each other for many years, and Yan Zhuo felt a little uncomfortable.
They seemed to be going the same way, Yan Zhuo stopped unconsciously, half a step away from them, Shen Ji stretched out his hand and pulled his wrist. The girl noticed him, and introduced herself generously with some embarrassment: "Hello, I am a classmate of Shen Ji's elementary school and junior high school, and my name is Xie Jia."
Yan Zhuo said: "Yan Zhuo... Shen Ji's friend." He didn't know how to position his awkward role, is it a friend
Xie Jia smiled and said to Shen Ji: "I thought you hadn't been back for many years, but I heard later that you come back every year during Chinese New Year. But every time I go, you are already gone."
Shen Ji said: "I didn't stay long."
Xie Jia turned his head to look seriously at Shen Ji, and suddenly said with a smile: "I look at you now, and I can't see your emotions, Shen Ji, you are different from before."
Yan Zhuo stroked the knuckle of his index finger with his thumb, feeling a little empty in his heart. Although Xie Jia and Shen Ji were talking, he couldn't catch any information from it. He seemed to be listening to a pantomime and was blindfolded.
When Xie Jia broke up with them, she said that she was working as a teacher in the middle school in the village, and she was on duty at the school these days, so she could go to the middle school to find her if there was anything she needed. Yan Zhuo turned his head to look at Shen Ji, there was no special expression on his face, it was still indifferent. However, the appearance of Xie Jia set off Yan Zhuo's alarm. Xie Jia appeared as Shen Ji's classmate since childhood, young and beautiful.
Yan Zhuo knew that he was young, but he was so young, he became childish in Shen Ji's eyes. Shen Ji's gentleness, tolerance and consideration for him were all based on the fact that he was a mischievous child. Yan Zhuo once grasped this point, tried his best to force Shen Ji to back down, and threw himself into Shen Ji's encirclement circle, so that the ice would be warmed up after a long time. However, the appearance of Xie Jia severely shattered this illusion.
Yan Zhuo suddenly stopped in his tracks, Shen Ji looked back at him, and asked, "Tired? We're almost there."
His coaxing tone made Yan Zhuo more aware that his thinking was correct, he suddenly said: "Shen Ji, don't treat me like a child."
Shen Ji didn't know what his temper was, so he turned around and walked over a few steps, wrapped his arms around his wrist, and pulled him for two steps. Yan Zhuo was dragged away, and said as he walked, "It's not that I want to be three years younger than you." , What can I do. You can’t just treat me like a child for the rest of your life because of this. When you are thirty-three years old, I am already thirty-three years old. "
Shen Ji looked at him seriously, Yan Zhuo looked into his eyes and asked, "Why do you dislike me for being young?"