When Zhou Shengchen hung up the phone, Uncle Lin was in the front row and asked in a low voice: "Go back now?" He nodded, and the car downstairs from the apartment slowly drove out of the complex and headed for the elevated highway.
He just watched that her room hadn't been lit up just now, it didn't look like her usual work and rest at all. According to her usual habit, she should take a shower within ten minutes as soon as she enters the room. But today, he has never done so, so that he will suddenly be a little worried whether something is wrong.
There are other reasons for making this call.
Should I tell her something on such a special night
What to say? He finally found that after the call was connected, he didn't need to say anything.
He could hear that in the phone, her breathing was slightly restrained, which was very different in normal times. Zhou Shengchen propped his elbows by the car window, supported his face with two fingers, his eyes fell into the night outside the window.
After a while, I couldn't help but raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
Three days in advance, she followed him back to the old house in Zhenjiang.
The parents will arrive one day later.
When the time is right, on the way, I feel uneasy, afraid of seeing his mother again, or even his family. When the mountain road went deep, she found that the car had passed the place where it had been before, but did not stop. Instead, it went deeper into the quiet mountain forest with deep green shadows. In the end, there were towering stone archways, and the trees on both sides became more and more towering.
Along the road, there is a gurgling stream on the left and a layer of stone steps built by bluestone on the right.
She looked at the scenery on the side of the road and wondered where it was.
Soon, I saw two or three girls walking slowly along the stone steps, seeming to be chatting. When the car drove past, the girls suddenly turned around. One of them recognized the car and waved in a hurry: "Big Brother."
The sound was stacked in the valley, slightly echoed.
The car stopped slowly. Zhou Shengchen got out of the car first. The young girl wanted to run, but didn't dare to run. She just walked quickly from the nearest gravel road. When she got closer, Zhou Shengchen reached out and touched it lightly. Touched her face: "I'm sweating. I walked down from the mountain?" The girl hummed, and walked around his body with a smile, and walked to Shiyi: "Miss Shiyi, hello, this is Zhou Wenxing, you are coming Sister."
She glanced at Zhou Shengchen and guessed that this was his beloved sister.
So far, she has met four of her generation. Sure enough, as he said, except that he and Zhou Shengren are special, the rest of the people are people of the "wen" character in the past. There is no difference in the names, regardless of distance or siblings.
Zhou Shengchen seemed to worry about her body and insisted on letting her get in the car instead of letting her climb.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Wenxing was so delighted that he also recruited two little sisters from the same family and ran into the door on her own initiative: "Big brother, you can go up with Miss Shiyi. I hope you can make it to lunch," she urged Uncle Lin to drive. At that time, he suddenly said, "By the way, I'm going to try the dishes today, don't be late."
The car quickly left, turned around the mountain detour, and disappeared.
She felt at this moment, as if she had entered a deserted scenic area.
There is no means of transportation, only her and him.
Zhou Shengchen laughed a little helplessly: "There is still some way to go."
"It's okay," she has walked slowly, "the scenery here is very good, and I shouldn't feel tired when I walk."
He raised his wrist to look at his watch: "At your speed, maybe, it takes about 50 to 60 minutes to walk."
She paused: "Your sister said, you want to try the food at noon?"
Zhou Shengchen nodded, took off his suit and put it on his arm, obviously ready to hike up the mountain.
It's almost lunch now. If you have to walk for nearly an hour, wouldn't all the elders wait? Thinking of this, Shiyi didn't dare to delay any longer and pulled up his wrist: "I can walk very fast, very fast."
After holding it, I realized that this is a kind of closeness.
However, Zhou Shengchen didn't notice anything. He just pushed her away and held her hand in turn: "Don't go too fast, they will wait for us." Because it is an upward slope, he wants to take her away, so naturally he grabs her. It's tighter.
At first, she ran into the deer, feeling restless, and panting slightly after walking up the mountain for 20 minutes.
When the two went to the gate of the old house, she was already a little sweaty on her forehead.
"Tired?" He let go of her.
It's time to be a little bit.
It is still a deep house, but it looks slightly warmer than the old house I visited before. She remembered there, there was still a continuous drizzle, wet old-fashioned floor tiles, pavilions and pavilions were all under the rain, including her mother's tone was gloomy.
But here is flooded with sunshine.
The courtyard is very deep, and countless how many walks in it, carved beams and painted buildings, all the way in, you can often see the strange shapes of sunlight falling on the ground through the stone carvings and bricks. The two walked side by side, and she couldn't help but whispered, "I like it here."
A place like this can block time.
He laughed and said nothing.
After all, the two were late.
Zhou Wenxing smiled softly at her, as if he had succeeded in a tricky trick. It's just a hard work for two people, and their legs are sore.
She saw his mother again, as well as the uncle he had mentioned, who temporarily helped him take care of Zhou Sheng's family business. There are still many elders, he did not introduce her one by one, and in the end, what made her most disturbed. She just greeted these people, and then she took a seat at a separate table.
Only she and him are sitting on separate tables.
Zhou Shengchen seemed to consider that there were more than a dozen strangers there, and he deliberately asked people to move the screen, which could cover the place where the two were sitting. In addition to Uncle Lin, there are two other people who look like managers, standing by, no one else.
He saw her uncomfortable.
He handed the suit jacket to Uncle Lin, took the warm wet towel, and said while wiping his hands: "Actually, I came today, mainly for you to try the dishes. Those elders are just a rare gathering. Take this opportunity to renew the past. Get off so that they can eat at ease." Shi Yi responded and looked at the three men standing beside him.
He knew it, and let all three of them go down for dinner. In the end, only he and her were left.
The food that came up one after another was very fresh.
Xueye peach blossoms, lotus maw, camel soup, and gossip yam all felt good when she ate them. What’s more enjoyable is that Zhou Shengchen is familiar with everything. Without anyone else, he personally introduced to her: “The fish maw needs to be soaked in oil for 12 hours. , Pour in the soup to season, simmer for 1 minute..." He said in great detail, Shi Yi suddenly laughed out: "Can you cook this dish?"
"Not at all, my cooking skills are very poor," he laughed. "Actually, it's not really a culinary skill."
"Then you know so well?"