The next day Chi Yan woke up at ten o'clock in the morning. Tofu nao and fried dough sticks were already placed on the table. The bean curd nao was poured with marinade, fried peppers and chive flowers, and it smelled fragrant. The grandfather was watering flowers on the balcony with an old-fashioned radio and listening to Peking Opera.
Chi Yan was a little ashamed looking at the breakfast. He slept in the room by himself. The old man had already done morning exercise and bought breakfast by the way. However, he also felt comforted. Grandpa was strong and could enjoy himself with other old men and ladies in the community. He looked at ease.
After breakfast, he packed up the tableware. Grandpa had already bought the vegetables from the morning exercise. Chi Yan picked up the eggplant and green peppers, took the potatoes, and fried one of the three fresh vegetables and another tomato at lunch time. Scrambled eggs. His cooking skills are not high, and he can only say that he is barely able to eat, so he often buys food directly from the school cafeteria and comes back to eat with his grandfather.
Chi Yan accompanied her grandfather after having lunch and went back to school for a long time. When it was time for dinner, she bought some food and went home as usual. Now there is only the old man at home. He is not at ease and wants to spend more time with his grandfather, so as long as he is not too busy, he will usually go home and live. Before my grandfather retired, he worked in an agency and received a monthly pension of 3,000 or 4,000 to 4,000 yuan. During the festivals, the unit would also distribute some rice noodles. Chi Yan started an internship outside the university after he went to college. The monthly internship salary is also one or two thousand, which together is enough for their grandfather and grandson to live in this small city, and he will be more comfortable after he officially starts work.
During dinner in the evening, my grandfather asked, "Xiaoyan, why did you come back so late last night?"
Chi Yan knew that her grandfather was an old Communist Party member, and firmly believed in Marxist materialism. Because of the Chi family's sake, Hate Wu and Wu hated these strange things and did not support him in learning the Chi family's things. He didn't want to make the old man angry when he thought about the Chi family, and he didn't dare to tell the truth to his grandfather, so he had to make up: "I didn't do anything, just went out to dinner with Song Jin and the others and played for a while."
Song Jin often came to the house when he was in high school. He was an old man who watched him grow up. He knew that he had a good character. After graduation, he had a stable job and started a family. Some, nodded and turned to another matter: "Xiaoyan, you see that Song Jin has been married for almost a year, when will you bring your partner back for grandpa to see? Grandpa can walk away with peace of mind. "
Chi Yan put down his chopsticks and looked at the old man helplessly: "Don't talk nonsense, you are healthy, what are you talking about?"
Grandpa smiled and continued: "It's still up to you to get married and start a business before you can feel at ease. Isn't Song Jin's wife working in a hospital? If you are of the same age, you can also ask her to introduce you. We don't want anything else, just be nice. "
Chi Yan did not speak again. He understands that grandpa is not the kind of elders who insist on urging marriage, and he is not too old to urge marriage now. My grandfather was really worried. My mother's failed marriage always left the old man choked up. He still remembered that at his mother's funeral, the white-haired grandfather sent the black-haired man, and he kept murmuring in tears, "It would be fine if I insisted on not letting you marry."
Thinking about the past, Chi Yan felt a little sad, but still comforted the old man: "Don't worry, this matter can't be rushed, there is always the most suitable person waiting for me."
"How can you be like a little girl? Boys should take the initiative, otherwise others will snatch them away." Grandpa smiled, his cloudy eyes flashed, and then he seemed to think of something, and there was a touch of nostalgia and sadness in his eyes. "Your mother was like this back then. Your grandmother and I always laughed at her."
Chi Yan quickly interjected to talk about his internship and school, and brought this topic over. One reason why he didn't want his grandfather to think of his mother's sadness, and another reason why he didn't dare to tell the old man - he already had someone he liked, and he has always liked that person since the beginning of his love affair.
He hasn't seen that person for seven years now, and he doesn't even get any news about him, but the love is fermenting little by little in the bottom of his heart, and it never fades away, but it gets deeper and deeper. But he also knows not to say whether the other party will respond or not. After leaving Chi's house, he and the other party have been counted as people from two different worlds. Whether they can meet again in this life is still a question. With his current status, even if he traveled thousands of miles to the Ye family, he probably wouldn't be able to see that person. It was more likely that he was stopped by the formation outside the Ye family's door, and he couldn't even get in.
Thinking of this, he held the porcelain bottle in front of his chest, quietly raised it to his lips and touched it, showing a bit of sadness in his expression.
Even now, when I go to bed at night, I can't help but miss that person's embrace and breath, and sometimes I even feel half-sleeping and half-awake that the person is beside him, hugging him. Sometimes it even feels like... that person is holding him and kissing him. But after waking up, I realized that those were just my own fantasies or even delusions.
In this way, another week went by step by step, except that he was invited to Song Jin's house for a meal on the weekend, everything was as usual. Song Jin and Tao Juanjuan knew that his grandfather was still at home, and every time they asked him to go to dinner, they would pack him some semi-finished dishes, such as Sixi balls, pork with plum vegetables, and braised chicken wings. As soon as the heat is hot, the late banquet and grandfather can have another meal.
On Wednesday, when Chi Yan was washing the dishes after dinner, the doorbell rang. Grandpa went to open the door, and the person who came was Song Jin.
Chi Yan was a little surprised. He couldn't guess what Song Jin was doing with him again. He wiped his hands and greeted his friend to bring him into his room.
There are three bedrooms in the house, one is the former room of my grandfather and grandmother, now my grandfather lives alone; one is Chi Yan's room; the other is Chi Yan's mother's room. After his mother passed away, his grandfather once asked Chi Yan to vacate the room as his study, but Chi Yan said that his room was enough now and refused. So that bedroom is usually idle, and only goes in when Chi Yan cleans the house.
Because when their mother and son moved back, Chi Yan was due to go to high school and needed to study, and there was no extra room at home for him to use as a study, so Chi Yan's mother deliberately chose a smaller room as her bedroom, and put the larger room as her bedroom. The room was reserved for Chi Yan, with a one-meter-five single bed, a wardrobe against the wall, and his desk and a small bookshelf on the other side.
This is not the first time Song Jin has come to his bedroom. He casually flipped through the book on Chi Yan's table. The complicated array diagrams drawn on the yellowed and brittle pages made him dizzy. , he barely recognized a few words.
"...with the bones of the other, into the heart of this...what are these things?" he muttered.
Chi Yan walked over and put away the book: "It's the things that should be buried in the old Chi's family."
According to the practice of the Chi family, the eldest son inherits the family business, and when the descendants divide their families, they can take a copy of a book from the library. But he was the first eldest son and eldest grandson to be "divided" out. He was originally supposed to inherit the Chi family. There was no precedent before, so he blindly chose the originals of three books to go.
At that time, Chi Yan picked out two large and thick books and one that looked particularly shabby. There is a lot of content in Dahou, and there may be some rare records in the old books. That's what he thought at the time. After he got it, he found that the two large books recorded some basic techniques of magic, which were just right for him and valuable. But it was not big, and the old book recorded many secret techniques that he could not understand.
Chi Yan had no affection for the Chi family, and naturally did not covet or even care about the Chi family's things. At that time, he would take the book away or hold the idea that he could cheat the old Chi family. After leaving the Chi family, he found out that it was because of his own constitution. , Although ordinary ghosts don't dare to get close, they are still easy to cause trouble. In order to protect themselves, they began to grope and learn from those two big books. He grew up in a late family since he was a child. Although no one has ever taught him these things, he was able to learn quickly after being immersed in it, and it didn't take long for him to master some ways.
In truth, he has nothing to do with the Chi family except for the "Chi" surname. And the reason why he kept his surname Chi and did not change his surname to his grandfather and mother's surname Su was not because when their mother and son left, the Chi family had overbearingly said that his mother could remarry, but he could not change his surname, but because of that person.
He misses the feeling of that person calling his name. Growing up in an aristocratic family like Chi's family, he also believes that a person's name has a special meaning. As long as he is still Chi Yan and Chi Yan, that person will at least know I remember his name, but if he changed his surname, that person wouldn't even know what his current name was, and they would really have no connection at all.
Song Jin watched his friend put away the book, and remembered Chi Yan's great achievements in saving his wife, he was instantly in awe, and bowed to the put away book.
He and Chi Yan met in high school. The two of them have been in the same class in high school. It is also a kind of fate. They have been together for a long time and have become acquainted with each other. Song Jin probably knows something about Chi Yan's family - his family was originally out of town, Only his mother was from R city, but later his father cheated on him and married another, his parents divorced, and his mother took him back to R city to defect to his grandparents. In today's society, it's not unusual for such a marriage to break down. Song Jin, who was still in high school, only sighed and didn't care.
He found that his buddy was unusual in the third year of high school, on the eve of the college entrance examination.
They can choose to study or live in high school by themselves. The students who live in the city usually choose to go to study, and the students who live far away from the surrounding counties will live in lodging. Song Jin and Chi Yan had always been day students before, but the semester before the college entrance examination was tight. In order not to slack off and waste less time, they both applied for accommodation after negotiation.
It was almost a month before the college entrance examination. One night at 10:30, the two of them left for their evening self-study, and they were going to go back to the dormitory to take a shower and then go to bed. The air conditioner in the classroom was broken. The weather was extremely hot in those two days. A large group of students huddled in the classroom to study for three hours at night. Everyone felt stuffy and sweaty. .
Coincidentally, the bathroom in the dormitory had no water that night, so I couldn't wash it.
At that time, Song Jin was under the pressure of study and was very nervous. What he planned to do was suddenly blocked and could not be realized. It was as uncomfortable as grass growing in his heart. I really want to take a shower, but I just feel that if I don't take a shower tonight, I won't be able to get through today, and I won't be able to sleep well at night.
He later thought that he felt like a demon in his heart at that time, which might be a precursor to hitting evil.