When Jiang Wang came home from get off work, he found that the child came downstairs to pick him up.
Peng Xingwang can tell who is coming back from the sound of the car engine downstairs every day, and sometimes he even takes his homework down and holds it up to Jiang Wang to read.
"Brother! Praise me!"
The eldest brother is usually still in a state of expressionless work, but he can't stand someone's thick skin.
"Praise me! Smile!!"
The summer homework was done last week, and this time Peng Xingwang held a small object the size of a grain of rice in his hand.
"Brother!! Look!!"
When Jiang Wang locked the car, he couldn't see it at a glance. He bent down and approached and found that he was holding a tooth.
Peng Xingwang, who was missing a front tooth, was a bit leaky in his speech: "I have lost my teeth!"
"Oh, it's the upper teeth." Jiang Wang walked back with him, thought for a while and said, "Then it has to be buried, the deeper the burial, the better."
"Is that so?" The child, who had never heard of this old custom, quickly called him to wait, and then ran to the tube building to ask the old lady to borrow a small shovel for planing coal ash.
The two squatted under the wilted old pine tree and dug a fist-deep pit, carefully burying their teeth.
"Will it grow crooked if buried crooked?"
"… Won't."
Two days later, Jiang Wang came back from get off work and saw the child waiting downstairs from a distance.
Like lifting a diamond, he holds a lower front tooth.
"Brother! Let's go to the mountains!" The child lost one of his upper and lower front teeth, and his energy was better than before: "Throw it to the highest and highest place!"
Jiang Wang wondered if you were going to grow into a rabbit with front teeth, so he rolled down the car window and looked at the teeth in his hand.
"Throw away the roof, it will have the same effect."
Peng Xing looked around and twisted: "Go to the mountain~ the mountain~"
Just like a child losing a tooth is like a holiday, Jiang Wang inexplicably feels better, forgets the messy troubles in the company, and pats the co-pilot to signal him to come up.
The small town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, but they are all low-altitude hills. Later, the country arranged to build a lot of windmills for power generation, and many extreme enthusiasts came here to play paragliders.
It only took more than ten minutes to drive up Toji Mountain, and they hurried back and picked a high place to put their front teeth.
Peng Xingwang was a little melancholy looking at the incense tower in the Buddhist temple.
"Forget it, go home and play."
On the way back, the child was still thinking about it, and tugged on the elder brother's sleeve.
"If I put my teeth in the fridge, will I never get cavities?"
Jiang Wangping replied bluntly: "Then it's safest for you to put your teeth in the hospital, so that you won't dare to come back for any disease."
"I don't want to go to the hospital!!"
It took a while to stop and lock the car. When the man walked back, he found that the child was still at the entrance of the corridor.
"Why don't you go up?"
The kid looked a little flustered.
"I... my little yellow is missing."
Jiang Wang followed the sound and looked over, and found that the little yellow car that had been parked at the door was really gone.
"Did you stop at the bookstore? Or went to a classmate's house and forgot to ride back?"
"No, no," Peng Xingwang became anxious: "I will lock it very carefully every time. I only went to the bookstore today, so I still walk there!"
Jiang Wang thought that there should be no thieves free enough to steal a child's car, and asked unsurely, "Could it be a mistake?"
"Brother, you go back first, I'll look for it!" Peng Xingwang was afraid of causing trouble for him: "I'll come back after I'm done looking."
"Don't, be careful that the car is lost if you don't find it." Jiang Wang sighed, put the key back in his pocket and walked out: "I'll accompany you."
So the two went to the bookstore first, then went home and searched around the neighborhood where the classmate lived next door, and even made a special trip to the new home.
It just didn't. It was obvious that someone took the car away in a chain.
Jiang Wang secretly scolded that there is still such a vicious bastard, the child's stroller is itchy to steal, and he leads Peng Xingwang back.
"Forget it, let's go home first, we can't buy you a new one tomorrow."
The child suddenly became stubborn, shook his head and refused to go upstairs.
"You go back first, I will look for it again."
"It's not that the dog is lost." Although Jiang Wang was also in a bad mood, he still had to reason with him dumbfoundingly: "Even if you look for it all over the street, it won't agree to you if you call it."
"Besides, your car is very small, maybe it has been stolen to someone's house, right?"
Peng Xingwang bit his lip and shook his head again.
"Brother worked hard, you go back and rest first."
"I must look for it again."
Jiang Wang didn't quite understand what the kid was thinking, he was puzzled and helpless: "I'll buy it tomorrow."
"This is my first bicycle! The first one!" Peng Xingwang suddenly raised his voice, aggrieved and determined: "I can't give up on Xiao Huang so soon!"
"Even if you buy other cars, they are not Xiao Huang anymore."
Jiang Wang's not so many first times in his life have long since passed away, and he has long been insensitive to the coming and going of anything.
He can't empathize with his young self at the moment, but he still reaches out to rub his head and follows Peng Xingwang to look around again.
Although the result is exactly as predicted, it is impossible to find it.
Peng Xingwang was not afraid of getting dirty and even pushed through the bushes to look inside. He was almost scratched in the face by a stray cat, and in the end his face was dusty and still wringing.
Jiang Wang coaxed him for a long time, and finally took him home to take a bath. The child was so angry that he fell asleep.
During the period, Teacher Ji called to ask about the bookstore, and was surprised when he learned about the situation.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, I sent another message to ask for my whereabouts.
[Have you found it? ]
[No. Xing Xing was so stubborn that he almost ran to the police station, so he didn't want a new car. ]
[… Then how are you going to coax? ]
[No plan, I will go to the ghost market in the middle of the night. ]
Ji Linqiu was silent for a while, then called to ask what the ghost market was.
Jiang Wang didn't expect him to be interested in this: "It's just a place where pickpockets, thieves, black pawnshops and other small business people exchange stolen goods and exchange money. It's not a good place."
"...can you take me tonight?"
"Okay, Mr. Ji," Jiang Wang laughed at him again: "You like looking for excitement so much?"
Ji Linqiu confessed: "I'm very excited, I really want to go."
They meet at three thirty in the morning.
People in their twenties and thirties generally cannot stay up late. Jiang Wang went back there to apply for a new ID card, and the next day he was so sleepy that his eyes turned blue.
Ji Linqiu has always liked big pants and a big shirt with flip-flops in summer. Tonight, for the first time, he wore a hoodie and overalls with running shoes, as if he was going to steal a car.
Jiang Wang felt that this person was rarely confused, inexplicably cute.
"We're going shopping, not selling stolen goods," he tugged at his dark brown hood. "It's pretty pretty."
Ji Linqiu didn't expect him to wear a big vest: "So simple?"
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"It's that simple."
The ghost market along Ping Street opened very early today, and there were little old ladies selling skewers.
This narrow alley is hidden in the gap between two department stores in the old town, and there is a newsstand outside the alley, so it doesn't attract attention in broad daylight.
It's really the first time for Ji Linqiu to come to such a taboo place, he's more nervous than going to a bar to drink cocktails.
Jiang Wang walked forward leisurely, turned around by chance, and found that Mr. Ji was following closely, almost pulling his sleeves like Xing Wang.
It looks soft.
"Ms. Ji, isn't he just playing with knives?" He made a knifegame gesture again: "This isn't working anymore?"
Ji Linqiu said 'Don't mess with me'.
"That's different," he said in a weak voice, "I usually follow the rules."
"I see." Jiang Wang slightly pointed to the old lady who sold skewers diagonally: "What kind of meat do you think she is selling?"
Looking at the words on the glass cabinet, Ji Linqiu said without thinking, "Mutton skewers."
Jiang Wang smiled but wasn't smiling.
Ji Linqiu's face turned pale, and he covered his mouth in disgust: "No way, is there really someone who eats it?"
"Where are two skewers of mutton for fifty cents?" Jiang Wang looked at the slop bucket behind the old lady: "It's just a pastime for the petty bourgeoisie."
They walked slowly in the crowded and narrow alley, and the atmosphere was strangely noisy.
Most of the vendors greeted the business warmly and politely, but there was no smile in their eyes. Instead, they were wary and censored.
They didn't have much defense against people with a strong social atmosphere like Jiang Wang, but they were very wary when they looked at people with a bookish atmosphere like Ji Linqiu.
The booths are either cold white or dim yellow, and they are lighted by random light bulbs. There are also many stalls that are not connected at all, all relying on the peripheral light on the sides.
Ji Linqiu got closer to Jiang Wang again, silently observing what they were selling.
Wild rabbits and ducks hunted illegally, a large amount of medicine from unknown sources, a bull's head with bloody eyes, foreign documents that are prohibited from scriptures, bicycles, mobile phones, and even a dozen desk lamps and manhole covers.
On the way, someone sneaked over like an exhibitionist, and then jerked off his coat: "Buy some?"
Ji Linqiu gasped from being frightened by this man, and wanted to run away while hiding behind Jiang Wang.
"What are you afraid of?" the man glanced back at him, "They are selling pornographic discs."
"Come on, make sure it's clear. There are everything in Europe, America, East Asia, and humans and beasts!" The buddy was quite enthusiastic: "Buy three and get one free, how about it!"
"No, I brought my friends here today, so I have to pretend to be serious," Jiang Wang said with a smile, "Another day."
The man understood it, turned around and went to sell next to others.
Just now Ji Linqiu thought that this person was going to sell organ drugs or something, but now he was relieved.
"I'm still too upright." He covered his heart: "It's really not scary."
Jiang Wang was overjoyed, and after looking around, he found the bicycle stall that had just been set up: "Over there, let's go and have a look."
Someone was unloading one by one, and saw that there were more than a dozen vehicles in stock in the truck.
Ji Linqiu scanned carefully from left to right, but didn't see a yellow baby carriage inside.
Most of these are stolen, and some are almost brand new, exactly like the stock in the mall.
The price is also very cheap, only half of the market price or less.
"What are you looking for?" The unloading man was not surprised: "It's your car, and it only costs 50 yuan to redeem it. Don't make trouble with us."
Jiang Wang suppressed a smile and said, "Have you seen the yellow stroller?"
"Baby stroller? How old is it?"
Jiang Wang gestured, and the guy seemed to have been insulted by his professional ethics: "Who stole this thing? Is there something wrong?"
"Our business is ethical too! Old people don't steal from pregnant women! It's even more impossible to steal from children!!"
"It's okay, I'll just ask."
The two of them were chatting, when Ji Linqiu suddenly saw a familiar figure at another branch, and quickly patted Jiang Wang on the shoulder: "I found it! Over there! Over there!"
Xiao Huang was really next to a grocery stand, and was almost covered by a cardboard box because of its small size.
Jiang Wang handed a cigarette to the unloading guy to say thank you, and hurried over to see the situation.
A bald old man who was about to lose his hair stood by the stall, peeling sweet potatoes tremblingly, his body smelled like garbage.
"Just look at it," the old man said vaguely, "it's all cheap, cheap."
The small yellow car and the vase steel pot are placed together, and two green onions are inserted in the vase, which is very suitable for the occasion.
The plastic paper was not well laid out, and the corners were pressed down with two bricks. There were also a lot of old banknotes and silver dollars, real and fake mixed together for sale.
Many things were covered with mud or dirt, and they smelled as if they had been dug out of a garbage dump.
There was only a bright yellow bicycle parked beside it, and the painting style was out of place.
Jiang Wang rummaged through the pile of antiques for a while before turning his attention to the baby carriage.
"Master still sells this?"
"This?" The old man raised his eyelids, and continued to bury his head in eating sweet potatoes: "When I was collecting waste products, someone sold them to me, and they said they would sell them by the catty."
"I saw that it wasn't pure iron, and it wouldn't be worth much if it melted down." He snorted, "The man paid me fifty, and the original price is left here. You can give it to me."
Ji Linqiu thought that the price would be 80 at most, and the paint was knocked off in many places, so he must counter the price.
Jiang Wang squatted down to look at the car carefully, and then slapped him.
"Fifty-five."
The old man waved his hands impatiently: "Leave if you don't buy it, don't make trouble for others."
"Only fifty-five," Jiang Wang stared at him, "I won't give any more."
The old man struggled to swallow, so he finished half a piece of sweet potato with cold water, glanced at Jiang Wang, and waved his hand again like dismissing a beggar.
"Okay, okay, take it, take it."
Next to him, Ji Linqiu looked puzzled.
Jiang Wang left with the car in his hand, even chattering with Teacher Ji when he arrived.
"This is the rules of the world."
The old man spat: "Regular fart, really picky."
Early the next morning, as soon as the alarm went off at six o'clock, Peng Xingwang got up to look for it, and finally found the little yellow car in the corner of the back door of Tongzilou.
The child was so happy that he dragged and dragged the car home and knocked on Jiang Wang's door.
"Brother!!" He yelled happily like a sparrow: "Brother, brother, brother!!"
The man opened the door with his messy hair on his head: "What's wrong?"
"The car! I found it!!" Peng Xingwang wished he could lift Xiao Huang to Jiang Wang's face: "Look, look!"
"It must be occupying the place in the corridor. Some aunt in the corridor was moved away, and she was actually placed by the back door. Who can find it!"
"I said it must still be there, you don't even believe me!"
"I'm little yellow again, hehehehe—"
Jiang Wang nodded perfunctorily: "Yeah, congratulations, Hexi, I'm going back to sleep... what time is it?"
"Don't sleep! Don't close the door yet!"
child tiptoe
Jump up and give her a kiss.
"I'm in a good mood today! So I want to kiss you!"
Jiang Wang followed suit: "Kiss, kiss whatever you want."
The child refreshedly locked the car in the living room and went out to find friends. Jiang Wang fell into bed and slept until the afternoon. When he woke up, he found seven missed calls.
Five of them are from the company, and they are all business matters that need to be decided.
There are two more from Peng Jiahui, one at 12:00 noon and the other at 1:00 pm.
Jiang Wang yawned and called back.
"I didn't turn on the bell earlier, what's the matter?"
"Boss Jiang, I finally came back from a long business trip." Peng Jiahui was also afraid of disturbing him, and was quite embarrassed: "See if you are free recently. I want to cook a meal. Please come over with Xing Xing, okay?"
Peng Jiahui also has no other good entertainment.
The money given is too little, and what's more, if you give it to others, you may not receive it.
It’s not enough sincerity to invite you to eat, and Boss Jiang has eaten and seen it before. What good places haven’t been
After much deliberation, I still invite people to come to the house and cook a meal by myself, which is the most sincere.
He can't do anything else, but his hands-on ability has always been very strong. He cooks as quickly as car parts, and his craftsmanship is quite good.
Jiang Wang has been sleeping since returning home until now, his stomach is already empty, and he hiccups in a timely manner.
"Success." He rubbed his messy hair and said, "Can you do it tonight?"
Peng Jiahui didn't expect him to be so rude, he was taken aback for a moment and then quickly agreed.
"Yes, yes! What do you want to eat? I'll go buy it now!"
This father treated him too much in his previous life, and Jiang Wang didn't hesitate at all when he made the request.
"Get seaweed ribs soup, braised pork, two vegetarian dishes, scrambled eggs with onions, etc."
Peng Jiahui was very moved: "It's all Xing Xing's favorite food, thanks to you taking care of him, what would Boss Jiang want to eat?"
Jiang Wang just woke up after dozing off, and realized something was wrong.
"Look at it," he fooled, "I don't mind eating."
It was about six o'clock in the evening, Jiang Wang took the leftover steamed buns and put them on at random, and went out to find Peng Xingwang to eat together.
The child was displaying new books with the clerk in the bookstore. Before leaving, he politely said goodbye to his sisters and was kissed by a beautiful woman.
"You are so cute! You are so cute!"
Peng Xingwang laughed.
Jiang Wang couldn't stand it anymore: "Are you still going?"
"I'm coming!"
Peng Jiahui is still living in a shantytown. Although the place is indeed dilapidated and old, it can actually receive guests after careful cleaning.
He hurriedly used the pressure cooker to boil the bone soup, and then raced against the clock to cook the vegetables, turning the heat to the maximum.
So that the whole alley is fragrant.
Peng Xingwang smelled the smell, and the expression on his face was also fluttering.
His father used to be drunk and swear and beat people, or didn't come home for more than half a month, but now he took the initiative to cook and invite them to come.
"Xing Wang!" Peng Jiahui was dressed very cleanly, and even wiped his hair with water: "You are back! Dad has been away on business trips this month, and misses you so much!"
"I miss you as well!!"
Jiang Wang didn't bother to watch the two stick together, so he found a place to sit and watch TV.
The house is small and there is no dining table, so we eat on the coffee table. Peng Jiahui also made a tablecloth and put it in advance.
"Please, please! A little side dish, laugh at me!"
Sitting in front of the kelp soup, one big and one small, the expressions of deep breathing are completely synchronized.
"It smells so good!! Dad, you are amazing!!"
After Peng Xingwang finished speaking, he drank vigorously, not afraid of being hot at all, and emptied the bowl in a blink of an eye: "More!"
Peng Jiahui smiled and added to him: "I know you like to drink this, dad will make it for you every day from now on."
While paying attention to whether Jiang Wang's drinks and soup bowls were empty, he told Peng Xingwang that he went to Shenzhen and saw a lot of amazing things.
"—In the future, I will strive to be promoted to supervisor sooner and buy Xing Xing a big house to live in, okay?"
"it is good!"
Jiang Wang finished his drink and wanted to refill it himself, but Peng Jiahui took the bowl away with both hands.
"You have worked hard to take care of the stars, I will come!"
Peng Xingwang was also a little embarrassed, and changed the subject to talk about the little yellow car.
The father and son laughed heartily. Seeing that Jiang Wang hadn't joined the conversation, Peng Jiahui curiously asked him what's going on here.
"Boss Jiang seems to have been here for several months. When do you plan to go home and have a look?"
When Peng Jiahui said this, he couldn't help but add another sentence.
"You are so capable, your parents must be very happy when you go home to see them."
Jiang Wang looked at Peng Jiahui's appearance in his thirties, and said for a while, "Probably."
"They left early," he said without looking away, "I almost forgot what they looked like."
Peng Jiahui didn't expect to poke his benefactor's heartache, so he hastily apologized.
"However, your parents must also be very good, otherwise they wouldn't have raised such a good person like you."
Jiang Wang is not used to chatting with his father in an equal manner, and he is very slow in answering the conversation.
"Excellent... not to mention." He continued to drink his soup with his head down, but he was also smiling: "There are a lot of stink problems, and sometimes I am confused, but my nature is not bad."
Peng Jiahui nodded seriously, and couldn't help picking up vegetables for Jiang Wang, wishing he could fill up his bowl of noodles.
"By the way," Peng Jiahui remembered something: "Xing Xing, your grandparents have called me several times this month, saying that they miss you, and asking when you will go back to play."
"The summer vacation is almost over, do you still want to go back, I will drive you?"
Jiang Wang was stunned suddenly.
By the way, there are grandparents.
When he was a child, he loved his grandparents the most.
The old people of the Peng family live in the countryside, where the road was only opened this year, and the car used to be splashed with mud when driving there.
"Can I go over to play?" He said subconsciously, but he was afraid of offending, and added: "I just got off business, and I'm fine. I can go over to accompany Xingxing."
"Yes, yes, of course!" Peng Jiahui was worried that he had nothing to repay him, and immediately became enthusiastic: "Boss Jiang can also bring two friends over there. My parents opened a small fish pond there and planted a few pieces of land. , people from the city often go to experience the farmhouse - there are electric mahjong tables and KTV, and the scenery is pretty good!"
Jiang Wang also jumped up in his heart, and quickly agreed.
After eating and talking, we bid farewell, and he sent a message to Ji Linqiu as soon as he left the alley.
"I want to accompany Xing Xing to the countryside to play, and Teacher Ji will come too."
"The air is good and the scenery is good, and there are fireflies at night."
Ji Linqiu thought about it, but still couldn't resist the temptation of fireflies.
"it is good."
The child was afraid that they would not go, so he raised his head and waited to persuade Teacher Ji together.
"The teacher agreed?"
"promise
up. Jiang Wang said thoughtfully, "Should we buy a tent?" "
"Buy a kite! Make it bigger!" The child was afraid that the kite would not be big enough, so he immediately changed his words: "Why don't I paste one with bamboo strips, and I will make one as big as me!"
Jiang Wang was not thinking about the kite, he nodded in agreement, listening to the radio station and thinking about the two old people.
They should be very young at this time.
Jiang Wang missed a lot of things in his previous life, and he didn't even meet his grandfather for the last time.
Now turn back the clock and suddenly he has another chance.
He has another twenty years to grow old with them.