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Chapter 24 Chapter 24
When Jiang Wang came home from get off work, he found that the child had come downstairs to pick him up.
Peng Xingwang could tell who was coming back from the sound of the car engine downstairs every day, and sometimes even took his homework down and held it in front of Jiang Wang to see.
"Brother! Praise me!"
The eldest brother is generally still in a state of expressionless work, but he can't bear someone's thick skin.
"Praise me! Smile!!"
The summer homework was finished last week. This time, Peng Xingwang was holding a small thing the size of a grain of rice.
"Brother!! Look!!"
When Jiang Wang locked the car, he couldn't see it clearly, and when he bent over, he found that he was holding a tooth.
Peng Xingwang, who was missing a front tooth, said a bit leaky: "I've lost my teeth!"
"Oh, it's the upper teeth." Jiang Wang walked back with him and thought about it, "Then it has to be buried. The deeper it is, the better it will grow."
"Is that so?" The child had never heard of this old custom, so he quickly called him to wait, and Sa Yazi ran to the tube building to ask the old lady to borrow a small shovel for ploughing coal ash.
The two of them squatted under the old pine tree withering and dug a fist-deep hole, carefully burying their teeth.
"Will it grow crooked if it is buried?"
"β¦β¦Won't."
Two days later, when Jiang Wang returned from get off work, he saw the child waiting downstairs from a distance.
Holding a lower front tooth like holding a diamond.
"Brother! Let's go to the mountain!" The child has one missing upper and lower front teeth, and his spirit is better than before: "Throw it to the highest and highest place!"
Jiang Wang thought to himself that you were not afraid to grow into a big tooth rabbit, he rolled down the car window and looked at the teeth in his hand.
"Throw the roof, the effect is the same."
Peng Xingwang was confused: "Go to the mountain~mountain~"
It was just like a child who lost a tooth during the festival. Jiang Wang was inexplicably in a better mood. He left the mess in the company behind, and patted the co-pilot to signal him to come up.
The small town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, but they are all small hillsides with very low altitudes. Later, the state arranged to build a lot of power generation windmills, and many extreme enthusiasts came here to play paragliding.
It only takes ten minutes to drive to Mount Toji, and they hurry up and come back, and they deliberately picked a high place to put their front teeth in place.
Peng Xingwang looked a little melancholy at the incense pagoda in the Buddhist temple.
"Don't think about it, go home and play."
On the way back, the child was still thinking about this, and tugging at the elder brother's sleeve.
"If I put my teeth in the refrigerator, will they never get cavities?"
Jiang Wangping replied: "Then it's safest for you to put your teeth in the hospital, so that you won't dare to come for any kind of illness."
"I don't want to go to the hospital!!"
It took a while to park and lock the car again. 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 boy looked a little flustered.
"I...my little yellow is gone."
Jiang Wang followed the sound and found that the little yellow car that had been parked at the door was really gone.
"Did you stop the bookstore? Or you went to a classmate's house to play and forgot to ride back?"
"No, no," Peng Xingwang became anxious: "I always lock it up carefully. I only went to the bookstore today, but I still walked over there!"
Jiang Wang thought to himself that there should be no thieves idle enough to steal the child's car, so he was uncertain, "Could it be that I remembered it wrong?"
"Brother, go back first, and I'll look for it!" Peng Xingwang was afraid of causing trouble for him: "I'll come back after I've found it."
"Don't, be careful that the car is lost even if no one is found." Jiang Wang sighed, put the key back in his pocket and walked out: "I'll accompany you."
So the two made a trip to the bookstore first, then went home and looked around in the neighborhood where their classmates lived next door, and even went to their new home on purpose.
No, obviously someone chained the car and took it away.
Jiang Wang secretly scolded that there is such an immoral bastard, the children's stroller is so itchy that they want to steal it, and he leads Peng Xingwang back.
"Forget it, let's go home first, otherwise I'll buy you a new one tomorrow."
The child suddenly became stubborn, shook his head and refused to go upstairs.
"You go back first, I'll look for it again."
"It's not that the dog was lost," Jiang Wang said, although he was also in a bad mood, but he still had to reason with him without knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Even if you search for it all over the street and call it, it won't agree to you."
"Besides, your car is so small that it might have been stolen to someone's house, right?"
Peng Xingwang bit his lip and shook his head.
"Brother has worked hard, you go back to rest first."
"I must look for it again."
Jiang Wang didn't quite understand what the kid was thinking, so he was puzzled and helpless: "I'll buy it tomorrow."
"This is my first bicycle! The first!" Peng Xingwang's voice suddenly rose, very aggrieved and determined: "I can't give up Xiao Huang so soon!"
"Even if you buy other cars, they are not Xiao Huang anymore."
Jiang Wang's not many first time in his life was over long ago, and he has long been blunted by the coming and going of anything.
He couldn't empathize with his younger self at this moment, but he still reached out and rubbed his head, and followed Peng Xingwang to look around again.
Although the result was exactly as predicted, it was impossible to find at all.
Peng Xingwang didn't even bother to pry open the bushes to look inside. He was almost scratched by the stray cat, and in the end, his face turned grey and he was still twisting it.
Jiang Wang coaxed him for a long time, and finally took him home to take a bath. The child was furious until he fell asleep.
During this period, Teacher Ji called to ask about the bookstore, and was surprised when he learned the situation.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, he sent another message to ask about his whereabouts.
[Have you found it? ]
[No. Xingxing was so stubborn that he was about to run to the police station, and 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 a place for pickpockets, pawnshops, and other small business people to exchange stolen goods for money. It's not a good place."
"...Can you take me there tonight?"
"Okay, Teacher Ji," Jiang Wang laughed at him again: "Do you like to find excitement so much?"
Ji Linqiu confessed: "I'm very excited, I especially want to go."
They meet at about 3:30 in the morning.
People in their 20s and 30s are generally unable to stay up late. Jiang Wang went back to get a new ID card once, and the next day he was so sleepy that his eyes were blue.
Ji Lin has always liked big pants and big shirts with flip-flops in the autumn and summer. Tonight, she wore a hoodie overalls and running shoes for the first time, as if she was going to steal a car.
Jiang Wang felt that this person was rarely confused and inexplicably cute.
"We're shopping, not selling stolen goods," he said, tugging at his dark brown hood. "It's pretty nice."
Ji Linqiu didn't expect him to wear a big vest: "So simple?"
"It's that simple."
The ghost market along Ping Street opened very early today, and there was a little old lady selling skewers.
This narrow alley is hidden in the gap between the two department stores in the old city. There is a newsstand outside the alley, so it is not noticeable during the day.
It was the first time for Ji Linqiu to come to such a taboo place, and he was more nervous than going to a clear bar to drink a cocktail.
Jiang Wang walked forward leisurely, but when he turned around by chance, he found that Teacher Ji was following closely, and he was almost pulling his sleeves like Xingwang.
It looks soft.
"Isn't Mr. Ji playing with knives," he said again with a knifega gesture: "This is not easy to use?"
Ji Linqiu's face was "don't mess with me".
"That's different," he said weakly, "I usually follow the rules."
"I see," Jiang Wang pointed slightly to the old lady who was selling skewers diagonally, "Guess what kind of meat she sells?"
Ji Linqiu looked at the words on the glass cabinet and said without hesitation, "Lamb skewers."
Jiang Wang smiled half-heartedly.
Ji Linqiu's face turned pale, and he covered his mouth in disgust: "No way, does anyone really eat it?"
"Where are the mutton skewers for 50 cents or two?" Jiang Wang looked at the swill bucket behind the old lady: "It's just a small town's pastime."
They walked slowly in the crowded and narrow alley, and the atmosphere was paradoxically 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 take much precautions against people with a strong social atmosphere like Jiang Wang, but they were very alert when they looked at people with a strong sense of books like Ji Linqiu.
The stalls are either cold white or dimly yellow, and they are all illuminated by a light bulb at random, and there are many stalls that are not connected at all, all relying on the peripheral vision on both sides.
Ji Linqiu got a lot closer to Jiang Wang and silently observed what they were selling.
Illegal hares and wild ducks, large quantities of potions of unknown origin, bullheads with bloody eyes, illegal books and foreign books, bicycles, mobile phones, and even more than a dozen lamps and manhole covers.
In the middle of the process, someone sneaked over like an exhibitionist, and then yanked off his jacket: "Buy some?"
Ji Linqiu was frightened by this man and gasped, hiding behind Jiang Wang and wanted to run away.
"What are you afraid of?" The man glanced back at him: "It's a porno."
"Come on, make sure it's clear, Europe, America and East Asia have everything, including humans and beasts!" The buddy was quite enthusiastic: "Buy three get one free, how about it!"
"No, you have to be serious with your friends today," Jiang Wang said with a smile, "Another day."
The man understood, turned around and ran to the other side to sell.
Ji Linqiu just thought that this person was going to sell organs, drugs or something, but only now did he relax.
"I'm still too upright." He covered his heart: "It's really not scary."
Jiang Wang was overjoyed, and Zhang Wang really found the bicycle stand that had just been set up: "Over there, let's go and have a look."
Someone was unloading one by one, watching that there were more than a dozen in stock in the truck.
Ji Linqiu carefully swept from left to right, but did not see a yellow baby carriage inside.
Most of these are stolen, and some are almost brand new, exactly like stock from the mall.
The price is also very cheap, only half of the market price and lower.
"What are you looking for?" The unloading guy was not surprised: "It's your car. It's only 50 yuan to redeem it, so don't make trouble with us."
Jiang Wang smiled and said, "Have you seen a yellow baby carriage?"
"Baby carriage? How big?"
Jiang Wangyi made a gesture, and the man seemed to be insulted by his professional ethics: "Who stole this thing? Is there something wrong?"
"Our business is also ethical! The elderly do not steal pregnant women and do not steal! It is even more impossible for children to steal!!"
"It's okay, I'll ask."
The two of them were chatting when Ji Linqiu suddenly saw a familiar shadow at another branch, and quickly patted Jiang Wang on the shoulder: "I found it! Over there! There!"
Xiao Huang was really next to a grocery stall, and was almost covered by a cardboard box because of its small size.
Jiang Wang handed a cigarette to the unloading man to say thank you, and quickly walked over to see the situation.
A bald old man whose hair was about to fall out stood beside the stall, peeling sweet potatoes shiveringly, smelling 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 there are two green onions inserted in the vase, which is very suitable for the occasion.
The plastic paper was not very solid. Two bricks were used to hold down the corners. There were also many old banknotes and silver dollars on display.
A lot of things were stained with dirt or grime, and they stinked like they had been turned out of a rubbish heap.
Only a bright yellow bicycle was parked next to it, and the painting style was out of tune.
Jiang Wang first flipped through the antique pile for a while, and finally turned his attention to the baby carriage.
"Does the master still sell this?"
"This?" The old man raised his eyelids and continued to bury his head in eating sweet potatoes: "Someone sold it to me when I was collecting waste, and they said they would sell it by the pound."
"I saw that this is not pure iron, and it is worthless when it is melted." He snorted: "The man paid me fifty, and the original price is here, you can give it to you."
Ji Linqiu thought that it would be a maximum of 80, and the paint had been knocked off in many places, so he must bargain.
Jiang Wang squatted down to take a closer look at the car, and then slapped him.
"Fifty-five."
The old man waved his hand impatiently: "Leave if you don't buy it, don't play with others."
"It's only fifty-five," Jiang Wang stared at him: "I won't give you one more point."
The old man struggled to swallow, so he ate half a sweet potato with cold water, glanced at Jiang Wang, and waved his hand again like sending a beggar.
"Go, go, take it."
Next to him, Ji Linqiu looked puzzled.
Jiang Wang took the car and left, and even chatted with Teacher Ji when he arrived.
"This is the rule of the rivers and lakes."
The old man spat: "You're a fart, it's so rude."
Early the next morning, Peng Xingwang got up as soon as the alarm rang at 6 o'clock, and finally found the little yellow car in the corner of the back door of the package building.
The child was so happy that he dragged the car home and knocked on Jiang Wang's door.
"Brother!!" He called happily like a sparrow: "Brother, brother, brother!!"
The man opened the door with a mess of hair on his head: "What?"
"The car! I found it!!" Peng Xingwang could not wait to hold Xiao Huang up to Jiang Wang's face: "Look, look!"
"It must be occupying the position of the corridor. An aunt in the corridor moved away, and she was actually placed in the back door. Who can find this!"
"I said it must be there, you don't believe me!"
"I'm a little yellow again hehehehe-"
Jiang Wang nodded perfunctorily: "Mmmm, congratulations Hexi, I went back to sleep... It's only what time."
"Don't sleep! Don't close the door yet!"
child on tiptoe
Jump up and kiss.
"I'm in a good mood today! So I want to kiss you!"
Jiang Wang followed the music: "Kiss, kiss whatever you want."
The child locked the car in the living room and went out to play with 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 things that need to be decided in business.
There are also two from Peng Jiahui, one called at 12 noon and the other at 1 pm.
Jiang Wang yawned and went back.
"The bell didn't turn on before, what's the matter?"
"Boss Jiang, I'm finally back from a long business trip," Peng Jiahui was too embarrassed to disturb him: "See if you're free recently, I want to cook a meal, please come and eat with Xingxing, okay?"
Peng Jiahui also had no other good hospitality.
The money is too little, not to mention that it is not necessarily received by others.
The sincerity of asking to eat is not enough, and Boss Jiang has eaten what he has seen before, what good place has he not been to?
After much deliberation, I still invite others to come to the house and cook it by myself, which is the most sincere.
He can't do anything else, his hands-on ability has always been strong, cooking is as quick as car parts, and his craftsmanship is quite good.
Jiang Wang has slept since he came home, his stomach is empty, and he burps in response.
"Sure." He rubbed his hair and said, "Can you do it tonight?"
Peng Jiahui didn't expect him to be so rude, he was stunned at first and then quickly agreed.
"Yes, yes! What do you want to eat? I'll go buy it now!"
This father treated him too badly in his previous life, and Jiang Wang did not hesitate at all when he made the request.
"Make a seaweed pork rib soup, make a braised pork, and make two vegetarian dishes, scrambled eggs with onions and the like."
Peng Jiahui was very moved: "Xingxing likes to eat it all. Thanks to you for taking care of him, what would Boss Jiang like to eat?"
Jiang Wang woke up from a drowsy moment, and realized that something was wrong.
"You look at it," he fooled, "I don't have a taboo."
It was about 6 o'clock in the evening, Jiang Wang took the leftover steamed buns and put them on the pad at will, and when the time came, he went out to find Peng Xingwang to grab a piece of rice.
The child was putting out new books with the clerk in the bookstore. Before leaving, he politely said goodbye to his sisters and was kissed by a beautiful woman.
"So cute! You are so cute!"
Peng Xingwang laughed.
Jiang Wang couldn't stand it any longer: "Are you still going?"
"I'm coming!"
Peng Jiahui still lives in a shanty town. Although the place is indeed dilapidated and outdated, it can actually receive guests after careful cleaning.
He hurriedly used the pressure cooker to boil the bone soup, and fry the vegetables in a race against time, turning on the maximum firepower.
So that the whole alley is fragrant.
Peng Xingwang smelled the smell and drifted over, and the expression on his face also fluttered.
His father used to be drunk and scolded and beat people, or he didn't go home for more than half a month, but now he took the initiative to cook and invite them to come.
"Xingwang!" Peng Jiahui was dressed very cleanly and wiped his hair with water: "You're back! Dad has been out on business this month, and I miss you so much!"
"I miss you as well!!"
Jiang Wang was too lazy 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 all meals are served on the coffee table. Peng Jiahui also specially made a tablecloth to pad it in advance.
"Please, please! A little dish, lol!"
One big and one small sat in front of the kelp soup, and the expressions of deep breathing were completely synchronized.
"It smells so good!! Dad, you are amazing!!"
After Peng Xingwang finished speaking, he drank it violently, not afraid of being hot at all, and emptied the bowl in a blink of an eye: "More!"
Peng Jiahui added to him with a wide-eyed smile: "I know you like to drink this. Dad will make it for you every day from now on."
While noticing 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.
"βIn the future, I will try to be promoted to supervisor as soon as possible and buy a big house for Xingxing, okay?"
"it is good!"
Jiang Wang wanted to add it himself after drinking, but Peng Jiahui took the bowl away with both hands.
"You have worked hard to take care of Xingxing, 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 burst into laughter. Seeing that Jiang Wang had not joined the topic, Peng Jiahui asked him curiously about the current situation here.
"Boss Jiang seems to have been here for a few months. When are you going to go home and have a look?"
When Peng Jiahui said this, he couldn't help but add another sentence.
"You are so good and capable, they must be very happy when they go home to see their parents."
Jiang Wang looked at Peng Jiahui, who was in his thirties, and said after a while, "Probably."
"They left early." He didn't look away. "I almost forgot what it looked like."
Peng Jiahui did not expect that he would poke at the sad part of his benefactor, so he hurriedly apologized.
"However, your parents must also be very good, otherwise they would not have cultivated such a good person as you."
Jiang Wang was not used to chatting with his father in a peer-to-peer manner, and answered the conversation very slowly.
"Excellent...not to mention." He continued to lower his head to drink the soup, but he was also smiling: "There are a lot of stinky problems, and sometimes I am confused, but by nature, it is not bad."
Peng Jiahui nodded seriously, he couldn't help serving Jiang Wang's dishes, wishing to fill his bowl of noodles.
"By the way," Peng Jiahui remembered something: "Xingxing, your grandparents called me several times this month, saying they missed you and asked when you would go back to play."
"The summer vacation is almost over, do you still want to go back, I will drive you?"
Jiang Wang was suddenly stunned.
Yes, and grandparents.
When he was a child, he loved his grandparents the most.
The old Peng family all live in the countryside, where the road only opened this year, and it used to be splashed with mud.
"Can I go and play?" He said subconsciously, but he was afraid of offending, and added: "My business is just idle, and I'm fine, so I can go and 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 there. My parents opened a small fish pond there and planted a few pieces of land. , there are often people from the city who come 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 responded.
After eating and chatting and saying goodbye, he left the alley and sent a message to Ji Linqiu.
"I want to accompany Xingxing to the countryside to play, and Teacher Ji will come too."
"The air is good, the scenery is good, and there are fireflies at night."
Ji Linqiu thought about it, but still couldn't help the temptation of fireflies.
"it is good."
The child was afraid that others would not go, so he raised his head and waited to persuade Teacher Ji together.
"The teacher agreed?"
"promise
. 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 changed his words immediately: "Or I will paste one with bamboo sticks myself, and I will paste one as big as me!"
Jiang Wang's mind was not on the kite, he nodded and agreed, listening to the radio station and thinking about the two old people.
They must be very young at this time.
Jiang Wang missed a lot of things in his last life, not even the last time he saw his grandfather.
Now, turning back time, he suddenly had another chance.
He has another twenty years to accompany them to grow old slowly. w, please keep in mind:,