waste heat

Chapter 69

Cheng Yan went to see grandma with his father this week.

Mom didn't go, because she was busy with work and had some business at home, so only Cheng Yan and dad went back.

Grandma's home is in the countryside, and it takes three or four hours to go back from here. There is a lot of time on the road, and Cheng Yan hasn't taken his driver's license yet, so he can't help his father share the responsibility of driving, so he just sits obediently all the way.

"Change the song." Dad said.

It was connected to his father's mobile phone, Cheng Yan flipped through the playlist and said, "What do you want to hear?"

Dad said: "Change your head at will."

Cheng Yan cut the song and put the phone back. His father asked him what it was, but he couldn't hear the prelude. Cheng Yan said, "The little girl under the street lamp."

It's not the song he likes to listen to, but it's Dad who hums it vigorously. Cheng Yan leans on the passenger seat, and the scenery of the highway is not to be seen. Now his heart is flying away, and he wants to hurry to his grandma's house.

"Talk to your mother and tell her that we have already left." My father confessed that my mother went to work, and the company didn't give her a vacation. She left early in the morning, and my mother didn't know when they came out.

"Oh." Cheng Yan picked up the phone and sent a message to his mother. After sending, his father asked his mother how to reply, and Cheng Yan said: "No reply, I didn't see it."

The two drove the car seriously.

There was only Cheng Yan next to him, and my father would inevitably tell him about it, "Hey, was there a girl in your school who jumped off the building a while ago?"

Cheng Yan's pupils moved slightly: "Yes."

Dad said: "What's the matter with the child now? Can't think about it so much? Born in this era, delicious food and drink are served, and you don't have to run away when you study. Why are there so many people looking for death?"

This is not the first case. In the past two years, there have been a lot of murder cases in the school, most of which were after the high school entrance examination. Cheng Yan said, "That's not what I said, Dad."

"What's the matter?" Dad said, "I think your father was beaten by your grandfather every day. He worked in the fields from morning to night, and if he didn't do well, your grandfather kicked me. He beat or scolded me all day. I didn’t have any thoughts of suicide, you can ask your grandma later, which one of us didn’t come out from under the stick at that time? It’s not so hypocritical.”

"It's not hypocritical," Cheng Yan said: "Different times have different pressures. Now that you can read all the books, wouldn't the tasks of taking exams and going to college be heavier? Wouldn't the competitiveness be greater?"

"No matter how competitive the competition is, learning is much easier than farming. Think about it, you sit in an air-conditioned room and you don't need to do anything. You just need to use your brain. To work in the field, you have to soak in the sun. , so tired that you are quadriplegic, which one do you think is easier?"

"It's not easy." Cheng Yan was not persuaded by this. Learning is not easy in the first place. This thing also requires a little bit of talent. It is very difficult for those who are stupid to learn, and those who are tired can't learn it even if their brain hurts. It is also stressful .

Dad said: "You just haven't suffered."

Cheng Yan didn't refute, he really didn't suffer much, he didn't study hard enough, and he didn't have a job yet, so he couldn't experience the life of getting up early and working late at night, as his father said.

At twelve noon, the father and son finally arrived at grandma's house.

Before reaching the gate, when he entered the village, he met a group of people, chatting together. His father didn't intend to leave like this. He stopped the car, opened the window, poked his head out and said, "Are you all there?"

The aunts immediately enthusiastically said: "Oh, Shikai is back!"

"Look at who this is, the big boss of our village is back!"

Cheng's father said: "Don't say that, I will work for others."

Said to Cheng Yan: "Bring two boxes of things to Aunt Wang."

"Oh." Cheng Yan turned over and came out from behind with two boxes of things, packed in red gift boxes, which looked quite expensive, and he showed them to the aunt who was talking outside, "Auntie, here."

"Look at how handsome this kid is, but Cheng Yan," Cheng Yan lived here for a while, came here when he was a child, and some people know his name, Cheng Yan nodded, and Aunt Wang waved her hand and continued: "This can't be done, Bought for your grandma, take it back to see your grandma."

Dad Cheng said: "Put it away, I brought a lot of things, these are given out by the company for the holidays, it doesn't cost money, take it."

Aunt Wang smiled and said: "Okay, okay, then I'll take it. I can't take money if it costs money. Go quickly, the old lady looks forward to your return every day."

Dad Cheng stopped chatting with the people at the entrance of the village, and said that he would go back first, and then come to play after he got off his feet, so he drove in.

Cheng Yan looked back at the group of people, as if they were still talking about them, looking at the rear of their car from time to time, Cheng Yan turned his head and said, "So enthusiastic."

Dad Cheng said: "It's normal, everyone shuts the door to live their own lives outside, everyone in the same building doesn't know each other, and everyone visits each other here, didn't you come here when you were young, remember?"

"Yeah." Cheng Yan nodded. He made a few friends here when he was a child, but he doesn't know what happened now, and he never contacted him again.

When they arrived at the door of the house, Cheng Yan and his father took the things. Before entering the door, the sound of a dog barking came, Cheng Yan paused and said, "Douzi!"

Speaking of speeding up his pace, he ran towards the door of his grandma's house. Cheng Yan first called out: "Grandma!"

No one should.

When I went to the door, it was locked and there was no one at home.

Cheng Yan put down the things in his hands, and saw the barking dog, not Dou Zi, but a black dog. Cheng Yan was slightly disappointed, walked over, and hugged the dog's neck without fear.

"Don't bite you," Dad said.

"No." Cheng Yan stroked the dog's head. His hands were itchy all the time, and he wanted to pet the dog for a long time. Fortunately, his mother was not there, otherwise he would have been scolded.

This big dog is also close to people, it was tied to a stone pillar and turned around in a hurry, Cheng Yan let it go, and the dog ran out happily.

"Why did you let it go?" Dad saw it and said, "Why don't you come back?"

Cheng Yan stood up and said, "Its home is here, it will definitely come back."

The door was locked, Cheng Yan went to his father and asked, "My grandma is not at home, where can I find it?"

"You wait, I'll go to the next door and ask." It's like this at home, whoever went where, just go to the next door and ask, usually we chat together, and tomorrow's arrangements are clear, like what the old man would do if he went out, I will inform the neighbors more often, and take care of the cats and dogs at home.

Cheng Yan was not idle, and went with his father, but the grandmother next door insisted on holding Cheng Yan's hand, saying that the child has grown up so much, and he really looks like his father, why didn't his mother come back? Yan also came to this grandma's house to play before, but now it's because he's grown up, he hasn't seen her for many years, and he is unfamiliar.

The naughty and wild nature of the body is gone.

"You are so handsome. What are you doing now? Are you working or going to school? How much is it a month?"

"Grandma, I'm still in school."

After being questioned like this for a while, Cheng Yan followed his father to the field to look for his milk, and it was said that he had gone to the field.

The old man can no longer farm the land by himself. Father Cheng regularly sends money to the old man, but the old man is not willing to spend it, so he insists on planting some rapeseed flowers, saying that he can sell them for money.

"Your grandma really...wouldn't listen to you," Cheng's father said with a headache, "You said she's so old, and there's no one around her, so what else can she grow? Can she get over tired?"

"Then you let her be idle. I know my grandma. If she can't be idle, she must find something to do."

"It's so hot, why not blow a fan at home? I have to run to the ground to bask in the sun."

The two came to the field while talking, and saw a figure busy in the field from a long distance, Cheng Yan ran over first, and shouted: "Grandma!"

The old man was hard of hearing and didn't hear it. He turned his head only after the second sound. When he saw Cheng Yan, he hurriedly put down the hoe in his hand and said cheerfully, "Yo, my grandson!"

It's not without reason that Cheng Yan kissed grandma. When he was a child, he was spoiled by grandma. To what extent?Mom saw that the kind of beating was not good for being mischievous, so she was caught by my mother later, and only then did she change her temperament of a muddy child.

"Can your mother come?" Grandma asked, sweat was all over her forehead, and Cheng Yan wiped it off with her finger.

"My mother didn't have a holiday, she came with my father."

"Mom." Dad Cheng followed up, looked around the field and said, "Why are you planting so many rapeseed?"

"That's theirs, but this one is mine. Now that the price of rapeseed has risen, don't they all grow it? I'm free anyway." Grandma looked at her son whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

"Grandma, let's go back first, it's so hot." Cheng Yan said.

"Go back, go back now, can I still warm my grandson when he comes?" Cheng Yan was about to put away the tools, bent down, and picked up the frame and farm tools neatly. There was a towel in the basket, which should be used To wipe sweat.

The three of them went back, and on the way Dad Cheng said: "If you are not willing to let you go to me, I will give you money to let you rest at home. You have nothing to say to me, and you are tossing those few pieces of land again. You're gone, who can help you? What do you do when you're tired?"

"It's not so delicate. It's worth dying in the field as a farmer all your life," said grandma. Living for a few days, it's hard for me... I haven't recovered from the slowdown when I got home."

Said grandma wanted to rub the back of Cheng Yan's head, but the man grew taller, grandma only touched Cheng Yan's back.

"You have to change your shoes when you enter the room. The floor is cleaner than my face. Xiao Li wipes it every day. There is always a car when you go out. I always take a car. I feel sick when I get in that car. Usually, there is no one to talk to." , the neighbors and neighbors have closed doors, you are tormenting me," grandma said with a smile to Cheng Yan, "it's just your small room in the stairs, oops, I feel dizzy when I go in, as soon as I open the door, I go upstairs. Up to this day, I still don’t understand what’s going on.”

"Grandma, that's an elevator, which replaces the stairs." Cheng Yan said with a smile.

Grandma clapped her hands and said, "Last time I wanted to go down to buy something, but it was difficult for me. I just didn't know how to go down. I was so anxious that I couldn't get used to that life."

Father Cheng had nothing to say. The old man had been used to a certain kind of life all his life, and he suddenly took her to the city. He told the illiterate old man that it was really a pain.

The three of them talked and laughed and returned home. In the main room, the fan was hanging on the ceiling, whistling and whirling.

"Is Cheng Cheng on vacation or what?"

Cheng Yan stood by the table and watched his grandma cut watermelon, "On weekends, only two days."

Grandma gave him the watermelon: "Is it tiring to study? You didn't like to study when you were a child, and you are so passionate about cooking beans every day."

"By the way, where are the milk and beans?" Cheng Yan asked.

"The beans have long been gone," said grandma, "the family always steals the dog, and they were taken away by the dog without knowing it. Hey, I picked up the black dog at the door again and brought it up."

"Why are there still dogs stealing?"

"Normally, there is no wall and no courtyard. People drive a car, give them an anesthetic, and then they are taken away by dogs. There are many such things. It's not surprising."

"Don't you care about law and order?"

"Public security," Cheng's father said, "You think this is a city, and there's nothing you can do if you lose something."

Grandma moved a stool in front of Cheng Yan, "Stop talking about it, tell grandma, do you have any friends?"

Dad sat on another bench and looked at Cheng Yan at the door. Cheng Yan was besieged by grandma and said, "Grandma, I'm still in school..."

"Why can't we talk about going to school?" Grandma said, "Your mother married your father when she was 17. How old are you now, but how old are you at [-]? Look, I can't even remember."

"Not yet," Cheng Yan said, "I used to get married early, but now it's different."

Grandma looked at Cheng Yan and said: "How can you not talk about friends, you are so handsome, there is no one you like in school?"

Cheng's father couldn't stand it anymore: "Mom, you are still in school, what friends are you talking about? It will be two years later."

Cheng Yan smirked, this topic was too embarrassing, he had to escape first, stood up and said, "Let me see where the dog went."

Cheng Yan escaped from his grandma's claws, and went to find the dog that he let go, and he didn't know where to go. The village has changed for more than ten years, and Cheng Yan still gave birth, and he looked at all the paths and didn't know where to go .

"Hey, who is that?"

A few boys gathered not far away looked at the stranger Cheng Yan, and several people of similar age looked at Cheng Yan one after another, knowing at a glance that they were not from the village.

Cheng Yan didn't go there, knowing that they were talking about him. They all knew that there was one more stranger in this village, and they had seen it in neighbors and other places. The appearance of a stranger like him must attract attention. Cheng Yan went another way , to find the dog.

Zhao Yibai asked him when he would go back, and Cheng Yan said at night.

I found his dog at the entrance of the village. Cheng Yan liked dogs, but he could remember what grandma's dog looked like at a glance. He called the big black dog, and the dog was willing to respond to him, circling around him.

"Look at that kid from Shikai's family, isn't he handsome?"

"Hey, it doesn't look like our people at first glance, look at that white and clean."

"Can the ones raised in the city be the same as ours..."

Their voices were not loud, they were controlled, but Cheng Yan still heard it, it was a bit impolite to leave like this, he raised his head and said sweetly: "Hello, Auntie."

Not to mention how happy they were, several enthusiastic women called Cheng Yan over to have a chat, but Cheng Yan didn't agree, he likes this kind of meeting and greeting, the familiar atmosphere among neighbors, but chatting is nothing more, he is afraid that he will say hello Bad words, don't offend people, come back after a while.

Cheng Yan dragged the dog back, and when he arrived at the door, Song Yu called him. Cheng Yan held his mobile phone and didn't know what the call was for. He hadn't called the other party since it ended.

Cheng Yan hesitated, waited for a while, and then clicked the answer button.

"Hey."

"Are you not at home?" Song Yu said.

Cheng Yan paused: "How do you know?"

Song Yu said, "I'm at your door."

Cheng Yan frowned and asked, "What are you doing at my door?"

"It's nothing, I'll bring you something," Song Yu said, "When will you be back?"

Cheng Yan was about to say something when he bumped into a boy coming out of his grandma's house. He remembered that one of the group of people just now faced each other. Cheng Yan didn't know what to say, and the other party didn't know what to say. They looked at each other in silence, and in the end Cheng Yan didn't know if he had misunderstood it or had hallucinations. He felt that the other party smiled at him?

Cheng Yan walked home, grandma and dad were standing at the door, Cheng Yan asked: "Grandma, who was that just now?"

Grandma asked back: "You don't recognize it?"

Cheng Yan was puzzled: "Do I know him?"

Grandma tutted and said, "How can you not know him? Haozi, you played with him every day when you were a child, and just came here to ask me if you are back."

"No impression."

Grandma said: "Aren't you the one who pesters people three times a day to get engaged to someone? Every day, Brother Hao Hao calls, and I won't even call you..."

Cheng Yan's memory flooded back in an instant, he was so shameful, he quickly withdrew, and left in front of grandma, his face turned red like a monkey's ass.

It's nothing to run away from his grandma, this matter has spread to other people's ears, Cheng Yan even forgot that he was answering the phone, and when he thinks about it, everyone will be stupid.

He quietly raised the phone, thinking to himself: Song Yu didn't hear, Song Yu didn't hear, didn't hear...

Then, a rather critical tone came from the receiver.

—— "Who are you engaged to?"