Cleanliness

Everything in Jiang Yu was handled properly, Xiao Tong still had some money left in her hand, not much, so she took time to go back to Shangrong.

Once the new year is over, it will be easier to buy tickets. Xiao Tong bought a ticket for [-]:[-] in the morning, and arrived at Shangrong around [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] in the afternoon.This time I got off the bus in the daytime, and there was another road trip before, so she had a general understanding of the new terrain of Shangrong. To be honest, the planning of Rongrong is not bad now, of course it is not as good as Jiang Yu, but the community is well-organized, the roads are wide, and there are parks. The squares are well built.

Xiao Tong plans to return to Shangrong to settle down.

In fact, this is not the best choice. Shangrong is not a pleasant place for Xiao Tong. Xiao Tong can find a small southern town with low prices and slow pace, and the seasons are like spring and the air is fresh. But her grandma is buried here. Xiao Tong has been away from her grandma for so many years, and it is time to come back now.

Fortunately, after so many years, Shangrong has become a completely strange city. No matter the street buildings or the residents living here, they are full of strangeness, and everyone has an indifferent face. It took less than an hour to walk through the two streets of Shangrong. It was this strangeness that made Xiao Tong much less pressured to come back and settle down.

Xiao Tong inquired about it years ago. This month, there are more than 20 frontage buildings on both sides of Erqiao Road. Two rooms, the facade is not big, and each floor is only about 40 square meters.

Xiao Tong went back to the hotel to put his luggage and went to inspect the apartment. The facade facing the street was well lit, and there were residential buildings not far away, so he didn't have to worry about lack of customers.

The land in a small county town is not worth much. Even after several rounds of skyrocketing housing prices, it is only a few thousand yuan per square meter now, and such a small three-story building is about 40 yuan.Xiao Tong stayed in Shangrong County for two more days, looked at seven or eight buildings in a row, and finally settled on a rough building facing east. She paid the bill in full, and got some discounts, and finally sold 36 yuan.

Xiao Tong plans to return to Shangrong to open a tailor shop.

The first half of her life was too vigorous, she had seen the dirtiest filth and the most splendid prosperity, but now, she just wanted to live a normal life.She was originally a person with no desires and ambitions. She had three meals a day with simple tea and light food, and she was contented and happy. This was the truth her grandma used to teach her. The older Xiao Tong was, the more she took it for granted.

After booking a house, the decoration is a big trouble. Xiao Tong found several decoration companies with good reviews in Shangrong County on the Internet, studied left and right and compared them. After looking at them for several days, he finally chose one, the price was slightly higher than the peers, But the evaluation was very good, and they all said that the masters did their work very meticulously, so Xiao Tong made an appointment with that company, and looked for it according to the address they sent her the next day, preparing for a field trip.

That decoration company is not in the county, but in a large building materials market in the city. The company is not large, and there are only a dozen or so people depending on the number of workers. When Xiao Tong arrived, the boss was already waiting at the door. Xiao Tong is still a bit shorter, seeing Xiao Tong approaching, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "Excuse me, is this Miss Xiao?"

Xiao Tong smiled politely and shook hands with him, "Yes, you are Boss Chen?"

"Miss Xiao, you're welcome. I'm not a boss. I'm just doing a small business. They all call me Fatty Chen. You can call me Fatty Chen too."

"Boss Chen was joking."

Xiao Tong followed Boss Chen into his office, and after sitting down, he saw Boss Chen looking at her face probingly, Xiao Tong was immediately alert, "Is Boss Chen okay?"

"Ah?" Boss Chen came back to his senses, "It's okay, it's just that Ms. Xiao looks familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it." Boss Chen turned his attention away from Xiao Tong and called for another design An accountant from the teacher came in and asked Xiao Tong to describe the general layout of the house she was going to decorate and the expected decoration effect. They first made a rough estimate.

Xiao Tong is also a designer. Although she is not an interior decoration designer, she still has her own ideas for decoration. She asked Boss Chen for some A4 papers. I talked to them about the effect I wanted on the first floor, and the designer listened and memorized it. It took them a whole morning to understand all the layout of the three floors. Boss Chen reported an approximate figure, and Xiao Tong predicted The estimated price was about the same, and several people discussed going to the county in the afternoon to look at the house on the spot.

Xiao Tong made an appointment with him in the afternoon, and when Boss Chen sent her out of the company, he just slapped his head and remembered, "I remembered, aren't you Xiao Tong! You went to Banyan High School! Right?"

Xiao Tong's heart skipped a beat, "Are you...?"

"I'm Fatty Chen! Don't you remember? We are in the same class in junior high and high school, and I was on duty with you in high school! Did you forget?"

"Fatty Chen?" Xiao Tong thought about it in his mind, but still couldn't remember it.

"Yeah, you really don't remember me? It's the one who still had a runny nose in junior high school and was always bullied in high school. We've been pushed out by them all the time from junior high school to high school, remember?"

"..." Xiao Tong remembered that he had been excluded from elementary school to high school, but he really didn't remember that there was such a number one person.

"That year, your grandma had a cerebral hemorrhage, or I found out and ran to the school to call you, remember?" Boss Chen said, "I still don't remember?"

"Oh—I remembered." Xiao Tong suddenly realized that there was such a person. He was not so fat when he was in school, but he was honest and easy to bully, so his classmates kept instructing him and letting him Running around.

"I remember now!" Boss Chen sighed, "Hey Xiao Tong, there are more than 60 students in our class, and you are the only one who has the ability! You were admitted to a foreign university without taking the college entrance examination. It’s been many years, and I’m most proud of mentioning you, an internationally renowned designer! How many times have I seen it on TV! Tsk tsk, you’re promising!”

Xiao Tong’s impression of their homeroom teacher is not deep anymore. I remember that when I asked him math problems, he always ignored the answers. After that, Xiao Tong never asked him questions again. Xiao Tong really didn’t know that he had become a His "protégé".

"Designer Xiao, why didn't we go to France and Italy and went back to Shangrong again? What's the point of going back to the bird place?"

"I'm not going to be a designer now." Xiao Tong smiled, "Go back to Shangrong and open a tailor shop. When the shop opens, Boss Chen will come and support it when he has time."

"Where can I afford to go to the shop you opened, don't feel sorry for your old classmates." Boss Chen waved his hand, "I was on a business trip the year before last, and I happened to see your brand store, and I wanted to bring one to my wife. I asked her to be beautiful, but I went in and took a look, okay, a thin coat is more than 3 yuan, and the money I saved will pay for my two children to go abroad in the future, we can’t afford such expensive clothes.”

When mentioning the children, Boss Chen smiled innocently, "They are all old classmates, and I am not afraid of your jokes. I also have to train my two girls well, and strive to make them be like you in the future, no, more capable than you."

Xiao Tong smiled and nodded, "That's natural."

"They're all old classmates, and they're all old classmates who were bullied back then. Go home tomorrow. I'll ask my wife to cook some good dishes for you. I'm not bragging. My wife's dishes are better than restaurants. Eat, and my two daughters, twins! Hehe, my wife is capable, she gave me two births..."

Boss Chen is a warm and honest person. He met an old classmate who was bullied just like himself. Once he opened the chatterbox, he couldn’t stop it. Xiao Tong was patient and listened to him with a smile about his happiness in his childhood now. In the end, Boss Chen came to his senses and felt embarrassed, "I'm just like this. When I mention my wife and children, I can't keep my mouth shut. Don't mind me."

"Boss Chen, you are being polite. It seems that Mrs. Chen is a good wife, and you should love her so much."

"What kind of wife is not a good wife? She has a bad temper and a strong temper, but I can earn this family business, thanks to her supporting me from behind..." Boss Chen felt that he couldn't stop himself, so he quickly shut up and laughed. "Then I'll go to your place to look at the house in the afternoon. Don't worry, I'll tell our old classmates. I will definitely decorate your place properly, and you can't make a mistake in keeping it!"

"I'm relieved with your words."

After walking far away from Boss Chen's company, Xiao Tong gradually remembered Boss Chen.

Who would have thought that such an honest, even a bit stupid person back then could now support a company by himself and start a family, his wife and children are hot on the bed, and when people are happy, they can't hide their faces. The woman is proud and knows how happy his life is now.

Xiao Tong envied him very much.

It's useless to be envious, other people's happiness belongs to others, and Xiao Tong's life can only be lived by himself after all.

Xiao Tong returned to Shangrong County from the city, and had nothing to do in the hotel, so she went back to her grandma's old house.

At that time, the neighbors either went out to work and settled in other cities directly, or they made some money and bought new houses in a better community in the county. The earthen walls are rotten, only a few households have clothes hanging on the clothesline in front of the door, and the rest are gone.

Xiao Tong followed her memory to find her grandma's house back then. She thought that the house had long been covered with dust and spider webs, but she didn't expect that the house had obviously been cleaned up. Although it was dilapidated, the yard was very tidy and there were people living there. Only the scene.

"Is anyone there?" Xiao Tong called from the yard.

A woman came out of the low bungalow, followed by two children, a girl and a boy. The girl was older, about ten years old, and the boy was very young, only five or six years old.

The woman was obviously panicked when she saw Xiao Tong, and the two children were even more afraid of grabbing the woman's clothes and had to hide behind her.

"Who are you looking for?" the woman asked warily with her arms around the child.

"Excuse me, is this Ms. Xiao Yanmei's house?" Xiao Tong smiled and took a step back, expressing that he had no malice, "I am her granddaughter."

The woman yelled, "What Xiao Yanmei, I don't know this person at all, this is my husband's house, you have found the wrong place, hurry up!"

husband?Xiao Tong frowned, feeling bad, "Is your husband Lame Chen?"

The expression on the woman's face was obviously tense. She hugged the child and became nervous, "The others are dead, what else do you want! I said I have no money! I don't know the money he owes! I have nothing to do with him , you... go to anyone who owes you gambling debts! If there is a wronged person and a debtor, why do you come to me!"

"Cripple Chen is dead?"

"Dead, he died a long time ago, he was forced to death by you gang of debt collectors, hmph, you forced him to death, and you came to pretend to be innocent with me again!"

Xiao Tong was stunned, and asked: "These two children belong to you and Chen Xizi?"

"What do you want to do? Do you still want to take my child and sell it? Let me tell you, unless I die! I don't believe that there is no king's law now!"

Xiao Tong looked at this woman with a vicissitudes of life, and then at the two timid and thin children behind her, feeling complicated.

According to blood relationship, these two children are her younger siblings.

Xiao Tong came from their age, and she knew how hard it would be to be the children of the crippled Chen.

"Ma'am, you misunderstood." Xiao Tong put his tone as softly as possible, "This house is currently under my name, and I received a notice last year that it was going to be demolished, and the demolished house was divided. There is also a demolition fund. Since you are Chen Laizi's wife, you are the legal heir of this house. I want to transfer the demolition house to your name. The demolition fund will be considered as the education fund for the two children. , do you think when you have time, go with me to go through the transfer procedures?"

The woman obviously didn't believe that there would be such a good thing in the world, so she asked with her thin neck, "Really?"

"I'll pay for all the expenses. You don't need to spend any money anyway. It's true or not. After you and I go through the formalities, it will be clear."

"Then I don't want a house." The woman said, "I don't want to stay in this ghostly place anymore. You sell the house and call me all the money and demolition fees. I will take the child away immediately after taking the money. Stay longer."

Xiao Tong understood the predicament in which she wanted to escape, smiled gently, and said hello, the woman was relieved, and there was even a hint of joy of finally being relieved on her face.

If you want the demolition fee and don't want to move back to the house, the procedures will be done faster. Xiao Tong took advantage of the vacancy of his facade decoration, and went to complete the relevant procedures with the woman. In addition to the demolition fee, Xiao Tong added another 10 yuan to go in. , Not much money, just a little thought for the two children.

Xiao Tong hated and loathed her father himself, and had no extra feelings for her two "brothers and sisters" other than sympathy, but it was not too late, the woman could find a new one with the money. Starting a new life in the city, buying a small house and starting a small business is enough for her to raise her two children well.

There are millions of people in the world. Some people are born with a golden spoon in their mouths. Some people are destined to struggle to survive in this world. Xiao Tong is not God. Helping them once is the limit of his ability. It depends on how he goes in the future. they themselves.

The house has already started to be renovated, and it is expected to be completed in two to three months. With an old classmate checking in, Xiao Tong doesn't have to keep an eye on it, so he went back to Jiang Yu and told Mo Xiyuan about his plan.

"Do you have to go back to Shangrong?" Mo Xiyuan thought: "You don't want to be a designer, you want to be a tailor, why can't you do it? Shangrong is too far away, I'm really worried that you are there alone .”

"If Shangrong doesn't have my grandma, then it doesn't matter where I am, but where my grandma is, that's my home."

Mo Xiyuan said: "Jiang Yu can also be your home, I am your sister, and my home is your home."

"No, your family is Mo's, sister, you know it in your heart."

Of course, Mo Xiyuan knew that the Mo family was the Mo family, and with such an embarrassing existence like Xiao Tong, even if he lived in the Mo family, he could only be a guest, otherwise what would happen?The whole city announces that Xiao Tong is Mo Xiyuan's half-sister?Isn't this clearly saying that the late mistress of the Mo family was not clean?The Mo family's century-old reputation will be lost.

"Okay." Mo Xiyuan sighed, "In another 20 years, when the next heir of the Mo family has hardened wings, I will also leave this entangled family and accompany you to open a tailor shop. You will be there first. Show me the way."

"Come on, it's just you?" Xiao Tong said with a smile, "Your hand is not a hand for holding a needle. Don't be a tailor who hasn't learned how to prick a hole in your hand. When you wash your hands, water goes in from the palm and comes out from the back of your hand. It's become a clepsydra."

Mo Xiyuan raised her eyebrows, "Okay, Xiao Tong, now I have learned to laugh at your sister."

Xiao Tong immediately became serious, "No sister, I dare not!"

Xiao Tong has no place to stay in Jiang Yu now. She originally wanted to rent a house for two months before returning to Shangrong, but Mo Xi originally decided to let Xiao Tong live in Mo's house. "What's wrong with Mo's house? Can I eat you?" ? Just treat you as my guest, come to be my guest, okay?"

"I'm used to being comfortable alone, and I can't stand the rules and regulations of your big families."

"There are no rules. I think you watch too many TV shows." Mo Xiyuan laughed at her, "My father is now devoting himself to worshiping the Buddha, and uncles and relatives don't live in this house. I live alone in such a big house. , you are leaving, maybe you will settle down in Shangrong in this life, just stay in Jiangyu for two months, can't you spend more time with your sister?"

"...All right." Xiao Tong looked at Mo Xiyuan's expectant eyes, and reluctantly agreed.

Now Xiao Tong is really an idler, and she didn't let herself be idle. While still in Jiang Yu, she went to several famous cloth shops. The owners of the cloth shops were all her former acquaintances. I said hello, and I will be notified in time when there is a new one. Maybe Xiao Tong will buy from here in the future.This is the most worrying thing about opening a store by herself. She has to do everything by herself. She is lucky, and she met an old classmate in the decoration, otherwise she would have to worry more.

After shopping around the cloth store for a few days, I bought a few pieces of sample cloth and a few rolls of thread. Xiao Tong was going to embroider a handkerchief for Mo Xiyuan, as a souvenir for her sister. time.

Xiao Tong's embroidery is good, there is a branch of wintersweet on the pure white handkerchief, it is pure and elegant, Mo Xiyuan couldn't put it down after receiving it, he seemed to be able to faintly smell the fragrance of plum blossoms, he couldn't help feeling that Xiao Tong is really a pair of skillful hands.

"A handkerchief embroidered by Designer Xiao himself. If it is auctioned, can it be sold for several million?" Mo Xiyuan joked while holding the handkerchief embroidered by Xiao Tong.

Xiao Tong didn't get annoyed, instead he teased her, "It's said that there is no profiteering and no business, and it's true, everyone has fallen into the eyes of money."

"Who are you calling a profiteer? I haven't seen you in a year. I don't know that Mr. Xiao is still so mean." A clear voice came from outside, accompanied by hearty laughter, Xiao Tong and Mo Xiyuan stopped laughing Nao, looked out at the same time, it turned out to be Xu Yiqing.

"Yiqing? Why are you here so early?" Mo Xiyuan got up and asked Xu Yiqing to sit down. The butler had already ordered tea to be served and placed it on the coffee table.

"I'm almost suffocated at home, so I have to come out to get some air anyway." Xu Yiqing took a sip of tea, moved to Xiao Tong's side and exclaimed in a low voice, "Wow! What a delicate handkerchief! Xiao Tong, please embroider one for me too." ?I beg you."

I haven't seen her for a year, Xu Yiqing has grown a lot taller, but she is still an innocent girl with a baby face, pulling Xiao Tong's arm and acting like a baby, which doesn't make people feel out of harmony at all.

Mo Xiyuan laughed at her, "Okay, if you want to act like a baby, go find your sister, don't pester Xiao Tong."

"Who made me worship Xiao Tong? Hey, Xiao Tong, since you stopped working as a designer, I don't even have the motivation to go shopping now..." Xu Yiqing let go of Xiao Tong's arm and lay on her back on the sofa, "My sister ? My sister is like the Lord of Hades, I dare not mess with her."

Mo Xiyuan said: "Let you know how to play all day long, the legitimate heir of the Xu family, but your sister took over the power."

"Take it away, anyway, I don't care about being the heir of Lao Shizi, and I've been taught this and that all day long, and my head is getting bigger. Anyway, now that Xu Xi is late, I'm so happy, I don't have to Those who study law and economics have a lot of pocket money every month, hehe, life is beautiful."

"..." Mo Xi originally thought that Mr. Xu was also a powerful figure before his death, and his eldest daughter Xu Xiwan was an unfavored illegitimate daughter who had been growing wild outside, but her temperament and ways of doing things were very similar. Mr. Xu is even better than Mr. Xu. On the contrary, Mr. Xu's youngest daughter, Xu Yiqing, who has always been pampered by his side, is innocent and ignorant of world affairs, not at all like the Xu family.

Fortunately, Xu Yiqing did not threaten Xu Xiwan, otherwise Xu Yiqing would not know how she died.

"You came alone? Where's Xu Xiwan?"

"At the hotel, last night I took Xiaoxing to eat supper, so I ate an extra bite of ice cream. As a result, she vomited and had diarrhea in the middle of the night, and I regretted it to death. You didn't look at my sister's eyes, just I almost found a hammer to beat me to the ground, and now I feel better, my sister took her to the hotel to rest, let me tell you, she will come back in two days."

"Well, say hello to your sister for me, so she doesn't have to worry, by the way, butler." Mo Xiyuan called the butler to come in, "You ask Dr. Zhou to take a look, it's just the beginning of spring, the child's resistance is weak, don't worry Watch out for another cold."

"Yes."

Xu Yiqing gave Mo Xiyuan a bright smile, "Sister Xiyuan, let me thank you for Xiaoxing."

"Okay, I still have something to do, you guys play."

After Mo Xiyuan left, Xu Yiqing gossiped to Xiao Tong mysteriously, "Hey, I saw Yu Qinghan today."

Xiao Tong was putting away the needle and thread in the box, when he accidentally pricked his fingertip with the needle, blood beads immediately ooze out.

"Oh." Xiao Tong nonchalantly took out a paper towel to wipe off the blood on his fingers, and continued to pack his things.

"To be honest, I've never seen Yu Qinghan lose his mind like that before."

Xiao Tong raised his eyes, "Are you here to be a lobbyist for Yu Qinghan?"

"Where do you want to go?" Xu Yiqing was angry, "Although I am Yu Qinghan's aunt according to my seniority, I am firmly on your side to support you! It's not like I haven't heard of Yu Qinghan before, Xiao Tong , You are right, to be honest, with Yu Qinghan's virtue, you are the only one who can bear her for so many years, if I were you, I would have kicked Yu Qinghan long ago."

Xu Yiqing had a baby face, looked like a child, and spoke like an adult, Xiao Tong couldn't get angry with her, so he laughed and said: "Don't mention her, by the way, What are you doing in Jiang Yu? How many days are you going to stay?"

"The second uncle of the Mo family will turn 50 in a few days. As usual, the Mo family will hold a birthday banquet. Not only the Xu family, but also people from several big families have come. By the way, Xiao Tong, I thought you and Mo Xiyuan It's a deadly enemy, I didn't expect you to have a good relationship?"

"Well, I was sick some time ago...she helped me a lot."

Xu Yiqing blinked at Xiao Tong ambiguously with an expression of guessing the secret, "I felt that the two of you are on good terms when I entered the door just now. Anyway, you are single now, why not consider Mo Xiyuan? The current head of the Mo family , her private life has been clean all these years, and her character and character are not picky, she is [-] times better than Yu Qinghan."

"..." Seeing her gossiping face, Xiao Tong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and prevaricated, "Let's talk about it." Then he took the sewing box and went back to his room.

Xu Yiqing actually wanted to match her with her own sister?Xiao Tong got goosebumps when he thought about it.

……

On the day of the birthday banquet, there was an endless stream of cars driving into Mo's house. Xiao Tong knew how to prepare water and food the night before, and hid in his room not to come out, so as not to encounter any guests who could not explain clearly.

Mo Xiyuan has been busy since she opened her eyes in the morning, so she couldn't spare any energy to take care of Xiao Tong's side, so she just ordered the housekeeper to remember to bring tea and food to Xiao Tong, and then went to entertain the guests.

Yu Qingming and Yu Qinghan came to the Yu family, and now the Yu family and the Mo family are arguing in private, but they still have to do enough on the surface, Mo Xiyuan smiled politely, and toasted with Yu Qingming , as naturally as if nothing happened.

Yu Qinghan came here for only one purpose, and that was to meet Xiao Tong. The exchange of cups among these businessmen and politicians has nothing to do with her. She only showed up at the beginning of the banquet, and then disappeared with the skirt of her dress .

Yu Qinghan was either in Yu's house or Mo's house when she was a child, and she was as familiar with Mo's house as she was in her own house. When she came out, she kept an eye out for anyone delivering food to the main house, and she saw The cook carried the food box to the main house where Mo Xiyuan lived. Yu Qinghan slipped the high-heeled shoes in her hand and followed on tiptoe. She saw the cook enter a room next to Mo Xiyuan's bedroom. When she came out, she had already There was no food box, so Yu Qinghan waited for a few minutes until the cook left before knocking on the door.

"Who is it?" the person inside asked.

When Yu Qinghan heard this voice, her heart was already pounding.

"Who is it?" Xiao Tong asked again.

Yu Qinghan didn't answer, but knocked on the door again.

Xiao Tong combed back the short, disheveled hair on his forehead casually, and got out of bed with bare feet to open the door.

Xiao Tong didn't expect Yu Qinghan to enter the main house of the Mo family so easily, opened the door and saw her face, endured a few times before resisting the urge to slam the door hard.

"What do you want to do again?" Xiao Tong's foreheads were twitching on both sides. She didn't understand which sentence she didn't speak clearly, or which action she made gave Yu Qinghan and the others the illusion of hope, which made Yu Qinghan feel hopeful. Qinghan is so persistent, in short, she has begun to physically loathe Yu Qinghan now.

"The banquet is boring, I came to play with you." Yu Qinghan ignored the impatience on Xiao Tong's face, showed a big smile, and wanted to squeeze into Xiao Tong's room.

Xiao Tong didn't want to let her in, but Yu Qinghan could come in from the main house, maybe someone else could come in later, Xiao Tong didn't want to cause trouble for Mo Xiyuan today, so he opened the door and let Yu Qinghan in.

The author has something to say: Sorry for the busy moving on weekends, and the update will resume from today