Li Xingruo, who was lying on the window, hid behind the curtains and peeked down, just like when he was a child, he would put down his books and watch cartoons when his parents went out.
But now it is different from her childhood. She no longer watches cartoons, her parents are not at home, and she can do more adult things.
Lin Lu stood behind her, a pair of thick and warm hands hugged her from behind, and gently landed on her flat belly. He also stood at the window with her, peeking out through the gaps in the curtains.
The afternoon sun was shining brightly, and an electric car drove leisurely out of the door of the house. The future mother-in-law took the future father-in-law and rode the electric car back towards the village outside the town.
"Hey, isn't Uncle Li driving back?"
"Idiot, my dad just drank. When my uncle and his friends come back tonight, he will definitely drink again. My mom can't drive, so they will go back on an electric bike."
"Sister Xingruo, I feel like I've seen what we will look like in the future."
"What does it look like?"
"Just like auntie carries Uncle Li, won't it be the same when you carry me too?"
Hearing what Lin Lu said, Li Xingruo suddenly felt quite romantic. Just like he wouldn't feel romantic when he sees young men and women walking hand in hand in the park on weekdays, but he does when he sees white-haired grandparents walking hand in hand in the park.
It will feel very romantic. Time is the best catalyst for everything.
"Then sister will take you to do some grown-up things later!"
"What's up?"
Lin Lu perked up as soon as he heard this, and his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up. He thought to himself that Sister Xingruo was so brave. As soon as Uncle Li and Auntie left home, would she dare to do adult things with him?!
"I'll take you for a ride on an electric bike too!"
"..."
"What's going on with your disappointed expression?"
"I thought……"
"What do you think?!"
"No... I thought the electric bike at home was taken away by my aunt and the others, but I didn't expect that Sister Xingruo still has one?"
"Of course, I won the one I won in a lottery, and the one my mom rides was bought by herself."
"That's great, let's go for a ride now!"
"Pack your things first!"
Li Xingruo slapped away his hand around her waist, and Lin Lu had no choice but to go over and get the suitcase. The clothes they brought back this time were not too many, and they were all packed in one suitcase.
There are three rooms on the second floor. Last night, Chen Yingping had already cleaned the second floor, tidied up her daughter's room and Lin Lu's room, laid out clean sheets, and put on clean ones.
bedding.
"You can sleep in this room tonight!"
Lin Lu's room is separated from Li Xingruo's room by a living room, because this room is not usually occupied, and the furnishings are very simple. The other room is Li Xingruo's study, which also has a small bed, but there are more
The little girl has not lost any of the books and study materials she has accumulated over the years of studying. She even still has the textbooks from elementary school.
"I thought aunt would arrange for me to live with Sister Xingruo."
"What are you thinking about? It's a good thing my mother didn't let you live on the third floor!"
Lin Lu opened the suitcase, took out some of his clothes and put them on the bed. The rest were Li Xingruo's things.
"Sister Xingruo."
"What are you doing? If you dare to sneak into my room in the middle of the night, if my mother finds out, my father will definitely break your legs."
"...I didn't say this! Even if Sister Xingruo invites me to go, I wouldn't dare to go!"
"Humph, I think that's what you think."
"Sister Xingruo, don't judge my belly with your own heart!"
"Then what do you want to say?"
Li Xingruo sat on his bed. After all, this was her home. Although it was his bed at the moment, she felt that it was also her bed. She lay down on his bed carelessly and rolled on his quilt with a groan.
Son, she really likes the smell of clean quilts mixed with washing powder and sunshine.
"Sister Xingruo, do you think Auntie and the others have suspected that we have done something?" Lin Lu also lay down next to her, leaned into her ear and whispered in her ear.
"Which what?" Li Xingruo glared at him with a slightly red face.
"That's what Sister Xingruo is thinking about now."
"……How can it be?!"
She has always been a good girl in front of her parents, but just thinking about this kind of thing makes her head smoke with embarrassment.
Not to mention, Lin Lu reminded her, and Li Xingruo recalled it carefully. It seemed that when she first came back, her mother looked at her more carefully and curiously than usual.
"They asked you?"
"No, how could you ask me? I look like an honest person."
"Pooh!"
Li Xingruo rolled his eyes. If Lin Lu was an honest person, there wouldn't be any gangsters in the world. It was fine in the past. But now when he hugs her, his hands keep digging into her clothes when he gets the chance. She even wants to use a knife to kill her.
He chopped it.
"Don't care what my parents think. Anyway, when in front of them, just be honest and don't do anything, you know?"
"How dare I! It seems that the person who did this is Sister Xingruo, right?"
Li Xingruo rushed up to him, sat on him, and covered his head with a pillow. The two of them were playing around and were very happy.
Sure enough, the time when she came back with Lin Lu became much more interesting. She had someone to talk to and chat with, and someone to play with without shame. In the past, when she went home, she would be bored by herself.
On the second floor, I'm probably playing with my phone on the sofa with my legs crossed right now.
How can a mobile phone be as fun as a forest road?
Li Xingruo climbed on Lin Lu's back and lay on his back, asking him to be her horse. She patted him, and Lin Lu meowed, carried her suitcase on his back and went to her room to help her pack her things.
"You are a horse! Not a sheep! How can a horse bleat?"
"What's the horse's name?"
"Horses clatter!"
"Sister Xingruo can learn it well, but I can't, so I'll ride you next time."
"Go away, who wants to ride for you! Walk quickly, walk quickly!"
"Sister Xingruo sent the wrong command, the password is wrong, I won't leave."
"Drive~! Drive~!"
"咴咴!!"
Lin Lu carried her around the house, and Li Xingruo lay on his back, hugging his neck tightly, giggling happily.
Girls are like this. As long as someone pampers her, no matter how old she is, she will be like a little girl who has not grown up. Such a sweet mood is the best tonic for reducing age.
Compared with the guest room on Lin Road, the furnishings and arrangements in Li Xingruo's room are much richer, and it has a strong smell of a girl's room.
"Oops!"
Li Xingruo, who was taking clothes from the suitcase, said annoyed.
"What's wrong?"
"I forgot to bring back the quilt!"
"...By the way, what is the origin of Sister Xingruo's little quilt?"
"From childhood to adulthood."
"Shouldn't it be that Sister Xingruo has been using it since she was a baby?" Lin Lu was shocked.
"..."
Li Xingruo didn't answer him. This was the first time in so many years that the quilt was missing when traveling. I hope the quilt wouldn't blame her.
"It's all your fault. It's all your fault."
"Sister Xingruo forgot to bring it with her. What does this have to do with me..."
It must have something to do with this stinky brother. He has been sleeping with her these days, so that she has not slept with the quilt in her arms these days. She also sleeps very well because she brought Lin Lu back this time.
That's why he forgot the little quilt. It's not his fault or anyone else's fault. If he has trouble sleeping tonight, he will definitely be responsible.
Lin Lu opened her closet curiously. In addition to her previous textbooks, she also kept her school uniform. Lin Lu took out her school uniform from the closet as if he had discovered a treasure.
"Is this the school uniform of Sister Xingruo High School?"
"Yeah, oh, don't turn it out, it will get dirty later..."
"Sister Xingruo, quickly change into your school uniform and let me take a look!"
"Not wearing it."
"Change it on. Don't sister Xingruo want to experience the youth of wearing school uniform? Change it."
"...There's really nothing I can do against you."
What Lin Lu took was a winter school uniform jacket. Unlike his high school uniform, which was black and white, hers was blue and white.
Not to mention, when my 22-year-old sister put on the high school uniform of a 16- or 17-year-old girl, the pure and astringent feeling of youth immediately spread across her face, making Lin Lu's eyes suddenly light up.
"That's great. Sister Xingruo should keep her school uniform."
"...I seem to have seen your dirty thoughts."
"I didn't say anything!"
Lin Lu was like a treasure hunt, looking for traces of Li Xingruo's growth. He wandered from her room to the study room and looked at the textbooks she had used before. Sister Xingruo was really amazing. Her grades had been very good since elementary school.
, he saw her previous homework books and test papers, the papers had begun to turn yellow with the passage of time, the clumsy and cute handwriting, all the awards she had received while studying, and the letters on her student ID card
Teacher's message...
On the bookshelf, Lin Lu also found several of her photo albums. It turned out that Sister Xingruo had short hair like a boy in her childhood. She looked like a little boy and looked ugly. Then
After entering junior high school, she gradually grew her hair longer. When she was in high school, her hair was cut shorter and became shoulder-length. Now, her hair has reached her waist.
From her belongings and photos, Lin Lu saw all the details of the neighbor's sister's growth, so Sister Xingruo became more real in his eyes. He seemed to have seen her entire life and sighed at such a person.
My lovely sister appeared next to me.
Perhaps this was the biggest gain from this trip to Liangxi. For the first time, Lin Lu truly felt that he was integrated into her life journey.
"Oh, don't look at it! It's so ugly! What's so good about it!"
"No, Sister Xingruo is very cute."
Li Xingruo rushed over, snatched the photo album from his hand, closed it and put it back in its place. If he didn't let him look at it again, he always felt that it would be more dark history.
Looking at the time, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. They originally wanted to rest, but now both of them were in high spirits. Even if they were lying in bed, they would never sleep obediently.
Li Xingruo opened the drawer and took out the key to the electric car: "Let's go, sister will take you for a walk in Wutong Town!"
"Really or not, does Sister Xingruo know the way?"
"Put away your contemptuous words! In Wutong Town, I won't get lost even if I close my eyes!"
With a late souvenir for her grandparents, Li Xingruo locked the door and took Lin Lu to ride around Wutong Town on her winning Xingruo electric car.
As a tour guide, she was responsible for riding the bike, while Lin Lu stuck behind her like a backpack. The electric bike rode slowly and leisurely. He looked curiously and seriously at the town where she grew up.
"This is the market!"
“So lively!”
"It's a festival. Usually it's very deserted at this time. Like the New Year or something, it's very lively. People who go to work outside have all come back."
Li Xingruo is keen on taking Lin Lu to visit places in the town that have her unique memories, such as this barber shop. She told Lin Lu that she used to get her hair cut here when she was a child.
"Does the boss only know how to get a crew cut?" Lin Lu said with a smile.
"Hey, how do you know."
"I saw that Sister Xingruo often cut her hair very short when she was little."
"...What do you know? Short hair is easy to take care of!"
"Is this Sister Xingruo's old middle school?"
"Yes, I was number one in the school back then!"
"awesome."
"Have you seen this small stationery store at the school gate? It has been open for thirty or forty years. It has been there since my dad was in middle school."
"Old antique!"
"Hmm, that's about right. There's also this candy shop. The candy inside is very cheap."
"Then doesn't Sister Xingruo eat sugar water every day?"
"No way! We didn't have much pocket money at that time, only ten yuan a week, and I still had to buy a pen and a notebook!"
"Hey, are these Uncle Li's hardware store and Aunt Chen's clothing store?"
"Hey, can you recognize it?"
"As Sister Xingruo said before, Uncle Li and Aunt Li's stores are adjacent to each other. Now both of them are closed. You can guess it right away."
"Humph, the town is too small!"
Yes, Wutong Town is really small, but the forest roads feel very rich. Walking there, you feel like time has slowed down. Nearly half of the various small shops you saw have been open for more than ten years.
Over the years, in the context of the ever-changing times, the signboards of these small shops have not even been changed, and the same shop has been passed down for three generations.
It took less than half an hour for the two of them to finish visiting Wutong Town. Maybe in the past when he came to such a small town, there might not be any disturbance on the forest road, but this was precisely the town where she was born and raised.
With her emotional blessing, Lin Lu enjoyed the stroll. He would imagine her as a little girl walking in such a small town, who she would meet, what words she would say, and every bit of life.
Draw her now, stroke by stroke.
After leaving the town, Li Xingruo took him on an electric bike on the country road back to the village. At around four o'clock in the afternoon, a few white clouds came from the sky, bringing a big shade, so the two of them rode
Walk in the shadow of this cloud.
There are vast fields on both sides of the rural road. As far as the eye can see, there are rice fluttering in the wind, a vast expanse of green, the sky is blue and clear, the creek winding far away has gurgling water, and there are a few ducks floating by the pond.
He stepped on the green waves and fluttered his wings on the water, tilting his head to look at them curiously.
Li Xingruo told him that the rice planted now is the second season. It was planted in June and has now begun to bear ears. It will be harvested in a month or two.
"Has Sister Xingruo ever harvested rice?"
"Yes, but it's very tiring! Now most people rent harvesters to cut crops. The village also launched a project to let city people experience harvesting. Last year, many city people came to experience it."
"Isn't it just like picking strawberries or citrus? You have to pay to pick them yourself, and you have to pay by the kilogram after you finish the work. It's still expensive..."
"Yes, you must not be so stupid to experience it. You will be laughed at by the villagers. You have to pay to do farm work and have nothing to do."
"I won't cut the crops. When the autumn harvest comes, I will bring my drawing board over to sketch."
"Well, the scenery is indeed pretty."
The electric car drove into the village, and Li Xingruo pointed to a certain two-story building, where her grandparents lived.
There were two cars parked at the door, as well as the electric car that Uncle Li and Auntie rode over. The door to the small courtyard was open. From a distance, Lin Lu could hear the excitement in the small courtyard.
"My uncle and the others are back!"
"It's over, Sister Xingruo, I'm a little nervous again."
"There are a lot of people. Anyway, you can just follow my name."
The two got out of the car, picked up their gifts, and walked into the yard side by side.
Lin Lu's guess was correct. There were really many people in the yard. Although there were only a dozen or so, in his eyes they looked like a vast sea. As he and Li Xingruo walked in together, everyone in the yard began to wonder.
They all stopped talking, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes focused on him.
Lin Lu could guess that the two old people among them were Li Xingruo's grandparents, and two pairs of middle-aged men and women, who were probably her uncles and aunts, and then there was a young man who was older than Li Xingruo, probably.
Her cousin, the girl who looked to be about a grade one or two in high school, was probably Li Xingruo's cousin.
"Xiao Ruo and Xiao Lin are back. Your grandparents and uncles are chatting with you. You came back just in time. Xiao Ruo, please introduce them to them!" Chen Yingping on the side said with a smile.
Although Lin Lu was a little nervous, he still behaved very calmly. Before Li Xingruo's introduction, he did not show any stage fright. With a sunny smile on his face, he nodded gently to everyone who looked over.
The uncle on the side also quickly moved two chairs and put them next to the coffee table for them to sit down. The third uncle also started to pour tea from a cup. The grandparents were a little presbyopic, so they also leaned forward slightly with a smile to try to see the young man's face clearly.
"He, he is Lin Lu."
Obviously, compared to her own small home, in such a big family, Li Xingruo was more nervous and shy than Lin Lu. After introducing Lin Lu to everyone, she introduced her family to Lin Lu.
"This is my grandfather."
"Hello grandpa!"
"grandmother."
"Hello grandma!"
"Hey, good, the young man is really tall!"
"Uncle."
"Hello, uncle!"
After saying hello to each of our relatives respectively, we are considered to have gotten to know each other.
Everyone here was very enthusiastic, and Lin Lu didn’t need to think of any topics to chat with. Everyone would take the initiative to ask him questions. Lin Lu only needed to answer them openly. Most of the time, he didn’t need to answer, because people on the sidelines were very enthusiastic.
Uncle Li and Aunt Chen will help them answer, while he and Li Xingruo are only responsible for being the atmosphere team and laughing.
"I said, Ah Hua, look at Xiaoruo, she has already brought her boyfriend home. When will it be your turn to bring a girlfriend home for everyone to see?"
"...Isn't that what I'm looking for!"
Hearing this, Li Xingruo had no choice but to say sorry to his cousin in his heart. Cousin, I didn't mean to stab you in the back, Brother Hua! If they didn't rush you, they would rush me!
"Yes, yes, brother Hua, hurry up and find a girlfriend! I also want to see what my future sister-in-law looks like!" Li Xingruo also added.
You really can't tell me how it feels to go from being betrayed by the army of people who want to force you to get married to becoming an army of people who want to force you to get married!
My cousin suddenly felt overwhelmed, why did Xiaoruo suddenly become single? My cousin was only in the first year of high school, so he was left to fight alone!
Compared with the lunch meal, this meal in the evening was much more lively. Everyone sat around a huge round table, which was full of delicacies. My grandparents usually stayed at home in a deserted place, but today they saw it like this
Everyone was here, and Ruoruo even brought her boyfriend to the door, and she was in a particularly high mood.
"Xiao Lin, treat yourself as your own family, so don't be polite."
"Hmm, it's so rich!"
The elders were so enthusiastic that Lin Lu ate until his stomach bulged, and he even drank two glasses of wine with his grandfather, Uncle Li, and the others.
After dinner, the moonlight also fell, and grandma started busy worshiping the moonlight. Lin Lu and Li Xingruo also went to burn incense together.
Cousin Ahua also made several Kongming lanterns and asked Lin Lu, Li Xingruo and his little cousin to go outside to play with the lanterns.
The candlelight illuminated their faces, and Lin Lu and Li Xingruo raised the Kongming Lantern together.
"Sister Xingruo, have you finished making your wish?"
"Okay! Let it go!"
The sky lantern carrying the wishes of the two people floated slowly, and under the reflection of the moonlight, it opened a deep and beautiful trajectory.