Wu Tao tried to make a few calls during the period when Xu Xilin was half dead, but Xu Xilin didn't answer, so he stopped contacting him. He heard that he was a physical education teacher after graduation.

It is also a world that makes people think of people. When I was a child, I often stay in the local area when I grew up. When I was a child, I would go further and further. When I was a child, I would be the most troublemaker. I often live a simple and down-to-earth life. When I was a child, I would be worried about what I learned well and make people worry... In the future, I might become more and more rebellious and rebellious in those rebellions that did not diverge in my early years.

Instead, he was old and grew up and persistently left messages and called Xu Xilin, and used his shameless spirit of dog skin plaster, becoming the only high school classmate whom Xu Xilin had contact after graduation.

In those years, Xu Xilin never went to the group of high school classmates, did not watch them chat or attend any gatherings.

He didn't know how to face his former classmates.

It’s not that Xu Xilin doesn’t believe in Lao Cheng and Wu Tao. Although those two people are two hundred and five bastards, they are not willing to spread other people’s private affairs all over the world. However, if they don’t promote them, it doesn’t mean they don’t tell others. After all, after going to college or even leaving society, middle school classmates who know the roots all become their own people, talking to each other without any restraint, and occasionally leaking a few words.

Where can there be airtight walls in the world?

Instead of believing it all day long or suspicious of others' harsh words, Xu Xilin simply doesn't expect anyone to keep a secret for him.

After Cai Jing was sentenced, they found out where he was locked up. Several times someone wanted to send things, but when he saw him, Cai Jing refused to see him. After Xu Xilin's work stabilized, suddenly one day Lao Cheng called him and said that a classmate had visited Cai Jing and he seemed to be willing to meet people.

The two of them hurriedly made an appointment to see Cai Jing once.

Cai Jing was shaved with a thin flat head and wearing a prison suit. Xu Xilin hardly recognized him at first sight. Cai Jing, who stayed in his memory, was still a talented and beautiful boy, and had nothing to do with the gloomy man in front of him. Some of the boy's unstrapped bones had been sharpened into a rough outline by the iron window, and it had nothing to do with the word "pretentious". He also gained weight, but his complexion of calm and gentle temperament was gone, and he had a certain complex slickness and calmness.

Seeing them, Cai Jing just smiled politely and distantly, and said, "I almost didn't recognize it."

Xu Xilin knew that he was beyond recognition in the eyes of others.

Lao Cheng didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to ask: "How are you doing in the past few years?"

Cai Jing said lightly: "What else can you do now? Just that."

He was like a topic terminator, and he kept both of them speechless.

When meeting old classmates, it is nothing more than recalling the past and communicating their own lives. Unfortunately, even if Xu Xilin and Lao Chengdu feel that they live like dogs, they are not inconvenient to bark in front of Cai Jing.

The three of them used to sit at the front and back tables, and they were all day long, and sometimes they had to call each other at night, and no one talked too much. Now they sat together with big eyes, looking at each other, and they were speechless in the opposite direction.

Lao Cheng coughed dryly and signaled Xu Xilin to save the scene with his eyes.

Xu Xilin scraped his stomach for a moment and said to Cai Jing: "We saved some money and planned to open a skewer shop called 'Grandpa', right near your house, in the future..."

When Cai Jing heard this, he glanced at him. As soon as Xu Xilin touched his eyes, he knew that he had said something stupid. He could see that Cai Jing was not only not moved by this little thought, but also felt a little ridiculous.

Xu Xilin thought about it again and found that it was indeed, putting himself in his shoes. If he and Cai Jing were in a different place, he would not want to mention the word "going home". There was no family at home, and there was only a bastard's resentment soul. Why do you go back?

When they were young, they also remembered that the sincerity they had in the past was actually quite ridiculous.

However, although Cai Jing's expression was untouched, he still accepted their stupid and embarrassing kindness and nodded politely: "Call 'Grandpa'? OK, I'll go and take a look in the future, but I don't know when I will wait."

The three of them stared at each other and forced to chat for a while. The things were delivered and the people had to leave.

Xu Xilin and Lao Cheng had actually discussed on the way to come. When they met Cai Jing, don’t ask him why he did that thing back then. However, Lao Cheng was a scheming person who couldn’t hold back. He couldn’t help it. Before leaving, he asked Cai Jing too much: “Old Cai, why were you doing that at that time?”

Cai Jing still had a smile on his face, shook his head, but said, "It's been gone, I've long forgotten."

Xu Xilin raised his hand and pressed the back of his head, forced him to break him back, waved his hand at Cai Jing, signaling him to come back after a while.

Times have changed, and once again, will you pull out that knife?

This kind of question is like "Do you still like someone again?" and it doesn't make sense.

After leaving Cai Jing, Lao Cheng solemnly said to Xu Xilin: "I want to open a skewer shop. Can you help me?"

It is not easy to open a skewer shop, the main resistance comes from Lao Cheng’s family.

Although Lao Cheng missed his first choice, he also went to a major university degree. After graduation, he was asked by his parents and was admitted to a civil servant for several months. He had just been admitted to a civil servant for half a year. It is said that he has turned into the "final product" of his aunts and sisters. When he meets a girl, he is reluctant to introduce him to him. He must have a very good condition to meet this "store treasure".

At present, the treasure of the restaurant is about to quit the official meal and become Maimai, which is equivalent to declining itself from the "final product" to the "processing product". Their fourth uncle, third wife and second uncle were all furious, and since then, they have carried out tireless persecution of Lao Cheng and his future skewer shop.

In the early work of the skewer shop, Lao Cheng focused on dealing with the feudal remnants of his family. The store location, rent bargaining, getting a license, installing a storefront and other trivial matters, all of which Xu Xilin used his spare time to help him run away.

After work, although he occasionally worked overtime, Xu Xilin's life became much more comfortable.

Compared to his chaotic and messy years in college, his work was almost like a retirement student. He felt that he had nothing to do all day long, and his hobby was to go home to cook for his grandmother, and he was more and more decent. He could do some Huaiyang cuisine, Shandong cuisine, and government cuisine, and basically had the ability to hold up a table.

He was a little uncomfortable at first when he got busy with the skewer restaurant.

However, Xu Xilin may have a little bit of "busy" in his bones, and he quickly found his status.

He was familiar with the trivial matters of entrepreneurship every time, and the procedures were in an orderly manner. Three months later, the two of them joined forces to deal with internal and external troubles and forced the skewer shop to open.

On the first day of opening, Song Lianyuan brought a large group of younger brothers to support the shop, and filled the shop with a lot of people. A group of men were eating skewers while watching the national football team. It was in the middle of the night. Xu Xilin felt that the atmosphere was too good that day and got some inspiration, so he simply used the fan skewers as a gimmick. The windows of the shop were full of team logos. Whenever there was an important game, he launched the "Watch the Game Together" activity and packaged the grandpa skewers into a fan club.

The club is indeed a money tree. The skewer shop is dividends at the end of the year. The "9981 difficulties" in Lao Cheng's family have been shut down under the light of the RMB.

After the shop was on track, Xu Xilin threw it to Lao Cheng, and left it alone, becoming a shareholder who quietly paid dividends. However, after this battle, he was a little uneasy and slowly sinking into a mediocre job.

His "stable" job, and his fragmented income throughout the year, is barely enough for their family to pay the property water and electricity bills.

However, this time, Xu Xilin was not to resign. He had suffered from "inadequate preparation" and "impulsive decision". While doing his job, he firmly suppressed his desire to quit every day. While slowly helping others in business planning, he began to consciously accumulate experience and connections in his spare time.

There is no sound or show off. It is all about thinking and laying the groundwork. After saving enough experience points, we will proceed to the next stage in an orderly manner.

Unexpectedly, things were unpredictable. Before he could finish it safely, the "Grandpa" skewer restaurant passed its brief glorious period.

Since the "Grandpa" skewers became popular, several "clubs" with different names have been opened within a radius of one kilometer. While the passenger flow has inevitably been divided, the monthly increase in rent has also become a problem.

At that time, it was the real estate boom. The housing prices in the city were thriving day by day, and small shops on the street became popular among the hottest items. Landlords were stunned by the price increase, and they came to raise rents all day long, and operating costs rose sharply.

However, Lao Cheng was stubborn as a foodie young man and refused to compromise on quality at all. He insisted on using the best meat and the best spices. The neighbors around him could not eat anything of quality or quality. At most, he praised "Your home is delicious", and then turned his back and ruthlessly threw himself into the cheaper embrace.

After a few months, the skewer restaurant successfully turned profits into losses.

I just persisted until the end of the year, but it was still unsustainable. The skewer shop that was run bleakly was closed.

Lao Cheng experienced the pain of failure for the first time in his life. He got drunk in Yuebanwan and cried so hard that he pulled Xu Xilin's sleeve: "I have achieved nothing except playing games in four years of college. I have never even had a relationship. I was driven into the blind date market... Now I have started introducing me to my second marriage... Am I worthy of my youth these years? My youth has been eaten by dogs..."

Xu Xilin stroked his dog's head: "It's okay, let it spit it out. Be good, don't cry."

While comforting her, Xu Xilin used her mobile phone to play with her web page. Sometimes she "hmm" and signaled that there was a living thing next to her.

He has already taken this level of gains and losses very indifferent.

Song Lianyuan heard that they ordered a bunch of wine in their private room and was a little worried. When he came over and saw that he was amused by the bored Xu Xilin and the heart-wrenching old man.

Finally, Lao Cheng lost his drink and lying silently.

Only then did Song Lianyuan pour out the mineral water in Xu Xilin's cup, and the two of them poured half a glass of beer and drank slowly.

"The work is going well?" Song Lianyuan asked.

Xu Xilin: "It's better, it's just that there's not much money, it's meaningless."

"It's all the same, just wait and get enough experience. Actually, Yuebanyan doesn't mean anything," Song Lianyuan raised his hand and pointed to the slightly old decoration in the private room. "It was like this many years ago, but it's still like this now. It was fashionable back then, now...ah, I'm planning to leave."

Xu Xilin was shocked.

Song Lianyuan dropped out of junior high school and started working as a waiter who ran errands until now. It is said that he was the boss in Yuebanwan. Song Lianyuan, the big gangster back then, has become Manager Song.

Xu Xilin: "Brother, where are you going?"

"Go to the south first," said Song Lianyuan. "I want to go there by myself. If I don't break through, I will grow old. I will be here for the rest of my life. Qing will wait for the bankruptcy and go home to see the door. If my brother is not here in the future, you have to take good care of yourself and meet..."

Song Lianyuan wanted to say, "If you meet a girl who is Kexin, you will settle down." He glanced at Xu Xilin and swallowed the words: "Forget it, you know what you know."

Song Lianyuan originally planned to leave after the Spring Festival, but failed to leave. He was stuck by something - Ms. Su Wenwan, an idol old lady who was popular in the entire elderly community, and Xu Xilin's grandmother, was gone.

That day happened to be the fifth day of the lunar month. Xu Xilin, who was idle, got up early in the morning and had a sudden idea. He fryed a pot of oil cakes himself, which caused half a barrel of oil. The oil cakes were not good-looking, but when they were just out of the pot, the taste was good. Xu Xilin wanted to offer treasures to his grandmother, but then he realized that it was already past nine o'clock and his grandmother had not yet gotten up.

He called out a few times before the door was opened, so he pushed it in and found that the old lady had closed her eyes quietly.

Her face was dead blue-gray, her head was tilted to one side, and her skin was loose.

However, it looks like a smile.

Xu Xilin stood by her bed for a long time, and when he looked up, he was facing the photo of his grandfather when he was young on the bedside table. He had a gentle smile and handsome facial features. He was an old-fashioned handsome man.

Seeing my grandmother laughing so happily, it was probably my grandfather who came to pick her up in person last night.

The travelers who were trapped in the world have been separated for more than 30 years, and in the end, they will eventually get together.

Ms. Su Wenwan died at the age of 78.

Friends and relatives have all come. The old man who planted grapes and tomatoes in the yard every day cried like a widow, and was fooled by his granddaughter who came after hearing the news.

Song Lianyuan was afraid that Xu Xilin would not be able to handle it, so he postponed the date of going south and stayed at his house for a few days to help.

Zheng Shuo has also come, but he hasn't seen each other for a few years. Zheng Shuo met the old man. As soon as he met, he apologized to Xu Xilin solemnly, saying that his arrangements for returning to China to work have not been smooth. Xu Xilin understood as soon as he heard that he knew that the word "work" was used to shirk it, and it was probably because of some problems in his new family.

However, he was over the age of "hate the irresponsible father". Xu Xilin politely hosted Zheng Shuo, feeling that he was quite speculative when chatting with him, and there might be something useful to Zheng Shuo in the future.

When it was late at night, Xu Xilin couldn't help but send an email to Dou Xun, but there was still no reply.

On the day of the funeral, Zhu Xiaocheng returned home specifically and knelt down and recited a scripture to his grandmother, but Dou Xun did not accompany her.

Xu Xilin secretly crushed his expectations and luck in his heart, and went up to greet his godmother. Then he understood in his heart that parting in the world is not much closer than life and death.

Even in today's era when a plane ticket can fly to the ends of the world, people you can't see will still not see.

It may not be until this time that Xu Xilin truly accepted the fact that Dou Xun had left him. He was like a slow-responsive gear. He only turned around for three years, facing his clear and long traces alone.

At this point, he was finally alone.

In fact, Dou Xun had never received the letter at all. Xu Xilin didn't know that he was going to Europe and was not in the United States at all. He had abandoned the old email address in China and had not contacted his own mother for eight hundred years - but that was a very later incident. Dou Xun once found a forum account to find information and found an email from him. He flipped through the email from half a year ago. He was struck by lightning at that time and immediately pushed everything back and returned to China overnight... Unfortunately, he couldn't find Xu Xilin when he came back.

The first decision Xu Xilin made after seeing off his grandmother was to sell the house he had to stay while crying and making a fuss.

At that time, there were few low-density houses like their homes in the city, and from the perspective of quality and location, they were almost out of print.

The house prices were crazy at that time, and he took the house very quickly. The buyer seemed to be afraid that he would regret it and didn't even pay it back.

Xu Xilin bought three more houses in exchange for sale—two small apartments with convenient transportation, and a small apartment of about 80 square meters was kept for rent. The monthly rent was 2,000 yuan higher than his salary and bonus for his broken job combined.

Lao Cheng almost cried after hearing this: "I was just cheated by the landlord so that I couldn't find Bei, so you betrayed the reform/death and joined that organization! You are so close to your classmates!"

In addition to two rented houses, the landlord Xu Xilin also bought a three-bedroom apartment with a slightly more remote location to live in.

He moved his bedroom and Dou Xun's bedroom intact - chocolate boxes filled with candy paper, cabinets filled with student-style shirts and jeans, tender and funny, love letters that were inconsistent with the words... were not lost.

There was a room left to be used as a study room, and he moved Ms. Xu Jin's study room and the old records collected by her grandmother.

Xu Xilin decorated his "new home" into a huge souvenir, and then spent more than half a month to soothe the gray parrot that was so depressed that he plucked his hair, making it accustomed to the days when the two of them depended on each other. Then, he quit his job, left his hometown that he had not left for more than 20 years, and went south with Song Lianyuan without any nostalgia.
Chapter completed!