At this moment, a hometown voice came from downstairs: "Who is back? Is it Qingqing?"

Ning Qingqing turned her head to look downstairs and saw her neighbor Aunt Wu.

She then waved at the other party and said, "Sister-in-law Wu, it's me!"

"Qingqing is back, she's pretty again!" The other party said, his eyes fell on Gu Youchen who was beside Ning Qingqing: "Qingqing brought a date here?"

Ning Qingqing and Gu Youchen came down from upstairs, and introduced to Mrs. Wu who came to the courtyard: "This is my husband, Gu Youchen."

After finishing speaking, he said to Gu Youchen: "This is Mrs. Wu, she has always lived next to my grandmother, and used to take good care of me."

Gu Youchen said politely to the other party: "Hi, Sister-in-law Wu, thank you for taking care of my family Qingqing in the past."

"Yo, so polite!" Aunt Wu smiled, looked at Gu Youchen seriously, and couldn't help giving Ning Qingqing a thumbs up: "Qingqing's lover is so handsome!"

Ning Qingqing smiled: "I control the face."

Hearing this, Gu Youchen couldn't help curling the corners of his lips.

Qingqing from his family praised him for being good-looking and happy!

"Qingqing just came back?" Aunt Wu enthusiastically said, "You don't have anything to eat at home, go to my place, my family is cooking wontons today!"

Ning Qingqing pointed to the man beside him: "It's rare for him to come here, and the main time is also tight, so I brought him here to try all kinds of snacks."

"Oh, oh, that's right!" Aunt Wu nodded, and then said: "The sun is going down today, haven't you dried your quilt yet? It's been a few months, and it was rainy a while ago, so you need to dry it." to sleep."

The weather here is a bit humid, especially when there is no one at home, many things tend to smell musty.

Ning Qingqing also realized this when she heard the words, and quickly said: "Okay, let's use it for the sun."

Aunt Wu nodded, "I'll get a rag, your rope is going to rust."

As she said that, she rushed to the next door to get a rag and came over to Ning Qingqing to wipe all the clotheslines in the courtyard clean.

Ning Qingqing and Gu Youchen went upstairs, went to the room and took the thin quilt out.

Grandma is afraid of the cold, so she also covers her with a quilt in summer.

So there is only one thin quilt, which is really smelly.

Seeing Gu Youchen holding something, Mrs. Wu couldn't help laughing: "Does the young man work at home?"

Gu Youchen nodded: "Do some."

Ning Qingqing added beside him: "He cooks delicious food."

Upon hearing this, Gu Youchen smiled at her.

Aunt Wu saw it, and felt that the young couple was very affectionate, and the old lady felt relieved when she was alive.

She helped to pull one end of the quilt, and together with Gu Youchen spread the quilt on the clothesline, and said, "Two more hours of drying should be about the same."

As he said that, he took Ning Qingqing and the two to her house to drink some mung bean soup to relieve the heat.

Coming out of Mrs. Wu's house, Gu Youchen said, "Qingqing, you have a good relationship with your neighbors, don't you know almost everyone in the town?"

Ning Qingqing nodded: "I don't know all of them, but I guess they are familiar. There are many people here, and their ancestors have been here for generations. Only in recent years, many children have passed the high school entrance examination, so there is some population flow."

As she spoke, she thought that there was only one thin quilt at home, so she suggested: "You Chen, let's go buy another cool summer quilt?"

Gu Youchen understood what Ning Qingqing meant, and nodded: "Okay."

The two closed the door and walked to the town in the summer afternoon.

Today is the weekend, and the children are playing outside. Suddenly seeing two unfamiliar faces, they couldn't help being curious.

After all, Ning Qingqing has already gone out to study, and her grandmother has passed away for several years, so the children hardly know her anymore.

Even some grown-ups were taken aback when they saw Ning Qingqing, and then recognized them: "Qingqing?"

In a few years, Ning Qingqing has grown from a young girl to the age of 25. Although her facial features have not changed much, her temperament still has some changes.

Especially her clothes are completely different from what she used to be here, so people can't recognize each other for a while.

The neighbors in the town have given birth to and raised children, and there are obviously more traces of time.

Everyone exchanged a few words of greeting, or nodded their heads in greeting. Ning Qingqing led Gu Youchen into the atmosphere of fireworks.

"In front is a place that sells quilts and sheets." Ning Qingqing said: "The sheets also smell a bit after being in the closet for a long time. Let's buy another bed."

When the two came to the booth, the boss looked at Ning Qingqing and recognized him after a few seconds: "Are you Qingqing from Granny Wang's family?"

Ning Qingqing nodded: "Uncle Zhang, you are still the same as before!"

Uncle Zhang smiled: "I'm old, I have grandchildren!"

While talking, a little Douding stumbled over, ran to hug Ning Qingqing's leg, raised his head, and looked at her curiously with **** eyes.

Uncle Zhang asked him not to wipe Ning Qingqing's saliva, Ning Qingqing smiled: "It's okay, the baby is very cute!"

As she said that, she let Gu Youchen choose the quilt and sheets by herself, while she squatted down to tease the children.

"What's the baby's name?"

The child was less than two years old, and he looked at Ning Qingqing in a daze after hearing the words, obviously he didn't know his name.

Ning Qingqing's eyes crooked with a smile: "How old is the baby?"

The little guy raised his chubby hand and made a difficult comparison of 1.

"Not yet two years old?" Ning Qingqing smiled: "Where is grandpa, baby point."

As she spoke, she picked him up.

So the little guy pointed at Uncle Zhang in Ning Qingqing's arms.

"So smart!" Ning Qingqing boasted, holding the heavy little guy with one hand, and couldn't help pinching his little face with the other hand.

Well, it feels good.

Gu Youchen was picking sheets, but he couldn't help but look at Ning Qingqing interacting with the child.

The smile in her eyes was so bright and real that he couldn't help but think about the picture of her with their baby in the future.

It must be very warm.

With warmth and happiness flowing through his chest, he picked up a red sheet, and then a flowered quilt.

When Ning Qingqing teased the little guy to look over, she was a little stunned.

What kind of aesthetics does Gu Youchen have? He chose a particularly fancy quilt and red sheets.

"You Chen, do you think it looks good?" Ning Qingqing couldn't help asking.

Gu Youchen nodded: "Well, happy."

With that said, the payment has been made.

When the two left, Xiao Douding was still a little bit reluctant to part with Ning Qingqing, and looked at Ning Qingqing eagerly, and was not very good at talking, so he could only babble.

Ning Qingqing couldn't help but turn her head three times at a step, and waved goodbye to the other party several times before leaving.

"Qingqing likes children?" Gu Youchen asked.

Ning Qingqing nodded: "Well, they are very cute, especially their faces, don't feel too good!"

Gu Youchen held her by the hand: "Qingqing also feels good in the hand."

Ning Qingqing turned her head and looked at the man's apparently cold appearance, but at this moment she was looking at her with a smile in her eyes.

He said: "If you please children, please me too."

Ning Qingqing: "..."

She felt herself being teased.

However, in the next second, when he saw the thing in Gu Youchen's hand, the filter of the man beside him instantly shattered—

He was wearing a simple white shirt and black trousers, with black leather shoes underneath. He looked like a business elite who had just come out of a meeting room. He was also elegant and dignified.

However, he was carrying something in both hands, a bright red sheet on one side and a flowered quilt on the other.

They are all packed in ordinary transparent large plastic bags, no matter how you look at them, they are down-to-earth.

Ning Qingqing couldn't help laughing, but felt that it wasn't enough, so she laughed again, and when she reached the back, she almost covered her stomach and laughed out loud.

Gu Youchen carried two down-to-earth bags, with an expression of 'I'm down-to-earth, I'm honorable', and said naturally: "Qingqing, today is the first time I follow you back home, I need to celebrate."

Oh, after such a calculation, it is really a return home!

After the flash marriage, the two went to Ning Qingqing's hometown for the first time.

If grandma was here, wouldn't she be very happy to see such a grandson and son-in-law?

Thinking of this, Ning Qingqing felt sad for a while.

Chinese people are most particular about returning home, but there is no one at home.

Gu Youchen seemed to see Ning Qingqing's sadness, he also put the sheet on the hand of the quilt, and took Ning Qingqing's hand with his other hand, clasping his fingers tightly.

"Qingqing, grandma can see it." He said to her, "We'll go see her tomorrow morning."

Ning Qingqing nodded: "OK."

The two went home first, put down the quilt, fetched water, and wiped the tables and chairs at home.

Already a little hungry after work, Ning Qingqing took Gu Youchen out to eat.

"The boss at the opposite side of Xu's Inn cooks very well, let's try it?" Ning Qingqing suggested.

When Gu Youchen heard Xu's Inn, the picture in his mind was pulled back to ten years ago.

He nodded: "OK."

The two of them passed by Ning Qingqing's grandmother's house, so they naturally had to pass through that bridge.

Getting closer, Gu Youchen stopped on the bridge.

Ning Qingqing turned to look at him.

I don't know why, the picture at this moment and her long-term memory suddenly overlap in time and space, and the details that have been almost forgotten suddenly become clear.

Ning Qingqing affirmed: "We have met here before, and you asked me for directions, it seems that this is where it started."

Gu Youchen looked at her, his eyes darkened a bit: "Yes."

He said: "I asked you at the time, how can I get to Xu's Inn?"

Ning Qingqing was surprised: "You remember too?"

Immediately, a flash of light flashed in her eyes, and she said to him lightly, "I'm going there too, so follow me there."

Gu Youchen nodded: "Okay."

Ning Qingqing had already walked ahead, so he followed, two meters behind her, neither far nor close.

The memory was clamoring, and many emotions in his heart were beating wildly, but he seemed to be the boy he used to be, with only a clear expression on his face, silently following the girl in front of him.

From the arch bridge to the inn, it only took seven or eight minutes. Ning Qingqing walked neither fast nor slow.

Several times, she even wanted to turn her head to see Gu Youchen's expression.

Because that was an angle that she never thought about ten years ago.

In the past, to her, it was nothing more than helping a passerby along the way.

She thinks it's good to start acting, there is no need to revisit every step, to relive the feelings that she can't remember at all.

However, for some unknown reason, Gu Youchen who was behind him didn't speak, nor did he rush to catch up with her and walk side by side with her.

Ning Qingqing seemed to sense something from this detail—

Is Gu Youchen obsessed with their first meeting?

He insisted on revisiting his story with the same footsteps and rhythm as ten years ago.

Could it be... Ning Qingqing had an incredible guess in her heart.

Could he really remember her clearly?

In the minds of the two of them, the Xu Family Inn was finally approaching.

Ning Qingqing tried her best to recall the past, and added some inferences that she should have done at that time, so she stopped and pointed to the front: "The inn is right there, we will be there soon."

Gu Youchen seemed to have guessed that she would stop, so he stopped before her, waiting for her words.

Seeing her pointing forward, he nodded and smiled at her: "Well, thank you."

The tone was polite, and seemed to have a clean youthful air.

Ning Qingqing couldn't help feeling a little dazed.

She didn't know where she should cooperate with Gu Youchen to act, should she go into the inn again?

When she thought so in her heart, her footsteps had already moved first.

She walked straight towards the inn, thinking that she hadn't seen the proprietress for a long time, so she happened to see her first before eating.

It's just a pity that the gift she brought to the other party is still at home, so I can only bring it back tomorrow.

While thinking, her gaze was attracted by the girl at the door of the inn. When Ning Qingqing saw her clearly, the other party also saw her.

So, the ten-year-old girl ran straight to Ning Qingqing: "Sister Qingqing!"

She was full of surprises.

"Why did Nannan come back?" Ning Qingqing was also very surprised, after all, Nannan went to the gymnastics team in the province to train, and she usually worked very hard and rarely went home.

"It just so happened that our game this summer was in Nancheng, and the coach specially allowed me to come back." Nannan was very happy, holding Ning Qingqing in her arms, as if she was the same child who was waiting for Ning Qingqing to teach her how to speak and read.

Ning Qingqing looked at the other party: "I've grown taller, but I've lost weight again!"

Nannan compared the muscles of her arms and legs, and said: "Sister Qingqing, I have strength now! You don't know, all of our gymnasts look delicate and small, but they are actually small steel cannons! "

Ning Qingqing was amused by this description, and couldn't help pinching the other person's face: "Have you finished changing your teeth yet?"

Speaking of this, Nannan was a little distressed: "I am almost 14 years old, and I still have two big teeth that have not been replaced. They all laughed at me as a baby..."

While the two were talking, the proprietress of Xu's Inn heard the movement and walked out quickly.

She is dumb, so when she saw Ning Qingqing, she could only smile, and her smile was very simple.

Ning Qingqing went over and hugged her: "Auntie."

She is her grandmother's goddaughter, so Ning Qingqing has long since changed her name to her aunt.

The woman nodded, pulling Ning Qingqing to take her in for dinner.

Ning Qingqing hurriedly said: "Auntie, I didn't come alone this time, I also brought—"

Before she finished speaking, the girl next to her looked at Gu Youchen and said 'ah' in surprise.

Ning Qingqing was about to introduce her when she said, "Big Brother?"

Gu Youchen smiled and nodded at the other party, but he didn't expect that Nannie still remembered him.

When Nannan was three or four years old, he lived in the inn for a few days. Later, he made a special trip to Qingtang Town several times and stayed in the Xujia Inn.

But just when Gu Youchen was about to greet the other party, Nannan couldn't help but said to Ning Qingqing: "Sister Qingqing, big brother found you?"

Ning Qingqing was taken aback, and looked at Gu Youchen suspiciously.

Seeing this, Nannan seemed to realize that it was a secret, so she pulled Ning Qingqing to the side and whispered to her ear: "Sister Qingqing, big brother lived in our inn before!"

Ning Qingqing nodded: "Well, I heard him mention it."

Nannan said again: "Big Brother used to secretly watch you when he was staying in our inn!"

Ning Qingqing was dubious when she heard the words.

Then she realized that she couldn't laugh or cry: "Ninny, you were only three and a half years old at that time."

How can a small child remember these details?

Nannan was a little dissatisfied: "I just remember that every time you came to teach me how to read and sing to me, my elder brother liked to sit by the door of his room and watch you smile."

"He doesn't usually smile. He only smiles when you come out. It's a nice smile. That's why I remember it so clearly!"

As she said that, she pointed in one direction: "We used to play there before, and the big brother is on the opposite side, I've seen it all!"

The little girl also straightened her small breasts, looking very confident.

Ning Qingqing couldn't help but follow the little girl's line of sight.

Nannan continued to recall: "Also, after my sister went to school in other places, the eldest brother himself came here a few times! Every time he came to stay for two days, he left and asked me where you were."

Ning Qingqing was surprised: "Are you sure it's him?"

Nannan nodded: "Of course, I will not admit my mistake!"

Ning Qingqing couldn't help but believe it. Could it be that Gu Youchen really liked her at that time?

Because of his affection ten years ago, he, a man who didn't need to get married so early, chose to marry her in a flash?

She turned her head to look at Gu Youchen, and decided to ask him.

The author has something to say:

Well, I can’t write about discovering the secret of the photo today, but I will definitely write about it tomorrow!

Then someone happened to drop by to formally confess again~~

Zhou Linghang: I heard that Brother Chen brought two flowered quilts? What about photos? And the photographer! ! !