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Chapter 3 Gifts

There is a fence outside the red brick hut, and the original morning glory on the fence has withered.A sixty-year-old lady in the yard heard the car whistle outside the yard, supported a cane, and staggered out of the yard, "Ahem, are Xinshu and Xiao Yanzi back?"

The little mute got out of the car, and ran to the old woman yelling "Abba, Aba." "Ahem, why did you call a car back?" The old man patted the little mute on the back.

Lin Xinshu stepped forward to support the old man, and seeing the cloth shoes on the old man's feet being splashed with mud and water, he couldn't help frowning, "Grandma, why come out to look? The road is slippery after the rain, what should I do if I fall?" ?”

The old man smiled, "Isn't it a bit late, seeing that you haven't come back yet, I'm worried, I just heard the sound of a car, I think it should be you." The old man squinted his eyes and looked at Zhong Chengyi, then turned and asked: "Xiao Shu , this is your friend."

Before Lin Xinshu could speak to introduce himself, Zhong Chengyi stepped forward and said, "Hi, my name is Zhong Chengyi."

The old man looked at Zhong Chengyi in military uniform, and hurriedly greeted him and said, "Haha, good, that's great, hurry up and sit in the back room."

Zhong Chengyi asked the adjutant to park the car and followed him into the yard.The yard was not as dilapidated as it looked from the outside, and the path leading to the house was a bit slippery due to the rain, so Lin Xinshu carefully supported the old lady.

After entering the house, the old man wiped the stool with a cloth, invited Zhong Chengyi and the adjutant to sit down, and went to the back room to get two cups.Seeing the old lady busy, Zhong Chengyi hurriedly stopped her: "Grandma, you don't need to pour tea for us. We have something to do later, so just sit down for a while."

The old man smiled and said, "Hey, it's a cough, it's cold outside after it rained just now, let's go inside and have a cup of hot tea before leaving."

Lin Xinshu knew that the old man was so enthusiastic every time he saw someone coming to the house, so he said, "Grandma, sit down, I'll go and pour water for him."

"Okay." The old man dragged a stool and sat beside him, and asked with concern: "Are you and Xiaoshu friends? I rarely see Xiaoshu bring people home, it's very good, haha." The old man was relieved He looked at Zhong Chengyi carefully.

Zhong Chengyi also responded: "It can be regarded as a chance meeting. This time I came here to apologize. I accidentally bumped into your grandson on the road just now, but don't worry, we have already taken him to the hospital."

When the old lady heard that her grandson was injured, she hurriedly called the little mute over, lifted her trouser legs to look, and found that there was nothing serious, so she was relieved, "This child grew up from rolling in the mud, his bones are hard, no get in the way."

Zhong Chengyi and the adjutant drank hot tea and chatted with the old man before leaving.

"Xiaoshu, your friend looks like he should be a high-ranking official." The old man pulled Lin Xinshu to sit down, and told him again, "Yanzi didn't offend him, did he?"

"Don't worry if there is no grandma, and he just sent us back from the hospital out of kindness, so he is not considered a friend." Lin Xinshu wiped the old lady's hands with the towel in his hand.

"That's good, that's good." The old lady patted Lin Xinshu's hand and said, "Xiaoshu, grandma doesn't want you to be called a friend, but our family can't afford to provoke such a person, and we don't want to get involved."

Lin Xinshu pondered for a moment, nodded, and helped the old man up to the pagoda to rest, then closed the door and went out, returning to his small yard.

Lin Xinshu's yard is next door to the old man's house, and the pale yellow petals of the osmanthus tree in the yard fell to the ground due to heavy rain.There were still some student writings piled up on the table that hadn't been approved yet, so I turned on the dim electric light, rubbed my shoulders, and began to review seriously.

"Sir, you are back." The servant at home hurried forward to take Zhong Chengyi's coat and hung it on the hanger, "By the way, sir, the president of Chengtian Bank called home a few times today, but you are not here I'll go back first."

"Oh, it's okay." Zhong Chengyi said as he walked towards the study.

"By the way, Lao Li, did the person from the patrol station this morning tell me how my wallet was recovered?"

"Oh, there is a saying, it seems that the little mute you met when you went to pick up Young Master Fang picked it up." Lieutenant Li replied.

Zhong Chengyi raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Well, it's such a coincidence, then you prepare something to send to their home tomorrow, and you should thank them."

"Okay, sir." Lieutenant Li said again, "By the way, Bureau Huang is looking for you tomorrow, and wants to transfer a group of people from your hand to Nanjiang Wharf."

Zhong Chengyi pondered for a while, "Okay, I see, it's getting late, you should go to rest earlier."

After Lieutenant Li left, Zhong Chengyi smoked a cigarette and walked to the balcony, looking at the Nanjiang Wharf in the distance.

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"Hey, Chengyi came so early, sit down quickly." Huang Yongtao hurriedly invited Zhong Chengyi to sit on the sofa.

"Boss Huang, I heard that you are going to transfer people to Nanjiang Wharf. What happened?" Zhong Chengyi sat on the sofa and looked at Huang Yongtao.

Seeing Zhong Chengyi being straightforward, Huang Yongtao stopped talking about the scene, "Yes, my subordinates found something in the cargo at Nanjiang Wharf yesterday." Huang Yongtao took out a bag, which contained a small amount of black things .

Zhong Chengyi held the bag in his hand and frowned, "Do you suspect that someone is smuggling?"

"However, they seized the entire batch of goods at that time, and only found these. The people who delivered the goods also said they didn't know, and now they are all being interrogated in the patrol room." Huang Yongtao held a cigarette in one hand, The other hand lit on the armrest of the sofa, and paused for a while, "So, just in case something leaks, I still want Chengyi to send some people over."

"Well, okay, I'll send a group of people there tomorrow, but those who deliver the goods may not know about this matter, but most of the people who bought these items know something? We still have to check from the source." Zhong Chengyi somehow thought of it What, he got up and said, "Boss Huang, please let me know as soon as you find out, I have something to do and I will leave first."

"Okay, sure."

Zhong Chengyi went downstairs, sat in the car, and said to Lieutenant Li: "Give me an appointment with Cheng Tianyou to go to Tianyi Restaurant tonight, and tell him that if he doesn't come to pay taxes, let their bank add an extra percentage."

"Okay, General."

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Duk, duk, duk, there was a knock on the door outside the fence.

"Who is it?" The old lady came out with a cane, and found a young man standing at the door with a bunch of things in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "Young man, who are you looking for?"

"Grandma, hello, is this Lin Xinshu's home?"

The old lady looked the guy in military uniform up and down, and said, "Yes, you are?"

The young man gave a military salute and said, "Grandma, hello, our general dragged me to give the gift. The general said he was very grateful to your grandson for picking up his wallet."

"Who is your general?"

"Oh, my general is the one who sent your grandson home not long ago, you don't remember." Qian Cheng replied with a smile.

Only then did the old lady come to her senses, and hurriedly greeted him to enter the house, "Oh, okay, come on, come in first."

"Okay." Seeing that the old lady was walking unsteadily, Qian Cheng stepped forward to help her, "Grandma, walk slowly."

The old lady moved a stool into the house, poured a cup of tea, and said, "Young man, you sit down first, Xiaoshu and Yanzi have gone to school, and they won't be back until evening."

Seeing that the old lady was busy, Qian Cheng quickly stopped her and said, "Grandma, you don't have to be busy, I'll come here today to deliver something and leave." Qian Cheng put the things in his hand on the table.

Seeing the pile of things on the table, the old lady was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shied away, "Oh, take it back, young man, we don't need it, tell your general, we thank him for his kindness first, but these things are too expensive, we don't need them." It’s not really necessary, take it back.”

Seeing the old lady's resistance, Qian Cheng hurriedly said: "No, no, you must accept this thing. This is a little kindness from our general to thank you. If you don't accept it, our general will scold me." Cheng was worried that the old lady would not accept it, so he turned his head and prepared to leave, "Grandma, I have something else to do, you keep this stuff, I'll leave first."

"Hey, young man." Seeing that Qian Cheng had already boarded the car, the old lady had no time to chase after her, so she put away the pile of things first, thinking that she would send him back when Lin Xinshu came back.

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"Abba, Aba", the little mute was lying on the stove and waiting for the old lady.Fragrances spread from the kitchen.

"Grandma, I'm back." Lin Xinshu came in from outside with a cloth bag on his back, holding another pot of hibiscus flowers in his hand, "It smells so good."

"Xiaoshu is back, we can eat later."

"Okay." After Lin Xinshu finished speaking, he put down his bag, took the shower made of plastic bottles and walked to the yard, put the flowers he brought back from school into the yard together, and gave the flowers and plants he planted to the garden. After pouring the water again, I found that there was too much water in a pot of hibiscus soil. I frowned and muttered: "It seems that grandma has watered too much this morning, and the flowers are a little wilted. I will remind grandma about the pot of flowers tomorrow. There is no need to pour it."

"Xiaoshu, ahem, you can come over for dinner." The old lady walked out of the room and called Lin Xinshu.

"Okay, grandma, I'll be right over."

The dishes on the dinner table are very light, but the fragrance is very strong.

The old lady took a chopstick of vegetables and put them in Lin Xinshu's rice bowl, "Xiaoshu, cough cough, you are too thin, eat more."

"Okay, grandma, you should eat more too."

"Well, grandma, ahem, I'm not hungry." The old lady covered her face and coughed a few times, without moving a few chopsticks from the rice bowl, "Well, letters, that General Zhong's men came over today to deliver some things , put it in the back room, when you have time, send it back to others."

Lin Xinshu stopped his chopsticks and patted the old lady on the back, "Okay. But why did he give us something?"

"Ahem, that young man, what did you say? Yanzi picked up the general's wallet and gave so many things as a thank you." The old lady put down her chopsticks and walked to the bed, saying, "These things are too expensive. We can’t take it away, so let’s send it back.”

Lin Xinshu sat on the edge of the bed, frowned, and patted the old lady on the back, "Okay, I know about grandma." Seeing that the old lady was still coughing on the bed, Lin Xinshu asked worriedly: " Did you take your medicine in the morning? Why are you still coughing so badly?"

The old lady patted Lin Xinshu's hand to express her comfort, "Ahem, I've got an old problem, ahem, ahem, it's been so many years, ahem, medicine doesn't work anymore."

The little mute carefully brought in a bowl of medicinal soup from the outside, and walked towards the bed in a hurry.

Lin Xinshu took the medicine bowl, fed the medicine into the old lady's mouth bit by bit, and wiped the medicine juice left at the corner of her mouth from time to time, "Come on, slow down. You should go to the hospital for this illness, you can't do it anymore. If this drags on, Yanzi and I will figure out a way about the money."

The little mute was lying on the edge of the bed, father and father signed in sign language [Grandma, don't worry, the teacher and I will find a way. 】

The old lady lay on the bed and sighed deeply, "I'm the one who dragged you down."

Lin Xinshu put the medicine bowl aside, heard the old lady's lament, and said without refutation: "Grandma, why are you talking nonsense again, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't even know if I would be alive, don't think too much , have a good sleep, the rest is me and Yanzi, you don't have to worry."

Lin Xinshu waited for the old lady to fall asleep, cleared away the bowls and chopsticks on the dining table, went back to his yard, and found a jade pendant under the head of the bed. .

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In a certain box of Chengtian Restaurant, Zhong Chengyi was sitting on a stool smoking a cigarette, and Lieutenant Li stood beside him and asked, "Is this person not coming?"

Zhong Chengyi exhaled a mouthful of smoke rings, squinted his eyes, held the holster on his waist, and said, "No."