The Gold is Yours, You Are Mine

The next day, knowing that they were going to the city today, the two of them woke up early. Grandma made handmade steamed buns and steamed a few sugar buns for breakfast.

After eating, Xie Shi'an wanted to help clear the table, but grandma waved her hands again and again.

"No, no, don't you guys want to enter the city? Hurry up, there is still a market and Shehuo in the town today, and you can go shopping if you go early."

Jian Changnian gently lifted Wangfu out of the cardboard box, put it into her schoolbag, and hugged her in her arms.

"Shi'an, let's go."

Xie Shi'an nodded and followed her out of the courtyard.

The two arrived in the town in a bullock cart. The small town was completely congested today, and it was full of people at a glance.

The two stood on tiptoe and watched hard.

Jian Chang read: "Pick up, pick up, look quickly, the dragon and lion dancers are coming."

In a burst of firecrackers and gongs and drums, the parade team came from far to near.

The leader held colored **** in his hand, and the people dressed as little lions followed him around, dancing and looking naive.

The dragon dance team is also playing like a tiger, and there are lotus boats, walking on stilts, all small folk customs.

People on the whole street were full of happiness, clapping their hands from time to time, and Xie Shi'an couldn't help clapping too.

"Amazing."

After the social fire cleared, the market became lively again, and Jian Changnian led people to shuttle among the hawkers.

"I used to like Chinese New Year. Not only can I go out to play on this day, but it is also the best time for grandma to set up a stall to make money."

"When she makes money, she will buy me sugar paintings, glutinous rice cakes, sliced ​​cakes, and a lot of delicious food, ah yes, and little clay figurines!"

Jian Changnian looked at the small stall in front of him, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he ran over with him.

"Pick up, pick up, let's turn a sugar painting."

The old man selling sugar paintings smiled.

"Two dollars a turn."

Jian Changnian took out four coins and handed them over.

"Give."

Xie Shi'an looked at the painting on the small table, it was a painting of the twelve zodiac signs, and he probably drew whatever he turned to.

With a flick of her hand, the pointer stopped on the dragon.

The old man was also a little surprised.

"I'm lucky."

Jian Changnian is gearing up.

"Let me try it."

As expected, the pointer stopped on the mouse.

Jian Changnian let out a scream. Although they are all sugar paintings, the complicated ones use more sugar, and the patterns are beautiful.

The two left the stall, and Jian Changnian walked all the way to look at the majestic and lifelike Chenlong in her hand.

"Shi'an, yours looks really good."

Xie Shi'an was unmoved.

"You have drawn your zodiac sign, so what's not to like?"

"But, I haven't switched to dragon since I was a child."

Jian Changnian's tone was pitiful, and she was busy walking.

Xie Shi'an stopped in his tracks, and she almost ran into him.

"Hey, I'm startled, why don't you go?"

Xie Shi'an gave her the sugar painting in his hand, with a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

"Okay then, let's switch."

Satisfied with getting the sugar painting, Jian Changnian jumped three feet high, with a smile on his face, and excitedly took her hand and started to run.

The two shuttled through the bustling crowd.

"Shi'an, hurry up, there are still rings ahead."

After playing all morning and eating a lot of snacks, Jian Chang wanted to touch her chubby belly, and finally remembered that there was a little guy on her back.

Xie Shi'an saw that it was not too early.

"Come on, let's go to the car."

When we arrived at the pet hospital, the doctor roughly checked Wangfu's physical condition and frowned.

"It's too young, it's less than a month old, its resistance is so weak, and it has pneumonia. It's a stray dog. It costs money. I advise you not to treat it."

Just as Jian Changnian was about to speak, Xie Shi'an said categorically.

"No matter how much it costs, we will treat it."

After all, it is still a small life. Seeing their insistence, the doctor compromised and said, "That's fine, but you have to sign a waiver agreement. It's so small. We will do our best, but there is no guarantee that it will be saved."

Xie Shi'an nodded.

"it is good."

She signed her name neatly without even looking at it.

The doctor took it over and looked at it.

"Okay, go to the front desk and pay the hospitalization fee. We will put it in an incubator for an anti-infection treatment for the next few days, and then deworm it inside and outside the body when the situation is better. Come on, you guys. It’s just in time, we just had a **** gave birth to a baby yesterday, and we have ready-made breast milk.”

Both Jian Changnian and Xie Shi'an laughed.

"Then I will trouble you."

Before leaving, Jian Changnian and Xie Shi'an could only lie outside the glass door, looking at Wangfu who was being treated in isolation inside, and bid farewell to it.

"Wangfu, you have to live up to it and get well soon, or I'm sorry we spent so much money to save you."

Jian Changnian made a cheering gesture to it.

The little Wangfu seemed to have sensed something, turned over, smacked his tongue, and fell asleep again.

The two left the pet hospital, Xie Shi'an asked her to wait here for a while, she thought she was going to the bathroom, who knew that someone came out of the bank with a schoolbag.

"You... this is?"

Xie Shi'an swung the backpack over his shoulder.

"Let's go, let's redeem your jade."

Twenty thousand yuan is not a small amount, almost equivalent to the prize money of Xie Shi Security Department.

Jian Changnian chased after two steps, looking anxious.

"Shi'an, Shi'an, with so much money you..."

Before she finished speaking, Xie Shi'an turned around and looked at her.

"With so much money, don't you just take it as you say?"

"I don't like being in debt."

After the boy finished speaking, he turned his head awkwardly.

"If you don't go, I will go by myself."

In the days that followed, she was extremely grateful that she made the most correct decision that day and found the most precious thing in her life.

Maybe some things are really doomed in the dark.

For example, she would meet Qiao Yuchu and Jian Changnian. She took over the quilt sewn by her grandmother, and she really made a good relationship.

Another example is that the piece of jade Jane Chang read turned out to be a relic of Grandpa.

After they explained their intentions, the boss opened the jade box.

"It's a coincidence that if you come one day later, I will sell this jade to someone else."

As soon as he saw the jade lotus, Xie Shi'an picked it up, he lost his breath for half a beat, and the corners of his eyes slowly turned red.

"This jade...it..."

Seeing that she was not in the right mood, Jian Changnian hurriedly comforted her.

"Shi'an, what's wrong with this jade, please speak slowly."

Xie Shi'an held the jade, felt its roundness and temperature, blinked his eyes, and tears rolled down his eyes.

"Yes... it is my grandfather's relic. When he married my grandma, he carved a token of love with his own hands, a jade bracelet, and he always wore it with him. Until I was six years old, half a year before his death, he and my grandmother A friend went fishing in the countryside, and when he came back, he told me that the jade was lost, so it turned out that it wasn't lost..."

Jian Changnian also froze in place, memories came flooding back.

The weightlessness of falling into the water.

The suffocation of the mouth and nose being flooded.

Couldn't cry, couldn't shout, struggled and gradually lost strength and sank to the bottom of the water.

Just when she was about to close her eyes, a figure broke through the waves, hugged her and swam up.

"Son, don't sleep, don't sleep, hold on."

"Success, success, wake up."

Someone was doing CPR on her.

She reluctantly opened her eyes, only to see a square face, the old man's temples were covered with white hair.

"Just wake up, don't play by the water in the future, it's dangerous."

After finishing speaking, the old man smiled at her, picked up the clothes on the shore and left without asking for any reward.

Jian Changnian was hugged by her grandmother in a drowsy state, holding a jade pendant tightly in her hand.

Maybe she was accidentally pulled from her benefactor's neck when she was rescued, or she was left on the shore by the rescuer.

In short, she held on to it so tightly for more than ten years, and she was reluctant to sell it no matter how difficult her family was.

She was waiting for an owner and wanted to say thank you to him personally.

In the original vague memory, the old man's face gradually overlapped with the portrait hanging in the living room of Xie Shi'an's house.

Jian Changnian's eyes were also red.

"So, it was...Shi'an's grandfather who saved my life back then."

Xie Shi'an sniffed and dumped all the money in his backpack on the counter.

"Boss, I want to redeem it."

Hearing what they said so much, the boss smiled contemptuously, picked up the money on the table and dipped his saliva in order to nod.

"Leave this storyteller, you want to redeem it, the money is not enough."

"Why is this money not enough? It was sold to you for 20,000 yuan back then." Jian Changnian said anxiously.

"It was the original price at the beginning, but after so long, the value has appreciated." Seeing that they sincerely wanted it, the boss raised the price again.

"Well, 50,000, buy it now, I'll return this jade to you. A buyer came yesterday and offered 80,000 and I didn't sell it."

Xie Shi'an took out his ID card and a photo of his grandpa from his wallet, and handed them to him together.

"I'm really not making up a story. This is my grandfather's relic. He has passed away for many years. I grew up with him. I just want to keep a memory by my side. Please, pass it on to us at a low price. "

The boss took a look at the ID card and photo.

"Hey, the surname is really Xie, don't say it, it's a bit similar."

Xie Shi'an and Jian Changnian looked at each other with joy in their eyes.

The next moment, the boss took the jade pendant back.

"However, even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu comes today, it won't work. Fifty thousand, just fifty thousand. If you can't get it out, you will leave."

"You!" Jian Changnian panicked.

"It was only 20,000 yuan when I sold it to you. You are asking for a lot of money! Besides, this thing was originally bought!"

"If you sell it to me, it's mine. Don't mess around here and affect my business. Let me tell you, if you call the police, I'll take the blame if the police come. If you can't get the money, just get out of here!"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Shi'an bent down deeply.

"If you have parents and children, please compare your heart. If one day, your relatives and friends pass away unfortunately, we can't keep time, but at least we can keep some things with us. Looking at these old objects, it seems that our relatives are still there."

"Shi'an, don't do this!"

Jian Chang wanted to pull her, but Xie Shi'an didn't move.

"If I have money now, don't say 50,000, I will give it to you even if you want 500,000, but I only have so much money in my body, you can return it to me for the sake of my deceased grandpa." .”

After getting along for so long, Xie Shi'an has never begged others in a low voice. Seeing her like this, a rush of blood rushed to her forehead.

Jian Changnian was out of breath, her eyes were red, she gritted her teeth, suddenly turned around and rushed out of the store, and ran to the nearest bank in one breath.

She inserted the card into the ATM, withdrew all the balance in it, went back and passed a sugar cane stand, and stopped.

"Boss, two sugar canes."

"Chop it?"

"chop."

Jian Changnian looked at the thin, long and sharp sugarcane knife in his hand.

"I'll give you another hundred, and sell me the knife."

Jian Changnian went into the pawnshop with the fruit she bought, and pulled the shutter half down with her backhand.

The light dimmed.

The boss narrowed his eyes.

"What are you doing?! You still want to grab it!"

Without saying a word, the young man held the cut sugar cane in one hand and threw his backpack on the counter with the other.

"Twenty-five thousand, we won't bargain any more. There is a saying that goes, courtesy first, soldiers later, you have to forgive others and forgive others."

The boss swallowed, and wanted to ask for a price.

With a snap, Jian Changnian pressed the plastic bag containing sugar cane on the counter, and pulled out a fruit knife from it.

The boss trembled in fright, his face turned pale, and he shrank back.

"What...what are you doing...robbing...robbing!"

"Who is robbing, you know in your own mind, this sugarcane is given to you as an apology, and this money—"

Jian Changnian also poured out all the money in the backpack.

"I'll give it all to you too. I still say the same thing, you have to be forgiving and forgiving. If you earn a lot of money, you won't be afraid of losing your life."

The boss looked at her, then at the fruit knife in her hand, swallowed, and chose to cautiously pounce over to collect the money into his arms.

Jian Changnian put the fruit knife on the counter facing her.

"This knife is very good for peeling fruit, so I'll give it to you too."

After getting the jade box, Xie Shi'an opened it and took a look, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Jane Chang thought about it.

"The bills issued at the time of the mortgage were also found and destroyed together."

"Hey, I'm not very old, but I know a lot, okay, okay, wait, I'll go look through the account books."

Money and goods cleared.

Xie Shi'an took the lost and recovered jade pendant and left the store.

"Okay, you can think of such a way."

Jian Changnian scratched her head and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Actually, I was also very scared. My hands were shaking when I confronted him, but grandma said that you don't have to be too reasonable with him when you deal with unreasonable people."

Xie Shi'an looked at the jade pendant with affectionate eyes.

"Grandpa had been thinking about the whereabouts of this piece of jade before he passed away, and now I finally found it for him."

Seeing her happy, Jian Changnian is also in a good mood.

"Then do you want to go see him? Anyway, it's still early."

The young man lowered his eyes, as if he was a little afraid of being emotional.

Jian Chang said.

"I think grandpa should also want to hear the good news with his own ears."

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Today is the second day of the new year.

There are quite a lot of people sweeping graves in the cemetery.

Xie Shi'an threw paper money into the copper basin, and the raised black ash was blown far away by the wind.

"My grandma passed away early. I haven't seen her since I was born. I only know that grandpa hasn't been looking for her for so many years. He raised my dad by himself and took care of me. In the end..."

Jian Changnian gently put his hand on her shoulder and comforted her.

"Pick up..."

Xie Shi'an turned around, forced a smile with red eyes.

"Now it can be regarded as the fulfillment of one of his wishes."

"Then... what about your grandma's jade bracelet?"

"Grandpa left it to me, and stuffed it into my clothes before he passed away, so my dad didn't **** it away. He said it was carved by himself and given to grandma as a token of love. He told me to keep it safe."

"If one day I meet someone who can be entrusted to for life, giving him the bracelet is also a little bit of his kindness as a grandfather."

Jian Changnian also threw a stack of paper money into the copper basin, and the flames were blazing.

It is said that the more the fire burns, the more the deceased in heaven will be able to receive the thoughts from relatives on the ground.

"Grandpa... must love you very much."

Xie Shi'an smiled, and the flames licked the corners of her eyes and brows, with a look of nostalgia in her expression.

"He taught me how to play badminton. He was my first teacher, my grandfather, and my father and mother."

Speaking of this, Jian Changnian remembered.

She kept a piece of Sports Evening News, which was the news on the day Xie Shi'an won the championship, and half of the page was devoted to her.

The boy took it out of the schoolbag and handed it over carefully.

"Shi'an, trophies and medals can't be burned, but I think grandpa...he should really want to see this too."

Xie Shi'an was startled, looking at the somewhat yellowed newspaper.

"you…"

Jian Changnian turned her head away with an unnatural expression.

"That... I bought it at the newsstand that day, and it not only has you on it, but also our Coastal Province team."

Most of the page was devoted to the report of her victory over Jin Nanzhi, and the four words of the Binhai provincial team were only mentioned in a few strokes.

Xie Shi'an looked at the newspaper, pursed the corners of his lips, and said softly, without piercing her.

"Thank you, just now, and... now."

The flames engulfed the newspaper bit by bit.

Xie Shi'an stood up, and with a wave of his hand, paper money was scattered all over the mountains and plains, like a snowfall.

She looked at the photos of her grandparents on the tombstone and said.

"Grandpa, I have lived up to your expectations. I grew up well, ate on time, and I grew taller and healthy."

"I also met very good coaches and partners. Together, we won the overall championship in the badminton national competition team competition, and my personal individual championship. In the spring, I will go to the World Championships and win the championship. See you again."

After Xie Shi'an finished speaking, he bowed deeply towards the tombstone.

As soon as she turned around, Jian Changnian also bent down.

"You are..."

The boy raised his head, his eyes were red, and he smiled sweetly.

"It's me who should say thank you to Grandpa."

She looked at her grandfather's kind smile on the tombstone, and added in her heart.

"Please rest assured that Shi'an is not alone now. She is my best friend. No matter what happens, I will never leave her. You save my life, and I will protect her for the rest of my life."

At that time, when he didn't know anything about the future or the taste of love, the young man's thin shoulders had already provoked the promise.

The world is mighty, and the wind passes through the world.

The candlelight in front of the tombstone flickered slightly.

The teenagers went down the mountain hand in hand.

"go home."

"it is good."