Chapter 147:

When Gu Suier looked through the dilapidated window, she saw Xiao Ah-chen holding a rusty slingshot in her hand and shouting there.
"Mother, see what I found!" He waved the slingshot in his hand.
Xiao Heng looked at it, stepped out, picked up the slingshot from Xiao Achen, and took a closer look.
"Where did you find it?" Xiao Heng asked, staring at the slingshot.
"There, it's in the soil." Xiao Achen pointed to the corner next to the wall.
The place was originally covered by weeds, but now that the weeds have been leveled, the fresh soil underneath is exposed. The slingshot has obviously been buried in the soil for a long time, so that the mud has been imprinted in the shape of a slingshot.
"Father, did you play this slingshot when you were a kid?" Xiao Ah Chen fiddled with the mud-stained leather case and asked his father curiously.
Xiao Heng looked at the slingshot and nodded.
"Yes, it's something from many years ago, and I have forgotten that I once had this."
No matter how good his memory is, today, twenty years later, he only remembers some impressive pictures. As for this slingshot, if he didn’t see it again, he would have forgotten that in that bitter childhood, he also had a little fun of.
"Is this still usable?" Xiao Achen touched the rusty edge of the slingshot, with some regrets on her face: "If it can still be used."
"Fix it."
When Gu Suier watched their father and son play a slingshot there, she asked Guizhi to take someone to repair the stove next to him. After so many years, the cobweb dust was cleaned up, and the run-down place was repaired before putting the inside of the house. Cleaned up.
After all, there are a lot of people, and things get started quickly. After a short time, the house is much cleaner. Although it is still dilapidated, it can live in.
Gu Suier smiled and said, "If the wall is repaired, this house is not bad."
Xiao Heng nodded: "Well, get the bedding tonight, so let's live here."
The inn is also very rudimentary, and the bedding is not clean, it is better to buy some yourself and live in this old house, so you can live with peace of mind.
The guards at the bottom also looked for places to go. Many houses here are so dilapidated that they are about to collapse, and no one lives. Just find a place to live in the neighbors at will. At this time, there were occasional people who were curious and looked at them with their heads, but they didn't dare to ask.
Gu Suier saw that the stove had been cleaned up, there was no major damage and it was usable, and immediately carried the hay that had been collected from the yard over to burn it.
Guizhi had already bought rice and vegetables in oil, salt, vinegar, vinegar and so on. Gu Suier and Guizhi boiled a pot of water together, and put refreshing noodles.
When it came time, I even knocked a few poached eggs.
The steaming noodles were ready. When Gu Suier went out to look at it, Xiao Heng had already polished and repaired the slingshot. He was teaching Ah Chen how to pull the slingshot and how to align it.
After teaching for a while, Xiao Heng stepped back and let Achen shoot a few stones against the courtyard wall next to him.
A Chen took the posture according to Xiao Heng's instruction, and pulled the slingshot in a decent way and shot it out.
The small stone hit the courtyard wall with a bang.
A Chen squeezed the slingshot and clapped his hands happily, "I will use it!"
Gu Suier looked at this picture, but she was in a daze.
The appearance of the father and the son is extremely similar. She doesn't need to think about it. Twenty years ago, Xiao Heng must be like the current Ah Chen, standing under the courtyard wall and shooting small stones there with the same slingshot.
She couldn't help thinking about Xiao Heng's appearance back then.
The little Xiao Heng, the lonely Xiao Heng.
Would Xiao Heng laugh at that time?
Gu Suier suddenly remembered the faint smile of Xiao Heng's lips just now.
Although light, it is indeed a laugh.
He laughed and looked good.
When he was a child, at the simplest age, he should have laughed like this, right?
Xiao Heng accompanied Ah Chen to play the slingshot for a while, and then came in to eat the noodles that Gu Suier had made. The steaming noodles also came with poached eggs. It was very simple. If you were in Yanjing before, these would not be on the table.
However, in this small yard where I used to live when I was young, a bowl of hot noodle soup with pouches has become luxurious and beautiful.
Gu Suier was originally afraid that Xiao Heng would only eat this too crude, and that Ah Chen didn't want to eat it. Who knew that the father and son were eating so hot, but in the end some sweat dripped from the tips of their noses and couldn't help laughing. Up.
She thought, perhaps she should spare more time to do something for them in the future.
She likes to watch them eat the food she cooks like this.
At this time, Awan in her arms saw it, and she stretched out her hands to reach her, her eyes were wide open, she looked very greedy, and her bright red mouth was spitting out cool saliva.
Gu Suier asked Guizhi to boil a small bowl of noodles, scooped a little bit with a spoon and fed it to Xiao Awan.
While I was eating, I heard footsteps outside and some people screamed in surprise.
"You, who are you?" The voice was old and trembling.
Xiao Heng heard this sound, but when he went out to see it, his eyebrows were curled.
Gu Suier looked over, and saw that it was an old lady, a little older, wearing a coarse cloth shirt and leaning on crutches.
The old lady first saw Xiao Heng, and was stunned, and then she saw Ah Chen, who was curious about her.
She looked it up rare, and then she suddenly said, "You, are you Xiao Yu'er? Is this Xiao Yu'er back?"
Xiao Heng was silent for a moment, then nodded, "Are you Hua Granny?"
The old lady heard Xiao Heng calling her mother-in-law, and she became more sure, her wrinkled face was extremely emotional: "Oh, it's really Xiao Yu'er, you are still alive, where have you been these years? After your mother is gone , Why are you missing? I heard people say that you were taken away, why haven't you seen anyone all these years!"
Granny Hua shouted so loudly, as if someone on the street heard the movement, they all came over.
In fact, everyone has long known that a group of rare nobles came to the city today. Those people used to clean up the abandoned houses and peeped secretly, but they didn't dare to approach them.
Nowadays, listening to Granny Hua’s call, I can’t help but look up. There are also some old people who remember, or have already started to guess, and they all said: "This, this is Xiao Yuer?"
"Little Yuer was not dead?"
"Xiao Yu'er is back?"
And people are more surprised and apprehensive, and don't understand how the little Yuer who was bullied in the past is so noble now.
News from the small town spread quickly, and soon the innkeeper came, bending over, smiling, cautiously.
Everyone looked at Xiao Heng curiously.
The old Xiao Yuer turned out to be such a noble person, and couldn't help but want to get close, but didn't know how to get close.
Seeing this, Gu Suier secretly said to Xiao Heng: "What are we going to do?"
Xiao Heng: "Let's go."
Here to him, it's just a memory.
After the memories, I will leave.
Before he left, Xiao Heng asked the people under him to scatter some silver bucks for everyone, and they divided them.
Everyone was flattered and thanked Xiao Heng one after another. Some even wanted to come forward and get closer, but everyone below stopped him.
Later, during the one or two years that Xiao Heng left, some people talked about it.
But when everyone asked what kind of noble person that Xiao Yuer was, people realized that they didn't even know how this Xiao Yuer developed.
On the way back, Xiao Heng was sitting in the carriage with Gu Suier.
After A Chen played with Xiao Awan for a while, Xiao Awan fell asleep. He felt boring, so he went out to let Hu Tie take him on a horse.
Xiao Heng was sitting in the carriage with his arms around Gu Suier, and the two were talking in low voices.
Gu Suier leaned against Xiao Heng's arms and closed her eyes lazily.
Xiao Heng squinted his eyes to sleep soundly.
Gu Suier thought he was asleep, but who knew this time, he heard him suddenly say: "When I go back to Yanjing City, I will have a good talk with my father."
"Huh?" Gu Suier raised her head in surprise and looked at Xiao Heng.
"The past, let it go." Xiao Heng closed his eyes and sighed: "I thought I would remember those things for a lifetime, but now that I think about it, it's nothing."
Gu Suier nestled in his arms and nodded obediently: "Well, what you said is."
Did he finally let go of the past?
Gu Suier suddenly felt that he had come to Zhucheng this time.
"By the way, I remembered something and wanted to ask you." Gu Suier remembered the incident that Xiao Heng took her to the grave in the past.
"Say."
"A long time ago, I just gave birth to Ah Chen. You took me and Ah Chen to go to the grave for my mother. What did you say in front of my mother's grave?"
"Why didn't you ask me at the time?" Xiao Heng asked back, looking down at her in his arms.
"I..." Gu Suier said helplessly: "How dare I!"
At that time, she was scared when she saw him, she didn't dare to have extra words, how could she dare to ask this.
"I have forgotten now." Xiao Heng said.
"I don't believe it!" She grabbed his shirt in angrily and yanked.
"Then what did you say in front of your mother's grave?" Xiao Heng asked back.
"I said--" She only remembered halfway through the conversation: "No, if you don't say it, I won't say it."
Xiao Heng didn't say a word.
Gu Suier gently shook his arm, and begged softly, "Say..."
Xiao Heng still didn't say a word.
Gu Suier gave up helplessly.
If you don't think about it, don't say it.
Who knew that Xiao Heng suddenly lowered his head and pressed his forehead against her.
With her eyes facing each other, she fell into those deep eyes unsuspectingly.
Those eyes are deeper than the sea.
"Guess what I said." The voice was gentle and soft, like silk.
Gu Suier's heart slammed slightly, and her face was flushed instantly.
"Say..." Gu Suier whispered: "Tell us?"
"Yeah." Xiao Heng looked down, "Tell us, we will be together for the rest of our life, as a family."
Gu Suier's eyelashes quivered slightly.
"me too……"
Her voice was soft, soft, like water.