She is generous and not defensive

The place that sells breakfast is not too far away, just at the entrance of the alley, about ten minutes' walk.

After Yun Zhi bought breakfast, she didn't eat it in the store and planned to take it home to eat.

On the way home, I met an old man riding a tricycle. There were fruits in the tricycle that he wanted to sell. At that time, the tricycle was passing by the pile of bricks placed in the alley and could not pass.

The person riding the tricycle was an old man, he looked to be in his sixties or seventies.

The car couldn't pass, so the old man came down to move the bricks blocking the road. The tricycle was not big, so he didn't need to move too many bricks, probably about thirty bricks.

Seeing this, Yun Zhi walked straight over without saying anything. She put the breakfast she bought on the fruit in the tricycle and went over to help carry the bricks.

The old man smiled and said thank you, and asked her whose child she was from and why she hadn't seen her before. Yun Zhi said that she had just moved here.

After the bricks were moved, the old man wanted to give Yun Zhi some fruits. By the time he found the plastic bags for the fruits, Yun Zhi had already walked away with his breakfast.

The old man smiled and shook his head and said that he was a good boy, but his temper was a bit cold.

*

"A Chen, you're here for breakfast. You've been staring at your pots of grass since you came back. You've been looking at them every day. What's so good about them?"

Grandma Yan walked out of the house wearing an apron and wiping her hands. Yan Chen stood outside the window of his room. Five pots of unknown green plants were placed on the windowsill.

Yan Chen just stood there and watched, not doing anything else.

Hearing the sound, he looked helplessly at the old man: "Grandma."

"Well, well, I know your pots of grass are different. I'm too lazy to tell you. Come and have breakfast."

An old man and a young man were sitting at a wooden dining table having breakfast.

The old man did it when he got up in the morning.

It’s not complicated, just two bowls of noodles and two eggs.

Yan Chen peeled the eggs and put them in the old man's bowl, and then peeled his own. While peeling the eggs, he said: "Grandma, I just came back from running and met the new neighbor who moved next door."

"See you? When did you move here? Why is there no movement? What kind of person is he?" The old man was also a little curious. She had moved here for twenty years and had never seen the residents next door.

"They moved here last night. I didn't hear any noise. It's probably because they didn't move many things and didn't make much noise. It's a girl, my deskmate." Yan Chen said.

"Sitting at the same table? Such a coincidence?" The old man was slightly surprised.

"That's not right. I remember that every time I went to hold a parent-teacher meeting for you, you always sat at a table by yourself. When did you have a tablemate? She was actually a girl."

The old man's expression was a bit gossipy: "Isn't that painting that you can't put down your new deskmate gifted to you by your new deskmate?"

"Grandma." Yan Chen sighed helplessly with a smile, but did not deny it.

"Really, it's not something shameful. You are an adult. What does it have to do with having a girl you like? I won't talk about you."

Yan Chen looked at her with a smile.

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh at you anymore. You only see your classmates and no one else?"

Yan Chen shook his head: "No."

"When I met her at the door, she was going out to buy breakfast."

"Going out to buy breakfast? It's a holiday now, and she needs to go out and buy breakfast by herself. Either the elders in the family are unreliable, or she lives alone."

Yan Chen actually knew that Yun Zhi should live alone.

But he didn't say it.

The situation in which Yun Zhi stayed at her stepfather's house was her private matter and he couldn't say much.

"Well, I'm going to steam some cakes later. When it's done, you can send some over to say hello to the new neighbors and see how your classmates are doing."

"Since she is your deskmate, she is probably about the same age as you, and she is a girl... If she lives alone and we are neighbors, we can take care of her more if we can. There are not big security problems in this old city, but there are also

There are a few no-nonsense second-rates living there.”

"good."

He had just agreed with Yun Zhi to go to her house to get a pot of flowers to put on the desk.

Of course, asking for a pot of flowers is just an excuse.

He wanted to visit her courtyard.

This was undoubtedly an impulsive move on his part, and he regretted the words a little, but once the words had been spoken, he always had to go to the next door, and Yun Zhi agreed. He couldn't accept it and not go, what if Yun Zhi

If Zhiwei waited for him to come over and stayed at home without going out, wouldn't he just let others go?

It’s also outrageous.

When Yan Chen knocked on the door with a plate of steamed cakes, Yun Zhi was sitting on the hanging chair in the courtyard in a daze.

It was approaching noon, the sun was just right, the courtyard was full of flowers and full of life.

Knowing that Yan Chen was coming, Yun Zhi did not close the door tightly. Yan Chen knocked twice, and the door was gently pushed open through a gap.

Yun Zhi looked up and said: "Come in."

Yan Chen met her gaze through the gap in the door opening.

Naturally, I also saw what she looked like at this time.

She was not wearing her school uniform, she was still dressed casually as in the morning, with her long hair in a high ponytail, and she was sitting on a hanging chair full of flowers, with the sun shining down and the shadows of the trees mottled.

A bit dreamy.

Separated by a wall, the outside and the inside of the courtyard seem to be two worlds.

It gave Yan Chen the illusion of entering another world.

However, Yan Chen was only stunned for a second. He opened the door with a smile and walked in: "Excuse me."

"This is a steamed cake that my grandma just made. I know that your new neighbor has moved here, so I asked me to give you some."

"Grandma?" Yun Zhi's eyes were fixed on the steamed cake held by Yan Chen.

He looked a little dazed.

Yan Chen saw her reaction in his eyes. Although he was suspicious, he didn't ask any more questions.

He just said: "Well, my grandma makes steamed cakes."

Yun Zhi came back to her senses, stood up from the hanging chair, and took the steamed cake from him with both hands: "Thank you, I'll free up the plate for you. You can choose any flowers in the yard. Pick which pot you want when you leave later.

Take them away together."

After saying that, he carried the steamed cake into the house.

Yan Chen was left standing alone in the courtyard.

She didn't seem to worry at all about him disturbing the flowers and plants in her yard.

Yan Chen's mood is inevitably complicated.

Any flowers and plants in this courtyard can be sold for a sky-high price if you take them out in a pot. Her indifferent attitude may mean that she is too big-hearted or she trusts him too much.

The yard was just renovated half a month ago. No matter how good a person is at growing flowers and plants, they would not be able to plant all the flowers and plants in such a short period of time. And when he asked her for a pot of flowers, not only did she not refuse.

, and let him choose it himself.

Isn't she afraid that others will notice something unusual in her yard?

By not guarding against him, do you think he is not a threat to her and there is no need to guard against him, or do you think you can trust his character?

They had only known each other for a few days, and they didn't even know whether the other person was a human or a ghost.

This would be too careless of her.

"Have you picked yet?"

Yun Zhi's voice brought Yan Chen back from his thoughts.

Looking back, Yun Zhi was standing there with a clean dish. There were some fruits in the dish, including oranges and apples.

Yan Chen has good eyesight and can tell at a glance that this is no ordinary fruit.

The way these fruits are grown is probably similar to the flowers and plants in the yard.

It's a good thing that even money can't buy.

But Yan Chen didn't make it clear. He looked at a pot of flowers in the courtyard, smiled at Yun Zhi and said, "I like that pot of ink orchid."

"Yeah." Yun Zhi didn't feel any reluctance to part with the pot of molan. She came over and handed him the bowl with the fruit, "Thank you for the steamed cake. Mo Lan, you can move it away on your own."

Yan Chen took the dishes: "Thank you for the fruit, too."

Holding the bowl with fruit in one hand and the pot of ink orchids in the other, Yan Chen looked at Yun Zhi with a smile: "I'd like to ask, Yun Zhi, do you live alone?"

*

See you tomorrow.
Chapter completed!