Chapter 525

The old willows in Liuying lane are wrapped with neon lights. At night, they light up like stars, which makes people think they are immortal trees in the sky.

Every time she sees it in her life, she will think of the bright Nebula seen through the telescope. Is there such a tree in the nebula, rooted in the black hole, spreading its branches in the Milky way, standing in the night sky year after year and scattering a little starlight?

The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year is getting worse year by year. Except for neon lights, lanterns and safety slogans prohibiting firecrackers, there is no sign of the Chinese New Year. There are few people and cars on the street, except for the cold.

Lifetime flowers come out from the back door, habitually take out a pot of jihualian and put the key under the flowerpot. For more than a year, she has done this every time she goes out. What if she comes back?

She came to the front street, stood at the gate of the bar for a while, and then walked slowly along the street.

Lao Li's small supermarket is still open, and the old air conditioner is buzzing on the side wall. This is the first supermarket opened in Liuying lane. The lifelong flower opened before it was born. It was said that the business was very good at that time. Later, there were more and more supermarkets, and there were big stores nearby, so the small supermarkets were not very popular. Lao Li is also old, so he stays in the tepid small supermarket for the rest of his life.

Most people in Liuying lane are looking forward to the demolition and resolutely oppose it. For example, she is the only one who spends all her life, but there are still some people who don't want to demolish. Lao Li is one of them.

Lifetime flower lifts the plastic curtain of the supermarket, and the sensor at the door sends out a "welcome" prompt sound. I don't know whether it's out of power or too old, and its voice is hoarse as if it were an old man.

Lao Li was tidying up the shelves. When he saw the flowers of his life coming in, he smiled and said, "Oh, flowers, what do you want to buy?"

"If you don't buy anything, just come in and have a look," said lifelong flower.

Lao Li was very happy: "sit down and sit down quickly. If you don't buy anything these days, you can come to see the young people in the old neighborhood, just you!"

The flower didn't sit all her life. She just leaned casually against the front desk cabinet and asked, "haven't brother Zhengyang and sister-in-law come back? Tomorrow is the New Year!"

Lao Li sighed: "Alas, he married his daughter-in-law and forgot his father. He said that the baby wanted to go to school. He will spend the new year in Australia this year and won't come back."

"Isn't Australia having a summer vacation now?"

"Who said no? It's probably a make-up class. But Zhengyang said, when I demolish here, let me go to Australia to enjoy it." a trace of happy longing rippled in the wrinkled folds on Lao Li's face.

"You don't object to demolition?" it's a little strange to spend your whole life.

Lao Li said, "sooner or later, it's useless to oppose it. When I say flowers, you should be more open. Your grandfather said when he was there that times are different. You don't have to pay back the debts owed by the elders."

"I know." the lifelong flower smiled, chatted with Lao Li again, and went out.

Further on is boss Wu's wusheng noodle shop, but it's closed. This is also an old shop. Boss Wu is an outsider. He came to Wuzhong to do small business in his early years, starting with wonton pick, and then opened this shop. He loved to come here to eat noodles when he was a child. His aozao noodles are well cooked, including fried fish, marinated duck, stewed meat and shrimp. They are delicious and no worse than those made in the century old store in Kun county.

Aoki and crows also like to come here to eat noodles after they come. Crows often say that in addition to the flower like sauce elbow, their favorite food is the noodle topping of this house.

Boss Wu goes back to his hometown every year for the new year. Once, it takes more than half a month. He doesn't come back until the Lantern Festival.

Next door to wusheng noodle shop is Aunt Liu's ready-made clothes shop. Sixth aunt is a tailor of the old state-owned garment factory in the last century. After the garment factory closed down, she opened this ready-made clothes shop in Liuying lane.

At the beginning of that year, many people were used to cutting a few feet of new cloth to make new clothes. Later, they were used to going to the store to buy clothes and talking about the brand. The ready-made clothes shop became a patching shop. A few years ago, the sixth aunt wore reading glasses, stepped on the sewing machine in the shop, repaired a zipper for the neighborhood, knocked on the hem of her pants or something. Later, the sixth aunt's daughter had a second child, so she asked the sixth aunt to help take the child. The shop was rented to a Shandong couple making pancakes, but there was the word "Nannan ready to wear shop" on the door. Nannan is the nickname of six aunts. People call her that when they are old.

In front is uncle Qian's house. Uncle Qian is rich and doesn't open any shops. He is decorated as an old-fashioned tavern, but only entertains his old drinkers. A sign is erected at the door: private places, no admittance. Some people say that he is overqualified and can entertain friends at home and rent his shop to make money. He said he wanted to leave a comfortable face for himself and make it easy for friends to get in and out of the door.

Uncle Qian likes raising birds. He has a starling. He used to show off his Starling's intelligence, but since the coal boss came to Liuying lane, it seems that his starling is not very clever. Every time uncle Qian sees aomu walking the birds, he will say, "talk to old eight and take us. My old eight can't talk nonsense now!" the coal boss always dislikes it and doesn't turn his head: "dead starling is too stupid!"

All her life, the flower smiled when she thought of this. She walked slowly forward, looking at the past shop by shop, and the past was vivid.

But it will be dismantled sooner or later!

No matter how opposed the lifelong flower is, no matter how Huang Ziqiang helps, this place will be demolished sooner or later, and the old willow will be removed sooner or later.

And that day, after the surveying and mapping personnel of the garden and Culture Bureau came, she became more and more worried. She clearly remembered that the man said that there were tree roots for miles around, which was so similar to what she heard from her grandfather!

She didn't know that the surveying and mapping Union would not go back and report in detail. What would happen if the leaders of the Bureau of parks and culture really took this seriously and studied the details of the tree? Maybe it will be protected as a particularly precious tree species, which is also a good thing. What they fear most is that they have to dig out the roots to have a look, or use it as a gimmick to make money from tourism. It is estimated that the tree will be over.

She walked again for a while and unknowingly turned into the old lane on the side. In the alley is the old farmer's market. The last vegetable farmer is holding his ground and shouting again and again: in the last half day, sell out and close the stall!

Lifeflower walked through the alley beside the farmers' market and stopped in front of the Internet cafe.

The fire that people in Liuying Lane lamented more than 20 years ago started here. The old Liu family and the workers working in their wool mill died that night.

It is now known that Liu Huai planted the fire, but people at that time did not say so. At that time, it was rumored that it was Tianhuo. Someone in the Liu family did immoral things and provoked God's anger.

But when I spent my whole life sitting on my grandfather's knee listening to the story, I heard another version

Since a fire in the Hua family, all the mulberry trees ten miles around the mulberry camp have died. Since then, no mulberry has grown for decades. No matter transplanting or cutting, they can't live. Instead, willows have grown row after row. But a mulberry seedling grew in the courtyard of Liu's wool mill.

Grandpa said it was the revival of Sang's soul. He went to the wool mill to find work and take care of the mulberry secretly. Later, the mulberry seedlings grew up gradually, but the Liu family cut it down because they thought the mulberry was in the way, leaving only a small tree root on the ground. Then the Liu family caught fire.

Grandpa didn't say that the fire was caused by the Liu family cutting mulberry trees, but he spent his whole life automatically connecting the two things in his mind.

Grandpa escaped the disaster because he went to the hospital when the fire broke out and waited for his little granddaughter to be born.

Life flower was born that night.

Grandpa loves her very much, probably because she saved grandpa's life when she first died.

Although the fire had nothing to do with life-long flowers, after all, so many people died. When people mentioned it, they would feel creepy, as if they were the witnesses. When they struggled in the fire and had nowhere to escape, they had to abandon their bodies, escape their souls and give birth in a hurry.