While speaking, he secretly shuffled all the chess pieces.

Sure enough, the other old man's attention was also drawn to Liang Zhirou, and he didn't notice his little trick at all.

Liang Zhirou felt embarrassed by the stares and stood beside Chen Lu with her head down, then greeted him with a "Hello, Grandpa."

"This girl is so sensible and pretty too."

After finishing his sentence, Grandpa Zhao smiled and shook his head, sighing softly, "Ah, I'm getting old."

He gestured with his hands, "I remember you being this young, and now you already have a girlfriend. Time flies..."

Chen Lu smiled and agreed, squeezing the girl's hand even tighter.

For some reason, he was also somewhat dazed when he heard these words.

When an elderly person who has truly watched you grow up remarkes on how quickly time flies, you may have truly grown up.

After all, what elderly people like to do most is reminisce about the past.

After chatting for a few minutes, the two continued walking towards the nearby farmers' market.

"Are you two very familiar with each other?" Liang Zhirou asked curiously.

Chen Lu nodded slightly. "Yes, not long after I met you, my family moved here. He watched me grow up. His wife passed away several years ago, and since then he has been fishing and playing chess every day."

"But he's really bad at the game but addicted to it. My dad is sometimes called over to play a couple of games with him."

The girl gave a soft "hmm" and didn't say anything more. She had always thought Chen Lu was really amazing in this respect; he could talk to anyone except those he didn't want to talk to.

"I'll definitely outlive you by then. Hmm... just a little bit is enough." After a while, Chen Lu suddenly muttered to himself.

Liang Zhirou found it strange and turned her head to look at his serious expression. "I thought you were going to say that you would die before me so that you wouldn't be sad or anything."

Thanks to having a best friend who loves watching romance dramas, she had heard of this kind of sentence structure before.

Chen Lu shook his head, denying the girl's guess, and said in a deep voice:

"I'm worried."

Liang Zhirou blinked and slowly wrapped her arms around Chen Lu's, pressing them even closer.

Those four simple words seemed to contain a thousand unspoken messages.

......

Soon, Liang Zhirou regretted coming out to buy groceries with Chen Lu.

She had no idea how many times Chen Lu had proudly introduced her along the way.

This isn't grocery shopping, it's more like visiting relatives!