Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Trip to the Capital

My grandparents said it was too much trouble, so we just waited at the hotel.

The fifth uncle smiled and said: "I will live in this hotel for the next few days, I have arranged the rooms, I will pick up my sister-in-law and children tomorrow morning, my parents will play with you, it has been set a long time ago, don't worry about it, everything will listen to me here." ”

The fifth uncle's father picked up the wine glass and said to his grandfather: "Brother, let's listen to what the child arranges, the two of us are fine, and our brothers can still chat." Come on, let's have another drink. ”

A sumptuous dinner was over, and when we arrived in the guest room, the grandparents were smacked by the unusually elaborate dΓ©cor inside.

Grandma looked in circles at the bright and brilliant room, and muttered to herself: "The landlord's house is not so wide." ”

It was the first time for grandpa to see such a high-end and luxurious decoration, touching everything he had never seen, and he said with great emotion: "The times are different, when will you say something, tsk." ”

The speechless old couple didn't sleep well all night, and slept nervously for several hours, and they were not used to soft beds.

The next day, we started the tour of the ancient capital of Beijing, when I was still young, including all the family members of my grandparents, due to the lack of knowledge, I still know very little about the long history of civilization of the motherland, so the Forbidden City in addition to feeling its majestic and magnificent, resplendent and splendid, the winter scenery of the Summer Palace also feels very beautiful, without the foreshadowing of historical knowledge, it is difficult to see its profound cultural heritage.

Along the way, my father hugged my uncle and listened to the tour guide invited by my fifth uncle's father. In fact, due to the lack of cultural knowledge, there are few people in our family who understand the historical stories and allusions.

During this period, Uncle Xiao made several extremely strange movements, which puzzled us all.

The first time was when I came to the gate of the Forbidden City, and when I just stepped on the Jinshui Bridge, the uncle suddenly stood by the bridge and refused to take a step, his eyes staring ahead, and his expression was solemn and wooden. After standing for two or three minutes, my father pulled it twice, but the uncle was still standing. It wasn't until the family members who were moving forward in front looked back that the uncle took a step.

The second time, when the car passed through Xinhua Gate, I watched my uncle twist his head in the direction of Xinhua Gate, staring at 'look', until the car drove away, and then twisted his head forward. No one knows what Uncle is 'seeing', or what he can 'see'.

The third time was when I was in the Summer Palace, everyone got on the famous stone boat, but the uncle refused to move forward, and my father had to accompany the uncle on the shore to wait for everyone to come down.

The last stop was our favorite zoo, where our children were eye-opening and saw many animals, many wild animals and exotic animals for the first time in our lives.

When we came to Lion Tiger Mountain, I heard Katsuko point to a tiger and say, "I bet it must be a female." Then I heard his scream of 'ouch'. When everyone looked at him, they pretended to say: "This tiger is so powerful, it scares me a lot from so far away." ”

Sister Xiaoru pursed her lips and smiled on the side, and the one she had just quietly hit was not light.

In the evening, the grandparents said that they would let the fifth uncle change the restaurant to eat, and said: "I am used to rural life, but I am really not used to eating in such a luxurious restaurant. ”

The fifth uncle and father said: "Me too, I feel uncomfortable eating inside, it is better to find a unique restaurant to eat and drink." ”

The fifth uncle immediately said, "Okay, we can eat wherever we want, I'll go to the neighborhood to have a look first, and I'll be back soon." ”

Mother and Aunt Yan told their grandparents about the results of today's examination of Kang Kang and Meimei: Kang Kang did an MRI examination in the morning, and the results will wait for tomorrow, and the two experts in the field of children's intellectual disability also carefully examined Kang Kang's condition, saying that the child's condition is not optimistic, and I am afraid that it will not be much better if it is too big, as for Kangkang's painting genius, experts said that they have also seen several mentally retarded children who have a specialty in a certain aspect, which is also related to the fact that the child's brain is damaged and the aspect of the specialty can be highlighted。 Kangkang's condition can be said to be not very good, but Meimei is great news, Meimei's last surgery was excellent, and the doctor who operated on Meimei said that it would be perfect to do it again when she was three to five years old.

When I went to the Academy of Fine Arts in the afternoon, the teacher watched Kang Kang's painting process, Kang Kang painted Yan Gu at that time, the teacher was very surprised while looking at it, and said a few good things in a row, and said that this child is extremely talented, is a talent for painting, but the age is too young, if you go back and continue to practice painting, when he is about ten years older, parents can take him to find him again. When the fifth uncle heard this, he kept expressing his gratitude, saying that he would definitely trouble the teacher at that time.

Everyone listened with mixed feelings. Kang Kang himself is still stupidly happy with his sister there. He didn't know at all what his relatives were worried about him.

Soon, the fifth uncle found a good home-cooked restaurant, that day everyone was constantly instigated by the fifth uncle, the mood was high, many people relaxed and casual, the five bottles of wine brought by the fifth uncle were drunk, almost everyone drank it.

Uncle that night, he drank no less than a dozen glasses of wine with Uncle Five, and Uncle Wu was excited and stimulated by alcohol, and soon his face was red, and he was laughing loudly with everyone, and it was like the night he returned home. Grandma looked at the fifth uncle's extremely open physical and mental appearance, and smiled in her heart: This child has really survived the difficulties.

We stayed in the capital for a total of five days, and also left a group photo of all of us at the foot of the Great Wall and major scenic spots, and the fifth uncle said that he must find the best group photo, wash a few more photos, enlarge them, frame them and put them at home.

My wife and my sister were the most interested, and we didn't feel tired at all after a few days of playing, but we were still unsatisfied, and we showed a strong interest in everything.

I will return tomorrow, and the send-off banquet is also indispensable, and that night the fifth uncle found a Hunan restaurant again, saying that he would eat Hunan cuisine today, and Sister Xiaoru smiled: In Hunan dialect: "Fifth uncle, do you know that I want to eat spicy food?"

The fifth uncle was not ambiguous, and also said the seven-point Hunan dialect he learned: "Of course." ”

This Hunan restaurant is very large-scale, as soon as I entered the door, the fifth uncle's parents met an acquaintance, chatted at the door for a while, and invited him to come over for a drink together.

Grandpa glanced back at the friend of the fifth uncle's father and mother, and wondered in his heart: how can this person look so much like a person when he walks, demeanor, and speaks?

Today is a private room with two tables, the four old people and their father, uncle, Yan Gu, five uncles and eight people sat at the main table, and my mother took Sister Xiaoru and Shengzi to take care of our children and sat on the table next to them, and my mother said: "This is good, Xiaoru and I can order a few authentic Hunan dishes, you can eat dishes without chili peppers, and it will not affect your drinking." ”

Kang Kang was hugged by Sister Xiaoru at first, and when he saw his sister sitting far away from him, he stretched out his hands and shouted, "Sister, sister." "It means to sit next to Dandan.

Just when everyone had eaten for a while, the fifth uncle's father said to the fifth uncle: "You go and invite Uncle Zhang for a drink, it's inconvenient for me to go out, he is full of acquaintances, don't think about coming back when you go out." The fifth uncle went out with a wine glass.

After playing together for a few days, Grandpa and Fifth Uncle and Dad have already chatted very well, and the two brothers kept talking and drinking. Grandma walked over and reached out to hug Meimei from her mother's hand, Meimei was full and drunk at this time, and fell asleep, grandma said, "I'll hug you for a while, you eat." ”

As he spoke, the door of the box opened, and the fifth uncle led in with the acquaintance he had just met at the door.

The fifth uncle's father and mother hurriedly stood up to greet them.

At that table, except for the uncle, they all stood up one after another to greet this dignified middle-aged man, and it could be seen that the fifth uncle's parents were very familiar with this person and respected him very much.

The fifth uncle pulled over a chair, and he sat down next to the fifth uncle's parents. The fifth uncle hurriedly introduced to his grandparents: "This is my Uncle Zhang, who is also a screenwriter, and the last time he filmed "Guerrilla Leader" in Zaohu Scenic Area is one of his masterpieces. ”

The fifth uncle introduced several people present to Screenwriter Zhang one by one, saying that it was his newly recognized father and brother. Screenwriter Zhang greeted everyone with a smile. No one could see that there was such a big gap between this person's age and appearance, and he looked like he was at most fifty years old.

After talking, I learned that screenwriter Zhang had retired and was also a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, but he was young at the time, and he was in a literary and artistic propaganda team of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. The fifth uncle's parents were still his old subordinates when they were in the repertory troupe.

Grandpa said, "So, you're a few years older than me, and I still have to give my brother a glass of wine." ”

Screenwriter Zhang said very happily: "I heard that you are from Zaohu, where you were filming last time, fellow countryman, the villager saw the villager with tears in his eyes, and the army paid attention to the concept of fellow countrymen." My hometown is in the South Hebei Plain, seventy or eighty kilometers away from you, can I be regarded as a fellow countryman?"

The fifth uncle said: "I can be admitted to an art school as an actor, and Uncle Zhang has given me a lot of help and advice." ”

Grandpa asked, "Does my brother still go back to his hometown often?"

Screenwriter Zhang said: "There is no one at home, I went back when I was just liberated, and I haven't been back since." ”

Listening to what screenwriter Zhang said, grandpa knew that there were too many things about the separation of wives and the destruction of families and relatives during the war years, and he didn't want to evoke the sad past of the old man, so he didn't continue to ask along this topic.