Chapter 8 A Visitor from Far Away
The third aunt didn't come back much, because of the long distance. As soon as the third aunt arrives home, she will snatch me from my uncle's arms and kiss me not enough, and she still shouts: "Xiao Chu wants to kill me!" The boyfriend next to him looked stupidly and laughed.
The third aunt told her grandmother that she was about to become a regular and would become a city person who received wages and ate imperial food, and said to her boyfriend: "It's all the credit of his family." Grandma smiled and said, "Then you should treat people well and work hard." ”
The third aunt said to her grandparents again: "Father, mother, I want to get the marriage certificate as soon as possible, and I have enough other conditions for this regularization, but the conditions for unmarried do not match." Dad, you go to the village chief to talk about a certificate, falsely report that I am two years old enough to get married, this time the positive index his parents took a lot of effort to get it, this time I can't catch up, next time I don't know the year of the monkey Ma Yue can be in turn. ”
The third aunt lied to her grandparents again this time, and it was his boyfriend's parents who wanted them to get married. The third aunt is very beautiful, the young guys in the factory are all showing their skills to chase her, among which the most outstanding and the handsome son of the factory director has launched a fierce pursuit, her boyfriend's parents are afraid of long nights and dreams, once they turn positive, they will not look down on his son, and then the chickens and eggs will outweigh the losses, so they want them to get married as soon as possible so that they can rest assured. The third aunt agreed without hesitation, and came back to beg her grandfather to come forward to help her falsely declare her age and open a marriage certificate.
Grandpa thought about it, and finally agreed to the third aunt's request.
The third aunt received the marriage certificate, the wedding did not take place immediately, just in time for her boyfriend to be sent to study in other places, it will take a year to end, his parents went to the grandparents' house on the day of the marriage and discussed: get the marriage certificate first, and wait for their son to come back before the wedding.
On this morning, the voice of the sixth grandmother came in before she entered the hospital, and this woman who often pulls fiber for people is born with a high voice: "Who's at home? Before the words fell, the man had already flashed into the courtyard.
Two people came in behind the sixth grandmother, and in front of him was a radiant old man, who was over eighty years old, with white hair combed back of his head, a long beard floating on his chest was also snow-white, and a pair of bright eyes and a ruddy face looked particularly energetic. Wear a black cardigan, black pants and black open-top shoes. It's not that he's full of gray hair, just looking at the pace of the old man's actions, he can't tell that he is an octogenarian at all. The old man was closely followed by a tall and sturdy middle-aged man fifty miles away.
Grandma recognized the identity of the old man at a glance, it was the old gentleman who he and his grandfather went to Giethoorn Village to tell the uncle's fortune.
Grandma hurriedly greeted her and said, "Mr. is here, please come in." Although my grandmother was a little dissatisfied with my husband, she looked forward to it with hope for six years, but at this time, out of respect and understanding for my husband, she still received them very warmly.
The sixth grandmother said quickly: "Sister-in-law, these two are Mr. and his son from Giethoorn Village, it took me a lot of effort to invite Mr. to our family to see the feng shui of the new house base, I heard that I and our Xiaosi village people only agreed to come, early in the morning my son drove a tractor to invite Mr. here, this is not just from my house." ”
After the sixth grandmother finished speaking, the husband's son continued: "My father hasn't been out for ten years, and he only agreed when he heard that he came to your village, and when he came, he said that he must come to see Xiaosi." ”
A few people were talking, and then they noticed that Mr. who had not said a word since entering the door was staring at the uncle who was sitting in the yard with me in his arms at this moment. Several people stood by, and no one spoke.
After the mother had finished making the tea, the husband slowly turned around and sat down at the small table and asked his grandmother, "Can you tell me his birthday?"
Grandma only knows that fortune telling and fortune telling are all the parties who take the initiative to find Mr., but it is unheard of for Mr. to take the initiative to come to the door. Grandma didn't take the initiative to mention what happened six years ago, and told Mr. Uncle about his birthday with hope.
After listening to grandma's words, Mr. stretched out his hand and began to calculate, after a while, he raised his eyes and looked at grandma who seemed to have something to say but didn't say anything, and then stretched out his hand to the middle-aged man, who quickly took out a delicate purple small wooden box from his handbag and handed it to Mr.
When the copper coins were all stopped on the table, Mr. leaned his face and looked carefully at the table, just like that, Mr.'s face changed greatly, and his ruddy face just now instantly turned pale: "It's exactly the same!" said in his mouth, and immediately asked his grandmother: "You must have gone to me." ”
Grandma was startled by the sudden change in Mr.'s expression, and when she heard Mr. ask, she said, "Yes, I went six years ago, and at that time you said that Xiaosi was ......" Mr. raised his hand and waved to interrupt Grandma's words, saying: "You didn't take Xiaosi with you at that time, and I also remembered what I once told you." After saying that, he pondered.
The gentleman's son seemed to suddenly come to his senses and said, "Was it still raining on the day you went?" and the grandmother nodded in agreement.
He said to the gentleman: "Dad, I also remember, I still remember that day there were already ten people, you didn't say that you were only nine, and you didn't make a mistake once, and I said at the time that you remembered wrong." ”
The gentleman did not speak, and no one in the yard said another word.
After pondering for a while, the gentleman put the copper coins into the small box one by one, as if talking to himself and as if to tell everyone: "I am not good at learning, I am ashamed!"
As he spoke, he stood up, glanced at his uncle, walked out of his legs, and said a few words loudly: "The things left by the ancestors are broad and profound, and they are extremely profound, I am ashamed of myself!" After speaking, he walked out of the courtyard and walked away regardless of others. Mr.'s son and the sixth grandmother hurriedly chased them out.
Only the stunned grandmother was left in the yard.
A few days later, the sixth grandmother mysteriously ran to our house and said to my grandparents: "Since I returned from your house that day, my husband has closed the door for three days, and after three days, he told his family that he will no longer tell anyone's fortune or fortune divination. Hang the sign of closing the door to thank the guests. ”
Grandma said suspiciously: "We didn't say anything else that day, and he didn't watch Si'er write." ”
The sixth grandmother shook her head noncommittally and said, "I don't know what's going on." ”
The old gentleman lived until he was in his nineties and died without illness. When Grandma found out, she sighed and said to Grandpa, "The old gentleman is also a strange person." ”
When Qiangzi and Mr. Liu came to our house again, it was the time of the autumn harvest, and the corn in the field was already full of full fruits waiting for people to pick. When Mr. Liu and the others arrived at my house, they chatted with my grandmother: "Old man, last time the fourth brother wrote me the word 'walnut', I and Manager Wang pondered all the way and didn't understand, I guessed in my heart that it may be that the fourth brother asked me to do walnut business, I think is it the meaning of letting me collect walnuts for wholesale? But now there are many people doing it, it is a very ordinary wholesale business, and the profit is not very high." But I don't know anything about the food industry, and I haven't understood the deep meaning of the fourth brother. It wasn't until last month that my wife and I went to the mall and arrived at the food counter that it dawned on me, and I saw a dazzling array of canned food, which turned out to be for me to do walnut deep processing. I looked carefully for a long time and didn't find canned walnuts, and when I went back to the company, I asked Manager Wang to do market research, and I thought it was a good business opportunity, so I came back immediately to prepare to implement this matter. I was still too stupid to figure it out for months. Mr. Liu gave his thoughts and thoughts in one breath.
Qiangzi added: "We have been in contact with the township and the town, and the town leaders attach great importance to it, saying that this is a good thing for the benefit of the township and improving the income of farmers, and a working group has been set up to be responsible for this matter. ”
Mr. Liu smiled and said: "I can't go against the will of the fourth brother, he is thinking about the people in this village." "Mr. Liu is now also learning the name of the strong son, and he is also called the fourth brother of the uncle.
After Grandpa and Mrs. Zhang came back from the field, they said with a smile after hearing this: "Good thing! Great good thing! Boss Liu, don't be modest, we people in the village should thank you well, and the future generations in the village will not have to go outside to work hard." ”
Qiangzi said: "Mr. Liu also wants to expand the variety of canned food, as long as we are rich here, such as hawthorn, peaches, apples can be made, and walnut powder can also be developed into brain products in the future." Mr. Liu also said that I should be responsible for coming back, and I wanted to call my eldest brother back to help me. ”
Mr. Liu said: "I am really reluctant to let Manager Wang come back, my business over there is also inseparable from him, there is really no way, he is a person here, people are familiar with the situation, and he is handy at work, I am also ready to let him do everything here smoothly and let him go back, there are more and more things for him to do." "It seems. Qiangzi is really capable, and Mr. Liu really uses him as his right-hand man.
Qiangzi contacted his father, but his father said that he couldn't come back for the time being, and he had just brought a few apprentices, and he would talk about it when the apprentices were done.
My mother weaned me during the Chinese New Year after I was one year old, and followed my father back to where they worked.
As soon as my mother left, I became my uncle's 'parasite', sticking to my uncle almost every day, every inch of skin and every hair on my uncle's face was very familiar, and I could see at a glance the extremely slight changes in my uncle's rarely changing facial expressions, and I was tired of my uncle until I could run around in the yard steadily, and then occasionally shouted coquettishly: "Uncle hug!" As soon as I pulled my uncle's hand down, he would hold me in his arms and let me play with him.
After I stopped wetting the bed, I yelled that I wanted to sleep in the same room with my uncle at night. Every day, I sleep peacefully with my uncle's arms on my bare pillow.
Until I was three years old, I was in my yard, and my grandmother didn't allow me to take half a step out of the house without an adult, and my uncle didn't go to the village entrance much.
When my uncle is not holding me, he still draws on the table and the ground with his hands or crutches, and I occasionally learn to draw curiously, and after a few strokes, I run away to play by myself.
It is said that the child born in Layue - moves hands and feet, and this is appropriate for me.