On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng's father and Zheng's mother went to the second aunt's house together, leaving Zheng Xiaowen to wait for Yang Yilin at home.

At more than eleven o'clock, Yang Yilin returned to Huayuan from Yangjiagou. He didn't go to Yinghua Xili, but came directly to the private school alley.

When Zheng Xiaowen saw Yang Yilin coming back, she wanted to ask, Yang Yilin went home to ask about his age, and looked at the results of the question, how old was he? She thought about it again, don't ask, how can you not say anything when you meet, ask this matter first, doesn't that seem to be too composed? Anyway, it won't change that number, so let's wait until after lunch.

After Yang Yilin took a bath, Zheng Xiaowen wanted to make lunch. Yang Yilin said that he was not hungry, and said that he would cook and eat together at noon.

Zheng Xiaowen was still worried about her age, she was very anxious, and she desperately wanted to know if Yang Yilin's age was twenty-seven years old. But when she thought about it again, she felt that it was still inappropriate to ask now, and she was still annoyed that Yang Yilin didn't hurry up to tell her. Since Yang Yilin didn't say it, he would wait until after lunch to ask, and he wouldn't seem so eager.

Zheng Xiaowen was anxious about Yang Yilin's age, Yang Yilin, he seemed to be fine, he seemed to have forgotten what he had said about his age, and he had long forgotten about his age when he went back to his hometown. Zheng Xiaowen looked at him with a relaxed expression.

Yang Yilin asked Zheng Xiaowen: "Wen Nini, what do you say the two of us are playing at this time?

Zheng Xiaowen suddenly remembered that Yang Yilin didn't see it last year, and the bonsai that he moved to the upper room had to be made up for him this year. She said, "Don't go to the East Garden. She pointed to the upper room, "Let's go, I'll take you to the upper room to see the two bonsai." ”

When the two of them came in and went to the door, Yang Yilin smelled the fragrance of flowers, he took a breath and said, "Ah, it's so fragrant!"

Zheng Xiaowen said: "What I promised you last year, you didn't come to the room to see the bonsai during the Spring Festival last year, so you should watch it hard this year, and make up for the lack that you didn't see last year, Gegegege!"

Yang Yilin was happy with what Zheng Xiaowen said to him, he glanced at the pot of golden plum in the east, and then came to see the yellow and clear pot in the west, full of trumpet flowers.

Yang Yilin turned back and forth, looked at this pot, and then looked at that pot, which made people want to applaud the bonsai, and he couldn't help but say again: "Xiaowen, look, what an elegant and beautiful scenery!" As he spoke, he naturally raised his left arm, hugged Zheng Xiaowen's shoulder, and after watching the plum with Zheng Xiaowen, he came to see this pot to welcome spring.

Yang Yilin carefully looked at this pot of branches to welcome spring, he saw that this pot of spring, whether it is a short branch that grows upwards or a long branch that hangs downward, all the branches of the whole pot tree are full of yellow trumpet flowers, and the horn edge of each trumpet flower has a circle of red edges, which looks particularly beautiful.

Yang Yilin watched these trumpet flowers open towards him, as if they were broadcasting to him. In his imagination, the broadcast was still loud. He gently shook Zheng Xiaowen's shoulder and said, "Xiaowen, did you hear that?"

Zheng Xiaowen didn't know what Yang Yilin meant, she turned her face to look at Yang Yilin with wide eyes, and said, "What did you hear?"

Yang Yilin pointed and nodded very seriously, and said to the small speakers on the spring tree: "Listen carefully, these little speakers are broadcasting and talking to me." ”

Zheng Xiaowen understood what she meant, she smiled and said, "Really? What did they say?"

Yang Yilin didn't laugh, he said: "It's true, they are all chattering and rushing to say to me: Uncle, you should be here in the second year of junior high school, why did you delay it for two days? Oh, I know, I know, you are the father-in-law and mother-in-law who went home to visit our sister-in-law!"

Zheng Xiaowen was already smiling when he heard this.

Yang Yilin said: "Xiaowen, don't laugh, they are still broadcasting to me." They said to me, "Uncle, you have already visited our sister-in-law's parents-in-law, and your parents have seen them, and we all welcome you when you come today! You know what? You are here, and spring is coming with you! This year will be the most beautiful beginning of your life, so you should boldly and diligently move forward!"

Yang Yilin finished saying these words in one breath, and he laughed with Zheng Xiaowen's laughter.

He smiled, pointed to the spring flowers, and said, "Xiaowen, you see that the edges of this yellow horn are all inlaid with a circle, and the edges are like two red ribbons." ”

Zheng Xiaowen said: "There may be many varieties of spring flowers, some of which are all yellow, and the flower color is still a little light. This pot is a good variety sent by Dad's friend. ”

Yang Yilin said: "This is really a good variety, don't underestimate this red edge, when you watch this spring flower, this red edge, it can add infinite charm to this beautiful flower, and make people have a reverie unconsciously." ”

Yang Yilin said, he bent down slightly, leaned over to the spring flowers to smell it, and said, "Ah, this little horn still exudes a faint fragrance." ”

Zheng Xiaowen said: "Actually, the spring flowers have no fragrance, and the fragrance you smell may be given to it by Lamei." ”

Zheng Xiaowen turned around as she spoke, she pointed to the plum bonsai and said: "The aroma of the plum is very strong, when I moved it in a few days ago, my father opened the shed door above a little, and opened the windows on the dark floor, east and west, also a little crack. In this way, the aroma in the house is suitable. These bonsai should not be left in the house for a long time, and after the sixth day of the new year, they will be moved out. ”

Yang Yilin said: "After the sixth day of the new year, I will move these two pots of flowers. When he had finished speaking, he looked at the furnishings in the room again.

Yang Yilin and Zheng Xiaowen have known each other for a year and a half, although he often comes to the Zheng family, and he has lived in the Zheng family's house, but he has no real serious business, and he has never come to the room at will. He followed Zheng Xiaowen to the upper room twice, but he didn't have a chance to really look at the furnishings in the upper room.

Today, he took advantage of this time to take a clear look at the antiquities in the upper room. He saw that the bars, eight-immortal tables, high-backed chairs, and high-legged coffee tables in this room were much more elaborate than the upper room in the east courtyard. The antique furniture here is bright and shiny in the comprehensive color of grape black, red and purple.

He saw that it was not the flower stand that placed the plum and the spring bonsai. He learned from Zheng Xiaowen that this was left by the ancestors of the Zheng family, and the high-legged and four-legged underneath were carved with cloud-like patterns on the two-layer coffee table.

He saw that on the front door, there was a god building about one meter high, about 90 centimeters wide, about 30 centimeters deep, and the whole was golden and slightly red. He looked at the front and back slopes of the ridge of this building, but when the front slope reached the bottom, it slowly rolled outward and upward.

Zheng Xiaowen was standing next to her, she wanted to touch Yang Yilin when she saw her hand raised, she said, "Don't raise your hand, I'll tell you." The eaves above this place, the one that rolls forward is called the front roll shed. You see, under this canopy is the corridor in front of this building.

"This god main building, I heard my grandfather say that it was carved from high-quality wood. You like to look at old antiques, and this main building is also very antique, so you can take a good look. ”

Yang Yilin really looked at it, he looked at it and said: "On both sides of this corridor, there is also a carved column, which supports the roll shed above, and on both sides below the roll shed, there are two red gauze lamps hanging." Oh, this corridor is inward, there are three vaulted doors, and there are carved doors on the doors that can be opened and closed, this god main building is really finely made!"

Zheng Xiaowen said: "Look at the front wall of this god main building, there are pictures carved and carved, what kind of pictures do you see?"

Yang Yilin looked at it for a while and said, "Oh, I know, there are twenty-four filial piety pictures painted on this outer wall." ”

Zheng Xiaowen smiled and said, "That's it, you're right." ”

Yang Yilin said: "Let me see what is like inside these three doors." ”

Zheng Xiaowen said: "There is an inscription in it. Hanging on the back wall is the portrait of our Zheng family's ancestor and great-grandfather. ”

Yang Yilin raised his hand to open the three arches. He saw that there was a portrait wearing a Qing Dynasty coat and hat. There are also white steles inside, like white steles, and the words written on the stele are the tablets of the ancestors of the Zheng family.

He straightened up, and then looked at the overall shape and appearance of the main building, he felt that this main building gave people a **, spectacular feeling.

After Yang Yilin finished looking at this god main building, he said: "Xiaowen, I have never seen such a magnificent tablet house like this!"

Zheng Xiaowen smiled and said, "It's really the first time you've seen it? Let me tell you, I've never seen such a god building in someone else's house." However, I heard my father say that it means that other people's homes are like that, and if they are not well protected, they will be destroyed in that era. ”

Yang Yilin's gaze fell on a large rectangular copper incense burner with patterns in front of the Divine Lord Building. He saw that the four legs of this copper incense burner were slightly rolled outward when they reached the feet below, and they looked very beautiful. He saw a copper ring on each side of the copper incense burner, and a copper unicorn on the lid of the incense burner. It's just that there is a layer of greenish patina on the entire incense burner.

Yang Yilin saw that on both sides of the copper incense burner, there were two bronze cranes more than 30 centimeters high, standing with their heads held high. The crane steps on a hemispherical copper base with a cloud hook pattern at its feet. On both sides of the copper crane are two exquisite copper wax platforms. These bronzes have a layer of patina on them.

Yang Yilin looked at the bars on both sides of the main building, and he saw that there was a bamboo carved incense tube on each side and a blue and white porcelain incense tube on each side.

Zheng Xiaowen saw Yang Yilin go to see the incense in the incense tube, she said: "Dad and Mom don't burn incense at home, the incense tube and incense are just a mental decoration." ”

Yang Yilin looked at the east side of the strip again, and next to the incense tube were two bangs playing with toad antiques. It's just that the two antique shapes are different. One of the bangs was riding on a toad, pulling a string of copper coins with both hands. One bangs is barefoot, one foot is standing on the back of the toad, and the other foot is bent backwards, like a skipping rope, and both hands are pulling a string of copper coins.

When Zheng Xiaowen was a child, she played with barefoot bangs.

At this moment, Zheng Xiaowen seems to have a little memory of her childhood, and she really wants to tell Yang Yilin the incredible story of her and this barefoot bangs playing together. She thought that Yang Yilin might not believe it, or definitely wouldn't believe it, maybe he would laugh at her, she opened her mouth and didn't say anything.

Yang Yilin said: "I haven't seen these antiques before, I feel very novel, take advantage of this time, simply, I'll see them all." ”

Yang Yilin said, walked to the west of the main building, he moved away from the high-backed chair on the west side, stood in front of the strip, and carefully looked at this rosewood, wood carved tripod, erected a milky white and cyan jade plate about 60 centimeters wide, 40 centimeters high, and two centimeters thick.

On the jade plate is a colorful picture of the eight immortals crossing the sea. The eight immortals are fluttering in their clothes one by one, their spirits are flying, and they are vivid. With the sea-blue splash drawn under the jade plate, it makes the plot of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea more realistic. The picture is quaint and magical.

Yang Yilin raised his hand to touch it, and he felt that the board surface was very smooth. He asked in surprise, "Xiaowen, this board is so smooth, how did this color get on this jade?"