Chapter 66: Kowtow
When Guan Xiaojun stepped into the door of Guan Fuliang's house in his last life is already an extremely vague thing, it seems that it was after the age of seven or eight, and he can't remember the specific time node.
But this time, it was the first time in his life that he entered Guan Fuliang's house.
Since Guan Xiaojun was a child, Guan Yunshan has repeatedly told Guan Xiaojun not to let him step into the gate of Guan Fuliang's house, the child doesn't understand anything, naturally they listen to what their parents say, so they have never entered Guan Fuliang's yard.
Sometimes passing by the gate of Guan Fuliang's house, he also looked in curiously at the door, but every time Guan Fuliang trembled and called him in, Guan Xiaojun turned around and ran every time, not daring to have any contact with himself, the third old grandfather.
Sometimes when he ran away, when he looked back, he saw Guan Fuliang's lonely figure standing at the gate in a daze, with a lonely face, and the sunset shone on his body, pulling his figure to the old elder.
Today, he and Guan Yang stepped into this mansion for the first time in their lives to pay New Year's greetings to Guan Fuliang and his family, and the reaction of Guan Fuliang and his family was amazing.
The old woman in front of her, the third grandmother of the ruthless one, was already aging at this time, she was wearing a black cloth cotton jacket and cotton pants at this time, and the calves of the cotton pants were wrapped with black leggings, and the two little feet were wrapped more and more small, the two feet were pointed, and the two legs were like compasses.
She wore a black forehead around her head, and in front of her forehead was an oval piece of green jade, which glowed green in the candlelight at the door.
At this time, when she saw the arrival of Guan Yang's sister and brother, she was in a state of agitation, and sat on the threshold and cried loudly.
Decades ago, at this threshold, Guan Hongda's young second brother was lying on this threshold and looking directly at the rice bowl in her hand, and then his eyes slowly dimmed, his head slowly lowered, half of his body was lying in the house, his legs were still outside the threshold, and he starved to death.
"Don't ...... Don't cry!"
Guan Fuliang glanced at his wife and said in a low voice: "Don't scare the child!"
The old woman hurriedly stopped crying, quickly wiped away her tears, and slowly got up by holding on to the door frame, "Yes, I, I'm confused!"
Guan Yang saw the third grandmother crying, he did feel a little scared, and wanted to run, but his palm was tightly grasped by Guan Fuliang, and if he struggled, he always felt a little embarrassed.
She was furious in her heart, and she was already pulled by Guan Fuliang into the hall with her younger brother.
On the wall facing the entrance of the hall hangs a large painting of the Antarctic fairy holding a longevity peach, and the brain door of the Antarctic fairy on the painting paper is extremely exaggerated, and there is a sika deer standing next to the fairy, and the sika deer has a Ganoderma lucidum in its mouth.
The whole painting has a festive flavor, and on either side are two couplets, one short and the other long.
The painting paper is yellowed, and it looks like a painting of the year, which is the birthday painting scroll received by the ancestor of the Guan family, which was later passed to Guan Fuliang, and was used as a banner in the middle hall by him and hung on the wall.
Underneath the scroll is a long black strip with two white porcelain vases at two ends and fake flowers on them.
Below the table is a table of eight immortals, and on either side of the table are high-backed openwork Taishi chairs.
The furniture was wiped extremely clean, reflecting a faint light in the candlelight of the square table.
After Guan Fuliang led Guan Yang's sister and brother into the house, he hurriedly grabbed melon seeds and peanuts from the small basket on the table and stuffed them into Guan Xiaojun's sister and brother's hands, "Take it, child!
Guan Xiaojun took the peanuts and melon seeds and put them in his pocket, pulled Guan Yang and said to the old woman next to him: "Grandma, we kowtow to you!
Seeing the two children kowtowing to herself, the old woman panicked, and after helping the two of them up, she reached out and touched her body, with an anxious look on her face.
She didn't seem to have prepared New Year's money for her children, and she had no money on her at this time, so she was a little embarrassed.
Guan Xiaojun didn't want to embarrass her, so after pulling Guan Yang out of the room, he turned to the two people in the room and said, "Grandpa, grandma, my grandfather said, at noon today, please go to the house for dinner!"
Guan Fuliang's body was shocked, and he slowly sat on the Taishi chair, covered his eyes and lowered his head and cried for a moment, then raised his head.
As soon as I looked up, I saw that the two children were already about to walk out of the door, and hurriedly said: "Xiaojun, Yangyang, don't go first, don't go first!"
He looked excited in the room, "Good boy, you wait a while, wait a while!"
Guan Yang stood in the courtyard and whispered to Guan Xiaojun: "Our old grandfather and grandmother are so old, why do you still cry at every turn?
Guan Xiaojun smiled: "You don't understand!"
Guan Yang snorted: "You know!
At this time, there was a sound of rummaging through the cabinets in Guan Fuliang's house, and after a while, Guan Fuliang walked over with a jacquard blue cloth baggage, "Xiaojun, I don't have anything for you for the New Year, here are a few silver dollars, you can take them and play with them!"
He handed the burden to Guan Xiaojun, "Good boy, you tell Hongda that I can't stand his mother...... I ......"
When he said this, his voice choked, and he waved his hand at Guan Xiaojun, "Go back quickly!
Guan Xiaojun took the burden, his hands sank, he almost couldn't grasp it, he hurriedly held it hard, and said to Guan Fuliang: "Grandpa, then let's go first!"
Seeing Guan Xiaojun take over the burden, Guan Fuliang seemed to have done a very important thing, and the whole person became relaxed, and instructed the two of them: "Be careful on the road! Don't run too fast!"
After Guan Xiaojun walked out of the gate, he struggled to carry the heavy burden, and said to Guan Yang: "Sister, you can help me carry it!"
Guan Yang asked in a low voice: "Grandpa said, there is a silver dollar in this baggage, what is a silver dollar?"
Guan Xiaojun said: "It's a coin made of silver." ”
Guan Yang suddenly became nervous, and looked around vigilantly, "Silver, is it all silver here?"
Although she was young, she knew the preciousness of silver, and she was extremely nervous at this time, so she snatched the burden over, held it in her arms and strode forward, "Quick, let's go home and show grandpa first!"
Guan Xiaojun was also extremely surprised at this time, he didn't expect that Guan Fuliang would be so willing to pay a New Year's greeting this time, and give himself a large bag of silver dollars.
Silver dollars, Guan Xiaojun has seen it, in Guan Zi's home, it is a long cylindrical shape wrapped in kraft paper by Guan Zizai and placed in a camphor wood box, the silver bracelet in Guan Yang's hand at this time, and the silver collar on Guan Xiaojun's neck, are all made by Guan Zizai with silver dollars and a silversmith.
In this era, some people, as "ancestors have been arrogant", basically there will be more or less silver dollars hidden in their homes, but it is the first time that Guan Xiaojun has encountered so many situations like Guan Fuliang at once.
A hundred silver dollars weighed almost five catties, and the package that Guan Fuliang gave him was very heavy, not to mention more than ten catties, so there were at least three hundred silver coins.
Guan Fuliang's stroke today is not small, these silver coins were placed in the Republic of China, enough to buy a big mansion in the capital. If you put it in the countryside, you can buy at least one or two hundred acres of land.
I don't know how Guan Fuliang saved so many silver dollars, but today, he gave Guan Xiaojun what he had put for most of his life.
After so many years of hard life, it seems that he has figured out some problems, maybe he has long wanted to give these silver dollars to Guan Hongda, and wants to apologize to his nephew, but he has never had the courage.
In a sense, these three masters are also a pair of poor worms.