Chapter 8: The Old House
Zhuang Rui's feelings for the old house are very complicated, in his vague memory, the image of his father and the old house are linked, the memory before the age of five is beautiful, snuggled in his father's arms, eating the dates from the jujube tree in the yard of the old house, listening to his father tell Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, undoubtedly Zhuang Rui was the happiest at that time.
But after the death of his father, everything changed, the huge old house became lifeless, when the mother was assigned a house at the age of ten, they moved out of there and came to the current residence, over the years, Zhuang Rui rarely went to the old house, mainly because he did not want to face his father who had been dead for many years, and the loss of his father when he was a child was an unbearable pain for many people.
The old house is located at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, a famous scenic spot in Pengcheng, and hundreds of meters in front of it is the Pengcheng Museum, which exhibits silver jade clothes, attracting many domestic and foreign tourists to visit every day.
And on the Hubu hill not far behind the old house, it is the hero Xiang Yu who destroyed Qin and established himself as the overlord of Western Chu, set the capital Pengcheng, built a cong platform, and watched the famous landscape of the horse, the martial arts and the military parade, in history, it was listed as the three treasures of Jiangsu with the Suzhou garden and the stone carvings of the Six Dynasties in Nanjing, but it was destroyed in the war, and it was not well preserved like the two landscapes above.
Historically, various dynasties built many buildings on the site of the opera stage, such as Taitou, Sanyi Temple, Famous Eunuchs, Jukui Academy, Towering Green Mountain House and Tablet Pavilion. With the passage of time, the time has changed, the former buildings have been completely annihilated, after renovation, the Hippodrome is majestic and magnificent, and the glorious appearance is reproduced in the world, Zhuang Rui in his childhood, often sneaks into it with some friends to play and frolic.
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Early the next morning, Zhuang Rui and his brother-in-law rushed to the old house, but the rented car could only be parked at the intersection of the alley.
Zhuang Rui's old house has three bungalows and a spacious yard, there is a tall jujube tree in the middle of the yard, there is a stone table and several stone benches under the jujube tree, remember that every summer when I was a child, the family is sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard to eat and enjoy the cool, now the stone bench has not been sitting for a long time, and it has been covered with moss.
Originally, the mother of the village had to come here once a month to clean, now because it is about to be demolished, after packing up the things, there is no coming back, the spacious yard is full of weeds, and there is a big "demolition" word written on the outer wall, because the construction here will start after the year, the residents next to it have already moved away, and when the New Year's festive atmosphere is everywhere, it seems a little desolate and lonely.
The room in the middle is where Zhuang Rui's grandfather used to live, after his grandfather died, the house was vacant, and some sundries were usually placed.
For this grandfather who had never met, Zhuang Rui only learned from his mother that his grandfather was a geologist who had gone to work in Yunnan and Burma after the liberation, and it was for this reason that he was slandered as a collaborator and persecuted in that chaotic decade, which also affected Zhuang Rui's grandmother, so that the two old people died early.
"Xiao Rui, it's gray inside, don't come in, I'll move things out, you can just take a handle outside......."
The brother-in-law opened the door of the middle room, and was greeted by a sky full of dust, which made Zhuang Rui retreat again and again, coughing.
The reflection of the sun on the snow is reflected in the house, and it can be vaguely seen that two rectangular wooden boxes with a size of about one meter are placed in the corner of the room.
"It's okay, I rarely go into grandpa's room, and soon this house will be gone, go in and take a look, this box is big enough, hey, it's really heavy enough, let's carry it out ......."
Zhuang Rui re-entered the house, picked up the corner of the box and tried it, and felt the precipitation.
Now few people take bulky wooden boxes to store things, these two boxes should be old objects left in the past, the paint on the outer skin of the box has fallen off a little, the surface of the box, but also carved some flowers and grass ornaments, on the exquisite workmanship of the lock nose, hung two iron locks.
Originally, Zhuang Rui still wanted to go to the theater today, but when he saw these two big boxes, he completely lost his mind to play.
I don't know what the box contains, it's really heavy enough, after the two of them moved the box into the car and pulled it home, they all sweated all over their bodies, but when they got home, they learned a good news, the house next door was basically no problem, and the mother's colleague promised to go through the transfer procedures after the New Year, and the price was set at 38,000, which was thousands lower than the price said at the beginning, which made Zhuang Rui and Zhao Guodong very happy.
Zhao Guodong helped to move the box, then said goodbye and left, after all, the Chinese New Year is about to begin, and there is still a big mess at his parents' house, after the brother-in-law leaves, his mother is going to visit the old colleague's house, and Zhuang Rui is the only one left at home.
Looking at the two large boxes placed in his room, Zhuang Rui had an urge to open them and take a look, after all, the previous memories will pass away with the demolition of that house, and the things left behind by these elders will become precious in the eyes of the younger generations.
Zhuang Rui went to the drawer of his mother's room and found a few keys, tried to open them, and sure enough, he was able to open these two boxes, Zhuang Rui was overjoyed, and quickly opened one of the boxes, and found that all of them were books, and the covers of the books were a little yellow, which showed that these books were of some age.
Carefully picked up a book from the box, Zhuang Rui looked at the publication date, and found that it was actually Li Siguang's original work, the 53 edition of "Chinese Geology", after opening it, he saw that there were a large number of biological fossil pictures and maps inside, and after a cursory look, Zhuang Rui carefully put the book back in his hand, believing that the 53 version of the book can only be found in some relatively large libraries now.
Flipping down, there were some books on geology, Zhuang Rui was not interested, and opened another box, but inside was a bundle of letters, and a stack of notebooks, in a corner of the box, there were actually four or five black, fist-sized stones.
"No wonder the box is so heavy, what did my mother do with a few stones in it. Zhuang Rui was stunned in his heart, and thought with all complaints.
Picked up a letter and opened it, glanced at it, Zhuang Rui was stunned, because the whole letter was written by a brush, and the last signature of the letter was actually the three words "Li Siguang", Zhuang Rui hurriedly read it carefully, the content of the letter was not long, it should be the venerable scientist's reply to his grandfather, in the letter in detail the geology and landforms of Yunnan, Guizhou, Myanmar and other places, the words are very professional, Zhuang Rui has a lot of words and sentences that he can't understand, but it is already certain that this is Li Siguang's handwritten letter.
I didn't expect my grandfather to know this big scientist that I had admired since I was a child, which made Zhuang Rui very interested, so he began to sort out his grandfather's letters, and those black stones were in the way, he took them out and threw them directly under the bed, if he wasn't afraid of trouble, Zhuang Rui would have thrown them downstairs to the garbage heap.
After roughly flipping through these letters, most of them were used by my grandfather to communicate with some classmates and teachers, and I only read a small half, and there was a thick layer in the box, Zhuang Rui was a little impatient, because some of the terms in them were really difficult for him to read.
Putting down a letter that he was looking at in his hand, Zhuang Rui's heart moved, if he used aura, it seemed that he could read it without opening the envelope, thinking of this, Zhuang Rui looked at the bottom of the box intently, the blue light flashed, and the aura in his eyes also escaped.
"Huh!".
Zhuang Rui suddenly shouted in surprise, because when his eyes saw the bottom of the box through a stack of letters, two scrolls came into view, and what surprised him was that after the aura penetrated the scroll, there seemed to be a breath in the scroll that merged into the aura in his eyes, and then the aura returned to his eyes on its own, and Zhuang Rui could clearly feel that the aura that was originally thin and only had one layer left became much thicker.
Zhuang Rui felt that his eyes at the moment, as if they had just dropped eye drops, were cool with a hint of sourness, Zhuang Rui closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, the whole room seemed to become much brighter.
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