Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Old Mansion of the Suyan Family
In the early morning of August 10th, because he had agreed with Jiang Yu that he would go to the old mansion to worship his father a week before he went out, Su Yan got up early and forcibly pulled up Jiang Yu, who was chatting with the video until late.
After getting along for more than a month, Su Yan and Jiang Yu directly came to a righteous knot Jinlan, she had hoped that she could have a younger brother before, and when her father was young, she also encouraged her father to find another man to add to the family, but her father only smiled and said nothing every time.
Su Yan has never seen her mother, and whenever she asks her father about her mother, her father always smiles and says nothing, she doesn't understand, she doesn't even know whether her mother is alive or dead, and sometimes she even thinks that she was adopted by her father.
"Jiang Yu, can you hurry up? I've been waiting for you for more than ten minutes. ”
"Sister, don't rush to give me five minutes. ”
Jiang Yu said and began to wash, because he wanted to worship together, Jiang Yu specially took a morning bath, in order to remove the dust on his body, which was also a respect for the deceased.
"Hmph, I talked to your daughter-in-law until two or three o'clock in the morning last night, right?"
"Yes, because I haven't seen the panic I thought about for a long time, so I didn't pay attention to the time when we talked. ”
Su Yan pursed his lips and said, "Hey, you have been hiding in the bed and talking every night lately, do you think I don't know?"
"How did my sister know?"
It was impossible for Su Yan to say that he had overheard it when he was drinking water in the middle of the night, so he shouted again: "Eryuzi, hurry up! ”
"That's it!"
Jiang Yu said and walked out of the bathroom with wet hair, his clothes had been changed neatly in the bath, and only shoes were left at this time.
"You're taking a bath! I have a heart, forgive your grinding, let's go!"
Jiang Yu changed his shoes because his hair was short, so he didn't bother to blow it, and besides, it wouldn't be long before he went out in the summer.
The old house of the Suyan family is located in a small riverside town, and the uneven high-rise buildings make the whole town prosperous, but it seems to have lost some charm.
When he arrived at the door of the old mansion of the Suyan family, Jiang Yu thought it was a courtyard house at first glance, but when he looked closely, this chic courtyard with traces of time was different from the courtyard.
"This is the noose room, let's go! ”
While Su Yan was talking, an aunt in her fifties came out of the house, and the aunt was stunned at first and then happy when she saw Su Yan, and immediately stepped forward and took Su Yan's hand and said, "Girl, you haven't been back for a long time." ”
"Mom Zhang, it's hard for you to let you live here alone. ”
"What do you say! It wasn't your dad who took me in, and I guess I'm still out picking up garbage to make a living. ”
"You didn't call me to clean your house recently, by the way, is this young man next to you?"
Su Yan pulled Jiang Yu to Zhang's mother and said, "His name is Jiang Yu, and he is my younger brother." ”
Mother Zhang paused, looked at Jiang Yu from beginning to end, and said: "The young man is very energetic, according to your father's words, his eyes are clear and energetic, and his eyebrows reveal a trace of righteousness, he will definitely achieve something in the future." ”
"Thanks for the compliment, can I call you Mama Zhang with Sister Yan?"
Zhang's mother smiled happily and said, "Of course it's okay, you two go in first, I'll go buy some vegetables first, and make some food for you at noon." ”
"Well, be careful on the road. ”
Waving his hand to see Zhang's mother away, Su Yan then pulled Jiang Yu into this house that was a little old, but after entering, Jiang Yu was a little surprised, this house was repaired, using a combination of modern technology, which not only retains the simple charm, but also increases the convenience of modernity.
Generally speaking, Jiang Yu feels that this noose house is quite meaningful, which makes people feel like they are in another world.
"This hoop house is my father's favorite house, I have lived here since I can remember, this house has only been renovated once over the years, the yard where we stand is called the atrium, when I was a child, Zhang's mother often dried clothes in this place, this place is also a place to play crazy. ”
"It must be a good memory. Jiang Yu looked at the reminiscence of the reminiscence, and couldn't help but say.
"Well, of course, we'll go to the ancestral hall now. ”
The two of them followed to the second room next to the main hall, the room sat north and faced south because of the special design, there was a faint tendency to gather qi in the hidden wind, and because the town had a long moat, and the surrounding vegetation was flourishing and verdant, so there was a kind of green dragon lying and guarding one side, so Jiang Yu concluded that the feng shui of this place was excellent.
Pushing open the door, you can see at a glance where the Zou family's spirit cards are placed, but they are not as family-style row after row as Jiang Yu thought, but only one pair, looking at the name Jiang Yu knows that it is Su Yan's father.
In front of the spirit tablet is enshrined an electronic ever-bright candle, which is a substitute for candles, as well as many tribute foods, and in the middle is an incense burner, which is used for worship, and it is obvious that this ancestral hall belongs to the ancestral hall built after the death of Suyan's father.
The two of them didn't say anything to bring the door, and when they came to the spirit card, Su Yan's eyes were already red at this time, and he obviously remembered his father again.
"My unfilial daughter has come to see you. Su Yan knelt on the futon and burned the paper.
Jiang Yu smoked three incense sticks, lit them with his own fire charm, and worshiped three times before offering them to the incense burner.
Su Yan burned a pile of paper, finished speaking, wiped the corners of his eyes, and then lit three incense sticks to offer the incense burner, and then pulled Jiang Yu out of the room.
With complicated thoughts, Su Yan pulled Jiang Yu and stepped into his father's room for the first time in two years, the room was cleaned spotlessly, and it was obvious that Zhang's mother was doing the same work for decades.
"Zhang's mother entered our house when I was five or six years old, when I was young, I thought my father had found me a mother, so I kept calling her Zhang's mother, and then called Zhang's mother, I heard Zhang's mother say that she came out of the mountains, because the family was poor and wanted to come out to find something to eat, but in the end she lived on the streets by picking up garbage, and then was brought back by my father. ”
Su Yan stroked the desk as if recalling the past, and then said: "Later, when I entered adolescence, I was not sensible, and I was often angry with Zhang's mother, but Zhang's mother has always been conscientious, and she treats me like a daughter, and then I have been thinking about letting my father marry her, but my father always looks at the sky, shakes his head and laughs." ”
Jiang Yu nodded thoughtfully and said, "Isn't that Zhang's mother still married?"
"Yes! Zhang's mother sold the house after the death of her parents, and she has been living here, for decades, she has never been anywhere else, and every time she asks her, she always says, if it weren't for your father, I would have died in a corner of the city. ”
Jiang Yu listened to this and admired the old aunt who was in her fifties and almost sixty, after all, there are few people in this world who can do it, receive the grace of dripping water, and repay it with a spring, let alone a woman, and use the spring blossom of her life as a reward.
Jiang Yu scanned the whole room, it was very simple and simple, next to the desk was the bed, and on the wall behind the bed was a specially designed bookshelf, on which were neatly placed books, and the things on the desk seemed to have suspended time, retaining the way they were, and there was even an open notebook, as well as a fountain pen that stayed in the center of the book.
"Sister, there seem to be a lot of things recorded in this notebook, haven't you ever been curious?"
Su Yan sighed and said: "I have always been reluctant to admit the fact that my father died, so I have never dared to come back, and when Mother Zhang cleaned the room, she must not have deliberately touched the things here." ”
"Sister, everything has to look forward, maybe the notes here are left for you. ”
Su Yan bit her lip, as if she had made up her mind, the reason why she pulled Jiang Yu together was to give herself a piece of courage, people always want to have something to rely on, regardless of men and women.
With trembling hands, Su Yan stroked the notebook, closed his eyes and held the notebook tremblingly, under Jiang Yu's cheering gaze, Su Yan turned to the first page of the notebook.
"I felt that my limit was approaching, and I was concerned, so I had no choice but to leave this record. ”
"Yan'er, if you see this passage, I must have been destined to return to heaven, and you, who have relied on me too much since childhood, will definitely find it difficult to accept it for a while. ”
Seeing this, Su Yan couldn't help but cry again, no matter how strong her heart was, there were times when she cried, Jiang Yu patted Su Yan's back and gently comforted her on the chair, signaling her to relax.
"The Zou family was originally prosperous, but because their ancestors leaked too many heavenly secrets, they were blamed by heaven, and neither men nor women lived to be thirty. Therefore, in order to pray to God, the ancestor sacrificed the other half of the Yin and Yang Five Elements Book to seek harmony in heaven, but it was difficult to calm the anger of the heavens, so the Zou family declined, and only one vein was left to survive, but still could only live to sixty. ”
At this glance, Jiang Yu could understand why there was only the collection of spells left in the Yin and Yang Five Elements Book, and he was also shocked, because it reminded him of the old man who gave him mustard seeds.
Su Yan's heart shook at this time, she didn't expect that there were so many secrets in her family, but why didn't her father tell her earlier, but wrote it down in his notebook.
"The Zou family has only men and no daughters, so Yan'er, you are an exception, and the reason for all this comes from your mother, that's right, your mother did not die, which is very, very complicated, my father only hopes that you don't hate your mother, and she left just so that you can stay by my side safely. ”
"I believe that as a father, your mother very, very wants to be able to watch you grow up with me, get married and have children, and live the life that ordinary people have. ”
"Maybe it's the fate of the Zou family! Let you meet Chen Zhiming, this catastrophe will hit you hard, for your father before the deadline is about to help you pull out this cancer, and pave the way for the future, he will be punished after all. ”
When Jiang Yu saw this, he seemed to see an angry father, silently paving the way for his daughter, like a mountain that was daunting, and Su Yan realized that his father had long understood Chen Zhiming's character, if he hadn't miscarried, he was afraid that he would still be kept in the dark by Chen Zhiming.
Su Yan's tears wet her clothes, she hated her former self, hated herself who could only see things with her eyes.