Chapter Forty-Seven: The Return of Honor
Li Liang looked back, it turned out that Long Shaoyun had followed them all the way, he only cared about listening to Wang Qingsong's battlefield experience, and didn't notice Long Shaoyun who had been following behind.
"Ah, it's you!" Li Liang said in surprise, "Aren't you going to your aunt's house, what are you going to do with us?"
"What you, you, you, hurry up and call Senior Sister, Little Senior Brother. Besides, who is following you, I am following Brother Qingsong!" Long Shaoyun said arrogantly, "And this road is not built by you, and I will also take this road to my aunt's house." ”
Listening to Long Shaoyun's words of a little middle two, Li Liang turned his head and ignored her. If he wants to call her a senior sister who is only 16 years old, he can't shout.
In this way, the three of them went back and forth, and soon came to Li Liang's grandfather's house. Li Liang's grandfather's house is backed by a mountain, and it is in the old-fashioned style of Gan style houses. From the appearance, Li Liang's grandfather's house is surrounded by an empty half-brick wall, all the same color of blue bricks and gray tiles, a tall horse-head wall, and a half-covered half-exposed double-draped roof hidden behind the overlapping horse-head wall.
Li Liang's grandfather was a small local landlord before liberation, and he had family assets, not only let Li Liang's grandfather go to private school since he was a child, but also saved money to build such a magnificent house. However, after the liberation, the Li family's fields were returned to the collective, and only such a house was retained.
"Grandpa, grandma!" no one outside the house, Li Liang shouted loudly.
"Eh!" Li Liang's grandmother, Qian Sanmei, answered in the back room, she was a half-wrapped old lady with an amiable face. The so-called half-wrapped legs refer to the fact that she had wrapped her little feet when she was a child, but her parents saw that her feet were too painful, and they only let go after ten days. Li Liang's grandfather went to a private school and studied, and he hated this custom that was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"Liangzi, grandma's eldest grandson, why don't you come back to see grandparents after such a long vacation!" grandma said angrily, and then saw Wang Qingsong and Long Shaoyun on the side and said, "Are these all your friends? Come in and drink tea!" As he spoke, he invited Wang Qingsong and Long Shaoyun into the living room and poured two cups of cold water for the two of them.
"Grandma, what about my grandfather and second uncle and aunt, as well as Li Hao's younger brother and Li Yin's younger sister?" Li Hao and Li Yin are both children of Li Liang's second uncle Li Shuangyang, Li Hao is one year younger than Li Liang, Li Yin is three years younger than him, and is as old as Zhang Junjie. When the three of them were young, they all followed the third uncle Li Shuangyuan's ass and circled around, and they grew up together as playmates.
"Your grandfather went to the back mountain to chop wood, Haozi and Yinyin also went to play, and your second uncle and aunt went to work in the fields!" replied to Grandma Qian Sanmei, who went to the inner room to pack a plate of fried peanuts and greeted Wang Qingsong and Long Shaoyun.
"Grandma, my name is Long Shaoyun, today thanks to Li Liang and Brother Wang, otherwise I would be in danger!" Long Shaoyun is a self-acquaintance, she held Li Liang's grandmother's arm and described what happened on the bus.
"Oh, my eldest grandson!" Qian Sanmei looked her grandson up and down distressedly, for fear that something was wrong with Li Liang.
"Grandma, I'm fine, it's thanks to Brother Qingsong, otherwise if a few of them escape this time, there may be danger in the future. Li Liang thanked Wang Qingsong again, took out half of the meat and cloth from the basket, handed it to his grandmother, and said, "Grandma, my mother bought you meat and cloth, you go and make lunch, I want to eat the plum vegetables and meat you made!" and took out his change of clothes from the basket and put them in the inner room where his cousin Li Hao lived, and every time he came back, he lived in the same room with Li Hao.
"Okay, grandma, let's do it, you are here to greet good guests!" Li Liang's grandmother replied.
Li Liang accompanied Wang Qingsong and Long Shaoyun to sit in the living room for a while, Li Liang's grandfather Li Chengxi came back with a bundle of firewood, Li Liang hurriedly got up to help his grandfather unload the firewood, but he didn't see Li Hao and Li Yin, it seemed that they were still playing outside.
"Grandpa!" Li Liang shouted.
"Hey, Ryoko is back! This time I stayed at my grandfather's house for a few more days. Li Chengxi said happily, Li Chengxi is in his 70s this year, with gray hair, tall and straight, and a very tough body.
Li Chengxi entered the living room, saw Wang Qingsong and Long Shaoyun sitting, and greeted him. Li Liang saw that Long Shaoyun was eager to introduce his great achievements today to his grandfather, and hurriedly said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, I'll go and send these meat and cloth to my grandmother's house, and I'll come right away, please greet the two guests!"
"Well, go ahead, remember to come back for lunch!" Grandpa beckoned.
Li Liang's grandmother's house is in the next village where his grandfather is located, and Li Liang has to walk a few times back and forth every year when he comes here to play, which is very familiar. He carried a basket and walked on a country road, where the late rice was lush and growing well. Li Liang's grandfather died early, and it was all up to his grandmother to pull the children to grow up, Li Liang has three uncles and two aunts, the uncles and aunts have already become families, and the remaining aunt Wang Xiuyan and sister Li Meng are about the same age and have not yet started a family. Grandma's family has a large population, and the conditions are not very good, so Li Liang's parents often give them something.
When I arrived outside Li Liang's grandmother's house, Li Liang's grandmother's house was obviously not as grand as his grandfather's house, it was an ordinary house with three rooms in a row, and in front of the house was a pond, in which Li Liang's brother-in-law stocked some fish. The foundation of the house up to one meter high is made of masonry, and the part above one meter is made of loess, and there is no yard. Li Liang's three uncles separated after they got married, and the eldest and second uncles built houses elsewhere, and at present, only Li Liang's younger uncle and his aunt live together.
Li Liang saw his grandmother and aunt washing clothes by the pond in front of the house, and he shouted, "Grandma, aunt!" Li Liang's grandmother and aunt heard the shout, looked up, and saw that it was Li Liang who came, and hurriedly got up to greet Li Liang into the house.
My uncle and aunt got married at the end of last year and have not yet given birth to children, so they should still be working in the fields and not at home. Li Liang's grandmother is also in her 70s this year, and she has worked hard for her children all her life, and her face is full of deep ravines left by the years. Aunt Wang Xiuyan wiped the water on her hands, poured a glass of water for Li Liang, and said, "Liangzi, rest and sweat!"
Wang Xiuyan is not so much Li Liang's sister-in-law, in fact, she is almost the same as Li Liang's sister, only three years older than Li Liang, her three brothers and two sisters are married, and she is left to live at home with her mother and sister-in-law.
"Liangzi, I heard from the people in the village who went to the city to do errands, your family opened a restaurant in partnership with others on the side of the Changgang Township overpass?" asked Wang Xiuyan.
"Yes, auntie!" Li Liang replied, probably because someone from the village went to the city to run errands and met his father.
"How's the business?" Wang Xiuyan continued to ask, "Is there a shortage of people in the store?"
Li Liang instantly understood what his aunt meant, there are only three houses in the family, the brother-in-law lives in one, Wang Xiuyan and her grandmother live in one, and the other is a kitchen and dining room; However, Li Liang's parents were lucky, and when they graduated from junior high school, they were just in time for the county textile factory to recruit cultural workers, and now there is no such good opportunity.