Tang Sijia's happiness made Niu Lan notice that her son had grown up, although he was only ten years old, but he had also reached the age of ignorance about the affairs of men and women, and now the society is open again, and the romance novels that used to talk about □□ changes are now placed in Xinhua Bookstore.

Yesterday, she secretly bought a copy of Qiong Yao's "Several Degrees of Sunset Red", and hid in the kitchen with Lao Tang on her back to read it. It's so well written, that love, that youth, that unexpected, makes her reluctant to let go in the middle of the night.

"Sijia, take the bowl and eat it in your house." Niu Lan is serious.

"Why!" Tang Sijia glanced at Niu Huanran, and saw that he only cared about eating with his head down and didn't put others in his eyes at all, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said to his mother with confidence: "I'm not going anywhere, I'm just eating here!" ”

Niu Lan raised her hand and patted him on the back of the head: "If you go back, you will go back, when did you become so disobedient?" Adults say something, it has nothing to do with your children, hurry back to the house! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and picked up Tang Sijia's bowl.

"Oops, I'm not going back!" Tang Sijia took back her bowl from her mother's hand again, and said angrily: "You say yours, I eat mine, and I don't invade each other, why let me go back to the house." The little eyes blinked, and the chopsticks pulled the dishes in the bowl and muttered quietly, "I know what you want to say, isn't it just the big brother's business." ”

Thinking that the unruly eldest brother also had troubles, Tang Sijia felt happy in her heart.

Niu Lan still wanted to train her son a few more words, but before she opened her mouth, Niu Huanran on the opposite side threw away the chopsticks: "Mom, sister-in-law, you can eat, I'll go to the north house to see grandpa." After saying that, he got up, opened the curtain and left.

Looking at the back of her son's departure, Wu Zhen sighed deeply. Thinking that in a few days, Niu Huan Ran's birthday will be 26, and the object has not yet been settled, some of the boys who studied drama with him are married, some are engaged, and even one of them is a father, but his son is so alone, and he doesn't worry about finding a daughter-in-law at all. By the way, he didn't like to listen to it, and he shook his face for several days.

Annoying, really annoying.

Niu Lan knows why her sister-in-law is bothered, as the only grandson of the Niu family, Huan Ran's lifelong event is the most important thing for the Niu family at present. Although her father and her brother didn't say it, Niu Lan knew that these two men were also very anxious.

Looking at the sister-in-law again, she sighed, holding the chopsticks in her hand for a long time and didn't move, Niu Lan persuaded: "Sister-in-law, this matter is not in a hurry, now that the new society is not implemented, arranged marriages are not implemented, this person is free, the choice is wide, and the time is long." If you wait patiently, maybe there is someone in your heart, but you just didn't tell us. ”

It seems to make sense to say this, but Wu Zhen was still apprehensive in her heart, pulled two mouthfuls of food, and asked Niu Lan again: "His aunt, do you say that Huan Ran is still thinking about that Bai Xuerou?" ”

"Who is Shirley Blan?" Tang Sijia had little ears, and quickly raised her head and asked.

"It's none of your business, hurry up and do your homework after eating!" Niu Lan was so angry that she slapped her son's head, and then said to Wu Zhen: "No, it's been a matter of many years, when the Bai family left, they said that they would never come back, it is estimated that Bai Xuerou got married in the United States as early as possible, maybe she even has a child, even if she is worried about it, she is also worried about it." ”

"Yes," Wu Zhen nodded wistfully. In fact, it is nothing more than his son's concern, that Bai Xuerou is really good, and there is no second good girl who is so decent in this alley.

It's a pity that they're gone.

Because of this incident, my son locked himself in the house for several days and couldn't come out, so anxious that the family went around, for fear that he would do something stupid.

After Tang Anping finished recording the important news, Xiaohong closed it, moved a chair and sat over to prepare for dinner, Niu Lan handed him chopsticks, and just took a mouthful of eggs, Tang Anping was puzzled: "Hey, where did Huan Ran go?" ”

"I'm going to see grandpa." Tang Sijia said.

"Eat so fast." Tang Anping sighed. A strong guy in his early twenties is different, if he eats so fast, he will have a stomach ache at night. At that time, due to identity problems, he was sent to work in the rural areas of Northwest China, and eating sorghum black membrane all day long made his stomach wear out.

"It's not about eating fast, it's about running fast." Tang Sijia posted a message in her father's ear.

"yes, then let's hear what your eldest brother is running away for?"

Tang Sijia whispered out two words: "Forced marriage." ”

"Tang Sijia!" Niu Lan yelled angrily.

"Dad, I'm done eating, you eat slowly, I'm leaving!" Before her mother's slap hit her brain, Tang Sijia put down the dishes and chopsticks and ran out of the house.

"Old Tang, look at your son, he is just ten years old, he is not old or young, and he will be able to get it in the future?! You're used to it! Niu Lan poured her anger on her husband.

Tang Anping didn't argue, nodded and said: "Yes, it's all my fault, don't be angry, I'll teach him a lesson for you in a while." "Give your daughter-in-law a chopstick and shredded potatoes," don't be angry when you eat in the future, read the newspaper that day, and say that it is easy to get sick when you are angry during dinner. ”

Niu Lan glanced at him, Tang Anping was a sponge, no matter how hard his fist hit it, he would never get a strong response.

Others say that she is blessed and married to a good-tempered husband, but Niu Lan always feels that she can't fight happily, and her heart is even more awkward.

Wu Zhen looked at the sister-in-law and the couple bowed their heads and smiled. At this time, Tang Anping said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry about Huanran, a group of new comrades will come to our unit in a few days, I took a look at the files, there are a few girls who are still college students, and when there is a suitable one, I will introduce one to Huanran." ”

"Thank you Anping then." Wu Zhen said with a smile, feeling a little more comfortable.

"You have to take care of it, don't just look at the girl, your parents, and the family components." Niu Lan was careful and instructed.

"Don't worry, I have a spectrum in my heart, and I'm sure to pick the best one for Huanran." Tang Anping poured all the scrambled eggs with green onions left on the plate into his own bowl.

When Huan Ran opened the curtain and walked into the north room, his grandfather Niu Mingen was sitting in a rocking chair with his eyes closed listening to Peking Opera, he was neatly dressed in a blue clean cloth coat, holding two dark red shiny walnuts in his left hand, and gently turning them in the palm of his hand.

The play is Cheng Yanqiu's "Suolin Bag": "I only say that iron wealth is destined for a lifetime, and who knows that the number of lives is clear in an instant, I think I used to be coquettish back then, even if I don't believe in the past, this is also a lesson from God"

The male dan's voice is quiet and tactful, if it is intermittent, it sounds like a touching sadness in this cold night in early spring.

Hearing the footsteps, Niu Mingen slowly opened his eyes, and his hand didn't stop, "Oh, it's Huan Ran." He sat up slightly.

The rocking chair was unstable, and Huan Ran was afraid that his grandfather would fall down, so he hurriedly went over to help him, "You don't have anything to do, I just come and take a look." ”

"Have you eaten?" Niu Mingen asked.

"Well, what about you, are you hungry?"

Niu Mingen shook his head: "Don't be hungry, pour me a cup of hot water." ”

Huan Ran poured a cup of hot water, and Niu Mingen took a sip: "Is it smooth today?" ”

"It's pretty smooth." Huan Ran said, "By the way, passing by the housing management office today, do you know who I met?" ”

"Who?"

Huan Ran smiled: "The old Wu family in Shanxi who used to live at the mouth of our alley and sold vinegar is the second bald man of the Shanxi family, as well as his grandfather, I heard my father say that Grandpa Wu did things in our family when he was young?" ”

I don't know if I didn't wake up or was immersed in the sad Peking Opera singing just now, Niu Mingen was dazed for a while, and then said: "Oh, I remember, you're talking about Wu Mancang with a scar on his face." ”

"Yes, it's him, grandpa, where did he get that scar?" Curious.

"That has to be in the early years of the Republic of China." Niu Mingen recalled, "His family has a little money in Shanxi, and was robbed by bandits during the chaos, his father and mother died, and his sister was robbed and did not know his whereabouts, and the scar on his face is said to be that a bandit took a fancy to the gold lock hanging around his neck, and he didn't give it, so the bandit gave him a knife in the face, fortunately he could hide in time, otherwise he would be blind." ”

"Bandits really lack morality, this is to kill people." Huan Ran has not listened to bullying since he was a child.

"Hey, at that time, the whole country was scattered, who listened to whom, the two warlords met each other, and the most unlucky people were the common people." The past is unbearable, Niu Mingen's face is sad, "So, happiness is not easy to come by, we can't mess up anymore." ”

"Hmm." Niu Huanran squatted down to pinch his grandfather's legs, if the Niu family hadn't made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country, it is estimated that they would inevitably suffer in special years. After escaping two catastrophes in a row, Huan Ran felt that the Niu family was particularly lucky. "Grandpa, I want to ask you something."

"Say it." Niu Mingen put the cup aside and continued to knead the walnuts in his hand.

"I met Grandpa Wu today, and he told me that Mi Tianguo's grandmother also lived in our alley in the past, and her family was quite powerful, she opened a pharmacy, and it was said that someone from the ancestors had entered the palace to treat Cixi Lafayette, is this true?"

After a long pause, Niu Mingen replied softly: "Hmm." ”

When Wu Mancang mentioned this matter to Niu Huanran, Huanran still didn't believe it, but now that he saw his grandfather nodding, he was surprised and felt reasonable at the same time. "No wonder"

"What's the wonder?" Niu Mingen asked.

Huan Ran smiled lightly: "No wonder Grandma Tian Guo is different from other old ladies, she is very particular about dressing on weekdays, you see the cloth shoes she gave Tian Guoxiu, and the cloth Yingzhai in Dashilar has never seen such a beautiful embroiderer." Grandpa, Grandma Tian Guo is the legendary lady. ”

Niu Mingen turned Walnut's hand and paused for a moment, then said "um".

"It's a pity, her family lost too quickly, as the saying goes, the rich can't seem to be really reasonable for three generations, Tian Guo's life is hard enough, she was born without a father or mother, and I don't know if her Japanese father is still alive."

Niu Mingen fell silent.

"Grandpa, are you sleepy?"

"Sort of."

"Then I'll help you go to bed." Stretch out your hand.

"No, you don't." Niu Mingen waved his hand, "You go back to your own room, I'll go to sleep after listening to this play." ”

Huan Ran opened the curtain and left, listening to the radio mileage Yanqiu singing: "This is the unpredictable of this life, I don't want to be reunited in the present day, looking back on the prosperity is like a dream, and the remnants of my life are full of shock."