Two years later, in 1919, Jin Yuran was again called to return to China to report on his work. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoNo matter how things change in the world, the wheels of time are always moving forward inexorably, Jin Yuran has been on vacation at home for more than a month, the vacation is coming to an end, and the new appointment of the Republic of China government will be issued soon, and it is estimated that he will be sent to a European country as Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary this time.

During this time, in addition to his friend Xu Shuzheng, who often summoned him to the War Department to understand and discuss some things, Jin Yuran stayed at home most of the time to read and write, and he was happy to accompany his daughter at home. The two-and-a-half-week daughter Niuniu is lively, cute, smart, and likable, and she can clearly shout: "Mommy! Father! Brother! Grandmother! He can also sing stumbling in front of Mrs. Tai: "Little squirrel, climb the pot, steal oil and drink, can't get down, cry Mom come quickly!" Shaking her head like a little trick made the old lady laugh and lean back and be very happy. Jin Yuran can see that the relationship between Mrs. Tai and her daughter-in-law Qi Ruifang is also very good, and Mrs. Tai, an old-fashioned character who is close to old, no longer dislikes her daughter-in-law's big feet, she is satisfied with this daughter-in-law, she likes her grandson, she likes this lovely little granddaughter, she and this family are really inseparable from Qi Ruifang. Qi Ruifang went out again when she had something, the maid Qiuju and Dongmei were busy in the courtyard, and Jin Yuran and her daughter were playing in the house......

After a while, the two of them played from the house to the yard, and there was a large tank full of water in the courtyard, which was stocked with a lot of goldfish, and there were also such large tanks in the first two yards that also raised goldfish. In fact, a large tank like this is a common decoration and decoration in the courtyard of the gate of the BJ mansion in the past, and you can usually raise goldfish and water lotus in the tank. Fish farming can not only cultivate sentiment, but also improve the courtyard environment and physical and mental health, which is particular in the old BJ, which means "more than (fish) every year", "more than rich (fish)", etc., is also indispensable for the house, just like the big vat in front of the Forbidden City Taihe Palace, because it has the effect of fire prevention and fire extinguishing! This is not Jin Yuran and the two came to the courtyard from the house, Jin Yuran held his daughter in the catch of the goldfish fed in the tank, the two of them had a good time, and from time to time there was a childish laughter of the daughter's "giggles".

After playing for a while, Jin Yuran said to her daughter: "Niu Niu! Shall we go to the small garden in the backyard of the house? The daughter said, "Good! Jin Yuran held one hand of her daughter Jingshu, and her daughter's other hand held a small wooden wheel to play a drum toy car, and walked all the way. Bang! The two of them came to the back garden through the back corner door. This corner door is usually closed, but now that Jin Yuran has come to the house, it has been reopened, and this back garden is all too familiar to Jin Yuran, where countless joys and memories of his childhood are stored.

The garden is not big or small, in the past, the garden of the Jin family was served by a special florist, and Jin Yuran often played here with his brothers and sisters when he was young, picking flowers, skipping rope, and playing hide and seek......

At that time, the garden was planted with roses, cloves, osmanthus, moon, chrysanthemums and other flowers, every open season, the whole garden was fragrant and fragrant and people could not bear to leave, there were several gardeners in the garden before, every once in a while, the gardener moved the potted flowers from the back door of the garden to the front door of the courtyard, and then the maids of the inner house came out to take away the flower pots that the owners of each house liked. Now the florists are gone, the back door is completely sealed, these flowers and trees in the garden are not pruned and managed, they grow crookedly, dead branches and leaves are everywhere, and a bunch of flower pots are piled up at the root of the courtyard wall, which turned out to be pots of bright and fragrant potted flowers, and now the flowers have long since withered, only the empty shell is left and there are still many fragments, fortunately, Qi Ruifang is busy and sneaks around, leading a few maids to sometimes open the door into the garden to tidy up, so that the artemisia grass does not grow crazy and people can't come in. Seeing these Jin Yuran, he felt that the plants and trees here, like everything in nature, had spirituality, and their spirituality fluctuated with the evolution of the times and the rise and fall of the family, and he thought that maybe the Jin family should really leave here......

"Daddy! Father! Hide the cat! The girl's childish and cute voice pulled Jin Yuran's thoughts back, and Jin Yuran quickly leaned down and stroked her daughter's little face and said, "Okay! Niu Niu and Daddy hide together! Jin Yuran looked around, the place where she used to play hide and seek with her brother and sister was not good, her daughter was too young, those rose thorns and branches and forks were easy to hurt Niuniu, Jin Yuran gently seemed to say to her daughter, and seemed to say to herself: "Where is it?" Ay! Jin Yuran saw the big round stone table under the morning glory stand, Jin Yuran pointed to the stone table and said to Niuniu: "Niuniu! Is it okay to go there with your dad to hide the cat? The daughter replied, "Yes!" So saying, he ran there. When the daughter came to the front and hid behind the stone table, the father turned his back and covered his eyes and asked, "Are you hiding?" Can I find it? The daughter replied, "Okay?" Jin Yuran pretended to look around, and said, "Where is Niuniu hiding?" Why can't I find it? The daughter was proud, she could hold back her voice at first, but she couldn't hold it back for a while, and she laughed and exclaimed: "Dad! I'm here! Jin Yuran pretended to be surprised and said, "I found you!" It was the daughter's turn to find her father, and the daughter consciously covered her eyes with a pair of small hands, but where could Jin Yuran's body be hidden, the daughter quickly found it, grabbed her father's shirt and said, "Caught you!" Father and daughter rolled together and laughed.

At this time, the maid Dongmei came into the garden with a tea tray in her hand, and when she came, she put the tea tray on the stone table, poured a cup of tea for Jin Yuran and said, "Young master, please drink tea!" Then she took out a small plate of sugar snacks from the tea tray and put it next to her, Dongmei took a piece of snacks and teased Niuniu and said, "Niuniu!" See! Niuniu stretched out her hand to ask, Dongmei handed Niuniu the snack and picked her up to stand aside, Jin Yuran repeatedly asked her to sit down, and Dongmei slowly sat down on the stone pier opposite Jin Yuran across the table.

Jin Yuran looked at the girl who was talking to her daughter, as if she suddenly remembered something? Just asked, "Dongmei, how old are you this year?" Dongmei stood up and replied, "Back to the young master, the slave is nineteen years old this year!" Jin Yuran waved her hand and motioned for her to sit down, and Jin Yuran said, "Dongmei! Don't call yourself a 'slave slave' in the future, okay? Now it is already the Republic of China, advocating equality for all! Just call you and I'll do it! Dongmei was silent......

Jin Yuran asked again: "That! You've been in the Jin family for ten years, right? "Back to the young master...... You ask! Slave...... Sister Qiu Ju and I came with Miss, and it's been ten years! Dongmei replied stumblingly that she was still a little unaccustomed. When Jin Yuran heard this, he was shocked, so his wife Qi Ruifang has also been married for ten years, that is to say, the huge Jin family has been supported by his wife alone for the past ten years, and he was still not busy when he returned to China before, but he didn't know how hard his wife was when he was idle at home for more than a month this time. The whole family's eating, drinking, pulling, sprinkling, and sleeping are all the worries of the wife alone, and there is still a small shop left in the Jin family on the front street, which has to be taken care of by Qi Ruifang; maids, subordinates of the month; the wages of shopkeepers, sons' tutors, etc.; The human etiquette of the mother-in-law's family, etc., plus the Jin family's household village (that is, the tenant village), is all the wife's busy work, but fortunately, all this is thanks to her big feet. Even the rickshaw driver who gave the Jin family a monthly package complained to other rickshaw drivers: "Alas! This young grandmother of the Jin family doesn't know why she's so busy? I didn't dare to leave for a while, and I couldn't make any other extra money, alas! "Yes, the young grandmother of the Jin family is really busy!

Jin Yuran wants to be the "head" of the family, but there is no difference between this head and not. These days, Jin Yuran also wants to help his wife, but he can't help, and he doesn't know how to help? Jin Yuran felt that he owed his wife a lot. Jin Yuran was thinking about his wife, Qi Ruifang came into the garden, and when he saw that both of them were smiling and said, "I knew that your father and wife were here!" Niuniu turned to look at her mother and shouted, "Mom! Hug! "Throw yourself into your mother's arms.

Jin Yuran hurriedly asked his wife to sit down and poured her a cup of tea, Qi Ruifang took the tea and sat down and said: "Sister Xia has not been feeling well recently, I'll go see her, bring some gifts by the way, and I will also bring her two boxes of 'American ginseng' you brought me from the United States, Sister Xia is happy!" Jin Yuran said: "You haven't tasted the things I brought you, have you?" Are they all given away? Qi Ruifang said: "Thank you! Eat, eat! But where am I so squeamish? I'm not even thirty years old, and Sister Xia is in her early forties! Jin Yuran knew that the eldest sister Xia that his wife was talking about was Xia Hongyun, the eldest wife of his good friend Xu Shuzheng, the deputy minister of the army, and his wife and Mrs. Xu worshiped their godsisters, and their relationship was good.

The couple talked again, and Jin Yuran said to her daughter Niuniu: "Niuniu! Is it okay to catch butterflies with Sister Dongmei? When the daughter heard that she was excited to catch butterflies, she said, "Okay! He slipped off his mother's lap and followed Dongmei to the lawn below, and after a while, his daughter's "giggle" laughter was heard on the lawn from time to time.

Jin Yuran looked at Dongmei and her bouncing daughter on the lawn, turned her face to Qi Ruifang and said, "Ruifang! I'm probably going to Europe this time, and if that happens, I'm afraid you'll have to come with me!" He wanted his wife to go to Europe with him, Qi Ruifang couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart, she wanted to be with her husband very much, but every time she was tired of family affairs, so she asked: "Is it?" Can I accompany you when you go abroad this time? "Yes!" Jin Yuran nodded and said: "Europe is a democratic and open national society, where women not only have a high social status, but also have a wide range of contacts, active thoughts, and enthusiasm!" You ......," but Qi Ruifang said, "Shall I do it?" It's okay to take care of housework, but where do I know about foreign affairs? I don't have Tang Baoyue's skills! Qi Ruifang said that Tang Baoyue is the daughter of Tang Shaoyi, the first premier of the Republic of China, and the wife and right-hand man of Gu Weijun, the minister to the United States. Jin Yuran said: "How do you know if you can do it if you don't try?" Do you have a foundation in literacy, hyphenation, and foreign languages, what are you afraid of? Lady diplomacy is still popular there, and I can't do it alone without you! Besides, it is also a diplomatic practice for the minister to bring his wife! Qi Ruifang said: "But how can I go!" The old family is old, the young are young, and Eniang is so old, can you go with us? If not, how can you bear to let her be home alone? And Bo Yanger is still in elementary school? "There are a lot of things that concern her in this family.

Jin Yuran said: "Today, we have to discuss a solution, Bo Yanger's problem is not big, the country where he is located has a special embassy school, he can go to class there, the key is how to arrange Eniang?" Is she willing to go? How do you open your mouth to her old man? Jin Yuran looked at Qi Ruifang and continued: "How can the subordinates be dismissed?" There are also people like Qiu Ju and Dongmei, they have been coming to our house for ten years, they were still children when they came, and now they have become big girls, we must find a reliable family for them, and we must be responsible for their future happiness! This large number of real problems were in front of him, Qi Ruifang felt the seriousness of the problem, and the excitement at the beginning disappeared in an instant, and after being silent for a while, Qi Ruifang said slowly: "Why don't I wait?" Wait for her son to go to middle school, wait for ......" Jin Yuran didn't wait for Qi Ruifang to finish speaking, and cut off her words and said: "Ruifang! It's not a matter of waiting! When will new problems arise when this problem is solved? He felt that the matter had to be resolved, and he couldn't let his wife work so hard anymore. Qi Ruifang said: "Everything else is easy to say, but E-Niang's affairs are not easy to do!" The old man is nostalgic! Her old man won't go with us, how can we go? The ancients said, 'Parents are here, don't travel far', let alone Gao Tang is alive? Jin Yuran was a little moved when she heard his wife say this: "Of course, what you said has some truth, but it is not a good strategy to hold on to the shortcomings, we can't be imprisoned by this high-rise mansion!" And I'm responsible for your well-being! This family has tired you all these years, I ...... in my heart" Qi Ruifang stood up, stretched out her hand to cover Jin Yuran's mouth and didn't let him continue, she knew what Jin Yuran was going to say? She felt that ten years of hard work and a husband were worth it.

The couple discussed for a while, Dongmei came back with Niuniu, and she really caught a butterfly, and Niuniu happily showed her mother: "Mom! See! Butterfly! "I didn't notice that the butterfly flew away," "Oh! Butterfly flies! Yahuan Qiuju walked into the garden and said, "Young grandma! Master! Mrs. Tai called for dinner! And came over to clean up the tea set and Niuniu's toys with Dongmei. Qi Ruifang stood up and said, "Okay! Let's go eat! Jin Yuran also stood up and picked up her daughter, and said as she walked: "My daughter will be the youngest international student in our family......" Qiu Ju and Dongmei said inexplicably.

The family ate together, Jin Yuran seemed very happy today, and specially beckoned the two old aunts to also come to the table to eat with them. These two old aunts are the little girls who married the Jin family when they married the aforementioned Mrs. Tai, MGZ people, and they are the big girls in the room when they grow up, because they have all given birth, so the Jin family is called aunts, but aunts are not allowed to be served with the wife, young master, and young lady of the master's family. Mrs. Tai is a person who has gone through things, she saw her son doing this today, and felt that her son was a little abnormal today, as if he had something to say, but her son kept serving vegetables to Mrs. Tai and the two aunts, as if nothing happened.

Mrs. Tai put down the chopsticks, looked at her son and said with a smile: "Yuran! You have something to say to E-Niang, right? You crawled out of my intestines, can I still not understand you? You can't hide it from your hometown, don't hold it back! After speaking, he saw that his son wanted to speak and stopped, so he tapped him with his finger again, Jin Yuran had to put down his chopsticks when he saw this, and said to Mrs. Tai: "Eniang! My son's trip to Europe this time is probably going to be accompanied by my mother and son! As soon as these words came out, the whole house was shocked! Except for Jin Yuran and his wife, all the people who ate stopped their hands, including Qiu Ju and Dongmei, who were waiting for Niuniu to eat at the small table next to them, all the maids who were standing on the side opened their mouths wide, time and space seemed to freeze for a while, and after a pause, Mrs. Tai first broke the silence, and she asked, "Does Boyang also go with you?" Before the words fell, tears appeared on the face covered with vicissitudes, "Yes! After Jin Yuran answered, he hurriedly left the table and knelt down, Qi Ruifang also knelt down from the table, and the other people in the room also knelt down in unison, and there was a faint sobbing sound in the living room and the sound was getting louder and louder......

Mrs. Tai seemed calm at this time, she took the silk handkerchief presented by Yahuan to wipe her tears, waved her hand and said, "Okay! Don't cry, everyone! Yuran, Ruifang, you two also get up and sit down! Tell us about your plans! After the two sat down again, Jin Yuran had no choice but to give a rough idea of the method he discussed with Qi Ruifang and his wife. Qi Ruifang continued: "A few old mothers, including aunts, see if there are any people or relatives in their mother's family, tell them to come and pick them up, give them more money, and we will save a sum of money for them in the countryside to ensure that the old people will have no worries about food and clothing in the future, and the maids in each house will be the same as usual!" After a pause, Qi Ruifang said: "The men in the front yard and the guys in the small shops on the front street will each be paid a year's salary, and they will be given a severance pay of twenty oceans each, if E-Niang thinks it is acceptable, I will handle it and go to the countryside separately to inform them" After a while, Qi Ruifang looked at Mrs. Tai and said, "But! What about Master Jin and the old man? Please also make it clear! "These two people are old men of the Jin family, and Mrs. Tai has the final say.

Mrs. Tai said: "Jin Gui is the 'son of the Bao Yi family' of the Jin family, he has not left the Jin family for decades, and he has no children and no daughters, so he naturally follows me according to the old reason, and the gentleman in the account room, if he has nowhere to go, he will follow me!" The old lady looked at the people who were in a daze, waved her hand and said, "Okay!" Don't be sad, everyone! Just do what the young grandmother said, and get ready to go! But I don't eat 'lotus root (Europe) porridge (continent)'! I don't go to foreign countries! I'm old and can't leave my homeland, I want to go back to Jinguanzhuang! "The old lady said that Jin Guanzhuang is the original emperor of the Jin family, and the tenant Zhuang is also called 'Jizhuang', all surnamed Jin, which is the hometown of the Jin family ancestor after entering the customs, and the 'Baoyi family has a son' refers to the Jin Guizu who are descendants of the Jin family for generations.

When Jin Yuran heard her mother say this, she burst into tears and said, "Eniang! Let you stay alone, my son I ......" Jin Yuran was so sad that she couldn't say anything, but Mrs. Tai is an assertive person, worthy of being born in a family of generations of hairpins, and she has seen a lot of things since she was a child. Her ancestors were the closest allies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the nobles of the Mongolian Horqin tribe, her grandfather and father were both the hereditary kings of Zasakdoro County, and one of her elder brothers served in the army of Zeng Lingqin, the prince of Korqin, in the Second Opium War, he was killed in battle with the British and French forces, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Dasangbaturu" (warrior) by the imperial court! At this time, Mrs. Tai waved her hand to stop her son's words and said, "I understand! The way of the world has changed, if you still stay here, the Jin family will be finished, and our Jin family will not be able to come to me for generations to destroy you, in that case, I will not only be sorry for the ancestors of the Jin family! I won't have the face to see your Amma after I die! He wiped his tears with a handkerchief.

Hearing her mother say this, Jin Yuran cried: "Eniang! Forehead ......", Mrs. Tai waved her hand again to stop her son's words and said, "Son! It's been almost 50 years since I joined the Jin family at the age of seventeen, what kind of blessing haven't I enjoyed? What hasn't happened? Kang Nanhai (referring to Kang Youwei) Wu Xu Chao Dynasty, Gengzi Boxing Chaos (referring to the Boxer Rebellion), and later Yang Maozi entered BJ, I'm fine, rest assured! God can't starve to death 'blind sparrows'! What's more, I am still guarding the 'old cemetery' of Jinguanzhuang! You don't have to worry about me when you work hard! As he spoke, he hugged his grandson Bo Yang next to him and said, "I still count on the eldest grandson to give me the glory of the Jin family!" As he spoke, he wiped his grandson's tears.

Niuniu was eating at the small dinner table here, and saw her father, mother, and brother crying, and she cried and ran into her mother's arms for some reason, Mrs. Tai stretched out her hand, Qi Ruifang hurriedly hugged Niuniu to Mrs. Tai, Mrs. Tai hugged Niuniu and said, "I just can't bear my Niuniu!" After that, he slowly put Niuniu down, took out a handkerchief to wipe the tears on her granddaughter's face, and then Mrs. Tai stood up, and the people at the dinner table also quickly stood up, Mrs. Tai looked at everyone and said, "That's it!" Then he turned and went into the inner room.

Qi Ruifang has been busy these days, reporting to find someone, entrusting the shop to protect it, packing up things and sending severance pay, arranging vehicles to give people away, Qi Ruifang came forward to ask someone to sell the Jin family's old house and the only shop on the street, and remit the money to the British Empire's HSBC bank in BJ......

Most of the people have been settled and arranged, and Mrs. Tai and an old aunt, as well as Jin Gui and Mr. Ledger, stay. But Dongmei has nowhere to go, Dongmei because she was sold to the Qi family since she was a child, and the original contract of sale was a "death deed" that she couldn't find her family, and she was reluctant to leave the Jin family, so she had to follow the old lady back to her hometown in the countryside of Jinguanzhuang, Tongxian County, together with Mrs. Tai's only personal little girl, but when the old lady left, she took a group photo of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren and some old photos of the family, carefully wrapped it in her arms and took it away.

After more than ten days, Jin Yuran saw that everything was almost done, so he proposed to Qi Ruifang: "Ruifang! Shall we go out for a walk as a family today? I'm bringing a photo box with me today to take a picture of our family so that the children can remember where they were born! Qi Ruifang agreed, and the two children were even more eager to try. Jin Yuran hugged Niuniu, carrying a German Leica camera that was very novel at the time, and Qi Ruifang, who was well-dressed, took Boyang and asked for two rickshaws, and went straight east to Chaoyangmen Wharf out of the alley. The family first went to the old moat in front of Chaoyang Gate, where the green shade is thick and the birds are singing; Weeping willows are clinging, and flowers are vibrant. Although the Caoyun Wharf has long been abandoned, the "grain ear" pattern carved on the buildings around the wharf is still faintly visible, showing people the busy and spectacular past.

The Forbidden City, Zhihua Temple, Lama Temple, Daci Yanfu Palace and other places all took pictures, and Niuniu shouted happily for a while: "Dad! Take a look! In the end, Niu Niu took the most photos.

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