Chapter 11: The Doorway

Brother Wu Zhao came to the gate of the Yan family and stopped, without knocking immediately. She needed to sort out her thoughts www.biquge.info she needed to sort out her thoughts, and at this time, she found that the door of the Yan family had actually been changed, and she was in a hurry last time, and the door was wide open, so she didn't notice it. When the house belonged to the Wang family before, she had come, and the carvings on the door beam were very beautiful, and the two big characters of "Wangfu" were hung high. In their village, there are only two families with plaques, one is Li Dahu, and the other is the Wang family, the Wang family is actually just an ordinary merchant family, there is a small grocery store in the county seat, they don't have a house in the county, only built such a big courtyard with two entrances in the village. The Wang family generally does not live in the village, and will only come back during the New Year, and even if they come back, they don't interact with people much, and they are slightly bitter, so they are very unpopular in the village. When his family built this big yard, especially when he hung a plaque, he was very ashamed, and he felt that he was compared with Master Li, who was a real official and a good man, and his surname was Wang. For this reason, the village chief also went to Wang's house and asked him to take off the plaque so as not to arouse public anger, but people simply ignored it and went their own way, and later the people in the village saw his family, always sneering, and probably felt that he couldn't stay anymore, otherwise he wouldn't sell the house.

But now, not only is the plaque gone, but even the door beam and door have been replaced, and there is not a trace of embellishment on the door beam. And the wood of the door has a sense of déjà vu, and Zhao Di carefully looked at the lines on the door panel. Actually iron birch, how can there be iron birch here, this wood is the hardest wood in the world, taken from a tree called iron birch, this tree is only distributed in Japan, North Korea, Russia and Jilin, Liaoning and other places in Chinese mainland, in the last life, Wu Zhaodi saw this wood in the countryside of northeast China, this wood is the best material for many rural people to make boards because of its extremely hard texture, but this wood is valuable in modern times. So how can there be such a tree in Shanxi, not to mention its price, it is impossible to say that it is impossible to transport. Now it is the Republic of China, the transportation is very underdeveloped, and their villages are very remote in Shanxi. What kind of family is this Yan family, if their door is changed like this, it will only be more low-key in the village, and the villagers will only think that the Yan family is not a big family, and it is not annoying. What they wanted to cover up, it turned out that they only thought that Yan Ping's parents were ordinary revolutionaries who had sacrificed their lives, and they were a petty bourgeois family. But now that I think about it, being able to make door panels out of iron birch wood is not something that ordinary powerful or wealthy people can do, and it must be extremely powerful to be possible. In Shanxi, the only powerful person surnamed Yan was the great warlord Yan Xishan, who was the governor of Shanxi at the time, but Yan Xishan did not have a son named Yan Ping, and how could he let his son come to the countryside in such a turbulent period!

"Oh, my mother-in-law, I said little girl, why are you standing at the door of our house silently? I'm scared to death old man", an old man in his fifties with a long beard stood in the doorway, one hand on the edge of the door that had not yet been fully opened, and the other hand pressed to his chest, panting for breath.

When Wu Zhaodi saw the old man like this, he knew that it was bad, and he was so involved in thinking about things just now that he didn't even hear the sound of opening the door. "Uncle, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to, I just came over, I was about to knock on the door, I didn't think you were about to open the door, I'm really sorry."

Lao Zhao Tou just said this casually because he was startled, he didn't want to embarrass the little girl, but he didn't expect this little girl who looked like a milk doll to say such a long list of words, and was so polite, now Lao Zhao Tou was really scared, are the current milk dolls so smart? His grandson is also about the same age as this female doll, and he has a big nose every day, and he only knows how to be naughty.

"Little girl, who are you looking for? I'm the Si Yan here, my surname is Zhao, and everyone calls me Old Zhao."

"What's Si Yan?" Brother Zhao really hasn't heard of this term, and he is very curious.

"Haha, you don't know that, do you? That is to say, this door is under my control, and whoever I let in will be able to enter." He triumphantly pointed to the door.

Oh, it turned out to be the porter, Si Yan should be the ancient title of the doorman or an official position. Hehe, this old man is really interesting, this is the most joyful person Wu Zhaodi has ever seen when he came here, and he is also an old man. Before Zhao Di could answer, he heard a familiar voice coming. "My brother Zhao, why are you still messing with the little girl here, what the master ordered can't be delayed, you can do it quickly." Steward Zhang came over and said politely to Lao Zhaotou.

"Let's go, don't worry, little girl, I want to run an errand for the old man, I'll come to the door when I turn around", and without waiting for me to answer, he walked out quickly.

When Lao Zhao Tou walked away, Steward Zhang looked at Brother Wu Zhao, "Brother Xiao Zhao, are you looking for the young master?" “。

"Yes, Steward Zhang, please let me know."

"No need to report, the young master has ordered, if you come here, just lead it in, come with me, the young master is practicing big characters now, let's wait at the door of the study for a while." While waiting, Wu Zhaodi learned about Lao Zhaotou from Steward Zhang's mouth. It turns out that Lao Zhao Tou is the old man in the family, it is said that he is the same villager as the old man Yan, he has been following the master when he was young, and he has a very high status in the Yan family, but the older he gets, the more he has the posture of an old naughty boy, since they moved here, they have to be a janitor, saying that they heard from the young master that the doorman has a very nice name, called Si Yan, so he has to be a Si Yan for a few days, no one can do anything about him, so he goes, but the family is still equipped with a special janitor.

After about half an hour, I heard a young but steady voice from the study, "Uncle Zhang, take her in." ”

Steward Zhang opened the door and walked in with Brother Zhao, at first Brother Zhao didn't look up, and it was very rude to look around when he first arrived at someone else's house. But as she walked, she found that all of my vision was books except for the floor, and she couldn't help but raise her head, her eyes were full of books, and the four walls were not visible in their original colors because of the bookshelves; The bookshelf is full of books, like wheat in late autumn, and the body seems to be overwhelmed by the heavy ears of wheat.