In the old photo frame of our house, there is a group photo of the family in the old year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In January of that year, Mr. Sun was inaugurated as the provisional president of the Republic of China in Nanjing, the emperor of the Forbidden City announced his abdication, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had ruled the Han people for more than 200 years, collapsed. By the time my sister found me, I was so tired that I fell asleep on the back of an older brother.

On that day, my grandmother invited the family and friends to set up a party, and the Shifang Shike brothers, Haizhu and I, and a group of children of our age played hide and seek in the atrium. When it was my turn, I was too tired to go any further.

At that time, a young man who was much older than me passed through the atrium, as if he was about to go to the upper room, and when I saw that he was tall and handsome, gentle as jade, I immediately ran up to him and stopped him and asked, "Are you here to see my grandmother?"

He pouted, and looked at me, who was a little lower than his waist, and pulled his sleeve as if he didn't let go, but leaned over and touched my head and asked with a smile: "Yes, do you know where your grandmother is now?"

As soon as I heard this, I immediately grinned and smirked: "Big brother, you help me find those hidden guys, and I will take you to see my grandmother." I'm the little bully of our family, I let you see my grandmother, and they immediately brought you to my grandmother, but ...... If I don't let you see it......" At a young age, I had already learned to threaten others, and when he heard this, he did not get angry, but seriously considered my suggestion, then touched my head, and continued to ask me, "Oh? It turns out that I met a little nobleman, so how do you want me to help? ”

"It's very simple, you just carry me behind my back and catch them back one by one."

"Okay, deal."

Later, when I was woken up by my sister, it was already sunset, and my sister took me from my eldest brother's hand, thanked him, and counted the people standing there in a row with their heads down. After I woke up, I looked at my sister, looked at the big brother with a smile on his face, and hurriedly argued: "Sister, don't blame me, I promised people to help." My big brother wants to see my grandmother, and I have to be an introducer! As I spoke, I struggled to take my eldest brother's hand and led him towards the upper room.

Later, I learned from my sister that the eldest brother's name was Fu Chengyun, and he was the grandson of my grandfather's classmate and friend Fu Youde when he was young. He returned to Nanjing from Guangzhou to visit his elderly grandmother.

For more than a year after that, I would always see him and his sister walking side by side at home. And Shifang and Haizhu, since they were found by Brother Chengyun, they have also begun to recognize him as a big brother, and I am even more proud that such an excellent big brother was stopped by me. So, on January 1, 1912, our group of overlords in the family collectively recognized the fact that Brother Chengyun was the eldest brother-in-law, and from then on, they willingly ran errands for them as followers......

In January 1912, the second uncle and the third uncle's family returned from other places collectively, my aunt got married, relatives and friends gathered, and our family was unprecedentedly lively and noisy.

The breath of changing the dynasty enveloped the entire land of China, a few families were happy and a few were worried, but the once prominent Jinling Liu Mansion did not change its due prosperity and vicissitudes at all. In the photo, I held my sister's soft and slender hands, held by Brother Chengyun, and smiled proudly as everyone surrounded my grandmother. My sister, on the other hand, looked at Cheng Yun, who was holding me next to her, with a gentle and generous smile. Time freezes that moment, but after all, he joked with his sister.

In March 1913, the Second Revolution broke out. Brother Cheng Yun was mistakenly killed by an unknown person on the way to Shanghai, and when the news came back to Nanjing, her sister was locked up in her embroidery room making the bride's wedding dress.

It was a humid spring morning, and my sister's embroidery building was faintly dissolved in the white mist, only to see the orange kerosene lamp turned on for another night, jumping and flashing, just like my sister's happy mood. I got up early in the morning and ran to my sister's window, watching her wear a green jacket and sit next to the red brocade forging, sewing and smiling with fine stitches and threads, like a lady I saw when I was a child, quiet and beautiful. After a while, Han's mother hurriedly ran to ask her sister to go to the room, saying that the old lady had instructed the Fu family to come and invite her sister to go. I watched my sister run away and followed them to the upper room. I saw that the room was quiet, and the person who came was dressed in a white linen filial piety dress, choking and crying that the eldest young master was gone, and the eldest young master was gone. Gradually, the sound of other people's cries sounded in the house, and my sister fell into my grandmother's arms, crying unconscious, and I knew that the fog in the pane was gone, and there would be another day, but if people were gone, they would be gone, and they would never be again. My sister cut off her wedding dress and locked herself in the room and didn't go out. After three years, my sister was sent to a church school by her father, and she began to re-engage with new personnel. But Brother Chengyun is still a thorn in her heart, she can't touch it, and she doesn't dare to touch it.

Someone said: "The photo is just a broken shell of life, the years have passed, the melon seeds have already been swallowed in grains, and everyone knows the taste, and the only thing left for everyone to see is the messy melon seed shells."

Now, seven years of time have made my sister forget one person and fall in love with another person, how can outsiders empathize with the ups and downs?

The dusk in Nanjing is very fast, the night is sinking, the lights of thousands of homes are lit together, and there is a shadow of the moon in the light of the extinction. I woke up from my memories and looked at my sister in confusion. There is infinite emotion in my heart:

Jin Se gratuitously fifty strings, one string and one pillar Si Hua Nian.

Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies, and hopes that the emperor will trust the cuckoo in spring.

There are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking.

This situation can be recalled, but it was already clear at the time.

Looking back, it has been seven years, my sister's embroidery building has been replaced by my residence, and the wooden lattice in front of the window has also been replaced by a green glass window, vaguely printed with sea-colored flowers. Spring comes and goes, and we are not the same after all.

When the second aunt entered the door, my mother and I were having dinner. My uncle had already called, and my mother was discussing with me whether I could attend the wedding as promised.

Liu Wangshi staggered to his feet, walked to the table and picked up a soup bag and ate it: "Oh, why are you all eating every time I come?"

"I'm wondering why you come here every time you pinch your meal?"

My mother glared at me, and then asked my second aunt, who had taken another soup bag to eat, "What is the matter with my brother and sister coming today?"

Liu Wang was not in a hurry to answer, first wiped his hands with the crepe handkerchief he carried, and by the way, he took a sip of the small bowl of white fungus porridge on the table, and then shook the jade bone warm fan in his hand, and opened his mouth slowly: "It's not that I'm too troublesome, it's really that you Mingzhao is making too much movement." Now that the tabloids in Nanjing City have spread, the successor minister of the Ministry of Education will marry the daughter of the former Qing Hanlin, sister-in-law, since Mr. Gu has promised to marry Ming Zhao, I think you will agree! Anyway, people are about to become ministers, and marrying our daughter's daughter is also a good match, don't you say? As she spoke, she glanced at me who was eating next to her, and continued to say to her mother: "And I heard that the second chief He who came to our house last time is about to be promoted to the main department, if we can really marry them, then won't our family return to the Qing Dynasty?" The more Liu Wang spoke, the more excited he became, and he didn't care about the irony of my previous words. "So sister-in-law, I listened to it, and I won't rush Ming'er, won't I come to discuss with you right away? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn over, and our Liu family has been waiting for this day for nine years. ”

"But second aunt, if I'm not mistaken, a few days ago you said that your sister ruined the Liu family's style, why did you make your face again today?"

She listened and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, look at this kid Hanzhao, I'm just talking nonsense in anger, why do I take it seriously?" Your second aunt and I are just a knife-mouthed tofu heart, and I forgot about it. Go back to your second uncle and say me, I have already figured it out, people like ours have a face for others to see, but this day is still lived by myself. Instead of decorating the façade, it is better to make it affordable. Now that Mr. Gu is a minister, we have people in the government, and business is easier. ”

Mother finally couldn't help it: "Brother and sister, you are thoughtful everywhere, but you don't think about our long room." When the family was first separated, your eldest brother allocated his property to you for the second and third children, and he only kept the ancestral house and a few acres of thin fields. Now that something big has happened at home, you will make trouble without saying a word, and you don't care if there are outsiders at home. Now, it's you who came here again to persuade us to agree to the family affair, brother and sister, I, Wu Mianqing, think that I haven't treated you badly for so many years, but why is it that when things come to an end, our long house is always led by your nose? ”

Liu Wang only blindly shook his fan and listened, and when he heard his mother's last sentence, his face finally changed: "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?" I'm all for your good, why are you still complaining about me? Could it be that I taught Ming Zhao to hook up with men? ”

"Alright, alright. I don't want to argue with you about these strengths and weaknesses, so I'll talk about it when the master comes back. If you stay overnight, I will tell Mother Han to make your bed, and if you go back, it will not be too early, and I will not keep you. I was tired from the day, so I went to rest first. The mother said no more to look at her, got up and went back to the inner room.

In the days that followed, there was no news from Shanghai. My sister finally ate, and my mother and I were at ease for a while. However, a few days later, things took a turn for the worse, and my father called to say that the third uncle had passed away and asked us to prepare for the future. In Nanjing, after the new cabinet meeting was held, Gu Rulin officially assumed the post of Minister of Education, and with it, there was news that he and his sister were about to get married.

Autumn in Nanjing is officially here!