Since my cousin was married in Linkang City, not far from the Li family in Pounding Clothes Lane, after breakfast the next day, my aunt stopped my grandmother who was going to visit my cousin at Li's house, and sent Ge Tong to take my cousin back to Pounding Clothes Lane.

After a while, Ge Tong brought his cousin and cousin-in-law over, and his cousin was holding his five-month-old nephew in his arms. Ran Er and Qinglian greeted her, but Qinglian was a step faster and took the fleshy baby from her cousin's arms, but Qinglian had never held a child, and she didn't know what to do with her hands for a while. The grandmother and aunt next to her laughed, and the grandmother hurriedly took it from Qinglian's hand, lest Qinglian accidentally drop the child to the ground again.

Qinglian gathered in front of her grandmother and couldn't stop looking at the baby in swaddling clothes. The pink and tender little face, the two small fists clenched tightly, and the bubbles in the mouth kept spitting, Qinglian wanted to reach out and touch the child's face several times, but was stopped by her grandmother.

"You can't touch it, it's easy to drool if you touch it too much."

Grandma didn't forget to joke about Qinglian.

"Isn't it greedy? When you go back, don't always blow the matchmaker away, you and Ran'er should also find your mother-in-law's house, how old are they, and it's still delayed. ”

Qinglian just didn't hear her grandmother's words, so she walked around the swaddling clothes by herself, and from time to time she made some strange appearances to tease the child.

Ran'er first met her cousin-in-law, and then pulled her cousin to her mother's room, and the sisters said some considerate words. From her cousin's mouth, Ran'er knew that her cousin-in-law was also a showman, and he and his eldest cousin were also classmates, and he was now preparing to participate in next year's Spring Wai.

"Sister Ran'er, it's been almost four years since the last time I said goodbye. I know from my sister's letter that my sister hasn't allowed her family yet, and my sister has nineteen, so it's time to find her mother-in-law. ”

"Don't worry, let's wait two years."

"Wait, my sister will be twenty-one in two years?"

The two sisters talked and went into the courtyard. I saw that Qinglian was still looking around the child. Ran Er couldn't help but be angry and funny and said:

"Lian'er, you won't treat your little nephew as a toy, will you?"

"How can it, by the way, cousin, why did you give your little nephew such a name?"

"What's your name?"

Ran Er only cared about talking to her cousin, but forgot to ask.

"Sister, it's called Xiaoxiao. Listen, isn't it hard to hear? ”

"Cousin, do you have anything to say?"

Ran Er ignored Qinglian, but turned her head and asked her cousin beside her.

"Their family members say that the cheap name is easy to support, and the little one is the eldest grandson, so they attach great importance to it. The original name was even more ugly, but I didn't agree with it, so I called it. ”

"My brother-in-law's family is also a scholarly family, why do you still believe in the countryside?"

"Who says no, it's just that your brother-in-law's grandmother is from the countryside and insists on following the customs of the countryside, and the family can only do it. In fact, we call the child baby behind our grandmother's back, and only when we guard our grandmother, we call it like this. ”

The arrival of my cousin's family made the courtyard of the Ge family even more lively. At noon, my aunt gathered a table of sumptuous food, one was to catch the wind for my grandparents and Ran'er Qinglian, and the other was to entertain my cousin's family. When the married daughter returns to her parents' house, she is a guest.

During the banquet, I heard my uncle and aunt say to my grandparents:

"Originally, Liang'er's in-laws were going to get married in the spring, but considering that Liang'er was going to participate in the spring siege next year, it was postponed to the beginning of next summer, and the date was also set, it was May 17."

"Liang'er is not young, she is eighteen this year, and nineteen next year, it's time to get married."

My grandmother remembered the ages of her two grandsons and granddaughters very clearly.

"Daddy and mother are coming back this time, so they won't go back, right?"

My aunt asked.

"I'm about to discuss with you, after Liang'er participates in the Spring Wai and gets married, we will go back to Ran'er, and we won't come back again. Daddy means that after a hundred years, he will be buried there. ”

Uncle Grace seems to have expected this. After all, as the son of a well-known feng shui master, his uncle Ge Li has also known the rarity of cultivating yin points since he was a child. Since the last time I went to Ran'er, my uncle had already seen some signs in my grandfather's eyes. So I didn't seem surprised to hear my grandfather say this today. It's just that my aunt is different.

"Daddy and mother are old, and they want us to do our filial piety in front of us, how can we get to Ran'er?"

"Hehe, it's the same everywhere, aren't there also Ran'er sisters there. Besides, after Liang'er gets married, you can also go over and live for a while. By the way, how is the children's shop? ”

When Ran'er was there, everyone already knew from his uncle's letter that soon after his uncle came back from Ran'er, he set up a shop for Ge Tong, and his uncle helped him for more than a year, and he handed it over to Ge Tong to take care of it last autumn. That's why my grandfather asked this question today.

"It's okay, grandpa."

Ge Tong seemed a lot more stable and sophisticated.

"Although the shop is not big and does not make a lot of money, the boy is decent."

From his uncle's tone, he could hear that he was quite satisfied with Ge Tong's expression.

At this reunion dinner at noon, the family ate very warmly, and they ate for almost two hours before dispersing. My grandfather and uncle drank a lot of alcohol. After the banquet was dismissed, they went back to their rooms to rest. The cousin also took the little girl back to the room to breastfeed, and the brother-in-law and Cousin Liang went to the study. After Ran'er and Qinglian returned to the room, they saw that there was no one in the courtyard, so they released their mother from the jade pendant.

"Do you want to see your cousin's child?"

"We are now ghosts, and the eyes of children are clean, and it is inconvenient to see. But my mother really wanted to meet Lei'er. ”

"Why don't I go and call Sister Lei'er for my mother?"

"Don't call her now, let's wait for the evening."

In the evening, my cousin-in-law had dinner and went back to his home, and my cousin stayed. After the cousin fed the child and coaxed him to sleep, his grandfather asked Ge Tong to call his cousin to his grandparents' house. And he said to the people,

"After more than ten years, Wei'er has condensed into a ghost body, and she can come out to meet everyone. It's just that this matter must be kept secret, and you can't go out and talk nonsense. ”

My uncle knew, and looking at my aunt's expression, I seemed to know about it. The most surprising thing was my cousin and two cousins. The three of them looked at their grandparents in surprise, and then at their uncles and aunts, obviously asking:

"How is that possible? Could it be that the ghost stories I heard when I was a child were all true? ”

When Niang and Aunt Ling appeared from the jade pendant, the three sisters and brothers looked at the two and became even more surprised. When my mother left, my cousin was slightly older than Xiao Xiao, and no one knew her aunt at all. Seeing two young and beautiful women standing in front of them today, the three siblings had no idea which one was their aunt.

After the introduction of Ran'er and Qinglian, the three sisters and brothers knew who Aunt Wei'er was and who Aunt Ling was. suppressed the surprise in their hearts and stepped forward to salute the two.

The mother whispered to her cousin and said to them:

"After 20 years, I didn't expect that Lei'er in her infancy had become a mother. Liang'er and Tong'er also have a future, and my aunt is relieved. ”

The three siblings are basically seeing their aunt for the first time, but they are not much sad, but they are more surprised. Only my aunt and uncle knew what happened back then, and they also knew the hardships that this sister had endured before, so they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.