Chapter 22: The Small Town of Napani
This was Lin Mingyang's first long-distance trip after crossing, the airliner flew above the clouds, looking at the floating clouds outside the porthole, he suddenly thought of the strange dream last night. Recalling the strange advice of his parents before leaving, Lin Mingyang instinctively felt that his trip to Canada was probably not as easy as he imagined before.
The airliner lowered its altitude halfway through the flight, and the window was no longer a layer of clouds and mist, but an endless green forest beneath the sky. Holding a travel map issued by an airline for passengers, Lin Mingyang's eyes were easily attracted by the vast lake area in the eastern part of the North American continent and the border between the United States and Canada.
In addition to the turquoise blue waters of the famous Great Lakes region of the North American continent, the most iconic representative of the surname is the vast forest below the plane at this time. Forty-five percent of Canada is covered by forests, and the Great Lakes region has been exploited and plundered by European colonizers since they set foot in the New World of North America. It has brought a steady stream of natural resources to Canada to Europe, and at the same time brought a lot of wealth to the continent. This forest, which can not be seen even from a few thousand meters in the air, is like an engine that drives the economic and cultural development of Canada.
The small town of Napani, located in south-central Ontario, is hidden in this vast forest, but the sketchy map in Lin's hand obviously does not provide him with the exact coordinates of the town. The plane landed in Curis City, which is more than 120 kilometers away from the town, where Lin Mingyang transferred to the passenger car and finally arrived at the destination before dusk.
The town is not very big, but it has all kinds of facilities, there is a video store right next to the station, and a huge poster with a blonde girl on the glass window. When passing by, Lin Mingyang's gaze stayed on it for a moment, the girl on the poster looked a little familiar, and when he turned the corner, Lin Mingyang still wondered if he had seen a similar face somewhere. Of course, the poster had the girl's name written on it, but it was in French, and Lin Mingyang couldn't read a word.
Fortunately, most of the residents in the town could understand English, and Lin Mingyang took out the address of his "cheap" grandfather from his pocket, ready to ask an old woman who had just come out of the supermarket for specific directions.
Holding the small note handed over by Lin Mingyang, the lady who was obviously old couldn't help but let out an exclamation, "Are you looking for Jeson Lin?" ”
"You know my grandfather?" Lin Mingyang was stunned at first, but after thinking about it, Napani is a small town with a population of more than 2,000, and it is not surprising to meet someone who happens to know the old man.
"Let me take a good look, are you Felix?" The old woman blinked hard to make sure she didn't recognize the wrong person, and the black hair of the other person made it easy for her to recall the introverted little boy in the old neighbor's house next door many years ago. "Don't you remember me? I'm Grandma Gibson next door, and you used to hide in our garden to escape training, have you forgotten? ”
Lin Mingyang pretended to "think" very hard, and finally turned the back of his head slightly apologetically, "Grandma Gibson, there was a little accident not long ago, I can't remember many things very clearly, and the doctor's final diagnosis said that it was caused by the amnesia of choosing the surname fragment!" In order to bluff the other party, Lin Mingyang moved out all the diagnosis results from the hospital.
"So you forgot where your home was?" The simple Grandma Gibson easily accepted Lin Mingyang's white lie, "My poor child, I can't imagine what kind of accident made you suffer so much!" ”
"The elevator went out of control and fell off the 10th floor!" Lin Mingyang replied lightly.
"Oh my God, there was such a serious accident, but thank God, you were saved in the end!" Grandma Gibson covered her mouth in surprise, "Then why are your parents still relieved to let you run here alone?" ”
"I'm actually not in a big condition, but I can't remember some things clearly when I was young."
The kindness of the old grandmother made Lin Mingyang, who had told a "lie", suddenly feel a trace of guilt in his heart, but he still underestimated the rich imagination of the townspeople, "So you came back to recover your memories through some familiar scenes from before?" ”
"That's one of the reasons!" Lin Mingyang was stunned, this kind of plot seems to only appear in TV dramas, he smiled a little wryly, "It's mainly because grandpa he is sick, and my parents asked me to come over to take care of him for a while!" ”
"Sick?" Grandma Gibson had a bewildered expression after listening to Lin Mingyang's answer, and she shook her head seriously, "I think you must be mistaken, he is in good health!" I also saw him exercising in the garden this morning, and he was the only old guy in our neighborhood who hadn't been to the hospital in ten years, and I think it had something to do with his old-fashioned last name! ”
"What?" Lin Mingyang was completely stunned, he felt that he should be happy when he heard the news, but he couldn't be happy now, the old man was not sick, but he obviously told his parents that he was sick, what was going on?
With lingering doubts in his heart, Lin Mingyang found the two-story building hidden in the green trees under the leadership of the enthusiastic grandmother Gibson. The house is small, but the yard covers a large area, behind the house is a dense forest, whip-like branches hang down from the wall, and below is an unrepaired, grassy, duckweed pond, which has become a good place for frogs to hide.
The small wooden door in front of the courtyard is ajar. Through the sparse fence, Lin Mingyang saw a row of wooden stakes, and a sandbag hanging from a large tree next to it. In front of the steps of the small building, Lin Mingyang also found a pair of stone locks that seemed to be obviously not light.
The scene in front of Lin Mingyang feels familiar, if there is a row of swords, guns, swords and halberds next to it, it will be no different from the martial arts training grounds he has seen in costume films. But the key is that this is not acting, looking at the row of bare wooden stakes, such a picture suddenly appeared in Lin Mingyang's mind, a poor little boy with tears in his eyes, standing on the stake and riding a horse, next to him stood an old man with a serious face.
"This place shouldn't have changed much from before you left, and the yard should have been repaired a long time ago, but the way it looks now should help you recover your memory!" Grandma Gibson patted Lin Mingyang on the shoulder, "Go in and have a good chat with your grandfather, I think he must be waiting for you now!" ”
Lin Mingyang nodded with difficulty, this was the place where he stayed when he was a child, no wonder Ex said that he had received special martial arts training before, and it seemed that he had really "practiced". Look at the barren backyard, how much it reveals a bit of depression, is this the so-called loneliness of the "martial arts master"?
Masters like to play seclusion, maybe their grandfather is really a hidden "master", Lin Mingyang, who is deeply affected by the martial arts novel "poison", did not have time to rejoice and immediately realized another serious problem, although the novel describes martial arts in a dazzling way, but those in real life are pure nonsense, learning martial arts is not as easy as singing and dancing, to polish his current body bones, Felix should have suffered a lot when he was a child, Think about it on your toes and know what a tragic childhood it was!
It's no wonder that this painful memory is not seen in Felix's chronicles, which does have a bit of an unbearable taste of the past. Lin Mingyang pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, and after looking at the entire courtyard curiously, confirming that there were no palm prints on the trunk, and he did not see the fierce picture of chopping wood with his hands, he breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this grandfather is not the kind of "super fierce man" he imagined.
When he came to the door, Lin Mingyang had just raised his hand and was about to knock on the door, when he heard an old but majestic voice from inside, "Come in, the door is unlocked!" ”
The words are round and full of energy, which is the voice that a sick old man should have, it seems that Grandma Gibson really didn't bluff herself. Lin Mingyang, who smiled bitterly, had no choice but to push the door and walk in.
The furnishings in the room are very simple, in the single sofa next to the living room closet, there is an old Chinese man, with a slender face, fair and ruddy skin, a broad and prominent forehead, a strong and flexible face contour, and a pair of long eyes with glittering light embedded under two high raised white eyebrows.
Lin Mingyang could almost determine at a glance that this old man with a gray beard but a well-trimmed and graceful manner was his grandfather Lin Aoquan, that is, Jeson Lin in the mouth of Grandma Gibson. The appearance of him and his father Lin Qinghai is almost printed in a mold, of course, Lin Qinghai's face is softer, not as angular as the old man.
Seeing that Lin Mingyang was just carrying a simple duffel bag, Lin Aoquan raised his hand and pointed to the other party's sofa, "Sit down!" ”
Although the old man's voice was soft, it carried an undoubted tone, Lin Mingyang let out a soft "oh" and sat down obediently.
"Dinner?" The old man asked casually.
"Ate two burgers on the way here!" Grandpa's condescending tone made Lin Mingyang feel very unaccustomed, and he now finally understood why his mother Catherine didn't like his "father-in-law" very much, how could his attitude of speaking be accepted by an American who grew up with a free and equal education, and it was estimated that it was enough to replace it.
The old man didn't realize that there was anything wrong with his way of talking, "What are your plans to come back this time?" ”
"I heard you're sick?" Lin Mingyang asked cautiously.
"You want me to be sick?" The old man snorted softly, unable to hear his joy or anger. "I'm sorry to disappoint you!"
"We're relieved to see you're okay." Lin Mingyang smiled on his face, but he secretly thought in his heart that the old man's prejudice against his family was not small!
"Count on you, little bunny, you still have a little conscience!" The old man sighed a little embarrassed, "You haven't been here for six years, but your Chinese has grown a lot, I wonder if your kung fu has fallen?" ”
Lin Mingyang sat there very embarrassed, but he was stunned in his heart, it turned out that the old man also passed on his own set of kung fu, but Felix didn't mention it in the book, it is estimated that there was no "strict supervision" from the old man, and he didn't take it seriously after he left.
"That's it, a loving mother is a loser, and your mother is probably reluctant to let you suffer that hardship!" The old man waved his hand, which was regarded as revealing this topic, Lin Mingyang was lucky, but he didn't know that because of the practice, Catherine almost sued the old man Lin to the local court, in her opinion, the old man's training of his son is what kind of physical fitness, it is clearly child abuse.
"Listen to your father, you're a little stimulated here, and you can't remember what happened before?" The old man pointed to his head, and he knew nothing about taking care of the feelings of the minor.
Lin Mingyang nodded vigorously, this is his talisman, he must hurry up, otherwise he will definitely show his feet.
"Your surname is still a little cowardly, and something will scare you like this!" The old man choked his wrists and regretted, looking like he hated iron but not steel. "I forced you to practice back then, just to hone your surname, to have a strong body, and not to be bullied by others in the future, hey!"
"I'm doing pretty well at school!" The subtext in Lin Mingyang's words is actually that no one dares to bully me.
"Just like you, I could have pressed you down with one hand a few years ago!" The old man glared at him with disdain, "I heard that you played basketball in school, and what championship did you win?" ”
"It's a state league champion!" Lin Mingyang patiently explained.
"Your father sent a video of that game, I watched it, your kid is too angry with us Chinese, only after a short time of fighting is tired and out of breath, people who don't know still think that we are not physically strong!" The old man couldn't help but scold his grandson, "If you insist on practicing, how can you be like this!" Talking about the past, he turned the topic back to practice.
Lin Mingyang feels that his current physical strength is already very good, and no one in the team can compare to him, according to the old man, if he insists on practicing, he will not become a superman?
"And you don't score as much as that black boy, do you owe a lot of money to others, why don't you shoot and pass the ball to others?" The old man painfully stated Lin Mingyang's "crimes".
"Grandpa, basketball is about cooperation, the five people on the court have their own tasks, I am responsible for organizing the offense and defense of the whole team, just like the brain directs the body to fight, I am the 'laborer', they are the 'laborer', there is a big difference!" It took Lin Mingyang a lot of effort to express this question in a language that the old man could understand.
"Okay, you've passed the test, but I also heard that you've been acting recently?" The relationship between the family seems to be very cold, but the old man knows a lot about Lin Mingyang, but in fact, he still cares about himself.
Lin Mingyang's heart warmed, and his evaluation of the old man changed from old-fashioned to cold-hearted, "There is such a thing!" ”
"Do you want to be an actor in the future?" The old man frowned.
"Maybe, my goal is to go to college first, and the future is uncertain!"
"That's pretty much it!" The old man nodded, "I don't care what you do in the future, but you must have knowledge, in the words of our martial arts practitioners, it is clear and reasonable, and practice martial arts." The world is getting faster and faster, whether it is China or the United States, fists no longer have brains! ”
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