Fifty-four Old Man Chen Chi's sister-in-law
After eating the reception banquet that He Xiaojun had bought for himself, the old man sighed again and said to He Xiaojun that with his cooking level, he could be the head chef of any Cantonese restaurant or high-end restaurant.
After being recognized by the old man Chen Chi, who is known as the "God of Food" and has a lot of research and knowledge in diet, He Xiaojun was really a little moved and had a plan to enter the catering industry. However, this can only be considered in the long term after he has finished his position as the head of the village.
This night, just like last night, Old Man Chen Chi and He Xiaojun chatted with him until late at night.
In addition to food, there are also the current and domestic and international situation, what Jinshan and Hong Kong have seen and heard, and the development of all walks of life.
Of course, the person who listens and the person who asks is the same as He Xiaojun. Only by quickly understanding contemporary society can we quickly integrate into the contemporary society and plan for our future.
After two nights of in-depth contact, the old man and He Xiaojun became real New Year's friends.
After the two got acquainted, He Xiaojun asked the old man not to call him any more sect heads, it sounded unfamiliar, and it was okay to call him Ah Jun or Xiao Jun or Xiao He.
The old man also asked He Xiaojun to stop calling him his father-in-law, and call him Uncle Chen, Uncle Chi, or Uncle Fubang.
So, in the small talk later that night, both of them changed to the polite name. The old man called He Xiaojun as a soldier, and He Xiaojun also called the old man Chen Bo. Although it is just a salutation, it means that the relationship between the two has entered the honeymoon period.
The old man Chen Chi, who fell in love with He Xiaojun, loved the house and Wu, and also looked at the three of Amei differently, and gave the soap, mirrors and other small items brought back from abroad to their sisters.
What woman is not greedy? Therefore, the Amei sisters immediately became a lot closer to the old man who gave them rare things, and served him more diligently, so that the relationship between the two sides also became harmonious in a short time.
Old man Chen Chi went out on the third day of his stay in the carving tower and did not return until the fifth day. When he came back, he used the bicycle he Xiaojun helped to retrieve, and carried back an old woman.
This old woman is the wife and sister of the old man Chen Chi, and her only sister-in-law, a woman surnamed Mei.
After settling down and living in the carved building, the old man Chen Chi asked He Xiaojun to make a good meal, which should be for the woman surnamed Mei, and also for his brother-in-law and sister-in-law to have a happy banquet.
From that day on, the old man Chen Chi, the sister-in-law surnamed Mei, became He Xiaojun's neighbor.
That night, after settling the old woman to sleep, He Xiaojun learned about his sister-in-law's poor family background from the routine evening chats between himself and the old man Chen Chi.
The sister-in-law of the old man Chen Chi was a poor person, and soon after she got married, she didn't even have time to ask for a child, and her husband fell ill and died.
Although her husband is dead, her in-laws still have to take care of her. Moreover, the woman surnamed Mei and the wife of the old man Chen Chi are the only two sisters in the family, and their parents, who are old and reluctant to go abroad with the old man Chen Chi and his wife, also want her, the only relative who stays in the country, to take care of and raise them.
In this way, the woman, surnamed Mei, spent her youth and years taking care of her dead only son-in-law and her own parents, and it was not until a few years ago, when these four old people passed away one after another, that she could be considered to have completed this arduous and long task.
Fortunately, Chen Chi's family has money and can fully fund her life with her parents and in-laws, so that she doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, but her lonely life for decades makes people sigh.
Chen Chi's wife has been frail and sick, not suitable for long-distance travel, after she went abroad, she has never been able to return to her hometown, even if her parents died, she can't come back to see off, let alone come back to see her sister who has been good since childhood, so this sister has always been her concern, a piece of heart.
When the old man Chen Chi's wife was dying two years ago, she couldn't let go of her sister, and she was also ashamed and regretful for failing to fulfill her filial piety in front of her parents. She asked the old man Chen Chi to return to China once, pay a good tribute to her father, and try her best to arrange her sister's life.
After his wife died of illness, the old man Chen Chi, whose children had already started a family, set off to return to his hometown after arranging his stay abroad, ready to fulfill his wife's last wish.
Although the old man Chen Chi has a lot of business in Jinshan, and some of them are rich, but due to the drag of his sick wife, he has not left the city where he lives for many years, so since he has no worries this time, he simply took advantage of the opportunity to return to China and divided the journey into several itineraries, which are not only for tourism, but also for tasting his favorite food.
In this way, it took Chen Chi a full year to come to Hong Kong, the last stop of his trip back to China.
In Hong Kong, after eating all the local restaurants and restaurants, Chen Chi bought a bicycle locally and returned to China by boat.
The story of the old man can be regarded as a version of the fact that contemporary overseas Chinese have a difficult time to return to in that backward era, but fortunately, the old man is rich and can make his relatives at home and abroad worry-free. But thinking about it the other way, which is more important than the family affection that you can't see each other for a lifetime?
In the two days that the old man Chen Chi left the carving building, he first found his wife and sister, and then under the leadership of his wife and sister, he saw the graves of his parents-in-law and made a plan to repair the graves of the two old men, and then took his wife and sister to Chen Village to live in temporary peace, one is to facilitate his own care for her, and the other is to discuss her placement in the future.
When it came to the plan set by the old man Chen Chi to repair the graves of his parents-in-law, there was a big battle. His plan was to ask Mr. Feng Shui to help him find a treasure of Feng Shui, then reinstall the tombs of the two elders, and then import cement and steel bars from abroad to build the new graves of the two elders into a solid and permanent cemetery, so that the two elders could rest in peace, so as to fulfill his wife's last wish and make up for the shame and regret of his wife and his son-in-law not fulfilling their filial piety.
In the past few days, the old man Chen Chi has been busy with the graves of his parents-in-law.
Old man Chen Chi's wife and sister are idle people, especially in housework. Since living in the carved building, she has not been idle, she does not have to work in the fields, every day and night for the housework is busy, the area is not generally large The entire carved building, clean up as a new general orderly, spotless.
The old man Chen Chi once asked his wife, who has been suffering for many years, not to work so hard, and even better not to do any work, just enjoy happiness with peace of mind. But the woman surnamed Mei refused, saying that if she didn't work, she would live like a year.
Alas, it's no wonder that after decades of housework, let her stop all of a sudden, of course, she won't get used to it, so the old man Chen Chi couldn't persuade her, so he had to persuade her to work harder.
When they arrived at the carving building, there was really nothing to clean up, He Xiaojun and Ah Mei, the woman surnamed Mei who called Aunt Mei, snatched Ah Mei's rice and cooked it, so she took the initiative to learn some cooking from He Xiaojun, and made everyone's two meals quite good.
Aunt Mei's hometown is not far from Chen Village, about five kilometers away, where Chen Chi's father-in-law and mother-in-law are buried.
From the day after he took his wife and sister home, the old man Chen Chi rode his bicycle across the village, busy looking for Mr. Feng Shui to look at the mountains and choose the land for his parents-in-law's graves.
After several days of hard work, the cemetery was finally chosen.
After the old man Chen Chi asked someone to do a large-scale ritual, he moved the bones of his parents-in-law to the "Feng Shui Treasure Land", giving them a nest that they didn't know if they were happy or not, but absolutely beautiful, and also gave him a peace of mind.
After doing these things, the old man Chen Chi asked a famous local stonemason to carve a tablet for the two old men, and then waited for the materials he ordered to come back, and then made a permanent construction for the cemetery of the two old men.
The old man Chen Chi did all this, and the most touching person was of course Aunt Mei.
Aunt May had only met her brother-in-law once when her sister was newly married, but that was fifty years ago, so she was very unfamiliar with her brother-in-law and had no impression of it.
Although, in the past few decades, my brother-in-law's support for her two families has always moved and thanked Aunt Mei. But although she is grateful in her heart, because she has been far away from the ocean, and the correspondence has always been her sister and her contact, she still only has a vague impression of this brother-in-law she is grateful to.
Now, after seeing my brother-in-law, when I see him sparing no effort to do things for his family, I think of everything in the past, and the vivid image of a living brother-in-law is displayed in front of her.
Who doesn't want their parents who have worked hard all their lives to have a better and more decent home after returning to heaven? Therefore, everything that the old man Chen Chi has done in the past few days immediately touched his wife and sister-in-law, so that his sister-in-law, with gratitude to him, took care of his daily life even more carefully.
The appearance of Old Man Chen Chi and Aunt Mei has more or less affected the lives of He Xiaojun and Ah Mei, for example, when doing things that are entertaining both parties, they are not as open as before, afraid that the next door will have ears and be embarrassed.
However, the two old men's kind attitude, diligence and seriousness soon won the respect of He Xiaojun, plus the old man Chen Chi and He Xiaojun talked very well, and Aunt Mei also had a good relationship with the daughters, so that these people from several families lived in harmony in this carved building for a while.