That is, the work of a cup of tea, the rickshaw stopped in front of a courtyard, and the coachman said respectfully to Daddy Liu, "Sir, Liufu has arrived." ”

Daddy Liu and Da Ai got off the rickshaw, the coachman ran away as soon as he slipped through the smoke, Daddy Liu looked at this courtyard fixedly, there is not much difference from the surrounding courtyards, the blue bricks and gray tiles are high houses and low walls, the cornices and cliffs are hooked and angled, the only difference is that more than ten cherry blossom trees are planted inside and outside the low wall, and the plaque above the lintel is written with two gilt characters 'Liufu', the momentum is extraordinary, it is slightly abrupt in the surrounding houses, and the recognition has increased a lot at once. Daddy Liu calmed down his turbulent mood, tried to restrain his feelings, knocked on the knocker twice hard, and after a while, the black wooden door was opened from the inside, and a neatly dressed and delicate woman in her forties walked out, she asked Daddy Liu very kindly, "Sir, who are you looking for?" ”

Father Liu clasped his fists and asked politely, "Excuse me, madam, is this Mr. Liu Jingzu's house?" ”

The woman smiled slightly, "It's Liufu, who are you?" ”

Father Liu's voice trembled and said, "Please Madame inform Mr. Liu, and say that there is a descendant named Yongde who has come to pay a visit." "Daddy Liu, the eldest Liu Wenzheng's milk name is Yongzheng, the second Liu Wende's milk name is Yongde, and the third Liu Wengui's milk name is Yongtuan.

The woman smiled and said, "Since it is an old man's visit, there is no need to tell me, sir, please come with me into the house." ”

Father Liu thanked Mrs. Liu and followed her into the courtyard, and Mrs. Liu shouted towards the west wing, "Master, a distinguished guest has come to visit you." As soon as Mrs. Liu's words fell, I saw a burly man walk out of the room, in good spirits, with a tough body, full of black hair, full of spring breeze, looking like he was about fifty years old, the moment he and Daddy Liu looked at each other, the smile on his face was gone, his lips trembled violently, Daddy Liu's tears burst out of his eyes, and he knelt on his knees and cried and shouted, "The son of the old man will always bow down to Mr. Liu." Liu Yanzu suddenly burst into tears, and the two of them hugged their heads and cried, sad!

Ye Zhi and Da Ai stood aside, at a loss, after a while, Ye Zhi hurriedly ran to close the hidden courtyard door, Da Ai had never seen Daddy Liu so out of shape, she leaned over and said softly to Daddy Liu, "Dad, what do you and this grandfather have to say to the house, the people on the street can see you both through the low wall." This sentence of great love reminded Liu Yanzu and Daddy Liu, and the two of them stood up with their arms, both wiped their tears, and Daddy Liu pulled Daai and said to Liu Yanzu, "Mr. Liu, her name is Da Ai, and she is my daughter." ”

Da Ai respectfully knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Yanzu, and said softly, "Hello Grandpa Liu." ”

Liu Yanzu had regained his senses at this time, he held up Daai with both hands, looked at her kindly, and said with a smile, "Good boy, there is a tutor who understands etiquette, and grandpa likes it." ”

Liu Yanzu introduced Ye Zhi to Daddy Liu, and Daddy Liu bowed deeply to Ye Zhi and said respectfully, "Hello Mrs. Liu!" ”

Ye Zhi hurriedly bent down to return the salute, and said to Liu Yanzu with a smile, "Master, you and Mr. Liu go to the living room and sit down, and I will make tea for you." ”

Daddy Liu found that the courtyard where his father lived looked very ordinary from the outside, and found that it was spacious and bright, magnificent, eight main rooms, two ear rooms in the east and west, the west wing room was the study, the east wing room was the guest room, the wood used in the corridor of the house was all high-grade red sandalwood, the corridor in the room displayed all kinds of antiques, in addition to the cherry blossoms in the courtyard also planted a begonia, the furniture furnishings were simple and elegant, the pattern and furnishings of the whole courtyard exuded a strong cultural atmosphere, which was an invisible luxury.

Liu Yanzu and Daddy Liu walked into the living room of the main house side by side, the guest of honor sat down, and Da Ai was next to Daddy Liu, at this time Ye Zhi brought up the brewed tea, Liu Yanzu instructed Ye Zhi, "Wen Genniang, you go to the street to buy some vegetables and come back, and make dumplings for the guests to eat at night." ”

Ye Zhi agreed, and said to Daddy Liu with a smile, "Mr. Liu, you taste tea slowly, and I will come when I go." After speaking, he looked at Da Ai, Da Ai hesitated, then stood up and said to Daddy Liu, "Dad, I'll go with my wife, help my wife carry vegetables, and take a look at the street scene of Tianjin by the way, and feast my eyes." Daddy Liu nodded, and took Ye Zhi's arm affectionately and went out of the house.

Send away the leaves and branches and great love, Liu Yanzu's tears gurgled out, the years passed, time is like water, gone forever, and the feeling of being separated from the world suddenly arises, when he left Shuangliu Village, Daddy Liu was only eighteen years old, still a young man with strong blood, twenty-five years have passed, Daddy Liu's sideburns are faintly exposed, his face has been dark and shiny after the vicissitudes of life, and the only thing that has not changed is the resolute eyes.

Daddy Liu kowtowed to Liu Yanzu three times again, Liu Yanzu rubbed Daddy Liu's head, and blamed himself with tears, "Yongde, Dad is sorry for your brothers, and even more sorry for your dead mother." ”

"Dad, when did you know that my mother died?"

"Yongde, sit up and speak."

Liu Yanzu pulled Father Liu up and sat beside him, sighed, and said with regret, "Yongde, it's a long story, you don't know my situation, but I have heard about the major events that have happened in the Liu family compound over the years, and after I got the news of your mother's suicide, I immediately sent someone back to Huang County to deliberately spread the false news that I was shot by the warlord, just to calm down all kinds of criticism of your mother in Shuangliu Village, and create a false impression to the world that your mother was martyred for me, in fact, I have long known about your mother's fornication with Zhang Lu, Yongde." , you remember, Zhang Lu and your mother are not wrong, it is me who is wrong, I failed your mother and Zhang Lu first, these love debts in the Liu family compound are entangled, even if there is no Zhang Zongchang's wanted, I will leave Shuangliu Village sooner or later. In the future, my father will slowly tell you what I have been doing over the years, but the most important one is that I have used Liu Jingzu's identity for decades and cut off all contact with the Liu family compound, all in order to protect your brothers, but also to protect the Liu family compound, because my identity is too complicated, like an irregular ** may detonate at any time, simply put, I am not only an underground worker of the Communist Party, but also a secret agent of the Kuomintang, belonging to double agents, The problem is that my current wife is still Japanese, her brother and younger brother are the Kwantung Army that invaded China, behind me is the abyss, if you are not careful, you will fall into powder, when New China was not established, I was popular at both ends, and now I am not good at both ends, I have been engaged in politics all my life, and I know how powerful it is, so I have to hide my identity so deeply from the beginning, in this family in Tianjin, you have two half-sisters and a half-brother, those two sisters, you don't have to worry, They all started a family, and emigrated overseas before liberation, your younger brother is called Liu Wengen, I was almost fifty when I gave birth to him, I had a son in old age, naturally he was very doting, poured all my efforts in his later years, he was also very competitive, the foundation of Chinese culture is very deep, he loves writing, and is proficient in Chinese, Japanese, English, and Russian Chinese dialects, considering his future, after the Beijing-Tianjin Campaign, I asked someone to send him to the army, became a war correspondent, and was later transferred to a corps of the Third Field Army as a correspondent, In fact, he was a secretary, after the outbreak of the Korean War, he followed the troops into the Korean War, and now he has been there for more than three months. ”

"Dad, I don't have a problem with my identity as a stepmother, right?"

"Ye Zhi is an ordinary Japanese woman, whether it was the national ** or the current CCP regime, she has had a strict political trial, there is no problem with her own identity, when I just brought her back from Japan, there were indeed several Japanese trading companies to find her, let her serve as the nominal consultant of the trading company, but she sternly refused, she loves me as a person, this I am very confident, you can also see that I am at least ten years younger than my peers, this is all the credit of Ye Zhi, I am a full twenty years older than her, she has lived with me since she was sixteen years old, and has lived together for thirty-one years, but she doesn't know my true identity at all, and has always regarded me as Liu Jingzu, who was born as a street child, Mr. Liang Qichao has been dead for many years, and the only person in the world who really knows my identity as Liu Jingzu is Zhang Lu, a righteous servant. Yongde, you are really cautious in doing things, when you came into the house to see me just now, you reported that it was your own name, after you left Tianjin, even if someone wanted to investigate in the future, there was no way to investigate, New China had just been founded, the political storm would only intensify, and the hundred-year-old Liujia compound must not be destroyed because of me, so I will not reveal my identity until I die, but you have to remember that whether I serve the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, I have not done anything that hurts nature and reason, as a practicing lawyer, this open social identity, Over the past few decades, I have been conscientious, fair and selfless, and have taken every case seriously, winning wide praise from the industry and respect from the public. ”

"Dad, your current fake identity does play a protective role in the Liu family compound, but the fallen leaves must eventually return to the roots, and you still have to return to your hometown in the end, as a son, every time I think of you being close to the old age, and you have to wander the rivers and lakes, my heart is like a knife......"

Daddy Liu burst into tears as he spoke, he picked up the burden of the Liu family compound since he was eighteen, a pick is twenty-five years, all his dreams when he was young were crushed by this burden, if his father did not leave Shuangliu Village, he would also embark on the revolutionary road without hesitation, like his son Yizhang galloping on the field without being a man for a lifetime, these are nothing, the most painful thing is that the son wants to raise and does not wait, the mother hanged herself at a young age, the father is no different from the dead, there is no chance to be filial piety before the bed, How helpless and sad life is!

Liu Yanzu sat aside, bowed his head and wept secretly, looking back on his life, since the age of sixteen, he began to meet celebrities, actively participated in the tide of social change, and crossed and closed among various political forces, for more than half a century. Liu Yanzu was involuntarily swept forward by the tide of history, and when he founded New China, he suddenly looked back, only to find that his lofty ideals of his life were just a dream, and he was never a tide maker who bravely stood at the head of the tide, just a speck of dust in this turbulent era, insignificant and dangerous!