Chapter XVI Pieces of Paper
After crossing the Yangtze River Bridge, you will enter the main urban area of Nanjing in the traditional sense, which was called Jinling in ancient times and has been the land of emperors since ancient times.
Why is it called Jinling? I heard Brother Hao say that it was because the king of Chu was bewitched by Fang Shi's false words, in order to prevent someone from claiming the king here in the future, he buried a golden villain in the countryside east of the Lion Rock, and called the Jin people's mausoleum "Jinling" with the town's "royal spirit". At the same time, a city was built on the stone hill and named "Jinlingyi", and the name of Jinling began here.
Historically, Nanjing has benefited from both its unique geographical location and extraordinary feng shui environment, and has suffered many times from the disaster of war in the past, but it has also repeatedly regained its prosperity from the rubble and smoke.
After comparing the four ancient capitals of Chang'an, Luoyang, Jinling and Yanjing, Mr. Zhu Wei said, "Among these four capitals, the prosperity of literature, the handsomeness of the characters, the beauty of the mountains and rivers, the grandeur of the weather, and the close relationship with the national weal and woe, especially Jinling." ”
At noon, we arrived at a place called Jinjiawei, which was not far from the detention center, and when the car stopped, we saw a middle-aged man smiling and waiting outside the car.
As soon as the door opened, we just got out of the car when we saw him looking at me and saying, "This is Jianjun, they've all grown so big!" I didn't know him, but he could say my name, which means that he did know me, probably my father's friend, and I didn't know what to call him, so I smiled and replied, "Hello uncle." ”
Then he suddenly walked behind me, stretched out his hands, and said with surprise on his face: "Second master, I haven't seen you for a long time, my body is fine!" The second grandfather smiled and shook his hand and said, "Changming, we haven't seen each other for ten years!" ”
This person named Changming said: "Yes, second master, time flies so fast, you see that my hair is a lot less, I see that your old body is still very tough, and you look a few years older than me." ”
The second grandfather laughed, then turned his head to the three of us and said, "This is your Uncle Changming, have you shouted?" We shouted in unison, "Hello Uncle Changming!" The second grandfather introduced us one by one, and Uncle Changming also smiled and said, okay, okay.
Just as they were greeting, another young man came out of the inn and said, "Dad, the rooms are all arranged, let them all come in." ”
Uncle Changming shouted at him: "Your second grandfather is outside, come and say hello!" The young man wore a leather jacket, with an inch of hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looked very energetic, and as soon as he heard his father, he walked over quickly and shouted to the second grandfather: "Second grandfather is good." ”
The second grandfather smiled and pulled the young man and said, "This is Yu Xiao, you see that you have grown into a young man, so spirited, with the demeanor of your father when he was young." The guy smiled, turned his head to see us, stretched out his hand, and introduced himself: "Hello, I'm Liu Yuxiao." ”
We both politely reached out and shook hands, introduced ourselves, and when I introduced myself, he shook it vigorously and said, "My dad and I talked about you, Jianjun, welcome to Nanjing." "I was a little surprised, I didn't expect this person to have heard of me, but my father had never mentioned him to me.
After a period of greetings, we all entered the hotel, Uncle Changming warmly took us all to our respective rooms, and as soon as the things were put down, he said: "Second master, the hotel is all set, let's go, let's go eat first." ”
Just about to get in the car, Liu Yu smiled and said, don't drive, take our car, at this time we saw two cars parked next to us, one Daben, and one I don't know what brand.
At this time, I heard Brother Hao smack his tongue and say: "Cadillac-Fretewood, Mercedes-Benz W126, they are all luxury cars!" Uncle Changming got into the Mercedes-Benz with the second grandfather, Laifu and the third uncle also followed, and Liu Yuxiao pulled us into the Cadillac.
A good car is different, leather seats, very comfortable, much better than our little bread.
Before the car started, Liu Yuxiao put down the music, and with Li Chunbo's Xiaofang, the car started slowly. "There is a girl named Xiaofang in the village, who is good-looking and kind, with beautiful big eyes and thick and long braids!" Listening to the beautiful music and looking at the beautiful plane tree outside the car, Dandan's face came to my mind, if there is really such a beautiful girl as Xiaofang, it must be like Dandan.
About an hour, the car slowly stopped, we walked down from the car, as soon as we looked up, we saw the four big characters of Xuanwu Hotel, which was very magnificent.
Brother Hao came to my side and whispered, "This kid's family is not simple, he comes to this kind of place for dinner." I looked at him and said, "If someone else has a treat, you can just eat." He said and walked along.
In the private room, a large round table, a group of nine of us, sitting just right, there was a waiter standing in the corner of the room, and after we sat down, Uncle Changming ordered: "Serve!" After a while, the dishes were served one after another, and the waiter reported the name of the dish while serving the food, what squirrel fish, beauty liver, anchovy shrimp, stewed Wenwu duck or something.
Two more bottles of Moutai were opened, Uncle Changming poured wine for the second grandfather, and Liu Yuxiao came over to greet us and pour us wine.
While eating, the second grandfather chatted with Uncle Changming about his father, "Changming, what is the situation of the fourth child in our family now?" Uncle Changming put down his chopsticks, looked at the second grandfather and said, "Dezhong is okay now, I have already arranged for someone to say hello, and I won't suffer any crime inside!" ”
"When will it be released?" The second grandfather then asked, and at this time, Uncle Changming looked at the waiter in the room, and said to her: "There's nothing wrong here, you go out first, and I'll call you if you need anything." ”
Seeing the waiter leave, Uncle Changming continued: "What is more troublesome now is that the place where Dezhong had an accident is a cultural relics protection unit, you also know that the history of Jinling City for 2,000 years, this is full of historic sites, who would have thought that the broken house was a cultural relic!" ”
He continued: "Because of this, it is not easy to do it now that there are people watching it. ”
The second grandfather said again, "Then do you know what the fourth child is doing in that place, how to run and smash people's walls?" Uncle Changming smiled and said, "I don't know about this, when we see Dezhong, we'll ask." ”
The second grandfather took a glass of wine and drank a glass of wine, and asked, "When can I go to see the fourth child?" "I'm going to wait for two days, I'm arranging for you to stay first, and I'll take you there at any time when there's news."
The second grandfather heard Uncle Changming say this, and he stopped talking, so he continued to drink, and ate for about an hour, during the banquet, Uncle Changming talked a lot about the past with his father, saying that after he was discharged from the army, he was busy with his own work, and he couldn't see each other for a long time. I can't help but sigh again.
After eating, Uncle Changming drank a little too much, and when he was about to get in the car, Uncle Changming kept pulling me and said drunkly: "Big nephew, I often went to your house when you were a child, and I hugged you." ”
I couldn't smile a little bitterly, and it was not easy to push away, just like that, Brother Hao and I should have taken Liu Yuxiao's car back, but in the end I could only sit with the second grandfather and them, and the third uncle had no choice but to take Brother Hao's car, so I helped Uncle Changming, sat in the back seat with Laifu, and the second grandfather sat in the co-pilot.
Along the way, Uncle Changming was paralyzed on top of me, and I couldn't do anything about it.
When they arrived at the hotel, Brother Hao and they all got off one after another, and the second grandfather also went down, but this Uncle Changming was drunk and unconscious, and it was not until his son came to help him that he was helped away, and Brother Hao and they stood outside watching and laughing.
Sent away Uncle Changming, we all went back to the room to rest, I was still with Brother Hao, this kid also laughed and drank a lot with Liu Yu at noon, and went into the house and lay on the bed and talked to me without moving. I drank a small amount of alcohol, so I paid attention to myself and didn't drink much.
Seeing that Brother Hao was also asleep, he turned on the TV, went downstairs to ask for boiling water, made a cup of tea, and lay on the bed to watch TV. After taking a sip of tea, I felt that something was missing from my mouth, so I rummaged through the cigarette in my pocket, and the cigarette came out, but brought out a piece of paper.