Chapter 40: Serendiity
Many years later, I still remember that time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When Rose and I arrived at my aunt's house, she was about to cook for lunch, and my cousin Yubei at the door saw me and screamed, and everyone poured out to see us.
For the first time, Rose was a little shy, after all, she had come to a relative's house with me, and this relative had nothing to do with her. Especially when I heard the neighbor ask my aunt what kind of relatives this girl was in the family, I felt that she was a little at a loss, but I took her and Cousin Yubei into the house with me.
My aunt was naturally very happy to see me coming. Because I was younger than this time, I came by myself, not to mention that this time I had someone with me. However, she saw that the rose was somewhat familiar, but she was still stunned. Maybe the adult thought differently, and she didn't immediately ask me where the roses came from, but what we were going to eat.
Rose was originally a little embarrassed, but Cousin Yubei felt a little familiar when she saw her. My aunt asked Rose for her name and asked Cousin Yubei to take her to play, but she took me to the kitchen.
After my aunt asked a few words, she suddenly realized, she naturally remembered Yonghui's family, and after knowing that Rose was their relative, she also told me that every time she came to my house and my grandmother's house, she had to pass by the door of Rose's house. My aunt asked me what I wanted to eat, and asked my little cousin to come back and play with me.
My aunt's family had four cousins and one cousin, and it was not a large family in this era. But compared to my family's current population, it's a lot of people.
My eldest cousin, Lizong, I don't remember seeing him, is said to have gone farther south with someone in the years shortly after I was born. I heard someone say that life is much better than ours in that distant place, and I heard my aunt and uncle mention it from time to time. But even so, I haven't seen him for as long as I can remember.
My second cousin Lizhong is much older than me, and it is said that after graduating from high school in a certain year, he joined the army and went to the army. I heard that my second cousin is doing well and wants to change volunteers, and if he changes to volunteer in the army, it means that when he returns to the local area in the future, he will have a job arrangement.
And this third cousin Lixin is not only honest in appearance, but also has always been a decent person. But surprisingly, he is also in high school and is currently preparing for his third year of high school. Among the aunt's children, the larger one is currently in front of her.
My little cousin is a year older than me, and he will go to middle school after the summer vacation. But every time I heard him say that, he would be chased and beaten by my little cousin. Because the little cousin is the ugliest of the children in my aunt's family.
Cousin Yubei is in middle school, she is a year older than her little cousin, although she is not fully developed, but she has gradually become slim. It is said that she is the most beautiful in their compound, and she must be a beauty after looking at it.
What I didn't expect was that my cousin Yubei actually recognized Rose, because not only were they from the same school, but Rose was one year higher than her cousin. Roses are not only very well-known, but also the head of the students in the school. The gentle and quiet cousin Yubei, although her academic performance is not too good, she naturally will not follow the trend in school. But Rose was so famous that she had naturally heard of the name of the eldest sister, and surprisingly they soon became friends.
Adults don't care about these things, not to mention the cute appearance of roses, coupled with the harmless appearance of humans and animals, even my aunt and uncle like her very much. Later, I learned that Rose patted her chest and promised that her cousin would not be bullied after school. As for the little cousin's idea, he was naturally stunned when he heard it, and when he saw that the rose said that he wanted to cover himself, he actually hid a little shyly.
I didn't have time to sigh with emotion, but Rose sat beside me obediently and had dinner with my aunt and uncle's family. I've seen her look at Yonghui's house, and seeing her so well-behaved, and with a very sweet mouth and a smile, I almost bit my tongue. But when I was pinched by the devil's hand under the rose table, I couldn't say anything.
My brother-in-law was very kind, and I could sense that he saw the movements of the roses, but he turned a blind eye. My aunt kept trying to pick up vegetables for us, and I was already a little speechless, so I had to look at the roses pleadingly. Seeing that I didn't squeak, Rose stopped a little proudly. The third cousin, Lixin, was older than us and didn't say much to us, but I saw that he couldn't stop looking at the rose, but he didn't talk to the rose.
However, Rose saw that everyone had a good atmosphere, so she obediently said to her aunt and uncle that the yard here is so big, and the houses are so old. At this point, the uncle-in-law looked a little proud, but he only modestly said that these old houses were almost a hundred years old. He was very interested in seeing the roses, so he asked Cousin Yubei to take the roses and me to the compound after the meal.
This compound is the house of the Qiong family of the uncle, divided into two courtyards, only a few hundred meters apart, and even an ancient corridor is connected. My uncle's residence is actually in the lower compound, which is not as grand as the upper house, but it is almost the same as the compound where I live. My uncle's house is in the left wing of the compound, and everyone says that he is a descendant of the landlord.
I have heard many legends about him, some say that he was the youngest son of a large family, and was brought up by a nurse; Some people say that he was the youngest son of a large family abandoned in his hometown, and his mother raised him with great hardship in that very old age. Whatever the legend, it was said that he was the child of the big man in the family, and I later learned that it was true.
It turned out that at the time of liberation, the elders of his family were afraid that they would not be allowed by the new government at that time because of the problems of identity and property, so they scattered in a hurry. Most of his brothers and sisters were scattered, some went abroad and overseas, some were unfortunate enough to survive the troubled times, and most of them ended up in Guilin, Guangzhou. It is said that since the era of the Great Movement, some people have been living well in other places.
And he was the youngest in this room, and he stayed in the ancestral land of the Qiong family and did not leave. Now those brothers and sisters with a good environment remember him, feel the suffering he has suffered over the years, and actually give my uncle-in-law all the ancestral land of the family. Although these ancestral lands and real estate are not at all, they are already great wealth for the villagers. My uncle's name, Qiong Yingchu, is a farmer in my impression, but a farmer with a literati temperament.
I don't feel like he's like my grandfather, but like my grandfather. But then what stunned me was that by chance, I knew that my aunt and uncle were actually my grandparents' matchmaker.
This made me very interested in these little gossips for a long time. Because my uncle's Yuliu Village is because of the name of the upper and lower compounds, but it is very far away from our village, I don't know how my grandfather met them?
The lower courtyard of the Qiong family is called Liuyintang, in fact, it should be called Liuyintang, which was built by the owner of Yu Liutang for his younger brother in the small house. There is a four-turn corridor from Liuyintang to Yuliutang, this corridor is a turning point all the way, and now there are people living everywhere you pass. However, it still makes us very happy to see the wooden pillars and tiles, and the smooth ground.
Especially there are a lot of children in the compound, and their clothes are naturally far inferior to Rose and me, even compared with my cousin Yubei's cousin, it is also very inferior. They were a little scared when they saw us, but their eyes were kind. But with the introduction of my cousin and cousin, they soon followed our buttocks. Rose enjoyed the feeling and looked at me with a smug look in her eyes.
I've been to my aunt's house many times and stayed there for a long time, but I felt a little different on this day. Because I have been here before, I have not entered Yuliutang. Because the tall front door wall of Yuliu Hall is one-third taller than our promotion hall, and the entire blue brick structure of the compound is said to have five entrances. The local old people kept nagging us, and there were guns guarding here before the liberation.
Rose was very interested in the exquisite murals on the walls, and she knew that I liked to read villain books, and had talked to Xiang Sanye about many ancient times, so she had to pull me in to read. I couldn't go in with her, but it was an eye-opener.
Because from the stone on the horse at the entrance to the carving of the gate, I was a little dumbfounded. I told her that here is the story of Journey to the West, where the Three Heroes fought against Lu Bu; Here is the map of Meng's mother's three migrations, and over there is the eight immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers. Not to mention that Rose listened to me with relish, but my cousin Yubei and cousin Liyi looked at me like monsters, but in fact, I was fascinated by myself.
The murals here are better than those protected by the Propagation Hall, and naturally there are more than the Propagation Hall. Looking at these beautiful murals, I suddenly had a crazy idea of what a great thing it would be if I could paint them in the future. Looking at the exquisitely carved hanging columns, I was a little fascinated, and I didn't know how the people carved them back then.
None of us noticed that a tall old man, with white hair and hair, was a little trembling, and he didn't know when he followed us. I didn't think about it that much at the time, because this old man was from the compound of Yu Liutang. Everyone slipped around back and forth, left and right, until they returned to the patio, and Rose's beautiful big eyes were almost starring, and they exaggerated and praised me for knowing so much.
When she said that, I was a little embarrassed. Originally, I wanted to show it off in front of her, not only the comic books I saw, the stories told by Xiang Sanye, some of the knowledge I learned, and some of my flexible wit, and some of them were even improvised wit. Unexpectedly, my cousin and cousin also nodded violently and agreed with Rose's statement.
What I didn't expect was that the old man on the side also asked my cousin Yubei my identity with a hint of a smile. My cousin hurriedly said that the old man actually knew my grandfather, touched the white beard on his chin, and said thoughtfully, so he praised me a few words. I didn't know the situation, but I didn't care about the old man's words, but I still greeted the old man politely and shyly.