After not sleeping all night, and the morning light was faint, Dong Xiaokui got up and gently tidied up the bedding. I opened the suitcase and chose smart professional attire: a shirt, a black suit, and flat trousers. She thought for a moment, curled her hair, hesitated, and still didn't take the wooden hairpin in the box. From now on, this is only suitable for collection, and perhaps in a few years, generations later will speculate that this unweathered wooden hairpin has an unusual story.

That's just the story over there. She smiled, took a small black steel clip to fix her hair, and then looked at herself in the mirror, except that her eyes were a little red, and there was not much exhaustion on her face.

Only then did she feel relieved, smiled at herself in the mirror, and said, "Come on." ”

Then, I put some of the materials I had prepared a long time ago in my bag, and carefully sorted them out with the help of the wall lamp, and then I was relieved. Walk to the window facing the street and open it.

At this time, it was still early, and because of the mountains, the daylight in Yunlai Town would always come late. The entire town of Yunlai was still shrouded in silence, and the hazy sky had a blue and blue ambiguity.

The bluestone slabs on the streets are wet, and there are tofu sellers riding bicycles and ringing bells, which causes some unobedient dogs to disturb people's dreams. Dong Xiaokui was lying on the small wooden balcony, only to find that the pot of aloe vera in the window was still alive, and it seemed that her mother often came to take care of it.

She smiled slightly, stretched out on the balcony, and looked into the distance, and saw the roofs one after another, all black tiles, and some roofs with small windows open and some lush plants.

The whole town was in peace, and she felt very relaxed. If it weren't for the ancestral house, she would be more relaxed.

She stood on the balcony for a while, and finally there was a whisper in the street in the distance, it was a tea seller in the mountains who was rushing to the morning market. The day is about to begin. She also turned and went into the house, expecting that her mother must have gotten up. Sure enough, when I opened the door, I saw my mother fetching water next to the well platform, twisting the wheels, pulling up the well rope little by little, and the clear waves rippling in the wooden barrel, so that she could wash the vegetables there, and it was clean celery.

"Mom, so early." Dong Xiaokui said as he went downstairs.

Mom raised her head, smiled, and said, "Stir-fry in the morning, otherwise you just have no appetite for porridge." ”

She wanted to reach out to help her mother wash the vegetables, but her mother hurriedly said, "No, no, it's not good to get your clothes dirty, you go wash your face, there is hot water on the stove." ”

Dong Xiaokui stood up, just said "um", went straight to the house, poured water and washed his face, he felt how good it was to be at home. The family will never calculate themselves.

After the mother and daughter finished breakfast, the mother filled the basket with some porridge, pickled peanuts and fried pork slices with celery, which were brought to Dong Xiaohuai, who lived in the ancestral house.

The ancestral house of the Dong family is in Hexiangdu, which sounds like a ferry, but there is not much water. Maybe it was a ferry port even more recently. Geological changes are not her concern.

Compared with Yunlai Town, this lotus fragrance ferry is a little further into the mountains, and it is a large flat area between the mountains. It is also the closest village to Yunlai Town, and if you usually walk, you can walk from Yunlai Town for about 40 minutes to Hexiangdu.

And this lotus Xiangdu is all from the Dong family, according to the genealogy, the family history can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. In the past, the grandfather who had been a showman always said proudly: "With such an ancient family, I am afraid that there is only our Dong family in Hexiangdu in China." [zdff sticker bar hand hit group]"

Later, after the death of his grandfather, Dong Xiaokui's father took over the work of family records, and revised the family genealogy and family records with his fifth uncle that year.

Dong Xiaokui was still young at the time, but he also followed his father all day long, grinding ink for him, and he knew some of the glory of the family, and his father was proud when he talked about the Dong family.

However, after his father passed away, the fifth uncle also went to the Special Economic Zone to develop, and now he has settled down in Shenzhen, a city of speed, and the Dong family in Hexiangdu is only what he remembers.

As for the fifth uncle's purchase and sale of the ancestral house, he only said that it depends on everyone's meaning, so only Dong Xiaokui's mother strongly objected. And her opposition is obviously pale, because her father is not there, and besides, her opposition is only out of love for her father, and there is no reason to convince everyone.

After breakfast, the mother and daughter went out with baskets. Walk through the vegetable market and head to Hexiangdu. Out of the town, Dong Xiaokui's eyes lit up, but he didn't expect that he hadn't come back for three years, and the muddy machine plow road leading to Hexiangdu had become a wide cement road.

"That's good." She said happily.

Mom was not happy and said, "What is good." Since the so-called village-to-village road was repaired, there have been several batches of rich people who are so idle and panicked to buy ancestral houses. In the previous batch, the price was not negotiated, and instead bought the courtyard of the Chen family in the neighboring village of Fenghe Village; There is also a Shenzhen person who doesn't know whether he is hot-headed, or whatever, and he also came to talk, but the price was not appropriate, and finally bought the Bai Mansion in Weihe Town. This time, I came to talk about the Dong family's ancestral house, and I started grinding it a few months ago, and the price was also reluctant. That's why those people are tempted to defeat their ancestors' family business. ”

Mom pouted, very displeased.

Dong Xiaokui looked at the lush grass on both sides, and the dew was rolling brightly. The wind blows, the mountains are cool, and the air is very fresh, which makes the whole person feel relaxed and happy, no wonder so many people in the city want to return to the countryside.

When she thought of this, she had a flash of inspiration. Then he said to his mother, "Mom, this place is a good place, naturally there are many people coming, especially in the city, you don't know how dirty the air is in the city." ”

"Alas, what do I blame the people in the city doing? I think those people in the family are really funny, the ancestral family business is about to fail like this, this house has been repaired again and again, according to your grandfather, the old house of the Dong family was also guarded against bandits. During the Ming Dynasty, each generation was well maintained, but in the turbulent years, some things were damaged, but later, your grandfather still asked people to repair and search everywhere, and now—they—" Mom became more and more angry the more she spoke.

She has always been a woman who is not fierce about anyone or anything, even if her father dies, she just doesn't speak, and then she still opens the shop, as if her father never left. But now his attitude towards the sale of his ancestral house is unusually tough, and his emotions are extremely intense.

"Mom, it is estimated that they are also desperate, today, you can leave it to me." Dong Xiaokui comforted her mother, and she had some bottom in her heart.

"You don't know how unreasonable they are, your temper." Mom was worried. Yes, Dong Xiaokui is notoriously well-behaved, but he is also notoriously spicy. This was originally a completely different adjective, but it just appeared in her.

Well-behaved because she is sensible and polite. Pungent is a matter of dignity and the like, and it must be absolutely unforgiving. Especially in recent years, her mother took her and her younger brother alone, and it was inevitable that there would be no dirty water poured on her mother, Dong Xiaokui has done several big things for this, not only Yunlai Town, but Hexiangdu, everyone knows it. [zdff sticker bar hand hit group]

So, all along, my mother felt that her temper was not too good and she couldn't tolerate things too much.

"I'm in a good temper. Teachers and classmates all praised. Dong Xiaokui grinned.

Unconsciously, the mother and daughter turned a mountain pass, and suddenly opened up in front of them, this is Hexiangdu.

In the open area of the mountains, every household has an orchard, and the late-ripening peaches have been picked, and only a few late-ripening plums still crush the fruit trees down, giving them an attractive sheen. The lotus leaves in the lotus pond are like covers, densely next to each other, and the lotus flowers reflect the morning light, which has a different kind of joy. The frogs in the rice fields probably didn't get up early, and they didn't crow jubilantly. The vegetable garden of every household is full of vegetables and fruits, which is very rich.

Hexiangdu is the location of the Dong family, and the people here are all family. So almost all of the people working in the fields are Dong Xiaokui's elders. She naturally knew that these people were all advocating the sale of their ancestral houses, and they were also at odds with her mother. But like no one else, she still greeted them loudly, asked about the growth of the corn in the fourth uncle's house, and praised the fruit harvest of the third uncle's family.

People didn't want to say hello, so they also asked: "Xiaokui has come back from studying?" ”

"No, I haven't been back for three years. I miss my hometown and I miss Hexiangdu. This summer vacation, when I came back, I still felt that the lotus fragrance was good, and the air was fresher than in the city. ”

The fifth uncle, who was carrying the burden, was not happy, and said: "The lame man went to Shenzhen, but people didn't think about coming back." ”

Dong Xiaokui just smiled wryly and said, "I'll go back and take a look first, I haven't been back for several years, and when I'm outside, I always think about it from time to time." ”

This is to go back to the ancestral house with his mother, Dong Xiaohuai sat at the front with a bamboo chair, like a lion guarding the door, and when he saw Dong Xiaokui coming in, he smiled and said, "Yo, sister, you are dressed like a heroine." The battle robes are all on, and it seems that today is the time to beat up the bandits. ”

"No big or small, family, if you say this kind of thing, you are not afraid of hurting the harmony?" Dong Xiaokui glanced at him, looked around again, and saw that there was no one else in this ancestral house.

"Kind? You don't know how hateful they are, forget it, you haven't seen it with your own eyes, oops, especially the sixth uncle and his family. Dong Xiaohuai pouted while eating.

Dong Xiaokui looked at the house, and the thoughts in her heart became clearer and clearer. Then he said to Dong Xiaohuai: "After a while, open the ancestral hall, I will deal with it, you just need to be on the side." ”

"Aoi-chan." Mom shouted, very worried.

After the incident in the capital, Dong Xiaohuai was naturally not worried, so he persuaded his mother, saying: "Mom, my sister has been measured since she was a child, you can rest assured." ”

Dong Xiaokui came out of the old mansion and said, "I'll go and see the patriarch first." ”

"Sister." Dong Xiaohuai shouted.

Dong Xiaokui smiled and said, "Could it be that you expect your sister to be a martial arts master and come to fight?" Our goal is not to sell this house. ”

"It's not. It was the old man who was stubborn. I reasoned with him a lot, and even begged him to come. Dong Xiaohuai pouted.

"We'll talk about it later." Dong Xiaokui smiled and went out.

The patriarch belongs to her grandfather's generation, and he is counted as her grandfather's cousin, ranking third, so everyone usually calls him the third grandfather. When Dong Xiaokui went, the third grandfather was sitting on the bluestone slab under the eaves and combing his beard, his beard was all white, he combed it, and straightened the blue cloth robe. This caftan already has some thoughts, in Dong Xiaokui's memory, the third grandfather only wears it on major festivals, or when someone in his clan is married or funeral.

"Third grandfather." Dong Xiaokui pulled the copper ring at the door, and the big yellow dog in the garden suddenly barked, as if he was about to break the chain and pounce.

The third grandfather squinted, Dong Xiaokui smiled and said, "I'm Dong Xiaokui, I'm back to see you." ”

"Aoi-chan?" The third grandfather continued to look at it again, it wasn't that his eyes were bad, but he was probably very vigilant, after all, her family was against selling the house.

Dong Xiaokui had a gift in his hand, which was a pipe with a unique shape when he heard about the house a few days ago.

"It's me." Dong Xiaokui walked in with a smile, like when he was a child, took the arm of the third grandfather and said, "I'm in the capital, I have to speak Mandarin to speak, but I'm homesick, right." Third grandfather, this is a gift for you. ”

The third grandfather naturally didn't want it, so he pushed it and said, "You came here for the house, right?" If you move to Jinshan, I won't change anything for the few of you. ”

Dong Xiaokui naturally came for the house, but she never took such a stupid route.

She smiled and said, "Third grandfather, you are wrong, this gift is my granddaughter, I honor you, this is the relationship between us, a private matter." As for the matter of the house, I want to say that it will not be in the third grandfather's house, it is a major event of our Dong family, and it has to be in the ancestral hall. ”

The third grandfather looked at her, still a little wary, but his tone had softened a little, and said, "Xiaokui finished college?" ”

"After my junior year, I started my internship for a year, and I officially graduated. It's not too homesick, so come back and do an internship after a while. Dong Xiaokui naturally helped the third grandfather wrap leaf cigarettes.

"Hmm. It's different when you go out and see the world. This is to speak higher. The third grandfather took the wrapped leaf cigarette, lit it, and put the gift from Dong Xiaokui on the black wood square table.

"Thank you, Third Grandpa, for the compliment." Dong Xiaokui smiled sweetly. chatted with the three grandfathers for a while, and waited until the bell for the ancestral hall rang over there. She took the third grandfather to the ancestral hall.

About everyone didn't expect Dong Xiaokui to appear in the ancestral hall in that way, and for a while, some people couldn't hold back and shouted: "Patriarch, Dong Zhou is coming to officially sign with us today." ”

The third grandfather glared at the man, and said unhappily, "What are you anxious about." ”

Everyone was silent, and when the patriarch took his seat, he talked about selling the ancestral house, which probably meant that the ancestral house had a long history, too many problems, and a lot of costs were required to repair it, and in the past few years, everyone has settled outside, and even the burden of the heir can't be handed over.

"Alas, my old bones may be buried in the loess tomorrow." The third grandfather sighed.

Everyone was also embarrassed, but at this time, the sixth uncle spoke and asked: "Xiaokui, you are also knowledgeable, this reality is here, it is better to sell it for peace of mind." ”

Dong Xiaokui just laughed and said word by word: "I haven't reached the point of being a loser yet." ”

These words were sharp, and they directly angered the sixth uncle, and shouted, "What do you mean? I really don't understand the rules at all. ”

"I'll tell you the truth, there are so many roads, and Uncle Six, a shrewd man, doesn't give you a walk. But I just found such a dead end. Dong Xiaokui was not polite to this sixth uncle who proposed to sell the house and kindly pulled the line.

"What are you, it's seniority, it's not your turn to speak here." The sixth uncle said.

Dong Xiaokui was not angry, but said with a smile: "I originally thought that the third grandfather was also going to defeat this ancestral house. It turned out to be so helpless. Since it is a problem of the cost of repair, there are many ways to solve the problem of keeping the ancestral house. Why does Uncle Six have to go this way? Also, as far as I know, when people buy an ancestral house, they actually want this land, and to put it bluntly, they want to build this place into a villa area. Then, you will work for people in the villa area for the rest of your life? ”

As soon as these words came out, no one spoke. The fourth uncle said: "Anyway, the ancestral house also occupies such a large area, we still have to think about it, it is better to sell it without worry, besides, the other party's bid is very high." ”

"The fourth uncle is really frugal, he only took two golden eggs and killed the hen that laid the golden eggs." Dong Xiaokui is still standing by the patriarch's side, and this position is one level higher than others.

"What do you mean?" The fourth uncle was also a little displeased, after all, Dong Xiaokui was a junior.

"Hmph, what kind of education can you expect from the young man?" The sixth aunt has always been spicy, but what she said at this time violated Dong Xiaokui's taboo, it is a matter of dignity, and it must not be soft.

She grabbed the gaiwan teacup of the patriarch next to her and threw it at the feet of the sixth aunt, and the celadon shards splashed everywhere. Everyone was shocked. The sixth aunt jumped to her feet and said angrily: "Look at what this looks like in the ancestral hall and in front of the ancestral tablet." ”

The sixth uncle's son was the same age as Dong Xiaokui, and he stood up all of a sudden and shouted: "Dong Xiaokui, are you going to play tricks?" ”

Dong Xiaokui looked at him coldly, and said loudly: "Dong Qingyun, it's your turn to be qualified here, it's not your turn to speak, if you want to speak, it's also your old man." ”

"Yo, it's your turn?" Dong Qingyun said as he rolled up his sleeves very threateningly, Dong Xiaohuai, who was standing on the side, took a step forward, Dong Xiaokui waved his hand, but took a step towards Dong Qingyun, looked at him, and said: "What your mother said, my son is gone, when my father died, the third grandfather was next to him, and my father handed over my mother and brother to me." Now, I am the head of this family, you ask the third grandfather, can I talk here? Your family, your Lao Tzu is still alive, if you really want the law of the ancestors, you and your mother are not qualified to talk here. You're going to have to do it, right? ”

Maybe it's because Dong Xiaokui is reasonable, or because she is too arrogant, Dong Qingyun couldn't help but retreat, and the third grandfather said unhappily: "There are a lot of people, and the representatives of these families say it, and the rest of the idle people have withdrawn." ”

As a result, there are more than half fewer people in the ancestral hall. Dong Xiaokui turned around and apologized to the third grandfather, saying: "Third grandfather, it's about my father, the third aunt said that, I was also angry, this teacup, Xiaokui will definitely pay for it personally, and ask the third grandfather to forgive Xiaokui's rudeness." ”

When this ceremony arrived, the third grandfather also liked Dong Xiaokui very much, so he waved his hand and said, "It's okay." These dignitys should be upheld. ”

This situation is very good, I didn't expect that the matter of this ancestral house is much easier than the matter of the last Nine Heavens. She naturally went to close the door of the ancestral hall, and before the third grandfather spoke, she said: "Elders, before you say your opinions, can you listen to my plan, which can not only keep the ancestral house, but also allow our Dong family to develop well, as for the cost of repair, there is no need to worry about it from now on." ”()

When you go out, you can go to the mobile version of Ice and Fire Chinese