Everyone was silent, and it was a long time before my aunt stepped out of the house and rushed in front of me.

I thought my second aunt was going to beat me, so I unconsciously shrunk my neck, but after the second aunt came to me, she just kept asking: "Where have you been in the past two years, why haven't you even had any news, go to your school to ask, your counselor said that you took a leave of absence last year, and you are not familiar with your classmates, no one knows where you went, why don't you ...... this child without saying a word to your family?"

Listening to the number of the second aunt, I feel very bad in my heart, I have been away from home for two years, I did cut off contact with my family, I thought, as long as they forget me, forget me, they will be safe, and I will be safe.

But only now do I understand that even if I don't go home for ten years, my second aunt will not forget me, she will keep looking for me until she finds me, I know the feeling of not being able to find me, these two years, my aunt must be afraid every day.

Seeing that the second aunt was so anxious that her eyes were a little red, I didn't dare to say anything, I know, there are some things, she has been holding back in her heart for too long, and now is the time to vent.

But in a hurry, the second aunt kept asking me how I had been in the past two years, for fear that I would be hungry and freezing.

The second aunt grabbed my hand, saw the thick calluses on my hands, and said distressedly: "If you don't have a good time outside, come home, there are still grandmothers at home." ”

I smiled and said to my aunt with some embarrassment: "Auntie, I'm doing a good life outside, I haven't done heavy work and tiring work, these cocoons are all left over from the practice." ”

My aunt stared at my palm: "You grew up in front of me since you were a child, I don't know if you practice poking and flipping, how can you use these hands so badly." ”

Li Huaishan interjected early or late: "He doesn't practice poking and flipping now, and the calluses on his hands are all hard stones and iron porcelain." ”

Only then did the second aunt notice that there were two other people standing next to me, she glanced at Li Huaishan and Yan Yanan respectively, and asked me a little embarrassedly: "These two are ......?"

"This is Li Huaishan, he is now my partner, and we both often ...... together Trade. This is my cousin, Yan Yanan. "I introduced my aunt one by one.

Yan Yanan smiled at my aunt: "The business of the two of them also has my share." ”

Li Huaishan: "Hey, what you said, why do you have your share?" ”

Yan Yanan glanced at him: "I don't manage the accounts in the store?" ”

The second aunt's gaze stayed on Yan Yanan, and while thinking, she muttered, "Cousin? ”

I said to my second aunt, "In the autumn of the previous year, I went back to my house. ”

"Servant?" It took a moment for the second aunt to come back to her senses: "Oh, eldest brother, he has other relatives." ”

It seems that the second aunt doesn't know much about our family.

I smiled and nodded: "Now my relatives at home are on the other side of Bohai Bay, where I went to college." ”

The second aunt also smiled: "I haven't heard of Zuye before." Well, in any case, it's good that you can find relatives in your own family. ”

I smiled at the second aunt, but I thought in my heart, maybe it would be better not to tell the second aunt about those things related to the family, so as not to worry about the second aunt for me again, but when I chatted with Xiaowei just now, I may have talked too much.

At this time, the second aunt asked me again: "If not, if you come back this time, you won't leave." ”

Not leaving? Is it possible? I have already entered the industry, where will I have a life of peace in the future, even if one day, I don't have to run around, then I have to stay in my house, not here.

Li Huaishan probably saw my embarrassment, so he grabbed the conversation: "He wants to stay, but the situation doesn't allow it." ”

The second aunt seemed to have known that the question she asked just now would definitely get such an answer, and her face became a little helpless, but she still asked me: "If not, what kind of business are you doing now?" ”

I feel that when the second aunt said this, there was a little meaning in her tone.

Li Huaishan replied for me: "He is now in the antique business, don't look at the fact that he has not been in the industry for a long time, and the business has done a lot." ”

The aunt glanced at Li Huaishan with a smile, turned her head again, and asked me in a very serious tone: "What kind of business are you doing now?" Tell me the truth. ”

I sighed: "A year ago, I entered a business, and now I am in business...... Hey, I don't know how to describe it, anyway, I often deal with evil spirits. ”

My aunt may not know about the family, but she can understand these words, I remember when I was younger, the second uncle also set up an offering table at home, did the ritual, I didn't understand at the time, asked the second uncle what he was doing, the second uncle just said to worship the ancestors, until after entering the industry, I didn't know that he was doing it.

And whenever the second uncle did something, my aunt would take me and Xiaowei to hide in the house, for fear of affecting the second uncle.

So I can be sure that my aunt must know what the second uncle is doing, and she knows a little bit about our business.

Hearing my words, the second aunt exhaled a long breath from her nose and said slowly: "You have also embarked on the old path of the eldest brother and the ancestral industry." ”

The eldest brother in my aunt's mouth is my father.

All I could say was, "Sort of." ”

The second aunt nodded slowly, and after that, the courtyard fell silent again.

After a long time, the second aunt raised her face, looked at me and said, "When your second uncle left, he left you something." ”

"What's that?"

"I haven't opened it either, your second uncle said that that thing is reserved for you, and no one else can read it. He also instructed me that if you hadn't followed his old path, you would have brought it into the coffin when I died, but since you had already walked this path, it would be for you. ”

When I said this, the second aunt's face was completely different from just now, I was angry that I hadn't contacted my family for two years, and I was worried that I was suffering outside, but now, the second aunt's whole person seemed to suddenly calm down, although the anger and worry on her face had not completely faded, but it finally became a little fast, which made me difficult to adapt for a while.

I've never seen my second aunt do this before.

The second aunt looked at me, sighed, and turned around and walked towards the other side of the house, waving to us as she walked: "Come on, come into the house and drink hot water." ”

As the second aunt entered the house, I found that Sun Yongbing was sitting on the sofa watching TV, the sound insulation effect of their house is particularly good, I remember the first few years of the fire in the community, when the fire truck came, there was a lot of movement, but Sun Yongbing was stunned and didn't hear it, and got up the next morning, only to find that a villa across the street was burned down.

I guess he didn't hear a word of what we just said outside.

Seeing someone in the house, he looked up at us, this guy didn't recognize me, and smiled politely at me, and then asked my aunt: "Changying, why don't people from my hometown say a word?" ”

He regarded us as relatives in his aunt's hometown.

While speaking, Sun Yongbing sat up from the sofa and walked a few steps in the direction of the kitchen, probably wanting to boil water so that he could make tea for us.

As soon as the aunt saw Sun Yongbing enter the kitchen by himself, she said to Xiaowei: "Xiaowei, go over and help." ”

Speaking of which, Sun Yongbing just didn't want to see me, he was still very good to Xiaowei, at the beginning he kept saying that no matter what Xiaowei went to school, don't expect him to pay the tuition, but to put it bluntly, he is embarrassed for me, I have no news in the past two years, and the second aunt has no financial resources, all of Xiaowei's living expenses must still be supported by Sun Yongbing.

My aunt asked Li Huaishan and Yan Yanan to drink tea in the living room, and took me up to the second floor alone.

I'm a little worried that after Sun Yongbing learned the identities of Li Huaishan and Yan Yanan, his attitude towards them may change greatly, and it is not good that he will directly issue an eviction order.

But looking back and thinking about it, who are Li Huaishan and Yu Yanan, neither of them is a vegetarian, if Sun Yongbing throws his face in front of them, Sun Yongbing himself will definitely suffer in the end.

When I was thinking about this, I happened to pass by the corner of the corridor, and I wanted to hide in the corner and peek into the living room to see how Li Huaishan and the others cleaned up Sun Yongbing.

But this kind of thing is just thinking about it in my heart, and I can't really do it.

In this family, the second aunt has two bedrooms, one is where she and Sun Yongbing live, and the other is her own small bedroom.

In this small bedroom, it is strange to slow down the things left by the second uncle, every time the aunt accidentally mentions the second uncle, Sun Yongbing always looks extremely resentful, but he has never touched the things in this room.

I remember that once Sun Yongbing didn't know what to do with the second aunt had a dispute, when the second aunt was sitting in the house, he was standing outside the house, the two of them said a word, and they quarreled, and then Sun Yongbing was angry, so he grabbed an umbrella standing next to the door, and was about to smash it on the ground.

But his arm, which had been raised to the heights, did not fall for a long time, and after a long time he put the umbrella back in its place, and ran to the living room, where he smashed the newly purchased DVD player.

When the second aunt opened the door of the small bedroom, I was still thinking about it, but no matter how I thought about it, I couldn't figure out why Sun Yongbing did that in the first place.

"Come in, things are a little too high for me to reach." The second aunt pushed open the door and talked slowly as she walked inside.

I followed the second aunt into the house, and I saw the second aunt pointing to a cabinet near the left wall: "Put it in a woolen box." ”

The old cabinet in front of me was also brought by the second aunt from her hometown, and the red metal box placed on the top of the cabinet was used by the second aunt to hold wool in the past.

I tiptoed and took the woolen box from the top of the cabinet, and my aunt said to me, "That smelly box is it." ”

Needless to say, when I first entered the house, I smelled a smell of fragrant wood, and when I looked into the box, I saw that in a pile of old objects, there was a fragrant wood box the size of a cigarette box.

(End of chapter)