Jianghu Chapter 17 - Ge Lao
An old voice sounded inside: Which meal?
Wang Jin replied: A friend's reward.
The voice asked, "What kind of friend?"
Wang Jin: No matter what kind of friends you have, you can see them as friends.
The voice finally asked: Home.
Wang Jin looked at Uncle Wang, but in fact, he didn't know what to say, so he looked for the reading that Uncle Wang had just told him: The middle and ninth streams are not two, and those who pick long worms and men are locals for more than ten lifetimes. The new head of the tiger is the new master, and he invited a friend to come out and talk.
The voice in the tent said, "Please." All the lights were lit up, and the curtains of the tent were lifted from both sides.
Uncle Wang pulled Wang Jin's hand and walked in, Wang Jin wanted to follow him, but he was dragged to the middle, and he pasted the edge of the tent and followed in.
Entering the tent, the first thing Wang Jin saw was a huge Taishi chair at the innermost part of the tent, pure wood. The style is very simple, he doesn't know that it is from the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't know how much it can be worth on the market today.
On the Taishi chair sat an old man who was older than Uncle Wang, who should not be tall, already bald, with a goatee, and was already completely white. In front of the old man, on a wooden coffee table about knee-high as his own, there were many things related to drinking tea. The most conspicuous is a stove on which sits a black kettle. The spout was steaming. Around the old man stood a line of people.
Those who passed camouflage uniforms, and those who were talking to the two of them just now and turned their heads were also there. It's just expressionless. Then there were two women, young and very young, who seemed to be serving the old man. The heart said: Good guy, this construction project also has his family, and the boss of the construction company in Beijing is not at the same level.
Wang Jin was about to ask Uncle Wang what he should say later, but he saw that the old man's eyes only glanced at him, and he stared at Uncle Wang. Then his lips trembled slightly, and he stretched out his hands to Uncle Wang and shouted: Brother Shanzi? Is it Brother Shanzi? followed by a sentence full of tears: Come here, come here.
Uncle Wang also recognized the other party at this time, so he almost rushed towards the man. He stooped down and grabbed the old man's arm and grabbed him with all his might. But the mouth is saying: Little kudzu, little kudzu. Is it really you? You're really alive. It's been thirty years, and we agreed that you would come back to see me. I'll kill you. You get up for me, I can't beat you. Then, he pulled the old man hard, but he didn't pull it up. On one side, I saw that a bag was hanging on the back of the Taishi chair, with a pipe connected to the bag at one end, and the other end hidden under the old man's clothes. So he let go of his hand.
The old man waved his hand, sighed, didn't care about wiping his tears, pointed to the crotch of his pants and said: Bladder, urine bubbles are gone. Not really.
Uncle Wang slapped his thigh, how did you do this. When my master Wang Yun came, he still muttered: Little Gezi, Xiao Gezi, when will you come back?
When the old man heard this, he burst into tears. Wang Jin saw that his snot bubbles were up, like a child. This is too undignified, but at this time, when the true feelings are revealed, thinking of his grandfather, he can't help but feel sour, and his eyes are moist.
When the old man saw that Uncle Wang was still standing, he said in his mouth: Come on, sit down. Looking around for a stool. suddenly remembered that Wang Jin was still standing, and immediately put away his tears. pushed Uncle Wang away, and saluted Wang Jin with his hands and eyebrows. said in his mouth: The useless current head of the Snake King Gate Ge family asks the head of the family to say goodbye. Forgive the inconvenience of the old and decrepit.
Wang Jin was at a loss for a while, should he hold his fists? Is it a trick? Do you mean that you are not polite, or do you say: you are welcome. What made him unsatisfactory was that he only said two things: hehe.
This obviously frightened the old man, but he saw that his face changed, and he leaned forward and was about to fall off the Taishi's chair. Fortunately, Uncle Wang grabbed it quickly.
The crowd hurriedly came up and helped him back to the stool, and the old man looked at the crowd. Suddenly, he grabbed a teacup and threw it at the person in camouflage uniform, and his head was not accurate enough.
It passed by his ear, smashed against the tent support, made a clanging sound, and then fell to the ground. It turned out to be an iron one. The old man was very annoyed and said to the man, "Bastard, such a rudeness." How to read the book, it is also pleasant to have friends from afar. Why don't you give up your seat to the head, you know that you are standing stupidly. What do you want?
The man nodded again and again, and whispered a strange word: No. Then he quickly walked out of the tent, and after a while, a few people came in with him and carried two of the same Taishi chairs in. I was carefully inside the tent, gesturing with something, and I didn't know what to ponder.
may not understand it for a while, so I secretly looked at the old man, only to see that his face was pale, for fear that he would hit himself with a cup again. So, he simply took out a compass from his pocket and moved a chair as he watched. It turned out that I was afraid that the direction would be wrong. Everything was in order, turned back to salute Wang Jin, and invited him to take a seat. Wang Jin was not polite, reluctantly did it. And the man went back to his original position.
All this is in the eyes of the old man and Uncle Wang. The two old men shook their heads repeatedly.
There is one thing, Wang Jin doesn't understand and wants to ask Uncle Wang. When I followed Uncle Wang and my uncles to the ancestral hall of the Wang family, there were not so many rules. For example, when Uncle Wang and Uncle Wang put the ancestral grandfather and ancestral tablets, isn't it the same as sealing the New Year and celebrating the New Year's festival to kowtow to the elders in the family to suppress the New Year's money? Kowtow and say some New Year's greetings.
Of course, you have to be more serious in doing things, and I have learned this from the Wang family. However, this time, first of all, the reaction of those people when they saw the firewood knife in their waist gave Wang Jin a great stimulus at that time. And just now, this old man. It should be Uncle Wang said that Ge Lao, people also said that the Ge family was in charge, and because he was restrained for a while, he almost fell off the chair. This reflection is not exaggerated, it is not contrived. Not deliberately faked.
The only possibility is that I took the post and my identity is different. From knowing his own background, understanding the Snake King Gate, and even receiving a series of events such as visiting the place where the ancestors are buried, although each of them is not expected, the cycle of feeling this process is too short.
It was only now that Wang Jin slowly felt that he was beginning to bear a kind of pressure. And this is not Wang Jin's own consciousness and autonomy at all. It seems that someone has arranged it a long time ago. Thinking about Grandpa Wang Yun, a strange thought emerged: strange, when Grandpa died. Why don't you have any impressions? Not much had changed in the family at the time. At that time, I was still young, and I went to school every day to play all kinds of games. Except for the funeral that alarmed many people in the village and even the surrounding area, and some impressions of the grandeur of the pomp, it seemed that there was no other difference.
Also, since the Ge family belongs to the same snake king sect as the Wang family, why didn't Uncle Wang and Uncle Wang mention it to themselves before. What kind of organization is this Snake King Gate? I don't know a lot about this. Where he sits, he didn't listen to the conversation between Uncle Wang and Ge Lao, and he kept thinking about these things in his heart.
It wasn't until he saw the expressionless man in black clothes standing behind Ge Lao that he woke up. It just so happened that Uncle Wang asked Ge Lao a question, which also attracted Wang Jin's attention.