Chapter 5 The Finance Office of the Old House
I went back to the store with Bingbing, and after explaining to a few of them, I was ready to leave for home, Bingbing reminded me to bring the Xiangfei bamboo folding fan and go out on the road.
My eight characters are extremely hot, the four pillars of the earth branch of the year, month and day are noon fire, driving can not help me luck, on the contrary, it is easy to cause fatigue driving and other hidden dangers, in order to get a hundred, so I simply never thought about learning to drive. Anyway, it is convenient to take a taxi in Shencheng, and the subway also extends in all directions, and there is no inconvenience.
Now there is only a seven-seater white Buick business car in the store, which is usually driven by Bingbing. I don't know much about cars, she said that she bought this car because it can be convenient to put goods temporarily, and the store can be crowded if you want to organize a small outing or something.
I got in the car and went out, and there was still some time, so I went to the nearby Carrefour supermarket to buy some cigarettes, alcohol and fruits for my parents, and then turned two or three intersections and got on the Inner Ring Road.
All the way to the east, take the Nanpu Bridge to cross the river, the two people in the car did not talk much, she turned on the traffic FM to listen to the road condition information, due to the close to the rush hour, the main road to Pudong has begun to appear congested.
I leaned on the passenger seat and watched the high-rise buildings along the way as they gradually decreased in height and became more and more loosely dense, and occasionally there would be one or two wastelands overgrown with grass waiting to be developed, that is, it was getting farther and farther away from the city and closer to home.
I was born in Chuansha Town, Pudong, when I was a primary school student, the new district was not yet established, at that time Pudong was called Chuansha, Chuansha has a wide range, east to the current Pudong Airport near the sea, west to the most prosperous Lujiazui Trade Center, at that time all belonged to Chuansha, and I was born in Chuansha Town, at that time called Chengxiang Town, that is, the county center where the county government is located. If you want to go back to the future, Chuansha has always belonged to the territory of Jiangsu Province before the Qing Dynasty, and it has been recorded in many classics of the Tang Dynasty.
It is said that there were four city gates in the ancient town, which were located in the four directions of the moat, south, south, west, and northwest, and the place where I was born was on a long street next to the east gate.
Forty-five minutes by car, we have arrived at the town, this town with a population of only about 100,000 people more than ten years ago, now there are 500,000 or 600,000 residents, most of whom have come to Shanghai from other provinces and cities.
Bingbing familiarly bypassed the congested streets, and took a shortcut from the riverside path to the parking lot at the entrance of Dongmen Street, because the street was too narrow to drive into the car, so he had to park the car outside, and then the two got out of the car and walked along a bluestone brick road to the depths.
My father and mother have been idle at home, my father used to be a businessman, since I have a memory, I remember that at that time my father often had to go far away, as short as three or five days, as long as a month or two only came back, and after he came back, the most common thing to do was to be locked in his study alone to read books or write letters, etc., and often guests came to visit, and came into his study to talk about things, so it is not clear what to talk about.
Sometimes guests are left to eat overnight, mostly middle-aged people with foreign accents. At that time, the economy of the whole country was not very developed, and most of the people who came to my house had special buses, so I think they must be some people with heads and faces.
And my enlightenment education of Yin and Yang Yishu is basically taught gradually in my father's free time, although it is said to be free time, but even when he is not at home, he will still leave a lot of homework to write, a lot of books to read, so my childhood, the academic performance in the class is only at the middle level, because there are additional learning tasks to complete after returning home, more difficult than school.
Dad suddenly stopped going out after the reform and opening up, and inexplicably speculated on stocks, with his exquisite level of yin and yang and unique divination skills, his stocks were speculated, to put it mildly, it was all the way, and he never missed.
Since then, our family conditions have suddenly stepped directly into the category of "wealthy" from the well-off level, but as for how much money he earned, I don't know until now, anyway, when I am short of money, I can call home, and in a blink of an eye, there will be an extra two or three hundred thousand in the card, but recently I feel that I am not young, and it is always a bit unreasonable to always beg for money, so I started a small business by myself two years ago, and rarely reached out again.
In the blink of an eye, I walked to the door of my house, I raised my hand to look at my watch, fortunately, it was only 17:45, not late.
"Uncle, aunt~~We're back~" As soon as I opened the door with the key, Bingbing lifted the handbag and shouted and entered the house.
I then followed in, and when I turned around and closed the door, I saw the "Dongmen Grandma" of the neighbor at the door sitting on the small recliner at the door, smiling at me while fanning the fan, I hurriedly nodded and smiled back, and said, "Long time no see, Dongmen Grandma, how is your health?" ”
"Okay, okay, you're getting bigger, go home and eat." Grandma Dongmen waved her fan at me.
I closed the door and walked along the patio path, thinking that Grandma Dongmen's smile always seemed a little weird, but it was normal, she was a lonely old man who made a living by picking up garbage, and at least no other old man on this street was older than her, and even more exaggeratedly, the old people on this whole street were said to have called her "grandma" when they were all young.
In addition, this grandmother has another identity, that is, she will "invite immortals", every first month and a half, there are many people in front of her house to ask for immortals, and she does not take a penny, has always only received a stack of tin foil. It's just that she has a weird temper, and not everyone she is willing to receive.
Thinking about my grandmother, before I knew it, I had already walked through the patio and arrived in the lobby living room.
My old house has a total of two into two floors, the door faces north, the first entrance is around the first patio of this hollow-shaped building, the lobby is facing the door, the left and right are two rows of east and west, the east upstairs is a common study room for several of our juniors, and the downstairs is a dining hall. On the west side are two guest rooms upstairs, and downstairs are the kitchen and worker's room. At this time, Aunt Hu, the nanny, was cooking in the kitchen, nodded to me and said hello and continued to be busy.
The first patio was not very large, only a few small plants were planted along the corridor, such as peach trees, orange trees, orchids, etc.
After passing through the lobby, there was no one there, Bingbing had already put the tobacco, alcohol and fruits on the table of the Eight Immortals in the main hall, and I continued to walk inside.
The lobby is the main living room, and the back is also a hollow-shaped double-storey building, and the patio at the back is slightly larger than the one in front, planted with some bamboo, camphor and a fig tree, and some low trees and flowers, and an old well at the root of the wall.
The rooms around the circle are the parents' bedroom, the children's bedroom, and the father's study.
There is also a room in the innermost part of the northwest corner, close to the parents' bedroom, has always been locked with a large iron door, when we were playful, we were greedy to pry open the lock and go in to see, was beaten by my father, three people knelt in the lobby for a long time, was taught that this is the financial room of the family, only parents can enter, children are not allowed to have a difference in these gold and silver things.
Our three sisters and brothers are not greedy for money, and we have been wronged for a long time, and then we gradually became less interested in it.
There is a fish pond in the middle of the big patio, the water of the pond is drawn in from the moat outside the wall, it used to be just a lotus pond, after Bingbing moved here, she once came home from school, bought a few small koi fish and raised them in it, and now they are half a meter long. These koi fish are very spiritual, and they will gather around the pool when they hear the sound of Bingbing from afar. It's fun to look up and wait for her to come and feed.
At this time, I saw Bingbing talking with her mother by the pool.
My mother is a cheerful person, since I was a child, I like to teach us to sing Shaoxing opera and Shanghai opera, I used to be a literary soldier born, it is said that she is the pillar of the dance team of the national art troupe, she can dance any dance, and often attends international literary and artistic exchange activities.
After my mother retired, she came back to marry my father and gave birth to my sister and me, and she has never worked again, but she still has a lot of proud protégés, all over the major entertainment circles at home and abroad, and many of the popular stars followed her apprentices to make their debut, so there was a period of time thanks to my mother, when I was an intern in college, I basically went to either a TV station or a film and television company.
And our Chinese culture about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting is basically cultivated by my mother.
I didn't see my father, so I walked up and asked, "Mom." Didn't Dad tell us to come back at six o'clock for dinner, where did the others go? ”
Mom was just about to answer, when he heard a squeak, following the reputation, Dad was about to come out of the financial room that had been locked before, the old dog Ah Qi also followed his feet and poked out his head, saw us coming, shook his head excitedly and swung his tail and rushed over to me and Bingbing and licked, Dad saw that we had come, so he waved to us, and said sullenly: "You all come in." ”
"Huh?" I paused for a moment and was a little surprised to see Bingbing also opening her mouth.
In my memory of almost thirty years, it seems that I have never been allowed to enter this secret room where money is hidden, so that in the last twenty years, I have never treated it as a room at all, and if it weren't for my father calling me over today, I would have almost forgotten about its storage.
But is the sun coming out of the west today? Why do you suddenly let us all in?
Could it be that the old man is going to divide the family property? But hasn't my sister come back yet?
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