Chapter Twenty-Four: Relatives with Your Family
Liu Changan and An Nuan separated and slowly walked to the bridgehead.
The river breeze is warm, the sunset has been completely immersed in the foothills, only to see the afterglow scattered, raising his eyes to look at the head of the most eye-catching great man at the head of Orange Island with a smile on the front, his eyes gently looking at the city where he once studied and lived, and suffered from the burning of flames and the rebuilding of the blood.
There are the lowly, the great, the ugly, and the beautiful...... Life is short for a hundred years, but it has performed the history of the entire ethnic group one after another.
Human beings call themselves epics, but standing on a different level, from the beginning to the end, is nothing more than a drama.
Su Shi told a story:
The raspberry water is on the ground, the mustard floats in the water, the ants are attached to the mustard, and they don't know what to do. When the water dries up, the ants go away, see their kind, and say: How many times will I see the son again, how do you know that between the pitches, there is a square track and eight roads?
I regard the life and mood of ordinary human beings as the same as the behavior of ants, and I wonder if there is still a Dapeng bird that soars up to 90,000 miles and looks down on him in the boundless space and world?
Even if it is an ant, it also makes people miss, and the panic and worry attached to the mustard seed, Liu Changan has never been contemptuous and disdainful.
Ye Sijin is such a cute ant, Liu Changan found that since he met Qin Yanan, the memories of Ye Sijin have become much clearer in his mind, and they began to emerge, or many things need to be seen and thought about in order to make his memory more complete.
But this is not necessary, countless years of memory precipitation and suppression in the bottom of the heart, it is originally a kind of protection of one's own spirit, otherwise hundreds of years and thousands of years of memory pictures ripple in my mind at will, I am afraid that I have already gone crazy.
Back in the community, Liu Changan came to pick some pumpkin vines under the wall, here is the only remaining wall in the whole community, vegetables are planted under the wall, and there are vines, pumpkin vines, loofah vines, bitter gourd vines climbing on the wall...... There was also a vine trellis not far away, and there were already people who had eaten early dinner sitting down to enjoy the shade and chat.
"Xiao Liu finished eating early, come and beat the beard ......"
"Okay, I can't afford to play mahjong for the past few days. ”
"At the turn of spring and summer, the sun is inflated, and it is easy to get sick. ”
After chatting a few words, Liu Changan went home, put away the dried coriander that had been drying for a day, and then took a broom to knock down the fallen leaves on the top of the carriage, and swept the ground before starting to cook.
Today's food is of course pumpkin vines, no meat, fried with chili peppers, Liu Changan has lived in southern Hunan for many years, and he has become accustomed to the taste here.
Life is actually a very simple thing, as long as there are not so many desires, there is not so much desire for desires to be satisfied immediately, there are not so many anxieties and worries...... However, life is short, not everyone can wait slowly like Liu Changan, to slowly figure out, how to realize and enjoy their desires in a limited life, is the root of such impatience in this world.
After taking a bath, changing into a white vest and black linen trousers, wearing grass and rattan sandals, and carrying a large fan, Liu Changan came to the grapevines to beat his beard.
The rules of running a beard and mahjong are similar, but they are cards, and winning cards and doubling are similar, but they are faster than mahjong, and Liu Changan is naturally one of the veterans.
Running beards are scored, and money is counted after a hundred is full, Liu Changan is young and has good eyesight, of course, he is responsible for scoring, but the old men and ladies also wear glasses, and from time to time they want to see if Liu Changan writes more or less, and from time to time he looks ahead through reading glasses with his eyes distracted, muttering in his mouth, looking at his fingers to calculate the total score.
"Xiao Liu is about to take the college entrance examination, right?" Old man Qian didn't have a runny nose today, and his spirit was much better, also thanks to the fact that he ate three by himself last night, and now he has a strong momentum, and he caught Liu Changan as soon as he came up.
"It's coming. Liu Changan smiled, "Just take the test to a school." ”
"That's not going to work...... After playing today, you have to review hard, and you are not allowed to play before the college entrance examination. Old man Qian said with concern, if you don't play today, the game will be scattered, so just start reviewing it from tomorrow.
After a night of fighting, the old man Qian drove high and went low tonight and lost.
"Come back tomorrow!" Old man Qian took Liu Changan's hand, his eyes were angry, and he said very unwillingly.
"Good. Liu Changan laughed and counted the money proudly.
"You wait!" Old Man Qian snorted heavily and left.
Liu Changan was satisfied with the eight yuan put away, folded the tables and chairs and put them on the wall, these tables and chairs are not anyone's house, a long time ago, each family moved the idle tables and chairs here and put them here, and no one took them back, so they were used as public entertainment equipment.
The cards, ballpoint pens and scorebooks were brought by Liu Changan, he packed them up, and then smiled towards the shadows not far away.
Qin Yanan didn't expect that Liu Changan had already discovered her, so he walked over.
Aunt Xie in the commissary waited for the card game to disperse, and was going to turn off the light bulb hanging on the vine trellis, but when she saw this situation, she quickly withdrew her hand, and yawned casually with a pu fan, while sweeping the corner of her eyes from time to time.
The light of the big bulb is warm and makes the shadow extraordinarily distinct, Qin Yanan's tall figure seems to be even taller, she is wearing black culottes, with a rose-red ribbon tied around her waist, light and fiery, but the waist seems to be too slender, which makes people worry about whether they can afford her heavy upper circumference.
Qin Yanan finished eating at his father's residence in the evening, drank a little wine with him, and talked about some things about his great-grandfather and Liu Changan, and his mood was really a little confused and became more and more annoyed.
After Liu Changan smiled, it seemed that even if he said hello, he walked home by himself, Qin Yanan was stunned for a moment, and originally wanted to leave, but since he came, he didn't say anything, vented something, and was a little unwilling, so he followed.
The sycamore with distant branches and leaves, the cold moonlight, and the quiet courtyard reminded Liu Changan of a poem:
The lack of moon hangs dredging paulownia, and the initial tranquility of people is missing. Who sees a lonely person coming and going, ethereal and lonely.
Shocked but turned back, there was hatred and no one to think. Pick up all the cold branches and refuse to perch, and the lonely sandbar is cold.
Thousands of years later, the poet's situation and state of mind at that time were naturally different from Liu Changan's, but some of the emotions were the same.
Qin Yanan felt that Liu Changan's back was a little lonely, and even reminded her of the first time she listened to Tchaikovsky's "Sixth Symphony", why the song that was as calm as water, and even some cheerful little waves, would be called "Pathos", and then I listened to it a lot and grew up, and I realized that the real loneliness is difficult to talk to people, that is, the calmness and calmness after accumulating too many holes in the heart and then recasting the heart, such as the calm sea, hidden in the undercurrent of wind and thunder.
What people can see through at a glance is sadness, and what is hidden is pathos, Liu Changan turned his head and looked at the face that became more and more familiar with the revival of his memory, revealing a smile as always.
"I have a very good relationship with the Qin family and the Ye family, especially the kind that I am very close to your great-grandmother. Liu Changan was still smiling, glanced at the plane tree that lacked many leaves, and said unexpectedly to Qin Yanan.
Qin Yanan talked to his father about Liu Changan today, but his father didn't know much more than her, and his great-grandfather meant to let Qin Yanan and Liu Changan have more contact, and other things would be talked about later.
What will we talk about later?
When my grandfather died, my father was still in infancy, it can be said that my father was brought up by my great-grandfather, and my father never disobeyed my great-grandfather, Qin Yanan knew very well that if my great-grandfather wanted to do something, my father would only absolutely support it.
Liu Changan is related to his great-grandmother's side, but this also seems to be a bit too far away, not to mention that the relatives on his great-grandmother's side have no impression and contact at all since Qin Yanan has memories, is it because he finally found a trace of blood left by his great-grandmother...... That is, Liu Changan, that's why his great-grandfather moved this thought?