Chapter 4: Li Liu's letter to Wang Kan ascending the mountain (continued 3)
While talking to Wang Kan, Liu's third daughter-in-law walked into the house, she put down the wine and meat she was carrying, and looked around at the furnishings in her second uncle's house.
This is a small three-room mud house, and in the east room is the room where the second uncle and the second aunt live, and now only the old man lives by himself. In the room, there was an old-fashioned Khada cabinet against the wall that was used to fold quilts, and a pair of elm chests were very old. Leaning against the box was a table of eight immortals, on which were placed teapots and bowls, covered with dust. In the middle is the stove room, the east and west two stoves are symmetrical, and the water tank and cutting board are spaced, and the cupboard is separated. The stove was deserted, and there was nothing to eat or drink in the cupboard. In the west house is a kang, Wang Kan lives in the kang, and the gentleman of the private school lives on the kang. In the middle of the kang was a kang table, which was piled with a large pile of yellowed books. There was a quilt at the top of the kang, half-spread and half-rolled stacked there, with charts and the like hanging on the north wall, and a large wooden table and four benches on the ground. There is also a set of teapots, tea bowls and a bamboo skin thermos on the table.
Liu San's daughter-in-law, looking at all this, her heart was a little sour. I thought to myself, since the death of my second aunt, there are only these two old bachelors in this family who lead a little bachelor. Live a hungry and full life.
She turned around and looked at Wang Kan and said, "Three pretences! Why isn't the second uncle at home? How have you lived in this cold house? Wang Kan said: "My father and fourth uncle and fifth uncle went to run errands for other people's homes, and my husband went to the school to teach, and I studied and slept at home, and it was good to have food and drink!" After speaking, he opened the pot, and the steamed potatoes and melons on the curtain also included sweet potatoes and corn.
Liu San's daughter-in-law touched the lid of the pot with her hand, and it was all cold and cold. She took the lid of the pot, closed it again, pulled Wang Kan into the West House and sat on the edge of the kang, and said to Wang Kan with tears in her eyes: "Three pretents! Your brother-in-law has a friend who said that he can find you an errand in the yamen, and I must bring you back, so that the things you have learned can come in handy, and in the future, you will have a certain amount of money, talk about a good family business, and start a family. Is it good for the second uncle to spend his old age in peace? "What kind of errand is Wang Kan? Brother-in-law still has such a skill? That's fine! Shall I go to the library to say hello to my husband before I go? "Alas! No need, you readers, this note is at home, just say that my sister took you away, can they still feel at ease? "Liu San's daughter-in-law, I was afraid that he would change his mind when he saw his husband, so he said it directly." That's good! Then listen to my sister. I'll write a note for my husband to leave, or if he doesn't see me when he comes back, I'll be in a hurry! Wang Kan left a note on the desk, and walked away with his sister!
Anyway, why is this Wang family so poor? He has seven brothers and sons, forty or fifty nieces and nephews, this Wang Erhua is still a family, and he can't say it!
It turns out that ah! There's another reason for that. The boss was killed by the boss because of the rich man Yuan of the proprietor, and the miscellaneous grain car encountered with the beard in the impermanent realm, and took fifteen or sixteen strong men to fight with the bandits, beat the bandits away, and injured five or six brothers, and his chest and back were cut several times. Less than half a year after being dragged home by the guys, he died of his injuries.
Although the second child is in charge of the family, it is actually the third child who leads the seventh child and the children to cultivate the land and take care of the housework. The fourth and fifth children walked the rivers and lakes outside, telling stories and measuring words, dancing big gods, (later the main leaders of the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese organization) The four and five gentlemen who are very famous in this area are these two. The sixth child was on an errand in the Fengtian Marshal's Mansion, and there were more than a dozen people in the family who were the Eighth Route Army, and they all explained in detail in the back.