Seeing the familiar façade of Xinglong Silk Village in the sunset, as well as some familiar streets in front of him, Xie Tian's breath almost stopped.

At the end of Jiefang Avenue is still the middle street, which still maintains the original appearance before liberation.

Bluestone pavement, narrow road, there are old houses on both sides of the road, some of the houses are decades old at a glance, and some of them are vaguely seen to be built when Dagu Town was rebuilt, and they are old and can't see the original appearance.

Xie Tian parked the car on the side of the road and walked towards Xinglong Silk Village.

The young traffic policeman stood at the door of the silk village, looked at Xie Tian who came over, and asked in a deep voice, "Are you here to visit Grandma Tang?" ”

"Grandma Tang, Tang Hao'er? Is she really here? She's alive? Xie Tianbang grabbed the traffic policeman's arm.

The traffic policeman grinned in pain, broke Xie Tian's hand with his hand and said, "Grandma Tang is ninety-eight years old, her ears are not very good, you should be louder when you talk to her." Your name is Xie Tian, what is your relationship with Grandma Tang? ”

Xie Tian forgot to say thank you, let go of the traffic policeman's arm and strode into the silk village.

Seeing that Xie Tian was a little lost and depressed, the traffic police shook his head slightly, rode on a motorcycle, and rode to his own house with the sign of Xiangmanlou Hotel not far away.

Xinglong Silk Village has resumed its appearance of selling silk satin, and the fabrics displayed on the shelves are much richer than before.

The only female clerk in the store saw Xie Tian enter the door and was about to step forward to greet Xie Tian, but when she saw Xie Tian waving her hand at her, she opened the back door and walked into the backyard.

People often come to visit Grandma Tang, and the clerk can't remember so many people, so he simply didn't come to ask when he saw that Xie Tian was familiar with the road.

Walking into the backyard, Xie Tian saw Tang Hao'er, who was sitting on the rocking chair under the persimmon tree next to the well, with a quilt on his legs, and was pretending to sleep, with a sore nose, and walked quickly to Tang Hao'er.

Although Tang Hao'er was already old, Xie Tian still recognized Tang Hao'er at a glance.

Sensing that someone was coming, Tang Hao'er raised her head to look at Xie Tian, paused for a moment, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

Xie Tian squatted on the side of the rocking chair and grabbed Tang Hao'er's hand, looked at Tang Hao'er and said softly, "Hao'er, I'm back." ”

Tang Hao'er showed a smile on her face, clenched Xie Tian's hand, and snorted: "I can't hear what you say, is it you?" ”

Xie Tian simply pulled over a bamboo chair and sat next to Tang Hao'er, and recited the poem in her ear: "The spring breeze sends the branches green, and the beauty tree has thought of spring." Remember these two verses? ”

Tang Hao'er nodded happily, tears welled up in her eyes, and she took Xie Tian's hand and whimpered and cried: "It's really you, I'm not dreaming." ”

These two poems were written by Xie Tian and Tang Hao'er when they went to invite Pang Yuan out of the mountain, Xie Tian saw the persimmon tree in the courtyard of Pang Yuan's house, and improvised to tease Tang Hao'er, only the two of them knew.

Xie Tian stretched out his hand to wipe away Tang Hao'er's tears, and said with a smile: "Of course it's Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu slept a lot, and when he opened his eyes, he ran over." I guessed that you were here. It seems that I am not in a hurry today, wait for tomorrow, tomorrow Lao Tzu will prepare a high-headed horse sedan chair to marry you into the door, and give Lao Tzu as the wife of the village. ”

Tang Hao'er cried out loud, and beat Xie Tian with two fists: "Stinky scoundrel, big bandit, I've been waiting for you here for eighty years, woo woo woo woo ......"

Xie Tian emotionally hugged Tang Hao'er's head into his arms, rubbed her silver hair, bit Tang Hao'er's ear and whispered, "I have wronged you." ”

Hearing Tang Hao'er's cry in the courtyard, the female clerk ran into the courtyard in a panic, ran over, and asked quickly, "What's wrong with you, Grandma Tang?" What did you do to her? Let go of her. ”

The female clerk's last two sentences were obviously said to Xie Tian.

Tang Hao'er cried and laughed and pushed Xie Tian away, looked at the female clerk and said: "Juanzi, it's none of your business, you go back, you don't have to come over in the future, tell your grandfather, thank him for taking care of him all these years, I have written it down." ”

Juanzi looked at Tang Hao'er in surprise: "Grandma Tang, did I do something wrong, can't I change it?" ”

Tang Hao'er smiled: "You have done a good job, tell your grandfather when you go back, forget it, I haven't figured out how to tell him, let's go back, let's go, don't disturb our talk." ”

Xie Tian looked at Juanzi's back and asked, "Who is her grandfather?" ”

Tang Hao'er looked at Xie Tian and smiled, "Xiao Qi." ”

"Damn, this kid's granddaughter is so old."

Tang Hao'er snorted: "It's a great-granddaughter." ”

Xie Tian had a black line, and Tang Hao'er giggled and trembled.

Juanzi saw Tang Hao'er smiling like this, so she walked out of the backyard with confidence and went to the front to clean up and close the store.

Tang Hao'er instructed Xie Tian: "Commander-in-Chief Xie, go to the front and close the door of the store, no one is allowed to come in tonight." ”

"Yes", Xie Tian saluted, reluctantly let go of Tang Hao'er, got up and ran to the front to close the door.

Xie Tian came back and hugged Tang Hao'er again, Tang Hao'er looked at Xie Tian and smiled: "Do you really want to ride a big horse and carry a sedan chair to marry me tomorrow?" ”

"That must be, it can't be delayed any longer." Thank God for his words.

Eighty years of delay, I believe you are a ghost.

Tang Hao'er twisted Xie Tian fiercely: "You have to finish that poem for me, and I will consider whether to marry you." ”

Xie Tian laughed: "What's so difficult about this." ”

Putting away his smile, Xie Tian took Tang Hao'er's hands and read the poem one by one, his voice was a little loud, mainly because he was afraid that Tang Hao'er would not hear it clearly.

"The spring breeze only sends the branches green, and the beauty tree has thought of spring. The green silk begonias finally met, and they were still haunted by dreams. ”

Tang Hao'er muttered and repeated these two sentences of Xie Tianxin's supplement: "The green silk begonias finally meet, and they are still haunted by dreams." ”

"How?" Xie Tian looked at Tang Hao'er triumphantly.

Tang Hao'er suddenly pulled out her hand and twisted Xie Tian's arm vigorously, gritting her teeth and saying, "I just think I'm old." ”

Xie Tian was dumbfounded: "I didn't mean that, don't you have another sentence later, it's still haunting people." ”

Tang Hao'er showed a mouthful of white teeth: "Bite you to death." ”

Xie Tian suddenly smiled, and a princess hugged Tang Hao'er from the recliner and kissed her on the face: "This can be had." ”

With that, Xie Tian hugged Tang Hao'er and turned around and strode towards the house.

Tang Hao'er exclaimed: "Big bandit, no......"

The next day, the entire county town of Dagushan was stunned.

Breaking news.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grandma Tang got married.

She was married to a thirty-year-old boy.

The cadres of the Marriage Registration Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau took the ID cards of two people, slammed into the director's office, and stammered: "Director of the Bureau, Grandma Tang is getting married." ”

"Which Grandma Tang?"

"It's that Grandma Tang."

", what a calf, that Grandma Tang is almost a hundred years old."

"You, look, this is their ID card, and the person is in the hall."

"I'll go." The director took the ID card and jumped three feet high.

On the highway from the provincial capital to Dagushan County, the white-haired old man sitting in the back seat kept knocking on the head of the colonel driver with a cane: "Drive faster, drive faster." ”

The colonel driver grinned in pain and replied, "Grandpa, don't knock, I'm your own grandson." I'm driving to 160, can you tell me what's going on with Grandma Tang? ”

"If I know what's going on, do I need to be so anxious? Yesterday, Juanzi called me and said that the silk village went to someone, and the lady hugged the person and cried and laughed, and asked Juanzi not to go in the future. Hurry up for Lao Tzu again, hurry up. ”

The high-headed horse sedan chair, eighteen suona blowing a hundred birds and a phoenix in front of the gong to open the way, almost all the people in the county ran out to see the excitement.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grandma Tang got married, and she was married to a thirty-year-old young man.

People don't know how much money Grandma Tang has, people only know that there are many, many suffocating officials who come to visit Grandma Tang during the New Year's holidays, and some are even Grandma Tang's grandchildren.

Some people say that the oceanic buildings in the Taiyuan Military Divisional Headquarters are all the private property of Grandma Tang, and they are worth the money of the old nose.

Fuck, that guy eats soft rice and eats so proudly, riding on a tall horse and clenching his fists in all directions.

Do you want to find two rotten eggs to smash him?

If you can afford to provoke those people behind Grandma Tang, you can smash it, I can't afford to mess with it, but I am optimistic about you.

The people who watched the excitement talked a lot, but they didn't expect to unconsciously follow the welcoming team to the mountain and walk to the martyr's cemetery next to the Gushan Temple.

I'm going, why are you so unlucky, getting married and running here to dry wool, is this kid lacking in heart?

Seeing the nameless monument and the dense tombstones behind the nameless monument, Xie Tian's eyes were red and he smiled.

Xie Tian turned over and dismounted, helped Tang Haoer out of the big sedan chair, and the two stood side by side in front of the tombstone.

Well, it's the uncle who spends the money, you have the final say, we've been married for so many years, and this is the first time we've had a wedding in a cemetery.

Xie Tian clenched Tang Hao'er's little hand, facing the nameless monument, and was just about to speak, when a rapid siren sounded in the crowd, Xie Tian was forced to interrupt the ceremony and look back.

I saw a Mercedes-Benz car with a military license plate driving up from the crowd and driving straight to the big sedan chair and stopped.

The car door opened, and a white-haired old man rushed out of the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz, carrying a crutch and rushing straight to Xie Tian and Tang Hao'er.

Walking in front of him, the old man first bowed slightly to Tang Hao'er, shouted Mrs., glared at Xie Tian with his eyes, and asked with a dark face, "Who are you?" ”

Xie Tian looked at the old man's lips with a hint of a smile, and scolded in a low voice: "Dog lazy, I haven't settled the account with you about drugging Lao Tzu yet." Don't call me, give Lao Tzu to stand aside. Wait for Lao Tzu to finish the wedding and then clean you up. ”

The old man's eyes widened instantly, and the crutch in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

His colonel's grandson was startled and hurried forward to support the old man.

The old man suddenly grinned, cried out with a wow, pushed his grandson away, wiped a handful of tears to stop the crying, and moved his steps to stand on the side behind Xie Tian, his waist straight and straight.

Xie Tian exhaled deeply, looked up at the tombstone, clenched Tang Hao'er's hand, and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, I have come to see you. Today, I will hold a wedding with your sister-in-law in front of you, and you bunnies will marry Lao Tzu and your sister-in-law, and Lao Tzu will invite you to drink wedding wine today. ”

One bow, another bow, three bows.

The people from the wedding company used a hammer to knock open the wine seals of more than a dozen jars of wine on the pickup truck, Xie Tian picked up a jar of wine, and walked to those tombstones with Tang Haoer with a bowl.

The white-haired old man hurriedly reached out to grab the wine jar that Xie Tian was sandwiching under his ribs, grabbed it twice, and looked at Xie Tian with blank eyes.

There are people in front of me, so it's inconvenient to call them.

The old man's colonel's grandson hurriedly stepped forward to replace the old man, but Xie Tian loosened his arm at this time, and the wine jar fell into the old man's arms, and the old man's face suddenly bloomed with a smile, and shouted at the grandson who came over: "Get out of the way." ”

Xie Tian helped Tang Hao'er, and the two of them walked past each tombstone in turn with a wine bowl, shouting the name of the owner of each tombstone and toasting them.

Countless people held their mobile phones to record this wonderful wedding, and some even started a live broadcast, and the live broadcast room was as lively as the Spring Festival Railway Station Square, with everything to say, a lot of blessings, and gifts.

Whether it's a farce or a show, there is always an end.

The big sedan chair carried Tang Haoer back to the Xinglong Silk Village with the big red happy characters, and Xie Tian carried Tang Haoer into the door from the sedan chair, and no one could see it when the door was closed.

Only the white-haired old man who helped the newcomer hold the wine jar and the colonel's grandson of the old man followed, and the others all declined.

No gifts, no banquets, no interviews, no hospitality, no one.

On the warm clay kang in the cave room, Xie Tian and Tang Hao'er sat cross-legged on the kang, and there were eight dishes on the kang table, and the plate in the middle was filled with fragrant Bazhen roast chicken.

Bazhen roast chicken has been passed down for several generations, and the taste has been improved many times, and Xie Tian can't eat the taste of Lao Cui.

The white-haired old man wiped away his tears and looked at the grandson of the colonel, who was already stupid standing aside, glared at the beads of his eyes and said, "You rotted everything you heard and saw today in your stomach, did you hear it?" ”

The colonel's grandson snapped and replied loudly: "Yes"

Xie Tian smiled at the colonel's grandson: "Don't listen to your grandfather scare you, I'm not afraid of being pulled to slice." Your name is Shaoxuan, right? ”

The colonel's grandson stood up again: "Report to the commander-in-chief, my name is Shen Shaoxuan." ”

Xie Tian nodded: "Lao Tzu has something you can bring back, how can you say that you can figure it out yourself, you can just hand it over to the head of your troops." ”

"Yes"

Xie Tian looked at Tang Hao'er and asked, "Our family's tunnel can still be used, right?" ”

Tang Hao'er smiled: "I don't know, it's been twenty years since I last went down." ”

Xie Tian smiled and moved to the end of the kang, lifted the kang mat, revealing a thick plank half a meter square on the big kang, and lifted the plank with ease, revealing a black hole below.

The white-haired old man looked at the tunnel in amazement, and when he saw Xie Tian's legs stretched into the tunnel, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold it, and said eagerly: "Commander-in-chief, I'll go down." ”

Xie Tian pushed the old man away with a smile: "Xiao Qi, you fucking old arms and legs, don't follow Lao Tzu to mess up." Besides, you haven't been down here, so you don't know how to get inside. Wait on it, it's the order. ”

With that, thank you Tian jumped into the tunnel.

Tang Hao'er smiled lightly and handed a flashlight to Xie Tian.

Xie Tian took it and smiled at Tang Hao'er, squatted down, and there was no one.

Ten minutes later, there was movement at the mouth of the tunnel, Xiao Qi looked down and saw a wet cement pier coming out of the tunnel first, stretched out his hand to catch it, and hurriedly yelled at his grandson: "Hurry up and pick it up, I don't have the eyesight to see it." ”

Shen Shaoxuan hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the cement pier that had been lifted out of the tunnel, grinned, picked it up and prepared to put it aside.

Xie Tian's voice came out immediately after: "Be careful, the things in there can kill the people of this county." ”

Shen Shaoxuan was startled, carefully holding the cement pier and putting it on the big cabinet on the ground, looking back at Xie Tian who was holding a rusty barge gun out of the tunnel, and asked, "What is this?" ”

Xie Tian was so cold that he was shivering, Tang Hao'er hurriedly ripped off the quilt of mandarin ducks playing in the water on the kang cabinet and put it on Xie Tian's body, and blamed: "Go down the well?" It's still going down on such a cold day. ”

As he spoke, Tang Hao'er poured Xie Tian a bowl of wine and handed it to him.

Xie Tian wrapped the quilt and drank the bowl of Moutai into his stomach in one go, sighed, and then replied to Shen Shaoxuan: "There are two one-type cyanic acid grenades sealed here, you take them back and hand them over to the head of your troops, and they will deal with it." ”

Tang Hao'er looked at Shen Shaoxuan and said, "Shaoxuan, just tell him, I suddenly remembered this." ”

Shen Shaoxuan snorted, tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes widened in horror, and he said in surprise: "What? This is a cyanogenic grenade?! ”

Xie Tian smiled and stretched out his hand to knock on the table in front of the empty wine bowl: "Pour wine and pour wine, hurry up, and have another bowl." ”

Xiao Qi hurriedly reached out to grab the wine bottle, and saw that Tang Hao'er also stretched out his hand, retracted his hand stupidly, looked at Xie Tian and asked, "Commander-in-chief, what are you going to do next?" ”

Xie Tian laughed: "It's all peaceful, and there is still a fart plan, damn it, Lao Tzu finally created a good situation, but it was made like this by you lazy people, and a good handful of cards were played to a mess." Forget it, forget it, it's already like this, today is Lao Tzu's cave room candle night, don't talk about these unhappy things. ”

Xie Tian looked at Tang Hao'er and smiled: "Wife, the ugly daughter-in-law still has to see her in-laws, how about I take you to see your in-laws tomorrow?" ”

Tang Hao'er snorted: "If you're not afraid that I'll scare them, then go." The father-in-law and mother-in-law serve their daughter-in-law, which is also a good story. ”

Xie Tian laughed: "Damn, Lao Tzu will also drag his family and a large family in the future, and he has to find a way to make money to feed you, so I'm sad to death." ”

Xiao Qi was just about to speak, but Tang Hao'er had already giggled and said, "I think you should eat soft rice with peace of mind." Two years ago, the provincial military district wanted to build a military history museum in the ocean building, and they discussed with me to buy it. You bought the house, and I sold it without permission. Whoever let you go for 80 years and not come back, the money will be saved in my name, enough for you to spend a few lifetimes. ”

Xie Tian smiled: "It seems that Lao Tzu has the capital to make a comeback again." ”

Tang Hao'er was startled, stared at Xie Tian and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Xie Tian stretched out his hand and pointed to the shell gun that was rusted into an iron lump and said to Shen Shaoxuan: "You can also bring this back and let them deal with it." Damn, Lao Tzu is not a good guy now, otherwise Lao Tzu would have to go to Mongolia and Sakhalin Island, and Lao Tzu has not yet recovered his old accounts with them. ”

Xiao Qi looked at Xie Tian excitedly: "Commander-in-chief, I'll go with you." ”

Tang Hao'er stared at Xie Tian and snorted, hesitated for a moment, turned around and took out a small wooden box from the kang cabinet and handed it to Xie Tian, saying, "The firing pin and bullet were taken away by them, figure it out yourself." ”

Xie Tian opened the wooden box, and the one lying in the wooden box was the Browning 1911 he gave to Tang Haoer for self-defense, and his eyes lit up......

[End of the book]

Postscript:

* Tie Dan (Xie Jin) later became a famous director, directed many excellent film and television works, and died of illness in 2008.

* Gao Meijuan, married to the director of the Forestry Bureau of Dagushan County before liberation, did not carry it in those years, and committed suicide with her father, the landlord Gao Kuirong.

* Li Chunxiang gave birth to a son, named Cui Baoqing, and Cui Baoqing's son inherited his father's business and ran Xiangmanlou. Li Chunxiang and Tang Haoer have been good friends for decades, and died of illness in 1997 at the age of 81.

* Pang Yuan, who refused the invitation to form a coalition government in 1949, lived in seclusion in Hong Kong with his wife and children, and died of illness in 1986 at the age of 86.

* Zhao Gang, who retired in 1974 as chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, moved to Shanghai, where he died in 2003 at the age of 93.

* Xu Jinghao, deeply involved in China's nuclear weapons research and development, died of necrosis of multiple organs in 1967 at the age of 56, and was posthumously awarded the Order of the Republic by the highest authority of the state in 2016.

* Chu Yunfei, commander of the Shenyang Military Region, retired in 1967, settled in Dagushan County, Shanxi Province in accordance with Xu Jinghao's wishes, and died of illness in 1977.

* Li Yunlong, commander of the Taiyuan Military Region, in 1966, in Dagushan County, he had an armed conflict with the rebels who planned to criticize Tang Haoer, and was hit by a stray bullet, and died after rescue efforts failed.

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