Chapter 633 The Fourth Miss
For the first time, Ning Weimin clearly understood the details of the old man's teenage life from Kang Shude's recollection of the past.
Know how he grew up under the loving care of Mr. Song.
I learned that they are master and servant in name, but in reality they are master and disciple, father and son.
I know that in the old man's heart, he sincerely regards Mr. Song as a noble person who has the grace to save his life and rebuild his life.
Seeing the touching words, Kang Shude even sighed and burst into tears.
Ning Weimin had to comfort him repeatedly to keep the old man from getting too excited.
But even so, Ning Weimin also knew that the old man still had many things hidden in his heart.
The basis is that whether he inquired about the Ma family or Mr. Song's family situation, Kang Shude always told him everything he knew.
The Japanese lady is very beautiful, friendly and has a good personality.
In the past, when I went out, I would often wear a kimono, with flowers blooming and colorful.
Her hair was tied up in a high bun, her face was very white, and she was wearing wooden clogs. She was like a butterfly, attracting the attention of the servants in the Ma family garden and the passers-by at the door.
When she left China and returned to her country, the Japanese lady gave him special instructions, saying that Mr. Song was sometimes hungry in the middle of the night and often needed to eat something, so she asked him to pay attention and make sure to give Mr. Song a snack. The tank is never empty.
A good woman like this would really have no choice if the two countries were not at war...
Or maybe Ma Huitang lived like a half-fairy in his later years, just like Jia Jing, who is devoted to cultivating immortality, is exactly the same in Dream of Red Mansions.
Not only did he build a shed in the south study room where he lived, bought a goat, and drank goat milk every day to keep healthy, but he also fell in love with meditating with Taoist priests.
The Buddhist hall and the God of Wealth Temple in Majia Garden are constantly burning incense. To burn the everlasting lamp every day, at least ten kilograms of sesame oil must be added...
What about the five-bay rolling shed in the garden? The Xieshan building was once the billiard hall of the Ma family.
The empty space under the billiard hall is also useful during the Winter Solstice Festival.
Every year, servants will come and pour water to make ice. When the ice is two to three inches thick, you will have a huge artificial ice rink.
People gliding on it have the same effect as the Taimiao Ice Rink.
Even at night, you can even continue to slide by the electric lights pulled from the billiard hall.
As a result, not only are children playing enthusiastically here, but adults often join the ice skating team.
The people who live here are addicted to skating...
Let's put it this way, maybe it's because people's mouths become broken as they get older.
Or maybe he just said whatever he thought of.
No matter what Ning Weimin wants to hear, he still doesn't want to hear it.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a mess or something that can’t be dealt with.
Kang Shude all took it out at once.
But whenever Ning Weimin asked about the situation of the Jiang family next door, for some reason, the old man responded very perfunctorily.
It's often just a few sentences to give a rough idea.
At the beginning, Ning Weimin didn’t think much about it.
He thought it might be because Mr. Jiang and Mr. Song were different in career and status, and they were in two different circles.
Especially since Mrs. Song is Japanese, there is a natural sense of distance between the two families, so there is little contact between the two families.
But later, as Kang Shude recalled more and more of the old days, he gradually discovered something strange and felt that this was not the case anymore.
The old man was obviously deliberately avoiding it and did not want to talk too much about the people and things of the Jiang family.
You know, although the Jiang family and the Song family are not close friends, after all, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
Living with such a wall apart from each other, and being both literate people, it is inevitable that entertainment and daily life will intersect.
Especially since the Jiang family has two sons and two daughters, the eldest son is seven years older than Kang Shude, and the youngest daughter is actually the same age as Mr. Song's son.
Under such circumstances, even if the adults of the two families do not interact with each other, how can the younger generations of the two families not be familiar with each other? Why not play together?
In fact, when it comes to Paleo eating. Kang Shude grunted unintentionally and revealed a very surprising situation.
The locust flower lazy dragon that Mr. Daqing once made for Ning Weimin was actually the invention of the fourth lady of the Jiang family next door.
And it is made from the locust flowers of the locust tree to the west of Xiyinxuan in the Ma family garden.
This is because when they were teenagers, the children of the Jiang family and the Song family imitated the adults, gathering regularly and taking turns to be the host. The host takes charge of the meal and prepares delicious food to entertain friends.
Because the gatherings are often held on Sundays, they are called "Borship Meetings."
Ning Weimin was naturally very interested in this party.
He wanted to know more about how many tricks these young men and women had done back then, and wanted to know if there were any fancy foods at this "God Worship Party".
But when he asked again, the old man was unwilling to say anything more and just shook his head in silence.
What made Ning Weimin feel most strange was that when the old man walked with him and finally passed through the hall connecting the south wall to the verandah, the old man actually faced the east door that was boarded up. The Moon Gate was motionless, in a daze.
At that time, as soon as Ning Weimin walked out of the hall, he was attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him.
Because I never expected that when I walked out from here, it was not the main entrance of this small courtyard.
But there is a different cave, a garden with a large space, surrounded by aisles, and connected to other courtyards.
In the four corners of the courtyard, there are one purple and white lilac, one Xifu crabapple and one pearl plum.
Nowadays, the lilacs are in bloom, and the Xifu crabapples are even brighter green and brighter red, which is very pleasing to the eye.
The most amazing thing is that there is a pool in the courtyard, and there is a stone sculpture of a monkey holding an umbrella in the pool.
Although there is no water in the pool, there is still a lot of garbage.
But the style of the stone carvings is particularly exquisite and interesting, and it seems that water can be sprayed upward after storing water.
In addition, there is a group of rocks in the courtyard, which vaguely echo the pool.
Seeing that there seemed to be words on the rocks, vaguely the word "shadow pool", Ning Weimin wanted to ask Kang Shude, but he might as well turn around.
I found the old man standing in front of the Moon Gate, with his back facing him and his hands stroking the wooden boards that sealed the door. His description seemed a bit abnormal.
He couldn't help but walked over and asked, "Old man, what are you doing?"
Kang Shude actually ignored him.
Ning Weimin looked at the Moon Gate again. According to the direction, it should lead to the courtyard where the Jiang family rented in the past, but now this courtyard, together with the Ma family's theater, belongs to " Properly owned by the Association for the Study of Ancient and Modern Cultures.
He thought that the old man was thinking about the courtyard over there, so he had to say, "You, don't be anxious. This courtyard has been sealed today. We can't see it for the time being, but we can take it back in a few days." That's the same. You have to trust your apprentice and wait patiently. Sooner or later I will get the house over there for you. I would say it would be more practical to repair the house we got. What?”
But he didn't expect that the old man would sway forward and fall forward...
Thanks to Ning Weimin standing behind the old man at this time, he had the foresight to help him, and he was saved!
Finally, the old man didn’t hit his head on the wood or fall to the ground.
Otherwise something will happen.
"Master, master, what's going on? What's wrong with you?"
Ning Weimin quickly helped Kang Shude up, but he was even more surprised when he saw it!
Because Kang Shude turned pale and silently shed two lines of tears.
He couldn't help but ask, "Old man, why are you doing this? Just... just for this Moon Gate? What's wrong with this gate?"
As a result, the old man's response was like this .
"Wei Min... I... the biggest mistake in my life is to let down a person. You don't know, I feel bad when I see this door... Thirty-nine years have passed since the Moon Gate. It has been closed for thirty-nine years..."
Ning Weimin suddenly became filled with doubts.
What? Wasn't this Moon Gate sealed when the property was confiscated and the Ma family garden was divided into three courtyards?
Let down? Who is the old man talking about?
Is it Mr. Jiang? Or one of the children of the Jiang family?
What's going on here?
......
At this same moment, in the United States on the other side of the ocean, the time was still ten o'clock the night before.
In the "Huaixiangju" in Flushing, Queens, a Chinese lady was explaining an important matter to her son when the restaurant was about to be sampled.
“We must get some sophora flowers tomorrow, otherwise it will be out of season. Don’t make any more mistakes, you must have white sophora flowers. Pink ones...”
“ The pink ones are poisonous." The middle-aged man grabbed the words and walked over to massage his mother's shoulders with a smile.
"Mom, my son is no longer a child. He will never make such a stupid mistake again. I will drive to pick it early tomorrow morning, and I will deliver it to you at noon, guaranteed to be as white as jade, fresh and fragrant. Do you want me to do it tomorrow? ? Kneading dough is very hard..."
"No, I'm not old enough to even make dough. If you have a filial piety, please take over my grandson and granddaughter. Let's have a meal together at noon. That foreign wife of yours, forget it..."
"Okay, actually, Timmy and Annie also miss their grandma."
"What Timmy. , Annie’s? It’s really ugly. Don’t they have Chinese names?”
“Okay, it’s Chongjie and Sunyun, okay?”
(End of this chapter)