Chapter 104 Mid-Autumn Festival
“Zai, really not?”
Tianxiu pulled the second brother and second sister-in-law, the boss Guang Xianglan, and Kang Qirui, who were at home, into his room Later, after telling everyone that he didn't see any scars on Old Man Chang's back, the second brother asked again to confirm.
"Really not." Tianxiu was very sure. "Is it really a lie?" The second brother sighed. This old man Chang is really not Xianglan's biological uncle.
"Azong, do you want to talk to Uncle Chang about this?" Boss Guang asked. Although he is the boss, the second brother has always taken the lead in matters in the family.
The second brother first drove Tianxiu away, "Ahxiu, you went out to play with that old man." After Tianxiu went out, he said to the big brother Guang: "You can't say it, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, you Now tell him that Xianglan is not his relative, how will he spend this Mid-Autumn Festival? He will be very lonely. "
"But I have to take him back to the countryside tomorrow." Xianglan was a little disappointed. There is also some concern.
The second brother thought for a while, "I can't help it, you two parents-in-law can do whatever they want." He then asked Kang Qirui, "What do you think, Ari?"
< br>"I think?" Kang Qirui said, "I think Tiantu has told Uncle Chang now."
"Huh?" Everyone was surprised. "Ah what? Did you not allow him to tell? Does he seem to be the kind of person who automatically and consciously keeps secrets?" Kang Qirui analyzed.
"Then why didn't you remind me just now to tell him not to say anything?" the second guy blamed.
“Don’t you think it’s most appropriate for Tiantu to talk about this matter?” Kang Qirui slowly explained the mystery to everyone, “This truth is too cruel, and it would be too hurtful for us to talk about it specifically. But Tianxiu is different. It's normal for a child to spill the beans. "
"Then what should we do?" Xianglan is more concerned about what she should do next.
Kang Qirui glanced at Xianglan and signaled her not to worry, and said, "It depends on old man Chang how he wants to handle this matter. If he asks us, we will tell him frankly. If he If he pretends not to know, then we will continue to play this drama with him."
Everyone nodded and agreed with this approach. The second brother suddenly said, "Then I need to remind Old Dou's mother." After that, he took Kang Qirui and went out to find Old Dou's mother and told them the truth of the matter.
"Azong, why didn't you tell me about this earlier?" Lao Dou said a little angrily.
The second brother helplessly spread his hands and said: "We have just confirmed it, and we also guessed it before."
"Alas." Old Dou sighed, "Then we will do as you said. , It’s so pitiful that I miss my family so much during the holidays.” As he was talking, Mr. Chang came to the living room accompanied by Xianglan, and everyone hurriedly said hello. Old man Chang, who had already learned the truth from Tianxiu, looked like he didn't know anything at this time, and asked with a concerned tone: "Azong, you also call me uncle, why did you call me uncle last time?" Don’t you want Mrs. Zhu next door to buy your mooncakes?”
“Uncle, I appreciate your kindness. You can’t eat so many mooncakes. What a waste.” I want to be honest when doing business, and I would rather lose money myself than let you suffer." When doing business, a gentleman always makes money in a wise way.
Old man Chang admired the two guys’ business methods and said with a bit of regret: “That’s a pity, you will lose so many mooncakes.”
"You and I, Lao Dou, will go back to the countryside in northern Guangdong tomorrow. Azong, why don't you take all the mooncakes to me and give them to the neighbors?" Mom suggested. It's better to take them back to the countryside for her.
Before the two men spoke, Azu asked doubtfully: "Mom, I remember your country is Nanhai, why did you go back to northern Guangdong?" Mom responded with a smile when she heard it. Said: "You don't know this. Your mother and I are from Nanhai, but your mother-in-law is from Lian County. My relatives from other places raised funds to build a new house together and said they would go back to reunite during the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"So that's it, that's no problem. Mom, I still have more than a hundred boxes of mooncakes. Are they enough for pie? If not, I will buy more." The second guy agreed to his mother and asked her Is it enough?
"Enough is enough. Do you want to go back with us?" Mom asked again.
"Anyway, we have seven days of vacation and we haven't decided where to go. Let's just go back to the countryside of Lian County." The second guy said, and everyone agreed. "That's it, the troops will be divided into two groups tomorrow. Aguang and Sister-in-law will accompany Old Man Chang back to southern Henan, while the others will return to Lian County." Lao Dou agreed. Xianglan, who didn't originally take vacations, took leave early because she met a relative and wanted to go back to recognize them.
Uncle Chang was thoughtful when he heard that the Kang family had returned to Lian County. He didn't sleep much all night and went out early the next morning. When he came back, the Kang family was ready to go to Lian County. "I want to go with you, okay?" asked Old Man Chang.
“Where to go?” The second guy was a little confused.
"I am so happy to be with your whole family. I also want to see the customs of people in Guangdong Province celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I want to go to Lian County with you." Old man Chang replied. "But I have already bought the ticket." Xianglan grabbed Old Man Chang and said.
"I already went to refund the tickets early this morning, and I just came back now." Old man Chang had already made preparations. He refunded all three tickets, so that everyone could only bring He went back to the countryside together, "How was it? Do you want me to go with you?"
What else can everyone say, except, "Welcome, welcome." Fortunately, Ayao rented it. It's a minibus with enough seats for two more people. Just as he was about to set off, another person came in, "Hello everyone. Godfather." It was Zeng Ruoting who was back.
"Ruoting, why are you back today?" Old Man Chang asked.
“I’m done with things over there, so I want to come back and relax.” Zeng Ruoting said. Kang Qirui complained in his heart: If you are 5 minutes late and everyone has gone out, who will you look for to relax?
The Kang family finally officially set off for Benlian County with Old Uncle Chang and Zeng Ruoting. It took more than three hours for the minibus to arrive. When Kang Qirui and the others got off the bus, their relatives were already waiting. Under the guidance of their relatives, they took a good tour of this historic county. The development here is still relatively backward. Unlike Guangfu, which is full of modern buildings, it is basically still tile houses.
The county town is not very large, and it took only half an hour to visit. Soon they came to the house that their mother had raised money to build, a three-story self-built house. Mrs. Dou took Uncle Chang and Zeng Ruoting upstairs to rest and drink tea. Kang Qirui and the others were sitting and chatting in the living room on the first floor. "You just arrived." Cousin Bing asked as he entered the room. This is the grandmother's hometown of Kang Qirui and his five brothers, and it is also the grandmother's hometown of cousin Bing. He also came back for this year's family reunion.
"You showed up at the right time." When the second brother saw his cousin Bing, he had a plan, "I need your help with something, but I want to ask first, do you know Henan dialect?"
" Of course I can. I travel all over the world in business. Of course I can speak the southern Henan dialect. If you don’t know, you can ask Xianglan. "Cousin Bing thought it was the second brother who introduced him to the business. "Now tell me something in southern Henan dialect." The second man asked.
"I'm from southern Henan." Cousin Bing said, and Xianglan said it was quite authentic.
"Second brother, what do you want to do?" Kang Qirui asked. The second brother motioned for everyone to come closer, and he said in a low voice: "Today, old man Chang did not go to South Henan Province but came to Lian County with us. I felt strange, so I asked Tianxiu quietly on the way, and he did tell the truth. Uncle Chang. So the current situation is that he knows that we also know, but no one has said it, so how can we keep it in our hearts?"
"So you want Cousin Bing to perform? Let everyone tell the truth?" Kang Qirui guessed.
"That's right. This will be good for everyone." The second brother nodded, and then took his cousin Bing and told him his plan. Cousin Bing agreed immediately.
At night, the whole county became lively. The dragon and lion dancers were performing to their heart's content, the sky was full of firecrackers, and everyone was having a great time. After watching the performance, everyone in the Kang family had a barbecue on the rooftop, eating moon cakes, drinking wine and admiring the moon. It was so comfortable.
"Drink and drink, I wish Mrs. Dou good health." "I wish Old Uncle Chang good health." Everyone said a blessing every time they drank.
"Uncle Chang, are you happy when you come back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Old Dou and Uncle Chang were drinking and chatting. "You are so lucky to have your family reunited." Old man Chang envied Lao Dou very much. Three generations of the Kang family live together, with sons and daughters, all of whom are filial. Lao Dou is indeed a blessed person.
While everyone was having fun, the second brother was muttering: "We are all preparing for twelve o'clock, why doesn't this cousin Bing come to 'do things'? Is he reliable?"
"A gentle kiss has touched my heart." Just when the second brother was about to greet cousin Bing and his family, cousin Bing finally appeared and sang: "A deep love"
"This man, your accent sounds like you are from southern Henan?" The second brother came out at the right time to sing "Dragon and Phoenix".
Cousin Bing nodded, "I am from southern Henan."
"How did you come here?" The second brother guided him again. "It's a long story." Cousin Bing immediately switched to Cantonese. He was so anxious that he quickly whispered in his ear: "Speak in southern Henan dialect."
"I have been in Cantonese since I was a child. After being sold here, I can no longer speak the Henan dialect." Cousin Bing whispered in Er Lao's ear. He used the plot of Gou Sheng's younger brother to be sold since he was a child so that he could not speak the Henan dialect and could only speak Cantonese. Things started to make sense.
"Tonight I looked at such a round moon, and I thought of my hometown. I couldn't help but sing a song about my hometown for everyone." Cousin Bing began to show off his acting skills, "A big river, with waves."
The second brother couldn't listen any more, so he had to ask again in a guiding manner: "I can't tell where your hometown is?" Cousin Bing said his line, "I My adoptive mother said that I am from Changjiagou, Taohua Valley in southern Henan. "Wow, sister-in-law, he and you are from the same hometown." The second brother led the story back to the normal plot set by him and his cousin Bing. inside.
Cousin Bing continued to act: "On a stormy night in 1948, my parents sold me to someone else when I was under one year old because of poverty. That night, the sky It’s so dark and cold.”
“Wait a minute, come with me.” The second brother pulled his cousin Bing to Old Man Chang, “This old man is also from the Chang family in Taohua Valley in southern Henan. Gou people, he has two brothers, one is called Gou Wa and he is called Gou Sheng, and he also has a younger brother who was sold to others. "
"I heard my adoptive mother kept calling me dead left." Cousin Bing seemed to be reading from a manuscript.
“Oh, sister-in-law, please come here.” The second brother called Xianglan over, then pointed at his cousin Bing and said, “Could this be Uncle Chang’s long-lost little brother?”
Cousin Bing heard this and bowed to old man Chang, "Brother, please bow to me little brother." Old man Chang quickly helped cousin Bing up, then bowed to everyone and said thank you. .
He choked up and said: "It's really hard for everyone. For an old man like me, you Kang family have really put in all your efforts. I'm so touched. I accept all your thoughts. In fact, Tianxiu told me yesterday I may not be able to find my brother Gouwa in this life, but I feel so satisfied now. Your Kang family is closer than my relatives."
This matter has finally been settled. There is no need to continue to pretend that you don't know how to act, and everyone feels much more comfortable. "Old man, you don't blame me for pretending, do you?" Cousin Bing asked apologetically. "No wonder, no wonder, you are all good people." Old man Chang comforted his cousin Bing.
Then Uncle Chang asked everyone to take him to the river. The Kang family didn't know what he wanted to do, so they went together. I saw Mr. Chang lighting a candle in the mooncake box with the help of Zeng Ruoting, and then put the mooncake box into the river and let it float away. "This is what a friend of mine from Jiangsu and Zhejiang taught me. He said that in August On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, placing a lamp in the river can convey our longing for reunion to our relatives far away. I haven't found my brother, so I can only tell him that I miss him in this way. "
Old man Chang stared at the river lantern by the river until it floated away and was completely out of sight. Then he turned back and said to everyone in the Kang family, "Let's say goodbye here. I want to go back to Wanwan. Don't worry, Ayao, Ruoting will follow up on your investment. Xianglan, come and see me when you have time. I treat you as my niece."
Xiang. Lan cried and said, "I also regard you as my uncle. You often come to play."
(End of Chapter)