Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 86 Aunt
Liu Zhixin's family warmly entertained Meng Xiangxiang as if they were honored guests or relatives.

Liu Zhixin personally fried a few dishes, including fish and meat. The most common Chinese cabbage was also made into vinegar, sour, sweet, and crunchy.Take off your shoes and go to the kang, and the family sits around the kang table to have dinner.

There is a natural sense of quick cognition among women. When they see another woman pleasing to the eye at first sight, they will unreservedly dedicate all their enthusiasm, especially the elders to the younger ones.

When Jiang Changling saw Meng Xiangxiang for the first time, her appearance, hairstyle and clothes all made her see herself when she was young, and she felt a sense of closeness, and she naturally regarded her as her own girl.And the first thing Meng Xiangxiang did when he walked into the house was to squat in the kitchen to help her light the fire, which invisibly added a little favor to her.

Jiang Changling filled Meng Xiangxiang with a bowl of rice, took it over and said, "Girls, it's too thin to look good, eat more."

Meng Xiangxiang sat beside Liu Xiaonan, took the rice bowl with both hands and said, "Thank you, auntie, our hometown mainly eats pasta and sweet potatoes, and rice is rarely eaten."

Jiang Changling took a piece of fish body for Meng Xiangxiang: "After school holidays, if you don't go home, come back with Xiaonan, my aunt will cook rice for you every day. There are no other good things, rice is enough, I will let you eat it Get fat and white."

Meng Xiangxiang glanced at Liu Xiaonan and said, "Eldest brother has a partner. I come here often, and people will have problems with elder brother."

Jiang Changling said with resentment: "I don't care who loves who gets who. You are a distant relative of our old Liu's family. When my aunt sees you, it's like seeing her own daughter. There is no distinction at all. If you are afraid Others have ideas, if you want, you can just be your aunt's goddaughter. You only have a relationship with your uncle and aunt, let's see what other people can say."

From her mother's tone, Liu Xiaonan could hear that she had a big opinion on Gu Yu.My mother sometimes complained to him that she didn't want to come to my poor rural home and looked down on me, a poor rural mother-in-law, so don't be my daughter-in-law. It's not like my son won't be able to marry a wife.

In the past, he always persuaded his mother with good words, excused Gu Yu, saying that she had a lot of serious things to do.

At this moment, he can no longer say such words. His mother has publicly expressed her attitude, and this matter has nothing to do with him.He thought that his mother would entertain Meng Xiangxiang graciously, but he didn't expect his mother to come to the step of accepting her daughter so quickly.

My mother has always been straightforward, she likes who she doesn't like, she never hides it, and she can tell her likes and dislikes in a few words.

Liu Xiaonan didn't realize that her mother's kindness towards Meng Xiangxiang would add a straw to the already fragile relationship between him and Gu Yu.

At this moment, he just felt that his mother's kindness came too suddenly, which might scare Meng Xiangxiang.He looked at Meng Xiangxiang worriedly.

Meng Xiangxiang also looked at Liu Xiaonan at a loss.Faced with such kindness and kindness, he didn't know whether to accept it for a while, holding his rice bowl and biting his chopsticks in a daze, staring at Liu Xiaonan.

Liu Zhixin said to Jiang Changling: "You really want to come out as soon as you come out. The girl has just entered the house, and the kang is not hot yet, so you come here so suddenly, it will make the girl very difficult."

Liu Zhixin looked at Meng Xiangxiang with another special attitude.Thinking about it objectively, whether there is any connection with the ancestral home is not of much practical significance. The son's move is nothing more than a logical way to help a little girl in a foreign land.In his son, he saw the character and work style of his mother and Mr. Guan at the same time, and he was very gratified for this.

Liu Zhixin turned her head and said to Meng Xiangxiang with a smile, "Your aunt is straight-hearted, so say what you think, don't take it to heart. You are a distant relative of our old Liu's family, and this blood relationship is enough."

Jiang Changling also felt that she was too frizzy, so she reached out and touched Meng Xiangxiang's short hair and said, "Auntie saw that you are a good boy at a glance, so she rushed to snatch your daughter from your mother. Don't be surprised, Auntie is Then say it."

"Auntie, I am willing to be your goddaughter." Meng Xiangxiang put down his job and said eagerly holding Jiang Changling's hand: "Eldest brother has been taking care of me all this time. I just found out today that you treat me like a relative." According to the customs of our hometown, I will call you Aunt from now on."

"That's a good relationship, it makes my aunt so warm." Jiang Changling was overjoyed, and didn't know how to express the joy of having a girl, she stroked Meng Xiangxiang's face and said, "I should give you a gift, what should I give? "

Meng Xiangxiang's face was flushed, his eyes were moist, and he choked up: "Auntie, I don't want a meeting ceremony. I am very happy to see so many relatives in other places. The younger generation should buy gifts for auntie, how dare I pick them up empty-handed?" Aunt's meeting ceremony?"

Liu Xiaonan knew what Meng Xiangxiang needed most urgently, so he said to his mother, "Mom, Xiaoyun just happened to be home for the holidays, so you pay for Xiaoyun to make two sets of new clothes for your goddaughter, so she can dress up your goddaughter beautifully." Pretty and bright, isn't it the best meeting gift?"

Jiang Changling happily agreed.Meng Xiangxiang hurriedly said to Jiang Changling and Liu Xiaonan: "Auntie, senior brother, don't spend money on me anymore, I have clothes to wear. If this continues, I don't know what to do."

Liu Zhixin said to Meng Xiangxiang: "Girl, listen to what my uncle said. You also saw that stone tablet. It has been more than 200 years since the ancestors of the Liu family migrated here. The descendants of the Liu family have not forgotten their ancestors, nor their own. The ancestral home, at least we dare not forget. Your mother is the daughter of our old Liu family, and you are the niece of our old Liu family. Just treat this place as your own home, and don’t worry too much about other things."

This unintentional act of the wife can properly save the son from unnecessary trouble.Seeing Meng Xiangxiang nodded in agreement, Liu Zhixin asked her out of interest: "Girl, I heard from Xiaonan that your mother is also from Zhizi's generation. What's her name, maybe she has the same name as ours."

Meng Xiangxiang said, "My mother's name is Liu Zhifang."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Zhixin and Liu Xiaonan looked at each other, and both showed surprised and delighted smiles.Jiang Changling exclaimed to Meng Xiangxiang: "This is really a great fate. Your mother has the same name as her third aunt in my family. Isn't this fate? What is it? I should be your aunt."

The supper was meaningful and hearty.After dinner, Meng Xiangxiang jumped off the kang and helped Jiang Changling clean up the table, wash the pots and dishes, and feed the chickens and pigs.

After finishing her work, Jiang Changling took Meng Xiangxiang and her daughter to Guan Deyu's house, and asked Guan Xiaoyun to tailor two sets of autumn clothes for the two girls.

Because tomorrow a bricklayer will be invited to lay the foundation of the new house, and there will be a lot of heavy work to do. After Jiang Changling came back with the two girls, Liu Zhixin urged the family to go to bed early.

Meng Xiangxiang slept with Liu Xiaonan's younger sister in the back room. After the lights were turned off, she forced herself to close her eyes.She was still at school in the morning, but entered a strange family in the evening. A stone tablet dispelled all her worries, and even recognized an aunt. The half-day time seemed like a dream.However, everything that happened was obviously not a dream, but it just felt like a dream.

When she saw herself running up a mountain road, she jumped up and down with excitement. The family had finally collected enough tuition and living expenses for a year, and she could finally go far away to realize her university dream.

The price is heavy, my sister will drop out of school for this, and my parents will be tired.Even if it's only for one day, one week, one month, or one year, it's still college.

Father carried her luggage, and younger sister carried her net bag containing daily necessities, followed her silently, and took her to the long-distance bus station.While waiting for the bus, my father squatted there smoking a pipe, and my sister hugged her arm tightly.

She was anxiously looking forward to the early arrival of the long-distance bus. Her father and sister could only send her here, and she had to walk the rest of the way by herself. She didn't want to make the happy parting become painful.

When going out, my mother held her and cried for a while, exhorting and exhorting her, no matter how far she can go in college, she must return home safely.She agreed with tears. Mother always felt that she had been wronged, but she was very satisfied and happy in her heart.

Being able to walk out of the valley to see the outside world, she carries the dream of the whole family on her body.

It wasn't until she walked into the gate of the university that she realized that there was nothing to do with the little money she carried, and it wouldn't last long.She squeezed all the expenses and only hoped to prolong her college life a lot.

She didn't know that there was a pair of eyes watching her secretly all the time, and she predicted that she only had a chance to barely finish one semester.

But she was reluctant to leave the campus full of vigor and hope, her classmates and teachers who got along day and night, and she was reluctant to put down those thick and fragrant books.When the elder brother offered to sponsor her to complete her university studies, for a moment, she felt that her fate had undergone a 360-degree reversal; for a moment, a certain desire that she had never had before was ignited in her heart.

However, the little flame in her heart was quickly extinguished.She knows that there are many girls who admire the senior brother, but the beautiful, elegant and mature girlfriend of the senior brother discourages them, not to mention that she is just an ugly duckling of Cinderella, and the reason why the senior brother supports her is so sufficient and selfless that there is no room for suspicion and Unreasonable thought.

With great reverence, she read the "Biography of Madame Curie" presented to her by the elder brother several times. She was deeply moved by Madame Curie's spirit of studying hard.She knew that this was what the elder brother expected, and it was also the source of her strength.

She has always simply believed that senior brother is a different but very simple person.She did not expect that the elder brother's spiritual world is so broad and profound, that an ordinary and forgotten stone tablet, which was used as a stepping stone, was endowed with extraordinary and special meaning by him.

The moment she read the words on the stele, she felt that she suddenly understood the elder brother.

Not everyone can remember their ancestral home and the footprints of their ancestors.With the elder brother only a few years older than himself, where did he come from such a simple and unadorned feeling?

My aunt took her to the house of an uncle named Guan, and introduced her enthusiastically and proudly.The sister named Guan Xiaoyun took her to another room and used a soft tape measure to measure her body.

Sister Guan Xiaoyun looked at her with very special and complicated eyes, half a smile but not a smile, warm and cold, which made her feel uncomfortable.The tape measure in her hand was also very stiff, as she said: "I really don't understand, why did Xiao Nan bring you back?"

She replied: "Brother wants me to see that stele."

The measuring tape paused for a moment: "That stone tablet was written by my grandfather, and Xiao Nan also practiced calligraphy according to that stone tablet."

"So it is."

"What color and style do you like?"

"I don't quite understand, sister can figure it out."

"It can't be too ostentatious or too rustic. The color and style are quite satisfactory, which is in line with your identity as a college student."

"Thank you sister."

Sister Guan Xiaoyun put away the tape measure, wrote down the size on a piece of paper, lowered her head and said, "You are very smart and have a sweet mouth. I really have to treat you like a younger sister. You are a senior brother who is good at everything except your eyesight." It’s too high, not everyone can take a fancy to it, emphasizing affection doesn’t mean giving affection.”

There was something in the words, she said: "All the students in our class have seen the photos of the senior brothers and girlfriends, and they all said that they are a pair of talents and beauty, perfect for each other."

She knew that Sister Guan Xiaoyun was reminding herself not to be sentimental, not to have unreasonable thoughts, but she felt that no one could understand senior brother better than herself at the moment.

Sitting in the closed, crowded and dirty first-class cabin of the ferry is like a fish sealed in an iron can, sailing under the sunless seabed, depressing, tragic and irresistible.Just like her ancestors had crossed the Guandong for generations, she also went to the other side of the sea alone to find a way out. Optimistically, it was much better than her ancestors taking a wooden sailboat that could not withstand the wind and waves.

Whether it's coincidence or telepathy, the descendants of her ancestors are waiting for her at the pier. This is the arrangement of the heavens, it is a bond of blood, and there is no way to avoid it.

Walking into a strange family, there is no sense of unfamiliarity; sleeping on the warm kang, it is as solid as going ashore.Smelling the familiar and friendly scent, Meng Xiangxiang fell asleep in a sweet dream.

(End of this chapter)