Back to the past: Spring and Autumn Siheyuan

Chapter 641 Aunt and Nephew
"Uncle, I just heard from you that you went to Sijiu City to look for us?"

"Yeah, I went there once, but it was too early."

Greeting Li Heng and Yichen to sit on the sofa in the living room, the old man picked up the cigarettes on the coffee table and passed one to each of them.

"Thank you, grandpa, I don't smoke."

"It's good not to smoke, it's good not to smoke, Yi... Yichen, right? I've seen pictures of your dad when he was a child. You look exactly the same as him at that time. It's the same now. You father and son stand together, and you can see it at a glance. I can see your relationship."

The old man said with a smile, after lighting himself a cigarette with a match, he continued with a thoughtful expression on his face: "If I remember correctly, it should be five or six years ago when I went to Sijiu City for a meeting, yes It was January of [-]. I went there shortly after the conferment of titles the previous year. I stayed there for a month, entrusting comrades-in-arms and publishing newspapers. Erheng, where were you at that time? No In Forty-Nine City? Where do you live now?"

January [-]?
This time made Li Heng think about it before he realized it. It happened just in time. If this uncle had gone a month earlier, he might have found his father.

He shook his head with a wry smile. Just as he was about to say something, a voice came from outside the gate.

"Fenyang, Huiping, Qingyang, Jianguo, I heard from your Uncle Cao outside that you are all back, and that our family has a distinguished guest, who is it?"

The door of the living room was open, and one could just see the courtyard door. Hearing this voice, Li Heng stood up from the sofa and looked outside. When he saw the familiar face who was old but still tidied up , Eye sockets turned red all of a sudden.

In the memory he inherited, because his mother passed away early, his father had to work at that time, his younger brother was less than one year old, and he was only six years old. Thanks to his aunt who was only 16 years old at that time, he took care of them every day.

"Jianguo, why don't you go in, why are you standing at the door?"

"Oh, Mom, it's all right."

"Qiaomei, stop barking, quickly see who this is."

The old man had already walked to the door of the living room, looked at his wife with a smile on his face and said, pointing backwards.

"Who? Who's here?"

In view of his father's reaction when he saw Li Hengshi just now, Li Fenyang gave his wife a wink and walked to his mother's side. They each held his mother's arm.

Although she was a little surprised why her son and daughter-in-law came to support her, Li Qiaomei didn't say anything, just followed her husband's hand and looked into the house.

This glance, as if spanning 40 years, brought her back to that era of war and chaos.

However, the old lady's heart quality is really good. Although her whole body trembled slightly, she still stood there steadily, and her vision was so accurate that she recognized the person who appeared in front of her at a glance.

"Erheng?"

"Sister-in-law, it's been 40 years."

"You dead child!" The old lady broke away from her son and daughter-in-law's hand, walked up to Li Heng, raised her arm, and patted his chest twice.

"You still know 40 years, where have you been all these years?"

The old lady was already in tears at this time, she stretched out her trembling hands and raised her head to hold the face of this nephew whom she had been thinking about day and night for 40 years, gently rubbing it.

"I'm sorry, sister-in-law, it's my nephew's fault for worrying you for so many years."

"It has nothing to do with you, it has nothing to do with you, it's all because of the damn war. Er Heng, where's your dad? Where's Xiao Yuan? Where are they now? Are they okay?"

As the old lady asked, she turned her head and looked behind Li Heng. When she saw Yichen standing behind her, her expression became more excited.

"Erheng, Erheng, this is..."

"Yichen, come here and kowtow to your aunt."

"Here comes dad"

With a "gudong", Yichen didn't even hesitate when he heard his father's words. He took a step forward, knelt down and kowtowed.

"Hello, aunt, my name is Li Yichen, and I'm your great nephew. On behalf of me and my brothers and sisters, I would like to greet you."

"Okay, okay, hahaha... Get up, get up, let my aunt have a look, okay, that's great, our old Li's family has a son, who looks just like your father did before."

The old lady didn't even bother to wipe the tears off her face, she hurriedly helped Yichen up, looked at his handsome face and tall stature, and said cheerfully.

"Tell my aunt, how old is this year, and whether you have a daughter-in-law."

"Grandma, I just turned [-] and haven't graduated from college yet."

"twenty?"

Hearing this number, the old lady was stunned for a moment: "Yichen, are you the boss?"

"Yes, I am the boss."

"Er Heng, why did you have a child so late? You don't have a child until you are 40? Can your father agree?"

"I said Qiaomei, let's stop standing, sit down and talk."

"That's right, I'm old too, sit down, sit down, come to Yichen, sit with my aunt, and Erheng, sit down too."

The old lady pulled Yichen to let him sit with her.

"Yichen, tell your aunt how many younger brothers and sisters you have."

"Grandma, there are six younger brothers and sisters in the family. This time, I am the only one who accompanied my father."

"Okay!" The old lady patted her thigh happily: "Lao Li's family has finally prospered in your generation."

"Erheng, you did a good job, maybe your dad's mouth is crooked?"

Seeing his aunt mentioning his grandfather, Yichen glanced sideways at his father, seeing that he had nothing else to say, and then said cautiously: "Auntie, my grandfather is long gone."

"No...not here anymore? This...this...Erheng..."

"Sister-in-law, it's true, my father and Xiaoyuan are gone."

"Xiaoyuan isn't here anymore? Did it happen when we got separated?"

"It wasn't that time. Speaking of which, my uncle and I happened to be talking about this just now. My uncle said that he went to look for him when he went to Sijiu City for a meeting in January [-]. In fact, my father and Xiaoyuan met at the end of [-] because of an accident. Died unexpectedly."

Li Heng didn't say anything about the secret agents. Where is the official announcement? If you really want to look for it, it was actually published in the newspapers back then.

"I was still in the army at the time, and it was already March of [-] when I got the news. At that time, I applied to be discharged from the army and returned to my hometown. I happened to miss it with my uncle."

Perhaps it was because she was getting older, and she could read it. After hearing that her eldest brother and another nephew had passed away in an accident, the old lady just lowered her head and wiped her tears, and then returned to normal.

That’s right, it’s been more than 30 years, and it’s no matter how sad it is now, people who came from that era of war and chaos, the most common thing may be to say goodbye, anyway, there is still a nephew, this is a Something to be happy about.

(End of this chapter)