Siheyuan: This driver is too arrogant

Chapter 168 The same virtue as the dead old ghost! (seeking subscription)

Some of the snow chickens flapped their wings and flew away, but there were still more than 30 of them that were firmly trapped by live buckles, rolled their eyes and became human prey.

"So many!" Liu Weidong was also amazed at the richness of Changbai Mountain's products. He caught more than 30 of them casually once!

Every snow chicken was chubby, and when he squeezed it with his hands, it was full of meat. He imitated Xing Liwen, tied the legs of the snow chicken with hemp rope, strung them into a string, and carried them on his shoulders. Looking at them from afar , like a bunch of candied haws.

"Go back first!"

Although they got so many snow chickens, the meeting with the tiger left a serious psychological shadow on several people. They didn't dare to wander around in this mountain forest anymore. They carried the snow chickens on their backs and hurried down the mountain back to Huzigou.

Xing Liwen didn't recover until he was sitting on the warm kang at home. This encounter really scared him out of his wits!

"Mom, you don't know, that tiger weighs five or six hundred catties, is about ten feet long, and its claws are bigger than your cigarette basket!" Xing Liwu babbled about the thrilling experience just now to his old lady, who was smoking a cigarette. , grinned, "Mom, why don't you know, what's so strange about tigers, Han Bianwai used to raise three at home, and I fed them food out of nowhere. Pounce!"

"Does Han Bian's family still keep tigers?" Liu Weidong was also very surprised, and the old lady nodded, "I think you have skills now, I will learn from others, that is really rich, let me tell you ..."

The old lady narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the newspaper on the roof, and said slowly, "I went to Hanbian's family when I was 16 years old. My father, your grandfather, was doing the work for their family. Grandma Han said If there is a lack of a maid, your father said to send our second girl to you, and you will reward her with a bowl of rice if you look at it, why don't I go now, and give me two dollars a month..."

Liu Weidong sat at the top of the kang, listening to the old lady talk about the past, Aunt Xing Wang brought a basket of fried pine nuts and poured them on the kang, calling Liu Weidong to eat.

"This thing is so old and hard to chew with your teeth, you bring the pliers!" Xing Liwen muttered, and was knocked on the forehead by the old lady with a cigarette bag, "Don't make noise, I completely forgot about it!"

Xing Liwen is 60 years old, and he was not annoyed by his wife knocking a cigarette bag. He rubbed his head and grinned.

At this age, there are still mothers who slap and scold, but how many people envy the blessing of not coming!

"Old Han's family is a big family. It is divided into more than ten rooms. The head of the house is Han Zisheng. He is 1.8 meters tall. The eldest wife's surname is Tan. Later, he married a female student named Sun and filled the second room..."

"I vividly remember that year, it seems that Guangxu has lived for so many years. A high-ranking official came to the capital, dressed in colorful clothes like a troupe, and ran to the door of Lao Han's house, shouting for orders at the top of his voice. Did you kneel down? I didn’t understand a single word that the senior official said. The old man was very happy. As soon as he waved his hand and said to set up a banquet, we all got to work, killing pigs and sheep, men drinking, We women followed the eldest wife to eat in the back room, and the eldest wife said Cuizhi, go and get the wine, and we women will have a drink too! I went to the wine cellar to hold a jar of small burnt wine, and filled it up for everyone..."

Liu Weidong only now knows that the old lady's real name is Lan Cuizhi!

It sounds good!

"How did the Han family lose? It was because of the butler, Xiao Fengwu. What the hell, this kid is hooking up with little devils, taking out the money from the Han family for stealing chickens..."

"Speculation." Liu Weidong couldn't help reminding in a low voice.

"Anyway, it doesn't matter what you stole. It must have been a good intention. This time, the old Han family's property was wiped out, and they owed money to the warlord. The Han family swept the cracks in the floor several times. , sold everything that should be sold, and then returned the money to others, but now the family has also lost, and the people have dispersed. It is really hard to go on and make things right, so let's go back to the hometown in Guanli with the family..."

The old lady said something and sighed that such a big Han family lost overnight. Thinking about it now, it was just like what happened yesterday, and she couldn't help feeling emotional.

"At that time, the eldest lady told me Cuizhi, you have been with me for so long, I think Xiao Xing is a good kid, let's make a matchmaker for you two! Your father was some kind of platoon leader under Huzigou Mariezi at that time. , To put it bluntly, they are bandits. I don't want to in my heart, but can we be the masters of life-long affairs in those years? The eldest wife talked to your grandfather and helped us get married. The next year I had you This little bastard..." The old lady knocked on Xing Liwen's forehead again, and her tone slowly became low again, "After the Chinese New Year, the old lady will be gone, and then the old Han family will go down in a hurry, causing the family to be destroyed..."

"Then my mother..."

Finally, Liu Weidong couldn't bear to bring this up again. The old lady didn't refuse this time, but sighed, "Your mother is the granddaughter of the eldest lady. We are all called Miss Si. She has been good-looking since she was a child, with big eyes, and You have the same eyes, and you'll attract attention wherever you go, and I even carried her to Xingfuzhai to buy buns..."

"What happened later?" Liu Weidong didn't want to hear about Baozi, he just wanted to know how my mother married my father.

"Later, when the family was ruined, the fourth lady followed her family into the customs. I heard people say that within a few years after going back, all the money I brought with me was lost by the eldest young master, that is, your grandfather. Sell ​​your mother to a carpenter who goes to work at his house..."

sold to

carpenter……

Could it be...

Liu Weidong felt his head buzzing, co-authoring that the two of them got together like this!

It sounds absurd enough now, but was such a thing unusual in those days?

"You are 21 this year, right? That was the year you were born. Someone from the Han family came back from Guanli and said that your mother had a relationship with a carpenter who was a round older than her and gave birth to a boy. It is likely to be you. Listen to that person Say, your dad..."

The old lady snorted, apparently dissatisfied with the love between the carpenter and Miss Fourth, "It's not good! Honestly, Mu, three punches won't make a dull fart!"

"My mother said that she liked my father..." Liu Weidong blushed and said to the old carpenter, and the old lady knocked on the cigarette pouch, "It's good to think about it now, at least you can support the family, and there is more. Daughter-in-law, by the way, I have to tell you one thing..."

The old lady took out a handkerchief from her pocket, untied it, took out [-] cents and stuffed it to Liu Weidong, "When I go back, I will buy some burning paper for your mother. I have dreamed about her all these years, holding my thigh called Lan Aunt, let me hold her to buy candy, now I feel sad when I think about it..."

"It's all in the past, old lady, you don't have to be sad..." Liu Weidong took the money and put it in his pocket, and the smell of stewed snow chicken with mushrooms was already wafting from outside the house.

The meal was very depressing. Although the taste of the snow chicken was delicious, Liu Weidong didn't taste much, and his mind was full of what the old lady said just now.

No wonder my mother never mentioned this paragraph before she was alive!

My dad!
To be honest, Liu Weidong is also full of resentment towards the old carpenter, but what can he do, after all, he is his own father, and a son can give his own father two blows, telling him to stay away from Aunt Han, stand up, don't always be alone A wimpy, hopeless look...

In the future, if you have a child with Ge Ge, you can bring it yourself, don't let the old man infect you with all the problems!
Seeing him with his hair lowered in a daze, the old lady picked up her chopsticks and tapped Xing Liwen's head, "Let me tell you, it's all right now, it's frustrating for people and children..."

"It's not something we can hide..." Xing Liwen muttered, "There are still many old Han family members in Ant Valley! People will ask if they don't..."

"Okay, let's eat!" The old lady suddenly became angry with her eldest son!
Have the same virtue as a dead old ghost!
Liu Weidong also wanted to go to the Ant Ditch to meet the Han family, but the old lady said that it was unnecessary, "Since the Han family became the master, weasels gave birth to mice, and one generation is not as good as the next. This family is completely defeated. Go and see it." If you don’t want to be strong in your heart, don’t go!”

Well, people have already talked about this, if I go again, I will really be a little ungrateful.

Through the understanding of the history of the old Han family, Liu Weidong deeply realized that the rise of a family is often the result of the efforts of several generations, but the decline of a family is much simpler, and one or two prodigal sons is enough.

Xing Liwu is not interested in these things, he is now focusing all his attention on the sables, sitting at his eldest brother's house all afternoon, playing with the iron traps for catching sables, Xing Liwen shook his head.

"Second brother, if you use this kind of barbed clip to catch the sable, wouldn't the skin be torn if the clip goes down? Will it still be sold at a higher price?"

"Then what are you talking about!" Xing Liwu rolled his eyes and shouted in a muffled voice.

"Forget it, I'll take you there tomorrow!" Xing Liwen grinned helplessly at Xing Liwu, "Well, once you go up the mountain, there will be no living things you can't catch!"

"Stop beeping, hurry up and tidy up these rags, it's rusted like this..."

In winter, it was freezing cold, Liu Weidong sat on the kang, guarding the brazier with the old lady, the old lady peeled melon seeds for the youngest grandson Xing Zhenlu to eat, and babbled about the past with Liu Weidong.

"Our hometown is also in Guanli, Lanjiazhuang, Hejian Prefecture, Guannei. Then there was a severe drought one year, and the land was smoking. The ancestors saw that they couldn't survive, so they quickly packed up and went to Guandong. My grandfather chose There are two baskets, my father is sitting in front, and my aunt is sitting in the back, so I came to Changbai Mountain..."

The older people are, the more they like to tell these old stories, maybe it is a summary of their own life!
"Changbai Mountain is still poor here. It depends on the mountains and eats the mountains. You can't be hungry but you can't make a fortune. The real rich go to the west. The Mongolian princes let go of wasteland. Ten big sons and one mu of land. One of my grandfather's brother-in-law I went there and bought thirty yards of barren land in one go. Within a few years, the family started to raise money. They built earthen walls and cannon buildings, and people gave them the nickname Wan Wanwan. After earning money, they bought land. Later, the old Yang’s family The land can’t be seen at a glance, and there are more than 300 long-term workers in the family!”

"That's a big landlord!" Liu Weidong secretly admired these people, one Han Bianwai and one Yang Wanwan, they are all talented people who have worked hard to get rich with their own hands!

The old lady chuckled, "Big landlords are useless. What is the name of Yang Wanwan's grandson? It's called Yang Xiaozhuan. That's because her mother is a prodigal son. She made money by throwing the sweat beads of his grandfather and father on the ground." Dayang carried the baskets to the gambling house, and within a few years, the house was gone and the land was gone, and in the end he was begging for food on a stick, and a few years ago he came to us for food."

"What about now?" Liu Weidong asked intentionally, the old lady curled her mouth and took a puff of cigarette, "But talk, in 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, Yang Xiaozhuan, who was a mother, is now trembling. Let’s not talk about it, I will.”

The old lady pulled a pillow, lay on the kang, and fell asleep in less than a minute.

"Big brother, grandma sleeps so fast!" Xing Zhenlu looked down at the snoring old lady and giggled. Liu Weidong told him not to disturb the old lady's nap.

He led Xing Zhenlu out the door, to the freezing outside, a gust of cold wind blew, making him shiver.

Xing Zhenlu ran to the two big yellow dogs, squatted down, squeezed their ears and pulled their beards. The two dogs looked unloved, and let their little master torture them with cold faces.

"Brother, look, this dog doesn't bite people!"

"Bear boy..." Liu Weidong smiled, saw Xing Liwen brought something into the room, and rushed to meet him, "Uncle Xing, are you a bow and arrow?"

"Yes, bow and arrow, your second uncle is so noisy that he wants to shoot the sable. You can't use a gun to shoot the sable, or the sable will be full of eyes with one shot."

"When the bow and arrow hit it, didn't the sable's skin also poke holes?"

Xing Liwen shook his head with a smile, and handed him an arrow made of birch wood. Liu Weidong took it and looked at it, and immediately understood!
　The matter of Yang Wanwan is the matter of my grandfather's family. The famous big landlord back then lost all his family property by eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and pissed off his old lady. Within a few years... poor peasants!
　　It's all on point.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)