Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

"Huizhen, Lao Cai, you are finally here. Ruirui, call me great-grandpa, great-grandma."

"Great-grandpa, great-grandma."

"Hey."

"Third aunt, third uncle, Jingping, Xiaokun..."

"Second sister."

"Aunt, I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you so much."

"Second Aunt misses you too. Come to Second Aunt's house when you have time. Second Aunt will take you to eat delicious food."

"Rui Rui, do you know me?"

"Uncle grandpa."

"Good job, kid. You even know your uncle. Come, let your uncle hug you." Yang Yukun took Cai Wenrui from Cheng Xueru.

"Ruirui, do you know me?" Ming Chengjing scratched the little guy's nose.

Cai Zhen smiled and said, "Rui Rui, this is my cousin."

"Cousin."

Chen He smiled and said, "Rui Rui, what about me? How should you call me?"

"Ruirui, this is my uncle." Cai Zhen said, "These two are also my uncles. This is my aunt. These are my uncle and aunt."

Fan Yonglan said with a smile: "Ruirui, come to your aunt, and your aunt will take you to play."

Xu Jingping said, "Second sister, why didn't your second brother-in-law and Xiaohao come?"

He Chunfen said: "Your second brother-in-law is not free, and Xiaohao refused to come."

Yang Yukun said: "What's wrong with this kid? Why is he getting more and more introverted as he grows up?"

Speaking of which, Yang Yukun hasn't seen Chen Hao for several years.

The last time I saw this kid was five years ago when Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping went to Shencheng and sat at my second sister's house for a while.

Later, when they went to Shencheng to visit their second sister and brother-in-law, this guy never showed up.

Moreover, this kid hasn't been to the imperial capital for more than 20 years. Every year, the only ones who go back to the imperial capital to pay New Year's greetings are his second sister and brother-in-law.

Whenever asked why they didn't bring the child, my second sister and brother-in-law always said the same thing: the kid refused to go.

Their whole family created a QQ group, and the children and their cousins ​​also created a group. Chen Hao was in both groups, but he had never spoken in the group.

I tagged this kid, but he rarely replies. I don’t know if he really didn’t see it.

In the children's words, they couldn't even remember what their second cousin Chen Hao looked like. If they met face to face on the street, no one would recognize each other.

If their older generation died, Chen Hao would probably never have any contact with these cousins ​​again.

It really proves the saying that one generation can recognize the second generation, but the third and fourth generations cannot recognize each other.

"Oh, this child's personality makes Chen Xiang and I worried." He Chunfen sighed deeply.

Since he was a child, he lost a fight with a girl in the alley and his friends laughed at him. Since then, his personality has become more and more introverted. He keeps everything in his heart and tells no one.

What worries He Chunfen and Chen Xiang the most is that their son is already 28 years old this year, and he is still single. He stays at home after get off work every day and never goes out with his friends.

Apart from two junior high school classmates with whom he has a good relationship, this child has no other friends.

I asked someone to introduce him to two girls, but both of them disliked him because he was too boring.

He Lixia said, "Second sister, have you taken him to the hospital to see if the child has any physical or psychological problems?"

"I've checked it out. There's nothing wrong with the physical aspect. The main problem is psychological. The child has isolated himself and refuses to contact the outside world."

"Find a psychiatrist to help him. He can't continue like this."

"It's no use."

The child has seen many psychologists since he was a child, but he himself is unwilling to come out of it, and no matter how many psychologists he sees, it is of no use.

In fact, this child does not look much different from a normal person on the surface. He will take the initiative to say hello when he meets acquaintances and goes to work and comes home normally every day. The main reason is that he refuses all social activities other than work, and he doesn't go out or contact others unless necessary.

He Chunfen and Chen Xiang are mainly worried that if the child continues like this, he won’t be able to find a girlfriend, start a family, and live a lonely life.

He Xiaoxia said: "The main reason is that Shencheng is too far away from the imperial capital. If we were in the imperial capital with Xiao Zongzi and the others, this wouldn't have happened.

When He He was a child, his personality was similar to Xiao Hao. He also didn’t like going out to play and liked to stay at home when he had nothing to do.

Xiao Zongzi said that if he stayed at home, she would beat him, and the child slowly changed his personality. "I was beaten by my eldest cousin a lot when I was young, but now in Qianmenlouzi, no matter which family I go to, it's like going home."

Because he didn't like going out when he was a child, Chen He was often beaten by his cousin.

He was very grateful to his eldest cousin and her friends for changing his personality of staying at home.

If his eldest cousin and her friends hadn't taken him out to play, his personality would probably be the same as that of his second cousin Chen Hao, even if it wasn't as serious, it wouldn't be much different.

Now he is very brave and not introvert at all. He feels like he is at home in the Qianmen building. If he meets a stranger, he can chat with him for a long time about all sorts of things. If he meets a cat or dog on the street, he can have a conversation with them with meows and barks.

Ming Chengjing smiled and said, "Since we were little, our cousin Little Zongzi has been taking us around the capital. It's hard for us to be dull with our personalities."

Ming Chengtian smiled and said, "Yes, I remember one night, I think I was only six years old at that time, my eldest cousin took us to climb the Badaling Great Wall by bicycle overnight."

Li He laughed and said, "When I went to my grandparents' house to play, my eldest cousin took us to the fields to catch loaches and chase the ducks that people were feeding. We all rolled in the mud."

Hou Li laughed and said, "I remember one time my eldest cousin took us to pick chestnuts. She climbed up a tree and shook it, and asked us to pick them up from below. A chestnut ball fell on my head and it pierced my head and made it bleed. My eldest cousin said it was okay, and she pulled up a handful of weeds and used a stone hammer to apply the fluff to my head."

Fan Yonglan laughed and said, "I was bullied at school once, and Sister Zongzi brought a large group of people to block the boy who was bullying me, and scared him so much that he started crying."

Fan Yongheng said: "Looking back now, it was really fun when I was a kid. It's a pity that Sister Xiao Zongzi came back less often after she started working."

He Xiaoxia smiled and said, "Little Zongzi is indeed the big sister of the kids of the same age in Qianmenlouzi. She is even more naughty than I was when I was a kid."

Xu Huizhen laughed and said, "Little Zongzi is no match for you. I forgot that when you were in Guangqumen Middle School, you threw firecrackers into the toilet while your head teacher was in the toilet, and your head teacher was covered in shit."

"Third Aunt, please give me some face in front of the children."

Seeing that her third aunt brought up her embarrassing incident again, He Xiaoxia looked helpless.

I can only blame myself for being young and ignorant at the time, and doing such an embarrassing thing that will accompany me for the rest of my life.

If she had known that this would become a topic of conversation in the alley for decades, she would never have done it.

"Ha ha……."

"whee……."

Yang Yukun and his group laughed again when they heard about He Xiaoxia's embarrassing incident of throwing firecrackers into the school toilet to blast the teacher when she was in school.

The fact that He Xiaoxia blew shit on her head teacher was known to everyone in the alley. This embarrassing incident will probably follow her for the rest of her life.

Even if she is old and passes away, people will probably still talk about her.

In a sense, He Xiaoxia has also left her name in the history of the alley.

…………

Chatting.

Time flies.

Before we knew it, we had started eating dinner and the banquet officially began at 3:30 in the afternoon.

In the north, banquets are usually held at noon, while in the south, banquets are usually held in the afternoon.

"Let's just sit here."

"It doesn't matter where you sit. If you see an empty seat, sit down and eat first. If there is no seat, wait for the next one. There are so many customers that we can't seat them all in one trip."

"Let's sit at this table. Xiaozhen, Xiaoli, the two of you come sit here."

"Third Uncle, you guys eat first."

"Then we won't wait for you. You are the hosts and we are the guests. We will eat first."

Although Yang Yukun's words seemed to be a joke, he was actually not wrong.

My eldest sister and her husband had already moved their registered residence to Guangzhou, and they came all the way from the capital as guests to have a drink.

Those neighbors who are busy running around in aprons are now the main family of the eldest sister and brother-in-law, not their relatives, friends, and neighbors in their hometown in the imperial capital.

After the banquet, it was still early, so Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping went for a walk nearby to digest the food, and Ming Chengjing and the other little ones went with them.

Zhiweilou Restaurant Yangcheng Branch and Yangcheng Zhiweilou City Plaza are not far from here, and it doesn’t take much time to drive there.

The group strolled around Yangcheng Zhiweilou City Square for two hours. When they returned to their eldest sister and brother-in-law's house, the banquet was over and the guests had left. Only my father-in-law, mother-in-law and some neighbors were still there.

They stayed in Yangcheng until the end of the National Day, and then Yang Yukun and his party returned to the imperial capital from Yangcheng.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law did not return to the capital with them, and stayed at the home of the eldest sister and brother-in-law with Cheng Xueru. (End of this chapter)