The Duan family member looked up and muttered: "Which nobleman is this? It's a big style." He stared at the five or six rack trucks piled with large boxes behind him for several times, even if they were all packed in it. It's a valuable thing, look at the brass lock on the box almost two slaps big. The New Year is about to come, I'm afraid this is also rushing home.
He was guessing nonchalantly, a fifty or sixty-year-old man jumped out of the sedan chair behind him, wearing a large gray cotton robe, and running towards him with his robe horns.
He thought that the man was coming to ask for directions. He saw that the clothes he was wearing were old, but they were worth more than a dozen dollars. The thick cotton looked warm, and he quickly put away the broom and smiled and waited for it. Someone came to talk to him, thinking that he might get two rewards.
The man ran over to see him with a smirk and didn't know how to move, and frowned, "What are you doing standing stupid? Don't hurry back and tell the old lady, the old man is back!"
The subordinates of that period didn't react at first, and these words didn't come into their heads. Then he turned his head to look at those cars, the man pushed him, urging: "What else to look at? Why don't you go back and tell your family?"
The man came back to his senses. He knelt down and knocked his head in front of the car with a plop. He got up and ran into the door with the broom on his back. He yelled, "Master...Master, come back." That's it! The Great Master is back!!"
The man saw that the next person yelled and ran in, and glanced in disgust. There are no rules in a small place!
At this time, the car behind also followed, and the car in front stopped. The man hurried over and lifted the curtain to help a fat man wrapped in a brocade robe and a big gray cloak in the car. With a smile on his face, he said, "Master, I'm home."
The man got out of the car and stood there. It looked like a meat mountain from a distance, but was twice as wide as the footman next to the foot of the foot. After he got down, he held the man's arm and looked at the door of the old house in front of him and sighed, "Yes, I'm home."
The second wife was still lying in the bed. Suddenly the door outside the yard slammed. She stood up and cursed, "Who looked at the door? Is this on fire or dead! Call a ghost!"
The second master who was sleeping next to him frowned and said, "Can you say something nice for the Chinese New Year?" As he said, he sat up with his clothes.
The second wife scolded, "I played the midnight card with the old immortal last night. I just closed my eyes and called the door! This still prevents me from living!"
The second master said perfunctorily: "If you are not happy, just ask someone to beat the lady-in-law, and it will be fine? Don't be angry with yourself."
The second wife snorted coldly, and she pulled down her clothes and drew on her shoes and raised the curtain to call the outhouse vigil girl to get up: "Go and open the door! See which one is at the funeral!"
The girl was putting a padded jacket on her body. After hearing her words, she couldn't even care about the tie, and even nodded and ran to open the door.
The second wife felt the cold wind blowing in when she opened the door, closed the curtain and went back to the kang to lie down, wrapped in a quilt. The second master pushed her and said, "It's all this point, let's get up. Don't sleep."
The second wife rolled her eyes and said, "Why do you wake up now? The old lady is still in a dream now! I can't get up!" She said, rolling over and closing her eyes face inward.
The second master had nothing to do with her, so he got off the kang by himself, thinking about asking outside to ask what had happened, the girl opened the door and her voice changed: "Second lady! Second master! The big master is back!! "
"What?!" The second master was shocked!
"What are you talking about? The old man is back?" The second wife heard that Gulu jumped off the kang, wrapped in clothes and ran out, pulling the girl and asked urgently, "Is someone coming back to deliver the letter? Where is the person going now? When will you get home?"
The girl stomped anxiously and said: "The person is already at the gate! No one came back to deliver the letter! I heard that he brought the person back by himself, and there are five or six cars!"
The second wife and the second master looked at each other, and immediately rushed back to the room to put on clothes, and then repeatedly asked the girls to send hot water to wash them.
The second lady put on her clothes, wiped her face, combed her head, and she didn't care about the meal, so she went straight to the old lady's house. The second master packed up and went around the house twice before stomping to find the master Duan.
The old lady just fell asleep. When the second wife passed by, the girls all got up and cleaned up, but no one dared to call the old lady. Seeing the second wife came over, immediately surrounded him like a savior. This asked the eldest master if he really came back? That said, the second wife, she didn't dare to call the old lady right now, she hadn't been asleep for a while.
The second wife asked the girls to prepare hot water, and she opened the curtain and entered the old lady's room.
The old lady only let the second wife go back in the second half of the third shift last night. She asked the girl to play with her, and it was less than an hour after she lay down. The second wife also knew about her habit. She cautiously walked to the Kang's head and called her in a low voice. After yelling a few times, she didn't respond. She pushed two carefully. The old lady shivered and opened her eyes slowly, and she hurriedly moved over. Said: "Mother? Mother, the eldest brother is back!" He said while pushing her.
It took a while for the old lady to recognize the second wife, and said "wowly": "Second daughter-in-law, "women"? What are you doing here now?" She turned her head and looked around, "It's time to eat?" Struggling to get up, the second wife hurried up to help, and took a round pillow to lean on her. The girl brought hot water to wash her face, and while waiting for the old lady to wash her face and rinse her mouth, she said, "Mother, brother is back. Yes! I heard it's outside!"
When the old lady heard it, she swallowed her mouthwash. She raised her head and grabbed the second lady and asked anxiously: "What you said is true?"
The second wife made her grasp her hand sorely, and she didn't dare to hide, she could only curse in her stomach to relieve her anger, and smiled on her face: "Yes! I heard that I just arrived!"
The old lady is so happy! For a while, I didn’t know what to do, and he said, “Ah, this, let me ask him to come in!” He jumped to the ground without putting on his clothes, and was held by the second wife, and quickly asked the girl to come and give it to him. She put on clothes, squatted down and put on shoes for her.
The old lady wanted to run out to see her eldest son immediately, so she didn't want to wait for a moment in a panic. The second wife didn't feel like it, she pulled the old woman into a smile and said, "Mother, don't worry, the eldest brother will come in now!"
The old lady pushed her away and cursed: "That's my son! The son I haven't seen in decades! Go away!"
The second wife was scolded by the old lady for the first time, and her face suddenly turned blue with anger in front of a girl in a house. Seeing the old lady staggering outwards, the girl on one side looked back at the second lady and did not dare to go up to help. When she was in the life of waiting for the old lady, she never had to worry about others. If someone helped the old lady before her, she would never spare that person lightly when she looked back. Since the second wife got married for decades, some people have suffered because of this. Most of the girls have been sold quietly by her, and the older wife and Duan Zhang were thrown away in the small yard with them. The son and daughter-in-law "wife" used to eat, and the old lady used the leftovers to eat, one moved out with his belongings, and still dare not come back. These girls know the second wife's methods, but now no one dares to step forward and give a hand when the old lady can't walk.
With a smile on the face of the second wife, she followed the old lady so unhurriedly. She didn't go up to help, nor did she let the girl-in-law to help, she just watched the old lady holding on to the wall and moving out step by step.
It was time to step up the threshold, and the second wife went up to help the old lady. When she arrived in the outbuilding, she hadn't even sat down and asked someone to come over and ask, the old lady suddenly rushed in and asked with a pale face: "I heard that the boss is back?! Isn't it!" Her voice was trembling, and she rushed to the old lady in a hurry. Asked, "Mother! Are you telling me this is true?"
The old lady pushed her away impatiently and said: "Yes! Yes! Stand further! I can't see the outside!" As she said, she pushed the big lady open, and then asked the girl to open the door curtain and open the door. Open the yard door, and then she leaned forward and craned her neck to look out of the door.
Seeing the wind, the second wife blew into the room and told people to close the brazier. The mother-in-law came and said that the door was open and the wind was blowing, and the ash should fly everywhere when the door was open.
"It's bad if you squint in your eyes." The woman said, pointing at the old lady with her chin raised. It's easy to say anyone who squinted her eyes, but she couldn't say anything if she squinted her eyes. The brazier was originally kind. She was afraid that people would catch the cold. The old lady didn't care so much. When she wanted to scold someone, she didn't care if others were doing her good.
The second wife thought that it was the same thing, asking someone to bring thick clothes to wrap the old lady, and also asked people to take a few more hand stoves and stuff them into the place where the old lady was sitting, put one on her leg and one under her feet.
The old lady didn't care about this, she couldn't stretch her neck to the door. While pushing the second wife, he said, "Go and see! Why haven't you come here so late!"
The second wife knew in her heart that the second master must have stopped in the past. She smiled and said: "Mother, don't worry, I'll ask someone to go and see."
The eldest lady hurriedly stood up to catch up with her as if she had lost her soul, and said, "My second child, I'll go with you!"
The second wife pushed her and said: "You are here with your mother." Then she walked out without waiting for the older lady to react. The older lady wanted to catch up, but she didn't dare to throw the old lady into the house alone. Inside, stood at the door and turned in a circle. The old lady looked at her blocking the door and cursed: "Look at you like that! It's as if you haven't seen a man in a few lifetimes! Why don't you come back and sit down soon! Let the people in the whole house see you as a joke?"
The old lady came over with tears, bowed her head and sat next to the old lady, and said in a low voice: "Mother, the boss finally came back, don't quarrel with him, otherwise if he leaves again, he will not see the shadow for decades... Then we What can you do with your mother..." The more I talked, the more I got scared, and I started crying after covering my face.
The old lady made her upset and scolded, "Is that I arguing with him? Let him go and call his father back! He is good, people didn't call him back and even threw them there! This kind of unfilial son died. I don’t feel distressed outside! Don’t cry! I’m not dead yet, what kind of funeral is your name!" Turning around and shouting, "I’ll wash your face with your eldest lady!"
The girl helped the big lady down, and the old lady asked someone to go outside to remind him: "Why haven't you come? Go and see!"
The woman agreed to take a trot out. When she got outside the courtyard, she just saw the second master and the second wife walking here with one person. She took a closer look. Although the appearance has changed a lot, the face is really a big master, hi. The old woman hurriedly went up and knocked her head and said, "Master! The old lady was still talking about you just now!"
The second wife hurriedly said to her mother-in-law: "Go! Tell my mother to go!" The mother-in-law was dragged away by her, and the elder said with a smile to the second elder: "Second, younger brothers and sisters are still in such an uproar.
The second master hurriedly laughed and said, "Let the big brother watch the joke." While talking, he looked at the satin robe of the big master with eyesight. Using such a good material to make a cotton robe is not afraid of being worn out. It is a pity that the big master is also People in their early forties, this hair is still black and shiny like a twenty-year-old boy, I don't know what good things he has eaten in the south.
The eyes of the second master were not enough, but the master Duan followed behind silently. As before, he was the most inconspicuous when the three brothers were together.
The eldest man, as if he had just remembered it, turned around and smiled and called him: "My third son, are your two sons married? Hao Fang came back and said that they were married last time. This time the two nephews and daughters-in-laws are married. "Are you all here? I want to see you!"
Master Duan hurriedly came over and bowed and said with a smile: "Naturally, I want to call over and let Brother take a look."
The three brothers walked into the old lady's room kindly.
The old lady stood up trembling, and tremblingly stretched out her hand and said, "Boss..."
The elder yelled: "Mother!" He rushed to kneel and hugged the old lady's legs and cried. The second master and Duan also knelt down and raised their sleeves to cover their faces and cried. Weeping loudly, the crying shook the sky for a while.
The second wife covered her face with a veil, sobbing and sobbing, taking a peek or two from time to time, and seeing the second master upturned and howling, there was no wetness on her face, so she couldn't help but scream at Xiaoxinyan! Can't apply saliva? Keep your head down even if you don't slobber! Looking at Master Duan again, he was crying lively, but he didn't know that he had pinched himself a few times secretly. In a room of girls, most of the girls are smart, they can’t cry hard to "rub their eyes", "kneading" it is like crying. Most of the girls are screaming with their throats and laughing at each other. This kind of going back must be a good lesson! The masters are wiping tears, what are you laughing at!
Looking at the old lady again, she was crying so hard that she could barely breathe. The second wife hurried over to help the old lady persuade: "Mother, the eldest brother just came back, this is a happy event! Don't cry soon!" Tears, before she waited for her to help the old man get up, he himself stood on his knees and said, "Yes, mother, my son is back. This is a happy event, mother don't be sad anymore."
The second wife looked at it again, the old man's face was also dry, just howling too hard and blushing.
Bah, it's not a good thing. The second wife laughed secretly, and made a "great look" for the second master to come over and help his elder brother.
The elder was overwhelmed and unable to stand up. The second elder hurried over to help him, holding him on one side and couldn't help him alive. There was no way to come back and call the elder Duan. The two brothers worked hard together to pull the elder up. Good guy, catch up with a pig! When the meat was delivered the other day, there were four or five plates on a pallet. The second master deliberately went over and watched them carry them down. He saw two strong young men carrying a plate of meat and putting it on the straw mat. I tried it before, but now I think about it, the old man is heavier than that.
The second old man compared the white-eaten old man with the pig in his stomach, holding back his smile and suffocating his breath, and then raised his face again. The second wife saw that she knew she was crying now? Eye circles are red.
After the family sat down, the old lady asked the old man, "Where is your father? Didn't come back with you?"
The big lady became anxious when she heard the old lady's question, and rushed: "Mother! Didn't you say you don't want to mention this? The boss just came back! You can let him rest first!"
The old man just filled his face with a smile before he had time to speak, he heard the woman next to him who he thought was a mother-in-law talking about the old lady calling her mother, and she looked at it carefully, her eyes widened and she couldn't believe it and shouted: "... Fengjiao?" Lord God! The big master's eyes almost fell to the ground!
The elder lady heard the master calling her, and her eyes were filled with tears, looking at the master affectionately and shouting: "The master..."
The old man's face was stiff, and he smiled for a long time: "...I haven't seen you in a few years, you, this is almost impossible to recognize, haha, haha."
The big lady's heart sank, her hand unconsciously went to "touch" her hair, "touch" her face, and then "touch" her own clothes. Seeing the dark and old style, she hated herself for hearing the news. I forgot to change into nice clothes and come out again! The hair should be combed well, and the rouge should be more even!
The old man ignored her, turned his head and smiled and said to the old lady: "Father asked me to come back for a look and bring me something for you. Dad always thinks about home, but he can't walk away over there." The old lady thought Scolding, why can't you go away! Pooh! It must have caused the foxes over there to get rid of the soul! But what the eldest wife said earlier, she was indeed afraid. If the eldest son was scolded by her again this time, she might not see the two of them coming back when she closed his eyes. I swallowed this words back, pulling his hand and just asking about how he was living there, what he usually eats, what clothes he wears, whether he is sick, whether he has taken "medicine" when he is sick. Take care of yourself over there. Talking about it’s almost noon, the old lady patted his hand and said, “You go back and change your clothes first, and you also see your son. Come over to dine with me later.”
The old man promised to lead the old lady out.
The old lady called the second wife and asked her if she had prepared more dishes at noon, and then asked her to go to the restaurant outside to order a table and noodles. She sighed, "Hey, there is nothing to eat at home, so let the outside master cook it. "I told him about the things he loved to eat when he was a child. He didn’t like any flavors. He said that he should put more vinegar and less salt. He said that you shouldn’t put soy sauce in any dishes. The old man is not used to soy sauce. taste. The second wife listened with a smile, and after studying it again, she went out, her face sank as soon as she got out of the house, and she dared to curse softly when she walked out of the yard: "Bah! Don't eat soy sauce! Hungry for three days to see if he eats or not! "
The eldest lady led the eldest man back to the yard, but she didn’t care to say more and quickly asked her son and daughter-in-law to lead the little grandson to let the eldest master take a look.
The elder was much more affectionate when he saw his son. He pulled it over and looked up and down, and sighed: "When I left, you were not as high as the kang, and in a blink of an eye even the son was there!" Holding the hand of the big lady, he said, "I have suffered for you these years."
The old lady cried loudly, and the old master hurriedly persuaded: "In front of the child, don't do this."
The elder wife forced her to stop, and called her daughter-in-law "women" to bring the little grandson over and let the grandpa see him. The grandpa picked up the little grandson and said with joy, "This kid is really heavy!" Then she turned around and asked how old the little grandson was. ? what's your name
The little grandson put up both hands and gestured with "milk" and said angrily: "Nine years old." The daughter-in-law "women" next to him quickly took the hand of the little grandson and said, "Eight years old, only nine years old. Years old."
The elder hurriedly took out the money bag from his arms, counted nine silver barleys and put them in the palm of the little grandson's hand and said, "Grandpa didn't bring you any good things, let's play with them."
The daughter-in-law "women" quickly tweeted: "He has a child, which is too expensive."
The eldest wife said, "My grandfather gave it to me, just hold it." The eldest daughter-in-law "wife" stopped talking, and stood aside with the child in her arms.
The old man looked at the little grandson very intimately, and then beckoned to come back, hugging and asking the eldest wife: "What's the name of the child?"
The eldest wife curled her lips and said, "No name, just like the boss yelling."
The old man smiled bitterly: "The children are so old, why can't they even have a name?"
The eldest wife sneered: "Mother said the name should be given to father. If he doesn't come back, he won't be able to afford the name!"
The old man shook his head when he heard it, and the old lady said again: "Don't look at him, he is not named. The one in the three-bedroom house is also three years old, and he is not named."
The elder did not answer, the eldest lady did not say anything when he saw him, and then wiped out tears and said: "You have gone away for so many years and will not come back, so we will only keep a few of our mothers here, and look at people's faces every day. While crying, he pulled the little grandson and pulled the clothes on his body and said, "Look! This is the clothes that the second "milk" and "milk" made for the child! They are all old materials, but they are used by Haofeng from their family. leftover!"
The old man only noticed when the old lady mentioned it. He sold cloth for a lifetime, and he could tell at a glance what kind of cloth the little grandson was wearing. He called the grandson back and held it in his arms, pulling his sleeves at the neckline and looking at it carefully, and his brows wrinkled.