Work, do all the necessary formalities. As for Cheng Lan, he contacted her before he came back, but he didn't rush to find her, and it took him three months.
Three months is a struggle before sinking.
Returning to Peiping was actually a revisit to the old place. Li Langyu was fourteen years old when he last left, and it has been ten years since then. There was a familiar smell of fireworks in the air. When he came back, it was like a husband meeting his long-lost wife. "The wind and rain are dark, and the cocks are crowing. Seeing the gentleman, does Yunhu not like it?"
On the day Li Langyu went to Cheng Mansion, the spring flowers were blooming, and everything completed the transformation from winter to spring, including himself. His appearance is Zhou Zheng, his eyebrows are clear, he bears the appearance of his mother, and now he is bright enough. And the person he most wants to see, complete the transformation like him. The moment Li Langyu saw Cheng Hanliang, he felt the distance of ten years. The years left traces on the other person, not in the skin, but in the temperament of the whole body. Cheng Hanliang no longer had his fierce and rebellious eyes, but was warmer.
It's just that the two of them once shared the same family, but now they don't know each other.
Li Langyu and Cheng Lan got married in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. He lived peacefully and had occasional exchanges and discussions with Cheng Hanliang.
"Fearlessness shouldn't be admired all the time, people still have to be cowardly." Cheng Hanliang told him in the study, the newspaper on the table was full of the collapse of North China.
"Cowardice can't break the barrier, that's clinging to self-styled."
"Sticking to one's self-proclaimed self-proclaimed origin comes from human limitations, and cowardice can help me realize this." Cheng Hanliang smiled, his voice warm.
When Li Langyu heard the word "limitation", he remembered the philosophy class he took four years ago. He had become the solitary child, and he was in this limitation. He smiled and said, "I will not be cowardly."
Cheng Hanliang paused for a few seconds and asked without temperature, "Who is this sentence aimed at?"
Insight is what it should be, in a straight-forward way.
This was the autumn of 1947. Cheng Hanliang talked about "fearlessness" and "cowardice", a question that came out of nowhere. It brought a sense of crisis to Li Langyu for the first time. The spear was aimed at the solitary son who was trapped in the enemy camp. Ability will be avoided - "for my limitations".
Later, Li Langyu accompanied Cheng Hanliang to Guangzhou.
The night in Guangzhou is full of earthy smells. They saw someone setting up a chess game on the roadside, attracting many onlookers. The person who set up the bureau was an old man in his sixties, and the person who solved the bureau had everything. People were eager to try when they saw the reward was considerable. Li Langyu had learned Go and read some chess manuals, so he couldn't help showing interest.
Cheng Hanliang watched for a while, then tilted his head and asked, do you want to try it
He was a little surprised, but still said, we both didn't bring any money tonight, we have to lose if we lose.
Cheng Hanliang smiled, and suddenly said to the old man, let my young master meet you.
Li Langyu was pushed by him, and there was no way he could do anything but bite the bullet, and he had to win. In the endgame of the life-and-death problem, Li Langyu made a desperate attempt to "govern the orphan". He dismantled it on the spot, and the old man was familiar with the routine.
Winning, in the end is a happy thing.
Li Langyu looked at the endgame that was solved, and felt satisfied from the bottom of his heart. He was at the age of twenty-four. He was young, flirtatious, and handsome, like a tree in the wind, a geese in the sky, and a galloping horse in the desert. , supremely exuberant, supremely bright.
Cheng Hanliang pulled him to his side, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his fingers, and said, look, isn't this a win
He said it very lightly, Li Langyu was slightly dissatisfied, it was himself who was nervous and contributed, what if he lost.
Cheng Hanliang stared at him for a while, and suddenly raised a long-standing question - didn't you say you wouldn't be cowardly
It's another hit, but this time he doesn't have the eloquence he used to be.
And this question, like the identification of facts, seems unsolved.
Not long after returning from Guangzhou, Beiping entered winter. The winter of 1947 was very long, and the solitary Li Langyu could hardly speak.
The limitations of life have become even bigger, and this game of chess has become an end game. He is like a frog at the bottom of a well, trapped in a dry well, and he can only see the small sky above. He cannot go back or move forward. This is very tormenting. Every bone was withering, every piece of flesh was rotting, and he almost came to the end of the dead wood.
But the mountain is high and the road is far, and he has to walk a long distance.
This is a process of change from the dragon to the dragon. Both the concept and the reality have been whipped to the bone, and the pain has taken root and grows stronger day by day. He is a barren land that has been exploited. He wants to find a way out, but there is no way out.
In the second summer, he finally broke the cauldron, but he also paid a price. By his side was Cheng Hanliang, who had always been at odds with him.
Cheng Hanliang did not talk to him about "cowardice" this time, but expressed emotion about Ouyang Xiu's "The Preface to the Actors".
He said, don't be afraid, I am also in this endgame.
"Wisdom and bravery are often drowned, and my limitation lies in this." Cheng Hanliang said to him face to face, the light in his eyes was extremely pious.
The hint couldn't be more obvious. Li Langyu was immediately at a loss.
They faced each other in their fleshly desires. Cheng Hanliang made him naked, stripped him of his shame, and everything returned to the original power, full of desire. Li Langyu could only deliver himself in this scorching heat.
A long time later, Li Langyu dreamed several times that he was in class that year in college.
Professor Fang said that the facts were untouchable, and he finally got an epiphany in this endgame. The solitary child survived, seeking a result that was acceptable to each other. Cheng Hanliang's fruit is also his fruit. They had never been so close to each other, but luckily it wasn't too late.
That day, he jumped out of Xiaoye's car and returned to Peiping City without hesitation. He said that he was born and raised in Sri Lanka, and there are important people here. And this is the limitation that he did not explain to Cheng Hanliang.
Their confrontation or sword and sword shadows, or silent, or draw wages from the bottom of the pot, or gamble a lot of money, has become a "dead and dead problem".
Li Langyu's solitary son went deep and found that Cheng Hanliang was also a solitary son, and they became each other's limitations.
And all this is about to end.
1949, Spring. Li Langyu and Cheng Hanliang returned home, and a new magnolia was moved into the yard.
Extra Story "Searching for Jade" (Part 1)
"lost?"
Li Langyu stretched out the empty wooden box forward, and raised his eyebrows a bit.
Xiaoye raised his eyes and pursed his mouth into a straight line: "I also find it strange, that jade is so good, why did it disappear?" When he said this, half of his neck was shrunk, looking like a mink, hiding in his robe inside.
Five days ago, Cheng Hanliang used the red jade brought back from Guangzhou to make a new birthday jade pendant and gave it to Li Langyu. Li Langyu asked Xiaoye to take it, find a store, and make a suitable box, with a root tether, and put it in the Together. As a result, he just came back from the bank this morning, and he didn't put down his briefcase. Xiaoye ran over and said that as soon as the box was opened, the jade was gone!
"You came out of the store, have you been to other places, and have you touched it again?"
"No, absolutely not." Xiaoye straightened his chest, very confident.
"That should still be in the store, you go drive, we'll look for it now." He walked while talking, still wearing a work coat, his face was calm, but his heart was already a little nervous. Buying cassava to return pearls - only the idiots like Xiaoye, who can grow flowers in water, can do it.
Panji Jadeite is located in the area of the West Fourth Archway, and this is the one that Xiaoye is looking for. Li Langyu asked the boss, the day before yesterday, the younger brother at home made a custom box, and a piece of red jade fell here, have you seen it
Boss Pan glanced at Xiaoye behind him and said, "I have this impression, but the piece of ruby was already returned to him at that time."
When Xiao Ye heard this, he was a little stunned, scratching his head and wondering, "Where did this jade go?"
So the boss asked the apprentice who collected the account at the time to ask about it. The apprentice thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "After this guest left, I did find a piece of jade on the stage, and I thought it was the piece that Master ordered for Director Hai before. After all, not many people buy red jade, so Tianhai When the director came, I gave him the jade."
Boss Pan went to the cabinet and took a small box, which was also a piece of ruby. He slapped his thigh and scolded the apprentice for doing something bad. Li Langyu persuaded: "It's the younger brother who is not careful. May I ask which Director Hai is, I will help you deliver this piece of jade."
"It's Mr. Hai Dafu from the Grain Bureau, whose home is at No. 61 Chaoyangmenwai Street."
When Li Langyu heard the name "Hai Dafu", he felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Xiaoye murmured in his heart: Director Hai is really tossing. He lives outside Chaoyangmen and does not go to the shop in Dongsili, but goes to Xisilai. It takes an hour to drive from west to east!
The two took the jade and came to the rich family of Haida according to the location. Before Li Langyu stepped through the door with the other foot, he heard various sounds of smashing plates and jars inside. The woman's scolding came from the house, like a cannonball being fired from a chimney, causing the whole house to shake.
"I knew you were going to find that dead fox spirit in Hongling again, Xiao Shaolang's hoof, I had to rip her skin off!"
"I didn't, no! Madam, look, my face is really scratched by a cat!" Hai Dafu knelt on the ground and moved his knees to his wife's feet, like a drunk dog being dragged. He smiled apologetically and moved half of his face to please him, only to be slapped severely.
"Cat? That's a stealing cat, why didn't you scratch you to death?"
Hai Dafu is a strict wife, but he prefers to mess around with flowers. He has a lover named Hong Ling, who gives small gifts every few days and often runs there.
Li Langyu asked their servants to inform them that they had come to return the ruby from the Panji Jade Shop.
"What jade, what did you buy for that fox spirit again?"
"No, no, it's for you, Madam."
Hai Dafu's spirit immediately revived, his hair was thrown back, like a cow released from the shed, when he saw Li