Fortunately, no matter whether it is the Western style or the Qing Dynasty style, they are not as good as Lilith Wei. Lilith Wei was seen wearing a white dress with floral patterns, her gray hair was curled and fluffy, a string of white pearls around her neck, white soft-soled leather shoes on her feet, and the most fashionable flesh-colored nylon socks. The most terrible thing is that Lilith Wei wore a pair of round-rimmed sunglasses on her nose. That style and posture could kill most of the old ladies in Beijing in seconds. It was too fashionable!
If Wei Nian hadn't held Lilith Wei's hand, and she was wearing three shining gold rings, Wei Jin wouldn't have dared to recognize her mother if they had met on the street! Therefore, Wei Jin's first words were, "Oh my God! Oh, An Nian, is this our mother?"
Wei Nian smiled and nodded, "You can't recognize it, right?"
The key point is that not only is her appearance unrecognizable, but her speech is also different. Before she went abroad, Old Lady Wei always greeted people with "Have you eaten?" Now it is different, she says "Hello". Wei Jin's arms are covered with goose bumps. He took the hand of his mother from his brother and asked his brother, "Our mother has been abroad for a long time. Why can't she speak our Beijing dialect?"
Old Mrs. Wei smiled and said, "Of course I won't. I just returned to China and I can't change it yet." If this happened in future generations, if Old Mrs. Wei behaved like this, people would accuse her of being a fake foreigner and unpatriotic.
Wei Jin heard her mother still spoke with the old Beijing accent and laughed, "You scared me. I thought she had forgotten our Mandarin."
"How could I forget this?" Mrs. Wei held her daughter's hand. Seeing that she was still as happy as before, she felt very happy and thought that her daughter was living a good life. Then she looked at her children and grandchildren, who were all well-off and wealthy, and knew that they were living a good life. Mrs. Wei nodded, "It's too noisy here, let's go home and talk about it."
So the whole family went home in a rickshaw from the station in a lively manner.
Brothers Wei Shi and Wei Nian met, sisters Wei Jin and Wei Yin met, and Chen Xuan and Li's sisters met. There was also a large group of children who were all very happy after more than ten years of separation. The old lady was asked to sit first so that the grandchildren could see their grandmother. In fact, it was nothing more than the children growing up. In the past ten years, Wei Shi and Wei Jin had no children, but Wei Jie, Zhao Feng and Zhao Yu had married. Now it was the grandchildren's wives who came forward to see the old lady, and the great-grandchildren and great-grandchildren who came forward to see the old lady. When the old lady got home, she took off her sunglasses, took out a glasses case from her small white leather bag, took out her reading glasses and put them on. When she put them on, she looked more civilized. Then, she took out three slender red jewelry boxes from the small leather bag and gave one to each of the grandchildren's wives. The old lady Wei said, "Before the war, there was no news, and it was so far away that I didn't know you were getting married. This is for you, take it."
Then, he took out two large gold locks wrapped in red cloth and gave them to his great-grandchildren.
The three granddaughters-in-law all thanked the old lady. After that, they met their second uncle, second aunt and younger sister-in-law, and the elders all had gifts.
There were four children from Wei Nian's family and two from Wei Yin's family. Except for Alice Wei, it was the first time for the children to meet their elders. Alice Wei also introduced her brothers and sisters to her uncle, aunt, and aunt. She was busy taking her brothers and sisters to meet several cousins. In short, it was a noisy party. Li and Wei Jin also had things for the children, especially Alice Wei. When she met her aunt, the two were inseparable. They looked closer than real mother and daughter. Wei Jie's wife Wang said, "I've heard from my mother that my sister Xin looks like my aunt. It's like they were cast from the same mold."
Wei Jin was proud, "That's right, our little girl looks exactly like me when I was young. Even though eldest aunt has gained weight now, when I was fifteen or sixteen, I was as thin as the little girl. My waist was less than one foot seven." Of course, it is more than two feet seven now.
When the children heard that their aunt was so thin when she was young, they opened their eyes wide in disbelief and observed three minutes of silence for Sister Wei Xin's future figure.
Wei Xin didn't know what her brothers and sisters were thinking. Seeing that her aunt was so happy, she asked, "Aunt, did you receive the things I sent you last year?" In fact, Japan surrendered last year, but it was not possible to return home at the moment. The children were all in school, and Wei Nian and Wei Yin were busy with their business, so they set the date of their return to this year. Although I didn't return home last year, I sent a lot of things back because I was afraid that life at home would be difficult. Now it seems that I was worrying too much.
Wei Jin smiled, "I got it, I got it. Look, I'm wearing the nylon socks you gave me today!" Lifting a corner of her cheongsam to show her niece the socks on her feet, Wei Jin was very happy, "I gave a pair to your aunt, and sold the others. But I made a small profit as your aunt."
Wei Xin smiled, "That's what I thought at the time. I heard that supplies were tight in China, so I thought, instead of sending you money, I might as well send you some things. As long as I have something, I can exchange it for anything."
"Look, look, this head looks just like mine." Wei Jin praised his niece shamelessly, not knowing whether he was praising Wei Xin or herself.
Wei Xin is close to her eldest aunt, while Wei Yun is close to her youngest aunt. Wei Yin calculated that Wei Yun should graduate from college, and was asking her about her college education. Wei Yun said, "I graduated last year. When the Japanese occupied Beijing, most of the universities in Tsinghua University and Peking University were occupied by the Japanese, so I didn't go to these universities. I went to Yenching University. My eldest and second brothers both went to Peking Union Medical College. Now my eldest and second brothers work in the hospital, and I teach in a middle school."
Wei Yin asked, "When I heard Ajie and Aming, I knew they must be studying medicine. What major did you study?"
Wei Yun said, "I majored in English."
"If you want to learn more about your major, you'd better study further. Since you're majoring in English, you should actually go abroad. We were always at war in the past, and we haven't been in touch for eight or nine years. Ayun, it's always good to study more while you're still young." Wei Yin changed his life in this way, and naturally hoped that his niece could study more.
Wei Yun was gentle and said with a smile, "I have to discuss this with my parents. However, I also want to go abroad. In the past, everyone wanted to study abroad, but they couldn't. Since you wrote to me last year, I have been envious of you. Nowadays, designers are also a respectable profession. If I go abroad, I don't want to continue studying English. I want to study design. Aunt, what do you think, can I study fashion design like you?"
Wei Yin smiled, "Of course that's good. When you were a child, we cut clothes together and I saw that you were very skillful."
Chen Xuan and Li, the two sisters-in-law, also had a lot to talk about, not to mention Wei Nian, Wei Shi, Zhao's elder brother-in-law, and Wang Damei, who was Li's cousin. Seeing this cousin coming back with them, Li was also very happy.
In short, when the family meets, there is really endless things to talk about.
When it was time for dinner, they ordered Taifenglou's table, two tables for the children and adults, and ordered all the good dishes from Taifenglou. The two tables were full and very sumptuous. Wei Jin took care of the little ones like Xue Jia and Wei Hong and asked the wives to keep an eye on them. Chen Xuan smiled, "It's okay, they can eat by themselves, don't worry about them."
"They are still so young, be careful with chicken bones and fish bones." Wei Jin was worried about his niece and nephew, so he assigned one to each of his two daughters-in-law to take care of them. Wei Jin said, "I was worried that you would be used to eating foreign food outside and would not be able to eat our old Beijing food."
"How can I not be used to this food? We also eat home-cooked meals at home. There are Chinese restaurants in Boston as well." Wei Yin helped to place the dishes and chopsticks. Wei Jie's wife Wang quickly took the food from her sister-in-law and told her to just rest.
Wei Xin sat next to her aunt and boasted, "Aunt, I opened a Chinese restaurant in Boston, and the business is booming."
Wei Jin was quite surprised. He held his niece's hand and said, "Oh, my niece, how come you are so capable! Aren't you still in school? How come you can start a business?"
"It doesn't matter. I opened this business with my eldest sister-in-law. We rented a shop, set up seven or eight dishes, and specialized in takeout business. My eldest sister-in-law is in charge of cooking and quality control. Now we have hired two temporary workers to help my eldest sister-in-law." Wei Xin said, "Now that I have made some money, I am thinking of opening a dry cleaning shop."
"Is it the shop that washes suits for people?"
"Not just suits, anything can be washed, just pay for it." Wei Xin said, "I also opened a repair shop with my friend. We can repair refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, radios, cars, and motorcycles."
Wei Jin exclaimed, "Oh my, she is really my aunt's little girl!" She said to her mother, "Mom, look, our little girl is really capable." She felt that her niece was really capable~
"That's right! Don't you think who she looks like?" When talking about her eldest granddaughter, Mrs. Wei was also very proud. She thought that her granddaughter was so successful because she looked like her. Mrs. Wei was very immodest and said, "I raised her up!"
Wei Xin poured her grandmother a cup of hot rice wine and said with a smile, "It's mainly because I take after grandma and eldest aunt, otherwise I wouldn't be so smart." Wei Xin was also very proud. She also felt that her excellent genes were completely inherited from her grandma and eldest aunt. Their bloodline is the best.
Old Mrs. Wei and Wei Jin both felt that Wei Xin's words made sense, and Wei Nian didn't care about his daughter's embarrassing things. But Wei Shi said, "You still have to put study first."
Wei Xin nodded, "Uncle is right. I got A in every subject now. The teacher likes me very much."
Wei Nian explained the grading system of foreign schools to his elder brother, and Wei Shi was very satisfied, thinking that his niece's grades were good. Although she was a girl, in today's society, it was good for girls to read more books. Wei Shi was more concerned about Chen Xuan's studies. Wei Shi said, "I heard that my sister-in-law is currently doing postdoctoral research."
Chen Xuan smiled, "Yes."
Wei Shi nodded continuously, "Since Japan surrendered last year, the academic community in Beijing has also put order in place. Tsinghua University, Peking University and other universities have expelled those traitorous scholars, and now the teachers and students who went south have returned. My sister-in-law is exactly the talent most needed in the university, why don't you return to China to do research? With your diploma, you should be able to be a professor in a university."
Chen Xuan was a little surprised that her uncle would talk about her research. Chen Xuan smiled and said, "It's mainly because I have a contract with a university now. Besides, my children are also studying. After all, my knowledge is not the best in the industry. I always want to be better. When my children are successful in their studies, we can come back together as a family and have a good time together."
"That's right." Wei Shi smiled. "Ever since I heard that you and Anian both got PhDs, I've been very happy. Anian studied business, and although he also has a PhD, I still feel that my second brother and sister-in-law have more room to display their talents in agronomy."
Wei Nian poured wine for his elder brother and said with a smile, "Look at what you said, elder brother. I am also a doctor. But when you say that, I am not as good as you."
Wei Shi smiled, "It's not that I'm inferior to others. What you learned is nothing more than the ability to make money, while my second brother's wife is doing high-end research."
Wei Nian saw that his elder brother's conversation was not the same as before after all these years, and he was also happy. Wei Nian said, "Brother, it has been more than ten years, and our family is finally together again. Brother, please say a few words."
Wei Shi looked at his mother who was eager to try and said quickly, "Let mom speak first."
Old Mrs. Wei gave her eldest son a satisfied look. In such an occasion, she must come first! Old Mrs. Wei was originally sitting in the middle seat, with her eldest son on her left and her second son on her right. She looked very majestic. Old Mrs. Wei coughed lightly and said a few humble words first, "Since you asked me to speak, I will just say a few words briefly." Then she introduced the main topic, "Actually, there is nothing much to say. This time I have broadened my horizons. Alas, the world is not peaceful. Oh, when I first heard that the Japanese devils occupied Beijing, I was worried. Fortunately, with the blessing of the Bodhisattva, those damn Japanese devils were finally driven away. Now the world is peaceful, and our family is reunited. Today everyone is here, and I can see my great-grandson and great-grandson. I am happy, really happy! Come, let's raise our glasses, the children drink soda, and those of us who can drink wine pour wine. This glass is to wish our family a prosperous life in the future, and I also wish that there will be no more wars in the world, and that everyone will be peaceful."
Although Mrs. Wei is old, she spoke very eloquently. Everyone praised her and raised their glasses to drink.
Afterwards, they started to eat in a lively atmosphere.
Wei Jin did not go back home at night. She sent her husband, son, and daughter-in-law back home, and stayed at her parents' home, sharing a room with the old lady and Wei Xin. The three of them chatted for most of the night, and they couldn't stop talking. Especially after learning that the old lady and her little girl both had foreign names, Wei Jin also strongly asked them to think of a foreign name for her. Finally, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren pondered for a whole night and finally came up with a very foreign name for Wei Jin, which was called Rose Wei.
It is said to be very Western, and translated into Western language it means rose.
At first Wei Jin was quite happy, but after reciting two sentences, Wei Jin thought for a while and said, "Why does this sound like the name of a nail?"
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