Chapter 357 The Land of Past Glory (8,200,120,000)
Chapter 357 The Land of Past Glory (820.012 million)
After coming back to her senses, Cheng Xiaolin followed her husband back to the room, carrying a light blue travel bag.
As soon as Mengmeng entered the door, she wanted to play hide-and-seek again, and told her mother to turn around while she hid first.
"Mengmeng, your Dongdong brother has gone to bed, you should also sleep for a while." Cheng Xiaolin said.
But Mengmeng disagreed and shouted: "Brother Dongdong is still a little boy, but he is not as good as me. He is too useless."
Cheng Xiaolin: "..."
"Mengmeng, are you looking for a beating?" Cheng Xiaolin said to her.
But Mengmeng didn't care about that. Under the watchful eyes of Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin, she ran to the other side of the bed in the room, squatted down, and exposed the three braids on her head, and shouted: "Mom, I've hidden it, you
Find me."
The couple looked at each other, and Cao Shujie laughed silently.
Cheng Xiaolin felt tired: "Shujie, look at your daughter, how can she be so naughty? She can really piss someone off."
Cao Shujie didn't think so. He put down the things in his hands and shouted in the direction of Mengmeng Zang: "Mengmeng, daddy will play hide and seek with you, okay?"
"Okay, I've hidden it. Dad, can you find me?" Mengmeng's little head swayed back and forth, and her three little braids swung back and forth. It looked very funny.
Cao Shujie said: "Dad is looking for you."
While taking small steps, he searched everywhere in the house, shouting from time to time.
Mengmeng was hiding in the gap between the bed and the wall, listening to her father calling her name and saying, "Why can't I find you?" She felt secretly happy in her heart.
But Mengmeng squatted for a long time, and her legs were a little numb. She couldn't hide it anymore, and said with a proud tone: "Dad, I'm hiding here, and you can't find me. You are so stupid."
"
Cheng Xiaolin held her mouth back to prevent herself from laughing out loud. She was thinking that there might be something wrong with her daughter's IQ.
"Shujie, has grandpa rested too?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
Cao Shujie nodded: "When I sent him there just now, he lay down to rest for a while."
"Then let's not worry, it's not too late to go out after the sun goes down." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Cao Shujie also meant the same thing. They were not in a hurry, and every time they went to a place, they didn't have to look around and feel lonely.
"Shujie, is there anything interesting in this place?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
Cao Shujie nodded: "There are quite a few. The history of this place is very far away, and there are quite a lot of legacies left behind. Let's stay here for two more days, go and have a look during the day, and come back in the evening, otherwise it will be too cold.
Can't stand it."
When he said this, Cheng Xiaolin became interested and asked him: "Shujie, first tell me what is here?"
"What?" Cao Shujie thought for a while and said, "I remember Liangzhou Xianxiao, Hexi Baojuan Wuweijuan, Liangzhou Attack Guzi, Tianzhu Gesar of the Tu tribe, and Minqin opera."
"There are also heavy-engraved paper-cuts, Xixia clay movable type printing, etc."
After Cheng Xiaolin listened to what her husband said, she realized that she understood all the words, but she didn't know what they meant or what they represented.
"What are all these things? How do you know?" Cheng Xiaolin was a little confused.
Cao Shujie said with a smile: "I checked the information on my mobile phone last night after you all fell asleep."
"Since we are here to play, we must know what is here." Cao Shujie said.
Cheng Xiaolin suddenly realized, she said: "I asked you why you kept asking last night if we could come to Weiwu City today. It turns out you had a plan."
Cao Shujie was too lazy to say this: "Otherwise, you have to know a little bit, otherwise you won't even know how you got tricked when you go out."
"Then where should we go to play tomorrow?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
Mengmeng saw that her father and mother ignored her, and she was a little angry. She ran to her parents and hugged her father's legs: "Dad, why don't you look for me anymore."
Cao Shujie opened his eyes and lied: "Dad has been looking for you. He almost searched the room and found the place where you were hiding just now. Who knew you ran out on your own?"
Mengmeng didn't believe it at all. She shook her body and said, "I don't believe it, unless you come to me again."
"Mengmeng, daddy will take you to see some fun places tomorrow, okay?" Cao Shujie asked.
But Mengmeng was not easily fooled, she asked: "What's there?"
"There are so many fun places here. There are snow-capped mountains and glaciers, forests and grasslands, oasis pastoral fields, the Gobi Desert, and by the way, there are also the Xixia Monument and the Tianti Mountain Grottoes."
Having said this, Cao Shujie looked at his wife and asked her: "Wife, do you still remember the text about Horses Trampling Feiyan?"
"Remember, I just can't recite it." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Cao Shujie pointed to the ground: "That's what was unearthed here."
"I read on the Internet that there are White Pagoda Temple, Confucian Temple, Kumarajiva Temple, and South City Gate, all of which are here. Let's take a look."
"Okay!" Cheng Xiaolin agreed.
The family of three stopped playing hide-and-seek. Cao Shujie turned on the TV in the room and watched the local news.
According to the information he found, there are more than 40 ethnic minorities living together in this place, and he can feel the difference when watching the TV news.
Mengmeng leaned on her father's lap and watched the news for a while. She felt that it was not as good as the cartoons, so she immediately lost interest in watching it.
"Mom, it's so boring. I want to sleep."
After the excitement subsided, Mengmeng began to feel sleepy.
She would yawn from time to time and rub her eyes. After a while, she couldn't open her eyes anymore.
When Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she took her daughter over and coaxed her slowly.
After a while, Mengmeng fell asleep first.
"Shujie, you have been driving all the way and you are very tired. You should take a nap first."
"Okay, I'll lie down for a while. When everyone wakes up, let's go and try the cold noodles, bacon, rock sugar ball, jujube and fu tea, and a big moon cake. Many people on the Internet said it's delicious. Let's try it too.
." Cao Shujie said.
After finishing speaking, Cao Shujie took off his coat and lay on the side of the bed. Not long after, he fell asleep.
Cheng Xiaolin saw that her husband and daughter were fast asleep. She was also a little sleepy, but she still remembered to go out and take a look.
After I came back, I lay on the other side of the bed and fell asleep too.
I don’t know how much time passed. After Mengmeng woke up, she sat in the middle of the bed and watched her parents sleeping. No one paid attention to her, so she started to act mischievously. Sometimes she covered her father’s mouth, and sometimes she pinched his nose.
No matter what, I have to wake dad up.
As for Cheng Xiaolin, she didn't dare to move for fear of annoying her mother and beating her.
Cao Shujie felt difficulty breathing and suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes widening with anger. This startled Mengmeng and she almost fell from him to the ground.
Fortunately, Cao Shujie had quick eyesight and quick hands, and quickly reached out to support her: "Mengmeng, what are you doing? Be careful not to throw you."
Mengmeng was also shocked. When she heard her father yelling at her, Mengmeng felt a little wronged. Her mouth tightened and tears immediately flowed from her eyes.
Cao Shujie was a little helpless about what his daughter was doing, and even after coaxing her for a while, he couldn't coax her well.
His wife Cheng Xiaolin woke up after hearing Mengmeng's cry.
He took her over and coaxed her for a while, and then the little guy stopped making noises.
"Shujie, what time is it?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
Cao Shujie took his cell phone and looked at it: "It's past three o'clock. I wonder if grandpa and the others are all awake?"
"Dad, hide and seek." Mengmeng said.
Cao Shujie had a headache. He looked out the window and said, "Mengmeng, let's go see grandpa and grandma. If grandma and the others wake up, let's go out to play for a while and then have something to eat."
"Okay, daddy, hurry up." Mengmeng urged.
"Honey, please put on thick clothes for Mengmeng, otherwise it will be cold."
…
In Grandpa Cao Zhenghu's room, Cao Shujie just came over and found that his grandfather had woken up and was alone in the room with the TV on and listening to Peking Opera.
"Grandpa, let's go out for a walk and have some food." Cao Shujie asked him.
Cao Zhenghu nodded: "Okay, I have no problem, I'm just afraid that you young people won't be able to hold on."
Cao Shujie thought to himself that he and his wife were the only young people in the team. They were looked down upon by his grandfather.
"That won't happen. I'll call my mother and let's go out." Cao Shujie walked out. As soon as he reached the door, he stopped again, turned to his grandfather and said: "Grandpa, please remember to wear more clothes. This afternoon
cold."
The temperature here in the afternoon has reached single digits, and Cao Shujie is speechless.
But there is no other way but to wear more clothes.
It's just that his mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan didn't expect that it was only October and the temperature here was so ridiculous. She didn't bring any particularly thick clothes.
This is not a problem at all, there is a shopping mall next to it.
Cao Shujie and his group first went to the nearby shopping mall to buy some clothes. Everyone was dressed warmly enough, and then they went to the street to find food.
Last night, Cao Shujie was making a guide, and they didn't miss any of the special snacks they found on the Internet.
It was too cold at night, so after dinner, they canceled their original plan to take a walk and hurried back to the hotel.
Cao Zhenhu also said: "Shujie, have you noticed? There are not many people here."
Cao Shujie nodded, he also saw this detail.
As for the specific reasons, to put it bluntly, it has to do with the local economy. The overall economy is relatively poor, and the population is prone to outmigration.
The two men were talking about this, and then talked about where to go to play tomorrow.
The area where they are now has a lot of places to play.
Considering that his grandfather was getting older after all, Cao Shujie did not plan to go further afield. He picked a few scenic spots that were relatively concentrated and planned to drive around them tomorrow to experience the historical Liangzhou culture.
In any case, this was also an important city on the ancient Silk Road and was once the largest oasis in the Hexi Corridor.
Historically, even the ambitious Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a county here. At that time, this place was once the center of the entire northwest region, which shows the prosperity of its economy.
It’s just that all of this has become history, and it’s far worse now than it was back then.
…
While Cao Shujie was playing outside with his grandfather, wife, children, mother and mother-in-law, Cao Jianlin in Anyi City was also chatting with his two sons.
It’s already mid-October and the end of the year is not far away.
Cao Jianlin discussed with his two sons about bringing his old father back from his hometown. According to the previous agreement, it was their turn to take care of the old man next year.
"Shu Bin, Shu Xin, I will call your second uncle later and let him know in advance." Cao Jianlin said.
The two brothers nodded almost simultaneously.
"Dad, just call. We will bring grandpa back by December," said the boss, Cao Shubin.
The second eldest son, Cao Shuxin, also said, "When grandpa comes, stay with me for a while."
Cao Jianlin listened to the brothers discussing there, and he called his brother Cao Jianguo first.
After waiting for the call to be connected, he heard his brother's voice from the other side of the phone: "Brother, why did you remember to call?"
"I think it's almost the end of the year, and I'll bring our dad back by then," Cao Jianlin said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Jianguo hesitated: "Brother, why don't we let our father stay in our hometown for a while?"
"It just so happens that Shujie has nothing to do. You are quite busy in the city, and our father also likes to stay in his hometown." Cao Jianguo said.
But Cao Jianlin disagreed. He said, "I usually have nothing to do. I just stay with my father."
He also said: "How about you ask our father if he is willing to come back."
Cao Jianguo was a little embarrassed.
Cao Jianlin became anxious when he heard this. What happened?
Is it possible that something unexpected happened to the old father and his second brother has been hiding it?
How confusing!
"Jianguo, what's wrong with our father?" he asked anxiously.
Cao Jianguo then said: "Brother, our father went on a trip with Shujie and the others."
"They said they were going to Xinjiang, but I can't tell where they are now?" Cao Jianguo said to his elder brother.
When Cao Jianlin heard what his brother said, he was really caught off guard. It was different from what he thought.
Fortunately, everyone is fine.
"When did they go? Didn't they say when they would come back?" Cao Jianlin asked.
"Brother, when Shujie left, he said he would be back in ten days and a half. Today is the fourth day."
He said: "Why don't I tell our father after they come back."
The old brothers chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.
Cao Jianlin explained the situation to his two sons.
Neither Cao Shubin nor Cao Shuxin expected this to happen, and they were also surprised.
But to be honest, in this aspect, the two brothers are really not as good as their cousin.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
Cao Shubin works in a foreign company as a purchasing manager. Although the salary is not low, there is little freedom.
Cao Shuxin has been busy with his career in the past two years. He has been bumping into things. It is just the beginning and he cannot spare much time.
But thinking of what his cousin had done for his grandfather, Cao Shubin said: "When we get my grandfather back and the weather gets warmer, let's take some time to take him out for a walk."
"Okay, I have no problem." Cao Shuxin agreed happily.
Cao Jianlin felt very comforted when he heard what they said.
At least nothing unfilial happened in the Cao family.
"Then just wait, there's no point in rushing now." Cao Jianlin finally said.
