Chapter 1171 Guangling San in the Little Western-style Building
On the Christmas day for the maozi, Wei Ran's nest was extremely lively.
On this day, in addition to waking up from a hangover, Lothar and his team continued business negotiations with Suisui.
The two sisters Olga and Olena, who came with Sui Xin and the little genius Korava the night before, obviously wanted to stay here and spend an Orthodox Christmas together that no one actually cared about.
Compared with these noisy girls, Wei Ran got up early and drove the armored pickup truck to the airport alone.
After waiting for more than an hour, Chen Guangling and his wife hurriedly walked out of the airport with Chen Luoxiang looking around.
What surprised Wei Ran was that apart from a backpack for each person, this family of three didn't even bring any extra suitcases.
"Here it is! Teacher Chen! Luo Xiang!" Wei Ran waved to the family of three.
"Hey! Senior brother!" Chen Luoxiang saw Wei Ran first, pulled his parents and ran over.
“It’s been a hard journey”
Wei Ran took a few steps forward to greet them. After a brief greeting, he led them out, but he wisely did not immediately ask about the difficulties the other party encountered.
It wasn't until all four people in the group got into the car that Wei Ran tore open a pack of cigarettes he bought in advance and gave Chen Guangling one of his cigarettes. Then he asked thoughtfully, "Teacher Chen, what difficulties did you encounter this time?
If you are in a hurry, let’s stop being polite and seize the time to solve the problem first.”
"well!"
Chen Guangling sighed and searched for the button to lower the window but couldn't find it. He simply fumbled and pushed open the heavy bulletproof door, letting the cold air outside take away the warmth and second-hand smoke in the car.
It wasn't until the air became clean again that Chen Guangling said calmly, "Wei Ran, this matter is actually related to your bed with Guqin Youquan."
"Youquan?"
"Do you still remember Mr. Tao who originally planned to buy your piano for 5 million?" Chen Guangling asked.
"Why, he wants to..."
"Grandpa Tao is dying."
Chen Luoxiang, who was sitting in the back row, grabbed the topic and said with a trace of choked up, "Brother, Grandpa Tao wants to see the bed of Youquan before leaving. He...he may not be able to hold on for long."
“That’s it”
Chen Guangling took a puff of cigarette and said, "Mr. Tao is childless and all his thoughts are on the piano. This time he begged me and Luo Xiang to come and invite you in person. So Wei Ran,
You see, if it's convenient for you..."
Hearing this, Wei Ran was silent for a moment, pushed open the car door, flicked the half-smoked cigarette in his hand, and said, "Fasten your seat belt, let's go back and get the piano first."
"Hey!" Chen Guangling immediately threw away the cigarette in his hand in a panic, gently closed the car door and fastened his seat belt.
After the family sat down, Wei Ran drove the car smoothly out of the parking lot and drove to the shore of Kaban Lake as fast as possible. At the same time, he also took advantage of the driving time to think about it secretly.
When the car finally drove into the large courtyard where the library was located, Wei Ran sighed secretly and finally made a decision.
"Let's hurry up," Alili greeted. "Uncle Culp's friends have been waiting for more than ten minutes. By the way, which airport are you flying to?"
"Where are we going to meet Mr. Tao?" Wei Ran turned to Chen Guangling and asked.
"Jinmen!"
Chen Luoxiang answered first, "Grandpa Tao used to live in my master's house for retirement. He is half of my master's uncle. Two days ago, he felt that he was about to die, so he returned to his old house in Jinmen.
"
"Let's go"
Wei Ran asked Chen Guangling and his family to follow him. After conveying the destination airport to Alili, he went through various procedures as quickly as possible under his leadership, and was then sent directly to the Choumeng aircraft by a ground service vehicle.
Next to the cute little airplane.
When the four of them entered the cabin under the leadership of Ali Li, Wei Ran immediately noticed that there were four or five middle-aged men and women sitting near the door of the cabin, and in the seats next to these people, there were also
Various types of luggage were placed there, and even on one of the seats by the window, there was a horse-dog sitting with its head held high and its chest high.
While Wei Ran was observing these people, these middle-aged people also raised their heads and glanced at Wei Ran.
"Are you the Victor who discovered the red flag in the Capitol?" One of the bald men with a fierce face asked curiously in a slightly hoarse voice.
"It's me," Wei Ran replied with a smile and just the right amount of pride.
"Go sit in the back"
The bald man gestured behind him with his thumb, "Take care of your people. We old guys are not allowed to take pictures or record before we get off the plane. We are not allowed to raise the visor. It's best to keep it quiet enough. We need to sleep for a while."
"no problem"
Wei Ran responded, greeted Chen Guangling and his family, walked to the end of the cabin, found four seats, and sat down. At the same time, he reminded them in a low voice in Chinese that they needed to pay attention to something.
Naturally, Chen Guangling and his family had no objection. After sitting down and fastening their seat belts, Wei Ran allowed Wei Ran to help lower their seat backs.
When Wei Ran fastened his seat belt and held the piano case, all the lights in the cabin were turned off. But soon, the plane slid into the runway with Alili at the wheel, taking only a very short distance.
Flying lightly into the blue sky.
During the flight from Kazan to Chita, Alili obviously gave up the most economical speed in order to arrive as quickly as possible. In the dark cabin, Wei Ran also noticed that whether it was Chen Guangling and his wife or Chen beside him,
Luo Xiang, they fell asleep one after another not long after the plane was in stable condition. Obviously, the family was exhausted.
After the short but long first leg of the flight, as the plane landed in Chita, and as the middle-aged people left with their luggage and pets, the plane that could originally seat more than thirty people finally
It no longer seems so depressing.
After opening the visor and glancing at the middle-aged people who were leaving on the ground service vehicle, Wei Ran promptly extinguished his curiosity, closed the visor again and closed his eyes.
When Wei Ran and Chen Guangling's family were woken up by Alili through the loudspeaker, the outside of the visor that had been pushed open again had been dyed golden red by the setting sun.
Without leaving the only four passengers in the cabin waiting for long, the plane landed smoothly at the airport in accordance with the tower's instructions.
Almost at the same time, Wei Ran, who had just turned on his phone again, also received a WeChat message from Suisui.
After he briefly explained the important things, Alili, who had stopped the plane, also got out of the cockpit and said with a pained face, "Victor, you need us to wait for you here.
? If not needed, we will fly away later.
The distinguished Mr. Gorbachev testified that the parking fees and fuel costs at the airport here are really too expensive. The parking fees for our Yin Er transport plane parked at Inta Airport are dozens of dollars cheaper than the parking fees for this little fly.
Times."
This is not nonsense...
Wei Ran twitched his lips. Since there were few major flights in that area, the parking fee was probably only a little more expensive than the parking fee at the airport below.
"You don't have to wait for me anymore," Wei Ran said as he walked downstairs carrying the piano case, "You guys go back and pay attention to your safety."
"In this case, let's go back first."
Alili said rather anxiously, looking like a taxi driver parked illegally on the roadside who was worried about being ticketed by the police.
After all, having taken a private plane back last time, Weiran was quite familiar with the situation and took Chen Guangling and his family through immigration according to the procedures. When they walked out of the airport, they asked, "Where should we go next?"
"Are you arriving in Jinmen now?" Chen Guangling asked a question that was completely unnecessary, somewhat belatedly, "Come back on our chartered flight?"
“My friend’s private jet”
Wei Ran explained with a smile, and before the other party could continue the topic, he patted the piano case he was carrying and asked again, "Where are we going?"
"Oh! Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"
Chen Guangling patted his forehead and said, "Luo Xiang, hurry up! Call a taxi and ask your master where exactly Mr. Tao's house is."
Your family of three has never been here before?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, now that he has done everything he can, the rest depends on the arrangements of his family.
Before Chen Luoxiang could ask for the address, Chen Guangling's wife had already taken out two big red tickets from her bag, shook them in her hands, and easily stopped a taxi that had just dropped off the passengers.
"Get on the bus first"
Chen Guangling's wife urged Wei Ran and the other two people to get into the crowded rear compartment first. She also opened the passenger door and got in. She handed the cash in her hand directly to the driver and said, "Let's drive to the city first."
With."
Hearing this, the driver, who originally wanted to say something because there were so many people sitting in, immediately became beaming. After the four people sat firmly, he quickly stepped on the accelerator.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Before the airport behind him was blocked by the buildings along the way, Chen Luoxiang, who was sitting in the middle, finally asked for the detailed address and conveyed it to the driver.
Chen Guangling on the other side also explained that they actually only got the news about an hour before making the first call to Weiran. They didn't even have time to prepare anything, so they bought the latest flight to go to Weiran.
.
Fortunately, Chen Luoxiang just received news from his master that Mr. Tao's condition seems to be relatively stable now, which is undoubtedly good news.
However, when the car arrived at its destination and finally stepped on the brakes, the four people in the car except the driver were a little stunned.
After a moment's hesitation, Wei Ran opened the car door first, got out with the piano case lying across the three people's knees, and looked at the buildings on the roadside under the last ray of sunset.
This is a three-story small foreign-style building with a courtyard. At first glance, it seems that the building and the courtyard are estimated to have an area of 600 to 700 square meters.
It's just...
Wei Ran looked at the beautiful small Western-style buildings of the Republic of China around him, as well as the businesses such as cafes that used those small Western-style buildings.
But look at this building again. It is estimated that it has a yard of about 200 square meters. In addition to an unknown big tree that has lost all its leaves, there is also a row of short iron houses built against the courtyard wall in the yard.
It is divided into several rooms, with handwritten signs in red letters on a white background such as "Cigarettes and Drinks", "Bong'er Bong'er Cake" and "Jianbingzi" hung respectively.
This is not over yet. On the red brick wall inside the small courtyard, there is also a wooden board with the same white background and red letters hanging on it. The words "Convenience store, haircut is 9 yuan per person." written in beautiful large characters. Only.
But it is obvious that the red number "9" seems to be modified with "7".
Continuing to look inside, the three-story small foreign-style building looked pretty good from the outside, but the inside of the two wooden doors with windows looked particularly dark.
"It should be right here, right?"
While Wei Ran was looking at the building, Chen Luoxiang also walked to the door. He held up his mobile phone and compared it with the house number nailed on the door stack, mumbling something.
Fragmentary words such as "That's right".
Fortunately, just when he was about to knock on the door, the wooden door leading to the interior of the building was also pushed open from the inside, followed closely by an old man who looked to be sixty or seventy years old, but his body seemed to be extremely strong.
He also walked out of it.
"master!"
Just when Wei Ran secretly looked at this old man with a kind face but could not hide his sadness, Chen Luoxiang also shouted, and at the same time he breathed out and said, "It's really here, I thought I was looking for the wrong one.
"
“It’s right here”
The old man’s Mandarin had a local accent that Wei Ran could not identify, but after nodding to Chen Guangling and his wife, he took the initiative to extend his hand towards Wei Ran, "This must be Mr. Wei Ran, right? This time
You are causing trouble."
"Mr. Liu was joking. It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to meet Mr. Tao."
Wei Ran lowered his attitude and shook hands with the other party. He naturally knew that the other party's surname was Liu. He had heard Chen Guangling and his son mention it a long time ago. He even knew that not long ago, the old man almost got entangled with a few pieces of broken wood.
There's a lawsuit.
"If this kid Luo Xiang is half as smart as you, this old man like me will be relieved!"
Mr. Liu praised Wei Ran in a joking tone. To break the slightly solemn atmosphere, he also raised his hand towards the small western-style building behind him. "Mr. Tao, we don't have much time. Wei Ran, I'll take care of you."
I treat you as a child of the same generation as Luo Xiang, so I won't be polite to you. You have been tired and worked hard, so go and accompany Mr. Tao."
"It should, it should."
Wei Ran quickly agreed and glanced at Chen Guangling and his wife behind him without leaving any trace. Then he picked up the piano case and followed Mr. Liu towards the vermilion wooden door with heavy traces of time.
However, what surprised Wei Ran was that when he walked up the steps and passed through the wooden door, he found that this small foreign-style building was completely made of gold and jade, and its exterior was stained... No, its outside was not even considered "gold and jade".
But inside it is a real mess.
The walls of several rooms passed by on the first floor were peeled off in many places, and there was no furniture at all on the dusty floor. Instead, various daily necessities that seemed to have expired and some metal shelves were scattered around.
In the only room that looked relatively clean, the only furnishings were a large mirror fixed on the wall and two old-fashioned barber chairs. In the corner of the room, there was actually a washbasin stand.
old briquette stove.
When I followed Mr. Liu further inside to the stairs leading upstairs, I saw that there was even a push-pull anti-theft mesh door installed here.
Passing through the rusty security door, Mr. Liu walked upstairs while raising his thumb and whispering, "This small foreign-style building was left by Mr. Tao's aunt, who was a small white building in those days."
Famous actor."
"Why is this building..."
"Hi..."
Mr. Liu sighed, stopped and rubbed the peeling wooden handrail, sighing, "Old Tao has suffered too much in his life. He suffered from many diseases when he was young. Twenty years ago, his body was full of bones.
I couldn't live with the winter and summer weather in the north, so I took him to Yangzhou to live.
The first floor and courtyard of this small building were also rented to former friends to open shops and stalls that had been closed for a long time. The monthly rent was Lao Tao's pension."
"So he was going to spend 5 million to buy..."
"The most valuable of his possessions is this dilapidated house. He spent a lot of money to redeem it more than 40 years ago when he was prosperous."
Mr. Liu was chattering to himself, "Old Tao was born in this house. He has returned here after wandering for most of his life. Let's go, young man."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After speaking, Mr. Liu raised his feet again and walked up to the second floor step by step.
Compared to the warehouse-like first floor, the second floor is somewhat better. At least it looks cleaner and a lot warmer. Moreover, an old-looking aluminum alloy sliding door is installed at the stairway.
After passing through the sliding door with frosted glass, Wei Ran walked to the door of a bedroom with a cotton curtain under the guidance of Mr. Liu.
"Go, go and stay with Old Tao." Mr. Liu personally helped Wei Ran lift the thick cotton curtain and said, "I brought him back in a hurry, and this place has not been properly cleaned, so I just tidied up a room like this.
It actually made Mr. Wei laugh."
"You're welcome, Mr. Tao's body..."
"I'm old. I'm just old. It's hard to go to the hospital. He's already a hundred years old, and he will be one hundred years old today." Mr. Liu pointed to a basket of longevity peaches not far away and whispered, "Oh
...Go in and see him. Before he fell asleep, he kept talking about you."
Hearing this, Wei Ran raised his hand and lightly knocked on the slightly old wooden door with his knuckles, and then knocked twice more. After waiting for a while, he slowly opened the door.
He bent down and got in.
This bedroom was unexpectedly spacious and warm, and the floor-to-ceiling window faced a small flower bed in the yard outside.
If it was summer, he could even imagine that the shade of the big tree in the yard would definitely cover him.
But at this time, the bare old tree outside the window only made the room with two additional electric heaters more and more lifeless - just like the tall, thin and cheeky man lying on the only iron bed.
The bones are protruding, but both his face and hands are covered with age spots, looking as lifeless as an old man.
He walked closer softly and slowly. There was a monitor on the bedside table on one side of the bed, and an oxygen concentrator on the other side of the bedside table. And next to the old man's pillow, there was
What's left is an open photo album.
Gently putting down the piano case in his hand, Wei Ran carefully picked up the photo album and opened it. The first page that caught his eye was the Guangling Sanminus calligraphy score that had been stuffed into Youquan's resonance chamber.
Continuing to scroll back, there are also those paper balls with poems or childhood graffiti that were stuffed into the resonance chamber.
After this, there was a group photo. The protagonist in the group photo was this tall and thin old man in the hospital bed. He was probably in his fifties when this photo was taken. He was wearing a suit that seems outdated today.
Behind him, there stood a young man holding an erhu in his hand and a young woman wearing a cheongsam with a small drum beside her.
The expression on the face of Mr. Tao in this photo can be said to be high-spirited, and he is quite a master. Even the background of this photo seems to be the small western-style building where he is at this time, but
The more this happened, the more stark the contrast was with the dilapidated appearance of the room and the old man on the bed.
Continuing to scroll back, the next photo is of a man wearing a long robe, carrying a piano bag on his back, holding a man in a thick robe with both hands, standing under a city gate with a hesitant look on his face.
Black and white photos. But if you continue to scroll back, there is only a rope left in the album that seems to be a piano string.
Without pulling out the string, Wei Ran put the photo album back in its place and glanced at the blood oxygen monitor on the bedside table, and then at the oxygen concentrator on the other side, pondering for a moment before calling softly.
He said, "Mr. Tao? Mr. Tao? I brought Youquan to you."
After a moment of waiting, the old man on the bed showed no sign of waking up. He subconsciously glanced at the monitor again. Wei Ran looked around, then sat cross-legged on the old-looking wooden floor and took out the Youquan device.
He sat on his knees and played "Guangling San" on his own.
