On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, early in the morning, Wei Ran took the earliest high-speed train back to the capital and drove the car he bought to his grandma's house without any trouble.
As the end of the year approached, there were far fewer cars along the way, and the speed was naturally much faster. But even so, by the time he arrived at the door of his house, it was almost ten o'clock in the morning.
Fast forward a few months, and now the new houses of the two elderly families have been completely renovated. Not only are the floors paved with red bricks, but also a new house has been placed in the center of the yard next to the well.
A larger plastic greenhouse than before.
However, when he drove into the yard, he found that the only person who came out to greet him was the family's crooked pug.
"Grandma! Grandpa! Dad! Mom! Aunt! Uncle! Suisui!" Wei Ran shouted in a circle at the top of his lungs, but found that no one responded to him at all.
"Hey! What are these people doing?"
Wei Ran cooed to himself, bent down and picked up the crooked pug that had been chasing him, then took out his cell phone and dialed Suisui's number.
"Where have you gone?"
Wei Ran asked the question in his mind after the call was connected, and the noisy voice coming from the other end of the phone made him know the answer before Suisui opened her mouth.
"We are rushing to the temple fair," Suisui responded loudly, "Have you arrived yet?"
"We just arrived." Wei Ran thought for a moment and asked, "Do you need me to pick you up?"
"No, no," Suisui joked, holding back a smile, "just wait at home, lest you get lost again."
Hearing this, Wei Ran rolled his eyes and hung up the phone angrily.
Speaking of unlucky things, during the six years he was in elementary school, almost every year at the temple fair or fair near his grandma's house, he would be separated from his family once or twice for no reason, and then he would be sold to various clothes sellers at the temple fair.
The pot and pan stalls shouted his name through loudspeakers.
Such embarrassing things have become the main content of Suisui's teasing about him and the main topic of conversation between the two families before and after the temple fair at the end of every year.
“I knew I would come back tomorrow”
Wei Ran twisted the dog's head depressedly, let it go, and started walking around the newly renovated house with it.
Even though there are only four elderly people in these two families, Wei Ran's parents usually come back only once every half month.
But there are 17 large tile-roofed houses in this long row. Except for two large living rooms shared by two elderly families, as well as a large kitchen and dining room, the rest are all decorated into single rooms with floor heating and bathrooms.
Perhaps to keep warm, or perhaps also to keep clean, even the corridors connecting this long row of houses are equipped with extra double-layer windows with thermal insulation. Inside these windows, there is also a long window filled with various kinds of plants.
Flower pots for plants and flowers.
They found Suisui's room one by one through the glass on the door. Wei Ran saw that his suitcase was also in this room, so he opened the door and walked in. He opened the suitcase and found some clothes for himself to change into.
, and by the way, he also threw the backpack he brought with him on the sofa in this room.
As if he was being raided by Japanese soldiers, he walked around in the wing rooms far apart on both sides. What he didn't expect was that even though Suisui's grandfather had stopped hanging pots, he still turned the newly built wing room into a drug store.
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Whether it's the old elm table with a medicinal scent, or the maroon-red seven-star chest of drawers, etc., they are all wiped clean, even the iron frame bed inside that is specially used to bind people during bone setting.
All have been repainted.
Finally, he glanced at the white cloth tiger guise kept in a glass frame on the wall. Wei Ran slowly sat on the old-looking Taishi chair. He raised his neck and let the sunlight shine on his body through the glass, squinting.
I looked at the wooden plaque above the door frame directly in front of me that said "Xuan Hu Ji Shi Shi", but my mind couldn't help but think of some friends who were separated by generations.
While he was wandering in this slightly cold west wing room, bursts of crying that were reserved for children, and the barking of the crooked pug came from far away.
When he opened his eyes, he found that an electric car had driven into the yard quickly. At the same time, the woman on the bike also shouted anxiously, "Grandpa! Is grandpa at home?"
"My great-grandpa went to the market, do you have anything to do with him?"
Wei Ran quickly came out of the wing and said hello. Immediately afterwards, he noticed that this woman he didn't know very well had large scratches on her hands and face, and the rearview mirror of the electric car was crooked.
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On the seat behind her, the wailing child had one hand dangling. At the same time, there were two blood-stained tissues stuffed in his nostrils, and he also had a small scratch on his forehead.
"Are you Wei Ran?"
The woman asked uncertainly, and then without waiting for the former's response, she asked anxiously, "When will the uncle come back? My child's arm seems to have been unhooked."
"How did you do this?" As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken the child down.
"I was just about to take my son to the market, but someone who couldn't afford four dishes for the whole family poured a large amount of water at the intersection and froze everything." As the woman spoke, she also parked the car in a panic.
"Why don't you go to the bathroom?" Wei Ran asked as he carried the child to the side room.
"Their family also went to attend the temple fair," the woman said anxiously, "My aunt said that grandpa might be able to treat me, but I didn't expect that he would also go..."
"Please help me go to the kitchen and bring a basin of cold water."
"Wei Ran, you, can you cure me?" The woman asked worriedly as she looked at Wei Ran, who was holding her child and walking to the side room.
"That's what you asked." Wei Ran gave an ambiguous answer without looking back, "Hurry up and get some water, and bring us a towel."
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
The woman gritted her teeth and trotted towards the kitchen. From this small movement, Wei Ran already knew that this woman, whom he had never seen before, should be here frequently.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! While the child's mother was not there, Wei Ran carried the child to the elm table and let him sit down. He squeezed and pushed the dislocated elbow, and it was easy.
The reset was completed. But from beginning to end, the crying little guy didn't even realize what had happened.
Looking back at the woman who had just rushed into the kitchen, Wei Ran quickly walked to the next room, and using the cover of the door, he took out the medical kit that had not been used for a long time from the metal book.
This medical kit contains not only the medicines from the World War II era, but also a lot of modern emergency medical supplies. Although these things will not be used after returning to World War II, he himself is here just for this.
Prepared for any situation.
Picking out some medicines and dressings for debridement, Wei Ran hurriedly collected the medicine box before the woman came in, and took out a pair of plastic-wrapped medical rubber gloves from his pocket and put them on before taking the
He walked out with those medicines.
"The water is coming!"
While talking, the woman also opened the door of the wing room and saw the medicines Wei Ran took out.
"Wei Ran, my son's main dislocation is... his arm..." The woman was dumbfounded when she said this, because her son was wiping his tears with the dislocated hand.
"Did you take over from him?" the woman asked in surprise, "Wei Ran, have you taken over from grandpa?"
"What?" Wei Ran asked pretending to be confused, "Isn't your son's arm okay?"
"Didn't you do it?" the woman asked suspiciously.
"What did I do?" Wei Ran, who was still pretending to be stupid, looked down at the medicine in his hand, "I just found these things and I didn't even have time to put them down."
"But I just..."
"Stop it, do you need me to bandage it for you?"
Wei Ran put the things on the table one by one and asked, "I have passed the first aid certificate and know how to bandage. If you want to use it, I will bandage it for you all. If you are worried about your son's arm, you'd better go to the hospital to have it patted."
A movie.”
"Then...then please give me a guarantee." The woman agreed with a puzzled look on her face.
"I haven't seen you much before, who are you?"
"My man Wang Hai!"
The woman introduced herself while watching Wei Ran's work, "I know you. His father said that you two used to fry fish together with marle seeds, and even threw them into the cesspit of the village chief's house..."
"Oh-oh-oh! Are your children this old?"
Wei Ran quickly put on an expression of sudden realization, and at the same time secretly muttered again, "I knew I would come back tomorrow." He had only been back for less than ten minutes, but what he heard in his ears was all something he didn't want to recall. "
Glorious deeds".
I carefully and carefully cleaned the little guy's wound and applied medicine, and then bandaged the woman's wound. At the same time, I helped the mother and son push the rearview mirror of the electric car back to its original position.
After a lot of work seeing off the mother and son, before Wei Ran could breathe a sigh of relief, a minibus labeled "XXX Farmhouse Pickup Bus" also stopped at the door of the yard. Immediately afterwards, Suisui, Lola and Kajian
Sister Ka jumped down first, and then helped the elderly people from the two families down one by one.
However, while the four girls were busy working, they each held a bunch of candied haws in their mouths.
Jima and Maya, who were following the four old men, not only held a fried golden sweet potato and an equally golden fried cake in each hand, but also had a bulging big red plastic bag hanging on their wrists.
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"Victor! Come here and help!"
The sharp-eyed Ji Ma spotted Wei Ran first and immediately greeted him enthusiastically, "I found two very delicious things! Come here and get them for me!"
Wei Ran, who came quickly, said hello to the four old people first, and then asked with a smile, "Don't tell me it's that thing in your hand."
"That's all"
While Jima was speaking, he opened his mouth in unison with Maya and each took a bite of the Sweet Thousand Sons in his hands. While chewing, he said vaguely in Russian, "I bought twenty 1, and also bought
Twenty zeros, these things are really delicious.”
"The whole temple fair, the two of them, Katenka and Lola, they almost didn't go anywhere."
While Suisui asked Wei Ran to help him take the food from the car, he complained angrily, "Each of the five of them ate at least two Sweet Thousand Sons and three fried cakes. Ji Ma ate the most,
He was eating it all the way back."
“What a... yummy appetite.”
Wei Ran grinned, the fried cakes were nothing, they were just fried glutinous rice breaded with bean paste. Each one was about the size of a dumpling wrapper, no more than two fingers thick.
But the Sweet Thousand Sons are a unique specialty within a hundred kilometers of the local area. They are twenty centimeters long, thick on the wrist, filled with red bean paste, and fried golden and crispy with buttery dough on the outside. It is really delicious.
When Wei Ran was young, this food could only be eaten during weddings and weddings. At that time, he and Suisui could both share half of it and happily chew it for most of the day.
But like Jima and the others, everyone gathers around the frying pan to eat two big cakes and a few greasy fried cakes. This is really not something that ordinary people can do.
"Can't"
Wei Ran's grandma smiled from ear to ear, "These kids are young and they eat so fast! The boss can't even fry them as fast as they eat, and there are people around him cheering!"
"And those two girls also want to buy the formula."
Professor Alexei who followed down said with a smile, and at the same time pointed at the Katenka sisters who had candied haws in their mouths but could not eat them at all.
"They both even wanted to try it themselves."
Zhou Shujin, who came down with a bag in her hand, said worriedly, "Suisui, please keep an eye on them. I'm afraid they will enter the kitchen."
"Victor, what are they talking about?" Maya asked curiously, and at the same time handed the bag in her hand over, "Do you want to try it? Especially the long shape, it is really delicious."
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Wei Ran took a cardboard box handed out by his father through the car window and hurriedly explained, "Everyone is praising you for your good appetite."
"Hiccup -" Jima burped regardless of his image. At the same time, his parents also got out of the car.
However, what made Wei Ran couldn't help but laugh was that not only did the old couple each have eaten a half-eaten Sweet Thousand Sons, but they also held a large bag of sugar-roasted chestnuts and a large tobacco leaf in their other hands.
Even on the collar of the old comrade's neck, which seemed to be a self-taught one, there was a copper pipe pot that seemed to be nearly one meter long at least.
"Don't be in a daze, pick it up quickly!"
Comrade Lao Wei said hello in the car, "These boxes are bought by your uncle, so be careful with your movements."
"Oh oh oh!"
Wei Ran hurriedly took the heavy cardboard box and carefully placed it on the millstone at the door. At the same time, he asked nonchalantly, "Did you rent a minibus to go to the temple fair?"
"No, it's thanks to your uncle that the car is at home. Otherwise, so many people would have to ride on tractors. It's such a cold weather that their brains will freeze to death."
As Wei Ran's mother spoke, she also took out two red tickets from her pocket and handed them to the driver of the minibus who was helping to move the goods. The driver, who was Wei Ran's uncle by seniority, also declined after some excuses.
He just accepted one of them symbolically, and stuffed it into the big bag of peanuts and melon seeds while helping to move the goods. Wei Ran's mother also took out another one while the other party was not paying attention.
Two red tickets were stuffed into the other party's cigarette case.
After a lot of work, they moved all the New Year's goods they bought out of the car. After everyone sent away the driver who was helping, they dumped these things into the reverse seat on the side of the door that was specially used as a storage room. The relatively dangerous fireworks and firecrackers were
Under the command of the elders of the two families, they were sent to the vegetable cellar as usual to prevent a sudden explosion from hurting anyone.
When the wooden board of the vegetable cellar was covered, Dad Weiran and Professor Alexei, who had endured the whole journey, immediately eagerly took out a box of good cigarettes and distributed them around everyone, while Jima's old man
Dad took out the slender pipe pot and burned a pot with Jima's help.
In the swirling choking smoke, women of three age groups also frowned and fanned themselves. While scolding the three generations of smokers standing in the center of the yard, they walked into the warm room together.
Just as Wei Ran and his relatives and friends were preparing for the upcoming New Year, far away in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing, a construction team, led by a middle-aged man named Yang Haifeng, stationed in the already
A yard that has changed owners.
Amidst the harsh cutting sound of the grinder, all the original colored steel tile carports in the yard were demolished. At the same time, a few additional telephone poles were buried in the center of the yard as pillars, and in the open space outside the yard, they were gradually piled up.
Various building materials.
As New Year's Eve is getting closer and closer, Jima has already formed a group to drink in the village with Wei Ran's father and Professor Alexei, oh oh, and his father, just like last year.
Big wine.
The Katenka sisters, Lola and Maya, and of course, Jima's mother, were all happily experiencing various activities such as posting Spring Festival couplets.
On the day before New Year's Eve, the courtyard wall deep in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing was finally covered with a colorful steel tile roof and a new gate was installed.
The middle-aged man named Yang Haifeng, after paying the wages to the workers and sending them away, drove his four-wheel motorcycle back to the village alone.
However, less than half an hour after he left, an inconspicuous off-road vehicle drove to the entrance of the yard.
As the car door opened, a fat man who looked to be no more than forty years old jumped out of the cab nimbly. With a familiarity, he took the key from the mouth of the stone lion at the door, which was no bigger than Teddy, and opened the iron door.
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After taking a final look around, the fat man pushed open the iron door and drove the off-road vehicle in. When he got out of the car again, he already had an ordinary-looking suitcase in his hand.
Glancing outside again, the fat man swallowed and took small steps under the light of the car lights to approach the trailer that was still abandoned here. He took out a key and opened the door of the RV.
Then he climbed in hard on the rusty folding steps and placed the suitcase in his hand on the dusty table.
With a soft "click" sound, the fat man opened the suitcase, revealing the document bag inside and several wads of big red cash pressed by the document bag.
Touching the cash with a painful look on his face, the fat man shook his head helplessly, took out his cell phone and made a call.
"Brother Qin, I delivered the things." The fat man said in an extremely humble tone, even though the person on the other end of the phone was much younger than him.
"Is everything done?" the voice on the other end of the phone asked, which sounded out of tune.
"It's done, it's all done." The fat man replied hurriedly.
"Okay, don't let things get lost, and don't let anyone disturb my friend."
The person on the other end of the phone thought for a while, and then said, "This is the end of the story between us. I owe you a favor."
"Brother Qin has given me a favor, Brother Qin has given me a favor." The fat man said hurriedly, but an expression of relief could not help but appear on his fat face.
"I heard that your modeling agency has a few more foreign friends?"
"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"
The fat man said quickly, "They are all new international students from Xiaogui and Xiaobangzi! How about I give you some..."
"Hey, hey, you're talking about a special code! I'm a serious person, buddy! Don't do that to me!" The toneless voice on the other end of the phone said dissatisfied, "Okay, hang up, New Year's Eve
joy!"
"You're such a serious beast with a special code of 8!"
The fat man waited for the busy signal to terminate the call from the receiver, then spat and cursed.
But then, he scratched his crotch helplessly, changed the number and dialed again with an angry look on his face, and made some emergency arrangements.
At the same time, Qin Er, who was still staying at Xia Shushi's house to have a New Year's Eve dinner, also put away his cell phone with satisfaction.
"Are you planning to cause trouble to the little girl again?" Xia Shushi, who was busy in the kitchen, asked with surprise.
"Who brought trouble to the little girl?" Qin Er put his feet on the coffee table, "What I call it is bringing glory to the country, and what I call it is helping a poor little devil optimize his genes."
"You need to take a break!" Xia Shu chopped the kitchen knife onto the eucalyptus board. "Believe it or not, that person who just called you might have scolded you."
"Just scold me, do I still care about this?" Qin Er said nonchalantly, "Do you think he dares to scold me in person?"
"Did the person who called you just now take you to spread the hope of love to the Japanese last time, and then caused you to be dragged away by your sister and your brother-in-law to have sex with you after you came back..."
"You don't want to pick up which pot is your special number, right?"
Qin II, who was said to have been cheated on, immediately threw the orange peel he had just peeled off at Xia Shushi's face.
"You are so afraid of others mentioning it, so don't do that stupid thing in the first place."
Xia Shushi took the orange peel, rinsed it with water and threw it directly into the pot where the meat was being stewed. He changed the subject and asked, "You seem to attach great importance to that sanitary ware?"
"I have checked in the past two days, and he is much more famous than you. There are serious historians in Maozi, but they are nothing like you. They know how to read old books every day."
Qin Er said matter-of-factly, "Didn't my sister always say that I make friends who are just like you? Hey, hey! This time I will show her how to make a serious friend, so that she won't scold me every day."
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"What do you mean by such a bad friend like me?" Xia Shushi asked dissatisfiedly.
"Or else it's neither a boy nor a girl?"
Qin Er threw a piece of orange into his mouth, frowned and grinned and said, "Who the hell secretly changed it at home last time..."
"How many times have I told you, this is all a misunderstanding!"
"You should take a break. You are so afraid of others mentioning it. Don't do that stupid thing in the first place!"
While Qin Er returned the words intact, he had already stood up and walked to the door, "I won't talk nonsense to you. Remember to add my share to the New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow. I will celebrate the New Year at your house this year."
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"Aren't you going home?" Xia Shushi asked with a look of disgust.
"We will fight when we go home. What are we going to do when we go back?" Before he could finish his words, Qin Er was already humming an unknown tune, pretending to be cool, opened the door and walked out.
"This bitch!" Xia Shushi cursed helplessly, but in the end he could only take out his mobile phone and send a message, which was a report for his little friend.
