The next day, Li Shimian woke up groggily from the couch. Seeing his old wife lying on the bed with a gray face, he sighed.
Last night, she cried all night long and fell asleep at dawn. He also cried with her all night long and thought about her all night long.
The images of his daughter growing up ran in his mind all night. From her birth, staggering to learn to walk, to sending her off to get married, everything...
Now his family is in trouble, but fortunately no one in the family has been left behind, and they have made it to this land of Sichuan and Sichuan, but his good daughter is gone.
I couldn't even see him for the last time.
Li Shimian tucked his wife in, got up and dressed to go to the dam.
When he left the house, he saw that the whole family was there. He told his two sons, "Let's go quickly. I'm afraid it will be too late today."
If you are late, you will be whipped.
The whole family, old and young, could only receive a few whippings.
"Dad, I took a day off from Bashang and took some money to pay for the labor of my father, Zhi'er and Xi'er. Tomorrow Dianzang and I will go to Bashang." Li Dian came up to help him.
"Where did you get the money?" Li Shimian was stunned.
"In the box."
Uh... Li Shimian was stunned for a moment. He was just so sad last night that he didn't read the letter or check what was delivered in the box.
"Dad, who is this eldest brother's nanny? Didn't it mean that none of us have a nanny?" Li Dianzang thought about it all night but couldn't figure it out.
"I'm afraid it won't be easy for me to reveal my secret. I used a fake name. I gave the letter to my father."
"Yes." Li Dian collected the letter and handed it over.
Li Shimian took it and read it carefully. It was signed Fang Yang.
I secretly thought that this name must be a fake. None of his three children had a nanny. No matter how closely he looked, he could not tell anything. He only said some greetings and the condition of his heart.
"Dad, could this be an old friend of ours?"
"Maybe he's dad's student."
"But this handwriting doesn't look like it was written by one of my father's students. It's a bit immature. It looks like it was written by a woman."
Several people read the letter back and forth and pondered it over, but none of them could guess the identity of the other party.
Li Shimian had no choice but to press the button and ordered his two sons: "Take the money and buy some paper money and incense candles, so that you can burn them for your sister and Sister Ning."
After speaking, his voice was choked with sobs and he stood up, hunched over and returned to the house.
Li Dian watched Li Dianzang enter the room with tears in his eyes, and was about to do as the master ordered. Just as he moved away, Mrs. Miao came over crying.
"Let me go buy it. I will buy some more paper money for our sister to burn for her. I have always complained that she doesn't care about our life or death. I never thought that we would still be alive no matter how hard it is. My sister... she makes her father and mother give away white-haired people to black ones.
Come on, my poor sister..."
All the adults and children in the room shed tears.
When I couldn't survive it before, I complained about my sister and my aunt who lived a good life in Beijing but ignored them. Unexpectedly, she was gone long ago.
I quickly bought the paper money, paper clothes, and incense candles.
The family was crying in the courtyard while burning paper for Li Xinrou and her two children.
Ma also struggled to get up, crying for her daughter while throwing paper money into the pile of paper.
"Sister Ning has been in good health since she was a child. How could she go with her sister..." Thinking of her lively and lovely niece, Mrs. Qi couldn't hold back her tears.
Sister Ning is the same age as her eldest brother's Mingjin, and is only one year younger than Ji'er. In the past, the three children often played together, and they almost tore the house apart every time.
Now Mingjin and Ji'er are still there, but Sister Ning is gone.
"Sister..." "Sister..." Mingjin and Li Ji also cried.
The whole family gathered around, crying and burning paper for the poor mother and daughter. When he heard his two grandchildren calling him sister, Li Shimian paused for a moment, froze for a moment, and suddenly stood up in a hurry.
"Father?"
"What about the letter? Where is the letter?" He was running around anxiously.
"I'll get it." Li Zhi turned around and ran into the house. After a while, he took out the letter and said, "Grandpa, here it is."
Li Shimian hurriedly took it and read the last page of the letter carefully.
"Wang Rong is brief, Pei Kai is clear. Kong Ming is Wolong, Lu Wangfei Xiong. Yang Zhen Guanxi, Ding Kuan Yidong. Xie An is noble, Wang Daogong is loyal. Kuang Heng cuts the wall, Sun Jing closes the house. Zhidu Goshawk,
Ning Cheng Ruhu..."
Looking at the handwriting again, looking at the starting and finishing of the pen, Li Shimian's hands started to tremble again.
"master?"
"Come and see, come and see!" Li Shimian greeted Ma excitedly.
"This is Sister Ning's handwriting! Come and see!"
Click on the last paragraph of the letter: "This is "Mengqiu". When she was a child, she loved to listen to me tell allusions about the characters in Mengqiu. She didn't want to write the words well, so she just loved to listen to the stories. Look at this 'Bear', when she was a child
I feel that there are too many strokes and I don’t want to write properly. I always just write the following four points in one stroke. I even pretend to say that this saves time and effort. Come and take a look..."
"Yes, yes, this is Sister Ning's name!"
The couple read the letter carefully from beginning to end, then looked at each other with trembling hands.
"Is the sister still alive?" Brother Li Dianshou said with a hint of hope.
"Show me and your mother what's in the box."
After a while, a big box was carried over: "We took some silver to pay for the labor of father, Qi'er and Xi'er. The rest are here."
Ma took them out one by one and looked at them. There were clothing materials, dry goods, some local products from the capital, a thousand taels that could be exchanged for small-denomination banknotes, and some scattered silver.
No clothing or socks.
Every year Xinrou would make clothes and shoes for her and her master, but there were none here.
The couple was unwilling to give in, and hurriedly asked their two sons to ask shopkeeper Bai, and learned from the other party that Xinrou was indeed gone.
"Everyone in Beijing said that my sister and Sister Ning died together, and the Zhang family sent them funeral arrangements. Why do parents think that Sister Ning is still alive?"
"Sister Ning really sent these things to us? If Sister Ning was secretly raised outside, she is only ten years old. Who can she know? She has come all the way to bring us things?"
Ma and Li Shimian also couldn't figure out the reason.
But in my heart I was convinced that the letter was written by Sister Ning.
"I'll write a reply myself. I haven't finished telling Sister Ning the allusions in "Mengqiu" yet. If it's really Sister Ning, she must remember every part of it. It will be clear when we receive a reply.
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"Then I'll write a reply to Ning'er. She likes the cakes I make the most, so I told her that because the journey is too far, Tu'er Tuan will make it in return if I have the opportunity. I'll see how the recipient reacts.
"
The husband and wife wrote a letter together. The family was worried and hopeful, and shopkeeper Tobo sent a reply.
Huo Xi asked Mu Yan to send the letter and was waiting for a reply. He didn't know if his grandfather's family was well. The exile was a long way and he didn't know how many of them, old and young, would survive.
But the sky is high and the road is far away, and the land of Sichuan and Sichuan is full of mountains and rivers, so the reply is not that fast.
I had no choice but to put things on hold and get busy with the Guangfeng Water Shop.
Brothers Yu Jiang, Qian Xiaoyu, Ma Ji, Ma Xiang and others have all returned with goods and are waiting for her to assign work.
Huo Xi began to think about it.
No more~ I wish everyone a happy weekend, and I’d like to ask for some tickets~