Zhuang Rui's feelings towards the old house are very complicated. In his vague memory, the image of his father is connected with the old house. The memories before he was five years old are beautiful, snuggling in his father's arms, eating and drinking from the old house.
Zhuang Rui was undoubtedly the happiest at that time when he listened to his father telling Andersen's fairy tales while eating jujubes from the jujube trees in his house.
But after his father passed away, everything changed. The big old house became lifeless. After his mother was assigned a house when he was ten years old, they moved out of there and came to this current residence. Over the years, Zhuang Rui has
I rarely go to my old house, mainly because I don’t want to face my father who has been dead for many years. Losing his father when he was a child is an unbearable pain for many people.
The old house is located at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, a famous scenic spot in Pengcheng. A few hundred meters in front of it is the Pengcheng Museum, where the silver-lined jade clothes on display attract many domestic and foreign tourists every day.
Not far behind the old house, on the Hubu Hill, is the famous horse theater where the unparalleled hero Xiang Yu established himself as the overlord of Western Chu after destroying the Qin Dynasty. He made his capital in Pengcheng and built a cluster of platforms for horse viewing, martial arts performances and military parades.
Historically, it was listed as one of the Three Treasures of Jiangsu along with Suzhou Gardens and Nanjing Stone Carvings of the Six Dynasties. However, it was destroyed in the war and was not as well preserved as the two landscapes above.
In history, various dynasties built many buildings on the horse stage, such as the stage head, Sanyi Temple, Minghuan Ci, Jukui Academy, green mountain house and stele pavilion, etc. As time goes by, time changes.
The world has changed, and the buildings of the past have been completely destroyed. After renovation, the theater has reappeared in a majestic and glorious appearance. When he was a child, Zhuang Rui often sneaked inside to play with some friends.
Playful.
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Early the next morning, Zhuang Rui and his brother-in-law rushed to the old house, but the rented car could only be parked at the intersection of the alley. Zhuang Rui and his brother-in-law got out of the car and walked towards the old house through the thick snow.
go.
The old house of Zhuang Rui's family has three bungalows and a spacious yard. There is a tall jujube tree in the middle of the yard. There is a stone table and several stone benches under the jujube tree. When I was a child, I remember that every summer, the family would sit there.
I eat on a stone bench in the courtyard and enjoy the cool air. No one has sat on the stone bench for a long time, and it has become covered with moss.
Originally, Zhuang's mother came here to clean once a month, but now that it was about to be demolished, she didn't come back after packing her things. The spacious yard was covered with weeds, and a big "Demolish" was written on the wall outside.
", because construction will start here after the new year, and the residents nearby have already moved out. When everywhere is filled with the festive atmosphere of the New Year, this place seems a bit desolate and lonely.
The room in the middle was where Grandpa Zhuang Rui used to live. After his grandfather passed away, that room became vacant and usually contained some sundries. When Zhuang Rui was a child, he always felt that it was gloomy and he never dared to go in. When he grew up,
Fewer people came to the old house, so they were no longer interested in going in.
Zhuang Rui only learned from his mother that his grandfather was a geologist who had never met him before. He had worked in Yunnan and Myanmar after liberation. For this reason, he was slandered as a geologist during those turbulent ten years.
Collaborating with the enemy, they were persecuted, which also affected Zhuang Rui's grandmother, causing the two old people to pass away early.
"Xiao Rui, it's so gray inside. Don't come in. I'll move the things out. You can just help me outside..."
When the brother-in-law opened the door of the middle room, he was greeted by a sky full of dust, which made Zhuang Rui retreat and cough.
The reflection of sunlight on the snow reflected into the house. It was vaguely visible that there were two rectangular wooden boxes about one meter in size placed in the corner of the room. The purpose of the two people's visit this time was to move these two wooden boxes back.
When I went home, the other small items had already been taken back by Zhuang’s mother.
"It's okay. I rarely go into grandpa's room. The house will be gone soon. Let's go in and have a look. This box is big enough. Hey, it's really heavy. Let's carry it out..."
Zhuang Rui walked into the house again, lifted up a corner of the box and tried it, and felt it was settling.
Nowadays, few people use heavy wooden boxes to store things. These two boxes should be old items left over from the past. The baking paint on the outer skin of the boxes has peeled off. There are also some flower and plant patterns carved on the surface of the boxes. They are still being worked on.
Two iron locks are hung on the exquisite lock nose.
Zhuang Rui originally wanted to go to the circus today, but seeing these two big boxes, he completely gave up the idea of playing.
I don’t know what was inside the box. It was really heavy. After the two of them loaded the box into the car and took it home, they were both covered in stinky sweat. But when they got home, they learned a good news. The house next door
Basically, there was no problem. My mother’s colleague promised to go through the transfer procedures after the Chinese New Year, and the price was set at 38,000, which was several thousand lower than the originally mentioned price. This made both Zhuang Rui and Zhao Guodong very happy.
After Zhao Guodong helped move the boxes, he said goodbye and left. After all, the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and his parents' house had a lot of things to do. After his brother-in-law left, his mother was going to visit an old colleague's house. Only Zhuang Rui was left at home.
Alone.
Looking at the two big boxes placed in his room, Zhuang Rui had the urge to open them and take a look. After all, the memories of the past will be lost with the demolition of the house. These things left by the elders are just like the ones left by the younger generations in the eyes of the younger generations.
It has become extremely precious.
Zhuang Rui went to the drawer in his mother's room and found some keys. He tried to open them and was able to open the two boxes. Zhuang Rui was overjoyed and quickly opened one of the boxes and found that they were all filled with books.
They are yellowing, which shows that these books are of some age.
Carefully picking up a book from the box, Zhuang Rui looked at the publication date and found that it was the 1953 edition of "Chinese Geology" originally written by Li Siguang. After opening it, he saw a large number of pictures and maps of biological fossils.
After looking at it carefully, Zhuang Rui carefully put the book back in his hand. He believed that books like version 53 can only be found in some larger libraries now.
After flipping through it, there were some books on geology inside. Zhuang Rui lost interest and opened another box. Inside were piles of letters and stacks of notebooks in a corner of the box.
, there were actually four or five black, fist-sized stones placed there.
"No wonder the box is so heavy. Why did mother put a few stones in it?" Zhuang Rui was shocked and thought with complaint.
He picked up a letter and opened it. After taking a look, Zhuang Rui was stunned because the entire letter was written with a brush, and the signature at the end of the letter was actually the words "Li Suguang". Zhuang Rui quickly
After reading it carefully, I found that the content of the letter was not long. It should be a reply from this respected scientist to his grandfather. In the letter, he introduced the geology and landforms of Yunnan, Guizhou, Myanmar and other places in detail. The wording was very professional. Zhuang Rui had
I can't understand many of the words, but I am certain that this is Li Suguang's personal letter.
Unexpectedly, his grandfather actually knew this great scientist whom he had admired since he was a child. This greatly increased Zhuang Rui's interest, so he began to sort out his grandfather's letters. He took out the few dark stones and threw them away because they were in the way.
He went under the bed. If he wasn't afraid of trouble, Zhuang Rui would have thrown it into the garbage dump downstairs.
I briefly browsed through these letters. Most of them were letters my grandfather used to communicate professionally with some classmates and teachers. I only read half of them. There was still a thick layer in the box. Zhuang Rui became a little impatient because of the contents inside.
He had some difficulty pronouncing some terms.
Putting down the letter he was reading in his hand, Zhuang Rui thought. If he used spiritual energy, he would be able to read it without opening the envelope. Thinking of this, Zhuang Rui looked at the bottom of the box, and a blue light flashed in his eyes.
The spiritual energy also escaped.
"Huh!".
Zhuang Rui suddenly shouted in surprise, because just when his eyes looked through a stack of letters and saw the bottom of the box, two scrolls came into view. What surprised him was that after the spiritual energy penetrated the scrolls,
There seemed to be a breath in the scroll that merged into the aura in the eyes, and then the aura returned to the eyes on its own, and Zhuang Rui could clearly feel that the originally thin aura had become much thicker.
Zhuang Rui felt that his eyes at this moment were as if he had just dropped eye drops, with a hint of sourness in the coolness. Zhuang Rui closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, the whole room seemed to have become much brighter.
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