The light cakes we eat at night are made with pickles. There are two kinds of light cakes, one is salty, and the other is sweet light cakes with brown sugar sprinkled on the surface. The one I ate is salty, and its texture is a bit like the baked dumplings eaten by people in the northwest.
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Xiao Changchong, the black boy, had a huge appetite. He had eaten four of them before I could finish them. Before he could swallow the food in his mouth, he reached out to take it from the box. As a result, his sister immediately hit him with chopsticks and scolded him.
Said: "There are guests here, please pay attention to how you eat! Study every day and finish last in the exam, then you will know how to eat!"
Changchong glanced at me, grabbed the cake, took a big bite, and said while chewing: "I'm not the last one, I'm the fourth! There are three people in front of me, and my English teacher praised me yesterday.
, she said I made rapid progress."
He asked Xiao Changying: "Sister, do you know how to say cake in English? Say keke, and say keke for cake! We are eating cakes now, right? In English, it means hey mu, auntie keke! Sister
You don’t understand at all.”
After he finished speaking, he looked at me proudly, as if he was showing off to me that he was knowledgeable.
Xiao Changying said with a dark face: "Put your face out."
After saying that, she slapped her brother in the face! The sound was extremely loud.
Changchong cried immediately, biting the cake and said aggrievedly: "Grandpa, don't worry about it, my sister beats me again!"
"Why!"
The old man sighed and said: "You two, just let me worry a little. If one day I get mad at you, you will be happy, right?"
The siblings immediately stopped arguing.
"Eat, young man, there are so many more, you're welcome."
I hurriedly said thank you, I was almost full,
He asked: "I see you are always running around. What kind of business do you usually do?"
"Oh, I collect antiques and do antique business."
Xiao Changying asked in surprise: "Xiang Feng, can you make money from this business? Can you make 100,000 yuan a year?"
I said no problem, I can earn more than this amount.
She put down her chopsticks and said immediately: "That's just right. We have some ancient objects passed down from our family. After dinner, can you help take a look at them to see if they are worth anything?"
I nodded and said yes.
Just like that, after eating, Xiao Zhengxing excused himself that he had something to do and had to go out. Xiao Changying asked her brother to carry down a large wooden box from upstairs.
I opened it and saw a lot of messy things inside, including copper coins, copper plates, a few silver dollars from the Qing Dynasty, and the old silver hat flower. I pulled it back and forth twice, and suddenly a small bronze snake was revealed.
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I was attracted to this thing right away.
This little copper snake is covered in green rust, and its tail is stuck on a bronze base. When you lay this thing flat, you will see that the snake looks like it is sitting on a bench.
I have seen many Bench Buddhas from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, including the Northern Wei Dynasty, but this was the first time I saw the Bench Snake, and it opened my eyes.
"Is this a family tradition?"
Xiao Changying nodded: "Yes, I remember playing with this thing when I was a child. Is this an antique? What dynasty is it from? Is it valuable?"
"Sell it or not?" I asked directly.
She was stunned: "How much do you want?"
"How much do you want to sell?"
"I don't understand, just tell me."
"Then...then eight hundred yuan?"
I said it casually, because I only have more than 800 yuan in cash in my wallet.
Unexpectedly, she didn't even think about it and said directly: "Okay, then I'll sell you."
I didn't talk nonsense, I immediately gave the money and put the bronze snake in my pocket.
She was very happy to get eight hundred yuan, and found me a lot of messy things and asked me if I wanted them.
I am a collector of antiques, not scraps. I was about to say no, when I suddenly heard a muffled "dong" sound, which was not loud.
I looked up and asked, "What is this sound?"
She immediately said: "There is some noise somewhere, it might be a mouse, don't worry about it."
Is there a mouse in the snake? Are you kidding? And a mouse can make such a sound? I don't believe it at all, but it didn't show on my face.
After staying for a while, I made an excuse to say that it was getting late and I had to go back, and my sister and I came out to see me off.
In fact, I did not go back, but walked back halfway and quietly turned back, hiding behind the old locust tree at the door.
Strangely enough, not long after I left, Xiao Zhengxing came back.
As I watched the man push open the door and go in, I wondered: "Didn't he say he went out to do something? Why did he come back as soon as I left? It was too fast."
After thinking about it, I crouched over and ran over, putting my ear against the door to listen to what they were saying.
"Changying, he didn't find anything, did he?"
"Without grandpa, we all behave normally."
"Hey... Changying, maybe I shouldn't have done this in the first place. This kid is very alert. He has already become suspicious. I'm afraid I won't be able to hide it sooner or later."
"No, grandpa! We promised them, not to mention we also collected a lot of money from them!"
At this time, I heard Chang Chong say: "Then we can't keep them forever, grandpa."
Xiao Zhengxing's voice said: "I know, let me think about what to do."
When I heard these words outside the door, at that moment, my hands were shaking... shaking uncontrollably!
Without thinking, I kicked the door open and rushed in!
"you!"
The three of them looked panicked. They thought I had left long ago!
I clenched my fists! My teeth clenched loudly! My voice trembled as I asked, "They...where are they..."
Xiao Zhengxing smiled and said: "Young man, what are you talking about? Where are they? We are the only ones here."
Unable to control my emotions, I slammed the table! I shouted with red eyes: "Tell me! Where are they!"
Xiao Zhengxing's face turned pale, his eyes were evasive, and he was hesitant to speak.
I begged: "I beg...tell me...where they are."
The three of them looked struggling, and Changchong tried to help me up.
At this moment, a voice came from the second floor.
This voice sounds so familiar and yet so strange to me.
"Yunfeng, how have you been in these years?"
I slowly raised my head and looked upstairs.
I saw a middle-aged man in his forties standing on the second floor, looking at me with a smile on his face.
At this moment, my emotions were out of control.
I couldn't hold back the tears in my eyes. I looked at this man and cried.
Five years...it's been five years, and he doesn't seem to have changed much.
I ran up the stairs and hugged this man.
"Brother!"
This person is none other than Boss Sun! The elder brother who introduced me to the industry!
"Okay, okay, Yunfeng, you've grown so tall, you've become a man, and you're still crying, what do you look like?"
"Third brother, stop hiding. Come down and take a look at Yunfeng."
There was no light in the stairwell leading to the third floor. In the darkness, a middle-aged man slowly walked out.
Looking at this man's current state, I wiped my tears sadly and didn't know what to say.
The third brother looked much older and thinner. He came over and hugged me tightly without saying a word.
The eldest brother also came over, and the three of us hugged each other...
A long time ago, I came to the Snake House for the first time to inquire about their news. At that time, Xiao Zhengxing told me that they had left after coming here to seek medical treatment to no avail. From then on, there was no more news about them in the world.
Maybe I was asking downstairs while my eldest and third brother were watching upstairs.
