【537】Thinking about it for seventy years, but not having the courage to take that first step
Hearing Li Bu's words, the old man was stunned.
Then the old man couldn't help but stretched out his old hand full of vicissitudes of life, touched Li Bu's face that looked almost the same as his husband who had been dead for decades, and said in a trembling voice: "You really are.
Are you my descendant? I asked how someone could look so much like my old man when he was young. It turns out you are my descendant. Well, well..."
"Ancestor, although I am not sure that I am definitely your descendant, I do have a very close feeling towards you.
And no matter what the future results are, I will come to see you every year in the future, and my children will always come to see you." Facing the old man's excited words, Li Bu stretched out his hand to support the old man and said,
He promised her.
After listening to Li Bu's words, the old man ignored Li Bu's promise. Instead, he stretched out his hand and held Li Bu's hand and said, "It won't be wrong. Let's go. I will take you to see the portraits of your ancestors. Do you really follow him?"
They look very similar..."
“Why do I feel like I’ve been deceived now?
Didn’t you say that you have poor eyesight before? Why are you making me look like my ancestors now?
By the way, does she really see clearly, or does she pretend to see clearly?"
After muttering a few words silently in his heart, Li Bu and the two little guys were led into the house by the old man, and then to a bedroom in the house. Then Li Bu saw the photo wall in the old man's house.
However, when he saw the number of people taking photos on the photo wall, which in my humble opinion was decreasing, Li Bu's heart suddenly twitched, a very painful twitch.
When he saw that the number of people in the photo began to decrease, he seemed to be losing something. He felt flustered, depressed, and felt extremely uncomfortable.
At the same time, Li Bu also discovered that the old man was right. He was very similar to the old man's husband in the photo. Not only was he similar to the old man's husband, but the old man's son, grandson, and great-grandson were also very similar to Li Bu.
When he saw that Li Bu was already staring at the photo above, the old man pointed at the photo above and said with a bitter look on his face: "Hey, I don't know what evil has been done. It's okay if the number of people in this family doesn't increase.
It's becoming less and less.
The first photo is of me, my husband, and my five children. This photo was originally a portrait, but later it was turned into a photo.
The second picture is of me, my husband, my son, my daughter-in-law, and my five grandchildren. This was originally a portrait.
The third picture of me, my son, my daughter-in-law, my grandson, granddaughter-in-law and their five children were originally portraits.
In the fourth picture, our family began to suffer. First, the children got sick and left one after another, and then the adults couldn't bear the blow and left one after another.
As we walked along, our family gradually changed from a wealthy family to one where only two poor people, me and my great-grandson, were left.
And now my great-grandson's whereabouts are also unknown, and no trace has been found until now. And I am getting older now, I am already ninety-seven years old, and I will be ninety-eight years old after the Chinese New Year.
There is nothing I want now, and my heart has long been numb.
My last wish now is, firstly, that my great-grandson can come back miraculously, and secondly, that I can find the descendants of my daughter's lineage, so as to confirm whether I have broken the roots of Lao Li's family."
"Ancestor, if after the relative identification, you are really my ancestor, I will arrange a flight to take you to Lijia Village tomorrow, and our family will take care of you from now on.
In addition, even if it turns out that you are not my ancestor, I still say what I said before, I will still bring these two little guys here every year to pay you New Year greetings.
Also, if there are other clues, I will also let my foundation continue to search for your descendants... Of course, now all this has to wait until the evening, and the girl will get the results.
We won't know until we come back." After promising the old man a few words with a wry smile, Li Bu supported her and walked out of the house.
After walking out, the old man lay down on a bamboo chair, then pointed to the bamboo chairs next to him and said to Xiao Xiaobu, Li Ranran, and Li Bu;
It's good to bask in the sun face to face. You can also lie over there and bask in the sun with me.
When my great-grandson was still young, I always thought that if one day I could be free and didn't have to work hard to pay for his tuition, I would stop working and just sit here with him.
Drink tea and eat snacks, and tell him stories about our time.
What a pity, this child is so sensible. Other children go home to rest for a few months after graduation, and then go out to work after a few years, but he became a full-time employee in their company as soon as he got his diploma.
, so I have never given him a chance to tell stories...and now this opportunity..."
"Old ancestor, you tell the two little guys a story, and I will prepare tea and snacks for you. I will pick some grapefruits and winter melons, and I will make snacks for you." After hearing the old man's words,
Li Bu stood up wisely, picked a few grapefruits and a large winter melon in the yard, and then went into the house to make snacks for the old man and the others.
After Li Bu went into the kitchen, the old man began to tell stories to the two little guys;
"My ancestors, when I was young, I was the son of a landlord in Guangxi.
At that time, my ancestors were just like you, and they were all loved by the elders in the family. Basically, whatever I wanted, the adults in the family would give it to me.
At that time, where we were, children from other families, let alone girls, even boys hardly had the opportunity to study. However, your ancestor, I, read a lot of books and saw a lot. In that era, many people lived a lifetime.
Something that I have no chance to see.
Our ancestors owned a gramophone that many people in the country were unable to own at a time when others were struggling for food and drink.
I remember when my father gave me the gramophone, my little sisters were so envious of me. They all envied me for having a family that was richer than them.
In addition to the gramophone, our ancestors also owned our first bicycle in Guangxi, a bicycle shipped back from abroad. It was this bicycle that allowed our ancestors to meet the man they loved most in their lives.
It’s just that that era was also a turbulent era. Later, due to the great turmoil, wars were going on all over the world, which led to migration in many places. Rich people began to avoid the war and go to more mountainous areas.
area and fled.
Just hiding here and there, year after year, day after day, finally my ancestor ended up here alone to escape.
Then because there was no ability to survive, the ancestor had no choice but to stay with an honest man here for more than seventy years. The ancestor has stayed in this place for more than seventy years.
During these seventy years, our ancestors also thought about going out to see the outside world, to see if there were any relatives left in their former home.
But the escape that year left an indelible psychological shadow on my ancestors, so even though my ancestors have thought about it, for more than seventy years, they have never dared to take the step of leaving."