msmithbooks Chapter 97 Hometown
Chapter 97 Hometown
Jin Chen finished production, and before the publicity, Jin Chen asked Wu Zecheng for a week's vacation. He originally planned to live with Nie Lang, but a phone call from Jin Xiao shattered Jin Chen's beautiful fantasy.
Jin Xiao said that the third wife in his hometown passed away, and the relatives in the clan had to go back to see the old man for the last time.When Jin Chen heard about this, he could only sigh silently. The third wife took good care of him when he was a child. Every time Jin Chen went back to his hometown, the third wife gave him a lot of delicious food. After growing up, Jin Chen rarely went back.
The third wife is a kind and kind old man. Jin Chen's impression of the third wife is still that of a navy blue button-down jacket, loose trousers of the same color, a pair of embroidered shoes, and smooth long hair tied into a bun. The stone bench in front of the house enjoys the shade, and the grandchildren play on the ground, including the childhood Jin Chen.
The third master died during the Cultural Revolution. His son was a Red Guard. At that time, he tore off his belt and smacked it on the old man. The buckle of the belt just hit the old man's eyes. The third master was blind and couldn't get sick. Fortunately, there are two daughters who are waiting close by. When the third master was dying, he said that he would treat him as if he did not have this son. Send to the end.The eldest daughter bought a house in the city for the third wife to live in, and the third wife would rather stay in the old house for the rest of her life. The third wife said that the old house was her root, and she wanted to return here anyway after she died. Next door, with her husband's childhood sweetheart, also happened to take care of the third wife.
Jin Chen went back to his hometown for the last time. When he left, the third wife was also sitting in front of the old house, waving a cattail fan and waving at Jin Chen, saying that she would come back to see the third wife when she was free. If she didn't come back a few more times, the third wife would leave.
Unexpectedly, the third wife really left, and Jin Chen couldn't go back during this period, which happened two years ago.
When Jin Chen asked Jin Xiao, he found out that the third wife is already 93 this year. Since when did the short third wife's back bend slightly and her steps slow down a lot?
Jin Xiao explained that he was going back tomorrow morning and asked Jin Chen to prepare a set of clothes for changing and washing. The clothes must be plain, black, white and grey, and asked Nie Lang if he was free, so he would go back to his hometown together.
Although it was Jin Chen who conveyed the words, Nie Lang was happy. This proved that his father-in-law recognized that he was a member of the Jin family, and went to offer incense to worship his ancestors or something.
Recently, they were all small cases, and no one was killed, so they let Li Sheng and the others handle them. Nie Lang was free, so he asked Yang Baoguo for a week's vacation. Yang Baoguo didn't ask much, and directly approved it.
The night before going back to my hometown, the two were lying on the bed. Jin Chen asked Nie Lang: "Didn't you think that my dad just talked politely and didn't let you go back?"
Nie Lang snorted and said, "You boy, don't come here to sow discord. How can your father-in-law be polite? He just wanted me to offer incense to the ancestors of the Jin family, to put pressure on me, and hint that I will treat you well in the future. The ancestors of the Jin family are all here." Look up there!"
"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" Jin Chen couldn't be happier, he originally wanted to tease Nie Lang, but he didn't expect to be amused by Nie Lang instead.
"What are you laughing at?" Nie Lang turned to look at him, "I'm serious, your father must mean that."
"Yeah, yes, that's what he meant." Jin Chen smiled and his eyes were also crooked.
Nie Lang rubbed Jin Chen's head with his palm: "Daughter-in-law, don't be afraid, I will establish a good relationship with the ancestors of the Jin family, don't worry."
Jin Chen: "..."
"Don't believe it?"
"Letter, letter." Jin Chen said with some perfunctory meaning, and there was a smile in his tone.
"Hey," Nie Lang looked at him, "what's the matter, I don't have confidence in your husband?"
Jin Chen turned around and pinched Nie Lang's face: "I believe everything you say!"
Nie Lang chuckled and let Jin Chen pinch his face: "Daughter-in-law, go to bed early, you have to get up early tomorrow."
"Well, sleep, you drive tomorrow, I'm lazy."
"OK, no problem."
Nie Lang let Jin Chen fall asleep on his arm, Nie Lang rubbed Jin Chen's soft black hair, closed his eyes and fell asleep contentedly.
The next day Jin Chen woke up when the bell rang, and found that Nie Lang had already gotten up to pack his clothes back home. Jin Chen's clothes were neatly stacked on the bed, and there were some Jin Chen's necessities.
Jin rubbed his eyes: "Why do you get up so early?"
"You know I don't sleep much." Nie Lang began to pack his things, "Look at what else you want to bring."
Jin Chen yawned, crawled to the end of the bed and squinted his sleepy eyes: "Well, it's almost there, I'll just go back for a few days, don't need to bring too much."
"I was afraid that one set of clothes would not be enough, so I took two sets." Nie Lang folded the clothes and put his own in the simple luggage bag first.
For Jin Chen, who is like eating out, he knows exactly what to bring. He picked up his clothes and stuffed them into the luggage bag. Finally, he knelt on the bed and opened his arms to Nie Lang: "My husband..."
"Huh?" Nie Lang deliberately ignored him, focusing on what he was holding.
"..." Jin Chenba blinked his sleepy eyes, his soft bangs drooping on his forehead, looking pure and innocent.
Nie Lang looked at Jin Chen with raised eyebrows for a while, then stretched out his strong arms, Jin Chen jumped directly on Nie Lang, Nie Lang carried Jin Chen to take a bath, Jin Chen had a morning erection, Nie Lang pretended not to see it, The two of them came out of the shower, changed their clothes, and walked outside the house with their luggage bags in hand.
Standing in the yard, Jin Chen said to the flowers and plants, "You have to take good care of your house!"
The flowers and plants rustled as a response to Jin Chen, and Nie Lang threw the luggage bag into the trunk: "Get in the car, I have to pick up Dad."
Jin Chen watered the plants, then squatted in front of the small potted plants with sprouts and said, "Although you are still young, you still have to learn to take care of the house."
The buds in the potted plants are numb.
Nie Lang drove out of the courtyard gate, and Jin Chen locked the gate.
Jin Chen got into the car and said to Nie Lang: "Why does it feel like it has grown so little after so long?"
"You think it's a fast-growing eucalyptus tree? If you say it grows, it will grow?" Nie Lang sneered and drove to the main road.
"What kind of tree is that?" Jin Chen asked.
"A kind of eucalyptus that grows in two or three years. It is poisonous and is usually used to make paper. The soil where this fast-growing eucalyptus is planted cannot grow other plants, because the nutrients in the soil are absorbed by the eucalyptus. The soil contains traces of toxins, so The country prohibits planting, and there are more in the south."
"Okay..." Jin Chen said, "The seed in the chaotic world is absolutely impossible to be it."
Nie Lang: "It's definitely not, maybe it's a sacred tree, such as a money tree and a fortune tree hahahahahahahaha..."
"You think about money like crazy, you are poor."
This time Nie Lang laughed even louder.
Jin Chen curled his lips, this man's skin is getting thicker, and he won't be angry no matter how hurt he is.
Nie Lang went upstairs to help Jin Xiao carry a plastic bag and came down.
"Dad, what is this?" Jin Chen asked.
Jin Xiao said, "Your third wife's daughter asked me to buy it for you."
"Oh." Jin Chen didn't ask again.
Nie Lang said, "Dad, haven't you had breakfast yet? Do you want to find a place to have breakfast?"
Jin Xiao thought for a while: "Just buy some steamed buns on the side of the road and put them on."
Nie Lang: "That's fine."
It was a cold morning in Lindong, the vision was a bit hazy and foggy, and the tops of the tall buildings in the city could not be seen clearly. The breakfast shop opened early, Jin Chen bought some food and went back to the car.
"It's quite cold," Jin Chen said, "There's still mist."
"Global climate warming, extreme weather." Nie Lang said.
At dawn, the car drove slowly to the outskirts of the city, and left the city in a short while. On the highway, it took two or three hours to walk to Jin Chen's hometown.
On the way, a bus passed Nie Lang's car. At first Nie Lang didn't pay attention to it. After 15 minutes, the car passed Nie Lang from behind for the second time. Nie Lang frowned and looked at the appearance of the bus and the license plate , is the same as the one that overtook just now!
But the speed of the bus is fast, and if Nie Lang wants to chase it, it will be a bit dangerous on the expressway. After all, he still has Jin Chen and Jin Xiao here. If he would have speeded up to catch up with him normally, his car is not built.
At this time Jin Chen said: "I want to put water."
Nie Lang: "..."
There is a service area just 200 meters ahead, Nie Lang slows down and pulls over to enter the service area.
After Jin Chen finished urinating, he went to the service area to buy three hot dogs: "I like the hot dogs here the most, they are big and delicious."
"Is there something delicious for me?" Nie Lang took it and took a bite.
Jin Chen pushed Nie Lang's chest with his elbow: "Get out!"
Jin Chen, who was wearing a mask, returned to the car, Jin Xiao probably didn't eat.
Nie Lang narrowed his eyes and watched the bus pull into the service area to stop. Nie Lang's short arrow appeared in the palm of his hand in an instant, and he stared sharply at the strange bus. The car is some distance away.
The bus door slowly opened...
Nie Lang's pupils narrowed slightly.
"Everyone, come down! Everyone, come down and rest!" shouted someone who looked like a tour guide.
Then came the noisy discussion.
Really human, not ghostly.
The tourists went to buy food and go to the bathroom, and they dispersed, and the driver also got off, standing next to Nie Lang with the tour guide.
The tour guide anxiously whispered to the driver: "What should we do? We have been walking for more than an hour and are still spinning around in circles. Did we encounter ghosts hitting the wall?"
The driver smoked to calm himself down: "I haven't encountered this in decades of driving, it's so strange..."
"It's a good thing they didn't find out, otherwise they might have left the group." The director said while twirling the strap of his messenger bag.
"Alas..." The driver scratched his head in annoyance, "I guess I really hit something wrong."
"Crash evil?!" The tour guide realized that he was speaking loudly, and quickly lowered his voice, "You have traveled so many times, is there no way to solve it? Have your colleagues encountered this kind of problem?"
"I'll call and ask." The driver was quite calm and took out his phone.
Nie Lang's sharp ears could hear each other clearly.
Nie Lang walked up to the driver who was squatting on the steps and talking on the phone, and said, "There's no need to call."
The driver raised his head: "?"
The director blinked a few times: "Did you hear what we just... said?"
Nie Lang didn't answer her directly, but said to the driver: "You are unlucky, and you were chosen by the ghost who died in a car accident on the highway as a scapegoat. You just need to throw one of your own clothes on the road while driving, and you will be run over by the car." But if you pass, you can escape.”
The driver's voice was hoarse, and it took a long time to ask: "This, this... can this work?"
"Believe it or not." Nie Lang took a bite of the hot dog, turned around and left, "Otherwise, you will wait for a carload of people to die with you."
The tour guide pulled the driver up: "Listen to him! A dead horse is now a living horse doctor!"
At this time, it was already daylight, and Nie Lang's car was driving in front of the bus.
Jin Chen asked: "What?"
"It's nothing," Nie Lang said, "The bus hit a wall with a ghost on the highway, and asked the driver for his life to act as a scapegoat."
"Oh." Jin Chen nodded, then looked in the rearview mirror, and threw something similar to clothes from the bus. The driver drove past, and the ghost fog surrounding the bus gradually dissipated. The terrifying ghost on the side of the road watched the bus pass by for a moment, and the ghost gradually moved away to form a white spot, "It's so fierce, I can still come out during the day."
"I'm sorry, no one wants to die like this." Nie Lang said while driving.
Jin Xiao, who was sitting in the back seat, knew what Nie Lang was doing, and said, "If you don't mind the trouble when you come back, you can take it. Don't let it stay on the highway to harm people and deepen your crime."
Nie Lang: "Okay, Dad."
Then Nie Lang asked Jin Chen to use his mobile phone to call a friend at the highway management office, clean up the clothes left on the highway and burn them. After burning, he lit three incense sticks and stuck them in the ground before leaving.
The car drove steadily on the road, and the bus was left behind by Nie Lang.Nie Lang's car is like an arrow at the beginning. Wherever it passes, the white fog dissipates, and the vision becomes clear, as if leading a bus. Finally, the bus reaches the exit safely all the way, and Nie Lang is relieved to continue. drive ahead.
That section of the road just now is a place where car accidents often occur. Nie Lang has come to deal with it once before, but there is a problem with Feng Shui in that place, just like the Bermuda Triangle of Death, there will always be traffic accidents for no reason, and people will die every time.Many people don’t know that clothes or other things on the highway cannot be picked up. Some people are greedy for petty gains. What they see are wallets or cash. Pull over and pick them up. A car accident will happen the next moment. Deadly ghost thing.
After Nie Lang dealt with the scene once, the incidence of traffic accidents has indeed been reduced by half. Nie Lang still wants to choose a time to see how to completely solve the curse of the Bermuda death triangle on the expressway.
Looking at the back seat from the rearview mirror, Jin Xiao was already asleep. Nie Lang asked Jin Chen in a low voice: "Daughter-in-law, are you sleepy? Do you want to sleep?"
"It's okay, let's talk with you for a while." Jin Chen said.
"My dad is asleep."
Jin Chen turned his head to look at Jin Xiao, and sure enough: "Okay, then let's keep our voices down."
"Hmm." If Nie Lang hadn't held the steering wheel with both hands, he really wanted to hook Jin Chen over and kiss him.
During the nearly three-hour journey, Jin Chen and Nie Lang fell asleep while chatting. Nie Lang looked at him dotingly from time to time. Nie Lang drove steadily, and Jin Xiao and Jin Chen's father and son slept soundly. It was too early, and Nie Lang slept for a few hours a day in the car, and Nie Lang also found that Jin Chen's sleep time was gradually decreasing, and he was very energetic at night, if Nie Lang didn't let him sleep and accompany him With him sleeping, Jin Chen may not go to bed so early.
After getting off the expressway, he had to continue walking for a section of secondary road. When he reached a place with almost no signs, Nie Lang pulled over and woke Jin Chen up.
"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law?" Nie Lang stroked Jin Chen's forehead.
Jin Chen moved: "Ah? Arrived?"
Jin Xiao at the back also woke up. After seeing the terrain clearly, he said, "Go straight for about 500 meters and see a big pond. That's it."
The car drives again.
Jin Chen looked at both sides of the road: "Dad, the village has changed a lot in the past two years. So many villagers have built houses."
Jin Xiao said: "It's all hard-earned money. Young people have gone out to work, and the rest are old and young. The colorful world outside is very exciting, and young people don't want to come back."
"..."
When they saw the fish pond, Jin Xiao and Nie Lang said, "Yes, find a place to park, you can park at the basketball court in front."
The planning of the village is not bad. All the new houses are built along the road. Walking inside is the old houses of the same height. From the outside, the walls are still blue brick walls, and the older ones are yellow mud bricks, black and gray Nie Lang has almost never seen this kind of old building in the urban area.
Jin Xiao said to Nie Lang: "Go back to the ancestral house first, meet the elders of the clan, and then offer incense to the ancestors."
Nie Lang and Jin Chen followed Jin Xiao to the ancestral house. Jin Xiao also greeted other villagers along the way. Jin Chen was wearing a mask, but the villagers didn't pay attention, and some turned their heads to look curiously.
The ancestral house of the Jin family is very grand, with blue bricks and black tiles, carved beams, six large pillars of vermilion lacquer, and cornices sitting on auspicious beasts to watch the four directions. There are murals painted on the high walls. The ancestral house adds a sense of history. The ancestral house is like a sleeping old man sitting in the village, watching everything change.
"A very spiritual old house." Nie Lang whispered to Jin Chen the first time he saw the ancestral house.
"That's why it has been standing for hundreds of years." Jin Chen said.
Jin Xiao walked in front, and the two followed behind like followers. Jin Chen and Nie Lang looked around, just like Nie Lang.
After crossing the threshold, Nie Lang said again: "The threshold of your Jin family is really high."
"That must be done," Jin Chen proudly raised his chin, "Otherwise, you think the door of Jin's house can be entered casually?"
Nie Lang hummed twice, and Jin Chen hummed twice.
Pass through the atrium, walk up the steps, and then come to the hall, which still retains the ancient furnishings and decorations. On the main hall is a picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, which is majestic. There are three long pictures in color and ink on the left and right sides. Line of sight, table case bonsai are all available.
A few old people sat on the grand master chairs on both sides, and two old people with all white hair and long beards sat in the front seat. If you look closely, the two old people are almost the same except for their clothes. Their appearance is almost the same. Leaning on crutches, he is already old, and it seems that his seniority is also high.
The old people were talking in their dialect, which Nie Lang could vaguely understand. They were talking about Jin Chen's third wife who had just passed away.
Jin Xiao chatted with the old people, and Jin Chen also greeted the old people one by one. When introducing Nie Lang, Jin Chen said directly: "This is my lover, Nie Lang."
Nie Lang also nodded respectfully to the old people generously.
The complexion of the old people present changed slightly, and the old man with the hat on his right realized it and nodded: "What should come will still come."
The old man in the front seat also smiled knowingly: "That's what the hexagram said, it's a matter of destiny."
The old man next to him stroked his beard and said, "That's fine."
On the contrary, it was the old man sitting first on the left who looked like a fairy, and said with a smile: "I just said that my fortune-telling has never been wrong."
The second old man on the left said: "You are still the fourth brother."
"Fifth brother is absurd." The fairy-like old man cupped his fists, and then said to Jin Xiao, "Ninth brother, take your son and...son-in-law to meet the ancestors."
Jin Xiao is ranked ninth, the old people are called Jin Xiao Jiudi, and the young ones in the village are called Jin Xiao Jiu Uncle.
"I came back this time, one is for the third aunt's business, and the other is to bring him back so that the ancestors of the Jin family can take a good look at it." Jin Xiao said.
"Go." The old man in the front seat waved his hand.
Only then did Jin Xiao take Jin Chen and Nie Lang away, and walked all the way through the corridor to the ancestral hall.
"Do the elders know about divination?" Nie Lang asked Jin Chen while walking.
Jin Chen said: "Yes, I have known since I was a child that the rules of the Jin family, after the age of six, will be calculated by Sigong."
"No wonder they didn't respond."
Jin Chen shrugged: "They knew about it earlier than I did. My dad didn't want to tell me. It was Sigong who told me. That's when I knew that it was already destined."
Jin Xiao, who was walking in front, turned his head and said to Jin Chen: "It's for your own good if I don't say anything, who knows if the old man is right?!"
"..."
"..."
Facts have proved that Sigong was right, ten hexagrams and ten spirits.
When we arrived at the ancestral hall, the ancestors of the Jin family were lined up neatly, with incense curling up, solemn and quiet.
Jin Xiao put nine incense sticks on the red candle and lit them, and blew on them to make the incense sticks burn better. He distributed three sticks to each of Jin Chen and Nie Lang, and the three of them knelt on the futon and sincerely offered incense.
Jin Xiao: "The ancestors of the Jin family, the youngest son Jin Chen has found a good son-in-law..."
Jin Chen and Nie Lang: "..."
"Bless my son and son-in-law to have children as soon as possible, for the Jin family..."
Jin Chen and Nie Lang: 囧.
"The ancestors and ancestors bless everyone to go in and out safely, in good health, and everything goes well..."
Jin Chen and Nie Lang: They are finally back to normal.
After Jin Xiao finished chanting, he stood up and said to the two of them solemnly, "Bless the ancestors."
Hearing this, Jin Chen hurriedly bowed down and bowed reverently, then held up the incense stick and inserted it into the incense burner.
When walking out of the ancestral hall, Nie Lang asked Jin Chen, "What do you mean by your last prostration?"
Jin Chen covered Nie Lang's ear and whispered: "I will ask the ancestors of the Jin family to bless my father to be normal."
Nie Lang held out his thumb.
"What are you two talking about behind?" Jin Xiao turned around, his thick eyebrows raised.
"Oh, it's nothing," Jin Chen replied, "What are I going to eat with Nie Lang later?"
"Eat," Jin Xiao said directly, "a big pot of rice."
Jin Chen had an expression on his face that I knew.
On the contrary, Nie Lang said: "The big pot rice is delicious, especially the big pot rice and big pot dishes in the countryside are very delicious."
Jin Xiao nodded appreciatively, and continued walking with his hands behind his back.
When we came to the backyard, the firewood cauldron had already been set up. The chef in the village was frying vegetables, and the palm-sized spoon was stirring the vegetables in the pan. Jin Chen covered the mask tightly.
Nie Lang said, "Why? Can't you smell the firewood?"
Before Jin Chen could speak, Jin Xiao said, "Why are you so hypocritical?"
"No," Jin Chen said, "I'm afraid that Cuihua will know that I'm back."
"Cuihua? I'm still a second dog!" Nie Lang snorted, "Who is Cuihua?"
"It's Cuihua, the flower of China, not the flower of flowers," Jin Chen glared at him, "She likes to follow me around since she was a child."
"Yo, childhood sweetheart."
"Why do I sound so sour?" After Jin Chen finished speaking, he saw Jin Cuihua walking towards him with a smile, really saying that Cao Cao Cao Cao is here!