Chapter 7: Home
At the beginning of the day after the rain, the sun shines on the stagnant water on the ground, reflecting a dazzling white light, as if the whole world is illuminated. Not only was it a corner where the sun couldn't shine, but even the darkness in his heart felt a glimmer of light, but Tang Cheng still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Tang Cheng felt as if he had a mental illness, he laughed when others laughed, and when others cried, he cried by looking at the situation, and always felt that he could only react after watching others react in various ways, just like a second fool.
He took a hot bath early in the morning, and instructed Liu Shishi to steal Mu Lianshan's vanilla powder and sprinkle it in the bath water, but Tang Cheng still felt that he had a smell of decay. This heavy rain has been falling for four days, Tang Cheng should have gone to Huang's house four days ago, it is because of this heavy rain that he had to postpone it to today, and it is precisely because of this that Tang Cheng's heart has always felt uncomfortable, always a little apprehensive and uneasy.
Four people, a jeep, quickly passed through Dabanqiao Town and entered the urban area of Kunming. The city was closed, and the soldiers of the Kunming garrison stood behind the wooden horses with barbed wire, and if it weren't for Huang San's pass issued by the Kunming Administration, they would only have to enter the city of Kunming at sunrise tomorrow. At this time, it was dark, different from the desertion after dark in Dabanqiao Town, but there were still people coming and going in the urban area of Kunming, and many shops had not yet closed, and the brightly lit business inside was still booming.
Liu Shishi, who was sitting in the back seat with Tang Cheng, was looking around, and Huang San, who was in the front passenger seat, also turned back from time to time to introduce Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi what place was here and what place it was. Tang Cheng was obviously not interested in these, his eyes were always unfocused, and he glanced at these places that Huang San said casually, and only Liu Shi was very excited, he and Hou San had never been to these places when they entered the city, and they didn't know that Kunming City would be so lively at night.
"Go home for dinner" This is the original words that Huang San brought when he took the jeep to Dabanqiao Town to pick up Tang Cheng, Tang Cheng knew that the person who said this must be his godsister Tang Hongyi. The word home has been very distant and unfamiliar to Tang Cheng, and since Robert's death, Tang Cheng has long lost the word home in his mind. The courtyard of Dabanqiao Town has a very homely atmosphere, but Tang Cheng knows that it is not his home, and once the Kunming Administration takes back that courtyard, he will have to wander around like a rout.
A subordinate standing at the door saw the jeep speeding down the wide avenue, and knew that the main master was coming, and immediately ran back, shouting as he ran: "The second master is here, the second master is back home!" Tang Cheng in the jeep didn't know that the Huang family had made a lot of preparations to meet him, and the people who reported the news had not yet rushed to the second gate, and Tang Hongyi, who had been waiting for a long time, brought his own pair of children and the Huang family to greet him.
"Xiaocheng, how have you come over for more than a year? Look at the wounds on your body, the calluses on your hands, thank goodness you're still alive. "Tang Hongyi has sent people to Dabanqiao Town many times to ask Tang Cheng to come to Huang's house, but every time Tang Cheng excuses himself with his injury not being well. Tang Hongyi originally thought that Tang Cheng was deliberately shirking, but after Tang Cheng got out of the jeep, and when Tang Hongyi saw the scars on Tang Cheng's neck and the back of his hands, this woman who was so strong that she rarely shed tears finally cried.
Tang Hongyi began to shed tears, which made Tang Cheng embarrassed and puzzled, in his impression, the real decision of the Huang family is the woman who will pull him tightly and not let go, such a person should be a very strong person, why do you shed tears at every turn? "Oh, look at my memory, there's still meat stewed on the stove behind me, these two naughty eggs are handed over to you, I'll go to the kitchen first." After briefly introducing Tang Cheng to the Huang family, Tang Hongyi went to the kitchen with a smile, but threw his pair of children to Tang Cheng.
Tang Cheng looked at Tang Hongyi's back as he had already left, his godsister was really happy. "You're my uncle? My mother said that you are very good at fighting, right? Three-year-old Tang Xiaohu's big eyes were full of longing, he was both familiar and unfamiliar with the creature of his uncle, and he asked Tang Cheng's tears in one sentence. Being looked up by two children of almost average size, Tang Cheng's heart suddenly became warm, and the strength that he had always shown to others collapsed at this moment.
Tang Cheng slowly squatted down, looked into the eyes of the two little guys and said, "Yes, that's right, I am your uncle, the uncle who is very good at fighting."
"You don't have a beard, your father has a beard, and Uncle Huang in the family also has a beard, why doesn't your uncle have it?" A girl's heart is always meticulous, when Tang Cheng reached out to take the two little guys into his arms, the little girl in a flower dress carefully touched Tang Cheng's cheeks and chin with her fingers, and then asked Tang Cheng in a milky voice, she was obviously very strange about her uncle's lack of beard.
"Uncle shaved off his beard, just worried that it would hurt Xiao Duoduo and Xiaohu for a while" Tang Cheng had tears in his eyes, and after speaking, he hugged Tang Duo and Tang Xiaohu's small bodies tightly, and kissed and kissed them on the little face. The three of them smiled nose to nose, and Huang San, who was standing next to him, had already cried twice, and the eyes of the people around him were also red, only Liu Shishi's face didn't matter, anyway, the person he trusted the most from his head was himself.
Tang Cheng obviously gained the trust of the children, from the moment Tang Cheng walked into the Huang family, the two children never left Tang Cheng's side, and even when Huang Hanju, who rushed back from the administrative office, ordered the dinner, the eccentric children of the Huang family were still clamoring to sit next to their uncle. After eating a meal, Tang Cheng couldn't remember how much wine he drank, no matter who raised his glass to himself, Tang Cheng responded with a glass, Tang Cheng, who rarely drank alcohol, never found that the spicy wine syrup was so smooth at this time.
"Wine, pour me wine, I'll drink it again." Tang Cheng, who was already drunk, continued to drink, but he couldn't pour the cup into his mouth, which made Tang Hongyi and the two children laugh. It may be that he drank too much, and Tang Cheng, who was dizzy from drinking, couldn't bear the heat on his body, so he unbuttoned his shirt casually, and Huang Hanju, who was also a little drunk, also unbuttoned his shirt when he saw this, and the two men who were open-chested shouted and shouted for their subordinates to continue pouring wine for them.
"Take the young master and the young lady to the back to take a bath" Tang Hongyi coaxed his pair of children to go to the backyard to take a bath, but he personally carried the wine jug and poured wine for Tang Cheng and Huang Hanju, and shed tears while pouring the wine. Tang Cheng's action of unbuttoning his shirt was completely unconscious, but he didn't want Tang Hongyi to see the scars on his chest, Tang Hongyi didn't expect that Tang Cheng would have so many scars on his body, the scars on Tang Cheng's neck and the back of his hands that he saw at first were not worth mentioning at all compared to now.
"When I went to Dabanqiao to deliver something to the second master for the first time, I was taken aback, although the second master said that he had a good complexion, he needed to walk with crutches. I asked their military doctor surnamed Mu, and said that the second master had suffered a major injury before this injury, and if it weren't for Shi Shi and a brother who had died in battle to snatch the second master back, maybe our second master would have died in the ditch of Xiaojieling. Huang San, who was standing next to him, knew that his wife was crying when he saw the scars on Tang Cheng's body, so he whispered some things he learned from Mu Lianshan to Tang Hongyi.
Tang Cheng, who was busy drinking with Huang Hanju, didn't know that Tang Hongyi and Huang San were talking about him, even if he knew, he could only giggle in his current dizzy state. "What a sin my brother has suffered," Tang Hongyi couldn't help rubbing his eyes full of moisture, "If he is an adult, forget it, if you carefully calculate that he will only be 21 years old after the New Year, if this is placed when the Japanese did not come, I am afraid that this age is only the age of causing trouble everywhere." ”
Huang San said with a smile, "On the way here today, I saw that the second master was uneasy, and I thought that it might be because the second master still has some relationship with our family. But later, when the little master and the young lady squatted at the door to talk to the second master, I realized that this was not the case at all, the second master had fought too much, and the second master didn't say that the second master was originally an orphan, I wondered if he was a little afraid to come to our house. ”
"What's there to be afraid of, he's not afraid of killing little devils on the battlefield, and he's afraid of coming to our house?" Tang Hongyi was a little puzzled by Huang San's rhetoric.
"Madam, we have a large family and a prosperous family, so naturally we don't have so many worries. But the second master is an orphan, he should be a little strange to his family, plus he has been leading troops to fight, and he is a person who is used to seeing life and death. "Huang San is the one who has been a housekeeper for more than ten years, and he has already pondered Tang Cheng's temperament, and Tang Hongyi, who listened to it, also nodded again and again.
"Then we can't help him, I think the two little ancestors of our family are quite close to their uncle, and from tomorrow onwards, we will throw the two little ancestors to their uncle with them. I think Xiaocheng can still ignore his two nephews, as long as he is used to staying in our house, plus the dependence of the two children, he will be reluctant to leave when the time comes. ”
Tang Hongyi and Huang San came up with a good solution, but Tang Cheng, who was completely drunk, didn't know this, and Huang Hanju, who was slightly sobered up after being poured sobering soup, also agreed with this method, he didn't want Tang Cheng to go back to the broken courtyard in Dabanqiao, and it was a good thing to keep Tang Cheng at home.