Chapter 19 Family Spring and Autumn

I don't know how much wine he drank, Tang Cheng didn't know how he lay down on the bed, and he didn't know who changed his pajamas. There are many guest rooms in the Huang family, enough for more than a dozen of them in Tang Cheng to stay in the Huang family, and the beds in the guest rooms are also very large, and the bedding is all freshly made, and it smells like a smell left after sun exposure. The bed was very soft, so comfortable that Tang Cheng, who had already woken up, was reluctant to open his eyes, for fear that as soon as he opened his eyes, this feeling of intoxication would disappear.

Habits are hard to change, and when the first rays of sunlight shine through the window into Tang Cheng's room, Tang Cheng, who is full of alcohol, has already woken up, if he wasn't still greedy for the comfort of the bed, Tang Cheng might have gotten up early. The rooster in the backyard had already crowed three times, and Tang Cheng couldn't sleep but didn't want to get up. When he was in distress, Huang Duoduo, who was combing two pigtails, sneaked into the house on tiptoe, and a pair of ice hands got into Tang Cheng's quilt, but he was dragged into the quilt by Tang Cheng and covered tightly. The two frolicked for a while until they were blasted out of the house by Tang Hongyi and washed, and then they gave up.

Mu Lianshan and Lin Ying, who had already opened a pharmacy in Kunming City by relying on the Huang family, also rushed over, and learned that Wu Laosan, who couldn't stay idle, had left Kunming with a caravan heading north, and Tang Cheng could only say that everyone had their own ambitions. After breakfast, he was supposed to go to Cai's house to settle the accounts, but the domineering Tang Hongyi said that the weather was good today, and it was a good day to go to the temple outside the city to make a vow, and he had to take Tang Cheng with him.

"You little conscienceless, since you went to Burma with your brother-in-law, I have been scared all day long. Later, after thinking about it, I went to the monastery outside the city to offer oil lamps, so that I could ask the Buddha to bless you to come back alive. Tang Cheng naturally didn't want to go to any temple, and Tang Cheng, who was slapped on the back by Tang Hongyi's big slap, and couldn't stop crying out in pain with his teeth bared and grinning, could only reluctantly agree to come down amid the laughter of the two children.

The husband and brother have returned, and the Huang family is no longer a woman in charge of the house, so Tang Hongyi, who insisted on traveling, directly greeted Liu Shishi and a few of them as drivers, and she wanted to take four jeeps to the temple outside the city in one go. "Your sister is a demon barrier, so I don't know how to restrain myself, and those who don't know think that our family is a wealthy family." Huang Hanju was very helpless, but he didn't dare to say anything to stop him, so he had to hand Tang Cheng a look that he looked at.

The sun had already risen, and the sun was shining everywhere in sight, as if the whole world was illuminated, Tang Cheng enjoyed this feeling very much, not only the corners where the sun hit, but also the darkness in his heart felt a glimmer of light. Huang Duoduo climbed on Tang Cheng's back and refused to come down, Huang Xiaohu obviously wanted his uncle to carry him, seeing Huang Duoduo on Tang Cheng's back showing a provocative look at him, he pouted angrily, but he was slapped by his mother and honest, so he was obediently put into the jeep by Liu Shishi and sat down.

The jeep they drove back from Tangcheng had been wiped by the Huang family's family members last night, and there were many cars of all kinds in Kunming City, and there were also such American-style jeeps, but the only one who dared to have an American flag on the front of the car and the driver who dared to wear a full set of US military uniforms was the only one of the Huang family. Tang Hongyi took Huang Xiaohu in the first jeep, driving Huang Hanju, followed by Tang Cheng and Huang Duoduo's second jeep, followed by Tan Fei and Hou San and a sieve, and finally followed by Mike and Ranny, a group of four jeeps slaughtered to the Temple of Mercy and Grace outside the city.

The four jeeps with American flags swaggered through the city, which did have the effect Tang Hongyi wanted, especially when she deliberately asked Huang Hanju to take the convoy to walk around in front of her restaurant. "I just want these people to know that our Huang family is not muddy" Tang Hongyi in the jeep was very tough, but unfortunately the water vapor in her eyes had betrayed her.

Tang Hongyi went to the temple to pay the vow is not very far, it didn't take long to drive out of the city, the temple is far from being as magnificent as Tang Hongyi said, Tang Cheng even felt that some of the monasteries they had seen in Myanmar were much larger than here. The dilapidated exterior walls of the temple have been mottled by the erosion of time, and in some places there is even loess exposed, all hollow by sparrows. At this time, many people outside the temple who came to burn incense and worship the Buddha secretly looked at the Huang family's luxurious convoy and whispered to comment on whether it was the big family in Kunming City who came.

Tang Cheng, who jumped out of the jeep, didn't pay attention to these people, but turned around and hugged Huang Duoduo, who was opening his arms towards him in the jeep, for Tang Cheng, even if there was a chairman standing outside the temple, I am afraid that it is not as important as Huang Duoduo's smiling face to himself. Tang Hongyi also took Huang Xiaohu out of the car, holding her husband Huang Hanju with one hand and her son with the other, Tang Hongyi's face was full of happiness.

"Sister Liu, why don't you know the old girl?" Tang Hongyi took a few steps forward and stretched out his hand to grab a middle-aged woman wearing a cheongsam, and Huang Xiaohu beside him had already saluted the middle-aged woman and shouted Aunt Liu. Huang Duoduo, who was held in Tang Cheng's arms, also struggled to get off the ground, took out a few pieces of preserved fruit from the small bag that straddled his body and handed them to the middle-aged woman, "Aunt Liu, this is the preserved fruit that Duoduo's uncle brought back from Myanmar from all the way, it is delicious, these pieces are for you, you can taste them." ”

The middle-aged woman who was called Sister Liu by Tang Hongyi heard Huang Duoduo's words, a smile appeared on her face, she reached out to take the preserved fruit handed by Huang Duoduo and nodded her head again and again to praise Huang Duoduo. Several women standing on the side came over one after another, chattering around Tang Hongyi, which became a topic, Tang Hongyi's face was full of red light, and Tang Cheng was called to show off to a few ladies, and in the envious and awe-inspiring eyes of the ladies, Tang Hongyi fully satisfied his vanity.

Seeing Tang Cheng being judged by a group of ladies like an ornament, Tan Fei and the others dared to approach the gate of the temple, and they all hid aside under the pretext of parking. Finally, when Tang Hongyi satisfied that vanity, the women began to enter the temple in order to burn incense and make vows. "Don't underestimate this Sister Liu, her man is a powerful faction in the Southwest Agency, and our transportation company has to give her a percentage of it every month." With Tang Hongyi's explanation, Tang Cheng understood what was going on just now.

The ruined temple, the poor monks, Tang Cheng saw that several monks in the temple had patches on their clothes. The main hall of the temple is not big, no more than two feet high, and the aggrieved Buddha has to rub his head against the roof, and the gold paint on his body is even more mottled as if he has a skin disease. Such a dilapidated temple, there are only five monks, no more than one hall, no more than three Buddhas, and it covers an area of only ten acres. Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to follow a group of ladies to kowtow to the clay sculptures, so he found an excuse to go out of the temple and gather with Hou San and them to smoke cigarettes.

It is a costly thing to burn incense and make vows, especially for those like Tang Hongyi who also offered oil lamps in the temple, and finally gave the temple a lot of money for sesame oil. Sure enough, from ancient times to the present, there is an unchanging process of burning incense and repaying vows, that is, giving money. Tang Hongyi brought linen cloth, monk shoes, monk robes, and some incense candles and vegetable oil this time. The old monk in the temple, Gujing Wubo, had an excited color on his face, and it was estimated that he was cheering for the generous pilgrims like Tang Hongyi, but there were not many of them.

Tang Hongyi finally got a thing on her mind, her husband and brother returned home safely, and a pair of children were also around, Tang Cheng Hongyi hoped that such a life would go on. "I know that you are a non-believer in Buddhism, but the people who came here today to wish are the few people in Kunming City, and you are not a small man, it is time to stay at home after being a soldier for so many years, I wondered if it was time to give a daughter-in-law, this man is an adult when he becomes a family." On the way back, Tang Hongyi finally said the reason why he had to pull Tang Cheng out of the city to repay his vows today, and he dared to come to ask Tang Cheng for his daughter-in-law.

begging for his daughter-in-law, Tang Cheng, who was pulled by Tang Hongyi to ride in the same jeep, was immediately dumbfounded, he didn't think about it at all, and after leaving Shanghai, he has been struggling on the line of life and death. Even during the days when he crossed the river to the south and temporarily lived in Kunming and stayed in Myitkyina, Tang Cheng was thinking about how to make himself and his brothers well-fed, and as for the matter of begging for a daughter-in-law, Tang Cheng really didn't think about it.

"You are not too young, your brother-in-law and I will take care of you again, and you will have someone by your side who knows cold and hot to follow you and accompany you for the rest of your life, do you plan to keep messing around like this?" Seeing that Tang Cheng didn't speak, Tang Hongyi came to the fire, and reached out to grab Tang Cheng's ear for a good lesson, so that Huang Hanju, who was in charge of driving, laughed to himself. "What's the matter? Do you still want to marry a foreign woman? Tang Cheng's plea for mercy made Tang Hongyi also feel a little Meng Lang, and then pulled out a reason that made Tang Cheng even more ready to hit his head against the wall.

After begging for mercy for a while, raising his hand and swearing and assurance, Tang Cheng, whose ears were twisted and red, escaped from Tang Hongyi's clutches. "I didn't think it before, but now I realize that Sister Ah is so terrible, I'm an adult anyway, and I'm still a dignified captain officer, how can I twist my ears in front of a child." When he returned to the Huang family, he didn't even sit on the chair under his buttocks, Tang Cheng took Hou San and them in a hurry under the pretext of going to Cai's house to run errands, he was already ready to take Mike and them to move to the temporary military camp in Banqiao Town outside the city to stay, stay at the Huang family, God knows what will happen to be humiliating.