Chapter 3: Twenty Years of Gathering

This weekend, the sun was shining in April, but my mood was not bright, and when I came out of the barbershop, my beloved long hair was gone, and it became a short hair with bangs that did not exceed the length of my eyebrows. ()

Master squatted at the base of the barber shop, basking in the sun, waiting for me outside, and people passing by would see him as an old peasant who had entered the city, and an old lady would greet him warmly, asking if he had authentic local honey at home in the country.

When I walked out of the barber shop, I happened to see this stubble, and the master came and pulled me as if he had been saved, and said to the old lady, "You see, I have come to see my eldest grandson, and I don't sell vegetables or honey. ”

After the old lady was gone, the master pulled me to look at it, nodded and said, "Well, it's much more pleasing to the eye." ”

Then we walked back, and just after two steps, my master pulled me again and said, "Yes, today is very important, let's go and clean up." ”

Inexplicably, I was pulled back to the haircut point by the master, and I was pressed into a chair, and the master said to others: "Put some hair wax on him, and comb his hair steadily." ”

Without waiting for me to object, he lay down on his chair again, and said, "Give me a face, then take care of my hair, well, give me a big back." ”

I was speechless, and even began to suspect that tonight's party was a blind date party.

Yang Jingtong's kid often finds an excuse to have a party at home, these lives are quite far from the lives of ordinary people, and they belong to another class and have a unique life.

What is currently popular in that circle is that ordinary people will never be able to come into contact with it in their lives until five years later.

After taking care of the hairdresser with Master, we went back, and when we went back, Master solemnly put on a set of Mao suits, although at that time, more foreign suits had become popular, but Master refused to accept them.

It's just that the master rarely wears it seriously, so the only two sets of tunics he has are specially customized, and the people who make them are also made for many leaders.

When he was getting dressed, I was having a headache picking out clothes, and I didn't go out with Master to buy clothes a few times, and I bought all my clothes by myself, so it was not easy to choose, because in Master's eyes, they were all immodest clothes.

The occasion I am going to attend today, since it is so formal, although I have been a little rebellious in the past few years, I am not willing to lose Master's face in my bones.

While I was still looking for clothes, Master came to my room, put down a bag, and said, "Wear this, you kid will have to stabilize me today." ”

When I opened the bag, I saw that it was a light gray tunic with a white shirt with a straight neckline.

I said that the master measured me a few days ago, this set of tunics looks nothing unusual, as soon as I put it on, I found that it is very proper, looking in the mirror, four or six points of separation, with this tunic suit, I look very stable, and the whole person is at least five years old.

"Put this on." My master pulled out something and handed it to me.

I almost fainted when I looked at it, isn't this the glasses that Yang Jingtong gave me? Why does Master still want me to wear it?

"Master, I'm not short-sighted, am I?" I think it's better to be honest.

"I know, if you want to wear it, you will wear it, you are a person with a mountain lineage, and you have to win glory for me in terms of image." Master shouted.

What the hell is going on? I put my glasses on with some reluctance, and I was very curious about why Master was so solemn.

"Mmmm, my apprentice is not bad, he can hold up the door." Seeing that I put on my glasses, Master was finally satisfied and set off with me.

Sitting in the Hongqi car, I am a little uncomfortable, not that I am not suitable for this car, because my buddies, who doesn't have a car to sit in? I also sit a lot, but what I am not comfortable with is that Master actually sits in this car.

Master has the right to mobilize a Hongqi car as a special car, but we have been in Beijing, how many years have we been, and he has not used it once at all, what is going on today? Even the car is so solemn.

Master sat next to me, leaning on the back of the chair and closing his eyes to recuperate, and I finally couldn't help but speak, "Master, if you don't make it clear to me again, I will definitely get out of the car and not go." ”

Master opened his eyes and looked at me, and was silent for a while, and then finally said, "Today I am going to see your uncles, as well as your juniors and disciples, who have been in Beijing for so many years, and I have never let you see them, because I don't see them myself, but I must meet them today." ”

I was stunned, I was only when I was a child, when the master talked about the master, I heard about a few masters, I haven't seen them for so many years, I thought they were legends, I didn't expect to see them today, and listen to the meaning of my master's words, they are in Beijing?

"Master, are they in Beijing? Why don't you say it? Do I still have a junior brother? "I can't say what mood I have, they all belong to the same lineage as my ancestors, I have a natural affinity for them, but I have never seen them, and I feel very strange. I was looking forward to it, but I had a very scared feeling, afraid that I wouldn't be able to get on the stage and lose my master's face.

I now understand why Master wants me to be so serious.

"Several of your uncle's disciples started earlier than you, and it is said that it should be your senior brother, but the ancestor has a saying, and the mountain character is long, so speaking of which, you are a senior brother, a senior brother! So, you get it? Master said something lightly, and I suddenly felt the pressure doubled.

I couldn't help but say, "Master, I haven't seen you for so many years, why do you want to see you today?" ”

"Because, getting together once every twenty years is a rule set by your ancestor, and this rule, your ancestor once said, thunder can't move!" The master said solemnly, but a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.

"Master, at that ordinary time, the master said that you can't meet?" I asked curiously.

"That's not it, you don't have to ask, I won't tell." Master leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes again, he had been like this all the time lately, looking very tired.

I shut up, I knew that if the old man didn't want to say, it would be in vain for me to ask more.

The car drove towards the outskirts of Beijing, and the master was relatively silent all the way, but when the car drove to a place, the master finally spoke, saying, "Sanwa'er, it's almost there." ”

I don't know why, but I got nervous all of a sudden, and I sat upright in the car.

Master smiled and said, "You don't have to be so nervous, I just want to tell you that our generation is our generation, but your generation has also grown up, after all, you are in the same vein, so good, you are a senior brother, I want to see your senior brothers get along in harmony, that feeling is very precious, you know?" ”

"Uh-huh" I was a little nervous, but kept nodding, could I not be nervous?

The car finally stopped, it was a quiet place, surrounded by small two-story buildings.

The driver got out of the car and helped me and Master open the car door, I got out of the car first, Master followed and got out of the car, looked around, Master suddenly sighed, and then said to me, "Let's go." ”

I followed Master silently and nervously, and finally, in front of a small two-story building that was not very inconspicuous, my Master stopped, and I suddenly became even more nervous, is this it?

Master turned his head to look at me, and suddenly a big hand gently patted my stiff waist, and his eyes were full of gentle encouragement.

I glanced at Master gratefully, and I understood what he meant, which meant that he had faith in me.

"You are the senior brother, the eldest brother, don't be nervous." As soon as Master spoke, he had already rang the doorbell.

But I wondered, in this way, Master is also a senior brother, why did he never mention this matter, and when he talked about the past, he still said Senior Brother? Or, he didn't say, that's how I understood it.

Could it be that this is the reason why they don't see each other?

I was thinking about it, outside the two-story building, the big iron gate of the small courtyard had been opened, and it was opened by a middle-aged woman, who looked at me with some doubts, but after seeing the master, she didn't say anything, just said, "Uncle Li has been waiting for you for a long time, I'll take you in." ”