Wen 丨 Yang Dai
When I was three or four years old, my family lived in Dongcheng (Beijing), and the owner was a very generous flag person, and I often followed my mother to see the big grandmother and the second grandmother of the family. Their home is like the scene in "Dream of the Red Chamber", except that there are no pugs on the ground in "Dream of the Red Chamber". I was afraid of dogs, and I sat next to my mother on the kang, not daring to get off the ground. But their pugs don't bite.
Later, my father became the director of the Beijing Jingshi Procuratorate, the procuratorate was in Xicheng, and my family moved to No. 25 Dongxiao Street, and the landlord was Cheng Bi. The house is not small, two spacious courtyards before and after.
The concierge is Zang Ming, who lives with a small house in the doorway, and inside is a big kang, which can sleep more than two people.
My dad went to work in a carriage. I had a half-new carriage, a horse, two grooms. The big groom rushes the car, and the little groom is the hand of the big groom, who only washes the horses, brushes the horses, feeds the horses, and walks the horses. The two grooms lived together in a small house at the back door, next to the stable. There are four plaques hanging in the front yard: two plaques of hay and two plaques of black beans. I watched the horse eat grass and eat beans very fragrantly, secretly grabbed a handful of black beans to taste, but the black beans were bitter, busy and secretly put in the restoration.
The front door is not large, the back door is the door of the carriage in and out, it is a very large red door, and there is a small door on the door, and the people who go out of the door all take this small door, not the front door. I usually only play in the front yard, and rarely go to the back.
There are five north houses and five south houses in the front yard. The north house and the south house are completely symmetrical. To the east of the north house are two bedrooms, the west end is another bedroom, and in the middle is a large living room. I didn't dare to cross the big living room in the dark, afraid.
Mom is very busy, back and forth, busy with this and that. One day, she came to see us in the bedroom where I slept with my third sister. The third sister and I do not sleep at one end. I slept at her feet. When we're good, pull each other's pants straight; When it wasn't good, I deliberately exposed her feet. I am short, and my feet are always safe. My sister also rarely quarreled with me. Once my mother came to see me before going to bed, and my mother lifted the quilt and saw that my pants were tightly tied, the legs of my pants were tied in the socks, and the pants were tightly tied outside the clothes. There are two pockets on the clothes, one of which contains a bulging leather ball; The other pocket was full of a bag of broken glass, red, green, yellow... There are all kinds of colors. My mother undressed and found a piece of blue and purple on my body, and my mother asked the third sister what is the fun of broken glass. The third sister said, "Look at the sky, look at the red sky in the red glass, and look at the green sky in the green glass." Mom put the ball at the head of my bed, and the broken glass was thrown away. He instructed the third sister to tell me not to put leather balls and broken glass in my pockets in the future. I was obedient, and I no longer put my clothes so tightly together, nor did I put all my things in my pockets
There was a box room in the north house, which was our dining room, and there was a telephone, and I climbed on a stool to call my classmates and talk about private rooms. For example, "I'm good to you, not with anyone who's good" (who doesn't remember). Near the door, there was a two-drawer table, and Zang Ming wore a pair of copper-rimmed glasses to keep an account. I was very envious of Zang Ming wearing glasses to keep accounts, and I thought to myself, when I grow up, I will also wear glasses, sit at the desk, and remember things.
When I write now, I always think of envying Zang Ming when I was a child, and I feel that I have fulfilled my wish when I was a child.
My family moved to East Slope Street, and at first there was only one family, no one lived in the south house, my family also cleaned every day, and my sister and I often went to the empty house to play.
Soon, my cousin's aunt and uncle also came to Beijing and stayed in the five south houses. His uncle was Yuan Guanlan (Yuan Guanlan), vice minister of education. There are two door numbers in front of my house: on one side is Wuxi Yang Yu, and on the other side is Baoshan Yuan Yu.
My father was called Aunt Yuan because my uncle and aunt were not pro-aunts. His uncle was called Old Uncle Yuan.
My eldest brother was born in Shanghai, and now Huaihai Road was once called Xiafei Road, formerly known as Baochang Road, so it was named Baochang. The younger brother was born in Hangzhou, and his family lived near Baochu Pagoda, so he was named Baochu. After Bao li weaned, the nurse left. He can walk on his own. One day he ran to Yuan's house and said to Old Uncle Yuan, "Old Uncle Yuan, you are also surnamed Tiger, I am also surnamed Tiger, my father is also surnamed Tiger, and my mother is also surnamed Tiger." Old Uncle Yuan was inexplicable and came over to ask my father. Dad thought about it for a moment, understood, and said to Old Uncle Yuan, "Are you with me?" Both of us belong to the tiger, and this child is also a tiger. Old Uncle Yuan laughed. Our two families are very close.
Aunt Yuan can massage, this is her heirloom skill, passing on women not men. My child was sick, Aunt Yuan came over to massage it, and it was all right. My mother also learned a few tricks, such as "lifting the back tendon", the child's stomach pain, the back tendon will be thick, mention a few times, through the stool, the disease is better.
My third sister and I often went to Yuan's house to play. Aunt Yuan's bedroom, near the door, hung a photo, I knew that it was a photo of Yuan Shizhuang's sister, she was studying in a foreign country, and she would not be able to come back until three years later. I always feel that three years is a long time, and Aunt Yuan often thinks of her daughter. Sister Shizhuang's sister is Sister Shifang, who is not in good health and does not go to school. The third sister came home from school and always went in and out with her. I always follow behind, Shifang sister ate sugar or tangerine plum, sugar or tangerine plum paper casually thrown away, I often secretly picked up and licked, know what she ate. She also sometimes gave food to the third sister. I only followed from a distance, and they ignored my little thing.
At that time, I went to school at the "First Mongolian Nursing Home" at the corner of The Big Sauce Fang Hutong and The Little Sauce Fang Hutong in Ganshiqiao, and went to preschool. The third sister went to elementary school. I graduated from preschool and got my first diploma. I was very proud and handed over to my mother for collection. The third sister also graduated from elementary school. Our sisters all went to study at the primary school attached to Beijing Women's Normal University, and Aunt Yuan called it "Affiliated Li".
Soon after, the Yuan family was going to marry a new sister-in-law. I never knew that the Yuan family still had a son, no son, and what kind of sister-in-law to marry. This is what the third sister told me. My good friend Sun Yanhua and I accompanied the bride. The bride waited left and right before everyone ate the happy wine. After eating the happy wine, Sun Yanhua and her family took her brother's mother back to Sun's house.
I finished eating the wine and had a stomach aches. My stomach was caused by a careless TCM doctor's mistake. He wrote "centimeter" as "minute". The medicine he prescribed was barberry. My mother asked him to prescribe some medicine for me, because he loves boils and "hot sores" at the corners of his mouth. This Chinese medicine wrote the six-centimeter yellow barberry as six-point yellow barberry. I remember my mother mixed it into a ball the size of a guiyuan core with sugar soup, saved a dumpling, drank a spoonful of sugar soup, I was fed by my mother herself, very well-behaved, although it was very bitter, I swallowed one after another very bitter small dumplings, not bitter. But since then, I have suffered from a stomach disease, and my stomach is still a weak link in my whole body.
After eating the banquet, everyone dispersed, I had a big stomach problem, and the kitchen fried a very hot salt for me to cover my heart. Everyone slept, and I still haven't fallen asleep because of stomach pain. I overheard the sound of leather shoes of the bridge, the bridge, and the bridge, and it was the bride and groom who had returned, and I heard Zang Ming come in and tell my father in a Northern Jiangsu accent (Zang Ming called "Old Master"): "The bride is wearing white foreign shoes." Foreign shoes are enough foreign, and white, the bride should wear red shoes, but it is white, really "foreign" amazing!
The next morning, my stomach did not hurt anymore, and I learned Zang Ming's tone and told the third sister, and we both immediately went to Yuan's house to see the new sister-in-law. The new sister-in-law Yu Li Tingting, her face is very beautiful, and my third sister and I are fascinated. My mother was afraid that we would disturb us, so she would not allow us to see our new sister-in-law. The new sister-in-law was very good at being a person, and coaxed us to build a one-foot-wide path to the moon cave gate. Outside the door of the Moon Cave is the deserted garden of Cheng Bi's family, and my sister and I often go to play.
The one-foot-wide path has just been built, my family "went back to the south", and the Yuan family also returned to the south on the same road, but the two of us were not together on the train.
When we arrived at the hotel in Tianjin, we only knew that the Yuan family also lived in this hotel, my family lived in a cheap room, but the Yuan family did not know where. The new sister-in-law was gone.
My mom's furniture, along with our family relocation. In my mother's closet, my first diploma had been thrown away, but the photograph of my new sister-in-law and groom, the size of a book, was still in place on a hard piece of paper. I used to open the door to my mother's closet, take out pictures of my new sister-in-law and groom, and look at them again and again, because I miss my "new sister-in-law" all the time. I closed my eyes and could still see her. She was a star in my childhood.
When my father was young, he was a reporter at the Shanghai Declaration Museum, and his colleagues included Zhang Zhongren and Bao Tianxiao. Bao Tianxiao once wrote "Hell on Earth", which was serialized in "Declaration". Bao Tianxiao is a Suzhou native with quick eloquence, and "Monkey Spirit" is the nickname he gave to a journalist colleague. This group of reporters, who are not allowed to sleep after dinner, have to wait for news from all over the world. After twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, news came from all over the world, and they compiled news and published it in the newspaper.
My sister Abi, listening to the doorman bring in a business card, my father said, "'The monkey spirit' is coming." "Our sister never came to see her father's guests, but when Abbi was still young, she ran alone to the end of the corridor and outside the "study" where her father received the visitors to see the "monkey spirits." She was disappointed to see it, and we asked her if she had seen the "monkey spirit"? She was disappointed that it wasn't a goblin who had come, he was just a guest, not even a tail.
This group of reporters naturally became close friends. Once, when they were traveling together in the zoo (then called "Ten Thousand Animals"), they came out of the "Bird House" and were so upset by the calls of a flock of birds that one of them suddenly found that the "Monkey Spirit" was missing. The "Monkey Spirit" walked to the front and said, "Here it is!" He himself admitted that he was a "monkey spirit" because his eyes were also shining, and he was particularly spirited.
When I was a principal in Shanghai like a "dog farming field," I said, "I'm going to see the 'Monkey Spirit,' who is the trustee of Suzhou Zhenhua Girls' School." Qian Ying said, "I also want to see the 'Monkey Spirit'!" I went to see the "Monkey Spirit" and I was disappointed; Not only did he not have a tail, but his eyes were no longer shining.
Who? Who? Yuan Shikai's secretary Zhang Yilu's younger brother, Zhang Ke's father, and Wang Yuanhua's father-in-law Zhang Yipengye.
Source: Essay Overseas Edition, 2017
The image comes from the Internet
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