Chapter 4 Four

Four One winter, just after the Chinese New Year, Aunt Cui came to my house. My uncle's son, my brother, is at my house. My elder brother is very beautiful, with a straight nose, dark eyes, a nice mouth, and well-combed hair. He is very long and walks briskly.Probably in all our families, there is no such beautiful character. In winter, the school has a winter vacation, so come to our house to rest.Probably soon, the school will start to go to school. My brother is studying in Harbin. Our concert will naturally be held for this new character.Aunt Cui also participated. So it was very lively, for example, my mother, she didn't understand this business at all, but she also took the table, she sat by and watched, even the cooks and female workers at home stopped working and looked at us, as if they It's not about listening to musical instruments, but looking at people.We filled the living room.The sound of these instruments can be heard by neighbors far away.

The neighbor came to visit the next day and said, "Who did your family celebrate your birthday last night?" We just said, welcome our brother who just arrived. So our family is very fun, very interesting.Soon it will be the time to watch lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Since our father's reformation revolution in our family, in short, in our family, brothers and sisters treat each other equally, play together if there is something interesting, and watch something interesting together. Uncle took us, elder brother, younger brother, aunt... a total of eight or nine people, ran to the street in the big moon field.

The road was so slippery that I couldn't stand on it, and it was uneven.The boys ran ahead, and we fell behind because we were slow. So those who were in front turned around and laughed at us, saying that we were young ladies and empresses.Say we can't move. We and Aunt Cui rushed forward in a row, but either I fell or she fell.In the end, my elder brother and the others came to support us one by one, saying that it was too weak to support us, but they just moved forward in a row with them. After a while, I arrived in the city, and the streets were full of lanterns.Crowds of people.With the addition of lions, dry boats, dragon lanterns, and Yangko dances, it was so noisy that the eyes were dazzled, and there were too many things to count at the moment.

Where will there be time to see, it seems that it just flashes in front of your eyes, and then it passes away, and after a while, something else comes and passes away again. In fact, it is not necessarily so prosperous, but I feel that there is no more prosperous place in the world than this. In front of the store, there was a big torch lit, like a big tropical coconut tree.One is brighter than the other. We went into a store that was owned by a friend of my father's.They entertained us very well, tea, snacks, oranges, Yuanxiao.Where could we eat, we panicked when we heard a drum beating outside the door.And there are so many drums and horns outside, one time comes, one time has not gone far, and another time comes again.

Because the city is not big, there are many acquaintances, and they all met when they came to see the lanterns.Among them, several male students in our city who were studying in Harbin also came to watch the lantern.Brothers know them all.I also know them, because at this time we went to study in Harbin.So as soon as they met us, they stayed with us, they went out to look at the lights, looked at them for a while, and then went back to our place, talking to their uncle, talking to their brother.I know them because our family is relatively powerful, and they are very willing to talk to us. So on the way home, there were two more boys.

Whether people hate it or not, the clothes they wear are finally urbanized.All of them were wearing suits, fedora hats, and coats that reached to the knees, and their feet were neat and refreshing.Compared with the strange-looking coats in our city, it looks like a big cotton robe.Moreover, there is a scarf tied around the neck, and the scarf is naturally all silk and all thread patterns. It seems that once the scarf is tied up, the person looks more solemn and beautiful. Aunt Cui thought they were all very good-looking. My brother also wears a suit, so naturally my brother looks good too.So she kept watching her brother on the way.

Aunt Cui combs her hair very slowly, she must comb it in a smooth manner, and even if she puts powder on her hair, she also wipes it off, washes it off and rubs it again, until she is satisfied.On the second morning of the Lantern Festival, she combed more slowly, thinking while combing her hair.Originally, according to the rules, she had to have breakfast every day, and she had to be invited three times before she could attend. Today, she had to be invited four times before she came. My uncle was also a hero back then, riding horses and shooting guns absolutely fine.Although he was fifty years old later, his demeanor still exists.We all love our uncle, and my uncle has loved us since childhood.Poems, words, and articles are all taught by our uncle.

Aunt Cui lives in our house, and my uncle likes Aunt Cui very much.Breakfast is ready today. I urged Aunt Cui several times, but Aunt Cui never came out. Uncle said: "Lin Daiyu..." So our whole family laughed. Aunt Cui came out, and when she saw us smiling like this, she asked us what we were laughing at.None of us would tell her.Aunt Cui knew she must be laughing, so she said: "Tell me quickly, if you don't tell me, I won't eat today, you can read and write, I don't understand, you bully me..." After making a fuss for a long time, it was my brother who told her the story.Uncle was a little embarrassed in front of his son, drank a lot of wine, and finally escaped.

From then on, Aunt Cui thought about studying, but she was already twenty years old, where would she go to study?There were no students as old as her in elementary school, and she could not read a word in middle school, so how could she be.So still live in our house. Playing the piano, blowing the flute, watching cards, we played all day long.When we played, everyone participated, my uncle, my brother, and my mother. Aunt Cui did not treat my brother particularly well, and my brother treated Aunt Cui exactly as he did to us. But when my brother told stories, Aunt Cui always listened more carefully than we did. That was because she was slightly older than us, and of course she was closer to some brothers in terms of understanding than us.My brother was a little more polite to Aunt Cui than to us.When he talked to Aunt Cui, he always said "yes" and "yes", but when he talked to us, he said "right" and "right".

This is obviously because Aunt Cui is a guest and is older than him in terms of status. But one day after dinner, both Aunt Cui and brother were gone.There is probably always a concert after dinner every day.This day may be because my uncle is not at home and there is no one to lead me.Everyone ate and left.There was no one in the living room.I wanted to find my younger brother to play a game of chess with me, but my younger brother disappeared too.So I played the organ alone in the living room, and I didn't find it interesting to play for a while.The living room was very quiet, and after I closed the organ lid, I heard someone in the back room, or in my house.

I think Aunt Cui must be in the house.Go and see her, tell her to come out and look at the cards. I ran in and saw that not only was Aunt Cui, but also her brother was with her. Seeing me, Aunt Cui quickly stood up and said, "Let's go play." My brother also said: "Let's go play chess, go play chess." They came out to play chess with me. My brother always lost this time. He used to win me back. I felt strange, but I was very happy. Soon the winter vacation was over, and I went back to school in Harbin to study.But my elder brother did not come with me, because he fell ill in the first half of the year and was recuperated in the hospital for some time. This time, my uncle suggested that he take another two months' leave and stay at home. I don't know much about the family affairs in the future.They were all told to me by my brother or mother.After I left, Aunt Cui still lived at home. Later, my mother told me that such a thing happened before Aunt Cui got engaged.There is a little uncle in my family, who is as old as my brother, stutters, has no style, and also studies in the same school as my brother.Although he also came to our house, I'm afraid Aunt Cui has never seen him.At that time, my grandmother proposed to propose marriage to Aunt Cui.The grandmother of that clan rejected it immediately, saying that he was the son of a widow, and his life was not good, and he was afraid that he would not have a tutor, not to mention that his father died and his mother was married again. A good girl would not marry a second husband. , Grandma doesn't want it.But my mother said that the seniority is the same, and his family still has money. Aunt Cui's marriage is a day when she is in power, and she won't be offended. Aunt Cui knew about this, and seeing my brother again today, she couldn't help thinking that he probably looked at her that way.She consciously felt that her fate would not be good, and now Aunt Cui herself was engaged and was a fiancée alone. The second is that she is the daughter of a married widow, and she has recited it countless times a day, and she remembers it clearly.