Double Bracelets

Jiang Xijun came home at an unexpected time.Originally, Jiang Xijie estimated that he should be preparing to fight in the Northeast, or in Suzhong, or in Suiyuan, in short, somewhere where there is a conflict, he is fighting.Although the armistice {71} has come into effect, shouldn't the generals stay in the army?But he came home with his wife.The family was quite unprepared for this.Jiang Xijun wrote earlier that he would arrive home on June [-]th with his wife.His identity is straightforward and clear, simpler and purer than Fu Yiheng.He doesn't hide his redness at home and his blueness at home in his organization, and he doesn't think it's appropriate or inappropriate. He just goes home and has a look.

Go home, since his father passed away, he has never been back home, nor has he seen his elder brother and sister for ten years.He even wondered if his nephew and niece still remembered what he looked like.

His wife met him in the army during the war, and according to class, she was the daughter of a rich peasant family.His father had a good relationship with the landlord, and the landlord's daughter was studying, and she followed suit.The landlord's daughter can read a few words, and she can too.The young lady of the landlord's family later joined the revolution, and she also joined the revolution, but was caught by the father and kept at home.After a few days, the Japanese came.It's all right now, I can't go anymore.The girl stayed and became a guerrilla militia. Within a few days of the guerrilla, her parents were killed by the Japanese. Except for her elder brother who ran away to join the army early in the morning, she was the only one left in the family.

After the guerrillas were incorporated by the Eighth Route Army, she met Jiang Xijun.After coming and going, they both liked each other, and they reported that they would get married once they closed the door.He thinks it is also good, simple and direct.He has always liked the simple and direct, including the simple and direct farmer's daughter.

To be fair, if he were his elder brother, he would think that the two sister-in-laws were suitable wives, but he would feel a little tired if it was him.He thinks it is better for people to be simple, simply to know how to pursue a better future without unnecessary hesitation on the road.

Therefore, he felt wrong about bringing his wretched, uneducated, let alone self-cultivated wife back to his scholarly family, and he might as well think about something else if he cared about that.Although the wife is also a little nervous, but she adores her husband, even if he thinks there is nothing, she doesn't care.What's more, I heard that the whole family gets along very well.The most difficult to get along with can't be seen when I go back.

Before going back, he wrote several letters to his family, classifying them to different people, especially his nephews and nieces, asking them what gifts they wanted.Before going to Shanghai, I actually stayed in Nanjing for one night, and went to see my uncle in a straightforward and almost reckless manner.Then I made a phone call home, Jiang Xijie received the call, the voice on the other end was still that young man's voice back then, even the tone was the same.She asked him, will he pick you up tomorrow?He said no, we just stroll all the way back.She wanted to ask him if he still remembered the way, but he said directly, sister, don't worry, I know the way.

The next afternoon, Jiang Xijie and Wang Jiyue stood at the door of their house and waited.From a distance, I saw a strong man walking over with a very curious woman looking around.The clothes the two wore were neither shabby nor gorgeous, and according to Shanghai's population structure, they might be similar to those ordinary people who had to save on food and clothing during the war years.

She saw that Xijun had grown up and still had some stubble that hadn't been shaved clean. She saw her sister-in-law named Tingfang Liu - it is said that Mr. Private School changed her name.She was uneasy, but Jiang Xijun saw her at a glance, and ran over with his wife in a big stride.

At this time, she felt that this 34-year-old man was still the same as he was when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, just like that, not changed at all.

"Sister!" Jiang Xijun yelled, and couldn't help but hug his sister tightly.As expected, his sister shed a few tears of emotion.When the two let go, Jiang Xijie saw that the boy's eyes were also red. "Sister...the past few years...you have suffered..." He wanted to reach out and feel for the wound on his back, but he didn't dare to move. "It's okay, you're still alive...let me see you bastard..." Jiang Xijie held his face in his hands, and suddenly found the place of worry again, "Have you been injured in the past few years?" Don't tell me It seems that there are shrapnel left in the body. "It's okay, nothing at all. Father bless you." He turned his head to look at Wang Jiyue, "Thank you Jiyue for taking care of my sister all these years! I can't repay you!" After speaking, he bowed like a Whampoa graduate.

He stayed at home for a month.Tell my family about my story in the Eighth Route Army, and listen to my family's story about their time in Chongqing.He said that he once asked his comrades in Chongqing to inquire about his family's news. In fact, he still knew a little bit intermittently, but he couldn't hear from his side, and he couldn't make random contacts.Knowing that my sister's injury was already a matter of my sister's recovery, I was worried and there was nothing I could do.Liu Cuicui spoke with a Shanxi accent that she had tried her best to correct, her voice was a little louder—after restraint, otherwise it would have been louder—and said: "I told him at the time, I said you have to worry, so I will go and have a look for you. He Say what are you going to do, say that my family doesn't know me, in case I'm a liar..."

She babbled a lot, and Jiang Xijie liked her waywardness, so she just listened to it.Wang Jiyue treats people generously, although it doesn't matter if she feels a little noisy, she always thinks why should she embarrass a country girl?Wang Chanyue's Shanxi accent brought back not-so-good memories, and she had no reason to be with her. She left it to her elder sister to inquire about her brother's news.Fu Yuanying was ill, and there was no one to see when he was lying in the room.Xu Dexin obviously didn't like her very much, so as a sister-in-law, she greeted her and went upstairs by herself.She let her son entertain guests and take care of her daughter herself.Jiang Ye still remembers the fourth uncle who likes to play with him the most and can play with him in everything. When we meet again ten years later, the uncle and nephew are still the same.Jiang Xijie sometimes suspects that her younger brother hasn't grown up at all, otherwise how could he change back to his previous youthful appearance in an instant.

But Jiang Xijie regained her self-consciousness and responsibility as an older sister, and asked her younger brother in private, why do you and Cuicui have no children?After all, unlike his two elder brothers, Jiang Xiyao was not at home all year round, and Fu Yuanying was in poor health.Since they lived together and Liu Cuicui was as strong as a cow, how could she have no children?Of course, she didn't discriminate against Liu Cuicui because of this, she always scoffed at the assertion that there are three ways to be unfilial and have no offspring, but she really hoped that her younger brother could have a child.

Jiang Xijun said that he didn't know, anyway, one of them might be infertile, either he or she.But he didn't think it mattered. Rather, he said that it would be better if he didn't have a baby now, so as to save troubles. "It's a big deal, hold one in the future, don't worry, sister, there is a grandson who will put incense on Dad's grave. When you die, we will offer it together."

Those who can talk like this these days without worrying whether Jiang Xijie will feel unhappy are his own younger brothers.

Jiang Xijun was leaving in July, and said that he would come back when he had the opportunity, "Peaceful Jianguo! We will come and go often in the future. Don't worry, sister." On the last night at home, he felt that her sister was like an old lady, " Yes. It's you," she kept wanting to say that you must never meet your elder brother on the battlefield in the future, but she couldn't say it out, she couldn't help but understand that, "You two have to be good, ah, don't bully Cuicui." He agreed, Liu Cuicui started chattering again, he stopped his wife, and thanked Wang Jiyue again and again, Wang Jiyue suddenly remembered the time when he visited him and Haoning in Beiping, and said: "Xijun, this The next time you go back, help me bring a message to Haoning." She had already asked Wang Haoning's news before, and asked him to convey Wang Jianxun's words, "You let him be well. Nothing is better than living well, and everything else is easy to say If you have life, you can still fulfill your wish. If you have no life, then..."

She didn't know if Wang Haoning would still have a chance to go to Penang to bring his mother's spirit back, she thought probably not.She can always smell an unkind and decisive breath from these gcists.They all seemed too straight.

Jiang Xijun left, and he said that if he passed by the elder brother's residence, he would go and see him.Wang Jiyue asked Jiang Xijie if this was okay?What if Xijun is detained?Jiang Xijie shook her head and said, such a thing would never happen to the two of them.

Maybe her younger brother will bully the eldest brother, after all, the elder brother is very honest and the younger brother is too cunning.

She thought there were many things that would not happen, and judging according to the facts was her basic criterion.Although there have been many things that exceeded expectations over the years, there are also many that were not unexpected.When Jiang Xijun came, Jiang Ying didn't see her brother-in-law much. Her life was full of two things. The first was learning the piano, and the second was taking care of her mother.

She insisted on decocting and feeding her mother herself after piano class every day, and no one could do it for her.I probably feel that sincerity leads to wisdom, this move can move the heavens to some extent, and don't take her mother away.

In her memory, her mother in 1946 was extremely fragile.After the grandparents passed away one after another, the mother had nothing to look forward to except waiting for the uncles to come back.She couldn't accompany her to and from school because she was too weak.Every day when I get home, I practice the piano hard by myself, and I will practice it perfectly for my mother, otherwise the forced smile on her mother's face will really make her feel distressed.

She knew that after returning to Shanghai, her aunt tried her best to seek medical advice for her mother. During those days, there were always three or four doctors who went home every day, but each doctor said the same thing: it was too late, now only It can be kept, how long it can be kept.No one can make a judgment on how long she will live for the rest of her life.She saw that her aunt was busy every day, busy transferring the family's money out, and busy keeping part of the money for daily use—she didn't know how abnormal the prices have become now, let alone how the family buys daily necessities Of course she can get Aunt Wang's help when she does her homework at night. Aunt Wang will naturally comfort her for her busy aunt and tell her not to worry. Now that she returns to Shanghai, it's easy to buy medicines and her mother will be fine.

She is no longer a three-year-old child, and she begins to doubt what adults say.Later, she grew up and really became a composer. The first work she published was to commemorate her mother.She named the work "The Last Time".Some critics praised her for writing such profound works at such a young age, saying that the despair for life and nostalgia for the past can be heard from the songs.

She silently accepted the compliment, thinking of her mother's face.Mother never grows old, she just fades away.

In November, the fourth uncle and the younger uncle came back from Europe, but the second grandmother had passed away on the way, and when they came back together, one urn changed from one to two.In December, her mother was dying too.In Shanghai in the cold winter, she heard newspaper sellers yelling such and such news in the newspaper, such as constitution, peace talks, conferences, parties, and lists. good.

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{71} Northeast Armistice Agreement.