At the doorstep of his familiar home, Uncle Ma was wearing a pair of floral pants and a big One Piece T-shirt, sitting on a recliner enjoying the cool air.
Next to it was a small tape recorder, which played the duo's renditions.
He squinted his eyes and tapped his hands, looking like he was enjoying himself.
"…Second Sister Wang was in tears in the North Tower. She called her Second Brother, why didn’t she return home? Ouch, cough..."
"...I feel so sad when I think about my second brother. He went to Beijing to take the exam, and he didn't come back for six years. I miss him and it makes me feel sad. I hold my hand on the crystal mirror and shed tears..."
"...Second Sister Wang thought about it carefully and took off her silver hairpin to mark the white wall. She thought to her second brother that I would mark one line on the wall in one day and two lines in two days. I would mark the east wall and the west wall, and mark the entire south wall and mark the north wall..."
"...The one that covered the whole wall didn't count. I climbed up the ladder and climbed up to the beam. If my parents hadn't been so tight, I would have rowed along the avenue all the way to Shenyang..."
Strictly speaking, this is a pull show unique to the Northeast and a branch of Errenzhuan. The one Uncle Ma heard is called "Returning to the Cup", which is very classic and very good to listen to.
Despite my young age, I have grown up listening to this song, including "Splashing Water in Front of Horses", and I can still sing a few lines.
I saw Uncle Ma shaking his head when he heard it, so I took a step forward and started singing along.
"Zhang Tingxiu didn't say anything. He bowed deeply and addressed himself to Miss Wangfu. Please listen carefully. Don't think that I am a flower beggar. I am your second brother. Return home. I asked my father-in-law and mother-in-law who they are. Okay? Enmei, are you in good health? Second sister!"
Uncle Ma's hand that beat the time paused for a moment, but he didn't open his eyes, and then he started singing.
"Who knows who your father-in-law and mother-in-law are? You don't care whether I am peaceful or not. How can we be relatives? Why do you keep calling me my sister? Hanako!"
"Could it be that you have forgotten your second brother? I failed the exam and returned home, my second sister!"
"You said it was my second brother who came home to visit you, but I don't admit it. What do you think I gave you as a sign?"
"A family heirloom white jade cup."
"Why don't people return the cup?"
"I was killed on the way."
"Who broke you?"
Uncle Ma said this out loud, and then I scratched my head and said with a smile: "I don't know who I let collapse. The next ones won't..."
To be honest, I only know these few sentences.
Uncle Ma sighed, shook his head and said: "Oh! Zhao Nang changed his mind, broke away the jade Gu and presented the treasure. Emperor Jiajing was very happy and gave him a seventh-grade county magistrate. Second brother, I can't do anything. Dinner!"
After he finished reading, he opened his eyes and looked at me, with a familiar lewd smile slowly appearing on his face.
"You're back just in time, kid. There's a crying job tomorrow. Come with me."
What he said was a jargon. Crying work means mourning for others for free. Generally speaking, the pay is not low.
I laughed and scolded, "You old money geek, you're arranging a job for me before I even enter the house and before my butt is off the bench? I'm not your student now."
Uncle Ma hummed and said, "Oh, I don't know who it is, but it took eighteen rampant soldiers from me and kowtowed to me as my disciple. How come you don't admit it so quickly?"
I sighed: "Bah, you still have the nerve to say that your eighteen rampant soldiers can't defeat my little Weiwei."
He rolled his eyes at me: "Nonsense, even if I give you the level of a ghost king, can you control others? If you are not good at it, you still blame me."
I was not polite: "Who do I blame for my incompetence? Of course it's your fault. It's all because you didn't teach me well. Otherwise, how could I be afraid of that thousand-year-old vixen?"
He stood up and kicked my ass: "It's obvious that you are lazy and don't study hard, why do you still blame me?"
Seeing that he was still trying to kick me, I quickly took out the 10,000 yuan I had prepared from my pocket and handed it over.
"Here, honor your old man."
Then, Uncle Ma looked at the money and then at me.
We both looked at each other and smiled.
"Hey Hey Hey……"
Half an hour later.
I wiped the door clean, kowtowed a few more times, and then looked at the name on it, hoping for some changes.
It's been almost a year since I left.
I was very excited to see this person again, and also felt a sense of joy in seeing my relatives.
However, there was still no change in the menu. I was still the same as before, and I could only see that the inside was blocked layer by layer.
It seems that there is still some time before the lockdown is lifted.
After we paid our respects, Uncle Ma had already made tea for me, and we sat down and started chatting.
I first told Uncle Ma that my aunt had left. Uncle Ma couldn't help but sigh when he heard that. Then he sighed and said, "It's a good day. It's the same day as the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games."
Only then did I remember that the day my aunt died was the eighth day of the seventh lunar month, which happened to be August 8, 2008, the first day of the Beijing Olympics.
I briefly told Uncle Ma about my experience in Nanjing during the year. Of course, the part about me living on the streets was omitted.
He also nodded repeatedly, with a smile on his face.
He should be quite satisfied with my experience during this period.
But I know that what he is most satisfied with is the 10,000 yuan I gave him.
By the way, there are also two Nanjing cigarettes.
While talking, Uncle Ma turned on the TV and said there was a game today.
I don't have much time to watch the Olympics these days, so I sat down and watched it with him.
After watching the game for a while, the sky turned dark before I knew it. Uncle Ma said he would help me catch the wind and wash away the dust, so he took me out to have a good meal, then found a bathing place, and we took a comfortable bath together. bath.
There were two of us, one person and one person.
Don't get me wrong, this dragon is serious.
Even the technicians who massaged my bones were old men. They were very strong and pressed me so hard that I grinned. But after the massage, I felt relaxed.
After a long journey, we returned home together. On the way, I told Uncle Ma that I wanted to buy something tomorrow to go see Hu Ma and He Yuchen.
He said don't worry, I will go do some work with me tomorrow. My boss will give me a lot this time, several thousand.
I said there was really work. How about such a coincidence that I started working right after I came back and even allowed me to rest for two days? Zhou Papi couldn't do this.
Uncle Ma patted me on the shoulder and said, are you still afraid of money? Tomorrow's job is very simple. It only takes one morning to walk around the mourning hall, burn it in the crematorium, and bury it in the cemetery. You can get a few thousand yuan.
I'll go as soon as I want to. Since I'm back anyway, I can't let Uncle Ma go alone, so I just treat him as a helper.
In this way, we went home and took a nap. At around six o'clock the next morning, we went out and rushed to the owner's house. After organizing some things, we went straight to Donghuayuan in Harbin.
