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Chapter 748 The Past

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    It¡¯s also a coincidence.  In his previous life, Huang Yaoshan had been living in his hometown, so he was able to encounter the scene where the old man returned.  In this life, Huang Yaoshan spent most of his time in the county restaurant.

    ¡°But I don¡¯t know why, just a few days before the old man came back, Huang Yaoshan always felt that he was exhausted and couldn¡¯t muster any energy to do things.

    Then Huang Yaoshan temporarily returned to his hometown for a few days.  As a result, during those few days when I was staying at home, the old man came back.

    Huang Yaoshan was going to Guo Bao's country to buy soy sauce. After buying soy sauce, he was walking back. When he arrived at the entrance of the east alley, he saw a group of people gathered under the big locust tree. An old man with gray hair was kneeling under the big locust tree, facing  The Huanggong Well that used to belong to my family was kowtowed one after another.

    Huang Yaoshan quickly stepped forward to see what was going on.  He didn't recognize him at first, but it was Hu Youjun who told Huang Yaoshan that this was the father Huang Yaoshan had never seen since he left home when he was nine years old.

    When the silver-haired old man turned to look at him, the soy sauce bottle in Huang Yaoshan's hand fell to the ground, and the soy sauce stained the soil black.  Huang Yaoshan didn't expect that it was the old man Huang Shijie who had found it.

    But Huang Yaoshan didn't know what to do for a while. After all, in Huang Yaoshan's impression, he had only seen the old man for a few months in the past fifty-one years, and then never saw him again.  He and his mother always thought they would never see each other again in this life.  Unexpectedly, the old man came back today.

    When Huang Yaoshan was born in 1936, there was a crisis in flower planting. His father, Huang Shijie, joined the army when he was not very old.

    ¡° After waiting for ten years, the old man who had become the battalion commander came back, but he stayed at home for two or three months. As soon as he became familiar with Huang Yaoshan, he went to participate in a new war.

    In the beginning, we could still communicate through letters.  Unexpectedly, it took three years to write this letter.  Three years later, contact was completely severed, and the last letter was brought back by a fellow villager who had surrendered.  At that time, Huang Shijie was already in eastern Guangdong.

    Originally, it was promised in the letter that I would surrender and come back.  As a result, I had to wait for a long time, wait for New China, land reform, three years of difficulties, ten years of turmoil, reform and opening up, times have changed countless times, but I still haven't waited for Huang Shijie to come back.

    The old lady stubbornly believed that since the old man had promised to come back, he would definitely come back.  For so many years, he raised Huang Yaoshan by himself and took care of the children at home. He never talked about the old man's affairs, but in his heart he persisted alone, waiting for the old man to come back.

    ?According to the father, the scene when the old man returned home and reunited with the old lady was very touching.  The old lady kept mumbling, "I've waited until you," and the old man said vigorously, "I'm sorry."

    Huang Shaowen sometimes couldn¡¯t help but get red-eyed just listening to his father talk about these scenes.

    How should I put this? In this era, no one can truly control their own life choices.

    Huang Yaoshan was also talking about his second uncle. Huang Shaowen naturally knew it without him having to say it.  That was what happened after the old man was taken to Guangdong and Hong Kong by soldiers.

    At first, I didn¡¯t know what to do, but in the end, because he was good at writing, he helped people write letters, write door couplets, and asked him to write things like plaques for shop owners.

    At first, I wanted to save some money and go back to my hometown.  But then the newspapers kept saying that all the people who went back were shot.  Huang Shijie gave up the idea of ??returning to his hometown.

    At that time, he was writing menus for a tea restaurant and doing signboard design.  The owner of the tea restaurant is Lin Yongqiang, and his daughter is Lin Fang.  Once when the old man was designing a sign for a tea restaurant, he saw a sign almost hit Lin Fang and saved her in time.  After more contacts, Lin Fang knew that the old man still had a wife waiting for her in mainland China, but like the old man, she believed that they would never meet again in this life.  And maybe the wife back home may have been implicated by Huang Shijie and lost her life.

    After a while, both parties agreed, and they got married.

    Later, the two gave birth to a son. Huang Shijie named him Huang Yaozu because he missed his hometown.  Born in 1950, he is exactly one year older than Huang Shaowen.

    The thing that Huang Yaoshan wanted to tell Huang Shaowen in detail was about the second uncle named Huang Yaozu.

    It¡¯s a pity that we couldn¡¯t meet this time.  However, Huang Shaowen felt that it was not a pity.  After this semester is over, Huang Shaowen still has plenty of time to meet if he wants to.

    But, there is a problem involved.  That is, the old man is now married in Guangdong and Hong Kong, and according to the memory of his previous life, the other party does not seem to want to have too much contact with this place.

    And if I remember correctly, Huang Shaowen seemed to have heard the old man say, he actually wanted to come back in 1978.  He never told the reason why he didn't come back.

    But it may still have something to do with the old lady in Guangdong and Hong Kong.  And later on, the old man only came back for a few days in the twelfth lunar month before the Chinese New Year.  Sometimes I come back for a month or two in the summer.

    ¡°Of course I still stay in Guangdong and Hong Kong most of the time.  I don¡¯t know anything about the old ladies in Guangdong and Hong Kong at home.

    As for the second uncle, Huang Shaowen felt that he was not very close to him.  Later, when the old man and the old lady passed away, they had a quarrel with Huang Yaoshan over the issue of sharing their ashes.

    Huang Shaowen rarely cares about his hometown's affairs.  But for this kind of thing, Huang Shaowen was fully involved.  Finally, Huang Shaowen went to Huang Yaozu to ask for the old man's last will and testament. The will said that the old man hoped to return to his roots after falling leaves, so he moved the old man's ashes back.

    At that time, Huang Shaowen personally organized the trip to Guangdong and Hong Kong to collect the ashes. The brothers accompanied their father on the plane and collected the ashes back and forth in one day.

    That was also the last time that Huang Shaowen and his father stood on the same front in his previous life.

    In short, this shows part of the attitude of the mother and son in Guangdong and Hong Kong towards people like themselves on the mainland.  When the old man left, there was no contact between the two parties.

    If it¡¯s gone, it¡¯s gone.

    Let the previous generation solve its own problems.  Huang Shaowen still has only one thing to do in this life, and that is to ensure that the old man's last wish is fulfilled.

    As for the matter of bringing the two parties together, let¡¯s just leave it to chance.  If someone doesn't want to, it won't look good if he rushes to stick it up.

    Huang Shaowen would actually think that they must look down on this place because of their poverty.

    At that time, the family had little money, and Huang Shaowen¡¯s salary from work was only eighty or ninety yuan a month.  The second guy was at the age to get married, but he went out to work, and there was no news about him for a while.

    In the meantime, I sent some money to my family, and with the help of the two brothers, my house was slightly repaired.  But compared to the brick house that Huang Shaowen built after his rebirth, it was really shabby.

    Later, when Huang Shaowu got married, the house used by the third child for his wedding was basically built by the old man.  Every time I come back, I leave money for my family.

    So since 1987, the life of Huang Shaowen's family has basically become much easier.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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