After living a new life for my neighbor's grandmother, I traveled through the book again

When Yang Jixia knocked on his fifth uncle's door, his fifth uncle's family was busy doing their jobs, and the person who opened the door happened to be his fifth uncle.

He recognized Yang Jixia at a glance. He was the son-in-law that his cousin had taken a liking to at first sight.

Looking at the people around him, he really didn't have much impression of Tong Jia (Rong Xintong)'s appearance, but he still remembered Rong Xinzhi's appearance.

While Uncle Wu was stunned, Yang Jixia politely said, "Hello, Uncle Wu.

My name is Yang Jixia, and I am Mr. Rong, the eldest son-in-law of Mr. Rong, the former private school teacher.

In recent years, I have been doing business outside and seldom come here. When I met my younger sister by chance on the way, I learned that something had happened in my family. My father-in-law had passed away and my mother-in-law was not in good health.

This time we came back, we wanted to take my mother-in-law to a big city for medical treatment.

But after returning home, he found that the house had changed owners and his two younger brothers and mother-in-law had disappeared.

I heard from my younger sister that your family has a good relationship with you, and we really have no choice but to come and disturb you.

Uncle Wu, do you know where my mother-in-law and my two younger brothers have gone? "

He did not mention the matter of staying overnight. If Rong Xinhua really took the old lady of the Rong family to the provincial capital, there would be no need to stay overnight. It would be better to rush back to the Yang family before it gets dark.

He is now very concerned about his mother.

Although Tong Jia always said that her mother was not good to her and was very mean, Yang Jixia never thought so, especially since his old mother was paralyzed in bed because of his departure, he felt extremely guilty.

Fortunately, Tong Jia didn't know his true thoughts, otherwise, she would really turn against him on the spot.

If you feel guilty, you can just make amends yourself. Why should you let a wife you don't even want to marry atone for your sins?

Yang Jixia, who had been with Tong Jia for a long time and thought he understood Tong Jia quite well, didn't dare to say a word even though he was eager to go home, for fear that Tong Jia would embarrass him in public at the last minute.

He didn't want to stay overnight at his fifth uncle's house, but Tong Jia did.

If for no other reason than the dowry left to her by Rong Xintong's grandparents, she had to stay at her fifth uncle's house.

If she really went back to the Yang family, she would not be able to travel back and forth between the Yang family and the Rong family's old house in one night.

It's okay in the summer and in the south, but now it's the dead of winter in the north, and the power in the lithium battery bicycle can't even last for one trip, let alone a round trip.

In addition, she needs to take a boat to travel back and forth between the two homes. Where can she find someone to row the boat for her at night?

In order to keep the things in Rong's house, Tong Jia has already thought of a reason to stay overnight, a reason that no one can refute.

That means she will go to visit the grave of the old man of the Rong family the next day.

The custom in my hometown is that we must visit the graves when the sun rises, and we must never visit the graves in the afternoon or at night.

Today's time is obviously not suitable. If I want to visit the grave, I can only do so early tomorrow morning.

After this reason came out, Yang Jixia had no choice but to stay overnight with them.

So, when Tong Jia heard Uncle Wu say, "Your mother must have been taken to the provincial capital by that bastard Rong Xinhua, but I really don't know where they live there. However, I have the address of his foreign company here, you can try your luck there.", she took the initiative to ask, "Uncle Wu, I also found out that my father was gone when I met my younger sister on the road.

I'm such an incompetent daughter. I want to go pay my respects to him tomorrow morning, but now the house is full of Japanese people, and we...

Can you stay at my fifth uncle's house for one night? We won't disturb you for too long. We'll leave after paying homage to my father tomorrow.

There's no need to arrange a separate room for us; we can just squeeze in with our nephews and nieces."

After saying this, he winked at Tian Ma, who understood and handed two boxes of Shanghai pastries and ten silver dollars to Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu didn't reach out his hand. Instead, he said to Aunt Wu, "Take some of the cakes and give them to the children. Let the eldest and second eldest families sleep with their children tonight, and free up the two rooms where the children sleep."

After Aunt Wu took the cakes from Tian Ma, Uncle Wu said to Tong Jia, "My niece is going back to her parents' home. The elderly people at home are no longer around. She can stay at my house as her uncle for one night and I'll charge her for it.

If I tell this to others, won’t people poke me in the back?

I won't take the money, you can just take it back.

Your fifth uncle's family is not as well off as yours. Their conditions are limited, so they can only vacate two rooms.

How you five people choose to live is entirely up to you.”

Tian Ma looked at Tong Jia. Tong Jia walked over, took the ten silver dollars from Tian Ma's hand, and put them directly into the hands of his fifth uncle.

Before Uncle Wu could refuse, she said, “Uncle Wu, this money…is not our accommodation fee.

Yes... I want to ask Uncle Wu for a favor, and I hope Uncle Wu won't refuse me."

"You tell me first. As long as it's not against the law, and your fifth uncle can do it, he will definitely do it for you." The fifth uncle thought it was a very serious matter, and looked at Tong Jia seriously and said.

Tong Jia said, "It's about visiting my father's grave. We came back in a hurry this time, and I thought we'd have enough time to prepare once we got home, but I didn't expect the old house to be sold..."

I'm going to visit my father's grave early tomorrow morning, but I haven't prepared any offerings, let alone incense, candles, or paper money.

I know that we all visit our ancestors' graves on New Year's Eve, so my fifth uncle's family must have prepared offerings, incense, candles, and paper money.

This money... is the money I want to use to buy these things from my fifth uncle.

Don't say you don't want to take money. If you don't want to take money, my father will keep the things, but they are given to him by you, his brother, not by us, his children.

In order to let us children take good care of ourselves, Uncle Wu should accept the money."

Uncle Wu sighed and said, "Alas... your daughters are more filial than your sons.

Fine, I'll take the money, but it's too much. The incense, candles, and paper money only cost a few cents, the fish was caught from the river, free, the chicken was raised at home, also free, and the fried tofu and meatballs only cost a little oil.

In this way, Uncle Wu will charge you two dollars, and you can pay the rest..."

"Uncle Wu, just keep them all. They don't cost much, but they took a lot of effort.

Also, I used it for my father's grave in advance, so I can't use it when you worship your ancestors. You can't give your ancestors leftovers, right?

We are all one family, sharing the same blood. If I give more, it will be considered as my filial piety to my ancestors.

Moreover, in today's world, it is hard to say what will happen in the future. Maybe we can only celebrate the New Year at home this year, and we don't know when we will be able to come back again.

"If we can't come back in the future, when Uncle Wu visits the grave, can he also burn some paper for my father?" Tong Jia said earnestly.

Having said that, Uncle Wu no longer refused. He put the money in his pocket and invited everyone to have dinner together.

After dinner, Yang Jixia went to chat with his fifth uncle's two sons. They talked about the situation outside and the situation in his hometown. What they talked about most was the things that Rong Xinhua had done that brought shame to his ancestors.

It turned out that Rong Xinhua did not sell the old house to the Japanese, but he gave it away on his own initiative in order to curry favor with the Japanese.

Because of this incident, the Rong family has opened an ancestral hall and removed his name from the Rong family genealogy.

It’s just that Uncle Five didn’t mention it just now to save face for Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) and Rong Xinzhi.

After looking at two rooms, Tong Jia directly arranged for Yang Jixia and Tao Junle to stay in one room, and herself, Tian Ma, and Rong Xinzhi to stay in another room.

After dinner, she went back to her room to sleep early.

In the winter in the north, it gets dark early, and in order to save lamp oil, every household goes to bed early.

Therefore, it was not surprising that Tong Jia went to bed early in order to have more energy to visit the Rong family's old house at night.

Tong Jia basically starts sleeping at 7pm and sleeps until 1am.

She quietly sprinkled a little bit of sleeping pills in front of all the doors of her fifth uncle's house. Because people were indoors and the drugs were outside, they would not make people unconscious, but would only make them sleep more soundly. The dosage would only last until she came back.

This time her target was very clear, which was the back room of the Rong family.

In the past, Rong Xintong lived with her grandparents in the east room on the second floor of the back house. Because her grandparents had difficulty walking, they seldom went out or downstairs often. Naturally, Rong Xintong seldom went out or downstairs either. This resulted in a situation where even though she, Rong Xinzi, and Rong Xinzhi grew up in the same house, they did not have much interaction.

In order to get the things as quickly as possible and return to his fifth uncle's house as soon as possible, Tong Jia started to spread sleeping pills after breaking into Rong's house.

As soon as the medicine took effect, she went straight to the second floor, to the room where Rong Xintong originally lived with her grandparents.

This place has become a study, and the decoration is completely different from what I remember.

Tong Jia thought for a long time before she opened a mechanism on the windowsill according to the vague memory in her mind.

When the mechanism was pushed, the space where the wardrobe was originally placed and where the bookshelf was now placed suddenly moved forward twenty centimeters.

At the back of this bookshelf, there is a small compartment that is about 15 cm wide, 30 cm long and 50 cm high.

If you don't push the switch on the windowsill, you won't be able to see this grid even if you move the bookshelf away.

Inside was a wooden box and a cloth bag.

The wooden box contains the dowry that grandparents left for Rong Xintong, and the cloth bag contains the dowry that Rong Xinsong added to Rong Xintong.

Tong Jia put everything into the RV, put the bookshelf back in place, and went back to his fifth uncle's house under the cover of night.

It’s not that she wasn’t curious about the “Rong Family Old House” full of Japanese people, but they had just returned and didn’t know anything about the situation, so they couldn’t alert the enemy at this time.

What if someone has connections in Shanghai and knows that something unexpected happened to the Japanese people there as soon as they arrived there? Wouldn't that be a clear message to them that there's something wrong with our identity and they should come and check us out as soon as possible?

She would never do such a stupid thing.

Although she couldn't alert the enemy now, she installed a bug behind the bookshelf.

Although this eavesdropping device was made by her with an awl and can only last for three days, with these three days, she can analyze the real purpose of these Japanese people.

Of course, there is also the possibility that no one enters the study during these three days.

Then I can only blame my bad luck.

After finishing all this and returning to his fifth uncle's house, Tong Jia looked at the time. It was 2:40 in the morning.

There was still some time before dawn, so Tong Jia closed her eyes again and prepared to sleep for another night.

Just when she was dozing off, she heard rustling sounds in the yard. Tong Jia woke up instantly, thinking that a thief had come in.

She woke up Tian's mother and wanted her to help her judge the situation outside.

When Tian Ma heard this, she immediately got up and put on her clothes. As she was doing so, she said, "Your fifth uncle's two daughters-in-law have gotten up to cook. You can continue to sleep. I'll go and help them."

After getting dressed, he went out yawning.

Tong Jia was just about to lie down when she looked outside again and found that the three people busy in the kitchen were yawning. Thinking of the drugs she had put before leaving, she felt a little guilty.

She didn't sleep either, she got up and went to help in the kitchen.

After the four of them prepared a hearty breakfast, they went to wake up their families and have breakfast.

After dinner, the five of them, led by Uncle Wu, went to the tomb of the old man of the Rong family.

Tong Jia knelt in front of the grave of the old man of the Rong family, kowtowed to him three times very formally, and said to him in her heart: I hope you can bless your youngest son Rong Xinsong to be still alive so that I can find him.

After the worship, the five people said goodbye to their uncle, packed their luggage and went to the county.

Today is the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the day to buy New Year's goods. After today, if they want to go back to Yang Jixia's hometown, they will not be able to find a ferry and can only swim back by themselves.

The market in the county town was very lively, and everyone's face was filled with joy at the approaching New Year.

Even if the butcher encountered someone who bargained, he would happily agree to the price as long as it was not too outrageous.

Yang Jixia went to the dock to negotiate the price with the boatman, Tian Ma accompanied Rong Xinzhi to buy gifts for the Yang family, and Tong Jia took Tao Junle and bought a lot of snacks, fruits and cakes at the market while no one else was paying attention, and quietly put them in the RV.

After Yang Jixia negotiated the price with the boatman, the five of them got on the boat together.

Rong Xinzhi, who was already very nervous, became even more worried after learning that Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) did not receive any good treatment during the three days she stayed at her husband's house.

She asked, "Brother-in-law, if your family really doesn't have any extra rooms, I think I should give my fifth uncle some extra money and spend the New Year at his house.

After the New Year, when you go to the provincial capital, I will go with you."

"We are already on the boat. We can't let the boatman push the boat back, right? Just follow me steadily. Believe in your elder sister. I will never let you suffer any injustice from the Yang family." Although Tong Jia didn't like Rong Xinzhi from the bottom of her heart, she disliked everyone in the Yang family even more. She was quite interested in anything that could make life difficult for the Yang family.

Rong Xinzhi nodded, ignoring Tao Junle's glare at her, and directly hugged Tong Jia's arm, as if by holding her like this, Tong Jia could always protect herself.

Yang Jixia opened his mouth and wanted to say that his mother was paralyzed in bed, so who could give Tong Jia and Rong Xinzhi a cold look? But then he remembered that Tong Jia had said that his elder sister-in-law and younger sister had done something bad in order to grab Tong Jia's dowry.

Although he had some doubts in his heart, he was not the person involved and could not refute on behalf of others, so he said nothing.

In fact, as the ship got closer and closer to his hometown, he felt even more nervous than his sister-in-law Rong Xinzhi, who was about to live with his family.