Double Bracelets

"You two," Jiang Tongmin held his daughter's hand in his and patted it gently, "it's my greatest achievement, Dad." Jiang Xijie looked at his father's face, which was swollen and red, and there was nothing but a pair of shining eyes. angry. "I took the two of you to those receptions...it wasn't my father who wanted to take you two. Your grandma didn't agree to bring you two. It was because several friends really wanted to see you two, and also wanted to see Ji. What does a beautiful child look like." Jiang Xijie's mother was born in Spain, and before she was three years old, she was considered a foreign citizen.After returning to China, Xi Jun was born and died.Her mother's best years seem to have been spent in Europe with her father. "So, I had to take it with me. At first I was afraid that you two would cry, and I was very nervous. Who knows, when we got there, Xijun was still young, so he was hugged by everyone. Your aunts, Come over and pinch his face one by one, saying that Tongmin's son is so handsome, and he will definitely make other girls sad when he grows up." Jiang Xijie smiled and said to himself why I haven't seen him with such a skill, "Then I What about it?" "You...you start running all over the ground, scurrying between the adults' legs, the dog is really like a puppy, you can't even catch it! It's not easy for someone to catch you When you get up, you are still not happy. People can only smile and say, it turns out that the daughter is like the father, and the son is like the mother!" "Dad was also so wild when he was a child?" "Heh! Haven't you heard enough from your grandpa!"

The father and daughter looked at each other and smiled. Jiang Tongmin looked at the ceiling. Although he was immersed in the ocean of memories, he split a soul and asked, "How is your grandpa?" "Grandpa reads at home every day and doesn't go out. , I don’t read the newspaper anymore.” Jiang Tongmin shook his head, “As a son of man, he can’t be filial to his father, it’s really embarrassing.” “Father should get better soon. Rest. Let’s do something else.” Jiang Xijie tightly held her father’s rough hand and put it on her cheek, “For example, my aunt doesn’t care how many times a year the family’s property is. I’m taking care of it. I’m going to be too busy Dad, how about helping me too?" Jiang Tongmin turned his head, looked at her and smiled softly, but also very tired, without the aura of the past.When Jiang Xijie saw her father laughing, she always suspected that he was going to play a prank when she was not prepared.Now, she really wanted to be pranked again.

What the hell happened all these years?My father just had a political disagreement, and then left for Europe and the United States, and then came back to Guangzhou. Why did he suddenly look 20 years older?When Wang Jiyue saw Jiang Tongmin for the first time, she thought he was only in his early forties, because Jiang Tongmin had a baby face and always looked energetic and high-spirited.Now he has lost his spiritual strength, like an old man in his seventies sitting at the door of his house and staring blankly at the road.

What he saw, she never saw.

"Xijie," "Yeah," "When will you get a good date for dad to see?" Jiang Xijie was afraid that her dad would ask this question at this time, how would you ask her to answer?Is she recruiting or not recruiting? "...I..." "Oh? Looks like there really is one? Tsk tsk tsk, this solved the unsolved mystery in my father's heart. Tell me, who is it?" Jiang Xijie looked at her father, as if she was a child Putting on a playful curiosity like that, it seems like a world away, with mixed feelings.

"...I..." "If you don't say it, you won't say it, really, cheapskate. But Dad has something to say first, you can tell me as soon as possible, and if you don't tell me, I can get words out of others. At that time, can you Don't think I'll let my son-in-law come in." Everyone talks about the old and the young, but how can you become a child in an instant? "Father, why are you so sure that I have...a good friend?" Jiang Tongmin smiled like a child, and his tone naturally still put on his father's airs: "I am your father. How could I not know. You and Xijun are separate How could I not know that little ninety-nine."

Summer was still long, and Jiang Xijie didn't continue to ask. Father was sleepy, so he closed the door, opened the window and drew the curtains to let him sleep.Go talk to the attending physician again.The doctor said that all the methods available now have been used, and it depends on whether the remaining kidney can recover its function. If not, Da Luo Jinxian has nothing to do. "Miss, don't blame me for speaking too bluntly, I still have to prepare the funeral for Committee Jiang." Jiang Xijie stepped out of the doctor's consulting room, but on the way back to the ward, she saw Wang Jiyue sitting outside.Seeing her approaching, Wang Jiyue stood up, "Xi Jun is inside, uncle is asleep. What did the doctor say?" The sky was dark, and it seemed to be raining. When Jiang Xijie approached, it went without saying, her eyes were red.Seeing this, Wang Jiyue took her into his arms.The two didn't speak a word, and it started to rain outside the window.

It was August and the weather was terribly hot.Jiang Tongmin was so sick that he was in a daze, and the medicines and stones were useless, and he was just waiting for the time to come.The family knew they couldn't hide it from the old man, but the old man didn't ask.Suddenly one day, the old man said he was going to the hospital to see his son.Jiang Xijie and her brother had already been guarding by their father's bed in shifts. When the old man came in, he saw Xijun sleeping on another hospital bed, and Xijie was sitting by the bed and guarding.The school was on holiday, and Wang Jiyue, who always looked like conjoined twins, was naturally here, and now she lent her shoulders to Jiang Xijie to lean on.

Jiang Tongmin was also asleep, and Jiang Xijie wanted to speak when she saw her grandfather coming, but was stopped by the old man.The old man signaled his granddaughter not to wake up his terminally ill son.He just wanted to see it.Jiang Xijie held Wang Jiyue's hand tightly with one hand, but turned to look at the old man, looked into his eyes, and wanted to see something in the cloudy eyes, to find out something on his mind.What is grandpa thinking now?Will he remember what happened to his father when he was a child?Would he feel sad that a white-haired person gave away a black-haired person?Would he find it sad that the political split between two fine sons?Grandpa is only one person.

The Jiang family has no branches.Jiang Jinyan himself is a single heir of three generations.There has never been a family tree as lush as the Wang family's Fu family.His own glory comes from himself and is passed on to a limited number of posterity.Perhaps in his heart, the enthusiasm for fighting for the nation is greater than everything else.Therefore, he does not interfere with the choices and paths of his children and grandchildren, and allows young people to create their own paths. As long as it is beneficial to the nation, which path is not a path?He had done everything he could, and he should have had no regrets about it all.

But why let him see his youngest son die in his prime now?

Thinking of this, her eyes were red, and tears fell down.Jiang Jinyan smiled and reached out to touch her head.Jiang Xijie looked up at her grandfather, suddenly thinking it was her childhood.

When I was a child, I was in my grandfather's study, in Tianjin.She quarreled and said why the children in other families have mothers but I don't, and she was about to cry.It may be that I cried a lot when I was a child, and then I didn't want to think of my mother with a vague impression as if I was avoiding harm.At that time, Xijun was still young, and he didn't know why, so he sat on the table drooling and looked at his crying sister in a daze.Grandpa would come over to coax her, just like this, smiling and stroking her head.

At dusk, the family just stayed in the ward in silence.Jiang Xijie wiped away her tears, her left hand was held by Wang Jiyue.She remembered that the old house in Tianjin had been sold, and now she didn't know who lived there.She understood Wang Jiyue's feelings when she lost her mother. All the past that you cherish, no matter how precious you are, they are just sand in your hands.The dazzling golden light will pass away from the hand no matter what.

On August 31, Jiang Tongmin died of illness.A few days before his death, he woke up one afternoon and saw Miss Wang and his daughter sitting together guarding him, and fell asleep leaning on her daughter.Jiang Tongmin looked at his daughter with a wicked smile on his face, pointed to Wang Jiyue with his fingers, and then pointed to his daughter, raising his eyebrows.Jiang Xijie almost laughed, she wanted to cry while laughing, she covered her mouth with red eyes and nodded.Jiang Tongmin sighed as if relieved, with a smile on his face, he stretched out five fingers, motioning for Jiang Xijie to reach out.Jiang Xijie put her right hand in her father's palm.Her father was smiling all the time, from a wicked smirk to a loving smile, with a little tear in his eyes.He didn't say anything, wondering if he was afraid of waking Wang Jiyue up.She felt that her father's expression was like saying "You stinky girl, I guessed it", like saying "My daughter is capable", like saying "Daddy is so happy",

But he didn't say anything.Just laughed and shed a few tears.Before he died, he confessed his last words to his daughter and son, asking them to be people who are beneficial to the country and the nation, not to stick to doctrines and the like, and to do what they want.The daughter holds hands and the son pats the back.Use silent actions to replace dry and dogmatic language and expression.Died peacefully of kidney failure.Both the siblings and Jiang Tonghe saw him off.In order to protect his brother's reputation, Jiang Tonghe, while dealing with the funeral affairs with his niece and nephew, asked his followers to hurry up and send out the suicide note, which was written in serious terms and contained nothing more than hoping that the kings would continue to work hard to "help the country"; Hu, the servant who came in immediately, knelt on the ground with a plop and said tearfully, the old man passed away just now.Lying on his own recliner, closing his eyes as if falling asleep.When the wife went over to take a look, she found that the master had died.

Jiang Tonghe choked up, and said to the servant for a long time, okay, I'll go back right away.Wave your hand to let the opponent go down first.Then turned to her nephew and niece, Jiang Xijie originally wanted to say that the uncle should go back first, I will take care of it here, and I will go home soon.But her uncle said: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…… But now, I'm the only one."

In the scorching summer, there was an endless stream of mourners, which made people think that the Jiang family really had a wide network of people. People from all walks of life in Nanjing, Nanning, Fengtian, Beiping, and Tianjin all gathered in their mourning hall.In the middle of the night, Jiang Xijie, who was in charge of guarding the spirit, was sitting on the futon. Wang Jiyue came over and handed her a glass of water. "You'd better go back to sleep, don't follow me to the end." Jiang Xijie patted her hand on her shoulder after finishing her drink, "I'm fine. There's still a while before I leave school. Anyway, I have to accompany you to give the first seven Stay here." "Father likes you very much." Jiang Xijie turned around and stared into Wang Jiyue's eyes and said, "Where did you start? If you don't lie to me in front of your soul, you can't justify bullying uncle." That's what he said, Wang Jiyue hugged Jiang Xijie very considerately, and patted her on the back lightly.Jiang Xijie knew that she did this on purpose, so she comforted her with both words and deeds, so she told the story of the day before yesterday.

"Then why didn't you wake me up?" "I don't know, maybe I don't want to. I think it's good to be quiet." The summer night at the end of August was not too hot, and I didn't hear a sound.The best years may be quietly flowing away.When Xi Jun came back, he obediently knelt down on the futon and kowtowed to his father.Jiang Xijie didn't know if there was some secret agreement reached between the father and son, but she had an intuition.Just asking is useless.Jiang Xijun didn't care about Wang Jiyue, as if he had naturally accepted that Wang Jiyue was a part of their family, he blurted out: "Sister Wang, go to rest too, we two will guard here. My heart hurts." He spoke calmly, without any mischief, and Wang Jiyue also got Jiang Xijie's hint to go to rest.

"Very good, sister." "Yeah." "Dad will be happy to see you." "He knows. Tell me, what are you doing now? Have you met your mother?" Jiang Xijun took out an old photo from his bosom, "Maybe we met. Look." The siblings found it when they sorted out their father's belongings. It was the only wedding photo that their parents had.It says on the back, September 1909, 9, Barcelona, ​​Spain.

The two siblings are sitting side by side, wearing filial piety clothes, sometimes you lean on my shoulder, sometimes I lean on your shoulder.Jiang Xijie recalled that there are always people who like to say that their Jiang family is affectionate, but they are sincere.

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