War Yin wiped the stove top clean and washed the rag, then washed his own hands, before turning around and walking over to Hai Tong, both hands landed on her face and lightly squeezed it a few times, laughing, “I said, if you want to learn, you can learn, if you don’t want to learn, I don’t mind.”
Hai Tong grabbed his hand and walked with him to the balcony and sat down on the swinging chair.
She leaned on his shoulder and looked out at the skyscrapers with him.
“The buildings across the street when Vanguard is lit up, it’s dark, they’ve all gone back home for New Year.”
“Tomorrow morning, we’re going back to the old house too, I told Grandma, who had the room packed for us a long time ago.”
War Yin embraced her shoulders, and the couple’s heads leaned together.
The moment was warm, sweet.
“Tong Tong, our war family’s old mansion is very old, don’t mind it when you go there.”
“How old is it? Is it still a mud brick house? Or is it a thatched roof?”
War Yin laughed: “That’s not so much, it’s just an old house left behind by the old ancestors, although it’s been repaired year after year, but it can’t erase the fact that it’s showing its age, and my whole family lives together, I think I’ve told you about it before.” m.
“How big is your old house?”
“Our old ancestors started doing business in the late Qing Dynasty and had a small fortune, and built an old mansion that covered quite a large area. In those days, our old mansion was considered a mansion, I think, and each room had a separate house, but it was connected, and we all shared a gate for access.”
“Like a quadrangle?”
“Yeah.”
“Your family’s old mansion was built in that era, and it’s still inhabited today? It’s well preserved.”
War Yin laughed lightly, “You don’t think we’re poor and don’t have money to build another house, so we still all live in the old mansion left by our ancestors?”
From their grandparents’ generation, their family had moved away from the real old mansion and built the current Oat Villa, and for their younger generation, Oat Villa also belonged to their old mansion, as the brothers all lived in a villa under their own name and would only return to the Villa during the New Year holidays.
“You were able to make a mortgage payment for a villa and then pay full price for this house we are living in now, how can you be too poor to build another house, the older generation are nostalgic for the old days and that’s why they have been living in the old mansion, right?”
War Yin smiled, “My wife is really smart, it is the old generation are nostalgic, especially my grandmother, she lived in the old mansion when she married into our war family, has deep feelings, her old man does not want to move out of the old mansion, everyone can only accompany her, and then spend a lot of manpower and resources to repair the old mansion every year, lest it collapse.”
“Old people are like that.”
Hai Tong expressed her understanding.
“Look, Grandma came to stay with us for a few days and then ran back, not used to it.”
“We feel good living here, but Grandma just thinks it’s better to have the old mansion, and a golden nest is better than your own doghouse.”
War Yin sighed in his heart, Grandma was not wanting Mrs Shang to know her identity and slipped back to the old mansion early.
“War Yin, can we go out for a walk? After being married for so long, we haven’t even held hands and pressed the road like everyone else, now that most people have gone home for New Year, the streets are much less crowded and quiet, both in terms of traffic and people.”
War Yin said dotingly, “Whatever you want to do, I will accompany you and support you too.”
He got up and pulled her up as well, “I’ll go back to my room and get you a jacket, it’s cold at night.”