Old things in the south

Chapter 96 The Fifth Grandma in My Impression

Xia Yang

...I remember the impression of Grandma Fifth most, when she was in Nanjing, before the Anti-Japanese War.When I was about three or four years old, I was already engaged in "journalism", that is, every afternoon, I went through the garden to the third grandfather, and sent the newspaper to the fifth grandma across the yard for her to read.She asked me if I had any fruit?I said, "Yes." She just let it go.Said: "No." She gave it to me, and it was all apples in my impression.Then I gave it to my grandmother and asked her to cut it in half, one half with sons and the other half without sons, and the half with sons was left for my elder brother to eat after school. I thought the half with sons was bigger, so I kept it for my elder brother. , can make pears "ah!Grandma Fifth seems to spend time in the house, she looks thin in memory, she seems to be smoking hookah every day, and the floor is full of burnt holes, which are caused by the leftover shredded tobacco from her hookah blowing.

I also seem to have a little impression from her poems about the time when she fled to inaction, and there is a description of thatched cottages by the river.The third grandpa passed away in Wuhu. I have the impression that I have some memories when I go to Hankou, Chongqing, and Baisha in the future, but I can’t remember the fifth grandma at that time.She died in Baisha, I have no impression, oh!correct!She probably stayed in Baisha due to illness!I remember going back to Nanjing on a wooden boat with my grandma and my third grandma, it was before 1943.There is a sentence in the fifth grandmother's poem "looking at the water from the window". I remember that many people have been to a place where they can see the river view from the boat window. I am very impressed, but I don't know if it is the place where the fifth grandmother lives?
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