The children were playing happily while the adults quickly prepared three tables of food. Fortunately, the house Sun Aimin rented was big enough, otherwise these tables would not be able to accommodate them.
The children sat at one table, the men drank and chatted at another, and the women sat at another. Come to think of it, it had been a long time since the adults from both families had gathered together like this.
The two families met thirty years ago during a special period. Yuan Heng, the eldest son of the Yuan family, was only 14 years old and had just graduated from junior high school. In the parlance of that era, he belonged to the "old third generation."
It was during this period that he went to the countryside, in Liuwangzhuang, where the Sun family lived. At that time, the Sun family took good care of him because he was young and frail.
Yuan Heng was of similar age to Sun Aiguo and Sun Aijun, and they were all honest people without any ulterior motives, so they got along well with each other at that time.
After the old couple of the Yuan family used their connections to transfer Yuan Heng back to the city, the family took the time to visit the Sun family to express their gratitude.
Later, although the two families lived in different places, they kept in touch through letters. The Yuan family would often buy things that were hard to find in the countryside and mail them to the Sun family.
The Sun family would also send some local specialties to the Yuan family. The two families exchanged gifts and always maintained a good relationship.
The Sun family is said to be a family of craftsmen, and they will never go hungry anywhere, because they have things passed down from generation to generation, and if they work hard, they can do it well.
But the Sun family seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit during that period. No matter what they did, nothing went well. In other words, as long as they wanted to make a difference outside the county, they would encounter some irresistible forces that would instantly shatter their beautiful dreams.
In the end, the Sun family simply lived in peace for a long time and no longer took those seemingly simple but thorny paths.
But living in the countryside like this makes life hopeless. Originally, the two brothers Sun Aiguo and Sun Aijun had a strong desire to leave the countryside, but due to financial difficulties, they could only make a living by running small restaurants and village banquets.
Although their lives have improved and the money they earn is quite considerable in the countryside, it is actually far from their original vision.
When his younger brother Sun Aimin grew up, his family wanted to find a different way out for him, letting him see more of the outside world and strive to make a difference.
So, they contacted the Yuan family in Jiangjin City, hoping that they could help find a job or livelihood suitable for Sun Aimin so that he could transition there temporarily.
The Sun family had their own considerations for not sending Sun Aimin to Qingyang City but to Jiangjin City, hundreds of kilometers away.
They suspected that their family's previous setbacks in Qingyang City were due to someone secretly obstructing their progress. Although they had no evidence and had attributed it to a "possession by evil spirits," the theory of artificial obstacles seemed more plausible.
The Sun family racked their brains but had no clue about the dark hand hiding in the dark.
It's not that they haven't had any grudges with anyone. For example, when they were still surnamed Qin, they had a feud with Mr. Sun's second uncle and his wife. The reason was that Mr. Qin wanted to sell the ancestral medicinal recipe to pay off his gambling debts.
Sun Aimin's grandfather refused his brother's request. Not long after, the family restaurant caught fire. Old Master Sun's hard work was destroyed. He was so angry that he passed away soon after.
Later, natural disasters struck, and Sun Aimin's grandmother fled with her two sons to Liuwangzhuang. To avoid being remembered for her medicinal recipes, she changed her name and surname and has lived there ever since.
Ever since their family left their hometown, there has been no news of the second master of the Qin family.
No one knew about this matter except the Sun family, including Yuan Jie, who had never heard of it.
None of the recent generations of the Sun family had studied Chinese medicine, so the book of medicinal recipes was facing the embarrassing situation of being lost.
Thirty years later, Mr. Sun was nearly a hundred years old. Knowing that he was about to die, he called his three sons and one daughter to his side and expressed his desire to donate the medicinal recipes to the country free of charge.
Not to mention that the medicinal recipe book has very high research value in traditional Chinese medicine after being copied many times, the original medicinal recipe book preserved by special methods has long become an antique of inestimable price.
However, the Sun family's children had no intention of profiting from selling medicinal recipes and were very supportive of Grandpa Sun's idea. It was not until they completed the donation, it was reported in the news, and they were awarded a national certificate of honor that others learned that the Sun family had such a good thing.
To say it wasn't a pity would be a lie. But if they didn't donate, the medicinal recipe wouldn't be able to fully realize its true value, and they were also worried that future generations would suffer as a result.
The Sun family had analyzed more than once that the family's troubles might be related to this incident. Therefore, only by donating it publicly could the coveted person be dissuaded from their evil intentions.
Yuan Jie only knew that Sun Aimin's family's cooking skills were inherited from their ancestors. It was not until the Sun family donated an entire book of medicinal recipes that she learned that the Sun family had such a "treasure". However, as for the fact that the Sun family's ancestral surname was Qin, not only Yuan Jie, but even the younger generations of the Sun family such as Sun Qi did not know it.
Although Sun Nanxing's full moon banquet was not grand, the family still had a lively time behind closed doors.
After eating and drinking, everyone worked together to quickly clean up the mess and arranged everyone's accommodation.
Although the three-bedroom, one-living-room house is not small, it can't accommodate so many people. With so many people, no matter how we arrange them, there is not enough room to live.
Aside from the elderly couple, the rest of the Yuan family stayed at Sun Aimin's house until around eight o'clock in the evening, then followed Yuan Rui home. The rest of the family filled up Sun Aimin's bedroom and living room, sleeping on the floor as a rule.
Yuan Jie looked at the full house and could not help but feel a lot of emotion. Because of that long dream, she seemed too far away from such a scene.
At night, Yuan Jie and her family of four lived in one bedroom. After coaxing the two children to sleep, Yuan Jie mysteriously took out a stack of manuscript paper from the bedside table.
Sun Aimin's curiosity was aroused, and he leaned over and asked, "What are you holding?"
Yuan Jie shook the manuscript in her hand and said, "Great stuff! This is the result of my hard work during my confinement period. You must read it carefully and try to engrave everything on it in your mind!"
Sun Aimin was puzzled. He took the manuscript and flipped through it page by page. He saw portraits of people one after another, with basic information such as name, gender, and approximate age marked on them.
When he first started looking, Sun Aimin saw a bunch of unfamiliar faces, but after flipping through seven or eight pictures, he saw some familiar faces.
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