There are a total of three residential buildings in the central plaza, which not only have the length of the building, but also have the property. The roads on the front and back are the main roads in the urban area, all of which are the responsibility of the urban management and do not need to be managed by the community. If it's just about the residents, the central square is much easier to do than the old neighborhoods.

Han Xiaowu chatted with the property staff of the square for a while, and then walked upstairs and downstairs with the two enthusiastic aunts, simply handed over the Chuangwen questionnaire to them, and then rode a small electric donkey to inspect his area.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the gate of Sujian Garden, he was stopped by Lao Yang, a part-time grid worker.

"Uncle Yang, you're not going fishing today, what are you doing here?" asked Han Xiaowu as he pulled the car aside.

"Xiao Han, you came just in time. ”

Lao Yang didn't care about answering, pulled Han Xiaowu into the crowd, pointed to an old man with a travel bag on his shoulder and a big bag in his hand, and said: "He is from Western Xinjiang, he used to be from our Anhai, he went to Western Xinjiang when he was a teenager, and he stayed there for decades, and this is the first time he has returned to his hometown." He said that he had a relative who lived in our neighborhood and wanted to meet him, but he couldn't name him and didn't know what building he lived in. He has already bought the train ticket back to Xijiang, and he will leave early tomorrow morning, and he may not have a chance to come back again......"

Han Xiaowu heard a rough idea, looked at the old man and asked in Mandarin: "Hello, I am Xiao Han in the community, your old surname?"

The old man hurriedly answered: "My surname is Liu, my name is Liu Aiguo, I can't speak Mandarin, you speak Anhai dialect with me." ”

Han Xiaowu was very surprised, and immediately asked in the local dialect: "You have lived in Western Xinjiang for decades, and you can still speak Anhai dialect?"

"I didn't go alone, we went to Anhai with thousands of people, and several villages over there are Anhai people, who usually speak Anhai dialect!"

"He went to the branch, and in 1956 he went to a batch, and I remember that he was mobilized several times later, and he went to several batches. An old man squeezed in and said.

"A total of four batches!"

The old people who returned to their hometowns and backpacked to find their relatives were also very excited, and told everyone with their fingers: "56 is the first batch, 57 is the second batch, 59 is the third batch, and 61 is the last batch, and a total of eight or nine thousand people have gone back and forth." I went to the third batch, and I have lived in Western Xinjiang for 60 years!"

When he left home, he returned to his hometown, and his hometown accent did not change, and his sideburns declined.

Han Xiaowu could understand the old man's mood at the moment, and couldn't help but ask, "If you go, you can't come back?"

"When I first arrived there, I had to engage in production, and the Gobi Desert was all around, and I couldn't even see a few grasses! As soon as I arrived there, I was busy clearing the wasteland and farming, so how could I have time to come back? Later, I settled down there, and I dragged my family with my family, and it was so far away that it took more than 10 days to go back and forth on the light road, and it cost a lot of money, and I couldn't come back if I wanted to. ”

The old man put down his handbag, unzipped it and took out the water cup, took a sip of water, and then said: "In the past, not only was the transportation inconvenient, but the communication was not easy, and the contact with the people in my hometown became less and less, and then I couldn't get in touch. They didn't know what was going on on our side, and we didn't know what was going on in our hometown, so they gradually cut off contact. ”

"Yes, not only was the traffic bad, but I didn't even know if I could receive a letter. An old lady next to her couldn't help but shed tears.

The old man who came back from Xijiang had long been in tears, and he wiped a handful of tears: "I was the first to come back from our village, and I didn't dare to come back, because I didn't know what the situation was in my hometown, and I didn't know if there was anyone in my hometown, so which one to come back to?"

"Then how did you come up with such a determination?" Han Xiaowu asked.

"Coincidentally, there is a construction team in Anhai that is working on our side, and the owner of the construction team heard that there are many Anhai people who have lived there for decades, so he drove a car to find our village. We don't know how happy we are to see the people of our hometown and hear the words of our hometown......"

Thinking of the scene at that time, the old man wiped his tears vigorously, and was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, welcome to your house!"

"Big brother, we welcome you. ”

......

The old people around him were all in tears, comforting and welcoming.

Han Xiaowu also had a sour nose and red eyes, so he hurriedly took out a tissue and handed it over.

The old man took the tissue and wiped it, choked up and said, "Although the young people in the village also speak Anhai dialect, after all, they were born and raised there, and they have never lived in their hometown, so they don't have much affection for their hometown. We are different, we miss our hometown when we are free, and if we want to come back to see, we ask the boss of the construction team to help us visit our relatives in our hometown.

Boss Yu is really a good person, not only to see us, send us condolences, but also take our affairs seriously and help us inquire. When we left, it was still a brigade and a commune, but now many brigades are gone, not even the township, and our mother and son are long gone! The rest of the village didn't have the luck of me, and I didn't contact any of them.

As soon as I heard the letter, I called my old cousin, and when my old cousin received the call, she couldn't even remember that there was still me! I cried, she cried, and the two of them cried on the phone! I knew that there were people in my hometown, with a phone number and an address, so I would go and buy a ticket the next day......

"So you've already seen your cousin?"

"Yes, her family is now the same village as my hometown, which was not before. I stayed at her house for four days and found several relatives. I wanted to go to the grave of my old father and mother, burn some paper and kowtow, but the years were too long, and they didn't know where the grave of my old father and mother was. ”

The old man wiped away his tears again, and then said: "My old cousin is old, her ears are a little deaf, her eyes are not good, she has no son, only two girls, the girls are all outside, and now she lives alone, I can't let her take care of me three times a day, I want to go back and come back, and my relatives have found several, so I should be content, so I asked my old cousin's grandson-in-law to help me buy two tickets online, and take the train to Jiangcheng early tomorrow morning, and transfer back to Xijiang from Jiangcheng." Unexpectedly, last night, my old cousin's grandson-in-law suddenly called me and said that he had found my nephew, who was my brother's grandson. ”

"He lives in this neighborhood?"

"Well, he said he lives in Su Jian Garden!"

"What's his name?"

"I said on the phone last night that I was old and had a bad memory, and I forgot about it after sleeping. ”

"He called you?"

"He called me, I have his phone number. ”

The old man has been away from his hometown for sixty years, and it is rare to return to his hometown once, and it is very likely that he will not come back again in this life, as long as he can meet his relatives, he naturally wants to see each other before leaving.

Han Xiaowu understood his wish very well, and urged: "Since you have a phone number, then call it quickly, if you don't have a mobile phone, use my mobile phone, or I'll call for you!"

The old man took out an old man's machine from his pocket that was almost worn out, and said with a sad face: "His number is in the mobile phone, this mobile phone was fine last night, and it was fine in the morning, I don't know what's going on, I can't turn on the machine when I get here." ”

"I'll see. ”

"I'm sorry for you. ”

"It's okay, no trouble. ”

Han Xiaowu took the old man's machine, but no matter how he pressed the power button, he didn't respond. I had to remove the battery, take out the card, and try to install it in my mobile phone first to see if I could call up the call record, but I found that the old man's card was not cut and could not be installed. Seeing that there was a mobile phone store diagonally across the road, he simply took the old man to the mobile phone store, briefly told the boss about the situation, and asked the boss to help find an old man to try.

The boss was very enthusiastic, but he found an old man's machine, put on the card and looked at it, and said helplessly: "His number must be stored in the mobile phone, not in the card, and it will be blank when you turn it out." There is no problem with the mobile phone battery, it should be that the mobile phone motherboard is broken, this kind of miscellaneous old machine is not easy to repair, and no one is willing to repair it now. Why don't you go to the business hall and ask if you can bring up the call logs? ”

"Uncle, the mobile business hall is not far from here, why don't I accompany you to ask?"

"Okay, thank you so much, you're all good people!"

"Uncle, don't be busy thanking you first. The boss returned the phone to the old man and asked with concern, "Did you use your own ID card or someone else's ID card?"

The old man looked up and said: "This mobile phone was bought for me by my son, and the number was also done by my son, and I don't want to pay the phone bill, he said that he deducted money from his mobile phone every month." ”

"So it's a family number, the number is in your son's name, even if you take your ID card to the business hall, you won't help you adjust. ”

"My number, I've used it for a few years, and I can't get it out even if I get my ID card?"

"There are regulations in the business hall that you must go to the host's ID card to check the call records. ”

The old man was dumbfounded, holding his mobile phone and froze there at a loss.

Han Xiaowu was secretly scolding that this mobile phone is not broken sooner or later, why is it bad at this time, the mobile phone boss suddenly asked: "Uncle, you should remember your son's phone number, right?" We can help you call him and ask him to quickly go to the business hall in Xijiang to check the call record. ”

The old man wept and said, "I...... I can't remember his number, I never did. When he bought me this phone, he kept his, my daughter-in-law, and my grandson's and granddaughter's numbers in it. I call them, don't press the number, just look for the name. ”

I can't remember anything, I don't have any clues, and that's trouble.

Han Xiaowu really couldn't bear to let him return to Xijiang with regrets, and asked unwillingly: "Uncle, your old cousin lives in Xitang Town, your old cousin's name, and the village group where your old cousin's family is located, you should always remember it, right?"

"I won't forget this, my old cousin's surname is Xu, her name is Xu Meizhu, and her family lives in Group 9 of Lizhuang Village, Xitang Town, just behind the village office, not far from the village office. ”

"That's easy, I'll help you contact your cousin, she should have her grandson-in-law's phone number, as long as we can contact her grandson-in-law, we can contact your nephew, after all, your nephew is her grandson-in-law who helped you contact you." ”

"Young man, thank you so much, but Xitang is quite far from here......"

"It's okay, I have acquaintances in Xitang, I don't have to go to Xitang, I'll send a WeChat message and ask an acquaintance to help you ask." ”