After Li Shaohui got off the train, he went through many twists and turns, and found Xiao Bei's hometown---- a backward and isolated village at noon the next day.

After the reform and opening up, the Northeast has lost the glorious status of the national industry, in the helplessness to go down, although there are still many state-owned heavy industry enterprises in the strong, but in the wind and rain have become a zombie enterprise. I heard Liu Datou say that Changchun, a large provincial capital city, a beautiful city with spring all year round, actually relies on a FAW Group to contribute half of its GDP.

Walking into Xiao Bei's village, I didn't find a few young people, presumably they were all going out to work, and a few naughty children tied plastic bags of different colors with wool on the road started to run in the wind, and those bags were filled with wind in the sound of clattering, bulging up, and flying in the sky, like simple kites. There are also a few elderly people squatting in the corner or holding their hands behind their backs, bathing in the lazy sunshine and chatting.

Li Shaohui stepped forward to ask Xiao Bei for information, but everyone shook their heads blankly, not knowing who it was. Li Shaohui understands that people in the village are accustomed to calling by small names, but if they say big names, they don't know it. But in addition to the name "Bei'er", he didn't know what Xiao Bei's nickname was, and Xiao Bei had been away from home for so long, and the people in the village were very unfamiliar with her.

Li Shaohui inquired for nearly an hour, and there was no progress in asking a few places. Disillusioned, he had no choice but to walk towards the north corner of the village, where there was still one last group of people doing their own business.

When he walked over, he found that not far from the crowd, there was an old man of unknown age sitting cross-legged on the side of the road, holding a willow branch in his hand, hitting the ground back and forth, making the dust in front of him unconsciously, just smirking with his mouth open, and the saliva in his mouth was also continuous.

Li Shaohui was inexplicably sad, so he asked the people around him about the person's situation, so everyone told me one by one.

"What a sin, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling all my life and not doing serious things, and becoming like this when I was young and less than 50 years old. ”

"Retribution, I don't know how to cherish a good wife after marrying such a good wife, and I forcibly lost a good family. ”

"That's it, not long after his wife died, he became what he is now, and the hard days in the future are still long, see how he lives?"

"He has a girl, I don't know if he will care about him?"

"What's the matter? Since she was a child, she has been beating and abusing people, beating them away at a young age, and she hasn't been home for many years, or has her mother only come back once when she is seriously ill, and now that her mother is dead, why do they come back? Honor him and take care of him? Why? Maybe God wants to let him die early?"

Li Shaohui listened to everyone's gossip, and vaguely understood in his heart that the delirious man in front of him was likely to be the person he was looking for - Xiao Bei's father.

Then Li Shaohui determined the identity of the person in front of him through his surname, Xiao Bei's appearance and the surrounding villagers, and then walked towards the old man.

This is an old man with vicissitudes of life, his face is wrinkled, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, like orange peels, and there are many white spots on his face, his cloudy eyes are bloodshot, and the old tears always flow out unconsciously, leaving along the furrows and ravines on his face and the saliva at the corners of his mouth are mixed together, disgusting to the point.

Xiao Bei's father looked at Li Shaohui coming over, his eyes were confused, just hehe smirked, Li Shaohui looked at his down-and-out appearance, and suddenly thought of "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, if you don't believe it, look up, who will the sky bypass." "I didn't expect the newspaper to be so fast?

But what can be done with retribution? What should be done is still gone, everything is an irreparable tragedy. If he could have repented earlier, Xiao Bei would naturally have a happy childhood, and with Xiao Bei's beauty and straightforward character, she would naturally be able to bloom her own splendor and create a beautiful life.

But there is no if in this world, there is no if, there is no start over, and now Xiao Bei has become a handful of ashes, lying there quietly, Li Shaohui looked at the urn in his arms, his expression was gloomy, and he did not move.

After Li Shaohui left Xiao Bei's father, he went to the village branch committee to learn about the specific situation of Xiao Bei's father.

Li Shaohui handed over the 3,000 yuan in his hand to the relevant person in charge, and recorded the account of Xiao Bei's father's subsistence card, planning to remit a sum of money every year in the future, and do his best to do his filial piety for Xiao Bei.

Subsequently, under the leadership of the villagers, Li Shaohui went to see Xiao Beiju's home, which was two dilapidated thatched houses, and the walls were densely cracked, like spider webs, full of traces of time. They watched their masters leave silently one after another, and it seemed that they had completed their mission, and they were ready to collapse at any moment.

Li Shaohui saw it bitterly, he didn't want to stay any longer, and trotted all the way out of here.

The reason why Li Shaohui didn't leave Xiao Bei's ashes here was because her father was already delirious and couldn't take care of it properly, and Xiao Bei didn't mention going home to her father before she died, which shows that she still has a grudge in her heart for the father who brought her bad luck for a lifetime, so Li Shaohui doesn't want to go against her will.

Li Shaohui understands that the best way now is to find Ke'er, raise her, and then find a suitable time to tell her all the facts and let her deal with the affairs of her relatives.

When he thought of Ke'er, Li Shaohui's heart became more and more sad, until now he has no news of Ke'er, he will look for it on the Internet every night, and will also go to the police station on weekends to ask, but so far Ke'er is still in the sea and has not been heard from.

After coming out of Xiao Bei's hometown, Li Shaohui found a hotel to spend a sleepless night, and then got up and rushed to Weihai the next day, because it was Xu's home, and Xu's only relative, ---- grandmother, was still living in the countryside.

It is said that when a person is injured, the first thing he thinks of is to go home, return to the most familiar and warm place, and lick his wound quietly, so is the long-lost promise also there?

But is she really there? Is she really hurt?

Li Shaohui arrived in Weihai at noon, although this time period is the hottest time of the day, but with the cool sea breeze, it is not so hot.

When Li Shaohui was standing at the bus booth waiting for the bus, a red-scarf child next to him suddenly ran from the platform to the side of the road, and it happened that a not very fast electric car came towards him and hit it.

"You little perverted child, why don't you look at the road?" the old man on the bike stopped and asked angrily.

In this accident, the child was frightened, lost his mind for a while, and did not dare to speak, but stood there timidly with a red face covering the thigh that was hit. The old woman in the back seat of the electric car hurriedly got out of the car, pushed the old man dissatisfiedly and said, "What is fierce, look at the children scared." After saying that, she turned her head again, touched the child's leg, and asked kindly, "Is there something wrong?"

The child recovered from the grandmother's soft voice, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay." Everyone also gathered around to help check, because it was just a light bump, and there was really no problem, so after a while, the crowd gradually dispersed again. Before leaving, the grandmother also advised the children to pay attention to driving when crossing the road.

An inadvertent little thing happened in a small seaside town surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it couldn't splash the slightest wave. The folk customs here are simple, the children are not bullied, and the fashionable porcelain and relying on the old to sell the old are naturally difficult to popularize.

Not long after, Li Shaohui also successfully caught a taxi and sat in a stable car, and he also took advantage of this to start enjoying the beautiful scenery along the way--- promising a utopia that he would never forget.

This is a small city built along the coast, there are mountains and rivers, the climate is suitable, the environment is beautiful, on the coastline that Li Shaohui is currently passing through, there are already countless beautiful scenery that makes people feel like entering a fairyland, and the heart is relaxed.

The pace of life here is extremely slow, people are slowly doing things, chatting, and letting time flow slowly in laughter and crying, flowing to the bottom of people's hearts, and turning into a picture of beautiful memories. As the so-called earth spirit is a masterpiece, only such a picturesque seaside town will give birth to such a beautiful woman, and only such a simple folk custom will create a promise that dares to love and hate but is kind and unprincipled character!

At this time, the weather has changed from sunny and bright to a vast cloudy day, I heard the taxi master say that this is often the case here, often blowing a cool sea breeze, and the sky is also a vast color, but it is not raining, making people comfortable at the same time can always give birth to a feeling of the sky and the earth, is it also because of this reason, it has caused the promise of a straightforward and sad character?

I heard that people who have lived here for a long time feel uncomfortable wherever they go. Xu promised to complain to Li Shaohui about other places, when she just came back from abroad, she first went to Beijing at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but Beijing's depression was as thick and heavy as its haze, which made her, a girl who was used to freedom in Weihai, fall into hell, and then she went to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but the steamer-like climate made her stay for a few days and quickly slip away, and finally arrived in Shanghai, feeling a little better, before settling there...

Li Shaohui thought about the warm past of him and Xu Xu, and he really didn't want to believe that a person who was so proud of Xu Xu would go with an old man for the sake of money and power, for glory and wealth, even if he saw it with his own eyes, even if it was a foregone conclusion, he was still unwilling, he wanted to find an answer, an answer that broke his heart.

Even if you lose, you must lose clearly, and you must no longer be like the last time with Tang Fengling, empty with regrets, wasting time in a trance, and hurting yourself.