Chapter 50: The Poor Ravine
"Prevention? How to prevent it? Hehe! As I said, the feng shui circle in Chongqing has always been a puddle of muddy water, and as long as it is touched, you should never think of leaving it aside. And our only choice is to face it. ”
Liang Chen stood up, walked slowly to the window, looked at the blue sky outside, his expression was slightly melancholy, and after a long time, he continued: "Besides, the matter of the Wang family's relocation of the ancestral tomb has been placed on the table, we want to pretend to be deaf and dumb, but people will not agree." This layer of window paper will be pierced sooner or later, and then, if my guess is correct, most of the feng shui circles in Yudu are going to drag us into their quagmire!"
The fat man didn't seem to understand what Liang Chen was saying, nor did he understand what a feng shui circle was.
Liang Chen said to himself: "We can't hide, but it's okay, I also want to see the feng shui circle of Yudu and see how deep the water is!"
The fat man scratched the back of his head again: "Liang Zi, I still don't understand, you didn't want to mix with those so-called feng shui circles at first, why are you interested in those feng shui circles now?
"Fatty, many things are not as simple as you think, and not everything can be done according to your wishes. I'm interested in those Feng Shui circles this time because they may have something that I don't have, and I have to use them to find the thing I want faster!"
Liang Chen turned his head to look at the fat man, but seeing that the fat man was confused, he couldn't help but smile: "Don't talk about this, get ready, let's go now!"
"I put things in the trunk early in the morning, and I almost stepped on the accelerator!"
The fat man smiled.
But when Liang Chen entered the garage and saw a dazzling array of supplements and children's toys placed in the carriage, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Supplements and gifts are all suitable, but these children's toys are ...... Well, if you count the time, my cousin should have graduated from college. These children's toys can be kept for him, and when he gets married and has a baby, he will play with his baby, hehe!"
"Comfortable!"
The fat man laughed and yelled, and then got into the cab.
The car started and slowly drove out of the courtyard of the villa, and when the gate gradually closed automatically, the black view disappeared into the villa area.
Liang Chen's hometown is in the northwest mountainous area that is very remote from Chongqing, and its name is Hulugou, which is not a tourist attraction or a developed area, but just a poor ravine, and it is a ravine composed of seven or eight villages. The origin of the so-called gourd ditch, as if taking the gourd as an analogy, the gourd mouth is small, the belly is big, it is easy to get out and difficult to enter, and the people who can generally go out from the gourd ditch rarely come back.
Because the ravine is too poor.
The road into the mountain is very difficult, and the distance from the town is too far, and the people in the ravine are used to a almost closed life.
In the afternoon, the car had already reached the entrance pass, but it was not until after dark that it slowed down to the ravine.
In addition to the road outside into the mountain is more difficult to walk, the road in this ravine is much smoother, at night, the whole ravine, almost a pitch black, only a few people light oil lamps, although the mountains have long been electrified, but those who are used to thrift and use, or reluctant to use electricity, kerosene lamps are the most economical and durable objects.
But all the way through the three villages, until the more barren village at the back came into view, Liang Chen still did not find anyone using light bulbs, let alone light bulbs, not even flashlights. This, this has a feeling of going back to the eighties, Liang Chen frowned, looking at this hometown village that has existed in his memories for many years, and for a while, he didn't know what to say.
It doesn't matter why you left in the first place, but now that you're back, it's enough.
Liang Chen saw the small adobe courtyard at a glance, adjacent to the two houses, and behind it was the mountain, there were not many families in this area, so it looked desolate.
The fat man parked the car outside the yard, looked around, and couldn't help but say to Liang Chen: "Liangzi, are the people in this gourd ditch recognizable? Why are those people hiding at home like thieves staring at us?"
"It shouldn't be!"
Liang Chen got out of the car and followed the direction pointed by the fat man, and sure enough, those villagers seemed to be looking at the black car at a glance, but no one dared to go out of the house and surround him. Liang Chen frowned, then turned around and came to the door of his uncle's house, this gate was randomly blocked with wooden boards, and it had never been locked before. Liang Chen pushed open the door and walked slowly to the courtyard, only to see that the kerosene lamp was lit in the hall, but the uncle and aunt didn't seem to be at home.
Walking to the door of the hall, Liang Chen couldn't help but shout: "Uncle, aunt, I'm back!"
After about a few seconds, a figure suddenly rushed out of the inner room, Liang Chen at first glance, it was an aunt with gray hair and old age, it stands to reason that the aunt is only forty or fifty years old, or the age of the prime, but now it seems that she is wearing coarse cloth clothes and pants, her face is thin, and her face is full of wrinkles...... I don't know how much I suffered. Immediately after, an uncle who was also depressed, with reading glasses, walked out of the inner room with a surprised face.
"Liang Zi, his uncle, it's really Liang Zi!"
Looking at the teary-eyed aunt, Liang Chen had tears in his eyes and squeezed out a slight smile: "Uncle, aunt, I'm Liangzi, I'm back!"
"It's good to be back! It's good to be back!"
The uncle grabbed Liang Chen's hand, and his voice was so excited that his voice was a little hoarse, and then he angrily reprimanded the aunt on the side: "It's all you! I had to let Liang Zi go to the outside world to wander in the first place, who knew that it would be so many years to leave!"
In response to her uncle's reprimand, the aunt only cried in a muffled voice, but did not say a word.
Liang Chen immediately smiled and said: "Auntie is still far-sighted, as the saying goes, a good man's ambition is always much better than nesting in a poor ravine, hehe! Uncle, are you all doing now?"
Hearing this, the uncle smiled and nodded: "We have been fine all these years, and Liang Jing has also been admitted to graduate school, all are fine!"
"What's good?!Liu Bawang has been bullied to the house, this is still good?!"
How did I know that my aunt was still as violent as ever, and immediately said to Liang Chen: " Liangzi, you don't know what kind of life we have been living all these years, there is a Liu Bawang in the neighboring village, who oppresses us honest villagers every year, your uncle is a stewed winter melon, and he doesn't dare to squeak when he encounters anything, no, the next door, your Uncle Niu, was called for debts by that Liu Bawang two days ago, and he was beaten if he couldn't pay it, and now he can't get out of bed for debt collection, and he can only drink some gruel every day to continue his life, there is no good harvest in this ravine, plus natural and man-made disasters, how can I live this day......!
"Uncle, what did Auntie just say?"
Liang Chen thought about it in amazement, as if he hadn't heard that there was a person named Liu Bawang in this gourd ditch.
The uncle smiled bitterly and said, "Your aunt is also talkative, in fact, you finally came back this time, so you shouldn't tell you about these short things in the family." The Liu Bawang that your aunt said just now is Liu Biao from the next village, Liu Biao was caught stealing things outside in the early years, and then sentenced to a few years, after coming back, he gathered some second-rate people to bully the villagers all day long, and gradually the villagers gave him a nickname Liu Bawang. ”
"Oh, but no matter how powerful this Liu Biao is, as long as all the villagers work together, they will still be able to avoid being bullied by him. ”
Liang Chen pondered for a moment, and said again: "Unless you have any shortcomings in his hands, you can make him unscrupulous!"
The uncle sighed deeply, nodded and said: "If you want to talk about shortcomings, it is really a shortcoming, we mountain people all make a living by planting mountain goods, and the real grain harvest is not much." However, Liu Biao took aim at the persimmons that we people planted in the mountains, and every time they were ripe, they had to charge a management fee, saying that they were protecting these mountain goods from being stolen. ”
"The villagers all said that they were hurt by this Liu Bawang, and they collected so many persimmons every year, and the purchase price was low, and sometimes they may not be able to sell them, and when they sold for a little money, they were robbed by Liu Bawang, and the rest was not enough for us to make a living, alas!"
It is rare that the aunt, who has always been strong, even sighed at this time.
"It turned out that the idea was made from the mountain goods, no wonder you are helpless!"
Liang Chen looked at his uncle and then at his aunt: "I don't know how much 'management fee' our family has to pay to that Liu Biao every year?
"We planted 16 acres of persimmons, and we have to pay 1,600 yuan a year, and Liu Biao charges a management fee at the price of 100 yuan per mu. Our persimmons this year bear less, and they can't be sold when they are pulled out, and they can't get the money out of their hands to hand over to Liu Biao, everyone has not seen the money, but Liu Biao doesn't care, he has to let every household pay the management fee, and if he doesn't pay, he will make trouble, alas, everyone is afraid!"
The uncle pointed to the kerosene lamp on the side, and said: "No, now every family is poorer than anyone, they dare not use electricity, and they secretly eat a little coarse grain every day...... Alas!"