Chapter 132: On the Road
Weekend.
Guan Hongda's family sat in the Guan Yunshan jeep and walked along the main road to the northwest of Yunze City.
Today is Guan Hongda's brother-in-law Pang Wenhai's 80th birthday, and their family is going to celebrate Pang Wenhai's birthday today.
Pang Wenhai has now been out of prison for three or four years, when he arrived home, his two sons and a daughter ignored him, Guan Xiaojun's aunt Guan Hongqiao took a stick to knock him out of the house, and finally the neighbors dissuaded him and let him go home.
In the more than 30 years that Pang Wenhai has been away from home, Guan Hongqiao has been pulling the three children in the family by himself, which is really difficult.
When Pang Wenhai was there, he was majestic and took care of the whole village, and later when he started to fight the landlord, the villagers were grateful for Pang Wenhai's kindness, but they didn't do anything excessive to Guan Hongqiao's mother and son, and no one bullied them.
But there are no man-made disasters, natural disasters are continuous, in the early sixties, the great famine in China, the entire Yunze area, many people starved to death, Guan Hongqiao really had no choice, so he sent the eldest son of the three children to Guan Hongda's house to live, and the second son stayed by his side to feed.
She is a woman with small feet, unable to do heavy work, and it is difficult to do farm work well.
At that time, Guan Hongda's family was also very poor, but his sister's family didn't even have a laborer, although he was in difficulty, he still placed his nephew at home to take care of him.
Pang Wenhai's two sons, the eldest son is called Pang Shilong, the second son is called Pang Shihu, and the daughter is called Pang Shihua.
Pang Shilong is more than ten years older than Guan Yunshan, and when he lived in Guan Hongda's house, Guan Yunshan was not yet born. Pang Shihu and Pang Shihua are also much older than Guan Yunshan.
The eldest Pang Shilong lived in the Guandi Temple until he was seventeen years old, and then returned to his home in Pangjiazhuang.
It can be said that although Guan Hongda is Pang Shilong's uncle, he is actually half a father, if Guan Hongda had not taken him in, Pang Shilong would have starved to death.
When Pang Shilong got married, he had no money to build a house, so Guan Hongda was in charge, and directly pulled out 30,000 bricks from the brick kiln factory of the brigade and sent them to Pangjiazhuang. At that time, the brick kiln factory was still a brigade, and it had not yet been taken down by Guan Hongda, and Guan Hongda made this move at that time, which was actually a great risk.
If someone denounces it, Guan Hongda will inevitably have to suffer a lot, but fortunately, Guan Hongda is popular, and this matter was suppressed by him, and it was not until the first two years that the 5,000 yuan brick money was returned to the brigade.
This kindness, Pang Shilong will never forget it for the rest of his life and has always remembered it in his heart.
Later, after Guan Hongda died, Pang Shilong went to Guan Xiaojun's house to kowtow to Guan Xiaojun's grandmother Wang Xinfeng every Chinese New Year, until he was in his seventies, and he had to kowtow to his aunt on crutches.
After Pang Wenhai came out of prison, he came to Guan Hongda's house as soon as possible, and he had to kowtow to Guan Hongda to thank him, but he couldn't stop him.
Only those who have experienced famine know how difficult it was for Guan Hongda to take in his nephew in the first place.
Pang Wenhai knew, that's why he kowtowed to Guan Hongda and thanked him.
Now Pang Wenhai's 80th birthday, in the countryside, the 80th birthday is very important, so it is called a big birthday.
Guan Hongda attached great importance to it, so he led his family to congratulate him on his birthday. And after some old people in Guandimiao Village knew about it, they also spontaneously wanted to express it.
Now Guan Yunshan's jeep is followed by a jeep and a Wuling tractor, the jeep is driven by Guan Shanhu, and the one who pulls Guan Yunshan's godfather Kong Lianshun and a few old men is driving the tractor behind, and this car is given to him by Guan Yunshan.
Guan Yuntang is Guan Yunshan's cousin, he is not tempered than Guan Yunshan, and he likes to cause trouble the most, but he has a very good relationship with Guan Yunshan.
Guan Yuntang is the first to be righteous, although he has a bad temper, he is enthusiastic, his heart is not bad, and he is secretly instructed by Hongda, this village party secretary is decent.
Now in the bucket of the Wuling tractor he drives, there are more than a dozen old people, these old people are people who received Pang Wenhai's kindness back then, and when they learned of his 80th birthday, they wanted to go to celebrate his birthday with Guan Yunshan's family.
Guan Yunshan originally wanted to let these old people sit in his jeep, but they refused, and now on a hot day, it is not cool in the jeep, it is better to blow the wind in the bucket of the tractor.
A roof sewn from fertilizer bags was erected on the bucket of the tractor to shield it from the sun. The old man in the car, sitting in the bucket of the car, talking with a fan in his hand, was also happy.
Pangjiazhuang is in the northwest corner of Yunze City, five or six miles away from Yunze City, but it is almost more than forty miles away from Guandimiao Village.
Guan Yunshan's car was walking in the head, and he was driving, when he saw a person pulling a cart in front of him standing in the middle of the road and waving his hand, signaling the car to stop.
Guan Xiaojun was sitting in the co-pilot, and when he saw the person in front of him, he couldn't help but be very curious, this person was wearing a suit and tie, big scalp shoes under his feet, and white hair, he was a well-dressed old man.
This old man's outfit is not outdated even after 30 years, and he looks like a successful person, which is even more rare in this era, and even the mayor is not as decent as he wears.
But just such an old man, at this time, he pulled a board car and walked in the middle of the road, how to look at how uncoordinated, the style of painting is extremely wrong.
Not to mention that Guan Xiaojun was curious, even Guan Yunshan was also interested, seeing that the old man waved to stop the car, he stopped the car and poked his head out of the window, "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"
The old man pulling the cart was sweating profusely, panting, and his face was annoyed, "Oh, don't mention it!
He parked the cart on the side of the road and walked towards Guan Yunshan's car, "Are you going to Pangzhuang?
Guan Yunshan looked embarrassed, "Uncle, it's no problem for me to carry you, I can't pull your car." ”
"I don't want the car!"
Although this old man speaks the dialect of the Yunze region, he is mixed with a strong Hong Kong and Taiwan accent, "Unlucky, I didn't expect to go home and make it like this!"
Guan Hongda, who was sitting in the car, opened the car door and walked out, looked at the old man in a suit and leather shoes, the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became, and shouted tentatively: "Wenshan?"
The old man on the opposite side was shocked, and looked at Guan Hongda in surprise, "Ou Yo, who are you?
Guan Hongda was overjoyed and said loudly: "Wenshan, you are not dead yet, when did you come back?"
The old man on the opposite side looked puzzled, his eyes widened, he looked at Guan Hongda's face carefully, and couldn't help but search for familiar characters in the past from his mind, and suddenly remembered something, stretched out his hand and pointed at Guan Hongda, his mouth trembled, "Hongda! You are Guan Hongda! Are you alive too?"
He shouted, tears in his eyes, "Yes, I'm Pang Wenshan, I'm back!"