Jian Fan was a little uncertain, holding the peach pit returned by the old man in his hand, staring at it without blinking, for fear of missing any details, he consciously aimed the micro-recording device in his chest pocket at the grandfather and grandson, sometimes people's memory is limited after all, and it is impossible to say word for word in the past, and record the scene The habit that Jian Fan developed when he was a policeman is too much, but sometimes it can really come in handy.

Zhang Cripple also came out to join in the fun, and took out the dirty jar and bowl, and enthusiastically went to the water, but at the same time, no one dared to move his mouth, and they all stared at Zhang Xiaoju and Zhang Lao's strange exchange between the grandfather and grandson, the gestures were two, and the sound coming out of his mouth was some syllables that he couldn't understand, but Zhang Xiaoju was half gesturing and half mouth, which made Jian Fan think of something, that is, normal people can understand each other's words by reading their lips without listening, it seems that there is no problem with the communication between this deaf and dumb old man and his grandson.

Leaning slightly, Zhang Xiaoju turned around and said: "My grandfather said, this is the peach pit of Shuangfeng Mountain, which is heavy, round and wear-resistant, but now it is gone, and when the steel was smelted in five or eight years, the mountains were cut bald." ”

Jian Fan smiled, smiled knowingly, Shuangfeng Mountain is not far from Zaoshugou, Zeng Nan also knows the origin, and naturally he is also happy with the shape, seeing Jian Fan stretching out his hand, knowing what Jian Fan wants, flipping through the Kun bag he carried, he picked two of them in a large stack of papers.

It's a posthumous portrait, a posthumous portrait painted by Jian Lieshan to his parents with his memory, handed it to the old man, and told Zhang Xiaoju, ask your grandfather, do you know each other.

This sentence doesn't need to be turned over, the old man already knows what to do, holding the two portraits, looking at them carefully, and looking at them for a long time before comparing them with his grandson Zhang Xiaoju, after the comparison, Jian Fan, Zeng Nan, and Xiao Chenggang couldn't wait to look at Zhang Xiaoju. waited for the following, but unexpectedly, this thing's eyes were high and low, and he asked a rhetorical question: "Who are you asking my father, what is he doing?"

"Oh, a friend of our descendants, this man, the father of my friend, who commissioned me to find him and his father's deceased. Jian Fan's nonsense came as soon as he opened his mouth, pointing to Jian Yicheng's portrait and explaining, as if he was afraid that he would leak his mouth, not saying this person's name, just waiting for the following, Zhang Xiaoju asked his grandfather for a long time, and turned around and gave Jian Fan a simple and sharp sentence: "My grandfather said, I know, he is dead." ”

"What about this woman?" Jian Fan asked Zhang Xiaoju again.

As soon as Zhang Xiaoju asked his grandfather, Zhang Laozhuan said a few words, and when he turned around, Zhang Xiaoju said again: "My grandfather said that he also knew him, and he must be dead." ”

You want to ask what happened, he told you the result, Jian Fan slapped his head in an instant, and suddenly realized that there was a problem with his question, Xiao Chenggang, who was sitting on the side, slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, yo," If you don't kill me in a hurry, who doesn't know that you're dead. ”

"Huh, you're a person, are you still asking when you're dead?" Zhang Xiaoju glared at Xiao Chenggang, choked Xiao Chenggang didn't know how to have a seizure, so angry that he simply got up and walked around the yard, Jian Fan was not in a hurry, took Zhang Xiaoju's hand and said with a smile: Brother Xiaoju. Ask your lord what his name is, why die, I want to know about these two people, "In this way, don't you want to get a thousand yuan by impersonating a name, just order, don't you want the 100 just now, how about giving you another 1,000?

When Zhang Cripple heard this amount, he was stunned, Zhang Xiaoju's eyes were bright, and he looked at Jian Fan in disbelief, Jian Fan added with a smile: "I am stunned to send money from village to village, as long as it is a descendant of Zaoshugou or someone who knows about Zaoshugou, I will send a thousand." ”

Zeng Nan was stunned for a moment, and almost laughed again, but following Jian Fan's words to persuade Zhang Xiaoju, he directly opened the Kun bag and counted the top ten sheets, now Zhang Xiaoju has no doubts, no words, squatting in his grandfather and following Lian Bi's hair with a mouth, Jian Fan asked, the old man gestured and said, Zhang Ju said in a while:

"My father said, Jian Lang, this is his wife, Nanling Bridge's mother's family" When he drove to Wang Laocai, the landlord of Liangzhuang, he often bumped into the merchant on the road, and sometimes he carried goods and land"

"My grandfather said that when he was twenty years old, the family made a new mule cart, and the merchant and the old ghost of Xiaoliang Village, the pole, and a few babies in Shuntang sold mountain goods to Shaanxi, and was caught by the Japanese devils halfway to repair the bunker, and then never came back, so he escaped from the family of Shuntang, but he didn't come back, and he went as a soldier, oh, my father said, he should be a soldier of the Kuomintang, and his family was killed in five years,"

"My grandfather said, he remembered" The merchant's daughter-in-law is called Yin'e, and this woman looks a bit like "The old man died outside for a few years and didn't know, or he didn't know until he came back with a letter, and then Niangren couldn't live, so he sent the big baby to the city as an apprentice, that is, "it was the year when he beat the Japanese devils..."

As soon as he heard the words "Niangren" and "Dawa as an apprentice", Jian Fan's chest rose and fell extremely, and he almost gasped for breath to make a sound, this strange expression startled Zhang Xiaoju, and he was stunned on the ground with a stunned mouth, probably looking at Jian Fan like a precursor to madness.

"Oh, it's okay, you keep asking, by the way, ask your grandfather, do you remember these two babies?" Jian Fan asked as if in disguise, secretly breathing a long sigh of relief. I haven't been stabbed by the police for a long time, and I can't control my emotions anymore, in fact, not only him, but even Xiao Chenggang can't control it, standing aside and staring at the old man who is talking, with a look of disbelief.

Leaning slightly, Zhang Xiaoju said another sentence like thunder, and looked back at Jian Fan: "My grandfather said." I haven't seen a mountain baby who went into the city as an apprentice, but I've seen the second donkey baby. ”

Zeng Nan's hand shook, he fell straight on the stone platform with the banknote in his hand, and looked at Jian Fan a little dumbfounded, he was really surprised, he really found a witness in this inconspicuous place, knowing this donkey baby, then the next thing is about to come out.

"Ask, how did you see it? When can you say it clearly, don't hide it from you, Zhang Xiaoju, we are looking for this donkey baby. Jian Fan comfortably held the enamel jar on the stone platform, and at this time, he had already forgotten that he was still a little disgusted before, and quietly sipped his saliva. Called Xiao Chenggang to take out a cigarette and lit a branch for the Zhang family, at this time, the old man didn't know whether he recalled the old things and talked about it with a lot of interest, or was touched by the thousand yuan, smoking a cigarette, gesturing from time to time, Zhang Xiaoju turned in unison:

"My father said that in the year when the People's Liberation Army fought Dayuan, the merchant's mother-in-law cried and found Xiaoliangzhuang at his house, at that time my grandfather and his father were still there, and their mother came, so my father took the second child to Dayuan to find his brother Shanwa"

"What? In the fourth or eighth year, your grandfather and Jian Erdonkey were in Dayuan, and there were wars everywhere in that year?" Jian Fan interjected in shock.

Of course Zhang Xiaoju didn't know, he gestured and told his grandfather in a dumb voice, at this time Zhang Cripple could interject, chattering with a cigarette and adding water to Jian Fan, and said with a smile: "My father was a model in front of the branch, and he was also the first group of party members in Jianbao Township" When the People's Liberation Army besieged Dayuan, we were oranges, and the towns and villages all shared tasks. I was a member and a handlebar type, and it was negative at the time, and the mule and horse team of the book towel 7 sent food containing, yes, you waited,"

Jian Fan was not in a hurry, the lame father was in a hurry, and he staggered into the house with a crutch, and in a blink of an eye he came out with something on his hand, an army-green canvas bag, a red lacquer word for serving the people, and an enamel jar with a lot of bumps and injuries when he opened the bag, and the red circle painted a "award" time mark on the book was 1948, and he took a closer look when he put it in Jian Fan's hand. There is also a line of small words "Ohara Liberation Commemoration"

"This was given to my father by the head of the army at that time, and there was a certificate of commendation from the former model. Zhang Cripple said proudly, and Jian Fan looked at the bags and jars that had been preserved for decades. Raising his eyes to see the little color in the old man's eyes, he suddenly understood that this was an honor, an honor that wrote the past, and it was also a precious memory of a person's life, in other words. If it was really that year, I guess the old man would not be mistaken.

So, with incomparable reverence and admiration in his eyes, he gave a thumbs up to the old man and a thumbs up to this grandfather, which made people suddenly feel that it was a feeling of being frightened.

"By the way, Xiaoju, let your grandfather tell you about that year, did you find someone with the donkey baby later?" Jian Fan asked.

Zhang Xiaoju said, and the old man shook his head. I didn't find it, but when I talked about the things of the year, although I couldn't speak, the excitement was still overflowing on my face, waving my hands, my fingers were crossed, and the gestures couldn't catch up with the meaning I wanted to express, so I simply stood up and walked forward, one would be a handlebar-style action, one would be a soldier's posture, and one would be a roaring sound in my mouth, the intensity of expression and expression, even Jian Fan heard half understood, that was about fighting,,

Sure enough, Zhang Xiaoju explained:

"My grandfather said that when the mule and horse team went to the countryside that year, they sent food and vegetables along the way, and they couldn't see the head and the tail after the trip, and they walked for three days and three nights before they arrived in Dayuan" Oh yo, there are soldiers outside the Dayuan, such a long spear, such a thick cannon, and it will start fighting the next day, boom boom every day, Dead people every day, have been fighting for more than half a month, in the area of the cow and camel village, the dead people, pulled out is a row after row, can fill several wheat fields, more and more people died, they sent grain migrant workers have stayed, so the dead soldiers wiped their bodies and wrapped in white cloth "But the sacrifice is panicked, some of the dead people are blown up to half of the people left, and they don't even know who it is" is more than half a year, and then there are more and more migrant workers from all over the country, more than the troops, we take turns to carry fibers, carry explosives, and dig trenches, and we have stayed for more than four months before coming back" Not to mention looking for someone, even the donkey baby was almost killed by a shell

I don't know what kind of emotion filled my mind, a little infarction, the liberation of Dayuan lasted six months, it was the most difficult battle of the National Liberation War, Jian Fan roughly browsed the history of the city before coming, historical records record that the "last battle in North China" Dayuan Battle lasted more than six months, and the PLA who attacked the city suffered more than 40,000 casualties. The said support is also an important aspect of the war, at that time there were 130,000 migrant workers from all over the country, the old man said that this piece of battle is the battle for Wusu Airport, the accurate expression is that the two sides have been tugging for seventeen days and nights, this is the beginning of the liberation of the Great Plains, only in this battle died there are many people.

When the old man finished speaking, his eyes were bright, as if he was reliving that era of blood and fire, and there was not fear in his eyes, but a kind of determination, as if he had just stepped down from the high stage of honor and accepted the reverent gaze of everyone.

Looking at the old man's gray and messy hair, faded and torn blue clothes, and big hands as withered as branches, Jian Fan sighed wordlessly, no matter how humble life is, it has its noble and glorious side, just like the old man in front of him who has experienced the war. It's just that no matter how noble and glorious it is, it will eventually return to the humble side. Just think about the old man's now, no one even remembers the war anymore, who will remember that there was such a migrant worker who once drove a cart and pulled food to the front line!?

"Drink, the water is cold" Jian Fan gently pushed the bowl in front of Zeng Nan, Zeng Nan Xiuzhe's fingers took a sip, and looked at the old man with respectful eyes. Zhang Xiaoju estimated that he had listened to his grandfather tell the story of the war many times, but he didn't feel anything, but he was a little embarrassed to explain the result to Jian Fan: "I didn't find the mountain baby." ”

"What happened later?, what's wrong with the merchant's mother-in-law?" Jian Fan asked softly, Zhang Xiaoju asked the old man with a gesture, but the old man's eyes dimmed, sighed, and wordlessly patted the dust on his body and lowered his head, gesturing something, Zhang Xiaoju said:

"Half a year after I came back, the county came to the task force to liquidate traitors, bandits, reactionaries, spies, etc., the merchant never came back, everyone didn't know the situation at the time, they all said that he was a traitor, and some people said that his eldest baby was also a reactionary in Dayuan, and the merchant's daughter-in-law was so scared that she ran away with the little baby."

Of course, Jian Yicheng is Jian Yicheng, who said that he was a reactionary, that is Jian Lieshan, just asked about the whereabouts of Jian Yicheng's wife, and when he heard that he ran away, Jian Fan's high heart suddenly fell to the bottom, and he repeated in shock: "Run?"

"yes, I ran. Zhang Xiaoju repeated.

"Oh," no wonder no one remembers this couple in the descendants of Zaoshugou. "Did you see her later?" Jian Fan asked.

Zhang Xiaoju asked, leaned back a little and said, "I met once, my father said, "When my father was four years old, he went to the county for a meeting, and on the way home, he met the merchant's daughter-in-law, and pulled him from the township to Houliugou. ”

"Houliugou, isn't there a village in this village?" Jian Fan asked in surprise.

"It's not a village, it's still more than ten miles away from Xiaoliangzhuang, at the foot of the Jade Emperor Mountain. Zhang Xiaoju explained directly.

"I've seen this time in the past few decades, do you remember what she was doing at the time?" Jian Fan asked again.

Zhang Xiaoju turned around and replied: "Well, just this time, my father said that she was about to have a grandson, and bought a pack of needlework at the township supply and marketing cooperative. It's a woman's business. ”

"Daddy Zhang, were you born in that year?" Jian Fan suddenly turned around and asked Zhang Cripple, Zhang Cripple was stunned for a moment, crossed his fingers and made a gesture and said, "Fifty-two years." My dad was talking about five or six years. ”

Oh" , That should be Jian Erdonkey got married and had children, Jian Fan made such a speculation in a flash of inspiration, according to the news provided by Jian Lieshan, he left home to go to Dayuan younger brother was fifteen years old, five or six years have passed eleven years, at this time getting married and having children in the countryside is already a late marriage, I was shocked to think of something, I want the map in Zeng Nan's bag, follow the location of Xiaoliangzhuang, this Xiaoliangzhuang belongs to the hinterland of Jianbao Township, this sail is not very clear at all, like Yin'e Crying The history is not clear, and there are many questions about which generation is a little unreasonable if it is safe and sound。

"Jane, Jane"

Zeng Nan called people, woke up Jian Fan in contemplation, and came to his senses, Zeng Nan's eyes signaled to this grandfather, Jian Fan looked at Zhang Xiaoju and the lame father a little nervously, and looked at him with strange eyes, all of a sudden Jian Fan was stunned, Zeng Nan signaled the money on the table again, Jian Fan suddenly realized, grabbed the money, stuffed it into Zhang Xiaoju's hand, and said endlessly: "Take it...... It's all yours. ”

"Hey, okay, thank you, big brother, thank you, big sister, thank you, big brother" Zhang Ju grabbed the money, bowed one by one, and the lame father was happy to bow, but was quickly stopped by Jian Fan, only the old man who was sitting there, looking at his son and grandson as if he was in a daze, the indescribable complexity in his eyes, when Jian Fan inadvertently saw the old man's eyes in an instant, he was also stunned, but he also understood a little, saying that his son and grandson would be so good in the future, maybe his eyes would be like this.

I was stunned, remembered something, and called Zhang Xiaoju, who was in a hurry, and instructed: "Ask your grandfather, what did the merchant's wife say to your grandmother at that time, I don't think he necessarily remembers" Just ask the merchant's wife at that time whether she was happy or sad? That is to say, look at that time, how was she doing? At that time, a family like her was not good. ”

Zhang Xiaoju didn't need to urge this time, he asked his grandfather directly, and the two of them were gesturing again, and Zhang Xiaoju turned around and said: "My grandfather said, I looked good like that, I wore a new card clothes, and even the burden was embroidered droplets." Better dressed than my grandmother" My grandmother later nagged that my grandfather didn't sell him good clothes, and he saw how comfortable people were living. ”

"What is the card?" Zeng Nan was stunned, there are many new terms encountered in this countryside, and there are too many places that he doesn't understand.

Zhang Buju didn't know how to explain, Jian Fanzhi said casually: "It's really cool, it was a famous brand back then, and you are now wearing Armani to cover up."

Zeng Nan laughed and grimaced embarrassedly at Jian Fan, Xiao Chenggang listened to it for a long time, but he didn't hear it. So of course, this came to Jian Fan: "Hey, this has been for a long time, and I still don't know my whereabouts, but what can I do?"

"That's informative enough. Jian Fan explained to his entourage: "In 42 years, Jian Yicheng went out to sell mountain goods and died outside, and after three years, Niangren couldn't survive, so he sent the boss Jian Shanwa to Dayuan as an apprentice, and when the war started in 48 years, Jian Yicheng's wife was worried about her son again, so that the second Jian and the second donkey followed Uncle Zhang to the front of the Dayuan branch, and looked for his brother by the way, but at that time, the war to liberate Dayuan had started, and it was impossible to find people. The puppet regime and other bad elements such as Xiao Jian Yicheng did not see anyone dead or corpse, which is not clear that there is a historical problem, not to mention that Jian Shanwa really became a soldier of the Kuomintang, so Jian Yicheng's wife and son moved out of Zaoshugou and hid in the fourth or ninth year" , The next is five or six years, Uncle Zhang Lao Lian is a member of the township party, went to the city for a meeting and occasionally met Yin'e in the township, this is eleven years since Jian Shanwa left Zaoshugou and his younger brother is already twenty-six, not only Jian Yicheng's wife remarried, but also her son Jian Erdonkey also married and started a family, which is why Yin'e wants to have a grandson

The intermittent narration was like resolving the clues of the case from oral narration by Jian Fan in an instant, and the context was clearly analyzed, and Zeng Nan and Xiao Chenggang were stunned for a moment when they heard it, this is a very simple thing, but they didn't think about it so clearly, but Xiao Chenggang immediately grabbed Jian Fan's words and asked: "Wait" What kind of remarriage? Uncle Zhang didn't say it?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhang didn't say that he remarried?" Zeng Nan was also surprised!

"You two have long ears and don't have long brains? Wearing really good clothes and going to the township supply and marketing cooperative, it is similar to you driving a BMW to visit the Lufthansa commercial building, and you are very happy to sit in Uncle Zhang's donkey cart" Think about it, if you are a widow's wife, can you have such a good mood and such good financial resources? Good man", and it's one, unlike now when women want to be rich, they have to find several men, hehe. Jian Fan smiled and explained in a joking.

"Cut" does not believe. Zeng Nan said deliberately, even if he was a little persuaded, he still had a hard mouth, Xiao Chenggang was even more unconvinced, rolled his eyes and said: "That's it, guess randomly." ”

"Then guess what she is thinking," Jian Fan asked Xiao Chenggang. Xiao Chenggang was stunned for a moment and was asked, but immediately cross-examined: "You know?"

"Of course I do. Jian Fan smiled, this time he smiled at Zhang Xiaoju, and pointed at Zhang Xiaoju with a smile: "He knows, it's Houliugou." ”

"Where are you in five or six years, and where are you going to look for it?" Zeng Nan was puzzled.

"By the way, we really need to go there. Jian Fan said with relief: "Whether you are here or not, you must go." If it weren't for a trip here today, we would probably have to go around in a big circle, "Hey, Zhang Xiaoju, take us to Houliugou, let your grandfather lead the way, and find the place where the wife of the simple merchant got off the car." ”

"This," I haven't eaten yet, and besides, it's far away. Zhang Xiaoju touched the back of his head, obviously unwilling. However, Jian Fan had a way, and raised a finger again: "How about giving you another thousand? I can't be hungry for you, so I will go back to the township and invite you to the restaurant to eat." ”

This "hehe" or, that Zhang Xiaoju smiled cheekily, obviously tempted, but he didn't ask his grandfather Zhang Laolian, Zhang Laolian had already gotten up, pushed his grandson away, gestured to Jian Fan, and said something vaguely in his mouth, Jian Fan Yile, dare to love that the old man is willing to lead the way, this Zhang Xiaoju hurriedly ran up and stopped the front, and said straight in his mouth: "Let's go," my father agreed to take you. ”

Several people got up and said goodbye to the lame father, and when they went out, Xiao Chenggang led the way in front, Jian Fan asked Zhang Xiaoju with a smile: "Xiaoju, don't think I don't understand, your grandfather means that he is willing to lead the way without giving money." As far as you said, his eyes are bright, his eyes are brighter than anyone else's, and he may be able to understand what I say. ”

"Hehe, my father is too sincere, you can look at it, go all the way, you are embarrassed not to give it at all, right?" Zhang Xiaoju said weakly to Jian Fan with an embarrassed expression.

Zeng Nan was amused, this traitorous grandson is far worse than the old man above, Jian Fan smiled and agreed to the price as usual, the group arrived in front of the pickup truck, and the two rows of seats were not easy to distribute, fortunately, Xiao Chenggang didn't care so much, he sat directly in the car body, arranged the grandfather and grandson in the back seat, a line of five people in a car, and drove towards the place where he finally saw Jian Yicheng's wife", if you want to know what is going on, please log in to the muscle horn, there are more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading

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