While Wang Jicai and his wife were talking, the door of the house opened with a "bang". Their two sons returned.

The old couple was stunned for a moment, and Wang Jicai thought to himself: "This is not a New Year's Day, what are you doing when you come back? Maybe these two beasts won't be able to get along again." ”

Wang Jicai's wife asked, "Children, have you eaten?"

The brothers said in unison, "No, they are dying of hunger!"

Wang Jicai's wife immediately said: "Mom will cook for you!"

Wang Jicai took advantage of the light to observe, and when he saw that his two sons looked down, he felt bad. I didn't want to ask any more, so I continued to smoke a cigarette. I thought to myself: "Ahem! These two unfortunate brutes made it difficult to study hard in school, and they skipped school twice in three days. Let me work, I am too lazy to move. And the girl wanted to learn but didn't let her learn, so she was forced to drop out of school, cough!

Since the brothers Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu went out to work, they have gone to several places one after another, but they can't find a job they like, and most of them are miscellaneous at construction sites, such as moving bricks, carrying steel bars, carrying ash bags, mixing cement, carrying ash buckets, and so on. It's very hard to earn a lot of money. They are only given a salary of 2,000 yuan a month, and they still can't be paid immediately after finishing their work, and they have to wait a long time to get it. If they leave halfway through, they won't be paid.

They changed three places in succession, all of them were the same, they really couldn't stand it, and finally the brothers discussed it or they had the cheekiness to try to find Dabao, if they didn't accept it, it would be good if they didn't accept it. So the two of them ran back in the car.

At breakfast the next day, they said to Wang Jicai, "Dad, let's go find Dabao!"

"Huh?" Wang Jicai was stunned when he heard this, and asked again for most of the day: "Are you saying that you are going to go to Shandi Village to find Dabao?"

At this time, Wang Jicai's wife also came over, and she also looked at his two sons blankly, noncommittal?

Wang Jicai was stunned and thought for a long time, and he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't make up his mind whether he should let them go or shouldn't let them go? If they were stopped and not allowed to go, neither of them would have the ability, and they would never be allowed to starve to death!

After thinking for a long time, he said: "You guys can do it!"

This is the first time in Wang Jicai's life that he has said a word without an idea.

Wang Jicai's wife hurriedly said: "If you want to go, you can't go empty-handed, you are his own uncle, you have to get something to eat." Regardless of success or not, first go to recognize your relatives, talk a little, see what people's attitudes are, if people don't recognize you, don't accept you, don't change your face immediately, after all, it's our family that is not doing well, leaving a way back. In case someone agrees to ask you for a while, the door is still open. ”

The eldest son, Wang Hongbing, asked: "Mom, what do you bring to other people? They are factory directors, do they still have a little food for our family?"

Wang Jicai's wife said: "Mom remembers that when Dabao was a child, your sister led her to our house, and she liked to eat the fried twist flowers that her mother made for him, and every time he came, he made a fuss and said: 'Grandma, I want to eat fried twist flowers!' At that time, there was a shortage of white noodles, so I made a little for the child." He was eating happily. I think mom will make him some fried twist flowers this time, and you can bring them to him. After Wang Jicai's wife finished speaking, she raised her sleeves and wiped her eyes. I went to make fried twist flowers.

After a while, Wang Jicai's wife came over to his two sons and said: "That's it, you go early tomorrow morning, I'll make the fried twist for you today, you just came back, wash up today, go out for a haircut, dress up a little more energetically, people are now the factory director, not a big treasure when you were a child, pay attention." ”

Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu glanced at each other and felt that what their mother said was right, so they went out to get a haircut.

When they got up early the next morning, Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu each changed into new clothes, had breakfast, wiped their mouths, took the fried twist flowers prepared by his mother, and rode a bicycle to the village at the bottom of the mountain.

Three hours later, the two of them arrived at the bottom of the mountain. After entering the village, they slowly searched the village with the memories of their childhood. At this time, there were very few people in the village, and most of them went to work in the Dabao factory, leaving some old people who were too old to walk and couldn't go out.

They remember coming to the hillside village a few times with their sister as children. What they remember most is that there is a small stream at the bottom of the hill, there is a row of tall poplar trees on the side of the stream, and a small stone bridge is erected over the stream.

Wang Hongbing said: "I remember when I was a child, my second sister led us, crossed the stone bridge over the river, and arrived at a street in the village. ”

So the two brothers pushed two carts into the middle of the street, and after looking for a long time, they saw that there was a path to the north, so they pushed the cart along the path to the north, and then turned left, and they looked.

Wang Hongbing pointed to a house deep in an alley on the left and said, "This is it, that's right, it's here!" So, the two began to feel a little worried in their hearts, pushing the car one after the other, and walked to the gate nervously.

The two of them looked carefully around the yard, looking for their childhood memories. Wang Hongbing said: "There is no change, it is exactly the same as the one I saw when I was a child, the gate is still the same as the gate, and the same is true in the yard, there is an old locust tree in the yard, yes, it is here." ”

Wang Hongyu said: "Do you remember, one year we came, and we saw that there was a magpie nest in the tree, and you had to climb up to dig out the birds' eggs, and the second sister called you down, afraid that you would fall from the tree and fall." ”

At this moment, an old man staggered over, and the "horn" on the ground with a cane in his hand sounded. The old man walked around, took a look, and saw that the two of them were strangers, and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

The brothers replied, "We have come to find the great treasure."

The old man said slowly: "Dabao doesn't live here. ”

The two brothers were anxious, and asked, "Where is he going to live now?"

The old man didn't answer their questions, then squinted his eyes and looked at them for a long time, and asked, "What are you looking for Dabao?"

The two brothers were at loggerheads for a long time, because they did not know how to answer the old man's question. The old man is suspicious of them. Because the old man had already found out that the two of them were looking around at the door of Dabao's house, he came to interrogate them, but the two of them couldn't talk about it.

So the old man glared at him, gasped for breath, and blew up the beard on his lips, and then said, "You are from the ironworks, aren't you?"

Because the two brothers had just returned from working in other places, and they did not know where the ironworks were, and they did not know what had happened, they thought that the old man would be troubled, and they thought that they would simply leave the old man in a perfunctory manner, so they replied, "Ah......hh Yes, yes!"

However, they never expected that before they could finish their answer, the old man with the white beard raised his cane and hit them on the head......! You brutes who eat human flesh and drink human blood!

These two people didn't know the truth, thinking that this was a crazy old man, so they turned around and ran, but they didn't expect the old man to shout while chasing and beating: "Come on! People from the iron factory have come to the village to make trouble! Kill them!"

As soon as the old man shouted like this, the old men and old ladies of each family rushed out of the courtyard with sticks, shovels, and poles, and chased and beat the two brothers, and chased them all over the streets.

The old man, the old lady, the women, and the children each had a weapon at home, including a rolling pin, a kitchen knife, and a burning stick, and some of them rushed out of the yard with a hard broom in the yard before they had time to find a weapon, and ran out of the street to chase and intercept the two people who claimed to be the ironworks.

Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu were not familiar with the terrain, so they panicked and went to the cattle pen of a family on the street, and the whole village beat around this cattle pen, some threw bricks and tiles into it, some threw bad shoes and socks, and many people reached into all kinds of tools to probe and beat, they hid in the corner, and people found long wooden poles and poked them hard, so scared that they kept calling "Ji Li Wow"!

At this time, some of the young men who were on the night shift were also woken up, and they ran over, and when they saw that the two men from the ironworks had reached the cattle pen, they rushed in, and pressed them upside down on the cow dung, and shouted, "Find two ropes!"

After a while, someone ran and sent two thick hemp ropes, and these young men tied up the two of them, and then dragged them up, and when Wang Hongbing and the two brothers got up from the cow dung, their mouths were full of sticky cow dung.

Wang Hongbing cried and pleaded: "We are Dabao's uncle!"

A young man scolded, "I'm still your uncle!" and continued: "Go, send these two spies from the iron factory to the factory and hand them over to the security department!"

So a large group of people tied up Brother Wang Hongbing and sent them to the factory security department, and the security department began to interrogate, and the two people proposed to meet Liu Dabao. So the chief of the security section went up to the factory director's office on the fifth floor to report to the factory director.