There is an old locust tree in the east of the village, which is famous far and near in this part of Xiangyin.

According to Jiang Han's grandfather Jiang Hedi, since he was a child, Ke Laohuai is what he is today, the two of them hugging each other are not within reach, and the rhizomes are bearded, which is magnificent.

Now seventy years have passed in a flash, but Lao Huai is still the same as he was at the beginning, and he has not changed much.

And the name of the village is also named after this tree, which is called Laohuai Village!

It was August, and across the old Jianghan, I saw that the old locust was green like a cover, and the faint fragrance of locust trees was overflowing, which was intoxicating.

"The blue-faced Dou Erdun steals the royal horse, the red-faced Guan Gongzhan Changsha, the yellow-faced Dian Wei and the white-faced Cao Cao, and the black-faced Zhang Fei chirps ......!"

"What a ......!"

Far away, Jiang Han heard a noise under the old locust tree, in addition to a rather old voice, there are some young children's voices, from time to time there is a cheerful cry of clapping the little hands, followed by bursts of joyful and immature laughter, the old locust is full of vitality and green shade, and the old locust tree is a childish child, enjoying the family.

"Hehe, Old Man Mo, it's very trendy!"

Jiang Han approached, only to see a rattan chair placed under the old huai, on the rattan chair sat an elder over half a hundred years old, surrounded by seven or eight five, six or seven years old children, one by one sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking at the old man with a happy smile on his face!

The old man was dressed in blue short sleeves, sitting comfortably on a rattan chair, tapping his index finger lightly, and originally intended to sing a few more words, but he was attracted by Jiang Han's words and looked at it!

"It turned out to be a kid from the Jiang family, there is no way, in this era, my old man has to keep up with the trend, otherwise he won't be able to live!"

The old man's surname is Mo, he has no children and no daughters, and the specific title Jiang Han is not clear, but this old man, not to mention it, is an outlier in Laohuai Village.

In Laohuai Village, when every household lived in a brick house with green bricks and green tiles, only this old man guarded a few thatched houses and refused to move.

If it is said that he has limited economic conditions and cannot afford to build a brick house, it is fine, but when the township government proposed to him to build a few brick houses for free in response to the call from above, he was refused!

The beautiful name said: "There are tens of millions of mansions in Ande, and the cold people in the world are happy, and it is enough for me to be alone and freeze to death!" ”

This is the old man's original words in rejecting the township government, which can be described as full of poverty and sourness, so that some leaders of the township government rolled their eyes, turned around and left, and were stunned that they did not have the heart of consolation.

At this moment, the old man's reputation is out, and since then, no one has been bored with him under the banner of caring for the elderly, and the old man himself can be happy and quiet, that is, guarding those few broken grass houses, every day is to tease children under this old Huai, shaking the Beijing accent, for decades, watching the rise and fall of this old Huai Village, it can be regarded as self-satisfaction.

In this Laohuai Village, many people think that this old man Mo is pedantic and stupid, and no one wants to get close to him, but only Jiang Han's grandfather Jiang Hedi contacted this old man Mo, and the two can be regarded as intersecting.

As for Jiang Han, he has even more respect for this old man Mo.

Smiling at the old man, Jiang Han didn't speak, walked over silently, and handed the Hongta Mountain and Fenjiu in his hand to the old man!

The old man glanced up at Jiang Han and didn't reach out to pick it up.

"Leave the wine, leave the cigarette to the old scalper at home, I still want to live a few more years!"

"Okay!"

Jiang Han honestly put the Fenjiu next to the rattan chair, and then put Hongtashan back in his pocket.

"It's not a good cigarette or a good drink, it's good if the old man doesn't dislike it!"

Jiang Han didn't think that this old man's words were inappropriate in the slightest.

"You don't have to bring me these things every time in the future, your old scalper has been red with me for a long time, and I don't know how many times I've chattered, scolding you for not being a thing, saying that you are a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised and turns your elbow out!"

Jiang Han smiled at the old man on the rattan chair, and didn't answer, compared to the old scalper at home who always had a rigid face, Jiang Han preferred to stay with this old Huai Village outlier, and he can be regarded as half of Jiang Han's master!

Seeing that the old man stopped singing, the children under Lao Huai felt bored, and soon walked away in twos and threes, and after a while, only Jiang Han and Old Man Mo were left under Lao Huai!

"These days of wandering, without the protection of that old scalper, you should know that the rivers and lakes are sinister, and people's hearts are unpredictable~!"

The old man drank a few sips of Fenjiu, and there was a hint of redness on his yellow cheeks.

"The rivers and lakes are sinister and unpredictable, I have known this since the first day I followed the old man into the rivers and lakes, but it is just ......"

"Just what?"

The old man's eyes froze, and then he was relieved, staring at Jiang Han with a smile, as if he was quite promisingly for his next words.

"It's just that the degree of unpredictability of people's hearts makes me chill!"

"Hehe~~!"

Old Man Mo smiled, and then took a few sips, and drank all the Fenjiu in the bottle. The old man exhaled a breath of wine and returned the bottle in his hand to Jiang Han.

"What's next? Continue to follow the old ox around wandering around with no fixed place? ”

"He said let me go to study, college, in Yanling!"

Jiang Han was expressionless, as if he was telling something that had nothing to do with him, and the person in his mouth was not his grandfather Jiang Hedi, but Jiang Wenxuan, who was his father in terms of blood relationship!

"Reading?!"

The old man reclining on the rattan chair was slightly stunned, and then laughed!

"What a river, what a Jiang Wenxuan! Everyone in the world is to read first, and then to be a man, although there is no fault, but it is inevitable to lose spirituality, it is difficult to become a talent, and the two of your family are painstaking and ingenious, first to be a man and then to read, a shortcut to Nanshan, can still be expected! ”

Jiang Han was silent, noncommittal to the judgment of the old man on the rattan chair, and did not respond.

"Old man, it's time for me to go!"

"Let's go, let's go! If you don't leave, the old scalper will rush over with a knife! ”

The old man waved his hand at Jiang Han, his eyes closed slightly, he reclined on the rattan chair to rest, and motioned for Jiang Han to leave.

Jiang Han glanced at the old man again, and then turned around and walked towards the home that was close at hand.

When Jiang Han walked away, the old man's closed eyes on the rattan chair opened slightly, and under the sunlight, he narrowed into a slit.

Looking at Jiang Han's already somewhat vague back, the old man said to himself: "What a person's heart is cold, and the son of the human dragon is a mole, I am afraid that there are some jackals and earth dogs, and it will be difficult to sleep!" ”

……

In the courtyard of the Jiang family, there is a reclining chair in the bright sun-dried valley flat, and an old man with a shiny head and a short and sturdy body is lying on it with his eyes squinted and closed, holding an old smoking gun in his hand, pulling it back into his mouth from time to time and pulling a few mouthfuls, spitting out a few smoke rings, leisurely.

That is Jiang Han's grandfather, known as the river of scalpers!

Jiang Han cautiously walked past the rattan chair, his strength was contained, and his steps were silent, wanting to pass the test in confusion.

"Why, I didn't say a word when I left, and I don't plan to say anything when I come back now!"

Jiang Han's face was shocked, his face froze, he knew that his self-deceptive evasion plan had failed!

"How come, I left you a note when I left, didn't you see it?"

Jiang Han sneered.

"It must have been swept away by the wind! Then you can't blame me, I left a note, you can't see it......"

Jiang Han snorted for a while, gagging with the old man on the rattan chair, trying to fool around.

The old man didn't speak, he was smoking a cigarette gun in his mouth, and his originally closed eyes were staring at Jiang Han indifferently at the moment, leaving him alone to talk to himself.

After a long time, Jiang Han felt more and more that the atmosphere was wrong, so he closed his mouth and admonished, but he stood in the distance, not daring to speak again.

"Finished?"

Jiang Han didn't answer, lowered his head and didn't dare to reply.

Now that you're done, let me say a few words.

"Why go to Star City? What have you done in the past month or so? ”

The old man's face was condensed, and he was not angry!

Jiang Han didn't speak, it could gag in front of Aunt Ji, and it could speak freely in front of Old Man Na Mo without scruples, but now, he didn't dare.

"Are you unwilling?!"

The old man jumped up from the rattan chair, like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests, there was no twilight atmosphere of the ancient years, the old man's slightly closed eyes were as round as steel balls at the moment, his eyes were like torches, and he was staring at Jiang Han deadly!

As soon as the old man asked this, Jiang Han's body immediately shook, and his face turned red. He clenched his silver teeth, clenched his fists, and was unprecedentedly excited, and it could be seen that the old man's words stimulated him a lot!

"You're not reconciled!?"

The old man reprimanded again, his voice was louder than before, which was tantamount to a slap in the face for Jiang Han!

"Are you willing?"

Jiang Han also raised his head suddenly, his eyes were covered with red bloodshots, his face was full of stubbornness, and he burst out.

"If you are willing, you should let me live the life of ordinary people honestly and step by step all these years, and you will not let go of the comfortable life of raising your days in the past twenty years, but take me around!"

"If you were willing, ten years ago, you wouldn't have let the man who was pointed at his nose and scolded for his little white face enter this house!"

"If you are willing, you will not let go of your old face that is heavier than anything else over the years, and beg for people everywhere with a shy face!"

"If you were willing, you wouldn't have slapped me in front of people ten years ago......"

The old man asked knowingly, while Jiang Han asked himself a rhetorical question.

Jiang Han, whose eyes were already bloodshot, couldn't speak anymore at this time. This young man who was on the verge of dying ten years ago and never shed a single tear, this young man who refused to bow his head after being slapped by his grandfather with a mouthful of blood, at this moment, his eyes were red and full of mist.

He was fearless in the face of the iron-blooded horse Qin Mufeng, and he was fearless in the face of the poisonous killer, but now, he was wronged!