Chapter 0024: The Old Man Under the Tree
Thinking that Sun Xiaoli asked me to show the instructor, I just saw the instructor sitting in the jeep at the political mole, does it mean that the instructor will be promoted soon?
If this is really the case, if I had told Sun Xiaoli at the first time, once the instructor became the deputy director of the political mole department, then their husband and wife would not be grateful to me?
But just by looking at my face, I'm afraid it doesn't show my value, I have to think of a way to make the instructor and his wife feel that the instructor has been promoted, and it's all because of me. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
I only thought about this question along the way, so I didn't pay much attention to what Dr. Xie and Senior Secretary were saying.
Senior officers were transferred to the regiment headquarters at the company level, and they were originally instructors in the second company of our battalion, and they were transferred to the regimental headquarters security department as an officer one year before I joined the army. He found a wife in the local area, and it is said that it was because of his wife that he was transferred to the regiment headquarters.
His father-in-law was a member of the revolutionary committee of the county where the regiment headquarters was located, and his wife's name was Wang Hongxia, who was 24 years old this year.
And his wife Gao Hongyan also returned to the county as a family member of the military and became a member of the county propaganda team, which was later changed to a drama troupe.
The father-in-law of the senior officer started as a rebel, and the family lived in the house of the former capitalist, in addition to the building of the two floors, there was a small courtyard outside, although it was not luxurious, but it was enough to show his father-in-law's status in the county.
After the senior officer led us into the courtyard, he first put away the bicycles and then led us into the living room.
Before I walked into the courtyard, I saw a big tree near the edge of the fence, and before I walked into the living room, I looked back and saw an old man leaning on a bamboo chair under the tree, looking like he was in his sixties.
I felt that something wasn't quite right.
First of all, the weather is not hot, and it is not yet summer, how can that old man sit outside under a tree in the evening, and it is still a bamboo sleeping chair, is he not afraid of getting cold at such an old age?
Secondly, judging by his age, he should be the father of the father-in-law of the senior officer, and the current situation of the senior officer is similar to that of the son-in-law, no matter what, he should also call "grandpa" and say hello to the old man, right?
"Hongxia, is the meal ready?" Dr. Xie is here!" The senior officer, who had already entered the living room, shouted towards the kitchen behind.
"Hey, here, here. A delicate-looking, slender woman walked out from behind, it seemed that she was very familiar with Dr. Xie, and greeted Dr. Xie with a smile after seeing him: "Hello Dr. Xie, I heard Xiao Gao say that you are here in the morning, why don't you come to the house for dinner at noon?"
Senior Officer is tall and burly, I didn't expect his wife to be so petite and exquisite, although I can't say one in a hundred, but when I stand next to Senior Officer, I feel that the two of them are a bit like Zhu Bajie and Chang'e.
Dr. Xie smiled, "I was passing through here on a business trip, so I would like to see you by the way." ”
Wang Hongxia glanced at me and asked, "What, this is your son, he is handsome enough!"
Doctor Xie smiled: "No, he is a soldier in the army, and he is going to go on a business trip with me this time." ”
Out of a good impression of Wang Hongxia, and also to give face to the senior officer, I "snapped" and stood upright, and saluted Wang Hongxia with a military salute: "Hello sister-in-law, my name is Zhang Zichen, and I am the clerk of the first battalion headquarters. ”
"Yo, you used to be from the same army as Officer Gao?" Wang Hongxia said: "You sit down first, and the meal will be ready immediately." ”
With that, she turned and ran towards the kitchen.
The senior officer smiled and said to us, "Come, let's sit down first." ”
Doctor Xie looked around at their room and deliberately sighed: "Yes, it's really good to have such a house in the county, how about it, take me around?"
"Oh, okay. ”
Senior Officer took Dr. Xie and me and looked at their rooms one by one.
Their house is very large, upstairs is the room where Wang Hongxia's parents live with her brother, sister-in-law and nephew, there are three rooms in total, downstairs is the house where he and Wang Hongxia live, and there is a house next to it, which is intended for their future children.
They have only been married for a year and have no children yet.
Wang Hongxia's sister-in-law is from Changchun City, and she was also sent here back then, and got married after knowing Wang Hongxia's brother, it is said that her father had just died, and Wang Hongxia's parents and sister-in-law took their two nephews to Changchun to mourn, so only their husband and wife were left at home.
I thought that when I went upstairs and downstairs, there didn't seem to be the old man outside, and when the senior officer introduced the family, he didn't introduce the old man, right......
When we came down from the second floor, I hurried to the door of the living room, looked under the tree in the courtyard, and thought: The old man and the nightbed will not disappear into thin air, will they?
I stepped out of the living room and saw that the old man was still there.
After a while, Senior Officer and Dr. Xie also walked to the door, and Senior Officer introduced: "This house used to belong to a capitalist in this county, and my father-in-law worked as a worker in his factory before liberation, and later he was executed, because my mother-in-law worked as a maid in his house, and this house was given to my father-in-law." ”
I paid special attention to the performance of Senior Officer and Dr. Xie, and found that their eyes also swept over the big tree and the old man under the tree, but the two of them seemed to be unaware of it, and completely ignored the existence of the old man.
I wondered in my heart: Could it be that scene in the instructor's house was repeated? This old man was the same as the female ghost in the kimono, and I was the only one who could see it?
When I think about this, I can't help but feel a little creepy.
The instructor explained that no matter what I saw, I couldn't say anything, so I didn't dare to ask them, but I was a little unwilling, so I said, "Senior officer, this big tree is so good, if it is summer, the whole family can sit down and enjoy the shade." ”
The senior officer smiled: "Haha, do you think this place is like your south? Even in summer, it is very cool, you see that every household in our family doesn't even have a fan or anything, and they still need to cool off under the tree?"
I haven't experienced summer here, so I don't know the situation here, and after listening to the explanation, I think the old man is a little weird.
This is Wang Hongxia bringing out the food from the kitchen, and at the same time shouted: "Come, Doctor Xie, Xiao Zhang, come to the table to eat." By the way, Xiao Gao, you take out the old white gan in your father's room, Dr. Xie is rare to visit, and you have to take a good drink at night. ”
"Good. ”
The senior officer turned around and ran upstairs, and Wang Hongxia walked into the kitchen again.
Dr. Xie asked me in a low voice, "Have you noticed anything unusual?"
I shook my head and said, "No." ”
At this moment, I saw the old man get up from the bed, and like the female ghost in the kimono, he turned around and walked towards the gate of the courtyard, ignoring our presence at all.
Seeing that my eyes were a little strange, Dr. Xie asked me with doubts, "What, is there anything strange in this courtyard?"
"Nope. ”
The old man was gone, but the couch was still there, I immediately walked towards the couch, and when I was about to approach the couch, I suddenly heard the senior officer behind me shouting: "Doctor Xie, Xiao Zhang, come, drink!"
"Good. Dr. Xie agreed, but instead of going in, he kept looking at me.
I glanced back at Dr. Xie, and when I turned my head again, I saw that the chair was missing.
Obviously, the old man just now was a ghost.
Who is he and why did he appear under the trees in this courtyard? Dr. Xie said that the senior officials have been intermittently abnormal recently, could it be that they have been entangled by him?
I immediately turned around and walked towards the living room, and Dr. Xie asked me with his eyes, which meant to ask me if I had found anything, and I shook my head.
Dr. Xie smiled easily, turned around and walked into the living room with me, and sat down at the table.
Wang Hongxia's cooking skills are very good, and the dishes she makes are varied and rich, but because she doesn't know that I'm back, there is no rice, and the staple food is steamed buns, but it is much better than the army's wowotou.
After we sat down, the senior officer and his wife were very enthusiastic, and the senior officer urged Dr. Xie to drink, but Dr. Xie didn't drink much, and as a soldier, I didn't dare to drink, so Wang Hongxia kept putting vegetables in my bowl.
Later, I learned that the reason why the senior officer and his wife were so polite to Dr. Xie was mainly because after the senior officer's head was smashed last time, Dr. Xie had always been very good to him, and in addition to accompanying him to the Provincial People's Hospital to see a doctor, he often came to their house to see him.
There are two main reasons why Dr. Xie attaches so much importance to Gao Zhi, one is to see if he is possessed by some dirty things, and the other is to see if I have Taoist skills.
Although he was a military doctor, a party member and a cadre, as an expert in psychiatry, he had a great interest in many unknown areas, and in his words, his life was a never-ending exploration of life sciences.
He also knew very well that in the historical background at that time, many of his explorations were violating the bottom line of materialism, so all this was done in secret, which is the main reason why he was able to keep my secret.
If something goes wrong with this, he won't be able to get out of it.
Although Dr. Xie and I didn't drink alcohol, he poured himself with great interest, and he drank a lot, a bottle of Lao Baigan was almost bottomed out, and he asked Wang Hongxia to go upstairs to get another bottle.
Wang Hongxia glanced at him: "You said that you were entertaining guests, but you are good, you did it all." ”
The senior officer had a big tongue and said, "Hongxia, it's difficult...... It's rare for Dr. Xie to come to the house for dinner, and you ...... Just let me have fun!"
"Hmph, look at you drunkard, do you usually drink less? When your parents are at home, you always hide under the roots of trees in the yard and drink, when I don't know?"
As soon as I heard it, I understood that it must be that the senior officer must have been hiding under the tree and drinking, so he was entangled by the old man.
"Okay...... Alright, daughter-in-law, don't ...... Expose the short, fortunately, Dr. Xie is not an outsider...... Person. As he spoke, the senior officer seemed to have just remembered that I was still there, only to see him glaring at me and pointing at me with his finger: "Little ...... Zhang, it was a misunderstanding last time, don't blame me for inciting you, that ...... It's also for your own good, you are not allowed to look at my jokes today!"
I immediately noticed the chopsticks in my hand, stood up and said, "Yes!"
Wang Hongxia glanced at the senior officer, and stretched out her hand to pull me to the chair: "Xiao Zhang, don't pay attention to him, this is at home, not in the army." ”
The senior officer said to Wang Hongxia again: "Daughter-in-law, you ...... Do you want to take it?"
Wang Hongxia's eyes glared: "Don't take it!"
"Okay, you...... If I don't take it, I'll take it myself. With that, he staggered to his feet.
Doctor Xie hurriedly held him up and said to Wang Hongxia, "Xiao Wang, is it possible that Xiao Gao Jiu has risen, so you can go get a bottle for him?"
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