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The fat brother repeatedly confirmed that the business card was not taken out, and then handed the business card to Li Mengnan.

Li Mengnan took it with both hands and looked at it, only to know that the fat brother who was quite related to him was called Zhu Fugui, which sounded a bit like the name of a coal boss in Jin Province, but it was also very commensurate with his generous figure and festive appearance, which was a bit like his name.

"Okay, thank you very much...... If necessary, I will definitely take your car. ”

Li Mengnan solemnly put away the business card in front of Zhu Fugui, took out the fare and stuffed it to Zhu Fugui, Zhu Fugui said that he didn't want anything, not that Li Mengnan was slapping him in the face, Li Mengnan didn't push him, just smiled incomprehensibly, thanked him and turned around and walked into the narrow alley of this shantytown.

It wasn't until Zhu Fugui pulled the next passenger and looked for money for others that he found that there was an inexplicable extra twenty yuan in his chest pocket, but he didn't figure out where the money came from even if he wanted to break his head, and in the end he just thought it was a windfall from heaven and had fun for a long time.

Of course, that's all for later.

The old house is different from the new community now, when it was built, it was generally only a rough drawing of a homestead, and each household was built next to each other, leaving a similar aisle in the middle, and there was no clear plan.

Later, there were more children in the family, and the house was not enough to live, so I directly bought a car of bricks to build it myself, and the homestead was full of no place, so I built a shed outside, and in addition to a few people's houses, I would deduct a chicken coop around a vegetable garden or something, and decades of private construction made the wide passage that could run the car so narrow that even the slightly larger tricycle could not pass, and the shape was like a maze, and the residents who were not in this area may not be able to get out once they entered.

Li Mengnan took the address to the house number door to door, and at first he could check it one by one quite smoothly, but unfortunately before ten households began to appear in the fork in the road, and the house number behind was almost completely irregular, and he was soon blinded.

Fortunately, there were many elderly people sitting at the door chatting at the door, Li Mengnan picked a white-haired old lady with kind eyebrows, walked over and squatted down and asked, "Grandma, I want to ask you something...... Do you know how to go on number 567? ”

Don't look at this white-haired old lady's wrinkled face, her teeth are all gone, her ears are not back at all, she raised her eyes to look at Li Mengnan, shook her head and said, "Which one is No. 567?" I don't know ......."

An old man who was playing chess next to him interjected: "Young man, you still say who to find!" The house numbers here are all for the postman to see, as long as it is an old family here, everyone can know the name of the person......"

Li Mengnan didn't doubt what the old man said, just like when they were in their village, their ancestors lived together, how could there be any house number, and no one in the village knew anyone among the hundreds of people.

"Okay then...... I'm looking for Xiao Hui, do you know where she lives? ”

Xiao Hui is the name of Li Mengnan's biological mother.

"Oh? Are you looking for Xiaohui? ”

Li Mengnan didn't expect that his mother's popularity in this area was quite high, and the five or six old people present all stopped what they were doing, and their slightly cloudy eyes fell on Li Mengnan, feeling as if they wanted to see through his identity and origin.

Li Mengnan suddenly recalled the first time he took an X-ray in the hospital.

Probably thinking that Li Mengnan didn't look like the kind of bad guy who was a traitor, the old people looked at him a few times and didn't suspect much, one of them lifted his crutches and pointed to the right side, and said: "Go down this road, look to the right, there is a pomegranate tree sticking out of the courtyard, a red lacquered wooden door, and a pair of door gods are pasted on it, that is the home of Xiao Hui you are looking for...... Are you the child of her relative's family? It's cousins, right? Look at what you look like her. ”

Li Mengnan actually looks more like his father Li Hongming, but no matter what, after all, he also has half of his mother's blood on his body, and there will definitely be similarities with his mother.

However, Li Mengnan did not explain the real relationship with his mother Xiao Hui, his mother is now in another family, his identity is more embarrassing, he doesn't want any rumors to spread because of his arrival, so he smiled noncommittally, giving people the feeling of acquiescence.

"Forget it, it's okay to be idle anyway, I'll take you over, just move your body and bones."

The old man handed over the position of playing chess to another chess player, and stood up tremblingly with a crutch, Li Mengnan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the old man's arm.

The distance is not far, but the old man next to him is not very dexterous, and Li Mengnan does not dare to walk too fast, so he can only follow in small steps.

The old man was quite interested, and chatted with Li Mengnan along the way: "You are quite good in this later life, you know that you respect the elderly, and you are much better than those hairy boys in our area...... Xiaohui's girl has been married for more than ten years, and it is very difficult for a woman to pull two children...... Forget it, seeing that you are not very old, I guess you don't know what is going on here, in fact, you can understand it, who can't bear such a thing......"

Li Mengnan was confused when he heard it, and he probably heard that his mother's family was experiencing some difficulties, and his relatives on his mother's side had persuaded him to divorce, but his mother refused, and the two sides broke off in a fit of anger.

However, for fear that the identity of the gang was suspected, Li Mengnan did not continue to ask in detail, thought for a while and asked, "What about the man in this family?" ”

"Her man?" The old man sighed, and stomped on the crutches with an expression of hatred, "Don't mention it, it's a stomach, I knew that kid would be like this now, it's better to let Xiaohui leave him alone......"

The old man took Li Mengnan to the place, and then he walked back step by step with his crutches.

Li Mengnan took a deep breath and reached out to knock on the rusty iron knocker on the door of the red lacquer courtyard, and after a while, there was a light footstep sound from inside.

"Who?"

It was a little girl's voice, sweet and glutinous, and it sounded gentle and lovely.

In the past, his mother Xiao Hui had written several letters to Li Mengnan, probably because she was afraid of his feelings, and did not mention the remarriage partner and children.

Li Mengnan also learned from the old man who played chess just now that his mother now has two children, one older and one younger, both girls.

The one who came to open the door in the courtyard must have been the little one.

But for some reason, Li Mengnan faintly felt that this voice seemed to have been heard somewhere before.