After dealing with Zhang Ergui's matter, Xu Yinglong took the return bus back to Wushi on the same day. However, Xu Yinglong did not stay in Wushi, but bought a train ticket to Mixian County, southern Shaanxi Province overnight.

Xiao Zhang's name is Zhang Hao, and his family lives in the countryside of Mi County, northern Shaanxi. Mi County is more than 400 kilometers away from Wushi in a straight line, and there is a direct train. So after helping Zhang Ergui get his last wish, Xu Yinglong decided to stop Xiao Zhang's last wish, and finally went back to solve Li Xinmin's matter.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, Xu Yinglong got off the train at the Mixian Railway Station, and compared with the mild Tianhai, the climate in northern Shaanxi was dry and cold. After getting out of the car, Xu Yinglong did not immediately go to Xiao Zhang's house, but found a hotel nearby to stay.

After all, Xiao Zhang is different from Zhang Ergui, there is no one at Zhang Ergui's house, and it doesn't matter when he goes. But Xiao Zhang's family not only has an old father and mother, but also a younger sister, and it is really not appropriate to visit people in the middle of the night, so Xu Yinglong plans to go again the next morning.

After a night without words, early the next morning, Xu Yinglong bought some cigarettes, alcohol and fruits in the city near the station, and then stopped a taxi casually, chartered it for a day at a price of 4oo yuan, and then went straight to Zhangjia Village, Qingshan Town, where Xiao Zhang's family is located.

Qingshan Town is not far from the county seat of Mixian County, more than 20 kilometers away, the taxi master's technology is very good, although the road conditions are not very good, but it only took ten minutes to arrive. However, although Zhangjia Village is only fifteen kilometers away from Qingshan Town, it has been walking for more than an hour. Although this distance cannot be compared with the Hades Road from Wushi to Tanlin Town, it is still very difficult to walk.

When he arrived at Zhangjia Village, it was already more than 11 o'clock in the morning, and when he entered the village to inquire about Xiao Zhang's house, Xu Yinglong asked the taxi driver to send him over.

Standing in front of Xiao Zhang's house, Xu Yinglong couldn't help frowning, low adobe house. The courtyard made of yellow gravel and the gate made of wooden fences, this is Xiao Zhang's house.

Look at the courtyard again. Stacks of wheat straw are the most conspicuous, and in the north people often collect the straw from the crops to serve as winter fodder for livestock. Or it is used as fuel for cooking on fires, and every household in the countryside will have a large haystack after the autumn harvest. Other than that, there was only a broken log cart that was about to fall apart and a big black bull that was quite strong.

The movement outside the gate obviously attracted the attention of Xiao Zhang's family, only to see an old man who looked to be in his sixties pushed open the door and ran out, what made Xu Yinglong quite puzzled was that this old man would come out when he came out, why was he still holding a bright pig-killing knife in his hand, was this going out to kill pigs?

It doesn't matter if the old man comes out to greet him or what he wants to do. After all, this old man must be Xiao Zhang's relative, thinking of this, Xu Yinglong said to the driver, then got out of the car with a gift and walked over to the old man.

However, what made Xu Yinglong depressed was that before he walked up to the old man, Xu Yinglong felt a burst of hostility coming from the old man. In addition, after seeing Xu Yinglong, the old man opened his throat and scolded, although Xu Yinglong couldn't understand a word in the local dialect of northern Shaanxi, but he could tell that the old man was scolding him, after all, no one would point a knife at someone and say good things.

Xu Yinglong knew that there must be some misunderstanding in between, no one would make such an impolite move to a person he didn't know. He tried to communicate with the old man in Mandarin. But it was obviously useless, although the old man did not stab him with a knife, but his tone was still very unkind. Xu Yinglong knew that this was not the way to go. He couldn't understand the dialect of northern Shaanxi, and the old man couldn't understand Mandarin.

Suddenly Xu Yinglong rang the driver in the taxi, he communicated with the driver when he came, maybe because he often lived in the county, although the driver's Mandarin was not very good, and there was always a taste of obedient dialects, but it did not hinder the communication between them. And the driver is a local, and he must know the dialect here. Isn't this just a ready-made translation?

Thinking of this, Xu Yinglong hurriedly called the driver out of the car and asked him to accompany him to talk to the old man.

Originally, the taxi driver saw the pig-killing knife in the old man's hand. The boss in his heart was unwilling, but he knew it. If Xu Yinglong couldn't finish the matter, he wouldn't be able to get the 400 yuan, so he had no choice but to get out of the car.

Xu Yinglong first told the taxi driver the purpose of his coming here, telling the driver that he was from Lucheng, Saibei, and that he was entrusted by Zhang Hao to visit his family when he was dying, and there was no malicious intent.

The taxi driver said a few words to the old man, and the old man put away the pig-killing knife in his hand, but his expression was still very vigilant.

Seeing that the old man was finally not as excited as he was just now, Xu Yinglong said to the taxi driver: "You help me ask if this is Zhang Hao's family, his father is not here!" ”

The taxi driver asked the old man a few words and replied: "This is Zhang Hao's family, and he is Zhang Hao's father!" ”

Xu Yinglong was stunned, Zhang Hao had just turned twenty years old when he died, and he was still the eldest in the family, according to this judgment, Zhang Hao's father was only forty years old at most, and he would definitely not be over fifty years old. How does this old man in front of him look like a sixty-year-old man, how can it be Zhang Hao's father.

Xu Yinglong said his doubts, but the taxi driver did not ask the old man this time, but directly told Xu Yinglong that the climate in northern Shaanxi is dry, and people look older than their actual age, especially these farmers who are digging in the fields, and there are many people in their forties who look like they are fifty or sixty years old, which is not surprising.

Xu Yinglong took a closer look, and the person in front of him was indeed different from the real old man. It is easy to change people's physiognomy, but their physical state is not so easy to change. Although this person looks old on the surface, he walks vigorously, and he is full of temperament when he scolds people, and it seems that he is not a real old man.

Since the age and place are all right, there is no doubt that this "old" uncle should be Zhang Hao's father, Xu Yinglong smiled and said: "Hello uncle, I am Zhang Hao's friend, he told me on his deathbed that I should go to his house to see you two elders no matter what!" ”

Xu Yinglong was talking here, and the taxi driver on the side was translating at the same time.

Speaking of his hard-working son, Zhang Hao's father's eyes suddenly turned red, but he did not shed tears. After a few minutes of delay, he said, "Are you also in prison with my son?" ”

Hearing the taxi driver's translation, Xu Yinglong hurriedly pressed himself as a prison warden, saying that he was a prison guard in the prison, and Zhang Hao's former prisoner, and because the two were almost the same age, they became very good friends. After speaking, he also handed his military ID card to Zhang Hao's father.

Zhang Hao's father obviously didn't understand the difference between a police officer card and a military officer card, and when he saw that the photo on the certificate was indeed Xu Yinglong himself, and there was a big steel seal on it, he immediately believed Xu Yinglong's words.

After determining Xu Yinglong's "identity", Zhang's father's attitude immediately changed, and he hurriedly let Xu Yinglong and the taxi driver into the house.

Entering the house, Xu Yinglong was completely shocked by the scene in front of him, he used to think that the poor people in the Lucheng Hedong slum were poor enough, but today he really saw what it means to be poor. I saw that one of the two small rooms was a hall that served as a storeroom and kitchen, and the other was the main room for the occupants.

In the hall was a pot with a large iron pot on top of it, and the pot was covered with a wooden round lid. There are some dead branches and leaves under the pot, which seem to be used as fuel for cooking. There were twenty or thirty snakeskin pockets against the wall of the hall, each of which was full of grain.

There is a large pit in the main house, which is connected to the window and occupies about half of the area of the house. On the ground floor against the back wall was a large black, red, black and red wooden cabinet, on which was placed a small round mirror, and some needles and threads and other things. In addition, the Zhang family has no other furnishings.

Can this be called home? Does this feel like home? Even the poorest of the city's poorest people don't live any worse than this!

Looking at the kang again, a woman about fifty years old was lying on the kang covered with a quilt, and from time to time there were a few difficult coughs, as if she was sick. Xu Yinglong guessed that this woman should be Zhang Hao's mother!

Seeing someone coming in, the woman struggled to sit up, but in the end she couldn't sit up, and looked at Xu Yinglong apologetically.

Xu Yinglong hurriedly said: "If you are sick, lie down, I will just stand on the ground!" ”

Zhang's father said a few words to Zhang's mother while making tea, and it should be for Zhang's mother to lie down.

Xu Yinglong finally went to the kang, but the people in the north didn't have those tables and chairs, and the guests who came to the house were all entertained on the kang.

Drinking the Zhang family's soil tea, Xu Yinglong chatted with Zhang's father. The family already knew that Zhang Hao was dead, and they also held a funeral for him. Zhang's father asked some about Zhang Hao's affairs in prison, although Xu Yinglong didn't know how Zhang Hao looked in prison, but people die greatly, no matter what Zhang Hao did before, at this time Xu Yinglong still tried his best to say something.

After chatting for a while, Xu Yinglong remembered what happened when he entered the door just now, and immediately asked about it.

Father Zhang sighed and told Xu Yinglong, he misunderstood Xu Yinglong just now, and thought that he was the bastard Chang Dashao in the township, so he did such an impolite thing.

As soon as he heard this, Xu Yinglong knew that the Zhang family must be in trouble, and the people who can be called big and young are definitely not ordinary people, either the family has money or power, and generally such people will not have any intersection with poor families like the Zhang family who have overnight food in their homes. Thinking of Zhang's father's excited words and deeds just now, it must be that the Zhang family provoked that Chang Dashao.

Thinking of what he promised Xiao Zhang, Xu Yinglong decided to ask about it, and if he could help this poor person as much as possible, it would be considered a good deed! (To be continued)

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