The township guest house is a large courtyard with a very mountain village atmosphere, the wall is made of mountain stones, and the big iron gate is also pasted with the words "celebrate the Spring Festival" on the faded red paper, hearing the strange footsteps outside, the dog in the guest house immediately barked alertly.

Township Chief Gao led everyone into the gate, saw the barking skinny dog, stepped forward and kicked the dog in the belly, the dog knew the township chief, and immediately grabbed his tail and whimpered twice and hid to the side.

Usually there is no one in the guest house, I heard that there are guests to arrive, a few leading figures in the township hurried over, all obliquely draped in cotton jackets, cigarettes in their mouths, smoke when they see people, polite, Liu Ziguang and others guests are as they are, with the head of Gao Township into the hall, light the brazier, turn on the TV, and the atmosphere will be lively as soon as there are many people.

Township Chief Gao said: "I have always kept a stove for you, and we have nothing to entertain in the countryside, that is, local vegetables, local chickens that grow up eating grasshoppers, as well as native eggs, wild boar heads, wild mountain mushrooms, pheasants, and wild rabbits, all of which are things that cannot be eaten in the city. ”

After a few polite words, a middle-aged man outside hurriedly arrived, and Township Chief Gao introduced: "This is our township's accountant Xie Guangcai, Xie Guangcai, who holds the financial power, I have to listen to him." ”

Xie Guangcai said hello to everyone, squeezed his eyes at Township Chief Gao, Township Chief Gao understood, excused himself to go out to see the dishes, and went out with Accountant Xie.

When he got outside, Accountant Xie said: "Lao Gao, it's so late, what kind of entertainment for these people, you don't know, wild boars are so easy to fight, and now there is only one pig hind leg left in the township, you can watch it." ”

Township Chief Gao said: "I don't care about that, Director Zhou has just taken office, I have to give him face, I don't care what method you use, get me two wild boar meat within an hour." ”

Accountant Xie said: "If it's easy to get it during the day, call and let the old Cheng Tou of Wild Boar Yu carry it over, it's so dark, and the wind is strong, what if something happens?" ”

Township Chief Gao said: "That's not good, this is the right thing, you go and do it immediately, if something happens, it's mine!" ”

Xie Guangcai was helpless, nodded and went, Gao Township Chief continued to go back to the house to entertain the guests, the masters prepared a few cold dishes with wine, and took out the ready-made wild mountain chicken, wild rabbit, and the pig's hind leg, fried and fried in the pot house, the sound of the kitchen knife chopping board was as fast as a burst, and it didn't take much effort, one game after another was offered, and then a box of Huaijiang special songs was served, and everyone opened their bellies to eat.

Gao Xiangchang drank an amazing amount of wine, according to the rules of the township first drank three wines with everyone, he took out his cigarette box, stood up and put it next to the tall glass, poured a glass according to this height, tilted his neck and dried, and then put the cigarette box on the side, poured half a cup and dried, and finally put the cigarette box flat on the small half cup and dried it up, everyone followed the customs, and drank three in this way, the wine banquet officially began, according to the rules of the countryside, the rules of the city, the rules of the county, and drank wildly, and a box of Huaijiang Tequ was soon empty.

It was dark until about one o'clock in the evening, and several township cadres were wearing cotton jackets and smoking cigarettes, and went home leisurely, but until now the wild boar has not been delivered, but fortunately, the guests drank very happily and did not care about this.

Accountant Xie hurriedly came, grabbed the drunken head of the township and said, "Old Gao, the phone has been called, but no one has come over until now, what do you say?" You can't blame me for this. ”

Township Chief Gao didn't speak very neatly, and said vaguely: "Let's talk about it tomorrow." "Then he leaned against the wall and walked forward.

"Lao Gao, what are you doing going north? Your home is on the south side. Xie Guangcai shouted from behind.

"Shhhhh......h ”

Xie Guangcai shook his head helplessly, shook the padded jacket on his shoulder, and left helplessly.

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The VIPs in the city were arranged to sleep on the earthen kang of the guest house, the mountain wind was biting, the temperature here was obviously much colder than in the city, but the fire kang was much more comfortable to burn, and I felt that the warm underneath the body was too much, that is, the printed quilt of the guest house was too devastating, and it smelled of mold.

After a tired day and drinking so much wine, everyone didn't care about the quality of the conditions, so they fell asleep and snored without much effort.

In the early morning of the next day, I don't know whose rooster crowed for the first time, and the roosters from all over the world crowed, but the guest house was still thundering, these people were not the elite soldiers of the Red Star Company, and they all developed a good habit of getting up early, such as Zhuo Li, Xuanzi, Bei Xiaoshuai, etc., which did not get up on the three poles in the sun.

Liu Ziguang got up early, got dressed and walked out of the door, took a deep breath of the fresh air in the mountains, it was simply refreshing, he stretched out his arms a few times, and suddenly there seemed to be a figure in the grass on the side of the road opposite the guest house.

Walked over and looked, it was a thin old man squatting on the ground eating, wearing a bare old sheepskin jacket, crotchless pants, a white towel wrapped around his head, and the head of the nest in his hand was sent to his mouth, with the chewing of his mouth, a grain of rough crumbs fell, the old man's palm was below, and he didn't dare to waste it at all, seeing Liu Ziguang's gaze, the old man greeted with a simple smile: "Have you eaten?" I still have it. ”

Liu Ziguang said politely: "You're welcome." ”

The old man said, "Big brother, can you help find saliva to drink?" ”

Liu Ziguang turned back to the house, found a large enamel tea jar, picked up the kettle stewed on the stove and poured a full cup and handed it to the old man, squatted down to watch him drink water and eat, and asked casually: "How long does the old man live?" ”

The old man said, "Eighty-five." ”

Liu Ziguang was shocked, and looked the old man up and down again, only to see that he was full of red light, full of energy, although his arms and legs were very thin, but he was full of strength, and he didn't look like an old man in his eighties at all.

"Old man, why are you squatting here? Not a native of the country? Liu Ziguang watched the old man finish drinking the hot water, took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

The old man took it and put it under his nose to smell it, he was reluctant to smoke, put it on his ear, and took out a tobacco pot from his arms, the copper smoke pot was delicate and small, the agate cigarette holder was crystal clear, and there was a small bag of tobacco leaves hanging below, and the mandarin ducks embroidered on it had faded, and it could be seen that the years were quite old.

The old man filled a bag of cigarettes and handed it to Liu Ziguang: "Young man, try this." ”

Liu Ziguang took it and took a few bites, but handed it back: "It's choked, I can't help it, it's better for you to use it yourself." ”

The old man smiled heartily and answered his question just now: "I am from Wild Boar Valley, I came to the countryside to do business, and I arrived at night for fear of alarming the leader, so I will stay here for a while." ”

Liu Ziguang nodded, rolled his eyes, pointed to a steel fork in the grass nest and said, "This is your old one?" ”

The old man took out the steel fork and said, "I usually use it for hunting, but I walk at night with a defense, there are wolves in the mountains." ”

As he was talking, Accountant Xie came over with a cigarette in his mouth, and when he saw the old man squatting here, he scolded: "Old Chengtou, why did you come, where is the wild boar?" ”

The old man dragged out half a wild boar from behind the haystack, weighing hundreds of pounds, and said, "Accountant Xie, do you think of this?" ”

Accountant Xie looked at it a few times and said, "This is a wild boar cub, it's so small, it's okay, go back and carry it to the pot house, go back quickly." ”

Lao Chengtou said: "The matter of the primary school in that village ......"

Accountant Xie waved his hand impatiently: "One yard is one yard, you go back first." ”

"Medium." The old man carried half of the wild boar, walked into the pot house of the guest house with a steel fork, put the half of the pig next to the firewood stack, and was just about to leave, when suddenly the hairy boy came out of the house and saw the old man shouting: "Grandpa, why are you here?" ”

Lao Chengtou was also puzzled: "Mao boy, why are you back?" ”

Now Liu Ziguang understands, this old man turned out to be the great-grandfather of the hairy child, no wonder he is also surnamed Cheng, take a closer look, the ancestors and grandchildren are also a little similar in appearance.

"Old man, I brought the hairy child, my name is Liu Ziguang, and I am Li Jianguo's buddy." Liu Ziguang said with a smile.

The old man was stunned for a moment, suddenly took a step back, and was about to kneel down for Liu Ziguang, Liu Ziguang hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and said busily: "Old man, you are folding my life, you can't do this." ”

Lao Cheng Tou said: "You saved the life of my granddaughter-in-law, and you saved the life of my great-grandson, you are the benefactor of our Cheng family." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "I and Jianguo are brothers, and the hairy boy also calls me uncle, and I have to call you grandfather according to my generation, if you are always polite, my face will have no place to rest." ”

The old man was not a hypocritical person, and immediately laughed and said: "Good boy, who should I go to the mountains to investigate, it turns out to be you, go, go home to drink, home-brewed Baogu wine, enough!" ”

Liu Ziguang took the old man's hand and said, "Okay!" ”

Xie Guangcai didn't expect to have this scene, and said beside him: "Wild Boar Valley is a good place, you should go, I'll go to Township Chief Gao." After saying that, he ran upside down, and the most surprising thing was that no matter how he moved, the padded jacket draped over his shoulders just didn't fall off.

When Township Chief Gao arrived, Lao Chengtou was surrounded by everyone in the middle of the stars holding the moon, with several cigarettes on his ears, the old man was holding a cigarette roll, his arm was on the small table, and he was wrestling with Bei Xiaoshuai who was sitting opposite.

Everyone was noisy and coaxing, and they were all smoking Bei Xiaoshuai, Bei Xiaoshuai withdrew his arm and said angrily: "You have energy, you go up." ”

"I'll come." Zhuo Li rolled up his sleeves and sat down, the muscles on his thick arms appeared, but after working hard for a long time, Lao Chengtou's arms did not move at all as if they were cast in iron, Zhuo Li shook his head and retreated, and said two words: "Obey!" ”

Township Chief Gao found Zhou Wen from the crowd, pulled his sleeve out of the house, and asked in a low voice, "I heard that you plan to go to Wild Boar Valley to investigate?" ”

Zhou Wen nodded yes.

Township Chief Gao frowned and said: "There is no highway in that place, and there is a dangerous bridge in the middle, and it takes three hours to go over the mountains and mountains, which is really inconvenient." ”

Zhou Wen was surprised: "Is there such an exaggeration? Why did that old man come here with half a fan of pigs by himself? ”

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