The next morning, Wu Ming and his brothers finished a delicious breakfast, and instructed Lu Kuiyuan and Dai Ziran to go to the shop next door to buy back ten horses of carte cloth, a few boxes of high-end wine, candy and biscuits and other gifts, and planned to visit Tian Zhenggang in Tianjia Village after paying homage to his mother, and by the way, to see if they could recruit a few young people with martial arts to go back, and then go to the riverside in the southeast of Huanggu Town to give some gifts to the family who had difficulties in life but gave him a full meal.

After everything was prepared, everyone rode around the city on horseback, and when they came to the small bridge in the north of the city, Wu Ming saw two old brothers and two carriages full of cement, green bricks, incense and candles, and sacrifices, and immediately dismounted to thank the two old brothers.

The two old brothers waved their hands and said that they were polite, and then quickly turned over and walked in front of Wu Ming with a big grin.

The two hired coachmen looked blankly at Wu Ming, who was draped all over, and couldn't figure out how this imposing-looking young officer could be so polite to his subordinates.

Due to the slow speed of the carriage, it took more than two hours to turn into the trail and turn over Shegong Mountain, and Wu Ming was stunned when he turned over the mountain pass: the tomb in front of him, which was renovated with cement and exquisite stones, was where his mother's grave was located, but there was only such a tomb in a familiar place with his back to the hillside and water on three sides, if it wasn't his mother's tomb, who would it be?

Lu Zhengde saw that Wu Ming's face was not good, and he was about to ask what was going on, but Wu Ming had already beaten his horse downhill, ran dozens of meters to restrain the horse in the middle of the slope, turned over, and strode over the ditch to the grave.

The brothers felt that something big had happened, so they hurriedly rode over and dismounted one after another to chase after Wu Ming.

Wu Ming came to the newly renovated and imposing tomb, and saw that the name of Chen Wu was in the middle of the beautifully carved inscription, and then looked at the lower left corner of the tombstone The person who erected the monument was the husband: Chen Jiyao, son: Chen Bo'an, Chen Zhongkang, Chen Jishan, and the three names of Chen Jishan, suddenly his ears roared, his eyes were full of stars, his nose was sour, his whole body was soft, and he shook a few times before he sat on the ground.

"What's wrong with you? Could it be that someone else's family has taken over our cemetery? Lu Zhengde stretched out his big hand to support Wu Ming and asked urgently.

Wu Ming shook his head: "It's this place, but I don't know who built this cemetery so well, so that we can save a lot of trouble...... Tell the brothers to bring the incense and candles. ”

Lu Zhengde scratched his head, turned to the brothers and shouted loudly, and soon set up offerings on the wide stone slab tomb, lit incense, candles, and paper money, everyone here regarded Wu Ming as their own brother, so they started together with respect, and soon arranged it properly.

Wu Ming looked at the village to the west and found that his former home was still so dilapidated, but at this moment, there was curling smoke, and it was estimated that someone had lived in it.

Between sighs, seeing a pair of middle-aged men and women on the other side of the river staring blankly, Wu Ming hurriedly walked to the river, separated by a small river of fifteen or sixteen meters, and asked loudly in the local dialect:

"Big brother and sister, may I ask if this tomb is the tomb of Wu Juan in the village?"

The man on the other side was stunned, as if he thought that the tall officer who was asking had seen him somewhere, and the woman saw that her man was still in a daze, afraid of angering the officer, so she quietly pinched him, and the man woke up like a dream and replied loudly: "Ah, yes, yes!" It is the cemetery of Wu Juan's sister in our village, who are you, boss? ”

"Who rebuilt this tomb?" Wu Ming didn't give the other party a chance to ask.

The man on the other side hurriedly replied: "It's Master Chen from Huanggu Town!" Oh, that's a long story, and I can't tell you for a while! The tomb repaired on the Qingming Festival, invited the best stonemason, the best mason, spent a lot of money, even our village was wiped out, and the family received a hundred catties of rice and two oceans from Master Chen! I said, boss, why did you come here to pay tribute to our sister Wu Juan? Who are you? ”

Wu Ming pointed to the two carriages at the bottom of the north slope: "Big brother and sister, thank you!" I was entrusted by Wu's mother's son, Wu Shan, to sweep the grave of her old man...... Now that the cemetery has been repaired, the ash and bricks on the carriage will be given to you! ”

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he returned to the tombstone, took out three sticks of incense and lit them, and did not explain anything to the brothers who were full of doubts, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, inserted the three sticks of incense into the stone incense burner in front of him, took a bottle of soju handed by Lu Kuiyuan, poured it into the three wine glasses in front, stood up and retreated to the side, took out a cigarette and lit it silently.

Dai Ziran, who was squatting on the left side of the tombstone and burning paper money, quietly asked Lei Peng beside him: "It doesn't seem right!" Why are all the people who erect the monument surnamed Chen? Why isn't the eldest brother's name engraved on it? ”

Lei Peng couldn't figure it out for a while: "You ask me, who will I ask?" But the owner of the tomb is surnamed Wu, is sure, isn't the eldest brother also surnamed Wu? ”

"Is it the mother's surname? But it doesn't make sense! ”

Dai Ziran raised his head and saw Wu Ming standing there smoking with a black face, where did he dare to come forward to ask, so he had to continue to burn paper money with a full stomach full of confusion.

After a while, dozens of men, women and children in Wujia Village were alarmed, and they all ran to the other side of the river to stop and watch, and the discussion continued, no one could figure out how there could be so many military masters, who came to sweep the grave of Wu Juan, who was alone and died alone, and no one recognized Wu Shan, who was wearing a military uniform, temperament and body shape were already very different.

Wu Ming poured three cups of wine into the paper money that burned into ashes, knelt down and kowtowed again, kowtowed nine times in a row, and after the memorial ceremony, all the brothers who were also puzzled followed Wu Ming silently, walked to the side of the road to untie the reins, turned over on the horse, and followed Wu Ming to beat the horse through the village.

The two coachmen, who had already received the money, waited for a long time and ignored them, and couldn't help but ask aloud whose houses the ash and bricks? The two people who were talking to Wu Ming hurriedly agreed, and happily ran around the river bank and across the wooden bridge to the carriage, and led the two carriages to their house.

The place where the carriage stopped to unload happened to be Wu Ming's former residence in this life.

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At lunchtime, Wu Ming and his entourage rode into the east entrance of Tianjia Village, which scared the villagers a lot, and the girl with the basket on her back was just about to escape, but was stopped by Wu Ming, who got off the horse: "It's the second sister, right?" Is your dad's leg better? ”

Hearing Wu Ming's familiar voice, the girl turned around and looked at it for a long time in shock like an electric shock, and suddenly shouted happily: "Daochang Wu, why are you here?" ”

Wu Ming smiled helplessly, and the brothers behind him were taken aback, I don't know when Lu Dao's own boss became Wu Daochang, and even Lu Zhengde only knew that Lu Dao Wu Ming had been injured in the Taoist temple at the beginning, and he didn't know that Lu Dao Wu Ming pretended to be a Taoist priest.

The girl said a few words to Wu Ming, and rushed to the house, and Wu Ming ordered the brothers to follow, and led the horse into the town. Before they arrived at Tian Zhenggang's house, Tian Zhenggang's parents, his lame eldest brother and second brother, sister-in-law and a group of villagers stood at the door in surprise.

Wu Ming hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Tian's father saw that it was indeed Wu Ming, and immediately pounced, grabbed Wu Ming's hand tightly, and burst into tears, so frightened that Wu Ming thought that Tian Zhenggang had an accident, and when he entered the house, he didn't have time to sit down and ask, "What about my brother?" ”

Tian Zhenggang's second brother went up to help the excited old father sit down, and explained to Wu Ming with a smile:

"Daochang Wu, creation makes people! Not long after you left, Zhenggang and the five young people in the village couldn't bear to pay heavy taxes to the villagers, so they had to go to the army to rush back, and it didn't take long to write back, saying that they were soldiers in the 52nd Division of the Central Army, but at the beginning of the year, Yihuang and ** Red Army in the south fought a big battle, and only Zhenggang survived of the six people in the village, alas! ”

"He wrote to his family a month ago, saying that he had recovered from his injuries and had made meritorious contributions, and their division commander learned that he was educated, knew martial arts, and was surrounded and beaten by tens of thousands of communist troops, and sacrificed his life to rescue his injured regiment commander, so he valued him very much and recommended him to study at the Nanjing Central Military Academy. Wait, I'll go find the letter and show it to you. ”

Wu Ming was shocked, and suddenly felt that this world was completely chaotic, Tian Zhenggang, who was originally a brave man and hated officers and soldiers very much, actually rescued his superiors on the battlefield, Wu Ming seemed to have such a scene in his mind: In the rain of bullets, a regiment of the Kuomintang army that was ambushed by several times the number of troops suffered heavy casualties and could not be defeated......