Tianhui Town is located in the northern suburbs of Shudu and is a place with a lot of stories.

The name is said to have originated from an emperor 1,300 years ago.

He favored traitors, played with power, and finally caused chaos in the world, and had to use the life of his beloved concubine to stabilize the morale of the army and flee all the way south.

When he traveled thousands of miles and fled to the city of Shudu, the news of the victory of the counterinsurgency came.

The emperor was full of joy and sorrow, mixed feelings, and after a short stay, he immediately turned around and returned to the capital, and did not even enter the city.

Although the Son of Heaven left without looking back, he didn't expect that the nameless town for him to rest would have a name from then on.

Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao took the bus to Tianhui Town after breakfast to look for the old landlord.

Tianhui Town used to be a suburb of Shudu, but now with the expansion of the city, it has been included in the Shudu urban area.

However, compared with the two most prosperous districts in the city center, the architectural layout still seems a little messy, and there are more bungalows and small buildings in the eighties and nineties of the last century.

Due to the changes in some streets, although there was an address provided by Li Shuhan, it took Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao a lot of time to find the place where the old landlord lived.

The old landlord lived in a narrow old street with potholes, surrounded by a vegetable market, with stagnant water and rotten vegetable leaves everywhere, and the environment looked a little dirty.

A six-story building from the nineties of the last century stands at the end of the old street, and the exterior wall of the building has been mottled by the rain and time, and there are many suspicious yellow and black stains.

On the wall in front of the small building, a circle was drawn with a red pen with the word "expropriation" written on it.

Fang Yu asked a warm-hearted aunt, and made sure that the old landlord surnamed Ding lived on the third floor of the small building, so he took Lin Xiaoxiao upstairs to visit.

While going upstairs, Fang Yu introduced Mr. Ding's situation to Lin Xiaoxiao:

"The old gentleman is over 60 years old, and he first lived on the tailoring skills of his ancestors. Later, because of the turmoil in China, he was beaten by some young people, so he had to rent out one of his ancestral houses to make a living. ”

"Is that the one in the picture?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked.

Fang Yu nodded: "That's right." The land of that house was requisitioned by the government, and he was resettled here after demolition, and lived there for more than ten years, basically living by sewing some things for others and living on subsistence allowances. ”

"Does he have no children?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked puzzled.

"It turns out that there were. His wife left early, but left him a son and a daughter. Fang Yu sighed and replied, "It's a pity that since I received a demolition and resettlement fee, there is no more." ”

Lin Xiaoxiao exclaimed: "Won't they all die?"

Fang Yu shook his head and said: "It's okay if they all die, the key is that the two children tear each other apart around the placement fee, which makes the old man depressed enough." In a fit of rage, he simply donated all the money. ”

"Ah, isn't his child disappointed?"

"yes, so the two children don't care about him anymore, and let him live alone like this."

"The old gentleman is so pitiful." Lin Xiaoxiao's sympathy was committed again.

The two walked to the unit where the old man lived, and Fang Yu knocked on the door first.

After a while, the door opened, and a pair of cloudy eyes peered through the crack.

When he saw Fang Yu's standing posture and the bag in his hand, he immediately wanted to close the door, and at the same time he was still shouting:

"If I don't sign, I'm here, I'm not moving, I'm not going anywhere."

Fang Yu quickly held on to the door, and hurriedly shouted inside the door: "Old man, you are mistaken, we are not here to ask you to move. ”

The old man continued to push against the door, "I won't be fooled again." You said you could live in a new home for the rest of your life, but now in less than 20 years you have to drive me away. I've been driven to the suburbs by you, and if you move again, will you drive me to the mountains to live? ”

Fang Yu held on to the door, feeling that this matter was a bit of a headache. Although he could push the door open with his strength, if he accidentally injured the old man, it would be against his original intention.

Lin Xiaoxiao took a step forward and bent down to poke her head out from under Fang Yu's armpit, "Old man, we are really not bad people, we just want to ask you for something." ”

The old man still slammed against the door, panting and humming: "I won't believe anything you say, I've lived for so many years, I haven't seen anything, you can't fool me." ”

Seeing that the old man was so stubborn, Lin Xiaoxiao was also a little helpless.

The flavor chopsticks that came with Fang Yu had an idea, and quietly said a word to Fang Yu. Fang Yu hesitated for a moment, then said to the old man:

"Old man, it's not a way to go down like this. Look at this, I'll let go and retreat, please take a good look at us. I promise you'll know we're not here to force you to move. ”

Saying that, Fang Yu no longer held on to the door, and pulled Lin Xiaoxiao back a few steps.

The old man still held the door against the door and gasped for a while, and then the door opened a crack again, and the old man carefully looked at Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao through the crack in the door for a while.

Finally, the door opened, and the old man leaned on the door and held his waist, and said angrily, "Who are you, what are you looking for me?" ”

Lin Xiaoxiao was a little curious, so she asked the old man: "Why do you believe that we are not here to ask you to move?" ”

The old man staggered into the house and said, "There are those who have come to demolish and bring their daughters." ”

"Take !! daughter" Lin Xiaoxiao felt that she had received 10,000 points of critical damage, and when she thought of Fang Yu's words, her heart was sour: Brother Fang, shouldn't he also think that I am too short.

Fang Yu secretly scolded Wei Zhen's bad idea in his heart, and hurriedly comforted Lin Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, don't think about it, in fact, the old gentleman is old and his eyes are not good, and I don't look old enough to look like a child." ”

The old man answered in the house: "I'm not old enough to have bad ears, come in and say something, don't stand at the door and ask for food." ”

Although the old man's words were ugly, he was not mean, and when Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao walked into the house, he poured a glass of boiling water for each of them.

The room is a little dark, and the furniture is very old, but it is neatly tidied up, and it does not have the messy feeling of ordinary old people.

"Sit, drink water" The old man spoke very dryly, pointing to an old double rattan wooden chair, and sitting on the folding chair opposite with an enamel teapot with a few falling porcelains.

Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao sat down facing the old man, opposite the kitchen, and there was a pressure cooker spewing steam on the old man's gas stove.

"Tell me, what are you looking for in me, a bad old man?" The old man asked, taking a sip of tea.

Lin Xiaoxiao took out her half of the photo and handed it to the old man, "Mr. Look, do you know the house behind this photo?" ”

The old man put down the teapot, took out a pair of reading glasses from his pocket and brought them on, squinted at the light and looked at it carefully, took off his glasses and sneered: "Isn't this my old house?" ”

Lin Xiaoxiao shook her hand when she heard this, and immediately suppressed her excitement again, and continued to ask, "Then do you know the person in the photo?" ”

"People? I'll take a look at it again. The old man put on his glasses and looked at it again.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Fang Yu both looked at the old man's face expectantly, hoping to see some hope in his expression.

The old man looked at it for a long time before he returned the photo to Lin Xiaoxiao with an expressionless face.