When Duan Huan arrived at Dawangling Village, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and Grandpa Xu's friend Tian Youxian was placed in the cowshed in the village.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dawangling was one of the anti-Japanese base areas in Lingnan, and the Dongjiang Column of Guangdong Province was stationed nearby.

The site of the former fortifications, which can still be faintly seen, was a famous red tourist attraction a few decades later.

The horse was loaded with rice and flour and grain, and he could only lead the horse slowly to the front village.

From the farmland outside the village to the small road in the village, Duan Huan did not meet anyone, and the whole village seemed extraordinarily quiet.

But it's good if no one sees it, anyway, she doesn't have to worry about finding someone to lead the way, is there a powerful plug-in of spiritual power, can she still find the cowshed?

A crackling firecracker suddenly sounded, and when he exuded his spiritual power, the sound turned out to be coming from the courtyard of a farmhouse.

There are several tables of eight immortals in the courtyard, and there are melon seeds, candies and tea on the tables, and everyone sits around and drinks tea and eats melon seeds lively.

Greeting the owner of the tea and water, the joy is overflowing, and this pomp is very much like doing a happy event.

However, the firecrackers have been set off for a long time, but there is no bride and groom, and there is no red double happiness posted?

The cowshed is to the southwest of the village, and inside the cowpen is a skinny old man struggling to clean up cow dung with a shovel.

Wan Huan knocked lightly on the wooden door of the cowshed that was about to fall, and it was opened by an old lady with short hair and a slightly chubby face.

The old lady's eyes were full of surprise, and she took Huanhuan's hand, "Sweet! ”

I don't know who Tiantian is Huanhuan, but the old lady didn't even give her a chance to explain, she hugged Duan Huan and patted her back and touched her arm, "Grandma's heart, liver and flesh, you can be regarded as back, much thinner than before!" ”

"Old lady, you recognize the wrong person, I'm not Tiantian, I'm here to find someone, does Tian Youxian Tian always live here?" Try to be as soft as possible in your voice.

The old lady seemed to recognize her as a junior who had not been seen for a long time, and she could especially understand the old man's desire for children and grandchildren to be around his knees.

And the old lady's eyes were obviously not good, so she didn't resist the old lady's sudden intimate move.

"Old man!" The old lady let go of the joy but shouted like in the house: "Old man, come quickly, Tiantian has come to see us!" ”

The old man who had seen it before ran out of the bullpen in a hurry, and said to Duan Huan with an apologetic face: "Little comrade, I'm sorry, my wife has recognized the wrong person!" ”

"It's okay," Duan Huan hurriedly waved his hand, "Old man, let me ask you, does Comrade Tian Youxian Tian live here?" ”

The old man wrinkled his brows, "I am Tian Youxian, little comrade, you are ......"

"Hello Tian Lao, I'm Xu Qianhuan, I'm here to visit your second elder!" Said with a smile.

"So you're a little fish? I received a letter from Lao Xu last week, he said that you might come over recently, but I didn't expect you to come so soon," Tian Youxian was overjoyed and opened both doors: "You are welcome to come as a guest, come in!" ”

Wan Huan, who has already identified himself, is still holding his right hand by the old lady, and his mouth is still persistently chanting, "Tiantian, grandma will cook you mung bean syrup in a while!" ”

Huanhuan can basically conclude now that the old lady did not recognize the wrong person, but had some mental problems.

However, fortunately, the common sense of the old lady's life is not affected, and her daily actions such as serving tea and pouring water are very neat.

"Old Tian, old lady, what is this?" Wan Huan asked while unloading the grain.

Tian Youxian lowered his voice, "Our only little granddaughter went ten years ago, she couldn't stand this blow, so she became a little confused, and when she saw a young and kind little girl, she would pull people to call her little granddaughter's milk name!" ”

"Don't be too sad Tian Lao, when the old lady comes out in a while, I'll take a pulse for her and take a look, there will always be a way!" Huan said with relief.

Tian Youxian waved his hand dejectedly, "It's good that she's so confused, if she comes to her senses, I'm afraid she won't be able to withstand the blow of her family!" ”

The matter of the Tian family's suffering, I heard Grandpa Xu mention it before.

The composition of the Tian family is not very good, Tian Lao's father used to be a wealthy businessman on the rich side, and the old lady's family was also a big landowner.

The following children and grandchildren, as well as several others, have overseas backgrounds, and Tian Lao's youngest son's family is still on the other side of the ocean, and there has been no news so far.

The ingredients are not good and there is an overseas background, and the Tian family has been severely impacted in recent years.

Tian Lao's decentralization location was changed several times, and it was finally settled in Dawangling Village, which was also the result of the efforts of all parties who made old friends.

Although the villagers here are very xenophobic and the labor arranged is not easy, no one deliberately makes it difficult, and the old couple lives quietly and comfortably.

When she helped cook dinner, she found that the old couple was far from doing as well as Tian Lao said.

Broken rice, cold potatoes, and potatoes mixed with more than half of the bran are all the rations of the old couple, and there is no trace of fine grain.

At the beginning of July, Grandpa Xu asked Duan Huan to send food to the old couple, but the speed of mail was slow, and it should have arrived in more than a month.

At that time, in order not to be eye-catching, 100 catties of rice and 50 catties of flour were deliberately sent over in three times.

Looking at the cautious posture of these ration storages, the old couple does not look like the kind of people who live without calculation.

Since it wasn't eaten so quickly, where did all the food she sent go?

Was it taken by the old couple to do favors? Or did the food not reach the old couple at all?

It's not a trivial matter when it comes to rations, and Duan Huan didn't beat around the bush, so he asked Tian Lao directly.

"Tian Lao, at the beginning of July, I sent you 150 catties of grain from Sichuan Province, didn't you receive it?"

Tian Lao sighed slightly, "I received it, the postal packages in the village will be sent to the village committee, and the village cadres will have a loss, and I will have to mail some to my two sons on the farm, so there is not much left." ”

It was very common in the countryside in this era to receive and send mail parcels by village cadres, and of course, the phenomenon of picking some oil from the parcels by the way was also very common.

The temple is small and windy, and the water is shallow, and there are many kings, and there is nothing to be done about this kind of unspoken rules at the grassroots level.

Now that the lifeblood of the old couple of the Tian family is pinched in the hands of others, she can't and dare not go head-on.

Even if she has the ability to overturn the entire village committee, what can she do? There is no guarantee that the next one will be better than this one.

Tian Lao, out of a heart of love for his son, distributed the rations to his son who was in more difficult conditions, and he couldn't give birth to a little accusation.

"Tian Lao, you see if this will work, you give me the address of the farm, you subsidize your son's rations, and I will send it in the future.

First, the village cadres can take advantage of it, and secondly, you and the old lady can also have more money in rations! ”

This is the safest and most practical way that I can think of now.