Not long after, this matter really began to make a fuss, and many media also reported it, and even many old classmates saw the way I came out of the yamen in the newspaper, and asked me if it was true. Although this is a scandal in my hometown, I am still gloating as a victim.

Later, the results of the matter also came out, the local government compensated the horse team, and apologized to us, the person in charge was also demoted because he couldn't withstand the pressure, and the construction site was also exposed by the relevant departments according to the cultural relics protection law ordered to carry out gold and stone excavation first, otherwise no construction was allowed. But the other people involved in this incident have not been punished, in fact, we also know that the official is just doing things for their own leadership department, and it is possible that he is really carrying an unknown black cauldron.

This is the end of the matter. I continued to go about my own business. To say that my exam luck is really good, I successfully passed the written test of the above official errand, and passed the interview and physical examination one after another, just waiting for a few months to be reviewed, after passing I can go to work, I even fantasize that with a really decent job, should I courting the girl I love again.

In fact, at this time, I can already resign and quit, but the spring flowers have bloomed in the New Year, and the land has returned to a state suitable for gold and stone, I am still sent to the gold and stone construction site on the side of the horse team, I think where I have not lived, maybe there will be no opportunity to go down to the field to do gold and stone in the future, although I can't get field subsidies, but it is better to play while doing and getting some money than at home. So I packed my bags again and went to the familiar territory, and the horse team was very happy to see me coming, after all, it was a friendship that had been squatting together.

The days have returned to the regularity on the construction site, getting up early to eat and go to work, chatting and bragging on the construction site, and spending time free to spend. I don't have to review this night, but fortunately there are a lot of books in the room, and the horse team said that this is after the last incident, and they led to "care" when they came here to install security, but it also happened to give me a pastime at night.

As the days passed, suddenly one morning, Lao Shigao, who often worked in our company, happily told me that he wanted to take two days off and go back to help his son organize the wedding, and gave me an invitation card to go to his house for a banquet at noon tomorrow. I usually know them well, so I happily agreed.

The next day, I told the horse team that I would not go back to eat, so I went to Lao Shi's house with a group of migrant workers. After turning and turning on the dirt road in the village, they finally arrived at their doorstep. The banquet was held in a tent at the door. The countryside is not too particular, everyone is also acquaintances, and no one will be angry with you at all, and their custom here is that people passing by have to drink a sip of wine before they can let it go.

Their family is nothing special, the newly built two-story small villa in the countryside is very prosperous and festive inside and out, and I have seen this meeting. But what really caught my attention was a house not far from their house, across a ditch.

Maybe it's the instinct to learn Jinshi, I have been looking at this house for years, it was a former dynasty, although there are only two floors, but the area is definitely not small, and it seems to be a wooden structure. The surrounding area was surrounded by a man-high iron net. I looked around closely, and the water across it was not a river, but a circular ditch about ten meters wide, and the house was surrounded by water on all sides, with only the gate facing a dirt road that connected to the road in front of the old stone house. I took a closer look, whether it was the door frame, the door panel, the eaves, or the tiles, they were all full of antiquity.

I'm a little confused by the second monk, and I thought to myself that I hadn't heard of such a house here before.

Suddenly, I don't know who grabbed my hand behind me, I turned around and saw the fool standing there with a smirk. He is really stupid, or has mental retardation, it seems that he has no parents, some people in the village say that he was abandoned by his parents, and he has no house to live in, and he wanders around the village every day, and usually helps the people in the village to do some hard work, so usually everyone also gives him food to eat, and the clothes are old and given to him to wear, although he is not having a good time, but he is also like carefree.

He also sometimes went to our construction site to play, so we got to know each other, and once I got lost, I and the horse team helped pick him up from the county yamen. He's stupid but he knows the rules and never touches our stuff. We didn't know what his name was, so we followed the people in the village to call him a fool.

"Fool, what are you doing, scare me." I asked with a smile when I saw that it was him.

"Eat, eat, eat, week, week, week, week, brother." Four words, he was stunned for half a minute.

"Okay, let's go". So I took him to the shed, and when I saw that some of the tables were almost full, but they were all people I didn't know, I pointed to the one next to me that was still relatively empty, and said to the fool, "Sit there first, and I'll come at once." He went without looking back.

I went into the house to give the bride price, but Lao Shi politely refused to accept it, and after a lot of excuses, I put the money on the table. After saying a few auspicious words, I went out to find a fool.

I saw that there were already several people sitting next to him at this time, all of them were not young, and two of them were familiar faces who often worked on the construction site. In fact, the older people in the village think that the fool is quite pitiful and not annoying, so they don't dislike him, and the young people in the village may not know and treat him very well. I also went there to sit down, and when they saw me, they greeted me very warmly.

We eat at noon, I heard that there is a round in the evening, anyway, now the wedding does not pay attention to one worship heaven and earth, two worship the high hall, husband and wife worship, sent into the cave room that set, on the person to the gift to the bride price on the line.

Lao Shi's son, that is, the groom's official and the bride, said a few polite words in the middle, and Lao Shi, as a parent representative, also said a few words, and everyone began to move their chopsticks.

At my table, apart from the three of them, there were a few other people I didn't know, but they all seemed to know each other well, talking to each other. The fool and I ate on our own.

"Old blind man, I haven't seen you for many years, how can I be willing to come back this time?"

A thin old man with sunglasses, gray hair but very decent clothes next to him answered: "Hey, when there are so many people, you are always blind and blind, I have no name and no sex?" You don't know what my relationship with Lao Shi is? Can I not come when my old comrade-in-arms' son gets married? ”

"Hey, my temper hasn't changed after so many fucking years, I'm getting old for a while, and I have gray hair on the top. There aren't a few of you left. ”

The old blind man continued: "Ahem, there were few people who came back back then, and now they are counted by a slap."

As soon as I heard it, I knew that these people might have been soldiers together back then, and I remember that Lao Shi seemed to have boasted to me about the war against the southern barbarian countries.

Seeing that they were chatting happily, I didn't want to interject, but I couldn't help my curiosity, so I asked a migrant worker I knew who didn't talk much: "Who is the old house next to this, why haven't I seen it before?"

As soon as I said this, the few people next to me stopped talking, and the atmosphere instantly became wrong, and the tranquility of our table was in stark contrast to the excitement of other tables.

After a while, the old blind man said, "Young man, outsiders, it is taboo to mention this here, so don't ask."

The migrant worker on the side said: "He is from the Jinshi team, and he is interested when he sees an old house." Xiao Zhou, listen to him, don't ask this, eat. ”

The old blind man seemed to be interested in me, and asked me, "Oh? The Goldstone's? You give me your hand. ”

I thought to myself, what is this playing? But when people are old, they make such a request, and it seems a bit unkind to refuse.

"You old blind man," said the old man who had spoken to him at first, "is fortune-telling addicted, and you still have to open for dinner?" ”

"Go, go, what do you know, interlaced like a mountain, you talk less. Give me your hand, young man. ”

I said in my heart that it was not good to refuse, so I put my hand over.

The old blind man may really be blind, I can't see the round frame black eyes of a traitor, anyway, he didn't react when I put my hand in front of him, and he only felt it when I put it in his hand.

He put my palm up, held my left hand, and stroked it twice with his right hand before letting go.

I withdrew my hand, and no one at the table spoke, apparently the big guys were waiting for the old blind man. And I'm actually quite nervous, I always don't like people to mention my background and family, but I guess I can figure it out by touching it twice, I'm afraid it's not so capable, right?

Everyone was watching, the old blind man picked up the chopsticks and began to eat again, and I noticed that he was indeed eating with chopsticks, and he put whatever he poked into his mouth. The old man next to him quit: "Ahem, the big guys are waiting to see if you can bear it, why are you eating?"

"If you're hungry, even if you're hungry, I've said that if you're like a mountain, you don't believe it."

A table of people laughed, and the matter passed. It's just me who is confused.