Chapter Twenty-Six: The Old Village Chief
Village Chief Liu nodded and immediately took me to the next one.
On the way, tell me about the people we are going to next.
"Little coffin, let's go to the old village chief's house in a while, you don't want the old village chief to be old, but I understand, the people in the village want him to continue to be the village chief. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to be the village chief anymore, it wouldn't be my turn at all. ”
When talking about the old village chief, Lao Liu's face was full of admiration.
"Even so, when something happens in the village, everyone likes to go to him and let him judge. And the old village chief knows that there are more things, and I think you should have some gains. ”
While talking, we arrived at the old village chief's house, and Lao Liu took me in, introduced a few words, and went to his own first.
After Lao Liu left, the old village chief looked at me and said with a smile: "Child, sit down and talk!"
The old village chief is very kind, and I can understand why Lao Liu said that the people in the village want him to continue to be the village chief.
"I know all about Zhang Laohan, and I'm going to trouble you next."
"Old village chief, don't worry, since I have come here, I will definitely do my best to solve this matter."
The old village chief nodded, "You must have wanted to know something when you came to me this time, right?" Just ask, and I'll tell you whatever I know. ”
I didn't need to open my mouth at all, the old village chief had already guessed my origin, and I began to admire the old village chief I had just met.
He really understood as Lao Liu said!
In that case, I naturally didn't beat around the bush anymore and asked directly what I wanted to know.
"Old village chief, do you know what the origin of Zhang Laohan is? Or what is the background of his family? Why did you move to the village in the first place? ”
The old village chief narrowed his eyes, as if he was thinking about my question.
I didn't bother him, and I believe that in front of people who understand, there is no need to say a word of nonsense.
After a long time, the old village chief finally spoke, "The little coffin master has really been admitted to me, and I really don't have much to tell you about this issue." ”
"Since I was a child, Zhang Laohan has been in our village, and although their Zhang family is the only foreign surname in our village, few people can really say when they moved here."
Saying this, the old village chief picked up the cigarette pouch and lit it for himself tremblingly.
Although he himself said that there was nothing to say, but seeing his actions, I felt that he still had a lot to say.
"Everyone in the village is very harmonious, and I don't regard him as a foreign name at all, and if I want to say anything about their family, the only thing I can think of is one thing I heard from my grandparents when I was a child."
So far, what I have learned is that the Zhang family is simply an ordinary existence, and the reason why it is ordinary is because they have been brought over for too long.
And if I want to go back to the roots, I can only look for things that happened a long, long time ago.
So when I heard the old village chief talk about what his grandfather said, I was even more excited, because the older things seemed to me, the closer they were to reality.
"After the Zhang family moved to our village, they didn't farm, they ran to the mountains for generations, and from time to time they went out to the village, and when they came back, they all had firewood, rice, oil and salt.
This is the second time I've heard that the Zhang family is associated with the mountain, so I'm more and more sure that the secret of the Zhang family should be on the mountain.
"Hearing them say this, naturally some people want to follow suit, but the result is not ideal, and no one is asking about this matter."
"But when my grandfather was young, he went up the mountain to play with the children in the village one day, and happened to meet the people of the Zhang family, and the other party did not find him, grandpa wanted to see what secrets the Zhang family had, so he quietly followed behind, but who knew that without a few steps, he was knocked unconscious, and when he woke up again, he was in the Zhang family!"
The people of the Zhang family told him that he had fainted on the mountain, and they found him and brought him down. But grandpa clearly remembered that he saw the Zhang family, and he even suspected that it was the Zhang family who knocked him unconscious. ”
"But he had no way to find out what was going on with this matter, and in the end the events of that day were swallowed by him, and then I told me when I was a child and pestered my grandfather to tell me stories, otherwise no one would know about this matter."
After listening to what the old village chief said, I also fell into deep thought.
Originally, I just guessed that the task of the Zhang family was related to the mountain, but when I contacted the old village chief's grandfather, I had encountered this incident. Am I 100% sure that there is a connection between them?
Even I think the old village chief's grandfather's guess was correct, he must have been discovered at that time, but he didn't know it, and the other party didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he tried to knock him unconscious.
With that, everything was pointing to the mountains again, and I began to think about whether or not to go to the mountains.
"Baby, are you still listening?"
I was so engrossed that the old village chief noticed that I was distracted, so he called me, and I came back to my senses and nodded hurriedly.
"When I was a child, my grandfather told me about this, and I also felt strange, and I wanted to take advantage of the Zhang family to go up the mountain to have a look, but I don't know when I started, and I can't see the Zhang family go up the mountain."
"Originally, I thought they really didn't go up the mountain, but then I went and found that they were supposed to go up the mountain at night, but I was in a hurry to go home and didn't go up with them."
"And since then, I have my own things to do, so I slowly put this thing down."
"Later, when Zhang Laohan's generation came, his two children had a chance to go out, and after a while, he brought all kinds of food to Lao Han, I don't think he has to fight for his own life anymore, so I didn't wonder if he couldn't go up the mountain at all."
The old village chief finally finished chattering, and then took two mouthfuls of big eye bags and slowly tasted them.
I regained my complacency and began to ponder what the old village chief had said.
In my opinion, it should be the people of the Zhang family who found out that someone in the village began to be curious about his family's affairs, so they changed the time of going up the mountain to the evening, as for whether Zhang Laohan was going up the mountain.
Judging by his hatred of the two children and the news he received from the old man before, he must continue to maintain the tradition.
After carefully combing through the questions, I made a decision on the spot.