There is also a car in the yard, and this car belongs to Director Liu.

As soon as the police car stopped, a middle-aged man about 50 years old with a stubble on his face came out of a room: "You are here to find Ge Zhenggen!" ”

"Are you ......?" Zhao Zimeng got out of the car.

"I am the secretary of the brigade, my surname is Tian, this is Director Liu's car, Director Liu asked me to wait for you here."

"Thank you, Secretary Tian for your hard work."

"You're welcome, let's go, I'll take you to Liu Abao's house."

"Is Liu Abao's family also in your brigade?"

"Liu Abao's family is in Hexi, we have to cross the river, and now there is no one in Ge Zhenggen's house."

Walking out of the courtyard gate of the brigade headquarters, Zhao Zimeng looked up and saw rolling mountains.

Halfway up one of the highest peaks there is a temple.

"Captain Zhao, that's the Hidden Mountain Temple." Uncover the sea road.

"Ge Zhenggen's house is in the village below the Yinshan Temple," Secretary Tian said.

"Ge Zhenggen's mother passed away ten years ago, his two younger sisters have married, and Ge Zhenggen's uncle is temporarily in charge of his family's house."

"We want to find out something about Uncle Ge Zhenggen."

"Ge Zhenggen's uncle, and two younger sisters are all waiting for you at Liu Abao's house! Director Liu asked me to take you directly to Liu Abao's house. ”

Director Liu Yonglian is still thoughtful, and Zhao Zimeng feels that this friend is worth it.

A group of four people followed Secretary Tian through two villages and went up a river embankment.

Walking up the embankment, you will see a large river running north-south.

Secretary Tian said that on the east side of the river is the Red Flag Brigade, and on the west side of the river is the Huang Yao Brigade of Chenji Commune.

Liu Abao's family is in the Huang Yao Brigade High Horse Production Team, and across the river is the High Horse Production Team.

"You see, there are two magpie nests in the big tree, and they are the tall horse production team."

Looking at the place where Secretary Chaotian pointed to, on the other side of the river, there was a village under the shade of trees.

There were two very large trees in the middle of a forest, and there were indeed two magpie nests of great size in the treetops.

Passing through a boxwood forest, there is a ferry crossing in front of you.

A boat was heading towards the east bank of the river, and at the bow stood an old boatman, holding a penny more than a foot long.

The penny was stuck diagonally in the water, and the old boatman bowed his head and bent over, and at last he almost lay on the boat, the penny in his hands, one moment long, one moment short, and finally so short that it was invisible.

The water in the middle of the river was so deep that the old wearer's hand had to be submerged in the water before the head of the boatman could touch the bottom of the river.

On the dock, there are more than a dozen villagers squatting or standing, carrying burdens, baskets, wheelbarrows, or holding children.

After the ferry docked, the old boatman jumped ashore with a loop of rope in his hand, fastened the rope to a stump, and then returned to the boat, pulled out a gangplank and put it on the riverbank.

The villagers boarded the boat in turn.

After everyone had boarded, the four of them got on the boat.

Jiehai found an empty seat and asked the three of them to sit down.

There was a wooden box at the bow of the boat, and the people on the boat took the initiative to put money into the wooden box, some put five cents, some put a dime.

Peel the sea and put a dollar in the wooden box.

The old boatman only held the boat, and did not look at the wooden box.

The old boatman wore a towel around his neck, a shoulder on his upper body, two shirtless arms, a pair of waisted trousers underneath, the cuffs rolled up above the knees, and a pair of straw sandals on his feet.

The old boatman propped up the boat and looked at the four people sitting in the cabin.

There was a difference between the four of them and the way the villagers dressed, and to the old boatman, they were fresh faces.

It's not just the old boatman who pays attention to the four people, the four people have almost become the focus of the attention of the boatman, and everyone looks at Zhao Zimeng and them curiously.

"Uncle, you are Guigeng!" Zhao Zimeng looked at the old boatman and said.

"Three out of seventy." The old boatman smiled.

"Seventy-three years old, the body is still so strong, it's rare!"

"If you don't hold the boat, your body won't be so good!"

"Old man, you've been holding out for many years!"

"At fifteen, I've been holding boats here."

"It's not easy for you to hold up the ship for nearly sixty years!"

"Supporting your family, you can't support it! Listening to your accent, it doesn't look like a local. ”

"The old people have good eyesight, they come from Jingxi." Uncover the sea road.

"This comrade is from our Xiutian." The old boatman looked at the open sea passage.

"Yes, I'm from Xiutian."

"Look at you like a big leader."

"Don't dare to be, I work in the Guangpu Public Security Bureau, and these three comrades came from Jingxi to find two people."

"Who are you looking for? There are no people in the east and west of the river, within a radius of dozens of miles, that I don't know. The old boatman boasted.

"Uncle, Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao, do you know each other?" Zhao Zimeng tried to ask him.

"Why don't you know, Ge Zhenggen is from Gejia Village, and his father's name is Ge Changhua. Liu Abao is a native of Gaoma Village, Hexi, and the village in front of him is Gaoma Village. Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao are cousins, and I haven't seen them for more than ten years. This morning, two comrades also went to Gaoma Village to look for Liu Abao. Are you all in this together? ”

"yes, we're with them." Uncover the sea road.

The old boatman wanted to say something, the ship had already arrived.

The old boatman jumped out of the boat, tied the rope to a stone pillar, and set up the gangplank on the riverbank.

"Slow down." The old boatman stood at the bow of the boat and helped the four men to the dock one by one.

"Thank you, old man."

"Walk slowly."

The old boatman watched the four men go up the embankment.

After walking half a mile north along the river embankment, turn left and you will see the Gaoma production team.

When I walked through the community, I saw a lot of people standing at the gate of a house, and people were in groups of three or five, talking about something in their ears.

Seeing someone coming, the crowd moved out of the way.

The four of them walked into the courtyard gate, and at this time, Liu Yonglian happened to walk out of the hall.

Zhao Zimeng and Director Liu shook hands first, then hugged, and they were very warm.

Since the two broke up in Beijing five years ago, they have not had the opportunity to meet, and if it weren't for the case, it would be really difficult to meet.

In addition to Director Liu and others, the Liu family also had many relatives.

Director Liu came to look for Liu Abao and brought very bad news.

Liu Abao's grandmother couldn't withstand the sudden blow and suddenly fell ill, and the relatives of the Liu family rushed to Liu's house after hearing the news.

In addition to relatives, there are also many people in the village.

There were a lot of people sitting in the room, including Ge Zhenggen's uncle and two younger sisters, as well as Liu Abao's uncle and aunt.

Inside the west room lay Liu Abao's grandmother, and several women sat on the edge of the bed to comfort the old lady.

The reason why Ge Zhenggen's family did not look for Ge Zhenggen was because they did not know Ge Zhenggen's whereabouts.

Second, because of the death of the mother, the two younger sisters have already married, and after the brothers and sisters start a family, the care between each other is very different from the care between parents and children.

As for Liu Abao, the situation is even more special: Liu Abao is a three-brother brother, after the uncle got married, the aunt did not have children for five years, so the grandparents came forward and passed Liu Abao to the uncle and aunt as a son.

In the second year after Liu Abao passed on to his uncle, his aunt gave birth to a boy.

For well-known reasons, after the uncle and aunt had their own children, Liu Abao's worth plummeted.

This is also the main reason why Liu Abao followed his cousin Ge Zhenggen to beg for a living outside when he grew up.

Uncle and aunt have their own children, and it doesn't matter if Liu Abao doesn't come back.

Liu Abao can live independently, which may be a good thing for uncles and aunts.

As for the grandmother who has been living with her uncle and aunt, it is difficult to say anything.

This is the main reason why Liu Abao has not returned home for fifteen years, and his uncle and aunt have never looked for Liu Abao.

After entering the house, Zhao Zimeng didn't say anything, and directly took out the simulated portrait from his leather bag to show Ge Zhenggen's uncle and two sisters.

The three of them recognized at a glance that the person on the simulated portrait was Ge Zhenggen.

"Comrade policeman, this person is my brother Ge Zhenggen." Ge Zhengying and Ge Zhengxia said in unison.

"Comrade policeman, we thought that my brother had settled down somewhere, and his livelihood was different from that of ordinary people, and wherever there was a monastery, they would go there, and they would have no fixed place to live." Ge Zhengying said.

"Zhenggen followed Foreman Jiang to the north and south at the age of thirteen, and he didn't go home for several years, so we didn't care about not coming back for such a long time, he was always a bird flying outside." Ge Zhenggen's uncle said.

"Comrade policeman, my son Ah Bao and Zhenggen are inseparable, if something happens to Zhenggen, Ah Bao will never leave alone, and my son, he will also have an accident." Liu Abao's uncle, that is, his adoptive father, said without saltiness.

The old lady's choked and sobbing voice came from inside the West House: "Bao's life is so bitter!" ”

"Auntie, don't cry, you can't stop crying. How else can the police comrades ask? A woman reassured.

The old lady's choked and sobbing voice suddenly became much quieter.

At this moment, a woman in her sixties walked in from outside, and she wiped her tears with her hands as she walked inside.

This woman is Liu Abao's biological mother.

Ge Zhengying let the woman sit down on the bench.

The woman sat on the bench and wept vigorously, and her heart must have been very painful.

As a biological mother, it is really inconvenient to say anything in front of the child's adoptive parents.

Therefore, the old lady's sentence "Bao's life is so bitter" has a rich subtext.

If the adoptive father and adoptive mother are kind to Bao, Bao may not choose to leave home to earn a living outside.

Zhao Zimeng wanted to verify a few questions.

"Ge Zhengying, in the spring of the twenty-fourth year, did your mother have a health problem?"

"Comrade policeman, why do you ask?" Ge Zhengxia said.

"In the spring of that year, Ge Zhenggen received a letter from home, saying that his mother was critically ill and wanted to see his son."

"It's- it's something that doesn't happen! That year, my mother's body was never sick, even if my mother was sick, we had no way to write a letter to my brother? ”

"Why?"

"We don't know where he is, how can we write to him?" Ge Zhengying said.

"Yes! My brother would send some money back every once in a while, but the address for sending money changed frequently. Ge Zhengxia said.

There is no doubt that the letter Ge Zhenggen received was written to himself by himself, and he and Liu Abao discovered the secret of Lengyue Temple in the process of digging the well, and in order to get out, the two of them played a trick of the golden cicada shelling.