Chapter 558: A Huge Bill
This huge change may explain the mysterious ballads passed down by the ancestors of the Kui family, and it can also explain the origin of the three "pearls" that they have kept for generations.
Moreover, the name Zihe used by the ancestors of the Kui family was once another name for the West Night Country!
In the Book of Han, it was once believed that the West Night was also known as Zihe, but in fact they were originally two countries, but they were just close to each other.
Later, the kingdom of the Western Nights conquered the kingdom of Zihe, and the king of the Western Night sometimes referred to himself as the king of Zihe, just as Victoria was both the queen of Britain and Ireland and the emperor of India.
I am even more convinced of my judgment, this time I came to the right place!
The root of everything must be hidden in this vast desert!
I patted the back of the co-pilot in front of me excitedly, and Shen Yu looked at me with that look like a mentally ill person.
"Hey, pay attention, what are you intoxicated with? - Sultan, don't you have two things? And what about the second thing? She asked, looking ahead.
"Oh, you're not going to use this as a story, are you? What I'm saying is trueβat least the people who tell me won't lie to me. "Sultan seems to be a persistent person, and he cares more about what others think of him.
"We believe in you." Shen Yu said.
"Yes, I patted the chair just now, I just thought what you said was very helpful!" I also said sincerely.
Sultan was delighted: "Then the second thing is more comprehensible, this is the best thing for my fellow students......"
I thought to myself: At first glance, this relationship doesn't seem to be much more reliable than my uncle's second uncle.
"Back then, we both went to high school in the county seat, and he was a Han Min, whose surname was You, because of it."
"By the long wind!" I blurted out.
Changfeng was one of the ten Kalaya Tur villagers hired by the archaeological team that year! I remember that the information said that he had always dreamed of joining the army, but he always failed the physical examination and was eliminated several times.
This man was short-tempered and had a lot of strength, and he fought with people in the village of Yatul, and once slapped someone's donkey cart in the face.
"Hehe, I knew you guys were interested." Sultan looked very proud when he saw me call out the name.
Suletan continued, it turned out that his classmate was a nephew of Yu Changfeng.
At that time, the father of a classmate worked as an accountant on the farm, and later became a regular, and then the farm was not profitable, and some of the cadres were reassigned to work, and my father was transferred to the county food bureau, and finally settled in Yecheng County.
The grandparents of the classmates are also old, and the life and death of Changfeng are unknown, the two old people are full of grief, and their physical condition has plummeted.
The classmate's father was the eldest son, so he took his parents to the county town in 1995 so that he could take care of them. But the old people were not in good health, and they passed away one after another after more than a year.
The old house of the family in Yatur village was abandoned like that, and after a few years, there were fewer and fewer residents in Yatur village.
The farms were closed, the villages were in the heart of the desert, young people went out to work, and many people couldn't stand the harsh living conditions, and in the end only some old people remained, and some particularly poor villagers remained.
Although they are in the same county, they are all married after all, and many of their classmates go out to work, and everyone is busy with their own work, and they rarely get together.
Finally, two years ago, people with good deeds took advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to organize a party, so Sultan met classmate You again at the dinner table.
My classmates were admitted to university, majoring in journalism, and stayed in Chengdu to work after graduation. I haven't seen him for a few years, and there are not many topics to talk about, so he chatted with Suletandong and Xixi, and the content was nothing more than reminiscing about his middle school life, and saying that some parents in his hometown were short.
"You remember, my hometown is in a village on the edge of the desert."
"Of course! When I was a child, I used to make deliveries to farms there with my dad. "Speaking of which, when we were in school, we talked together because of this. β
"Ah, yes! At that time, we also talked about my uncle, the uncle who was born and died. "It seems that my classmates have just reacted, and if you have been out for too long, the past of your hometown will always become an indifferent existence.
He continued: "The old house of the family is still in Yatul. The old house is like a body, and the people who live there are like souls. Once no one lives in it, the house is like losing its soul, and it will soon grow old and die - only half a year after my grandfather moved to the county seat, the roof of the house collapsed.
"My dad went to see it at the time, but he didn't say anything, and after the two old men died, he never went back to Yatur village.
"That is, in the past two years, the township will carry out homestead confirmation. Our family is said to have become a non-agricultural household registration, and our grandparents are gone, so the homestead should be recovered. However, my uncle disappeared, his fate has not been known, and he has never lost his household registration, so the house was transferred to his name.
"Because of the confirmation of the right, my father had to go back and help my uncle with the registration. So he went back to his hometown after a long absence.
When he went to the village, he found that the roof of the old house had already collapsed, and the four outer walls had also collapsed. The whole yard and house were overgrown with weeds, and there was no place to stand, let alone a place to rest.
"My dad has been an accountant all his life, and his mind is full of numbers, and there is no melancholy at all. He glanced at the house, turned around and went to the village committee, wanting to finish the registration as soon as possible and go home early in the morning.
"It didn't take long to register, and when my dad was about to leave, he was kept by the village chief.
The village chief said that in the past two years, he received several letters, and the letters were the most ordinary ordinary letters, and the sender did not write an address, but one was postmarked by Shaoyang, Hunan, and the other was sent from Weiyang, Qiling. The address is written at home, and the recipient is my grandfather.
My father was astonished, and the village chief took the two letters out of a drawer and handed them to him. The village chief said, Lao You is dead, you should keep this letter. β
"My father took the letter, and it felt a little stiff when he pinched it, and it didn't look like a letter paper, but he couldn't tell what it was. He took the letter and did not open it on the spot. When he got home, he tore open the envelope......"
Sultan listened attentively, and he continued to ask his classmates, "What's inside?" β
"There were two strange bills in there, which said 'money orders,' and my dad looked down at the amount and was almost terrified - each money order was 200,000 yuan."
"What is a money order?"
"My dad didn't see it either, he ran to the post office the next day to ask, and the people from the Postal Savings Bank recognized it. This kind of bill was commonly used by people who did business in the eighties, and later it was used less and less. It is equivalent to a remittance slip, but it is more convenient than a remittance slip and more like a bank check.
"If a person deposits a bond at the post office and then buys such a bill of exchange, he may, thereafter issue a bill of exchange not exceeding the amount of the deposit to the designated person. The person who receives the money order can go directly to the post office to withdraw money with his or her ID card.
"But it's been more than ten years since my grandfather died, and I don't have any outside relatives in my family, even if there are relatives, who would inexplicably give a dead person a bill of exchange that can be redeemed on demand?" 8)