"Yes, I frightened you, but I was really helpless." Xu Manren knelt down to Fu Ruming as he spoke, "I only recently learned that I regretted having a relationship with my deceased old friend, and now I can only ask you to help advise you not to have any more dealings with Fu Ning." ”

"Mr. Xu, you get up first." Fu Ruming helped Xu Manren up again, although this old man was usually not loved by him, but the other party's feelings for Xu Youregret were real and touching. "You give me some time to digest it, and I'll figure it out."

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For two days in a row, Fu Ruming was upset, he knew that Xu Youregret was now no less in contact with Fu Ning than himself, Xu Youregret's ability to deal with Ning trusted even more than him, and he had heard that Fu Ning was asked to investigate the cause of his parents' deaths for him. Fu Ruming didn't know where to start for a while.

"Ru Ming, are you okay for the past two days?" Fu Ruming's grandmother, who was almost 90 years old, walked towards him hunched over, and she walked as slowly as a snail.

Fu Ruming hurriedly stepped forward to support his elderly grandmother, "Grandma, you have difficulty moving, just stay in the house and don't walk around." ”

"Ru Ming, you have been strange for the past two days, your parents, wife and children are in the town, and now it's not the weekend, why did you suddenly go back to the village to live with your grandmother? You're not going to be too honest and lose your job, are you? Grandma asked.

"No, the job is still missing. But I've taken a few days off and want to come back to see you. Fu Ruming smiled.

"What's so nice about me as an old woman? I have your aunt to take care of me, so I don't need you to be upset. You hurry back to school, the students don't like you to take leave every day. Grandma said unhappily that she agreed with the popular mind that young people should put work first, and besides, he was a man and had to carry the burden of the family. After only three nights here, her old man was not happy.

"Grandma, you'll have to let me have lunch before you go back." Fu Ruming helped the grandmother and the two walked into the old bungalow tiled house at the same time.

"Grandma, there's something I want to ask you."

"Grandma, I have no education, if you ask me a question from a cultured person, I may not be able to answer it." Grandma is embarrassed.

"No, it's about sixty years ago in the village." Fu Ruming said, took out a black and white photo in his pocket and handed it to the old grandmother. "Grandma, do you know this person?"

The old grandmother took it, she put on reading glasses, looked down at the person in the photo carefully, "I know you." The old grandmother raised her head strangely and looked at Fu Ruming, "Why do you have a photo of him?" Do you still care about this man who has been dead for many years? ”

"It was my good friend's grandfather who asked me where I came from." Fu Ruming saw the old grandmother's expression like this, and he was sure that Xu Manren did not deceive him.

"This person's name is Fu Ning, if he is still here, he may be about the same age as me. At that time, I was only 16 years old, so I adopted your grandfather and came back to be a child daughter-in-law. I've always heard rumors about this man. The old grandmother's thoughts at this time returned to her youthful days:

The young grandmother lived in Fujia Village on Chinese New Year's Eve for the third year. The festive village was suddenly full of people, and a large group of unmarried young girls dressed up gathered at the entrance of the village, chattering so lively.

The home where my grandmother married happened to be at the entrance of the village, she looked strangely at the enthusiastic scenery of the girls outside from the window, and asked the sister-in-law who was dressing up puzzled, "Isn't it anything that there are so many girls standing outside?" Are they waiting for any big shots? ”

"Sister-in-law, even if you are a little clever, I am also planning to go out to pick up the dust for the most handsome and promising brother Fu Ning in our village. It's a pity that my brother Fu Ning is from the same ancestor as me, otherwise I would have gone out early to fight with the group of girls outside and robbed Brother Fu Ning. The young sister-in-law put down the comb in her hand and ran out as briskly as a swallow.

At this time, her grandmother had given birth to Fu Ruming's second uncle, she was naturally not interested in paying attention to men other than her husband, listening to the noisy sound outside, she had to helplessly pick up the baby who was a few months old, and kept walking back and forth in the house, trying to put the baby to sleep. The baby had just fallen asleep in her arms when she was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside.

"Which big man has come back to the village? As for setting off firecrackers to greet you? The grandmother approached the window in displeasure while coaxing the crying baby, and looked out from the window again.

At that time, Fu Ning was only in his early twenties, very young, with a face more durable than a woman, and a tall figure, he could attract the attention of his grandmother at a glance in the crowd. It was the first time for grandma to see such a good-looking man, she forgot to coax the baby in her arms for a while, if she didn't have a man, she really wanted to rush out and pounce on the other party.

At that time, Fu Ning was dressed in white and clean casual clothes, with a bright and amiable smile, and talked politely and politely to the girls who received him, and the girls threw warm admiring eyes on him, but the women of that era were more conservative and did not dare to step forward to pull Fu Ning in public. They all kept a little distance and talked to Fu Ning while walking.

This is grandma's first impression of Fu Ning, she looks so good that she can't take her eyes off, and a large group of people in front of her walked past her window for many times, and grandma woke up like a dream and remembered that she was married.

When the sister-in-law came back, the grandmother couldn't help but ask curiously about the beautiful man.

"The Fu Ning you talked about this morning, beautiful comrade, why haven't I seen it before?" Grandma asked.

"You haven't seen him, but he's the richest man in our village, and he's studying at Tsinghua University in Beijing. I haven't been back for three years. I heard that he is about to graduate from college and is going to practice in the army. The sister-in-law said.

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Three years later, on Chinese New Year's Eve, the people in the village began to put up lights early in the morning. At this time, in addition to a large group of beautiful girls, there were many more fathers and elders waiting at the entrance of the village.

"Lao Fu, you really know how to educate your children, I heard that Fu Ning joined the Communist Party for only three years and became the head of the army, and he can become an officer at such a young age, and his future is limitless." An old man praised the middle-aged man with a sassy spirit, the man stood upright, dressed neatly, and gave people a sense of connotation.

"Second uncle, you have won the award, this is all won by his own efforts, and I haven't done anything more as a father."

"It's coming, it's coming." Many young men said loudly. But they saw six young men walking towards them not far away, talking and laughing. Among them, the most eye-catching and eye-catching is Fu Ning, these six men are the young people in Fujia Village who joined the army at that time. In those days, the soldiers were very valued by people, and Fu Ning's achievements were outstanding, and the people in the village were here to wash the dust for them.

Grandma remembers that the sound of firecrackers at that time was louder and more lasting than on the day of the Spring Festival.

As for Fu Ning's ability in the army, my grandmother heard a lot from the people in the village at that time, and heard that Fu Ning had made a lot of achievements in the border defense war. Although grandma and Fu Ning have never said a word, and they have only met Fu Ning a few times from afar, she is still very concerned about the wind in the whole village of Weizhen at that time, Fu Ning, and when she is idle and has nothing to do, she goes to listen to people talk about Fu Ning's deeds. Unconsciously, the character of Fu Ning has survived in her grandmother's heart.

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Three years later, on Chinese New Year's Eve, people in the village put on big white coats and white ribbons, some cried loudly, and some silently shed tears. A shiny red coffin was placed at the door of the ancestral temple, and the light winter rain fell on the coffin surface, and everyone only felt that their eyes were burning and stinging to the coffin.

The weather was very cold, but the whole village rushed to see off this soldier who would live forever in their minds on the road. One of them, a beautiful young woman, was holding on to the coffin for a long time, and it was not until the auspicious time came and the coffin was buried behind the ancestral temple that the woman was willing to leave the coffin.

At that time, there was great suspicion about Fu Ning's death, Fu Ning came back two days early, planning to marry the child daughter-in-law who had not passed the door, and did not join the enlisted partners in the same village, but only walked with Chen Liyan in the next village. Chen Liyan recounted that the two of them got off the train station, took a bus to the town, and then rushed to the village on foot. After a long journey, the two parted ways and walked towards their village. Only a few minutes after the two broke up, Chen Liyan suddenly heard a gunshot, and when he arrived, he saw a shotgun left on the ground, Fu Ning had already lost his breath, but the murderer was nowhere to be found.

The elders in the village are very excited, it is so rare for a talent to appear in the village, and I heard that he is about to be promoted to the head of a party, but now he says that there is no more. After a meeting, the elders found that there were many doubts inside. In the end, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, more than 100 villagers dressed in mourning clothes braved the damp and light rain to go to Chenjia Village next door to ask Chen Liyan, who was also quite prestigious in Chenjia Village at that time.

Grandma also participated in the accountability of Chen Liyan at that time, she didn't believe it when she first heard the news of Fu Ning's death, but when she saw Fu Ning's coffin, her heart ached like a knife, even though she didn't have a deep relationship with Fu Ning, but the other party had lived in her heart for nine years of tall image, she was just a wait-and-see person and felt distressed for the other party, not to mention other villagers who had dealings with Fu Ning.

At that time, the villagers all looked sad and excited, and more than 100 people surrounded Chen Liyan's house, Chen Liyan stood up righteously and swore that there was no intention to kill Fu Ning, everything was just an accident. But the villagers didn't believe him at all, and an oath would do nothing. If it weren't for the people of Chenjia Village who also stood up in groups to protect Chen Liyan, the villagers would not have let Chen Liyan go easily.

Later, even though some people came forward to file a case and surrender, the villagers in Fujia Village thought that there were too many suspicions, and they always believed that Fu Ning's death was related to Chen Liyan. However, the technology was not developed enough at that time, and the matter was finally closed.

Since then, Fujia Village and Chenjia Village have not interacted with each other for more than 30 years. The elders of Fujia Village even formulated family rules, men are not allowed to marry women from Chenjia Village, and women are not allowed to marry men from Chenjia Village. Later, after half a century of ups and downs, many of the older elders in Fujia Village were deceased, and Fu Ning, a figure who once shocked their hearts, gradually faded into everyone's mind.......

After saying this, a few tears fell on the grandmother's face unconsciously, and it is conceivable that Fu Ning back then had a root in her mind that she could not shake and forget.