Chapter 25 Into the Village

[It's hot and tired today, and I accidentally fell asleep, so just... It's late to upload.。。。 Ahem, ahem, ahem】

The green trees and farmland outside the car window temporarily diluted the heavy feeling that had been lingering in Du Juan's heart for the past few days, and the two of them groped all the way to find the village where those people were, because the houses in this village did not have a house number, so the two of them parked the car on the side of a relatively wide road, and got out of the car to ask someone.

Generally speaking, there are not many outsiders in a village like this, Tang Hongye and Du Juan walked on the path in the village, and soon attracted the attention of the villagers who were enjoying the shade of the trees on the roadside, and they didn't talk to Du Juan and Tang Hongye, they just sat there, turned their eyes here, and looked at them suspiciously.

"It just so happens that there are a lot of people here, so I'll go over and ask." Tang Hongye said to Du Juan, and then motioned for her to wait next to him, and walked towards the crowd over there.

There was a relatively simple wooden bench in the shade under the two big trees on the side of the road, on which sat five or six women, the younger ones were estimated to be forty or fifty years old, and two of them looked to be in their seventies, these women just sat together, pinching the vegetable leaves in their hands, chatting at the sky, even if they looked at Tang Hongye and them, they didn't stop their original topic, and now seeing Tang Hongye coming straight over, they closed their mouths one after another, stopped saying anything, and looked at Tang Hongye quietly, speculating about his intention.

"I'm sorry, excuse me," Tang Hongye walked over and smiled at the women, "I want to ask, does Xu Yonggui's family live with us?" How to go? ”

"Xu Yonggui?" A middle-aged woman who looked to be in her fifties looked at Tang Hongye with some surprise, "Are you a relative of their family?" Does Xu Yonggui's family still have such decent relatives? ”

"Are you looking for Xu Yonggui, or are you looking for his son Xu Dafu?" A long, thin-faced woman next to her interjected.

"Oh, big sister, you're amazing! You can see it! I did go to Xu Yonggui's house to find his son, Xu Dafu didn't tell me clearly on the phone where his house was, I also came here for the first time, and now I can't find it, and no one answered his call. "Tang Hongye came to push the boat.

As soon as he said this, his slender face suddenly had a little more smile on his face, and he was able to take the initiative to talk to him at this time, he was originally a person who loves to talk, Tang Hongye's image is still very good, and he speaks cheerfully and kindly, plus the wording is clever enough, obviously he is a person who looks like "Auntie" is not wronged at all, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he is called "eldest sister", just ask that woman who doesn't like others to say that she is younger?

"You see, I guess I'm here to find Xu Dafu, how old is Xu Yonggui, and he has been honest all his life, and he can't make a fart three times, how can this young man come to him! It must be looking for Xu Dafu, Xu Dafu can toss a lot, there are people he knows everywhere all day long! The long, thin-faced man said to the others, "What's the matter! I guessed it right at once! ”

"Then what are you looking for Xu Dafu for? Are you doing business with him? The middle-aged woman who was the first to ask Tang Hongye belonged to a more curious personality and continued to try to get to the bottom of Tang Hongye.

"Well, I'm looking for him to do something." Tang Hongye nodded, and his answer was a little vague, after all, he didn't know what Xu Dafu was doing, at this time, the less he said, the safer he was, otherwise it would be easy to show his feet if he was not careful, which would make the villagers suspicious.

Although there is nothing to see the identity and purpose of the two of them, I am afraid that the old man whose ID card is in Lin Jie's hands, or the family of the old man, may not be so bright in their dealings with Lin Jie, so if they ask and investigate openly, they may not get a real answer.

"Look at you, why are you so willing to ask! Don't ask so much about other people's business! The slender face didn't know if it was bought by Tang Hongye's sentence "eldest sister", and his attitude was extremely enthusiastic at this time, and he reached out to help Tang Hongye point in one direction, "Young man, you just go along this road, turn a corner, go up a slope, and there is a crooked willow tree at the door on the left side of the road is Xu Dafu's family." ”

Tang Hongye thanked her, turned around and called the cuckoo to prepare to leave, when they walked away, they could still hear the voices of the women chatting, I don't know if they were particularly loud, or the villagers around here have the habit of talking loudly, both of them walked out a few meters away, and they could hear what they said very clearly, probably influenced by Tang Hongye's asking for directions, and the topic was Xu Yonggui and Xu Dafu father and son.

"Don't say it, Xu Yonggui has been honest all his life, like a lump of wood, he is quite promising to have a son, he always has all kinds of ideas, and he can make money!" A woman said with emotion.

Another woman didn't seem to agree so much: "Who knows what kind of money he's making!" Oh no, it's not a good way! A person who has been hanging from childhood to adulthood and has never made a living at all, can make some money back every three or five days, why don't I believe that it is so easy to make money! ”

"That's it, I think there are always people from outside who come to the village to look for Xu Dafu, and I don't know what he's tossing, but don't go back and provoke some indiscriminate people, and then implicate us!"

"Come on! It's not like you didn't see those two young people just now, how polite they are, they look like they're quite educated and cultured, I don't look like some kind of indiscriminate person! ”

"Knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing their hearts, what is the reason why the bad guys of which family still engrave words on their faces?"

Tang Hongye looked at the cuckoo, and the cuckoo also happened to turn his head to look at him, both of them were crying and laughing, although the two of them fell into a "knowing the face but not the heart" evaluation, but from one side it can also reflect a problem, that is, Xu Yonggui with this ID card in Lin Jie's hand, although he is said to be an honest man of age, but he has an unreliable son Xu Dafu, what is the livelihood that Xu Dafu depends on, the people in the village don't seem to be able to say it. And judging from his consistent behavior, it has been speculated by the villagers in the direction of not being very reliable and not responsible.

According to the guidance of the thin face, the two of them walked all the way, turned a corner, went up a slope, and sure enough, they saw a crooked neck tree growing at the gate of a courtyard on the left side of the road, so they quickened their pace, walked over there, and walked to the door, and saw that the gate was open, and there was a thin old man in the yard, who looked like he was in his seventies, wearing very simple clothes and trousers, and a straw hat that was already a little worn out on his head. He was in the yard with a small hoe to clear the weeds in a small vegetable garden in the garden.

"Hello, uncle, are you busy?" Tang Hongye walked towards the courtyard and greeted the old man with a smile, looking very familiar with the other party, "Is Xu Dafu at home?" ”

He made a bet with himself, he recognized the old man in front of him, it was Xu Yonggui on the ID card, considering Xu Yonggui's age and the evaluation of him by the people in the village, Tang Hongye decided to put the treasure on Xu Yonggui's son Xu Dafu, and directly skipped Xu Yonggui, not to waste his tongue and ask him too much.

Xu Yonggui heard someone talking to him, stopped what he was doing, straightened his waist, and turned his face to look at the two young people who came into the courtyard of his house. It is estimated that because he has done farm work all his life, Xu Yonggui's complexion is relatively dull, and his face is covered with dry wrinkles, and he feels that every line on his face seems to be full of traces of time and wind and rain.

originally thought that Xu Yonggui would interrogate them about their identities and intentions, but the old man just glanced at them, silently walked to the side, poked the small hoe in his hand in the corner of the wall and put it away, and then waved at the two of them, and pointed in the direction of the door inside: "You come with me into the house and wait, I'll call him and ask him to come back." ”

I didn't expect to be invited into the door so easily, Tang Hongye and Du Juan were really a little unaccustomed to Xu Yonggui's unguarded, of course they wouldn't say anything, and after thanking him, they followed Xu Yonggui into the house.

The economic conditions in Xu Yonggui's house do not seem to be very good, the house is very old, the furniture is very old, the furniture is very old, the blue mottled paint, and the glass plate with red and green patterns is painted, even the calendar paper in the glass plate is already more than 20 years ago, the female model on it is painted with makeup that looks out of place at the moment, wearing some "retro" clothes, and her face has been yellowed along with the paper. There is also a television set on top of the cabinet, which is the original color TV set that Du Juan had in his home when he was a child.

In recent years,The development of electronic products is getting faster and faster,Smart color TVs are popular,All kinds of brands are readily available,And the price is not expensive,I didn't expect Xu Yonggui's house to still look at such an old antique color TV。

It can be seen from this,Otherwise, the Xu family is really difficult,The economy is relatively tight,Even if it is calculated according to the consumption ratio now,It is already a fairly cheap color TV,It still can't be updated,Otherwise, Xu Dafu didn't put his mind on the days that were going through。

Xu Yonggui handed one of them a plastic stool, asked them to sit down, and went to the side to call Xu Dafu, Xu Yonggui estimated that he really didn't like to talk, and he didn't talk much when he called his son, so he said that someone came to look for him, let him come back quickly, and don't let people wait at home for a long time.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yonggui also pulled a stool and sat opposite Du Juan and Tang Hongye, the three of them stared at each other, Xu Yonggui faced the two of them, and did not plan to inquire about anything, Du Juan and Tang Hongye did not plan to talk too much with Xu Yonggui for the sake of insurance, so none of the three of them could find a topic, and the atmosphere seemed a little embarrassing and a little weird.

Just sat like this for a while, even the more wooden Xu Yonggui couldn't sit still, raised his butt from time to time, stretched his neck and looked out of the window to see if Xu Dafu came back from outside, but every time he only saw the empty yard, no way, he had to get up and call especially, although he didn't talk much, but his attitude was much more resolute than the previous time, until Xu Dafu gave him a satisfactory answer, and then hung up the phone.

"My son said he would be back soon, and this time it's true." Xu Yonggui said a little crampedly.

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry." The cuckoo smiled at the old man.

"You're friends with Daifuku?" Xu Yonggui didn't know if he was really curious, or if he felt that it was too embarrassing for the three of them to continue to remain silent, so he finally opened his mouth to talk to them.

"Not really," Du Juan shook his head at him, "We were actually introduced by another friend, he knew Xu Dafu, and had some contacts before, his name is Lin Jie, do you have any impression?" ”

originally thought that Xu Yonggui might at least express that he was a little impressed, but after hearing Lin Jie's name, he didn't have any reaction, shook his head blankly, and then said, "I don't know." ”

Xu Yonggui didn't know Lin Jie at all, so there was no way to continue chatting with him, but he didn't have any concept of Lin Jie at all, which also made Du Juan and Tang Hongye have a guess.

Although this topic was not discussed, fortunately, Xu Dafu really came back soon this time.

Xu Dafu looks quite similar to his father Xu Yonggui, both of them are black and thin, and he is also how tall Xu Yonggui is, he hurriedly rushed into the yard from the outside, and when he pushed the door and walked in, he didn't have time to see who was in the house, so he was already yelling while wiping his sweat.

"What's going on? It's like urging me back! I've just been a little more lucky at this moment, and the money I lost before hasn't been returned, so it's good, and I'm interrupted all of a sudden! Cheapened Zhang Laosan for nothing! He complained, and when he looked up and saw Du Juan and Tang Hongye sitting in the room, he was stunned for a moment, "Who are you?" ”

"We're here to find you," Tang Hongye smiled at him, ignoring Xu Dafu's unpolite attitude, "Lin Jie said that we can come directly to you, and you can help with what we want to do." ”

Lin Jie ...... Who is Lin Jie......? When Xu Dafu heard Tang Hongye's words, his expression also looked a little confused and confused.

When Tang Hongye saw his reaction, he also chuckled in his heart. If Xu Dafu didn't know Lin Jie at all, then they would be passive, and if they couldn't do it, they could only ask clearly.