Chapter 6 Three Things in Jiyang 1 Old Man Li

In late 2010, my failed company finally went out of business, and all my savings went down the drain. As mentioned in the book, I went through the encouragement and enlightenment of my brother, started from scratch, and finally achieved the position of sales supervisor after more than three months, in fact, for my work experience in Jinan this non-night market, there is nothing worth my nostalgia and nothing worth my recall, but I met my future business partner zx. That's a story for later, but to this day, ZX is still my partner, and the two of them have become good buddies who don't talk about anything.

At that time, he was my subordinate when I was working, and I didn't have any leadership talent and shelf, and we happened to be in love, so we often chatted or told stories during lunch breaks or after work. Sometimes it's just the two of us, sometimes it's a few people and colleagues together, anyway, we have to talk about it every day, but here it shows that we are not friends.

I went to a café downstairs with ZX and four or five of my subordinates during the lunch break that day, and that day I was full of interest and told a ghost story about good LDKTV in the third chapter, and ZX was also driven by me, opened the conversation, and told us three ghost stories about Jiyang.

Zx's home is in Jiyang, not far from Jinan, I have the impression that it seems to be called Qianzhang Village, he didn't mention it in the story, but once we were on a business trip together, I accidentally saw it when I bought a train ticket for him, and I should be not mistaken. When he was a child, he had a playmate named Gangzi, and the two had a very good relationship, and even though they were separated from each other, they still met or called from time to time to greet them.

Gangzi has been specially recruited by the old people since he was a child, and he looks very energetic. What I particularly like about him is a lonely old man who lives in the village, and everyone calls him Old Man Li. Old man Li's age is not very big today, only in his 50s, but the blow of life and the departure of his family have made him a lot older, and he looks like he is in his 60s, so he is called Old Man Li by everyone. The people in this village are all surnamed Zhang, why did someone with the surname Li come out? It turned out that this old man was the son-in-law of Qianzhang Village from other villages when he was young, and later the whole family was burned to death in a fire, and he escaped by going out to drink with friends. Since then, Old Man Li has not married a wife, and he lives alone, and people say that Old Man Li misses the old, because he can be seen burning paper for his family every year during the New Year's Festival.

Old man Li not only likes Gangzi but also loves it, often buys some pencils, notebooks, erasers and the like, and loves to make a small bowl of sweet fried soybeans with a lot of sugar for Gangzi every day. Gangzi became the envy of his peers, because at that time, snacks were a luxury for them. Old man Li was also ridiculed by the villagers that Gangzi was his illegitimate son.

Ridicule and sarcasm can't change Old Man Li's love for Gangzi as always. Gangzi slowly grew up, two years later, Gangzi went to elementary school in the outer village when he was seven years old, and Gangzi would go to play with Old Man Li every day after school, and Old Man Li continued to conjure fried soybeans for Gangzi to eat as if by magic. My family grew up in a well-off family in the city, and I grew up with countless snacks such as big bubble gum and good and good Nestle ice cream, and I always thought about what was delicious about fried soybeans, but zx said that if someone could get some dried sweet potatoes and fried soybeans every day when I was a child, he would die happily. I can understand it, but I can't understand it.

Gangzi and ZX's primary school is in a neighboring village, and they walk for about an hour every day to study. Sometimes it is late or rainy, and I will stay at a relative's house in a neighboring village, which must be very uncomfortable at first, but gradually the children like to go to school, after all, there is knowledge they have never heard or seen, and there are more peers to play.

Gangzi because his aunt lives in a neighboring village and his aunt has no children, so he stays at his aunt's house, and only comes back once on Saturday and Sunday, and there is a heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday, and Gangzi does not go home. It took another week to wait until the weekend to return to his parents' house, Gangzi was homesick, and his parents wanted to care more about him and love him. After Gangzi returned to the village, he did not go directly to his home but first went to the courtyard of the old man Li at the head of the village, the yard was still clean and tidy, but the old man Li disappeared, and there was a bowl of fried soybeans on the table that still had some residual temperature, Gangzi had not eaten fried soybeans for two weeks, and he was gluttonous and ate fried soybeans one by one and waited for Old Man Li to come back. Until it was dark, Old Man Li didn't come back, and Gangzi had to leave a note on Old Man Li's table saying that he would go home first and come back to play tomorrow. Gangzi, who finished eating a small bowl of fried soybeans, was not very hungry, and on the way he smashed sandbags with a few children who also didn't go home and played outside, and he saw his anxious parents hurrying in his direction. The father mentioned that he was going home, and the mother said angrily, "What are you doing with this child, and you don't know how to go home first?" "Gangzi, who dragged all the way, arrived home.

As soon as he got home, his father pushed him into a corner, and Gangzi knew that this was to punish him for standing. His mother said, "What did you say you were doing?" Gangzi was a little aggrieved, and he was so faceless to be brought home in front of the children, so he didn't answer, and lowered his head and ignored his parents. His father lit a cigarette without speaking, and then suddenly slapped Gangzi on the shoulder and yelled, "Speak, your mother asked you." ”

Gangzi's painful eyes were red, and he said, "I'm going to find Grandpa Li." ”

His parents stopped talking and looked at each other, and his father was silent for a while and said, "Don't go to Old Man Li if it's okay in the future." Gangzi looked at his parents with puzzled eyes, but his parents didn't speak, Gangzi thought that Old Man Li had some objections with his family, so he didn't pay attention to it. The next day, Gangzi ran to find Old Man Li while his parents were out to work, but all he had was a bowl of fried soybeans on the table that was still warm, and Old Man Li was still nowhere to be seen. After returning home, his parents asked Gangzi where he had gone with a gloomy face. Gangzi didn't dare to lie and say that he went to find Old Man Li, but his father sighed and said slowly: "Old Man Li is dead, you died the week you didn't come back last week, don't go to his house to play in the future, the house is dead and the people are not clean." ”

For the young Gangzi, the word death was so frightening and distant, but he had an instinctive fear in his heart, and he really listened to his parents and stopped going to Old Man Li's house.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year that year, the village was still filled with the smell of the New Year, and there was a strong smell of the New Year in the air, and scattered firecrackers could be heard from time to time. Gangzi carried the New Year's money given by his parents and grandparents to the commissary at the head of the village, where there was a flower skin book he had wanted for a long time and a stationery box that could pop open automatically. When he walked to the head of the village, he was suddenly stopped by several older children, who seemed to be children from other villages, because their faces were very raw.

They stopped Gangzi and pushed him, saying, "Kid, do you have any money, we want to buy some cigarettes to smoke." Gangzi covered his pocket in fear, and a child saw something and pulled Gangzi's pocket. Gangzi covered it tightly, and suddenly a slap fell from the sky and hit Gangzi's eyes like gold stars. "me, believe it or not I'm going to kill you?" An older child said viciously. After speaking, he went to pull Gangzi's pocket again, Gangzi was angry and bit on the outstretched hand. The eldest child screamed in pain, and his fist rained down on Gangzi's body, and Gangzi closed his eyes in fear and curled up and fell to the ground. The fist stopped, Gangzi opened his eyes and looked at them, the eldest child stood there with a surprised expression, his fist was framed by a thin figure, that figure was too familiar, it was Old Man Li. As soon as he burst into tears, Old Man Li took the child's hand away, pushed him to the ground, and picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at the group of children standing nearby.

They screamed in horror, what was this, and fled in panic. Gangzi never knew that Old Man Li's body was so tough and his movements were so agile. He got up and hugged Old Man Li's waist all of a sudden, and cried loudly: "Grandpa Li, Grandpa Li, where have you been, they all lied to me that you are dead, I know that you are not dead, and I can still eat your fried soybeans." Old man Li looked at Gangzi with a kind face, stroked his head and said, "Let's go, go home and talk." ”

The two returned to Old Man Li's house, which was also located at the entrance of the village, where Gangzi was jumping up and down to tell Old Man Li about the new things that happened in his school, telling Old Man Li about his new composition, and telling Old Man Li how much he missed him. Old man Li knocked on the cigarette pot in his hand, and suddenly took out a bowl of fried soybeans from behind him magically, and then said with a smile: "Gangzi, look, what is this?" "Fried soybeans" Gangzi smiled happily, Old Man Li called Gangzi over, poured fried soybeans into his pocket, and then said: "Gangzi, go back early, fried soybeans go home to eat, it's not early, it's time to go back late and be punished." Gangzi and Old Man Li smiled knowingly, this is Gangzi remembered and asked eagerly: "Are you still there tomorrow?" Can I come to you tomorrow to play? Grandpa Lee. Old man Li's eyes flickered a little, but he could still smile and say, "Tomorrow, tomorrow won't work, I still have something to do." I'm going to a big city, you grow up quickly, study hard, you can find me when you grow up and go to the big city, Grandpa Li and you will see you in the big city. ”

Gangzi went home, the child's heart just couldn't hide his words, and as soon as he got home, he yelled at his parents: "Grandpa Li is not dead, Grandpa Li is not dead, I saw Grandpa Li today." We also beat the villains together......" Before he finished speaking, his mother's bowl smashed to the ground, and his father rushed over and slapped Gangzi in the face, shouting in fear and anger: "Dead, he died, the whole village knows, no one cares about us working together to bury him, do you understand, do you understand, understand that he is dead, he is dead...... father is still roaring, Gangzi remembered something, and shouted: "Look, look, Grandpa Li gave me fried soybeans." As he spoke, he took it in his pocket, and he was so anxious that the soybeans were spilled out of his pocket and slowly fell to the ground. Silence, silence in the room, Gangzi sobbed lowly, and his parents couldn't say a word.

"And then?" I saw that ZX was silent for a long time and asked him.

"And then? And then that's the end of the story," ZX said quietly as he took a sip of his coffee.

"What happened to Gangzi later?" A female colleague asked with a cute gesture of cuteness. Zx looked out the window with his eyes and said quietly: "Later, Gangzi went to college, went to work in a company in Beijing, and really went to the big city, and now I heard that I opened a small company and did well, I don't know if he has ever seen his Grandpa Li in the big city, but I can be sure that he still remembers Grandpa Li, because no matter what clothes he wears, he always has a handful of crispy fried soybeans in his pocket." ”