Everyone was full of wine and food, and they planned that it was time to go to the Huang family to have a look.

Zhang Shengli said humbly: "Jiang Suo, Uncle Chen, I won't go to the scene." ”

Jiang Daokun said: "Teacher Zhang, I understand your feelings, after all, it was your own students who had this kind of thing, and it was sad to hear it, let alone witness the tragedy." But it has come to this point, the living people still have to be strong, at least you go and see, it may be helpful for us to investigate the cause of death. ”

Zhang Shengli was even more nervous, but he couldn't find a reason to refuse, and followed everyone forward with his two feet without obeying the call.

The Huang family is on the mountainside behind the village, and it is still a little far from Chen Yumen's house.

On the way, Wang Ziheng came to Chen Yumen and asked him about Chen Tongsheng's situation.

Chen Yumen's eyes lit up: "What, you know?" ”

Wang Ziheng said: "I used to work in provincial Taiwan, and I was also a colleague with Director Chen. ”

"Sorry fart!" Chen Yumen's voice became louder, "An unfilial son, death is the blessing of society!" ”

"What did Director Chen do?"

Chen Yumen sighed and slowly said the reason.

Walking three or four hundred meters east from Chen Yumen's house, it is the house of his brother Chen Yuxiang. It was a low, crumbling old tiled house, with broken doors and walls, wind in winter and rain leaking in summer, and now it is uninhabited and even more dilapidated.

More than 30 years ago, Chen Yuxiang, who was already close to the age of confusion, brought back a child from outside, and he said that the child was picked up by the side of Giethoorn Street when he went to the scene.

Chen Yuxiang and his wife couldn't give birth, so they picked up a fat son, and naturally protected it as a golden pimple. They named the child Chen Tongsheng.

Chen Tongsheng played a clever job and entered the Communication University for further study with excellent results after the college entrance examination. This is the first brand-name college student ever in Chenjiazhai to go out.

In the summer vacation of the year when Chen Tongsheng was named on the gold list, Chen Yumen personally managed it and held a three-day flowing water banquet in the village to celebrate. As a member of the Chen clan, everyone is proud of Chen Tongsheng's appearance.

However, after going to the capital to study, Chen Tongsheng's attitude towards his parents has changed significantly.

Chen Yuxiang and his wife are honest farmers, uneducated, and have a hard life, except for doting on Chen Tongsheng since childhood, they can no longer find other ways to educate. Over time, the child developed a bad problem: picking fat and thin, and not knowing how to respect elders.

Relatives and friends think that the child is small, and he is so smart, and he has suffered a lot with his parents, so they can't bear to criticize him, thinking that it would be good to grow up and be sensible.

Who knew that Chen Tongsheng, who went to college, became even worse, and when he came home, he laughed at his family at every turn, and his parents were useless. Although Chen Yuxiang and his wife were sad, how could they be willing to scold their baby son for half a sentence?

Later, as long as he was unhappy, Chen Tongsheng would be insulted at least and beaten his parents at worst. The clansmen couldn't stand it anymore, so they decided to let Chen Yumen come out and talk to the children.

Chen Yumen told Chen Tongsheng the secret that the clansmen had hidden for more than 20 years, explaining his origin, and the purpose was nothing more than to awaken Chen Tongsheng's conscience and make him know how to be grateful.

Who knew that after Chen Tongsheng learned about his life experience, he thought of the hardships he had suffered since he was a child, and because he had no economic background and could not stay in the capital to get ahead, he suddenly hated it: "What kind of baby do you have to learn from others if you have no money and no income?" I shouldn't have let these two poor ghosts pick me up in the first place! ”

Chen Tongsheng no longer asked his parents and wandered outside alone.

The villagers heard that he mixed well in the provincial capital and became a director in the TV station; He quietly became a family himself, his wife and children are all in Tangshan County, and it is said that he lives a well-off life.

only pity Chen Yuxiang and his wife, who raised Chen Tongsheng in vain, and in the end, let alone the end of the pension, people don't even recognize them.

The two old men will only dig in the soil to eat, for most of their lives, the pitiful savings are all spent on the cultivation of Chen Tongsheng, and now they are dying, poor and sick, where can they support themselves?

Chen Yumen didn't expect that having a heart-to-heart relationship with Chen Tongsheng would result in such an ending, and he was ashamed in his heart, so he usually counted him as the most brothers. But everyone grows crops in the countryside, and life is as tight as ever, and no one can always be someone else's relief bodhisattva.

Finally one year, Chen Yumen found out the exact date when Chen Tongsheng was going back to the county seat to live, so he told Chen Yuxiang to go to the city to find his son, no matter what, after raising him for so many years, the food money should be repaid! Chen Yuxiang entered the city, and Chen Tongsheng did even better: "I have eaten your family's bread rice for more than 20 years, and in the future, I will pay you 100 catties of bread every year!" ”

On the same day, Chen Yuxiang returned home with hundreds of catties of grain. When the people in the stockade heard this, there was no one who was not angry.

Although Chen Yuxiang and his wife are honest, they have a lot of backbone, thinking that they always eat the relief food of relatives and friends, and they can't help it.

"An old guy who is almost seventy years old, what strength can he sell!" Chen Yumen was in tears.

Within two years, Chen Yuxiang died of exhaustion on the way to delivery. His wife sent Lao Chen away, and continued to lift the back, carrying the heavy life again and again, and struggling to move forward.

"Does the government care? Isn't there a subsistence allowance and targeted poverty alleviation? Wang Ziheng was incredulous.

Everyone was silent.

Chen Yumen lowered his head and cried, Jiang Daokun's eyes were blurred, and everyone seemed to have a complicated expression on their faces. The night sky overhead was dark, and I didn't know when the light would appear.

Huang Sanmei's home has finally arrived.

The southeast corner of the main house was slanted by stone tiles in three wooden houses that were about to collapse, and several straight, aged wires came out of the beams and connected to the trembling telephone poles outside.

A few bold old men squatted at the door and smoked dry cigarettes, and the big light bulbs borrowed by the villagers temporarily emitted a white miserable light, shining on the miserable situation in the house.

As soon as I entered the house, a strong smell of pesticides entered my nostrils.

In the humble kitchen, there was still an oil pot on the earthen coal stove, the artichoke pieces in the pot had been fried to a yellow, and the corpse of a girl curled up by the stove was unrecognizable. Needless to say, this is Huang Sanmei. On Huang Sanmei's right-hand side is half a bowl of paraquat that has been drunk.

Lying next to Huang Sanmei was the corpse of a girl about four or five years old, holding a small half bowl of fried potatoes tightly in her hands, pepper noodles were scattered all over the ground, and her mouth was full of black and yellow vomit. This is Sister Huang.

Outside the kitchen door, there was a third corpse, a boy, lying on his back on the ground, seemingly experiencing severe pain before he died, his face distorted, and his eyes wide open. This is Huang Xiaojie.

In the courtyard outside the house, the fourth corpse knelt on the dirt, its head tilted to one side, and its face was serene. This is Huang Xiaohao.

Rao is everyone was mentally prepared before, but in the face of the sight, they still felt too frightened.

Zhang Shengli was the first to hold back, and ran to the side and gagged. Xie Daxi walked behind him expressionlessly and silently patted him on the back.

No one spoke, and the whole back mountainside was unusually peaceful.

Jiang Daokun and several policemen checked inside and outside several times, and judging from experience, they ruled out the possibility of his killing.

Jiang Daokun called everyone to one place, and said with a solemn face: "It's a suicide!" So next, everyone will help analyze and analyze, who have these four sisters been in contact with in recent days? What is the unusual behavior? Who have you ever quarreled with, fought with? I think these four children seem to have agreed to take paraquat at about the same time, but why? ”

"What else?" Chen Yumen said sadly, "Only give birth but don't raise, four children are like wild cats, hungry and full, no one is by your side, how can you live comfortably?" ”

The villagers, every word you say to me, are full of righteous indignation but unable to do anything. Jiang Daokun waved his hand to interrupt everyone: "That's it, Lao Chen, you first contact the relatives of the Huang family, and prepare to handle the aftermath tomorrow." ”

Chen Yumen said: "Haven't you come early if you have relatives?" This Huang Xuewu's family is a foreign surname with no relatives and no reason in our Chenjiazhai, and I only heard that there are a few relatives in Dading County next door, and we don't know how to contact them. ”

"What about Huang Xuewu and his lover? Can't get in touch all the time? ”

"It's like dead, not heard from at all."

Jiang Daokun frowned: "Then it can only be done in the name of the village!" Since it is determined that it is a suicide, there is no need for us to investigate, and in view of the situation of the Huang family, I will report to the county early tomorrow morning and strive for it from the civil affairs department. As for the motive for suicide, you see, how do I write it? Be pessimistic and world-weary? ”

Chen Yumen said: "We are not good at these word games. Director Jiang, I only ask you, and it's not aimed at you, don't be angry. There is no problem in the village to do this post-mortem, but for four people, you have to have four coffins, and you have to invite someone to eat and drink when you carry the coffin for burial, and it is not a meal for one or two people. ”

"Didn't I say it, try to fight for the civil affairs department for you."

"What do you think you can do? We are all poor and white croppers, and we must have the capital to learn from Lei Feng. If you want to say that you use a bundle of straw mats and dig a pit to bury it, I won't talk to you about money, but it's still disrespectful to the dead. These poor dolls, who are alive to suffer, will they also suffer when they die? God is watching! ”

Jiang Daokun took out his leather armor, took out a thousand yuan and stuffed it into Chen Yumen's hand, and said, "I understand the difficulties of the villagers. This amount of money is a little bit of my expression, everyone has a few dollars first, get things done first, and leave the things negotiated with the above to me. Coffins, don't buy them if they're too expensive, whoever has a wooden box will donate it and use it, and if it doesn't work, nail a few wooden planks. ”

Seeing this, Wang Ziheng hurriedly stuffed Chen Yumen with 2,000 yuan; Zhang Shengli didn't bring much cash, and he also said five hundred. In this way, there should be no big problem in dealing with an aftermath.

Chen Yumen was very moved and bowed deeply to the big guy.

"So be it!" Jiang Daokun said, "Lao Chen, discuss with the comrades in the village, collect the corpse first, and deal with it tomorrow, how about it?" ”

Everyone said yes.

Finally, Zhang Shengli finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone was busy again, and it was early in the morning.

After packing up, Chen Yumen arranged accommodation for everyone. When it was Wang Ziheng and Zhang Shengli's turn, Xie Daxi said: "These two little brothers will go to my place to deal with it for one night, as long as you don't dislike it." ”

Wang Ziheng and Zhang Shengli expressed their gratitude.