I remember that there was a time when "Country Aiqing" was particularly popular, and at that time, many people on the Internet said that the TV series was scandalizing the rural areas of Northeast China, and many Northeast people said that their lives were not like that at all. In fact, when I was in college, I also thought that the TV series was too exaggerated, but later I didn't know until I actually went to the countryside that the Northeast countryside was really like that!

In addition, the countryside in the countryside aiqing is still quite rich, and many of the villages I have been to are not as good as the village in the TV series, and they are absolutely poor.

Sun Xiuli's family is very poor. There are four members in her family, her parents, her, and her brother. Because the family is poor and has no land, Sun Xiuli and her brother can't afford to go to school, so they go to the city to work when they are young. These are all things that Sun Xiuli told me when she first came to my store, and the actual situation of her house is obviously worse than I imagined.

After coming out of the township, there was basically no decent road, and I drove for about 20 minutes according to Sun Xiuli's direction before finally arriving at her house.

Her house is an ordinary little bungalow, which looks very shabby. In front of the house is a simple courtyard enclosed by a thick branch fence, and there is a wooden chicken coop in the corner of the yard, which is estimated to be able to raise three or four chickens at most.

As soon as my car stopped on the side of the road in front of the house, an old man came out of the house. The old man was dark and thin, with a wrinkled face, and looked as if he was in his sixties and almost seventy. The old man's eyes are red, and it is estimated that it is Sun Xiuli and her father.

Sun Xiuli immediately got out of the car and shouted "Dad", and then trotted to the old man and asked with a crying voice: "Where is my brother?" ”

"It's in the house." The old man replied with a painful expression, then he glanced at me and asked Sun Xiuli, "Who is this?" ”

"This is the owner of my hotel, and he sent me back."

When Sun Xiuli introduced me, I also walked up to the old man and nodded and said hello to the old man.

"Yes...... It's Boss Lei! The old man felt a little overwhelmed, and his hand rubbed hard against his clothes, and then he was about to stretch it out, but hesitated and retracted his hand.

I hurriedly said to the old man: "You don't have to be polite to me, I'm not a boss, just a restaurant owner, you just treat me as Sun Xiuli's friend." ”

My words seemed to have an effect, and the old man's expression eased slightly from the tension. Then I took out the brown paper bag containing the money from my bag and stuffed it into the old man's hand and said, "This is 50,000 yuan, it is my sister and my little meaning, you take it, don't push it." ”

"That's good! That's good! This...... This ......" The old man obviously didn't know what to say, so he simply pushed the money bag into my hand.

I pressed the money on the old man's hand again and said: "You can take it when you are old, my sister and I both regard Sun Xiuli as our own sister-in-law, and we can also help with the money if something happens to your family, if you don't even take the money, then I really don't know how to contribute." ”

The old man hesitated for a while before finally accepting the money, and then pulled Sun Xiuli to bow to me and thank me, and said that the money was Sun Xiuli's advance salary, and he would pay it back slowly in the future. I didn't push the old man anymore, I just said "I'll talk about it later" and then followed the father and daughter into the house.

Sun Xiuli's house has a total of two rooms, one large and one small, and there is a small house on the left side of the door, and a big house when you go straight inside.

I didn't look at the hut, and from the first time I entered the house, I could clearly see what was going on in the big house. Sun Zhongqing was lying on a door panel erected by a stool, with a worn mattress spread underneath him.

Sun Zhongqing, Sun Xiuli's biological brother, he has come to see his sister a lot in the past few years after opening a restaurant, so I naturally recognize him as the person lying on the door. Sun Zhongqing is a small laborer who does outdoor decoration, so his skin is tanned and feels very healthy, he gives me the impression of being very optimistic and cheerful, every time he comes to my hotel, he is happy, but now his face has become pale without a trace of blood, and there is no expression, just lying there quietly.

There were still two women and a man sitting in the room, but my eyes only swept over the faces of these three people, and then focused on Sun Zhongqing, who was lying on the door panel.

Sun Xiuli ran over and knelt on the edge of the door and started crying, just after crying a few times, the old lady with a wrinkled face next to her went over to pull Sun Xiuli away, and said in a choked voice: "Girl, don't cry, you cry...... Your brother won't worry about leaving~"

The old lady who spoke was obviously Sun Xiuli's mother.

Sun Xiuli cried in her mother's arms for a while before she finally stopped her tears, and then stood up to introduce me and a few people in the room to each other.

I already know Sun Xiuli's parents. Another young woman named Lu Xiaohong is Sun Zhongqing's object, that is, the Xiaohong sister that Sun Xiuli mentioned before, and a middle-aged man is Sun Xiuli's second uncle. Except for Lu Xiaohong, all the relatives of the Sun family are only four of them, and they feel very lonely.

After being silent for a while, Sun Xiuli asked how Wang Zhongqing died.

Her mother said, "Your brother was fine yesterday, but when I went to the hut early this morning, I found that he was out of breath." The doctor in the township can't see a name, and he said that he had to go to the county for an autopsy, and I also felt that he should check it. ”

"What?! Didn't you cut your son apart? No way! Sun Xiuli and her father were anxious when they heard this, and they tightened their noses and glared and said: "Didn't Eryi go to invite half an immortal, people can come over at noon, you can't wait honestly?" ”

"Yes, sister-in-law, that Wu Banxian is a friend of an acquaintance of mine, and he doesn't accept our family's money, so he came to Bu Yigua to know that Zhongqing was gone. And the people also promised to help Zhang Luobai do things, and they didn't charge us a dime. Sun Xiuli's second uncle said from the side.

I support Sun Xiuli's mother in my heart, but after all, this is the family matter of the Sun family, and I, an outsider, are not good at interfering from the side, so I chose to remain silent, and at the same time focused on Lu Xiaohong, Sun Zhongqing's object.

I'm not a womanizer, and Lu Xiaohong isn't pretty, and the reason why I pay attention to her is because she behaves very unnaturally.

Lu Xiaohong showed a sad look like everyone else, but at the same time, she kept frowning, and the corners of her mouth twitched from time to time, as if she had something to say, it felt like she knew something hidden but was always hesitant to say it. This state of hers reminds me of one person, and that is Gu Wei.

At this time, I suddenly thought of what Sun Xiuli said, she said that Sun Zhongqing earned a sum of money to go home, but the current situation looks like the old Sun family is obviously struggling because of the problem of money.

Although apprentices like Sun Zhongqing who work as laborers with foremen are unstable, as long as they have a job, they earn more than 100 per day, and it is normal to earn an average of 10,000 a year. This time he said that he made a sum of money, and this money even made him give up his job in the city directly, and the amount of money should not be small, at least the autopsy is not a problem.

Where did the money go?

I naturally thought of Lu Xiaohong.

So I asked tentatively: "I heard that Zhongqing earned money to go home and get married, why don't you take some of this money out of it and do an autopsy?" After all, people have to die clearly, I can't give this money, no matter how you say it, it's an acquaintance. ”

Although my words were very roundabout, Lu Xiaohong's reaction was very violent, and the moment her body shook, even the chair under her made a creaky sound, and the eyes of the whole room were suddenly focused on Lu Xiaohong.