The middle-aged man's actions stunned me.

"For... Why can't you collect it? ”

I looked at him in a daze, and my heart sank, could it be that this Wanjin Mountain has a bad reputation in this village? I regret it a little, if I had known, it would have been better not to say that it was his distant relative, I should have said that the bastard owed me money, and I was here to collect the debt...

I was turning my mind to what the middle-aged man said next, making me even more stunned.

"Because, Wanjin Mountain is the great benefactor of our old village, since you are his relatives, what is it worth to invite you to eat a few goose eggs, how can you collect money..."The middle-aged man said.

Yuxin and I immediately widened our eyes at the same time, and we couldn't close our mouths for a while.

"Big... Great benefactor? ”

I said in my heart, that Wanjin Mountain actually raised a little ghost to come to protect the house, he must not be a good person, how could he be a great benefactor of this old village? There's got to be something wrong with that...

"yes, aren't you his relatives, don't you know?" The middle-aged man looked at me with suspicion in his eyes.

Yu Xin wanted to speak, but I gently touched his leg under the table with my hand, and smiled at the middle-aged man, "It's such a big brother, what..."

I laughed, and my mind raced to the thought, "What's that... Actually, it's not a relative, many years ago, Wan Jinshan and my father were friends, later, my father went to Guangdong to do business, lost contact, this time I went back to my hometown to visit relatives, my father specially instructed me, let me find him this old man, visit, on his behalf to say hello..."

"Oh," the middle-aged man nodded, "I see, I said how to listen to you with a foreign accent." ”

"yes." I laughed, "I grew up in Guangdong..."

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by this middle-aged man, "It was your father who told you the name of our 'old village' and asked you to find it, right?" ”

Why did he ask? When I looked at it, I saw this middle-aged man looking at me honestly, without any expression on his face. I immediately knew in my heart that this middle-aged man's unattractive appearance was actually very shrewd, and he doubted my words, which was considering me. Seeing that the house where Wan Jinshan lived was so new, I guess I moved to this village from outside later, so I decided to take a gamble...

"Where, when my father met Wanjin Mountain, he didn't live in your village, I inquired about it myself."

Hearing me say this, the middle-aged man's face suddenly turned pale, and he nodded, "Well, Wanjin Mountain has made a mark outside and returned to our old village, but it's only been a few years..."

'Made a mark outside', 'Back to the old village'... Depending on the situation, this 'Wanjin Mountain' was originally from this old village...

I sighed, "Looks like my father was expecting a good thing." ”

"What?" The middle-aged man asked.

"Huh?" I looked at him, "Oh, it's nothing, my father said that a person like him who has a conscience and loves his roots, if he makes a fortune outside, will definitely return to his roots." He once mentioned the name of his hometown to my father, saying that it was called a village, but my father couldn't remember exactly, but he told me that if he couldn't find him, he might have moved back to his hometown to live, and asked me to inquire about the village in his hometown..."

"Falling leaves don't count as anything to the roots, it should be said that the prodigal son turned back." The middle-aged man said.

"Oh? How? ”

"You don't know?"

"When my father knew him, I was very young, of course I didn't know." I smiled and spread my hands, "Besides, there is a certain generation gap between our generation and the previous generation, and my father has not talked to me about the personal affairs of his old friend. ”

"Maybe even your father himself doesn't know, after all, it's not a glorious thing, Wan Jinshan shouldn't tell others." The middle-aged man said.

I was very curious, but I said, "Since that's the case, then you must not tell me, big brother, otherwise, it will be detrimental... Ten thousand... (What should I call Wan Jinshan, I don't know how old this grandson is), Wan... Alas, his reputation. I think it's nothing more than knocking on a widow's door, or throwing a dead grave or something like that, he must have been the street rat of your village before. ”

"It's true that rats cross the street, and they have knocked on widows' doors and dug up graves... It doesn't seem to be, anyway, he used to have a bad reputation, and the old people in our village, as well as people of my age, all know it, and it's not a secret..."

From the words of this middle-aged man, it was speculated that this Wan Jinshan should be older than him.

"Listening to what you said, eldest brother, I am a little curious about Uncle Wan's affairs, people say that the prodigal son does not change his money, the more unbearable the person was in the past, once he turned back, the more respectable he was. Since it's not a secret, big brother, you can tell me, don't worry, I promise not to tell anyone, including my father..."

The middle-aged man looked at me, and I looked at him with an incomparably pure and earnest gaze, and finally, he nodded.

"Actually, our village is not the hometown of Wanjin Mountain, he fled from Henan..."

"Henan?"

"Yes, I was only a little older at that time, and Wanjin Mountain's real name is not called Wanjin Mountain, what is it called, I forgot. When I first arrived in our village, Wan Jinshan was in his twenties, dark and thin, he hadn't eaten for several days, and he was so hungry that he couldn't even walk. There was a desperate family surnamed Wan (no children and no daughters), I heard that he was an orphan, and his parents were dead, so he was moved and wanted to take him as a godson. I took him to my house, found a set of clean clothes for him to change into, took out a little face (flour) that I had kept for the New Year at the bottom of the warehouse, made him a bowl of egg noodles, and just took him away, let him follow the surname Wan, and named him Wanjinshan. At the beginning, Wan Jinshan was very honest in our village, and he was very polite when he saw the elders, but when he got to the back, he changed somehow, and he often got drunk, and beat the old couple from time to time.

"That's not all, he did everything he did when he got drunk and made trouble, knocked on the door of a widow's house, teased the little girl, or whatever. Later, the people in the village were annoyed, and the village chief, as well as the old couple of the ten thousand families, joined forces, called some villagers, and kicked him out of our village. After a few years, the people in the village almost forgot about the person Wanjinshan, and occasionally, some people remembered that this person must have died outside. No one could have imagined that one day a few years ago, Wanjin Mountain suddenly came back from outside... I'm saliva..."

The middle-aged man took the teapot and drank half a jar of water, wiped his mouth with his jacket sleeve, I took out a cigarette and handed it to him, and helped him light it.

"Later, big brother, Wan Jin... Ten thousand... Uncle Wan has come back from outside, what's wrong? I asked.

"Ho," the middle-aged man took a puff of his cigarette, "the man who drives a car, takes a secretary, combs his hair on his back, is almost sixty years old, and looks younger than me." If he hadn't introduced him, no one in the village would have known who he was, and they wouldn't have recognized him at all. He found the people he had offended back then, and gave gifts from door to door to make amends, all of which were foreign goods, and those people were quite old, where had they ever seen those things? Besides, so many years have passed, no one remembers the past, the current era is different from before, rich is the boss, these years, we have not produced a capable person in the village, it is easy to have such a one, and I almost didn't burn him to burn incense. Wan Jinshan will also be a man, saying that if it weren't for the people of our village, he would have starved to death, and this time he came back in addition to atonement, there is also to repay the gratitude. When he came back, the first thing he did was to pay for the demolition of the dilapidated school in our village and build a new one. Then he said that if someone's family encounters a difficult matter, such as lack of money or something, they will go to him. At first, the big guys thought he was just talking about it, but one day, a family had no money to buy fertilizer for spring ploughing, so they went to him, and he gave the man 500 yuan without saying a word.

"Now the big guy knows that what people say is done. The back family of three hundred, that family of two hundred, most of the whole village has borrowed money from him, I still owe him hundreds, he never said let us pay it back, you say, he is not a good man in our village, a great benefactor, what is it, since you are his relatives, eat a few goose eggs from me, how can I ask for your money? …”

The title of 'little couple' made my face hot, and I looked at Yu Xin, only to see Yu Xin staring down at the desktop.

"In our village..."The middle-aged man's chatterbox couldn't be closed as soon as it was opened, "Wanjin Mountain has more prestige than the village chief, he said that people should go to the east, and no one will go west..."

While listening to this middle-aged man's chatter, I thought in my heart, it seems that this Wanjin Mountain should be that Fan Tongtian, and this person has two names.

For example, some black bosses or black bosses are very keen on charity, using the psychological satisfaction of giving to offset the fear of God's punishment, and they also exchange a certain amount of 'good fortune' for themselves. Moreover, the Chinese have loved vanity since ancient times, so there will be a saying of 'returning home', the so-called return of clothes to the hometown, in fact, to put it bluntly, is to return to the hometown after gaining fame and fortune. The reason why this Fan Tongtian, that is, Wanjin Mountain, returned to this old village after it was developed, in addition to satisfying his vanity of 'returning to his hometown', I think, is it to enjoy the happiness of giving and accumulate good fortune for himself, is this the case? … Wrong...

Suddenly, I thought about this 'haunted' in the village.

The middle-aged man was still foaming at the mouth and talking, and I interrupted him, "Big brother, I want to ask you something." ”

"What?" The middle-aged man wiped his mouth.

I pointed outside, "Last night, we asked for directions at the commissary in the village about ten miles away from you, and the uncle at the commissary said that your village is haunted, is it true?" ”

The middle-aged man was stunned by my question, "Which... How can there be any haunting, listen to their nonsense. However, it is true that the people in our village can only farm or grow vegetables in our own villages, and cannot go out to buy and sell. ”

"Why?" I asked.

"It's quite evil to say, the people in our village, as long as they go out to run business, something will happen, either a car accident, or a robbery, it's like falling into some kind of curse..."