Chapter Seventy-Seven: News
"Okay, okay, I'll buy it, you make a price, I'll buy it directly, hurry up." I was anxious to know about my grandfather, so I didn't say much.
The farmer rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, and said to me: "Boss, I don't know what price this sells, you can look at it, as long as it is not less than three thousand yuan." ”
It seems that the psychological price of this farmer's eldest brother has positioned this bronze wine glass at about 3,000 yuan. This is something from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it can be regarded as a national treasure.
"Okay, I'll give you 5,000 yuan, buy this thing of yours, and tell me where it is." I don't have time to entangle with him, and I don't care how much that thing is worth, but I definitely won't pay for it if I buy it for 5,000 yuan.
"Pay the money with one hand, deliver the goods with the other hand, and I'll talk about it after the money arrives." I didn't expect the eldest brother to really admit this reason, but yes, he was also afraid that I would repay the debt after I got the news, so he wouldn't even have the money to eat.
After taking the eldest brother to the bank, he took 5,000 yuan and came back, he handed the thing to me, and directly took 4,000 yuan and remitted it back from the bank, keeping 1,000 yuan for himself, and then returned to the store with me.
I ordered food outside and motioned for my eldest brother to eat in the store and talk. He was not polite, and just started to eat like a whirlwind, and it seemed that he was very hungry.
After eating for a while, he burped and said that his family was in Qinchuan's generation, and they were all farmers in the era. Since the terracotta warriors and horses were dug up in Xi'an, many farmers have stopped farming and are messing with this thing everywhere. This time he looked at those people as if they were doing this, so he wanted to learn to pick up some leaks or something in the back.
Qinchuan I know, it refers to the Guanzhong Plain north of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi. Because the Qin Dynasty built its capital here, and because of the topography, it is called the Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan. It is also the place where the most emperors are buried in Chinese history.
While he was talking, the guy from the shop outside came in and said there was news. When I heard the news, I chuckled in my heart, and winked at the guy quietly, and the guy went out first.
"Big brother, I'll continue to talk later, you eat first, I'll go out for some trouble." Let the farmer brother continue to eat there, and I walked out of the back store.
There was a man standing in the shop, who I knew well, I often saw when I was a child, and who was from my hometown. He used to be his grandfather's old buddy, but later his leg was broken because he was injured in the process of going to the field, so his grandfather placed him in his hometown to help take care of the family business in his hometown. I didn't expect him to appear here, it seems that he brought the news.
"Fifth Master, why did you get here?" That man was the same age as my grandfather, and he was the fifth oldest in the family, so everyone called him the fifth master. However, my fifth master should be called according to his seniority, not a compliment from ordinary people.
"Xiaoqiang, I heard that you have been inquiring about the whereabouts of your eldest brother recently. I've just come back from out of town, but I know a little bit about it, so I'm going to come and tell you. After listening to his words, I was instantly excited, sure enough, it was grandpa's news, and I stood up from the chair suddenly, but the fifth master was scared, and the teacup in my hand almost fell to the ground.
"Fifth master, where did you see grandpa, do you know where grandpa went?" I began to ask the fifth master in some words.
"Xiaoqiang, don't worry, listen to me slowly." Although the fifth master has been in the countryside of his hometown all these years, he is an authentic farmer. But in the end, he was with his grandfather, but the temperament on his body was still there. Sitting there is not arrogant or impatient, steady as Mount Tai, quite a bit of a grandfather's feeling.
It turned out that the fifth master didn't see his grandfather with his own eyes, and the fifth master went to the field some time ago, but he didn't say anything about what he was doing in the field. But when I was calling my hometown in the field, I vaguely heard people in the village say that my grandfather seemed to have gone back to his hometown, and he left again after not staying long.
As soon as I returned to Henan this time, I heard those old guys say that I was asking about my grandfather's whereabouts, so I came directly to my shop and told me.
Grandpa went back to his hometown once, what did he do when he went back? And I left not long after I went back, and where did I go? I saw my grandfather's shirt in the hands of the farmer brother just now, did I go back to my hometown and pick up something, and then I went to Qin Chuan's side. In terms of time, it was completely connected.
After the fifth master brought the news, he wanted to go back to his hometown, but I stopped him, I thought it was necessary for me to go back to my hometown now, maybe I could find any clues.
The big head didn't know where he went with the big group, and he couldn't get in touch. It seems that I am the only one who acted alone this time, but there was another person who followed the fifth master back to his hometown, and that was the farmer brother.
If I can't find any clues in my hometown, then I have to go to Qinchuan with the farmer brother, after all, there is also news of my grandfather.
It took three or four hours of bumpy driving in the car and another hour of walking on the mountain road to reach my hometown. When I left, there was not much difference between my hometown, and there was not much change due to the inconvenience of transportation. If you want to say the biggest difference, it may be that most of the young people in the village have gone out to work, leaving behind the elderly and children.
The fifth master's authority in the village is very high, one is because of his high seniority, and the other is that the fifth master has indeed done a lot of practical things for the village over the years, so everyone respects him very much.
I walked around with the fifth master in the village, and after inquiring about my grandfather's news, I learned that my grandfather came back at noon that day, and after staying for less than two hours, he hurriedly left with this bag. When he came back, he brought two people with him, and those two people seemed to be grandpa's subordinates.
Hearing that my grandfather had a few of his subordinates following, and after inquiring about the appearance of those two people, I found that I also knew those people, and they were indeed grandpa's subordinates, so I was relieved a little. At least this time he didn't disappear alone, I don't know if he still acted with Zhang Dahai this time.
The fifth master came back to see that there was still something to do, so I asked him to go back and do his own work, and I took the peasant brother into my old house together. The old house has been deserted for many years and no one lives in it, but fortunately, they are helped by the five masters, so it does not look so deserted, otherwise it is estimated that the artemisia grass at the door can be high by one person.
When I opened the door, I saw that the lock was clean and there was not much dust, and it seemed that my grandfather should have moved when he came back, so it was like this.
There was a bit of a mess in the house, it seemed that Grandpa was in a hurry to find something, otherwise with Grandpa's character, it would never be like this, he has always been very tidy, and he has been like this for so many years. Since I was a child, my grandfather has strictly demanded that everything be sorted and placed neatly, and he said that there must be a conditioning in this line of work, and there must be no mistakes.
After coming in, I wiped down a chair and let the farmer sit there, and I began to sort out the mess that my grandfather had turned over one by one.
I don't know what my grandfather is doing with those boxes of waste books, these are the books I used to go to school when I was a child, and I have been reluctant to throw them away, nor have I sold them as waste paper.
In addition to those boxes of discarded books, there were some other messy things, but they were all scraps that had not been discarded, and they didn't seem to have much effect. Almost all the babies in my hometown were brought to the city by my grandfather, and I really can't think of what my grandfather is doing here.
The farmer saw that I was busy here alone, and he was a little embarrassed to come over to help. It was not for nothing that I left him behind, and promised to pay him a thousand dollars as a reward if he could take me where the men he had taken before. Compared to my grandfather, I really don't think it's a lot of 1,000 yuan, not to mention that there are just 300,000 more in the bank.
"Boss, what is this?" The farmer brother seems to be illiterate, holding a notebook upside down, but the picture above attracted my eye.
It's the first time I've seen that book.,The picture above is a little complicated.,But it looks like I've seen it somewhere.。 I took the book in the farmer's hand, and after reading it for a long time, I didn't remember where I had seen those pictures. I closed the notebook and was about to put it in the box, only to find that the notebook was full of words, which seemed to be my grandfather's handwriting.
When I was about to open the book to read, the fifth master came over and called us to go to his house for dinner, packed up the things and followed the fifth master. My hometown has not been inhabited for a long time, and there is no one to clean up the bed, and there is no electricity in the house, so I live in the fifth master's house at night.
The fifth master gave us a house, which was lived by his youngest son, who was in high school in the county, and the eldest son had long since split up and was now working in other places.
The farmer and I slept in the room of the fifth master's youngest son, and after washing up, I couldn't wait to sit on the bed and open the notebook.
That notebook turned out to be Grandpa's personal diary, recording many things about Grandpa over the years. I flipped through the pages one by one, looking at many of the things in it, which my grandfather told me at that time, but there were also some things that I only knew about a rough idea.
But this time I don't know why grandpa didn't bring this notebook.,I quickly flipped through it.,Only to find the reason.,It turns out that this book has run out.,No wonder I didn't bring it.。
Of course, in this notebook, I also found what I was looking for. There are some things in the notebook that are very old, probably more than ten years ago, but there are two pages in it that have just been torn off recently, and it looks like they should have been torn off by grandpa last time he came back.
The two pages that were torn off were the first two pages of the picture that the farmer brother asked me to see. According to the time marked on the diary and the things that grandpa said before, the two pages torn off happened to be when grandpa and they were fighting in Qinchuan more than ten years ago.
Grandpa came back and took some things with him, and tore up the pages of the diary about Qin Chuan's inverted bucket. In addition, the farmer brother came from Qinchuan, and he still had the grandfather's shirt in his hand. There are all kinds of indications that grandpa is likely to be in that place in Shaanxi this time.
Looks like I have to go to Shaanxi. looked at the farmer brother next to him, and he was still holding on to his clothes tightly when he fell asleep, afraid that the thousand yuan would be stolen. This time I went to Shaanxi, I had to let him lead the way, and a large part of the grandfather I wanted to find had to rely on him for help.
I really don't know why Datou and Datuan left at this time, otherwise, bringing them over to help will at least make me feel more at ease. Kong Sanye is also nowhere to be found, if Kong Sanye is here, I can also have someone to discuss. Looks like I'm going to be alone this time.
At dawn the next day, I said goodbye to the fifth master with the farmer's eldest brother and returned to the city. It was already noon when I arrived in the city, so I bought some tools in the city, and bought a train ticket that night to go to Shaanxi with the farmer's eldest brother. Since I had seen all the equipment in my backpack when I entered the tomb last time, and many of the sellers were friends of my grandfather, it was a smooth purchase.
All the expenses of the farmer's brother in Henan were paid by me, including the train ticket for going back this time, and the northwest man was originally upright, so he began to call me a brother and brother, and he didn't call the boss anymore.