After going to the grave, Cheng Boss asked Erxiao to park the car on a high ground not far from the head of the village. The grandfather stared at a tall house at the head of the village and stared at it for a long time.

Even though it is not close, you can see that this house is different from the surrounding houses. The house was built so tall that it stood out from the crowd in the whole village. It was evening, and most of the surrounding houses were smoky, but it was lifeless, apparently uninhabited for a long time.

Gradually, the old man's eyes moistened, and in the hazy tears, the scene of returning to the village after a long absence appeared in front of him again.

At that time, without saying goodbye to leave Wangjiaao, Cheng Boss went back to Beijing for a turn, to see if the form still could not stay, so he planned to go back to his hometown to see if he could stay in his hometown for a while before making plans.

Boss Cheng knows that his identity is special, and I am afraid that his wanted warrant has already reached the village at this time. Afraid of being recognized, he took a straw hat and observed the village from a distance, and when he saw someone coming out, he hid in the ditch for a while.

When the sun set, Boss Cheng saw that the villagers had gone home for dinner, and there was no longer a single figure on the road, so he decided to venture back to the village. He thought that if he could enter the old mansion without knowing it, and then live in seclusion, others would not easily find him.

Boss Cheng walked along the ditch at the edge of the village, bent over, kept his body as low as possible, and looked around with his two eyes alertly.

As soon as I arrived at the head of the village, I found two boys of seventeen or eighteen years old fishing in a pond. one is tall and thin, like a reed; A short, stocky one, like a stone mound.

"Whose child is this, and he doesn't come home for dinner so late?" Boss Cheng was afraid of being seen by them, so he cautiously wanted to bypass it. If these two children quarrel, it will inevitably attract onlookers from the villagers, and I am afraid that they will not be able to run away if they want to.

Unexpectedly, he found two big boys, and the two big boys also noticed him. Boss Cheng had no choice but to walk over hard, wanting to stabilize the two big boys first.

As he approached the two older boys, he felt more and more that something was wrong. Why are these two children so familiar? Could it be the eldest brother's family?

Boss Cheng took a closer look, the more he looked at it, five years ago, the eldest brother and sister-in-law took their two children to Beijing to find him, lived at home for more than half a month, and he also took their family to visit the Great Wall of the Forbidden City.

"Is it the eldest and the second child?" Boss Cheng asked tentatively. Da Xiao is the nickname of the eldest child of the elder brother's family, and the nickname of the younger child is Erxiao.

"Hey, who are you, where did you come from to ask for Hanako?" The eldest child washed his hands, put down his trouser legs, walked up to Boss Cheng, and asked, "How do you know our nickname?" ”

"Is it really you two brothers?" Boss Cheng was so excited that he threw down his broken straw hat and said, "Who do you think I am?" ”

"Uncle, why are you back?" Da Xiao said happily, "I heard from the people in the village that you are in prison!" ”

"Who said that?"

"What the village chief said!" Da Xiao said. "The village chief also said that you could be shot!"

"Am I not doing this?"

Da Xiao looked around vigilantly, picked up the broken straw hat that Cheng Lao Da threw to the ground, patted the soil on it, and brought it to him again.

"Did you escape from prison?" At this time, a fat young man also came over and called uncle.

"Are you a second child?" Boss Cheng looked at the second child and said in his heart, it is rare to see such a fat person in these years.

"Yes." The second son said, "Uncle, run away, it's great to be caught escaping from prison!" ”

"I didn't escape from prison and I never went to prison. Not even shot! Boss Cheng looked at his two nephews and said, "The village chief is lying, I'll go to him!" ”

"No way!" The second son said, "They're going to catch you!" ”

Boss Cheng nodded and said, "You two go home first, tell your parents, and say that I am back, and I will enter the village after dark." ”

Da Xiao laughed miserably and said, "Mom and Dad? Go home? ”

At this time, the second child had already squatted next to him and cried bitterly.

"What's wrong?" Boss Cheng asked in surprise, "What's going on?" ”

"My mom and dad are dead!" Da Xiao's eyes were full of hatred.

"Dead? My eldest brother and sister-in-law are dead? Boss Cheng couldn't believe his ears, "You're not joking, are you?" ”

"Are you joking about Mom and Dad's death?" Erxiao asked Boss Cheng angrily.

"Really?" Boss Cheng saw the sad appearance of the brothers, it didn't look like a fake. But Boss Cheng's heart was still full of doubts.

"Hmm-" Da Xiao agreed, thinking of the tragic death of his parents, he couldn't help but let out a loud cry of grief.

"Be quiet, don't let anyone hear it!" Boss Cheng looked around vigilantly and said.

"Hmm." The eldest and second children lowered their voices and still cried.

"Don't cry both, tell me when your parents died?"

"It's been a year!" Da Xiao wiped away his tears and said.

"Why didn't you notify me?" Boss Cheng said, "If I know the news, I have to come back to see my eldest brother and sister-in-law!" ”

"I took a telegram for you, but you didn't reply!" Da Xiao said, "The village chief said that your matter is not small, and you have already been arrested." ”

"What did your parents die of?" Boss Cheng asked sadly.

"Not sick!" Da Xiao said coldly, his eyes spewing with hatred, and he looked straight at the village not far away.

"Not sick?" Boss Cheng asked suspiciously, "Why did my brother and sister-in-law leave at a young age?" ”

The second son pushed his brother away and said, "You can't make it clear in one sentence?" I'll say, uncle, my dad was beaten to death by the village chief, and my mom couldn't think about it, so she drank pesticides and went with my dad! Now it's just us two in the house! ”

"How can you just beat someone to death?" Boss Cheng asked in surprise, "Is there no royal law?" ”

"Huh, Wang Fa?" Da Xiao asked, "There is Wang Fa, so why don't you stay in Beijing?" ”

"This—" Boss Cheng was speechless.

After a moment of silence, Boss Cheng asked, "What's going on?" ”

"They said that my father was a counter-revolutionary, and they hung my father on the beam of the house for a day and a night, and he was beaten so that he was covered in blood and his clothes were rotten. Later, put it down, and people can't do it! Da Xiao said with tears in his eyes.

"I heard that it was a leather whip dipped in cold water!" The two sons and daughters had blood-red eyes and clenched their fists tightly.

"These brutes!" Boss Cheng hated so much that his teeth rang out.

"My dad and mom died miserably!"

"Where are they buried? You two take me there! ”

"It's dark, I don't dare to go." The second son said, "You are going, you are going!" ”

"The three of us, what is there to be afraid of!" The eldest child grabbed the second child's arm and left.

"But I'm hungry now!" The second child broke free and squatted on the ground and said, "I haven't eaten all day, I only drink cold water, I really can't stand it!" ”

"I don't have anything to eat when I'm hungry. I told you to go to the city with me today to ask for food, but you don't go, you have to touch the fish here, and the fish is not touched, what are you going to eat? ”

"Why, you rely on food every day?" Boss Cheng looked at the two children and asked distressedly.

"Well, our family land has been confiscated from the village, and our brothers and I rely on doing chores for others, or going to the city to ask for food." Da Xiao pointed to the second child on the ground and said, "It's also a big person, but he is not sensible at all, one meal a day, and one meal is noisy." I only ate one meal in three days, and I didn't starve to death once! ”

"But I haven't even eaten a meal today!" Erxiao said angrily.

Boss Cheng was sad when he saw the skinny man.

After paying homage to his brother and sister-in-law, Boss Cheng walked back with his two nephews. Just about to enter the village, he was pulled by Da Xiao: "Uncle, where are you going?" ”

"Go home." Boss Cheng said, "It's dark, where are you going if you don't go home?" ”

"Home?" Da Xiao sneered, "Where is there a home!" ”

"Although my brother and sister-in-law are gone, aren't the four big tiled houses still there when I see them in the afternoon?" Boss Cheng asked, "Why don't you have a home?" ”

"That house isn't ours now." Da Xiao said, "I have already let the village chief's family occupy it!" ”

"What?" Cheng Laoda's jaw almost dropped in shock.

Da Xiao said: "I suspect that the village chief just fell in love with my family's house, so he found a way to kill my father!" I'm going to avenge this sooner or later! ”

"Good boy, the enmity of parents is not shared!" Cheng Boss said, "Your revenge is my revenge, and I won't stand idly by if you take revenge!" ”

At this time, the second child also clenched his fists, looked at the only four large tiled houses in the village viciously, and said, "Blood debt and blood repayment!" ”

"This revenge must be avenged!" Boss Cheng held the hands of his two nephews tightly and said, "But you can't be reckless, you have to think of an ingenious way!" ”

"We listen to Uncle!" The eldest and the second replied in unison.

"Since there is no home, then the world is home!" Boss Cheng said, "But, where do you live now?" ”

"It's in the little shed next to me that looks at melons." Da Xiao pointed to a shack not far away. The grandfather went into the shack and lit a kerosene lamp.

"No one will come here at night, will they?" Boss Cheng asked worriedly.

"Uncle, you can relax," said Da Xiao, "they avoid us like a plague, and when they see us approaching, they stay away." ”

As he spoke, Daxiao found a letter from the crack in the roof of the shed, handed it to Cheng Boss and said, "This is what my mother wrote before leaving, asking us to go to Beijing to find you, and then hand it over to you." ”

"Then why don't you go to Beijing to find me?" Cheng Boss asked.

"I didn't reply to the telegram to you, and we estimate that you were arrested!" Da Xiao said, "Besides, we don't have the money to take a car, how can we get to Beijing so far?" ”

Boss Cheng tore open the envelope and read the letter through the faint kerosene light.

The content of the letter is nothing more than that your brother was killed by someone, and I don't want to live anymore, but the two children are helpless, I don't worry, I hope that Boss Cheng can take care of the two children, and then some words of gratitude.

But at the end of the letter, Cheng's sister-in-law said: "The child's father liked to collect antique calligraphy and paintings before his death, most of which were ruined, but there was a painting of Bada Shanren, which I sewed with a needle into the mezzanine of Daxiao's clothes. You find an opportunity to take your two children to settle down in a foreign country, buy a house and land, and have more than enough. ”

"What about the paintings?" Boss Cheng asked.

"The painting sewn into my clothes?" Da Xiao asked.

"Yes!" Cheng Boss said happily, "Show it to me!" We're counting on it for the rest of our lives! ”

Hearing their uncle mention the painting, the brothers stared at each other and were silent for a long time.

"Talking, what about painting?" Cheng Lao was in a hurry.

"Paint, let's, sell, sell!" Da Xiao stammered.

"Sold? How much did it sell? ”