Chapter 2: Entering the City to Ask Questions
Zhang Laohan lives in Xiaping Village, geographically belongs to the suburbs of the city, as one of many villages, its luck is relatively good, not far from the central area of Qiuxing City, compared to other villages and towns, from Xiaping Village to the prosperous area of the city is very close, even if Xiaping Village has an innate advantage in urban planning, but it is inevitable that the village is planned as a non-key development area of the embarrassing situation, now the residents living in the village are basically the elderly, because the village is close to the lively area of the city, Most of the young people in the village have gone to the city center and its surroundings to work hard in order to get better development in their careers, and the older people stayed in the village, coupled with the strong bullying of the Guo family in the village, which led to the villagers of other families being particularly bullied, so they all moved away from Xiaping Village, which made the Guo family further control Xiaping Village, but Zhang Laohan, one of the few people with foreign surnames in the village, has been reluctant to leave here, because he always thinks that this is his home, once he leaves home, there is no home, Without a home, it is the same as a tree without roots, so even if he is bullied by the Guo family, he is forced to endure the anger in his heart and does not care about those people.
Zhang Laohan and his daughter-in-law are quite happy in life, the old man got a greenhouse in the field to grow all kinds of vegetables, his daughter-in-law took some needlework OEM to earn a little money, when the farm was busy, she also went to the field to assist Zhang Laohan to work, his daughter-in-law gave birth to a son and a daughter, now his son is in high school, the daughter has married, Zhang Laohan has not saved much money in this life, although he usually uses money to cut the door, but he is not stingy with the expenses that his family needs, he is not stingy with the expenses that his son needs to go to school, he buys directly without saying a word, Even if his son wanted something he couldn't figure out, as long as the price wasn't too expensive, he would buy it for his son without saying a word.
On this day, Zhang Laohan rushed home after finishing the work in the field in the morning, he was going to go to the city in the afternoon to find Liu Laoma's cousin, plus this day is Friday, his son's school is also on holiday today, he asked his daughter-in-law to go into the city with him, the daughter-in-law went to pick up his son, he got off halfway to the address given by Liu Laoma to find her cousin, the old couple chatted for a while after lunch, watched TV again, looked at the time is almost over, it's time to go out, so he sorted out his clothes, took the money, locked the door, walked to the bus stop together, and got on the bus, With the bus rushed to the city.
The car drove to the community written by Liu Laoma after a while, Zhang Laohan told his daughter-in-law to pick up his son at the school gate before getting off the bus to have dinner in the nearby restaurant, he may have to go back later today, the daughter-in-law nodded in response, and when the car stopped on the side of the platform, he got off the bus, looked back at the bus and waved, then turned his head and walked towards the community.
Zhang Laohan just wanted to walk into this community, but was stopped by the community's access control card machine, he was about to call Liu Laoma, so that the passing community security guard saw it, and asked: "Uncle, you didn't bring a card?" The old man hurriedly replied: "Huh? I'm here to see my relatives, how can I get in? I really don't understand. The security guard asked, "Who are you looking for?" The old man took out a note and gestured: "Looking for this Liu Daquan, do you know him?" When the security guard heard him looking for Liu Daquan, he smiled and said, "Oh, look for Master Daquan, okay, I won't say anything more, you can go in." "Just listen to the little horn on the iron door
"Ding~", the door opened, the old man thanked the security guard and then walked into the community, and asked the residents passing by about Liu Daquan's specific address, these people heard that he came to Liu Daquan, each of them smiled accordingly, and then pointed out where Liu Daquan lived in the unit building, Zhang Laohan thanked them again and then walked to Liu Daquan's residence, he muttered in a low voice while walking: "This Liu Daquan, it seems that he is a celebrity, this matter of moving the grave should be able to find him this master!" He walked to Liu Daquan's residence with a smile, and suddenly thought that he had to buy a carton of milk as a meeting gift, and walked to the supermarket at the entrance of the community to buy a box, and after buying it, he entered the community and walked towards the unit building.
Liu Daquan's place of residence is not far from the entrance of the community, the entrance of the corridor is obliquely opposite the entrance of the community, his living room is on the first floor of this building, he smelled the smell of incense ash after he walked into the building, he subconsciously looked towards the source of the smell, and saw that Liu Daquan's door outside the side of the incense burner was placed, the incense ash burned inside was full of incense burners, and there were a lot of porcelain bowls and plates full of fruits and grains on the side, Zhang Laohan knocked on the door twice, saw that no one in the house responded, and subconsciously pulled the doorknob, The old man first opened the door of the house a little gap to look at the situation in the house, and after finding that there was no one, the old man knocked on the door again, and asked the door through the crack of the open door: "Is Master Liu here?" "I heard a sound from the back room
"Come in! Come in! Later, Zhang Laohan saw a sturdy man walking out of the back room with a smile, politely pushed open the door, and said humbly in the tone of a junior: "It's my cousin who asked you to come, right?" Come in! Zhang Laohan was invited into the house, only to see a large ink painting of the dragon and tiger hanging on the wall of the living room, very magnificent, Liu Daquan's seats in the house are some carefully carved wood products, the big wooden table in the living room is placed a few paper talismans and some unknown magic weapons, Liu Daquan guided Zhang Laohan to the living room to sit down, the old man then handed him a carton of milk in his hand, Liu Daquan flattered a few words, and accepted it, the old man just sat down, began to complain to Liu Daquan, he moved the ancestral grave to Liu Daquan to say almost, begged him to pick a good position for himself in Guangxian Mountain to move the ancestral grave, Liu Daquan patiently listened to him, but also did not hide it, and directly said that he needed to give him 50,000 yuan, and these things to find a place to move the grave in Guangxian Mountain were all on him, Zhang Laohan heard him say 50,000 yuan, his mind was suddenly disrupted by this request, and he asked with some hesitation: "Master, this, it's a bit expensive, well, can the money be less?" Liu Daquan sat on the chair opposite Zhang Laohan and said with a serious face: "Brother Zhang, it's not a matter of money in essence, the main thing is that the three families have already wrapped up the whole mountain, and the 50,000 yuan is basically money for accommodation, and there is not much in my hands, I really don't want you to have this money, but I can't help it." Zhang Laohan pondered for a moment, and when he was about to speak, he heard a sound of pushing the door, he turned his head to look, and saw a strong man coming in at the door of the house, and his voice was slightly impatient and said loudly: "Master, it's not good, something happened to Guangxian Mountain, Elder Yiqing asked you to go over!" Liu Daquan's complexion changed suddenly, and then quickly returned to his normal demeanor, and hurriedly apologized to Zhang Laohan: "Brother Zhang, you see that this is really unfortunate, I really can't help it!" Dude, you give me your mobile phone number, and after I'm done with this matter, I'll call you directly, it's really troublesome for you to make this trip! After Liu Daquan finished speaking, he followed his apprentice and walked out quickly, the old man thought that today was no play, so he got up and left Liu Daquan's house, and when Zhang Laohan was about to walk to the door of the community, he received a call from Liu Daquan, Liu Daquan said something apologetic to him, and then explained that he had an urgent matter to deal with in the past few days, so that he could rest easy, Zhang Laohan listened to what he said, although he was a little disappointed, but after all, he had a request for others, so he hung up the phone without saying anything, After getting on the bus, he sighed, found a place to sit down, and calmly followed the movement of the car to enjoy the scenery outside the window, there were some broken fireworks boxes left on the side of the asphalt road, and the red paper left after the sporadic fire whip explosion, now this time is just in time for all walks of life to get off work in the afternoon, Lao Zhang because of the traffic jam, when he arrived at the door of his house, it was almost dark, he thought that his daughter-in-law and son had returned, plus he was absent-mindedly thinking about moving the grave, I didn't see that the lock of the door was opened, and I pushed the door hard, only to hear the small iron door come out
"Bang", only to find that the door was still locked, so he hurriedly called his daughter-in-law and asked her why she hadn't come back yet?
His daughter-in-law said that after the school learned that Guangxian Mountain allowed the burial, the school took into account that the streets were too chaotic today because of the fact that Guangxian Mountain allowed the burial, and the students were prone to safety problems on the way home, so they decided to postpone the holiday for a week, and did not pick up her son back, she bought some fried food for her son at the school gate, she didn't eat it herself, let Zhang Laohan cook some food at home and wait for her to come home to eat together, and my son also asked me to tell you, he said don't worry about him, he is doing well at school, Lao Zhang was relieved after listening, I started making dinner.