Xiaping Village, where Old Man Zhang lives, is geographically located on the outskirts of the city. As one of many villages, it has good luck. It is not far from the central area of Qiuxing City. Compared with other villages and towns, it is a short walk from Xiaping Village to Qiuxing City. The distance between the prosperous areas in the city is very close. Even though Xiaping Village has inherent advantages in urban planning, it cannot avoid the embarrassing situation of being planned as a non-key development area. Now the residents living in the village are basically old people, because the village It is close to the lively areas of the city. Most of the young people in the village have gone to the city center and its surrounding areas to work hard in order to get better career development. The older people have stayed in the village. In addition, the Guo family in the village The family's strong bullying led to the villagers of other families being particularly bullied. As a result, they all moved away from Xiaping Village. This allowed the Guo family to further control Xiaping Village. However, Old Man Zhang, one of the few people with a foreign surname in the village, never He is willing to leave here because he always thinks that this is his home. Once he leaves home, he has no destination. Without a destination, it is like a tree without roots. Therefore, even if he is bullied by the Guo family, he still holds back his heart. He was so angry that he didn't care about those people. Later, those Guo family members found it boring to bully old man Zhang, so they went to bully another family with a non-local surname.
Old man Zhang and his wife are living a relatively happy life. The old man built a greenhouse in the field to grow various vegetables. His wife took on some sewing jobs and earned a little money. She also went to the fields to assist during busy farming periods. Old man Zhang worked, and his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter. Now his son is in high school and his daughter is married. Old man Zhang has not saved much money in his life. Although he is usually stingy with money, he does not care about the expenses that his family needs. He is not stingy. He buys everything his son needs for school without saying anything. Even if his son wants some gadgets that he doesn't understand, as long as the price is not too expensive, he will buy them for his son without saying anything. .
On this day, Old Man Zhang hurried home after finishing his work in the fields in the morning. He planned to go to the city to find Old Madam Liu's cousin in the afternoon. In addition, it was Friday again, and his son's school was also on holiday today. , he asked his wife to go into the city with him, and she went to pick up his son. He got off the car and went to the address given by Grandma Liu to find her cousin. After lunch, the old couple chatted and watched for a while. Watching the TV, the time was almost up and it was time to go out, so I packed my clothes, took the money, locked the door, walked to the bus stop together, got on the bus, and followed the bus to the city.
After a while, the car arrived at the community where Old Grandma Liu wrote. Before getting off the car, Old Man Zhang asked his wife to pick up her son at the school gate and have dinner at a nearby restaurant. He might have to go back later today. His wife nodded. In response, when the bus stopped at the side of the platform, he got out of the bus, looked back at the bus and waved, then turned and walked towards the community.
As soon as Old Man Zhang wanted to enter the community, he was stopped by the community's access control card machine. He was about to call Grandma Liu, but the passing community security guard saw it and asked: "Uncle, you don't have your card with you." ?", the old man quickly responded: "Ah? I'm here to see my relatives. How do I get in? I really don't understand." The security guard asked again: "Who are you looking for?" The old man took out a note and signaled : "Looking for this Liu Daquan, do you know him?" When the security guard heard that he was looking for Liu Daquan, he smiled and said: "Oh, let's look for Master Daquan, okay, I won't say anything more, you go in." Just listen to the small speaker on the iron door
With a "ding~" sound, the door opened. The old man thanked the security guard and walked into the community. He asked the passing residents for Liu Daquan's specific address. When these people heard that he was looking for Liu Daquan, they all smiled. Accordingly, he pointed out where the unit building where Liu Daquan lived was. After thanking them again, Old Man Zhang walked towards Liu Daquan's residence. As he walked, he whispered in a low voice: "This Liu Daquan seems to be a celebrity. This move He, the master, should be able to take care of the grave matter!" He walked towards Liu Daquan's residence with a smile, and suddenly thought of buying a box of milk as a meeting gift. He then went to the supermarket at the entrance of the community and bought a box. After buying it, he Entering the community and walking towards the unit building.
Liu Daquan's residence is not far from the entrance of the community. The entrance of the corridor is diagonally opposite the entrance of the community. His living room is on the first floor of the building. When he walked into the building, he smelled the smell of incense ash. He subconsciously looked towards the smell. Looking at the source of the smell, he saw an incense burner placed on one side outside the door of Liu Daquan's room. The incense burner was filled with the burned incense ashes. There were also many porcelain bowls filled with fruits and grains placed beside it. Bowls and plates, after old man Zhang knocked on the door twice and saw no one responded, he subconsciously pulled the door handle and found that the door of Liu Daquan's house was ajar. The old man opened the door first. He opened a small crack to look inside the house and found that no one was there. The old man knocked on the door again and asked through the crack in the door: "Is Master Liu here?" He heard a voice coming from the back room.
"Come in quickly! Come in quickly!" After that, Old Man Zhang saw a well-built man walking out of the back room with a smile. He opened the door politely and said humbly in a junior tone: "It's my cousin who let me know." Are you here? Come in quickly!" Old man Zhang was invited into the house. He saw a large ink painting of a dragon and a tiger hanging on the wall of the living room. It was very grand. The seats in Liu Daquan's house were all carefully carved. There were several pieces of paper charms and some unknown magical objects placed on the big wooden table in the living room. Liu Daquan guided Old Man Zhang to sit down in the living room. The old man then handed him a box of milk in his hand. Daquan flattered Liu Daquan for a few words and then accepted it. As soon as the old man sat down, he began to complain to Liu Daquan. He told Liu Daquan about the move of the ancestral tomb and begged him to find a good place for him in Guangxian Mountain. In order to move the ancestral tomb, Liu Daquan patiently listened to what he said, and he did not hide it. He directly said that he needed to give him 50,000 yuan, and it was all on him to find a place to move the tomb in Guangxian Mountain. Old man Zhang heard that he After saying 50,000 yuan, his thoughts were suddenly disrupted by the request, and he asked with some hesitation: "Master, this is a bit expensive. Well, can the money be less?" Liu Daquan sat opposite Old Man Zhang. Sitting on the chair, he said with a serious face: "Brother Zhang, it's not essentially about money. The main thing is that those three families have taken over the entire mountain. The 50,000 yuan is basically money used for accommodation. In fact, I don't have much money in my hands. I really don't want your money, but I can't help it." Old man Zhang thought for a moment. When he was about to speak, he heard a push on the door. He turned around and saw Seeing a strong man coming in at the door of the house, he said loudly with a slightly impatient voice: "Master, it's bad, something happened in Guangxian Mountain, Elder Yiqing asked you to come over!" Liu Daquan's expression suddenly changed, and then quickly returned to normal. With a normal expression, he quickly apologized to Old Man Zhang: "Brother Zhang, you see this is such an unfortunate thing, I'm really sorry! Brother, please give me your mobile phone number. I will give it to you directly after I finish this matter." Call me, I really bother you to make this trip!" After Liu Daquan finished speaking, he followed his apprentice and walked out quickly. The old man thought that there was no chance today, so he got up and left Liu Daquan's family. When old man Zhang was about to reach the gate of the community, he received a call from Liu Daquan. Liu Daquan said some words of apology to him, and then explained that he had urgent matters to deal with in the past few days and asked him to calm down. Zhang After hearing what he said, the old man felt a little disappointed, but after all, he was the one asking for help, so he hung up the phone without saying anything more. After getting on the bus, he sighed and found a seat to sit. Next, I calmly watched the scenery outside the window as the car moved. There were some broken fireworks boxes left on the roadside of the asphalt road, as well as sporadic red paper left after the explosion of the fire whip. Now this time is just in time for all walks of life. When Lao Zhang got off work in the afternoon, Lao Zhang was stuck in a traffic jam. By the time he arrived at his door, it was almost dark. He thought that his wife and son had come back, and he was absent-mindedly thinking about moving the tomb, so he didn't look at it. The lock on the door of my house was not unlocked, so I pushed the door hard, only to hear the sound of the small iron door.
There was a "bang" and he realized that the door was still locked. He quickly called his wife and asked her why she hadn't come back yet.
His wife said that after the school learned that burials were allowed in Guangxian Mountain, the school decided to postpone the holiday for a week because it caused too much chaos in the streets today and made it easy for students to have safety problems on their way home. , she didn’t pick up her son back. She bought some stir-fried food for her son at the school gate. She didn’t eat it herself, so she asked Old Man Zhang to cook some food at home and wait for her to eat together when she got home. Her son also asked me to tell you, he said Don't worry about him, he is doing well in school. After hearing this, Lao Zhang felt relieved and started to make dinner.
