Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Found
"Second Dad, I'm back."
Returning to the guesthouse, I entered Zhang Deshuang's room.
"Sit down. I've got the water ready."
Zhang Deshuang pointed to the kettle on the small table.
"Thank you, second dad."
Zhang Mengzhi handed one of the lunch boxes to Zhang Deshuang.
“I didn’t expect there are meat dishes in this town.”
Zhang Deshuang said as he looked at the twice-cooked pork.
"It's a town after all, and there will be people eating there anyway."
Zhang Mengzhi said with a smile.
"That's right. Even in the poorest places there are rich people."
Zhang Deshuang said with a smile.
"The cooking skills are excellent. This twice-cooked pork is very authentic."
Zhang Deshuang took a bite and said, "But Mengzhi, your cooking is still delicious."
"It's great to have this skill in this town. We can't hold people to the same standards as those in the city or the capital."
What Zhang Mengzhi said is absolutely true. A dish of twice-cooked pork can show whether a chef’s cooking skills are good or not.
"If his cooking skills weren't good, he wouldn't have been able to become a chef at a state-owned restaurant."
Zhang Deshuang commented pertinently.
"Um."
Zhang Mengzhi agreed with this statement. Later, many restaurant owners were mostly chefs from state-owned restaurants who left the company to work on their own.
In this regard, they have a natural advantage. Even after the state-owned restaurants were dismantled, these chefs were the contractors.
It’s just that some people are not suitable for running a business, and their restaurants eventually go bankrupt. Some people are suitable for running a business, and they work hard to make their restaurants bigger and stronger.
However, most of them were subject to certain restrictions and were unable to become chains, and could not compare with the foreign fast food restaurants that came in later.
The past cannot be changed, but the future is bound to be different.
Zhang Mengzhi just didn't believe that he, with the foresight, couldn't beat those foreign companies? Otherwise, he could just forget about it.
Early the next morning, Zhang Mengzhi and Zhang Deshuang hired a guide in the town, named Zhang Datuanjie, to take them to the village they wanted to go to.
"Comrades, the road is not easy to walk on, so be careful with your steps."
The guide was very competent and reminded the two as they walked.
"Thank you, comrade. We understand."
Zhang Mengzhi didn't tell the other party that he was used to walking on mountain roads.
As for Zhang Deshuang, he had rarely walked on mountain roads, so the guide and Zhang Mengzhi were always paying attention to his safety.
"There are mountains all over the place, and ordinary people have to walk a long way to get to the market. It's really not easy."
Zhang Deshuang wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was summer, and he was very tired even after traveling early in the morning.
"Yeah, it's very hard."
Guide Li was smoking leaf tobacco, his dark face full of bitterness.
Such mountain roads are very normal in their area. Many residents of Lijia Town have ancestors who came from the mountains.
"It will be better in the future. By then, every village will have a road, and people will have cars to take to the market, so they won't have to walk anymore."
Zhang Mengzhi knew that every village in Shu Province had access to roads, water and electricity.
In later generations, people in the mountains no longer had to walk to the market, as there were rural buses to take people to the market.
"I don't know how many years it will take, but we won't be able to see it anyway."
Guide Li said without any expectations.
Village-to-village roads, this was something he had never dared to imagine in his entire life.
"Just wait, it won't take many years."
Zhang Mengzhi opened the kettle, took a sip of water and said.
All three of them carried water bottles. After all, they had to walk an hour up the mountain road and they couldn't do without water.
"Haha, I'll be waiting for that old man."
Guide Li didn't take his words to heart, and even talked about it with his family when he returned home that night.
No one took it seriously at the time, until decades later, when his child suddenly remembered these words one day.
“It turns out that there are people who can really predict the future!”
This is a story for later.
After passing a ditch and climbing a mountain, they finally arrived at the village they wanted to go to - Xiangyang Village.
"Hello, do you know Zhou Guilan?"
Zhang Deshuang took out a piece of paper and asked the villagers. At this time, most of the villagers were working in the fields, and everyone went home to rest at nine or ten o'clock.
Because of Zhang Mengzhi and his friends, they easily found a villager working in the fields to ask.
"Are you looking for Zhou Guilan? That crazy woman?"
The villager being questioned was stunned for a moment and then said.
"She's not a crazy woman."
Zhang Deshuang was delighted to see that the villagers were familiar with the name Zhou Guilan, but he also showed displeasure because of what the villagers said.
"How can she not be crazy? She calls him son all day long. She often catches teenage boys in the village calling him son. I don't know how many kids have been frightened by her."
The villagers became unhappy when Zhang Deshuang refuted them.
"She is not..."
Seeing that he refused to listen and kept calling Zhou Guilan a crazy woman, Zhang Deshuang couldn't help but want to argue with her.
"Second Dad, calm down."
After listening to what the villagers said, Zhang Mengzhi realized that they were not scolding Zhou Guilan on purpose, but because her behavior did cause trouble for the village.
"well."
Zhang Deshuang sighed and loosened his clenched hands.
"Are you here to look for her? Oh, by the way, the village chief said that someone came to look for Zhou Guilan these days. Could it be you?"
The villagers suddenly remembered.
"Yes, this is my second father. We are here to look for my eldest wife, but we don't know if she is my second father's mother."
Zhang Mengxiao took out a pack of cigarettes and started to walk away.
There were several villagers working nearby, they didn't come over, but just kept looking at Zhang Mengzhi and his friends from a distance. He took the initiative to walk over and pass out cigarettes, and everyone's tone and expression became much better.
"Okay, I'll take you there now. If it's a good opportunity, you can take the person away. If it's not..."
The villager who spoke to them at first did not continue.
What else can we do? We can't just let someone take away a crazy woman we don't know!
Forget it, it's just a meal, and Xiangyang Village can still afford it. Although everyone is not living well, no one has starved to death yet.
"It's troublesome."
Zhang Mengzhi took out another pack of cigarettes and distributed it to everyone, making the villagers of Xiangyang Village smile.
They usually couldn't bear to buy such good cigarettes, but today they received several at once, which they can use for a long time if they save them.
"It's not a big deal. It's just a matter of eating a bowl of rice."
The villager waved his hand, talked to a few other people, and then took the three of them to the village committee office.
"Village chief, I have brought the people here. They are here to look for Zhou Guilan."
The villagers shouted as they walked in.
"Okay, please take a seat. I'll ask someone to find her right away."
A white-haired old man came out, glanced at Zhang Deshuang and without further ado, got straight to the point.
"They look alike. They look exactly alike. Their eyes and nose are made from the same mold."
After comparing their appearances, the village chief said to Zhang Deshuang and others.
"Don't tell me, Village Chief, I think he looks a lot like Zhou Guilan."
After listening to the village chief's words, the villagers looked at Zhang Deshuang carefully.
"Is it really like that?"
Zhang Deshuang asked somewhat excitedly.
"Second Dad, calm down."
Zhang Mengzhi quickly grabbed the man.
"They do look like each other. You can tell at a glance that they are his biological children."
The village chief and the villagers all nodded, "When the servants come, you will know for yourself."
Because of the village chief's words, Zhang Deshuang became very anxious while waiting. Zhou Guilan was confused and often disappeared, so the villagers had to look for her one place after another.
Fortunately, no matter how she ran, she could not escape from Xiangyang Village, so about an hour later someone found her and took her to the village committee.
"This is Zhou Guilan."
The village chief pointed at the old man who had been taken care of.
When the villagers found her, they saw that her hair was disheveled and her face was dark, so it was impossible to see her original appearance. So they asked a few skillful women to tidy her up. They also helped her take a bath and change into clean old clothes.
"mother."
Zhang Deshuang stood up immediately when he saw the old woman being led in. Time had taken away her youth, but mother and son were connected by heart, and he was already over ten years old at that time, so he still had a deep memory of his mother.
Hearing his second father's call, Zhang Mengzhi suddenly looked up.
No, that’s not the case in the novel, so why did I find it this time?
Zhang Mengzhi tried hard to recall the plot of the novel, but he had traveled through time for too long and could only remember the main plot points. He could not remember most of the contents of the book clearly.
"Second Dad, are you sure it's the first wife?"
Zhang Mengzhi supported him and asked.
"It's her, it's her. She has a red mole under her ear, and no one can fake it."
Zhang Deshuang said with a trembling voice.
"Mom, I'm De Shuang!"
Zhang Deshuang walked over and hugged Zhou Guilan.
"De Shuang? Are you De Shuang?"
Zhou Guilan, who has always been confused and unrecognizable, gradually regained consciousness after hearing her son's voice.
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