"I'm sorry, I'm a small businessman. I only know how to run a restaurant. I don't know anything else. If you don't have anything else, please leave."
Qu Songsheng was not interested in what Li Sheng said and just wanted to chase him away.
Seeing that Qu Songsheng was not easy to fool, Li Sheng's face changed.
He coughed lightly and said unhappily: "I heard that my dad is with your father-in-law now. I came to pick up my dad."
Qu Songsheng didn't even bother to look at him, and pointed: "Turn right, the Zhuangyuan Bookstore is next door. Goodbye."
"You, you are such a bumpkin, so stubborn."
Li Sheng raised his finger angrily and pointed at Qu Songsheng a few times, muttering, "If it weren't for the fact that my dad and your father-in-law are old friends, do you think you would get such a good thing?"
"Oh...you don't know how to appreciate it."
Then he left angrily.
Qu Manman poked her head out from behind her cashier counter and whispered to Qu Songsheng, "Dad, is he Li Changke's biological father?"
"He doesn't look like a good person."
"He said he wanted to do good things for his hometown. What good things did he do?"
Qu Songsheng was not quite sure, but he heard from Xiaoshun that Li Sheng was going to return to Linzhuang Village to build a kiln factory and make bricks for the villagers for free.
It's also strange that they want to build a kiln factory on a mass grave.
"Mianman, what's so worthy of being plotted against in the mass graves?"
Mass grave?
Qu Manman's eyes lit up when she heard this.
Ordinary mass graves are unlikely to be targeted, but what about a mass grave containing a large tomb?
It’s only the 1980s now, and the management of cultural relics is not perfect at all.
What if Li Sheng used the excuse of building a factory to dig out some good stuff and smuggled it abroad?
That’s enough for him to become rich!
She quickly asked, "Dad, are there any large tombs in Linzhuang Village? Have there been any great figures in history?"
Qu Songsheng thought about it and shook his head.
Not to mention a small Linzhuang Village, even the entire Huaicheng County has not produced any particularly famous figures.
In the past, when the Four Olds were destroyed, several ancestral halls of landlords were demolished, but I have never heard of any large tombs being built there.
As for mass graves, there is one every few villages.
There is no other reason. There were many years of war before liberation, coupled with natural disasters and man-made disasters, and too many people died.
Too many poor people cannot even afford funeral expenses after they die, and they have no homes or land.
It could only be dragged to some ownerless wasteland and hastily buried.
Over time, those places became mass graves.
After liberation, the landlords were beaten and the land was divided, with production quotas assigned to each household.
Land became precious, and in order not to waste resources, many mass graves were razed and converted into schools.
Schools like Quwan Village Primary School and the middle school in a more distant township were all built on mass graves.
The mass grave in Linzhuang Village still exists today simply because Linzhuang Village itself is not big.
There is no need to build schools if the population is not large.
There are several muddy ponds inside, and the construction cost is too high.
No one has touched it.
As for the big tomb?
"How can there be a large tomb where there are mud ponds?"
Qu Songsheng felt that Qu Manman was overthinking it.
Since there is no big tomb.
Qu Manman thought again: "Are there any stories or legends passed down from Linzhuang Village and the nearby villages?"
"The kind that the older generation tells children when they have free time?"
Lin Wanxia just came back from outside and heard what the father and daughter said.
He immediately interjected, "Yes, actually, Linzhuang Village wasn't originally called Linzhuang."
"It was originally called Guanzhuang, which means Guan in government office."
"I don't know how many years ago there was a plague, and almost all the original people died, so people from outside slowly moved in."
"Because the first family to move in was surnamed Lin, we changed the name to Linzhuang."
Lin Wanxia reminisced, "These were all told by my great-grandmother when she was still alive. She said that the mass grave was not originally a muddy pond."
"It's a lake with several large mounds around it. You can fish in the lake."
"Then the years were bad, and people were short of food and clothing. There were more people fishing, but the fish were becoming fewer and fewer."
"Until one day, someone cast a net and pulled up nothing but bricks and tiles. Not a single fish, and the tiles had patterns carved on them."
"Some people say that there's the palace of the Dragon King at the bottom of the lake, and fishing there will anger the Dragon King. Gradually, no one dared to fish there anymore."
"Then there were floods and wars, and the entire village was wiped out. The lake turned into a muddy pond, and the mound gradually flattened."
"Guanzhuang Village has become Linzhuang Village."
"That place has also become a mass grave."
“Few people know it was originally called Baodun.”
"If my grandmother's ancestors hadn't been fishermen and hadn't fished there, I wouldn't even know this story."
Guanzhuang, Baodun?
This name sounds like it has something to it?
Qu Songsheng and Qu Manman suddenly looked at each other.
Qu Songsheng clapped his hands vigorously: "Manman, you really got it right."
"That kid Li Sheng has bad intentions. He wants to use the kiln factory as a cover to do something as unethical as grave robbing."
"No, I have to go and inform the township."
Qu Manman immediately stopped him: "Dad, if we can think of something, there must be someone else who can think of it."
"He may not be able to do it. Let's wait and see what he is going to do."
Lin Wanxia was slightly surprised when she heard this: "Someone surnamed Li wants to rob a tomb?"
Then he couldn't help but shake his head: "Who knows how many generations of dead people are buried in that mass grave. How many bones must he have dug up to steal something?"
"Let's not talk about outsiders. I'm going on a business trip soon."
"Business trip?" Qu Manman quickly asked, "Mom, where are you going?"
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