Xiao Che then stayed at the village chief's house.
Of course, he didn't stay for free; he gave ten yuan as half a month's rent and food expenses.
The village chief didn't want it at first, but Xiao Che forced it on him.
The next morning, he called over a few of the village chief's sons, paying each of them one yuan a day to help him repair the cemetery.
The village chief's house is in the center of the village, and he made quite a fuss along the way. He told everyone who asked him the truth.
"Yes, please fix up the graves of my two poor aunts..."
"Yes, I am Wang Cui and Wang Hua's nephew. I've come here to find my relatives..."
Although the Four Olds were being destroyed in those days, open worship and similar practices were no longer allowed.
No one would say anything if the graves were repaired, since everyone has deceased elders. If the graves of elders are abandoned, shouldn't they be repaired?
He led his men to repair the cemetery in a high-profile manner, which naturally attracted the attention of several unfamiliar faces in the village. When they heard that he was Widow Wang's nephew, they all looked at each other in bewilderment.
"What's going on? The boss is talking about the person who came to secretly investigate his identity. Is this person Widow Wang's nephew?"
The hot-tempered man next to him sneered at the people over there, "Hmph, who cares what their identity is? Once they're involved, we can't let them go even if we kill the wrong person!"
The quickest-thinking person was also deep in thought at this moment. After a while, he made up his mind, "I'm not sure. If he really is Widow Wang's nephew, we must tell the boss about this first and see what he thinks."
After all, he knew that the leader was a person with a strong desire for control. If he didn't tell anyone about this accident, he would definitely be criticized when the leader found out later!
The others thought it made sense.
After whispering amongst themselves for a while, some of them left the village and headed towards the town.
Kang Chengxin, who was hiding in the shadows, saw this and immediately sent people to follow.
Xiao Che followed the villagers to the gravesite of the Wang sisters on the back mountain.
There were two adjacent graves in front of him, surrounded by weeds that grew taller than the graves. If he hadn't been sharp-eyed, he wouldn't have been able to tell that they were just two mounds of earth. There was so much grass that they looked like they had been abandoned for a long time.
Seeing this, the village chief's son scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, "Isn't this part of the 'Destroy the Four Olds' campaign? They won't let us worship..."
In previous years, many aunties would come here to weed and do things like that.
In recent years, her health has declined, and the younger generation in the family is worried about her, so they don't let her come anymore.
Other families with descendants would secretly come up to pay their respects, or at the very least, pull some weeds or do some tidying up.
But the Wang sisters truly had no relatives here. Dong Guangming was nowhere to be found, neither alive nor dead; no one knew where he had gone.
After Aunt Xu was unable to come, the cemetery gradually fell into disrepair.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Che sighed, a sigh that truly came from the bottom of his heart.
He felt pity for the Wang sisters and the real Dong Guangming.
"It's okay, it's the same as me coming."
The others chimed in, "Yes, yes, a nephew is like half a son! You're the same as him!"
It's not the same at all. His legitimate son has disappeared without a trace, but his nephew comes and fixes up the grave.
Xiao Che smiled and said nothing more, only silently pulling weeds.
Everyone assumed he was feeling sad for his aunt, so they all kept quiet and went about their work.
He wasn't allowed to do much now, so he just removed the weeds and tidied up the surrounding soil.
After finishing, the group went down the mountain.
When Dong Guangming learned the news, he felt a mix of emotions.
He thought he had no relatives left in the world, but now a cousin suddenly appeared, which really shocked him.
But all I felt was shock.
He killed his closest cousin with his own hands and took his place in the army. From that moment on, he had already abandoned blood ties and family affection.
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