Li Xiuyuan was no exception, always wearing a shy smile. In this situation, even the deputy mayor had no room to make a move.
"This is my eldest son, this is my second son, this is my grandson, and this is my grandson-in-law."
"Oh my, you've grown so much! I can't believe it, I can't believe it. I wouldn't even recognize you on the street." and so on.
We walked and stopped along the way, and when we arrived at the cemetery, the atmosphere became solemn. Many people were visiting for the first time, and we had to pull them over to be introduced to the graves: "This is my great-grandfather's grave, this is my second grandfather's grave..."
He kowtowed and burned incense one by one, finally stopping at his grandparents' graves. After the others kowtowed and burned incense, they stepped aside, leaving Li Jianguo alone.
Li Jianguo, representing the Li family, began to recount the story. At this point, Li Jianguo no longer concealed anything and directly mentioned Li Xiuyuan's current achievements.
"Mom and Dad, Xiuyuan has a good job now. Last May, he passed the civil service exam. It's a secure job. He works in the county government office as a secretary to the leaders. We talked about this last year."
This year I went to the central town, the township where Qingqing married, and became the executive deputy mayor of the central town..."
Li Jianguo was still deeply moved. As the incense rose higher and higher, the ancestral graves of the Li family began to emit smoke. After Li Jianguo finished chanting, he beckoned to Li Xiuyuan and called him over: "Come on, kowtow three more times to your grandparents."
Li Xiuyuan obediently kowtowed.
The whole process took only a little over half an hour, but it was already past ten o'clock. A group of people came out of the cemetery, and Li Jianguo suddenly had the urge to go and see the old house again.
Actually, the old house has collapsed to the point that only half of the courtyard remains. This is the case with many houses in the countryside. If someone lives there, there will be a sense of life and the house will not have any problems. But once the house is empty and no one lives there, it will collapse in a year or two.
They couldn't go inside the old house anymore. Standing at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the half-collapsed courtyard, the three siblings, Li Jianguo, Li Simin, and Li Siqin, were filled with emotion. This was the place where they grew up.
After staying for a while, they prepared to leave and walked towards the roadside where they had parked. The road out of the village was the same as the way in, and they kept stopping to say hello. At the entrance of the village, Li Jianguo and the others met the village chief.
Actually, it doesn't really matter whether they are village chiefs or not. They don't own any land in the village, and their household registrations have all been moved away. All that's left is that piece of homestead land.
However, Li Jianguo still offered him cigarettes, because the village chief was also a relative; after all, everyone with the surname Li in Lijiazhuang was related to him.
"Good heavens, when I came over just now, I saw those three cars by the roadside and I was wondering who from the village had come back. Oh, it's Jianguo and you guys. These must be your children. You've all grown up so much..." the village chief said with a smile.
"Yes, I don't come back often, so the kids don't recognize me anymore. Let me introduce you, this is your Uncle Lijun." Li Jianguo greeted them, just then a van pulled up.
Upon seeing this, village chief Li Lijun immediately threw away his cigarette and looked at Li Jianguo, saying, "Jianguo, I won't chat any longer. Next time you come back, be sure to make time to visit my home."
"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded, and everyone prepared to get into the car. Li Lijun then went to greet the people getting out of the van next to him.
"Director Liu, we've been waiting for you for ages..."
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