Huo Qianli took a step forward, looked at the old man who was staring at him fiercely like an enraged bull, and said calmly: "Old man, do you really think that you are to blame for the way you are now?"
The old man was stunned by this, and then he spat angrily, "If I don't blame you, then do you blame me?"
Huo Qianli did not comment, but took a step forward and looked at the old man, "Do you feel that your family's life has become difficult since I came here?"
"You just realized that you are a jinx?" The old man himself didn't realize it. After he started to have a normal conversation with Huo Qianli, his emotions slowly calmed down. "Since you came, my family has never been at peace! My youngest son was defrauded of money, and you didn't help him! My daughter-in-law ran away, and my youngest grandson was also taken away! After you finally got away, my youngest son immediately lived a good life. He built a big house, bought a car, and made new friends. His life finally got better! But you, a jinx, are like a ghost that won't go away. You ran away again. You took my son to the detention room. He lost his house and car, and his wife ran away! These are all your faults!"
Huo Qianli sighed, "Old man, no matter if it was me or not, if it was any other cadre with conscience and principles, Gu Gang would have ended up like this. You should know more or less what he did. You said that it was all my fault that he was put in the detention room, then do you think anyone in Zhan Baoxing's family has ever blamed me? If you say that your son really did nothing wrong and that I was targeting him, why didn't anyone else in the village speak up for him? In fact, you know that your son deserves his punishment, but you just don't want to admit it."
Gu Daqiang turned his head and looked at Huo Qianli with some confusion. Did he run over with so much effort just to add another stab to the old man's already wounded heart?
The old man was obviously dazed by the knife, and his education level was not enough to organize a logical and effective counterattack, so his face turned red, and after a while, he spat out a sentence, "Bullshit!"
But this sentence is only insulting and has no lethality.
Huo Qianli took another step forward, and the old man subconsciously moved back slightly. Seeing this, Gu Daqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that at least there would be no fight.
"Old man, I'm not here today to argue with you about the past. I want to talk to you about the future."
Looking at the old man's hesitant and defensive eyes, Huo Qianli said seriously: "Life must go on. It can't always be like this, right?"
The old man's body posture gradually relaxed, and he subconsciously reached for the pipe at his waist. Gu Daqiang knew that the time was almost right, and laughed, "It's no big deal to stand here, Uncle Ming, you don't have no bench in your house!"
The old man hesitated for a moment, then went into the house and moved two stools.
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More than half an hour later, Huo Qianli and Gu Daqiang got up and left. The old man sent them to the intersection and then went back to eat at their request.
Gu Daqiang lit a cigarette, "Brother, you really have a good heart. But if you ask me, Uncle Ming is also at fault. If he hadn't spoiled him all day, Gu Gang wouldn't have become what he is now. Isn't it written in the book! If a child is not taught well, his father and son will suffer!"
After walking a few steps forward, Huo Qianli stopped, turned his head to look at the lonely and slightly hunched back, and slowly walked back to the wooden house that was already quite shabby in today's Hushan Village. "We must understand and tolerate the limitations of the times. Society is progressing too fast, and there will always be people who are stuck in the past and seem out of place, clumsy or unreasonable. But as long as we have good intentions, we should not rely on the advantages of later generations to look superior, because we will eventually become antiques in the eyes of later generations."
Gu Daqiang nodded in agreement, and then said angrily: "Why can't Hai Taowa, that bastard, get into college?"
"Okay, I married a top student, what else do I want!" Huo Qianli laughed, and then said seriously: "I'd like you to pay more attention to what I just said."
"Don't worry!" Gu Daqiang nodded. "You are helping me solve the problem of the village. How can I not care? Gu Gang and his family actually have some foundation in their house. Although all the money Gu Gang earned later was stolen money, the dividends from the village and the subsidies for disaster relief at that time still amounted to tens of thousands of yuan. I will find him some more things to do in the village. When Gu Gang is released in a few years, the two masters should be able to repair the house."
This is what Huo Qianli just mentioned to the old man. Take care of yourself, save money, rebuild the family business, and wait for Gu Gang to come back. The two masters can live a down-to-earth life. Murakami will try his best to help them solve their livelihood problems, but the prerequisite is that they have to work hard.
Gu Daqiang suddenly smiled and said, "It's just that Murakami has no plans to renovate his house now, otherwise it would be easy to arrange a room for him in the house."
Huo Qianli's expression changed slightly, and he smiled, "Let's go and take a walk around the village."
Gu Daqiang was stunned, "Let's go back and eat first."
Huo Qianli then realized that he had forgotten something, and walked back to Gu's house with Gu Daqiang with a smile.
After a quick meal, the two of them wandered around the village again.
In fact, the entire village now no longer has the previous geographical divisions. All the villagers have gathered in the residential area near the village committee, so that the places that Huo Qianli was originally familiar with are no longer the same.
"I remember this used to be Mr. Gu Chengrong's house, right?"
Huo Qianli pointed to a piece of land that had just been harvested and was being leveled.
"That's right, do you remember this bamboo forest? It was the one where we went to look for him that time. He pretended to have gone out, but I tricked him out and caught him right there!"
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