Chapter 395
Less than ten days later, Xu Tieniu came to Xiangnan Village, Taiping Town again.
It was the autumn harvest season, and most of the team members had gone to the fields, making the whole village unusually quiet.
When the guard dog saw a stranger entering the village, it stood up and barked at him.
Some elderly people who stayed at home to take care of young children held the door and staggered out to check the situation.
"Uncle, it's you again?" A little boy looked up at Xu Tieniu with joy on his face.
Last time he got a piece of candy, it was so sweet.
"Uncle, whose house are you going to? I'll take you there. I know everyone in the village."
Xu Tieniu smiled innocently, "Uncle knows the way this time."
Seeing the little boy's disappointed look, Xu Tieniu jokingly took out a candy and said, "But I still want to thank you. Children who help others are good children. As a reward, a candy~"
"Thank you, uncle, hehehe~"
The boy grabbed the candy from Xu Tieniu's hand with a look of surprise, then turned around and ran away shyly.
Xu Tieniu didn't know what he was thinking about. Looking at the innocent child, a complicated look flashed in his eyes.
Outside the old courtyard, Xu Tieniu knocked on the dilapidated wooden door again.
Squeak~
"Hey, grandma~, it's me. I was here a few days ago."
The old lady leaned in closer and looked at Xu Tieniu carefully. "Oh, it's you? Come in."
"You haven't found the person you're looking for yet?"
The old lady still had some impression of Xu Tieniu and remembered that he seemed to be looking for someone.
Xu Tieniu smiled innocently, "I found it, I found it. I came here for another matter."
"I want to ask you about someone else."
"Who is it?"
"Song Wenyuan."
"ah?"
"Do you know someone named Song Wenyuan?"
The old lady's hearing wasn't very good, so she listened several times before she understood. She smacked her lips a few times and said, "You want to see him, right?"
Xu Tieniu was stunned. Is there really a person named Song Wenyuan in the village?
"Let's go~" Seeing that Xu Tieniu didn't say anything, the old lady stood up tremblingly, and with the help of her crutches, she called Xu Tieniu to go out.
Seeing this, Xu Tieniu subconsciously stepped forward to support the old lady and followed her out.
After walking and stopping for a long time, Xu Tieniu finally followed the old lady to a small hill west of the village.
Looking ahead, there are many small, uneven bumps.
The old lady brought Xu Tieniu to a small mound covered with weeds and pointed with her cane, "Here it is!"
"You're from there, right? There wasn't any news or anything like that in the early years, so why are you here now?"
The people over there?
Xu Tieniu was completely confused.
It seems that what the captain said was right. This old woman is really a little out of her mind.
Take him to see an abandoned grave?
"Grandma, I'm talking about Song Wenyuan, who looks to be in his fifties."
The old lady pursed her lips and raised her cane. "That's right, I'm almost fifty."
“It’s not here…”
"Why did you come only now? After all, your family has ignored you for so many years."
"The Li family is almost deserted. If you don't come soon, it will become a desolate graveyard with no one to take care of it."
"I am an old woman and I can't walk any more. I don't care anymore."
Xu Tieniu listened to the old lady mumbling softly and asked again, "Grandma, who are you talking about?"
"Who are you talking about? Wenyuan, aren't you looking for Wenyuan?"
"Poor thing, so young..."
"Did I tell you? That lady is definitely not someone you can get along with easily. See, I was right, wasn't I? It took all these years to find her, and now she's dead..."
"Even if I'm still alive, at my age, what can I get if I go back..."
"Short-lived ghost, you are not destined to be rich and noble...bad luck..."
Xu Tieniu listened to the old lady's nonsense, his mind full of confusion.
I patiently sent the old lady back home. Judging from the weather, it was time for the working members to go home for dinner.
Xu Tieniu said goodbye to the old lady and went to the captain's house.
The team leader still remembered him. After all, a piece of pork was a valuable gift at that time. Even when his father-in-law was at the peak of his career, he couldn't even get a piece of pork from him in a year.
"Hello, hello, big brother."
"Hello, comrade. Have you found the person yet?"
"Come in and sit down, come in and sit down." Captain Xiang Nancun greeted Xu Tieniu enthusiastically.
Xu Tieniu shook his hand politely, took out a box of cigarettes from his trouser pocket and handed one to the team leader.
"Brother, I'm here for another matter this time."
The captain took the cigarette that Xu Tieniu handed out and carefully put it to his nose and sniffed it.
"Come on, let's talk this way."
The two men stood by a pond not far away. Xu Tieniu took out a matchbox and lit a cigarette for himself, then helped the team leader light his cigarette before asking.
"This time I'm here to inquire about someone else."
"Brother, is there someone named Song Wenyuan in your Xiangnan Village?"
Thinking of the old lady with a confused mind who had taken him around for a long time to look at the desolate graves, Xu Tieniu added inexplicably, "If she were still alive, she would be around fifty."
Thinking of the age registered in Li Rui's file, Xu Tieniu changed his words again.
"No, no, no, about forty-six or forty-seven."
The captain lowered his head and began to think.
"Song Wenyuan?"
"Song Wenyuan~"
"Why does this name sound so familiar?"
The captain repeated it twice and then slapped his thigh.
"I remember now. Why does it sound so familiar? Isn't this Young Master Wenyuan's name?"
"I remember his last name was Song!"
Xu Tieniu's eyes lit up and his breathing quickened.
"Brother, where is this person now?"
"Alas, he died a long time ago."
Xu Tieniu was stunned. "Ah? Dead?"
"How, how did he die?"
"He was burned to death in the fire. He was completely burned black and you couldn't see his true self. Oh, it's so pitiful. He was a good person, but he was gone just like that."
Xu Tieniu calmly took out the pack of cigarettes from his pocket and stuffed it into the captain's arms.
"Brother, tell me about it!"
The captain pushed him twice, then put the box of cigarettes into his pocket like a treasure without hesitation.
"Didn't I tell you last time that the Li family was once a well-known wealthy family in our area?"
"Counting up, it seems to be a branch of a big family in Xingcheng."
"Of course, I also heard these from the old people before me."
Seeing that the captain was digressing, Xu Tieniu quickly got back to the topic.
"Brother, do you mean that this Young Master Wen Yuan is related to the Li family?"
"Yes, yes, that's the nephew of the Li family I told you about before!"
"His mother is the young lady from the Li family. She has been living with her son at her mother's house."
"There was a huge fire afterwards, and he, his mother, and the old lady and old man of the Li family were all burned to death."
"I remember that fire. It burned for a whole day and night. Everyone in the village rushed to put out the fire, but the well where we got water was quite far away, and the wind was strong that day, so it quickly set the whole house on fire."
"By the time the fire was put out, it was already the next morning. The three-story house with its carved beams and painted buildings was reduced to a frame."
"It just so happened that the Li family's daughter-in-law went back to her parents' home that day, so she escaped the disaster. Otherwise, hey~"
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