Long Liexue couldn't say what Xiaogou Village was like in his heart. Long Liexue was unfamiliar, familiar, nostalgic, indifference, excitement, etc., and so on. Here, there were people closest to him, but the people closest to him also left him here; this was where he was born, but in his memory, it did not leave him much childhood impression.

His house is here, which is strictly considered an ancestral home. The house is located near the west side of the village. Like most houses in the village, there is a small stone paved road in front of the door. In the middle of those stones, there is a yellow land that has been trampled by many people. Some of the stones are broken like eggs, and some are as big as chopping boards. They are like strawberries dotted on cakes, and they are dotted on the original dirt road. I don’t know how many years have passed, but it looks like they are being stepped on into the original soil. The exposed part of the soil shows a smooth trace of non-artificial carving, and some stones even show the patterns in the stones. Some stones are paved with horse tartar. Although not many, but after years of age, the stones are paved with stones.

The baptism of the original ugly stones revealed the unusual inner substance inside, white as ice, red as blood, and yellow, just like the halo of the sunset in the sky. These things are nothing to the adults, but for the children of Xiaogou Village, finding these beautiful stones on the road has become a joy in childhood. When the weather is clear, these stones will emit dazzling reflections when facing the sun. Long Lie came when he was small, and he was also interested in these stones on the road, but they were just an interest and interest buried in his heart. He would never find such stones on the road when he was free of charge, and even scoop water from the ditches to rub the stones brightly.

No matter when, walking on this kind of road, it will make people feel a little refreshed. When it rains, it will not be too muddy. The stones washed by the rain are slippery. Therefore, on rainy days, people walking on this road generally dare not run too fast, and they always have some caution. Extend to the path in front of this gate, on one side is the village and on the other side are the farmlands in the village. The fields are often green, and each piece of land is green, and each piece of green is different. Some are deep, some are shallow, some are thick, some are light, and some are green, all are green.

Color, even the most wise painter's color palette cannot draw the many complex greens. When spring comes, this land is replaced by a unified gold, the gold that shines under the sun, and people see hope. It is rape flowers, the things that each family grows the most at that time. After turning a few turns along this stone path, it extends westward to a stone bridge. On the other side of the stone bridge is farmland, and the road is also a dirt road, and there will be no more stones on the road.

Under the stone bridge is a small river. The river is not wide, but the water is very clear, so clear that the water plants in the river can be clearly visible. This river flows through the back of Long Liexue's house, bypassing half of the village, and flows to the distance. Both sides of the river are full of willow trees. Except in winter, both sides of the river are swaying. Before the tap water pipe was installed in Xiaogou Village, the villagers went to the river to get water. Therefore, on the banks of the river, you can see several bluestone steps extending from the shore to the river. Although the water you drink is no longer taken into the river, you can still see many people in the village come here to wash clothes and vegetables. The ditches in the farmland on both sides of the river are connected to the river. For the children of Xiaogou Village, this is another paradise for them. The younger ones can play in the ditches in the fields, and take fish and shrimps. They are a little older.

Some of them ran to the river and tossed. Undoubtedly, Long Liexue could not enjoy these fun. For him, the experience of going down the river was obtained by climbing over a river behind a hill where he and Long Liexue lived. It was also a river. The river surface was more than ten times wider than the river in Xiaogou Village. Three people couldn't stand up and couldn't find the bottom when they stood up. Because the upper reaches of the river were higher and the water flowed there was also very fast. And he was naturally not doing fishing and shrimps there, from learning to swim in the water, to crossing, surfing, to going upstream in the water, to rushing to rush to carry weights... In fact, if Long Liexue had not been there, Long Liexue thought he would have died at least five times in that river. Whether in winter or summer, since he was six years old, the memory of the river had been with him for a full eleven years.

Whether it is the stones in Xiaogou Village or the rivers in Xiaogou Village, Long Liexue represents his different childhood and youth. If the river in Xiaogou Village reminds him of another river, then the first impression the stones in Xiaogou Village brought to him were those big stone mills, those big stone mills that allowed his hands to grind out countless blood bubbles, those big stone mills that gradually made his body and mind harden. And the roads here, in addition to reminding him of those things, they also lead to a soft place deep in Long Liexue's heart. In that place, there is always a vague warm back wearing a flower shirt, and the back, either walking slowly on the road, squatting by the river, gently pounding clothes on the bluestone.

Long Liexue looked at the children playing with the river on the road and remembered many things. Although that road and that river still exist, day after day, year after year. But for Long Liexue, they are no longer a road or a river, because they really cannot bear so much joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

From the last Qingming Festival to now, less than a year later, Long Han and Long Liexue have returned to Xiaogou Village. What they brought back was an urn in Long Liexue's hand and Wang Lizhi's urn.

Before entering the village, Long Liexue carefully looked at the changes in the village. Compared with the last time, Xiaogou Village still had not changed much, or there had never been much change. Long Liexue still clearly remembers that there was an old tree left behind at the entrance of the village. The old Shuzhuang was like this ten years ago, but it is still like this. After the corrosion of time, it has only become more vicissitudes than before. There is still a thick layer of green moss on it, which is as vicissitudes as Lao Shuzhuang. There are also the row of houses with different heights near the entrance of the village. They are all tiled houses with civil structures, which have not changed for many years. Most of the houses are older than Long Liexue, and some are bigger than Long Han. Between the houses and houses there are gravel paths sandwiched by the earthen walls on both sides.

In the village, there is only a little wider road in the middle, so a car can barely drive through it. The others are all the alleys mixed between the house and the house. The threshing yard in the center of the village is the only thing that can be seen outside. As I have seen when I came at all times, the threshing yard is always piled with tall straws. Like the threshing yard, it is the only brick house in the village, which belongs to Liu Zhugui's family. The only thing that looks a little changed in Long Liexue's eyes is a family not far from the entrance of the village. The exterior wall was painted with lime, and a few big blood-red words were painted with paint. "Warm celebration of Xiaogou Village being once again rated as an advanced demonstration village in the whole town." Long Liexu looked at the slogan carefully and confirmed that this was not the humor of anyone, and shook his head helplessly.

Long Liexue and Long Han walked in the village. When everyone saw them, they had some indescribable things in their eyes. As for Long Liexue, there were not many people who followed him, and not many knew him. When they met, they only knew that he was Long Han's son, as if he was studying in the county. The specific ones were not very clear. Some rumors about him that several years ago had been gradually forgotten by the villagers of Xiaogou Village.

Long Liexue acted like a good baby. Even the grass-green sportswear that the school forced to buy, the school uniform, which he rarely wore, was worn on his body. The feeling was just "earth". Long Liexue held the urn wrapped in a red cloth in both hands, followed by Long Han, occasionally looking around, with a curious expression on his face, and then put it on his face, "I am a good student who loves to study!"

If the news was conveyed in Xiaogou Village was so fast that it was a bit beyond Long Liexue's imagination. In fact, when Long Liexue and Long Han entered the village less than a minute, Liu Zhugui, the village head who was sitting at home, knew that they were coming. When Liu Zhugui knew that Long Han was coming, he was shocked at first. After all, Long Han had left him a deep impression. He knew his ability. If he had fought with Long Han head-on, even ten Liu Zhugui would not be enough for Long Han to squeeze it with one hand.

Long Han has been outside for so many years, and he is not without friends. I heard that Boss Cao, who made a fortune in the mining quarry, has a good relationship with Long Han, and that person has a wide relationship in the county. Liu Zhugui frowned while thinking. Finally, he decided to wait and see if he doesn't provoke Long Han, but before that, he had to go to the village to find Director Wang. Thinking of this, he quickly took out a good cigarette and two bottles of good wine from his home, went out and boarded a bicycle, and went up to the village.

Just as Liu Zhugui left, his second son knew that Long Han was coming. He didn't say a word, put a horn knife in his arms and went out. He decided to go and see what Long Han had three heads and six arms.

Xiaogou Village is not big, so it didn't take long. Liu Zhugui's second son had already seen Long Han and the others. He pretended to be nothing and walked out of an alley next to Long Han and the others and walked towards Long Han and the others. He wanted to see how powerful Long Han was, but before he could get close to Long Han, he didn't dare to let him do anything excessive. It was a speechless power, and some people called it

For temperament, some people call it momentum. In Liu Laoer's poor head, he could not tell what it was. However, with the instinct of biological instinct to predict danger, he knew that the person in front of him was not something he could mess with. Long Han's face had no expression on his face. He looked at him gently and felt that he was wearing a few less clothes at once, and even the ox horn knife quietly clamped in his arms was about to fall off. The moment he passed by Long Han, he carefully

I noticed Long Liexue who had been following Long Han. Just now, when he saw Long Han, his eyes seemed to be full of Long Han's shadow. Even Long Liexue who was following Long Han didn't seem to notice. He first noticed Long Liexue's school uniform. When he looked at the school uniform, he knew that Long Liexue and his eldest son were from the same school. Because of that kind of school uniform, his third son also had a set. When he saw Long Liexue's innocent and curious look, he left.

Bu, he looked back, Long Liexu was still following Long Han behind. Liu Zhugui's dick smiled coldly and went home. For him, his purpose was achieved. Based on his feelings, he knew that Long Han was not easy to mess with, but Long Han's son, well... although he was a little taller, he looked like a kind of good student at school. At that time, if Long Han was not tactful, don't blame me. See who cried when he saw it, he...he...

Following the stone-covered path, Long Han and Long Liexue and the others finally returned to their house in Xiaogou Village. Along the way, people kept looking at them curiously by passing by, and the urn held in Long Liexue's hand. Some people even greeted Long Han when they saw Long Han coming.

When I returned home and opened the door, the furnishings at home had not changed. However, the layer of dust covered on the table and chairs showed that no one had come to clean the house for a while.

Long Liexue's ancestral home was renovated a few years ago. Although it was also a tile house, it also looked quite refreshing. Perhaps for gratitude, before Wang Lizhi's wife was crazy, his wife often came here to help the Long family and son take care of him. Although the Long family lived here for only one or two days during the Qingming Festival, the house and outside were cleaned up very clean, with tables and chairs. Everything was well organized. Even the kitchen fire was made of small piles of dry firewood.

When Long Liexue and Long Han cleaned up their homes a little and after dinner, the night had already unknowingly enveloped Xiaogou Village. Long Liexue's home also welcomed the first batch of guests today.

There were three guests in total. One of them met Long Liexue when he returned home that day. He looked in his forties. The other two were from Xiaogou Village. One was also in his forties, and the other was a little older, about fifty years old, with a cigarette pole inserted in his belt. Out of an instinct cultivated by Long Han's training, Long Liexue quietly observed these three people without any trace. The three of them all have a common characteristic, which is the skin that was sun-toned in copper. When they saw the color of the skin, Long Liexue knew that they were standard villagers in Xiaogou Village. The color of that skin was not deliberately going to the sun to shine like some people.

The color that shows that you are very sunny is a kind of copper color that penetrates your bone marrow. Only those who work in the fields all year round will have it. Also, their hands are rough and powerful. The skin on their hands and faces are the same. One of them has a scar on his arm. If he doesn't pay attention, he may even miss it. The scar is close to his elbow. Time has made the scar lose its original appearance. Most people cannot notice it at all. Long Liexue noticed it. Seeing that scar, Long Liexue knew that this person had been a soldier. The scar was a gunshot wound. Judging from the scar, the scar was inferred that the time of injury was just about to be fought with Annan in those years.

The first person he came in, it seemed that it was the invisible leader among the three people. In the next few minutes, Long Liexue knew his name, Li Weihua. The one who was about the same age as Li Weihua, who had met with Long Liexue, had his nails neatly. This made Long Liexue feel a little surprised. He saw that Long Liexue smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth when Long Liexue opened the door. Based on his feelings, Long Liexue knew that this person was the one among the three who had the idea. This person was Tang Ziqing. The last person who entered the door was more than fifty who had a sense of vicissitudes on his face.

A year old man had a slightly slight carrying his back. He glanced at the cigarette rod that he inserted on his waist. Long Liexue knew why his back was a little slim. Judging from the smoothness of the surface of the cigarette rod, the cigarette rod had been used for at least twenty years. The smell of the local grass tobacco on his body had enough reason to make Long Liexue believe that anyone who smoked the earthy tobacco for more than twenty years would not have a good lung, and it would be normal for his back to carry a little bit. Few people have called him Zhang Laogen, and some call him Laogen directly.

The three of them seemed a little reserved when they arrived at Long Liexue's house. Long Liexue acted like a sensible high school student. They arranged for them to find a seat to sit down and poured them a glass of water each! If this were not the case, Long Liexue suspected that they would always stand. The three of them saw Long Liexue being very sensible, and their nervousness was eliminated a lot. They were not as reserved as they came in. They also had a good impression of Long Liexue. And from the praise of Long Liexue, they obviously found a breakthrough to start the topic.

"This kid is so sensible!"

"Yes, you see, young people know how to advance and retreat. They must have good grades in school. At first glance, they are good students with excellent character and academic performance!"

"That's right, you see, it's rare that he is so pretty and tall. Whose girl will marry him in the future will be blessed!"

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They said a lot, and in the end, even the word "behaved" was used. In fact, after they came in to help them pour water, Long Liexue went to the next door, leaving them and Long Han in the living room. Although they were not in the same room, Long Liexue's hearing was not much different from being in the same room. When they heard them praise their words "behaved" and Long Liexue could only smile bitterly. He really couldn't think of what kind of expressions would Xiaopang and the others hear someone who would use this word to say his words. At the end, they asked, Long Liexue almost fell down!

"Is this child married?"

After a polite and meaningless conversation in the opening style, the content of the conversation is not so relaxed.

This time, the three of them started with Liu Zhugui becoming the village chief of Xiaogou Village. They talked about the villagers' meeting, how Wang Lizhi's family built a house, how the village chief came to Wang Lizhi's family, how domineering and unreasonable, how Wang Lizhi was seriously injured by them... Until Wang Lizhi's wife went crazy and how she was sent to a mental hospital by the township. When Wang Lizhi was beaten, the details had to be marveled. Even the mean tone of Liu Laoer of Liu Zhugui's family (people in Xiaogou Village call him so) was a seven-minute elephant when he heard them talking excitedly. Long Lizhi was very strange when he was thinking about it. But what Long Lizhi was thinking about was not the scene of Wang Lizhi being beaten at that time, but the story of the three J soldiers who were murdering the city that night. Until now, Long Lizhi seemed to have realized the meaning of the story his father told at that time.

Long Han kept hearing them say, without saying anything in the middle, and waited until they had finished speaking, then he said, "Why did Wang Lizhi die? Let's not talk about it for now. I believe that there is a justification in the world. Now, I come back this time mainly to handle the funeral for Wang Lizhi. Wang Lizhi is here without relatives and no reason, and death is the most important thing. I hope he can be buried in peace. Here, I would like to ask all the neighbors to help you!"

The faces of the three people were a little embarrassed when they heard this. Long Han knew what they were worried about at a glance.

"I will pay for the cost of Wang Lizhi's burial this time. As for how much you pay and how to use it, please ask the neighbors to make some ideas!"

The three of them were relieved when they heard Long Han say this. Although they couldn't take out the money, they also wanted to do their best for Wang Lizhi's affairs. The three of them were relieved, and two of them immediately turned their attention to another more mature person. Long Han knew this person, and everyone called him Zhang Laogen.

Zhang Laogen thought for a while and said, "Wang Lizhi's family did not leave any graves, so if you want to be a cemetery, you have to buy it now. The money for buying a grave is not expensive. In addition, the money for repairing the graves is enough. In addition, there is no need to buy a coffin, so the cost can be saved!" Speaking of this, the mature man looked at the jade urn offered to Wang Lizhi on the shore of the incense shore of the living room, and his eyes were a little envious. In many rural areas, there is this custom. Many elderly people prepare for their own death when they are alive.

West, like cemeteries and coffins, these two things were already optimistic about before their lifetime. With a good burial coffin, many times, in the circle of the elderly, there is capital to show off. Wang Lizhi's thing, just looking at the materials and workmanship, can make many people drool. Without any concealment, Zhang Laogen thought about this lesson: If I could have such a thing when I die, it would not be a waste of my life. No matter how much I think about it, I still have to say this.

"Sir, I'm asking for a quarrel, and I'm going to ask a group of people to recite scriptures to save me. There are also some yellow and white fees, red cloth and white numbness, and the cost of drinking and food for neighbors... it's about three or four thousand yuan!" After Zhang Laogen said that, he saw Long Han not saying anything, thinking that Long Han felt that he had spent too much money, and he was also doing it. This was spending other people's money. He was a little embarrassed, so he quickly added: "If you save a little, save some wine and food, it's about two thousand yuan!" Zhang Laogen was very careful and thought about doing this simpler, just let it be. After all, this is spending other people's money.

"No, my family pays 100,000 yuan, and I would like to ask you all to make the funeral more glorious."

Zhang Laogen was shocked. He didn't know when Long Liexue had already come in from the inner hall. The words just now were what Long Liexue said.

Hundred thousand, you heard it right! Hundred thousand! The three of them were very shocked and couldn't believe their ears, so the three of them stared at Long Han with six eyes.

Long Han glanced at Long Liexue, with a deep sense in his eyes, and then said something to Zhang Laogen and the other one to test their hearts' ability: "If you think 100,000 is too little, you can have more!"

Zhang Laogen and the other two began to think if they had any hearing problems. Zhang Laogen widened his eyes and stuttered: "Ten...100,000, I...I heard it right?"

"That's right, it's only 100,000 yuan. Please help me and let Wang Li go straight to the glorious place!"

Long Han gave them a positive answer.

When Zhang Laogen and the other three heard this, their faces turned red. They were excited. They had been digging in the fields for generations and had not been glorious for a few days. At this moment, Long Han meant that Long Han asked the three of them to help and do this decent thing together. Although it was not his own business, just because Long Han's trust, just because he had the opportunity to spend such a large sum of money in his life to do something glorious together. Damn it!
Chapter completed!