I Wore It Back After 60 Years

Chapter 55 Inquiry
Before going out, Li Xingxing filled a basket with rice, noodles, oil, meat, etc., covered it, and carried it behind his shoulders.

The clothes, shoes and hats have not been changed, and they are still soiled.

Slowly, strolled to Wutong Street.

Wutong Street is a rich street in the past, with houses standing in a row.

Li Xingxing didn't rush to knock on the door to ask, but walked around Wutong Street.

An old lady with snow-white hair and wrapped feet sitting in the sun at the door of a small bungalow stopped her, "Little eldest sister, who are you looking for? I see you have come and gone three times."

"I'm looking for Li Zhengrong." Li Zhengrong was her grandfather's name.

The old lady was obviously stunned, "Are you looking for Li Zhengrong? Who are you from him?"

Li Xingxing was more surprised than her. Is there really such a person as Li Zhengrong?
She hurriedly asked, "I was asked to bring him something, do you know where he lives?"

"Li Zhengrong is dead," the old lady said.

"Dead? When?" Although he wasn't sure whether the other party was his grandfather, when he heard that the man named Li Zhengrong had passed away, Li Xingxing's heart shrank suddenly, and the pain suddenly rose.

"When? The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, I remember that Laba porridge was boiling in my pot that day!"

Li Xingxing lost his voice: "The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month?"

Isn't it the day she wore it back?

How could it be so coincidental?
The old lady with little feet nodded: "It has already been said that Laba is the New Year, who would have known that he could not finish the year. I heard people say that on the day he came back, he cleaned himself up neatly, his face was extremely rosy, and he chatted with the neighbors. After a long time, he asked to stay at his house for one night, and when the cadres who lived in his house came to see him at night, they found that he was dead."

"What do you mean? Can you tell me more about him?"

Li Xingxing squatted in front of the old lady, took out the chicken cake wrapped in greased paper from the basket and stuffed it in her hand.

She opened it, her eyes lit up, and she said eloquently: "Li Zhengrong is a strange man, a red-capped businessman, who studied abroad when he was a boy, returned as a young man, lived in a second-rank official, lost his wife and son in his middle age , also served as an official in the new government. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown. He donated hundreds of millions of property to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. He disappeared. After careful calculation, he had no home for 18 years. He came back and adopted a granddaughter , but we have never seen it. Thinking about it now, he died on the day he came back, it seems like a leaf falling back to the root."

"He has a granddaughter?"

"He said yes, but those of us in the neighborhood have never seen it." The old lady picked up a piece of chicken cake and took a bite, her eyes were very clear. "He lived 99, and his life is enough."

"99?" Is it really a coincidence that he died at the same age as his grandfather?

Li Xingxing became more and more confused.

Does raising one's grandfather have anything to do with Li Zhengrong, as the old lady said?
She continued to ask, "Does the Li Zhengrong you mentioned have any family? Where does he live? What about the funeral? Where is he buried?"

The old lady got the benefit, but she didn't delay, and replied, "Didn't I tell you? His wife and children have long since passed away, so he was disheartened and donated all his property. The garden house on my left is where he used to be. The house was designed and built by a foreigner, because no one lived there all the year round. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was nationalized and assigned to senior cadres. , according to Li Zhengrong's intention, the ashes were cremated on the same day and scattered into the Yellow River on the same day."

Li Xingxing sat on the ground with a butt, "All traces of his existence disappeared?"

How can she keep checking?
(End of this chapter)