Uncle's Crisis

Chapter 183

Just as he was being silly, a white-haired old lady came over and asked Gao Zhiyuan, "You comrade, are you scared by a lunatic?"

"Well, yes, I was taken aback." Gao Zhiyuan came back to his senses.

The old lady said: "When I walked here before, the lunatic was still there, but this time the eye was gone. Just look at your eyes and I will understand. It must be that the soul has been frightened."

Gao Zhiyuan asked: "Ma'am, is that lunatic really Yang Gensheng?"

The aunt shook her head and said, "No...not..."

"Then why do they look so similar? The eyebrows, the mouth, and the bridge of the nose are exactly the same."

"They are brothers, can they not be the same?"

"Are they brothers?"

"That's right, the lunatic is Yang Gensheng's younger brother, named Yang Shushao."

"Oh, that's what happened. I thought Yang Gensheng was crazy. By the way, auntie, I'll ask you something."

"What's the matter?"

"I heard that Yang Gen, your village party secretary, was almost beaten to death a few days ago and was admitted to the hospital. Is it true?"

"I'm old, deaf, and blind. I don't know what's going on. At first, some people said that Yang Gensheng was beaten by the farm leader. Later, I found out that it was his younger brother Yang Shushao who was beaten. It seems that after going to the hospital for a while, he became even more crazy."

"You mean, the madman who went to the hospital?"

"Yes."

"Is it definitely Yang Shushao?"

"I think it should be that he hasn't been seen in the village for many days. After returning, he became even more stupid, muttering that he went to the hospital to play." After the aunt finished speaking, she left without looking back.

Gao Zhiyuan quickly chased after him, and after asking where Yang Gensheng lived, he rode his bicycle straight there.

The courtyard door of Yang Gensheng's house was wide open. Gao Zhiyuan parked his bicycle under the shade of a tree, stood at the door, and looked inside secretly.

Only then did I see that Yang Gensheng, the secretary of the village party committee, was lying on a broken wooden chair, smoking leisurely while shaking.

"Secretary Yang." Gao Zhiyuan called out.

Yang Gensheng straightened up, stared at Gao Zhiyuan for a while, frowned and asked, "Are you...are you the leader of the town? Or the leader of the farm?"

Gao Zhiyuan came over and said with a smile: "I am not from the town, nor from Lingfang Farm, but from the agricultural trade company in our city."

"Oh, you are the leader of the city company?" Yang Gensheng stood up and let Gao Zhiyuan sit on the broken chair politely.

Gao Zhiyuan sat on it unceremoniously, and asked Yang Gensheng, "Have you really forgotten who I am?"

Yang Gensheng didn't answer, turned around and went into the room to get a horse tie out, and sat opposite Gao Zhiyuan, with a wry smile on his face.

"Secretary Yang, you are so noble and forgetful!"

"No...no, I'm blind-eyed and I think the face is familiar, but I just can't remember where I saw it." Yang Gensheng said, handing a cigarette to Gao Zhiyuan, and he put one in his mouth.

In the process of lighting the cigarette, he glanced at Gao Zhiyuan's face again.

Gao Zhiyuan took a puff of cigarette and said, "Secretary Yang, you invited me to eat chicken at your house. You can't just pretend not to know me because you don't want to?"

"Don't...don't, you can't say that. I was injured in the head a few days ago, and I have memory problems."

Gao Zhiyuan said bluntly: "So, do you still remember when you were beaten? I was there that night, and we were next to each other. I can see it clearly."

Yang Gensheng was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "Even if you can see clearly, it's the same thing. That person beat me and broke my head. Even the hospital has proof."

Gao Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder, and said affectionately: "I didn't invite myself, and I was treated as an outsider. If you deceive me with false words, it will be really unkind."

"My head was really smashed, I can't even think about it, you...you are..."

"If you can't remember it, don't think about it. I brought a chicken and wanted to have a drink with you, but as soon as I entered the village, your brother snatched the chicken. He told me about it while eating. A secret."

"What secret?"

"He said he was the one who took your place in the hospital."

"He told you all?"

"Yes!"

Yang Gensheng stared like an old cow, his eyeballs were about to fall out, and shouted: "No, he is a fool, can he talk to you seriously?"

Gao Zhiyuan said: "After he ate a chicken leg, his head became spiritual. He sat down and talked to me a lot, all of which were impostors."

"Damn, dare to love chicken can also cure neurosis?" Yang Gensheng scolded and said, "Actually, I was also forced to toss and toss and toss. Not only is it not beneficial, but it also costs a lot of money."

"Isn't it? This is called stealing the chicken without losing the rice." Gao Zhiyuan took a deep puff on the cigarette and said, "To be honest, I didn't come here on a special trip this time. I passed by here on a business trip and suddenly remembered your invitation last time. As for The thing about you being beaten has nothing to do with me, it's just a brotherhood."

Yang Gensheng nodded and said, "I remember... I remember, you are the leader of the city company, that's right! It seems that your surname is... surnamed Sun? Is Mr. Sun right?"

Gao Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "No...no, I'm not Mr. Sun, I'm just a handyman under him. You can call me Lao Gao."

"Okay...Okay, Lao Gao." Yang Gensheng put down his burden, relaxed, and said, "We are poor here, and no superiors have come here for a long time. I am really happy that you came, and I also have a big stomach Let me chat with you well."

Gao Zhiyuan said: "It seems that your village is poor enough, and you don't even have a few decent houses. Why is this so?"

Yang Gensheng said: "It's no wonder if it's not like this. The village doesn't have a few acres of good land, and the mountains are thin, so the food grown is not enough to fill our stomachs."

Gao Zhiyuan took a deep breath and said, "That's not right, I remember that the company allocated special funds to your village a few years ago for the renovation of fertile land, why didn't it work?"

Yang Gensheng sighed, and said, "Don't tell lies in front of real people. I have been a branch secretary for 12 years, and I have never seen a penny."

"But that night, you said at the dinner table that you had accepted our funding, and you kept thanking me."

"Then... isn't that just acting? The man surnamed Li had a bad idea and taught me what to say sentence by sentence on the way."

"Including your beating is also arranged in advance, right?"

Yang Gensheng smiled lazily and said, "Did you see that? Actually, it was acting, even the blood on my face wasn't real."

"what is that?"

"It's pigeon blood."

"Where did the pigeon blood come from?"

"It was slaughtered in the cafeteria, the meat was stewed, and the blood was in a plastic bag. After I was beaten, I touched it and smeared it on my face."

"Hey, I really don't see it. Your acting skills are really good." Gao Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "Secretary Yang, why do you think you are doing this? You have been tossing and tossing, what are you planning?"

"Can't I do that? If I don't worry about what he said, the old guy will dismiss me. Although the village is a little poor, I can get thousands of dollars a year as the village secretary. Salary, plus some subsidies from the farm, is much better than going out to work, and I don’t need to leave the family and business aside, at least I can take care of my idiot brother.”

Gao Zhiyuan felt a pang of sadness in his heart, and suddenly felt that Yang Gensheng was a kind and righteous person.

(End of this chapter)