20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 290 Returning home in glory, rumors of a big thief

From Fengtian to Liaoyang, the official road is smooth and the journey is short and fast.

Not to mention setting off in a carriage, even if it's walking along the road, as long as you are determined and don't worry about getting tired, you can get there no matter what if you walk all day.

What's more, every ten or twenty miles, there are villages and villages, and the four-wheeled carriages travel smoothly. This trip back to the hometown seems to be particularly smooth.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, a train passed by on the parallel Nanman-Manchuria Railway in the distance. There were gradually more and more pedestrians on the official road. Zhao Zhengbei rode up to the car and shouted out the window: "Brother Dao. , seems to be arriving soon. Is that the White Tower you mentioned?"

Jiang Lianheng and Hu Xiaoyan stuck their heads out from both sides of the car window and saw the gray pagoda standing dimly at the far end.

It is more timid to be close to hometown, and I dare not ask people.

How could outsiders understand the excitement of the young couple, so they had no choice but to retreat into the carriage and look at each other with a smile - "Go home."

I went to be fashionable and young, but now that I'm back, the city is still the same, but it's inevitably a bit more unfamiliar.

Along the railway, Maozi could no longer be seen, replaced by the Japanese Southern Railway garrison.

In order to facilitate the passage of trains, many old city walls have been demolished, and the streets in the market have been completely renovated. There are many three- and two-story Western-style buildings. However, the White Pagoda is still the tallest building in the city, and the relief Buddha statues on it still overlook all living beings here without changing their expressions. .

During the Russo-Japanese War, there was a great battle in Liaoyang. Especially in the southern boundary of the city, the brick walls were crumbling and many shops were destroyed by artillery fire. After several years of repair and reconstruction, it has gradually taken on the appearance of the new era.

Jiang Lianheng was thinking about his old house, so he asked his younger brother Ma to go to Nancheng first.

Unexpectedly, the shabby houses with rotten tiles around them seemed to be disgusted by the cannonballs, and they escaped the devastation of the war. On the contrary, the once glorious Nancheng royal residence had long since disappeared.

Everyone followed the instructions and turned into the alley. Jiang Lianheng got out of the car first and saw the door of his house, which remained unchanged as before.

Dongfeng, Beifeng, Liu Yansheng, Han Xinyuan and others looked up and saw a rather dilapidated and dilapidated ordinary house. Only then did they realize what "a small fortune depends on hard work, a big fortune depends on fate".

"Brother Dao, did you live here before?" Zhao Zhengbei couldn't help but look up and down.

Jiang Lianheng sighed with emotion: "Yeah, how about it, isn't it shabby?"

Zhao Zhengbei shook his head and said, "It's not shabby. When it's windy or rainy, you still have a house!"

Comparing people with each other will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will have to be thrown away. Jiang Lianheng is already lucky enough, so naturally he has no right to complain anymore, so he invites everyone to come into the house to have a rest and simply rest.

Unexpectedly, the door was locked by someone from the inside.

Jiang Lianheng raised his eyebrows and muttered, "Oh my god? Who the hell sneaked in while I wasn't here? Isn't this just taking advantage of the magpie's nest?"

Liu Yansheng reminded in a low voice from the side: "Brother, it's the dove occupying the magpie's nest."

"Hypocritical, it's all the same anyway!"

At this time, Hu Xiaoyan poked her head out of the car and asked with concern: "Xiaodao, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, don't make a fuss." Jiang Lianheng reassured, then knocked on the door, "Hey, who's in there?"

After a while, there was a soft sound in the house, and a woman answered the door and asked, "Who is it?"

Jiang Lianheng replied subconsciously: "Hey! Me!"

After saying that, he was stunned for a moment, then quickly came back to his senses and changed his mind and asked, "No, who are you talking about?"

The door was not opened, and there was no longer any response from the room, but there was clearly light and shadow flowing through the crack in the door.

Everyone looked at each other, Jiang Lianheng said strangely: "Why are you looking at me? This is my house, how can I correct my mistakes?" After saying that, he continued to knock on the door harder, "Did you hear me happily opening the door? Where did it come from? Go back and stay there, don't force me to do anything hard!"

The sound of knocking at the door gradually alarmed the neighbors. Several families leaned on the door beams and secretly peeked this way. They saw about ten young and strong men, tall and handsome, and they were all arrogant, so they all refused to come forward to ask.

After knocking on the door a few more times, an old lady in her fifties suddenly walked out of the opposite house. She folded her hands in front of her skirt, laughed dryly at everyone, walked around the corner and leaned towards Jiang Lianheng, and glanced at her. Look, I didn’t dare to recognize it.

Jiang Lian turned his head, frowned, and asked: "Aunt Yuan, who is leaving me at home?"

"Ouch! Isn't this Jiang Xiaodao!" The old lady slapped her thigh cheerfully, stepped forward to hold Jiang Lianheng's arm, and looked up and down carefully, "I looked back just now, and it seemed a little... Erxiang, it’s really you!”

"Hey, hey, Aunt Yuan, just shake my hand and don't touch my gold plate!"

"This kid! His bad mouth has not changed at all. What kind of person am I, your aunt?"

Hearing that relatives were starting to gather outside, the neighbors came out one after another to watch the fun.

"Who's back? Oh, isn't this the kid from the Jiang family? He's already so old?"

"Isn't that right? They say the boy hasn't come back."

"When something happened to the old He family of the Changfeng Escort Bureau, this kid didn't come back, right?"

"There's no need to mention the pot! What's the matter with Chen Zhizhi and rotten millet? Why are you still talking about him?" Jiang Lianheng's relationship with his neighbors was not very close, but since his parents passed away one after another, he To be able to survive, the help of these ladies is really indispensable, so they don't treat them coldly.

But when the neighbors saw that he was dressed in an extraordinary way, they must have met some rich man. In order to get close to him, they all started talking about the past.

"Xiaodao, are these all your friends?" Aunt Yuan laughed and said, "Okay, okay, now that you are promising, don't forget to come back and see me. I loved you so much when I was a kid." After saying that, she didn't forget to talk to the others. Said, "I have said before that this kid values ​​friendship and will definitely succeed in the future!"

Everyone agreed, and then asked the most common questions.

"Boy, what are you doing? Did you say you have a wife? Can I tell you one? What do you think of my niece? She has a round face and a big ass. She will have a husband and a son at the first glance!"

Jiang Lianheng waved his hands quickly: "Madam, your niece is not married yet? She has a daughter-in-law, and she is sitting on it in the car!"

Everyone made a show of moving towards the car. Hu Xiaoyan quickly closed the curtains and refused to pay attention.

Aunt Yuan curled her lips and muttered: "My little wife is quite afraid of life."

"Auntie, don't worry about it!" Jiang Lian said hurriedly, "I just want to ask now, who is leaving me alone?"

Hearing this, the smile on Aunt Yuan's face froze for a moment, and then she rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Hey! Xiaodao, you said you have been gone for more than ten years, and no one knows where you have gone. You can't help but put aside the house. No matter how good the house is, it won't do if it's not popular. It happens that your uncle Yuan and his nephew came here a few years ago. I think we are not outsiders, so let them look after the house for you. "

After saying that, the old lady walked to the door, knocked on the door, and said, "Yingzi, open the door, I am your third aunt!"

This time, the door finally opened, only to see a young daughter-in-law who was less than thirty years old, leading a fat boy, standing in the room blankly. She seemed to have understood the conversation outside the door, and she didn't know what to do for a moment. To go or to stay.

Aunt Yuan was bright-eyed and greeted hurriedly: "Yingzi, the real master is here. Why are you standing there? Please come in for tea! If there is no tea, please pour a bowl of water for everyone. If the bowl is not enough? Wait until I go home to get it!" "

The old lady wiped herself away and returned to the house. Zhao Zhengbei stepped forward and asked, "Brother Dao, can sister-in-law come in?"

"This is my home, do I still have to listen to her?" Jiang Lianheng said and walked to the carriage to take his wife out of the car.

Hu Xiaoyan thought there were too many people around, so she insisted on sitting in the car and waiting until dark before making plans.

Therefore, Zhang Zhengdong led people to guard the car, while Jiang Lianheng led Liu Yansheng, Han Xinyuan and Zhao Zhengbei into the house first.

As soon as everyone entered the door, the Kang was still the same, and only a few necessary pots and bowls were added to the house. Apart from that, there were no other furnishings. However, the surroundings were cleaned extremely neatly, which shows that Yingzi is indeed a good hand at living. , but she is a bit dull, afraid of strangers, and won't get into trouble. She left everyone aside, but she stood at the door, eagerly looking forward to Aunt Yuan's quick return.

The big fat boy looked at the people around the table curiously.

Jiang Lianheng was originally quite angry when his house was occupied, but when he saw that the house was well lived in, his anger dissipated. He thought that if no one had taken care of it in the past ten years, this old house would have collapsed long ago.

"Sister-in-law, what does my eldest brother do?" Jiang Lianheng said deliberately.

Yingzi was stunned for a moment and replied dryly: "It's the switch in the road."

"You work on the railway?" Jiang Lianheng and Liu Yansheng looked at each other, "When will he come back? I just have something to ask him."

"Should be back soon." Yingzi just looked at the door.

"Who's coming back soon?" Aunt Yuan held a stack of bowls and walked in across the threshold. While pouring water for everyone, she said, "Yuan Xinfa? It's coming soon. It's what you've been waiting for! What's that? , let’s have dinner together later, I’ll try my best, I don’t have anything good to entertain you, so please bear with me!”

Jiang Lian waved his hands and said, "Don't be in a hurry while eating. Madam, I want to ask you something."

"What's wrong? Tell me." Aunt Yuan sat down on the edge of the kang and asked.

"At the station in our city, has a truckload of goods been lost recently?"

"Is there such a thing? I have never heard of it. You can ask my nephew later. Xiaodao, are you in business now? What kind of business do you do? My son, your brother, is idle every day, otherwise you have Just take him with you!"

Jiang Lianheng stopped talking and asked again: "You have never heard of goods being lost, so have there been any big thieves or bandits making trouble in our city recently?"

"Yo! If you want to ask if there is a thief, there is really a big thief. I heard his name is Wen... Wen... Ouch! Take a look, I forgot his name -"

Before he finished speaking, he heard Yingzi's voice coming from the other side of the door, "You're home, are you back? Come in and have a look!"

After hearing the words, everyone looked towards the door and saw a strong man in his early thirties, covered in tendons and shiny black skin, getting into the house with his head lowered.

After hearing this, Aunt Yuan immediately stood up with a smile to greet her. She told the whole story in a few words. Then she led the strong man to the table and introduced her to her relatives as usual: "Xinfa, this is your brother Jiang Xiaodao. We are family friends, we have been neighbors for many years, come and sit down, you work on the railway, you know a lot, tell me the name of the big thief recently, Wen!"

At first glance, this strong man seems to be an honest man who works hard, and is as talkative as Yingzi.

Jiang Lianheng did not get up, he just sat on the table and said with a smile: "Brother Yuan, are you back?"

Yuan Xinfa came to the table innocently, looked at the people in front of him, then suddenly bowed down and twitched his lips——

"master."

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