20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 294 A ray of light

Old Nie, the driver of the Liang family, is over fifty years old. He has been working as a servant and being dispatched by others all his life, so he is aging very quickly. His beard and hair are gray and still have braids. The wrinkles on his face are like withered tree bark, and the veins on his forearms are like Protruding, like countless earthworms crawling.

The old man didn't take the initiative to speak, and would answer whatever was asked. During the intervals, he would squat in a corner of the wall and smoke a cigarette, and from time to time he would raise his head and ask, "Have you finished asking? I still have animals to feed!" "

"Uncle, let me try this for you!"

Jiang Lianheng patted a box of old knives in Old Man Nie's hand and asked, "When you went to the station that day, did you transport the goods by yourself?"

Old Man Nie pointed to the door of the house and said: "The concierge also came with me that day. They were all medicinal materials and they didn't weigh much. I couldn't afford to hire someone to unload the goods. Don't look at my age, but my hands are no weaker than those of you young people. "

A bit stubborn and quite unwilling to accept old age!

"That's true, that's true!" Jiang Lian said flatteringly and then asked, "Did you go on time?"

"What this says is that people have always been waiting for trains. How can there be trains waiting for people?"

Jiang Lianheng asked hesitantly: "Could it be that you waited for the wrong bus?"

Old Man Nie raised his eyebrows and replied with some dissatisfaction: "I'm not that confused. At that point, that train and the blocked carriage are all correct."

"Then when you pull the car door, the medicinal materials are gone?" Zhao Zhengbei interjected, "How is that possible? Isn't this nonsense!"

Old Man Nie said impatiently: "So, it's useless for you to ask me. I didn't secretly order the medicinal materials. Maybe the cart of medicinal materials was stolen when we were in Haicheng."

Liu Yansheng shook his head: "That's impossible. You need to have a business receipt to pick up the goods. Anyone can unload the goods. Is that okay?"

"It's fake! What's not fake now?" Old Man Nie seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"No!" Liu Yansheng still insisted, "Even if it is a fake, he still has to know which company shipped the goods and what kind of goods. Moreover, the goods shipped to Liaoyang cannot be unloaded in Haicheng."

"Then I don't know." Old Man Nie stood up and dusted his trousers, "Anyway, I've told you everything I know. I don't know much more. I can only say that Wen Tingge is awesome. If you want to find it, why don't you? Go find him."

"Eh? Sir, have you heard of Wen Tingge?" Jiang Lianheng asked.

"What, you haven't heard of it?" Old Man Nie looked in disbelief, "It turns out you guys are from out of town, you are a big thief, a grand thief!"

When Zhao Zhengbei heard this, he couldn't help but be happy: "Then Wen Tingge stole your employer's goods, and you still call him a thief?"

This was meant to be a sarcastic comment, but unexpectedly, Old Man Nie snorted coldly and said, "It's better to steal the goods, and it's better to lose the goods! If the old man were here, he would definitely not agree to sell the little devil's medicine!"

Daqing is another unworthy descendant?

But then I thought about Liang Bolin's mercenary attitude. He probably would never be as self-reliant as Mr. Qiao, let alone feel any guilt.

As Old Man Nie wiped himself and walked into the house, he asked, "Are you okay? If nothing happens, I have to go back and feed the horses. I estimate that the cart of medicinal materials was probably stolen on the road."

Seeing that the old man was about to leave, Jiang Lianheng hurriedly stood up and asked: "Eh? Master, did you do anything unusual when you went to the station that day?"

"Something unusual?"

"Yes, for example, the train is delayed, or there are more workers unloading the goods, is there anything like that?"

Old Man Nie stood at the side door, looking into the distance, as if he was searching for something in his memory. After thinking for a moment, he finally shook his head and muttered: "No, there is nothing unusual. If you insist, just say it." It was a bit cloudy that day, and my rheumatism has subsided."

After saying that, when he heard the sound of the side door of the house opening and closing, Old Man Nie finally went back to feed the horses as he wished.

Jiang Lianheng and others were stunned on the spot. You looked at me and I looked at you. They were all confused for a moment and couldn't figure out the situation.

At this time, it was already three o'clock in the morning and it was approaching noon. Everyone was inevitably hungry and thirsty.

"Brother Dao, what's going on?" Zhao Zhengbei was the first to break the silence, "I have no clue at all, how can I investigate further?"

Jiang Lianheng shook his head and said: "It can't be said that we have no clue at all. At least we know now that Liang Bolin seemed to know that there was something wrong with the medicinal materials he brought in, so he bought heavy insurance in advance. Old Nie who was driving the truck knew that the goods were lost. Look, I feel a little gloating about my misfortune."

"Then it's better to cheat the insurance!" Zhao Zhengbei said, "According to what the old man said just now, only ghosts can steal that cart of medicinal materials. The rich man in Shanfangtang didn't know how to worry after losing the goods. He just wanted to It only makes sense that if you want to pay for it, you will just keep stealing."

"Maybe……"

Jiang Lianheng murmured to himself, but shopkeeper Liang's confident look flashed through his mind, making him think that things might not be that simple.

"We'll talk about this later. Let's go have dinner first and go to the train station in the afternoon."

……

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Nancheng, Liaoyang, the old house of the Jiang family.

Hu Xiaoyan leaned against the wall at the head of the kang, with a kang table propped up in front of her, looking left and right from time to time.

This crumbling old house still gave her a sense of freshness. Looking around at the place where Jiang Lianheng once lived, she felt an indescribable sense of intimacy in her heart.

Yingzi sat far away on the edge of the kang, busy with her needlework. From time to time she raised her eyes and asked, "Grandma, are you thirsty?"

Yuan Xinfa's son was not tall. He was leaning on the edge of the kang with his elbows, minding his own business. He had no mother in his eyes, but he was very curious about this new "guest" and wanted to get close to him, but he was too embarrassed to speak. . The hairpin on the "guest's" head aroused his interest, and he would take a look at it from time to time. If he happened to catch the other person's eyes, he would suddenly turn his head and look out the back window, pretending to be nonchalant.

Hu Xiaoyan simply took off the hairpin and asked, "Does it look good?"

The fat boy smiled and nodded.

"Here you go." Hu Xiaoyan handed it over with a smile, "Put it on for your mother."

The fat boy tilted his head and glanced at his mother, pursed his lips, but clenched his fleshy little hands into fists, hiding them in his arms and not daring to take them.

Hu Xiaoyan bowed and said with a smile: "Here, take it! Here you go!"

Yingzi turned his head when he heard the sound and declined: "Thank you grandma for your kindness. No need. We have lived in your house for so many years. We are already embarrassed enough."

"Nothing, it's not worth much."

Hu Xiaoyan is telling the truth. She has always been simple. She likes gold and silver jewelry, but she never takes the initiative to ask for anything. If you have it, you can have it, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter. If Jiang Lianheng gave him something too expensive, he would inevitably suffer. She scolded her.

Although this hairpin looks exquisite, the material is not rare, and it is indeed not worth much silver.

Seeing that Yingzi was determined not to accept it, she had no choice but to put it away angrily.

At this time, the big fat boy turned his face, opened his big mouth, and asked silently: Do you have any candy?

Hu Xiaoyan carefully recognized the mouth shape for a long time, frowned and asked: "Hot? Soup? Do you want sugar? Dongfeng, go -"

Before he finished speaking, Yingzi immediately put down the sewing work he was doing, grabbed his son, spanked him on the buttocks, and scolded him while spanking: "You are worthless! Let you ask for things from others! Let you ask for things from others. !”

The fat boy howled, hurriedly broke away and dodged, ran out of the house, and went to complain to Aunt Yuan across the door.

Hu Xiaoyan saw it and hurriedly persuaded her: "Sister-in-law, it's not that serious. It's not too much for the children to want to eat some sweets. I'll just let them buy some. Even if I give the children a greeting gift."

Yingzi shook his head quickly: "No, no, you can't spoil your child. I know this. If his father knows, he will beat him even harder."

With such a family tradition, children can never go wrong.

When Hu Xiaoyan saw this, she thought of the straightforward Yuan Xinfa, so she didn't say anything more. She changed the subject and said, "It's not easy to raise a child so big, isn't it?"

Even though Yingzi is a clumsy-tongued mother, when it comes to her children, no matter how dull she is, she still has ten thousand nagging words in her belly, waiting for outsiders to open her mouth to ask.

As the conversation went back and forth, the mother and the soon-to-be mother couldn't help but gradually become closer.

Yingzi felt that she had said too much, so she asked casually: "Grandma, how many months have you been here?"

Hu Xiaoyan touched her belly and said with a smile: "Less than five months, almost."

"Ah! Your belly is really big, you might as well have a double penis!" Yingzi recalled to herself, "When I gave birth to my son, I suffered a lot. I felt like I was fast. died."

I thought that after hearing these words, the pregnant woman would be frightened.

But Hu Xiaoyan just replied calmly: "I'm not afraid of suffering. I've suffered enough."

Yingzi couldn't ask in detail, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at the empty skirt of the lady in front of him.

Taking advantage of the fact that the relationship between the two was getting harmonious, Hu Xiaoyan took advantage of the situation and asked, "I think Brother Yuan is a very upright and hard-working person. He gets up early every day and stays late every day. He should also be considerate of his family, right?"

Yingzi picked up her sewing again, sighed, and said, "The Gu family is the Gu family. If you want to call him upright, it's better to call him stupid."

"what does this mean?"

"You are too honest. On the other side of the railway, you are always bullied and your wages are withheld. People who work on the railway have a better life than our family."

"Can't you?" Hu Xiaoyan was a little surprised, "Brother Yuan looks so strong, how can someone bully him?"

"Grandma, what's the use of being strong?" Yingzi said helplessly, "If you don't fit in with others and act like a fool, you won't be welcomed by others! His salary will be deducted. If you ask him why, he won't do it. Tell me, just tell me where he is. I thought he was trying to make money at first, and even followed him secretly, but I didn't see any problem. Alas! That's it!"

Hu Xiaoyan was thoughtful and asked, "Has it always been like this?"

Yingzi shook his head and said: "He used to be a switchman or a coolie, and he only started doing it the year before last. Grandma, you come from a wealthy family. I won't hide it from you. You went to work there, and we even borrowed money secretly. He was hired only after people paid tribute, and he did well at first, but things have changed since the end of last year. When I asked him, he said that the new foreman didn't want to see him, and we don't know what happened specifically. You know, I’m just a bitch, don’t meddle in other people’s business.”

Hu Xiaoyan lowered her eyebrows and remained silent, seeming to be thinking about something in her mind.

Yingzi felt a little embarrassed and blamed herself: "Grandma, I just talked too much. Do you want to take a rest?"

Hu Xiaoyan raised her head in response, smiled and waved her hands, but said: "No, I just remembered that my family is like this sometimes. Sister-in-law, you have your say."

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