Reborn in the red age

The train stopped and stopped all the way. After two days of train riding, Qingfeng Li felt dizzy.

After getting off the train, I stepped on the ground with my legs. I felt dizzy and almost fell down. Fortunately, I was helped by Qu Zhongxiao, which prevented me from falling.

"Laoqu, the transfer bus won't arrive until tomorrow. Let's find a guest house to stay for one night first," Qingfeng Li said while sitting on the steps and rubbing his temples.

Qu Zhongxiao pushed up his glasses and said awkwardly: "Mr. Li, I've asked before. The transfer train will arrive in six hours. The time left for us is too short. How about we spend the night at the train station?" , so as not to get up in a hurry tomorrow and rush on the road."

After a moment of silence, Li Qingfeng said slowly: "Lao Qu, you are really a good man who is diligent and thrifty."

"hey-hey"

The two walked off the platform and walked back and forth around the train station square, trying to find a place to rest.

These days, not many transit passengers are willing to spend money to stay in guest houses, which results in the train station square being overcrowded. As far as the naked eye can see, there are passengers sleeping on the floor everywhere.

I found an open space in the square, put my luggage under my head, and started to rest in the open air in the square.

"Damn, this business trip was really good. That old man from Dean Qian is a real dog." Lying on the hard cement floor, before going to bed, Qingfeng Li cursed Dean Qian a few more words and then closed his eyes. On the eyes.

Qingfeng Li was woken up by a scream in the morning. When he woke up in a daze, there were far fewer people in the square who had slept the night before.

Qu Zhongxiao, who slept next to Qingfeng Li, was holding his travel bag and rummaging around for something, clothes and other things scattered all over the floor.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "Old Qu, what happened? What are you looking for?"

"All the valuable things in my bag have been lost," Qu Zhongxiao said with a mournful face.

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After counting, the watch that I took off my wrist and put in my bag last night, as well as other small items such as flashlights, were completely gone. Only some tattered clothes were left in the travel bag.

Fortunately, the money tickets were all in the small pocket of his underwear, and no one could take off Qu Zhongxiao's underwear without anyone noticing.

"It's over. I bought that watch when I was over eighty. It cost me two months' salary to buy it." Qu Zhongxiao sat on the ground dejectedly, almost crying.

Regarding Qu Zhongxiao's tragic experience, Li Qingfeng shrugged and expressed that he could not help.

Travel expenses are not so easy to pocket. Others sleep in the square because they have nothing that can be stolen. If you dare to sleep in the square with a shiny watch, you are not rushing to give it to a thief. Performance.

Even if something is lost, the task must continue.

Li Qingfeng helped Qu Zhongxiao pack his luggage, gave a few words of comfort, and ate a bowl of Xi'an special breakfast. The two boarded the transfer train and continued towards the prefecture-level city where Wang Tiezhu's home was located.

There is no train there, so you need to go to the city first and then transfer to public transportation to reach the county.

After learning the lesson at the train station, Qu Zhongxiao did not talk about sleeping in the open air for the rest of the journey, but stayed in the guest house honestly.

Northern Shaanxi is the central part of the Loess Plateau. The landforms here are difficult to describe. The natural environment is harsh. The journey involves climbing mountains and crossing rivers. The journey is very difficult.

They got into a shabby minibus with no windows, and the two of them drove on the road to their destination.

There is a lot of wind and sand here, and there are no windows in the car to block it. A mouthful of sand can be poured in with just one mouth. The rickety car body is even more torturous for Qingfeng Li.

"Teacher Li, you have a rest. I'll go find a fellow villager and find out how to get to Wang Tiezhu's village. Let's take a bullock cart there today."

After getting off the minibus, Qu Zhongxiao, who had recovered from the grief of losing his watch, immediately got into work mode, urging Qingfeng Li to go to the countryside today.

Li Qingfeng, who was pale, heard that he was not resting in the county town, so he quickly grabbed Qu Zhongxiao's arm: "Old Qu, Lao Qu, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, rest at the county guest house for one night, and it's not too late to go back tomorrow."

Seeing that Qingfeng Li's expression was really bad, Qu Zhongxiao thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed to rest in the county tonight.

After a night's rest, the body was mostly recovered. The two got up early in the morning and went out. They found out the only way to Nitou Village, where they waited for the donkey cart to go to Nitou Village.

"Lighting up the lamp on the east mountain (hey), and getting light on the west mountain (that), forty miles (that) of plains and plains are gone, and no one can be seen."

You get sick in your home (ouch) and I cry in my home, and the pear on the scale (yo) can’t be delivered to my door. "

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Sitting on the donkey cart, waiting for the uncle who was driving the donkey cart to sing a song to his heart's content, Qingfeng Li began to tentatively ask about Wang Tiezhu.

"Uncle, I heard in the county town that a top scholar from your Nitou Village went to the capital. Is it true?"

The two people did not identify themselves when they stopped the car, but made up a random excuse and got on the donkey cart.

"Of course it's true. That kid is a literary star who flew out of our mountains and valleys. He was admitted to Peking University. When he graduates in the future, he will be a national cadre." The driver driver grinned and said proudly.

"Peking University, it's the best university in our country. It's really a star of literature and music, and one of the best among thousands of people."

"The baby thought he had a lot of potential since he was young, and he was admitted to Capital University, which was not beyond his expectations."

After chatting for a while and feeling that the relationship was almost close, Li Qingfeng inquired about Wang Tiezhu in more detail.

The uncle who drove the driver didn't notice anything unusual. He took Wang Tiezhu's story as a topic of discussion, even talking about peeing and mud when he was a child.

What Qingfeng Li felt was a pity that this uncle told a lot of things, but there was nothing that Qingfeng Li wanted to know.

Seeing that there was no progress, Qu Zhongxiao couldn't bear it anymore and asked directly: "Uncle, now that the reform and opening up has begun, many students will take advantage of the summer vacation to work part-time to earn living expenses. I wonder if Wang Tiezhu went out to work during the summer vacation?"

"I'm not sure about this, but I haven't seen that boy Tiezhu much since the admission notice was sent to the village. He must be working part-time in the county." The uncle who drove the car smiled and answered the question.

When they heard that Wang Tiezhu disappeared not long after receiving the admission notice, their eyes lit up.

Stopping Qu Zhongxiao who wanted to continue questioning, Li Qingfeng said with a smile: "Well, this child is good. He knows how to earn living expenses by himself and does not burden his parents." "She is really a good child. She has been sensible since she was a child. Our Nitou Village is famous for its good children.”

"Since he is a well-known good boy in the village, when he goes to school by train, everyone in the village should go to see him off, right?"

"That's not true. We were thinking of sending the baby off. He said (second tone) that the baby took a train directly from the county, so we didn't go to send it off. Speaking of which, my mother-in-law cooked two of them that day. I thought about letting Tiezhu’s baby eat the eggs on the train, but unfortunately they all ended up in the bellies of those incompetent bastards at my house.”

After getting the answer he wanted, Qingfeng Li did not continue to discuss the topic in depth. Instead, he chatted with the driver about the local customs.

The child Wang Tiezhu is most likely dead. It is impossible for ordinary villagers to know such a secret thing. Only the Wang Tiezhu family knows the specific situation.

The question now is how did this child die? He died not long after receiving the admission notice, and then someone who looked very similar to him took his place in college. Is there such a coincidence?

After arriving at Nitou Village, Qingfeng Li took out two yuan from his pocket and gave it to the driver as fare.

The two of them carried their luggage and went straight to the Nitou Village Committee without saying a word, and found the party secretary to identify themselves.

When the village party secretary saw the visitors from Capital University, he quickly and warmly greeted the two of them to sit down and rummaged through the boxes and found half a pack of low-quality tea.

There is a shortage of water in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi. The water here is very turbid, yellow, and has a peculiar smell. The boiled water is naturally not very tasty.

After taking a hesitant sip, Li Qingfeng took out the photo of Wang Tiezhu taken at school from his pocket and placed it in front of the village party secretary: "Party secretary, take a look. Do you recognize the person in the photo?"

The old party secretary agreed, picked up the photo on the table and looked at it carefully, exclaiming: "Hey, this baby is..."

Before he finished speaking, the old party secretary stood up, stood by the window, and began to look at it carefully in the sunlight.

After watching for five or six minutes, the old party secretary sat back on the stool and said, "It looks so similar. Why does this baby look so similar to Tiezhu's baby from Emen Village?"

For strangers, if the photo is 70% like the person, they can be sure that the person is Wang Tiezhu. However, as an old man in the village, the old party secretary is naturally very familiar with Wang Tiezhu, who was admitted to Peking University. If you look closely, you can tell that the person is Wang Tiezhu. the difference between.

"The man in the photo is a new student in our school this year. He said he is Wang Tiezhu." Li Qingfeng, who already had a rough idea of ​​what was going on, took a sip of tea and said calmly.

"What? What did you say?"

The old party secretary stood up from the table in shock, kicking the stool over. He quickly picked up the photos on the table again and continued to read.

After looking at it for a long time, the old party secretary shook his head, lifted up the stool and sat down again: "Teachers, I will ask Wang Dazhu to come over. You can talk to him."

Wang Dazhu and Li Qingfeng naturally knew who it was. It was Wang Tiezhu and his father. The names of the father and son were quite interesting, as they were named the same as brothers.

Soon, a man with a white towel on his head, dark skin, and wrinkles on his face walked in.

The person who came was none other than Wang Dazhu.

This person gave Li Qingfeng the impression that he was a farmer born and raised in northern Shaanxi. The middle-aged man who came with Wang Tiezhu that day had no peasant temperament at all and looked like a small and medium-sized leader with some power.

"Dazhu, these two are the leaders of Tiezhu School. They are here to learn about Tiezhu." After Wang Dazhu entered, the old party secretary introduced the identities of Li Qingfeng and Li Qingfeng in a stern tone.

Upon hearing the identities of the two people, Wang Dazhu had a panicked expression on his face, and the tobacco bag in his hand suddenly fell to the ground.

Seeing this expression, Li Qingfeng and Qu Zhongxiao looked at each other and had an idea.

"Comrade Wang Dazhu, since we are here, it means we have some information. Let's talk about who is the 'Wang Tiezhu' who came to our school to report? Where is the real Wang Tiezhu?"

The visitor looked like an honest old farmer who had never seen the world. He didn't have much money. As long as he cheated a little, he should be able to achieve good results.

Being deceived by Qingfeng Li, Wang Dazhu shivered. He squatted on the ground and used his trembling hands to strike a match and put it on the smoke pot.

Several people in the room gave him a buffer space and did not rush to speak. Instead, they quietly watched him sucking on the cigarette pot in his hand.

"Dazhu! Why don't you tell me what's going on!"

Seeing Wang Dazhu smoking the pot one after another, the old party secretary lost his patience, slapped the table hard, and said seriously.

After Wang Dazhu shivered again, he still kept silent and smoked the pot in his hand.

After a long time, a sentence came out of his mouth: "The one who went to school to report is Er Tiezhu."

Li Qingfeng shook his head. Wang Dazhu was too honest to tell lies. His demeanor and actions had long given him away. Everyone in the room knew that these words were lies.

"Dazhu, what are you talking about? I brought over Mr. Li's photo. Look, this is your Tie Zhu. You don't even recognize your own son?" When the old party secretary saw what was going on, Dazhu said Not telling the truth, he angrily picked up the photo on the table and threw it at Wang Dazhu.

Picking up the photo on the ground, Wang Dazhu glanced at it and still said with a pinched neck that this person was his Tie Zhu, but his hair was longer.

"You, you, I watched Tie Zhu grow up. Open your dog eyes and take a good look. Is that person in the photo Tie Zhu?" Wang Dazhu, the old party secretary, was so angry that he pointed at him with his hand. Some tremors.

Wang Dazhu did not deny this time, but held his head with a very painful expression on his face.

Seeing Wang Dazhu squatting on the ground with his head in his hands, Qu Zhongxiao, who had been silent for the whole time, spoke up: "Hey, Comrade Wang, why are you doing this? There is suspicion in our school. Of course, it's not just you denying it. As long as we Bring back the 'Wang Tiezhu' from the school and let his teachers and classmates identify him, and everything will come to light, right?"

Wang Dazhu still didn't speak, and his body was shaking more violently.

Seeing that Wang Dazhu had reached the critical point of his spirit, Li Qingfeng decided to give him another blow.

With a wink at Qu Zhongxiao, Li Qingfeng pretended to start packing his things. While packing, he said, "Teacher Qu, forget it. He doesn't want to admit it. There is no need for us to waste time with him here. We should report it to the school." , take Wang Tiezhu from school and come back to identify him with his former teachers and classmates."

After receiving Qingfeng Li's look, Qu Zhongxiao immediately understood, nodded in agreement, and also started to pack his luggage.

Just when the two of them packed their luggage and were about to leave, Wang Dazhu finally couldn't withstand the psychological pressure and told the truth.

"Er'er is dead" (End of Chapter)