In the end, Jiang Liu returned to his adoptive father's hometown, Jiang Kun. In the name of his adoptive father, he held a few tables of banquets in the town to entertain the villagers who were before his adoptive father.
"Damn, your dad is really suffering too. Fortunately, he finally found you. Now that he has gone underground, he can also tell your mother the good news."
Sitting next to Jiang Liu was the aunt who first recognized him as a hairy egg. The woman from the countryside was outspoken, and after a few sips of wine, she said anything.
"How good were your dad and your mom back then, your grandfather didn't look down on your dad's big dance, and he did that kind of crooked way to deceive people, but your mom just recognized your dad and didn't want to marry the Jiang family. For this, you Grandpa and your mother were angry for three years, and they didn't start dating again until you were born."
Under Jiang Liu's intentional guidance, everyone chatted and talked about the past of Jiang Kun and his wife Xu Feng.
Jiang Kun's father was a blind man. He was also a famous "great god" in Shili Baxiang. He saved a lot of money by relying on the ability of the blind old man. However, feudal superstition was strictly prohibited in the past few years. It was confiscated, and the old blind man himself suffered serious crimes in the years when he was the most criticized, and finally died of a serious illness.
In those years, no one dared to have a relationship with people with bad composition. After the old blind man died, his wife ran away. Jiang Kun, who was only seven or eight years old at that time, grew up on his own, or went to the river to find some small fish. Shrimp, or he went to the mountains to find wild vegetables and dig grass roots. When he grew up, the influence of the Cultural Revolution passed. He did not listen to the advice of the elders in the village to farm the fields or go out to work, but regained his father's old skills. Fortune-telling, ghosts and feng shui.
It's just that Jiang Kun was still too young at that time, and not many people in the local area believed him, but instead gave him the nickname of a liar, Kun. In the eyes of many people, Jiang Kun is no different from a second-rate person who eats and waits to die.
But Jiang Kun has an advantage, that is, he is handsome, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and when he smiles, he can hook the souls of those little wives and big girls.
Moreover, he is also very good at coaxing people. Jiang Kun likes the girl from the Xu family at the head of the village. That Xu Feng, who is known as a flower in the village, climbs the back wall of the Xu family every day, sending wild flowers to the girl and saving money for the girl. Buy headbands and small handkerchiefs.
I don't know where I learned a few crooked poems, and I boldly sat on the wall of the Xu family and read them.
Old man Xu held up his nails and chased the boy away for many times, but he was stopped by his daughter Xu Feng, who had already been seduced.
He seems to think that without money, he can't give the woman he likes a happy life. Jiang Kun went out several times on the way. He is a person with real skills. Many of the new wave of self-employed outsiders believe in him, and Jiang Kun has made several businesses. , earning money to go back to his hometown to build a new house and buy a motorcycle.
To this day, many women in the village can't forget that scene.
Jiang Kun was wearing a fashionable denim suit, his hair was sprayed with a lot of mousse, and his hair was shiny with a big back. The flies were too slippery to park on it. The handsome guy came to Xu's house on a motorcycle and a guitar on his back. At the door, they sang a little love song that was popular in the curved island, and the young domestic fashionable people secretly listened to the tape.
At that time, no one in the closed village had seen such a scene. In addition, Jiang Kun was so handsome, many little girls could not wait to marry Xu Feng instead of him, not to mention Xu Feng himself.
But the old man of the Xu family is more stubborn. He feels that Jiang Kun is trying to gain favor. He is not sure when something will happen to his own father. He is worried that his daughter will suffer when marrying him. Even though Jiang Kun promised a lot of betrothal gifts, he still refuses to agree. .
It was Xu Feng who was bold and ran to Jiang's house with his baggage. Old man Xu was angry, but he didn't do anything about the raw rice when he cooked it.
After marriage, the couple are very loving. From outsiders, Jiang Kun doesn't seem to have a serious job, but every time he returns from a long trip, he can always bring money back.
However, the good times did not last long.
When Mao Dan was more than a year old, Jiang Kun went out to show an old customer Feng Shui. Because the department store in the city had a discount, he said that a batch of fine fur coats from the Northeast had arrived. Xu Feng wanted to buy one for her husband who was always on the move. A better winter clothes, hugged his one-year-old son and got on the bus to the city.
That night, when the neighbors of the Jiang family saw that Xu Feng had not come back, they realized that something seemed wrong. They quickly notified Xu Feng's parents, and then a group of people hurried to the city.
During this period, Xu Fengna's father, who had already reconciled with Jiang Kun, did not forget to find a public telephone booth to call the son-in-law and ask him to come back quickly.
The group searched the city for a day, but could not find Xu Feng's shadow. On the third day, Jiang Kun rushed back, and the police also found Jiang's house.
It turned out that on the day when Xu Feng was carrying her son Maodan to the city, she had a car accident. She was swept up in the overloaded truck at the time, and the kind-hearted person beside her took her to the hospital because there was no evidence on her body. Her identity has not been able to contact her family in time.
Now that she is awake, the nurse at the hospital asked for her address, and the public security personnel came to find her.
Jiang Kun rushed to the hospital to see his daughter-in-law for the first time. The other party asked him, what about their son Mao Dan
It turned out that when the danger came, Xu Feng's first reaction was to throw out the son in his arms, and then he was swept in by the truck.
It was also at this time that Jiang Kun realized that his precious son Mao Dan was gone.
The situation at that time was too complicated. All the passers-by rushed to lift the car and rescued Xu Feng. Where was the child, and who was carried away in the chaos, every eyewitness could speak.
In addition, there were not so many monitoring devices on the roadside at that time. After three days, even if the police intervened, it would be difficult to find anyone.
Xu Feng, who was already dying, knew the news that her son was gone, and she would die immediately. She cried and begged her husband to find their son Mao Dan. Even when she died, she never closed her eyes.
A good home is ruined like that.
His beloved wife died and his beloved son disappeared. Every night after that, Jiang Kun could not sleep at night. He repeatedly tortured himself, why did he take over that business, why did he leave home, and why did he let Xu Feng alone People enter the city.
Since then, finding the missing son Mao Dan has become Jiang Kun's only hope for survival.
The villagers looked at the young man who, no matter how bitter he used to be, who always smiled boldly, and was not angry when someone called the liar Kun in front of him, his hair was half gray.
At that time, the villagers still thought that no matter how great the pain was, it would pass, and in a few years, when Jiang Kun forgot about the pain, he would introduce him to a partner and give birth to a few more children. The days still have to go on.
It was only in the fourth year after Xu Feng's death, when the child was five years old, that Jiang Kun didn't come back. No one knew where he went. He didn't even ask for the compensation for the demolition of the village. The old foundation was donated directly to the village committee. At that time, some people thought that Jiang Kun might be dead.
It wasn't until Jiang Liu came back not long ago that everyone knew that Jiang Kun was in the city, and they found their son Mao Dan who was taken away by someone who didn't know.
Among these villagers, Jiang Liu learned about a different Jiang Kun.
In the mouth of the beef noodle restaurant Zhu Sandao, the original adoptive father was a calm man, but in the description of the villagers, it turned out that the other party also had such an unruly youth.
The turning point of everything seems to be in the accident more than 20 years ago.
*****
Jiang Liu, who returned to the incense candle shop, brought many rural local products warmly presented by the villagers, such as dried vegetables dried at home, or salted duck eggs that were pickled by himself. .
In addition, there are many sausages, live chickens and ducks. It is estimated that for a long time, Jiang Liu will not need to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.
He still had some gains on this day. A certain guess in Jiang Liu's heart has been vaguely formed, and now what he lacks is only a more reliable corroboration.
*****
"Did you really disappear?"
In the middle of the night, Jiang Liu stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, looking at his face in the mirror and asked.
Two white candles were lit by the mirror, the only light source in the bathroom.
"Maybe you're still here."
Jiang Liu raised his hand and pointed to his body. The person in the mirror was doing the same.
The next second, the candle light goes out.