I was a little panicked, my eyes stared at the man and looked at it, there was no such person in my memory, I even said for sure, I definitely didn't know this person, and I was about to speak, the man walked up to me, put his arm around my shoulder, and said in a Hubei dialect: "What?" I've only been away from Hubei for a few years, and you don't know me anymore? ”

I'm confused, what does this person mean? Then he heard the man say again, "Come, smoke a cigarette, and tell me how you have been all these years." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

I subconsciously said a few words in Hubei dialect, but I was very puzzled, and my eyes kept on him.

After about a minute or two of talking, the man tapped me on the shoulder a few times and said with satisfaction, "Yes, it's growing fast." ”

After saying this, he said briefly to another person on the side, roughly speaking, I was his friend many years ago, and I used to play very well, so there should be no doubt about my identity.

The man next to him frowned and asked him, "Are you from Hubei?" Why haven't I heard? ”

He said, "You'll find out when you ask Brother Song!" ”

"Since you know Hubei, just now—" The man asked again.

He smiled and explained: "Just now I thought that the person in front of me was Chen Jiu, and I deliberately pretended not to understand!" ”

After saying this, he talked to the man a few more words before I let Han Jingui and I enter the village chief's house. This makes me wonder more and more, Made, I really don't know this man, what the hell is he up to? Help me secretly? Or is it an ulterior motive?

With this doubt in mind, I walked towards the village chief's house.

At this moment, the man called out to me and said in Hubei dialect, "Dalong asked me to bring you a message, and the second brother will stand up to you behind your back." ”

Hearing this, I especially understand, this person has something to do with the second brother Yang Dalong? When I turned my head, I saw that he was smiling at me and not speaking.

I nodded at him gratefully, and hurriedly walked into the village chief's house, while Han Jingui followed behind me.

When I entered the village chief's house, I found that the house was empty, as if there was no one, and I asked Han Jingui what about the village chief, and he said that the village chief should be on the second floor.

At the moment, we didn't stop on the first floor, and went straight to the second floor. As soon as I went up the stairs, I heard a sound coming over, it was the sound of the TV, and Han Jingui shouted in a loud voice from Hubei, "Fugui Village Chief, are you at home?" ”

"Yes! Which one? Soon, the voice of the village chief was heard.

Han Jingui and I glanced at each other, but they didn't speak, and I couldn't help but feel a little faster.

When I came to the second floor, the village chief's family of four sat on the sofa watching TV, and I found that the village chief was nearly sixty years old, dressed simply, with a lot of gray hair on his temples. ”

"Boy Chen Jiu, come to disturb!" I smiled.

"Chen Jiu?" He was stunned for a moment, as if he remembered something, and said, "Eight Immortal Palace Palace Master? ”

I snorted, and before I could speak, Han Jingui preemptively said on the side: "Fugui, we have known each other for a few years, and I won't beat around the bush with you, I brought the palace master to you this time, there is only one thing, I hope you can get your help." ”

The village chief was slightly stunned and didn't speak, so he gave his daughter-in-law and children a look, asked them to leave, and asked me to sit down with Han Jingui, then poured us a glass of boiled water, and gave us a cigarette.

"Village Chief!" I shouted and said straight to the point, "The purpose of our coming, Lao Han just said, I don't know what you always think?" ”

"This—" He didn't answer the question, but insisted that we drink water.

This made me a little confused about his thoughts, so I glanced at Han Jingui, meaning that it was up to him to say, after all, he was familiar with the village chief, and acquaintances were easy to do!

That Han Jingui came to his senses and said to the village chief, "Fugui, I remember you said that you are more disgusted with You Shusong, and now I am leading the palace master to come, just to let you do me a favor." ”

"What's the busy?" The village chief took a sip of the water and kept his eyes fixed on the TV.

"Then You Shusong asked our palace master to make peace, and our palace master meant to drive You Shusong away, I don't know what you think?" Then Han Jingui didn't think about it, and blurted out.

"Get out?" The village chief muttered, put down the water glass in his hand, glanced at us, and said, "Old Han, I know that you are not at odds with You Shusong, but... That You Shusong is from our Xiahe Village, even if he does something immoral outside, but, after all, we are from Xiahe Village, I am just a village head, where does I have the right to drive him out, besides, he has donated a lot of money in our village over the years, I must not be this ungrateful person. ”

As soon as he heard this, Han Jingui smiled awkwardly, and without speaking, he threw his eyes at me.

I nodded at him, took a deep breath, and said to the village chief, "Village chief, this is the case, we didn't mean to make it difficult for you, but You Shusong did the funeral in Shanghe Village this time, I'm afraid it's not just a funeral, but I want to get a crematorium here, I'm afraid..."

Before I could finish speaking, the village chief suddenly got up, picked up the water cup in front of me, poured the water in it into the trash can, and said: "Young man, this is our matter in Xiahe Village, and it is not your turn to take care of it from other villages, for the sake of Lao Han, I will not embarrass you, hurry up!" ”

I'm a little baffled, what did I say wrong? It was fine just now, why did you suddenly lose your temper? I was about to explain a few words, but Han Jingui pulled me, signaled me not to speak, and then said to the village chief, "Fugui, our palace master doesn't mean anything else, I just want you to do a favor, if you don't want to help, just say it!" Why do you have to do it so much, they are all villagers, you don't see you when you look up, and if you see it in the future, it's not easy to meet! ”

"Huh!" The village chief sneered and said sharply: "Old Han, don't think I don't know what you're paying attention to, it's really good to be in the ground, the problem is, your fees are too expensive!" It will cost 200 to lift the coffin, and it will not be less than 30,000 for a funeral. Let me ask you, how is this different from a robber? ”

As soon as I heard this, my face sank suddenly, a funeral of 30,000, this is nonsense! If you go to a funeral according to the minimum standard, it is estimated that it will be about 8,000, and listening to the tone of the village chief, Han Jingui seems to be very heavy in terms of funeral expenses.

At the moment, I stared at Han Jingui and didn't wait for me to speak, then Han Jingui immediately explained: "Palace master, the situation of our Eight Immortal Palace, you also know, the reason why we charge so much is because we want to make more money to build the Eight Immortal Palace, and now the old lady has funded the construction of the Eight Immortal Palace, and we will naturally charge a little cheaper in the future." ”

"How cheap?" I stared at him and asked word by word.

To tell the truth, the most disgusting thing in my life is that the Eight Immortals make the funeral costs very high, what I didn't expect is that Han Jingui actually charges so much, isn't this especially cutting the flesh of the common people, you know, the general rural funeral gives many people a headache. The reason is very simple, the cost is too high, if you spend less, you will attract the mouth of the same village, saying that you are not filial, if you spend too much, and you have no money, you can only borrow.

As far as I know, I once held a funeral, and the main family asked their children to stop studying and take the tuition fees to do the funeral in order to let the deceased have a beautiful funeral, and I blamed myself for a long time for that incident. (To be continued.) )