When the old farmer heard Xu Changqing's inquiry, the old farmer's face quickly became a little ugly, and he also felt a little embarrassed and ashamed. Although the government now set the ingredient for the Chen family to bully the people, their family has been servants of the Chen family for generations. Naturally, it is clear that the attitude of the Chen family to treat servants, farmers and long-term workers, and other ordinary people, as advertised outside, is absolutely not as bad as pus and sores under their feet. It is just that in such a black or white period, if they do not follow the crowd, then the ordinary people like him will be beaten to pieces by the world.

The reason why the old farmer showed shame in the face was not because he followed the crowd, but because when he smashed the Chen family's ancestral temple, he was the first to take action to prove his enlightenment. There were some servants in the Chen family's ancestral temple who were loyal to him. There were his great-grandfathers in this place, and his great-grandfather's tablet was smashed by him. Although this incident has been many years, it has always been his heart disease. Fortunately, for various reasons, there are fewer people in the Chen family, and people now have the impression of the Chen family as a bully landlord. No one knows the past, and his heart disease has always been hidden, neither uncovered nor disappeared.

Now Xu Changqing suddenly asked the Chen family. Although the other party might just be curious about the whereabouts of the Chen family, he could not help but feel like he was slapping him in the face, which made him feel embarrassed.

"The Chen family had moved away long before liberation. I heard that when I went to the U.S. imperial examination, the old house here, left some servants to take care of the houses." The old farmer suppressed the strangeness in his heart, making himself seem very dull, and said, "After liberation, the government confiscated the old houses and fields of the Chen family and demolished almost all the old houses of the Chen family. All the bricks and wood were used to build reservoirs. Now this adobe house that houses educated youth is built on the foundation of the Chen family's old house."

"The tides rise and fall, life changes. Think about how prosperous the Chen family was back then, and today it is so dilapidated. Even the ancestral home cannot be kept. Now I think about it. It feels a bit sad! It's a pity!" Xu Changqing sighed a little, and before the old farmer could react, he suddenly changed the topic and said, "By the way! Xu traveled all over China, and whenever he went to a place, he was used to stamping a local government official seal to prove that he had been there and kept it as a souvenir. I wonder who Taohua Township is looking for to stamp this official seal?"

The old farmer replied almost without thinking: "Just find Director Qi. He is the director of the Revolutionary Committee, and the official seals are all there."

"Thank you, old man! If I asked me to look for it myself, I might not be able to find the right person for a few days." Xu Changqing thanked him. Then he made a yawning gesture, looking a little tired.

Seeing this, the old farmer felt that he should not stay any longer, so he stood up and said, "Comrade Xu is tired on the road, so I'll take a break first. I won't bother you. Remember to go to the commune cafeteria to have dinner at night."

After saying that, he picked up the tobacco pot, walked out of the door, followed the dirt road in front of the house, and headed towards the township government. Behind him, Xu Changqing looked at his figure thoughtfully, with a strange smile on his face, and then closed the door.

When the old farmer walked out more than 100 meters and was about to walk out of the adobe house area built for the educated youth in the countryside, he suddenly heard it. A strange expression appeared on his face. He turned his head to look at the house where Xu Changqing lived, his mouth slightly opened, and he seemed a little surprised. No wonder he suddenly had such an expression, because when he was about to walk out of this adobe house, he realized that his purpose was to find out the details of this weird person. But he didn't expect that after he got there, he never heard anything useful about the weird person except a name. Instead, his mouth seemed to have no door on his mouth, and he said whatever others asked, being honest and obedient, as if he was fascinated by his mind.

"I'm confused?" The old farmer muttered what he thought in his heart, and suddenly showed a strong look of horror in his eyes. He felt that this seemed somewhat similar to the ghost superstition mentioned by the old man in his family. If it were a few months ago, even if he encountered similar things, he would not think about these gods and ghosts. After all, the whole of China is now sweeping ghosts and gods. Apart from superstition, an elderly man like him has naturally been affected. However, what happened in the village in the past has made him involuntarily think about this when he encountered something strange. In addition, the memories brought to him by the name Xu Changqing made him unable to help but overlap the almost legendary figure in his memory.

Thinking of this, the old farmer left a little faster, and it was not until he could not see the adobe house where Xu Changqing lived. However, he seemed to think of other things on the road, his face was a little gloomy, and his steps became like he wanted to turn around and look for Xu Changqing. But in the end, he did not look back, but resisted the impulse in his heart and took big steps forward. Even some villagers said hello to him, ignoring many villagers, which made many villagers suspicious, and many of them also linked the old farmer's actions to some recent events, and their faces became very ugly, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they could only bury their heads and do what they had in their hands, as if they could forget about the things that had happened.

After returning to the village office, the old farmer immediately walked towards the office of the director of the Revolutionary Committee. However, when he reached the door, he found that the door that had been opened before was now closed.

"Village Chief, are you looking for Director Xue?" The militia captain passing by said, "Director Xue just transferred a few militias and guns from me and went up the mountain, saying that he wanted to see who was deliberately creating trouble and shaking the foundation of the revolution."

"What? I'm going up the mountain," the old farmer's face immediately became a little ugly. He slapped his thigh and said anxiously: "Didn't you tell him not to do it? Why..." Before he finished speaking, he stopped and turned to the militia captain: "Xiao Zhang, immediately send a few more powerful young men, with a few guns, go up the mountain to support Director Xue." As he said that, he paused and said: "Take the black dog of Eryizi with him, maybe it's useful."

"Old village chief, you wouldn't think... this matter is not something to do. If those kids know that you are involved in this thing, they might make a fuss..." Although the militia captain is not a native villager in Taohua Township, he has lived here for more than ten years and has long regarded Taohua Township as his hometown. He respects this old village chief who can still bring his villagers to eat during natural disasters in those years, so he naturally doesn't want something to happen to him.

Although the old farmer asked to bring the black dog as the militia captain thought, the old farmer wanted to bring the black dog for the recent divine things that happened on the mountain, but they knew these things and could not be said. The old farmer naturally would not admit the other party's guess, so he made an excuse casually and said, "What are you thinking about? Am I the superstitious person? I asked you to bring that black dog because the dog is a good hunting dog. If there is any wild beast, you can also discover it in advance. In the mountain, the beast that you fear most at night. If there is no dog with you, you may not know how it died."

The militia captain curled his lips disapprovingly, and did not argue with him. He responded casually, saying that he would personally take the gun and the dog and go up the mountain later.

After the militia captain left, the old farmer seemed to be thinking about something and stood at the door of the office for a while. Finally, he seemed to have made some major decision. He gritted his teeth, turned around and walked out of the village office, and walked towards the slag mountain in the northwest of the village.

Originally, the northwest part of the village was a wasteland. I don’t know how to do it. Apart from weeds, no matter what kind of seeds of plants are planted, so this area has become a place for garbage dumping in the village. Later, when the steelmaking process was large, there was no place to send away a lot of waste slag, and it was piled here. Over time, it became a small hill. Because this landmark is particularly eye-catching, the surrounding area is also named after it.

This area is not suitable for people to live in. No one in the village originally would live here. However, due to various sports, some people were labeled as bad elements to be transformed due to problems such as background, employment, etc., so the village revolutionary committee built some very simple straw sheds in this place for those bad elements to live in. Because of this reason, no one in the village was willing to come over, and few people living here rarely entered the village. Even for food, most of them cultivated some barren mountains around themselves, built a few terraces to support themselves, and almost became an isolated place.

When the old farmer reached the edge of the slag mountain, hesitated for a while and finally walked in.

Although living in the slag mountain area is a bit hard, it is at least not as noisy as in the village. It makes meals every three days and exercise every two days. In short, it is just a bit uncomfortable. The people who were sent here to renovate are still a little uncomfortable, but after living there for a long time, they feel that it is still good. The food is a little short of food and often cannot fill their stomachs. But here is very humane, and they are both sick and they will take care of each other. The most important thing is that there is no illness or pain in living here, because even if someone gets sick, the ninth aunt will find some herbs on the nearby mountains and use some strange methods to cure the people quickly. Moreover, the medicinal soup she made is for the children here to drink, which can not only satisfy their hunger, but also strengthen their bodies.
Chapter completed!