Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1270 Someone from Above (Edited)
Li Chuanxiong was choked by his son's words. His face turned pale and his chest rose and fell violently. It seemed that even his breathing became heavy and rapid. He roared in a low voice: "Come back! You little bastard, get back here!"

Although the Second Battalion Commander wanted to say a few more words, when he saw his father's livid face, he was afraid that the other party would be out of breath and really punch him, so he wisely slowed down his pace and slowly walked back to his father.

But he refused to give in: "Dad, you are putting me in a difficult position. I will not roll away. You should show me how to do it first. I will learn from you."

"Demonstrate. I'll show you right now."

Upon hearing this, Li Chuanxiong curled up the corner of his mouth into a sneer.

He stood up suddenly, rolled up his sleeves, and with a bit of the heroic demeanor he had on the battlefield in his past steps, he strode around the table and walked straight towards his son.

This attitude made the second battalion commander's heart skip a beat, and he quickly changed his words and begged for mercy: "No, Dad, I was wrong, I was really wrong! Please don't get angry, it's not good for your health."

As he spoke, he dodged left and right, not daring to really escape, but also worried that he would be too slow to dodge and get hit.

After all, the old man is not young anymore. If he gets sick again after being hit a few times, it will be useless for him to regret it.

Li Chuanxiong beat his son and finally felt relieved.

Pulling down his sleeves, Li Chuanxiong looked at his son with a stern face: "Your mother has already said that if you can't find a wife this year, she will arrange one for you."

As soon as these words came out, the second battalion commander's face suddenly turned as bitter as a bitter gourd. He looked at his father pleadingly: "Dad, can you help me stop it?"

Li Chuanxiong rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily, "Get lost! I have helped you stop him so many times. Because of you, I have done it many times..."

The conversation stopped abruptly here. In order to hide his embarrassment, Li Chuanxiong coughed lightly, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a big gulp.

Then he shrugged and said, "Your mother has already spoken about this matter. I can't do anything about it."

"Dad!" The second battalion commander pleaded.

"It's no use calling me dad. If you don't want to go back for a blind date, find a wife as soon as possible."

The father and son had another argument.

When it came to business, the faces of the father and son instantly became serious, with no trace of the playful smiles from before.

Li Chuanxiong felt helpless as he saw his son's eagerness on his face when he talked about the mission.

Li Chuanxiong is a man of character, so how come he gave birth to such a stupid son?

Back then, he coaxed his wife back home when he was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

This brat is almost 30 this year. The kids of his same age are already grown up, and they don’t even have a partner, let alone getting married.

I'm hanging out in the military camp all day, surrounded by men, and there's not even a female mosquito. Where can I find a partner?

The more Li Chuanxiong thought about it, the more disgust he looked at his son with.

The second battalion commander had no idea that his father was talking bad about him in his heart. As soon as he talked about the mission, he immediately became interested.

"Is this mission assigned to me?"

Li Chuanxiong glanced at him, intending to make him anxious: "It depends on your performance. If you perform well, this task will be given to you."

The second battalion commander was not fooled at all. He curled his lips and said, "If you don't give this task to me, who else can I give it to?"

After that, without waiting for Li Chuanxiong to respond, the second battalion commander counted on his fingers: "Our regiment commander went back to his hometown on vacation, and the first battalion commander went to carry out a mission... As for the others, I don't need to say anything."

"Then there is the third battalion commander." Li Chuanxiong said unconvinced.

"Dad, please don't. The Third Battalion Commander finally found a partner and is now discussing marriage. Don't cause trouble for him at this critical moment."

The second battalion commander was very confident about taking over this task.

There were indeed a few people who were idle, but they were not as skilled as him and could not compete with him.

"Okay! This mission is up to you. Let me tell you the basic situation."

"Ensure that the mission is accomplished." The second battalion commander saluted.

After explaining the main business, Li Chuanxiong gave his son a few words.

"Go over there this time and help me check on your uncle Xie's current condition. If he needs help, lend a hand within your ability."

"Dad, I understand." The second battalion commander nodded. At this time, he was not talking nonsense with his father.

He had long heard of Uncle Xie mentioned by his biological father and knew that the two had a deep friendship.

Thinking of this, he promised: "Dad, I will."

"Well, tell your uncle Xie that I'm breaking my promise and can't go to him now. Wait until the New Year. I'll go to him again, and I won't come back until I'm drunk!"

Unlike his impatience on the phone, after calming down, he knew that it would be impossible for him to put down his work immediately and run to the Northeast to visit his old friend.

Even if he could, he couldn't let go of the work in his hands.

"Ok!"

Li Chuanxiong thought for a moment, and then said, "Go home later and ask your mother to bring you some money and tickets. You can act accordingly. If your uncle Xie is not doing well, leave the money and tickets there when you leave..."

It can be said that Li Chuanxiong is very devoted to his little brother whom he has not seen for many years.

"Go and get busy!" After explaining the things, Li Chuanxiong waved his hand and sent his son away.

When the second battalion commander walked to the door and stretched out his hand to open it, he suddenly heard a voice from behind: "Be careful!"

A simple reminder almost made the tough guy, the Second Battalion Commander, cry.

He was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "I will come back safely with my brothers."

The second battalion commander was very quick. He went back to count the men and immediately rushed to the train station.

After getting off the train, they did not go directly to Xiejia Brigade.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the group stopped directly in the county town.

He began to investigate the situation of the Xiejia Brigade and its affiliated commune, and of course the focus was still on the situation of Boss Feng and his family.

Looking at the information obtained from the investigation, the second battalion commander had a serious expression on his face.

"Is that all?" He looked at the people arranged by the county to help.

The man had a bitter look on his face. “When the Feng family fled here, the New Dragon Country had just been established. There was still a lot of chaos everywhere. There were no people to fill many positions, and it was common for one person to hold multiple positions. So a lot of information is not complete.”

The second battalion commander frowned. "Where did the Feng family flee from? Where is their ancestral home? Don't you have this information? Didn't you count this when you were doing the household registration?"

The man pursed his lips and said hesitantly: "I have counted it, but..."

"but what?"

The man gritted his teeth and said directly: "We did count them at that time, and the information was also preserved, but there was a fire in the place where the household registration files were stored, and many documents were burned, including the Feng family's..."

He didn't say anything more after that.

The second battalion commander's face became increasingly unsightly. Considering Boss Feng's situation, he had to suspect that those household registration files were deliberately burned by someone.

If it was just for the Feng family, then this would not be the most terrifying thing.

But Boss Feng is just a farmer. He has access to very little useful information, and his impact on those people is minimal.

How could they go to such great lengths to burn the entire county's household registration just to protect him?

unless……

Unless there are more important people in the household registration information that was burned.

The second battalion commander looked at the person next to him, and it was obvious that they had thought of this.

After the people sent by the county to help left, several people summarized the information they had and tried to find some clues in the existing information.

"Got it! Someone mentioned that Boss Feng seemed to know the late Widow Xu. The other party suspected that the two of them had crossed paths when they were young. Since we can't find any information about the Feng family, why don't we change our thinking and check on Widow Xu? Maybe we can find some unexpected surprises."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes lit up: "Good idea!" But what no one expected was that this sudden inspiration actually brought them a crucial clue.

after one day!

"Commander, Commander, good news!"

"What news?" The second battalion commander stood up suddenly.

"Captain, we found Widow Xu's hometown."

"Where is it? Let me see." The second battalion commander couldn't wait to take a few pieces of paper covered with words from the other party and read them carefully.

The more he looked, the more excited his face became.

After reading it, he waved his hand and said, "Gather our people and go arrest them."

"Old Li, what's going on?" The deputy battalion commander who rushed over after hearing the noise was confused.

"Look!" The second battalion commander handed him the paper.

The deputy battalion commander took it and looked at it carefully.

It turns out that Widow Xu and Boss Feng have a special relationship.

Even though Widow Xu's mother eventually starved to death and she had to become a child bride in order to survive, she actually came from a prominent family.

My biological father once went abroad to study, but he ended up being an ungrateful man.

After returning to China, he thought he was influenced by advanced ideas, and using opposition to arranged marriages as an excuse, he abandoned his wife and daughter and started hanging out with a "female student" who was more than ten years younger than him.

The place where they lived was relatively feudal in thought, and the actions of Xu Guafu's father undoubtedly caused an uproar in the local area.

Later, unable to bear the public opinion, he chose to move his family out of town.

Before leaving, he sold all his property, including the house where his first wife lived.

It can be said that he left no chance of survival for his first wife.

As if things weren't bad enough, not long after Widow Xu's father moved his family there, a sudden flood hit the area.

In troubled times, life is very difficult for two women.

Not to mention that because of the actions of Xu Guafu's biological father, although it was clearly not Xu Guafu's biological mother's fault, her reputation was still ruined.

Say anything.

There are always a lot of gossips around widows, not to mention the situation of Widow Xu's mother.

For the sake of her daughter, she could endure the teasing of those dirty men.

As long as she can stand firm and as long as she is aggressive enough, those dirty men will only dare to talk sweet words to her but will not dare to actually take action.

But the troubles left behind by Widow Xu’s biological father were not limited to this.

Many people don’t believe that Widow Xu’s father would really be so cruel.

Even if he abandoned his wife and daughter, his daughter was his blood after all. It was impossible for him to be so cruel as to leave nothing for Widow Xu.

Therefore, in the eyes of some people with ulterior motives, Widow Xu's mother became a golden mountain of gold.

Many people found various excuses to test it out, and couldn't wait to rush up and take a bite.

If Widow Xu's mother had not been careful enough, both mother and daughter would have died long ago.

The mother and daughter really couldn't survive there.

As a last resort, Xu's mother had to take the young Xu away under the pretext of fleeing.

Begging for information, facing the schemes of so many people, Widow Xu's mother managed to hold on, but finally died on the way to escape.

No, it is more regrettable than dying on the way to escape.

The other party died at the end of his escape.

I can see that I will soon be able to live the life I want.

Seeing this, even the deputy battalion commander couldn't help but feel sorry for the mother and daughter.

At the same time, we spit on some irresponsible men.

You are against arranged marriages, you really are against it!

Your parents can force you to get married, but can they also force you to sleep with someone else?

What were you doing before? You slept on the kang all by yourself, and people gave birth to children for you, took care of the elders, and took care of all the other things at home. And in the end, you come up with a statement against arranged marriage.

Ah……

The deputy battalion commander shook his head and continued reading.

The Feng family was the servants in Widow Xu's family.

Later, after Widow Xu's father and his family moved away, the Feng family was given money and sent away.

Coincidentally, the place where the Feng family settled when they were sent away was very close to where Xu Widow's mother lived.

The two families lived together for two years.

In a sense, Widow Xu and Boss Feng can be considered as "childhood sweethearts" in another sense.

However, not long after Widow Xu and her mother left, the Feng family inexplicably became rich, and used the money to get close to a local big shot.

Following others around and shouting orders, the entire Feng family offended many people during that period.

After the new Dragon Kingdom was established, some former officials who had brought disaster to the village were purged, and Feng's lackey also fell from grace.

In order to escape punishment, the Feng family used some unknown connections to avoid the purge under the pretext of fleeing.

Later they settled in Xiejia Brigade.

The deputy battalion commander keenly sensed that something was wrong.

"Captain, it says here that the Feng family suddenly became rich after Widow Xu and her mother left. Do you think their wealth has anything to do with Widow Xu?"

The deputy battalion commander couldn't believe that it was such a coincidence.

As soon as the mother and daughter left, the Feng family made a fortune.

Moreover, judging from the news, Widow Xu's mother had already started planning to leave.

Since there was a plan in place long ago, it is impossible that there was no preparation at all.

There are still three thousand nails in a broken ship. She has been a lady of a noble family for so many years. Even if her husband abandoned her and her daughter, she would have something left in her hands.

And since we are prepared, how can we starve to death?
Thinking back to the dispute between Widow Xu and Boss Feng, as well as Widow Xu's sudden death, all of this became a guess.

Perhaps, the fortune that the Feng family made came from the things they took away from the mother and daughter.

In this way, what happened afterwards can be explained.

Widow Xu must know something, which is why she argued with Boss Feng.

She should be threatening Boss Feng and asking the Feng family to return the stolen things.

But I'm afraid she didn't expect that Mr. Feng could be so cruel.

In order to prevent the truth from being exposed, she was killed to silence her.

She lost her life in such a confused manner.