Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 218

On the second-floor terrace, a radio hung on the wall and protected by a thin wooden board was playing Shan Tianfang's "Seven Heroes and Five Gallants", Chapter 12:

"Che Di Shu returns to his hometown to collect moths, and Pili Gui leaves home to find his adoptive father."

Li Sanjiang lay leisurely on the rattan chair, holding a cigarette in his left hand and a large teacup filled with dried orange peels in his right hand.

It is not summer yet and the weather is not hot, so you don’t have to worry about not having enough hands to hold a palm-leaf fan.

"Grandpa, take the medicine."

"Hey, good."

Li Sanjiang took the bowl of medicine, blew on it, and drank it in small sips. There was no other way, the medicine was too bitter. But it was the gift from his great-grandson after all, so he had to drink it no matter how bitter it was.

Here, Li Sanjiang had only drunk one-third of the medicine, but Li Zhuiyuan, who was sitting opposite him, had already finished a bowl of medicine and picked up the second bowl to continue drinking.

The first bowl was the same as Grandpa's, he made the medicine himself, and the second bowl was prepared by Aunt Liu for herself. The medicinal effects of both were to calm the mind, but they were not for the same god.

"Little Marquis Yuan, don't you feel bitter?"

Li Zhuiyuan finished the second bowl, put it down, and shook his head:
"It's not bitter, just a little bit full."

Seeing this, Li Sanjiang didn't want to be outdone by his great-grandson, so he simply tilted his head back and drank the rest. Then he leaned back with his mouth open, feeling that every part of his body was washed by the bitter taste.

After a long while, Li Sanjiang raised his head again, took two puffs of his cigarette, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The medicine tastes bad, but it's really effective. These past few nights, when I lay in bed, I'd close my eyes and open them again, and hey, it'd be dawn.

After waking up, I felt full of energy and couldn't wait to pick up my hoe and go to the fields.

"Little Marquis Yuan, do I have to continue drinking this medicine?"

“No, this is the last bowl.”

"It's really bitter, much bitterer than the coffee that Youhou brought back."

"Then you said it tasted good and you liked it, Grandpa."

"After all, it's a token of my love. How can I say I'm not used to it and it doesn't taste good?"

"Next time, please tell the truth."

"What's wrong?"

"Ayou saw that you like coffee so much, and he has been thinking about opening a coffee shop in the village. Maybe he thinks that the villagers can endure hardships and like to drink coffee."

Li Sanjiang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then turned his head to look down.

Lin Shuyou and Runsheng were sitting on a bench, watching TV and making paper-made objects.

"Friends!"

Lin Shuyou raised his head: "What's the matter, Mr. Li?"

“I heard you’re going to open a coffee shop in the village?”

“Ah…” Lin Shuyou scratched his head awkwardly, “No, no, I just got excited and didn’t think clearly, haha.”

At this moment, a Hong Kong gangster movie was playing on TV, and the protagonist was fighting with a killer in the gym.

Runsheng said: "It is better to open a gym than a coffee shop in the village, so that people can go to your gym to exercise after finishing their farm work every day."

Lin Shuyou blushed, stretched out his hand to pinch Runsheng's neck and shook him vigorously:

"Ah! Say it again, say it again."

Li Sanjiang looked at the scene below and smiled. He remembered that Youhou was quite reserved and unfamiliar when he first came to his home, but now he has become friends with the local mules at home.

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan's pager rang. He looked down and saw that it was Tan Wenbin calling him.

"Grandpa, Zhuangzhuang is looking for me. I'm going to call him back."

"Well, let's go."

Li Zhuiyuan walked to Aunt Zhang's store and made a call according to the indication on the pager.

"Hello, Brother Xiaoyuan?"

"Yes, it's me. Brother Binbin, how are you doing?"

"I have found Wuxin Island, but this island can only surface from the sea for two months every year, one month in the first half of the year and one month in the second half of the year. Now, there are still ten days before this island surfaces."

Ten days... Li Zhuiyuan was calculating this time in his mind.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, when I went to book a fishing boat, I found that several people had already made reservations, and I got in touch with two of them. The two people didn't know each other, but they seemed to know what each other was going to do, and they also put me in the same identity and purpose as them.

I plan to stay here and keep in touch with them for a while, and try to find out more information about Wuxin Island and Qiu Manor."

"be careful."

"There's no danger. These two are...quite honest people."

Li Zhuiyuan thought of Xin Jiyue. Although she was obviously utilitarian and her style of doing things was somewhat extreme, it was undeniable that she did have a simple belief in punishing evil and promoting good in her heart. This was also the reason why Li Zhuiyuan let her go.

The two people that Tan Wenbin knows now should be very similar to Xin Jiyue, but they should have collected their karma in advance and are ready to go to Qiu Zhuang on Wuxin Island to "deliver the goods."

"Do you need someone to support you?"

"No, Brother Xiaoyuan, it would be inconvenient if there were too many people. Besides, it would take at least ten days before we could go out to the sea and land on the island. If you come, you can only accompany me to fish."

"Then I have time to spare. I'm going to go to Beijing."

"Going to Beijing, yeah?"

"Private business. Brother Liangliang happened to be organizing an event in Beijing, and my grandfather won a lottery ticket for a luxury tour of Beijing for one person."

"Oh... then it's not the waves. Mr. Li is such a lucky man, the waves shouldn't sweep him away."

"Well, so at the moment I still believe that where you are is the starting point of our next wave."

"Don't worry, I will do a good job in this front station."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Hey, isn't this what the Dragon King should do when he is on the bow of his ship? He should scout out the venue in advance."

"Contact us if you have any questions."

"clear."

After hanging up the phone, Li Zhuiyuan dialed again and called Xue Liangliang, telling him that he agreed to go to Beijing to attend the exchange meeting and asked him to make arrangements in advance according to his own schedule.

After hanging up the phone again, Li Zhuiyuan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not dial the number. He decided to wait until he arrived in Beijing before calling again. Maybe the person was still in the old place.

In fact, Li Sanjiang originally wanted to give up the travel opportunity like he did last time he won the prize, but after Li Zhuiyuan told him that Xue Liangliang would arrange for him to go to Beijing to attend an exchange meeting and that he could go with them, Li Sanjiang finally nodded in agreement.

On the way home, Li Zhuiyuan met Aunt Xiang Hou who was riding a tricycle with Liu Jinxia sitting behind her.

Aunt Xianghou: "Little Marquis Yuan, has your great-grandfather packed his things? When will he leave?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "You all know?"

Liu Jinxia, ​​who was sitting in the back, said unhappily, "The Marquis of Sanjiang is so arrogant that he wants to tell everyone he meets that even if you tell him about a bird's nest in a tree, he can still steal a sparrow from Beijing for you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Grandma Liu can go with us. The travel agency can arrange it."

Liu Jinxia: "No, even if I go, I won't be able to see anything. It's a waste of money."

Li Zhuiyuan: "When Cuicui is admitted to Jingli University, you can send her to Jingli."

When Liu Jinxia heard this, her wrinkled old face immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum.

Aunt Xianghou said, "Cuicui said that you and Sister A-li helped her with her studies. Thank you for your hard work, Xiaoyuanhou."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Cuicui is fine."

Children with a strong destiny tend to mature earlier than their peers. Being able to become sensible two or three years earlier than children of the same age is already a huge advantage.

After parting with Liu Jinxia and her daughter, Li Zhuiyuan returned home.

Aunt Liu brought out the table and turned on the light bulb that was extended from a pole. Liu Yumei picked up the brush and began to design A'li's new clothes.

Seeing the boy coming back, Liu Yumei waved.

"Grandma Liu."

"Are you going to Beijing?"

"Ah."

"Private matter?"

"Ah."

Liu Yumei nodded. She guessed that this time they would not go to Beijing by river. It was impossible for the child to take Li Sanjiang to take risks.

"Stay at home. We have a place to stay in Beijing."

"Thank you, grandma, but I don't know exactly where the exchange meeting will be held."

"It's okay. We have more than one yard."

"No, I won't be here for long. It's very troublesome to clean up at the last minute."

Liu Yumei didn't insist anymore, and pointed at the already drawn design and asked, "How is it?"

"It will definitely look good on Ahri."

"Haha, go and do your work."

Li Zhuiyuan went upstairs.

Liu Yumei glanced at Aunt Liu who was standing next to her.

Aunt Liu: “Everything has recovered.”

Liu Yumei: "It seems your medicine soup is quite effective."

Aunt Liu: "I think he is consciously taking care of himself."

Liu Yumei: "This is the most reassuring thing about this child. Not only does he know what he wants to do, he also knows how to do it. Unlike ours..."

Having said this, Liu Yumei looked up and happened to see Qin Li, who had just walked onto the dam barefoot with a hoe in his hand.

Qin Li paused for a moment, then walked over naturally again, picked up the well water and started to wash his feet. He was used to being compared with "his own children".

Liu Yumei sighed and said, "It's better now. I've become thick-skinned. If I had been this thick-skinned in the beginning, I wouldn't have ended up like this."

Qin Li: “…”

When Li Zhuiyuan returned to the terrace, his great-grandfather was no longer sitting on the old rattan chair.

I walked to the door of my great-grandfather's room, pushed it open, and found that he was trying on clothes in front of the closet. There were several sets of clothes on the bed, and several pairs of new shoes underneath.

Elderly people who have experienced a time of material scarcity all have the habit of hiding things. New clothes must be kept at the bottom of the box and they are reluctant to wear them.

Li Sanjiang didn't have this habit. He had always lived a very carefree life, but he didn't have the habit of wearing new clothes. After all, he often had to fish out corpses, come into contact with them and then carry them back. The stench of the corpses would make his clothes too dirty and often could not be washed away no matter how hard he washed them.

Li Sanjiang felt a little embarrassed when he saw his great-grandson trying on clothes.

No matter how much you say "I'm too lazy to bother", "Why travel", "I'm fine at home", but your heart has already flown to Beijing.

"Master, let me help you choose."

Li Zhuiyuan walked in and helped the grandfather match his clothes very naturally.

Most of my great grandfather's new clothes were bought by Li Zhuiyuan, so he is more adept at matching them.

In the end, I chose a more serious outfit that had the feel of a Zhongshan suit and the style of factory work clothes, and then clipped a pen to my chest pocket.

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Looks like a cadre who came to Beijing."

Li Sanjiang: “Hahaha!”

My grandfather was not used to wearing leather shoes, so he simply chose two pairs of new cloth shoes with thick soles, also considering that the tourist attractions in Beijing are generally more tiring for the feet.

After returning to his room, Li Zhuiyuan accompanied A-li to appreciate the newly completed painting.

The combination of the fairyland of auspicious clouds and the scene of destruction in the painting was extremely contradictory and shocking, which made Li Zhuiyuan instantly recall the feeling of witnessing it with his own eyes at the scene.

Excellent paintings should contain excellent stories.

A'li put the painting into her sketchbook frame, and Li Zhuiyuan reminded her to "hide it well".

The main reason was that I was afraid that the curious old lady would vomit blood after taking a peek.

Then, Li Zhuiyuan opened the wordless book, and it was time to fulfill the agreement.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't hesitate and directly squeezed out three times the amount of deduction. After the deduction, the red thread in the blood mist in the boy's palm had condensed, but it was relatively short.

The bones in the painting have turned into a pool of ashes, as if they had just been burned in the boiler of a crematorium.

However, since the painting has not disappeared from the wordless book, it proves that the "Evil Book" still exists and has not disappeared, but has been drained of its essence.

After thinking about it, Li Zhuiyuan decided to put the wordless book into his backpack, so that it would not delay the progress of the deduction when he went to Beijing. Besides, he could use it as a brick without any worries.

Just before leaving for Beijing, an accident happened. Yin Meng was paralyzed by the smoke while debugging a new toxin.

Because Li Zhuiyuan had set up an isolation formation in the west room where she lived, she was not discovered until the next morning when she did not come out for breakfast.

When they entered the room to check, they found Yin Meng lying on the ground. He was conscious, but his limbs were numb and he could not move.

On the table where she was adjusting the toxins, there were many cosmetics that Lin Shuyou had given her, all opened.

Apparently, she was just imagining something and tried to mix poison into her cosmetics, but it went wrong.

Runsheng carried her back to bed and said, "You must take good care of yourself. You should poison your brain next time."

Yin Meng said aggrievedly: "I didn't expect the toxin content in cosmetics to be so high."

Aunt Liu came to check on me and said that the problem was not serious and that I would recover after a few days of rest.

In this way, Yin Meng had to stay at home and could not go to Beijing with them.

On the day of departure, Uncle Qin and Xiong Shan each drove a tricycle and took Li Zhuiyuan, Runsheng, Lin Shuyou and Li Sanjiang to Xingdong Airport to catch a plane.

Li Sanjiang, who was flying for the first time, seemed very calm. But when the plane was about to take off, Li Zhuiyuan noticed that his grandfather was shaking. However, his grandfather still held his hand and comforted him:

"It's okay, Xiao Yuanhou, don't be afraid."

After the plane was flying steadily, Li Sanjiang looked through the window at the white clouds below and smiled like an old child:
"Ha, there's a huge piece of marshmallow underneath."

But soon, Li Zhuiyuan noticed that his grandfather was feeling a little uncomfortable because smoking was not allowed on the plane.

After the plane landed, as soon as he left the airport, Li Sanjiang couldn't wait to take out a match and light one for himself.

Runsheng took out a "cigar" and accompanied him with one.

The travel agency where Taiye won the prize, after Li Zhuiyuan had made arrangements in advance, only retained the round-trip air tickets. In the end, the four of them got on the car arranged by Xue Liangliang and checked into a hotel.

In the evening, Xue Liangliang also came and took everyone to eat roast duck.

After the meal, Xue Liangliang asked if he needed to arrange a tour guide. Then, when he saw Li Zhuiyuan, he slapped his forehead and said with a smile, "I forgot. With you here, who needs a tour guide?"

After returning to the hotel that night, Li Zhuiyuan took Runsheng and Lin Shuyou out again. It turned out that the unit he remembered had been delisted and the smell of sesame oil was no longer there.

Li Zhuiyuan had no choice but to return to the hotel.

For the next three days, Li Zhuiyuan took his grandfather to visit tourist attractions in Beijing.

For Li Sanjiang, the most boring tourist attraction is the Forbidden City.

Because Li Zhuiyuan had a good memory since childhood, his dream was also very realistic. Li Sanjiang had already led the zombies to run all over the palace. In reality, all the halls had ropes on the inside of the door, so tourists could only step over the threshold and go in a little bit, and there was no way to really walk around inside. This made Li Sanjiang even more dissatisfied, thinking that it was not as good as in his dream, because he had even climbed up the dragon throne.

Grandpa liked fried liver and braised pork very much. Li Zhuiyuan also ordered three bowls of soy milk, just to enrich his travel memories.

After taking a sip of the soy milk, Li Sanjiang exclaimed: "It's so fresh!"

Upon hearing this, Runsheng and Lin Shuyou immediately picked up their bowls and drank a big gulp of it as if it were soy milk.

Lin Shuyou: “Ugh!”

Runsheng: “It tastes good.”

Lin Shuyou thought his bowl was bad, so he picked up the bowl in front of Li Sanjiang, took another sip, and then said: "Ugh!"

There is a tourist attraction that is very small but the line is very long. When queuing, you hope that the people in front of you can walk faster. After entering, you wish you could slow down your pace as much as possible. After coming out, many people start crying.

The grandfather said that he was tired today and wanted to go back to the hotel to sit alone for a while, so he asked Li Zhuiyuan to take Runsheng and Lin Shuyou to continue another afternoon schedule.

Li Zhuiyuan agreed, but decided to send his grandfather back to the hotel first.

After getting into the taxi, Li Sanjiang leaned his head against the window, feeling very depressed.

Li Zhuiyuan sniffed and smelled a familiar scent of sesame oil in the car.

He had just tasted this flavor in a dream a while ago, and the memory was still fresh. There was no way he was wrong.

"Master, did you pull a monk today?"

"Yes, a young monk."

"Sent to where."

"A small temple in Tongzhou."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded. It seemed that there was no need to make that call.

The young man turned his gaze to his grandfather who was sitting in the passenger seat.

When they arrived at the hotel entrance, Li Zhuiyuan signaled Lin Shuyou to stay in the car, and he got out to take the grandfather back to the room.

After entering the room, Li Sanjiang waved his hand and urged Li Zhuiyuan to continue taking Runsheng and the others out to play and not to bother with him.

Li Zhuiyuan made a pot of tea for his grandfather and left the hotel. He got back into the taxi and said to the driver:

"Master, let's go to that temple."

……

After sitting in the hotel room for a while, Li Sanjiang felt chest tightness, so he left the room and walked out of the hotel, starting to stroll aimlessly.

Although he is old, his legs and feet are in good condition and he remembers the way well. It is because his own Xiao Yuanhou cares about him too much, so how could he get lost?

The hotel is not far from Shichahai, and Li Sanjiang arrived here while walking. Of course, he didn't know what this scenic spot was called.

A rickshaw driver came to solicit passengers, saying that he could take him for a stroll and give him explanations, but Li Sanjiang refused them all. He was reluctant to spend the money to take a walk alone.

Besides, through the past few days of sightseeing, he also discovered that when it comes to tour guide introductions, his own Xiao Yuanhou is the best. No matter which tourist attraction they visit, he can tell the whole story of their past and present lives in detail. He can do it for free at home, so why should he go out and pay to listen?

As I was walking around, I felt a little tired. I felt my pocket and realized that I had left my matchbox in the hotel.

Li Sanjiang saw a bench in front of him, on which sat a white-haired old man with a cane and an extraordinary demeanor, so he took the initiative to walk forward and asked:

"Brother, lend me a light."

The old man turned his head to look at Li Sanjiang and nodded.

At this time, a young man in formal attire came out from somewhere with a lighter in his hand.

The old man reached out first, took the lighter from the young man, and handed it to Li Sanjiang: "Here, brother."

"Hey, you want one too?"

Li Sanjiang took out two cigarettes and handed them to the other party.

Seeing this, the young man was about to speak, but was stopped by the old man with a look.

The old man took a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

Li Sanjiang ordered for himself first, and then went to order for him. The old man lowered his head and shielded himself from the wind with his hands.

Soon, smoke surrounded the chests of the two elderly men, making their longevity even more difficult.

Li Sanjiang: "Are you used to smoking this kind of cigarette?"

The old man looked at the cigarette in his hand and said, "I've rolled up grass leaves and smoked them before, so how can I not be used to it?"

"It's so sad. I've never stopped smoking in my life."

"Then you are blessed, brother."

“I can’t say I’m blessed, but it’s been pretty smooth.”

Li Sanjiang remembers that even during the most difficult times on the battlefield, he was still able to take cigarettes out of the pockets of corpses.

However, when he smoked, he would also put a lit cigarette in the corpse's mouth.

"From your accent, you're not a local, right?"

"No, I'm from Jiangsu. My great-grandson brought me to Beijing for a trip."

In fact, he won the plane ticket by lottery, but it was indeed his great-grandson who served as the tour guide. Li Sanjiang was deliberately vague about it because he wanted to show off his younger generation's filial piety.

"Then you, the great-grandson, are filial."

"Yes, he is very filial, well behaved, smart, and a college student."

"So do you have a partner?"

"Yes, he lives in my house. Whenever he comes back, we hang out together. We are inseparable and get along really well."

"Child bride?"

"That's not the case. Her family is here too, especially her grandmother, who is a bit materialistic. I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with her when she gets married."

"That's true."

"But it's okay, I'll save it slowly, there's still time. Don't look at my age, but for someone like you, no, like that young man, I can carry you on my back and run two miles, it's easy!"

"Well, I can see that you are indeed in good health, brother."

"Brother, you look in good health." Li Sanjiang patted the other's chest.

The old man's face tightened.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I just had an operation."

"Oh." Li Sanjiang quickly took his hand back and wiped it on his pants. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"It's okay. In the past, I would have been embarrassed to call myself injured if I had used a knife like this."

"Then you have suffered a lot."

"No, I am lucky to be alive and to see this day."

"Yes, it has changed a lot. It has really changed a lot."

"Brother, have you been to Beijing before?"

"I haven't been here, but I've been here many years ago. At that time, I came in from outside the Great Wall and passed by this area."

"Brother, have you ever been outside the border?"

"No, there was a war at that time, and it was a fierce one. Then we entered the pass and went south, tsk."

Li Sanjiang took a puff of cigarette and exhaled slowly, as if recalling the past.

The old man asked excitedly, "Brother, are you from the Fourth Field Army too?"

Li Sanjiang: "Cough cough cough..."

Li Sanjiang choked on the smoke and started coughing violently.

The old man reached out and patted him on the back.

But the more people took pictures, the redder Li Sanjiang's face became, and he felt as if he was touching a horse's hoof.

Seeing that Li Sanjiang finally stopped coughing, the old man smiled and asked, "Brother, which unit of the Fourth Field Army are you from?"

Li Sanjiang saw that he couldn't avoid it, so he could only stammer a few times and whispered:

"Well, I'm on the opposite side of the Fourth Field Army."

The old man looked thoughtful. Which part was the one across from him?

Seeing that the other party was really thinking about it, Li Sanjiang simply gave up, slapped his thigh and said:

"Oh, I have bad luck. I was always conscripted. I escaped every time I was conscripted. I escaped every time I was conscripted. I escaped from the northeast to here, and then to Xuzhou."

The old man finally understood. After a route map appeared in his mind, he opened his mouth slightly and said after a long while: "Brother, you also call this bad luck?"

Li Sanjiang explained: "I didn't shoot at the other side. I just fired a few shots into the air and then walked away. Not only did I walk away, I also took people with me. The number of people I took with me increased each time."

The old man laughed at first, then his face turned serious, he stretched out his hand to cover the back of Li Sanjiang's hand, and said seriously: "Then you, brother, have also made a great contribution."

Li Sanjiang's face turned red, and he waved his hands and said, "I'm sorry to say that. I can't say that."

Wanting to quickly change the subject, Li Sanjiang pointed at the young man and asked, "Is this your grandson?"

The old man shook his head: "No."

Li Sanjiang: "That's my nephew."

The old man responded, "About the same."

"So your family is a girl?"

"I do have several sons, but they are all busy with work and I don't see them on weekdays; well, they don't like to see me either, because I have too many rules and a bad temper, and I always like to scold them.

It was probably because I was busy with work before, so I didn’t have much time to spend with them when they were young, but later I had my little son…”

"Hello, little one."

"Well, the youngest is good, he is the most obedient and sensible. It's a pity that after getting married and having children, he got divorced, and now he doesn't come home anymore."

"He's not home, what about the child?"

"The child was given to the mother and her last name was changed."

"Did your son mess around outside?"

"No, he loves her to death. My daughter-in-law is really excellent. It's just that my son is unlucky and doesn't have that kind of fate."

"You can do it too. The child has changed her last name, and you can still say good things about her."

"Let's keep things separate. Personal matters should not be mixed up with work. Alas, I haven't seen my grandson for more than a year, almost two years."

"The mother won't let me see my child?"

"Ah."

"Brother, you are stupid. If she doesn't allow you to, just meet her secretly. Then give her some pocket money to buy her some toys. Children don't know anything. They will kiss whoever gives them fun and delicious things."

"My grandson... doesn't like these."

"Hey, what are you talking about? What kid wouldn't like these?"

"The main thing is that I promised my ex-daughter-in-law that I would not see him, and I also did not allow my family to see him. His grandmother had a few arguments with me over the past two years, saying she wanted to see her grandson, but I did not give in.

I am a person who sticks to my words. "

"So your grandson hasn't come to see you guys in the past two years?"

"No."

"Did they move to another place?"

"He remembered the phone number and address."

"If the child is young, it's normal for him to forget."

"My grandson has a good memory and will not forget."

Li Sanjiang consoled him, "He was a heartless little guy. If he's gone, then he's gone."

The old man laughed and said, "Haha, but my grandson is smart. He is really smart."

As Li Sanjiang turned his head and blew out smoke rings, his mouth closed and opened silently several times: Haha, smart, that's because you haven't seen anyone as truly smart as my Xiao Yuanhou.

Ever since he brought Xiao Yuanhou home, whenever Li Sanjiang heard someone brag about her child's intelligence, he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. Smart, right? Then let him become the top scorer in the imperial examination.

"Brother, are your family members on good terms?"

“My family has a very good relationship.”

"My wife regretted it very much and said that she should have had a good relationship with her daughter-in-law. Now her son and grandchildren can't see her either."

"Hey, there's no conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in my family."

After all, he has neither mother-in-law nor daughter-in-law, and the household registration book only has the names of the grandfather and grandson, which is so clean and refreshing.

"so good."

The old man sighed. In fact, every time his wife lay in bed at night and expressed regret, he couldn't help but want to comfort her, saying that it was not her fault.

However, he did not allow himself to speak ill of his ex-daughter-in-law. After all, she was a comrade who dared to take the initiative to undertake scientific research missions with a high mortality rate many times.

The two old men sat on the bench and chatted for a while.

It was not until the young man came forward for the third time and urged him with his body language that the old man said regretfully: "Brother, I have to go to the hospital for a follow-up check."

"Oh, then why don't you go quickly? It's urgent to see a doctor. There's no time to delay."

"Where do you live? I'll have someone take you back to the hotel."

"No, I live nearby, I can just walk a few steps. Look, I've been sitting here for so long, I really want to go for a walk, no need to bother."

"Okay." The old man took out a business card from the young man and handed it to Li Sanjiang solemnly, "If you have time, you can call me and come to my house for tea."

"You're welcome." Li Sanjiang put away the business card.

At this time, a car drove over, the young man went forward to open the door, and the old man got in.

Watching the car driving away, Li Sanjiang casually put the business card into his pocket. Meeting each other was fate, and he had no intention of bothering others again.

Everyone can chat freely on this bench, but once you go to someone else's house, there will be no bench to sit on.

Li Sanjiang hummed a little tune and continued to stroll and enjoy the scenery:

"This place in Beijing is just like what is sung in operas. Any sign that falls down can hit an important person, hehe."

……

The taxi dropped the three people off in front of a small temple. It wasn't desolate, but it wasn't in a secluded place, so it could be described as quiet.

The temple gate was small and the courtyard wall was low. A thick wisp of incense rose from inside and then rushed upwards.

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at the plaque on the temple gate and said softly:
"Old monk, I'm here to visit you."

(End of this chapter)