When Sean made such a fuss, the sudden sadness in my heart disappeared instantly.
I glanced at Hao Jingde, feeling a little embarrassed by Sean's behavior.
"Sean, get down here!" I shouted to Sean.
"Let it be noisy. I built this house with my own hands. It's all made of mortise and tenon structure. It's so strong that it can't push it down!" Hao Jingde said with a smile, looking at Sean with eyes full of adoration.
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Sean turned back and looked at me. Apparently he was not willing to come down from the roof. He raised his head against the big colorful rooster. The chicken jumped up in fright but did not dare to fly away.
"Hu Ling, your little nephew is almost an adult. He must have eaten a lot of good food these days. Now he doesn't like the chickens I raised!" Hao Jingde said with a smile.
"I have grown up a lot these days, but I am still so naughty. I make a mess for you when I come here!" I replied with a smile.
"Sean, can you please come down and hear me?" I shouted to Sean again.
Lu Xiaohong smiled and shook his head and said: "Hu Ling, it seems that we have to take it out more in the future. It seems that it has been suffocated at home during this time!"
Sean glanced at Lu Xiaohong, hummed twice, nodded to me, then reluctantly stood up on the roof, jumped directly to my feet and squatted on the ground.
"Oh oh oh -" Seeing that the danger was over, the chicken on the roof raised its head and croaked, then flapped its wings and flew into the woods.
When the chickens lying on the ground heard the noise, they all flapped their wings and followed the colorful rooster and flew towards the woods.
It actually seems to be somewhat spiritual.
"Little guy, if you want to eat chicken, go and follow him!" Hao Jingde patted Sean's big head and pointed to the woods and said.
Sean raised his eyes and looked at me expectantly.
"Go on, don't mess around, you can only eat one at most!" I said to Sean.
Seeing that I agreed, Sean jumped towards the direction where the chickens were flying away.
Hao Jingde led Lu Xiaohong and I into the wooden house.
The layout of the room also remained unchanged. After Lu Xiaohong and I sat down at the wooden table, Hao Jingde walked into the back room and brought out a pot of scented tea. The rich aroma of jasmine overflowed from the teapot.
Lu Xiaohong took out a yellow kraft paper file bag from his briefcase, pushed it in front of Hao Jingde and said: "Good uncle, the documents and drawings about this land are all here. Take a look, if you think there is anything wrong,
If it’s done or needed, we’ll help you get it done.”
Hao Jingde nodded and took out two dark red notebooks, some drawings and some documents from the portfolio.
His hands were shaking slightly.
After a long time, Hao Jingde finished reading all the documents and certificates. He raised his head, looked at Lu Xiaohong and then at me, his eyes were a little moist.
"This is a tourist area now. It's not easy to handle these things. I thought I would never get them back in this life! Girl, thank your dad for me. These things are all complete. There is nothing wrong or needed to be added." Hao Jingde
explain.
I nodded.
"By the way, you two can have dinner here tonight, and I'll go cook now." Hao Jingde stood up and said.
"No, we will wait until the new house is completed to congratulate you. It is getting late and we have to go back!" I said and Lu Xiaohong also stood up.
"What a shame, you guys came all the way here." Hao Jingde said, rubbing his hands.
"Don't be polite to us. If you are really polite, I will never be able to repay the debt I owe you in this lifetime." I said with a smile.
As I was talking, my cell phone suddenly rang.
Since I was wearing a simple knitted sweater today and had no pockets, I put my phone in my carry-on bag.
When I took my cell phone out of the bag, something rolled out of the bag along with the phone, fell to the ground and rolled to Hao Jingde's feet.
After taking a closer look, it turned out to be the little elephant sculpture that Qian Zhiqi gave me in Jiming Village when he wanted to recognize me as his sister.
When I went out this morning, I did not carry my usual backpack, but simply carried a shoulder bag that I had used before. After returning from Jiming Village, I kept the baby elephant sculpture in this bag.
I opened the answer button, put the phone to my ear, and bent down to pick up the baby elephant, but someone had already picked up the baby elephant sculpture before me.
The person who picked up the little elephant sculpture was Hao Jingde.
His face was a little pale, and his eyes were staring straight at the little elephant sculpture in his hand.
"Hu Ling, is that you?" A familiar male voice came from the phone.
I was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Brother Qian?"
"Well, it's me..."
The signal on Qian Zhiqi's side was a little bad. Just after he said a few words, the sound suddenly went silent.
"Brother Qian?" I shouted into the phone again.
There was no movement on the phone, and then there was a sudden disconnection busy signal.
Short and quick.
An extremely bad premonition suddenly came over me. I didn't care to look at Hao Jingde's strange reaction when he saw the elephant sculpture. I lowered my head and pressed the hang up button, and then pressed the call back button.
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiaohong asked me.
"I don't know, Brother Qian called me suddenly, and the call was disconnected before I could say anything!" I said, putting the phone to my ear again, "I'll try calling again."
"Hello, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable!" A gentle female voice came from the mobile phone.
When I dialed again, the phone was shutting down.
My heart sank to the bottom little by little. I couldn't explain why, and I suddenly felt panicked.
"It's okay, maybe the phone battery just ran out!" Lu Xiaohong patted me on the shoulder and said, "Let's go back first and wait a while before trying to call."
I nodded, looked up at Hao Jingde, and said to him: "Uncle Hao, I'm sorry, we should go back."
Hao Jingde stood there motionless, staring at the little elephant sculpture in his hand as if frozen, his face still as pale as paper.
I was stunned again, worrying about Qian Zhiqi's phone call, and only now did I realize something was suddenly wrong with Hao Jingde.
"Uncle Hao, what's wrong with you? Uncle Hao?" Seeing that Hao Jingde didn't respond, I spoke to him again.
Hao Jingde finally slowly raised his head and looked at me.
"Girl, where did you come from, this little elephant?" Hao Jingde put the little elephant sculpture in his hand and stretched it out in front of me.
"One of my elder brothers gave it to me. Uncle Hao, do you know this little elephant?" I looked at Hao Jingde and said, reaching out to take back the little elephant sculpture from his palm.
"Wait!" Hao Jingde suddenly retracted his hand and held the little elephant sculpture tightly in his palm.
"Girl, can you tell me what your eldest brother's surname is, what his name is, and how old he is? Also, is this little elephant his own?" Hao Jingde looked at me eagerly and asked.
There was a strange light shining in his eyes, a little hot. This chapter has been completed!