"Grandpa, grandma, Xiaofeng is here to see you!" Before anyone arrived, Feng Yifeng's shout rang through the ineffective door. This was his designated action every time he came here before, and the people inside
, when he hears his cry, he will respond loudly.
His shout was not loud, but there was no response at all from inside the gate, which made Feng Yifeng feel very strange. Grandpa and grandma are not the kind of people who are hard of hearing. They should be able to hear his shout. "
Grandpa, grandma, I’m Xiaofeng, I’m here to see you!
The big rusty iron door finally opened a small door on the side, and a woman about fifty years old came out and asked with a bad face: "Who are you? What are you shouting here?"
The woman who came out was something Feng Yifeng had never seen before, and he was very familiar with everyone who worked in the shrimp paste factory. How could a woman who he had never seen before suddenly appear? "Who are you? I am
Come here to find my grandpa."
"Who is your grandpa? Don't come here for nothing, or I will call the police." The woman didn't show Feng Yifeng a good look at all, and said fiercely to Feng Yifeng.
Feng Yifeng was really angry with her. This was his grandfather's shrimp paste factory. He was turned away when he came here. He even said that he would call the police. If the other party hadn't been a woman, he would have wanted to just break in.
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Because Feng Yifeng walked faster, Wenxiu came over now. She had already come to visit her grandfather after returning to Hong Kong, so she was also familiar with this woman with a bad face. She came up from behind Feng Yifeng and said: "
Aunt Qiu, it’s me, Wenxiu! Do you still remember me?”
The woman whom Wenxiu called Aunt Qiu, saw the angry face of the person in front of her, and immediately turned from anger to joy. "Oh! Isn't this Wenxiu? Why is it such a good day? Why are you here to see your grandpa?
?" Wenxiu has lived in the Feng family for many years and often comes to Cheung Chau, so she calls Feng Yifeng's grandfather and grandmother the same as Feng Yifeng.
"Yes! Isn't this thinking of my grandpa and grandma? I just have time today, so I came here to see the two elderly people. Aunt Qiu! Let me introduce to you, he is grandpa's grandson, who just came back from abroad.
Today we are going to visit my grandparents in Changzhou together." He pointed at Feng Yifeng beside him and introduced this Aunt Qiu.
"Ah! So you are the grandson Xiaofeng that the boss has been talking about, who is studying in the United States? Haha, I was so sorry just now, I thought you were those people! Everyone, stop standing outside the door and come in quickly.
"Knowing that she had misunderstood, Aunt Qiu had already put on a friendly smile and hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Feng Yifeng and others in.
Feng Yifeng is still a little confused until now. He is a cautious person, and Aunt Qiu's reaction just now was very abnormal. This is a shrimp paste factory, and tourists from Hong Kong and Kowloon often come to Cheung Chau and come here to buy shrimp paste and go back.
Yes, so people with unfamiliar faces often appear. So usually when they see strangers, they will greet them well at the first time. But when Aunt Qiu saw him just now, she felt a little nervous. It was as if he was some kind of bad guy who came here to cause trouble.
Similar.
Seeing Feng Yifeng lagging a few steps behind, as if he was thinking about something, Wenxiu thought he was still unhappy about what happened just now. "Xiao Feng, don't mind, Aunt Qiu came here only four years ago, and she has never met her before.
She misunderstood you because she passed you by, so you don’t mind, she doesn’t mean any harm.”
"No, am I the kind of person who cares about everything? I'm just a little strange, why haven't I seen grandpa and grandma until now? Did you hear what Aunt Qiu said just now? He said he thought I was those people, but it's actually those people
Who would make Aunt Qiu so wary of me?"
Wenxiu also frowned, and now she also discovered something was wrong. The last time she came here, her grandpa and grandma had already run out when they heard the sound. Why haven't they seen them until today? "It's a bit
Strange, did they have an accident?"
"Don't talk nonsense, let's ask Aunt Qiu, she should know." He walked a few steps quickly and walked to Aunt Qiu. "Aunt Qiu, why don't you see my grandpa and grandma? Aren't they at home?"
"Uh!" When asked by Feng Yifeng, Aunt Qiu didn't know how to answer.
"Aunt Qiu, did something happen? Please tell us quickly. Xiaofeng is grandpa's grandson. He has the right to know what happened." Wenxiu knew that something must have happened, otherwise Aunt Qiu would be
You won't be so hesitant.
"Oh! You guys come in first, and I'll tell you slowly." After Aunt Qiu finished speaking, she didn't wait for Feng Yifeng and the others to continue talking, but just lowered her head and walked into the house.
This shrimp paste factory was renovated from several brick and tile buildings, forming the shape of a capital T in English. The vertical column in the middle is the workshop, and the left and right sides are the places for cooking shrimps and pickling shrimp paste. Many of them are made of rattan.
Woven bamboo baskets and large urns are placed there. The fishing boats come ashore at the small pier here when they go out to sea. The caught and selected shrimps are sent directly here. The workers will clean them immediately.
Then pickle it with salt. When the time is right, remove the excess salt from the fermented shrimp and send it to the workshop for grinding. Then put it in the vat, add fennel, orange peel, cinnamon and other ingredients, and stir it.
If placed for a period of time, it will become a seasoning for cooking various dishes.
As for the remaining horizontal line, it is naturally the place where grandpa and grandma usually live. It is a typical country bungalow. Although it looks very simple, this is where Feng Yifeng holds many childhood memories.
Aunt Qiu welcomed everyone into the place where grandpa lived, but there was no one inside. Grandpa and grandma were really not at home. When he came in just now, Feng Yifeng had noticed that the shrimp paste factory had stopped production and there were no workers working here at all.
. He still remembered that before he left, there were about ten local people working here in the shrimp paste factory. But now the pots and pans were just randomly placed aside, and the jars were empty.
Feng Yifeng told Ruan Xiongwen and the others to put all the gifts they had brought in the living room. He himself looked around to confirm that grandpa and the others must have gone out, otherwise grandma would not be at home watching.
Aunt Qiu did not stop Feng Yifeng, she just silently poured tea and water for everyone. Of course she also saw the many gifts Feng Yifeng brought, including the most advanced color TV set and a rare record player in Cheung Chau
and video recorder.
"Aunt Qiu, where did my grandpa and grandma go? They rarely go out together, why are they not at home today?"
"Oh! You are the boss's grandson, I'm not afraid to tell you. Your grandma went to see a doctor with your grandpa. They didn't know you would come in to visit them today, so they went to Kowloon early in the morning. But they will definitely go there in the afternoon
They will come back. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for them here."
"Aunt Qiu, please tell me clearly. Is grandpa sick? But I remember that he has always been in good health. He can carry more than 100 kilograms of shrimp paste by himself without even taking a breath. Why does he suddenly need to see a doctor? Yes.
Isn't he suffering from a serious illness and needs to go to Kowloon? Can't the clinic here treat him?" He knew his grandfather's health very well. If there was any illness, Wenxiu had visited him before. He wouldn't have known about it.
If you know it, you won't tell him.
"Your grandpa is not sick, he was injured. Those beasts didn't even spare an old man in his seventies. Not only did they break one of your grandpa's hands, they also beat him to internal injuries.
The doctor said it might be internal bleeding. But the equipment here is not good, so we have to go to Kowloon for treatment." Aunt Qiu shed tears as she spoke, but her expression was unusually resentful.
"What? My grandpa was injured?" Feng Yifeng really couldn't believe that someone would actually hurt his grandpa. From surprise to anger, he didn't expect that he would come this time. He wanted to visit the two elders, but instead
Got such news.
She barely suppressed her anger, her face had turned livid, her eyes were about to burst into flames, and the veins in her fists were showing. "Who is it? Aunt Qiu, tell me who injured grandpa, this
What is going on? You must be very clear about it, please explain it completely."
Both Wenxiu and Zhao Yazhi felt the anger in Feng Yifeng's heart now. They also felt indignant, but before they understood the truth, they couldn't say anything. They just held Feng Yifeng's hand.
"What else is there? It's not because of the shrimp paste factory. As early as a month ago, a man in a black suit and tie suddenly came to the shrimp paste factory to find the boss. At first, the boss thought he wanted to buy shrimp paste, so he was enthusiastic
Greet him. But this man actually took out a document saying that he would buy this place and convert it into a resort in the future. As long as the boss signs it, he can get half a million. But the boss has always regarded the shrimp paste factory as his own.
He also said that he would pass the shrimp paste factory from generation to generation in the future, so how could he betray it? At first, the man in the black suit was willing to talk to the boss in a nice manner, but when the boss refused to agree to life or death, he began to threaten the boss.
Even if you don't sell it, I will make it impossible for your shrimp paste factory to continue operating."
"So, in the next few days, people kept coming to make trouble. They either said that our shrimp paste was unclean and made them vomit and have diarrhea, or they said that our shrimp paste contained substandard materials, and they also asked the Department of Health to
Come to seal down the shrimp paste factory. How is this possible? Although I have been here not long ago, the shrimp paste factory has been operating for more than 40 years without any problems. The neighbors and restaurants here all use our shrimps.
"Hey, they are all fine, so why did something happen to these people? In order to calm things down, the boss asked us all to stop working, did a general cleaning, tidied up, and compensated those people a sum of money."
"I thought the matter would just go away, but a few days later, those people came to the door again, saying that shrimp paste had killed people. Their family members were unable to be rescued in the hospital. The doctor said it was food poisoning and said that the boss would be arrested.
Pay for your life. The situation at that time was really terrible. Twenty or thirty people blocked the door of the shrimp paste factory. Even the surrounding residents tried to dissuade them, but they were driven away by these people. If they refused to leave, they would beat them.
, several workers in the shrimp paste factory were also injured by them. At this time, the man in a black suit appeared again and said that as long as the boss was willing to sell the shrimp paste factory, he could settle the matter without the boss taking any responsibility. At that time
Everyone knew what was going on. He was the one who brought these people to cause trouble. Of course the boss refused and said that he would call the police and arrest those who hit the people. But the man didn't seem to be afraid and just said that he would give the boss another week.
Think about it, otherwise it wouldn’t be so simple.”
"The boss ignored them and went to the police station to call the police. The police also came to investigate and drove away some people who often lingered outside the door. However, just a week ago, as soon as the door opened in the morning, several people suddenly barged in.
, without saying a word, he pushed the boss to the ground and beat him severely. When we came out, the boss was already lying on the ground with blood on his face. When those people saw us, they ran away in a hurry. We were all scared and hurriedly sent the boss to the clinic.
Go. The doctor said that most of them are skin injuries, but one arm was broken and there was internal bleeding. It is best for us to send the boss to major hospitals in Hong Kong and Kowloon for examination, otherwise there may be sequelae. The boss has already gone to Kowloon for treatment.
I've had it twice and they said it's nothing serious and I can recover as long as I rest, so I went out early this morning for a follow-up visit."
Aunt Qiu made it very clear, and things were about to come out. Let alone Feng Yifeng, even Wenxiu and Zhao Yazhi were furious. Ruan Xiongwen and Mu Chen, who were sitting on the side, both clenched their fists, and their faces were even darker than coal.
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