"Tufuzi? These local grandsons still dare to come to our village?"
Hearing the word "tufuzi", the old village chief lost his temper and said, "They are running fast, otherwise the pony is inside. We will find out once we take them to the police station and investigate."
The Xiao Ma that the old village chief was talking about was the deputy director of the police station in the nearby jurisdiction. As a model village for public security in the jurisdiction, the old village chief sent an invitation, and they also wanted to come over to celebrate in order to save face.
"Grandpa Six, you are still so jealous of evil."
Seeing the old village chief's face, Su Xiaofan smiled and shook his head.
After spending several years in society, Su Xiaofan understood that this society is not as black and white, good or evil as he originally thought. In fact, there are many gray areas in the middle.
Take the antique market as an example. Every stall owner who sets up a stall to sell antiques is eager to say that the things on his stall are used by the emperor. The older the better, the older the better.
It is an object from before the Qing Dynasty, and I hope to sell it at a high price.
Strictly speaking, they are indeed deceiving people, but most adults with analytical skills will not fall for it. If there are one or two who do fall for it, then they are unlucky.
In fact, they don’t do much harm to society. How much can the things on the street stalls be sold for? One or two thousand yuan is basically not enough to file a criminal case, and there are indeed good things on the street stalls, otherwise there would not be so much
There are many legends about "picking up leaks".
But these seemingly unkind stallholders are also the husbands of their wives and the fathers of their children. They support their families by relying on their mouths. They are all people who live at the bottom of society and do not steal or rob.
Instead, he relies on his hard work of getting up early and working late at night to earn the living expenses of his family.
Of course, Su Xiaofan was also extremely disgusted with those local masters who ate the dead and made money for their ancestors.
However, Su Xiaofan is not from the relevant department, and he has no evidence to prove that those people are doing this business, so he will not be like the old village chief who gets angry when he sees these people.
"You don't understand. If it hadn't been for these people, our village wouldn't have been lost..."
In the middle of his words, the old village chief suddenly stopped and said, "Why am I telling you this? Xiaofan, you are hungry too. Go inside and have something to eat. I will just greet people here."
"Huh? Have they stolen anything from our village?"
Su Xiaofan recognized the old village chief's words.
"Old almanac from decades ago, I will talk to you later."
The old village chief waved his hand, obviously unwilling to mention it further.
"Grandpa Six, is this tripod in our village an antique? I've had this for as long as I can remember."
Su Xiaofan looked at the Hanwang Tripod at the entrance of the village and seemed to mention it accidentally.
"Stop talking about you, I've been saying this for as long as I can remember."
The old village chief laughed and said, "Maybe it was a copy made during the Republic of China. Some experts have looked at it and said it's not up to date, so it can still be placed here, otherwise it would have been sent to a museum."
"What do experts think? It was during the Republic of China, and the Qin Dynasty was pretty much the same."
Su Xiaofan cursed in his heart that no one could see such a real antique lying here in the sun.
After saying hello to Zheng Dagang, Su Xiaofan entered the village.
He rushed to the village early in the morning to do some work. At this moment, Su Xiaofan was also very hungry. He found a table where people from his own village were sitting, and Su Xiaofan ate quickly.
The old village chief arranged this college entrance banquet, where people were invited in batches, some at noon and some in the evening. It didn't end until around three o'clock at noon, and the cooking contractor there began to prepare the evening banquet again.
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It was not until after nine o'clock in the evening that the college entrance banquet was completed, and Su Xiaofan took Zheng Dagang to his ancestral home.
The ancestral home of Su Xiaofan's family is relatively shabby in Sujia Village, mainly because Su Xiaofan and his sister have not lived here in recent years, so there is no flip-up.
"Xiaofan? Stay here at night?"
Zheng Dagang looked at the leaky window and couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face. He was not a person who couldn't bear hardships, but there were already mosquitoes in this weather. The windows in the house were broken, and mosquitoes could get in from everywhere. He hadn't even entered the house yet.
Within minutes, Zheng Dagang was bitten several times.
"Grandpa Six asked us to leave tomorrow. It would be bad if we leave overnight."
Su Xiaofan was afraid of the mosquito lying on his arm, and he also had a wry smile on his face. In the past two years, he had very little time to go back to the village, and he only came in the morning and left in the afternoon. Basically, he never lived in the old house, nor did he
Notice how dilapidated the ancestral home is.
"Brother, if you want to sleep all night, why don't you feed the mosquitoes? Let's go back. Anyway, it only takes more than an hour to drive."
Su Xiaoxiao held a magazine and kept fanning it around her body. She missed her home in the city.
"It sounds like you haven't been bitten before. You're rich within a few days of entering the city?"
Su Xiaofan curled his lips. If he hadn't slept in the cornfield in the summer when he was a child, he wouldn't have been afraid of mosquito bites. As expected, it was easy for this person to go from frugality to luxury, but it was difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
"Brother Gang, you and Xiaoxiao sit down for a while first."
Su Xiaofan thought for a moment and said: "I'll go to the canteen to buy some mosquito coils, and talk to Grandpa Six about the running water mat..."
"What's there to talk about about the flowing water mat?"
Before Su Xiaofan finished speaking, Grandpa Six's voice rang at the door.
"Grandpa Six, I have been busy all day, so I should go find you."
Su Xiaofan hurriedly greeted him. Putting aside the conflict between the old village chief and his father for unknown reasons, no one, including Su Xiaofan, admired the old village chief's character.
After letting Mr. Liu sit down in the room, Su Xiaofan said, "Grandpa Six, how much did the flowing water mat cost today? Please tell me the amount."
Su Xiaofan grew up in the countryside, so he naturally knew that the host family would definitely have to lose money on a running-water banquet like this, because most of the people who came to eat at the banquet received a gift of ten or twenty yuan, but they brought their whole family to eat.
, it is simply impossible to get your money back.
"Why are you counting?"
Grandpa Six glared, "I said before, this college entrance banquet belongs to the village, didn't you hear? Don't care how much you spend, don't care how much you charge, it all belongs to the village."
"Your grandpa and I are brothers. There are only a few people in your grandpa's lineage. It's just you, your dad and Xiaoxiao. I don't care who cares about you?"
Grandpa Six sighed and pointed at Su Xiaofan: "You kid is so worried. If only you could study for one more year. If you all go to college, I would have the honor to meet your grandpa in the future."
"Grandpa Six, I listen to you."
Speaking of which, Su Xiaofan didn't care much. In fact, his grandfather and Sixth Grandpa were cousins, not brothers. As far as his generation was concerned, they were far apart. Sixth Grandpa cared for him out of love, not for those other people.
It's also my duty, no one can say anything about it.
"Grandpa Six, we want to go back today."
Su Xiaoxiao's relationship with Master Six was much closer than Su Xiaofan's. She took Grandpa Six's arm and said, "Grandpa Six, look, there are too many mosquitoes. I've been bitten several times."
"It's not normal to have mosquitoes in rural areas. If you stay here for a day and then go back, the roads will be difficult to walk at night."
Grandpa Six rubbed Su Xiaoxiao’s head and said, “You are already a female literary star, why are you still afraid of mosquito bites? I will send you some coils of mosquito repellent incense later.”
"Master Liu, the roads are now in good repair, so I can drive without any problem."
Zheng Dagang couldn't help it anymore. He has type O blood and is the most attracted to mosquitoes. At this moment, there were already several cysts on his arms and legs.
"Yes, Grandpa Six, I'm familiar with this road. I used to ride a bicycle a lot, so it's fine."
Su Xiaofan also said on the side that when he was in high school in the city, he often took a ride to the town and then borrowed a bicycle to ride back to the village. When he was in junior high school in the town, he would cycle home every night for self-study.
"What do you know? If I say the road is not easy to walk, then it is not easy to walk."
Master Liu has always treated the Su Xiaofan brothers and sisters as his own children, but Zheng Dagang is a guest after all. He felt that his words were a bit stiff. Master Liu paused and said, "It's okay if you want to leave. Wait, I'll get you something."
Bring it with you."
Seeing Mr. Liu leave the house, Su Xiaofan and his sister looked at each other, wondering what Mr. Six had gone to get.
Master Liu came back very quickly, in about ten minutes. After returning to the room, Master Liu handed a big red envelope to Su Xiaofan.
"Take this. I'll have someone transfer the small tuition fee to her bank card later."
"Grandpa Six, what is this? Why did you give me the red envelope? It's not like I'm going to college!"
Su Xiaofan shook his head and did not reach out to take it. He took a look at the red envelope. It was flat and there should not be much money in it.
"It's not money. I've installed Taoist talismans for you, so you can take them with you to keep you safe on the road!"
Grandpa Six put the envelope in Su Xiaofan's hand and said, "Don't break the charm. When you get home, it will work if you stick the house charm on the door."
"Character? What talisman?"
Su Xiaofan was filled with questions after being told by Master Six. Grandpa Six was an old party member in the village. When did he start engaging in feudal superstition?
"Take it if it's given to you. If you keep talking nonsense, don't leave today."
Grandpa Six turned around and walked out the door, "Let's go, I'll see you off. Leave early and get home early."
"Okay, let's go, Xiaofan, follow me."
Zheng Dagang hurriedly stood up and followed him. If he was bitten by mosquitoes here all night, it would really kill him.
"this……"
Su Xiaofan was speechless as he took the red envelope and picked up the backpack he had brought.
"Su Xiaofan, let me see what talisman Grandpa Six gave you?"
Su Xiaoxiao snatched the red envelope from her brother's hand.
"Su Xiaoxiao, you're floating again, aren't you? Call me brother!"
Su Xiaofan didn't fight with her. He was no stranger to rural charms. In the past, every household would put up some peach charms and the like during the holidays.
"This is a peace charm."
With quick hands, Su Xiaoxiao opened the red envelope and took out a yellow talisman paper.
"This is Che Gong Fu!"
Zheng Dagang next to him raised his head and took a look and said: "Look, there is a car character in the middle, and the two sides are for safe travel and good luck in eliminating disasters. Such symbols are sold in the market, and many car owners will buy them every time the Chinese New Year is approaching."
"Che Gongfu?"
Su Xiaofan also looked at the talisman paper, but when he looked at it, a line of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Repair value: 3 points!]
[Che Gong Talisman, a low-level incomplete talisman, can be repaired, but a point of repair value needs to be deducted. Do you want to repair it? 】
"Are there low-level magic weapons and low-level talismans?"
Seeing the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan was a little confused for a moment. Since the repair value appeared in his mind, what appeared was either a magic weapon or a talisman, and these things were beyond his cognition.
