That night, after settling all Jiang Tao's funeral affairs, Zhou Mo and I took a bus to the city, but we did not return to Chengdu.
Because Jiang Tao also asked me to do one thing, which is to give the remaining money in the card to his mother.
That night Zhou Mo and I found a hotel to stay in the city, and early the next morning we took a taxi to the address left in County Magistrate Jiang's letter.
In an urban-rural fringe not far from the city, I remember County Magistrate Jiang said that his father was also in politics, but if that was the case, then their family shouldn't be so poor!
It’s not that you’ll be rich if you become an official. In any case, you won’t be able to live in this kind of urban-rural fringe area, right?
I even suspected that the address County Magistrate Jiang left me was wrong, but I still wanted to take a look.
We found an uncle in the village and asked him: "Uncle, I want to ask you about someone, do you know Liu Hongmei?"
The uncle shook his head without thinking, "I don't know him, I haven't heard of it."
"Think about it again." I said, then took out a cigarette and handed him one.
After taking the cigarette, he thought seriously for a while and said, "We really don't have the person you mentioned here, but there is someone named Liu Sumei."
I was stunned and then asked: "Then where does she live?"
The uncle turned around and pointed to a bungalow not far behind him: "That's it, what are you doing with her?"
"Something happened, thank you uncle."
Although I am not sure whether this Liu Sumei is the Liu Hongmei we are looking for, I plan to find out.
So Zhou Mo and I came to the bungalow that the uncle had just pointed out to us, and immediately saw a plainly dressed rural woman feeding chickens in the yard in front of the door.
I walked up to her and called out to her: "Auntie, are you Liu Sumei?"
Hearing my voice, she straightened up and looked at me. She was stunned for a moment before replying: "I am, who are you?"
"Then I would like to ask, do you know Jiang Tao?"
The aunt was stunned for a moment and looked at us without speaking for a long time. After a long time, she came towards us and looked at us with a very excited expression.
Seeing her expression, Zhou Mo and I knew we had found the wrong person.
"Do you know Jiang Tao?" She walked up to us and asked me immediately.
I nodded and asked again: "So are you Liu Hongmei?"
"I am, Jiang Tao asked you to come to me?" She nodded and said.
Zhou Mo and I looked at each other and were glad that we didn't take the wrong path. Fortunately, I had the consciousness to find out, otherwise I would have really missed it.
Then I said to her: "That's it, we are Jiang Tao's friends, and Jiang Tao asked us to hand over something to you."
With that said, I took out the bank card, handed it to her and said, "There is about 90,000 yuan in it. The password is Jiang Tao's birthday. You should remember it, right?"
She did not come to pick up the bank card I handed her immediately, but was stunned and asked me: "Is this what Jiang Tao asked you to give to me?"
I nodded yes and let her take it.
At this moment, a man suddenly ran out of the house, rushed over and snatched the bank card away.
I immediately turned my head to look at the man. He was tall and thick, and the first impression he gave me was not good.
Before I could say anything, the man spoke first: "I haven't come to see you for so many years, but I only brought so little money and asked others to bring it to you. Your son is still an official. I don't think so." You take it seriously."
I stared coldly at the man who snatched the bank card and said, "Who are you? Give your bank card back."
He ignored me at all and continued to say to Liu Hongmei: "Hurry up and ask them to contact your son and ask him to give you more. How can this little money be enough? He is an official and has a lot of money."
Liu Hongmei looked helpless, sighed and said to us: "I'm sorry! This is my husband."
Zhou Mo and I looked at each other again, and we both didn't understand what was going on.
The man yelled at Liu Hongmei again: "Did you hear that? Hurry up and ask them to contact your son who is an official! I haven't come to see you for so many years, and you just gave away 90,000 yuan?"
Regardless of whether this man was Liu Hongmei's husband or not, I didn't have a good impression of him. I immediately said to him: "I'll tell you again, give your bank card back."
But he snorted coldly and said, "Didn't Jiang Tao ask you to send this? Do you want me to return it?"
"I didn't tell you."
"Isn't that the same? I am now Jiang Tao's stepfather."
"I'm sorry, Jiang Tao said to give the bank card to a person named Liu Hongmei, not to ask you to return it immediately."
I was already very serious, but he remained indifferent. Instead, he sneered and said, "I won't return it, what can you do to me?"
Liu Hongmei also looked helpless. It seemed that what Jiang Tao said in the letter was right. Her mother's life was not satisfactory.
But I just can't figure it out, why would Jiang Tao's mother marry such an unreasonable person?
Of course, these things have nothing to do with me. The purpose of my coming here is just to hand over the bank card to Liu Hongmei.
And now that my bank card has been taken away by this man, I naturally won't let it go.
I continued: "If you don't pay it back, then call the police."
"Report, you report! What if the police come?"
I was so angry at him that I immediately took out my cell phone and prepared to call 110.
At this time, Liu Hongmei suddenly spoke to me and said: "Little brother, don't be impulsive. Are you sure this money was given to me by Jiang Tao?"
I nodded and said, "He said that although you have never raised him, you are still his mother, and this is all his savings."
"So is he okay now?"
"Are you concerned about him?" Although I shouldn't ask these questions, I couldn't help but ask.
Liu Hongmei sighed softly and said in a deep voice: "The only person I'm sorry for is Jiang Tao. I don't know if he has lived well by himself in these years. His health has not been as good as others since he was a child. Why doesn't he keep this money to support his family?
?Is he married?"
Zhou Mo suddenly answered: "Thank you for being a mother, don't you even know what's going on with your son?"
"What's wrong with him?" Liu Hongmei seemed to suddenly realize something, and her brows suddenly wrinkled.
I didn't intend to hide it from him, so I immediately said, "He passed away. This is all the savings he left. He told me that it must be handed over to you."
"Wha, what?!" Liu Hongmei was so frightened that she took a step back, as if her legs were weakened by fright.
I continued to say to her: "Jiang Tao has passed away. This is his will. He asked me to give you the bank card."
Liu Hongmei's tears instantly flowed out, and her expression became increasingly painful.
But the man behind her still snorted coldly and said: "How could he be dead at such a young age? He's lying, right? I think your son just doesn't want to recognize you."
"Shut up!" I glared at him fiercely and said angrily.