Rebirth in 1958: Getting rich starts from Nanluoguxiang

When Dabao and his companions arrived at Gaojia Village at the foot of Miaofeng Mountain, three police officers were already waiting on the mountain road.

There are two people among them that Dabao knows, namely Chu Qinghua and Yang Guanglin, and there is also a tall and thin policeman with facial lines that are as handsome as if carved by a knife. Among the three people, he seems to be the main one.

The car stopped on the mountain road. Dabao and Jinman opened the door and got out. Xue Kui also got out. Now the boy has become more mature and no longer as noisy as before, which makes Dabao always say that it is no wonder that people say that a man can only truly mature when he has someone he likes. Xue Kui likes Sun Xiaonian, and Sun Xiaonian is not opposed to him, but she did not agree. The two of them understood each other tacitly. Anyway, they were still young, so they continued to get along like this.

Jinman said with a smile,

"Director Qin, this young man is called Han Dongliang. He was the first person selected by our branch to assist you in solving the case. Han is very capable. He was the one who found out where Fan Debiao lived."

Dabao remembered that Jinman kept talking about it yesterday, saying that Han Dongliang went to check the information of Gao Dahe and others, so he didn't come to Dabao to make do.

Dabao had never seen him before, so he had no impression of him. After Jinman introduced him, he remembered him. Han Dongliang saluted Dabao.

"Hello, Director Qin! I'm Han Dongliang, a police officer from the Tonglingwan Police Station in Fangshan District."

Dabao shook hands with him, and he knew what kind of person Han Dongliang was at first glance. He was a man who was meticulous in his work and very proud. There is an idiom that describes people like him, called "being arrogant because of one's talent".

"Comrade Han Dongliang, tell us the details of Gao Dahe,"

Han Dongliang took out a palm-sized notebook from his pocket, opened it and said,

Gao Dahe was originally from Zhuozhou, Hebei. After his father died, his relatives decided to drive the mother and daughter out of the village. Their main purpose was to seize the Gao family's land.

Gao Dahe and his mother had nowhere else to go so they came to the capital and settled in Gaojia Village. After Gao Dahe's mother died of illness, Gao Dahe worked as a long-term worker in the home of Gao Mantang, a landlord in the village, for ten years.

Later, he saved Yin Danian and followed Yin Danian on the road of revolution..."

"Comrade Han Dongliang, tell me, who discovered Gao Dahe's whereabouts?"

Han Dongliang continued,

"After I found out that Gao Dahe was from here, I came here with Qinghua Guanglin to investigate. There was an old man named Gao Mantun who got up early to pick up manure.

He told us that a week ago he saw a man who looked like Gao Dahe crying in front of Gao Shujuan's grave. As soon as he walked over, Gao Dahe ran away..."

"Gao Shujuan? Who is this person? Is she Gao Dahe's mother?"

Han Dongliang shook his head.

"No, Gao Shujuan is the second daughter of the landlord Gao Mantang. She is about the same age as Gao Dahe. Well, the two of them can be considered childhood sweethearts.

At that time, Gao Dahe worked as a farmhand in Gao Mantang's family. He was timid and introverted. In Gao's family, the person he talked to the most was Gao Shujuan.

It is said that once, Gao Mantang was drunk and patted Gao Dahe on the shoulder, saying that he would marry his second daughter to him and ask him to be his son-in-law to take care of him in his old age.

Gao Dahe kept it in mind, but within two years, Gao Shujuan was married to the son of a landlord from another village. Gao Dahe was desperate.

On the day of Gao Shujuan's wedding, he ran to the middle of the mountain and saw a young man in a long gown and a mandarin jacket leading a donkey with a bride in a bright red dress sitting behind him. Gao Dahe watched Gao Shujuan slowly disappear from his sight. He cried for the whole day. From then on, he never believed in women again.

Han Dongliang's words were very stereotyped, but Dabao and the others listened with great interest, especially Dabao. He really wanted to know everything about Gao Dahe so that he could analyze Gao Dahe's character in the future.

Now Dabao has been able to weave together Gao Dahe's history. If it were Dabao, who has always been said to be a star of misfortune, unlucky for his husband, mother, wife and children, then he might not be able to survive.

Gao Dahe knew about this when he was young. He was insulted and looked down upon almost all the time. Gradually, he got used to it.

The reason why he never married, and the story about Gao Shujuan and Gao Dahe, were all learned by Han Dongliang after he got to know them in the village.

But Dabao didn't think so after hearing it. From what Han Dongliang learned in the village, Dabao believed that Gao Mantang must have promised Gao Dahe that he would recruit him as a son-in-law to take care of him in his old age. Gao Dahe and Gao Shujuan grew up together and must have a deep relationship. They could even get married secretly.

As for why Gao Shujuan later married someone from another village, this was also quite normal. Gao Dahe was penniless, so how could he support his wife and children?

As for Gao Shujuan getting married, that was not something she could decide. As the saying goes, parents’ orders and matchmaker’s words. Even if Gao Shujuan liked Gao Dahe very much, she would not dare to disobey her parents’ orders.

Gao Dahe must have a very low self-esteem. Seeing that Gao Mantang's words were not trustworthy, he put aside everything and followed Yin Danian to join the revolution.

After listening to Dabao's analysis, Han Dongliang and others nodded, thinking that what Dabao said was more consistent with what happened that year, which is why Gao Dahe cried bitterly in front of Gao Shujuan's grave.

Dabao asked Han Dongliang,

"Did anyone discover Gao Dahe later?"

Han Dongliang shook his head.

"No, since then Gao Dahe seems to have disappeared. No one has seen him since."

Dabao brought them to the open space in front of the village committee. The rice drying in the threshing ground had all been spread out. Although it was old rice, it was fuller than the new rice in other places.

Now that a production brigade has been established, Gaojia Village has also become a production team. The old rice that has been taken out and the rice that has been collected after the autumn harvest can be distributed to the members according to their work points after paying the public grain.

These old men just have to watch over the rice, drive away the birds, and the wild boars that run down the mountain out of hunger. Every grain of food here is the life of the farmers...

Now it is working time. Except for the elderly and children, everyone else is busy working in the fields.

Dabao came to the old man and the old woman, interrupted them and asked,

Uncle and Auntie, I'm from the police, and I'm asking you about someone. Does anyone know Gao Dahe?

He thought that Gao Dahe had been gone for so many years that few people in the village would know him. Unexpectedly, when he said this, the elders all said they knew him and knew what had happened to him. Dabao was very interested and sat down next to the elders to listen to them talk about Gao Dahe's life...