Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

Li Youjie hurried back to the restaurant. In the hall, Li Guanghu was happily chatting with Huang Laosan. They were talking about things in the farmland, such as which team was going to have a good harvest this year and which team was not doing so well.

Seeing Li Youjie come in, Li Guanghu stopped talking and looked at Li Youjie: "You are still waiting for people at the door. Where did you go when everyone is here?"

"Someone from the market came to tell me something." Li Youjie looked around but did not find his elder brother Li Youcai.

"Dad, where's my brother?"

"I'm talking to your aunt and others upstairs. Now that your in-laws are here, let's go up together." Li Guanghu greeted them.

The waiter led the way, and Li Guanghu and Huang Laosan walked in front and went up the stairs together.

Huang Juan pulled Li Youjie aside and said, "I see you're busy and chattering. What's wrong? Is there something urgent?"

Li Youjie looked at Huang Juan and nodded. This matter concerned the whereabouts of his sister-in-law's biological mother, and it was really urgent. "Well, I have to ask my eldest brother to go out with me later. We have some things to do in the market. You explain to your parents and don't let them think too much. We will be back as soon as possible."

Today is a family dinner, and all the people coming are relatives.

If it wasn't something important, Li Youjie wouldn't have dragged his elder brother Li Youcai out to do things at this time.

Huang Juan asked worriedly, "Did something happen?"

"It's hard for me to explain it clearly in a few words. I'll tell you when I come back. Let's go upstairs first." Li Youjie pulled Huang Juan upstairs in a hurry and came to the Tianxi box.

At this time, Li Youcai and Chu Xinyan were chatting with relatives and pouring tea for everyone.

Duoduo climbed onto the pool table and played with the billiard balls.

Li Youjie patted the back of Huang Juan's hand and motioned her to go over and accompany her family.

He came behind Li Youcai and whispered a few words in Li Youcai's ear.

"Really?" Li Youcai was stunned and looked at Li Youjie beside him with a questioning look.

Li Youjie nodded seriously. "He's in the market's reception room right now. I've asked security to keep an eye on him."

Whether it is true or not, you have to verify it yourself!

Li Youcai immediately made a decision in his mind.

Then he stood up and said to Li Guanghu and his aunt Li Mei, "Dad! Aunt, Uncle Huang, there's something urgent at the market that needs my two brothers to take care of. Please sit down for a while. The kitchen has been arranged and we will be back soon."

Li Guanghu was somewhat displeased when he heard this.

I held a family dinner and invited all the relatives, but my two sons had to go out to do business. How could this be so embarrassing?

"What's the rush?" Li Guanghu said unhappily.

It was Li Mei, the eldest aunt, who stopped Li Guanghu and said, "Just let them go. The market is not far away, and they will be back soon."

"Dad, it's urgent. We'll be back as soon as we're done. It won't take too long."

"Go."

When Chu Xinyan saw Li Youcai leaving, she was about to stand up as well.

Li Youcai held Chu Xinyan down and said, "You stay here. I'll be back soon. If you need anything here, just call Sister Wanru."

"Ah."

Li Youcai and Li Youjie hurriedly left the restaurant and quickly returned to the market nearby.

The reception room was the dormitory for the waiters in the past. After the restaurant was built, the waiters moved to the new dormitory, and this place was vacated.

At this time, in the reception room, an old man in his sixties was sitting on the sofa. He was wearing a pair of faded military trousers and a vest on his upper body. His dark skin was full of wrinkles.

The old man sat cautiously on the sofa, glancing at the security guard at the door from time to time, feeling a little nervous.

Soon Li Youcai and Li Youjie rushed over.

"Brother Cai, Mr. Li." The security guard greeted Li Youcai hurriedly when he saw him.

"What about people?"

"inside."

Li Youcai walked directly into the reception room and saw that only the old man was inside. "You said you knew the whereabouts of Zhuang Moxue?"

The old man held a yellowed piece of paper in his hand and unfolded it to Li Youcai.

It was the missing person notice that had been sent out earlier.

"It says here that you can give a bonus of 50 yuan. Is that true?" asked the old man.

Li Youcai immediately took out some money from his pocket, counted out 10 big unity notes and slapped them on the coffee table: "As long as the news you said is true and you lead us to find Zhuang Moxue, all this money will be yours."

The old man looked at the money on the coffee table, pondered for a moment, and then said softly: "I can also lead you to find her, but she is dead. I can only take you to her grave."

"What did you say?" Li Youcai was a little bit incredulous when he heard it.

Judging from his age, Zhuang Moxue is only in his 40s at most, which shouldn't be the case.

"It's true. She really died, and it was all of us who helped bury her. There's no doubt about it." The old man said with certainty.

"Uncle, this person is very important to me. I hope you can tell me everything you know about her without missing a word. Don't worry, as long as what you say is true, money is not a problem." Li Youcai took out the money again to blackmail, and put another ten big unity bills on the coffee table.

When the old man saw that Li Youcai had given him so much money, he felt that his efforts in coming here were not in vain.

He immediately said, "Speaking of this, it happened more than 20 years ago. Zhuang Moxue's father was a forest ranger in Daqing Mountain. He and his family lived in an earthen house on Daqing Mountain. I was a lumberjack at the time, and sometimes I would go to their house to ask for water when going up and down the mountain."

No wonder we couldn’t find any family with the surname Zhuang after searching all the brigades in Qingshan Commune. It turned out that they didn’t live in the production team at all.

Li Youjie pulled a chair for his eldest brother, and the two brothers sat down and listened slowly to the old man continue talking.

"Mrs. Zhuang's health has always been poor. She died of illness when Zhuang Moxue was still a child. Then one year, while patrolling the mountains, Mr. Zhuang accidentally rolled down the mountain. He was hit hard, and although he survived, his health was severely damaged. This was considered a work-related injury, so the forest farm asked Zhuang Moxue to cover for him. They said she was covering for him, but in reality, she was just getting paid for nothing. She didn't really have to do anything."

"Later, I forgot which year it was, a group of us were returning home from get off work. When we passed by Old Zhuang's house, we heard someone crying inside. We went over to see that it was Brother Zhuang who was gone."

"After Brother Zhuang died, the forest farm assigned Zhuang Moxue to the forest farm headquarters to do odd jobs."

"That girl is beautiful, and her life has been difficult. The staff at our forest farm are all very kind to her. The young people all call her the Flower of the Green Mountains."

"Oh~, how could such a good girl hang herself just like that?" the old man said with regret.

Hang yourself!

Li Youcai was stunned: "You said Zhuang Moxue died by hanging?"

"Yes, she was hanged on a crooked tree in front of her old house. She used a rope made by tearing a skirt into strips." said the old man.

"How do you know that the rope is made of a skirt?" Li Youcai asked.

"When we found her, there were pieces of clothing on the ground. I remember it clearly. When Zhuang Moxue was at the forest farm, she often wore that dress. It was yellow with flowers on it. It seemed like someone gave it to her."