Chapter 87:

In front of the farmhouse.
A fairly tough old lady was sitting on Mazhazi, squinting her eyes and basking in the sun.
Her expression was full of joy, but the wrinkles on her face indicated that she was no longer young.
A yellow headscarf covered most of her silver hair, and she bit the dried sweet potato in her hand one after another. Seeing two faceless young men approaching to talk to her, she was not stingy, grabbing two sticks at random and handing them to the two, beckoning them to eat as they please.
Ye Shangyu took the dried sweet potatoes and put them directly in his pockets, not planning to eat them at all.
Bai Yan is not as cautious as she is, and feels that the ghost cooking for them has also eaten, not worse than an old lady. He took a bite of dried sweet potatoes, sweet and delicious.
After he finished eating in two or three bites, the old lady gave him another one, and Bai Yan also shamelessly took it. There was no embarrassment at all. It can be said to be very shameless.
While Bai Yan was eating dried sweet potatoes, Ye Shangyu said, "Old man, do you know Dongzi?"
"Tongzi? This is a boy in our village. Do you know him?"
"Well, we met a boy in the graveyard yesterday. He sang a strange nursery rhyme saying that the Dongzi family had been killed. It sounds scary. Isn't it true?"
The old lady chuckled and swallowed the sweet potatoes: "Of course it's not true. Dongzi's family is fine. They have all gone to the city to enjoy their luck. Dongzi's father and Dongzi's mother have found jobs in the city. The young and old moved into the city, how could it be the same as he said."
"Then why does he sing like this?" After thinking about it, Ye Shangyu also took out the dried sweet potatoes and gnawed little by little like a little hamster.
The old lady was very happy to see that the girl also started to eat dried sweet potatoes.
Therefore, she was more talkative, and sighed: "It's also pitiful to say that the boy you saw at the grave should be Tie Zhu."
"Tie Zhu's parents died a long time ago, and they don't have any relatives. Tie Zhu grew up eating a hundred families of rice, and he would give him something to eat, and he just lived so foolishly.
Tie Zhu doesn't have a grandma, no one cares about him, he doesn't go to school, and he runs in the wild all day, and slowly he gets a little crazy. Recently, he is full of nonsense. Don't be scared by him. "
Seeing the two men were silent, the old lady sighed and said again: "Tie Zhu is a good boy, don't blame him. If he had his parents, he wouldn't be like this. Now all the capable people in the village go I went to work in the city, and all that was left was old bones. Taking care of my grandson would be very difficult. I really don’t have the energy to take care of one more."
The two nodded to express understanding, and chatted for a while, before Bai Yan suddenly said: "Grandma, do you have a grandson?"
"It's vacation. Cats are playing on the kang on Saturdays and Sundays. I'll call them out for you to see."
I remembered that my grandson would play with her mobile phone as soon as she got up from the kang in the morning. The old lady frowned and shouted in full anger: "Grandson, come out to meet the guests, don't climb the kang and play with mobile phones! You have been playing for a day! "
"Milk, the morning hasn't passed yet!" A boy inside said: "After five days of school, I am exhausted, so let me play for a while!"
"What are you playing? You don't even listen to grandma's words. Dog eggs! Come out for me!"
"puff--"
Bai Yan couldn't help laughing when he heard the name Goudan.
Inside, a stupid boy wearing cotton shoes came out with a blushing face, and shouted: "Milk, don't call me a dog egg!"
Seeing the grandson coming out, the old lady made a big deal and gave Bai Yan a dried sweet potato: "This is my grandson. He doesn't learn well all day, and he stares at the phone all day long.
Usually, his academic performance counts down the whole class, and at the end of the semester he is criticized and named by his teacher. Doing nothing at home, just watching his grandfather go to the ground, he will not help. Even the girl next door, Lan Lan, will help the family, and she doesn’t know how to learn from your sister Lan Lan..."
"Milk!" The boy interrupted her angrily: "Xu Lanfang is also two years older than me, and she used to play mobile phones, playing much better than me, so why should I follow her?"
The old lady stuffed a dried sweet potato into the boy’s mouth and said,
Didn’t she start to work recently? You can’t just stare at someone who is good to learn? Lanlan, grandma is not good enough, so she can immediately help the family. Work, it’s just you. If your grandma and grandpa suddenly fail, can you take care of your studies with your family?"
"..." The boy was speechless, maybe he was chewing dried sweet potatoes so he didn't have time to speak.
However, the boy did not speak, but he had something to say.
He took the stubbornness and said with deep feelings: "Grandma, you are too right! Boys should be responsible! When my dog ​​egg and I were so big, my father died a long time ago, and my mother was alone to support the family. I see me Mom worked hard, so she took the initiative to take on all the housework at home. Of course, my academic performance did not fall, and I was always the top few in the class.
Grandma, let me tell you something in my heart. It’s better for boys to have some hardship. Children shouldn’t be spoiled. Sometimes when they are too accustomed to children, they will become idiots..."
Before Bai Yan's words were finished, Ye Shangyu's action of biting the dried sweet potatoes suddenly stopped.
She looked at Bai Yan with an indescribable gaze, and her heart was filled with incredible, if I remember correctly, when I checked your family information, your father was fine!
When did your dad die?
I do not know how!
Ye Shangyu secretly said in his heart that the dog could not stop eating shit, and did not expose him on the face.
On the other side, the boy's face was also full of slumbers. He flushed with a mouthful of "dog eggs".
Although he is still in elementary school, he is not stupid. He can see that this man is clearly on purpose!
Are you embarrassed to arrange me after eating my food?
Hearing that Bai Yan was still brainwashing his grandma, letting grandma discipline him severely and confiscated his mobile phone so as not to turn him into a straw bag.
The boy was so angry that his head was smoking, he reached out to grab the dried sweet potatoes in Bai Yan's hand, but he stretched out his hand... he didn't even have enough.
Bai Yan quickly threw the dried sweet potato into his mouth, and naturally touched another piece from the old lady's hand.
When the old lady was not paying attention, Bai Yan showed the boy a provocative smile, making the boy even more angry.
Seeing that Bai Yan was about to cry the boy, Ye Shangyu secretly kicked him.
Thinking of what the two were here to do this time, Bai Yan really curbed a little, closed his mouth obediently, and finally remembered that they were going to do business.
Bai Yan had already made the boy too angry, Ye Shangyu felt that he could not be counted on, so he asked Bai Yan to chat with the old lady, and it took a lot of effort to coax the boy.
After getting a good relationship with the boy, Ye Shangyu tentatively said: "You just said that Xu Lanfang also likes to play with mobile phones. What was she like before?"
"Her grandma suddenly became dysfunctional a few months ago, and she started to work. She used to like to play with mobile phones very much, and her academic performance is about the same as mine..." The boy muttered, "My grandma is fine. I don’t learn from her!"
"What does she usually like to play on her mobile phone?" Ye Shangyu said in a persuasive way: "Does she like to watch scary things? For example, haunted stories and movies."
"She likes reading novels and watching videos... By the way, she also likes to watch slow-handedly, especially to watch the short videos recorded inside." The boy recalled: "The haunted things, she likes to watch supernatural shorts in slow-handed way, anyway. I don't like to watch it, it's scary, and it's not interesting at all."
Hearing that Xu Lanfang really has the habit of watching supernatural videos, Ye Shangyu's eyes lit up, thinking that he had discovered something.
So she hurriedly asked: "Do you know that she usually watches those supernatural short films? Who is her favorite anchor?"
"I don't know..." The boy looked blankly: "I don't like watching."
"Then do you know what her screen name is? What is her slow account name?"
"Uh, her screen name is usually Guess who I am. I didn't pay attention to it, but it should be called this too."
After asking a few more words, knowing that the boy really couldn't ask anything, Ye Shangyu let him go and chatted with him casually.
On the other hand, Bai Yan talked with the old lady for a long time and got some gains.
Just like Gina and the others asked, the old lady also insisted that no one was missing in the village.
However, Bai Yan has gained a lot of inspiration from the experience of Dongzi's family, so he changed his conversation, not asking who had gone missing, but who had left the village recently.
Sure enough, just like Dongzi's family, a large number of villagers and families in the village have moved out of the village in the past few months, and they have all gone to the city to "enjoy the blessing".
Although Bai Yan doesn't know what the world is like, but to live in the city is to enjoy the blessing. Presumably, the conditions in the city must be much better than in the countryside.
According to the
left-behind children
village mentioned by the anchor Bai Cui, generally speaking, the rent in the city is high and the price of goods is high. Therefore, it is the adults who go to the city to work. The working place includes food and housing, while the children and the elderly stay in the countryside. School is cheap and the cost of living is also low.
However, a family of several moved to the city, regardless of the land and old house. Unless a villager wins the lottery together, otherwise the family will be dragged along. Only the husband and wife will not be able to afford the family. The cost of the city.
After thinking about it carefully, Bai Yan knew that these people ‘going to the city’ were the missing persons mentioned in the post.
Talking to this family separately, Bai Yan and Ye Shangyu both gained something.
While talking, a dirty boy came over holding the ball.
Although the old lady is old, her eyes are quite good.
Seeing the boy from a distance, the old lady called out loudly: "Tie Zhu, come and eat dried sweet potatoes!"
The boy's ears holding the ball were also very alert. When he heard something to eat, he ran over like the wind, not even the ball.
Seeing that he was going to grab the dried sweet potatoes with her little dirty hands, the old lady pulled out a handkerchief from her trouser pocket and wiped it clean for the boy. Then she put the dried sweet potatoes in his hands: "Wash your hands before you can eat them. Mud will get sick if you eat it."
The boy nodded indiscriminately, grabbed the dried sweet potato and stuffed it in his mouth, not sure if he remembered it.
After swallowing the dried sweet potatoes, the boy picked up the ball, patted it, and started singing the nursery rhyme he made up.
The old lady frowned when she heard that the boy had cursed Dongzi's family to death.
She opened her mouth to tell the boy to stop singing, but before she said anything, the boy suddenly shut up.
He looked at an old man who came over with a smirk, he looked at the old man, then looked back at the old lady and the dog, his eyes were full of envy.
Soon, he suddenly picked up the ball, ran away, and disappeared into the trail in the blink of an eye.