Chapter 470: Who should I hand over this bicycle to?

After leaving the city, we drove on and on until we arrived at a place in front of a mountain.

After getting off the car and walking for a while, I saw a new grave. Compared with the surrounding ones, it was relatively new.

But it is actually just a small mound of earth.

"No tombstone?"

Wang Sheng sighed:
"She is a divorced woman and cannot be buried in her natal ancestral tomb, so her uncle found a place here for her. Her uncle said it is better not to erect a tombstone, so as to avoid someone secretly arranging a ghost marriage for her."

Wang Yuanchao felt a lump in his throat when he heard this. If his daughter gets divorced in the future, she can definitely be buried near him! Oh...

In fact, even if they did not divorce, Wu Lanfang could not be buried in the ancestral tomb because if a woman died during childbirth, it was considered an accidental death, and people who died an accidental death could not be buried in the ancestral tomb.

Wang Yuanchao walked around the small mound, and then bowed to it several times from the south side.

He didn't know if there was a child named "Wu Yuan" on the slope, so he couldn't kowtow to his children, so he had to bow.

A few years later, when the mainland opened up, he helped the mother and daughter repair their tombs and build a Hope Primary School, which could be considered as accumulating good karma for them.

There will always be traces of their presence in this world.

Finally, I couldn't help but say:

"Do you know where her uncle's house is?"

We have to figure out whether it is one corpse and two lives, or the adult is gone but the young is still alive.

Wang Sheng looked at his third brother curiously and said:

"But I don't know where her uncle's house is. But I can find someone to ask."

Both Wu Lanfang's brother and sister wanted to take over the job! The information was all on the desk at the company, but it hadn't been finalized yet.

They were the ones who brought me here to see this grave, and they were the ones who explained why there was no tombstone.

The two chatted in front of the grave for a while and were about to leave, but they saw several villagers rushing over with dung forks. They looked angry and it was obvious that they were coming for them.

The two brothers were completely confused, looked at each other, and got in the car first!
They walked faster, and the villagers started running. One young man ran towards the car and blocked their way.

"Look at you, all dressed up, why are you staring at our new grave?" A young man said angrily, swinging the dung fork in his hand.

Wang Yuanchao immediately changed into his equipment and felt a chill coming over him. Hearing what the young man said, he quickly said:
"Who are you to Wu Lanfang?"

After asking this question, the people on the other side looked at each other, and the mood eased. An elderly man came out and said:
"Do you know my cousin?"

Cousin? Well... well, if you look closely, she's not that old. She just looks very old, but she must be in her 40s or 50s.

Wang Sheng said quickly:
"I am the leader of her unit. This is our former leader. He was transferred to another place. When he came back and heard that she was gone, he came to see this old subordinate."

What Wang Sheng said is correct.

The other side quickly stuck the dung fork into the ground.

Wang Yuanchao had sharp ears and even heard the two young people whispering:
"You also said you were here for a ghost marriage!"

"Didn't my uncle say that we should pay more attention to my cousin's grave? I saw them circling around there..."

The middle-aged man coughed dryly, and the young man behind him immediately fell silent.

When his nephew said someone was hanging around his cousin's grave, he rushed over with his son and nephew. But who was driving a car to perform a ghost marriage? It was a leader from the company who came to pay his respects! What a jerk, so ignorant! When he saw the car, he felt something was wrong, but he was so angry that he couldn't remember it.

He opened his mouth, as if he could not speak anymore, and he didn't know what to say:
"Ah? Ah... two leaders..."

Wang Yuanchao glanced at his eldest brother, and Wang Sheng immediately waved his hand and took the three young people aside:
"The leader wants to talk to your parents, let's have a smoke!"

The eldest brother neatly distributed cigarettes to the young man, and also gave one to the middle-aged man and him.

The middle-aged man took the cigarette in a hurry and held it carefully in his hand.

Wang Yuanchao said:

"Are you Wu Lanfang's cousin?"

The middle-aged man nodded quickly and spoke:

"She is my aunt. My dear aunt."

Wang Yuanchao took out a lighter, lit it himself, motioned to the middle-aged man to put the cigarette in his mouth, and lit it for him as well.

The middle-aged man took a strong puff of the cigarette, which burned a bit and caused him to choke. He looked at Wang Yuanchao nervously, and only felt relieved when he was sure that the leader's attitude was okay.

Wang Yuanchao said:

"Then what disease did she come back with? Do you know?"

The middle-aged man's expression suddenly changed.

He knew why his cousin came back and what she came back for. But how could he tell her about this? Besides, the person in front of him was her boss. If he told anyone, his cousin would be in trouble even in the underworld!

Wang Yuanchao became a little excited when he saw the change in the other person's expression. He lowered his voice and said:
"Did the little one survive?"

The middle-aged man had a complicated look on his face. He knew...

He could only bow his head, as if he had done something wrong, and said honestly:
"It's gone. It was a difficult birth. I lost a lot of blood."

The little spark of hope in Wang Yuanchao's heart was extinguished in an instant.

He was worried that the middle-aged man was not telling the truth, so he said:
"Can I come to your house?"

If you have kids at home, you can see it by going and watching.

Middle-aged people:

"Okay, okay, but your car is too conspicuous. I'm afraid people in the village will gossip about it."

Wang Yuanchao said:

"Don't drive. I'll walk over with you and take a look!"

Then he turned to Wang Sheng and said:
"Brother, wait for me here. I'll go with them to take a look."

Wang Sheng threw away the cigarette butt, twisted it a few times, and said:

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the car."

……

When they arrived at the village, Wang Yuanchao asked the young men, "Which one is yours and which one is his?" He still had doubts about the middle-aged man's words, or rather, he still held out a glimmer of hope.

There are three little guys, two are the sons of a middle-aged man, and one is the nephew of a middle-aged man, and their homes are next to each other.

As soon as Wang Yuanchao arrived, all the family members gathered together.

Wang Yuanchao has observed and found that there is indeed no sign of a child living there.

I sighed deeply in my heart, Wu Yuan, we have no chance after all.

After a few simple greetings, he gave Wu Lanfang's uncle 500 yuan to thank him for finally giving Wu Lanfang a place to live. He was an old man with gray hair and wrinkles like knives. He tried to refuse Wang Yuanchao's money several times, but was grabbed by Wang Yuanchao's big hand and pushed back.

Finally, Wang Yuanchao said:
"Help her guard the grave. This young man has done a good job. Thank you for your hard work!"

Then Wang Yuanchao left.

……

After gathering with his family, Wang Yuanchao spent two extra nights with Yu Li, which made Yu Li flattered.

Unfortunately, her relatives came to visit just as Wang Yuanchao returned.

Two more nights would be useless.

She even thought about using her mouth to help, since she had done that before.

Wang Yuanchao refused and said:

"Why are you so angry? Just go to sleep! Let's have a good talk."

He's not a womanizer.

Instead, he felt that Yu Li's relatives came at the right time.

"Xiaocao is in first grade now!"

"Yeah, I know." Of course Wang Yuanchao knew it, he saw Xiaocao carrying his schoolbag and doing homework.

But he would only appear for a day or two during the Chinese New Year and then leave. Xiaocao didn't know what this uncle did. Her mother told her that the house they rented belonged to her uncle, so she should not tell anyone else, otherwise such a good house would be taken away by someone else and she and her mother would have no place to live.

Xiaocao has been fostered at her aunt's home since she was a child, and she has a natural fear of living under someone else's roof.

Therefore, I remember my mother's words even more in my heart.

The uncle was good-looking and treated her nicely. He even treated her to candy.

As for why her mother ran to the uncle's room to sleep at night, she had no way of knowing.

After she went to elementary school, her mother and she started sleeping separately.

The house is big, with each person having a room, so Yu Li would never lack coal for heating.

In order to cultivate Xiaocao's independent character, he even wasted coal, just to make it easier for her to move around when her father came back.

Wang Li went to school and only came back to stay for a day on weekends and clean up his room.

At other times, there were only the mother and daughter in this huge courtyard.

"She's amazing. She's always doing well in her studies. She told me she's going to get two perfect scores in the final exam!"

"Well, you can prepare a fried dough stick and two eggs for her on the day of her exam!" said Wang Yuanchao.

"Ah?" After a while, Yu Li realized that this was 100 points. So she said:

"In the blink of an eye, she has grown so big. Remember, you said she looked like a little mouse before?"

Wang Yuanchao defended:

"It wasn't me who said that, it was the fool who said that!"

Yu Lidao:
"I know. So what if it's a little mouse? Qin Huairu didn't even want to give birth to a little mouse for her! Your second brother bought Sha Zhu's house. Do you know what Qin Huairu did?"

Wang Yuanchao knew this, of course. He had already had dinner with his family, but he still asked with great interest:

"Tell me something."

Yu Li smiled and said:

"This woman cheated Shazhu out of all the money, saying she would give him a son. But in fact, she used all the money to find someone to use their connections to bring Banggeng back to the city! His mother still keeps sending him money."

Qin Huairu loves her son so much and she has cheated a large sum of money from Sha Zhu, so naturally she has to use her connections to get her son back.

Banggeng was born in 53, three years younger than Wang Yuanchao. He is 22 now, and he will be 23 after the Chinese New Year!
At this age, even kids can help themselves to soy sauce.

Wang Yuanchao smiled and said:
"Where did you get this information? You don't live in a courtyard."

Yu Li twisted her mouth:

“Your focus is different from others.

Yan Jiecheng told me that he came to my factory to find me and wanted to remarry me. He said that only he, as her biological father, would be good to Xiaocao, otherwise I would be like the widow Qin and find a man like Shazhu to cheat people’s money and raise children.”

Wang Yuanchao sneered:

"Can't he find a wife?"

Yu Li pinched Wang Yuanchao's waist and said:

"If word gets out about my divorce, which girl would be willing to marry him? Would she want to work for him as a slave for free?

The country girl is willing, but do you think her family would like her? It would be so mad at Mr. Yan to raise a country girl for nothing!

But I went to the bicycle shed, unlocked the bicycle, and said:

"If I go back with you, should I hand this bicycle over to your father? Or should I hand it over to you?"

Then, I rode away!
He doesn't even have a bicycle yet!

After that, he never had the nerve to come to me again."

The high spirits that Yu Li described seemed to be truly saying goodbye to the past.

Wang Yuanchao stroked Yu Li's hair and said:
"You have been raising the child alone for so many years. Thank you for your hard work."

(End of this chapter)