In addition to sending his mother back to his hometown this time, Dai Jialang has three other things to do. One of them is to go to Erdaohe to find Uncle Wu, and the second is to ask Xiao Lei, director of Yunling County Public Security Bureau, to learn about his father's death. Before coming, Duan Yifeng had already made an appointment for him to meet.

Another thing is not a trivial matter for him, because the decoration of his new house has been completed. According to rural customs, when he first moved into a new house, he had to hold a "return home" ceremony in order to make a good fortune.

The so-called "returning home" ceremony is to choose a zodiac auspicious day to hold a banquet in the new house to invite relatives and friends in the village to have dinner.

During this period, the owner would set up a shed at the door of the new house and hired a chef in the countryside who cooked food for weddings and weddings to come to the house to cook. The pots, pans, tables, chairs, and benches can fill the shed.

At the same time, incense tables were placed to worship the heaven and earth and ancestors, paste couplets and lanterns in the room, set off firecrackers, so that the whole village knew that this family was "returned" today.

When everyone gathered in front of the house, the owner stood upstairs and threw the steamed buns wrapped in plastic bags towards the crowd below, allowing the whole village to compete with the men, women, young and young people to fight with the children. The steamed buns were usually stuffed with coins, and finally the banquet was a banquet.

The importance of the "returning home" ceremony is no less than that of a new house in the early stage. If a new house is built at home but the "returning home" ceremony is not held after moving in, it will be considered unlucky. Not only will the house have problems in the future, but even the people living in it may have problems.

Therefore, when his brother Wang Gengtian prepares everything at home to hold the "returning home" ceremony, Dai Jialang must come back to attend no matter how busy he is, let alone Wang Meijuan.

Fortunately, Wang Gengtian and his sister-in-law arranged everything, so Dai Jialang didn't have to worry much. As long as he had money, Wang Gengtian would naturally arrange everything properly.

Suoran this season, young people in the village are still working outside, and the whole village is basically the elderly and children. However, with the relatives and friends in other villages, the "returning home" ceremony was held very lively.

There were eight banquet tables upstairs and downstairs. There were about a hundred adults and children. Wang Gengtian and his wife were overwhelmed with the busyness. Even Wang Meijuan ran up and down to greet the guests. However, it was a happy event after all. Although they were busy, everyone had a festive smile on their faces.

After the banquet ended, Wang Gengtian had a while of breathing. When he saw Dai Jialang standing at the door and looking towards the village head, he walked over and handed Dai Jialang a Greater China like a master, and smiled and said, "I finally got it straight."

Dai Jialang took the cigarette and lit it, and said, "Thank you and your sister-in-law, I can't help much."

Wang Gengtian smiled and said, "What are you saying? If you didn't get the money back, I wouldn't have a chance to work hard."

Dai Jialang looked back at the brand new three-story western-style building and sighed: "It's a pity that my dad can't see it. His lifelong dream is to build a new house. Who would have expected that it would suddenly disappear at this critical moment?"

Wang Gengtian seemed to be immersed in excitement. Although Dai Jialang mentioned his father, he was not sad, but just said perfunctorily:

"He would be happy if he knew about it underground. By the way, the house downstairs will be lived in for my mother. My sister-in-law and my niece will live on the second floor, and there is a large bedroom on the third floor. I will keep it for you and Xiaoyue.

With a new house, you can live in any time you come back. In a few days, I will go to the county to complete the procedures and install the broadband so that you can access the Internet.”

He paused and frowned and said, "By the way, mom doesn't know what's wrong. He just said that she wouldn't come to live in a new house, but she still had to live in an old house."

Dai Jialang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Wang Gengtian shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I said I couldn't live in a new house. In the past, she had been looking forward to building a new house every day.

However, there is no need to worry. She can't live in an old house for a few days even if she wants to live in an old house. Yesterday, the village party secretary said that since we have built a new house, the old house will be demolished soon. The village will compensate us for 8,000 yuan. With my yellow mud house, the compensation for demolition alone will be more than 10,000 yuan."

As he was talking, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the room. Wang Gengtian hurriedly said, "The monk and a group of people are gambling. I'll go and see, don't fight, you go to the living room for tea." After that, he hurriedly walked away.

Dai Jialang did not enter the house, but lit a cigarette and stood at the door and looked towards the entrance of the village.

There is a large area of ​​fields in front of the new house of Dai Jialang family, which belong to different villagers. If you drive from the entrance of the village to the door of his house, the car must circle a large circle along a dirt road by the river to reach it.

However, if you are walking, you don’t need to take a detour, because there is a small path in the house of the first family at the entrance of the village that can pass through the fields and go directly to the door of Dai Jialang’s new house.

But this path is very narrow. If it is raining, it will accidentally slide into the field. However, this is the closest distance to walk.

Dai Jialang remembered what Ji Wenlan said that day. According to the investigation by Yunling County Public Security Bureau, on the night when Dai Ming died, the villagers living at the entrance of the village heard the sound of cars in the middle of the night, and the car stopped behind his house and did not enter the village.

Could it be that the person in the car passed through the fields and came to his door? But how could outsiders know about this path? How could they know that their father was sitting on the roof of the building and smoking?

Dai Jialang thought so in his heart, and walked along the path without realizing it. In almost two minutes, he walked to the back of the house of the first family at the entrance of the village. This was an old brick house with two rooms. If the owner of this family wanted to visit Dai Jialang's new house, it would be faster than driving a detour.

Dai Jialang is very familiar with this family. The male owner is in his seventies and nicknamed "Guizhou Lao". In fact, he is not from Guizhou, but a native native. It is just because he brought a Guizhou woman back outside when he was young, so some people started calling him "Guizhou Lao".

The door of the Guizhou Lao’s house faces a small river. The riverside is the only dirt road leading to the county town. Behind the house is an open space, a chicken coop on the corner, and an old camphor tree.

If Guizhou Lao has a car, this open space is the best parking lot. Just drive along the river and you can park your car directly behind the house when you reach the door.

Dai Jialang stood under the old elm tree and looked at the ground carefully, but no ruts were found. The soil here is relatively soft. If a car has stopped here, it should be very deep ruts. However, it must have been too long, and it is normal for the traces of the tires to disappear after the car have been removed.

Dai Jialang walked to the house again, approached a window and looked inside. The yellow light in the house was dim, but it was still clear that there was a bed inside, which was indeed a bedroom.

If there was a car parked here that night, the Guizhou man should have seen it clearly through the window. It was late at night, so the old couple must have gone to bed long ago, so they just heard the sound of cars and the headlights passing through the window.

"Guizhou man, Guizhou man." Dai Jialang knocked on the window with his hand and shouted loudly, then walked around to the door.

The two sons of Guizhou guys are now working outside, so there is only a couple at home. When they hear someone shouting outside, Guizhou guys hurriedly walked out of the house.

Dai Jialang is now a well-known figure in the village. Although the villagers don’t know what he is doing outside, they all know that he has made a fortune and the new house he just built is a proof.

"Oh, isn't this a big army?" Dai Jialang used to be Wang Jun. In addition to people of his generation who accepted his new name, the elderly still called him his previous name.

"Why don't you go to my house to grab steamed buns?" Dai Jialang smiled, and handed Guizhou a Greater China to a Guizhou man. Guizhou man also looked at the cigarette sign and then clamped it to his ear.

"Hey, my leg hurts these two days and I don't even want to go out. However, my wife just went there and snatched five steamed buns, just for lunch. Oh, it's rare, sit in the house." The Guizhou man said politely.

Dai Jialang followed the Guizhou man into the house and smelled a musty smell. This smell was not unfamiliar with it because it also existed in the old house in his own home. This was the smell of all the damp things in the house after the rainy season.

The Guizhou man brewed a cup of tea for Dai Jialang and smiled and said, "Dajun, you are the big boss now and you can't see you a few times a year. If you didn't return to the house this time, I'm afraid you wouldn't have come back?"

Dai Jialang smiled and said, "Who did you hear? What big boss? Are you different from your two sons? You are just a worker."

The Guizhou man said with envy, "Then don't be humble. Can you make so much money by working? Thank God, my two sons can get back 50,000 yuan a year.

By the way, I heard your brother say yesterday that your family spent more than 50,000 yuan to return home this time, and just buying vegetables, it was 16,000 yuan. Which family in the village is so generous now?"

Dai Jialang knew that his brother must have "showed off" wealth in the village, but what the Guizhou man said was true. Although several families in the village deserved new houses, the return ceremony was not as big as the grand occasion at his home.

However, Dai Jialang was not in the mood to chat with an old man. After a few perfunctory words, he asked with a serious look: "Has the police in the county come to find you?"

The Guizhou man was stunned and then said in a low voice with a nervous look on his face: "Oh, do you know this? The police don't let me talk nonsense, but they are investigating your family's affairs, so it doesn't matter if they talk to you."

He paused and continued, "That day, two policemen came from the county, both wearing plain clothes, and their cars were parked behind my house. Maybe because my family lives outside, so they asked me if you had found outsiders in the village the night when your father died.

If they didn't ask, I couldn't remember it. As soon as they asked, I really remembered that there was a car parked in the back of my house that night, and it was still midnight.

However, at that time, I didn't know what the police asked about this matter had to do with your father, and I thought they were investigating what case they were investigating."

"Then how did you know later that the matter they investigated had something to do with my father's death?" Dai Jialang interrupted the Guizhou man and asked.
Chapter completed!