471. Retribution for the Lonely and the Widowed

Feng Zijian knew that over the years, my mother had always wanted to go back to see her father. The conditions were not good before, and they didn't want to go back to face those snobbish relatives. He has made great achievements in the past two years. My mother was even more eager to go back, but he has been delaying again and again because he was too busy with work.

Feng Zijian sent his mother home, so he called someone to check the days and confirmed that he would prepare to repair the grave in the nearest day. The next day, he drove back to his hometown with Xiao Liu.

The village has not changed much. The road from the village to the county town is still the narrow and dusty dirt road. Most of the houses in the village are still the previous earth-walled tile houses, and a few have built two-story and three-story brick houses.

Feng Zijian's memory of the village was very blurred, and his father's grave could not be distinguished.

He met an elderly man in the village and asked where his father's grave was.

It took the old man a long time to remember.

"Oh! So you are Feng Yougen's son? What's your name..."

"Yes, yes, yes, you always remember it? My dad's name is Feng Yougen, my name is Feng Zijian, Ajian!"

The old man looked up and down at Feng Zijian, "It's Ajian! He has grown up so old! Back then, you and your mother left together, where is your mother?"

"My mother is at home! I will come back to recognize the grave, build a house for my dad, and then ask my mom to come back to visit his grave. I haven't been back for many years. Uncle, please help me lead the way and go to see my dad's grave! I feel ashamed that I can't find my dad's grave."

The old man shook his head, "It's been many years since the grass has grown taller, and I can't see the grave clearly. Okay, I'll take you to the mountain to look for it."

The old man asked Feng Zijian and the others to wait for him at the entrance of the village. He went to his house to carry a basket and took three sickles.

"If you don't need a sickle to cut the grass, you can't find it at all." The old man explained.

On the way, Feng Zijian asked and found out that the old man's surname was Yu, and there were three major surnames in the village, Yu, Feng, and Wu.

"Hey, you were only eight years old when you mother and son left? You became a big guy in a blink of an eye! Time is so fast." Mr. Yu took the initiative to chat with Feng Zijian.

"Yes! We have been away for more than ten years. My mother has been thinking about my dad. Now she has time to come back to see her. I am unfilial!"

Uncle Yu sighed, "It has been not easy for you mother and son over the years! You were still young at that time, and your mother was a woman's house. She took you as a young man and went away from another country. She must have suffered a lot!"

"It's not easy, but it's all over."

"Ajian, I think you are promising now! I don't know how much your car costs, but I can buy it at first glance!"

"It's nothing, just have enough money!"

Uncle Yu told Feng Zijian that his two uncles' families have not been doing well over the years.

The eldest son of the uncle's family drowned when he was eighteen years old. Another second son was in a car accident. He lame one leg and married a wife. He came back and ran away with someone. A daughter, after marrying her in-laws, was often beaten by her husband because of a bad relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Later, for some reason, she went crazy.

The second uncle's family has three sons, one is in jail and the other goes out to work. They never come back after leaving. It has been more than five years and there is no news. Many people say that they may have disappeared. The other son is at home and has not yet married a wife. People in and outside the village know that their family is in trouble and the girls are unwilling to marry their family.

Everyone said that the reason why the two families were not going well was because they were too successful in doing things back then, and they drove Feng Zijian and his son away.
Chapter completed!