Chapter 98 Prestige in the Village
The slightly hot breath bakes the earth, and the fresh air fills the entire space.
Potholed dirt roads and dilapidated, crumbling houses can be seen everywhere.
I didn't pay much attention when I came yesterday, but today I was able to calm down and observe the village carefully.
It is indeed quite shabby, and you can tell at a glance that it is quite poor.
There is no way, far away from the city, without wide roads, developed transportation, and mountain villages with mountains on their backs, it is impossible to develop, unless there are blind developers who take advantage of them to develop here.
But that is unrealistic and simply impossible.
Liang Jianzhong didn't pay much attention to these. The purpose of his coming to the village today was very simple, just to visit the village and simply take a stroll.
By the way, I would like to ask Zhang Hao if there is any place he can help with, and when he can enter the mountain.
"Grandpa, why are you here today because of Zhang Hao?" Liang Qian tilted her head and asked with a smile.
Liang Jianzhong looked at his granddaughter with great interest: "Sure enough, I can't hide anything from you."
"Hehe." Liang Qian smiled, showing two small tiger teeth: "I'm quite curious whether this Zhang Hao is really capable."
This sentence is true. She has been very curious about this Zhang Hao from the beginning. After hearing this Zhang Hao being called a monster by the irritated murderer, he pointed at his nose and called him a "walking ginseng". , and when she asked her grandfather to prepare some "Hundred Villages of Soil", she became even more curious about this Zhang Hao.
Because everything Zhang Hao said seemed to have a nose and eyes, it didn't look like he was telling lies at all, it just seemed like it was true.
However, if this is a lie made up by Zhang Hao, then Zhang Hao is indeed quite capable. He could make up these things just to deceive them and get nothing...
"You only need to look at the attitude of the villagers towards him to know this kind of thing. In a small village like this, if something happens, it will be spread out immediately. How about this person, the villagers will just talk about it. "But maybe what they said is not the truth, maybe it's all lies, but the attitude can't be deceived. We only need to look at the attitude of these villagers towards Zhang Hao, and we can see the essence of it," Liang Jianzhong said patiently. As he spoke, it was as if the elders were instilling ideas into the younger ones.
Liang Qian listened and nodded in agreement with her grandfather's views from time to time.
Just as the grandfather and grandson turned into a small alley and had not walked a few steps, they heard a familiar voice coming from an alley ahead.
"Brother Hai, are you at home?"
Grandfather and grandson looked at each other.
The owner of this voice is Zhang Hao.
The grandfather and grandson took a few steps forward, stopped near the alley, and listened without making the slightest sound.
"Haozi?" A man's voice came from inside the house: "What's wrong? Why did you come to see me?"
"I just want to borrow something from you." Zhang Hao smiled.
The strong man waved his hand quickly: "What are you talking about? Haozi, you saved my brother's life and fulfilled a wish of my mother and me. Brother, I will explain to you clearly today. What will happen in the future? Just ask, as long as my brother can do it, I will do it for you! Even if I can’t do it, I will try my best to do it for you!”
Zhang Hao joked: "Really? You said this, Brother Hai."
The strong man didn't panic at all and patted his chest: "Tell me! Is there anything I can do to help?"
Zhang Hao smiled and took out a cloth bag from his pocket: "Brother Hai, that's it. I need kang ash from every household in our village, preferably the kind of old ash. How about you help me get it?" Want to share something with everyone?”
"That's it?" The strong man took the bag in a daze.
Zhang Hao nodded: "Yes, Brother Hai, for this matter, I mainly have to get other things. It's a waste of time to knock on doors door to door."
The strong man waved his hand: "Why do you have to come here in person to do this? Just call me and I will go to each house to pick it up right away."
"How can you do that? We can't trouble the big guy." Zhang Hao said.
The strong man shook his head: "Now everyone is eager for you to owe them a favor, and they are eager to have a good relationship with you. From now on, who will have nothing to do? If anything happens again, they will have to ask you for help, right? Okay, come on, just leave this to me. I’ll deliver it to your home before noon today.”
Liang Jianzhong listened to the two of them chatting for a few more words, and then Zhang Hao turned and left. Not long after, the strong man also took the cloth bag and walked to the door of the house next to him.
Looking at Zhang Hao's leaving figure, he squinted his eyes slightly and held the crutch in his hand tighter.
Regardless of whether Zhang Hao is really capable or not, his popularity or status in the village is quite high, at least he is respected.
Moreover, Liang Jianzhong could also see that what the strong man said was not false, or that he was sincere and from the heart. After so many years of ups and downs in the business world, he still had this ability to discern.
"Grandpa, this Zhang Hao seems to be quite respected in the village." Liang Qian's almond-shaped eyes moved slightly as she thought.
Liang Jianzhong nodded: "Yes, especially this person."
"Yes." Liang Qian rolled her eyes: "Then why should we go up and ask how Zhang Hao saved his brother's life?"
Liang Jianzhong grabbed his granddaughter and shook his head: "You are just too impatient."
Liang Qian pouted but did not lean out.
Liang Jianzhong put his hands behind his back and continued walking along the alley in front of him.
……
"A sneeze! A sneeze~"
"Who is scolding me?"
Zhang Hao rubbed his nose several times with his elbow, looked up at the village, and then at the murky river water that was up to his knees. He stepped on the soft mud that seemed to sink in at any time, feeling the coolness of the river water. And the unsteady feeling of not being able to stand firmly and being about to fall into the river at any time. "Haozi, when you go ashore, don't you want some mud? I'll just fish it out for you."
On the other side, Zhao Yuan rolled up his trouser legs and bowed his body. He was wearing a pair of shorts soaked in dirty water. He stepped in the muddy stream and groped for something in the muddy river water with his hands.
Seeing this, Zhang Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead: "It's okay, Brother Yuan, don't you still have something to do? You can go and do it first, I can do it myself."
"Come on, you don't go to the river often. Besides, this river is not clean. People have drowned before, so I'm here." Zhao Yuan spoke while using his hands to dig something in the river harder.
"Xiaohao, Yuanzi? What are you doing!"
"What are you digging into the river? Be careful, the mud in the river is deep and it's easy for people to fall in!"
"Come up quickly, you are so old and still playing in the river."
Villagers passing by stopped to watch the excitement, stood aside and waited, or smoked and chatted.
Liang Jianzhong was still leaning on a cane, standing in the corner of the crowd with his granddaughter and two bodyguards.
The grandfather and grandson had been standing here for a long time, watching Zhang Hao walk into the river, preparing to fish for something. Then Zhao Yuan drove by and saw Zhang Hao in the river. Without saying anything, he stopped the car and rolled up his trouser legs. So he walked into the river and helped Zhang Hao fish out things.
"Zhang Hao... seems to be very popular in the village, and the villagers quite trust him." Liang Qian said in surprise.
Liang Jianzhong nodded: "Yes, it seems that many people are very good to Zhang Hao. He seems to have a certain prestige in the village."
"There happen to be so many villagers, let's take the opportunity to ask." Liang Qian said and walked quickly to the crowd.
Seeing that his granddaughter had already stepped forward, Liang Jianzhong shook his head helplessly and simply asked the bodyguard to stay where he was. He followed behind his granddaughter.
Liang Qian trotted all the way and came to the front of the villagers. Liang Qian put her hands behind her back and smiled: "Hello, uncles and aunts, my grandfather and I are from outside. I want you to ask some questions, is it okay?"
Liang Jianzhong smiled and said hello to the villagers.
The villagers were either confused or stunned. They all turned their heads and looked at her expensive outfit, her face, and the old man in Tang suit standing behind her.
Naturally, some villagers recognized them as the people who came to see Zhang Hao yesterday, and said, "What do you want to ask?"
"We are here to do business with Zhang Hao, and we just want to ask him how he is." Liang Qian asked with a smile.
She was smart enough not to directly ask Zhang Hao if he had any ability, but directly asked about his personality, so that she could hear the truest words from the villagers.
As soon as the villagers heard this, the chat box seemed to be opened.
"Xiao Hao, this guy is quite good. He is just nagging sometimes, but this guy is really good. He even built a fairy temple for the village two days ago."
"Haozi, he is an absolutely good person. Let me tell you, there was a vegetative person in our village who had been lying in a vegetative state for 7 years! At that time, everyone said that the vegetative person was hopeless and would never get up in this life, but guess what? Hao Zi was stunned to wake him up!”
"Huh?" Liang Qian and her grandfather looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes. They immediately turned back and asked curiously: "Is it convenient to talk about this?"
The villagers' desire to express themselves became more and more intense.
"Hey, what's the inconvenience?"
"Let me tell you, there is a man named Gao Hai in our village. This Gao Hai had a younger brother. Seven years ago, he once went to play in the mountains..."
"Haozi used the small wooden hammer to hit his brother's head three times. On the third day, his brother woke up! Let me tell you, at that time..."
"But in the end, his brother left. Haozi also said that this was the end of his wish, his obsession was gone, and he finally left with peace of mind."
"Not only this, there was a funeral in our village before, and we encountered dirty things when we went up the mountain. It was Xiaohao who took us down the mountain! He also told us what to do if we encounter such a situation in the future."
"Let me tell you, you are right to come to Zhang Hao. There is no problem in looking for him to do things! He can definitely do it."
"Yes, yes, if anyone in our village has something to do now, they all like to go to him and tell him. Xiaohao is so capable that even the Taoist priests he invited are ashamed. He even sighed with emotion. What's the matter? Anyway, The old Taoist priests all said he was an expert! ”
The villagers told the whole story to the grandfather and grandson in a lively manner, not concisely and concisely, but also in a very complicated manner, until both of them were a little stunned, with a little look in their eyes. Doubts and confusion were never fully revealed.
It took the grandfather and grandson a full minute to digest it before they came to their senses.
"Grandpa, do you think... what they said is true? Is Zhang Hao really so mysterious?" Liang Qian asked in disbelief.
Liang Jianzhong thought for a while and shook his head: "From the current point of view, there should be no need for him to lie to us with this kind of thing, because if it is false, we can verify it by just asking any villager. Not all villagers can Help them lie.”
"However, being able to wake up the vegetative state that left everyone helpless, Zhang Hao... I'm afraid it's not just good luck. Could it be that he really has some abilities that ordinary people don't have?"
Liang Jianzhong was not sure either.
As he grows older, he remains skeptical about these strange things, or things that cannot be explained by common sense, or has an attitude of "I would rather believe it than not".
But something like waking up a vegetative person... is indeed a bit outrageous and beyond cognition.
But this matter is very likely to be true.
"Grandpa, is this... a good thing? If Zhang Hao is really capable, then "Wandering Ginseng" may also exist, and your disease will be cured!" Liang Qian's eyes shone, Full of expectations.
Liang Jianzhong was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded heavily: "So... it is indeed a good thing. I am more confident this time."
(End of chapter)