Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

"Four years passed quickly. Yuan Jia successfully graduated from the English Department of Fudan University. On the eve of the assignment, something happened to 'Yiyuan'. At that time, the policy of confiscating property during the return of the 'Cultural Revolution' was further implemented. The Public Security Bureau received a letter from the overseas Yuan family requesting to formally clarify the ownership of "Yi Yuan". The letter stated that "Yi Yuan" should be jointly inherited by Yuan Bohan's brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, a total of 15 legal heirs, excluding Yuan Jia According to the letter, the fact that Yuan Jia is Yuan Bohan's granddaughter is only based on Yuan Bohan's dictation, and he did not leave any evidence or will before his death. He did not recognize her inheritance. Tong Minghai clearly remembered the day when he invited Yuan Jia to the police station and told her about it personally. Four years later, Yuan Jia became more and more beautiful, and the faint sadness between her brows made her look so special It is different. In the middle of the 1980s, the emerging concept of wealth has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people, and the Chinese people have begun to pursue material things frantically. Losing the inheritance right of "Yi Garden" means that the astronomical property disappears out of thin air, but Yuan Jia is neither excited nor Not sad, she listened to Tong Minghai's speech very quietly, thanked her and left. Later, Tong Minghai heard that Yuan Jia worked in a research institute and was responsible for translating foreign language scientific and technological materials. Three years later, she reported to the institute She resigned and went to Shenzhen, where she disappeared from the world and was never seen again.

"After the Yuan family acquired 'Yi Garden', because no one was able to manage it in Shanghai, they quickly sold it. After that, it changed hands several times. Tong Minghai has no idea who the owner of 'Yi Garden' is now. You know. In 2003, West Bund Chemical signed a long-term lease with a mysterious homeowner through a real estate agency and transformed it into an office in Greater China.” Tong Xiao finally finished his long narration, and stopped to look at Meng Feiyang and Dai Xi who were dumbfounded: "Hey, wake up! It's not time for bed yet!" Meng Feiyang swallowed: "My god, it seems to be listening to a novel."

Dai Xi hesitated to speak, Tong Xiao smirked at her: "The female devil can speak up if she has something to say." "Hmm... Who was the boy who went to 'Yi Garden' that morning?" Tong Xiao squinted his eyes, and replied word by word: "Li—Wei—Lian." "Li Weilian!" Meng Feiyang and Dai Xi exclaimed in unison. Tong Xiao pouted contemptuously: "Calm down, calm down." Meng Feiyang waved his hands and shouted: "Waiter, bring ten more bottles of beer!" He didn't know how to drink, so he poured just one bottle of beer. In the past few years, he has practiced a little bit of alcohol due to work and entertainment, but it is also very average.At this time, I was already blushing from drinking, and I was much more excited than usual.

Dai Xi's face was also a little red, she leaned on Meng Feiyang's shoulder, and stared at Tong Xiao with eyes like clear water: "Go on, what's next?" "What later?" Tong Xiao spread his hands, "No more!" "go!" The waiter brought ten bottles of beer, and Meng Feiyang filled them up for himself and Tong Xiao. Tong Xiao said with aggrieved face: "Didn't you know all about it later? What else do you want me to say? After more than 20 years, Li Weilian Returning to the 'Yi Garden' again, encountered a bizarre murder case in the 'Yi Garden' again, and this time, in the list of alibi he provided, there was another old acquaintance's name——Qiu Wenyue!" He deliberately paused After a pause, he stared at Dai Xi maliciously and said, "Of course, there's also you——Dai Xi's name!"

Dai Xi glared at him fiercely: "Forget me to be unlucky for eight lifetimes, okay!" "He is the president of a multinational company, a working emperor with an annual salary of one million dollars. It is your honor to hook up with him!" Dai Xihu refused to pay attention to Tong Xiao with a face, Meng Feiyang shook his head and sighed: "It's incredible. I understand why you are so interested in 'Yiyuan'. Hmm...I still have some questions." "you say." "Did your father investigate clearly afterwards—what is the relationship between Li Weilian and the grandparents of the Yuan family? What exactly did Yuan Bohan do when he went to 'Yiyuan' on the day he died?"

Tong Xiao's eyes sparkled: "Meng Feiyang, I found that you are quite sensitive in criminal investigation." "How to say?" "Hehe, because your question is not: 'what is the relationship between Li Weilian and Yuan Bohan'; but 'what is the relationship between Li Weilian and the grandparents of the Yuan family', which shows that you have seen some crux." Meng Feiyang faltered: "I remember you mentioned that your father asked Yuan Jia if he knew the young man who came to see Yuan Bohan, Yuan Jia denied it, but since Li Weilian and Yuan Jia are students of the same grade in Huahai Middle School, besides Yuan Bohan and Li Wei Li Weilian seems to be very familiar, how could Yuan Jia have no idea that it would be Li Weilian who came?"

"Well said!" Tong Xiaochao slammed his palm on the table, "This is exactly what my dad has always suspected, but what's even more strange is that my dad later asked many teachers and students of Huahai Middle School, including Qiu Wenyue and Yin Huiru, they They also confirmed that they have never seen Li Weilian and Yuan Jia together, and from the appearance, they can only be regarded as alumni of the same class, and they don't know each other." "This...isn't possible?" Meng Feiyang asked. "Very impossible! My dad told me that there were four classes in each grade in Huahai Middle School at that time. In the graduating class of senior three in 1981, Li Weilian was in the first class, and Qiu Wenyue was in the same class, and Yuan Jia was in the fourth class. The English teacher in the class is Yin Huiru. In addition, Li Weilian and Yuan Jia happen to be the students with the best grades among the graduates. Li Weilian is the first in the whole year in almost every exam, and Yuan Jia has always been Keeping in the top ten, both of them are very good in English, they are the top students trained by Huahai Middle School, and they are also the teaching achievements that Yin Huiru is proud of, so it is normal for them to know each other well, and it is not normal for them to have no contact with each other .”

Dai Xi raised his chin and asked: "1981... Well, is it possible that boys and girls didn't speak in those years?" "It's not so feudal anymore." Tong Xiao said, "The two top students should meet in many occasions and activities, and they must have a lot of topics to communicate with each other. Besides, Li Weilian is a generation of influential figures in Huahai Middle School. Not only She has excellent grades, looks handsome, and is also good at sports. She is the captain of the school basketball team. There are many girls who admire him in and out of school. That Qiu Wenyue is one who has a crush on him. As for Yuan Jia, although she is not as active as Li Weilian, she is gentle. She is beautiful, full of ladylike temperament, and is also the dream lover of many boys in Huahai Middle School. Such two people have no contact with each other on campus. Tell me, don't you feel a little strange because of this deliberately?"

Meng Feiyang was silent for a while, and then said: "It's hard to say, after all, it was the social environment more than 20 years ago, maybe we are villains." Dai Xi rolled his eyes: "Hey, Li Weilian must have been admitted to Fudan University, right? Or Jiaotong University? His grades are so good, and his English is so good. Today, he might be admitted to Harvard and Oxford directly." This time Tong Xiao became silent. He drank half a glass of beer before he said slowly: "No, he was not admitted to any university. He gave up the college entrance examination that year."

"Give up the college entrance examination? Why?!" "The reason is unknown. According to the public statement, the business of Li Weilian's parents in Hong Kong went bankrupt and they were unable to support him to continue his education, so he had to not go to university." Dai Xi's eyes widened: "No way, colleges didn't charge tuition fees in those days! He could apply for grants or raise living expenses and miscellaneous expenses through work-study programs. In a period like 1981, he gave up going to college for money. I do not believe!" "So what if you don't believe it?" Tong Xiao said coldly, "He insisted on this statement himself. Huahai Middle School seems to have a tacit understanding with him. Everyone agrees with him. If you don't believe it, you have to believe it. The most ridiculous thing is that Li Weilian is still Passed the graduation exam with the best grades in the school and got a high school diploma, but became the only one among the top 40 outstanding graduates of Huahai Middle School who failed the college entrance examination."

"What about later?" "Later, Li Weilian graduated from Huahai Middle School in mid-July, and was recommended by the school to join the Jinshan Petrochemical Plant. Since August, he has been working as an apprentice in the factory. Since then, he has been working in Jinshan and living in the worker's dormitory. He never went back to downtown Shanghai again. Until one morning in November of the same year, he suddenly appeared in 'Yi Yuan'." "Oh..." Dai Xi lowered his eyelids, and gently wrapped the corner of the silk scarf between his fingers. Meng Feiyang obviously drank too much, looked at the TV with distracted eyes, and didn't talk much to each other.Dai Xi took away the beer glass in front of him and replaced it with a glass of boiled water. Tong Xiao thought for a while, and then said: "I haven't answered another question yet. Why did Li Weilian go to Yuan Bohan? According to him, although he can't go to college, he hopes to continue to learn English by himself. He heard that Yuan Bohan is old. Mr. graduated from St. John’s and studied in the United States, so he wanted to ask Bohan Yuan to tutor him. Before he went to work in Jinshan, he met Mr. Yuan and made this request to him. This time, he rushed back to Shanghai from Jinshan. I wanted to ask the old man some questions. But for some reason, Mr. Yuan was in a bad mood that day and was very impatient with him. Later, he found out that the old man was ill, so he thought he had come at an inappropriate time, so he left. " Speaking of Here, Tong Xiao looked at Dai Xi, smiled and asked, "Psychologist, do you believe this statement?" Dai Xi bit her lips: "Actually, I think everyone's statement in this matter is not so credible. It makes sense on the surface, but if you look carefully, there will always be reasonable doubts." Tong Xiao was about to speak, when suddenly there was a "crash", Meng Feiyang pulled away the chair and stumbled towards the door. "Feiyang!" Dai Xi yelled and jumped up, Tong Xiao quickly said, "Don't worry, he's drunk, you sit down, I'll go and have a look." He rushed over to hold Meng Feiyang, and staggered towards the bathroom. go. Dai Xi sat blankly at the table, the table was full of messy cups and dishes, the remnants after a feast were always so ugly, and everywhere exuded the sadness of the end of the party.She was worried about Meng Feiyang, and felt even more at a loss in her heart.The evening news was being broadcast on TV, and the announcer read in the same tone for a century: "Zuo Qinghong, director of the ×× Division of Shanghai Customs, was sentenced to double regulations for serious violations of discipline..." Dai Xi vaguely remembered, and seemed to have seen this just now This piece of news should be rebroadcasted, right? The TV screen changed to the rehearsal scene of the Xintiandi New Year’s Countdown Concert. The blushing fans screamed the idol’s name at the camera, and the screen returned to the announcer. She was wearing a pink suit welcoming the new year, articulate and calm. The next piece of news was announced with no joy in the voice, only facts. This is our life, right?Joy, pain, success, and perdition are just like the story she heard tonight, no matter how twists and turns, how helpless and ordinary, she still has no way of guessing the psychology of those characters in the story, she just intuited that their hearts definitely All hide the bizarre and terrible truth, and are full of unspeakable sadness. Tong Xiao helped Dai Xi to get Meng Feiyang into the taxi. Seeing Meng Feiyang's drunken appearance, Tong Xiao was a little worried: "Do you want me to go back with you?" Dai Xi declined and rolled all the windows in the back row down.The taxi driver was very dissatisfied, and complained all the way: "It's such a cold day, you still have to open the window, you're going to die!" Dai Xi ignored him, she stroked Meng Feiyang's forehead with her cold hands, hoping to make him feel better.Meng Feiyang's cheeks were hot, and he curled up against Dai Xi's chest like a child, making her feel so close to him. "Xiaoxi...Xiaoxi..." He called Dai Xi while intoxicated, she moved closer to him, and couldn't help but respond: "I am here, here..." The driver was quiet for a while, then suddenly yelled again: "Oh, it's snowing, how many snows is this winter?" Dai Xi looked in front of the car window, and the sky approaching midnight was indeed white.She recalled that night more than ten days ago, in an almost equally cold and silent snowy night, she watched Li Weilian's back in a long black coat walking towards "Yiyuan" amidst the snowflakes flying all over the sky.In fact, she didn't see Li Weilian's facial features at all that day. What he left in Dai Xi's heart was such a picture. own destiny. What kind of fate is that?