Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Eight

When Meng Feiyang received the photo from Dai Xi, he was sitting with Ke Yaping.They hadn't seen each other for a while, and this time it was Ke Yaping who called and insisted on having a face-to-face discussion with him about work. Ever since he gave Lao Ke his savings of more than 400,000 yuan to pay off his debts, Meng Feiyang deeply understood the saying that "lending money to a friend is tantamount to losing a friend".Ever since he lent money to Lao Ke, Meng Feiyang was embarrassed to take the initiative to find Ke Zhengyun, for fear that the other party would think he was pressing for debts.As for Ke Zhengyun's face, he would definitely not be able to contact Meng Feiyang until he had collected all the repayments.So Meng Feiyang didn't know about Lao Ke's condition, when he would be discharged from the hospital, whether the family disputes had subsided, etc.In addition, Meng Feiyang was unwilling to contact Ke Yaping. That time he kindly asked her to come to take a bath at home. After being discovered by Dai Xi, Meng Feiyang couldn't tell how awkward he was, so he avoided Ke Yaping even more.

But this time Ke Yaping took the initiative to call and said that he had something important to discuss.Meng Feiyang couldn't find a reason to refuse, and he really wanted to know the current situation of their father and daughter, so he made an appointment with her to have lunch at the Pho restaurant next to Zhongshan Park.Ke Yaping's work unit is near Zhongshan Park, so it is more convenient to come here at noon. Meng Feiyang was fine during the day and arrived earlier.He found a seat by the window and sat down. After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, Ke Yaping arrived late.It was already past 12 o'clock at noon, and the restaurant was crowded with young white-collar workers from the surrounding office buildings. Meng Feiyang looked at the appearance of their suit badges, and suddenly felt a little alienated and sad. Now his beloved Dai Xi was also in the In this group, he himself was temporarily excluded.

In fact, it's not that Meng Feiyang couldn't find a job. In just one month, two or three Japanese-funded trading companies have already offered him offers.It's just that Japanese-funded companies generally don't offer high prices, and none of them exceed 15,000 monthly salary. However, Meng Feiyang competes with 15,000 monthly salary, and he won't do it if it doesn't exceed this amount.He was sitting there imagining, when a soft call sounded above his head: "Meng Feiyang, hello." Meng Feiyang raised his head, and a white-collar beauty with light makeup came into his sight—"Ah, hello." Meng Feiyang stood up quickly, and Ke Yaping smiled at him, and sat down opposite him.Meng Feiyang couldn't react. In his mind, Ke Yaping was a pitiful and simple girl, who was completely different from the girl in front of him. Meng Feiyang sighed secretly, women are really amazing.

Ke Yaping blushed slightly, and asked softly, "Have you ordered?" "Oh, not yet!" Meng Feiyang came to his senses and quickly picked up the menu, "What do you want to eat?" “The signature pho here is delicious.” "Okay, do you want anything else?" "No, um, I'm treating you today." Meng Feiyang was stunned: "How can that be done, of course I invite it!" Ke Yaping's eyes flashed: "You? Aren't you still unemployed?" "Oh, it's okay... I can still afford this." Meng Feiyang was a little embarrassed, and for some reason he became the object of care.

After ordering, Meng Feiyang asked Ke Yaping: "How is your father's health?" "Go home and rest." Ke Yaping whispered softly, with a faint sadness on his face, "Even if my brother and sister-in-law are still making trouble every day, he can't take a good rest at home." "Oh," Meng Feiyang nodded, "Then you too..." He wanted to say that you are having a hard time, but he thought it was too close to say so, so he swallowed the words back. Ke Yaping looked at Meng Feiyang, her face blushed again, and she said with great difficulty: "We will not pay the money for you... please, please..."

"Oh, don't mention this. Don't worry!" Meng Feiyang was afraid that she would mention it, so he hurriedly stopped it. She lowered her head and laughed: "You, you look like you borrowed my money, how strange..." Meng Feiyang smiled "hehe", feeling extremely embarrassed and even a little unhappy. "Well, let's talk about business!" Ke Yaping seemed to see his thoughts, and immediately changed the subject, and her tone became clear and neat, "I want to tell you today that the former head of the trade department of our company resigned on New Year's Day, and now The boss is eager to recruit people, I think your conditions are quite suitable, I want to ask your opinion, if you are interested, I will recommend it to the boss."

"That's it..." Meng Feiyang knew that Ke Yaping's company had a good background and scale. It was indeed a good opportunity, but he didn't know the salary... He was hesitating, and Ke Yaping spoke again: "Our company's salary gap is quite large. Don't look at my income as an administrative assistant is very average, but the level of the head of the trade section is different, and the percentage of business commission is also very high." Meng Feiyang was stunned. He had always thought that Dai Xi was the smartest girl in the world, but today he couldn't help but look at Ke Yaping with admiration.What surprised him even more was that Ke Yaping's intelligence was completely different from Dai Xi's. For example, Dai Xi couldn't say what she said just now, and she didn't even know how to ask for her salary when she went to the interview...

Meng Feiyang nodded: "Okay, I am willing to give it a try. Then please tell the boss, and I will send you my resume later. Thank you very much!" Ke Yaping breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at Meng Feiyang again. Her eyes were long and thin, and her skin looked clean and smooth against the sunlight.Meng Feiyang looked away, and at this moment the phone was trembling in his trouser pocket.Meng Feiyang took out his mobile phone and looked at it. After thinking for a few seconds, he put the mobile phone in front of Ke Yaping: "Yaping, take a look at this photo." Ke Yaping took it and looked at it carefully, and suddenly covered her mouth and whispered: "Ah! I have seen this person before!"

"What?" Meng Feiyang was also taken aback. He was just showing Ke Yaping a casual look, but he didn't expect to see the name, so he quickly asked: "Who? Who do you know?" Ke Yaping bit her lip, and slowly pointed to the group of children in the photo: "This boy in blue and white sportswear, when Yasukawa Kosuke came to Shanghai secretly last June, he... called him." At dusk, Tong Xiao sauntered into the inner alley with his leather bag that never left his body slung over his shoulder and a big paper bag in his hand.Water dripped from the clothes-drying pole on the Nongkou Archway, and it happened to land on Tong Xiao's forehead, which was icy cold. He was shocked and shouted angrily: "Who is hanging clothes indiscriminately!"

There was no response, and all the windows above the short alley were closed, so Tong Xiao had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky. He shrugged, and just as he lowered his head, he felt someone drifting past him.Tong Xiao was stunned, and quickly looked around. An elegant figure in a dark brown tight-fitting woolen coat gradually faded away in his vision.The few households in this alley are old neighbors of Tong Xiao's family, and the details of each household are like an open account book, which can be seen clearly from each other.Therefore, Tong Xiao is absolutely certain that that figure does not belong to any family here, and it is also impossible for them to be relatives and friends of these families. The drying rack has nothing to do with it.

Tong Xiao was stunned for a while, until the crisp sound of high heels hitting the road was no longer heard, and he came back to his senses.Shrinking his neck, Tong Xiao pushed open the first door on the left side of the alley.The Shikumen houses here are somewhat different from the old-fashioned lanes in "Shuangmei 1919". When you open the door, you will see a small courtyard first, and the front wing is behind the courtyard.Entering the courtyard, Tong Xiao saw Dad's broken bicycle leaning against the wall at a glance, and he raised his voice and shouted: "Dad! I'm back!" "What are you shouting for? I heard you as soon as you opened the door. My ears are not deaf yet!" Tong Minghai responded in the room. Tong Xiao stepped into the door of the wing with a smile, and immediately shouted again: "My dear father, you always turn on the heating and air conditioning?!" Tong Minghai glared at his son: "What's all the fuss about? No way? I can't enjoy myself, old man?" "Of course you can, of course you can! But... this is too unlike your old man's simple style." Tong Xiao put the paper bag on the table while looking at Tong Minghai, "Dad, are you feeling well? ?” "Hey, don't come back once in ten days and half a month, curse me when you come back!" Tong Minghai leaned back on the sofa and stared at his son angrily. Tong Xiao was relieved: "Oh, that's not what I mean... Hehe, I'm just not used to it. I told you earlier that the air conditioner is for use, not for decoration. It would be nice to be warmer." He was He wanted to take off his coat, but Tong Minghai picked up the remote control and turned off the air conditioner. Tong Xiao had no choice but to shake his head and put on his coat again, pointing to the paper bag: "Dad, I bought some supplements for you and Mom, it's a great supplement for winter..." He stopped suddenly, and there was a delicate dog on the coffee table. The porcelain mug with floral pattern on a white background attracted his attention.Tong Xiao picked up the cup and looked left and right, and smiled strangely at his father: "Dad, I said why the sun came out from the west, and our house just had a visitor?" Tong Minghai gave a low "hmm" and looked ahead without explaining. Tong Xiao continued to study the cup: "Wow! What a distinguished guest, Dad not only turned on the air conditioner, but also took out this set of treasured porcelain cups for hospitality; well, this guest is very Western, so you didn't invite him I drank tea and specially made coffee, tsk tsk, Nescafe coffee! Besides... she is a female guest!" He turned the side of the porcelain cup to his father, and there was a faintly discernible lipstick mark on it. Tong Minghai couldn't hold back anymore, he burst into laughter: "Boy, I really think I am Sherlock Holmes." "Dad, who is this guest?" Tong Minghai said leisurely: "You don't know him, an old friend." Tong Xiao looked at his father's face, there was a mixture of melancholy, joy and excitement, delicate and complex, rarely seen on the honest and honest father's face.He suddenly wondered, could this female guest be the back of the person who just left at the entrance of the alley?Yes, Dad was still turning on the air conditioner just now, which means that the guest just left, and it is likely to be her!Tong Xiao knew his father's temper, and it was useless to question him about things he didn't want to say, so he felt a little regretful, if he had arrived one step earlier, he might have been able to see the beauty of that female guest... "Dad, you have been chatting with him for a long time, this cup of coffee is cold." Tong Xiao was still a little unwilling, and continued to strike up a conversation with his father.Tong Minghai glanced at his son in dissatisfaction: "Why are you always so greasy? How do you look like a criminal investigator? How lazy and lazy!" "I..." The feeling of a curse emerged spontaneously, and Tong Xiao was about to fall into the usual depression when the door was suddenly pushed open. "Oh, Xiaoxiao is back!" "Mom." Tong Xiao happily nodded to the person who just entered the door, and the rescuer came! But Tong Xiaoma hurriedly bypassed the father and son and walked to the chest of drawers: "Old boy, I will take some money and go to the hospital right away." "Ah?! What's wrong?" Both father and son were taken aback. Tong Xiao's mother took out money from the drawer, and said, "It's not that the mother of the Qiu family's twins——Yin Huiru fell ill again last night. It is said that this time is very dangerous. I have to go and have a look and help." Tong Xiao and his father exchanged glances. Since she retired, Tong Xiao's mother has become the backbone of the neighborhood committee, and both "Shuangmei 1919" and "Yiyuan" are under her jurisdiction.Tong Xiao once said jokingly that their family is inseparable from these two places. "What kind of disease is this Yin Huiru?" Tong Xiao wondered, "Is it Alzheimer's disease?" "What kind of dementia, what nonsense are you talking about! What a crime, she committed suicide by jumping off a building and did not die, but broke her brain." Tong Xiao's mother packed the money, walked over with her bag, and sat beside Tong Xiao: "Old boy, do you still remember? It should have happened in 1984." Tong Minghai nodded, his face darkened: "Of course I remember, I jumped from the top floor of the old teaching building of Huahai Middle School. Fortunately, I hung up on the net next to the playground. I saved my life, but the concussion never recovered. come over." "That's it, why?" Tong Xiao asked. Tong Xiaoma sighed and shook her head: "I don't know. Your father also investigated this matter, but there was no result. At that time, Yin Huiru could be regarded as the top English teacher in Huahai Middle School. She was beautiful and jumped off the building. I was not yet forty-five years old, alas! From now on, this person is finished, and life is worse than death. In fact, your father always thought that the old principal of Huahai Middle School knew the details, but he just refused to tell .” Tong Xiao frowned: "Huahai Middle School really has a lot of secrets." "Hey, in those days, where there were no unspeakable things..." Tong Xiaoma patted her bag, "Oh, I have to go! Old boy, in case I don't have time to go home, you can have dinner with your son Bar." Tong Xiaoma blew out like a gust of wind. The father and son looked at each other in blank dismay, and Tong Xiao asked hesitantly, "Is Yin Huiru's suicide related to the 'Yiyuan' incident?" "You mean Yuan Bohan's death?" Tong Minghai thought, "Probably not. Yuan Bohan died in 1981, and Yin Huiru committed suicide three years later in 1984. It doesn't seem like there is any direct connection." "Would that have anything to do with Li Weilian? Maybe he has been obsessed with Qiu Wenyue's perjury, and then threatened Yin Huiru's mother and daughter?" "It's not like that. Li Weilian has been working at the Jinshan Petrochemical Plant, and rarely has the opportunity to return to downtown Shanghai. Moreover, near the end of 1984, he left Shanghai for Hong Kong. At that time, I was the one who canceled the account for him. When Yin Huiru committed suicide, Li Weilian was already in Hong Kong." "Hmm..." Tong Xiao scratched her hair, "Dad, have you ever thought of a way to get the old principal of Huahai Middle School to speak up?" Tong Minghai shook his head again and again: "Intellectuals are difficult to deal with. I always think he has a family scandal that cannot be exposed. But at that time, Yin Huiru left a suicide note on him." "Ah, so there is a suicide note!" Tong Xiao exclaimed, "Then you still let me guess?" "Hey, if everything is clearly stated in the suicide note, do I still need to waste my brains!" Tong Xiao's eyes lit up: "Dad, what's written in the suicide note?" Tong Minghai sighed: "When Yin Huiru committed suicide, he put a piece of paper in his pocket, and there were only five words written on it—it was all my fault." "It's all my fault?" Tong Xiao repeated, "What does this mean? What's wrong?" "I wish I knew. The handwriting was authenticated and confirmed to be Yin Huiru's. As for the content... no one can understand it. Only their old principal, after seeing this note, kept smoking Sighing, but he didn’t open his mouth no matter how much he asked. Now that the old principal has passed away for several years, and Yin Huiru has become like this again, the meaning of this sentence may really become an eternal mystery.” Tong Xiao fell into deep thought, the room was suddenly silent, only Tong Minghai's smoke was floating above the sofa, curling up like mist, distorting half of the reality. "It's all my fault"—does no one really know what that means anymore?Tong Xiao thought, no, there must be someone who can understand the meaning of this sentence.The last words of a suicide are usually the most profound self-confessions. If this kind of confession is not aimed at everyone, it must be the most difficult person for her to let go before she dies.Since Yin Huiru's last words are not understood by everyone, there must be a specific person who is the object of her confession. It was all my fault - she was giving her life to confess to that person. Tong Xiao thought for a while, looked at his father squarely and said, "Dad, these days I've been thinking about the past and present of 'Yi Yuan', and I have a question, I want to ask you." "what?" "When did you know that Yin Huiru had twin daughters instead of just Qiu Wenyue?" Tong Minghai was slightly taken aback, and looked at his son with subtle appreciation: "Well, this question is well asked." He pondered for a moment, and slowly recalled: "To be precise, after Yin Huiru committed suicide, she Another daughter of Yin Huiru, Qiu Wenxin, came from the countryside of Anhui. It was not until then that I really knew that Wenxin and Wenyue were twins. In fact, the fate of this Yin Huiru was quite tragic. She also came from a scholarly family. I heard that Her father was very educated and used to be the tutor of Yuan Bohan's family, so her family lived near "Yiyuan". Yin Huiru received a very good education since she was a child, but she happened to catch up with the era when the anti-rightist movement in 1957 At that time, her father was labeled as a rightist. After graduating from the Foreign Language Institute, Yin Huiru was also driven to the countryside of Anhui to reform. The son of the local village party secretary took a fancy to her. Although Yin Huiru was reluctant in every possible way, she could only marry her. She gave birth to a pair of twin daughters. The husband is a country bumpkin, and Yin Huiru and him have no common language. It is like a year. After the "Cultural Revolution", she tried her best to return to Shanghai and became an English teacher in Huahai Middle School. Teacher. Originally, she wanted to bring back both daughters, but Wenxin and Wenyue sisters have very different personalities. The older sister Wenyue was willing to follow her mother, but the younger sister Wenxin refused to leave the countryside. As a result, Yin Huiru only brought Wenyue Back. At that time, everyone knew that she still had a daughter who stayed in the country, but few people knew that they were twins. After Yin Huiru jumped off the building in 1984, her country husband brought Wen Xin up, and saw Yin Huiru's dementia , the country husband turned around and left, and has never been seen again. Surprisingly, this time Wen Xin stayed and took care of her mother with her sister Wen Yue. Since then, the twin sisters have been living in In the Shikumen of 'Twin Sisters'." Tong Xiao nodded frequently when he heard this, and he handed Tong Minghai a cigarette graciously, and after lighting it, he asked, "Then when did they start operating 'Shuangmei 1919'? And how did they raise the start-up capital?" Tong Minghai took a puff of cigarette: "In the early 1990s, someone once introduced Qiu Wenyue to a Japanese husband, saying how rich the other's family was, and boasting about it. You know, Chinese people were very envious of life outside, Qiu Wenyue listened to him. I went to Japan to get married. After a few years, I escaped and said that I was deceived. It turned out that the other party was a farmer in Hokkaido. He was over 60 years old and his family was very poor. Qiu Wenyue went to that old man for nothing. They were slaves for many years and got nothing. Qiu Wenxin was eccentric and had to take care of her demented mother, so she never got married. The source of life for the three of them in those years was the income from renting out the house on the street downstairs. The policy was implemented very early and returned to them. In 1998, the sisters suddenly drove away the tenants, and redecorated the store on the ground floor with their own funds, and opened the "Shuangmei 1919". As for the start-up funds, hehe, I heard it was sponsored by a big boss." "Big boss? Which big boss sponsored it?"