Chapter 2 1. Rainy night

Zhu Neng divorced his wife, and his daughter went abroad with his wife. He didn't know which country they were in.After the divorce, the mother and daughter had no contact with him. In terms of life style, Zhu Neng has made mistakes and suffered losses, and his experience is very rough. It started when he met Xu Lan, the conductor of the zoo. Xu Lan's beauty can be said to be the most beautiful in the zoo.The first time they met her, it cast ripples in Zhu Neng's heart. Zhu Neng's emotional world immediately set off a storm, and his dusty heart began to melt. That night, he drank a little wine.

As the saying goes, alcohol is a poison that wears the intestines, but it is actually an aphrodisiac that causes trouble.After Zhu Neng drank three cups of yellow soup, he was full of love and love. He broke into Xu Lan's dormitory and confessed his love to her.Of course, the specific plots may not all be roses and chocolates, and Zhu Neng, who is drunk, will inevitably touch Xu Lan a little bit.So Xu Lanyi sued the director. In fact, it's hard to say about feelings. For the same behavior, if she likes you, it's flirting; if she doesn't like you, it's flirting.Besides, Zhu Neng was nothing more than an attempted crime, and he didn't actually do anything, he didn't even touch Xu Lan's hand.But I never thought that the director of the zoo would be furious, and without thinking about Zhu Neng's contribution to the zoo, he would be removed from his position as the director of the zoo management office and "assigned" to Monkey Mountain.Since then, Zhu Neng has changed from a middle-level cadre of the zoo to a monkey breeder.

Who can blame this matter?In fact, Zhu Neng's lack of social experience is to blame. Chasing a girl also requires skill. Before taking action, you should do some research and research—whether the other party is married, does she have a boyfriend, what is her family background, what are her hobbies, what is the probability of her success? What if the other party's elder brother is a gangster?Only after the necessary desk work is completed can we act, so that there is a chance of success. However, Zhu Neng was reckless and went straight to the point.He should use his brain, why is such a beauty like Xu Lan still alone?Don't other big and small leaders of the zoo have the same idea as him, why don't they make this mistake?Zhu Neng didn't see anything from these abnormal situations. He can only say that he has too little contact with society.Some women can't be touched. What they have is the background, but all you have is the back.

You can't live by doing your own crimes, and you will hate forever if you make a mistake. The matter seemed to be over—Zhu Neng has been honestly raising monkeys in Monkey Mountain since then, and Xu Lan went to Japan for recuperation and investigation with a certain leader because of being frightened and because of his meritorious service in reporting bad people. God knows what a zoo conductor goes to Japan to investigate. Three months later, something happened that surprised everyone——Xu Lan came back from Japan, and after returning, Xu Lan changed, becoming more beautiful and graceful.In the words of zoo security guard Ma Liang, Xu Lan has become more like a Japanese actress than a Japanese actress.

If there were only these changes, everyone's eyes wouldn't drop, and there was something even more bizarre—Xu Lan's attitude towards Zhu Neng had also undergone a subversive change.She first took the initiative to approach Zhu Neng, talking about life and ideals, and then she simply stayed in Monkey Mountain all day long, thinking that she would not marry if it was Zhu Neng. Everyone was dumbfounded, and Zhu Neng, the person involved, was also dumbfounded. Not long after, Zhu Neng and Xu Lan held their wedding in Zhu Neng's old house.Eight months later, Xu Lan gave birth to a daughter, who was said to be premature.

Almost everyone understood at this moment that Xu Lan gave birth to a "child of a high-ranking official". Zhu Neng also understood.But Zhu Neng pretended to be confused, the reason is very simple - Xu Lan is too virtuous. After getting married, Xu Lan seemed to be a different person.Except for going to work, she hardly ever goes out. She stays at home all day doing housework and taking care of Zhu Neng's grandfather, a thin old man who is half insane and half insane. Speaking of Xu Lan taking care of Grandpa Zhu Neng, even the neighbors who have always dismissed Xu Lan's life style are full of praise for her.She was so kind to Zhu Neng's grandfather, even better than Zhu Neng, and much better.She took care of the old man's daily life in every possible way, and accompanied him to do household chores. Later, she developed to prevent Zhu Neng from getting close to the old man—she thought Zhu Neng was careless and didn't know how to take care of the old man.

Such a good daughter-in-law, even if she made some mistakes before, she can be forgiven.Zhu Neng comforted himself like this. Less than a year after Xu Lan gave birth to her daughter, Zhu Neng's grandfather passed away, and Xu Lan changed again. First, there was a change in get off work and rest time. Xu Lan didn't go home after work. Later, she didn't return home at night, and no one knew where she had gone.Later, her attitude towards Zhu Neng also changed, at first she was sarcastic and sarcastic, and finally she simply ignored him. A month later, they divorced, Xu Lan only had the custody of her daughter, and left everything else to Zhu Neng.Soon, Xu Lan and her daughter went abroad, and there was no news from them until this evening.

Rumors and rumors ensued. Some people say that Xu Lan married Zhu Neng to find a legal father for the child in her womb, and the title of unmarried mother is still very oppressive. There is another saying that Xu Lan's marriage to Zhu Neng was just a cover, her main purpose was to get close to Zhu Neng's grandfather, and to get the bone in Zhu Neng's hand—Xuanzang's parietal bone relic. Relic is a kind of bone crystal.It is said that it can only appear after the eminent monk has died and cremated.The relics are just the remains of monks. To ordinary people, the relics are nothing, but to Buddhists, relics are treasures.

Zhu Neng once checked the ins and outs of Xuanzang’s parietal bone relic on the Internet—— Xuanzang was a great monk and the founder of Fa Xiangzong, who had many followers.His relics are especially admired by later generations, and his relics still exist in the world.It is understood that there are nine places around the world where Master Xuanzang's relics are enshrined. Of course, these nine places do not include Zhu Neng's house.Zhu Neng had never heard his grandfather talk about Xuanzang's parietal bone relic. Zhu Neng's grandfather, Zhu Yiming, was ninety-five years old when he died.Ever since Zhu Neng could remember, Zhu Yiming has been crazy.Some people said that it was because of Alzheimer's disease; others said that it was because Zhu Yiming was stimulated that he became what he is now.

Zhu Neng's parents kept this secret.A few years ago, in a car accident, Zhu Neng's parents both died, and this incident has become an eternal mystery. Zhu Yiming can be regarded as a strange person.Zhu Neng only knew that the old man was born in 1910, and he was considered a rightist, and spent more than ten years in a labor camp on a farm far from the emperor.Later, when he was released and returned home because of insanity, Zhu Neng knew nothing about other things.What the old man did when he was young, why he was labeled as a rightist, and which farm he was sent to for labor reform, these things have been treated as secrets for some reason, and have been concealed until now.

Even the life experience of Zhu Neng's father is a mystery. When Zhu Yiming was released, he brought back a ten-year-old boy who was Zhu Neng's father.At that time, Zhu Yiming had already started to go crazy, speaking incoherently and thinking in confusion. Until his death, he did not say who Zhu Neng's grandmother was. After the grandfather's funeral was over, Zhu Neng and Xu Lan divorced. It was more than three years, and this was the first time they received a call from their daughter.Zhu Neng vaguely felt that this seemed to be an ominous sign. It was raining, and the scattered raindrops hit the glass loudly.Among them, there is another sound mixed in, which seems to be... It seems to be the sound made by some kind of animal's claws scratching the iron sheet, sharp and piercing. Zhu Neng's scalp was numb. After listening carefully, Zhu Neng found that the voice came from outside the door. "Who?" Zhu Neng called out boldly. No one answered him, the voice continued, high and low. Zhu Neng picked up the ashtray on the table and tiptoed towards the door.When he came to the door, he stopped to take a few deep breaths, and then slammed the door open. A red raincoat stood quietly at the door. The ashtray in Zhu Neng's hand fell to the ground.