From this city to Linhai City to take more than two hours of train, the process of taking the car is very boring, especially the train has not yet sat down, so everyone gets together to chat, playing cards is not very convenient, along the way the whole carriage is very quiet.

Haichao took out a big mp4 and was watching a small movie, while I turned on the music on my phone and put on headphones to listen to music, probably because I was bored, I took out the small notepad of the bag I was carrying, and wanted to see if there was anything that had fallen on it recently.

It was in the process of looking through this little notepad that I stumbled upon two addresses that I had copied from that anonymous email that day.

Looking at the address in a famous old neighborhood in Linhai City, I thought to myself, if I can spare time during this trip, I can visit the owner of this address and see what secrets are hidden behind it.

The trip was still very pleasant, I went with my friend Hai Chao, I didn't have any psychological pressure, I was very relaxed.

Linhai City is close to the sea, is a famous tourist city, this trip is mainly for relaxation, so the travel route is more casual, and not so strong planning, plus Linhai City is not too far from the city where we live, some famous scenic spots we have accompanied our families to play before, so this time we are staying away from those popular attractions.

On the first day, we went to the beach, looked at the sea, took some photos, and I fulfilled my promise to my daughter by picking up some beautiful shells of different shapes for her and her good friend Ranran at the beach, and also bought some trinkets decorated with seafood.

On the fourth day, Wei Haichao suddenly received a call from her friend, who was a friend of her who lived in a dormitory at the university, and went to study abroad after graduation.

Now, this friend of hers is on a business trip in a city not far from Linhai City, and she heard that Haichao was relaxing here, so she wanted to come and meet her and catch up with her.

Haichao said that I should go with her to meet this friend, but I think that when two good friends who haven't seen each other for many years meet again, there must be countless psychological words to confide in each other, and it is really unnecessary for me to be an outsider without embarrassment, so I said to Haichao: "You go and meet your classmates, it just so happens that I am going to visit a friend's mentor in a community in Linhai City, and we will meet again in the evening." ”

Hearing me say this, Hai Chao thought for a while, and agreed, "That's fine," and then told me, "Call me if there's anything." ”

I responded with a smile, and just like that, Haichao and I broke up in the morning, she went to the airport to pick up her classmate who I hadn't seen for many years, and I followed the address on the notepad and inquired all the way to the address where the old man Du Fanghua once lived.

This is an ancient community, a courtyard with a single-family villa, this villa should have been built before the liberation, but later repaired, so there are still some traces of modern painting in addition to the old masonry concrete, the courtyard wall and gate are very old, especially the black iron gate has fallen off the paint, and the small courtyard is shrouded in some luxuriant plants, but in the autumn and winter cold season, they have faded to new green, showing a bit of depression.

I stood outside the courtyard gate and looked around for a long time, and finally rang the doorbell.

It was a young woman who came to open the door, she looked at me and asked hesitantly, "Who are you looking for?"

I took the address and compared it to the house number, and then asked her softly, "May I ask if this is the original address of the old man Du Fanghua?"

Hearing me ask like this, the young woman was stunned, and she asked me suspiciously: "Who is Du Fanghua?"

I was shocked, I thought that even if the old man Du Fanghua had passed away, the place where she once lived should be her descendants or relatives related to her, how could she not know who she was?

I hesitated, then made up a lie, smiled and said to the young woman, "Oh, I am a relative and friend of one of the students she once taught, and I came to visit the descendants of Teacher Du on his behalf to thank her for the kindness of her professorship back then. ”

Hearing me say this, the old woman was even more suspicious, she looked me up and down, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly came to my senses, and said to me: "Oh, you are talking about the old lady who used to live here, right? I don't know much about this, because this house belongs to my cousin's family, and I only know that they rented it to an old lady many years ago, but the family has long since moved away, and I don't know the details, so you should inquire elsewhere." ”

After the young woman finished speaking, she made a look of closing the door to thank the guests, and when I saw this scene, I thought that I couldn't come in vain this time, so I blocked the door, and said to her with a forced smile: "Then may I ask, is your cousin at home? Can I inquire about some information related to this old man Du Fanghua? Because this is very important to us, my relatives and friends were deeply favored by her back then, and now I want to express my gratitude, hoping to see her descendants." ”

The woman's brows began to wrinkle when she saw me entangled, and after thinking about it, I quickly took out my wallet from my bag, took out two pieces of renminbi and handed them to the woman.

From the way she dressed, I guess that this young woman is a servant or helper in the house, so if you want her to hand it over to the master, it is necessary to mean it appropriately.

This trick really worked, and I saw that the eldest sister immediately turned her anger into a smile, and said to me with a smile: "Then you come in with me, my cousin is not in good health, she is in the living room, you can ask her for details." ”

I smiled and nodded, and followed the young woman in, into the living room, I saw an old woman with half-white hair sitting in a wheelchair in front of the window, only to see the young woman come to her and whisper a few words, and then she turned back to me and beckoned to me, and I slowly walked up to the old woman.

The woman seemed to have a rather elegant temperament, she smiled kindly at me, and then asked me, "You want to inquire about the situation behind Old Man Du Fanghua, right?"

I smiled and nodded at her, then muttered, "Yes, a relative or friend of mine thanked her for her teachings back then, and specially asked me to inquire about the situation behind her." ”

Hearing me say this, the old lady nodded slowly, and then said to me: "Old man Du Fanghua passed away ten years ago. ”

I nodded slightly, and whispered, "I've learned about this in the newspapers, I just want to know a little bit about her here," and then I looked around at the house and asked softly, "This house was originally rented by her?"

The old lady nodded slowly at me and replied, "Yes, after the old man Du Fanghua returned to China, she once rented our house for a long time, as if she had opened a school, and then she suddenly fell ill, and this school could not be opened, and then we took this house back." ”

I nodded slowly, and then asked, "Do you know who will take care of her when she gets sick?" Can you tell me about the specific situation?"

The old lady took off her reading glasses and looked me up and down, probably not daring to confirm my identity, so I repeated the nonsense that I had just made up about relatives and friends who had been favored by Teacher Du many years ago and now wanted to express gratitude to her descendants.

Maybe I look weak and clean, not like some kind of impure villain, the old lady said to me slowly with confidence: " Mrs. Du suddenly had a brain stroke, and she didn't know what to do, she didn't have children under her knees, so no one took care of her at that time, but because her identity was relatively special, she was a returned overseas Chinese, so the government went to the countryside to find the daughter of her half-brother, and asked her to take care of the seriously ill Mrs. Du. ”

I nodded slowly, and hurriedly asked, "Then how much do you know about the school that old man Du Fanghua founded back then?"

The old lady shook her head and replied to me slowly: "This house was left by our ancestors, Ge was raided, and then returned to our family, Du Fanghua rented this house from us soon after returning to China, we only know that she seems to have opened a school, but we don't know the specific situation." Then she got seriously ill, and the people she hired were gone, and we took the house. ”

I was a little disappointed, but I still didn't give up and asked, "Then where can I get some specific information about the school built by the old man Du Fanghua back then?"

The old lady thought for a moment and replied to me: "If you find the niece who took care of her in her later years, you may get more information, because after Mrs. Du died, all her personal belongings were left to her niece. ”

I pleaded with the kind old lady, "Then can you give me the current address of Du Fanghua's old niece?"

The old lady looked at me and said thoughtfully: "Before Du Fanghua rented this house from us, she registered some of her address information," and then she instructed the old woman to take out a large old ledger from a lattice at the top of the cupboard, turn it open with thin and trembling fingers, and finally turn to a page and point it to me, "Oh, this is the address, you write it down, if you have any questions, you go and ask Mrs. Du's niece." ”

I quickly thanked her gratefully and wrote down the address.

I searched all the way according to the address provided by the old lady, and finally found the current address of Du Fanghua's niece.

It was an old neighborhood built in the 80s, and when I found the house number, I rang the doorbell for a long time, but no one answered.

There was no way, I had to walk downstairs slowly, and then inquired downstairs, when I said Du Fanghua's name, as well as the specific situation of her niece, a kind uncle downstairs who was familiar with the situation told me: "That little Du, she opened a small supermarket on the street at the entrance of the community, the supermarket is called Zhenzhen Supermarket, you go over there to find her." ”

I hurriedly thanked and walked towards the little supermarket.