Haichao picked up the cup and took a big sip of water, and said to me: "Hey, what are you playing? It's just to get together and talk about each other's situation over the years, family, marriage, career, that's it!"

I swallowed the noodles in my mouth, took a sip from the cup, and then looked at Haichao and asked, "Do you know who the teacher I went to visit is?"

Hai Chao held the cup, looked puzzled, and shook his head at me: "Hmm, I don't know!"

I smiled at her helplessly, and then told her, "She is actually an old man who adopted Ye Xing back then, and now she has passed away, and the person I went to visit is actually her descendant." ”

Hearing me say this, Hai Chao was stunned, she put the cup on the cabinet, and then asked me in a serious manner: "You said that Ye Xing was adopted by someone in the past, but didn't you say that he had a father and a mother? It's that his parents are divorced!"

I sighed softly, and then told Hai Chao the ins and outs.

Hai Chao sat next to me, listening silently, nodding his head incessantly as he listened.

After I finished speaking, she couldn't help but sigh and said, "This Ye Xing's life experience is really not simple, it seems that he is hiding a lot of things from you!"

I nodded approvingly, and then said to Hai Chao seriously: "Do you know? I now suspect that he and Yang Kexin have known each other since childhood, because I saw some old photos from Du Fanghua's niece, and there is a little girl who is very close to Ye Xing, and she looks very much like Yang Kexin. ”

Hai Chao looked at me in surprise and muttered, "If that's the case, then they must have come here with a purpose to approach you and Deng Liang so deliberately, and there must be some ulterior conspiracy behind it." ”

I nodded, and said to myself, "So what is their purpose?"

Hai Chao pondered for a long time, and then she said to me: "In this world, people die for money, and birds die for food, and if they conspire together, the purpose is nothing more than this. ”

I nodded slowly and said, "I think so too." ”

Hai Chao asked me, "So what are you going to do next?"

I thought about it, then took out the notepad from my bag, pointed to the two addresses on it and said to Haichao: "These two addresses were couriered to me by an anonymous stranger, and I don't know who he is." ”

Hai Chao took the notepad, stared at the address on it, and muttered: "This person should have found some clues that Ye Xing and Yang Kexin are colluding behind their backs, and I want to inform you, I am afraid that you will not believe it, so I will simply tell you two addresses, arouse your curiosity, and let you discover and explore by yourself, so that you will not believe it 100%?"

I nodded, "Makes sense," and then asked rhetorically, "And who is his real identity?"

Hai Chao laughed and muttered: "There must be someone who is familiar with your situation, his purpose is not to let you and Ye Xing entangle any longer, and he wants to reveal Ye Xing's true face, so I am sure that this is a man, and a man who likes you." ”

I stared at Wei Haichao with wide eyes, as if I couldn't believe what she was saying.

Haichao laughed at me while drinking water: "Don't stare at me, you should remember that there is a man around you who has been pursuing you without success." ”

I rushed out, "It can't be Lao Wang, right?"

Haichao's mouthful of water almost choked on her throat, and she coughed and shouted to me: "Lao Wang, you are really elusive! How can that nerd of him have such ability? You might as well say Deng Liang when you talk about him!"

I shook my head: "Deng Liang, impossible, if Deng Liang finds out this step, can he still live with Yang Kexin?"

Haichao said to me with a smile: "That's right, I'm just giving you an example to tell you that this person is not simple, he must be a person who is very open in society and even has a certain ability, otherwise it is impossible to trace it so carefully." ”

I pondered, shook my head vigorously after a while, and said, "Forget it, I don't want to do this," and then I said seriously to Haichao, "Anyway, through the first address, that is, the former site of Du Fanghua in Linhai City, I found a lot of things, and now I am going to go to the second address, that is, Ye Xing's house to find out." ”

Hearing me say this, Hai Chao's eyes widened, and then he asked, "Are you crazy? If you find out about his house, won't he soon know that you are checking on him?"

I winked at her and said indifferently: "I can change my identity, their family doesn't know who I am, and besides, the current state of Ye Xing and his family seems to have severed the relationship, and they usually don't contact each other at all." ”

Hai Chao lowered his head and thought thoughtfully.

I saw that she didn't squeak all the time, so I added: "Anyway, I don't want to check in the end, what do you think?"

Hai Chao glanced up at me and muttered, "Do you want to hear the truth?"

I nodded, "Of course." ”

Haichao said to me earnestly: "I think, even if Ye Xing and Yang Kexin jointly set up a trap and wanted to seize Deng Liang's property, you don't care, have you forgotten how ruthless Deng Liang was to you at the beginning? So even if he is deceived now, he is to blame, why do you care about this idle matter? You have now disowned them and have your own life, now you are getting along with Lao Wang, and you will become a family in the future, this is serious, why do you care about these idle things?"

I shook my head with a wry smile and muttered, "I'm tracking, not for Deng Liang, but for me...... Myself. ”

Hai Chao looked at me and asked in surprise, "You won't really fall in love with Ye Xing's kid, will you?"

I sighed softly, looked ahead, and said lightly: "I can't say love, I can't say I don't love, I just want to know what kind of life he has lived all these years, and I can't say why, I just want to know, even if we don't have the possibility, I still want to know." ”

Listening to my light and earnest expression, Haichao let out a long sigh, and after a long time, she muttered: "Xiaoman, what Xiaoman, what should I say about you?

I shook my head with a wry smile and muttered: "Don't worry, this will not affect my future life, Ye Xing and I, since the day he left my house, there is no possibility, I just want to solve the mystery of happiness, after doing this, I will continue to live my life step by step." ”

Haichao nodded slowly, pondered, and finally said to me with determination: "Okay, since you have decided, then I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman and accompany you to Ye Xing's hometown." ”

Hearing her say this, I was startled, and hurriedly said to her: "Forget it, I'll go by myself, you can just go back to S City, you don't have to accompany me." ”

Haichao put his hand on my shoulder, smiled faintly at me, and murmured: "Sanye City is so far away, you have never been there before, how can I rest assured that I am alone now? ”

Listening to Haichao's sincere tone, I knew that I didn't need to refuse a friend's true affection, and at that moment I deeply felt the preciousness of friendship.

***

We took the next day's bullet train to Ye Xing's hometown of Sanye City.

On the way, Haichao and I have already discussed, this time we will use the banner of the staff of the public welfare home where Ye Xing used to stay, and use the reason of visiting the growth of those orphans back then, which sounds more justified, and we will definitely be able to get some information we want.

After more than three hours of driving, we got off at the Sanye City Railway Station, and then took a taxi directly to Ye Xing's adoptive parents' house according to the address provided by the anonymous person.

Ye Xing's adoptive parents' house is in a community that is not too old, and the name of the unit is still printed at the entrance of the community, and it seems that this community is all welfare housing for the unit.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon when we got there, and it happened that Ye Xing's adoptive father happened to be at home.

When we rang the doorbell and Ye Xing's adoptive father came to open the door, he looked surprised when he saw us, and he asked softly, "Who are you looking for?"

Ye Xing's adoptive father looked like he was in his forties, wearing a pair of glasses and a light gray sweater, looking neat and neat, like a human.

Haichao and I glanced at each other, and then Haichao generously introduced himself: "Hello, we are the staff of the welfare home where Ye Xing used to stay, and we want to visit Ye Xing's life over the years, can you let us in?"

Hearing this, Ye Xing's adoptive father was stunned for a moment, he didn't answer immediately, but just looked at us with scrutinizing eyes.

I secretly screamed in my heart, thinking that I couldn't print two fake work certificates right away, and it was really hard to be convincing to say that we were the staff of the welfare home.

Fortunately, Haichao reacted quickly, and she immediately smiled and explained to Ye Xing's adoptive father: "You don't have any psychological burden, we are just doing a routine return visit, because we know that a child of Ye Xing's age has grown up, and we just want to get some useful information from his adoption experience, so as to facilitate our future work, as for the conversation between us, we will keep it confidential." ”

Saying this, Ye Xing's adoptive father's demeanor relaxed a little, he smiled at us awkwardly, held his glasses, and then said politely to us: "Okay, please come into the house." ”

In this way, we slowly walked into the family where Ye Xing had lived.

This is a large second bedroom, it looks like it is about 100 square meters, the decoration is not luxurious, but it is also warm and chic, the room is very clean, Ye Xing's adoptive father politely invited us to sit down, and then poured us two cups of tea.

We thanked him, and then he sat down and started a conversation with us.

During the conversation, I felt that Ye Xing's adoptive father was still a good person, and after chatting a few words, his previous state of vigilance gradually relaxed, and then it could be said that he knew everything, and there may be some words that have been held in his chest for a long time.

"Ye Xing was nine years old when he was adopted by us, and my first wife and I were married for ten years without children at that time, the reason was my ex-wife, her fallopian tubes were blocked, and after many treatments, it was ineffective, so in the tenth year of our marriage, Ye Xing was adopted. Ye Xing's adoptive father said to us slowly while smoking.

After a pause, he continued: " At that time, our Ye family did not agree to adopt such a big child, because he already had a complete memory, some relatives said that such a big child could not be raised, let us adopt a child under the age of three since we adopted, but my ex-wife liked this child very much, because she was not in good health at that time, she said that if she adopted a child who was too small, she was afraid that she would be a little powerless, Ye Xing was already very big at the time, so it would be very worry-free to bring it, and the most important thing is that my ex-wife likes Ye Xing's child very much, you may know that Ye Xing's child is very beautiful, and he can play a good piano……”

At this time, his adoptive father glanced at us, we smiled at him knowingly, and he continued: "And Ye Xing was very well-behaved and sensible at that time, my ex-wife said that this child was well cultivated, and maybe he would become a musician in the future, so he insisted on adopting him, and I was helpless, and Ye Xing's child looked really good at that time, so in the end I agreed." ”

Hai Chao and I looked at each other knowingly, and then I asked Ye Xing's adoptive father softly, "Then how did you feel about living together later?"

Ye Xing's adoptive father smoked a cigarette, his thoughts seemed to be immersed in the past, and he said slowly: "The first few years were actually good, although we were just ordinary salarymen, but my ex-wife bought him a piano in order to cultivate Ye Xing," said, Ye Xing's adoptive father pointed to a corner of the living room, "Well, that is the piano I bought for Ye Xing back then, and my ex-wife also enrolled him in a piano class at that time, which cost a lot of money." Now that he is not back, and no one in the family can play the piano, the piano has become an ornament. ”

We turned our heads and saw a black piano in one corner of the living room, covered with a white patterned curtain.

Ye Xing's adoptive father shook the cigarette ash into the ashtray, was silent for a moment, and continued: " Our family has changed, it was a few years after Ye Xing came to our house, at that time I had a lot of pressure on my shoulders, because my parents and relatives on my side continued to put pressure on me, and I felt that after the Ye family broke off with me, I adopted a child and it was so old, and when I grew up and had hard wings, I didn't know where to go, after all, there was no blood relationship, and I couldn't raise it, and some relatives asked me to divorce, at that time I was nearly forty years old, and I was really in a dilemma, and my relatives advised me to quickly find someone to have my own flesh and blood before I was forty years old, so that I could bring up the child before I retired, and it was at this time that I met my current wifeand then we had ...... That relationship ......"

At this time, Ye Xing's adoptive father raised his head and smiled at us awkwardly, and then he passed over this piece and continued: "Later, my current wife was pregnant, and then I filed for divorce from Ye Xing's mother, regarding Ye Xing's custody issue, my ex-wife's attitude at the time was that it was okay to follow her and follow me, at that time, I thought that Ye Xing followed our surname after all, and besides, he was still a boy, and my ex-wife was not in good health, so after thinking about it left and right, I still left Ye Xing behind." ”

Speaking of this, Ye Xing's adoptive father was silent for a while, and I asked softly at the right time: "Later, Ye Xing lived with you and your current wife, right?"

Ye Xing's adoptive father raised his head and nodded at me, and then continued in a hoarse voice: "After I married my current wife, Ye Xing's personality has become a little introverted, he has a good relationship with my ex-wife, but he is not very close to my stepwife, and he is not me after all...... Biological one, we later had a son, so my stepwife ...... him too."

Speaking of this, Ye Xing's adoptive father smiled awkwardly again, shook the ashes of his cigarette, and continued: "But we didn't abuse him, at most we weren't very close to him, of course, our family encountered some difficulties later, I failed to speculate in stocks and lost a lot of money, so the family's financial situation was very embarrassing at that time, and Ye Xing's piano class was also stopped for him, but he didn't stop his studies." ”

I listened quietly, and when I heard this, I interjected softly, "How old was he that year?"

Ye Xing's adoptive father pondered and replied, "It's about fifteen years old." ”

I nodded slightly, and Ye Xing's adoptive father continued: "There was a major change in our relationship, and it also started at that time, when Ye Xing entered puberty, his personality became more and more introverted, maybe because he couldn't feel the warmth at home, he sometimes secretly went out, that is, in the bar, I don't know how to meet a girlfriend from the city, and then for some reason, he stole a few hundred yuan from my wallet, and then bought a train ticket and went to the city to find the little girl." ”

Hearing this, Haichao and I were stunned, and then I asked, "What about later?"

Ye Xing's adoptive father extinguished the cigarette butt at this time, looked at me and sighed long, and then said slowly: "At that time, my wife and I were angry, and my wife scolded him for being a white-eyed wolf who couldn't be raised. But although I was angry, I also knew that he was legally adopted by us after all, and he was still a minor at the time, and we were obliged to raise him, so I called the police, hoping to find him, but I didn't expect that a few days later, the police sent me a message, saying that Ye Xing was found in S City, but he is now in the detention center because he injured someone. ”