"Jiang Ming, tell me about your experience over the years, I want to hear whatever you say. Zhang Xiaoyue leaned on Peng Jiangming's arms and whispered

"Xiaoyue, I do have a lot of things I want to tell you in my heart, but I don't know where to start. Peng Jiangming muttered: "The past is hard to describe!"

"It's okay, you speak slowly, I listen slowly. Zhang Xiaoyue's voice was soft, and she untied the knot in her heart, which made Peng Jiangming feel very pleased.

"Okay, I'll tell you. ”

Peng Jiangming knew very well in his heart that as long as he mentioned his "family", no matter who it was, it would bring a lot of harm to Zhang Xiaoyue, but since fate had reunited them, this heart-to-heart conversation was inevitable.

After thinking about it, he finally mustered up the courage to say: "After graduating from university, I stayed in Ningzhou to work, at first worked in an editorial department for a few years, and published several poems, prose, and later due to the restructuring of the unit, plus personal reasons, I resigned and entered a foreign-funded company to engage in foreign trade, a few years ago set up my own company, these years I often lead the team to Nangang on business trips, unfortunately I have never met you before, fortunately this time to make up for my regrets." ”

"Is your family okay?" asked Zhang Xiaoyue.

"Family?" Peng Jiangming's voice suddenly became low, as if he had been greatly touched, he let go of the arm that was holding Zhang Xiaoyue tightly, supported his face with his hand, and bent over and bowed his head silently.

Zhang Xiaoyue put her hand on his shoulder and looked at him puzzled: "Jiang Ming, what's wrong with you?"

Peng Jiangming sat up and said bitterly and sadly: "My family has long been a matter of fact. ”

"What did you say?" Zhang Xiaoyue asked in surprise, "Your parents and sister, how are they?"

"My father is long gone, and my mother is in Ningzhou to help me take care of the children. “

"Is your father no longer there?" In Zhang Xiaoyue's memory, Peng Jiangming's father's health has always been very healthy, plus he is a retired cadre, and his living conditions should be very good, why did he leave early?

When it comes to his father, Peng Jiangming seems to have something unspeakable, he lowered his head, and the painful past scenes were intertwined in his heart, and the family change made him from a carefree rich family, to the difficulties of life and the ugliness of human affection for the first time, which gave him a deeper understanding of life.

From his expression and movements, Zhang Xiaoyue also guessed a few, so she comforted: "Jiang Ming, if it's inconvenient, don't say it." “

"Oh, it's fine. Peng Jiangming sat up straight, he looked at Zhang Xiaoyue, and pretended to be relaxed and said: " You also know how beautiful my father was when he was the head of the county tax bureau, how many people wanted to tie him up at that time, they sent food and drink to our family, our family has endless local products all year round, rice, grain and oil are sent by others, so my classmates will envy me for having a good father, I was young at that time, and I did not understand the unspoken rules of my father's officialdom, and I enjoyed the superior life he gave me with peace of mind, but I didn't know that all of this was also the bane of the changes in my family. “

Zhang Xiaoyue is very familiar with everything in his family, as a child of a senior cadre, he did enjoy a happy life that his peers could not hope for when he was a student.

After a pause, Peng Jiangming continued: "You also know that from a legal point of view, it was illegal for my father to accept other people's goods back then, although most of them were rural specialties and were not worth much, but his behavior was illegal, but the degree of violation was severe. “

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoyue finally understood why Peng Jiangming looked lonely and why his father died early.

"What happened to your father?"

"In the fourth year after I graduated from college, it was also the third year of my marriage to Joey, because of the uneven distribution of the interests of my father's team, which caused some people to fight openly and secretly, my father was reported for corruption and bribery, and the organization sent someone to investigate him, and the result of the investigation was that he did receive a lot of property, native products, money, and used his power for personal gain, helping the relevant taxable units to evade taxes, tax evasion, and the evidence and material evidence are there, he can't exonerate himself anyway, my mother in order to save my father, begged people everywhere, and also sent things to others, but the case was still set to death, and my father was planted after all。 “

Peng Jiangming's voice is getting lower and lower, how much courage it takes to uncover the scandal in the family, although it has been ten years, as long as he thinks of the great changes that have suffered his family, his heart is still bleeding.

"Huh, how can this be?" Zhang Xiaoyue finally understood where Peng Jiangming's heart knot.

"You also know that in our county, most of those people give local products, small money and small gifts, converted into cash is not much, therefore, my father was given a light sentence, sentenced to two years in prison, at that time he was fifty-seven years old, after two years in prison, his treatment in all aspects, environment, personal relations, before and after a considerable gap, his spirit and body have been greatly hit, two years in prison, his body completely collapsed, and he died a year after being released from prison. Speaking of this, Peng Jiangming couldn't help but choke up a little.

"Jiang Ming, I really didn't expect you to go through so many changes. Zhang Xiaoyue said lovingly.

"Poor in the downtown no one asks, rich in the mountains have distant relatives, since my family accident, the previous relatives and friends are all like to avoid the plague from my front completely disappeared, my father scenery, how lively my home is, the gap before and after the accident is too big, my mother has to be strong all her life, love face, she can't stand such a blow, crying all day long to go with my father, in order to appease her emotions, my sister had to take care of her, who knows that only a year later, my sister divorced and immigrated to the United Kingdom, no way, I had to take good to Ningzhou to live with me。 “

"Jiang Ming, it's really hard for you. “