After having doubts, Zhuang Yan sat at the desk and thought for a long time, but still called the duck.

"Ah Yan, what's the matter?" Receiving Zhuang Yan's call, Yang Zhao was a little surprised.

Zhuang Yan also heard his surprise, and smiled a little embarrassedly, although he had decided to carry on the relationship of his predecessor, but it was still a little unnatural to be with the duck, so he usually did not take the initiative to call him.

Including this time, he took the initiative to find the duck, also because he asked him for help.

"Well, I have something I need your help with. Without going around the corner, Zhuang Yan spoke directly.

The duck didn't hesitate and said with a smile: "There is something to say directly, but I am still on a business trip at HB, and I will not be able to go back until the day after tomorrow." ”

"You can help with this without Jinling, have you ever read the news recently that someone committed suicide after reading a book?" Zhuang Yan said.

The duck thought for a moment and said, "I do have some impressions, it seems to be the news pushed by Solang, but I haven't read it, why do you care about this?"

"Because it's about me. Zhuang Yan said.

"...... with you," the duck suddenly reacted and said in surprise, "don't tell me that you wrote the book!"

Zhuang Yan smiled bitterly: "It's not!"

"Tsk!" the duck said, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, last time you told me that you made 200,000 yuan by writing a book, I never thought that your book had reached this point, what is your book called? Transfiguration?"

"Metamorphosis. Zhuang Yan corrected that although this book has become very popular in the literary world, for people like Duck who do not pay attention to literature, it is another world, and he can have an impression because of the suicide news.

"Oh, the Metamorphosis. You said that someone committed suicide after reading your book, so what do you think, you should not be responsible for this. For the duck, it seems that who dies and who doesn't die has nothing to do with him, and his first reaction is whether Zhuang Yan is responsible for this matter.

Zhuang Yan said: "If someone really commits suicide, even if I am not legally responsible, but after all, it is a human life, how can I not care? Moreover, it will also affect my reputation." ”

"That's true, but by what you mean, you have questions about this suicide?" said the duck.

"Well, that's why I'm looking for you, you're well-connected, can you help me look up a person and a newspaper. I don't know the name of this person for the time being, it is the person who attempted suicide in the recent news, and he is now in the Jinling Second People's Hospital. In addition, there is also the Jinling Cultural Society. Zhuang Yan said.

"Wait a minute, I'll take a piece of paper and write it down. ”

Then Zhuang Yan heard the sound of looking for something on the other side, and after a while, the duck said again: "Okay, you said that person is now in the Second People's Hospital of Jinling." And that Jinling Cultural Society, is that the full name?"

It's the full name, and you can see this information on the hot news on Solang.com. Zhuang Yan said.

The duck put the pen and said with a smile: "Hey, don't say it earlier, I'll go straight to the news, what's the effort." ”

Zhuang Yan also smiled: "Didn't you give me a chance." ”

"Okay, this matter is on me, don't look at my brother in the field, I promise to give you the truth before the sun goes down tomorrow. "Duck packed the ticket.

Zhuang Yan didn't want to say it so much, and the duck said again: "I have some things on a business trip here, leave this matter to me, and contact you tomorrow." ”

After speaking, the duck hung up the phone, and Zhuang Yan looked at the phone and was stunned for a moment.

He has no acquaintances in this life, except for the duck, which is small, it is Wang Lijian. He originally wanted to go over to find Wang Lijian, but in the end he chose to find a duck.

Although Wang Lijian has been on the phone frequently during this time, he can be regarded as familiar, but after all, it is a literary matter, and the two have only passed through the phone, and they have never even met in person, so it seems a little abrupt to find him for this kind of thing.

Ducks are different, not to mention that Zhuang Yan asked him to check someone, or asked him to kill people and set fires, he might do it.

He didn't expect to be able to find a duck, although the duck has a wide network, but after all, like him, he grew up in an orphanage, and no matter how well he has a network, it will not be so good.

What Zhuang Yan didn't expect was that after he told him about it, the duck actually agreed, and he looked confident, as if this matter was a piece of cake for him.

It seems that the ducks have been mixed up outside for a few years, and they have indeed mixed some appearances.

At this time, Xiao Ying's call came from outside the door: "Uncle Zhuang Yan, it's time to tell a story." ”

Hearing the little girl's voice, Zhuang Yan responded with a smile, got up and walked out.

……

The next afternoon.

The green of the unnamed lake began to thin, and standing on the edge of the lake, through the cracks in the trees, you could vaguely see the library not far away.

There were five people sitting in the president's office of Yenching University at this time, and the four people from last time were there, but this time there was a little old man.

This old man has a lean body and a furrow face. He was dressed strangely, a gray robe wrapped in a blue riding coat, a pair of old black cloth shoes on his feet, and a black melon skin hat on his head. The most prominent thing is that a braid is exposed behind his hat, and he has a clean face.

His appearance was in stark contrast to the other shirt-shirted and leather-clad people in the office.

The old man sat first on the right, and Kang Youwei, who was sitting opposite him, said with a smile: "It's rare that Heqing invited Brother Tang Sheng, if Brother Tang Sheng has any high opinions, just say, you must not hesitate to give advice." ”

It turned out that this was Gu Hongming, the strange master of the early country, and the Tang Sheng in Kang Youwei's mouth was his word. However, he is only sixty years old this year, only one year older than Kang Youwei, but compared with Kang Youwei's energetic appearance, Gu Hongming is a little old.

Kang Youwei's words were a little sarcastic, Gu Hongming was not angry, leaned on the chair and said: "I also heard that Zu Yi is here, and I think that although I may not have a high opinion, I will definitely be able to play a corrective role, so I have this trip." ”

Zu Yi is Kang Youwei's original name, and Gu Hongming neither calls him Guangsha nor Youwei, but calls him his original name because there are some contradictions between them.

This starts with the contradiction between the royalists and the reformists before, Kang Youwei is not a staunch reformist, but what he did pushed the Qing Dynasty to its demise step by step.

So for Gu Hongming, a staunch royalist, Kang Youwei is his enemy.

However, Cai Yuanpei is also a staunch revolutionary, but Gu Hongming has a good relationship with him.

Because Cai Yuanpei has been revolutionizing if he wants revolution, and he has never repeatedly, in the words of Gu Hongming: "There are only two good people in China, one is Mr. Cai Yuanpei, and the other is me." Because Mr. Cai has been in the revolution from beginning to end, and has not changed. And I, until now, have been royalists. ”

And Kang Youwei is different, he was originally engaged in innovation, and he wanted to protect the emperor, but because of the problems of the times, there was still no emperor in the end.

Because of Kang Youwei's two ends of the first mouse, Gu Hongming also specially wrote a couplet to him in the past.

The couplet reads: The country will die, and it is for the old to not die.

This couplet dismantled the word Youwei, just to scold Kang Youwei, so just now Gu Hongming called the other party and said Zuyi, not Youwei.

(ps: This couplet was written by Zhang Taiyan, and if you change it a little here, Zhang Taiyan will not have it.) ）