It was already past eleven o'clock at night when I returned to the city guest house.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xu Bin, who was restless, stood up suddenly, stepped forward to take the video recorder held by Guan Xuedao, put it on the coffee table, and asked, "How is it?"

"What about them?"

Just next door, Xuemin took her two daughters to sleep first. ”

"Oh, that's good. Guan Xuedao pointed to the video recorder and asked Li Yuan: "Will you get it?"

Li Yuan put down the cardboard box, nodded, connected the VCR to the TV, took out a videotape casually, and stuffed it into the machine.

"What is this?"

Xu Bin asked curiously.

Guan Xuedao and Li Yuan didn't say anything, and when the snowflakes cleared, the curiosity on Xu Bin's face was quickly replaced by shock.

……

"Vomit ......"

Xu Bin covered his mouth and hurriedly rushed out of the room, and after a while, the sound of vomiting came from the toilet at the end of the corridor.

Li Yuan's face is not good-looking, even if he has been mentally prepared, he still feels that his stomach is turning upside down, this videotape records the whole process of Jiang Xiaoliang's violence against a girl, this is nothing, at the end of the video, he actually brutally killed the girl with a knife and gouged out her eyes......

"Wenwen, what are you standing there for?"

Xu Bin's voice came from the door, and Li Yuan turned his head sharply and found Xu Xiaowen and Zhao Min standing at the door, staring at the TV without a moment.

Li Yuan hurriedly unplugged the radio frequency cable, and the TV screen turned into a gray noise again.

Li Yuan only had time to think at this time, it should be Xu Bin who alarmed them when he rushed out of the room, and he didn't close the door, which led to the scene in front of him.

Who can blame Xu Bin for being too flustered? Or do you blame the guest house for not even having a bathroom in the room?

Now it's not a question of who is to blame, but both girls are scared silly, and maybe it will leave a psychological shadow.

"What's wrong with you?

Fang Xuemin came out slowly, he didn't see the most exciting scene, and he was a little unclear.

"Go back!" Xu Bin was in a state of confusion, blaming himself for not stopping the two children, and scolded with a gloomy face.

"The ......"

Li Yuan was at a loss, and subconsciously walked towards the two girls, accidentally tripped over the cardboard box on the ground, stumbled over, and the videotapes in the cardboard box were scattered all over the ground.

Fang Xuemin saw the flickering TV and the videotape on the ground, and was disgusted with anger: "How can you look at that kind of thing in front of children!"

"It's not what you think......" Xu Bin wanted to explain, but he was more worried about his daughter, and he didn't know where to start for a while.

"Li Yuan. Zhao Min called out to Li Yuan, waited for him to look over, and asked, "Will you avenge her?" Without waiting for Li Yuan to answer, he said, "You want to avenge her." ”

"Hmm!" Li Yuan nodded emphatically.

"Alright, Wenwen, let's go back. ”

Zhao Min pulled Xu Xiaowen's arm, half-dragged and half-dragged the depressed Xu Xiaowen back to the room like a log.

"Come over to me!"

Fang Xuemin yelled at Xu Bin and left angrily.

Xu Bin glanced at Guan Xuedao, and Guan Xuedao said, "Go ahead and explain to your younger siblings." ”

Xu Bin was about to turn around, but Li Yuan called out to him, "Teacher Xu, please help me and Zhao Min take a leave tomorrow, Xiaowen had better not go to school first, best, it's better to stay here and don't go anywhere, and wait for us to come back." ”

Li Yuanlian said that the three were the best, and he still couldn't rest assured, but because of his identity, he could only say so much, so he looked at Guan Xuedao.

Guan Xuedao said: "Lao Xu, the situation is urgent, so I can only wronged you for the time being." ”

Xu Bin nodded and left.

What to do next, it is not up to Li Yuan to mix, his knowledge of officialdom is superficial, and he does not dare to express his opinions arbitrarily.

"Pack up, I'll make a phone call and I'll be right away. ”

Guan Xuedao said as he took out his mobile phone and walked to the window.

Li Yuan picked up the videotapes scattered on the ground and threw them into the cardboard box, and then exited the room.

After a while, the door opened, and Guan Xuedao walked out holding the cardboard box.

"You go to sleep, I'll go. ”

"I'll go with you. Li Yuan said: "I'm young, it doesn't matter if I stay up late, it's safer for two people to change drives." ”

"It's fine. Guan Xuedao did not refuse his kindness.

Li Yuan took the cardboard box, followed Guan Xuedao back to the car, and asked while starting the car: "Go to the city or the provincial capital?"

When he said the city, he did not refer to Yingzhou City, but Bozhou City, a city under the management of the higher authorities.

"Go to the province. Guan Xuedao patted the file bag in his hand, "Going to Bozhou is self-defeating." ”

"Is there a problem in the province?"

"It's not a big problem. Guan Xuedao is quite confident, "I just contacted a friend of my father's, and having him come forward should be enough to deter Xiaoxiao." ”

For Guan Xuedao to say such a thing, that person's identity must not be low, Li Yuan was curious about Guan Xuedao's background.

"What does Mr. Guan do?"

"Farming. Afraid that he wouldn't believe it, Guan Xuedao said with a smile: "Your grandfather Guan also worked as an official in his early years, but later he was persecuted, so he simply resigned from the government and worked as a farmer, but he didn't just farm." ”

Guan Xuedao's persecution should refer to the ten-year catastrophe, Li Yuan's understanding of that period of history is limited to scar literature, and he really can't guess who Guan Xuedao's father is.

There are some words, others are unwilling to say them clearly, and it is useless to ask questions, but what is worth being happy is the title in Guan Xuedao's mouth, which is to treat Li Yuan as his own family.

Guan Xuedao didn't want to mention his father, but took the initiative to talk about himself.

Guan Xuedao, born in Beijing in 1957, returned to his hometown in Dongshan with his parents in middle school, was admitted to Tsinghua University in 1977, and entered the State-owned Assets Management Bureau after graduation.

Yingzhou City belongs to a county-level city, and the deputy mayor is a deputy department-level cadre.

What happened?

Guan Xuedao saw the confusion in Li Yuan's eyes, and said with a smile: "I want to say it because I said the wrong thing, do you believe it or not?"

……

Before the liberation, the Guan family was a well-known physiognomy family in Dongshan, belonging to the numerology school, and was especially good at public opinion.

When it came to Guan Xuedao's grandfather's generation, his grandfather felt the poverty of the country and resolutely left home to study abroad.

Guan Xuedao's grandfather returned to China after completing his studies, but he was never reused by the government of the Republic of China, but the family physiognomy was passed on to his gods, and he was sent to Gao Peng for a while, which is really ridiculous.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guan Xuedao's grandfather finally had a place to use, engaged in education and geological exploration, and made great contributions to the development of the country.

"My ancestor died early, and I didn't catch up with the catastrophe of ten years, but fortunately, I don't know how many sins I would have suffered. Guan Xuedao said with emotion: "My father was not so lucky, he was driven back to his hometown in Dongshan, on the grounds of promoting feudal superstition, and the funny thing is that he didn't believe in family learning at all before that, but only after losing his official position, he became superstitious......"

This topic is not easy to pick up.

Even after 20 years, most people's prejudice against physiognomy has not been eliminated, confusing it with fortune-telling, in fact, physiognomy is the research and application of traditional Chinese natural science and psychology, and there is still some merit in putting aside the mysterious and mysterious parts such as fate.

……

The story of Guan Xuedao continues.

"I've been exposed to it since I was a child, and I know a little bit about physiognomy, this person wants to show off if he has a little ability, and I'm naturally no exception. When I first graduated, I went to visit an old friend of my father's, and he asked me to show him. ”

"What did you say?" asked Li Yuan.

"I said that his face is good, but the feng shui of the ancestral house is not good, and he can only be a deputy as a cadre. ”

"Uh," Li Yuan was speechless, how could he talk nonsense like this, I'm afraid it's not a long life?

"Now that I think about it, I was really a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, but fortunately my father still had a little thin noodles, and I didn't have a handle for others to handle, otherwise, the grass on the grave would be a foot high. ”

"That's not right," Li Yuan asked, "Even if you want to take revenge, you won't have to wait until now, right?"

"I was just a small fish and shrimp, people were not happy, and they would not deliberately target, and," Guan Xuedao paused for a moment, and said helplessly: "Since then, he has really never held a regular position, it is said that the ancestral house has been turned over three times, you can tell ......"

Li Yuan opened his mouth and stammered, according to what he said, Guan Xuedao really offended people to death with one sentence.

"Then will today's incident have an impact on you?"

"What impact can it have, left and right, he used a deputy mayor to disgust me, and I was not allowed to struggle to resist?"

When Li Yuan heard this, he must have discussed the decentralization of Guan Xuedao, and the officialdom was advancing and retreating, and it was not a family with one surname and one word.

"Teacher Guan knows how to meet, can you show me too?"

"Don't say it, don't say it. "The old god of Guan Xuedao is here," the ancestors of the Guan family only look at feng shui and don't look at people. ”

The ancestor of the Guan family, if Xu Bin hears it, he will definitely spray him with spittle.

……

In 98, several major highways in the province had not yet been completed, and some were still on paper, and the national highway was the main traffic artery.

Yingzhou is more than 200 kilometers away from the provincial capital Changshan, and it took more than two hours to drive in later generations, but now it takes three or four hours to drive.

It's not all bad if you don't have a highway, but at least you don't have to worry about getting into trouble by being caught on surveillance.

Li Yuan and Guan Xuedao switched droves and entered Changshan on weekdays.

Near the exit of the national highway toll station, Li Yuan parked and Guan Xuedao changed seats, and at this moment, Guan Xuedao's mobile phone rang.

The mobile phone call was very loud, and Li Yuan heard that the voice was like Xu Bin, and his heart suddenly twitched.

Guan Xuedao opened it and played it out, and his voice became clear.

"Wenwen has a fever and I want to take her to the hospital, but I can't get out now. ”

"What's going on?" Guan Xuedao gets straight to the point.

"A bunch of thugs blocked the door, as if waiting for someone to ......"

"Jiang Xiaoliang!" Li Yuan blurted out, a chill rising in his heart.

"Where are you now?" asked Guan Xuedao.

"Xuemin hid in the room with two children, I was at the registration office, the guest house security went out, wait, someone was beaten!"

"Go back to your room, close the door, and don't come out no matter what happens!"

After Guan Xuedao finished speaking, he hung up the phone without hesitation, took a deep breath, redialed the phone, and said unhurriedly: "Boss Ma, have you slept...... Yes, it's me...... Well, we just arrived in Changshan...... Thank you for your concern, the road went smoothly...... It may be a few days, maybe ...... You're so polite...... Alas, it is really deserved to have not made an inch...... If you say so, I won't excuse myself...... Where is it, I will need more help from Boss Ma in the future...... Then let's do it for now, and when I settle down, I'll invite you to come to my door...... Okay, okay, you can rest early. ”

"Mr. Guan—"

Li Yuan saw him hang up the phone, and finally couldn't help it.

Guan Xuedao signaled him not to be in a hurry and said, "Your heart is upset, think about it carefully." ”

Think about it, think about it?