When everyone was worried about Su Zhenbang, Su Zhenbang was not embarrassed, and the investigation team was very polite to him.

The investigation team interrogated him several times, and they suspected that Su Zhenbang was suspected of speculation, tax evasion, embezzlement of state-owned assets, and so on -- of course, these are all blatant charges.

Su Zhenbang naturally would not admit these charges, and made a strong rebuttal, which made the investigation team a little speechless for a while. However, the investigation team was obviously prepared, although Su Zhenbang flatly denied all the charges put forward by the investigation team, but there was one thing that poked Su Zhenbang's death hole.

In the course of their questioning, the staff of the investigation team also made a special mention of an important situation, that is, Su Zhenbang had "disappeared" for a period of time at the beginning of the year. Obviously, the staff of the investigation team were very suspicious of this situation, and they had learned that Su Zhenbang had been to the capital and the northeast during this period.

"Comrade Su Zhenbang, where did you go at the beginning of the year?" Wang Qiang, the deputy head of the investigation team, asked Su Zhenbang on the other side with a solemn face: "You should know our policy, I hope you can answer honestly." ”

"We have every reason to suspect that during this period of time, you went to the Northeast to carry out illegal activities, such as speculation and smuggling. As soon as a middle-aged man from the investigation team came up, he put a big hat on Su Zhenbang: "And your Far East trade must also have important problems." ”

Su Zhenbang really had a hard time, and naturally there was no way to explain those things to these staff, so the momentum of the original argument disappeared all of a sudden.

Seeing Su Zhenbang's situation, the investigation team was overjoyed, knowing that the main direction of attack this time was right -- something must have happened to Su Zhenbang and his Far East trade, and it was very likely that it would happen at the beginning of the year.

Wang Qiang saw Su Zhenbang's silent appearance with his head bowed, so his tone suddenly became stern: "Comrade Su Zhenbang, we must have mastered your specific situation, otherwise we would not have brought you here, let alone mentioned this matter for no reason." ”

"You are also a party member and know more about our party's policies than the general public. ”

"At the beginning of the year, did you personally go to the Northeast to participate in smuggling and speculation?"

……

Listening to the continuous interrogation of the staff of the investigation team, Su Zhenbang fortunately closed his eyes and pretended to ignore them.

No matter how good your investigation team is, you can't do it if the parties don't speak, and they don't have the right to take other coercive measures against Su Zhenbang. For several days in a row, Su Zhenbang maintained an attitude of non-violence and non-cooperation, and did not accept any of the investigation team's soft or hard work -- for a while, the work of the investigation team seemed to have reached a dead end.

Bi Wenming, the leader of the team, saw this situation - Su Zhenbang was completely soft and hard, and in desperation, he could only find another way to start a new investigation with Su Zhenbang's company. So Bi Wenming divided the investigation team into three groups, one group was responsible for continuing to interrogate Su Zhenbang, one group was responsible for investigating Su Zhenbang's company, and one group naturally continued to follow up Tian Mingli.

It is said that a man is the pillar of a family, and the spiritual sustenance of all members of a family, if the pillar "collapses", then the family may also be on the verge of collapse.

In the past few days since Su Zhenbang was taken away, the atmosphere of the Su family has been extremely solemn, and the faces of the family no longer have the smile and hope of life that they used to have.

Feng Ying was strong and did not fall, but she wore that haggard face every day. Su Zhongping and his wife seem to have aged a lot overnight, and their faces no longer have the smile and peace they used to have. Li Yuhan took care of herself obediently, tried not to cause trouble to her family, and would sit quietly by Feng Ying's side when she was fine. Although the two old men were older, they were not confused, they knew that something was wrong in the family - they knew that they were too old to help, and they just tried not to trouble the children as much as possible.

A family full of laughter and hope for life seems to have suddenly become heavy, and everyone is just going through the day aimlessly.

Ye Yunxiu couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw the Su family become like this, looking at everyone's solemn faces.

Yes, although he is not surnamed Sue, he has lived in this family for more than twenty years. For more than 20 years, the Su family treated him as their own family, and Su Zhenbang raised him as his father. Even if he is an iron-hearted person, twenty years of family affection have melted it, not to mention that Ye Yunxiu is not, he is a flesh-and-blood person. People are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless - in fact, he has already become a member of the Su family, he has been closely related to this family - he will be happy for the prosperity of this family, and he will be sad for the frustration and suffering of this family.

Just because, he, Ye Yunxiu, is a member of this family.

The night was already deep, and the autumn and winter nights seemed even quieter, with only the northwest wind whistling intermittently. The one-meter light in the room seemed so abrupt in this heavy night, Ye Yunxiu sat on the edge of the bed, looking at a box beside him in a daze.

After a while, Ye Yunxiu's hands trembled a little and patted the dust on the box, and the dust flying under the light showed that the box had been around for some years.

The trembling hands seemed to return to normal at the moment of opening the box, Ye Yunxiu slowly opened the box, looking at the neatly arranged clothes inside, a sour feeling of wanting to cry without tears welled up in his heart.

It was an officer's gown, an old but more solemn officer's gown—a brown-green hat, a navy-blue top-and-bottom, with red dental floss sewn on the collar, sleeves, and trousers, and red trim on both sides of the middle seam.

Yes, this is a solemn 55-style officer's dress, and a shining general star on the gold epaulettes shows the master's former identity - this is the 55-style army major general dress.

Ye Yunxiu carefully took out the officer's gown, and at the bottom of the box lay three medals quietly, although they were no longer shiny, but they were still solemn.

The three solemn medals represent the heads and blood of his masters who threw their heads and shed their blood for the birth of this country. The old man silently stroked the three medals, as if he remembered countless past events, and seemed to have returned to that war-torn era.

He put the sorted dresses and medals into the box again, and put a few more clothes into it—it was the new winter coat that Su Zhenbang took him to buy in Pengcheng, and Ye Yunxiu fastened the lock of the box vigorously.

With a long sigh, Ye Yunxiu, who had gone through countless ups and downs in his life, looked so uncalm, his hands trembling slightly.

The early morning of autumn and winter was still gray, and a few wisps of morning light struggled to cut through the darkness of the night, Ye Yunxiu took the box and looked at the place where he had lived for more than twenty years, and then turned around and walked away to face the wind—towards the place where countless laughter and pain had been left.

Although Su Zhenbang was taken away and Feng Ying was devastated, she still got up early every day to make breakfast for the family. The family sat down at the dinner table at a quarter past seven, and although the family suffered a huge blow, the person still had to live.

"Xiaoying, has your master eaten it, why didn't you see him come to breakfast today?" Su Zhongping saw that Ye Yunxiu's seat was empty, so he asked.

Feng Ying had been wondering since just now, in the past, Master and his old man had always gotten up early, but why was it missing this morning. So Feng Ying said with some worry: "I didn't see it, are you sick?" Yuhan, you go to Grandpa's house to have a look." ”

Li Yuhan obediently put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked towards Ye Yunxiu's house. The little girl stood in front of the door and knocked on the door several times, and shouted several times, but no one responded, so she gently pushed the door and opened it at once. Li Yuhan searched the house and found that there was no one, and suddenly she found a letter on the table.

Li Yuhan hurriedly ran back with the letter, and then said: "Grandpa, mother, there is no one in grandpa's house, only this letter." ”

As soon as Su Zhongping heard Li Yuhan's words, he stood up suddenly, then took the letter and hurriedly opened it. After Su Zhongping looked at it, he handed the letter to Shi Yuxiu and Feng Ying.

There were only a few short sentences on the letter: "Don't worry, brother, my brother needs to go out for a few days, so he won't say goodbye and return quickly." Don't worry!

"Master, where did he go?" Feng Ying said a little anxiously. She was afraid that the old man would have an accident outside when he was old, and over the years, she had always raised Ye Yunxiu as her father with Su Zhenbang.

Shi Yuxiu also said worriedly: "Where can Brother Ye go, should we go out and find it?"

Su Zhongping sat down again, then took out a cigarette and lit it, and then said, "Don't look for it, he may go back to the place where he once lived." He probably went out for Zhenbang's business, right?"

In fact, from the time Ye Yunxiu first came to the ancient city, Su Zhongping felt that he was not simple, and he could feel from Ye Yunxiu's body that this person had a lot of stories. The things that happened later gradually proved that Ye Yunxiu was indeed not simple-he couldn't help but have a powerful internal family technique, and Su Zhongping had seen the scars left by the gunshot wound on his body.

The matter of Ye Yunxiu's "running away from home", Su Zhongwen and Wen Zhaolin soon knew. Obviously, they had some bad opinions about this, they thought that Ye Yunxiu had abandoned the Su family at the most difficult time for the Su family, but they didn't dare to say it after seeing Su Zhongping's face.

With the train ticket in hand, Ye Yunxiu stepped on the train back to "home" with a suitcase, looking at the scenery that kept flying outside the window, he was actually a little timid.

"Home" is a familiar and unfamiliar term, but when people are gone, where is there still a home? No, I still have a home!

Xiao Yun doesn't know where to bury it?

Xiaohu and Nannan don't know if they are still in the world?

Is he okay, old chief?

……

One question after another seems to span more than 20 years, and all of them come to mind at once. The hands that had just calmed down trembled slightly involuntarily, and Ye Yunxiu could clearly feel a thin layer of sweat in his palms.

He tried to calm himself as best he could, so he withdrew his gaze from the window and meditated quietly.

When the train slowly drove into the Beijing Railway Station, Ye Yunxiu couldn't help but feel a feeling of "closer to home is more timid". Ye Yunxiu walked out of the train station with the suitcase, looking at the capital that had undergone earth-shaking changes, this qiē was so familiar but there was a sour feeling that he didn't dare to recognize each other.

Ye Yunxiu relied on the memories of more than 20 years ago, walking through the streets that were still familiar but no longer dared to recognize, and finally he arrived......