Lingshui Town, Changxi County, is administratively subordinate to Xiangnan City, but it is relatively close to the provincial capital Haisha City.

Running out of the school gate, Lin An went straight to the street corner in the center of the town.

In 2001, the town bus station had not yet been built, and if you wanted to take a bus to the county seat or other places, you had to wait for the bus at the entrance of the central street. And mobile phones were nowhere near as common as they were years later, so phone booths were everywhere, especially around street crossings.

Lin An lay next to a phone booth, first dialed his landline, and sure enough, no one answered, and then thought about it, and finally remembered his uncle's mobile phone number a long time ago.

After dialing a few times, the phone was finally connected, and listening to a familiar voice from the other side, Lin An hurriedly replied, "Uncle, I'm Lin An." ”

"Oh, Anko. On the other side of the phone, it was Lin An's uncle Zhou Changshun, and his tone was full of anxiety, "Didn't you go to class?

"Where are you now?" Lin An looked down at the time on the phone, it was almost eleven o'clock.

"I'm in the car, I'm almost in Shonan, and I can get to your parents at lunch! ”

Lin An organized the language, "Uncle, I heard my classmates chatting, saying that her brother saw Feng Yongliang in Haisha City, just yesterday afternoon. ”

Feng Yongliang, not only the richest man in Lingshui Town, but also the number one in Changxi County, started by relying on road engineering and real estate, and last year he also bid for the king of Xiangnan City in one fell swoop, and once appeared in the city news. Now, as the most important party involved in a road engineering corruption case involving Lingshui Town-Changxi County-Xiangnan City, it suddenly disappeared before the incident last month, as if the world had evaporated.

Lin An's father, Lin Congli, is the deputy mayor of Lingshui Town, who is in charge of this project, and Zhao Xijing, secretary of the Changxi County Party Committee, who is more deeply involved, were invited by the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection to meet and live together in the Xiangnan Hotel.

"What? who, Feng Yongliang! really?!" A sudden sound of braking came from the earpiece, and then Zhou Changshun's exclamation sounded. Hearing Lin An confirm again, he excitedly said, "Okay, it's okay now." Find him, brother-in-law will be fine, I'll call now. ”

"Wait!" Lin An hurriedly shouted to stop, "Last month, Dad and Uncle Zhao chatted on the phone, and it seemed that Feng Yongliang may have a deeper backstage in addition to the county. Do you have anyone you can trust in the police station, now go over and control the person first. ”

"Really?" Zhou Yongshun hesitated, if it was really like what Lin An said, go and notify the case-handling personnel or the county bureau or even the city bureau now, once the person is found, it is really impossible to guarantee whether he will disappear again or be arrested. He sighed, "There happen to be two friends in the county, which are very reliable, and one of them is a distant relative of Secretary Zhao's family." However, Haisha City is so big and has a large floating population, without internal coordination, there will be no local cooperation......

"No problem, I later asked my classmate to call her brother again, saying that I saw Feng Yongliang in the residential community next to Xiushui Street in Hexi University Town, and I went there with my classmates during the winter vacation to play, and I knew where it was. Lin An pressed the phone to see someone passing by, he turned around and lowered his voice and said, "I'm waiting for the car, you will go to Haisha immediately when you receive someone, and I will wait for you at Hexi Tongcheng Square over there." ”

Lin An clearly remembers that more than ten years later, a major provincial and ministerial-level case broke out in Haisha City, as a relevant witness, Feng Yongliang was extradited back from Canada, and this dusty corruption case was also re-dug up.

Because Lin Congli is one of the parties most affected by this case, after seeing the report of the city station, he also went to the Internet to search for relevant news, including an exclusive interview with Feng Yongliang's flight for more than ten years.

He remembers one detail of the interview the most. After Feng Yongliang received the news in advance and escaped from Lingshui Town, with the help of others, he first fled outside the province to escape the limelight, and then sneaked back to Haisha in early April, and only then transferred to Yunnan to go abroad in the middle of the month, including mentioning Feng Yongliang's hiding place when he was in Haisha.

Hanging up the phone, Lin An bought a newspaper and boarded the bus bound for Haisha City.

At some point, lead clouds drifted in the sky, and the sun occasionally spilled through the gaps in the clouds.

Leaning on the slight flickering of the car window, Lin An put down the newspaper, some of the things recorded on it were similar to the memories after waking up from a dream, but the economic version was slightly different, because there was less information, and it was impossible to say what the differences were for a while.

He was thinking wildly, and a slightly hunched back gradually appeared in the brown window glass.

In this corruption case of the city's key project, because the important party Feng Yongliang disappeared, Zhao Xijing, who has always had dazzling political achievements, was innocently taken all the responsibility. At the end of the investigation, the organization confirmed that Lin Congli was fine, but because he was close to Zhao Xijing, he was inevitably affected, and he was carried a punishment that was not light or severe, and he has been marginalized since then.

Even though more than ten years later, the truth of this case surfaced and proved his innocence, the original spirit has been exhausted. For Shitu, forty or fifty years old is the age when he is in the prime of life and the most determined, but Lin Congli is like an old man in the twilight.

At that time, every time Lin An came home and saw the slightly hunched back sitting on the sofa in the living room silently reading the newspaper, he would always think of the figure more than ten years ago, with a straight back and full of momentum and confidence in the economic development of Lingshui Town.

In the afternoon, Lin An arrived in Haisha City.

Coming out of the West Bus Station, he got on the bus and went along the ring road to the agreed place.

Looking at the streets he passed, he felt like a world away.

Obviously, I have never been here, but I am familiar with where to go, which route to take the bus, and the buildings that sweep in front of and behind are some familiar, some are very unfamiliar, because when I come here again a few years later, these buildings that feel unfamiliar have already been demolished and rebuilt.

He still hasn't figured out that he is back in the present years later, but how is this possible!

Or I was in the classroom, I just had a long-lasting dream, and the dream was more than ten years in the future, so realistic, so empathetic.

Compared with the two, he thinks that the former is more impossible.

More than ten years of memories like a dream, as I woke up, some of them passed little by little, and some of them were remembered more clearly. Like this corruption case that his father was very affected, like the class leader who likes to reprimand people and has a personality like an iceberg, and like the petite figure in his mind that can never be erased......

China Shipping University of Technology, Yunlu Mountain, Tongcheng Building. Looking at the landmarks that coincided with his memory, Lin An stared at the car window in a daze.

After entering the university, she came to the city many times, until she left, and never came again. Today, it seems, is the first time in many years that I have set foot in the city again.

"Anko. ”

With the shouting, the sound of the car horn woke up Lin An, who was standing in the square in a daze. Following the prestige, under the steps of the square, a van was parked, the windows were rolled down, and a man of about thirty years old appeared in the driver's seat. Maybe he hasn't taken care of his beard for a few days, and this unshaven image is a little biased from his long-term impression of his uncle at this time.

When I went down the steps to the front of the car, I saw two other young people sitting in the carriage, I didn't know each other very well, but Lingshui Town was not big, and occasionally met Zhou Changshun and invited these two people to his restaurant for dinner.

Listening to Zhou Changshun's brief introduction, Lin An greeted them politely through the car window. One of the tall, thin and flat-headed young men was named Zhao Xiaobing, and later learned that this person was the distant relative of Zhao Xijing that Zhou Changshun said.

As soon as Lin Anla opened the door and got on the co-pilot, he saw Zhou Changshun say with a little anxiety and hesitation, "That brother of your classmate, do you want contact information, where is he now?"

No wonder Zhou Changshun is like this, after all, Lin An is only fifteen years old this year. When he first received the phone call and heard the whereabouts of the key person Feng Yongliang, he was too excited and excited, and then calmed down and remembered Lin An's age, and thought that these might be rumors of "chasing the wind and catching shadows", so he couldn't help but hesitate, but when he called back, the person who answered the phone was already the owner of the phone booth.

In this case, not only the county party secretary and Lin Congli were involved, but also rumors involved an important official in Xiangnan City, which attracted the attention of the province.

Zhou Changshun went to Xiangnan this time, in addition to visiting his brother-in-law Lin Congli and his sister Zhou Cuiyun who accompanied him, he was also ready to rely on the relationship that the eight poles couldn't fight to see if he could help. In fact, he knew that the case had developed to this point, and even if the relative of his friend agreed to meet, it would not be of great help.

However, if Feng Yongliang, a key figure in the case, can be found, it will be different.

Parking on the side of the road and hesitating for a long time, Zhou Changshun finally became a live horse doctor, called his sister and brother-in-law's hotel and left a message, and hurried back to the county seat, and called a friend from the police station to rush over together.

"I asked my classmate to call and ask in the morning, her brother was about to transfer from Haisha at the time, saying that he was going to Guangzhou by train, and he couldn't be contacted for a while!" He put on a confident expression, "Her brother said that he did see Feng Yongliang walking into the community with a boxed lunch, and I know that place." ”

Zhou Changshun looked at Lin An, then turned his head to look at the two friends behind him, then started the van, listened to Lin An's directions, and drove to Xiushui Street, which is not too far from China Shipping University of Technology.