The westernmost part of Bac Giang Province in Zhuwei City, located in the mountainous area, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, not to mention the train, some places are still provincial-level mountain roads, but it is precisely because of the inconvenient transportation that this area has rarely been invaded by war for thousands of years, thus preserving a large area of ancient villages, becoming a famous tourist attraction in Bac Giang Province.

In another week, it will be the May Day holiday, and the hotels in Zhuwei City are gradually overcrowded, Lei Yanqing walked over from across the road, and looked back before entering the hotel.

went up to the ninth floor and directly swiped the door with the door card, Lei Yanqing walked in the door with the lunch box, "Jingjing, let's eat first." ”

Zhang Jingjing didn't say anything, her eyes focused on the laptop in front of her, Lei Yanqing looked at it, and the dense charts dazzled her.

"Well, eat first. Zhang Jingjing got up with a smile, "It's basically over, as long as you go back to school before the end of June to catch up with the graduation ceremony." ”

"That difficult professor has done it?" Lei Yanqing laid out the meals one by one, "I said what do you think...... If you want to write a thesis, you just go back to school, you have to travel here, and since it's a tour, you hide in a hotel to write a paper......"

The two bodyguards in front and back, compared to Liu Jie's cautious and deliberate greeting, Zhang Jingjing prefers this grinning Lei Yanqing, "Okay, let's start going out tomorrow." ”

After a pause, Zhang Jingjing asked, "You didn't say anything to you above, did you?"

"En?" Lei Yanqing chewed vigorously a few times, and then shook his head after swallowing, "No, that time we went to Qingping from Yuhang, I reported in advance, and the above scolded me, saying that I was nosy." ”

Zhang Jingjing's chopsticks stopped in the air, and after half a ring, she continued to stretch out and clamp an egg, it had been almost a week, and she had waited deliberately for so long, but the person did not move...... Did you guess the wrong direction?

After eating quietly, Lei Yanqing packed the lunch box and threw it into the trash can, before handing over a travel guide, "Let's go with a group, we have to have a car for self-driving...... Of course, the two guys who followed behind had a car, so why don't you borrow them?"

Zhang Jingjing, who was still immersed in thinking, didn't pick up the travel guide, but said casually: "You look at it...... Wait, who are you going to borrow a car from?

Lei Yanqing muttered: "Didn't you say that it was sent by your friend, how ......can you borrow a car?"

Zhang Jingjing rolled her eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to this coarse personal bodyguard, grabbed the travel guide and flipped a few pages, and turned to the place she found a week ago, "Go with the group, you go and arrange this route." ”

"Dongkang Village? This is quite famous, it is said to be an ancient village that was just opened last year. Lei Yanqing glanced at it a few times and felt a little familiar, but he couldn't say the reason for it for a while.

When he came to this village with the tour group the next day, Lei Yanqing suddenly realized that the details of many places were very similar to the ancient houses in Qingping's alley.

It is a magnificent mansion door, and there is even a small garden inside, with tall trees, winding pond corridors, and rockery carvings everywhere, which make people feel dizzy, but Lei Yanqing is very strange, why the plaque at the door says "Feng Mansion", but Zhang Jingjing has a full set of keys.

However, in the two days that she lived inside, Zhang Jingjing's eyes were basically red, and Lei Yanqing didn't dare to ask anything no matter how arrogant she was.

Following the tour guide slowly, Zhang Jingjing seemed to be very interested in these ancient mansions, and slowly fell to the end, this ancient village is a little different from other tourist attractions, although most of the houses are cultural relics protection buildings, but they are inhabited.

Zhang Jingjing walked slowly along the alley, looking as she walked, and suddenly an open field appeared in front of her, which was the threshing field in the village, a bunch of locals were standing or squatting, gathering there to smoke and chat, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time.

"Speaking of which, Uncle Liu is the most profitable, and the house is simply entrusted to the village committee and lives in a big villa by himself...... An idler asked an old man with a dry smoking gun: "It is said that his son-in-law paid the money?"

"!" The people on the side immediately scoffed, "My daughters have been dead for seven or eight years, which son-in-law is so filial!"

"You're, too. The old man waved his smoking gun, "You all used to work outside, and you only came back last year, of course you don't know...... In fact, Liu Laosan's daughter divorced before she died, and it is said that she was kicked out of the house. ”

"Get out of the door?" everyone on the side was dumbfounded, "I really haven't heard of it!"

"Liu Laosan wants to save face, and besides, his daughter has been around for many years, who has nothing to mention to you about this. The old man was obviously a talker, and he chattered a lot of miscellaneous things before mentioning it again, "It is said that he can't give birth to a son...... I can't even give birth to a daughter. ”

"Tut, I can't imagine it. The idler who first provoked the topic sighed for a while, "Back then, Xuemei was famous for ten miles and eight towns...... The first ...... in our village to be admitted to university"

"Hey, Brother Fang, I'm still worried about it, I remember that you used to let Lao Tzu go to propose marriage, but you were kicked out by Uncle Liu. A few people on the side burst into laughter.

Hearing the word "Xuemei", Zhang Jingjing, who walked over slowly, stopped expressionlessly, looked left and right, found a bluestone slab and sat down.

"I'm worried, but you don't care?" The idle man was laughed for a while and became angry, "Third Uncle Liu is really, he has to be a teacher for Xuemei, even if he is a teacher, Zhu Wei is not without a school!"

"Her husband is from Qingping, so he naturally marries a chicken and a dog. ”

Xuemei's husband seems to be her college classmate. The person on the side joked: "I saw it once when I got married, and it was white and ......pure."

"Brother Fang hasn't seen it, when people get married, they hide and cry their noses!"

"Hahaha......"

"A bunch of rabbit cubs, be careful that I smoke you!" The idle man jumped to his feet and scolded for a while before the scene eased down, and he grabbed the old man again and asked: "Then where did Uncle Liu get the money to build a big villa? We can't save a few dollars in the past few years outside, and although Xuemei is a teacher, her salary is not high." ”

"People are lucky. A young man passing by interjected enviously and jealously: "Picking up a stone at the intersection casually is actually an antique, and it has been sold for hundreds of thousands!"

"What hundreds of thousands, at least a million!"

"How can there be so many ......"

"How do you know that there are not so many, and how much Uncle Liu has sold can really tell!"

"No matter how much it sells, at least it will not be a worry for this life. The idle man turned his head enviously to look at the splendid villa outside the entrance of the village, "Tsk, that kid from the Liu family is really lucky, and he picked up a ready-made one." ”

"What do you say Liu Jian?" the old man sneered, "He is lucky, he relies on his sister for the first half of his life, and his parents for the second half of his life......"

"I can't say exactly. The young man passing by didn't leave, and also squatted down to chat, "Liu Jian played cards very fiercely, and lost seventy or eighty thousand yuan in the New Year, and he didn't blink his eyelids, no matter how much money he had, he couldn't help but lose like this!"

"You care so much, anyway, if he doesn't have any money, he will ask him for it, maybe he can pick up an antique!" The person on the side sneered a few times, and suddenly pointed not far away, "Hey, this guy is here again, won't he still want to play cards." ”

Zhang Jingjing followed everyone's line of sight, and a young man who looked very good was wandering over, and he deliberately glanced at Zhang Jingjing when he passed by.

"It's almost time to rest. Zhang Jingjing got up quietly and greeted Lei Yanqing, "Don't follow the group, just go around." ”

It is said that the layout of this ancient village is built in the shape of gossip, which Lei Yanqing can't see at all, he only knows that he followed Zhang Jingjing along the road, walked for a while, and suddenly was stunned, pointed to the courtyard in front and asked: "This is the villa that those people in the grain field said just now?"

"Yes, it should be. Zhang Jingjing looked at it a few times, saying that it was a villa, but in fact it was a private house with a larger space, but the floor was a little higher, "My grandfather is a little interested in antiques, let's try our luck." ”

Knocking on the door, Zhang Jingjing politely asked a few words, the old man with a withered face was good-tempered, smiled bitterly and led the two women into the door, shook his head and said, "You guys are here to travel, don't listen to the nonsense of the people in the village, but that time, it was rumored outside that the old man I picked up the treasure." ”

An old woman with a little inconvenient legs and feet poured two cups of tea, "just an inkstone......

Zhang Jingjing's heart picked at it suddenly, and suddenly interrupted, "Do you have a photo? My grandfather also likes inkstones very much." ”

"Not really. The old man shook his head, "You're not a tourist, you come to the countryside to collect old things?"

"By the way...... By the way. Zhang Jingjing stammered a little, hesitated for a moment, whispered a few words to send Lei Yanqing to the door, and then whispered, "I just heard...... The one who came to collect the inkstone...... I may know, can I help me identify it?"

The old couple looked at each other and couldn't make up their minds, Zhang Jingjing took out a photo album from her arms, turned a page and pointed to the person in the photo, "Is it him?"

The old man put on his reading glasses and looked at it carefully, "No, it's younger than him." ”

Zhang Jingjing turned a page and pointed to the photo again, "That's this?"

"Not really. The old man looked at Zhang Jingjing suspiciously, "You're not here to collect old things, you're here to find someone?"

"Sort of. Zhang Jingjing glanced at the old woman's legs and feet, "Auntie, this is not an inconvenience in her legs and feet, but a herniated lumbar disc, right? I know a famous doctor in Jianghe City in this area, I can ask him to take a look." ”

The old man was overjoyed, "How embarrassing is this, there is no way for a famous doctor to ...... This person is a little familiar, as if he is a ...... of the classmate."

Zhang Jingjing looked down, her cheeks couldn't help twitching, and the old man's eyes fell on Peng Shinian in the photo.

There was silence in the house for a moment, Zhang Jingjing closed the photo album with shaking hands, and after a while, she took out a small and delicate jewelry from her bag, which was a piece of silver jewelry with a photo of the two embedded in it.

"Is that him?" Zhang Jingjing's voice trembled.

"That's him. The old man concluded, "I picked up that stone at that time...... The inkstone, he is not far away, he has to pay for it, and if I don't sell it, he will pester me, and the price will get higher and higher......"

Yes, if it really has a direct relationship with him, then he will never leave this kind of thing to his subordinates, although it may be a bit dangerous to come by himself, but the relative risk factor is the smallest, and the scope of knowledge can be narrowed to the minimum.

The old man looked at Zhang Jingjing's pale face at a loss, and asked, "You know who?"

Zhang Jingjing ignored it, and stood up with her hands on the edge of the table, "I'll arrange the doctor's affairs later, and someone will come to pick you up within three days......"

didn't greet Lei Yanqing when she went out, Zhang Jingjing walked aimlessly along the road, and the chaotic thoughts in her heart gradually sorted out the ins and outs, although she didn't know the details and reasons, but she could roughly guess it.

In the past two or three months, in addition to going to Yanjing to visit her grandfather and accompanying Lu Yu in Yuhang, Zhang Jingjing basically stayed in Qingping, and contacted Fang Jing, who returned to Qingping No. 1 Middle School as a teacher, and often went to Shiyi Middle School to wander around, and inquired about a lot of relevant information.

Liu Xuemei's ex-husband is from Huangcun, and Huang An, the mayor of Qingping at the time, is a relative, and after Huang An drove away Zhao Xin, he fought to the death with his successor Zhang Changhe, and Feng Wei'an was Zhang Changhe's first cronie...... This information gradually connected in Zhang Jingjing's mind.

But everything was just speculation before, and the old man's evidence just now was able to confirm that the origin of the name that the man muttered in a nightmare more than two years ago was indeed Liu Xuemei, not Wu Xuemei, who was more familiar before.

It's almost May, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the asphalt road is already a little hot, but Zhang Jingjing's heart is cold.

Liu Xuemei is said to have accidentally fallen into the water and drowned during the National Day eight years ago...... At that time, it was the time when Huang An and Zhang Changhe fought the hardest, although the details of the tossing and turning between them could not be known, but there must be some unknown connection between the two.

After walking behind for a while, Lei Yanqing felt a little strange, didn't say anything, followed Zhang Jingjing back to the hotel, and watched her close the door tiredly.

It was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening when she returned to the hotel, Zhang Jingjing was too lazy to wash, or even too lazy to eat, so she lay straight on the bed, although she was tired but not sleepy, staring at the snow-white ceiling with her eyes wide open, and she was in a daze until it was very late.

The next morning, Lei Yanqing knocked on the door with breakfast, and Zhang Jingjing opened the door with one hand and was talking with her mobile phone in the other.

"Mr. Li, have you reported this matter to the Tianchen Charity Foundation?"

"Zhang Miao told you to leave it alone?"

"Is there a big error?

"Okay, I got it. ”

Hanging up the phone, Zhang Jingjing paced back and forth a few steps, undecided, the matter of the Tianchen Charity Fund, it stands to reason that he should not and is not qualified to care, but it involves the mountain schools that he donated back then......

Gritting her teeth, Zhang Jingjing still couldn't give up, turned her head and said, "Buy a ticket and go to Shudu." ”