"Jin Yuan's mother is a very unusual woman." Li Jing looked at the back of Jin Yuan leaving, and said something incomprehensible.

I looked at Li Jing suspiciously, trying to hear his answer, but he ignored me, just hailed a taxi to take me home, and even during the whole journey back, he didn't say a word to me. I got used to his silence and began to think quietly about my own questions.

When I got out of the car from the entrance of the community and walked to the door of the apartment, Li Jing asked me as if he suddenly remembered something: "Xiaozhi, can you find a female worker who has worked in a garment factory for 20 years?" ”

I tilted my head and thought, "Then I'll have to ask my dad about his time and see if he can find someone there." ”

"Will it take a long time?" Li Jing asked me.

"In a hurry?" I asked rhetorically.

"Hmm." Li Jing nodded, "There are still omissions in the testimony, I want to talk to those aunts again to see if we can find the last piece of the puzzle." ”

"I tried to figure it out, but I still don't understand why you took a picture of that letter. I've read the letter, and there's nothing strange about it. "I never understood why Li Jing's whole reaction became strange after reading the letter.

"Can you guess what it will look like in 20 years?" Instead of answering my question, Li Jing asked me a question that didn't mean anything.

"If I could guess, I would be the author of science fiction." I complained, but I suddenly figured out Li Jing's entanglement, "Can you show me the photo of that letter again?" "Li Jing sent me the photo.

When I was having supper in the evening, I read the letter again, but I still didn't see why, and I didn't mention my life after 20 years as Li Jing said, but I kept repeatedly wishing my son to live hard. I can't see anything, so I'd better ask Li Jing tomorrow. By the way, don't forget to check with your dad about the garment factory tomorrow morning. I silently jotted it down in my memo.

Li Jing didn't call me to wake up early in the morning on a rare rest day, I didn't open my eyes until 10 o'clock in the morning, and when I picked up my mobile phone, I found that it was out of power and automatically turned off, no wonder it was so quiet this morning. When I charged the battery and turned on the phone, I was prompted by a text message that my father had already made six calls to me. Li Jing's also has three.

"Sorry, Dad, I didn't get up in the morning." The first thing I said on the phone was to apologize.

But my dad wasn't angry: "I know you're in bed, but it's all a skill to be able to stay in bed until ten o'clock and not get up." ”

"I was wrong. But, Dad, you called me early in the morning because you contacted your uncle or aunt who used to work there, right? I knew my dad was an all-around superman. "I quickly patted the sycophants.

The horses were used, and sure enough, from the tone, you could hear that the old man on the other side was still very happy: "That is, after you mentioned this matter to me yesterday, I found a few colleagues from before and mobilized the masses to help you find someone." The masses are powerful, today I will help you find the phone numbers of a few uncles and aunts who worked there in the past, you find a piece of paper to write down, and I will read it to you. ”

After more than ten minutes of phone numbers, and a report and summary of the current work situation, the family call time ended. I sorted out the information a little and quickly called Li Jing back: "Report to the leader, the things you explained yesterday have been successfully completed. ”

I can imagine Li Jing giving me a roll of the eye on the other side: "I really didn't expect someone to be able to investigate the case with their eyes closed." It's been a long time! ”

"You've got all the information you need to find, what do you have to do?" I admit that I am impatient. "My dad has already found other uncles and aunts who worked in the garment factory back then, and the contact information is ready to be given to you. After speaking, I turned off the phone directly, I was so hungry, could I have lunch with an intermediary?

When I found that there were no more ingredients at home, I cheekily went to Li Jing to eat. It's still cold outside, so I wrapped my coat tightly to see if it would be warmer.

When I arrived at Li Jing's house, I felt that I had frozen into an ice lump, and Li Jing stewed mutton soup at home, and it was not until the soup flowed into my stomach that I felt a warm sense of happiness.

"By the way, I went to read Jin Fengxia's letter to my son again yesterday, and I still didn't notice anything wrong." When I finally warmed up, I remembered the question I had last night.

"Twenty years ago, did you know what 'cheat daddy' meant?" Li Jing asked me while holding the soup bowl.

"I don't know." I shook my head. "Does this have anything to do with faith?"

"Absolutely." Li Jing smiled, "If you read that letter carefully, you will feel that the tone of the letter does not look like the content of a person who lived in the early 90s. For example, you would call a solopreneur a 'freelancer' or a 'weworker' nowadays, but back then people would call them 'self-employed'. Then you look at the letter written by Jin Fengxia, she mentioned in her letter to her son, 'Don't be obsessed with the past, learn to compromise with life', and the word 'obsession' is more inclined to Buddhist words, after 2000, it began to prevail among the people, a person who died in the 90s will repeatedly mention 'obsession' in the family letter to his son, unless it is a devout believer, generally does not use the word 'obsession'. And in the end, Jin Fengxia wrote to her son, 'As long as he and his wife live well', but I remember that in the early 90s, the public's name for daughter-in-law was limited to wife or little daughter-in-law, and there was rarely such a title as wife. In modern times, many people are used to calling other people's wives like this. ”

"So you think that letter was not written by Jin Fengxia?" I guessed after listening to it.

"Tongguò's description of things doesn't look like it came from someone in the '90s, but it looks like it was written by someone full of guilt." Li Jing began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Could it be Grandma Li?" I asked Li Jing that the letter was given to Jin Yuan by her adoptive parents. If you talk about suspicion, Grandma Li's suspicion is really big, but why did Grandma Li do this?

"Don't think about it, now we only know that this letter may not have been written by Jin Fengxia, but it is not from the hand of an old man, yesterday I sent a picture and asked Shi Hao to help me check my handwriting. If we ask Grandma Li directly, Grandma Li will definitely be sure that it was given to her by Jin Fengxia. Even though we knew that Grandma Li was hiding something from us, we were in no position to question her. So I had to look up the person who wrote the letter myself. I also checked the couple who were in charge of contacting Kim Won's adopters. In the next two days, we are going to visit all the people we have who can provide clues. But fortunately, most of these people are now retired at home, so we don't have to go out of our way to make appointments. Okay, let's go after brushing the dishes. ”

The first stop was the couple who were in charge of Jin Yuan's adoption, and they didn't look very good when they knew what we were going to do, but after a long time of persuasion, they still invited us into the living room.

"We don't know much about what happened back then." The man of the house spoke, "So it may not help you much." And after so many years, many things should have been seen a long time ago. ”

But for a child who has lost his mother, many things are his eternal pain, I couldn't help but say nothing, I could only say stupidly: "But we still have some questions, although it may cause you trouble." ”

"We want to know what you were doing on the day of the incident?" Li Jing didn't wait for me to finish, so he asked the male host directly.

When the hostess heard Li Jing's question, she was obviously a little uneasy, and her eyes kept glancing at the man.

"I can't remember, it's been 20 years, and I don't remember a lot of things." The man put his hand on his wife's hand and comforted her. The hostess said to go and cut some fruit.

"You will forget such a big thing as the dead man next door?" Li Jing asked, "I checked, you didn't seem to go to class that day." ”

The man's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he glared at Li Jing fiercely: "I don't remember, if I didn't go to class that day because I wasn't feeling well." The man was obviously impatient.

"Did you attend Jin Yuan's wedding?" Seeing the meaning of the host's send-off, Li Jing changed the topic.

"Nope. My wife was not feeling well that day and we didn't go. The man's tone was still not very good, and I could see that his wife had been secretly observing us in the kitchen. Noticing that I was looking at her, she quickly cleaned up the board and walked over with a cut orange.

Li Jing did not take the orange, but turned to the hostess who came over: "The day before his wedding, he received a letter written to him by his mother twenty years ago. ”

"Ahh The hostess looked at Li Jing with some panic, and then at her husband.

Her husband quickly took over the conversation: "Fengxia still can't rest assured of her children." ”

"Maybe." Li Jing didn't react in particular, and the last sentence of the knowledge was like a bombshell dropped into the conversation that was trying to maintain a semblance of peace, "But we suspect that the letter is fake." Jin Yuan was given to him by his adoptive parents from the former director of the neighborhood committee, but it was from you that Jin Yuan was going to get married. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The man was obviously very angry, he slapped the table and stood up, "I don't know what you mean, but please you have been asking us questions since you came here today, the police have investigated the incident twenty years ago, and there is no doubt." I want you to leave my house right now. "The man walked past us in the direction of the door, and his wife tried to stop him, but she didn't even touch his arm.

We followed the man to the door, and before leaving, Li Jing suddenly turned to look at the man and said word by word: "I'm really sorry to disturb you and your wife today." ”

The man didn't speak, and the door closed with a "Peng". We stood in the doorway for a while when we heard the sound of a woman crying intermittently from inside.