After returning to the newspaper, Zhong Shan found the phone number of Jiangcheng Evening News through the number search desk, and wanted to ask his old classmate Fang Jing for help.

14 years after graduation, Zhong Shan was busy getting married, having children, working, changing workplaces, divorcing, remarrying, sending his mother away, and in the first year or two, he could still send New Year's cards during the Spring Festival, but in the following years, the relationship with his classmates became increasingly alienated, and in the end he even broke off contact. In the past 14 years, he has not returned to Jiangcheng once, nor has he had any contact with Fang Jing, so this time he decided to call, and his heart was still full and bad. He made a long-distance call and asked for Fang Jing's phone number, and the other party said: "Fang Jing was transferred to the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee three years ago. Zhong Shan asked Deng Jiaguo's phone number again, and the other party said with some hesitation: "What is the relationship between you and Mr. Deng?" Only then did Zhong Shan know that Deng Jiaguo had been promoted to President Deng, and hurriedly said: "I am his and Fang Jing's college classmates." The other party hesitated for a moment and told Zhong Shan Mr. Deng's office phone number.

Zhong Shan called according to the number, but no one answered for a long time. He put down the phone, feeling dazed. At this time, the phone rang, and the other party asked, "Who is calling?" ”

Zhong Shan had already heard Deng Jiaguo's voice, and hurriedly said, "Is it Deng Jiaguo?" It's me, I'm Zhongshan. ”

Deng Jiaguo also showed a very excited look on the other end of the phone: "Zhong Shan? Good boy, I thought you were missing after so long! A few years ago, I called Castle Peak TV and said that you had been transferred. Hurry up, tell me your phone number so I can catch you at any time. ”

Zhong Shan said his mobile phone number, and wrote down Deng Jiaguo's mobile phone number on the note.

The two exchanged information for more than ten years. Deng Jiaguo and Su Xiaohong got married in the second year of graduation and have a daughter who is ten years old. After graduating from graduate school and getting a master's degree, Su Xiaohong did not follow her father's advice to stay at Jiangcheng University to teach, but went to Jiangcheng TV. Deng Jiaguo just mentioned last year the deputy editor-in-chief of the Jiangcheng Evening News, in the past two years, the media competition in Jiangcheng has reached a white-hot level, especially the four metropolitan newspapers do not give in to each other, fighting for life and death, grabbing news, advertising, distribution, and talent, he is so busy every day, so his classmates have not organized a party for ten years after graduation.

After talking about his situation, Deng Jiaguo said again: "Boss, do you want to know Fang Jing's current situation?" ”

Zhong Shan was silent.

Deng Jiaguo said: "If you don't say it, I can guess that you want to know it in particular." Now that he is on the official road, he ran the current political news when he was in the newspaper, and he was transferred to the Secretariat of the General Office as the deputy director by the boss of the city. By the way, do you know that Fang Jing and Lao Wan are married? ”

This news shocked Zhong Shan.

"It seems that in the fifth year of graduation, the two got married unconsciously, and none of our classmates attended their wedding. Later, I asked Fang Jing, and she didn't want to say more, she only said that she would marry when she reached the age of marriage, and Teacher Wan was an old acquaintance, so she didn't have to make any effort to investigate and understand. They now have a little daughter, who is two or three years old. Lao Wan was transferred from the municipal party committee to work at the party school a few years ago, he walked on the front foot, but Fang Jing went to the municipal party committee on the back foot, which can be regarded as a kind of fate. ”

Zhong Shan asked about the situation of the other classmates again, and Deng Jiaguo told Zhong Shan everything he knew. Zhong Shan remembered the main purpose of his call, so he asked Deng Jiaguo to help him go to the Jiangcheng Orphanage to learn about the archives of the year, to see if there were any children sent to Qingshan City, and lied that one of his high school classmates entrusted him to do it. Deng Jiaguo agreed to it.

However, the next day, Deng Jiaguo called Zhong Shan's mobile phone, and the result was that the files of those children were destroyed in that special era, and he asked several old deans and old employees, and the answers were the same.

The clue was broken, and Zhong Shan was disappointed, not knowing what the next step should be to find his relatives.