Looking at Xiang Tianliang's eager gaze, Yi Xiangrui put down the wine cup and waved his hand at the tape recorder.

Xiang Tianliang understood what Yi Xiangrui meant, and eagerly reached out to turn off the tape recorder.

The next conversation, of course, was only between the master and the apprentice, and could not be transmitted outside the study.

"More than 20 years ago, it was the peak of the movement of urban intellectual youth to go to the countryside, thousands of young men and women in the countryside to cut the line, settle down, the vast world has a lot to do, like my family of three girls, at that time two went to the countryside, of course, during the Cultural Revolution, among the young people who went to the countryside, in addition to the majority of the red five categories, there are also those who are not from good background, I was locked up in the cowshed at that time, and my eldest and second child belong to the black five categories."

As far as I know, until the completion of the Binhai Reservoir in 1975, your Xiangjia Village Educated Youth Point in Xiangjia Village has received a total of 121 educated youths from five provinces and cities, including Jingcheng City and your Dongjiang Province, and among the 121 educated youths, 76 are men and 45 are women, of which 19 and 13 are from the capital respectively.

"You were still young at that time, and you had just turned five years old when you left Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, and the memory left to you by Xiangjia Village was vague, and now I am afraid it will be long gone, but at the foot of the mountain across the ditch from your home, there is a broken temple, which is the property of the Xiangjia Brigade Forest Farm at that time, and the thirty-two educated youths from the capital live in that broken temple."

"These thirty-two educated youths from the capital, their identities are very special, they are all black five categories, their parents or grandparents, they were all defeated characters at that time, so, these thirty-two educated youths from the capital are all the objects of education and transformation, they are not only separated from your local villagers, but also can not interact with other educated youth, their daily task is to take care of the forest farm, although it is only a ditch away from Xiangjia Village, but rarely come to the village to walk around."

"Among the 32 educated youths from the capital, there are two men and two women, whose parents are all high-ranking cadres of our party, and both are well-known old revolutionaries, and before they were overthrown, they all held very important positions, two male fathers, one is a member of the Politburo and vice premier, the other is a vice premier of the Politburo and director of a certain department of the party Central Committee, and the parents of two women, one is a member of the Central Committee and director of a certain committee of the State Council, and the other is a founding general, an alternate member of the Central Committee, and the commander of a certain large military region."

"These four young men and women were born in the same year, grew up in a large courtyard house, it can be said that they are childhood sweethearts, the two have no guesses, not only the same age, but also go to the same primary school, the same junior high school, and the same high school, until they graduate from high school, and because of what happened to their parents, they were exiled to Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County in disguise."

"Their relationship is better than that of brothers and sisters, and the most special thing is that when they were not born in their mother's womb, they were betrothed by four fathers in the form of finger marriage, the general's daughter was married to the minister's son, and the director's daughter was married to the deputy prime minister's son, but this relationship was only passed down among their fathers, and they themselves did not know it."

"They were sent together to Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County, at the end of 1967, and left Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County in May 1972, where they stayed for a total of four and a half years.

"At the beginning of 1969, the forest farm wanted to set up a fire prevention observation station on Jiguan Mountain, which is 850 meters above the sea, and these four people volunteered to go up Jiguan Mountain until they left Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County, in May 1972, and their place of residence was on Jiguan Mountain, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Xiangjia Village."

"It is said that during that period, the two men went down the mountain once a month, except for meetings or reporting thoughts, that is, to transport daily necessities to the mountain, and the two women almost never went down the mountain, it is conceivable that when aiqing was quietly produced between men and women, and almost lived in an isolated place, the flowering of aiqing was naturally inevitable, and the results were natural and natural."

"In April 1972, the parents of the four young men and women were 'liberated' one after another, and resumed their work one after another, followed by the return of their children.

"It is said that the two pairs of young men and women each had their own aiqing crystals, the general's daughter and the vice premier's son gave birth to a son, the director's daughter and the minister's son gave birth to a daughter, but the director's daughter and the minister's son died of illness, and the general's daughter and the vice premier's son's son survived.

"On the eve of leaving Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County, four young men and women discussed giving away the surviving boy, and they thought of Xiang Zhentian, the patriarch of Xiangjia Village, because Xiang Zhentian is not only a local martial arts master, but also a respected old man, and more importantly, Xiang Zhentian's eldest son, Xiang Yunlai, has only one daughter, and is intending to raise a boy."

"So, when the two sides met in private, they hit it off, and it is said that they reached a gentleman's agreement, that the boy would be given to the Xiang family, and that the boy's parents would never be able to get it back, and not only that, but the four young men and women also promised to keep it a secret, and not to speak to anyone at any time or under any circumstances, and not to visit the boy again."

"In this way, the boy born to the general's daughter and the son of the vice premier became the eldest grandson of Xiang Zhentian, and their external caliber was raised by this boy from a distant relative's family, and the four young men and women left Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County, and returned to the capital, working, going to school, and gradually or temporarily forgetting the existence of the boy."

Soon after the deputy prime minister and the director resumed their work, they were knocked down for the second time, and they were both driven out of the capital and went to a southwestern province with their respective families.

"Coincidentally, the minister and the general who stayed in the capital also thought of marrying, and at the urging of the elders of the two parents, the minister's son and the general's daughter also got married, obviously, it was a kind of mistake, aiqing gave way to the order of their parents, and the four young men and women may be reluctant, but after all, they got married and started a family, and later they all had their own children."

"The reality is cruel, the boy is not only an unmarried child, but his parents have a new family and new children, they are careful to keep the boy's secret, over time, they may have forgotten the existence of the boy, or, they deliberately chose to forget."

"What makes them choose to forget is that the change in the environment made them have to do that, and later, the relationship between the deputy prime minister and the director and the minister and the general gradually drifted apart, and even developed to the point of confrontation within the party, they each have their own interests, and it is inevitable that their juniors have to follow, so the boy who stayed in Xiangjia Village, Nanling Township, Binhai County, no one took the initiative to mention it."

"Of course, after more than 20 years, the boy has grown up well, he was admitted to university, and after completing his studies, he was assigned back to Qinghe City, he and his biological parents are moving forward according to their own life trajectories, if it wasn't for a chance, maybe they wouldn't be connected so quickly, maybe, there will never be some kind of connection again."

"The boy did not become a policeman, was assigned to the Municipal Construction Bureau by mistake, once, Qinghe City No. 1 Middle School new teaching building serious quality problems, the Ministry of Construction Supervision Department Director Yu Qinghai was ordered to come to Qinghe to supervise, he met the boy who worked in the Municipal Construction Bureau, unexpectedly found that the boy and his cousin looked very similar, he didn't say anything at the time, but when he left Qinghe City, privately asked for a few photos of the boy."

"This Yu Qinghai Hai is a caring person, now the vice minister of the Ministry of Construction, his uncle is the vice premier mentioned above, what he found is that the boy and his uncle's son look very similar, it can be said that it is very similar, he took the boy's photo back to Beijing, directly handed over the photo to the vice premier, of course, the vice premier has long since retired at this time, after his old man got the photo, he became curious, and then took out the photo of his son when he was young, and compared the two, and found that he looked very similar."

"Old-timers are old-timers, quietly, quietly sent someone to investigate, and made the boy's life experience clear, but his old man didn't make a noise, and he didn't even tell his wife and the boy's biological father, but he had long regarded the boy as his grandson in his heart, and he just silently watched the boy in the distant capital."

"It wasn't until more than a month ago that the boy had an accident, and he was reported to be shuanggui by the Commission for Discipline Inspection, that the old man decided to help the boy, with his old man's honorable position in the party, of course, he would not come forward publicly, so he thought of a person and asked that person to come forward and investigate what happened to the boy in secret......"

……

Xiang Tianliang looked at Yi Xiangrui, "The person entrusted by the old man should be you, right?" ”

"Yes, it's me, otherwise, how could I know your background?" Yi Xiangrui smiled.

"That's what you're talking about, some kind of mysterious Liliang intervention?"

"yes, if it weren't for that, your case wouldn't have been able to be turned over for a while."

Xiang Tianliang was silent.