The meal is not exquisite, just a home-cooked method, roast chicken with mushrooms, fried wild boar meat with fresh bamboo shoots, dough, spicy bean fish, a bowl of mushroom soup, the staple food is steamed cake that I don't know what to do, and a few white buns. Chen Laoshi explained that the steamed cake is a jujube cake bun, which is a special pastry in Hanzhong.

Everyone stopped talking and had lunch first. With such a sumptuous dish, it was obvious that the Zhuzi family had prepared it carefully, so Sun Yizhen took out a short knife as a reward. Otherwise, ordinary people can already count as rich if they can have some bacon. I'm afraid this meal is enough for the pillar family to eat for a week.

The jujube cake bun is soft and delicate, slightly sweet with rice noodles, and the women are full of praise for eating, and Chen is honest and laughing, but it is also the pleasure of the guests and hosts. It's like a visitor.

After lunch, Jiang Shiyan and Deng Xiujing cleaned up the tableware, put the rest of the dishes back into the basket one by one, and carefully wiped the table. Li Zhien took out the tea in the supple, boiled the water, and filled a large pot with Chen Laoshi.

The girls don't have so many cups available, but Chen Laoshi has a lot of cups made of bamboo tubes at home, which are used to drink tea, which has a fresh flavor.

Chen Laoshi rubbed the tea jar and said, "I haven't drunk Yangzhou's spring tea for a long time, and I have long forgotten what it tastes like." ”

Kelly said: "I didn't prepare 2 catties of Yangzhou tea for you, and the chief also asked me to bring some brick tea from Byzantium, as well as milk tea from Golden Horde, which is considered a filial piety to your old age, and you stay and drink it slowly." ”

Chen Laoshi looked up at Kelly in surprise, Kelly knew that she had said the wrong thing, she smiled lightly, and put on a natural cute smile, with her blonde hair and snowy skin, and lake-like eyes, people don't know what to do.

Sun Yizhen smiled and continued to ask, "Uncle Chen, can you tell us what happened that night?" ”

Chen Laoshi continued another bag of cigarettes, and in the green smoke, he told unhurriedly.

When Gu Cheng returned to the master room, Lu Sitong was still asleep. Even if such a big thing happened outside, Lu Sitong didn't know anything. Gu Cheng knew that Lu Sitong had taken marijuana again to sleep so quietly.

Looking at the beautiful face of his wife who had lived with him for ten years, Gu Cheng sat at the head of the bed and wept silently. The 27-year-old wife is still as sweet as a girl, but Gu Cheng knows that his wife's skin has begun to slack and turn yellow under the ravages of alcohol and marijuana.

He couldn't stand his wife's continued depravity. I don't know how long it took, his hand was held around Lu Sitong's swan-like neck. In hesitation, unable to use his strength ruthlessly, Lu Sitong opened his eyes with difficulty that seemed to be godless due to suffocation.

Looking at her husband who was crying silently in front of her, Lu Sitong understood what was about to happen. There was no struggle and struggle, and Lu Sitong's eyes showed relief and relief. He spit out a 'kiss me' with difficulty, and crystal tears slipped from the corners of Lu Sitong's eyes.

Feeling the lip flap on his lips that his wife was gradually losing its temperature, and seeing that his wife was not hideous but smiled slightly like a sleeping face, a tragic and low wail finally overflowed from Gu Cheng's mouth.

After telling his wife about his thoughts in front of his bed for a long time, Gu Cheng finally cleaned up his mood, changed into a clean suit, and walked out of Gu's mansion at 9:45.

In the night market, Gu Cheng regained the image of the elegant scholar, he was in an extremely relaxed mood, he also ate a bowl of sesame paste, a drawer of steamed buns, and packed two cooking cakes, and before the curfew, he came to the small villa where his father-in-law Lu Song hid drugs and illegal bootlegged water.

The identity of the son-in-law, coupled with the key he got from his father-in-law, made Tai infiltrate the underground warehouse without much effort. Breaking the barrel of private wine, with the help of food and alcohol, the poppies and marijuana hoarded in the basement were burned by Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng successfully escaped from the villa before the fire spread to the ground.

The Lu family, who knew about the matter in advance, also launched the pursuit of Gu Cheng. After a few days in the east of Chang'an, he was never able to break through the double blockade of the Lu family and the army, and Gu Cheng, who got Lu Song's black account hidden in the villa, also knew to what extent the Lu family had infiltrated the entire Yongzhou.

If you can't enter the capital area, it is impossible to bring down the Lu family, and Gu Cheng began the journey to the capital area on foot on the road. However, a few days later, it was the news that Guo Lan, who had obtained some of the evidence of the Lu family's crime and was trying to help him, disappeared. Apparently to be destroyed.

There is a long road ahead, but what awaits Gu Cheng is the blockade of the Yongzhou military police and the pursuit of the underworld forces. Gu Cheng, who detoured to the southeast, only walked to Lantian when he was discovered by the Lantian underworld, and was seriously injured under a chase, and fled to Duling County to be rescued by a certain Fang surnamed Orion, and almost died.

After cultivating for more than half a year, he will be cured, but the news of the Youzhou War came. But what made Gu Cheng pay attention was not the war in Youzhou, but the promotion and transfer of the Lu family's mixed army to the General Administration of the Military Police in the Capital Circle, and became a real big man.

At this point, Gu Cheng gave up the idea of continuing to petition the capital area, went west incognito, left Yongzhou, stopped and hid all the way, and arrived at Wangjiaba, which is sparsely populated in Hanzhong and backed by the Qinling Mountains, more than a year later.

Gu Cheng, who was bitten by a poisonous snake in the mountains and was treated by the villagers, was grateful for the kindness of the hunters here and admired the simple folk customs, so he settled here. From now on, there is no more Gu Cheng in the world, but one more Chen Honest. From 7 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. every night, it has become a fixed time for Chen Laoshi to face the lotus pond and remember his wife and daughter. ”

After slowly finishing speaking, Chen Laoshi shrunk and took out the old-fashioned pocket watch from his arms, opened the lid, and looked at the hand-painted paper cuts of his wife and daughter on the inside of the lid silently. The dim gaze flickered, and there was no more sound.

Sun Yizhen gave Kelly an encouraging look, and Kelly hesitated slightly, and took out two old photos from her left breast pocket. Kelly stretched out her white and tender little hand, handed the photo to Chen Laoshi, and whispered:

"Mr. Chen, the photographic technology was just adopted back then, and the effect was still very bad. The chief said that you left in a hurry back then, and you may not have any commemorative tokens in your hands. We can't move the evidence in the investigation file at will, so the chief asked us to pass on these two photos to you, talk about our hearts, and keep them as souvenirs. ”

Thirty-seven years ago, when photographic technology was just being born, the police used the latest technology to take photographs of the two deceased for evidence. Chen Laoshi rubbed the old photos of the faded black and white, and even some places had fallen ink to reveal white spots, and silent tears poured out.

The photograph is a close-up of the body from the side for evidence. Lu Wen's expression is serene as if she is asleep, Lu Sitong's upper body is covered with a white cloth, the photo is taken from above the shoulders, the purple and black handprints on the neck are clearly visible, but the expression is miraculously smiling, as if relieved and relieved. The beautiful faces of the mother and daughter are in the same vein, although they are not very clear, but they are also as fresh as ever.

It is said that a man's silent crying is the most hurtful, Sun Yizhen looked at half of his body trembling, tears gushing like a spring, opening his mouth without sound, only occasionally revealing a low "haha" inhalation sound, as if all his strength was exhausted by breathing, Chen Laoshi, couldn't help but redden. Kelly has also cried silently, and the more emotional Li Zhien and Deng Xiujing behind her have snuggled in Jiang Shiyan's arms and sobbed.

After waiting for a long time, Chen Laoshi finally stopped his tears, the sadness on his face gradually disappeared, and he smiled with satisfaction, looked at the photo, and immersed himself in it. Finally, he raised his head, smiled and said, "Sir, I can go with you." ”

Sun Yizhen reluctantly smiled and replied: "We said before, the prosecution period of the Gu family's case has long passed, and we are only here to hear a story." But there is something I want to apologize to you, in fact, we have been in Wangjiaba for a few days, and we have been observing you through binoculars in the mountains before, and we have almost been discovered by the villagers in the village several times.

Without your consent, we took out your account book last night that you were hiding under the fish pond. We are now investigating the Xianyang Lu family, and I think the court will need this account book in your hand. Can we take it away, please? ”

"Investigate the Lu family? But isn't Lu Fan, one of the four tigers of the Lu family, a major general of the gendarmerie corps now? This ......"

At this time, Li Zhien, who was standing behind Sun Yizhen, took over the conversation and said with some pride: "Uncle Chen, you may no longer pay attention to the news in the capital area recently. Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation has only been established for more than half a year, it is responsible for investigating serious and important cases throughout the federal government, including official crimes and duty-related crimes.

Not to mention the Investigation Bureau, even in one of our procuratorial departments, there are more than 3 generals who have been brought down by themselves. A gendarmerie captain is not yet our goal. The director wants to take down the entire Lu family and relieve the people of Xianyang from hanging upside down. ”

Sun Yizhen clearly felt confidence, pride and a sense of identity from Li Zhien's words, although she has only joined this group for a month, and she can't feel the origin of this confidence, but she will not reject this feeling.

Smiling at Chen Laoshi, Sun Yizhen turned his head and beckoned, Deng Xiujing took out a brown paper bag from the backpack behind him and sent it to Sun Yizhen.

"Uncle Honest, the chief prepared this for you before I came, and he said that if you are willing to tell us the story of Mr. Gu Cheng and help us provide evidence, let me give this to you."

"It's ......"

Chen Laoshi stretched out his hand, which was slightly cracked by labor, and took the waterproof kraft paper file bag. Inside is an identification document of Hongnong's "Chen Laoshi", as well as a letter of appointment to appoint Chen Laoshi as the political adviser of Baozhong County, and finally a witness protection plan.

Chen Laoshi raised his face that was a little shocked, and looked at Sun Yizhen who didn't know how to ask for a while.

"Honestly, uncle, to be honest, we didn't know what happened before we came. And your identity is not what we found out. When the Intelligence Department of the Investigation Bureau was investigating the Lu family, when tracking down a Zhashui County gang that was related to the Lu family, it accidentally intercepted a letter about you.

Don't worry, the letter is just a little suspicious of you, and it was intercepted by us, so the Lu family shouldn't get it. It was our director who studied what you did in Hanzhong and deduced that you might be ......" Sun Yizhen paused, looked at Chen Laoshi, and continued:

"The director judged that you may have evidence of the Lu family's crimes, otherwise the Lu family would not be looking for you after more than 30 years, so let's come over and take a look. To tell you the truth, we also brought out an arrest warrant. But the Director said that if you were willing to tell us a story from 37 years ago, you might use that little bit of stuff.

As for which document to use, it is at the sole discretion of our investigation team. You have earned our respect, and I think you will want to continue living in Xiao Wangzhuang as Chen Shishi. ”