Every document in the blue folder was stacked on the table, and Lin Nian turned the page quickly, his eyes swept over the information as quickly as a scanner, and he put the documents he had read into another stack in almost five seconds.

Su Xiaoqiao was not surprised to see him like this, almost no one in the second (1) class of high school did not know that Lin Nian had a particularly good memory, and the story of memorizing the dictionary and memorizing the last 1,000 digits of pi had been discussed by everyone in the grade several times. I heard that the school intended to push him to the city to participate in the memory competition, and even considered letting him appear on a variety show, but he politely refused, on the grounds that learning is important, but the specific reason is probably only clear to him.

"Chu Tianjiao probably came to settle in this city in 1988, at that time our city had not yet developed, everyone was poor, but after all, it was in the city, so many people from the countryside flocked in and were ready to try their luck, probably he also belongs to this category of people." Su Xiaoqiao looked at Lin Nian, who was looking through the information, and retold the original words of her uncle who helped her check the information, "At that time, our side was still very backward, the streets were full of red brick walls, and the streets were full of comic stalls, billiard tables and hair salons with photos of Gong Li and Andy Lau. ”

"It's hard to feel immersed." Lin Nian said, "But Chu Zihang was born in 1990, which proves that Chu Tianjiao did come to this city 90 years ago and met Su Xiaoyan, that is, Chu Zihang's mother... He has lived in the city for almost 20 years? ”

"We found a lot of information about him because of his application letters, he had been in the city for a long time but he didn't make a name for himself, and in the first few years he worked in a hair salon and cut people's hair." Su Xiaoqiao saw Lin Nian push a photo aside.

It's a very old-fashioned yellowed photo, the man in it has a pompy head that resembles an airplane head, black hair on his temples, a fancy shirt with a black and white T-shirt, and a sunglasses on his face are standing in front of the mirror to cut the hair of guests, and the posture is very sassy... Judging from the poster hanging on the side, it is not difficult to guess that the man is imitating the rock king "Elvis", with his muscles dripping with crystal sweat in the sun, and probably many female guests will come to ask him to wash his hair at that time.

"But it's a pity that the barbershop closed down later, probably because of his aesthetics, and people at that time couldn't accept the popular hairstyles in the United States, and many people gathered together to smash his shop." Su Xiaoqiao said.

"Has the information been found out for so long?" Lin Nian glanced at Su Xiaoqiao.

"There are a lot of channels in our family on the matter of investigating people." Su Xiaoqiao was a rare perfunctory look at Lin Nian, because this involved some trivial matters of her family background, and it was inevitable that she would step on some of the bright and dark intentions of mining. The mine is dirty, and people are dirty when they are stained with mines, such as the resources and circles held by Su Xiaoqiao's family as the largest mining enterprise are unimaginable to ordinary people, they want to investigate a person, and it only takes half a day to dig people out clearly, and even letting Norma collect local intelligence is not necessarily comparable to the head snake in the snake like them.

What's more, Chu Tianjiao's Lin Nian asked her to help find someone, and she just notified her father's secretary if there was anything else, but this time he specifically found his uncle who was sitting on the human resources bench, and asked him to check under the guise that his father was looking for someone. With Su Xiaojiao's words, almost the entire city turned over in half a day, stacking almost all the traces that Chu Tianjiao could find in this city in front of Lin Nian.

"Later, I heard that I was a rock singer for a while... But I didn't beat the popular red songs at that time, and everyone shouted and beat them as the reactionaries sent from abroad, the guitars were broken, and I left a video at the time, and there was a storm of 'catching spies' for a while, but fortunately, he hid it well and was not caught as a spy to be solved, and this matter was dug up in the local newspaper before he knew that he had such a past. The expression on Su Xiaoqiao's face was also a little strange, and it seemed that it was hard to imagine that he could compare this once embarrassed man with Chu Zihang in Shilan.

"Later, in 1990, he got married, and the object was Su Xiaoyan, a talented girl from the city's dance troupe." Su Xiaoqiao said that Lin Nian, who was on the other side of the table, was also looking at the copy of the marriage certificate, and the man and the woman were both in black and white with a love-like emotion, and they were printed in black under the date of birth: Voluntary marriage, after examination in accordance with the provisions of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China on marriage, this certificate will be issued.

"During that time, Chu Tianjiao found a lot of jobs, but most of them were temporary workers, my uncle said that it was not easy to find a job in the 90s, the class concept is stronger than now, farmers are farmers, workers are workers, unless you go to the army and come back to apply for the qualification to enter the factory, otherwise only the sons or daughters of workers can become workers... Chu Tianjiao applied to work in the factory, but he was rejected after looking for six or seven in a row, but he had no choice but to find temporary workers. Su Xiaoqiao looked at the yellowed application form for entering the factory spread out in Lin Nian's hand and paused, "So during that time, he mainly made a living as a coolie." ”

"Coolies?"

"To support a family, right? I got married at the beginning of the year, and I had children a year later... That is, Chu Zihang. Su Xiaoqiao also seemed to be immersed in interpreting this man's life, and he was now talking about the most difficult life of the man named Chu Tianjiao... It's probably also the most rewarding time.

There's no ambition, there's no Top Gun... Just giving birth to a lovely child with a woman he likes, this is probably the happiest moment in this man's life.

In order to maintain the livelihood of his wife and children, he worked as a temporary worker for a long time, but at that time, even temporary workers were not so easy to find. The business card was made by himself in a copy shop, three cents a piece... This information was provided by the Black Prince Group, and they even found the retention of business cards. ”

"You also asked the people of the Black Prince Group?" Lin Nian really found a business card cracked by water in the folder, on which Chu Tianjiao's name and all the business he contracted were written... From music personal training to coolies, he can do almost anything, and he is willing to do anything.

"The people over there helped us find records from a long time ago, and there is indeed a person named Chu Tianjiao, although the traces are very shallow, but the people we want to find can generally find out... During that time, the Black Prince Group was engaged in the mining industry and also did the construction industry, and many people needed to pick ash barrels and sand and gravel, two barrels per load, about seventy catties, Chu Tianjiao also went to apply, and also did a good job, leaving a deep impression on many people. ”

Su Xiaoqiao took out a photo from the folder, Lin Nian was slightly moved when he saw the photo, it was a photo of the construction site during the big construction period at that time, the temporary workers were working with their backs to the loess, and the leader with the construction hat scolded Fang Xuan. But the most eye-catching thing in this is the man with a fashionable Elvis hairstyle wearing a tight T-shirt and carrying a load of sand and gravel, a weight of 70 kilograms on his shoulders, and he didn't forget to carry two more buckets in his hands, carrying a weight of about 150 pounds and trotting...

"Later, I also won the Best Temporary Worker Award, the reason is that a restaurant construction of the Black Prince Group needs to resist a 1,200-kilogram cooked boiler on the second floor, and as a result, the project people heard that it was 1,200 catties, and only eight people were employed, Chu Tianjiao was inside, and he pushed the boiler of more than 2,000 catties and seven other people to the second floor. Then a temporary worker award was given to each person, and an extra hundred dollars were awarded. ”

It's still a photo, eight workers are standing together, the most handsome and eye-catching is Chu Tianjiao, with a big red envelope pinned to his chest, showing a confident smile towards the camera... Probably thinking that you can buy high-quality milk powder for your children again?

"But in fact, they did the work of two people, and they should get a reward of one hundred and twenty, so the project people also took a kickback of one hundred and sixteen." Lin Nian put aside the information about this matter in his hand and whispered.

He thought about looking for Chu Tianjiao's past, hoping to find clues of 'Odin' from it, but he didn't expect to find what he finally found... This man's whole life in this city.

"But then his life stabilized, and it happened that at that time, the city entered a period of rapid development, the national welfare movement began, and many enterprises sprung up, and he also took advantage of this wind to find a stable job..."

"Drive for the tax collector?" Lin Nian looked at the photo he picked up, which was taken by a newspaper reporter, a black Shanghai Volkswagen Jetta 2000 in front of a hotel.

In the context that everyone goes out on a bicycle, a good car represents almost all the face of the owner. At that time, the tax commissioner, who had not yet fallen into a smash hit, was also hooking shoulders with some related households, showing a hearty smile in and out.

It's just that Lin Nian's eyes have not moved away from the corner of the photo from the beginning, where there is a man with a comb on his back leaning on the back of the car smoking a cigarette alone, his face can't be seen clearly in the photo, he can only see white smoke at a 45-degree elevation angle at the end of his back, and the hotel lamp refracted mottled light on his oil head... Although he was only a driver at the time, he became the finishing touch of this photo, and this man has always left a sense of alternative style in various eras.

"I heard my uncle say that many people who used to work in the tax bureau remember him, saying that he drove well, and at that time, the director of the tax bureau could afford to buy a car but not many could drive it, and several drivers were afraid to drive for fear of scratching a little bit and losing their belts. But Chu Tianjiao took the initiative to apply for this position at that time, and everyone who had ever done his car said that he was born to be a driver, and he had never been late for the meeting since he became the director of the tax bureau. Su Xiaoqiao said.

"He liked Elvis, but at that time, there were very few foreign programs in China, so he had a resume of studying abroad or traveling abroad, and maybe his driving skills were honed at that time," Lin said.

"But if he studies abroad, he won't go to work as a temporary worker to support his family when he returns from overseas?" Su Xiaoqiao was a little puzzled... For Su Xiaoyan and Chu Zihang, who was just born, that man had been desperately looking for work in those years, and the city was full of the shadow of the permanent brand bicycle he was riding, leaving an indelible trace in this one-acre and three-point land.

"He has his own problems." It is difficult for Lin Nian to explain to Su Xiaoqiao that Chu Tianjiao's experience abroad may not be studying abroad and traveling, but doing some 'tasks' that are difficult to show others, maybe he haunts the upper class society in the United States, and spends his days with suits and spirits, lighting cigars with banknotes and haunting one intelligence station after another related to the secrets of the 'Dragon Clan'.

He's an 'S' class, the most sleek when he pulls the wind... But in the end, he chose to return to the country in the early days of reform and opening up in the 90s, and was accompanied by mud and sweat every day... Everything is just for the toddler Chu Zihang who is waiting to be fed at home and the woman named Su Xiaoyan?

But what drove you to do this? Lin Nian stretched out his hand and gently wiped the side face of the man smoking on his back and thought silently.