Xiao Se's face also changed, he bent down, picked up the red umbrella from the ground, and walked out of the kitchen quickly.

"Grandpa, how can you have such an umbrella?" Xiao Se's tone was hurried.

Senator Ye was stunned, his eyebrows were knotted, and he said after a while: "I forgot that there is such an umbrella, it may have been used a long time ago, and then it was no longer needed, so I just found a place to put it." ”

"Grandpa, can you please be honest with me?" Xiao Se pleaded in a low voice, "In the past, every time I mentioned my mother and aunt to you, I would provoke you to lose your temper, but then I never dared to mention it again. But I never believed that my mother would kill herself, she loved me, and she wouldn't be willing to leave me alone. After all these years, I have never given up on finding the truth, but it has been so long that I can't find out. Grandpa, I know that although you can't forgive my mother for violating the ancestral teachings, you still love her, and you don't love your own children if you don't have parents. A villager who has passed away told me that someone in the village saw a woman wearing a red cotton jacket with a red umbrella by the lake. If my mother didn't kill herself, but was killed, you must also want to find the murderer and let him be punished as he deserves. ”

Senator Ye was silent for a long time, and tears gradually appeared in his cloudy eyes. "This red umbrella was picked up in the woods by the lake on the night your mother threw herself into the lake, I recognized this umbrella as your mother's, this umbrella was a very fashionable thing in those days, I had never seen it in such a place in the countryside, and she bought it back when she went out to perform. Later, she ran away with the man and never came home, so the umbrella was given to your aunt. ”

"Is my mother's death really related to my aunt?" Xiao Se frowned, his face pale.

"I'm not sure. I also heard about the woman holding the red umbrella, I asked your aunt, and she admitted that the umbrella was hers, but she insisted that she had left the umbrella outside when she went out during the day, and said that she had forgotten where she had lost it. I didn't believe it, and asked her to be honest about where she had been and how she lost her umbrella, but she couldn't tell me where she had gone. Senator Ye's face was distorted, her thin fingers clenched the corner of the table, and she twitched her cheeks for a long time and said, "After that, our relationship was stiff, and later, she also ran away from home, like her sister, to find that man." The family is unfortunate, the family is unfortunate! ”

In this way, Ye Juan is really a major suspect of harming his sister, no wonder Xiao Se mentioned his aunt last time, which caused Senator Ye's anger.

"Grandpa, can you still remember what happened that night?" Xiao Se's haggard eyes lit up with fire, "Even if it's just a little bit, I desperately want to know what the situation was." ”

Senator Ye pondered silently for a moment before speaking slowly: "That night, I went to bed early, and I was awakened by a knock on the door at night, Ye Juan was like crazy, crying and shouting, my sister threw herself into the lake, and she was already dead after being rescued. When I heard this, my whole body went limp, and I couldn't even walk, but the rest of the village came and helped me over. When I got to the lake, I saw Ye Ying lying on the ground, her face was pale, and her lips were bruised......"

The old man couldn't go on anymore, and his shoulders shrugged with emotion.

"Grandpa......" Xiao Se stretched out his hand and gently put it on his shoulder, and his voice was choked and trembling.

"Later, your father and the people from the dance troupe also came, and I heard that they stayed in the nearby Luojia Village that night." Senator Ye's eyes became sharp and scathing, "Your father is really not a thing, you were just born at that time, and your mother's health was not good after giving birth, he didn't stay at home to take care of you, and even took a few actresses to Luojia Village to play." ”

"How many actresses?" I was surprised, the night Ye Ying threw herself into the lake, Xiao Pengcheng and a few actresses lived in Luojia Village? "What are they doing in Luojia Village?"

Xiao Se was also very puzzled and waited for Senator Ye to continue, obviously he didn't know anything about Xiao Pengcheng's affairs in Luojia Village that night.

Senator Ye snorted heavily in his nostrils. "How do I know what they are doing in Luojia Village, our two villages have a feud, I never interact with the people in their village, and I only heard from other people in our village later."

"Who are those actresses, do you know?" Xiao Se asked again.

"I can't remember the name, but they used to come to the house with Ye Ying to play, and they also took a group photo, the photo is in the drawer of my room, I'll go get it." Senator Ye went out tremblingly, and after a while, he came back with a large bag of brown paper wrapped in both hands, "Fortunately, the drawer is relatively high and has not been flooded." ”

He sat down, placed the vellum paper bag on the dining table, and carefully opened it, revealing a large stack of old black and white photographs, the top one being what he called a group photo. He handed the photo to Xiao Se, it was a group photo of four people, the old black and white photo had turned yellow, the women in the photo were all in their prime, everyone posed beautiful dance moves, graceful and graceful. On the back of the photo are the names of the four people: Ye Ying, Yu Xingpei, Hu Tong, Fang Yanlan, and there is a line underneath: Zhang Yaxiong in 1980.

The group photo in 1980, which was before Ye Ying said goodbye to the stage, has passed more than 30 years. Now Yu Xingpei and Hu Tong have become the principal and deputy directors of the dance troupe, and Fang Yanlan is the director of the office, they all continue their wonderful lives, only Ye Yingxiang has died, and the peerless elegance only exists in the black and white old photos.

I was feeling sentimental when I heard Xiao Se asking, "Who is Zhang Yaxiong who took pictures of them?" ”

"It's from Zhangjia Village, who used to open a photo studio on the island, and I happened to come to our village that day and met a few of them. Zhang Yaxiong has passed away, and his son is also engaged in photography, and he came to me a few days ago to ask for this photo, saying that he was going to hold a commemorative photography exhibition for his father, and he was asking everywhere to collect photos taken by Zhang Yaxiong before. I wouldn't give him the picture, so he took the camera and retook it and had to wash it out himself. Senator Ye said, and took out a business card from the brown paper bag, "This is the business card given to me by Zhang Yaxiong's son, and I put it in." ”

Xiao Se took the business card, and I also took a look: Zhang Zheyu, a photojournalist from "Star Art Weekly".

Xiao Se and I looked at each other in amazement, it turned out that the paparazzi Zhang Zheyu, who had no moral bottom line, was from Zhangjia Village, and his father also took photos of Ye Ying and the four of them.

Xiao Se also took it out and retook the group photo. Senator Ye put the photo away again, he remembered something, and said: "That night, I lost a bag of gold bars. ”

"How did you lose it?" Xiao Se asked.

"The next day, I found that it was missing, and it should have been stolen. I've been hiding so much that I don't know how I found out. Senator Ye didn't care much about the loss of gold bars, "Money and property are all things outside the body, and if you lose it, you will lose it, and I was not in the mood to pursue it at that time." ”

I heard Xiao Se say that Senator Ye's grandfather went to Nanyang in his early years to make a living, and later made a fortune, his grandfather did not marry anyone else in Nanyang, Senator Ye's father was an only son, and after the death of his grandparents, all the inheritance belonged to his father, and then passed on the wealth to Senator Ye, who was also an only son, so as early as the 80s of the last century, he was already the richest person in the village, and he is still the rich man in the village until now.

On the night of Ye Ying's death, the wealthy Senator Ye lost a bag of gold bars, is there some kind of connection between the two?

Xiao Se also looked puzzled. 30 years have passed, and the truth of that night, I wonder if there will be a day when it will surface?

After a tired, stressful and exciting night, we were all hungry. Xiao Se said that he was going to Ye Zihan's house to see if he could get something to eat, so he put on a raincoat and went out.

There was no electricity in the house, and there was only one old radio that could still listen to the radio. Senator Ye turned on the radio and tuned into the news channel, and a report about last night's typhoon came from the airwaves: Typhoon No. 14 was fierce, made a 90-degree turn in the Pacific Ocean, bypassed Taiwan, and went all the way north, heading straight to Haicheng. At 9 o'clock yesterday evening, the typhoon hit Haicheng head-on for more than 5 hours, and the wind force reached 15. Damaged by the typhoon, most of the island was without power. Water and gas were cut off, most businesses were shut down, airports were closed, ships were suspended, railways were suspended, and city buses were suspended...... The streets of the urban area were flooded in many places, more than 70,000 trees were broken or uprooted, 95% of the outdoor billboards were destroyed, more than 200 houses collapsed, 40 seawalls were broken, and the city's economic losses amounted to 1.937 billion yuan......

The typhoon came so suddenly, unprepared, and so powerful, it is no wonder that the damage was staggering. I thought that the damage on the island would be smaller, but I didn't expect it to be more serious than outside the island. The apartment building I live in is old, the exterior walls are outdated, the windows are a little old, and I guess it has also suffered.

I called Yin Jingshu worriedly to find out the situation.

"Xiao Xinxin, it's so miserable, the windows of the apartment are all broken, and the water is full of gold." Yin Jingshu went home to live last night, and the family did not suffer any losses, but when she returned to the dance company apartment in the morning, she found that it was a mess, "I can't live at all, I have to go home to live." Now there is a lot of chaos outside, and when the sky clears, I will find someone to repair the windows and clean the house. ”

I can imagine that my apartment must have been miserable too. Yin Jingshu can still go home to live, I have nowhere to go, what should I do?

While I was worried, I helped Senator Ye to clean up the kitchen briefly, all the things in the kitchen were flooded, the rice and everything were washed away by the water, and there was no place to eat.

Xiao Se came back with a pack of steamed steamed buns from Ye Zihan's mother Hong Xiulian, according to him, the typhoon caused a mountain road collapse, and it is impossible to go down the mountain today. Hong Xiulian warmly invited us to live in their house, and their building was not damaged except for the water on the first floor, and the food stored in the house was enough to last for several days.

The mountain roads are impassable, there is no place to buy food, and you can't go hungry. We talked so badly that we finally persuaded Senator Ye to move to a place to live and come back to clean up the mess when the weather cleared.