Chapter 2 Appointments
In fact, I have always known that there must be more secrets of our family since ancient times than I imagined.
According to my grandmother, our Jing family was an official eunuch family in ancient times. There was once a strange strategist, Jing Lianhong. He knew astronomy and geography, and was once in a high position and was very favored. Jing Lianhong has been an official until he was more than 70 years old, and later got a strange disease, his hands and feet were stiff, his limbs were as hard as a rock, and he couldn't hold a pen.
However, legend has it that Jing Lianhong died a very strange death, saying that he had no body after his death, and his body turned into a wisp of green smoke and dispersed, and the coffin was empty, and the world built him with nothing more than a clothed mound.
Speaking of which, I feel weird, if this Jing Lianhong thing is true, then "dead without seeing the corpse" is not my family's old tradition?
"Mom and Dad, aren't they dead?" I looked at the wrinkles on the old man's face and asked.
"It's been all these years, don't you know if you're dead or not?" The old man was displeased, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about." β
But I always felt like my parents weren't dead. Even though my mom's cooking was unpalatable, and my dad was always late for school, I still thought about them.
"Then you tell me, which mountain did they have an accident on, Qingming, Zhongyuan, and I can also go up the mountain to worship and worship."
"Eldest grandson, I said," the old man took a bite of food and twisted the beard on the side of his mouth with his fingers, "I can't see the girlfriend you brought last time!" The blouse is like a skirt, the skirt is like a trousers, and the clothes do not cover the body, what kind of body is it? β
What's that, the span of this topic is too big!
"Why did you mention her," I frowned frustratedly, "you're too sloppy at that!" β
"Eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables."
"Don't, I'm not done yet......"
"By the way, there is still chicken soup left in the pot, I'll heat it up, and the two of us just have a bowl for each person."
The old man turned to leave the table, and I looked at his back and was speechless.
I said in my heart that the old man had the intention to hide from me, and it would be in vain for me to ask again, he refused to face the problem, I couldn't blow him, and I couldn't stretch him. Later, the old man came back with chicken soup, and I chatted with him about something else, and after cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, I went back to the house to surf the Internet.
Fifteen years ago, I was a child, but I don't have any memories at all.
I remember that there was a time when my relatives at home did move around very often, and there were several uncles, aunts, cousins, and cousins who had even lived in my house since the summer vacation.
I still remember that at night, they often closed the door of the house, discussed something inside, and did not sleep all night. My mother didn't care about cooking for me, so she gave me money in the morning and asked me to go out and buy it. I once peeked into their room, and I saw drawings all over the floor, a mountain of instant noodle bowls on the table, and a lot of books in the room.
Later, the family brought back a lot of things, pulled them in a small van, and brought them back one by one, not knowing what was inside. About a week later, the relatives suddenly died "in an accident while traveling." Including my parents, there were 16 people, and not a single body has been found.
How could my parents have died so easily?
When I was young, I wanted to believe my grandfather's explanation, but on the other hand, I couldn't believe anything. It's like one day, your mom says to you, "I saw the hell last night." On the one hand, you are dismissive, thinking to yourself how can there be ghosts in this world, and on the other hand, you really want to believe your mother, because how can your mother lie to you?
Perhaps, they don't want me, right? When I'm depressed, I think about it from time to time.
But even if my parents don't want me, they should have an explanation to me, such as telling me: Xiaoyang, you bear child is too annoying, don't talk about the old leftovers, you are three years old and still wet the bed, your father and I decided not to want you, you will do it yourself in the future, goodbye. Something like that...... But there is nothing left, and the suddenness makes people not react, but there will be a feeling of unreality.
Late at night, the garden is particularly quiet. I kept thinking about things, and I didn't play a few games before I went to bed early.
The next day, the air conditioner in the hospital pharmacy was damn broken, and the master came to repair it, saying that the air conditioner transformer was burning, and he had to bring the matching model over tomorrow to repair it.
In the middle of summer, it was so hot that I was dying, I was sweating, my body was covered with medicine residue, I was so uncomfortable, there was a lot of medicine list sent by the inpatient department, I drank five glasses of water, but I couldn't pee out of a soak of urine, I couldn't bear it, and when I wanted to sit on the spot, I suddenly heard someone call my name at the door.
"Jing Baiyang? β¦β¦ Are you Jing Baiyang? β
When I looked up, I saw a girl in a ponytail, about her early 20s.
"Grab the medicine? Give me a prescription. I said habitually.
"No, I'm not here to catch the medicine, I'm here to catch you."
I was stunned, but the girl giggled, and looked at me through the window of the pharmacy with a small face, "Are you free at night?" I'll treat you to dinner. β
"Eat?" I smiled too, "I...... I don't think I know you, do I? β
"Of course we don't know, this is the first time we've met. But I have something I want to talk to you about, do you want to save face? β
I said in my heart that I will grab medicine in a pharmacy, what can you talk to me about? Or is this girl a salesman from a medicinal herb factory? But it's not my responsibility to procure, is this girl wrong about something? I looked in the back room, and the master hadn't come back yet, so I asked, "Who is your attending doctor?" If you can't reach him, I can help you ask him about his schedule. β
"Tsk!" The girl glared at me dryly, "I said that I am not a medicine taker, nor a doctor, nor a pharmaceutical company, do you not understand Chinese or what?" β
Mom, why is this fierce? That's better than my girlfriend!
The girl took a deep breath, "Well, I'll tell you a few things, and make sure that after you hear it, hold my thigh and let me take you away!" As she spoke, she gave a smug expression. My heart said you just blow it, master, my heart is like water, except for Lin Chiling, no one can really provoke my young man's heart, not to mention that you are an adult? I smiled, shook my head and didn't speak, only to hear the girl lower her voice, "...... Fifteen years ago, Miziyuan, Qinjiang University, 16 people were unsolved. β
As the girl spoke, my eyes widened and I froze in place, my head still thinking about what to do to react, and the girl spoke again.
"Do you understand? Why haven't you understood yet? So let me say so, 'Turimen', do you understand? β
What the hell is Turimen? Tutang Carmen his brother? Cousins in Seattle?
"Would you like to eat with me now?" The girl tilted her head and rubbed her slender fingernails.
"I might have to work overtime at night," I said, fiddling with the prescription in my hand, "not necessarily." β
"What a stuffy gourd!" The girl frowned, looking very unhappy, "I've already brought the words, I'll be waiting for you in the 'courtyard pavilion' in the evening, call me when you arrive." As she spoke, she put a note in the window with a string of numbers written on it.
After the girl left, I pinched the sore bridge of my nose and began to wonder what was going on.
First of all, I want to rule out whether this woman is a female liar - back then, my family was quite wealthy, and my grandfather didn't like to make a noise, and he didn't let it be reported after the incident, so not many people knew that my parents were missing. The "Mizi Garden" mentioned by the girl is actually the old name of Mi Yuan, and I don't know the origin of the name, but there are very few people who know this article, and there is almost no way to verify it without checking the information, so eighty percent is not what she said nonsense.
In addition, "Qinjiang University", which is the alma mater of my parents, and it was at that school that they met and fell in love. Later, my mother stayed in school and worked in the research room of the university, and several young graduate students in the room often came to the house for dinner, and it was impossible for people who were not familiar with it to know about this layer.
So, the girl must have known something, but what did she know? How much do you know? I was so apprehensive that I couldn't bear it anymore and called the turkey.
Turkey was my iron buddy in high school, and now works in the household registration office of the police station. Turkey's parents are northerners, and the north calls good buddies "buddies", and he used to call me that, although it's a bit weird, but I still learn from him, but in my heart, I unconsciously regard those two words as "turkey".
After work, when I saw the turkey, I briefly told him about it. Turkey and I grew up together, and they know a little bit about my family's affairs, and he is stupid and naΓ―ve, and he listens to me especially in everything, so he is not afraid of his nonsense. After listening to me, the turkey didn't say a word, and immediately agreed to go with me.
It's not that I'm so timid that I don't even dare to see a girl alone. It's just that I think it's not as simple as it seems on the surface, find a friend to join me, in case something happens, he's a policeman, and he can help me a little.
When I came to the courtyard pavilion, I found the girl in the private room. She didn't come alone, and there were two men sitting beside her, one of whom looked like a tiger with a tattoo on his forehead, and his wrists were thicker than my thighs, and his muscles were strong.
I don't know if something goes wrong later, with the skills of graduating from the turkey police academy, I can't deal with this guy.
The other man, I was stunned when I saw it, isn't this a mole man? How could he be sitting here?
"Yo, you're here, please take a seat." The man raised his hand, and the tattooed man immediately got up, walked out of the private room and guarded the door.
I didn't introduce the turkey, and I didn't think it was necessary, so I sat down and asked, "Excuse me, what's the matter with me?" β
"What's the hurry, sit down first, drink a cup of tea and moisten your throat." The man instructed the waiter to pour tea, and it was the best West Lake Longjing that was poured. I looked at this posture and thought that there must be a lot to say next, so I muttered a little.
"What the hell is the matter with you? I've only been an intern for a short time since I graduated, and there aren't many places I can help, so don't let me know what to do. β
After listening to my words, the man looked at the turkey and seemed to have some scruples about him, so I said, "He is my cousin, and we are of the same heart, and my business is his business, so you can say it if you have nothing to do." β
The man smiled and ordered the waiter to go down.
"Okay, we're not going to go around in circles. There are two main things I want to ask you for help today, one is that your old man, there is an ancestral landscape painting, our boss has always liked it, I want to buy, recently I have been lobbying the old man, but his old man just does not let go, no way, so our boss is thinking, not selling it, borrow us to go back to see, I don't know if you can borrow the little master you here for convenience? β
Borrowing paintings? This doesn't sound particularly difficult, but I know the temper of my old man, if I can't borrow it, I'll want to borrow it for the rest of my life, and I promised this lep man, and then I guess I can only steal it. This can't be done, the old man knows that he has to kill me.
"What about the second thing?" I asked.
"The second one is after borrowing the painting, and I need you to go to a place with us, young master." The man squinted his eyes and smiled, and his smile was particularly sly.