17. Family

With these annoying questions, I couldn't possibly have fallen asleep all afternoon.

At half past four, Shu Xin called me again and asked me to hurry over, saying that her mother was already waiting to talk to me. My head buzzed suddenly, every time I went to her house, Shu Xin's mother would always leave me with all kinds of memories that made me extremely depressed. But fortunately, her father is also there, and I have a good relationship with my future father-in-law, which somewhat gives me a little bottom in my heart.

Because I didn't plan to come back tonight, I simply left the key to the door to Qiao Wei, and he went out to walk around if he wanted to go out, and used the key to open the door when he wanted to come back. Although I haven't known Qiao Wei for a long time, I have absolute trust in him, after all, he is the person who has saved my life several times before and after, and this relationship is no more general than those friends who drink and meat.

Qiao Wei didn't refuse, he said that staying at my house was just to confirm whether Wang Dongmei's ghost would come back.

Shu Xin's house is not too far from my house, less than five minutes by car, but every time I enter the community, I have to register with the security guard, which is really troublesome.

After entering Shu Xin's house, Shu Xin's mother came to greet me very warmly, looking amiable. But as soon as I sat down on the sofa in the living room, she immediately turned to what I hated the most.

Shu Xin's house is huge, and the large living room alone is estimated to be forty or fifty square meters. In the living room, there are three large separate sofas, arranged in a "concave" shape, I sit on the left side of the "concave" character, Shu Xin and her father sit in the middle of the "concave" character on the side against the wall, and her mother faces me on the right side of the "concave" character, forming an interrogative jiashi.

"How's the novel being written lately?" Shu Xin's mother first asked a question, basically everyone who knows me will ask when they see me.

"It's still like that, and not many people watch the tepid." I said it truthfully.

"That's not going to work~"

Here it comes! Not again! I had long guessed that she would say that! Since she was in college, Shu Xin's mother has always kept this sentence on her lips.

I was not good at math since I was a child, and I never passed all math-related subjects in college. And every time Shu Xin's mother asks about my grades, she always comes to say, "That's not good~".

Later, I got my graduation certificate and degree certificate in a daze, and I did procurement work in a grain and oil company, and Shu Xin's mother said "That's not good~" It obviously means that her daughter can't marry a small buyer.

After I quit my job, I opened a small restaurant, because I basically couldn't make any money from maintaining the store in the early stage, so the phrase "That's not good" bombed me like a bomb continuously, so that I didn't even dare to go to Shu Xin's house. I finally stayed up for two years, the restaurant improved, I bought a car and a loan to buy a house, Shu Xin's mother finally stopped muttering this sentence.

Later, I handed over all the stores to my sister to take care of, and I wrote novels at home as my own shopkeeper, and Shu Xin's mother's sentence "That's not good" came back. Now, this sentence is starting to specialize in my novels.

After talking about how writing a novel doesn't last long, and that I have to work to support my family, the conversation turned back to what I've been up to lately. If I told Shu Xin that my mother hadn't moved a word in my recent novels, and that I followed a foreigner around every day to catch ghosts, she would definitely say "That's not good", so I chose to explain my behavior in another way.

"I've been experiencing life lately, and I'm going to write a novel about Yin and Yang Feng Shui, and now this kind of novel is quite promising."

"That's not good~ If you don't write much about the novel, you should go to your hotel more, after all, that's your main source of income, how much can you earn by writing novels now?"

……

I had no choice but to respond to her with silence and a dry laugh.

Shu Xin's mother doesn't eat me, and continues to say that a man should basically start a family when he reaches my age, and now my income is unstable, if the restaurant is yellow after marrying Shu Xin, and the novel is not written, my life will become a problem in the future, and I can't rely on women to support my family, etc.

Shu Xin also saw that I couldn't resist it, so he hurriedly came over and sat next to me to help me divert the topic to the school, after all, the school has recently killed two people in a row, and the topic is stronger than my job and income. In addition, Shu Xin's father is the big leader of the city's Cultural Bureau, and he will pay more or less attention to this aspect of things.

This trick really worked, and Shu Xin's father began to talk about the problem of poor psychological tolerance of college students now. Shu Xin knew that I had acquaintances with the police, so she also asked me what I knew about Zheng Lili, which made her mother completely unable to interject.

Because Qiao Wei told me many times not to talk about ghosts, I hid all the parts related to ghosts, and only said that Zheng Lili had been talking on the phone with a mysterious person before she died, and Zheng Lili and Wang Dongmei were classmates, and I also mentioned Shang Jiawen.

I just said it casually, but I didn't expect Shu Xin to be taken aback when he heard Shang Jiawen's three words. She immediately said: "There is a teacher in the foreign language college named Shang Jiawen, who is also in his early forties. It is rumored in the school that she has a bad relationship with Zheng Lili, because she is robbing a man with Zheng Lili behind her back. ”

Shu Xin's words stopped at the point, but I understood that the man who wanted to rob must be Zhang Hongliang! Also, at the same age, I also work at the Foreign Language Institute, so I don't think it's another coincidence. So I immediately dialed Qiao Wei's phone at Shu Xin's house and asked him to find Tang Hui to check the background of this teacher Shang Jiawen in the School of Foreign Languages.

It only took more than an hour for Tang Hui's call to come directly to my mobile phone. On the phone, Tang Hui told me a fact that I didn't expect anyway, Shang Jiawen was indeed robbing Zheng Lili for a man, and it was Zhang Hongliang who was robbing, but Shang Jiawen was not robbing her husband, but her father - Shang Jiawen is Zhang Hongliang's biological daughter!

It turned out that Zhang Hongliang happened to be his daughter enrolled in school when he became the principal, but no one knew that Zhang Hongliang's daughter actually followed her mother's surname Shang. It is estimated that in order to avoid suspicion, the address information filled in by Shang Jiawen is also the ancestral home of the old Shang family, so it is impossible to contact him now.

The puzzle piece that I had never found finally appeared, and this time, a complete picture finally appeared in my mind for the first time. This painting includes three good friends who were enrolled in school at the same time in '95, including a male teacher and a principal father.