Chapter 111: We have a clue

"Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you, That is how I know you--"

Just as their lips were about to meet, Yu He's cell phone rang.

Celine Dion's clear and crisp voice suddenly brings Yu He back from the maze of desire, and the ambiguous magic is broken, and he suddenly remembers what happened before.

He sat up suddenly, his chest was hot, heaving, but his eyes moved away from Qingcheng Xie's handsome face.

"Ahem ...... I'll take a call."

Qingcheng Xie also sat up woefully.

His forehead hair was disheveled, his eyebrows were tinged with coldness, and Yu He was not the only one who was awakened by the bell.

It's not that he was soft, but he felt that Yu He's state was very wrong, and Qingcheng Xie even had an illusion when being gazed at like that.

He felt as if the boy would lose his life if he said one more word no at this time.

But he then thought he was really overthinking it.

This almost fledgling look, this kind of look that only he could rely on in the world, was only given to him by Xue Xie a long, long time ago.

What kind of person is Yu He? He can get wind and rain, he is different from Xue Xie. He is such a capable child, who can't live without him?

How did you almost misunderstand ...... yourself and almost be compelled by this person again ...... fuck.

Qingcheng Xie was annoyed and started to touch the cigarette again, but after half a day, he didn't touch it, and then he remembered that the last cigarette had already been smoked earlier.

"...... Well, okay, I get it."

Yu He is still listening to the phone, answering a few words every now and then.

Qingcheng Xie intended to get off, he felt that tonight is really fucking ridiculous, fortunately came to the phone, if he and Yu He had a car shock today, then his life's face is considered lost. And this behavior is completely irresponsible to Yu He and to himself.

He unbuckled his seat belt and was about to leave.

But Yu He suddenly held him down and shook his head, signaling him not to move, while frowning and listening to the phone seriously.

Yu He's voice, although still with some lust in the husky, but the tone has been very calm and steady, outsiders can not imagine that he was just in the car ready to undress his former psychiatrist, ready to push people in the back seat to kiss fiercely, ready to sleep with a man who can be his uncle. The so-called "beasts of burden" are just like that.

"OK, no problem, wait for me to go over there in a minute."

After hanging up the call, Yu He turned to Qingcheng Xie and said, "You and I should go to Baoshan Sanatorium together, there is someone who wants to meet us."

Qingcheng Xie : "Who?"

"I don't know if you still remember." Yu He said. Yu He said, "It's the old man named Zhiqiang Zhuang that you met when you were on a blind date with that little girl named Bai."

Baoshan Sanatorium is the property of the He family.

However, Jiwei He has handed over the entire operation to Yu He, and Yu He is in charge of everything. After the Chengkang Mental Hospital incident, Zhiqiang Zhuang, who was homeless and suffering from mental illness, was placed in this nursing home by Yu He for care and attention.

Time has passed so long, just now the nursing home's head nurse called, said Zhiqiang Zhuang is no longer, it is estimated that the matter of two days.

But the old man was sober at the end of his life, back to the light, the thinking suddenly became very clear.

He remembered how he was rescued here and said he wanted to meet the young men.

When Yu He and Qingcheng Xie drove to Baoshan Nursing Home, Zhiqiang Zhuang was lying on a raised nursing bed, half-squinting, seemingly awake.

"Master, our Dean He and Mr. Xie are here." The nurse gently woke up Zhiqiang Zhuang .

The old man woke up leisurely from his shallow sleep, his eyes focused on the two men.

"Ah, it's you guys." Zhiqiang Zhuang's chest cavity was like an old radiator, struggling to function, emitting the last bit of living breath outward, "It's you guys ......"

He struggled to sit up from the bed, but was stopped by Yu He.

"Old man, just lie down."

The old man's lips trembled, every breath was heavy, he seemed to have very many words to say to them, but before the words came out, hot tears filled his eyes, and then wept and slipped down.

"I ...... I'm not disturbing you guys, am I?"

"No." Yu He said, "We happen to have something outside and we're still awake."

Zhiqiang Zhuang seemed to be slightly relieved, he wiped his tears, clutching Yu He's hand: "...... alas ...... I know I'm dying, I... ...I asked you guys to come over, really ...... really want to say thank you."

"I came Huzhou several times, wandering outside for so many years, thinking that I have not done anything wrong in my life, but I do not know why, before the old, so hard to live ...... my heart is really bitter ...... "The old man said here, and could not help but breathe heavily, raised his hand to wipe the tears," really bitter. If not to meet you good people, I may ...... may not even have a final resting place, may die on the side of the road, the gazebo ...... after a number of days, the body to be found."

The more Zhiqiang Zhuang spoke, the sadder he became and the more emotional he became.

It looked like he practically wanted to crawl out of bed and kowtow twice to the person who had finally taken him in.

Yu He immediately held him down and helped him to lie down again, so did Qingcheng Xie.

Zhiqiang Zhuang's mind was much clearer than before, which meant that his life was indeed coming to an end. The old man had a very difficult life, and only met rare kindness in the last journey of his life, his simple quality made him must say thank you to them personally before he passed away, as if doing so, he can be clear with the world, and then leave in peace.

Qingcheng Xie and Yu He stayed with him for a while, the old man's emotions calmed down, and then asked, "Where is that ...... little girl?"

He was talking about Xue Xie.

Xue Xie is currently lying in another private hospital undergoing blockade treatment for a rare disease.

Qingcheng Xie said, "She has some business at work and is not in Huzhou. But if you have anything to say to her, you can tell me and I will pass it on to her."

"Ugh ...... don't dare to bother anymore." Zhiqiang Zhuang coughed and shook his head slowly, "Really don't dare to bother anymore."

His cloudy eyes looked at the ceiling: "I just want to ask you ...... you see her in the future, and she said thank you ...... thank you to this little girl ... ...she, what is her name ah?"

"Her name is Xue Xie ."

" Xue Xie ah ......" the old man has been covered with a layer of mist eyes like a ray of light, the Tyndall effect appeared in the eyes of a dying elder, "Oh... . in her name, there was also a snow ...... this is really ...... this is really ......"

When Yu He heard this, his heart suddenly stirred.

He asked Zhiqiang Zhuang: "Old man, when we met you that day, you said you have a daughter, you came to Huzhou, is to find her. But the people at the rescue station told us at the time that they had gone to investigate and that there was no such daughter in your old home. At that time we thought you might be hallucinating ......"

"What? It's not a hallucination!" The old man's emotions rose, "She, how can she be a hallucination? Her name is Xue Zhao, of course you can not find her ...... because ...... because she is not my biological daughter ...... she is my adopted daughter ah-! -!"

Next, Zhiqiang Zhuang lies in his hospital bed and tells them the untold story.

Zhiqiang Zhuang lives in a very poor place, not only economically, but also spiritually. Because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, this land, where crops hardly grow, breeds all sorts of absurdities and nonsense.

Selling children, child brides, early marriages and even such foolish things as matching bones can happen.

Zhiqiang Zhuang's mother was a victim of this custom, having been sold to Zhiqiang Zhuang's father at the age of fourteen and subjected to the beatings and kicks of a wretched man.

When old man Zhuang was a child, all he saw every day was his scarred mother wiping her tears, which touched his young heart greatly.

After the death of his parents, Zhiqiang Zhuang lived alone and did not interact much with the idle, coarse and fierce men of the village. People thought he was a strange man and lacked understanding of him. He also did not marry a wife, the village people married like selling a daughter to raise a son, after demanding a ridiculously high bride price, and staged a ridiculous and ugly wedding, the tortured girl to a man she may not even like the bed. In the process, she also has to cry desperately, but also to withstand the guests greasy, without any responsibility for the harassment.

Zhiqiang Zhuang does not have that much money and is not willing to treat a girl like this.

He lived sober in this obscure village, and then played a bachelor for the rest of his life.

But Zhiqiang Zhuang is not without his close associates.

In the next village, there was a pretty and smart girl named Xue Zhao.

One day, when Zhiqiang Zhuang came home from his farm work, he heard a whimpering sound in the haystack at the back of his house, and at first he thought it was a weasel.

That was Xue Zhao, whom he first met.

Probably because Zhiqiang Zhuang's body has a very strong righteousness, the young girl after the initial hesitation and shock, timidly followed Zhiqiang Zhuang back to the house, apprehensively drink a few mouthfuls of hot water floating with oil stars, and then wailed on the floor with a knee.

She said, uncle, please save me, you save me, I do not want to marry.

Zhiqiang Zhuang, who is used to seeing bad habits in such a poor countryside, was also surprised because Xue Zhao was too young and did not look fully developed, even in their village, it was rare to give such a young girl a marriage.

Zhiqiang Zhuang questioned her in detail, and after learning what happened, his scalp went numb with anger.

Xue Zhao is a girl from Zhao's village a few miles away. She is the only girl in her family, and the other three are all boys born to her mother and stepfather.

Her stepfather was a man with a heart of gold and a heart of gold. Although her mother was weak, she protected her when her stepfather tried to harass her when he was drunk and was seriously injured by him. Soon after, her mother died.

The ridiculous rural beating of women is a common occurrence and we are all used to it. As long as they are not killed on the spot, it is difficult to define whether the killer is the husband in human skin.

After Xue Zhao's mother was buried, Xue Zhao was forced to stop studying and return home to cook for his stepfather and three brothers.

After the death of his wife, his stepfather did not dare to harass her for a while, but it was not long before he readily agreed to Xue Zhao's request because a large family offered a large bride price to "buy" her.

The other party gave too many gifts, more than enough for him to squander for years.

So, of course, he does not care that the son of a large family is a vitiligo and mental illness, what does that have to do with him? The actual fact is that it is not his to marry the past.

Xue Zhao was terrified and fled from her home overnight, over a mountain, from Zhaojia Village, to the neighboring Zhuangjia Village ......

Zhiqiang Zhuang listened to her story, silently smoked a dry cigarette for a while, looked at the girl kneeling in front of him, and finally made up his mind.

He said to Xue Zhao: "This way, girl, if you can rest assured, then today you will stay at uncle's house for one night. Tomorrow, I will take you to the county, where there is a new Hope Primary School. We'll try to talk to the principal, and if they can take you in, then you don't have to go back, you can stay in the county and not go back to that hellhole. Are you willing to trust uncle?"

Xue Zhao's luck is bad, but it's also good.

She had the misfortune to be born into such a family, but was lucky enough to meet Zhiqiang Zhuang.

The principal of that Hope Primary School was also a particularly kind woman who not only took in the student, but also gave her firm guardianship for many years afterwards.

Xue Zhao usually lives at the school with the principal, but during holidays, she returns to Zhuangjia Village by car to work with Zhiqiang Zhuang in the fields.

Xue Zhao recognizes Lao Zhuang as her father and calls him Lao Han, making Zhiqiang Zhuang smile. But not many people have met Xue Zhao, and even fewer know about their adopted father-daughter relationship. Xue Zhao escaped from the next village after all, and Zhiqiang Zhuang doesn't want her life to be disturbed again.

As the days went by, Xue Zhao moved from elementary school to middle school and then to high school ......

She lived up to the kindness of Zhiqiang Zhuang and the principal and got into a newly built high school in the county with excellent grades.

That school also carries a certain charity nature, but the infrastructure, teaching hardware and software are more than a little better than the usual hope project. The school even has a variety of art training programs, dedicated to allowing children in the mountains to have more opportunities again, to be able to go to the prosperous city.

"She later told me that she was selected to be an art candidate." Zhiqiang Zhuang recalls, "I didn't know what it meant to be an art candidate, so she explained to me that later she was going to be a model on TV, a star ...... so she had to go to Huzhou to take professional classes... ..."

The old man said here, and faltered to wipe the tears with a tissue, choked: "I was particularly happy at that time, I thought Huzhou is a big city, a few people can stand in this place. But my daughter can go ... my daughter is amazing ......"

Zhiqiang Zhuang paused and suddenly cried out sadly: "But I have not seen her again until now ...... she came and disappeared, I went to ask the school, the school also did not know anything, gave me the address I followed to find, nothing, all moved away ...... I can't find her ah ...... I can't find her ......"

The old man couldn't stop choking: "I'm not crazy ...... I really have a daughter ...... my daughter has been missing for more than ten or twenty years, I've been looking and looking, looking for hair from black to white, but how to find can not find ...... I miss her ......"

"Before I left, the thing I couldn't let go of was her."

"Where did she go ...... does she remember me as an old man ......"

Tears fell on the surface of the quilt in big pieces.

Yu He and Qingcheng Xie quietly stayed by his side, accompanying the elder who was crying like a child.

Perhaps the scene was so pathetic that even though he knew there was little hope, Yu He finally said, "Old man, let me help you think of a way out, do you have any information about Xue Zhao's final destination? Do you have any information about Xue Zhao's final destination? For example, who came to recruit her to Huzhou?"

"I asked the school, and the school said it's been too long and they don't have records. ......"

"Has Xue Zhao contacted you since he arrived in Huzhou?"

"Only at the beginning ......" Zhiqiang Zhuang recalls, "At the beginning, she called me with high spirits, but she, at that time, only said that Huzhou was particularly good looking and that she had seen a lot of things she had only seen on TV before, and didn't say anything else ...... because she and Secretary Wang had signed a what...confidentiality contract..."

Yu He's heart thumped inside.

Although there are a lot of people in this world surnamed Wang, but contact "art training", "mysterious disappearance", "crime" these elements, he immediately thought of a person.

He asked Zhiqiang Zhuang: "That Secretary Wang, did Xue Zhao say his name to you?"

"Said, said, but I did not pay attention at the time, I can not remember. Seems to be called Wang...Wang what ...... generous ......"

Like a thunderbolt striking down.

Yu He and Qingcheng Xie looked at each other and both saw their ugly faces in each other's eyes -

Jiankang Wang .

The first victim in the Shanghai University Broadcasting Tower murder case.

Xue Zhao's disappearance is actually related to them! And it became an unexpected clue for them to track down the Cheng Kang case and the Canton Tower case!