Chapter 178: thread_reconnection

Yanzhou's official and wealthy merchant families are often more superstitious than elsewhere.

The Wei family is a typical example.

They would ask the Taoist priest to count because there had been a runaway marriage in the family, and since then all the wedding banquet activities were held in the lodge that the Taoist priest had calculated to be favorable to their family's orientation. And this behavior is just the tip of the iceberg.

The "R.I.P" bone cross earrings given to the bride is also a rule of the Wei family that is not known to outsiders. This rule is set earlier than the hotel lodge site, its origin in the Wei family's own family, are already an old legend.

According to legend, around the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Wei family's ancestors saved a girl, the girl was born with blonde hair and brown pupils, her mother was once a kiln girl in the lower ninth grade, her biological father never mentioned, alone with her daughter in a store as a long-time worker. A few years later, the mother died, the store is also poorly run, the capital does not cover the debt, the girl is poor and weak, will end up with a straw label, by the debtor to sell the situation.

The girl was influenced by her mother, believed in Christ Jesus, listened to the missionaries, and was ideologically at odds with the society of the time.

Such a strange little girl, is not much big families are willing to buy to be a maid, let alone as a daughter-in-law or house, she will even talk back to the debtor.

One time she talked back too much, the debtor was furious, but a handful of coals, forcing her to swallow. The girl's throat and tongue were immediately destroyed, dying, the debtor saw the situation but no sympathy, but also too much trouble, they threw her outside, leaving her to fend for herself.

It was at this time that the old Wei family ancestors picked up the girl.

The old ancestor is a pharmacy, the heart is very good, that a while, his own son has just suffered a terminal illness, died, so he could not see this bleak scene.

The old man took the girl home, treating her and treating her well. However, the girl's injuries were too serious, and the medical treatment at that time was not developed, despite the care and consideration, the girl was still dying, and soon had to go.

Before she died, she begged the old Wei family ancestors to go find her a cross, saying she wanted to leave this world holding the cross.

The old ancestor didn't know where to find this foreign thing, but he couldn't bear to let the girl's last wish go unfulfilled, so he simply made a cross for her with his own hands, using wood. That night, the girl held the cross and looked at it, silently murmured a few words, actually fell a tear of blood, splashed on the cross, and then passed away.

The day before the burial, however, the old ancestor suddenly had a dream, a very mysterious dream, he dreamed that the little girl with snow-white wings came around the auspicious clouds and told him in a pleasant voice like heavenly music that she had come to thank the old man for her last care, and that the old man could bury her bones with the son of the pharmacy who died early, so that she could be rightfully buried in the The other world compassionately accompanies the old man's children and blesses future generations.

The ancestor did not believe at first, the girl said, then when you wake up in the morning, go to my coffin to see, you will see that the wooden cross I hold in my hand has become a pure gold cross.

When the old man woke up, he immediately went to the morgue and opened the coffin - and saw the girl holding a golden cross in her hand, where a tear of blood had fallen, and even adorned with a dazzling ruby with the letters R.I.P. engraved on it.

Now the old man did not dare to slacken, he immediately according to the girl's instructions to deal with her afterlife. From then on, the Wei family really rose to the top, one generation better than the next. When the old ancestor was a hundred years old, he left a will, warning his family not to forget this "angel", and he even made a rule that every Wei family girl married, as well as the bride married into the Wei family, have to wear the same pure gold cross until the full month of the wedding, as a tribute to the girl.

As each year passed, this form of cross was gradually fixed, and by the sixth year, it was fully established as gold bone-shaped R.I.P with red diamonds earrings, which circulated among every Wei family woman.

"But Dongheng Wei told me privately that he thought the story must have been embellished by one of his ancestors." Xue Xie said, "He doesn't really believe in any angelic gods, and he thinks that the three letters R.I.P. carved on it probably means that the ancestors actually did something wrong, and that such behavior is not gratitude, but town resentment. He even thought that the girl was forced to match the bones, or even killed on purpose. He went through the family tree and saw that during that time, several brides of the Wei family died in succession, perhaps because the ancestors felt that the ghosts of the women who matched the bones would not go away, which is why they made gold crosses to each bride to ward off evil spirits. Just for the sake of the family's reputation, and to keep the brides from being afraid, the Wei family gradually came up with such a beautiful story to hide the original dark and bloody past."

Qingcheng Xie After listening to Xue Xie's account, he was not so much interested in the story as he was shivering in his heart - because at this moment, he had finally solved the mystery and nightmare that had haunted him for nearly twenty years.

The R.I.P earrings belong to a Wei family woman, and a newlywed woman at that.

--This is the true identity of the mysterious man his parents had met before they died!

"Brother, what's wrong with these earrings?" Xue Xie cautiously followed up after the explanation.

Qingcheng Xie did not want to tell her more about the situation, his mood at the moment can be described as anxious, if the person who killed his parents is Wei family, or even Dongheng Wei's mother or sister, then Xue Xie now what to do?

Beyond that, he had a more chilling suspicion -

He was hit by a car that year and seriously injured, all thanks to the old Qin rescue treatment, to recover a life.

The people of that organization may not have paid attention to his death or life at first, after all, the car accident hit like that, the chances of keeping a life are not great, but later, that organization should have found out that he did not die ...... these years, they did not hunt him down again, nor did they make a move to capture him for research, at first Qingcheng Xie also think is that he is such a small person in their eyes is really insignificant, as long as not continue to pursue the truth, that organization will not pay attention to him.

But if the murderer is the Wei family, and Xue Xie is married to Dongheng Wei, then could there be another possibility, that is, all these years Qingcheng Xie's every move, they have watched, just for some reason, they never laid a hand on him again. Instead, they chose to aim at Zhong Xue Xie ......?

This idea is too much to make people's hair stand up, as if a foot down is the abyss, Qingcheng Xie did not think further.

"Brother?"

"...... nothing, I've seen a similar one before, but now that I've taken a closer look, it's not that similar." Qingcheng Xie reluctantly perfunctory Xue Xie , re-sat down and scooped a spoonful of beef soup to her, "Eat."

The two siblings ate a meal with their own thoughts in mind, so neither realized how dazed the other was. After the meal was over, he sent Xue Xie back first on the pretext that he had something to do.

After Xue Xie left, Qingcheng Xie took out a cigarette and sat on the edge of the bed to smoke it while thinking about all the clues of the past. He tried his best to maintain his composure, and finally coughed and dusted off the ashes.

He decided to follow the trail and do some investigation on his own first.

This investigation was very similar to the situation nineteen years ago, and he ran out of people to ask for help.

His relationship with Man Chen is now very awkward.

Jingfeng Zheng is also the kind of rigid character who can never cross the line of investigation for him by inference alone.

As for Yu He ......

Yu He's hacking skills work very well, but Qingcheng Xie can no longer be in contact with him, let alone involve him again.

Fortunately, Qingcheng Xie is not incapable of fighting alone. To investigate the missing R.I.P. earrings, all one needs to do is to inquire exactly which woman in the Wei family was married and in a new marriage at that time.

The first thing he ruled out was Dongheng Wei's mother, who had married Wei's father long before his parents' car accident, judging from the birth years of the Wei siblings. This discovery made Qingcheng Xie's anxious and irritable mood a little more settled.

The second groundbreaking discovery was on the Internet.

Qingcheng Xie, following Yu He's previous experience in searching for Huang Zhilong Entertainment's black history, finally grabbed a few portals of information from about two decades ago in a huge amount of information.

"Weimeng is strong, family union, happy marriage."

The release was just a few months before his parents were killed.

Qingcheng Xie just searched for this information, as if even his heart did not dare to beat. He immediately moved his cursor and clicked on the link. However -

404.

The straight male search yellow / net will feel the blow every time he encounters this kind of code that suggests the page no longer exists. Qingcheng Xie has lived for more than 30 years and has never experienced this kind of straight blow, but this moment he feels the same way.

Not only this portal, but also all related content on the Internet is prompted with this message.

Even the bride and groom's photo and name could not be searched.

Qingcheng Xie has not given up, at least he has established that 20 years ago, there was a Wei family woman newly married to a Meng family.

The information has reached this point, in fact, as long as you try to set Dongheng Wei's words, you should be able to directly know who the object is. But Qingcheng Xie was cautious and did not ask him, he felt there was another line of inquiry that could be more covert.

--The private lodge in Hang City.

Wei family due to family rules, every wedding banquet held in that mountain resort, over the years, the mountain resort for the Wei family has hosted too many events ceremony, if you go directly to ask which Wei family lady married 20 years ago, they certainly can not answer.

However, according to online traces, the young lady married a "door-to-door" groom surnamed Meng, and even on the social news at the time, then the scale of the wedding must not be small enough to leave a deep impression.

Qingcheng Xie then asked the old waiters at the lodge by way of casual conversation to see if there was anyone who could "sit and talk about Xuanzong with a white-haired court lady."

More than half a month later, the message returned.

Surprisingly, there is really a fifty-year-old hotel warehouse manager, remembered the scene, and said the information of the pair of golden girls at that time.

"The bride, ah, called Rong Wei, as for the groom, ...... is the second son of Meng's enterprise ...... ouch ...... "The old administrator mentioned this matter to sip the mouth, "I have received so many VIP guests, but this couple is the most difficult to serve, at that time, ah, they almost made me lose this job ......"

According to the veteran employee, Rong Wei is one of the most eccentric brides he has ever met. Other people get married happily, and even if someone is not so happy for some reason, they will at least put a smile on their face to make a splash.

Rong Wei is not like that.

She was very critical of the wedding team on the day of the wedding and threw a fit when things didn't go her way.

The old staff had prepared several sets of Muppet clothes for the staff to change into, and they were going to give out candy and colored balls to the children. One of those outfits was Mickey's red shorts, but when Rong Wei saw Mickey jumping around the scene, she suddenly became furious and asked who had arranged such a doll, not knowing that she hated red?

This matter wedding team and the hotel are indeed clear, the bride in the finalization of the wedding program, the requirements of all Western-style clothes, refuse any red accessories, on-site flowers are never red roses and other red flowers. Everyone did what she wanted, but who knew she couldn't even accept a Mickey doll? The manager was scolded for this, and Rong Wei had the hotel fire him immediately.

Fortunately, the supervisor took pity on his poor family, with a wife and mother to take care of, and coaxed Rong Wei that he would definitely open the door, but in the end did not do so.

The janitor ended up staying at the lodge, and Rong Wei's bossy behavior left a deep impression on him. So even after twenty years, he can still remember it clearly.

After Qingcheng Xie got the news, he immediately retrieved the information of Rong Wei and Sheng Meng. This time he found a lot more content.

It turns out that Sheng Meng, the groom back then, is the third son of Meng's estate and has now emigrated abroad to do business in Singapore. Wikipedia has his current photo and information.

Except that instead of " Rong Wei", his spouse's column says the name of a foreign woman.

Qingcheng Xie browsed through all the information, there was no mention of Rong Wei, this woman seemed to have never appeared in Sheng Meng's life, if Qingcheng Xie had not done his research, he must have thought he did not know any Ms. Rong Wei.

Qingcheng Xie did not give up, he checked Rong Wei again, this time, the search engine results are few and far between, but shocking enough.

Because those messages are almost always reporting the same thing -

Rong Wei, the daughter of the Wei Group, was killed in a car accident.

And the news was released exactly one week after the accident of Qingcheng Xie's parents!