69novels Chapter 218
Chapter 218
"That was 30, 40 years ago."
The old man took a pack of cigarettes from Gu Mingdong, took out one and bit it in his mouth, which made him talk even more vigorously.
"It is said in old man Bai's family that he was rich before, but this house was born in her generation." The old man continued.
"His mother-in-law died early, and he worked hard to bring up a pair of children by himself. He doesn't usually have a serious job, but he can see people coming to him from time to time."
"People in the alley say that the old man may be doing some shady business, but there is no evidence, and no one has seen it. They only know that their family is not short of money, and the two children have been studying."
Gu Mingdong felt strange in his heart, if the Bai family was down and out, why didn't they lack money, if they weren't down, why was there only this yard left?
And there are so many treasures in Shanghe Village, if the Bai family is really down and out, why don't they go back?
"The old man Bai is not in good health, and he doesn't like to go out, and he doesn't talk much when he sees people. Later, when I think about it, he was actually a little talkative at that time."
The old man pointed to his head: "It's not normal here."
"However, both his sons and daughters are outstanding. His son is more than ten years older than his daughter. He is said to be an elder brother, but he is actually a father and a mother. Bai Shu, your aunt, was raised by him."
"Bai Jun and Bai Shu are both very smart. At that time, they were always No. 1 in school. If they didn't worry about their family, Bai Jun would still be able to get a place to study abroad."
The old man smiled and said, "It's a good thing I didn't go there at that time, otherwise I would have to implicate my family later."
Gu Mingdong asked: "Later, it sounds like my aunt is not young, why was she still trafficked?"
"Hey, who knows."
"It happened so fast at that time. When your aunt was 15 years old, she suddenly disappeared one day." The old man sighed, "We all helped to find it, but we couldn't find it. Your grandpa suddenly went wrong. , my mind is even more confused."
"Later, it was I who telegraphed your dad. He came back from Shanghai in a hurry, but it was of no use. Everyone was gone."
"The house of such a big girl suddenly disappeared. She must have been kidnapped. Those kidnappers are cruel. Once they take people away to poor places and sell them, they will never escape for the rest of their lives."
This matter is so weird, Gu Mingdong asked again: "Is there really no news at all?"
The old man shook his head: "No, I haven't heard of it anyway."
"Your father was not reconciled. He said he was going to find his sister, but he never came back after he left."
The old man felt strange, and asked again: "Since your father is not dead, why hasn't he come back all these years? Is he worried about old man Bai?"
Naturally, Gu Mingdong couldn't answer this question. After a few words, he said, "Master, can I go in and have a look?"
"Go in, your grandfather doesn't know where he was taken, logically speaking, this is also your home."
Without further ado, Gu Mingdong climbed over the wall and entered, and the old man was taken aback for a while.
He squeezed the cigarette in his hand, secretly thinking that anyone who is willing to buy this kind of cigarette must not be a liar.
Gu Mingdong had already left the room, and the moment he turned inside, his supernatural ability became active, but unfortunately, he didn't find anything here.
Although everyone said that old man Bai was crazy and his mind was not clear, but the house was kept very clean.
I just don't know if it was cleaned up by the old man himself, or the relative later.
Gu Mingdong turned around. Because of the previous years, many things in the house have disappeared, and it looks a little empty. Only those empty places can be seen with one or two traces.
Soon, Gu Mingdong's eyes fell on the wall, where there should have been a photo hanging, leaving a square white mark.
Unfortunately, the photos have now been taken away.
Gu Mingdong counted the time, even though his younger sister and the old man felt very similar to the Bai family, he still didn't think so.
Because from the perspective of time, it is really too tense. Just imagine a man whose sister is missing and his father has mental problems. On the way to find his sister, how could he be in the mood to marry a wife and have children.
In addition, the old Bai family was too unlucky. From the old man Bai to the pair of sons, one by one was unlucky. It didn't look like they were capable of laying a net.
To find Mr. Gu and send him to Shanghe Village, the man behind him must be not easy.
A thought flashed across Gu Mingdong's eyes.
Before leaving, he still left his contact address.
"Master, if they come back, please let me know."
The old man patted his chest and promised: "Okay, as long as they come back, I will definitely bring the word to you so that your family can be reunited."
Gu Mingdong didn't stop any longer, and quickly sold tickets and left this place.
Originally, when he went to Beijing, he only planned to get a batch of good fruit tree seedlings, and check how his two younger sisters were doing. Who knew that while he was there, he encountered two accidents.
There was more and more fog, making Gu Mingdong unable to see the truth of the matter, but he was not in a hurry.
As long as the sun is shining, the surrounding fog seems to be invincible, but after waiting patiently, it will dissipate by itself, revealing the truth.
upper river village
Gu Mingdong was not at home for several days, Gu Liangchen was a little listless, and looked out from time to time.
Gu Liangxing said helplessly: "I said Ah Chen, Dad just went to Beijing, and you can't come back early even if you look at him."
Gu Liangchen said, "I'm just worried."
"There's nothing to worry about. You don't know how powerful our dad is. If someone meets him, it must be someone else."
He was very confident in Gu Mingdong.
At this moment, Gu Yun and Xiao Xie walked out holding hands. Xiao Xie was still gnawing a piece of corn in his hand, and his face was covered in crumbs.
As soon as he came out, thank you and asked: "Brother Ah Chen, when will my uncle come back?"
"Why didn't you ask me?" Gu Liangxing teased her with a smile.
Thank you and said: "Brother Ah Chen must be more concerned than Brother Ah Xing, he is really attached to Uncle."
Gu Liangchen touched his nose and ignored their words.
But Gu Liangxing laughed loudly: "It seems that even our family knows thank you."
Gu Yun stretched out her hand to pinch him, and warned: [Don't make fun of Ah Chen. 】
Grinning his teeth in pain, Gu Liangxing said unwillingly: "Xiao Yun'er, I love you for nothing. Whenever I encounter something, I help Ah Chen talk. Am I not your brother?"
"Besides, he's not afraid of being laughed at. He really wants the whole world to know that Ah Chen is Dad's good son."
[You like to tease people, Ah Chen has a thin skin. ] Gu Yun said.
Gu Liangxing yelled: "What do you know, you have to have a thick skin to be a man, and I have a deep brotherly love, so I can help temper his skin."
"Then I really thank you." Gu Liangchen stretched his legs and gave him a kick.
Gu Liangxing immediately shouted: "Okay, Dad is not at home, you two will bully me together, thank you, you must stand by my side."
Who knew that Xie Xie bit the corn and said vaguely: "Brother A Xing, I'm sorry, sister Xiaoyun and I belong to the same country."
Gu Liangxing covered his heart, expressing that his heart was broken.
"Yo, are you singing?" A voice came from outside.
Xie Xie's eyes lit up, and he ran over cheering: "Dad! I miss you so much."
"Father also misses my baby girl, so come and kiss me." Xie Nanshan smiled and hugged his daughter, not disliking her for gnawing on the sloppy corn.
Seeing this scene, Gu Liangxing couldn't help shivering: "Tsk, it's too nasty."
Xie Nanshan asked with a smile, "Your dad hasn't come back yet?"
"It shouldn't be so fast." Gu Liangchen explained, "When I went, I said that I might stay for a few more days to see my aunts."
Xie Nanshan nodded and said, "Then I'll take Xie Xie home first, and come back when he comes back."
"Uncle Cousin, do you have anything to do, do you want to leave a message?" Gu Liangchen asked.
Xie Nanshan picked up his daughter, shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it later."
When it was time to come, I took Xie Xie and left. It was not enough to walk one big and one small. I also carried a basket, which was delicious food specially prepared by Gu Yun for Xiao Xie. eat.
When the people left, Gu Liangxing asked strangely: "Why do I feel that uncle and dad are hiding things?"
Gu Liangchen also felt the same way: "And it's something we don't know about."
Gu Liangxing stroked his chin: "It's weird."
Otherwise, why their father had just left, and his cousin came to look for someone, but he came to ask for three days without finding it. He seemed very anxious, but he didn't say anything.
Gu Liangchen only said: "We also have secrets, why don't others be allowed to have secrets?"
After all, there are many little secrets between him and his father that he will not tell others, such as everything he saw when he was a child, such as the mysterious place behind the mountain.
Gu Liangchen stood up, not wanting to talk to the monkey-like elder brother.
Compared with the first three children in the family, Zheng Tong is busier. He was not used to working in the field in the early years. After so many years, he would feel uncomfortable if he did not work for a day.
Zheng Tong especially likes the private land at the back, which is one-third of an acre. Originally, Gu Mingdong had already tidied it up in an orderly manner, but now Zheng Tong has to go around it every day.
Gu Yun looked at it occasionally, and always felt that her grandfather's posture was like the king of the mountain patrolling the territory.
Gu Yun didn't understand, so she asked: [Grandpa, what's so good about cucumbers?You have been watching all afternoon. 】
Zheng Tong said with a smile: "You don't understand, this is a good thing."
What kind of good thing can cucumbers be? People in the country know that if you plant a cucumber at will, it will skyrocket when it comes to fruit. If you plant too much, you can’t eat it all. But this thing is not very filling. Every household has it and gives it away. Neither is good.
Even if their cucumbers are particularly crispy and fragrant, aren't they still cucumbers?
[Grandpa, aren't you tired? ] Zheng Yun asked again.
Zheng Tong said again: "Where do you get tired? I feel refreshed when I walk around in the vegetable garden. Xiaoyun, if you have free time, you should come here more often and take a breath of fresh air."
Gu Yun hesitated to speak, wondering if her grandfather was a little old and confused, there were trees everywhere in Shanghe Village, where the air was not fresh?
Zheng Tong bent down and picked a cucumber, cut it into two pieces, wiped the piece himself and ate it, it was very crisp.
"Eat, eat more."
Gu Yun had no choice but to take it and eat it. It tasted really good in one bite, and she ate up a large portion before she knew it.
Zheng Tong looked at it with a smile, and said: "In fact, eating too much meat is not good for your health, and eating more vegetables is good for your body and mind."
As for the meaning behind it, it's a pity that no one can understand it, and Zheng Tong doesn't say much, after all, the old Gu family is lucky enough, it's not good to talk too much.
When Gu Mingdong returned home, it was already two days later.
After tossing back and forth, Gu Mingdong was not physically tired, but mentally, he ate a meal of delicious food made by Gu Yun himself, and then regained his vitality.
It has to be said that even for these delicious foods, he has to work hard, strive to turn the mountains behind into his own territory, and completely kill that ticking time bomb in its cradle.
After eating and drinking, Gu Mingdong sat at the door, drinking the tea brought by his son, and eating the fruits his son had cut, feeling very happy.
Zheng Tong took a seat beside him and sat down, took a sip of tea, and sighed, "This tea is good, but it's overcooked."
Gu Mingdong rolled his eyes: "If you always dislike it, you can do it yourself."
"Hey, you kid is not humble enough to allow others to criticize you." After all, Zheng Tong said that he was the one who drank the most tea.
"The persimmons are also delicious. If you don't plant the land, it would be a waste of your land skills."
Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "So I stayed here to farm."
Zheng Tong asked him with a smile: "Really not going out?"
"Why go out?" Gu Mingdong took a bite of the tomato, "What's so good about Huahua World? It's not as good as my Shanghe Village."
Zheng Tong was amused, shook his head and said: "You are lazy, no wonder you are always leisurely, no matter what happens, you are not in a hurry, the old man is anxious when he is watching."
Gu Mingdong said: "If you are always in a hurry, you should hurry up and translate for me."
Zheng Tong said helplessly: "Is that what I want to hurry up? The two letters are completely different, and I can't recognize them at a glance."
"Different?" Gu Mingdong was a little surprised.
Zheng Tong gestured and said: "Let's explain it this way, the same kind of characters, but they are used very differently. It's just a simple identification, and people add a password to it and then identify it. The difficulty is not a little bit worse."
"I saw that something was wrong at first glance, but after a closer look, it turned out that it was re-encrypted on the ciphertext. It took ten and a half months to not even be able to grasp the clues. This time, you have to wait."
As soon as he came back, Gu Mingdong found an opportunity and gave the note to Zheng Tong for translation.
After many years, he was not so careful, and he was on guard every time.
Now that he heard this, Gu Mingdong was thoughtful: "Let me see later, maybe I have other ways."
"Could it be that you know someone who is stronger than this old man?" Zheng Tong was not convinced.
Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "It's another way."
Zheng Tong looked at him suspiciously, but Gu Mingdong obviously didn't intend to answer.
After eating a tomato, Gu Mingdong wiped his hands, wandered into the house and went to sleep.
As a result, the clothes on this side hadn't been taken off yet, and Xie Nanshan on the other side hurried over, and when he entered the door, he asked, "Why didn't you tell me when you came back?"
Gu Mingdong felt baffled: "Is there something wrong?"
Xie Nanshan suppressed his voice and said, "There is news about Qian Zhiyi."
Now Gu Mingdong was also a little surprised, got up and asked, "Did you find him?"
Xie Nanshan shook his head and nodded again: "It's not considered to be found, but there is indeed news about him."
"Qian Zhi is alone in Hong Kong."
Hong Kong?
Gu Mingdong frowned, and suddenly remembered that in the original plot line, Du Pingping fled to Hong Kong, and when she reappeared, she became a patriotic businessman returning home.
"The Qian family thought they were orioles, but they didn't know they were praying mantises."
If the Bai family is a cicada and the Qian family is a praying mantis, then who is the oriole?
Gu Mingdong asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure?"
"It's absolutely true." Xie Nanshan's network has always been very wide, and it has not stopped during those ten years, and he can get things that others can't.
After the above policy was relaxed, Xie Nanshan began to show his hands and feet, and the contacts who had been left out in the past also moved around again.
After walking around a lot, he accidentally got the news from Qian Zhiyi.
Xie Nanshan said: "I went to the south. I heard that there are a lot of smuggled goods there. I wanted to see the situation outside. Who knew that I happened to meet someone."
"That was a friend from Beijing before. He knew the Qian family."
Gu Mingdong frowned and said, "Qian Zhiyi didn't have a letter of introduction, and he was accompanied by his wife and children. How did he get to Hong Kong?"
Xie Nanshan sneered and said, "How else can I get there, smuggling."
"The man said that when Qian Zhi passed by, he was alone, with no wife or children around him, and he was not in a small boat that might capsize at any time, but a big boat."
"He inquired later, but couldn't find any specific information, but they all said that the ship belonged to Hong Kong people."
With one clue after another connected together, Gu Mingdong suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart.
Xie Nanshan was very angry: "I said that the surnamed Qian must have grown wings, and he disappeared as soon as he disappeared. It turned out that someone was helping him."
"Damn Hong Kong people, let me know who is hiding behind, and see how I deal with him."
Thinking of the misfortune of the Xie family for several lifetimes because of the Qian family, which almost cut him off from Du Miao Miao, Xie Nanshan gritted his teeth with hatred.
It was fine that Qian Zhiyi disappeared earlier, but now that there is news about him, how could Xie Nanshan let it go.
Gu Mingdong reminded: "Qian Zhiyi disappeared in Beijing, but he reappeared and went to Hong Kong. There must be someone helping him during this time."
Xie Nanshan also thought so: "Maybe it is the influence of Hong Kong people staying in the mainland."
Gu Mingdong's face suddenly darkened: "If this is really the case, will there be their eyeliner around us?"
These words made Xie Nanshan's expression change.
Thinking of the enemy's eyeliner around them, who might even be hiding in the dark and staring at them, Xie Nanshan felt uncomfortable, and even felt like a light was on his back.
"Damn it, it doesn't really exist, does it?"
"No, I have to go home quickly. Shumei and Xie Xie are still at home." Xie Nanshan thought more and more something was wrong, "Why did I leave them alone at home, I have to go back and have a look."
Gu Mingdong had no choice but to hold him back: "Don't be so nervous."
"Your sister and your niece are going to have an accident, can I not be nervous?" Xie Nanshan was anxious.
Gu Mingdong explained: "That's not what I meant."
"Even if they left some eyeliner, they definitely wouldn't dare to act rashly." Gu Mingdong explained, "The chaos of the past few years made it even more difficult to deliver news, let alone other things."
In those years, when there were problems in the political review, many of them were directly taken to prostitution, let alone those whose identities were unknown.
When Xie Nanshan heard this, he finally calmed down a bit: "Yes."
"If they dare to act recklessly, I'm afraid I would have died long ago."
Gu Mingdong added: "But the speculation of eyeliner cannot be ruled out. It seems that we will act more covertly in the future."
Xie Nanshan's eyes showed a bit of coldness: "Even if it's just to thank you, I will dig out the person hiding behind, and trample him to death, and trample his mother to pieces."
Seeing that he finally calmed down, Gu Mingdong said again: "Do you know the Du family?"
Xie Nanshan frowned: "What do you mean?"
"The Du family is also in Hong Kong." Gu Mingdong pondered, "I don't know if there is any connection between these two things, but the Du family is definitely not so innocent."
Xie Nanshan pondered, not knowing what he thought of.
Gu Mingdong added: "Actually, there is one more thing that I am very concerned about."
Xie Nanshan looked up.
"The Wu family."
"The Wu family?" Xie Nanshan didn't remember who it was for a while.
"Wu Mengting's Wu family." Gu Mingdong said again, "Of the four people released from our village, three are from the Wu family."
"Wu Wei, Zhou Zijin, Wu Xuanxuan."
"Wu Xuanxuan was originally admitted to Peking University. Although Wu Mengting stole the notice, they were able to arrive at the school in time, and there was no possibility of being impostors."
"But when I went to Beijing this time, I heard two younger sisters mention this matter. They didn't see Wu Xuanxuan at Beijing University."
Xie Nanshan wondered, "What does this have to do with the Qian family's affairs?"
Gu Mingdong reminded: "Maybe not from Wu Mengting to Wu Xuanxuan, but the Wu family and the Qian family are family friends and have a very good relationship, and the elders of the Wu family know many secrets of the Qian family."
Xie Nanshan's heart skipped a beat: "You want me to start the investigation from Wu's house?"
Gu Mingdong nodded: "The Du family and Qian Zhiyi are both in Hong Kong, we can't reach them, but Wu Mengting and the others should be in Beijing, and the relationship between Wu Wei and the Wu family is not good, you can start from this point."
Wu Mengting is the original heroine of the novel. Although the life and career lines of the hero and heroine have deviated too far, if the Wu family really exists, then they cannot give up Wu Mengting.
After all, Wu Mengting and Qian Zhiyi have had a relationship for many years, and they also know many secrets. This is not only a magic weapon that can be used, but also a bomb.
Such a person, as long as there is a chance, the Wu family can't let him go.
Gu Mingdong has an intuition, staring at Wu Mengting, sooner or later he will find the person behind him.
When Xie Nanshan heard it, he felt a little relieved: "As long as the people are still in Beijing, even if they hide in the gutter, I can find them out."
Gu Mingdong nodded in satisfaction, and after throwing the hot potato to his cousin-in-law, Gu Mingdong lay down again.
Xie Nanshan saw his teeth itching: "Are you going to sleep?"
"Yeah, I have to get up and work tomorrow." Gu Mingdong didn't hesitate at all.
"Do you want to stay? If you want, go to the guest room and don't disturb my rest."
Xie Nanshan could see it, the guy who threw a big stone in his heart was not worried at all.
Is this the confidence of a master?
Gu Mingdong actually didn't lie to him, there are still a lot of things waiting for him tomorrow.