"After the old man's unit dormitory was demolished, the house was divided, and our family was assigned to the current house. Newly built at that time. After it was built, only our family lived there. After dividing the house, we got married and lived there ever since. When we got married, who was the younger sister of the fifth son, didn't he come to drink the wedding wine? If you've been here, you'll know it. ”

"Just once, how many years ago, can he still know?"

“……”

"Dad, you're really ...... Call...... Feelings: We may have been looking for the wrong person? ”

"Ah, this ......"

"You and those of your relatives...... Judging from the point of time, it is likely that your father and his generation have done anything special together? For example, have you ever invited a goddess, encountered a homicide, or something like that, something that might summon a ghost? ”

"No, our family doesn't believe that."

"Is it possible for some people to meet someone like 'Xiao Ying' together?"

"I shouldn't have it. My dad just ......"

"Really...... Do you have to check it again? ”、

"Hey, this ......"

"We are still working on the sorting out of the New Year's cards, and the original investigation cannot be said to be in vain. Next, we will broaden the scope of our search. ”

"Good. I'm going to bother you with this. We were holding that deposit slip as if we were holding a hot potato. That's a lot of money...... We don't know what happened to that Xiao Ying all these years. Alas......"

"Don't worry. We'll keep investigating. If you find anything or encounter any abnormal events, please contact us in time. ”

"Okay, okay."

2 November 2001.

“…… The fortune teller said that he should recognize a godfather and block it. After all the calculations, he counted one of his uncles in the next room as a godfather......"

There was no sound around the two men. I said, what the hell is going on? Is that Xiao Ying a relative of their family? ”

"Not sure yet. Nangong, how is your tidying up over there? ”

"The route was roughly drawn, and I checked some of the customs records. Some countries did not have a unified database and had to send a letter asking for their cooperation. ”

"I've got to get an application, right? Can it be used by ordinary people? ”

"I used a different email address to send them applications."

"Huh? Can you kid? ”

“……”

"Haven't found a suitable candidate yet?"

"Not yet."

"Hmm......"

"Beauty, what do you think?"

"I'm leaning towards their judgment. Xiao Ying and their family should be related to each other, distant relatives. Probably the one they thought they were. ”

"Why? A woman's intuition? ”

"You could call it an experience. That little fifth son, his life experience is very complicated, and there are too many places where he can do his hands and feet. ”

"Huh?"

"She's talking about the supernatural side of the hands and feet. At that time, superstition had not yet been broken. Even now, in order to pass on the lineage, there are many cases of abandoning and killing female babies, and there are also many partial houses where sons are born. Shen Mingyi, Shen Changshou and that dog, three generations of grandparents, it would not be strange if they did anything back then. ”

"But it's not strange to send greeting cards before, right? It's what the three grandparents and grandchildren did, and this Xiao Ying sent greeting cards and money later...... Maybe the idea is more Westernized? ”

"Then it's not clear."

On November 5, 2001, Ye Kai, a relative of the client, was contacted.

"Hello, Mr. Ye."

"Hey, hello. Have a seat. Want something to drink? ”

"No need."

"Oh......"

"Mr. Ye, I took the liberty to contact you to ask about the matter of your grandfather's Shen family."

"Hmm. I know. You want to ask about that Xiao Ying, right? I'm a little impressed with that, too. My grandparents and mother both died. My father and my mother had a good relationship, but they were very good to my grandparents...... The two old men were quite prejudiced. It's the prejudice of the elderly, the older generation. My father's family situation was not good back then, and my mother was considered to be low-married, and she suffered for many years. This made the two old men very dissatisfied...... Oh, sorry, I'm a bit of a stretch. ”

"It's okay, we also want to know more about the situation of the entire Shen family. If it's convenient, can you say a little more, it will also be of great help to us. ”

"Well, you don't mind. I really don't have anyone to talk about these things. These are too far for my son. He couldn't remember what his grandfather and grandmother looked like, and he didn't even know what their names were. Before my mother passed away, she held my hand and often talked about old things in the family...... Sounds unpleasant...... It's not the kind of famous big family, there have been celebrities in the family, and there is no documentary or biography...... I heard my mom say that my grandfather wanted to do this kind of thing before. ”

"Didn't you put it into practice?"

"He wrote something. The ancestors in the family, the previous situation of the family...... My family used to be a big landlord in Minqing, and my family also had a lot of land. But people are old, their health is not so good, their cultural level is not so high, and they encountered the war years, so this thing was not done in the end. The little manuscript he left behind, I don't know where it was thrown away, and I can't find it. ”

"Hmm."

"Maybe it's getting old. When I look at my son now, I kind of 'think about the past', and my mother died not long ago...... I can't help but recall those memories, memories of her, some of the things she told me...... My father loved my mother so much that he didn't want to reminisce. My wife knows very little about my mother. When we got married, we were planning to move to the capital...... The seven aunts and eight aunts in the family had only met when they got married, and she didn't know about them...... When my son grows up, he may not remember what his ancestors did. He won't remember the past of our people. Possible...... I don't know at all. When a man dies, he dies like a lamp goes out...... Nothing was left behind......"

"Are you alright, Mr. Ye?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a ...... In my son's words, hypocrisy, literary heart. I'm sorry. ”

"It doesn't matter. Please continue. What do you remember about your mother and you? Can you tell me about it? ”

"Uh-huh. Mostly something from the past. She is the second of three siblings, with an older brother above and a younger brother below. My brother's two children, one emigrated, the other died in a car accident, and my wife remarried with the children, and we had no contact with us. There is a big age gap between my uncle and my mother. I remember, his son should be at college age now, right? When I was admitted to university, I called our home. My mother was very happy that there was finally a college student in the family. She wasn't in good health at that time, and she wanted to go to eat and drink, so she sent my cousin to college, but it didn't work out. ”

"Hmm."

At that time, she felt a lot of emotion. What she knew, probably was her grandfather's grandfather's business. The earliest was that generation, a big landowner, who had a field, gave birth to more than a dozen daughters, and only three survived, and it didn't matter if they got married, just two precious sons. The name seems to be a clear ......."

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