Chronicles of the Modern Empress Dowager

Li Wei followed Yang Man to the end of the corridor. The two stood under the window. Yang Man whispered to Li Wei: "The doctor said that our father’s disease is in the lungs, and there are signs of rupture in the alveoli. We must pay more attention in the future, especially When the weather changes suddenly in winter."

"I heard Mom say that there is something wrong with my dad's heart, how can it affect the heart?"

Yang Man sighed, "Because of your elder brother. It is not an exaggeration to say that Dad's sudden illness has nothing to do with your elder brother."

Li Wei was a little dazed. How could the eldest brother be so easy to provoke his dad to anger, and then Yang Man quickly unraveled: "Remember that your brother and the surname Jiao said that they were going to work together to build a project? Your brother could vote for twelve. Wanjin, I also helped raise money. I didn’t know that Jiao had cut contact with your brother. Hearing others said that Jiao seemed to have collected money and ran away."

Li Wei was stunned: "Isn't he a primary school classmate who claims to be his eldest brother, is he a fellow from Yongning?"

"Hey, now this society is pitted against fellow villagers. Your dad heard that 120,000 yuan had been swept away, and he fell ill in annoyance. Fortunately, someone around him found out that he had been sent to the hospital early for the emergency department, what if he returned half an hour late? I can't even think about it."

"Big brother, where is he now?"

Yang Man shook his head and said: "I don't know if I call him or answer the phone. He never came to see him once after my dad was in the hospital, so my mom was anxious to call you."

When Li Wei heard that he felt a fire in his heart, Liu Chunzhi and Yang Man were guarding him, and Li Wei said that he would go out to find Li Jianping.

Li Wei rode a bicycle through the streets of Huiliang, big and small, among which she was unfamiliar with many newly built streets, and almost lost her way after shopping for a long time.

When the lanterns first came on, the county seat was lit up. Li Wei looked blank, she didn't know where the eldest brother was. She has been to the residence and the shop floor. There is still no one. She even went in to see the billiard room where she met the eldest brother and Jiao Yang, but there was still no one.

While Li Weiman was searching for Li Jianping in the world, Li Jianping went back to Yongning alone.

He found the former Faxiao and asked him where Jiao Yang’s house was. He told him, “Jiao Yang’s family has moved to the city a long time ago. How can you find him in the village?”

Li Jianping yelled: "Fuck, it's been three days, and he can't be found anywhere. He can really evaporate from the world? Fortunately, I still treat him as a brother. That's how I treated my brother." Li Jianping was so angry that he followed the one next to him. The big tree thumped hard a few times.

Jiao Yang was nowhere to be found. Seeing that it was too late, Li Jianping wanted to go back to the city. He was afraid that the last train had left. He sat on the big rock at the entrance of the village and smoked. After taking a few breaths, I choked and coughed.

When he quietly finished smoking the cigarette, he planned to find a hotel on the street for a night. After not taking a few steps, he met Li Mingguo who was returning home.

"Jianping, how do you come back?"

Li Jianping shouted with a depressed look: "Uncle."

"Where to go, this is the time."

Li Jianping didn't want to go to the uncle's house to disturb, so he said: "It's okay, I'm leaving."

Li Mingguo was a little puzzled, Li Jianping had hurried away.

Over the years, the streets of Yongning have not changed much, not even a street lamp. Li Jianping found the only hotel in the town in the dark and gave him a room.

There are no windows in the cramped room, and there are holes in the curtains burned by cigarette butts. The dust in the corner has accumulated for a long time, and there is a public toilet and water tap at the end.

Li Jianping only asked for a bed for him to lie down to sleep, and he had no other requirements. When he was lying down, a quick knock on the door came in.

Li Jianping asked impatiently: "Who?"

A woman outside answered: "The hot water supplier."

Li Jianping opened the door slowly, and there was a woman with a big belly standing outside the door, wearing loose clothes with cartoon patterns, her hair draped over her shoulders, and holding a warm water bottle in one hand, delivering water from the door.

Li Jianping didn't pay much attention to it. When the water bottle was about to be closed after receiving the water bottle from the woman, the woman suddenly said, "Brother Li?"

Well? Li Jianping was able to look up at the pregnant woman in front of him. This woman was chubby up and down, and looked familiar. After a while, he said, "Are you Magnolia?"

"It's me, why are you here?"

"I..." Li Jianping felt a little sudden, and coupled with the confusion in his heart, he didn't know where to start, so he closed the door: "Thank you, you are busy."

This hotel was opened by Wang Yulan? If he had known this, he would not come in.

Wang Yulan did not leave immediately. She stood there for a while, until the door in front of her closed, she also stood there in a daze, thinking about the past of the two, she couldn't calm down, she was full of mind all night. All he thought about was Li Jianping, but Li Jianping was thinking about Jiao Yang.

After eight o'clock the next day, he woke up from hunger, turned over and got out of bed. After going to the toilet, I washed my face with cold water at the tap.

He went downstairs, holding a key in his hand, but saw Wang Yulan sitting behind the counter and knitting wool. He walked over and put the key on the counter, and said: "Hey, give me the deposit."

Wang Yulan raised her head, but saw Li Jianping's unfamiliar and indifferent face. It turned out that she was the only one who was entangled. She opened the drawer and counted the money and handed it to Li Jianping.

When she heard the smell of Li Jianping's smoke, her brows frowned, and she kindly cared: "What difficult things have you encountered?"

Li Jianping said in surprise, "No."

"You only smoke violently when you can't think about it." Wang Yulan always remembered this habit.

"It's nothing."

Li Jianping put the money in his wallet and turned around. Wang Yulan said again: "I heard that you were married, but you ended up with a second marriage?"

"Who did you hear about this?"

"It's no secret that the whole village knows this."

"Okay, I'm leaving now."

However, Wang Yulan took a steaming hot cake for Li Jianping to eat, but Li Jianping didn't answer it, "You can save it." He didn't stay for half a minute, and strode away. Wang Yulan stood behind the counter and watched his figure go away.

Over the years, she could never forget him.

Li Jianping did not find Jiao Yang in Yongning, so he had to go back to the city. When he hurried back to the hot spring hotel, Li Wei came up and gave him a punch.

"I'm looking for you all over the world, where are you going? Dad is lying in the hospital, and you don't go over and take a look."

Li Jianping saw that it was his younger sister, and then said, "I dare not go, for fear that his old man will be angry."

Li Wei punched him again: "You are the pillar of the family, that's how you are in charge? If your second brother is here, you must be scolded."