Corpse Retriever

In the early morning, the door of the east room was opened from the inside, and Ah Li, wearing a lotus pavilion jacket, walked out.

In the past, she was the first one to get up in this family, but not today.

On the dam, Runsheng and Tan Wenbin sat opposite each other, lowering their heads to polish the sickles in their hands.

When Ah Li passed by, Runsheng looked up and smiled at the girl: "Good morning."

The girl stopped, then walked into the house and went upstairs.

Although she didn't say anything, the previous pause was the biggest response.

Pushing the door of the room and walking in, the boy was still asleep, and the girl began to appreciate the boy's paintings hanging on the wall.

There are three completed paintings, the first one is the little yellow warbler.

The woman in the painting is not green-faced and fanged, but rather introverted and reserved, swaying in her body, and her lips and teeth are like pouring out, as if she is about to walk out of the scroll and sing and dance.

The second painting is a kind white-haired old woman, sitting in the yard basking in the sun, with a black cat sleeping on her lap.

The third painting is a middle-aged man, whose image seems to be deliberately blurred, with only his back painted, but the ancient copper coin hanging around his waist is depicted in great detail, with extremely clear organization.

The three paintings have been carefully processed in the background processing.

The first painting has a sense of illusion, the second painting is warm and desolate, and the third painting is very depressing.

When A Li was looking at it seriously, Li Zhuiyuan woke up.

The boy walked to the girl's side and watched with her for a while.

After washing up, he played chess with the girl as usual, and now he played three games at the same time, which greatly improved Li Zhuiyuan's efficiency in losing chess.

"It's time for breakfast!"

Every day, Aunt Liu's shout opened the prelude to the official start of the day.

Runsheng and Tan Wenbin came back from the fields together. The autumn harvest has come. The fields have been busy these days, and Tan Wenbin got up early to help.

He had never suffered hardship, and he had blisters on his hands from doing this, but he didn't care and picked them out with a needle.

Even Li Sanjiang told him to stop doing it, but Tan Wenbin smiled and said:

"It's okay, Zhuangzhuangzhuangshi."

At the end of the morning self-study, Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin walked into the classroom.

There was a pot of flowers on Zheng Haiyang's desk.

His family's incident was defined as burglary and murder. Tan Yunlong didn't directly tell Li Zhuiyuan whether someone from above came, nor did he continue to follow up with Li Zhuiyuan on the details of the follow-up investigation, but sometimes, no news is also a kind of news.

This means that the three of them have been out of this matter.

Although they have been there and left a lot of traces, they can definitely find them with careful investigation, but each profession has its own expertise. Li Zhuiyuan didn't know whether Yu Shu had returned or someone else had replaced him, but after all, they were not professional criminal investigators, and their perspective would instinctively ignore the existence and role of "ordinary people" in it.

During this period, Tan Wenbin studied very hard. During the break, except for accompanying Li Zhuiyuan to the toilet, he did his own exercises.

"Zhuiyuan Secret Scroll" is now printed and sold by the school, which saves Tan Wenbin a lot of trivial things. However, his current exercise book is specially designed by Li Zhuiyuan for his own learning progress and situation.

After Li Zhuiyuan entered high school, he did not learn much textbook knowledge. If it were not for his much better memory than ordinary people, his "academic performance" might have declined.

But his ability to teach people to learn has been greatly improved, as if he was not in high school, but in a normal school.

Binbin is still cheerful, can joke, can talk, and will sing and sing with Li Sanjiang to create an atmosphere when eating at home.

But in his own time, he will be more silent, because he seems to have something to do.

Doing exercises in class at school, learning the basics with Runsheng at home, and after a while, he will bring his summarized learning problems and dead problems to Li Zhuiyuan for solution.

Li Zhuiyuan could feel that these problems were really difficult for Tan Wenbin to understand, and he must have gone through rounds of screening and overcoming them.

Slow growth is a kind of happiness.

And overnight maturity is often not enviable.

In the past, Tan Wenbin shouted that he also wanted to apply for "Haihe University", but he was more inclined to make a wish. Now he is really realizing it step by step, and he has become very focused.

A retired philosophy professor in the family compound once said to Li Zhuiyuan that there are two kinds of smart people in the world, one is a smart person like Li Zhuiyuan, and the other is a smart person with clear cognition.

The former is that the brain is really good, and it learns everything quickly. No matter how envious outsiders are, they can't imitate it. This is innate and in the genes.

But the latter is no worse than the former, that is, at a certain age in life, you know what to do in the next stage, and you can make plans and work hard to implement them.

The competition in society and life is great, but most people are pushed into the next stage of life with confusion and helplessness. But what if you can start planning and preparing two or three years in advance?

At that time, there are actually very few competitors around you.

Xue Liangliang is a genius among the latter, because his vision can not only see two or three years later, but even twenty or thirty years later.

Even Li Zhuiyuan often unconsciously regards Brother Liangliang's words as a prediction of the future. This is not a shaman dance or a prophecy, but he really has the ability to see the main contradictions and find out the objective laws.

Although there is a phone, it is not so convenient to make a phone call after all, and there is really nothing to talk about directly, so the two are still used to communicating by letters.

Last time, Li Zhuiyuan mentioned the question book in his letter, and also told Xue Liangliang about Tan Wenbin's ideas.

In his reply, Xue Liangliang said that Tan Wenbin was a business genius. He was sure that this industry would be a big blue ocean in the future with broad business prospects, because the Chinese people's emphasis on education is a cultural instinct, and most families will not hesitate to invest in education no matter how frugal they are.

Xue Liangliang also said that if Tan Wenbin wanted to continue doing this in the future, he could invest a sum of money, and suggested that he should not limit himself to personal brand influence, but should use the label of Nantong Education Examination to negotiate cooperation with famous middle schools, and then build the entire city as a big brand name.

Li Zhuiyuan told Tan Wenbin what Xue Liangliang said. After listening to it, Tan Wenbin was stunned for a while, and then slapped his thigh:

"Fuck, this is a great man!"

But when Li Zhuiyuan asked Tan Wenbin if he was willing to do this business, Tan Wenbin shook his head and said he was unwilling.

He wanted to go to college, he wanted to continue learning.

Now that he was on this ship, he wanted to go on a long voyage, see the scenery in the distance, and then go to that destination.

For this reason, he also added with great interest: "My parents are both in the public sector, so I don't have to worry about retirement."

That's right, people who have seen the horror of life and death but can still maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, it is indeed difficult to focus on making money.

For lunch, Li Zhuiyuan did not go with Tan Wenbin. He got on a bus parked on the campus, and all kinds of food and drinks were prepared on the bus.

Principal Wu still led the team, and Teacher Yan was the assistant. The bus set off and drove to Jinling to compete in the Provincial Mathematical Olympiad.

The other six students on the bus ate and drank all the way and were very happy.

Li Zhuiyuan ate a little to fill his stomach, and then leaned against the window and looked at the scenery outside the window.

Wu Xinhan noticed it and sat over to ask if the food was not to his taste.

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and said frankly that it was because he had a good living condition before.

This answer made Principal Wu stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face. Outsiders thought he was showing off at first, but those who were familiar with him could hear his sincerity.

Those who can become principals are not bad in terms of their personalities and conduct. The difference lies in who is worthy of his use.

Therefore, he likes this simple and straightforward boy very much. Being with him, he doesn't need to pretend and is not tired.

Wu Xinhan helped Li Zhuiyuan put down the back seat of the car so that he could lie down and rest.

The school rented a bus to take the exam, and it was also for this reason, to try to relieve the fatigue of the candidates as much as possible.

Arrived in Jinling, stayed in the hotel.

Others were in standard rooms, and Li Zhuiyuan was in a single room.

No one thought this was unfair, and the six students also knew that they were able to pass the city competition selection thanks to the help of the boy.

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan was lying on the bed, holding Wei Zhengdao.

The door was knocked.

Li Zhuiyuan got out of bed and was about to open the door when he heard Principal Wu's questioning voice from outside: "Who are you?"

"I am Xiaoyuan's brother."

"Brother?"

Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan's standard room was right across from Li Zhuiyuan.

At this moment, Teacher Yan was in another room, taking the six students to do the Mathematical Olympiad papers. The exam would start tomorrow, and today's work was not to check for omissions or cram, but just to keep everyone in the know.

Wu Xinhan's door was always open, so that he could keep an eye on Li Zhuiyuan's situation. He was like a giant python guarding treasures in a myth.

Li Zhuiyuan opened the door and saw the person coming, and he smiled.

The person was Xue Liangliang.

Haihe University is in Jinling.

Only after Xue Liangliang handed his student ID to Principal Wu for inspection was he able to pass the giant python's security check and allowed to meet his baby.

After closing the door, Xue Liangliang smiled and said, "Xiaoyuan, your principal really loves you."

As he spoke, Xue Liangliang bent down and stretched out his hand to pinch the boy's face.

"Come, let me absorb the spiritual energy of the child prodigy to help me cultivate and become a fairy soon."

"Then Brother Liangliang, you shouldn't absorb mine."

Xue Liangliang: "..."

"Brother Liangliang, what are you holding in your hand?"

"Some Jinling specialties. I know you are too lazy to bring a lot of bags home, so I prepared some food and let's try it together."

He took out a lot of snacks from the bag, one of which was salted duck.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece and tasted it.

"How is it?"

"Delicious."

"I can't get used to this stuff." Xue Liangliang shrugged, "But here, whether it is a public or private enterprise, they like to give out salted duck during festivals."

"It depends on personal taste. I like to eat light."

This duck, except for the salty taste, is basically white.

"Hey, you know, the first time I saw your letter saying you were in the third year of high school, I thought I had misread it, and then I wondered if you had written it wrong. Why didn't you tell me earlier that you were in the junior class?"

"I told you."

"Did you?" Xue Liangliang thought for a while, "Then I must have been distracted at the time. You will take the college entrance examination next year?"

"Yeah."

"Well, do you want to be an alumnus?"

"Okay."

"Really?"

"Yeah, really."

Xue Liangliang showed joy on his face, and then took out a letter from his pocket:

"You make me a lobbyist, I have no sense of accomplishment; alas, this is the letter I gave you by Luo Gongtuo, you have seen it, he wants me to persuade you to apply for our school in advance."

The college entrance examination is still early, but the competition for the race has already begun.

Although the provincial test is tomorrow, when the city -level results come out, the werewolves have smelled blood.

This mainly depends on the gold content of the small region, plus Li Zhanyuan's exaggerated age.

President Wu mentioned to Li Zhanyuan that many colleges and universities have recently greeted hello. After the provincial test, he will start a real hunting operation.

Wu Xinhan is very happy because his middle school has not been qualified for delivery.

Although the quality of teaching is an overall thing, the specific circle and even the industry, the effect of a leading horse is also very impressive, can bring more attention and resources to the school.

"Okay." Li Zhanyuan received a letter, "When will I accept me in advance?"

"Well ..." Xue Liangliang just raised the cup to drink saliva, almost half of the spit out. He wiped the corner of his mouth, "So can't wait?"

"hold head high."

"Your attitude has made me feel that the treasure is hidden under our school."

"No treasure, just die."

"Don't stop, I am most afraid of Xiaoyuan's ghost story."

"Um?"

"Campus ghost story."

"Oh, really, I don't believe it."

"I'm very timid."

Li Zhanyuan looked at him like this, his eyes were not eye -catching.

Xue Liangliang shrinks her neck: "That's not the same, she is not a ghost or a dead end, she is hot."

Li Zhanyuan asked in doubt: "Under the river, there are hot things?"

"When the results of the provincial test come out, we can take the process. I think your city test can be full. It must be no problem to get a prize in the provincial test. It will definitely meet the early admission conditions."

In fact, Xue Liangliang is not accurate, and the conditions are not so calculated, but the conditions for conditions are to save the screening cost. When the ability and talent of some people are enough to break the constraints, the condition can also be flexible.

"That, I asked for leave. When you go back, I am cheeky and walk with you in the same car."

"ah?"

"My internship and employment have been done, and I will go to Shancheng early next month."

"Oh, you want to go and see the sister -in -law before leaving."

"Your sister -in -law shouted very smoothly, I thought you would be afraid and disgusted them."

"I hate the Bai family, but she can let the white family go back to the water. I think it is good, that is where they should stay."

Xue Liangliang took a deep breath, spit out again, and whispered: "That's not my dedication."

"Do you want to write a local mind for Liang Liang? After all, you have also made great contributions to the security of the people."

"Hahaha, that's too ugly. In the future, people see it here. It is estimated that the person who scolds me and remember the matter is a little bit."

"Then you have to see her?"

"After going to the mountain city, I don't know when I can come back. Let's take a look first. This is a fixed task after all."

"Like my grandfather and grandfather, they hand over their grain?"

"Hey, your boy, don't think I can't see it, you are pretending to be a child!"

Xue Liangliang directly rushed Li Zhanyuan to the bed, and began to scratch him itching.

After Li Chaoyuan kept begging for mercy, he let the boy go.

After talking for a while, Xue Liangliang was ready to leave:

"Come on, take a good exam tomorrow, I'm waiting for you outside the test room."

"Um."

At this time, the knock on the door sounded again.

"Who are you?" President Wu, who was right at the door, spit out Xinzi again.

"I'm looking for Xiaoyuan, I'm his brother."

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

"Brother, Xiao Yuan has so many brothers in Jinling?"

Li Zhanyuan opened the door of the room and saw the coming.

The person is about twenty or eight years old. Although wearing plainclothes, standing there, it seems like a sharp knife.

"Grandpa of principal, he is my brother."

"Oh, okay, your brother meets."

Wu Xinhan waved his hand and swim back to his room.

The coming person stood at the door and didn't come in, and said straightforwardly:

"Grandma wants you to return to Beijing."

Li Zhanyuan shook his head: "Don't return."

"Your mother uses that application report to the request to the top. Grandpa is not allowed to intervene at home, but you can choose your own life."

"This is my choice."

"Although your parents are divorced, you are still our family."

"My name is Li now."

"It's no longer?"

"No."

"Um."

The coming turned around and left.

Xue Liangliang asked a little surprise: "Who is he?"

"My father's son."

It wasn't because Li Zhanyuan deliberately called so indifferently, but that he was a little bit unclear for a while.

"The relatives of your dad are so along like this?"

"No. It should be Grandpa Bei gave orders at home."

"Let's order? Don't say, that person is really like a soldier."

"He is."

"But, even if the parents divorce and get along like this, willn't your mother change the surname for you?"

"Well, she did do this."

"Oh, no wonder."

"But this is not the reason."

Li Zhuiyuan knew that his grandfather Bei was a very principled person. Li Lan used a special application to arrange for his son, so Grandpa Bei could only choose to approve it and not allow his family to interfere with this arrangement.

The boy now suspected that Li Lan was doing the same thing as Zhu Changyong, although not in the sea.

And the person who came here to find him was actually defying Grandpa's will. This was hard to imagine in Bei's family. If Grandpa knew about it, he would really break his legs.

Therefore, the other party's attitude was indifferent, just because he was used to it, and his own indifference was not to convey misunderstandings, for fear that they would think there was room for maneuver.

Otherwise, if he reported to Grandma Bei wrongly, Grandpa Bei would be angry when they operated over there.

In Grandpa Bei's eyes, Li Lan's arrangement for him was like a "comrade's last wish."

"Oh, by the way, if you are admitted in advance, will you still go to school?"

"I will take the college entrance examination."

"Then do you want to accompany me to the mountain city to play?"

"Hmm..."

Li Zhuiyuan doesn't want to go far, at least for now.

"Forget it, there is nothing fun. My workplace is definitely not in the city, but in those ravines. There are only mountains and water."

"Okay."

"Hmm?"

"I can go to play."

The main reason is that the frequency of death in my hometown has greatly decreased recently.

At the beginning, I wished that one would appear every few days, but now, I don't see one for a month or so. Theory is seriously out of practice, which will also cause problems.

"Okay, I will arrange it when the time comes."

"Can I bring a friend?"

"Is this a problem?"

"Thank you, Brother Liangliang."

"Then you should take the exam well, I'm leaving."

"Goodbye, Brother Liangliang."

At night, Li Zhuiyuan went to bed early.

When I woke up in the morning, Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan took everyone to the examination room.

Coincidentally, Li Zhuiyuan's exam seat was still in the row by the window, and when he looked out, he could still see a gingko tree.

However, this time, after the bell rang, he did not continue to stare blankly at the scenery, but lowered his head to answer the questions.

The questions were much more difficult than those in the city competition. The intention of the question setter was to make things difficult for people. You could even see their gloomy smiles from the numbers and symbols.

Li Zhuiyuan empathized with him, just like when he gave Tan Wenbin advanced questions.

After answering the questions, Li Zhuiyuan handed in his paper ahead of time. He walked under the ginkgo tree again and looked at the yellowing leaves on it.

He really wanted to suggest that the principal plant some in the school, but then he thought it was not necessary, and he estimated that he would not have many opportunities to see it.

After leaving the examination room, Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan ran over immediately, one handed a towel and the other handed water.

"How is it, Xiaoyuan?"

"Are the questions difficult?"

"I've solved them all."

Hearing this, the two of them felt relieved.

The next day after the exam, there was the midterm exam.

Wu Xinhan originally thought that Xiaoyuan would come to his office to rest after the first exam, just like he did in the last monthly exam. For this reason, he even brought a thermos bucket with chicken soup cooked by his wife.

But after waiting for a long time, the boy didn't come.

He was a little impatient, not because he was worried that the chicken soup would be wasted, but because he was afraid that the boy would go to other places to rest and catch a cold.

He went to Sun Qing's office first.

Sun Qing had just finished supervising an exam and was sharing persimmon cakes with the teachers in the office.

Now Sun Qing is much more confident and calm than when she first became a class teacher. After all, only people with no grades will be involved in the vortex of earning qualifications and torturing and struggling with each other.

This qualification that fell from the sky is also qualification.

When you mention it in the future, you will only say that you taught "so and so" before. No one will really care about what you taught him.

You can even cover your mouth and say: "In fact, he is very smart. We, as the class teacher, don't need to worry about anything. Just let him develop freely."

It's the truth, but the listener will only think you are really humble.

Just like Principal Wu who was full of sarcasm during the meeting, everyone has inner spiritual needs. Sun Qing's favorite thing to do now is to lie on the bed before going to bed and close her eyes to imagine the future.

"Teacher Sun, come out for a while."

"Okay, principal." Sun Qing walked out and handed Wu Xinhan a piece of persimmon cake.

Wu Xinhan took a bite and asked, "Where is Xiaoyuan?"

"He's taking the exam."

"Ah, hasn't he finished the exam yet? Didn't the test paper have been printed long ago? No one of you gave it to him?"

"No, Xiaoyuan said he wanted to take the exam according to the normal process this time to get familiar with the college entrance examination process."

Midterm exams are different from monthly exams. The time is not so extremely compressed. Instead, they are divided into two days to simulate the frequency of the college entrance examination as much as possible.

"What a good kid."

"Teacher Su is very happy."

"Haha."

Teacher Su teaches English. Chinese and math can be the first test, but she has never seen any exam where English is tested first. She doesn't want to recall her glorious resume in the future, only her English has a "flaw". This will make her look very unskilled and can't even teach a child prodigy.

After each test, Tan Wenbin did not check the answers, but sat back in his seat, either doing questions or preparing for the next test.

These days, some food appears under his drawer in the morning.

It was sent by the class monitor Zhou Yunyun.

Even if Tan Wenbin was a bit brainless, he knew what the monitor meant. He would return the gift and buy some snacks.

But apart from discussing topics during class, he did not have much contact with Zhou Yunyun. As soon as school was over, he rode his bicycle and followed Runsheng's tricycle home.

Zhou Yunyun did not continue to take the initiative. The two of them occasionally gave each other small gifts, and neither of them crossed the line.

Perhaps, this is the most beautiful throbbing of youth, and it is also the warm arc that will still appear at the corners of his mouth when he searches for memories in the future.

When harvesting rice, he told Runsheng about this.

Runsheng turned around and asked, "When are you going to have a child?"

If it weren't for the sickle in Runsheng's hand, Tan Wenbin would have wanted to duel with him.

Along with the midterm exam results, the results of the Mathematical Olympiad were released. Although the grades are still divided according to the ranking, the colleges and universities have their own channels to know the real scores.

The happiest thing for Wu Xinhan these days is to answer the phone in the office.

"Hello, I'm Wu Xinhan, the principal of Shigang Middle School."

Then wait for the next person to introduce himself.

Isn't this more fulfilling than the military training review?

Unfortunately, Xiaoyuan had already told him the target university, which made him lose more room to flatter and develop happiness.

On the night when the midterm exam rankings were released, Tan Wenbin returned to his home.

After handing the report card to his mother, his mother cried with joy.

When Tan Yunlong came back, his wife excitedly shared her joy with him, which made Tan Yunlong himself feel a little dazed and unreal.

He walked to the door of his son's room and wanted to push the door open directly, but he still knocked on the door.

The son didn't say "please come in" in a big way, but came over and opened the door.

"Let's go to the balcony and chat."

"Yeah."

The father and son came to the balcony.

Tan Yunlong: "You did well in the exam this time."

"Still a little short, you have to keep working hard."

Tan Yunlong wanted to touch his son's head, but when he raised his hand, he patted his son on the shoulder.

"Don't put so much pressure on yourself."

"Yeah, I understand."

Tan Yunlong took out a cigarette box, pulled out a cigarette, bit it in his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then pulled out another one and handed it to his son.

Tan Wenbin suddenly felt his eyes moist, and instinctively lowered his head to avoid his father's sight.

It's funny that when the scene he had dreamed of really appeared, what he thought in his heart was that he hoped to go back in time.

He stretched out his hand to push away his father's hand holding the cigarette and said:

"Dad, I quit."

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I'm not feeling well today, and my condition is very bad. I'm sorry for the water chapter.