The onlookers gasped when they saw that Li Zhen not only refused to persuade him but also handed him the knife.

At this time, Xu Zhan's eyes were red and he couldn't persuade him at all. Instead, he calmed down after seeing the fruit knife in Li Zhen's hand. He gasped and picked up Xu Qizhi and roared.

"Let's go and see my mother off for the last time."

Xu Qizhi's face was covered in blood, and he was dragged out of the crowd by Xu Zhan helplessly.

Seeing Qi Yihan and Luo Chen standing outside the crowd, Xu Zhan stood frozen for a moment, then pulled Xu Qizhi and walked around them without saying a word.

"Old Xu..." Qi Yihan called to Xu Zhan.

Xu Zhan didn't look back and said firmly, "Don't persuade me, I won't listen."

Qi Yihan said calmly, "Secretary Luo and I drove here..."

A car was just right for two people, but with Li Zhen who was caught by Qi Yihan, it was too crowded.

Qi Yihan held Li Zhen's hand and asked Luo Chen to drive Xu Zhan and Xu Qizhi to the funeral home, while he and Li Zhen stopped Qi Lian who was about to escape and took a taxi back to the furniture factory.

Qi Lian was like a mouse meeting a cat. She followed Qi Yihan to the car dejectedly. When she arrived at the furniture factory, she didn't need Qi Yihan to open her mouth and explain herself first.

"I didn't know he was Xu Zhan's biological father. He suddenly found me ten years ago and gave me a mailing address. He asked me to write a letter every other month to report on Xu Zhan's condition, and he sent me ten yuan every month. "

"Anyway, it was Xu Zhan's daily life, and it didn't involve issues of principle or privacy, so I agreed. We haven't seen each other since then. The last time he came to see me was because there were rumors between Xu Zhan and me. He asked Is it true? I told him it was a rumor. At that time, he and I made an appointment to meet at the cinema. Wu Jianguo saw him and mistakenly thought that he and I were..."

"Then this time, he suddenly asked me to meet at Chengyun Teahouse. He said he would give me a thousand yuan and let me find a way to go to Xu Zhan's house to help find an ancient book. When I asked him, he had to tell me the title of the book, otherwise how could I find it? , he said I would recognize the book as long as I saw it, no need to worry about the title."

"Originally I agreed, but Xu Zhan suddenly came in and started beating me without saying a word, and all my money was lost."

Qilian sighed with regret.

"Why don't you tell your family?"

Qi Yihan felt a low pressure all over his body. Qi Lian shrank into a ball in fear and said with a frown.

"It's not like you don't know what your parents are like. If I told you, you can't get paid even if you work hard, and no one is allowed to save some private money. Why should you give it all to them?"

"Why would he ask you to find a way to enter Xu Zhan's house?" Li Zhen asked.

Now Liu Chunhua's mother and son are also living in Xu Zhan's house. Qi Lian and mother and son are not familiar with each other, making it even more difficult to go in and find things.

Qi Lian wrung her hands together, her face turned red, "He said he wanted me to pretend to be dating Xu Xiu..."

"The reputation of your girl's family is worth a thousand yuan?" Li Zhen hated the iron. "The set of cosmetics I gave you cost more than a thousand yuan. How could you give up your self-esteem and self-love for a thousand yuan?"

"Cosmetics are not money, what I want is money!" Qilian said forcefully, as if money could give her great courage.

"What do you want so much money for?" Qi Yihan scolded with a low face.

Qilian clenched her fists and shouted, "I want to buy a house, I want to have my own home. I don't want my mother to take away my salary anymore, I don't want to see the annoying Qi Yiyang anymore, and I don't want to be lectured by you! I don't want to be scolded by you either!" I want to be like you, who chases us away if you don't like it, and I want to be like Li Zhen, who has the confidence to say don't mess with me, otherwise he will kick us out."

After saying this, Qi Lian covered her face and cried bitterly.

The mother and son were originally driven away because Zhang Guilan had gone too far, but Qi Yihan had asked the school and the textile factory to take care of his younger siblings, but he had forgotten that everyone has good intentions. Being driven out of the house by his brother would inevitably leave him with regrets. Casting a shadow, Qi Yihan rarely scolded him again.

"Big brother did something wrong. I will never drive you away again..."

Qi Lian sobbed and turned her back to Qi Yihan.

Li Zhen wiped Qi Lian's tears with a handkerchief, but Qi Lian snatched it away and threw it back into Li Zhen's arms.

"You don't have to pretend to be kind. I know you look down on our family. You don't even bother to say a word to us on weekdays. You are so proud that you use your eyes to look at people. But you can get the cosmetics to treat my face. Just take the cosmetics. If you threaten and bully me, I will wait to see when my elder brother will divorce you, and when that time comes, I will definitely step on you so hard that you will never be able to turn over again."

"Am I your enemy?" Li Zhen was speechless.

"It's not that enemies are better than enemies. Who asked you to encourage my brother to drive us away?"

Li Zhen gave Qi Yihan a look that said, "You're the girl, you can handle it yourself." He picked up his coat, put it on, and said to Qi Yihan.

"I'm going home first..."

Hearing this, Qi Yihan stopped Li Zhen and said, "Lin Bing is going to treat you tonight. Luo Chen has already agreed. You will go too tonight and ask Tao Ning to stop preparing the meal and go together."

Li Zhen said amusedly, "I'm inviting so many people to a treat. Why are you taking advantage of me?"

Qi Yihan was helpless when Li Zhen teased him in front of his sister.

"He only makes a few dollars a month, how can we ask him to pay for it?"

Li Zhen smiled, "That's because I misunderstood Factory Director Qi."

Qilian was left alone and ignored, crying until she almost fainted, "..."

You are really a couple, using your girl as air, talking, laughing and flirting unscrupulously in front of your face, bah!

Seeing Qilian secretly rolling her eyes at her, Li Zhen ignored her. For such an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, she would never spend a penny or even a single thought on her in the future.

Before going home, Li Zhen went to the post office first.

Taking the key and opening the mailbox, there was only a small package inside...

Now that she basically doesn't take jobs, Ma Jinshan will no longer send her employer information, and the cosmetics have also been stopped, so where did this package come from?

Li Zhen took out the package with doubts. The rectangular package was about half an inch thick and had neither the address of the sender nor the name of the recipient on it.

The post office has a room for personal mailboxes. Rows of grid mailboxes are marked with numbers. After renting a mailbox, you will get the corresponding key and payment voucher. You must show your ID every time you come, and you will be allowed to enter only after verification by the staff. .

Li Zhen asked the staff member responsible for guarding his personal mailbox.

"Is there anyone who has sent my mailbox to deliver mail in the past few days?"

After receiving a negative reply, Li Zhen was confused. Could it be that this person was also a user here, or had he opened a personal mailbox at the post office in order to deliver the package to her?

So what is the purpose of this person doing this?

Surveillance was very rare in the 1980s, and it was even less likely to be found in the post office. Li Zhen put the package in his backpack and left the post office to go home.

Li Zhen didn't take Zhu Xiaochun out today because he had to go to the publishing house. He left him in the care of Tao Ning in the morning. When he got home, he knocked on the next door to pick him up.

After knocking several times, no one answered the door. Li Zhen listened carefully, but there seemed to be no one inside.

Li Zhen took the key and opened the door to his house, put on his slippers and walked into the living room. He saw a note left by Tao Ning on the coffee table, saying that he had taken Zhu Xiaochun to the instant noodle factory run by Guo Zhaoran.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Li Zhen took out the package from his backpack and squeezed it. Judging from the feel, it looked like thick paper. He used scissors to cut open the package. It turned out to be an ancient book bound with thread.

Li Zhen's mind suddenly echoed Qi Lian's words, 'Help find an ancient book' and 'You will recognize the book as soon as you see it'...

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