The Romance of a Young Painter

While Zheng Jing was investigating Zhou Nianjiu, Wen Juan was also looking at Zheng Jing's resume over the years. When he turned to the recently updated section, he saw Li Xiang's name, couldn't help but frowned, then picked up his phone and called Zhou Nianjiu. Phone: "Xiao Nian, where are you?"

"On the way home." Zhou Nianjiu said, he didn't plan to stay there for lunch, so he had to leave after talking to Li Xiang. Zheng Jing didn't insist on keeping him, but chose to send him back in person. To digest the knowledge I just received, so I stayed there and didn't go with them.

Wen Ju'an felt a little relieved, and said, "I'll go back soon, too."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you to eat." Zhou Nianjiu said.

Zheng Jing could hear clearly from the driver's seat, and when Zhou Nianjiu hung up the phone, he asked casually, "Your family's phone number?"

"Well, it's my brother." Zhou Nianjiu said.

"I thought you were all only children at your age, but I didn't expect you to have an older brother." Zheng Jing pretended to be confused with understanding.

"Hmm." The situation of Zhou Nianjiu's family is more complicated than that of ordinary families, and he doesn't intend to tell outsiders too much.

Zheng Jing didn't expect to be able to pry people's defenses away when they met for the second time, but continued the topic just now: "Actually, it's good to have brothers and sisters in the family. Like me, I have an older sister. I have a very good relationship with her since childhood, and she also Take special care of me, keep all the delicious and fun things for me, sometimes I don’t dare to tell my parents when I get into trouble outside, and it’s my sister who helps me out..."

"Is it Li Xiang's mother?" Zhou Nianjiu asked.

"No," Zheng Jing's voice was a little low, "I'm talking about my own sister, she was not in good health and passed away six years ago." Then he smiled sheepishly, with a little sadness on his face Say, "I'm sorry to tell you this, it's been too long since I've told anyone about her."

"Death is just leaving this world to go to another country." Zhou Nianjiu said.

Is this consolation?Zheng Jing felt more and more that this young man was innocent and cute.As for that woman, his elder sister Zheng Ke, she really got rid of her guilt through death, so he said sincerely: "She must have gone to a good place."

Zhou Nianjiu was sitting in the co-pilot, the previous sentence was just a flash of inspiration, now he couldn't think of what to say next, so he just continued to sit quietly.

Fortunately, Zheng Jing has never been the kind of person who needs others to think about how to warm up for him, and the family cards continue to go out one after another: "Think about my mother and I are cousins, our old Zheng's family roots are in City B, I want to Thinking mother went to university in S City, and later she stayed here because of Thinking father. At that time, thinking about it, she was a little older. Now, I really understand the saying that time is like water. When I went abroad, I really didn’t think about it. I will stay outside for so many years."

Zhou Nianjiu asked: "Mr. Zheng was abroad before?"

Zheng Jingdao: "Yes, I have been a wanderer in country M for more than ten years, and I am surrounded by white-skinned, brown-skinned and dark-skinned foreigners." Then he laughed at himself, "Of course, in their eyes, I am also yellow-skinned. A foreigner." Zheng Jingzuo glanced at Zhou Nianjiu inadvertently, and then said with a little surprise, "Xiao Zhou, you look a bit like a mixed race."

Zhou Nianjiu turned sideways subconsciously, and said vaguely, "Well, there is a little bit."

Zheng Jing saw that he was avoiding his own life experience, so he said: "I have seen a lot abroad, but in fact, I can't see it unless I look carefully."

Only then did Zhou Nianjiu feel relieved.

Next, Zheng Jing carefully stopped touching on sensitive issues, but picked up lighter topics to talk to Zhou Nianjiu. The conversation was very happy along the way. Zheng Jing saw Zhou Nianjiu's gradually relaxed expression from the corner of his eyes, and couldn't help but start to feel distracted again. .

The car drove to the gate of Wen's community, Zhou Nianjiu thanked Zheng Jing, opened the door and got off.

Zheng Jing pretended to say goodbye to him casually, and then forced himself to look away from the other party. He thought: There is still a year to go, maybe we should find a P friend first.

Wen Ju'an came back shortly after Zhou Nianjiu entered the house.

Seeing that he was holding an ice bowl of mixed fruits in his hand, Wen Ju'an couldn't help but said to him: "It's almost time to eat, and you still eat these cold ones, be careful that it will affect your digestion."

Zhou Nianjiu said: "Aunt Fang cut up the fruit when Li Xiang came over in the morning, and she made this before finishing eating. Just eat a little, and you'll be fine."

Wen Juan shook his head disapprovingly, thinking that the weather outside was really hot, and he didn't insist on bothering him about it, and then asked, "Where did you go to play with your nephew today?"

Zhou Nianjiu honestly described today's itinerary, and then said: "Brother, this student is well received. Li Xiang is really hardworking in painting."

Wen Ju'an didn't pick up his words, but asked, "You mean you went to Zheng Jing's house?"

Zhou Nianjiu gave a curious "huh" and said, "Brother, I don't think I told you Uncle Li Xiang's name, did I?"

Wen Ju'an did not answer this question, but handed the folder in his hand to Zhou Nianjiu and said, "Look at this first."

Zhou Nianjiu took it in doubt and opened it. When she saw Zheng Jing's information on it, she looked up at Wen Ju'an in puzzlement. Seeing her elder brother's serious expression, she had no choice but to continue reading.

Zheng Jing was born in a well-to-do family in City B. The previous generation took advantage of the spring breeze of reform to earn a fortune and entered the upper class in one fell swoop. There are two siblings in the family, and the elder sister married a young talent. The brother-in-law's company worked, and then something happened to the company, and Zheng Jing's brother-in-law went to jail. Zheng Jing was also sentenced as an accomplice, but his sentence was changed to a lighter sentence as a tainted witness, and he was eventually sent out by using his relationship. out of the country.In the second half, Zheng Jing’s experience abroad is more detailed, from drifting in a foreign land with no relatives, to attending a language school to obtain a master’s degree in finance from a prestigious school, then going to Wall Street alone, becoming a senior investor all the way, and finally returning home, becoming a certain The general manager of the China branch of a well-known investment company has terrifyingly accurate information, even including medical information such as the medical information that he visited a certain disease in a certain place on a certain day of a certain year.

"Brother, why do you have these documents?" Zhou Nianjiu noticed that the document was very detailed, and it didn't look like it was found temporarily.

"I've been checking for a long time." Wen Ju'an said, thanks to the development of foreign information technology, after cracking some checkpoints, Zheng Jing's records after he arrived in country M are almost completely transparent to him.

"Why check him?" Zhou Nianjiu asked in confusion.

"Because he is my relative in terms of blood." The matter involved Wen Juan's life experience. When he presented these materials, he did not intend to hide it from Zhou Nianjiu. "Zheng Jing is my mother's younger brother."

"That is to say, he is your uncle?" Zhou Nianjiu felt that the span from Li Xiang's cousin to Wen Ju'an's real uncle was a bit big.

Wen Ju'an explained, "My mother's name is Zheng Ke, and she and Zheng Jing are siblings. My original name is An Ju, and my biological father's name is An Hai. I was only five years old when my father's company had an accident. I was a member of the Public Security Bureau. People came to investigate, and then my father was arrested and sentenced to life on charges of corruption. My father died in prison within a year. It is said that he died of a fight. My grandpa died early, and my grandma only had my father. Such a son died of a cerebral hemorrhage after hearing the news. My mother began to become abnormal. She always beat and scolded the nanny at home, but ignored me, as if there was no one in the family, and I was the one. At that time, I was secretly brought out by a nanny who held a grudge. Originally, she planned to take me to a remote place to sell, but I ran out halfway. I wanted to take the train back to City B, but I arrived in the opposite direction. In S City, I met my father later, he once checked the affairs of my family, and my mother had already gone abroad to recuperate at that time."

Zhou Nianjiu noticed that Wen Juan's expression was very cold when he mentioned his mother.

Wen Juan said: "I know my father is a very decent man, and his family was also very good at that time. It is impossible for him to commit corruption. I remember that before the accident, Zheng Jing knelt in front of my father and begged him for help, and my mother was also crying. Asked my father to help, and after my father agreed, the whole thing started to go wrong. I never gave up looking for the truth of the year. When I graduated from junior high school, I went to City B and went back to the place where I used to hide toys when I was a child. The father's relics were found in the local area, and from these relics, the whole incident of the year was roughly deduced."

The Zheng family started out by smuggling. It can be said that they spent money like running water to make connections in the circle. By the time Zheng Jing became an adult, there was not much money left in the family, but the money was not wasted. The Zheng family was in the family circle anyway. They looked familiar, and the Zheng siblings also had a good relationship with the younger generation. At that time, the older sister, Zheng Ke, even fell into the eyes of An Hai, the head of the An family, and eventually became Mrs. An.Zheng Jing took all the remaining family property of the Zheng family and defected to his brother-in-law, and became the general manager of the subsidiary company comfortably.

It's a pity that people's hearts are not enough, but within a few years, Zheng Jing used the name of An's name to secretly manipulate and embezzle a huge sum of money. When it was found out, the company's legal person, the brother-in-law who was kept in the dark by Zheng Jing, was the first to bear the brunt. An Hai.Zheng Jing was afraid of taking the blame, so he asked An Hai for help. Although An Hai was angry and committed such a wrong thing, he was his brother-in-law after all, and he didn't want his wife to be sad, so he wanted to let Zheng Jing pay back the money first. , Subsequent things will be turned into small things through relationships.But Zheng Jing had already invested the money abroad, and he couldn't get it back for a while.In desperation, An Hai had to pay out of his own pocket, which really caused a disaster. What Zheng Jing committed involved the purchase of a large amount of state-owned flood relief materials. At that time, there was a major flood across the country. After the incident was reported, it had a very bad impact. When he arrived at An's, An Hai was the first to bear the brunt of the crime and became the main criminal. After being sentenced, he was pointed at the nose by a group of affected people and scolded the executioner.

Wen Ju'an said: "In the end, my father was accused of crimes and left a bad reputation for thousands of years, but Zheng Jing used his relationship to clean himself up."

Zhou Nianjiu didn't expect Wen Ju'an to have such a past. He hugged his elder brother tightly and said softly: "Those who do evil will eventually be devoured by sin, and those who have wronged will eventually be punished. Brother, don't be too sad. There will always be a way."

Wen Ju'an touched his head, but he didn't tell Zhou Nianjiu that he had started to investigate the evidence back then, and Zheng Jing was not very clean in the past few years abroad, some things, as long as they were done, would always leave clues.

"Don't worry, Xiao Nian, I'm fine."

Although Wen Juan said so, Zhou Nianjiu still felt very uncomfortable, especially when thinking about the words that Zheng Jing said when he sent him back today, every sentence was obviously true, but it seemed to be deliberately blurred and beautified. People can't see the ugly truth behind it. Is this the world where adults live?Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and whitewashing.

Wen Juan saw that Zhou Nianjiu was depressed, but there were still some things that he needed to know, so he motioned Zhou Nianjiu to read the last two pages.

Above is a long list, with photos of the owner or a photo with Zheng Jing attached to the name. Judging from the photos, those people are all of yellow race or at least of Asian descent. The photo shows that their relationship with Zheng Jing is absolutely beyond general friendship.

"These are all the people Zheng Jing has dated with, and he seems to be particularly keen to spend his spare time with this matter." Wen Juan said it in a non-obtrusive manner, but it did not prevent Zhou Nianjiu from understanding the meaning of the words.

Zhou Nianjiu quickly understood Wen Juan's worry, he said: "I will be careful."