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The other party seemed to be nearby, and Yuan Ning soon heard the doorbell ring.He is a very honest-looking middle-aged man, with an inexplicable honesty in the corners of his brows and eyes. People who don't know him will definitely think he is honest and honest.With black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, he looks like a nerdy scholar full of knowledge.

Noticing Yuan Ning's curious gaze, the middle-aged man pushed up his glasses and took out the information he had found.On the top of the file is an old photo. There is an almost blurred date in the lower right corner of the photo, which was taken three or forty years ago.

It was not so easy to take pictures at that time, and being able to leave photos at that time shows that this moment must be very memorable.

Yuan Ning picked up the photo and carefully identified it.It was a photo taken at the gate of the orphanage, showing a group of children of different ages.On the far right, stood several conspicuous adults, none of whom were very old, and two of them were foreigners.The photo is black and white, and the color of hair and pupils cannot be distinguished, but the man is tall, with a straight nose, and deep eyes, while the woman has long curly hair like waves and a beautiful face like a doll, all of which are enough for people to recognize their identities.

These are two well-to-do foreigners.

Yuan Ning frowned, not understanding why the middle-aged man brought this photo to them.

The middle-aged man saw Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiu looking over at the same time, and said, "Mr. Xiao Zhang should be able to recognize the other adult in this photo."

Zhang Xiuyan frowned slightly, took the photo and carefully identified it for a moment, and immediately recalled: "He is Wei Jingzhi, who is known as the 'Oriental Navigation King', and he has many important routes in his hands. After Wei Jingzhi died of illness, his hand The routes in the mile were handed over to the two adopted sons, and the 'Ship King Enterprise' split into two factions, the North and the South. There have been many conflicts over the years, and the situation has become much worse than before."

The middle-aged man said: "Because Boss Yin and Boss Shen both have problems, we tried to trace their similarities, and finally found some problems. It turns out that they were both taken in by the orphanage, and the dates are very similar. The south and the north are so far apart that we can regard them as the 'same batch'. So we further investigated to see if there is any connection between the orphanages on both sides."

Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan glanced at each other without interrupting.

The middle-aged man stretched out his index finger and buttoned the photo that was put back on the table: "Then we found this. The two adopted sons of the King of One Piece are very enthusiastic about public welfare, and they don't like to publicize their kindness, like theirs. Like my adoptive father, he has been doing unknown charities for 20 years."

Yuan Ning frowned, carefully watching the "Navigation King" in the photo.The middle-aged man's words were full of sarcasm, and he could naturally hear that Wei Jingzhi's two adopted sons were weird.

The middle-aged man said: "In these orphanages that they donated heavily, many promising people came out, some found their own families, some were adopted by powerful families, and some joined wealthy families—— Some started their families from scratch and became well-known rich men. Boss Shen is the first type, he returned to the Shen family and quickly became the head of the Shen family; Boss Yin is the last type, he managed his own business." He paused , let Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan digest the information hidden in his words.Then he looked at Yuan Ning, "And your senior Yu Langran, his mother also came from an orphanage, was adopted by a good family, and finally married into Yu's family."

Between the lightning and the flint, the scattered clues were strung together by an invisible rope.

Yuan Ning immediately understood why not many people knew that Shen Jiyun and Yu Langran were nephews.

Zhang Xiuyan said: "Then why did Boss Yin remind Ningning to pay attention to Shen Jiyun?"

The middle-aged man said: "This reminder exposes not only Boss Shen, but also Boss Yin himself." He obviously couldn't understand this question, "But it's a bit serious to say 'exposed', after all, what we found The matter has not involved anything particularly serious. The other party deliberately let us know the connection between them, the purpose is not to 'expose', but more like a 'punishment'."

Yuan Ning was taken aback: "Punishment?"

The middle-aged man said: "Yes, punishment." The middle-aged man slowly said this guess, "I think maybe someone used the orphanage to unite a group of people to do something secretly. This person may not be Wei Jingzhi's." Two adopted sons. This man is very self-confident, has the aloofness unique to the superior, and does not take possible backbiting seriously. He is very sure that he will not be exposed, and if some people under his command have problems, he will be punished. He gave it up mercilessly."

Yuan Ning frowned.

The middle-aged man said: "Compared with participating in it, this person is more like a chess player. He doesn't directly intervene in anything, just arranges the chess pieces in specific places. The opponent doesn't care how many chess pieces are given up, and he doesn't care how much he loses. He cares about winning or losing in the end—there is even another possibility, he doesn’t even care about winning or losing, and only enjoys the fun of the game.”

"This is the worst situation." Zhang Xiuyan has already realized the problem, "If the opponent is really such a person, who doesn't care about giving up any chess pieces, and doesn't care about winning or losing in the end, then all the behaviors of this person are unpredictable , and there is no way to find out his existence."

The middle-aged man nodded.

Zhang Xiuyan accepted the information and got up to send the middle-aged man away.There were only two people left in the room.

Yuan Ning opened the information left by the middle-aged man and looked at various documents in it.

Just like the network of "alumni", these orphanages have also formed a large and small web. If you don't look at them together, these cobweb-like existences are not eye-catching.

But when these small spider webs are closely connected one by one, their energy cannot be easily ignored by anyone.

What is the intention of the other party to expose Shen Jiyun, Boss Yin, and even the Wei family behind them at the same time?

Yuan Ning didn't like this feeling very much.He turned a few more pages, his eyes suddenly stopped, and stopped on one of the names: "Look, brother." He pointed to the four words above, "Dechang Culture."

Zhang Xiuyan's eyebrows twitched, thinking of the case last year.Because of Luan Jia, Yuan Ning noticed the problem of Dechang culture.Immediately afterwards, Dechang Culture was found to have problems and completely disappeared from the public's sight.

Among the problems discovered at that time, the lightest one was the sex trade, and the more serious one was the production and sale of drugs, and the use of drugs to control artists and some wealthy businessmen under the banner—especially Luan Jia, who was marginalized by the family and had a little money.

Is this extreme method of controlling the "connection network" related to all this?

Yuan Ning said: "The person in charge of Dechang Culture also grew up in the orphanage. He is the same age as Wei Taiming of the Northern Thai Shipping Industry, but he has not had much contact with him for more than ten years."

Zhang Xiuyan said: "No contact on the surface does not mean no contact behind the scenes." He sighed, "But even your grandfather can't find out the background of the other party, and we naturally have no way to track it down."

Yuan Ning said: "Then I'll go to grandpa's house again and show grandpa what we found. Even if we can't find out, we should be on guard." Seeing Zhang Xiu looking over firmly, Yuan Ning took the initiative to promise, " I will also pay attention to Mr. Shen and Boss Yin, and I will not take risks casually."

Zhang Xiuyan felt relieved.

Yuan Ning took the information and went to the Han family again, and told Mr. Han and the fourth uncle of the Han family about the investigation.Mr. Han has also been calling attention to the movements of all parties, but he did not consider it from the perspective of Yuan Ning's analysis. He nodded after getting what Zhang Xiuyan found out, and asked Yuan Ning to go back to school and stop being blind. meddling with these things.

Yuan Ning agreed to come down, said goodbye to Mr. Han, went home and spent the night with Zhang Xiuyan, and after falling asleep, went to see the baby ginseng and the little tree man with Zhang Xiuyan.

The little tree man grew taller again, and the leaves stretched shyly, happily accepting the spring water poured by the ginseng babies.From time to time, follow the instructions of the ginseng babies to roll the leaves, stretch the branches, and pose as a little model for the ginseng babies to practice painting.

The ginseng babies had a lot of fun every day after they learned the painting skills. Sometimes they drew directly on the ground, and sometimes they used the small drawing board Yuan Ning tailored for them to carefully draw on the paper. Their lives were better than before. more realistic.

Yuan Ning felt relieved when he saw that the little tree man was gaining momentum.The next day, Zhang Xiuyan had something to do, and Yuan Ning was about to go to the library to check the project information, when he suddenly received a call from Li Guo.

It turned out to be Cui Junxian who hadn't been in touch for a long time.Cui Junxian was silent for a long time after losing in the Asian League the year before last, and followed his parents into the entertainment industry. He was born well, and he has a good mind. After putting away the pride and complacency of his childhood, he developed quite well, and he didn't think much about it. Go thing.

Yuan Ning was a little surprised: "Brother Cui, what's the matter?"

Cui Junxian was not polite to Yuan Ning, and opened his mouth and said: "I really want to ask you for something. My master is going to travel in your Huaguo, and the first stop is the capital. If it is convenient for you, I hope you can receive him—the best Don't notify the Chess Association, my master is the most impatient with official affairs."

Yuan Ning remembered who Cui Junxian's master was after a short memory.Cui Junxian's master is known as the "Ghost King", and his chess moves are treacherous and unpredictable. Among Chinese chess players, as solid as Xiao Shengchang and as flexible as Qiu Dong, they were all defeated by the ghost king. The existence of "dawdling" in Changkou.

The ghost king is coming to the capital?

Yuan Ning remembered that the next Asian League will be held next year. Could it be that the ghost king will participate next year, so he specially came to China to travel?No, Ghost King and Senior Xiao have not participated in various competitions for a long time.

Yuan Ning did not notify the Chess Association, but Zhou Yulin and Li Yanqiu were notified.These two people are more attentive than him, and more talented than him. Since the ghost king is coming, it is natural to "make the best use of people's talents and resources", let Zhou Yulin and the others play a few rounds with the ghost king - it would be even better if they can get a few words of guidance!

The abacus in Yuan Ning's heart was crackling.In the evening of that day, he drove Zhang Xiuyan back to Huaiqing by car, wandered around the station, guessed that it was almost time, and quickly picked up the cardboard with his name on it to pick up someone at the exit.

Only the word "Ghost King" is written on the cardboard, because the ghost king is a foreign Chinese who moved to Li Country in his 20s and can recognize Chinese.Why did such a Go genius emigrate to a neighboring country?Yuan Ning waited at the exit with curiosity, waiting for the ghost king to appear.