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Ten minutes later, Zhao Yuan sat at the empty and guarded dining table, happily enjoying a sumptuous breakfast with Lu Yingyi, Zhuo Yang, and Fang Liwen.Li Jingshu stood at the table with a smile and waited for everyone to eat——Zhuo Yang tried to let him sit at first, but later found that the old man seemed to enjoy seeing everyone happy because of his service, so he gave up.As for Zhang Xuebi, naturally she was sleeping upside down day and night upstairs.

I have to say that Zhao Yuan is very likable.Although judging from his clothes, he is not a rich man with status and status, but his conversation and demeanor can make people feel comfortable and at ease, and his relaxed temperament is not Deliberately flattering, but truly from the heart, without pretentiousness.

After Zhao Yuan finished eating the glutinous rice noodles that Li Jingshu made for him, he drank up all the soup, put the bowl away, and then wiped his mouth to thank him sincerely, "Uncle Jing, the noodles you made are so, so, so good." After eating, I can't bear to leave even a drop of soup!" As he spoke, he got up naturally and wanted to take the bowl into the kitchen to wash.

Li Jingshu stopped him with a smile and said: "If you like to eat, come back next time, just leave the bowl for me."

Zhao Yuan said: "How can I do it? You have worked the first half, and leave the second half to me!" He said, and then went to collect the bowls from other people and said, "I didn't pay for the meal, it's so delicious. On the surface, let me work hard as a reward. Don't worry, I have worked in restaurants before, and I keep them clean and save water."

His words made Fang Liwen, who is not very good at interpersonal communication, laugh. Fang Liwen said: "Zhao Yuan, you are our guest. There is no reason for the guest to wash the dishes. Let me do it." He stretched out his hand Go get the bowl in Zhao Yuan's hand.

Lu Ying hurriedly rubbed his stomach and said, "Hey, don't bother with the housework, old house. With your hands-on ability, I'm afraid the bowl won't be enough to drop, so I'd better leave it to Uncle Jing."

Only then did Li Jingshu take the bowl from the two of them and said, "That's right, this is my job. Don't grab my job. I've already brewed the tea and put it in the reception room. You can go and talk about business." .”

Only then did Zhao Yuan scratch the back of his head and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, Uncle Jing. By the way, I have fresh watermelons picked from the countryside. They are big and sweet. I'll send you some later."

Lu Ying joked with a smile: "Okay, we will accept the watermelon of course, but you have to entrust us with the entrustment and make it clear first, that is the big head!"

Zhao Yuan hurriedly said: "Hey, yes, I almost forgot the business." Several people filed into the reception room and sat on the sofa. Zhao Yuan said, "Let me introduce myself first."

"Your name is Zhao Yuan. You work at the construction site across the street. I told you that during the meal just now." Lu Ying said.

Zhao Yuandao: "Hey, this is just a rough idea, I have to be more specific, because it has something to do with my entrustment later." He thought for a while, probably trying to reason out his thoughts, and then he opened his mouth with a fluent string of words Spit out, "My name is Zhao Yuan, I am 27 years old, and I work as a worker in Tiangong Construction Co., Ltd. Tiangong is the company of Liu Wenjun's boss, and he introduced me to you."

Zhuo Yang was pouring tea, put cups in front of everyone, and asked after hearing this, "Boss Liu and you are friends?"

Zhao Yuan waved his hand and said, "I really want to, but how can I? I'm just a small worker under Boss Liu. It's just that Boss Liu is a good person, so he takes good care of the brothers below, so he introduced you to me."

Zhuo Yang knew it well.Liu Wenjun can't be regarded as a traitor, but to say that others are good is absolute nonsense. At best, he is a typical underworld person who puts interests first but still has a bit of loyalty.The relationship between Zhao Yuan and Liu Wenjun should not be bad. This must have something to do with Zhao Yuan's lovable personality, but there should be other reasons.Zhao Yuan said that he was a worker, but he did not have the lime and sand stains that ordinary construction workers have. Instead, the smell of motor oil was stronger. Judging by his small and flexible body, he did not look like a person doing heavy work. , so it is more likely to do technical work.

It was only when Zhuo Yang thought of this that Lu Yingyi had already taken a sip of tea on the other end, and said slowly, "Ah Yuan is not a construction worker, but I think you look like a mechanic."

Zhao Yuan opened his eyes wide and said: "You can see this? Mr. Lu, you are really good!" Then, he said a little embarrassedly, "I didn't make it clear just now, sorry. I am indeed not on the construction site When I do things, I usually help Boss Liu maintain his car. If any mechanical equipment on the construction site breaks down, I will be responsible for repairing it. Occasionally, Boss Liu is short of manpower, and I will drive him. "

"This is technical work." Fang Liwen said.The same is engaged in "technical work". In Fang Liwen's eyes, whether it is machinery or microbiology, they are all very interesting fields. It is a pity that he has no talent in the former, otherwise he would like to learn .

Zhao Yuan rubbed his head and said, "I can't compare with you, Dr. Fang, with my little ability. I didn't study much, and I stopped studying in technical secondary school. After I graduated from school, I spent two years in the society. How to learn well, but fortunately there was no trouble. After the age of 24, my grandma was relieved and found a job with Boss Liu. It has been three years since then. You should know that Boss Liu has a home in the suburbs Let's go to the auto repair shop." He nimbly brought the topic back, and this time he looked at Zhuo Yang accurately.

Zhuo Yang was taken aback for a moment, then he understood after thinking about it, and said, "I know, it's the place where Boss Liu's Harley 883 is parked." In order to send Fang Liwen to City B, Liu Wenjun had borrowed a motorcycle for the second time. Zhuo Yang used it. At that time, the car was parked at the transfer point where Lu Yingyi designed the smuggling house Liwen - a remote repair shop, which turned out to be Zhao Yuan's territory.

Zhao Yuan said with a "hehe" smile: "I am in charge of that repair shop. In addition to helping the boss maintain the car and repairing things in the company, sometimes I also pick up work for friends, and occasionally go to the junkyard to buy some scrapped ones. Pull the car back to practice. The commission I'm talking about today is related to a scrapped car." He took out a stack of things from his pocket and placed them on the table.As soon as Lu Ying asked with his eyes, "Is that okay?" Seeing him nodding, he picked up the thing.It was a whole stack of letters wrapped in three layers of plastic bags, all in old-fashioned leather envelopes, and it looked like there were more than 20 letters.

Zhao Yuan said: "I found these from the glove box of a scrapped Santana. I guessed that the owner of the car might have wanted to send the letter, but he forgot, so that these letters came into my hands. , so I would like to entrust you to find the recipient."

Lu Ying gave an "um" and said, "Can I open it and have a look?"

Zhao Yuandao: "Of course, you can do whatever you want."

Lu Yingyi looked at the plastic pocket outside first, and then reached in to take out the stack of letters.There are 29 letters in total. Judging from the appearance of the envelopes, there are old ones and new ones. The edges of the old ones are frayed, while the new ones are relatively smooth.Lu Ying stretched out his hand to touch them one by one, and found that each envelope contained letter paper, some were thinner, some were thicker, but yes, the strangest thing was that even though the letter writer had written so many They sealed the letters well, but none of the envelopes had postal codes or detailed addresses of the recipients, and there were only five short words, "Brother Tongzhou (Dearly Invited)".

As soon as Lu Ying opened these envelopes one by one on the table, there were a total of 29 "brothers in the same boat (personally)".

Fang Liwen looked at it for a while and said: "These words don't seem to be written by one person?" The reason why he said this is because among the 29 letters, some of the envelopes have clear and strong handwriting, some are weak, and some are weak. It's a mess at all, and it's almost impossible to see clearly if you don't look hard. In addition, the pens used by the writers are also different. Some are written with blue-black pen ink, and some are traces of ballpoint pens. There are even two letters that seem to be written It was charcoal, which caused the envelope to be so black that it was difficult to distinguish the writing.

But Zhuo Yang only took one look and came to a conclusion: "No, it was written by the same person." He pointed to the hook of the word "brother" in "Brother Tongzhou" and said, "The last stroke of the vertical hook is inward. The style of the oblique crop is consistent."

"Then why is there such a big difference?" Fang Liwen asked suspiciously.

"Because they were not written in the same era." Lu Yingyi compared the envelopes and their arrangements, and said, "The ones you see written with a pen, the handwriting is clear, and this person is just in high spirits. I also wrote it when I was very healthy, and this part of the ballpoint pen is probably either seriously ill or old and already trembling. As for the charcoal pen, it may be because of something happened at that time, so I can’t use regular stationery to write. Now Look again." He said, pointing to the letterheads arranged on the table.

Fang Liwen looked down and couldn't help but let out an "ah".I don’t feel it when I look at it scatteredly, but when Lu Yingyi arranges it consciously, the feeling of this age change is really obvious.Not only the handwriting of the letter writer has changed, but the writing tools used have also changed, and the kraft envelope itself has also changed, from the vertical red frame format at the beginning to the horizontal row plus zip code frame today, so that the light Looking at these letterheads like this, there will be a feeling of time passing by.

"There is also a difference between simplified and traditional characters." Fang Liwen also found a supporting evidence. Since the three characters "Tongzhou Brother" are written in the same way regardless of the simplified and traditional characters, there is no problem, but the two characters "Qinqi" The character has changed significantly, from the initial traditional "Qinqi" to the later simplified "Qinqi".

"When did the simplification of traditional characters happen?" he asked.

"Twice." Lu Yingyi said, "Since modern times, our country has carried out two large-scale reforms on the simplification of traditional characters. The first time was in 1935 during the period of the Republic of China. There is the word "Qi" but not the word "Qi". The second time was in 1956, when the State Council promulgated the "Resolution on Announcing the Simplification of Chinese Characters", and at the same time announced a "General List of Simplified Characters". The total table is divided into three parts, and the words 'pro' and 'qi' are included in it, so there is the change you see."

Zhuo Yang looked at those letters and said: "There are twelve letters using 'Qinqi', and the rest are 'Qinqi'. Seven of the twelve 'Qinqi' letters are clearly written, and the other three are exceptionally written. Trembling, difficult to distinguish, in addition, the two letters written in charcoal are also "invited by me", and no letter using "invited by me" was found."

Lu Yingyi said: "That's because the reform of simplified characters in August 1935 was not carried out, and these simplified characters were withdrawn in February of the next year, 8, due to extreme opposition."

Fang Liwen said: "I understand, then this person must have been born before 1935, and at least reached the age when the first simplified characters were reformed in 1935, that is to say, at least He is seven or eight years old, so he has not been affected by the reforms in just over half a year."

Lu Yingyi smiled and shook his head, "No."

"wrong?"

Lu Yingyi said: "In 1935, when the National Government implemented the first batch of "General List of Simplified Characters", it also issued 9 articles of "Measures for the Promotion of Simplified Chinese Characters", one of which mentioned that "every primary school, short-term primary school, public school, etc. Textbooks, children's and public books should use the simplified characters issued by the Ministry." At the same time, the printing houses were notified that from January 1936, textbooks and reading materials that do not use simplified characters will not be approved."

Fang Liwen became even more confused, and said, "What does this mean?"

Zhuo Yang said: "What he meant was that this person could not have been a student in 1935. The reason is very simple. Although the reform was only half a year old, the government paid special attention to students at that time. It can be said that the reform of simplified characters started with students. And a person, the speed of learning things in his childhood is very fast, and the habit formed in order to consolidate this thing is also very strong. On the contrary, if a person is an adult, if he wants to instill new things and cultivate a new habit It is much more difficult, so, if the person was at the age of studying at the time, there would be a high possibility of writing the word 'Qin Qi' later."

"Then I'm not wrong, I said at least, that is to say, this person was at least seven or eight years old in 1935, and it is more likely that he was an adult!"

Lu Yingyi shook his head again and said, "No."

"Why not?!" Fang Liwen was a little anxious, and said, "Don't be tricky, just make it clear."

Lu Ying smiled with a "hehe" and said, "You guess again."

Fang Liwen really couldn't figure it out, and looked at Zhuo Yang for help.Zhuo Yang said: "Pen." He looked at Lu Ying helplessly and said, "Dr. Fang has been living abroad, so he doesn't know some things so clearly."

Lu Ying said, "Then tell me."

Zhuo Yang said: "Most of these letters were written with fountain pens. Pens were not widely used in China until 1930. Before that, people who could read and write mostly used brushes, especially Xiangbi."

Fang Liwen suddenly realized: "That is to say, if this person had grown up before 1935, he would definitely be more accustomed to writing with a brush. Even if he switched to a fountain pen, there would be some soft calligraphy Habit."

Lu Ying nodded and said, "It's right this time."

Fang Liwen said: "Then this person was neither a student nor an adult in 1935, so he was either under the age of 1935 in primary school in 6, or he was born after 1935, plus He is used to using 'qinqi', so he must have been born before 1956."

Zhuo Yang said: "The envelopes of the most illegible letters are all written with 'Passionate', which proves that this person inadvertently used the old-fashioned wording due to his childhood habits due to his age and poor health. "

Fang Liwen said: "That is to say, when the second reform of simplified characters was carried out in 1956, this person was at least fifteen or sixteen years old, and it is not easy to change his habits, so this person should have been born between 1929 and 1941. born."

Zhuo Yang said: "Well. If you were born between 1929-1941, you will be 74-86 years old today, which also conforms to the handwriting pattern shown in the last few letters."

Zhao Yuan kept nodding his head while listening, and finally said at this moment: "So that's it, you guys are really amazing!"

Lu Yingyi smiled slightly and said: "A Yuan, Ming people don't do secret things. Since you have found us to entrust, I think we should open the skylight and speak openly. Who is the original owner of this letter and what background is it?" Status, status, if you don't tell us the real situation, it will be very difficult for us to complete the commission for you."