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An Huawen summoned the restaurant staff again, took the photos and inquired about the ins and outs of each school.The buddy scratched his head to express his ignorance, and finally there was a little impatience between his brows.

An Huawen remained calm, but changed his words and said that they were businessmen who came from the city to buy old photos. Seeing that the owner had a rich collection, he wanted to talk about business.The guy's attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, he said "wait a moment", turned around and ran downstairs.

The proprietress came upstairs in person.This is a woman in her early thirties with a pair of Korean-style straight eyebrow tattoos, with the shrewdness and heartiness unique to small businessmen.An Huawen showed her the photo, she only glanced at it, and immediately thought of it with an "oh".

"This photo should be bought by my husband from someone else."

According to the proprietress, their store is quite well-known in the town, so from time to time someone would come to sell old photos.As for the origin of the photos, there are many possibilities: some are the seller's private collection, some were bought from other places, and some may even be relics of the elderly.

As for this photo, the proprietress clearly remembered that she and her husband found it at the flea market in the town.At that time, she thought this photo was unlucky, but her husband fell in love with the woman in the photo, so he bought it with money.

Gordon immediately understood the point: "Ma'am, there are so many photos hanging in your restaurant, why do you only think this one is unlucky?"

"Because the woman in the photo was a mistress back then." The proprietress replied quite confidently.

No one can say anything about superstition, but if my husband wants to buy a photo of a vixen, it's normal for a wife to feel a shock.

Lu Li quietly patted Shen Xingxuan's thigh under the table as comfort, but An Huawen quickly changed the subject.

"So, lady boss, do you know the three people in the photo?"

"I know, of course I do. The old woman is a household with five guarantees in the town, and she used to show people their ancestral graves. The surname of this charming girl is Wu, and her family is quite well-off. I don't know why she wants to be someone's mistress. Here, This child is her cub, and I don't know who the father is, anyway, he shares the surname Wu with his mother. Although he is so young, he is actually the same age as me, and he used to have a kindergarten and an elementary school."

After saying these words in one breath, the proprietress flicked her bangs and smiled at An Huawen. She seemed to have a good impression of this handsome mixed-race man.

"Sounds interesting."

An Huawen also smiled back: "So, this woman and child are still in this town?"

"It's long gone."

When this matter was brought up, the proprietress clicked her tongue.

"After only half a year in elementary school, I left. I heard that the whole family has gone abroad... These days, it's great to be rich. It's nice to be poor—"

"Is it because of something that happened back then?"

Lu Li quickly interrupted her: "If it's a photo with a story, our boss can consider offering a better price."

This made it look like a seasoned businessman, but fortunately, he was young and pretended to be the little follower of the big boss, and Shen Xingze next to him was obviously the big boss himself.

The proprietress's eyeballs were rolling around, even for the sake of money, she still had to find out the cause and effect.

But the matter was too long ago, and she was only a little girl at that time, and now she has searched her stomach for a long time, but she still couldn't tell the reason.

Of course she was not reconciled, just as the waiter started to serve the dishes, she invited a few distinguished guests to eat and drink first, and look at other photos.She went to make a phone call to her husband, and then asked other people by the way, I am sure someone would know something.

In a blink of an eye, people went down and the dishes were served.An Huawen went to close the door, and Gordon had already pierced the plastic seal of the sterilized tableware with his chopsticks.

"Sure enough, money can turn ghosts around."

Lu Li sighed: "Now I'm afraid that she will make up some random content in order to earn our money."

"Probably not." Shen Xing said, "It's not like I don't remember anything, lies are easy to expose."

"Are you okay?" Lu Li was a little worried about his emotions, "This woman speaks quite sharply, but she didn't mean to target you."

"I know." Shen Xingze nodded, "I'm fine."

The dishes on the table are steaming hot, tempting to move your index finger.Goudan ate a chopstick of sweet and sour pork ribs first, and then Lu Li served everyone a bowl of chicken soup with mushrooms.

"Actually, what the proprietress said just now revealed a very important message."

An Huawen made a speech that connected the past and the future: "She said that Xing Ze left after only half of the first grade. Assuming that the school starts in September, then half of the school year happens to be winter. And in the spring of the second year, Xing Ze just left. was sent to America."

"So brother Xing Ze must have encountered something terrible on a snowy night that winter, so he was sent to the United States the next year, right?"

Goudan went on to reason not too rigorously: "In this way, can we directly go to the Meteorological Bureau to check the snowy days of that winter, so that we can narrow down the scope of the investigation?"

"So what?" Shen Xingze was very calm, "It's been 20 years, even if you can pinpoint the specific date, people may not be able to recall exactly what happened at that time."

Lu Li also agreed with his judgment: "Actually, we have already asked many people in the town along the way. If something serious happened, it would be unreasonable and there would be no news at all."

"So, either we were wrong. Or... something happened, but it was covered up."

An Huawen is the firefighting team leader of Xingxuan Studio, and he has the most say in this matter.

"If it's the latter, then we can solve the problem as long as we find a breakthrough——"The Flower Calyx" will be re-filmed soon, and you don't have much time to hang out."

As soon as these words came out, Shen Xingxuan and Lu Li fell silent at the same time.In the not-so-small box, there was only the crisp sound of dog eggs chewing and frying the bell.

In this silence filled with the aroma of food, the proprietress's high-heeled shoes thumped from the wooden stairs to the corridor, and then the box door was knocked symbolically three times and pushed open.

The "little parrot" in the kindergarten in the past is now back to its old job again, with a flexible throat, and in a blink of an eye, it will tell all the distinguished guests the news that it has just inquired about and is still fresh and hot.

According to the stories pieced together by various parties, the boy named Wu Sheng (later Shen Xingzai) had indeed had an accident before he left.He said that he ran away from home on a snowy day, and when he was found, he was frozen and sent to the hospital.However, he seemed to be picked up after only staying for less than a day, and he never came back.As for the more detailed inside story, because this family had almost no contact with other residents in the town, not many people cared about it at the time, and it is even more difficult to find out now.

After saying these serious-sounding news, the proprietress scratched her scalp with her little finger and blinked her eyes again.

"But there may be someone who knows better."

The person the proprietress was referring to was named Chen Zhong, who was currently the largest flower merchant in the town.But more than 20 years ago, he was just an ordinary little flower farmer.The strange thing is that some people said that they had seen him go to the hospital to visit Wu Sheng, and that the old woman was also taken care of by him afterward.What's even more suspicious is that after that, Chen Zhong started to make a fortune, as if he was blessed by the God of Wealth.

The landlady's tone was a bit sour, but she soon realized that her words seemed to arouse the interest of the four distinguished guests present, so she rolled her eyes again, pointing to a photo frame on the wall and saying that we are still here. There is a photo of Chen Zhong, are you interested?

An Huawen nodded, and the high-hanging photo frame was quickly taken down.It was a group photo, which looked like a commemorative group photo of dragon boat rowing during the Dragon Boat Festival in the town one year.

"Here," the female boss pointed at the frame with her red nails, "this is Chen Zhong."

The photo was handed over to An Huawen first. He glanced at it for a moment, then raised his head to look at Shen Xingze and Lu Li.

Shen Xingze took the photo from An Huawen again.Worried that he would get emotional or have other accidents, Lu Li also pretended to approach him naturally, but reached into his pocket and grabbed the medicine bottle.

However, to his surprise, Shen Xingze always acted extremely calm, not even blinking his eyes.

No, Lu Li quickly overturned this judgment - Shen Xingze is not just a simple calm.To be more precise, it was more like an extreme reaction of the brain to stop thinking after being out of shock.

The problem was obviously in that photo, and Lu Li immediately wanted to see what happened.But at this moment, Shen Xingze suddenly reacted again—his hands trembled, as if he didn't want Lu Li to see the photo clearly.

But he was still a step too late, Lu Li had already discovered the person Shen Xing chose he didn't want him to see.

In this old photo taken nearly 30 years ago, the man named Chen Zhong looks to be in his 20s.He was wearing a rustic yellow short jacket, with red cloth strips tied on his head, holding a dragon boat paddle in his hand, and he was happily hanging shoulder to shoulder with several other young people.

At first, Lu Li just thought this person looked familiar.After a few seconds, he suddenly shivered—he obviously didn't see the proprietress pointing out the location of Chen Zhong, so why did he recognize him all of a sudden?

Because he "recognized" Chen Zhong's face—it seemed to be the person he saw in the mirror many years ago!

Lu Li gasped, and instantly understood the abnormality of An Huawen and Shen Xingze. It was obvious that they also had the same shock and confusion.

Ten to ten similarity is definitely not there.But from this point of view, Chen Zhong and the former Lu Li were quite similar.Is this just a coincidence, or is it simply a terrible necessity...

Lu Li's heart suddenly felt heavy fear, this fear was like a self-protection mechanism, preventing him from further troubles.

At the same time, however, there was another mysterious emotion that was comparable to the feeling of fear, haunting him.He even manipulated him into doing something a little reckless.

"This Chen Zhong looks like the former actor Lu Li."

He even deliberately pretended to be ignorant and pleasantly surprised, but there was an indescribable, ups and downs of bitterness in his heart.

The three brothers, including Shen Xingze, all silently cast concerned gazes.Only the proprietress didn't see through his poor acting skills at the moment.

"That Lu Li?"

Her eyes lit up, but she immediately showed a disdainful expression.

"It's not so handsome! It's just that when I was young, I looked a little bit like it from a few angles. Tsk, it's not the same old man now."

"Cough..." An Huawen interrupted her with a light cough, "Then where can we find him?"

The author has something to say:

In this chapter, the character of Chen Zhong appeared. I guess someone will ask for Fang.Let me explain first, so as not to overdo it and cause a tragedy hahaha: First, I don’t write stories about childish sex between adults and children, and I don’t write about them.Second, Shen Xingze has absolutely no vague feelings for Chen Zhong and Chen Zhong for Shen Xingze.

Third, Shen Xing chooses this to be related to his psychological problems, and he will explain it.