sincerity of lies

After contacting Meng Lingshan, Ji Xun didn't stop on the road, and went straight to Fuzhou to investigate.

Investigation is skillful.

Ji Xun initially wanted to investigate from Huo Ranyin's grandfather, Huo Shanyuan.But the file management back then was all paper-based registration. After so many years, it is very likely that it will be lost. Even if it is not lost, it will be a vast project to find it.

From the perspective of grandpa, it doesn't work either.

When driving into the boundary of Fuzhou Province, Ji Xun got the results of the comparison samples commissioned by the hospital before, and the results showed that his father was indeed not related to his grandfather by blood.

This is an expected result, but I'm afraid it can't play much role in this matter.

It doesn't make sense to ask grandma with the results of the blood certificate.

If grandma doesn't know about grandpa, grandma can't tell.

If grandma knew about grandpa, grandma would not say it three years ago, and it is impossible to say it now.

These two ideas obviously do not work together.

It still has to be investigated from the 22 people who have clear records in the Dingbo accident.

The family members of these 22 death lists were recorded 40 years ago, although they were also registered on paper, but these people have lived with the changes in society until now, and the files have also been changed several times.

These 22 names not only represent 22 lives and 22 broken families, but also represent 22 directions of investigation and the possibility of obtaining information.

Ji Xun first went to the local household registration and archives office, and then selected a few with clear addresses from the recorded list, and planned to visit them one by one.In the local agency office, he also learned by the way what happened to the Huo family after the disappearance of the Dingbo.

The first person he singled out to visit was Chen Cuijin, the wife of Zhao Zhiyong, who was in charge of the ship.

When the Dingbo accident caused a sensation in the local area, the government intervened. Although Huo Shanyuan suffered huge losses, he did not ignore the families of the victim's employees. Instead, he quickly paid the pension stipulated in the contract according to the provisions of the contract.

But the matter did not end after the pension was issued.

The family members of the victim still came to Huo Shanyuan's house many times, crying that it was her husband who disappeared, calling Huo Shanyuan a lackey of the capitalists, and claiming that all the men in their family were dead.

It was Chen Jincui who took the lead in besieging Huo Shanyuan's house.

Perhaps Huo Shanyuan really felt ashamed, and later gave a lot of money.

Chen Jincui was probably the one who received the most compensation other than pensions back then. This person had some shrewd ideas. Not long after he took the money, he began to buy houses intermittently. He bought a lot of houses. It's been a good day.

The community that Chen Jincui lives in is neither big nor small, but it is very clean and there are no messy things.

Ji Xun found the location by comparison, knocked on the door, and the door opened.

An old lady who looked not young, looked rich, and had healthy black hair opened the door. She had dark skin and was dressed in bright clothes. She was wearing a gold chain, gold bracelet, and gold earrings. This set of clothes and jewelry It didn't quite match her skin tone, but she didn't care, she was very confident.

She looked Ji Xun up and down, and said with a smile: "Young man, you know how to find a place."

Ji Xun was taken aback.

Was my coming revealed in advance?

Chen Jincui said again: "It's a face, I haven't seen you before, are you here to rent a house to live in? The house is all owned by grandma, you have come to the door, show grandma the rent, grandma will get you a good house .”

Ji Xun came back to his senses: "Grandma, I'm not here to rent a house."

The smile on Chen Jincui's face faded a little.

"I've come to ask you something."

"What's the matter?" Chen Jincui was neither salty nor bland.

"It's about the Dingbo ship where your husband Fuge worked 40 years ago and the owner behind the Dingbo ship, Huo Shanyuan."

The smile on Chen Jincui's face fell completely, and she became impatient: "What happened 40 years ago, come to ask me what I do! Your grandma and I are busy, so don't come and talk to me if you don't rent a house. You young people are not polite at all. Understand!"

As soon as he said that he exerted force with his hand, he was about to close the door.

Ji Xun hurriedly took a step back to prevent the door from hitting his face, but he didn't give up, but quickly stuffed a box in front of the door to block it.

Chen Jincui didn't close it, opened the door, and was about to get angry when he suddenly saw the box in Ji Xun's hand.

It was a box of imported cherries.

The old man's livid face began to warm up.

"Grandma, a little gift." Ji Xun smiled.

Chen Jincui took it, put it on the mat, and shook the box again, letting the cherries inside roll into the air holes of the box, looked inside, saw the size and appearance of the cherries, and then returned to Ji Xun with a smiling face:

"Young man, you should still be polite. That's okay, no one came to find grandma to rent a house this morning. Come in and have a drink of tea."

Ji Xun followed Chen Jincui in.

Unexpectedly, there was an old lady in the room, wiping the table with a rag.

The old lady was dressed in blue, without jewelry all over her body, her gray hair was scrupulously tied with a thin headband, and her whole body was neat and tidy.

Ji Xun glanced over and thought it was Chen Jincui's nanny.

But Chen Jincui called her: "Bian Yan, this young man is here to ask about Dingbo."

This sentence made Ji Xun realize that this person was also a family member of the Dingbo victim.

"Whose wife are you?"

"I am Qian Zhenyi's wife."

Qian Zhenyi is the driver of Dingbo.

Ji Xun quickly remembered the names. There are many positions in the ocean-going ship. In the cockpit, the captain, the first mate, the second mate, and then the driving assistant.

Although Chen Jincui had no advantage in not getting up early, he was still willing to give him some tea after receiving the fruits.

After Ji Xun sat down for a while, the tea was served, and Chen Jincui said, "It's been 40 years, why are you asking about this?"

"I am a special consultant of the Ning City Police Department." Ji Xun showed the proof to the two old ladies, and he found that this special appointment really has no sense of existence if it is useless. If it is useful, it can occasionally play a good role, such as Now, after he produced the proof, the two old ladies obviously showed a sudden "so they are not liars".

"We're a little confused about the Dingbo." Ji Xun kept calm and continued, "So I hope to visit and investigate again and make a record."

"What doubts can there be about missing in a shipwreck?" Chen Jincui curled her lips and said.

"..." Ji Xun glanced at Chen Jincui calmly. When you chased Huo Shanyuan for compensation, you probably didn't express your position like this.

It was the cherries that played a role, Chen Jincui reluctantly said: "What aspect do you want to know?"

"I want to find someone first." Ji Xun turned on the phone and slid out a photo, which was the photo of Hu Kun's child Lu Song, "Do you know him?"

"Isn't this the child from the Lu family? He moved in early years, and I haven't heard of any future prospects." Chen Jincui glanced, "Is there anything I don't know?"

Bian Yan, who was sitting next to her, was not very talkative, so she nodded.

"Then this person?" Ji Xun slid out another photo, this time it was a photo of his grandfather standing at the port with his child in his arms when he was young.

This photo made the old lady recognize it for a while.

"I don't seem to have any impression," Chen Jincui asked Bian Yan, "Do you know him?"

Bian Yan shook her head dully: "I don't have any impression."

"sure?"

"... I seem to have a little impression after looking at it again." Chen Jincui hesitated again, "Look at his strong and fat appearance..."

"Is it Lao Chu?" Bian Yan whispered.

"That's right, it's Lao Chu!" Chen Jincui suddenly realized.

"Who is Lao Chu?" Ji Xun unexpectedly realized that his mood did not fluctuate at all, and he was terribly calm.

"The chef who cooked on the Dingbo back then." Chen Jincui said, "He paid for the meals for the whole boat. When my husband was still there, they also had some contacts. But Lao Chu didn't like it very much. My man usually likes to run around the captain and the first mate. The one next to me, don’t look at her now, she had a good relationship with the first mate’s wife back then. Their men are good friends, and they also walk well. close."

"It's just a shipwreck, and everything is destroyed."

Chen Jincui didn't know whether to sigh or be lucky, but shook his head anyway.

"The first mate's wife who had a good life back then had an accident, and she didn't want to go to Boss Huo with us to ask for an explanation. She didn't get much money. Now her life is not as good as her. The house she lives in leaks every time it rains. "

Bian Yan smiled approvingly at the side.

40 years is too long.

The fate of life has been turned upside down and turned over countless times.

"Is Lao Chu's family still here?" Ji Xun asked again.When he knew this surname, he had already found out the name Chu on the death list.

Chu Xingfa.

This is Grandpa's real name.

"That's not there anymore, I left earlier, it seems to be the first to leave. I heard that I moved to another city within two years." Chen Jincui said.

"After the accident, I heard that the Huo family sent a boat to salvage the sunken ship and corpses at sea." Ji Xun said.

"That's what it said."

"Did anything be salvaged later?"

"No, it said that it has been salvaged for several months, but there is no piece of iron sheet. The boat disappeared like a ghost."

The ocean is too big and too mysterious. People and boats swim in it, but it is just a drop in the ocean.It seems to be a very common thing that the missing ship cannot be salvaged, and the bones that have sunk into the sea cannot be found.

……not really.

They just remake themselves, leave the past behind, and live anew.

What happened on the ship that caused these people to change their names and abandon their wives and children?

"So what about Boss Huo?" Ji Xun was silent for a short while, and then said, "Do you know anything about Boss Huo's family? For example, Boss Huo's relatives and children?"

"If you talk about the number of the wave, you will talk about the number of the wave. Why are you talking about Boss Huo's family?"

Chen Jincui was a little unhappy.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that she has any opinions on Huo Shanyuan, it's more like she feels shrewdly upset that she has to do two things after accepting a piece of fruit from Ji Xun.But this person has a bit of a contract spirit, and he will do things as soon as he receives the gift.

She tried hard to think about it: "Young people keep asking about these old things..."

"Boss Huo has a girl, right!" Chen Jincui and Bian Yan confirmed.

No, more than one girl.Ji Xun thought that besides Huo Ranyin's mother, Huo Qiyu, there was also a child named Huo Qiying.

It's just that Huo Shanyuan not only has two daughters, but also a son.

Outsiders would say that the first impression should be boys, why did you mention girls first?

"Yes, there was quite a commotion at that time." Bian Yan said.

A lot of trouble?

Ji Xun's attention was concentrated, and he was keenly aware that the key information was coming.

"I'll just say it!" Chen Jincui clapped his hands, "Boss Huo has a girl who is not very discreet. She eloped back then and made a big fuss. It was widely spread and everyone in the city knew about it."

"I heard it wasn't an elopement." Bian Yan retorted in a rare way, "I heard it was abducted and sold."

"Have you been kidnapped?" Chen Jincui said again, "I also heard that they are having sex with men and women, dancing every day, all night long, and the lights are always on. Some people go back from night shift at night to see the shadow of the girl inside. And the shadows of men with different heights, fat and thinness are constantly spinning?"

"I've heard of this too..." Bian Yan admitted, but she didn't think it was that exaggerated. "It's Boss Huo's business bureau. Boss Huo's business is big, and there are many people who come to see him. His daughter has received a lot of education and plays the piano. He knows everything, he can speak foreign languages, and the house is lively."

The two old ladies said a lot of things one by one, and Ji Xun clearly realized that the girl they were talking about was definitely not Huo Ranyin's mother, Huo Qiyu. 40 years ago, the only one who could dance and have sex with men and women was another child... Huo Qiying.

Is Huo Qiying such a girl?

Finally the two old ladies shut up.

For the gossip 40 years ago, they were mostly uncertain.

But they all agreed: "That girl is beautiful, very, very beautiful. Everyone who has seen her says she is beautiful, as beautiful as a fairy."

"What's her name?" Ji Xun asked even though he already knew her name.

However, the two old ladies shook their heads: "I don't know. Even if they knew, they would have forgotten it long ago."

In the Huo family's cemetery, next to Huo Shanyuan's tombstone, a girl with a name and surname ended up anonymous, lonely, unknown, and not to be remembered.