The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

From Hankou to Beijing, there is no direct railway in this era, and it is necessary to take the dry road first, and then the waterway.Xie Yan himself had never walked this road, and Wen Heng had only been there when he was a child. Everything on the road was new to them.

Before Xie Yan left, he made a special trip to ask Gu Shichao and Luo Weizhu about Li Tianwei's severe trial, and asked some of the truth about the disappearance of the Xiang family, Xie family, and Gu family overnight. Later, Xie Yan took over the forces left by Xiang Yanlin and followed After checking the clues, the events of the year were preliminarily pieced together.

The power and tough attitude in Xiang Yanlin's hands made the foreigners want to kill. After his subordinates reported and collapsed Xiang Yanlin's self-protection measures, the killer broke through the wall on the night of the Lantern Festival and slaughtered the Xiang family, his wife and Xie Xie who lived there. Before the whole family of the clan died, Xiang Yanlin stuffed his nephew, who was considered his own, into the secret passage together with the secret box.

When Bai Luoqiu and others arrived, the killer was nowhere to be seen, and the enemy was out of the dark. In order to protect Xie Yan who survived by chance, they found a corpse with the same stature as Xie Yan, and then a fire burned everything down.

Xie Yan lost her memory under continuous stimulation, and was temporarily raised in the theater troupe after Bai Luoqiu found her.

But the in-laws Gu's family, who are far away in Tianjin, were unwilling to accept that their deaths were unknown, so they launched an investigation, which led to a fatal disaster.The whole family of the Gu family was destroyed, and only Gu Shizhen wandered all the way to Hankou, and recognized Li Tianwei who worked for foreigners...

The tragedy of that year, thanks to the efforts of the survivors, finally revealed the truth, but many of the enemies pointed to by the truth are still unshakable.

On the day when she learned the truth, Gu Shixu silently packed her bags and wanted to assassinate the foreigners behind those incidents, but was stopped by Xie Yan.

Xie Yan did not persuade him to give up revenge, but asked him, is killing one or two foreigners enough to repay the blood feud of the three families?

If not, would you like to be with him to witness the day when the foreigners who committed crimes deserved what they deserved and were driven out from the land of China?

After hearing this, Gu Shixu gave up the idea of ​​exchanging one life for another, but her whereabouts have become more of a mystery since then.

When Xie Yan asked him if he wanted to go back to the capital to worship the ancestors together, he searched for a long time before finding someone. Gu Shizhen was a little hesitant, but finally agreed under Xie Yan's persuasion.

Just ask, which wanderer does not want to go home?Even if there are only barren graves left in the house, it is still haunting.

Although Gu Shizhen agreed to go with them, he didn't sit in the same car, and he often didn't see anyone during meals and breaks on the road. If he hadn't made an appointment to meet up once a day to confirm safety, Xie Yan wouldn't know whether he was still in the team or not. .

Xie Yan had no choice but to let him go.It would take seven or eight days at the fastest to travel from Hankou to Beijing. Xie Yan and Wen Heng rode in the same carriage, ate and slept together, and visited the scenic spots along the way. It was a bit like a honeymoon.

Xie Yan told Wen Heng what was in his heart, Wen Heng looked at the scenery outside the window, and stopped his lover's shoulder, "When the seas and rivers in China are clear, we will travel all the good mountains and rivers together."

"What if we can't walk by then?"

"Then we'll lie on the rocking chair together and listen to the children telling us stories outside."

Xie Yan imagined the scene at that time, and laughed, "First of all, we have to live longer."

With you, even the imagined future is sparkling.

……

After Xie Yan and his party arrived in the capital, they first went to Tianjin in a low-key manner.Because the silence had been completed, no one came to investigate for a long time, and the ancestral graves of the Gu family and Xie family in Tianjin had no force to guard them.

Several people rested in the city overnight, and when it was dawn, they came to the ancestral grave when there were few people.

The Gu family and the Xie family are relatives by marriage for generations, and the ancestral graves are also very close. After arriving at the place, Gu Shiyan pointed in a direction and turned to the other side of the cemetery. Xie Yan took a breath and looked at the road leading to the Xie family's ancestral grave Xiaolu suddenly became a little apprehensive.

Wen Heng took the basket containing sacrifices and fruit wine snacks carried by Yan Lin, and stepped forward to hold Xie Yan's hand.

"I'll accompany you, go and pray."

Inside the cemetery, there were more than a dozen new tombs that were no more than three years old. The raised soil was still intact, but weeds were already growing on the sides.

Xie Yan stretched out his hands to pluck away the dry weeds, identifying the names on the tombstones one by one.

Among these names are Xie Yan's parents, uncles, brothers, more relatives of men, women and children, and Xie Yan.

Stopping in front of the last small stone tablet in this row, Xie Yan stopped moving forward and silently stared at the name on the stone tablet.

Wen Heng followed behind him and also saw the two words on the stone tablet clearly. He took a breath and suddenly realized from his lover's abnormality that this might not be as simple as a fake grave.

Xie Yan turned her head and glanced at Wen Heng, then at the tombstone, took the basket containing the sacrifices with her own hands, knelt down and placed the melons and snacks in front of the grave one by one, and finally took out a candy from her pocket .

"After all, you are still a child, so you should like sweets."

"Do I count it as sending you home?"

……

Xie Yan whispered to the tombstone of "myself", this scene was really weird, but Wen Heng didn't ask anything, just stood quietly behind him.

As he promised to Xie Yan, when Xie Yan is willing to speak, he will always listen.

After saying what he wanted to say, Xie Yan took apart the paper money and paper ingots, and lit a match.

It was obviously a windless weather, but the moment the flame was lit, the paper money suddenly floated up, spinning and dancing in the air, and the ashes flew towards the world like gray butterflies.

Xie Yan looked at the rising flames in front of him, and vaguely saw the back of a young man, who raised his hand and waved, walking towards the crowd in the distance.

When he realized it, tears were streaming down his face. It seemed that something in this body had disappeared forever.

"Did you see it?" Xie Yan said suddenly.

"I only saw you."

Xie Yan smiled and took a breath, but her voice was trembling, "He really left just now, at a time...too young."

"Thank you Yan?"

"Xie Yan is gone, from now on, only I will be Xie Yan."

……

Xie Yan was grateful that Wen Heng still didn't ask anything, just accompanied him to continue the memorial service.The two cleaned the weeds in front of the grave with their own hands, placed sacrifices, lit the paper bundles, and finally knelt down in front of the main stele and kowtowed three times.

This body has always belonged to the Xie family, and Xie Yan, who accepted the original owner's kindness, also included himself in this family that was brutally exterminated.This worship is another sense of acknowledgment of ancestors, and he and Wen Heng have met their parents.

After settling down the Xie family's ancestral grave, Xie Yan and Wen Heng went to the Gu family's ancestral grave to burn three pillars of fragrance before heading back to the city.

After returning to the hotel, Xie Yan suddenly developed a high fever without warning, and her consciousness was blurred.

Wen Heng asked Yan Lin to invite a doctor, and sat anxiously by the bedside to take care of him, and could not wait for his lover's response despite his endless calls.

At this time, Xie Yan's consciousness had fallen into chaos, and scenes were presented in front of his eyes like a revolving lantern, both familiar and strange.

In these scenes, Xie Yan saw the continuation of her previous life.

After being vengefully stabbed in the street by a suspect in a certain case, when the doctor declared that the rescue was invalid, Lawyer Xie suddenly woke up miraculously.

After waking up, Xie Yan seemed to have suffered from amnesia, she couldn't remember anyone, and she also lost the ability to work. After several confirmations by competitors and partners, they finally accepted this regrettable fact.

Xie Yan signaled that he quit his job and gradually became familiar with everything in the new world. Relying on the savings left before, he could have lived his life richly. However, he chose to re-enter school to study and passed the self-examination for the teacher qualification certificate , Apply to support education in impoverished mountainous areas.

Before departure, he booked a ticket to Tianjin, avoiding pedestrians and came to the suburbs. The place he was thinking about and dared not to confirm was empty, and there were no deserted graves. Looking up, the farmland in the distance was neat and fertile, and the agricultural machinery Glossy in the sun.

At a certain moment, he suddenly raised his head to look at the sky, and met Xie Yan's eyes across time and space.

In the next second, both of them smiled.

……

"Ayan, Ayan?"

After an unknown amount of time, Xie Yan slowly opened his eyes from the chaos, and saw Wen Heng's anxious face.

"Ayan! You finally woke up. I came to ask you to eat just now, and suddenly I saw you fainted on the chair. No matter how you screamed, you couldn't wake up. Are you going to scare me to death?"

Wen Heng's hair was a little disheveled, his forehead was full of sweat, and his clothes were wrinkled. He was always particular about his life, but at this moment he completely ignored his own image, his dark pupils were full of the figure of his lover on the bed.

Xie Yan looked at it and suddenly smiled.

"I'm fine." He raised his hand to stop Wen Heng's neck, "I'm very happy."

"A good thing?"

"Good thing." Xie Yan sat up with Wen Heng's support, "He should be able to live well there."

Wen Heng held Xie Yan in his arms, helped him straighten his messy hair, hesitated and said, "Just now when you were asleep, you kept calling a name."

"..." Xie Yan was alert, "If it's not your name, it's all a misunderstanding."

Wen Heng was amused by this strange desire to survive, "It's not mine, but it's not someone else's either. You've been calling your own name."

"Thank you Yan."

……

Xie Yan was silent for a while, then spoke slowly.

"If I want to tell a story, a very strange, unreal, perhaps spooky story, only you have heard this story, and only you have heard it, I will not tell it a second time, you You can't tell anyone, you—are you still willing to listen?"

Wen Heng's answer was short and powerful, "Then, this is my honor."

Xie Yan smiled, he just half-lyed in Wen Heng's arms, his spirit relaxed like never before, and his tone became lighter.

"The story I want to tell takes place in the not-too-distant future..."

……

When Yan Lin finally invited a suitable doctor to rush back to the hotel, Xie Yan woke up from the bed.

Wen Heng was reading a book at the side, saw the doctor come in and said some things, and asked some precautions after prescribing the medicine, everything was as natural and casual as usual.

But Yan Lin always felt that something must have happened between Mr. Xiao Xie and the second young master during his absence, which caused an inexplicable change in the atmosphere between them.

Yan Lin observed secretly for a long time, but couldn't find out what was wrong. In the end, he could only attribute these to the normal reaction of the couple before their wedding, and turned to decoction.

As for the truth of Yan Lin's heart, I am afraid that only Xie Yan and Wen Heng will know forever.

……

They stayed in Tianjin for a few days, and when Xie Yan's health improved, the group went to the capital again.Xiang Yanlin's cemetery will not be unguarded like the ancestral graves of Xie's and Gu's family, and Xie Yan and the others can only pay homage from a distance to express their affection.

"When China rises again, I will accompany you here to worship them."

"it is good."

Xie Yan looked at the capital a hundred years ago, listened to the hustle and bustle of the market, and quietly squeezed the hands of the people around him.At this moment, the feeling of existence was so real, and the last trace of time and space travel was completely eliminated from his body.

Before leaving the capital, Xie Yan bought a house in a place where artists gathered in the capital with the emergency money she brought out.

The house occupies a large area and is a typical Chinese-style building. It is divided into three entrances, and there is a small garden behind it.The owner of the house used to be a well-known actor in Beijing, the location is superior, and the building materials are all the best. If it hadn't been for smoking opium and ruining the family fortune, the house would not be sold at a discount.

Of course, the price of such a good house will not be low, but Xie Yan is no longer the poor little guy who has to count more than a dozen copper coins. Sitting in the present theater and publishing house, he already has unimaginable wealth for ordinary people, and the pair For him it's just the beginning.

After buying the house, Xie Yan wrote the word "Xie Yuan" and changed the plaque for the house. He originally planned to take Gu Shiyao back to Hankou, but he refused.

Gu Shixuan wanted to stay in the capital, the ostensible excuse was to help Xie Yan look after the house, but Xie Yan knew that he must have other plans.

After confirming that Gu Shizhen was very clear-headed and calm, and had no thoughts of suicide, Xie Yan finally complied with him.He could see that Gu Shiyao was not happy in Hankou. He was unfamiliar with the place and had no relatives. Get him back into his comfort zone.

Therefore, Gu Shixu stayed in Xie Yuan, while Xie Yan and Wen Heng set off to return to Hankou.In the future, Gu Shixu gradually found a new meaning in life and became Xie Yan's most reliable information provider in Beijing. Regardless of these, the most important thing in front of Xie Yan and Wen Heng now is the upcoming wedding after returning .

On the carriage, Xie Yuan's house deed was worth thousands of gold, but was put aside by the owner.

Wen Heng looked at the deed, "I forgot to ask you, why do you suddenly want to buy a house in Beijing?"

"Be prepared." Xie Yan stretched her waist, "Don't you want to go sightseeing together when you get old? Buy a house in advance, so that you don't have a place to live when you are down."

Wen Heng rubbed Xie Yan's head, "Have you...been to many places before?"

"Well, I have traveled all over half of China for business trips, studies, and entertainment."

Xie Yan smiled and said, "But it's all just looking at the flowers on horseback. There is no one who wants to enjoy them together. No matter how good the scenery is, it is the same."

"Then you have to take me to revisit the scenery you saw alone."

"my pleasure."

However, before that, they must first work hard to bring this land back to life, so that the people living on it will no longer suffer from bullying and suffering.

……

This trip to the capital city took more than half a month. Fortunately, Xie Yan carefully arranged all the work before leaving, and Wen Heng's drug research has also reached the final stage, so there is no major delay.

Half a month after leaving Hankou, the streets and streets are as bustling as ever, but if you observe carefully, you can find many different places.

The most intuitive feeling is that there are more students and women walking on the streets, the voices of discussing knowledge in teahouses and restaurants have become louder, and several bookstores have opened in the bustling streets, but the arrogant foreigners are almost gone.

Xie Yan got out of the carriage on a whim, and walked home with Wen Heng. What he saw and heard along the way made him smile unconsciously.

Xie Yan stopped in front of a newly opened bookstore on Furong Street.

"Remember here?"

"Of course, where we first met."

"That German restaurant seems to have closed down, shall we go in and have a look?"

Xie Yan dragged Wen Heng into the bookstore together, not many people came to the bookstore in the morning, the owner was reading the newly delivered newspaper, and did not lift his head when he heard the news of the customers coming in.

"Mr. Presenter's latest works are in the first row. On the left wall, you can find all the People's Voice newspapers and wise periodicals. Foreign language translations are on the right. Others are free."

The owner of the bookstore sounds like a young girl. In the past, a girl of this age would have attracted a lot of criticism for doing business alone. However, with the opening up of society, more and more girls like An Yujing have got rid of the old ideas. Bondage, took to the streets to realize their own value.

Xie Yan didn't disturb the other party's reading of the newspaper, walked around the bookstore with Wen Heng, and was about to leave, when the owner girl suddenly looked up.

"The two of you don't want to buy anything... Wait, Mister Discovery?!"

Xie Yan took a closer look and recognized the other party. This girl was the one who directly challenged the pedantic man at the exchange meeting.

"Just call me Xie Yan."

"Mr. Xie!" The owner stood up from behind the table, "Welcome to my bookstore, you can choose any book you like, and it would be even better if you have any comments."

"Your business acumen is really strong, I have no objection."

The shop owner realized that Xie Yan was joking that what she just said was like selling books, and she was a little embarrassed.

"I remember that this place was originally a Jiade restaurant, and you rented it out to open a bookstore?" Xie Yan changed the subject.

"This shop belongs to my friend's house. The restaurant couldn't continue to open and the lease was not renewed, so I took over. The bookstore has only opened for a few days and met Mr. Xiao Xie. The business will definitely be booming in the future."

The shopkeeper said and looked at another customer, "Is this... Er Shao Wen?"

"Yes, let's go for a walk together."

Xie Yan was generous, and the shop owner didn't see anything strange in his eyes. He said with a sincere smile, "It really is a couple of gods and gods. I wish you a happy wedding in advance!"

Xie Yan was amused by her words, "I thought many people would think we were strange."

"Many people still think it's strange for me to open a store by myself, so what? It's not that I don't have people who support me."

The shop owner took out a book from the corner, and handed it to Xie Yan and Wen Heng with both hands, "This is a collection of poems created by myself, and only a few copies have been printed. Although I am a little embarrassed, this is my most sincere gift. I hope your feelings are as free and romantic as poetry, and will be passed down forever."

Xie Yan took the collection of poems, the palm-sized book was very small, its title - "Meet Here" was stamped on the dark green cover.

"It's a good time to meet here."

All stories start from meeting here, free and romantic like poetry.