Manhattanhenge

It was only at this time that Ning Yixiao realized that everything that Xu Zhi said to him and what happened to him were all matched with Guan Cheng in his mother's diary.

So he is not Xu Zhi, but Guan Cheng.

The reason why I said those things to myself was that I cared about reminiscing about the past on the surface, but it was actually a temptation.

He flipped through his mother's diary again, and sure enough, he found other content related to Guan Cheng.

[I was helping to clear the fishing net this morning, and I was terrified when I saw a child walking straight into the sea, so I hurried up and grabbed him.He said his name was Guan Cheng, he had dropped out of school and was tricked to come here, he had no money on him, and he had a high fever in such cold weather, poor boy, I can only take him home for two days , I hope his parents find him soon. ]

This was the first time my mother saw Guan Cheng, and the date was February 2th.Xu Zhi said that he lived in his house for half a year, that is to say, when he left, it should be from August to September.

[Xiao Guan borrowed a sum of money today and said he wanted to go out, but the bus driver in the village had an accident at home, so he couldn’t go.I heard from him that he wanted to find a classmate, and that child had very good grades, but his family members were gone, and he was a poor child just like him.Xiaoguan talked about the past, his grades were also the first in the school, but unfortunately his family was in trouble, and he could not continue to support him in his studies, which almost led him to a wrong path.He said that he really wanted to stand out and change everything, and he didn't want to live like a dog for the rest of his life.

When I see him, I always think of Xiao Xiao. I hope my child can grow up well. It doesn’t matter whether he is good or not, safety is the most important thing. ]

Ning Yixiao frowned, and continued to scroll back, but there was not much content related to it, and most of it was homely.

After that, they had dinner with the real Xu Zhi on July 7th, and then on August 12th, Guan Cheng bid farewell to his mother, saying that he was going to go out to work.

[Xiaoguan asked me to take Xiaoxiao with me, he will work hard to earn money and let us live a good life, but I still want to stay here and wait.He had already guessed that I would stay here forever, so he gave up after persuading me.But even if we leave with him, I'm afraid Xiao Xiao and I will only drag him down. ]

Guan Cheng left at the beginning of August, and then cut off contact with him.

Could it be that after he left, he took the place of his friend and became "Xu Zhi"?

"Su Hui, did Xu Zhi mention his family?"

Hearing Ning Yixiao's question, Su Hui recalled, "I seem to remember that my mother said that Xu Zhi's parents passed away very early because of illness, so they specially did a very detailed premarital checkup. What genetic disease."

"No brothers or sisters?" Ning Yixiao asked.

"I didn't mention it." Su Hui picked up the photo again.

Guan Cheng in the photo had single eyelids and handsome facial features, but Xu Zhi he saw later had double eyelids, and his nose bridge and chin were also different.

But these rely on plastic surgery, in fact, it is very easy to do.

"Do you suspect that his real identity is actually Guan Cheng in the photo?"

Ning Yixiao told Su Hui what Xu Zhi had said before, and then analyzed, "Combining what you said and what my mother wrote in her diary, neither Guan Cheng nor Xu Zhi has any relatives. It is the biggest prerequisite for their identity replacement, and it is best for those who have no relatives to do it."

"Besides, there was no such a well-developed online student status system in those days. The information should be incomplete, and there is a high probability that there are no photos. Guan Cheng may have taken advantage of this loophole and went to university instead of Xu Zhi."

Su Hui has always been aware of how insidious Xu Zhi's behavior is, but the evil of this person is still far beyond his imagination.

"So, the real Xu Zhi may not be here long ago."

This is also an astonishing discovery for Ning Yixiao, but he doesn't have much evidence in hand, and he can't make a fool of himself, "I will send someone to investigate this matter, and I will tell you the result as soon as possible."

Su Hui was obsessed with one detail.

"Yixiao, tell me, why did he propose to take your mother with you?"

Ning Yixiao froze and looked at him.

Su Hui raised her eyes, "Since he is going to leave, he should have already decided to replace him, but making such a request is probably to test Auntie's determination to stay in the village, and it is not sincere. If she agrees, it may be bad luck few."

Yes.

Ning Yixiao felt a chill.

"The reason why he didn't make a move in the end is probably because he got rid of two more people, and the risk he had to bear was higher. My mother is very conspicuous in that place, and everyone who has seen her remembers her. She will definitely disappear for no reason. It caused criticism. On the other hand, he may have been a little shaken, after all, it was my mother who saved him."

This made Ning Yixiao think of something again, and frowned.

Su Hui noticed, "What's wrong?"

"I just thought that because I couldn't accept my mother's death, I never opened the relic box."

Ning Yixiao said in a low voice, "If I read it at the beginning, plus his temptation, I would have discovered these things, and at that time, he had already used your mother to cling to Ji's house, maybe I would have known this at that time. Everything, really can't hold back."

Su Hui also felt scared for a while.

If it were Ning Yixiao who had nothing six years ago, would he be quietly eliminated by Guan Cheng like the real Xu Zhi?

His heart suddenly beat hard.

"Your car accident..." Su Hui grabbed Ning Yixiao's arm suddenly, "It shouldn't be an accident."

"It really wasn't an accident."

Ning Yixiao said in a deep voice, "I didn't see the driver's face clearly at the time, but after I woke up, the traffic brigade sent someone to the hospital and showed me the driver's face captured by the camera. He had a personal enmity with my family, specifically he bullied my mother. After the traffic police learned about the situation, they also thought it was out of revenge, but he died during the pursuit."

Su Hui took his hand, "So you thought it was just because of personal grievances at that time? Could it be related to Xu Zhi? Do you know the driver's name?"

Ning Yixiao glanced at him, "Feng Zhiguo."

Su Hui's blood froze for a moment.

"Feng Zhiguo..."

"What's wrong?" Ning Yixiao saw that he didn't react well, "You know him?"

Everything is traceable.

Su Hui looked at Ning Yixiao, the astonishment in his eyes hadn't faded, "Feng Zhiguo was our family's driver later, and Xu Zhi introduced him here. He has a scar on his face near his eyes, right?"

Ning Yixiao was startled.

"Yes."

He always knew that Su Hui had a special driver, but he had never met him face to face. Even if he went to Su Hui's house once, it was Xu Zhi who sent him away the next day.

It turned out that the driver of Ji's family was Feng Zhiguo, who was introduced by the fake Xu Zhi.

He didn't expect that this person was so close to him at the beginning, and they missed the truth several times.

"Xu Zhi must have asked him to do this." Su Hui frowned, "You said he died later, how did he die?"

He didn't know anything about these things, because he had been forcibly locked up in a mental hospital at that time.

"He hid in Tibet and fled for almost a year. The police later received a report from the person in charge of the mountain forest, saying that someone fell down the cliff with a car and a person. Later they went to find him. When Feng Zhiguo fell, he was blocked by a tree. He escaped by himself, but was seriously injured, probably fainted due to excessive blood loss, and was later bitten to death by wild dogs in the mountains."

Ning Yixiao's expression was very cold, he could even recall those photos, "It was bitten into pieces, I could barely identify it, and the DNA test was done, it was him."

After hearing this, Su Hui felt chills through his bones.

"Feng Zhiguo and Guan Cheng knew each other, and they have been with him for a few years, so they might know something. Once he dies, there will be one less person in this world who knows Guan Cheng's secret."

"Perhaps." Ning Yixiao thought for a moment, "He may also want to borrow a knife to kill me, and use Feng Zhiguo to get rid of me, but he failed. Feng Zhiguo is not as decisive as him. On the contrary, he is a bit cowardly and incompetent. He saw me being knocked out. I was afraid and ran away. In this way, the fake Xu Zhi missed the best chance to get rid of me. If he did it again at that time, it would be too conspicuous, and you forced your grandfather to guarantee me He must be able to go abroad, and there is no way for him to do so."

These conjectures are reasonable and can be connected in series.

Su Hui nodded, "He may really think you don't know anything, after all, he has tried so many times."

Ning Yixiao sneered.

He must have never thought of it now, not only did he know, but he had always wanted to bring him down.

"No one knows about this matter at present." He told Su Hui, "You also act as if nothing happened today. I have to dig deep along this line to get the most favorable clues."

Of course Su Hui understood.

It's just that when the truth was revealed little by little, the trembling feeling was hard to get rid of, and it made him feel more and more terrifying.

Ji Tailu thinks that his grandson, who is related by blood, is mentally ill and unreliable, and thinks that his own daughter is just a woman, who is equally untrustworthy.

But the successor he trusts is a devil with a beastly face.

How ridiculous.

Su Hui had a nightmare at night, dreaming of many things that he had forgotten, and thinking of Xu Zhi's smiling face when he first saw him, his stomach was so nauseous that he almost vomited.

When he took lithium carbonate tablets, his side effects were much greater than before. When he took Ning Yixiao's car to school, he was very groggy, but he still used the method taught to him by the psychologist before to force himself to concentrate on work.

Ning Yixiao told Charles about the new clues he had obtained. They were very efficient and tried to find the files of the year through the lawyer who responded in China, but they did not find any death files related to Guan Cheng or Xu Zhi.

They speculated that because Guan Cheng's social relationship was almost blank, he had no relatives or other friends, so even if he "disappeared" in this world, no one would go to the police station to report his disappearance.

This is the most likely guess, but it also makes their investigation more difficult.If Guan Cheng grasps this point, kills the real Xu Zhi, and impersonates him, then the real Xu Zhi will become Guan Cheng who no one cares about, and it will be difficult to find his last trace in the vast crowd.

"I checked, and the fingerprint sampling of the ID card only started in the past ten years, so the previous Xu Zhi should not have done the relevant system entry, so Guan Cheng with this identity can be imprisoned, because if he was really Then all the documents should be re-applied, and now all the documents we can find are his own, including fingerprints. The real Xu Zhi may have been imprisoned by him, or died directly. died in his identity."

They now lack a proof that the two are not the same person.

Until the next day, Su Hui accidentally cut his finger with a utility knife while working. Looking at the blood on his fingertip, he suddenly realized something, and immediately went back to find Ning Yixiao.

"Blood type?" Ning Yixiao asked, "Do you know Xu Zhi's blood type?"

"Yeah." Su Hui also suddenly remembered, "My mother has the habit of donating blood. Once I was there, she said that Xu Zhi was stingy, and he refused to donate when type O blood was the most useful. I remember this incident Deep, he should have blood type O, but I don’t know what blood type the real Xu Zhi is.”

Ning Yixiao thought for a moment, then called Charles.

"The hospital's birth certificate is too old to be found, and it's too easy to think of. In Guan Cheng's mind, he probably will go back and destroy it. But there is another file that he should ignore, because he Didn't take part at all."

"what?"

"The school will organize a physical examination before the college entrance examination. The physical examination at that time should be very simple, but no matter how simple it is, there will be a blood test. At that time, there will be student files. If their blood types are inconsistent, there will be a first-line chance to prove Xu Zhi who took the college entrance examination. He is not the same person as Xu Zhi later."

"Yes, this is a breakthrough."

Even so, Ning Yixiao was a little worried, afraid that the comparison results would be the same. After all, there are only so many blood types, and the probability of the same is not small.

If this road is also blocked, it will be even more difficult to verify.

Charles immediately found someone to find Zhen Xuzhi's high school. The person who managed the file had retired. They spent a lot of effort to find the other party, and finally found the old medical report file.

"Shaw, I found it. The real Xu Zhi has blood type AB."

Upon hearing this news, a stone in Ning Yixiao's heart fell to the ground.

"Should we call the police now?"

"hold on."

Ning Yixiao didn't want to submit all these evidences immediately, because Xu Zhi's current status and status are very different, very special, and it is unknown how many of his people are in these systems. Encountered obstacles.

A series of criminal evidence such as corruption and bribery and money laundering that they collected before will always be useful.

Ning Yixiao temporarily put it on hold for two days. He has to deal with many affairs in the New York campus, and he has no skills at his disposal.

On the third day, back in the car after a business meeting, Carl told him, "Shaw, a guy just came to you and said he has what you want."

Ning Yixiao frowned, thinking of his recent investigation of Xu Zhi, he felt that there would be new progress in the matter, but he was also worried that his people would be exposed in the investigation, so he stayed on guard.

"Who?"

"He didn't tell me, he just gave this number and told you to call this number at eleven o'clock in the morning."

Ning Yixiao glanced at it, it looked like a series of landline numbers.

Payphone?It's still a phone number from a newsstand.

It was only a few minutes before eleven o'clock, Ning Yixiao didn't hesitate too much, and dialed Carl's phone number with virtual number software on his mobile phone.

Soon the other party connected, and it seemed that they had been waiting for his call.

He didn't speak, waiting for the other person to speak.

"Ning Yixiao, is it?"

As soon as the person opposite spoke, Ning Yixiao felt very familiar.

"Yes." He didn't answer further.

"I'm Feng Cheng."