"How do you say it?" Xia Yi relied on his delicate face, suppressed the urgency in his heart and acted surprised, "Of course he is alive and well."

Xu Qiufang didn't doubt that there was him, she clapped her palms and sighed with emotion: "He's alive! I haven't heard about him for so many years, and I always thought...he's gone long ago. This is really a miracle. He fainted when he was in the second year of junior high school Instead, he went to the hospital for an examination. He had no relatives, and the villagers were simple and honest. He raised money to see a doctor, but it was found to be leukemia. At that time, everyone thought that this disease would definitely kill him. Every family in the farmer was not rich, and no one gave money. It was his teacher, seeing how pitiful he was, he wrote to the foundation to ask if he could help... That child is sensible and has good academic performance. I took his report card, certificate of award, and letter of thanks from the foundation, and went to him again and again. The president, the president is also soft-hearted, promised to pay for medical treatment, and even tried to transfer the person to the city hospital... Every time I went to see Chen Biao, he also said that he would work hard in the future and repay the foundation. But that would My son, even the city hospital doesn’t take a good look at this disease, and the money that our foundation can allocate to him is limited after all... Sigh. The last time I saw him, it was the hospital who asked me to go there, and he was critically ill twice in a row.”

Xu Qiufang took a sip of water and continued:

"I was waiting outside the ward, waiting for him to be rescued. In the end, he was rescued, but the doctor told me quietly that it would not last long. I went back to the foundation and told the president, and then I started to make plans for the funeral. As a result, there was a phone call every two days, saying that the head office of the foundation, a well-meaning person at the top level knew about this, and planned to transfer the child Chen Biao to a large hospital in the capital for emergency treatment. Comrades from our foundation helped arrange the transfer. But when I came back, I still sighed, saying that the doctor felt that there was no point in transferring to another hospital, that is, I couldn’t save my life... After that, I didn’t hear from him again, and I didn’t give money to the children in Chen Biao’s village. Goodbye, when his name was reported, I thought the child was gone... I didn’t dare to ask in detail because I was afraid of being sad, but I didn’t expect him to be alive and well. That’s good.”

As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face, and he looked very relieved.

Xia Yi and Tan Jiuzhang looked at each other with a heavy heart.

After hearing so much, they felt that Chen Biao was not the current Chen Biao.Seeing the smile on Xu Qiufang's face, I didn't know what to say to her.

After Xu Qiufang finished talking about the past, her expression was still distant, as if she was deeply immersed in memories.After a while, the old man coughed twice, picked up his teacup to drink water, took a breath, and asked Chen Biao how he was doing urgently, but he didn't say to contact the foundation.

Xia Yi glanced at Tan Jiuzhang helplessly, and the latter replied with a smile on his face, "You know, he walked by the ghost gate once, and then his health was not very good. Now he's not in our province, follow...uh, his wife It was quite far away, and I found a relatively light job, but I was very happy. When I saw him, he kept saying that if he was in good health, he would definitely come back to see you, but in the past few years, he has not moved at all. If you are sick, you can't leave home at all, so you can only ask us to come back to greet you. Please rest assured."

There was a smile in Xu Qiufang's narrowed eyes, as if she had let go of a big rock in her heart, she kept patting her wrinkled hands, and murmured: "That's good... that's good..."

Xia Yi felt sore when he heard that, turned his head to hide his expression, and said again: "... Do you have any photos with Chen Biao back then? Or, do you know where there are photos of Chen Biao back then? We It may be used for ppt. If you don't mind, can you let us have a look?"

"...At that time, not many people had cameras. There was a photo studio in the town. To be honest, taking pictures is really rare..." The old man recalled with emotion, "Don't tell me I haven't remembered yet, Chen Biao After the child was transferred to a big hospital, someone from the head office also came to ask, saying that he wanted to collect his photo. So we all thought at the time that the child was gone, so someone came to ask for the photo as a thought..."

Xia Yi and Tan Jiuzhang couldn't help but look at each other again.

20 years ago, mobile phones could not take pictures, and photos could only be taken with a camera and then developed in a photo studio.Even if someone really left a photo of Chen Biao, after Xia's people took away the negatives, the 15-year-old Chen Biao's appearance really lost any reliable records.

Xia Yi felt a chill in his heart.

Unexpectedly, the old man Xu Qiufang suddenly smiled slyly: "They want Chen Biao's photo, but I don't have a photo of the doll alone, only a photo of us together... that's it. I'm not willing Hand it over. It was before his last operation. He said he had never had a photo taken in his life and wanted to take a photo with me. I went to find someone to borrow a camera and took a group photo of the two of us, and now I still keep it... "

There is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.

Xia Yi's eyes lit up.He watched the old man walk into the house, and after a while, he brought out a photo album. The cover was pasted with tape, and xx year xx was written on the tape.Xu Qiufang's wrinkled fingers were wet with saliva, and she flipped through the pages, all of them were pictures of children, and pictures of Xu Qiufang and them, all of which were smiling faces.Xu Qiufang turned the pages slowly, but the two young men didn't bother, they just quietly watched her flip through the pages with memories in their eyes.

"Ah, here."

Xu Qiufang stopped the movement of her hands, touching a certain photo in the album with emotion.Above, a middle-aged woman stood beside the hospital bed, smiling brightly at the camera.She put her arms around the thin shoulders of the teenager on the hospital bed.And the young man was wearing a hospital gown and had shaved his head. Due to the pain, his body was extremely thin, and the hospital gown looked empty on his body.

Xia Yi turned around and carefully looked at the photo with not very clear pixels.

——The frail but smiling teenager in the photo, he has a strange face.

Not Chen Biao.

It's not the Chen Biao on the current data.

The first photo of this teenager in the world has also become the last photo of him left in the world.

Xia Yi slowly closed his eyes and let out a breath.

It felt like the last straw had finally been crushed on the camel.

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When leaving Xu Qiufang's house, Xia Yi's expression was always gloomy.

Looking at his lowered eyes, Tan Jiuzhang guessed what he was thinking, and couldn't help reaching out and holding his hand: "I'm not lying to her old man. Let her know that the person who has put a lot of effort is still alive, It’s also a kind of fulfillment.”

Tan Jiuzhang's hand was very hot, the temperature permeated along the surface of the skin to the limbs and bones, all the senses were focused on the hands held by the two of them for a while, and most of the sad feelings were dissipated when the mind was divided.

Xia Yi nodded wordlessly, and said with a wry smile, "I really didn't expect that your astonishing guess would come true."

Tan Jiuzhang's mood is also very complicated: "The science and technology were not developed back then, so it was much easier to fake one's identity than it is now."

"But the question is, who is this Chen Biao now, and who was in charge of all this back then. Xu Qiufang said that when Chen Biao was critically ill, the senior executives of the Xia Corporation "kindly" helped. Pushing hands. But who is he?" Xia Yi's gaze was down on the phone, on which, the smile of "Chen Biao" they took back then was blurred and dazzling.

"It's not easy to find out what happened back then. If you want to know who it is, I'm afraid it depends on who benefits." Tan Jiuzhang said.

"Deli? Of course it is the current Chen Biao. His original identity must be shady. I wonder if he committed a crime, so he must find a clean and well-documented identity. But we don't Knowing who this person is, how do you deduce the driving force behind it?"

Tan Jiuzhang shook his head: "I really don't know who this Chen Biao is now. But it is certain that there are people in Xia's company who have a close relationship with him, so they will spend a lot of time on him. From the results, he and Xia Hang walked away. Very close, you can even say that they are completely tied to a boat..."

"You want to say that Xia Hang did it? But 18 years ago, he was just an elementary school chick." Xia Yi shook his head.

"Of course I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about people who are close to him. As you said, eight out of ten out of ten Chen Biao has committed a felony before changing his name. The person who helped him change his identity must know His details. Thinking about what we analyzed before, Xia Hang is self-willed and hard to trust. He was able to boldly let Chen Biao do shady things because he was holding onto Chen Biao. This handle, now it seems, should be Chen Biao's original identity, and the felony he committed. The secret is that as few people know the better, but the person who helped Chen Biao change his position at the beginning told Xia Hang the truth and asked Chen Biao to help Xia Hang. Used……"

Following Tan Jiuzhang's speculation, Xia Yi suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Qiao Meihua!"

Eighteen years ago, Xia Yi's mother was still alive, and Qiao Meihua was still Xia Zhuxin's secretary, but the two had already had an affair, and they had a son and a daughter long ago.Because of this relationship, Xia Zhuxin trusts Qiao Meihua a lot. It is not a problem for Qiao Meihua to act in the name of the company.

From this point of view, when the real Chen Biao was critically ill, she was probably the one who took him away in the name of being transferred to another hospital!

Chen Biao is an orphan with no close relatives or photos.He was a minor back then, and in the era when household registration management was not strict, he didn't even have an ID card and household registration booklet.Let him be transferred to a strange place to die, hide the news of his death, and after two or three years, those who are sure to have an impression of him will gradually forget him, and let another person hold his previous identity certificate (hukou book or other documents) ) instead, there is little doubt.

"So this Chen Biao must be someone related to Qiao Meihua. The question is how to find out who he is." Xia Yi muttered to himself, brows frowned.

Seeing his thoughtful expression, Tan Jiuzhang stretched out his hand and patted the back of the other person's head, and when Xia Yi looked over, he showed a relaxed smile: "Manager Xia, didn't we agree to leave this matter to me? Huh? I'm still waiting to get it." As for the bonus, you think so much, are you planning to compete with the assistant for a job?"

"I'll find the answer, don't worry."

There is an unreasonably convincing and down-to-earth power in his smile.

The two of them ran for a day, and the sky was now dim and yellow, with a large area of ​​gold mixed with rose-purple colors spreading across the sky, and the faint sunlight tiredly dyed the entire western sky yellow.In Xia Yi's eyes, Tan Jiuzhang was against the light, with a calm smile, and there was a faint warm glow left by the golden setting sun between his clear eyebrows and eyes.Xia Yi looked at the determination on his face, listened to his deliberate teasing voice, and the sense of urgency to know the truth and dig out the poisonous snake that had been hidden for many years seemed to be well calmed down.

'This person is warm. '

A thought drifted through his mind vaguely.

After recalling it for a long time, I suddenly realized that it was probably at this moment, the people in front of me and the male protagonists who had the temperament of "following me and prospering" in the [-] worlds he had experienced, as well as the plot in his heart that had been pieced together by the system plot. The raised image was completely torn apart.

For the first time, he realized sincerely and clearly that the background of this man was sincerity and warmth that people could not refuse.What caused trouble for the male lead, what made him provoke his thoughts—although these thoughts themselves have been slowly dormant and weakened by Tan Jiuzhang’s care during this period of getting along—but at this moment, those messy thoughts, It's really like the ice slag in midsummer, completely sun-baked to nothing.

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