investigative chronicle

Chapter 42 Ranin
"Telling love in words, if two people who are so romantic are really lovers, there should be other traces." Ji Si'an said calmly.

"We ignored this before. Shall we ask those students?" Yuan Mu asked tentatively, not knowing why Ji Si'an was so calm.

"Love is more meaningful if you pursue it slowly. If you find the result too straightforwardly, it won't be beautiful." Ji Si'an said this without end and walked outside.

Yuan Mu hurriedly took pictures of these materials and grabbed her schoolbag to catch up with Ji Si'an.

"Where are we going now?" This is Ji Si'an's half home, so naturally she has the final say.

"Library." Ji Si'an didn't look back, for some reason her mood was agitated.

"What are you doing there?" Yuan Mu still didn't understand.

"Look for evidence." Ji Si'an said concisely.

Yuan Mu quickly ran through those articles in her mind, and after a little analysis, she understood what she meant.

Their hands reached out to an English version of "Pride and Prejudice" at the same time.The slender hands are shining against the yellowed paper, just like those two people back then.

"They all mentioned this book in their articles." Ji Si'an took down the book.

"After so many years, there are too many borrowers, and the traces may have been erased." Yuan Mu said.

"Such an old version may not be read by anyone." Ji Si'an was optimistic.

Sure enough, they found the names of the two on the borrowing card.On the back is a line of beautiful small characters: "The king is a rock, the concubine is a pampas grass, the pampas grass is like silk, and the rock has no transfer." It is a famous phrase in "The Peacock Flies Southeast".

When my mother wrote these words and sentences, she was very sure in her heart.But this ending is quite similar to Lanzhi in Peacock Flying Southeast. Twenty years later, when she revisited her mother's affair, she didn't know what kind of mood she was in, she just felt that all kinds of tastes were mixed together, sweet and bitter.

When she knocked on Ms. Lin Yi's door, she was stunned for a moment, and then said in a trembling voice, "Yingying, can I give you a hug?"

Ji Si'an saw herself from her tear-filled eyes, and the Yingying she spoke of was her mother.She didn't answer, but took a step forward independently.It was this small step that made the elegant Lin Yi take her into his arms with big strides.

After a long time, when they were sitting on the sofa in the living room, Lin Yi thoughtfully poured them a cup of coffee. "I'm sorry, I lost my temper just now, you look too much like her."

Looking at the beautiful woman with elegant temperament and reddish eyes in front of her.Ji Si'an felt warm in his heart: "Auntie Lin Yi, thank you for entertaining us. We are here this time mainly to ask you about my mother."

"Even the voice is exactly the same." Lin Yi took out some photos of her and Ji Si'an's mother Wang Yingqi with emotion.

The coquettish, charming, or wanton woman in the photo is her mother.Ji Si'an has never seen such a vivid mother.In contrast, the mother in the only photo she kept looked dull and lifeless.

"She was so beautiful at that time! Especially those eyes, when they look at you sideways, they can almost take people's soul away."

"I still remember when I saw her for the first time, she stood like that in the crowd, and when she smiled softly, the people around her turned pale. Since then, you can only see her in your eyes. It is also thanks to her , I originally went to search for handsome guys, but I was attracted by her, and I didn't see any of the others..."

"Later, we lived in the same dormitory and joined the student union. We were very good friends. But she has a shortcoming...that is, she is too stubborn. She never talked to me about her parents, let alone If you say it is a little bit difficult, you always look confident."

"I once thought she was a chivalrous woman in novels. I thought she could solve everything...I'm so stupid...It turns out that she also has sadness...and she can't do anything..."

This was the first time Ji Si'an heard someone talk about her mother in such a tone, and it was also the first time she heard someone talk about her mother's anecdote.

"My mother...is she so good?" Ji Si'an asked.

"Of course. How can you doubt this?" Lin Yi said angrily.

But I have never heard them talk about her, such a radiant woman always avoids her father like a snake when she mentions her father.

"Do you know Zhao Wenbin?" Yuan Mu asked.

Lin Yi sighed. "I know, why don't I know. He was a man of the year at Chenghuang University. The school grass, the student chairman, the rich second generation...all the good things you can think of happened to him. He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. People can never be rocks."

"Why did they separate?" Ji Si'an asked.

Lin Yi refilled some coffee for them. "College life is just a dream, a dream that abandons reality... Your mother was raised in an orphanage, and the dean treated her with great kindness, and she needs to go back to repay her kindness after graduation. And...Zhao Wenbin is a rich second generation, Not only does he need to inherit the family business, but he also shoulders the responsibility of making the business bigger through marriage. It is impossible for him to go back with her."

"Yingying is stubborn and self-reliant; although Zhao Wenbin is smart, he is weak and lacks assertiveness. Their orchids are destined to bear fruit."

"It's just that we didn't know this at that time. I always feel that what others say is others', and what we meet is the most real."

"Later, we all graduated, and Yingying persisted in Chenghuang for Zhao Wenbin for two years... The dean's serious illness, Zhao's refusal to accept him, and Zhao Wenbin's hesitation and compromise finally smoothed Yingying's final I thought about it. That winter she left Chenghuang and returned to the orphanage."

"We lost contact as soon as she left, and it was ten years later when we received her call again. We were all mothers at that time..."

Lin Yi's eyes looked into the distance, as if recalling their last meeting.

"No one thought that the party would become a farewell..."

"Who organized the class reunion?" Yuan Mu asked.

"It's Zhao Wenbin. He's the squad leader." Lin Yi said softly.

"My mother... how have you been all these years?" Ji Si'an asked this question out of nowhere.She clearly knew that Aunt Lin might not know, but she couldn't help asking.In the original family, mother was a taboo, grandma didn't talk about it, father didn't talk about it, and she didn't dare to ask.

Lin Yi looked at her and seemed to think of her daughter, and she patted Ji Si'an's head lovingly. "Yingying looks tired, she is thinner than ten years ago, and the light in her eyes is dimmed. But she likes you two very much, and always has a smile on her face when she mentions you and your sister."

"I only found out after we met that Yingying married your father not long after she returned to her hometown, under the introduction of others."

"Yingying didn't want to marry at first, but at that time the orphanage was in urgent need of a sum of money... so she agreed. In her words, the groom is not Zhao Wenbin, and whoever else marries is not married. Besides, your father is honest and honest. He looks good too, and he was already a good candidate at that time."

"But, she doesn't love him." Ji Si'an was a little persistent, as if she could understand her father's indifference towards her.

"Yes." Lin Yi was very straightforward. At her age, she saw a lot of things.

(End of this chapter)