Recalling how he met Xiao Cao and the others, Yan Zheng found that his help to them all had a purpose.

This is not to say that Yan Zheng did not sincerely help them, but that this kind of help was mixed with too many things and was not pure enough.

Liu Jinding and Xiao Cao are the targets of the mission, and Yan Zheng cannot help them without considering the company's development.

To help the evil ghost, you rely on the evil ghost to manage the team. After arriving in the underworld, you suddenly want to plant a nail in the underworld.

To sum up, Yan Zheng had some purpose in mind when helping them, and it was not at all purely motivated by helping the old lady.

At that time, Yan Zheng didn't have any intention of repaying her kindness. He just saw how pitiful she was and wanted to help her.

Unexpectedly, this selfless help was richly rewarded...

In this scheming company, in this profit-first society, Yan Zheng felt the slightest warmth again.

The matter about the old lady came to an end. Yan Zheng looked at the time and saw that it was already around 6 o'clock. He simply didn't go home tonight and slept in the company directly. At noon tomorrow, he asked Liu Jinding to take him directly to the mining community to inquire about the news.

Before Liu Jinding could wake him up at noon the next day, Yan Zheng was woken up by Su Ming's burning eyes.

In his sleep, Yan Zheng always felt that someone was peeping at him, and he had a nightmare about it. Unexpectedly, when he opened his eyes, he saw Su Ming.

When Yan Zheng woke up, Su Ming covered her face and ran out shyly. Liu Jinding walked in from the outside with a smile: "Boss, you're awake~ I still wanted to call you. This saves trouble."

Seeing Liu Jinding smiling with evil intentions, Yan Zheng said angrily: "You must be laughing at me on purpose. How long has Su Ming been looking at me?"

Liu Jinding replied with a smile: "I came in to see you early in the morning. Speaking of boss, Su Ming is a good girl, so don't think about it!"

Yan Zheng glared at Liu Jinding: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Liu Jinding touched Yan Zheng with his shoulder ambiguously and said cowardly: "Boss, please don't be racist. Look at Xu Xian who is a snake when he finds a wife. Look at Ning Caichen who is a ghost when he likes a girl.

Have you seen Hua Qiangu? Luo Shiyi in it is a real man who doesn’t even let caterpillars go. Boss, think about these seniors, are you and Su Ming having trouble?"

Yan Zheng snorted coldly: "Xu Hanwen, the grass python hero, and Ning Caichen, the life and death friend! After all, the person they are looking for can turn into a human!

What's going on with Su Ming? He's not even a human being. If I find Su Ming who's more awesome than the ones you mentioned, I'll be in trouble!"

Yan Zheng's words made Liu Jinding almost laugh out loud, then he immediately covered his mouth and ran out of the room quickly.

"You get angry early in the morning~ What kind of employees are these! You really want to make me mad!" Yan Zheng muttered dissatisfiedly as he looked at Liu Jinding who ran out.

After a simple lunch, Yan Zheng took the lantern ghost and Liu Jinding drove him through the deserted streets and then towards the mining community.

The autumn wind and the autumn afternoon sun sway the leaves of the sycamore tree one by one. The old fairy-like green leaves shrink into withered yellow in autumn. They are like balls of flames swaying on the trees.

The withered yellow leaves are clustered on the branches, and two rows of ginkgo trees stand tall and tall beside the road. The golden leaves decorate the sky on the treetops and cover the ground under the feet. The long street is decorated like a gorgeous palace.

It was like running over a road paved with gold, and the tires made a crisp squeaking sound as they crushed the leaves.

The low holly under the tree is still green, but it lacks the freshness of summer and seems to have been dusty for a long time. This is one of the few greens left in autumn. There are no flowers anymore, just bare dead grass under the tree, as if it is still waiting for flowers.

To embellish.

The sunny lawn at the entrance of Mining Community is full of old people chatting and sunbathing.

There are not many traces of residents in the community. It lacks the lively vitality of children in a normal community and is only in decline.

Just like the closing of the steel factory, young people have left this remote community, leaving only old people who are nostalgic, and some whose family conditions are poor and cannot afford to move.

Liu Jinding stopped the car far away, and Yan Zheng opened the car door and stepped on the withered yellow leaves towards the crowd.

The old people who were watching the approaching young people sunbathing began to comment. Before Yan Zheng walked in, someone asked, "Young man, who are you looking for?"

Yan Zheng smiled politely and replied: "Auntie, I am a writer, and I recently wanted to write a story about the development of the mine. I came here specifically to understand the situation."

When they heard that Yan Zheng was a writer and wanted to write a story about a mine, the old people became excited. There was nothing they could be more proud of than that period of history.

Now some people are willing to write down their pride and talk about their experiences.

In an instant, Yan Zheng was surrounded by people, all talking to Yan Zheng about the mine.

Yan Zheng sat on a horse vacated by an old man and took out his notebook to write down notes. When he encountered something that was unclear or exaggerated, he would stop writing and inquire about it carefully.

Just like a writer who goes out to collect stories!

Under Yan Zheng's affectionate nicknames of "uncle" and "aunt", Yan Zheng quickly became familiar with these old people, and their relationship was almost close. Yan Zheng raised his own question: "Aunt Li Cui'e once mentioned to me the details of our mine.

History, this is the reason why I came here to collect news today. She mentioned to me that there was an unjust case in our mine, do you still remember?"

When they heard that Yan Zheng was Li Cui'e's nephew, everyone asked again. Yan Zheng explained to them in an orderly manner. The reason why he had never been here before was because his family had been abroad for a long time and he had only seen his aunt a few times. This time he returned to China and heard about his aunt.

After he passed away, I wanted to write some stories to commemorate him.

After Yan Zheng explained, the old people praised Yan Zheng for his filial piety and complained about their children.

Then, after Yan Zheng's repeated questioning, someone told the story about Wang Fugui's unjust case.

The story happened in the summer of 1994. At that time, several new accountants came to the steel factory. One of them, a girl named Liu Min, was particularly beautiful. Many young men in the steel factory chased the girl, but the girl was not attracted by the girl.

At that time, the steel factory was surrounded by wasteland and was several miles away from the community. The girl worked overtime at night to settle accounts until late at night, so she rode her bicycle home alone.

Then she was dragged to a wasteland on the road and wanted to do something casual. Shi Xingyan, the son of the steel factory secretary, happened to be passing by and heard the girl's shouts, which scared away Wang Fugui, who committed the crime at that time.

After taking the girl back to Mining Community, Wang Fugui disappeared that night.

It took three days for Liu Min to report the crime. After Liu Min reported the crime, the police came to inquire about the situation. Only then did everyone learn about Wang Fugui's attempted suicide. After several searches, everyone discovered that Wang Fugui was missing. The police searched for several days.

No one was found, and he was eventually deemed to be absconding out of fear of crime.

Shi Xingyan was praised by the factory for his bravery, and he also won the heart of a beautiful woman. Not long after, the two got married.

Shi Xingyan became the envy of everyone in the steel factory, while Wang Fugui was nowhere to be found.

The expressions of the scolded, regretful, and envious old man were all different.

But Yan Zheng always felt that something was unreasonable. Why did Liu Min choose to report the crime three days later? In that era, a girl's reputation was more important than her life. Even now, if the girl was raped, she would be discriminated against by the people around her.

, it was very difficult to get married again. What’s more, at that time, if I were Liu Min, since Wang Fugui didn’t succeed, I would choose to hide this matter for the sake of reputation.

It had been three days since the incident, so why did she think of reporting the crime again? What kind of inner struggle did Liu Min go through during the three days? Someone persuaded her, could it be Shi Xingyan? But what would Shi Xingyan do to him by doing this?

The good thing is, if he wanted to marry Liu Min, he shouldn't expose this matter.

Marrying an innocent girl and marrying a raped girl are two different concepts. He is not afraid of others pointing fingers at him behind his back.

Yan Zheng's head ached from thinking about it, and he painfully rubbed the soft flesh between his brow bones. The uncles and aunties around him were still chirping enthusiastically.

Yan Zheng listened for a long time, and it seemed that Lou was being led astray by Yan Zheng. What he was talking about right now was all the scandalous things in the community.

Who stole someone's food, who had an affair with someone, who always quarreled with someone...

As expected, gossip is something that people, men, women, old and young, can't stop talking about. Yan Zheng listened with great interest for a long time before he remembered the purpose of his visit today.

He quickly asked: "When Wang Fugui disappeared, was there anything unusual around the community?"

The uncle and aunt were lost in thought, and after about a minute, an uncle said: "I don't remember anything unusual, but that year the community was building roads, and the steel factory was carrying out large-scale steelmaking..."

"Build a road, what road to build?" Yan Zheng pondered.

The uncle pointed to the road to the south and said: "Did you see that the road to the south was built at that time? At that time, there was only one road leading to the outside, which was directly from the steel plant to the north. That road was used to transport ore from the steel plant all year round.

Trucks are not suitable for people to travel at all. Everyone has suggested it many times, but the factory has no solution. It was not until 1994 that someone tripped while riding a bicycle on the South Road of the Steel Factory and was crushed to death by the car. The factory then

We funded the construction of the road to the south. The road here was originally a barren slope with several acres of thin fields. During the road construction, all the stones were dug out. It was not easy to build this road at that time. "

Then there was a conversation about the hardships and sweetness, and after talking about the difficulties of building the road, the uncle asked Yan Zheng excitedly: "Young man, let me test you, do you know what the road over there is called?"

Yan Zheng was stunned for a moment and returned tentatively: "South Road of Mining Community?"

The uncle shook his head, and Yan Zheng continued: "East Road?"

The uncle smiled and returned: "Have you guessed it? That road is also called Mining South Road! It has the same name as the road in front of the steel plant! This road is an interesting thing here. People from outside can't find the wrong road.
Chapter completed!