Chapter 12 Xu Feng decides to go to Anyong Company
That night, Xu Feng rushed back to school from Hongqu Dumpling House and had a late-night snack with his girlfriend Ning Xiaoxia. After returning to the dormitory, he couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
He lay on the bed and used a flashlight to illuminate it, taking Uncle Zhang's notebook and flipping through it. The diaries were all relatively brief, but some of them still deeply shocked him.
February 9, 2005: Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I left that filthy home. I can no longer live with these sanctimonious devils.
This is the first entry in the diary.
February 16, 2005: I didn’t go to Xu Yongchang’s funeral years ago. Today I went to his home and met his son Xu Feng and Xu Feng’s mother Li Yun.
February 24, 2005: Today is the first day of school, and Xu Feng’s name is indeed on the list provided by the school.
March 4, 2005: Today is exactly one month since Brother Xu passed away. I sent the first remittance to Li Yun, which will be once a month from now on. I want to use this to atone for the sins of my murderer father.
August 12, 2006: Meng Yuanming, the son of Tangtang Anyong Company, became the owner of a dumpling restaurant. They would never have thought that there would be no Meng Yuanming in the world from now on, only Zhang Guifu.
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Xu Feng opened the four diaries until dawn. He learned from the few words recorded in the diaries: Uncle Zhang's true identity turned out to be Meng Yuanming, the son of Meng Anyong, chairman of Anyong Group. His father died on February 4, 2005.
And it must not have been a natural death. His father's death must be related to Meng Anyong, chairman of Anyong Group. Meng Yuanming's support for himself and his family over the years was to atone for his father's sins.
After sorting out this information, Xu Feng could no longer sleep. He walked aimlessly on the playground alone. He could not accept that the benefactor he respected and loved suddenly turned into the son of his father-killing enemy. He
Suddenly he felt that his fifteen years of life had been in vain. He was living a huge lie. His mother and Uncle Zhang, the two most important people in his life, had deceived him. The goal he had fought for before suddenly
Time has lost all meaning. The only thing he wants to know now is: the truth!
Sitting on the bus bound for his hometown of Gui'an City, Xu Feng fell into a drowsy sleep.
He dreamed about his father, and dreamed about his father teaching him to learn to ride a bicycle. He pedaled the bicycle crookedly, and his father grabbed the back seat of the car behind him to prevent the bicycle from falling. Suddenly, his father screamed and fell to the ground.
There was a knife stuck in his back. His bicycle lost its balance and fell next to his father.
He dreamed that Uncle Zhang taught him to tie the fishhook, teach him to thread the fishing line, and taught him to adjust the float. His fishhook was bitten hard by the fish, and he and Uncle Zhang grabbed the fishing rod together and pulled it up hard. But
What was pulled up was indeed his father's bloody corpse.
Xu Feng's mother Li Yun still lives in the house that was allocated during the demolition. The two-bedroom house is not spacious, but it is enough for Li Yun to live alone. Because of Meng Yuanming's monthly support, Li Yun lives a comfortable life
She is quite happy. She no longer goes out to work, and her daily life consists of shopping for food, cooking, playing cards and dancing. Like every retired woman in the city, her life is busy and fulfilling.
Li Yun was overjoyed when her son suddenly came home. She didn't bother to talk to her son, and ran to the vegetable market, bought a lot of delicious food, and cooked a sumptuous dinner for her son.
Seeing his unhappy son sitting at the dining table, Li Yun quickly asked:
"What's wrong, son? Isn't the food cooked by mom delicious? Hurry up and eat it. You look picky, like a big girl."
"Mom, I want to ask you something." Xu Feng didn't know how to ask Li Yun.
"By the way, I still want to ask you something. Where is Xiaoxia? Why didn't Xiaoxia come with you? Are you two having a conflict? You look unhappy."
"No, there was no conflict. I came here specifically to ask you something this time."
"What's going on? You don't have to come here to ask."
"Mom, how did my dad die?" Xu Feng summoned up the courage to ask.
"Child, why are you mentioning your dad? It's been so many years!" Li Yun picked up her chopsticks and put a lion's head into Xu Feng's bowl and said:
"Hurry up and eat your favorite lion's head. Try to see if mom's cooking has deteriorated."
"Mom, do you still miss my dad now?"
"No, why do you miss him? Is there any use in missing him?" The smile on Li Yun's face gradually disappeared.
"Then tell me how dad died."
Li Yun put her chopsticks on the table, the smile disappeared from her face, and she said to Xu Feng with a straight face:
"Didn't I tell you a long time ago that your father died of illness?"
"What disease?"
"cancer."
"What cancer?"
"Lung cancer, your dad smoked a lot and smoked himself to death."
"No! That's not the case! I know my father was killed."
"Nonsense!" Li Yun slammed the table angrily.
"I'm not talking nonsense. I found Uncle Zhang's diary. His name is not Zhang Guifu, but his name is Meng Yuanming. It was his father who killed my dad." Xu Feng has already given up. He knows that if he doesn't make things clear this time,
It will be impossible to know the truth in the future.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I only know that your Uncle Zhang is a good man. He has taken care of us and my mother for so many years. If you become successful in the future, you don't need to be filial to me. Just be filial to your Uncle Zhang." Li Yun began.
Whispering and crying, this is a woman's most powerful weapon.
"Mom, you know, Uncle Zhang is missing and I can't find him. I call him every day, but I can't get through."
"Impossible, he is such a good person, how could something happen to him?" Li Yun cried more and more.
"Really, Mom! I couldn't contact Uncle Zhang, so I opened the door of the dumpling house with the key that Uncle Zhang gave me and went in to look for him. I found these diaries." Xu Feng took out Meng Yuanming's diary from his bag.
, show it to Li Yun.
Li Yun looked through Meng Yuanming's diary under Xu Feng's guidance. After reading for a long time, she finally understood the cause and effect of the incident. Li Yun closed Meng Yuanming's diary with trembling hands and murmured:
"He is really Meng Anyong's son, he is really Meng Anyong's son..."
Looking at his mother's suddenly haggard face, he recalled his mother's excitement when he first entered the house, and Xu Feng began to feel uneasy.
Li Yun muttered to herself silently for a while, left her son, got up, went into her own room, and closed the door.
At night, Xu Feng began to dream again. He dreamed that his mother was carrying him on her back to buy candied haws. Her mother said that she couldn't carry it anymore and asked Xu Feng to come down and walk for a while. Xu Feng cried and made trouble and couldn't come down. His mother's back was sweating.
, the sweat made Xu Feng feel like he was swimming, he swam and swam, swam and swam. Suddenly his mother disappeared. He stood in the dark in fear, shouting loudly: Mom! Mom! Mom!
The sun shone on Xu Feng's face, and he felt as hot as fire. His pillow was soaked with sweat. He felt it was difficult to breathe. Just when he was about to suffocate, he woke up.
There was a crisp sound of pots and pans clashing outside the door. He got up and opened the door gently, and heard his mother's brisk humming from the kitchen:
"You are my little apple. I can never love you too much. Your red face warms my heart and lights up the fire of my life."
Xu Feng rubbed his eyes that had not yet been opened. He walked to the door of the kitchen and saw his mother humming a song while making breakfast. He didn't understand how she adjusted her mentality.
"Mom." Xu Feng called Li Yun in a low voice.
"Oh, son, you got up so early. Go brush your teeth and wash your face quickly. Breakfast will be ready soon."
While the two of them were having breakfast, Xu Feng looked at his mother, whose face was flushed again, and wanted to say something she liked to hear to make her happy, so he said:
"mom......"
Before he could continue, Li Yun immediately took over the words:
"Son, I know what you want to say. But please listen to me first."
Li Yun put the chopsticks in her hand on the table, wiped the soup around her mouth with her hands and said:
"Son, it doesn't matter how your father died. What matters is that he is already dead. We cannot live for the dead. The purpose of our lives is the future. For me, my future is for you to get married early and for me to get married early.
Hold grandson. Do you understand?"
"Mom, I understand." Although Xu Feng didn't agree with his mother's words, he still nodded and said that he understood. He didn't want to see his mother's haggard face again.
"That's right, son, forget about the past. Don't let hatred blind your eyes. I forgot that this was what the song said. Take advantage of your future." Li Yun's face showed a bright smile.
Smile.
From that moment on, Xu Feng decided not to ask his mother about his father. His mother had worked hard all her life and was under tremendous pressure to raise him. He didn't want to ruin her happy old age.
Xu Feng had received a total of three offers before, one of which was to go with Ning Xiaoxia to her hometown, a big city in the south. The other was a secretary position at Anyong Group. When he went to find Meng Yuanming that day, he originally wanted to
Tell Meng Yuanming that he will go to the south with Ning Xiaoxia.
But after returning to school from home, Xu Feng decided to join the Anyong Group. He thought that he had grown up and his mother had a fulfilling life. He could no longer trouble her with everything. He had to rely on his own strength to find the truth.
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He couldn't let himself live in confusion, he had to find the truth. His father's death and the disappearance of Uncle Zhang or Uncle Meng made him unable to calm down.
The only resistance to entering Anyong comes from Ning Xiaoxia. Xu Feng and Ning Xiaoxia have been in love for more than a year. The two have made countless longings for their future life in front of flowers and under the moon, and they have made an oath that they will never be separated together. He
He couldn't tell Ning Xiaoxia about his father and Uncle Zhang. He told Xiaoxia that he had some things to stay in Zhongjiang and couldn't go to the south with him for the time being. If she was willing to wait for him, he would definitely go find her.
"Are you serious?" Ning Xiaoxia asked.
"Yes, I have to stay and figure out some things." Xu Feng replied sincerely.
"Then are you serious about me?" Ning Xiaoxia held back tears to prevent them from flowing out of her eyes.
"Yes! I just can't go to the south for the time being. After I finish this matter, I will definitely find you and devote the rest of my life to you."
"for how long?"
Xu Feng held Ning Xiaoxia in his arms and whispered in her ear:
"I don't know. I can't say how long it will take, but I will definitely come to you, whether you wait for me or not."
Ning Xiaoxia broke away from Xu Feng, turned around and walked away silently without saying a word. Xu Feng stood there for a long time and did not see Xiaoxia turn around.