Gu Xiyu and Cheng Qianqian sat in the cafe all afternoon, and she didn't leave until Ji Zixuan called Cheng Qianqian back to accompany him to work overtime.
"where did you go?"
As soon as he returned to the apartment, he received a question from Ji Chen.
The heating temperature at home was just right, and Ji Chen was rarely busy with business. He sat on the sofa wearing a set of casual clothes, and news interviews with celebrities were playing on TV.
Gu Xiyu closed the door and replied, "See Cheng Qianqian, get her something."
When he finished speaking, he looked up and found that Ji Chen's dark eyes were staring straight at him.
"what?"
Gu Xiyu put on slippers: "You were in country F that day and bought me the wrong clothes."
The clothes actually came from Ji Chen after seeing a client one day, and happened to pass by a well-reputed clothing store. He felt that the clothes in it were suitable for Gu Xiyu, so he bought a lot of them. When they returned to the hotel, they found out that there were several women's clothes, which were not suitable for them.
Ji Chen also joked at the time: "You are too thin, I was thinking of buying a smaller one, but I didn't expect it to be a female model."
Gu Xiyu walked to the sofa with his mobile phone in his hand, opened the payment software, and showed Ji Chen the screen: "She thinks the clothes are too expensive and is too embarrassed to accept them directly. She insists on transferring money to me. I'll call you later for the money. number."
Ji Chen looked up and didn't care much: "No, my money is yours, just spend what I give you."
Gu Xiyu: "..."
After putting away his phone, he asked, "It was agreed last time that the company will give the results of the investigation in about two weeks. Are the results out yet?"
Ji Chen didn't look at him: "I asked the Supervision Department, and they said that your matter is more complicated and it will take a few more days, so don't worry."
Gu Xiyu didn't say anything. Ji Chen might be afraid that he would be unhappy, so he got up and said to him, "It's just that the person you asked me to help with has already been found. I asked Jin Ke to send some of his information to your mailbox. Do you have any information about him? You can take a look."
"You can print it if you need it," Ji Chen paused for a while before continuing, "Show it to your parents."
There is no doubt that Ji Chen has already investigated clearly the background of the original body, so he knows that the original body has a bad relationship with his family because of his dead brother, and the fact that he made up other people's families casually. God stick.
"That person was brought to court for defrauding the year before, and he was convicted. He is now squatting in prison. If you want to take your parents to confront him, I can also arrange it for you." Ji Chen said again.
"Okay, thank you." Gu Xiyu said seriously.
As soon as Gu Xiyu went back to his room and turned on his laptop, the email prompt popped up. He thought it was the information that Jin Ke sent him, but he didn't expect to click on it and saw another spam advertisement.
He glanced at random and deleted it when he didn't see anything worth paying attention to. Then he found the file that Jin Ke sent about an hour ago. Inside is the personal information of the magician, including his family background and all his life experiences before he was imprisoned, including the people and cases he deceived.
Gu Xiyu couldn't help but sighed that Ji Chen and his subordinates were really efficient in handling affairs, and it was understandable that Ji Zixuan's life challenges became more difficult.
A few days later, with the help of Ji Chen, he brought his parents who had not seen or contacted him for a while, and came to the place where the magician was imprisoned.
Gu Xun's leg injury has improved a lot, but he still needs to rely on crutches to walk.
The two of them were taken by him to the place where he visited the prison all the way, and the expressions on their faces were nervous and dazed.
Gu Xun asked him, "Ayu, what did you bring us here for?"
"Meet someone."
As they spoke, a scrawny man was brought in by the prison guards. His black and white hair has grown to his shoulders, and the beard on his face has not been cleaned properly, and he looks very sloppy.
"Who is this?" Xu Caiting and the others didn't recognize the magician, and even frowned in disgust when they saw his appearance.
Gu Xiyu looked at the man with the same inexplicable expression and walked to the other side of the table to sit down, and then replied: "I told you back then that I was destined to be evil, and my parents and my mother, and my brothers and sisters, and my future partners. A hugely wrong fortune teller."
Gu Xun and Xu Caiting were shocked when they heard the words. Their eyes shifted from Gu Xiyu to the sloppy man in custody, and then looked at Gu Xiyu again, with shock and surprise in their eyes.
"He is a professional magician. For nearly 30 years, he has been wandering around the country, swindling and cheating. The total amount of money he has cheated has added up to more than one million. Later, everything was exposed after he was brought to court. Locked up." Gu Xiyu said, and handed the documents that he brought in to Gu Xun and Xu Caiting.
Xu Caiting snatched the information and read it next to Gu Xun. The sound of the paper squeaking became faster and faster, and they believed that the things they had believed for more than 20 years had become an indestructible tower in their lives. It suddenly collapsed in front of them now.
Gu Xun's crutch slipped from his arms, and he could only stumble against the wall to barely support his body. But Xu Caiting didn't have the heart to help him pick up the fallen crutches, so she rushed to the table and patted the table hard, causing the man opposite to startle.
She tried to grab the life-saving straw: "You, do you remember me? Twenty years ago, we met in front of a Taoist temple in City C. I was with two children at the time! You said the one I was holding was among the people. Longfeng, if he can grow up safely, he will definitely be a genius! You also said that the child I am holding in my hand is a celestial star, and if there is anything wrong with our family in the future, he will definitely harm him..."
The magic stick on the other side of the table was stunned for a long time, and said with a slap in the face: "Auntie, if you ask me about something more than 20 years ago, how can I still remember it?"
"Besides, even if it really happened, those words of mine were originally nonsense." Maybe it was because the person had been imprisoned, and his response was frank and arrogant.
"Shen Sha Lone Star's words are false, right? How can there be so many Lone Stars? How could someone take these words seriously?"
"I'm taking it seriously!" She had just finished speaking, but she was frightened by Xu Caiting's increased voice.
She was so angry that her eyes were red, her face was full of inconceivable destruction: "Because of your words, we have believed them for more than 20 years! My son... my eldest son became seriously ill a few years after meeting you. We always felt that it was the fault of our younger son when he passed away. It was his birth that took away that smart and happy child..."
As Xu Caiting spoke, she suddenly squatted on the ground with her face covered, and the ending of the sentence was clearly crying.
Regardless of the presence of other people around her, she cried out like a vent.
The obsession of the past 20 years seems to be broken at this moment, and the layer of net covering her and Gu Xun was ruthlessly torn apart, forcing them to face the cruel truth.
After all, she and Gu Xun just wanted to find someone to blame for that uncomfortable thing. It was because she and Gu Xun didn't take good care of the child that they discovered his serious illness so late, causing him to die in the end. They didn't want to admit that it was their own negligence, and just happened to have the words that the magician said back then, so they found a good excuse for the death of their children and all the failures and failures in their lives.
Thinking so, Xu Caiting looked up at the boy who was only a few steps away from her.
The chandelier hanging on the top of the small room swayed slightly, and the white halo was too dazzling, blurring the face of the tall and thin figure, making her unable to see his appearance clearly.
I don't know why, but the tears that should have been relieved a little, suddenly couldn't stop rushing out of her eyes, bringing an unbearable pain to her heart.
Obviously her child is still alive and standing beside her, and it is too late to make up for the debt to him for those years from now on. But the moment she confirmed the truth from the god stick, she felt a particularly regretful sense of disappointment in her heart.
It was like it was too late. They not only lost their beloved eldest son, but also lost the youngest son who was very caring and sensible when he was a child.
Until Gu Xiyu, Gu Xun and Xu Caiting walked to the parking place outside, the expressions on Gu Xun and Xu Caiting's faces remained sluggish, and they didn't say a word to him on the road. He personally drove them back to their recently rented house, giving them some time to calm down.
Gu Xun and Xu Caiting were sitting in the back seat, occasionally looking up at the boy in the driver's seat, wanting to speak to him, but found that they and him were so unfamiliar that there was nothing to say.
"You can take this card."
When he got home, when Gu Xiyu returned the car keys to them, he handed over the bank card Ji Chen gave him that day.
Facing Gu Xun's stunned gaze, he said softly, "This is the dowry that Ji Chen said to me. There are tens of millions in it, which may not be too much for you, but it should be enough to help ease the company's situation. ."
"You haven't paid much attention to me in these years. Food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all supported by the money I earn, so I couldn't save much. This is the last thing I can give you. No matter how much, there is nothing left."
I don't know which point this sentence touched Xu Caiting again, she covered her mouth again and started to cry.
Gu Xun's face was a lot of vicissitudes after he left the police station. He stared at Gu Xiyu's hand for a long time, and finally only took the car key, pushed the card back and shook his head: "The company... It's no longer in business. I've done a lot of things that can't be put on the table to make money, even if I ask Ji Chen directly for help, I'm afraid I won't be able to recover, I'm already planning to give up."
"Anyway, Ji Chen is also a great person. Although he is perfect, most of the time such people are self-righteous and uncertain. He says that he loves you now, and he may have another love in a few years. ."
"I have seen a lot of big and small people in shopping malls. I have seen too many people and things like that. You keep this money for yourself. If something happens in the future, at least you can have a guarantee."
Gu Xiyu held the card, his eyes lowered and he did not move.
A hand suddenly stretched out from behind him, took the card away and put it into Gu Xun's hand with a strong attitude.
Gu Xiyu was wrapped around his shoulders and carried into a somewhat sturdy arms. Ji Chen's casual voice sounded beside him: "No need, I will keep him for a lifetime."
After seeing the magic stick, Ji Chen sent a message asking him where he was. He said at the time that he would send his parents back first and then take a ride away.
Ji Chen didn't reply to his news later, he didn't expect that he would come to pick him up in person.
Gu Xiyu was picked up by Ji Chen under the noses of Gu Xun and Xu Caiting, and they also stopped by the apartment where they returned after dinner.
Not long after the break, Ji Chen answered the phone and went into the study to continue working until he was about to fall asleep. Only then did Gu Xiyu realize that he might have deliberately dropped his work and came over to pick him up.
The next few days were relatively quiet, Ji Chen was so busy every day that sometimes he stayed at the company and didn't go home. They are preparing for the launch of a new series of products recently. Ji Chen controls everything under Fengming very strictly, and supervises and reviews it himself.
This afternoon, Gu Xiyu was sitting in the living room looking up information when a courier box suddenly arrived at the apartment.
The box is full of debris. Although most of the things are still intact, they still smell a little burnt from the fire. When he opened it, there was a piece of paper inside with writing like Xu Caiting's, saying that these were the items that belonged to his part, which he had collected after the fire in the villa was put out.
Gu Xiyu stood by the box and sorted it out, and found the diary with only the corners of the cover slightly charred, and the rest of the diary intact.
He flipped through it again, and it was full of content related to Fu Nian.
Until he accidentally saw a diary page with a sticker of a small cake.
May 14, 2013 Sunny
Today is Fu Nian's birthday. I managed to persuade my classmates to give him a surprise for this special student...
Gu Xiyu held the diary, and his eyes stayed on the date on it for a long time.
He lightly rubbed his fingers on the diary page a few times, then turned to look at the USB flash drive that was still plugged into the laptop connection port.
He hasn't tried Fu Nian's birthday yet.