The officials and wealthy merchant families in Yanzhou are often more superstitious than elsewhere.

The Wei family is a typical example.

Because the family had run away from marriage, they would ask the Taoist priest to do the calculation. Since then, all the wedding banquets will be held in the villa that the Taoist priest calculated is good for their family. And this behavior is just the tip of the iceberg.

Giving "R.I.P" bone cross earrings to the newlyweds is also a rule unknown to the Wei family. This rule was set earlier than the location of the hotel villa, and its origin is already an ancient legend in the Wei family's own family.

According to legend, around the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the ancestors of the Wei family rescued a girl, the girl was born with blond hair and brown eyes. Her mother was a kiln sister in Xiajiuliu. The biological father never mentioned it, and he was alone with his daughter as a long-term worker in a shop. A few years later, the mother died, the shop where she worked was also poorly managed and insolvent, and the girl was poor and helpless, so she ended up with a grass tag and was sold by the creditor.

The girl was influenced by her mother, believed in Christ Jesus, and liked to listen to the lobbying of missionaries. She was ideologically incompatible with the society at that time.

Such a strange little girl, no big family is willing to buy it as a maid, let alone be a daughter-in-law or fill the house, she will even talk back to the creditor.

One time she talked back too much, and the creditor was so angry that he caught a handful of coals and forced her to swallow it. The girl immediately lost her mouthpiece and was dying. Seeing this, the creditor had no sympathy and thought it was troublesome, so she threw her out and left her to fend for herself.

The ancestor of the Wei family found this girl at this time.

The old ancestor opened a pharmacy and had a very kind heart. At that time, his own son had just suffered from a terminal illness and died, so he could not see such a desolate scene.

The old man took the girl home, treated her, and treated her kindly. However, the girl was seriously injured, and the medical treatment at that time was not developed. Despite the considerate care, the girl was still unable to recover, and she was going to go soon.

Before she died, she begged the ancestors of the Wei family to find her a cross. She said that she wanted to hold the cross and leave this world.

The old ancestor didn't know where to find this foreign thing for a while, but he couldn't bear the girl's last wish to fail, so he made a cross for her with wood. That night, the girl held the cross and looked at it again and again, murmuring a few words silently, and a drop of blood and tears splattered on the cross, and then she passed away.

The old ancestor took pity on her misery and ordered her to be buried alive, but the day before the burial, the old ancestor suddenly had a dream, the dream was very mysterious, he dreamed that the little girl was The snow-white wings came around the auspicious clouds, and told him in a sweet voice like the sound of nature, she came this time to thank the old man for the last care of her, and the old man could bury her bones with the young son of the pharmacy who died early. She can justifiably sympathize with the children who accompany the elderly in another world, the descendants of Fuze.

The ancestors didn't believe it at first, the girl said, when you wake up in the morning, go to my coffin and see, you will see that the wooden cross I hold in my hand has turned into a pure gold cross .

ruby with the three letters R.I.P engraved on it.

This time the old man did not dare to neglect, he immediately dealt with her funeral as instructed by the girl. Since then, the Wei family has risen step by step, and one generation is better than the next. When the ancestor was a hundred years old, he left a will, telling his family not to forget this "angel". He even made a rule that every Wei family girl who married and a bride married into the Wei family must wear the same pure clothes. The golden cross, until the newly married full term, as a tribute to the girl.

Year by year, the wearing form of this cross was gradually fixed, and in six or more years, it was completely determined to be the golden bone R.I.P earrings set with red diamonds, which spread among every Wei family woman. between.

"But Wei Dongheng told me privately that he felt that this story must have been beautified by a certain ancestor." Xie Xue said, "He doesn't believe in any angels and gods, he thinks that R.I.P is a The three letters engraved on it probably mean that the ancestors actually did something wrong. This kind of behavior is not gratitude, but resentment. He even thought that the girl was forcibly matched with bones, or even deliberately killed. He looked through the family tree and saw that during that time, the brides of the Wei family died several times in a row. Perhaps the ancestors felt that the ghost girl was still alive, so he made a golden cross to ward off evil spirits for each bride. It was just for the family's reputation, and for the sake of Not letting the brides be afraid, the Wei family gradually came up with such a beautiful story, hiding the original dark and **** past."

Years of Mysteries and Nightmares.

R.I.P earrings belong to a Wei family woman and a newly married woman.

—This is the true identity of the mysterious man his parents saw before they died!

"Brother, what's wrong with this earring?" After Xie Xue finished explaining, she asked cautiously.

What should Xie Xue do now?

In addition, he has a more chilling conjecture—

He was hit by a car and was seriously injured. It was only thanks to Lao Qin's treatment that he recovered his life.

The people of that organization may not have paid attention to his life or death at first. After all, the chance of saving his life is not high after the car accident hit like that, but later, the organization should have discovered that he was not dead. …In these years, they have not hunted him down, nor have they carried out any arrest and research on him. At first, Xie Qingcheng thought that a small person like himself was really insignificant in their eyes. As long as they did not continue to investigate the truth, that organization would won't notice him.

But if the murderer was the Wei family and Xie Xue married Wei Dongheng, would there be another possibility? In the eyes, it was just for some reason that they never attacked him again. Instead, they chose to target Xie Xue...?

This idea is too chilling, as if stepping down is an abyss, Xie Qingcheng didn't think about it any further.

"Brother?"

"...Nothing, I've seen a similar one before, but now I look closely, and it's not so similar." Xie Qingcheng reluctantly perfunctory Xie Xue, sat down again, and scooped a spoonful of beef soup Give her, "Let's eat."

The two brothers and sisters had their own meals, so neither of them realized how dazed the other was. After the meal, he took advantage of the story and sent Xie Xue to go back first.

After Xie Xue left, Xie Qingcheng took out a cigarette and smoked while sitting on the edge of the bed, thinking about various clues in the past. He tried his best to remain calm, finally coughing and dusting off the soot.

He decided to follow this clue and investigate for himself first.

The investigation this time is very similar to the situation of nineteen years ago, and he has no one to ask for help.

His relationship with Chen Wan is now very awkward.

And Zheng Jingfeng is the kind of rigid character who can never investigate the case for him just by inference.

As for He Yu…

He Yu's hacking skills are very useful, but Xie Qingcheng can no longer contact him, let alone involve him.

Fortunately, Xie Qingcheng is not unable to fight alone. To investigate the loss of R.I.P earrings, you only need to find out exactly which woman in the Wei family was married at that time, and she was in the newlywed period. .

He first ruled out Wei Dongheng's mother. Judging from the birth years of the Wei sisters and brothers, Wei Dongheng's mother married Wei's father long before his parents' car accident. This discovery calmed Xie Qing's anxiety and irritability.

The second breakthrough discovery was made on the Internet.

According to He Yu's past experience of searching for Huang Zhilong Entertainment Company, Xie Qingcheng finally grabbed the portal website information from about twenty years ago from the massive information.

"Wei Mengqiang joined forces, the family got married, and we got a good relationship."

Published just a few months before his parents were killed.

Xie Qingcheng didn't even dare to beat when he first found this information. He immediately moved the cursor and clicked on the link. However-

404.

Zhengmensouhuang.com will feel a blow whenever it encounters this kind of code that indicates that the page no longer exists. Xie Qingcheng had lived for more than 30 years and had never experienced such a blow from a straight man, but at this moment he felt the same.

Not only this one portal website, but all related content on the Internet is a reminder message like this.

Not even the bride and groom's photos and names.

Xie Qingcheng did not give up, at least he had determined that 20 years ago, a Wei family woman was newly married, and she married a wealthy family named Meng.

The information has been mastered to this point, in fact, if you try to use Wei Dongheng, you should be able to directly know who the target is. But Xie Qingcheng was cautious and didn't ask him. He felt that there was still a line to investigate more covertly.

—that private villa in Hangzhou.

Because the Wei family is restricted by family regulations, every wedding banquet is held in the villa. Over the years, the villa has hosted many events for the Wei family. If you ask directly which guardian 20 years ago When the young lady gets married, they will definitely not be able to answer.

However, according to the traces on the Internet, the lady married a "well-matched" bridegroom surnamed Meng, and even made it into the social news at the time, then the scale of the wedding at that time must be not small, enough to give people are impressed.

Xie Qingcheng asked the old waiter in the villa to see if there was anyone who could "the white-haired maid is here, sit and talk about Xuanzong."

After more than half a month, the message came back.

There is actually an old hotel warehouse manager in his fifties, remembering the scene at that time, and telling the information about the pair of golden boys and girls at that time.

"That bride is called Wei Rong, as for the bridegroom...the second son of Meng's enterprise...Oh..." The old administrator pouted when he mentioned this, "I have received With so many distinguished guests, this couple is the most difficult to serve, at that time, they almost made me lose my job..."

According to the old employee, Wei Rong is the weirdest bride he has ever seen. Everyone else is happy to get married, even if someone is not so happy for some reason, at least There will also be a smile on the face, which is considered a lucky draw.

This is not the case with Wei Rong.

On the wedding day, she was picky about the wedding team, and she lost her temper when she wasn't happy.

The old staff prepared several sets of puppet clothes that day, and asked the staff to put them on, and they wanted to distribute candy and colorful **** to the children on site. One of those clothes was Mickey's red shorts. As a result, Wei Rong saw Mickey jumping up and down at the scene, and suddenly became furious and asked who arranged such a doll. Don't she know that she hates red the most?

The wedding team and the hotel are indeed clear about this matter. When the bride is finalizing the wedding plan, she requires all clothes to be Western-style, rejects any red accessories, and never uses red flowers such as red roses. . Everyone did what she wanted, but who knew she couldn't even accept a Mickey doll? The administrator was scolded for this, and Wei Rong asked the hotel to fire him immediately.

Fortunately, the supervisor took pity on his poor family, a wife, children and mother to take care of.

The administrator still stayed in the villa in the end, and Wei Rong's domineering behavior left a deep impression on him. So even if it had been twenty years, he could still remember it clearly.

After Xie Qingcheng got the news, he immediately retrieved the information of Wei Rong and Meng Sheng. This time he found a lot more.

It turned out that the groom Meng Sheng was the third son of Meng's real estate, and he has immigrated abroad to do business in Singapore. Wikipedia has his current photos and information.

It's just that his spouse column is not "Wei Rong", but the name of a foreign woman.

Xie Qingcheng browsed all the information, and there was no mention of Wei Rong in it. It seems that this woman has never appeared in Meng Sheng's life. If it wasn't for Xie Qingcheng's investigation, she must have I think he doesn't know any Ms. Wei Rong at all.

Xie Qingcheng did not give up, he checked Weirong again, this time, although the results on the search engine were few, they were shocking enough.

Because those news are pretty much reporting the same thing—

The daughter of Wei's Group, Wei Rong, died in a car accident.

And the news was released one week after the accident of Xie Qingcheng's parents!