Just as they had expected, He Yongning's house was surrounded by weeds in front, the windows were broken at some point, and the inside was a complete mess... Cen Yu glanced at He Yongning, who seemed to have a bit of a cleanliness obsession, and figured that the other person definitely didn't want to go in.

Unexpectedly, He Yongning pushed open the door of the old house without any hesitation.

—It was only after pushing that I discovered that the door was ajar and not locked at all.

"You didn't lock it?" Cen Yu looked at He Yongning beside him. He felt that his hammer was useless. He had originally wanted to break down the door for He Yongning.

He Yongning glanced at his palm. "I forgot."

This is obviously a lie. Who wouldn't lock their door when they go on a long trip? In fact, He Yongning had almost forgotten why he never wanted to return to his hometown. It was as if a voice in his heart told him, "Don't come back," the moment he carried his luggage to register for university that day.

He pushed open the door but didn't go in immediately. Instead, he walked around the house to look at the stream behind it... Over the years, the stream had become a ditch, with crops planted by others on both sides. If it weren't for the fact that He Yongning's house was impossible to demolish, it would probably have become farmland long ago.

Cen Yu carefully recalled the plot of the novel.

The description of He Yongning is very limited. It only mentions that he is Pei Hengyun's high school classmate and the boss of the platform where Cen Yu works. He is calm and collected, and even when the "ghost kills people", he is still analyzing the reasons.

It's hard to imagine such a person playing any "four-corner game".

Cen Yu didn't understand why He Yongning was standing by that ditch in deep thought. "What are you looking at?"

“This used to be a river,” He Yongning explained as Cen Yu approached him.

He pointed to the stream in front of him, "It was four or five times wider than it is now. Back then, there were fewer recreational activities... When we were on summer vacation, we would catch some small fish and shrimp here."

Cen Yu pondered the possible participants for the game, "...Pei Hengyun? Or Jiang Tuan and Yu Sheng?"

He Yongning's memory was faint, but he knew it was neither Pei Hengyun nor any other two people.

He is now quite clear about it—

Pei Hengyun was definitely not his classmate.

He didn't tell Cen Yu about this, but after glancing at Xiao Xi again, he said to Cen Yu, "Go check the room."

...

Clearly, He Yongning's house had been ransacked while he was away.

The bedroom was especially messy, with hardly any room to step. Cen Yu clicked his tongue in amazement, "Did they come to rob your house?"

He watched as He Yongning made a clear decision and headed directly towards a spot in his bedroom.

He dodged the debris on the ground, avoided the cobwebs, and followed He Yongning to the corner where he found his desk.

Of course, that was also overturned.

The contents were scattered all over the floor.

If Cen Yu were to describe it, the mess inside didn't look like a burglary, but rather like it had been swept by a small tornado... He Yongning squatted down in Cen Yu's sight and picked up some notebooks and homework from back then.

Of course, there are also the books from back then.

Just like the impression given by He Yongning's desk, there were no extra writings on these books and assignments.

Cen Yu watched as He Yongning picked up his books scattered on the ground one by one. Just when he thought the other party was going to take back his large apartment to reminisce about the past and use it as a meeting for his employees to encourage them to work hard, he saw He Yongning open the inner compartment of one of the Chinese textbooks.

Then a photo was pulled out from it.

“…?” Cen Yu leaned closer to look.

However, it was discovered that the group photo had been torn in half, and the remaining half showed Yu Sheng and He Yongning themselves.

He looked up at He Yongning, "What about the other half?"

Holding the group photo, He Yongning vaguely remembered that in the year he graduated from high school, there happened to be a teacher who came to teach in a rural area. That person brought a Polaroid camera... He glanced at the certificates in Yu Sheng's and his own hands in the photo and vaguely remembered that it seemed that the teacher said he wanted to take a photo of them as a memento because they had just won an award.

Yu Sheng pulled his deskmate, while He Yongning pulled his own deskmate.

I imagine that the remaining half of the photo contains Jiang Tuan and the other person.

"Because he only had two sheets of photographic paper left, he could only take two photos," He Yongning said.

At the time, they didn't have any major taboos. Thinking that the opportunity was rare, they only took two identical photos, and each person only took half.

Therefore, Jiang Tuan must also have a copy of the remaining half of this photo.

Cen Yu keenly noticed that He Yongning had not mentioned Pei Hengyun's name at all from the beginning, and when it came to the ownership of the remaining photos, he only said that Jiang Tuan must have them.

Given He Yongning's personality, the other party should have mentioned "Pei Hengyun and Jiang Tuan" at all, but now they deliberately omitted the existence of one of them... Cen Yu's phone vibrated at this moment. He opened it and found that it was a message from Xiao Le.

[Xiao Le: Just woke up, what's up, Brother Cen?]

While smoking in the yard, Cen Yu sent Xiao Le a message, simply asking her to reply after she woke up.

Seeing that Xiao Le had woken up, Cen Yu immediately sent her the message about the task he had asked her to do.

Then he put his phone back in his pocket.

Seemingly having found what he wanted, He Yongning decided to go back first. He left the old house, and Cen Yu followed behind him.

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