Chapter 205
The rain was still falling. Luo Zhengjun and Lin Shuxing had not returned yet. Lin Shuyue held the computer and watched the documentary that had been edited long ago again and again. After making sure that there was nothing wrong, she sent it to the mailbox of the news department of the national TV station.
After doing all this, she opened Penguin, found Wu Dongyan's message box, and chatted with her.
Wu Dongyan is in a hotel in Yangcheng at this moment.
She arrived in Yangcheng by bus at around 6 or 7 in the afternoon. She had a meal with her local police friends in Yangcheng and returned to the hotel not long ago.
Typing was too tiring and Wu Dongyan was impatient to type, so she just called Lin Shuyue directly.
"Just as you guessed, Zhu Xianjun used to work in a cloth shop in Yangcheng, and so did Liu Xiaojuan's father. The Zhu family has heirlooms, and when Liu Xiaojuan got married, she was said to have a rich dowry. I suspect that those so-called 'heirlooms' and dowry all came from that cloth shop."
"Have you found the owner of the cloth shop in Yangcheng?" The information Wu Dongyan got from her visit was similar to what Lin Shuyue had guessed.
She guessed that Fan Damei, if nothing unexpected happened, was the descendant of the original cloth shop.
"That was in the 1950s. More than 50 years have passed. Guangzhou has changed a lot over the years. There were countless cloth shops in Guangzhou at that time. We need to look for them carefully."
This means that there is no news for the time being. Wu Dongyan is very patient. She has taken annual leave this year, which is a total of one week, so she has time to look for it slowly.
Lin Shuyue wished her all the best, and Wu Dongyan asked Lin Shuyue to observe Fan Damei more.
Lin Shuyue thought of Xing Yueya, who couldn't even speak clearly now, and agreed.
Early the next morning, Lin Shuyue drove to the hot spring resort. She came there on her own and on the orders of her mother.
Lou Fengqin was worried that her aunt Lou and grandmother didn’t bring any clothes, and the temperature suddenly dropped, and she was afraid they would be cold.
This was exactly what Lin Shuyue wanted. When she arrived at the hot spring resort, her grandmother was playing mahjong with others in the activity room. The kind where winnings and losses were 1 cent. If the winnings were big, even if doubled, they would not be more than 50 cents.
My aunt didn't know how to play mahjong, so she just sat on the side and watched without making any noise. If my grandmother needed anything, she would do it for her before she even asked.
The old folks at the card table could no longer hide their envy of her.
"Sister Lu, you are so blessed." My grandmother's family, known as Old Man Li, was particularly envious.
"Yes, it's my blessing to have Ailan." My grandmother's surname is Lu, and her name is Lu Xiangcao.
After arriving at the sanatorium, everyone called each other by their names, which was definitely a very rare thing for Lu Xiangcao.
You have to know that since she married into the Lou family, few people called her by her real name, and most people called her by her generation.
She felt that her grandchildren might have forgotten her name.
After hearing what Old Man Li said, Lu Xiangcao also felt that she was blessed, so she was particularly content. Having a daughter-in-law like this in her old age must have been a blessing from her previous life.
She lived a comfortable life in her later years, her son and daughter-in-law were filial, and her daughter had a rough life in her early years but is fine now. Lu Xiangcao felt that she really had nothing to regret in her life.
So she didn't care about her second son's unfilial behavior and the second daughter-in-law who came to her every now and then to make trouble for her.
"Grandma, are you playing mahjong?" Lin Shuyue walked in carrying clothes.
"We were playing mahjong. Why are you here?" Lu Xiangcao was also very happy to see Lin Shuyue.
She is very kind to all her grandchildren, and Lin Shuyue is no exception. In her memory, every time she went to her grandmother's house, she would receive pocket money secretly given to her by her grandmother.
"The temperature has dropped, and my mom is worried about you and my aunt, so she asked me to bring some clothes to you."
As she was speaking, the aunt had already taken the things from Lin Shuyue's hand.
Lin Shuyue's words again aroused the envy of the elderly people present. They have lived in the nursing home for a long time. No matter whether the weather is sunny or cold, their children and grandchildren have never sent them anything.
"Sister Lu, you have educated your children so well."
"Yes, I have lived in Yunzhou Sanatorium for more than three years. My son and daughter never come to see me unless they need me to spend money." said Lu Xiangcao's next home, an old lady wearing black clothes with gold peony flowers printed on them.
Her hair was permed and the ends were slightly curled. Lin Shuyue heard her grandmother call her Jinxiang.
When Lin Shuyue heard that she had lived in Yunzhou Nursing Home for three years, she immediately became interested: "Grandma, you were also in Yunzhou Nursing Home before? I heard from my grandmother's housekeeper yesterday that they hired a very good nurse from Yunzhou Nursing Home."
"You are talking about Xiao Fan, right?" Grandma Jinxiang said with a clear look on her face: "Xiao Fan is the best nurse in Yunzhou Nursing Home. There are people lining up in Yunzhou Nursing Home who want her to take care of them."
"But my coming here has nothing to do with Xiao Fan. Yunzhou Nursing Home was fine a few years ago, but in the past two years, there have been too many advertisements and too many people have been admitted, including the elderly and children."
"I have migraines and I am afraid of noise, so when I saw that they wanted to take in more people, even two people to a room, I ran away."
"Although this villa has just been built, it has a good environment, not many people, and is large. I quite like it here." Jin Xiang is very satisfied with the hot spring resort. When talking about the two sanatoriums, she couldn't help but compare them more.
"When I was in Yunzhou before, although I also had three meals a day, most of the snacks there were bought from outside, such as steamed buns and steamed bread, which I don't like very much. I like lighter food. I have lived here for two months, and this afternoon snack has never made me feel bad."
“Although there are steamed buns, they are all made in the kitchen. You can tell whether they are good or fresh at a glance.”
Grandma Jinxiang's words were recognized by everyone, and everyone talked about their good impressions of the hot spring resort.
A nurse brought tea, which was brewed according to each person's physical condition and taste. Lu Xiangcao's was chrysanthemum and monk fruit.
These past two days, she always felt a little uncomfortable in her throat after waking up. After her aunt told the housekeeper about this, she changed her tea to monk fruit tea.
After they finished chatting, Lin Shuyue asked about Xing Yueya seemingly unintentionally.
"I heard that the old man that Care Worker Fan is taking care of also came here with her? Her family also agreed?"
Jinxiang and her friends had already finished a game of mahjong. They pushed the cards aside and started building the Great Wall again.
"Yes, Xing Yueya, everyone knows her. When she was young, she joined the army and became a member of the art troupe. She was the lead dancer at the time, and there were a lot of men who liked her."
"In the end, she married a regiment leader at the time. Later, the regiment leader transferred to the local area and joined the transportation system. When her husband retired, he was already the head of Guangzhou's transportation system."
"Her husband had been gone for two or three years. A year after her husband passed away, she also had a stroke. After staying in the hospital for two years, she went into a nursing home."
"How do you know so clearly?" asked Lu Xiangcao's boss, Old Man Li.
"It's a coincidence, isn't it? My short-lived man and her man are from the same system. She and I are old acquaintances, but we don't like each other." Grandma Jinxiang was in a good mood today. It was rare for her to have a girl as old as Lin Shuyue in front of her. Once she started talking, she couldn't stop.
"Xing Yueya is a proud woman who looks down on others and doesn't know what's good for her. Sometimes she does something wrong, like when she was in the family compound, she couldn't grow vegetables well. She refused to learn when others taught her, and even blamed them for pretending to know."
"No one wants to be with her. She has few friends and people always talk about her behind her back."
Lin Shuyue took a sip of tea and asked, "Has she never had any friends?"
"Not really. I heard that she had a friend when she was in the art troupe.
She said that the girl lived in the same dormitory with her and they were inseparable. She said rude things and did rude things, but the girl didn't say anything.
"But the girl was unlucky. When she was out, she was dragged away by a gangster, who also reported the incident to the army."
"It was only the 1960s, when the importance of gender segregation was at its highest. Once her story came out, it had a huge impact on her work and life."
"That girl lost her chance to lead the dance, and because of her conduct, she couldn't stay in the army. It is said that she married the gangster who forced her to dance."
After Grandma Jinxiang finished speaking, she lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the girl was more talented than Xing Yueya in both dancing talent and popularity. The position of lead dancer was originally intended to be given to that girl. But after something happened to that girl, it was Xing Yueya's turn."
"As for Xing Yueya, it is said that the leader of the army was planning to introduce the girl to him, but after this incident, it was Xing Yueya who was chosen instead."
Grandma Jinxiang's voice was not small, and it happened to be the activity time, so Fan Damei pushed Xing Yueya over. They just happened to hear the second half of what Grandma Jinxiang said.
Lin Shuyue was sitting facing the door, and she saw anger, unwillingness, and guilt flash across Xing Yueya's face.
Looking at Fan Damei again, she lowered her head and hid all emotions in her eyes as early as when Grandma Jinxiang talked about Xing Yueya’s young friend.
Lin Shuyue retracted her gaze: "Grandma, do you know the name of that girl?"
"Yes, her name is Fan Hongzhuang. Because of this special name, I remembered it the moment I heard it. Fan Hongzhuang had a hard life. In her early years, her family background was not good. She was the daughter of Shengyuan Cloth Shop in Yangcheng. During the land reform years, her family was rated as rich peasants."
"Her aunt remarried and took her with her. She used a lot of connections to get her into the army and became a member of the art troupe. She originally thought that she could change her fate, but then something like that happened again."
"According to my husband, many people in the army wanted to beat up that thug. She herself died young. She passed away a few years after giving birth to her daughter."
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