Chapter 76 Chapter 76
After breakfast, Tu Lanxun and N prepared to visit Sonia’s home.
Suo Fanhua lives in a village in the city, which is quite far from the development zone. It takes 50 minutes to drive there, even if there is no traffic jam.
According to N, when he was working at Tianguo Group, he had a few encounters with Suo Dafu, a security guard at the Blue Ocean Warehouse. Tu Lanxun nodded, wondering what this ghost was trying to hide.
Li Ao had already sent a message that the identities of the visitors to Ji Jingyan's villa seven years ago were difficult to verify, but combined with the clues provided by the community security guards and nearby neighbors, there were about four visitors who frequently came to the villa during that period.
The first one's appearance matches Hu Haisheng, the second one's description is very similar to the legendary Morning Glory, the third one is Ji Jingyan's cousin, and only the fourth person has never been found.
It's said that this person always wore a sharp black suit, with a black turtleneck underneath. He had long legs, a half-smile on his face, and beautiful eyes. Oh, and he always wore gloves, even in the hottest weather.
The last description was provided by a middle-aged neighbor. She said that the boy looked talented and she wanted to introduce her single niece to him, but before she could even open her mouth, she was forced to end the conversation due to Ji Jingyan's death.
Now that niece's children are old enough to go to kindergarten.
Black clothes, high collar, beautiful eyes, and gloves.
Tu Lanxun looked at N again.
Tsk.
"Actually, that niece is quite lucky, haha." Tu Lanxun said this, and quickly turned his head before N's eyes pierced him, concentrating on steering.
After driving a little further, she continued to ask, "What were you doing at Ji Jingyan's villa?"
N downplayed it: "Some internal matters." He then emphasized: "Some internal matters that have nothing to do with his death."
Whenever the topic of N working for the Tianguo Group came up, he never said a word. Tu Lanxun guessed that it was not a good experience.
"Hey, that Teacher Nie, is he also from Tianguo Group?" Tu Lanxun thought of the out-of-date singer wearing cheongsam.
N doesn't hesitate to share other people's gossip: "She is the girlfriend of the guy above."
She is not the kind of girlfriend you choose for a short-term partner, but a real girlfriend you have been dating for more than ten years. She has a wide range of connections and a position in the group. She serves as one of the boss's countless right-hand men. All she needs to become the boss's sister-in-law is a marriage certificate.
But Tu Lanxun had already known what would happen to Teacher Nie in the future.
From what he said before, Teacher Nie had promoted N, but later they seemed to have stabbed each other in the back.
Tu Lanxun had a good memory: "What happened to her sister?"
"I don't know for sure." N said, "Teacher Nie has a younger sister who is much older than her. She got lost when she was little and has never been found. She has been searching for her family for a long time."
Oh, so Teacher Nie is willing to help N, perhaps because he feels sympathy for N who is also unable to find his family.
But why did N find Teacher Nie's sister later but not tell her? Was it because of the boss's instructions, or was it revenge for the conflict of interests?
N didn’t feel any guilt: “When she found it, she knew it was no longer any good for her.”
With a sigh, the silver-gray Jetta arrived at the edge of the urban village. It was difficult to park here, so Tu Lanxun parked the car in the parking lot of a nearby old park, and the two walked over.
Passing through dense crowds of electric vehicles and bicycles, lowering your head to avoid hanging electric wires, cement gray is the main color here, and the blue-painted xun keeps brushing past the gray crowd.
Further ahead, there were clusters of small shops, including a stall selling powdered milk tea drinks. Among them, a wonton shop was the busiest.
Tu Lanxun and N walked in and almost tripped over the crowded tables and chairs. Past the greasy wooden tables and stainless steel round stools, they saw a woman in an apron and sleeves sitting behind the innermost table, busy peeling a basket of shallots.
Ask for flowers.
"Hello, are you Ms. Suo Fanhua?" Tu Lanxun spoke.
Suo Fanhua was stunned for a moment, seemingly unaccustomed to being called by her full name. She stared blankly at Tu Lanxun, wondering when she had known him. A long moment passed, until a chubby young man emerged from the kitchen, speaking with a foreign accent and saying, "Sister Hua, what's going on? Is someone causing trouble?"
"No... no." Suo Fanhua said subconsciously. In fact, Tu Lanxun was the only one standing at the door. No one thought that the young girl was here to cause trouble. "Maybe I recognized the wrong person."
Tu Lanxun could see that Suo Fanhua was not the outgoing and cheerful type. On the contrary, she was very taciturn. She did not say a word until Tu Lanxun started by saying, "I am Suo Niya's friend" and pulled Suo Fanhua to the corner outside the store.
The fat guy in the kitchen was a nice guy. He was holding a knife and glancing out warily from time to time.
"I want to talk to you about Sonia." Tu Lanxun repeated.
Suo Fanhua seemed to be provoked by something and turned around suddenly: "No, I have nothing to say to the reporter."
"I'm not a reporter." Tu Lanxun smiled. "Sonya came back more than six years ago, right?"
If Tu Lanxun were a reporter, he wouldn't have forgotten that Sonia died nearly eight years ago. Sonia's anniversary had already passed six years ago, so anyone who could bring her back could only be a ghost.
Suo Fanhua froze in mid-air, and her exposed body movements told Tu Lanxun that she had seen Suoniya and a ghost.
Tu Lanxun said: "I know she was still there some time ago."
Suo Fanhua's movements became more agile. She wanted to cover Tu Lanxun's mouth, raised her hand and lowered it again, rubbing the red onion skin sticky on her fingertips, "Don't say it, don't say it!"
Then, Suo Fanhua started to make up her mind. She turned around, strode into the store, and shouted, "Xiao Ning, I'm going out for a while. My relatives are coming to visit me. Just hold on for half an hour and I'll be back."
The short and fat boy nodded and agreed.
Suo Fanhua lived in a village in the city. She took Tu Lanxun and walked around in circles, passing through the messy electric poles like insect legs and the old houses stacked like cheap building blocks, and finally came to a shabby little second floor surrounded by greenery.
The small second floor is gray, and there are probably more than ten families living there because of the crowds. The corridor is filled with shoe racks and unused pots and pans, just like the broken willow trees outside, which seem to have grown randomly.
Suo Fanhua took out the key and opened the innermost narrow iron door. When she opened the door, she saw a colorful curtain made of even pieces of snack packaging bags and paper clips.
She wore a pair of crystal sandals that made a clacking sound, and gave Tu Lanxun another pair with pompoms on the toes. They looked like high-end items and should have been left by Suo Niya. After the Suo family became penniless again, she moved in here with Suo Fanhua.
Tu Lanxun sat down, thanked Suo Fanhua for the water, and said, "I want to know, when was the last time Suoniya came back?"
"You, you can also see ghosts?" Suo Fanhua answered irrelevantly. She stared at Tu Lanxun, "What is your purpose in coming to see me?"
Tu Lanxun took the excuse of drinking water to look at N. N shook his head twice, once to indicate that the water was fine, and the second time to mean: Sonia is not here.
"Sonia's death aura is very faint. She must have been gone for a long time. But because her obsession is tied to Suo Fanhua, I can sense it a little bit." N said.
Tu Lanxun said, "We knew each other before. Have you heard of the name Bi Hai Chao Sheng?"
Suo Fanhua shook her head in fear.
She continued, "What about Blue Ocean Transport?"
Suo Fanhua's face froze.
"You and Dafu know each other?" Suo Fanhua's eyes swept over Tu Lanxun's face, estimating her age. She found out that she was only a middle school student six or eight years ago, so she didn't run away. But she didn't let her guard down either. "Who are you?"
Tu Lanxun smiled and said, "Bi Hai Chao Sheng and Lan Hai Transport Company have the same behind-the-scenes manipulator, his name is Hu Haisheng. To you, I should be the opposite of Hu Haisheng."
The name Hu Haisheng gained Suo Fanhua's trust. She murmured, "When Yaya came back, she told me to stay away from people named Hu Haisheng, and especially not to go to the old industrial area..."
"Where's your brother?" Tu Lanxun interrupted at the right moment. "Why is he working at the Blue Ocean Transport Company?"
Suo Fanhua said: "I don't know, he just suddenly found a job one day and said he wanted to turn over a new leaf... Dafu couldn't see Yaya, I was the only one who knew that Yaya was back..."
It is very clear that Suoniya asked her adoptive mother not to provoke Hu Haisheng's gang, but at the same time, she pushed Suo Dafu into Hu Haisheng's sphere of influence without telling her adoptive mother, and instructed the latter to blackmail Hu Haisheng.
No, it is also possible that Suo Niya just asked Suo Dafu to continue to inquire about the information and report Hu Haisheng, but the greedy Suo Dafu wanted to use the evidence to exchange for economic benefits, so the conversation in Shang K took place.
"When did Sonya start coming back? How often? Did she say anything else?"
A series of questions aroused Suo Fanhua's vigilance, but Tu Lanxun's next words dispelled her hostility: "Soniya has disappeared recently, right? Her ghost hasn't come to see you for a while."
Suo Fanhua sat up straight: "Yes!"
Sonia died eight years ago from a sudden heart attack. She was originally an abandoned baby girl because of heart problems, otherwise it would not have been Suo Fanhua's turn to adopt her.
But seven years ago, Sonia, who had been dead for a year, suddenly came back.
"She's become very... very like a fairy from a TV show..." Suo Fanhua described the humpback whale's tail, which was beyond her imagination. "I thought Yaya had returned to heaven to become a fairy... and came back to see me... During the years when I adopted Yaya, the neighbors said she was pretty, but she was always sick. Maybe she was a virgin maiden under the goddess, sent down to earth to experience hardships..."
When the word "tribulation" was mentioned, Suo Fanhua covered her face.
When an old man says that a person is destined to be a boy and has come to earth to experience hardships, he is implicitly saying that this person has a short life and will not live long.
But Tu Lanxun knew that Sonia's death was not an accident.
The half-human, half-fish Sonia, who had returned, settled down at Suo Fanhua's house again. More accurately, she was like a day student, staying for two days every two weeks. She gave Suo Fanhua some money she'd gotten from somewhere, just in time to avoid Suo Dafu's return home.
Suo Fanhua smiled faintly: "It was really good back then. I could see my Yaya every few days, cook for her, and talk to her..."
"Did Sonia say where she was going when she left last time?" Tu Lanxun asked.
Suo Fanhua replied: "That happened eight months ago. I don't know anything about it. She just said that she encountered a little trouble and had to leave Lucheng to deal with it..."
Eight months ago, the time coincided with Sonia's last visit to the rising tide of the blue sea. Xianyu Qingyun hadn't lied.
Tu Lanxun was suddenly startled. She remembered another sentence Xianyu Qingyun said.
——All the transformed mermaid souls that are sold have only about five years of life left.
Sonia was sold seven years ago.
How did she survive to this day?
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