Li Weimin saw how kind she was to others and never imagined that she was Bao Gaoyuan's mother. How could she have raised such a scum?
He opened and closed his mouth, almost unable to hold back from telling her about the good things Bao Gaoyuan had done, but he was afraid that she was too old and would faint from hearing it.
"No need, I'll leave as soon as I find the thing," Li Weimin was afraid of saying too much to her, so he told her everything without restraint.
"Hey, you came all the way here, and I don't have anything to treat you." The mother-in-law said self-reproachfully.
"It's nothing, I didn't bring any gifts, don't be sad."
"You're helping my child get something. You've already finished get off work, but we're still bothering you to make this trip. We owe you."
Li Weimin was almost embarrassed. He was clearly here to deceive her, but how could he act like he was helping her a lot?
Without talking to her much, he started searching the house where they had lived for many years. She didn't know what Bao Gaoyuan had hidden, so she could only search.
He didn't eat too much, but it was enough for him. He rummaged through the wardrobe and kitchen cabinets. The old cabinet doors had to be fastened with a chopstick, otherwise they could not be closed.
There were only a few benches in the main room, and I didn't know how they ate.
Seeing how anxious he was, his mother-in-law also helped him to search, searching east and west, west and south. When she had finished searching, Li Weimin looked up and saw that it was the chair used to commemorate his family members.
There is no other place except this place. The person on the altar looks very young, only about thirty years old. Bao Gaoyuan's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to him. I don't know why he passed away so young.
The mother-in-law looked at the photo from afar, tears flashed in her eyes, she missed him.
The mother-in-law wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "I'm sorry to make you laugh. He was my man and he has been gone for more than 20 years."
Li Weimin sighed: "It's not easy for you either!"
But he had searched everywhere and would not leave until he had seen this place. "Can I take a look at this photo?"
"You think the thing is in here? Come over here, this is his father's portrait." There was something else he didn't say. Ever since his father passed away, he stopped studying and spent his days hanging out with those hooligans. He lost all his family's money playing cards and even sold his father's ranking table, so now there is only a chair left. How could he tell such a thing to outsiders?
Later, she used all her belongings to pay off her debts. He promised again and again that he would never fight again. Every time, those bad friends would come to him and he would not listen. They said that she should just ignore him. She was so scared by the debt collectors who came to her house during the day that she didn't dare to open the door. People often came to bang on the door in the middle of the night and threw stones to smash the windows to pieces. It was hot now, so she could still get by, but it was hard to say whether she could survive in the winter.
His father died in the line of duty, and the higher-ups gave him an office vacancy, so Bao Gaoyuan took it. However, the monthly salary he gave her was only enough for half a month's food, and the rest of the money was spent on playing cards. She lived in the city and had no land, so she could only make a living by digging some soil from rotten barrels picked up from the garbage dump outside and growing vegetables.
"I think it's in here. He told me it's in a place that's hard to find. I want to take a look." He didn't want to miss a corner. It's not that he hadn't thought about carrying it with him, but this thing concerns his life. He shouldn't take it out casually. It's best to put it in a place that will not move and is safe.
It must be there.
"Please open it, don't damage the photo." She only had that one photo of him. In the years since he left, many people had advised her to remarry, but she was worried about her children. As soon as she walked in and saw his photo, she thought of him still with her.
"Okay, I'll be gentle. Don't worry, you can see me doing it from the side." Li Weimin carefully took down the frame. Although it was dead, the outside of the frame was still kept clean, which showed that someone was cleaning it regularly.
The photo has become a little yellowed, and the edges of the photo paper are a little mottled, turning into small pieces. When the support frame is removed from the back, many flat strips of paper fall out.
Li Weimin took out one and looked at it. He could vaguely make out the time and address. Their correspondence was all recorded on it, but he didn't quite understand the rest. He had forgotten all the words he had learned. Now let's see how Bao Gaoyuan can argue.
My mother-in-law was shocked to see so many papers falling out of it. When did he put it there? She never opened it when she cleaned. Usually everyone avoided this memorial tablet, so no one noticed anything. In fact, the photo had been stuffed in and was bulging forward.
Grandma picked up the paper that had fallen on the ground and asked, "What's written on it? Why are there so many numbers?"
Li Weimin couldn't bear to tell her that the words on it were evidence of his son's betrayal of the organization. "They were pay slips. They were trying to verify whether the amount of salary paid in the past few years matched."
Li Weimin suddenly remembered that their village would ask Accountant Hu to check the public grain payment at the end of each year to prevent any mistakes, so it was reasonable to bring this into the equation.
Grandma pointed at a string of numbers on the ground and asked, "Why are there so many zero-pack eggs on this piece of paper?"
"Don't look at that. Just look at the last zero and the one before it. You see it's ten dollars."
When the mother-in-law heard what he said, she didn't understand and chose to believe him, as long as Bao Gaoyuan was fine.
Grandma picked up the papers on the ground, weighed them one by one, and put them in his hands. "Look, this is how it is. Keep these and don't give them to anyone else."
Li Weimin put it in his pocket and promised her.
"Let's eat something before we go?"
"No, I'm full."
Seeing that he was about to leave, the mother-in-law called him back: "Hey, tell Gao Yuan to come back soon after work. Mom is waiting for him!"
Li Weimin: "Okay, I'll definitely bring it to you."
Li Weimin walked for a while and looked back, and found that she was still standing there, like a stone sculpture, waiting for her family who had left to come back.
He didn't dare to think about what would happen if she knew that the child she had been waiting for to come home had done such a bad thing. She had just been coughing from time to time, and he was afraid that she would fall down if he wasn't paying attention.
His eyes were inexplicably moist. He wondered if Fang Guihua was also waiting for them to come home like this. It had been so long, they must be worried.
He had to deal with this matter first. Today was the day when the results were announced. If he didn't do it well, he believed he would be scolded when he got home.
He remembered the way he came and ran like the wind. Even the hot wind could not stop him. He ran as fast as he could, holding the note in his pocket.
It took about ten minutes to reach Zhou Qiaoqiao's house. Li Weiguo took two breaths and raised his hand to knock on the door.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Tian Xiaolan had already heard Li Weimin's panting, so she opened the door and pulled him in.
"Did you find it?"
"Sister, I found it." Li Weimin's hands were hot and sweaty. He wiped the sweat on his clothes and was about to take out the note from his bag.
Tian Xiaolan shouted urgently: "Don't move, I'll do it!"
He touched it with his wet hands and found that the paper was completely worn out. How could they prove that Bao Gaoyuan was an undercover agent?
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