When everyone dispersed, everything returned to peace. Chen Aiguo silently cleaned up the mess left by the villagers. Zhang Yang returned to the room and saw Jishan chanting sutras and salvation again. Qiao Mengyuan sat next to her mother, her eyes full of sadness and fear. She had been tortured by this huge sadness and bruises all over her body.

Zhang Yang patted her shoulder gently, Qiao Mengyuan turned her head and glanced at him, with a little comfort in her eyes.

Zhang Yang knew that Qiao Mengyuan had not eaten for a whole day, so he found Chen Aiguo, put down vegetarian noodles in his kitchen, delivered a bowl to Monk Jishan, and handed it to Qiao Mengyuan. Qiao Mengyuan shook her head and said, "I don't want to eat it."

Zhang Yang said: "Since things have happened, we have to face reality. No matter how long the road ahead is, I will accompany you."

Qiao Mengyuan's lips moved, and she suddenly had the urge to shed tears, but she couldn't shed, and the tears had already dried up.

Zhang Yang was also hungry for a day. When he returned to the kitchen, Chen Aiguo fried a bowl of chili fried meat, put it on the stove, waved to Zhang Yang and said, "Come on, let's have something together."

Zhang Yang was holding the bowl of noodles that Qiao Mengyuan had not eaten in his hand, and came to the stove to eat noodles with Chen Aiguo. Neither of them spoke. After a while, they ate the noodles completely. Zhang Yang served another bowl. He was indeed a little hungry today.

After dinner, Chen Aiguo put the empty bowl aside, took out a piece of paper, took out the tobacco, skillfully rolled a cigarette roll, put it in his mouth and lit it, and took a hard breath.

Zhang Yang looked at the scars on his face and said a little apologetically: "Principal Chen, I'm sorry, I've implicated you today."

Chen Aiguodao: "It's nothing, I just scratched my skin."

Zhang Yang also finished the meal and placed the empty bowl on the stove.

Chen Aiguodao: "Do you smoke?"

Zhang Yang shook his head: "Smoking is harmful to health!"

Chen Aiguo smiled and said, "It's good for young people not to smoke. I've been smoking for most of my life and can't let it go."

Zhang Yang said: "Actually, why did you insist on staying if you could choose to return to the city?" This is something that he had been puzzled by.

Chen Aiguo looked at Zhang Yang and said, "I have always been wondering why a young man like you is so concerned about our affairs back then. You are actually Zhang Jiefang's son."

Zhang Yang said: "I don't have a slight impression of this father."

Chen Aiguodao: "When we were in the lineup, your father was still a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. He was curious about everything outside. He liked to communicate with our educated youth and was very yearning for things in the city. He was considered a figure in the village."

"How do you say it?" Zhang Daren heard that Chen Aiguo's evaluation of his father did not have much praise.

Chen Aiguodao: "He is famous for being good at fighting and has a bad temper. No one among his peers in Xiaoshiwa Village was afraid of him. But he is very good to us educated youth."

Zhang Yang nodded. His impression of this father he had never seen before began to become clearer.

Chen Aiguodao: "Xiaoshiwa Village is located in a remote area, and there are only eight educated youths who come here to work in the countryside. I have some impression of the lady you carried..."

Zhang Yang's eyes lit up, and Chen Aiguo was finally willing to gossip about the old things.

Chen Aiguo took out a photo from his pocket. The photo was a group photo. Zhang Yang also had it, but his photo was far less clear than Chen Aiguo. Chen Aiguo pointed to the photo and said, "Xu Changde, Dong Dezhi, Shen Liangyu, Wang Junyao, me, Chen Tianzhong..."

Zhang Yang secretly sighed in his heart that all the six people had been found out. Except for Wang Junyao, who might have hidden his identities and Chen Aiguo in front of him, everyone else was dead.

Chen Aiguo pointed to the shortest man next to him and said, "His name is Min Gang. He died the earliest, so he buried it on the soil back. A heavy rain. The mudslide in Xiaoshiwa Village buried him, and it was already dead after it was dug out."

Zhang Daguanren said that another one had died, and it seemed that Xiaoshiwa Village was really a fierce land. His eyes returned to the middle of the photo, the person standing side by side with Chen Tianzhong.

Chen Aiguodao: "His name is Xiao Mingxuan, and he is the most talented among us. The person you carved today, if I remember correctly, I should have come to him in the past. I heard that he was his partner. I remember that the woman had been here twice. Xiao Mingxuan was very cold to her, and later she left crying once."

Official Zhang stared at Xiao Mingxuan in the photo. He always felt that the person's expression was a little familiar, but his face and outline were so strange.

Chen Aiguodao: "I've told you everything I know about the past."

Zhang Yang nodded: "Thank you!"

Chen Aiguodao: "That lady chose to jump off the cliff from Xishan Temple. I don't think she has let go of what happened decades ago." He sighed and said, "Those days left too deep the shadow in our hearts, I don't want to mention it again!"

Zhang Yang was still staring at Xiao Mingxuan in the photo. From his appearance, he had never seen this person before, but why did he feel familiar? Among the eight people, this person was the most calm and calm one. This calm and calmness was quite rare in such an era. A group of young people in adversity, a group of young people whose fate suddenly changed. Not many people could maintain this calmness under the huge gap. Xu Changde couldn't do it. His face was full of frustration, and Chen Tianzhong looked unhappy. Although everyone was laughing and most people were melancholy, only Xiao Mingxuan smiled so calmly. For some reason, Zhang Yang suddenly thought of someone, Xiao Guocheng! Although Xiao Mingxuan's appearance was completely different from Xiao Guocheng, they also had a calm and calm smile.

Official Zhang shook his head, there would be no such coincidence in this world, right?

Chen Aiguo saw his expression and said in surprise: "What did you remember?"

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Nothing!"

Back to Qiao Mengyuan, Jishan had just had a meal. Zhang Yang quietly called him outside the door. When night fell, the weather had recovered and clear. Zhang Yang handed the photo to Jishan and pointed to Xiao Mingxuan in the middle and said, "Master, do you remember this person?"

Jishan nodded and said, "He is the educated youth who often came to the temple back then. By the way, he brought the female donor here..."

Zhang Yang can already confirm that Meng Chuanmei and Xiao Mingxuan had a relationship. This relationship began before Qiao Zhenliang. Because of that special period, Meng Chuanmei and Xiao Mingxuan's relationship ended without success and did not end up in the end. After the two separated, Meng Chuanmei met Qiao Zhenliang, married him, and gave birth to Qiao Pengju for him. Just when Meng Chuanmei was content with this kind of life, she met Xiao Mingxuan several years later. Their old relationship rekindled and ultimately failed to control herself well. She took a wrong step. Meng Chuanmei had a secret marriage and became pregnant with a daughter who did not belong to Qiao Zhenliang, Qiao Mengyuan. Of course, all this originated from the speculation of Zhang Daren. Meng Chuanmei was dead. What she left to Qiao Zhenliang was humiliated for life, and what she left to Qiao Mengyuan was endless pain. All signs showed that Qiao Mengyuan had already known that she was not the secret of the Qiao family.

Official Zhang secretly sighed, why are things in this world so complicated?

When Jishan saw Zhang Yang dazed and couldn't help calling him, "Donor Zhang, Donor Zhang!"

Zhang Yang then returned to reality. He smiled and said, "Master, I have a reluctant request."

Jishan nodded and said, "Please tell me, Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Yang said: "Can you not mention these things that the master told me today to others?"

Ji Shan said: "Don't worry, don't worry, I won't mention these things to anyone."

Zhang Yang said again: "Master, I want to ask you something, what kind of person was my father Zhang Jiefang back then?"

Ji Shan thought about it, but did not directly evaluate Zhang Jiefang, and whispered: "That group of people came to burn Xishan Temple back then, and your father was the one who took the lead."

Zhang Daren smiled awkwardly. It seemed that his father was indeed not a good person.

Jishan remembered another thing: "By the way, someone donated a sum of money to our Xishan Temple this time to repair the temple. I suspect that the donor may be the educated youth from that year."

Zhang Yang's eyebrows moved, which is a good entry point. As long as you investigate the origin of the donation, you can naturally follow the clues to find out who Xiao Mingxuan is.

Zhang Yang did not wait until the next day to go to his father's grave to worship. He was not superstitious or believed in any theory of ghosts and gods. He asked Chen Aiguo about the location of his father's grave. That night, he went to the ground in the dark and brought a bottle of wine, which spilled it in front of his father's grave.

Everyone is dead. No matter whether Zhang Jiefang was good or evil, everything has turned into a passing cloud. Zhang Daguanren said in front of his father's grave: "Dad, Dad, you didn't do much good things when you were alive. He helped Xu Changde help the evil, raped Shen Jingxian and gave birth to Su Yuanyuan. These things are all great bad things that are unscrupulous. As a son, he is embarrassed to say that you have knowledge in the spring, so you should have a good review."

Zhang Jiefang has been dead for many years, so naturally he will not hear his son's voice.

Zhang Yang took advantage of the moonlight to clean up the weeds on the grave and gave him a few handfuls of new soil. His father did bad things back then, and if he had the chance, he would try his best to make up for them. Otherwise, what would he say that his father had a debt and his son would repay him?

If Zhang Jiefang had any knowledge in the spring, he would have felt comforted by such a son.

Qiao Mengyuan stayed asleep all night, stayed by her mother's body, and Zhang Yang didn't sleep all night. After raising her father's grave, she stayed silently by Qiao Mengyuan's side. What does it mean to show true love in times of adversity? It means to appear by her side when others need you the most. Qiao Mengyuan's life has undergone such drastic changes. If Zhang Yang had not been by her side from beginning to end, she would have collapsed.

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