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The official and rich merchant families in Yanzhou tend to be more superstitious than those in other places.

The Wei family is a typical example.

They would hire a Taoist priest to do the math because there had been a runaway wedding in the family, and since then all wedding events were held in the same lodge that the Taoist priest had figured out was favorable to their family's orientation. And this behavior is just the tip of the iceberg.

Giving the bride "R.I.P" bone cross earrings is also a rule of the Wei family not known to outsiders. This rule was set earlier than the selection of the site for the hotel lodge, and its origin is already an old legend among the Wei family.

Legend has it that around the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the ancestors of the Wei family saved a girl with blonde hair and brown pupils, whose mother was a brothel girl in the lower nine streams and never mentioned her biological father, and took her daughter to work as a long-time laborer in a store alone. A few years later, the mother died, the store was also poorly run, insolvent, the girl was poor and weak, and then ended up inserted into the grass label, was sold by the debtor's point of view.

Influenced by her mother's belief in Christ Jesus, the girl listened to the preachers and was ideologically alienated from the society of her time.

Such a rare and strange little girl is something that not many big families would be willing to buy as a maid, let alone as a daughter-in-law or to fill a room, and she would even talk back to her debtors.

Once she talked back too much, the debtor, in a rage, even clamped a handful of coals, forcing her to swallow. The girl immediately destroyed her throat and tongue, dying, the debtor saw no sympathy, but also too much trouble, so she threw her outside, by her own survival.

That's when the old Wei family picked up the girl.

The old ancestor owned a pharmacy and had a very kind heart, and for a while there, his own son had just died of a terminal illness, so he couldn't bear to see this kind of bleak scenario even more.

The old man took the girl home, treated her and treated her well. However, the girl's injuries were too severe and the medical treatment was not well developed at that time, so despite the care and consideration, the girl could not recover and was soon to die.

Before she died, she begged the old Wei family ancestor to go and find her a cross, saying that she wanted to leave this world holding the cross.

The old ancestor didn't know where to find this foreign thing, but he couldn't bear to see the girl's last wish go unfulfilled, so he made a cross for her with his own hands. That night, the girl held the cross and looked at it again and again, murmured a few words, but fell a tear of blood, splashed on the cross, and then passed away.

The old ancestor, pitying her misery, ordered her to be buried well; however, the day before the burial, the old ancestor suddenly had a dream, which was very mysterious; he dreamed that the little girl came with snow-white wings around an auspicious cloud, and told him in a voice as pleasant as heaven's music that she had come this time to thank the old man for his last care for her, and that the old man could bury her bones with the medicine store's prematurely deceased male son, so that she would be able to rightfully accompany her children in the another world to compassionately accompany the old man's children and bless future generations.

When the ancestor did not believe it at first, the girl said, "Then when you wake up in the morning, go to my coffin and look, and you will see that the wooden cross that I hold in my hand has been transformed into a cross of pure gold.

When the old man woke up, he immediately went to the mortuary to open the coffin - and saw that the girl was holding a golden cross in her hand, and where the drop of blood and tears had fallen, it was even adorned with translucent and dazzling rubies, on which were engraved the three letters R.I.P.

Now the old man didn't dare to slack off, he immediately dealt with the girl's aftermath according to her instructions. Since then, the Wei family has really risen in popularity, with one generation being better than the next. When the old ancestor was a hundred years old, he left a will, warning his family not to forget this "angel", and he even made a rule that every Wei family girl who got married, as well as the new wife who married into the Wei family, had to wear the same pure gold cross until the full moon of the wedding, as a way of honoring the girl.

Year by year, this form of wearing the cross became fixed, and by the sixth decade or so, it was fully established as the yellow gold bone R.I.P with red diamonds earrings that circulated among every woman in the Wei family.

"But Wei Dongheng has said to me privately that he thinks the story must have been embellished by one of the ancestors." Xie Xue said, "He doesn't really believe in any angelic gods, and he thinks that the three letters R.I.P being carved on it probably means that the ancestor actually did something wrong, and that this kind of behavior isn't gratitude, but rather town resentment. He even thought that the girl was forced to be matched with a bone, or even intentionally killed, he looked up the family tree and saw that during that time, the Wei family's new women died several times in a row, maybe it was because the ancestors felt that the ghost of the matched woman was still lingering on, and that's why they made gold crosses to ward off the evil spirits of each of the new women. Just for the sake of the family's reputation, and in order not to let the brides be afraid, the Wei family gradually came up with such a beautiful story, hiding the original darkness and bloodshed."

After Xie Qingcheng finished listening to Xie Xue's narration, he was not so much interested in the story as he was chestnuts in his heart - because at this moment, he finally cracked the mystery and nightmare that had been troubling him for nearly twenty years.

The R.I.P earrings belonged to a Wei family woman, and a newly married woman at that.

--This was the true identity of the mysterious man his parents had met before they died!

"Brother, what's wrong with the earrings?" Xie Xue cautiously followed up after explaining.

Xie Qingcheng couldn't tell her much about the situation, he was so anxious at the moment, if the person who killed his parents was Wei's family, or even Wei Dongheng's mother or sister, then what should Xie Xue do now?

Beyond that, he had a more chilling suspicion--the

He was seriously injured when he was hit by a car, and it was only thanks to Old Qin's medical treatment that he was able to save his life.

That organization's people may not have paid attention to his death at first, after all, the car accident hit like that, the chance of being able to save a life is not big, but later, that organization deserved to find out that he did not die ...... these years, they did not hunt him down and kill him again, and did not have hands on him to capture and study him, at first Xie Qingcheng also thought that it was his own kind of small person in their eyes is really insignificant, as long as they do not continue to track down the truth, that organization will not notice him.

But if the murderer is a member of the Wei family, and Xie Xue is married to Wei Dongheng, could there be another possibility that they have watched Xie Qingcheng's every move over the years, only that for some reason they have never laid a hand on him again? Instead, they chose to aim for the center Xie Xue ......?

This idea is too chilling, as if one foot is an abyss, Xie Qingcheng did not think further.

"Brother?"

"...... It's nothing, I've seen a similar one before, but now that I've taken a closer look, it's not that similar." Xie Qingcheng barely perfunctorily Xie Xue, resumed her seat, scooped a spoonful of beef soup to her, "Eat."

The two siblings ate a meal with their own thoughts, so neither realized how trance-like the other was. After the meal was over, he excused himself and sent Xie Xue back first.

After Xie Xue left, Xie Qingcheng felt out a cigarette and sat on the edge of the bed to smoke it while thinking about the past clues. He tried his best to maintain his composure, and finally coughed and dusted off the ashes.

He decided to follow the trail and investigate it himself first.

This investigation was very similar to the situation he was in nineteen years ago, and he was left with no one to ask for help.

His relationship with Chen Man is now very awkward.

Zheng Jingfeng, on the other hand, is the kind of rigid character who would never go beyond the bounds of the case for him by mere deduction.

To He Yu ......

He Yu's hacking skills are very good, but Xie Qingcheng can't afford to keep in touch with him, let alone get him involved again.

Luckily, Xie Qingcheng is not incapable of working alone. To investigate the person who lost the R.I.P earrings, all one needs to do is to find out exactly which of the Wei family's women were married at the time and were in their newlywed period.

The first thing he ruled out was Wei Dongheng's mother; judging from the birth years of the Wei siblings, Wei Dongheng's mother had married Wei's father long before his parents' car accident. This discovery made Xie Qingcheng's anxious mood a little more stable.

The second groundbreaking discovery was on the Internet.

Xie Qingcheng, following the previous experience of He Yu in searching for the black history of Huang Zhilong Entertainment Company, finally crawled through the huge amount of information and found a few portals about twenty years ago.

"Wei-Meng's strong and powerful family union is a happy marriage."

Posted just a few months before his parents were killed.

When Xie Qingcheng just searched for this information, it was as if his heart didn't even dare to beat. He immediately moved the cursor and clicked on the link. However--

404.

Straight men searching the yellow net will feel the blow every time they encounter this kind of code that suggests that the page no longer exists. Xie Qingcheng lived more than thirty years, did not experience this straight man blow, but this moment he empathized.

It's not just this one portal, but all relevant content on the web clicked in with this alert message.

I can't even search for the bride and groom's photos and names.

Xie Qingcheng has not given up, at least he has established that 20 years ago, there was a Wei family woman newly married and married to a powerful man with the surname Meng.

With the information at this point, in fact, just try to get Wei Dongheng's words, you should be able to directly know who the target is. But Xie Qingcheng was cautious and didn't ask him, he felt there was another line of investigation that could be more covert.

--that private mountain resort in Hang City.

The Wei family, due to the restrictions of the family rules, every wedding banquet was held in that mountain villa, which had hosted too many event ceremonies for the Wei family over the years, so if they directly went to ask which Wei family lady had gotten married 20 years ago, they would definitely not be able to answer.

However, according to online traces, the lady married a "family" groom surnamed Meng, and even on the social news at the time, then the wedding must be not small enough to leave a deep impression.

Xie Qingcheng then borrowed the trustees to ask the old waiters in the mountain villa in the form of small talk to see if there was anyone who could "white-haired courtesans in, sitting idly talking about Xuanzong."

More than half a month later, the message returned.

There was actually an old hotel warehouse manager in his fifties who remembered the scene and gave out information about the golden couple at the time.

"The bride, ah, called Wei Rong, as for the groom well ...... is the second son of Meng's enterprise ...... aigoo ...... "The old administrator mentioned this matter on the mouth, "I have received so many VIP guests, but this couple is the most difficult to serve, at that time, they almost let me lose this job ......"

According to the veteran employee, Wei Rong is one of the most eccentric brides he's ever seen. Everyone else gets married happily, and even if someone is less than joyful for some reason, they at least put a smile on their face for good luck.

Wei Rong is not like that.

She was picky with the wedding team on the day of the wedding and threw a tantrum at the slightest thing that didn't go her way.

On that day, the old staff prepared several sets of Muppet clothes for the staff to change into, to give out candies and colorful balls to the children on site. One of those clothes was a set of red shorts Mickey's. As a result, Wei Rong saw Mickey bouncing around the scene and suddenly became furious, asking who arranged such a doll, didn't they know that she hated the color red the most?

It's true that the wedding team and the hotel were well aware of this, and when the bride was finalizing her wedding plans, she requested that the dresses be all Western, refusing any red accessories, and that the on-site flowers never be red roses or any other ruddy-colored blooms. Everyone went along with her needs, but who knew she couldn't even accept a Mickey doll? The administrator was scolded and Wei Rong told the hotel to fire him immediately.

Luckily, the supervisor took pity on his poor family with a wife, children and mother to take care of, and cajoled Wei Rong that he would surely open the person, but in the end, he did not go about it in such a way.

The janitor ended up staying at the lodge, and Wei Rong's domineering behavior left a deep impression on him. Therefore, even after twenty years, he could still remember it clearly.

After Xie Qingcheng got the news, he immediately re-searched Wei Rong and Meng Sheng's information. This time he found much more.

It turns out that Meng Sheng, the groom back then, is the third son of Meng's real estate, and has now emigrated and is doing business in Singapore. Wikipedia has his current photo and profile.

Except that his spouse's name is not "Wei Rong", but a foreign woman's name.

Xie Qingcheng browsed through all the information, there is no mention of Wei Rong, this woman seems to have never appeared in Meng Sheng's life, if not Xie Qingcheng has done the research, he must think that he does not know what Ms. Wei Rong.

Xie Qingcheng did not give up, he checked Wei Rong again, this time, the search engine results are few, but shocking enough.

Because those messages are almost all reporting the same thing--

Wei Rong, the daughter of Wei Group, was killed in a car accident.

The news was released exactly one week after Xie Qingcheng's parents' accident!