The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

Not long after, Gu Shizhen changed her clothes and put on the medicine, followed Fu Zhu downstairs, Wen Heng also came back from Wen Jiulou, Fu Yunhai, who Li Quan took the initiative to follow the recruiter A Wu to deal with and kidnapped, lived directly in Wen At home, the three of them didn't wait for him, and sat down to eat.

After Gu Shiyan took a hot bath and took the medicine, her brows and eyes were relieved a lot, and she was no longer so tense, but she still didn't speak much. Wen Heng and Xie Yan each had something on their minds that they didn't know how to talk about, and they also remained silent. The whole meal was spent in this weird silence, and ended when Wen Rui came back and called Wen Heng away to discuss matters.

The guest room that Mrs. Wen arranged for Gu Shixuan was also on the third floor of the mansion, next to Xie Yan.

Xie Yan had been busy all day today and was already very tired at this time. Gu Shiyan had just escaped from the magic cave and was exhausted both physically and mentally. After the two finished their meal, they didn't do anything else, Qiqi chose to go back to the room to rest.

Xie Yan hadn’t come to the small guest room that Wen’s family had arranged for him to teach for a few days. The decoration inside had changed drastically. The original temporary wooden bed and small bookshelf were gone, replaced by the sofa and the same style as Wen Heng’s study room. Carved desk.

The babu bed, about 1.5 meters wide, is placed behind the screen. The bed is covered with western-style cushions, and the blue and white checked sheets are soft, and the style does not seem to be popular in China.

"This is something Er Shao brought back from the United States before. Two days ago, when I was packing my luggage, it happened to be two. Er Shao said that it would be a waste to keep it, so I used one myself, and sent the other to Mr. Xie. " Fu Zhu just came out from Gu Shi's house, entered the room to bring hot water to Xie Yan, saw Xie Yan studying the bed sheets, and smiled on purpose.

"...I see." Xie Yan was speechless for a moment, thinking to herself that it's no wonder she looked ahead in this way, it turned out that Wen Heng brought it back from abroad.

But Wen Heng brought two bed sheets, why did he give himself one?Even in order not to waste, there was Wen Rui, his brother before him, right?

Xie Yan thought of this, and Xin began to tremble uncertainly. He shook his head, telling himself not to make these illogical speculations about love, thanked Fuzhu who had placed the toiletries, and sent her out.

A soft and clean towel was dipped in hot water and wiped over the dry face blown by the cold wind, bringing endless comfort. Xie Yan simply finished personal hygiene, took off her outer coat, stretched her waist and fell on the bed On a springy bed.

The bed sheet under her body was softer than expected, Xie Yan closed her eyes, rubbed her hands unconsciously on the bed sheet twice, thinking that Wen Heng's bedroom was covered with the same style, Xie Yan took a breath, suddenly some faces hot.

...It's really hopeless.

Xie Yan opened her eyes again and stood up, rubbing her face with her hands a few times, telling herself to stop thinking about these things, lest her guesses be all wrong in the future, and if you don't say anything about the slap in the face, you will be finished if you can't get out.

The fireplace in Wen's house was burning very well, and the whole room was as warm as spring. The comfortable environment and whimsical thoughts brought irresistible drowsiness, which gradually climbed into his mind. Once I slept till dawn, I couldn't do it.

He has to wait for someone.

Xie Yan patted his face twice to drive away a little drowsiness, and forced himself to sit down at the new desk, and unexpectedly found that there were a few new books on the corner of the desk, all of which were his favorite types, limited to the Wen family, who was it? The handwriting is obvious.

Xie Yan looked at these original books for a few seconds, took the topmost "On the Spirit of Law" and read it carefully.

This book is a masterpiece of the famous French thinker Montesquieu. As a pioneering masterpiece in the fields of philosophy and law, it was a must-read for almost all law students in the era of Xie Yan's last life.

Xie Yan read it for the first time when she first came into contact with the law. She read it or read it in Chinese translation. She was shocked by the thinking mode and height of thinking in it from Hongda to the detached era. Later, because of studying abroad, she read it again and again. The English and German versions, with the improvement of experience, each time you read it, you will have new thinking about the relationship between society and people.

The book currently on Xie Yan's desk is an English translation, and I don't know where that person got it, maybe it is the book in his own study, after all, based on Xie Yan's understanding, the other party's reading volume is absolutely It's not low, it's normal to have such a famous book in your hand.

Xie Yan picked up the heavy book, opened a page and read it. The familiar content instantly aroused a sense of familiarity. At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the campus when he was a student. I have a bibliography, a few pages of manuscript paper, and a half-drunk instant coffee.

However, those vivid memories of modern civilization will never go back after all...

Xie Yan collected himself and focused his attention on the bibliography in his hands. After an unknown amount of time passed, when he finished reading a small chapter, there was finally an expected knock on the wooden door of the bedroom.

"Please come in." Xie Yan stood up and opened the door, and as expected, she saw Gu Shixu standing outside the door.

Xie Yan moved away, Gu Shiyan nodded and entered the door, sitting silently on the sofa beside the desk, he was only wearing a white undershirt, his hair was not completely dried after washing, and strands of hair stuck to his emaciated body. On the cheeks, the eyes drooped, I don't know what I was thinking.

"Is the medicine all ready?" Xie Yan pulled the chair and sat opposite him.

"It's ready, and the medicine Fuzhu behind her helped to do it."

"That's good." Xie Yan nodded.

Neither of them spoke again, tacitly did not mention the topic of Xie Yan's hint at the racetrack in the afternoon, as if that sentence did not exist, Xie Yan secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Some things are good to understand in the heart, but it is not good to explain them on the stage.

Gu Shi's silence was only temporary. He chose to come to Xie Yan at this time, so naturally he would not keep silent. After sitting for a while, he organized his words. Under Xie Yan's serious gaze, Gu Shi's words finally spoke slowly.

"I have something to tell you. It was inconvenient for others before, so I chose to come here at this time. You have not rested. You must have expected to be waiting for me."

"I told you all, I am also very smart." Xie Yan smiled, noncommittal.

Gu Shixu made no objection, he paused and then got straight to the point, "You said you don't remember anything, so let me start with your life experience."

"Tell me." Xie Yan sat upright unconsciously when he heard the word "life experience". After being in this world for so long, he finally had the opportunity to understand what the original owner, who could not feel at ease until his death, had experienced.

"You are a descendant of the Xie family in Tianjin Tea Garden. Your mother is from the Gu family, which is my family. We are cousins. We often went to school together when we were young. Both the Xie family and the Gu family are well-known families in Tianjin. Among them, the Xie family has The [-]-acre tea garden, when it was the most beautiful, took over half of the tea business in Tianjin, which was slightly stronger than the Gu family who traded in fabrics."

"The relationship between the Xie family and the Gu family has always been close, and they are often married to each other, but the Xie family has a stronger in-law in your father's generation." When Gu Shiyu said this, his tone obviously paused, as if he didn't know What kind of emotion should you show towards this person, "That's your aunt, Xie Xianshu, the daughter of the Xie family's first generation, who married Xiang Yanlin, a well-known official in the capital."

"Wait!" Xie Yan's eyes flickered when he heard the name, "Who are you talking about?!"

"Xiang Yanlin." Gu Shixu repeated the name that Xie Yan had kept in mind as the key information, "What? You don't remember?"

"...Xiang Yanlin, Xiang Yanlin." Xie Yan murmured, "You mean, Xiang Yanlin is my real uncle?"

"Yes." Gu Shiyu nodded, "Not only that, Mr. Xiang's family is thin, and he has no children for many years after his marriage with Aunt Xie, and has never taken concubines, so he treats his wife's nephew as his son. Tianjin and Beijing It’s so close, you were often taken to the capital to stay in the capital for a few months and learn from Mr. Xiang.”

"..." Xie Yan slowly closed her eyes, recalling the only image she had of Xiang Yanlin.

Fang Xunxuan regarded him as a minister who saved the country and the people, and lamented; Mr. Wen Lao regarded him as a confidant who had forgotten his age, and sincerely admired him; ;In Bai Luoqiu's memory, he must be more radiant, otherwise, how could he take such care of himself as his "nephew" after his death, and would not hesitate to take such a big risk...

That's right, if the original owner was the nephew of Mr. Xiang Yan Linxiang, everything would make sense.

He miraculously survived the massacre on the night of the Lantern Festival a year ago. He was stimulated and lost his memory and fell under the city wall. He was rescued by Bai Luoqiu with a clear purpose. I don't even remember, and I still use my life to protect that box like a conditioned reflex.

Until a few weeks ago, in that dilapidated firewood house on the outskirts of Hankou, when the fire of life was exhausted and his consciousness was dying, his subconscious still remembered the unfinished mission and refused to close his eyes. A powerful soul from another world...

"Are you okay?" Gu Shiyan didn't expect Xie Yan to have such a big reaction when Xiang Yanlin was mentioned.

"...I'm fine." Xie Yan rubbed her forehead to calm herself down.

Those who are still alive must bear all the responsibilities.

"I've heard about the tragedy of Xiang's family before, and I also know that Xiang—uncle's family members also died that night. If it was a planned extermination, the number of people would definitely be counted. Logically speaking, I shouldn't be alive. Do you know what happened? And the Gu family, what happened to the Gu family?"

"Before I saw you today, I always thought you were dead. Seeing that you were still alive, I recalled some of the scenes at that time, and I don't know if I guessed it right." However, you were picked up by Aunt Xie to play in the capital. It was agreed that you would go home before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Unexpectedly, you suddenly fell ill when the holidays approached. It is the only seedling in the family, and the adults feel sorry for the child, thinking that it has been a few years since they have been together in the capital, so the whole family will go to Beijing to celebrate the Lantern Festival with you."

When Gu Shihui said this, her expression was still cold, but her eyes were a little red, "At that time, everyone thought it was just an ordinary lively festival. Before she left, my aunt promised me to bring me the fashionable lanterns in the capital to play with. I brought in a batch of western fabrics, and I asked someone to keep two pieces specially, and I planned to wait for you to come back and make suits like Mr. Xiang... Who knows, no one came back."

"Ah..." Xie Yan hesitated to speak, he was not that "Xie Yan" after all, he didn't know how to comfort the young man in front of him.

But fortunately, Gu Shiyu may have a clearer understanding of this point than Xie Yan, and soon he adjusted his mood, "After Xie's family and Mr. Xiang had an accident, my father kept asking about the situation and heard people say Xiang's house was completely burned down by a big fire, and the number of corpses found after clearing the fire site matched the number of people in the house that night. There were no more living people in Xie's family, so he accepted this fact and took the corpses back to Tianjin for burial. In Xie's ancestral grave."

"Your 'corpse' was buried into the ground with my own eyes. It was so burned that you couldn't see its appearance, but its figure was almost the same as yours. If the owner of that corpse wasn't you, someone else must have died there instead of you. "

"Do you have any speculation?" Xie Yan couldn't figure it out.

"It's hard to say. Judging from your memory loss after that night, you may have been there when the clan was exterminated, but you were not discovered for some reason. After the accident in Xiang's family, the whole capital was shaken. The forces are fighting each other for power, and they are trying every means to send people to investigate the Xiang family's affairs to earn fame. I remember my father once inquired about a gossip. There was a period of time between the time and the time when the fire broke out, and they were not connected. It is a pity that people half-understand what foreigners say, and this conclusion has no support and effect, so it was discarded."

"I think, if you survived the tragedy, maybe the foreign experts' conjecture is correct. After killing the people in Xiang's house, the murderer didn't destroy the body, but left directly, and then appeared The second wave, bring a corpse in your place, and set fire to the house as a cover."

"But why did the second wave of people help me?" Xie Yan frowned, "And if there really is a second wave of people who know that I survived, why would I be picked up by Bai Luoqiu?"

"I just made a guess, and it may not be correct. If you want to know this, maybe you can ask Boss Bai directly. He had a very good relationship with Mr. Xiang. As far as I know, it is far greater than the intimacy in the impression of ordinary people. .”

"How do you know this?" Xie Yan couldn't figure it out, obviously the original owner was Xiang Yanlin's nephew who was always with him, but Gu Shiyu was so familiar with Xiang Yanlin's affairs.

"The relationship between Xie's family and Gu's family is closer than you think. I have known Aunt Xie since I was a child, and I went to the capital with you." Gu Shi's expression was a little too sad, "As for the relationship between Mr. Xiang and Boss Bai It's my guess. I was playing in Xiang's house once before, and I accidentally came near the study, and heard Boss Bai and Mr. Xiang talking inside. The content of the conversation was not only about Beijing opera, but also mixed with many current affairs. But it's just a famous actor who doesn't care about world affairs, so I think there must be a more intimate relationship between them that the world doesn't know about."

"So that's it." Xie Yan nodded slowly, but after hearing the words, she understood another thing - no matter how smart Bai Luoqiu was, in the limited environment of the Liyuan, he shouldn't be able to see the current situation so clearly. But it would be another matter if Xiang Yan Lin, a well-known minister recognized by everyone, was leading him.

"The speculation about the second wave of people I mentioned just now is not necessarily correct. After all, I can't think of anyone who can be the second wave of people. You should stop thinking about it." Gu Shiyan saw Xie Yan and remained silent for a long time. , sound a reminder.

"No, I think your speculation is very possible." Xie Yan slowly shook her head, "Because I suddenly thought of a 'second wave person' who can perfectly explain everything."

"Who?"

"Didn't you mention it just now?" Xie Yan knocked on the armrest, eyes narrowed, and said the name slowly, "Bai Luoqiu."