Chapter 45: Overhearing
That night, Zhou Yang insisted on keeping his soul for his grandfather. Xie Jianming's body was parked in the lobby of the Xie family's mansion, and it had been arranged into a temporary mourning hall by the invited funeral service staff.
A coffin is placed in the center of the spacious lobby, and an elephant couplet is hung high on the wall: "When dealing with the world indifferently, you still show your righteousness and clean wind, and you often think about virtue and cry for a kind father; you can leisurely cross the crane, looking at the sky with stars and half a crescent moon, and you want to go to the Yaochi to meet the green plums." In the middle is a large photo of Xie Jianming, with the big "Dian" posted on it.
On the elongated altar, the wrist-thick white wax burned all night, with incense burners, lotus lanterns, fruits, flowers, etc.
Ye Yingning knew that he could not persuade Zhou Yang, so he had to come and personally send him a thin blanket to avoid catching a cold at night.
As soon as she stepped into the mourning hall, despite being mentally prepared, she was still shocked by the eye-catching white.
Zhou Yang was still sitting in a wheelchair. The plaster on his legs had not been removed and could not bend, making it very inconvenient to walk.
Facing his swollen eyes, Ye Yingning sighed slightly, covered him with the thin blanket in his hand, and said softly: "You haven't eaten much at night. Do you want to have a little midnight snack? I see that my aunt is preparing in the kitchen just now."
Zhou Yang shook his head and refused, asking her to go back to the room first. Now the Xie family is in chaos and no one cares about anyone.
In addition to the direct children, some other relatives and friends from the family have arrived intermittently since the evening. On the surface, they are here to pay condolences, but in fact they are also using this to inquire about the fate of the Xie family in the future and find out who the new helmsman of the Xie family is as soon as possible.
"You've been here all night?"
Ye Yingning asked, thought for a while, sat down on the sofa beside him, and whispered: "I'll stay with you for a while, and then go back to your room after 12 o'clock."
Zhou Yang said nothing and nodded. Neither of them spoke anymore, and the silence in the mourning hall quickly returned to its silence.
She supported her head with one hand, and the whole day of running around made her body exhausted. Ye Yingning didn't even know how she fell asleep, but she was awakened by the cold.
Nanping is very cold and humid at this time, not as good as Zhonghai. Although there is a central air conditioner in the villa, the temperature is slightly lower because of the parking of the corpse.
Ye Yingning sat up and found that the thin blanket she had originally given to Zhou Yang was covering her body. She was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that Zhou Yang was no longer in the mourning hall. She was the only one left in the huge empty hall.
She quickly got up, shivered suddenly, and glanced at her watch. It was already past eleven o'clock at night.
Ye Yingning didn't dare to make noise and walked upstairs based on his memory. The Xie family was not silent at this moment. There were people in almost every guest room, mostly relatives who came to hear the news from the family. The workers at home walked around the stairwell with bedding in their arms and arranged for everyone to stay.
She looked for rooms one by one, walked from the second floor to the third floor. This floor was obviously much quieter than the downstairs, and it was the owner's bedroom.
Although she knew it was a bit inappropriate to rush to the third floor, but in the completely unfamiliar Xie's house, Zhou Yang was the only person Ye Yingning was familiar with at this moment. She urgently hoped to find him, at least she would feel a little safe.
Just thinking to himself, Ye Yingning had already walked to the door of a bedroom. The Xie family's room looked exactly the same from the outside, with a mahogany carved door and a diagonal symmetrical side of the corridor.
She stopped in front of the door, and it was difficult to distinguish for a moment. She was about to find a worker to ask clearly, but suddenly she saw that the door in front of her was not closed tightly, and a gap was revealed.
There seemed to be someone talking inside, and a faint sound came.
Unfortunately, Ye Yingning, who was standing in the corridor, couldn't hear it very clearly. She knew very well that she was standing by the edge of the thunder pool, and her most appropriate action was to turn around and leave, turn aside, and not listen to it inappropriately.
But curiosity can kill cats, and women's curiosity is better. Otherwise, where did the legend of Pandora's box come from?!
Ye Yingning looked around and saw that the corridor was so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling to the ground. There was no one else except her.
She tried to go forward, walked to the door in two steps, her ears pressed against the door, holding her breath and concentrating.
Sure enough, she heard it correctly. Someone was talking, and her voice was very familiar. After only a few words, she confirmed that the person talking was Zhou Yang.
He seemed to be talking to himself because no one was responding to him.
"... Although the whole thing is an accident, I still can't let it go..."
“…I feel very uncomfortable seeing you like this…”
“…My mom does…”
"If one day you can stand up, it would be great that we could go to the beach together like we did when we were kids..."
“…”
Intermittent words came, Zhou Yang's speech was always slow, and now it was no exception. He seemed to be talking while recalling, his tone was very low, and it sounded like he was filled with grief.
Ye Yingning was very shocked and connected the information before and after, and inferred that the person in the room should be Zhou Yang's cousin Xie Yao.
Xie Junrou once said that Xie Yao is the only boy in the Xie family's generation, and he is also the pride of heaven in the eyes of the whole family. He is one year older than Zhou Yang. He was trained by Xie Jianming and Xie Juntang as family heirs since childhood.
However, Xie Yao's personality is very perverse and domineering. He is a famous young master in Nanping. However, his interest is not in women or gambling, but in racing.
Nanping's underground racing cars have always been very powerful, and even the government cannot completely eradicate them. Modified cars are everywhere, mainly rezi, bore, n evo, civiv, fit, etc. When night falls, at nine or ten o'clock, roaring modified sports cars and motorcycles will appear on the main roads of Nanping from time to time, launching a contest of speed and passion.
Among them, Xie Yao is a hero in the eyes of countless racers. He is young, handsome, rich, spends a lot of money, and is domineering in speed. He was able to run 33 kilometers in 13 minutes and reach more than 150 kilometers per hour. It is said that he is the fastest non-professional driver in the entire Nanping and even the mainland.
But such a legendary figure who was extremely fast and had a car accident in an underground racing competition. After several days and nights of rescue, although he finally came back to life, he became a vegetative person.
Because underground racing itself is an illegal act, illegal racing on the road, illegally modified vehicles, etc. can be sentenced, so the Xie family acted very low-key after Xie Yao's accident. They did not over-verify the situation at that time, but focused all their energy on rescue.
Finally, after a complicated investigation and evidence collection, the police concluded that the modified vehicle driven by Xie Yao forced to increase its power that night. During the high speed, the bearing in the turbocharger broke, causing the modified vehicle to suddenly stop, hit the guardrail and caught fire.
Ye Yingning basically heard of these pasts from Xie Junrou.
It is precisely because of this that Xie Jianming hoped that Zhou Yang would be able to transfer his career several times in the future, return to Nanping, and join the Xie family to inherit the family business.
If you can't figure out anything, then think about it. After this happens, who can benefit from it, and maybe you can't figure out what you can't figure out.
Chapter completed!