Chapter 74
If it was me who could not forget it for eleven years, then why would I still compete with myself? I would simply never forget it for the rest of my life. What's wrong?
New Year's Day is approaching, and on the last day of the New Year, Han Shu will go back to her parents' house for dinner as usual, and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new with her family.
Han Shu was most afraid of the two elders, and planned to wait until dinner time before appearing on the dining table. But Han’s mother called early and said that she had made an appointment with her sister Han Lin on the other side of the ocean. The family would have a great reunion through online videos and asked him to come back early so as not to miss the time.
Han Shu has a good relationship with her sister because Dean Han has never been willing to bow his head in front of his daughter. Han Lin has not returned to China for many years. Usually, Han Shu accompanied her mother to fly over to see her every one or two years. After a long time of missing, Han Shu was also a little worried, so he hurried home after work.
He arrived home earlier than Dean Han. Han’s mother had already prepared a table of food, just waiting for the father and son to take their seats.
When President Han saw that his son was not angry, he put down his briefcase and snorted, "Prosecutor Han took time out of his busy schedule to comfort the elderly who were lonely?"
Han Shu made a face at the angle her father couldn't see, but she didn't say anything.
When the family of three washed their hands and sat at the dining table, Han Shu saw his father's dyed black hair and spotless white cuffs, which were all the usual style of Dean Han. However, when the unusual bright tie tie tie tie tie tied around Dean Han's neck jumped into his eyes, Han Shu could no longer hold it back and burst out laughing.
"Dad, this Mickey tie is a New Year's gift from your nursing home?"
Dean Han looked down at his chest, his face, which was habitually tense and serious, showed a little redness. He loosened his collar and coughed twice, expressing his expression of being too lazy to pay attention to.
Han's mother laughed and knocked her son's hand with her chopsticks in anger, "How can you talk like this child...but your father is old and has a lot of taste."
After laughing for a while, Dean Han indeed began to talk about the most troublesome thing about Han Shu again.
"I'm telling you how your recent case has been handled. The handover of the city court has been completed. You are still in the west court of the city. It's been half a year, and you can't handle any big cases well. I don't know how Cai Yilin taught you."
Han Shu couldn't help but complain for himself, "Is this what I want? Dad, don't underestimate this case, I think there is a lot of stuff behind it."
"Oh?" Dean Han lowered his head and slapped the soup, responding casually.
"You heard that Wang Guohua is dead, you have heard that his stolen money has not been found. I contacted his son who was studying abroad. According to his son's instructions, there is indeed no other major expense except for the more than 500,000 that Wang Guohua took out at one time when he first went abroad. You don't believe it. Wang Guohua is the kind of person who has to make up for three times before he is willing to throw it away. If he swallowed the money alone, I really can't believe it."
"Then what do you think is going on? Didn't all the evidence and clues point to him? What I kept telling you, intuition can deceive people, but the evidence won't."
"No, not just intuition, I went to the Construction Bureau where Wang Guohua was located a few days ago, and I looked through some old information and talked to someone. I didn't expect any breakthrough, but in the end, I found something new. Someone inside them reported that a year ago, the Development Planning Department approved a piece of land for the under-construction hot spring resort of Guangli Company, a subsidiary of Jiangyuan Group, which may have problems in the process. Guangli's person in charge was named Ye, and was Ye Bingwen, and was the younger brother of Jiangyuan Chairman Ye Binglin, and Ye Bingwen and Wang
Guohua has been in close contacts, and I have reason to believe that Ye Bingwen gave Wang Guohua benefits, and this is the last project that Wang Guohua handled before the crime. As long as I find this money and follow the clues, things may progress. But I have some doubts, why I have had so many dealings with the Construction Bureau before, and no information has been found. Anyone revealed a little about this matter, why did Wang Guohua die and this incident were exposed? Dad, do you think this means there is a big fish behind this case?"
President Han paused and said, "In my opinion, this case involves too much and you can't finish it in a while. This is the matter of the West Court of the City. Your top priority is to report to the Municipal Court as soon as possible. You can hand over the things on hand to other colleagues."
Han Shu was a little surprised, "Dad, haven't you always told me in the past to have a beginning and an end to do things?"
President Han stopped the action and said, "I have also said in the past that if you cannot complete a job, you should first examine your ability to do things, not the difficulty of the work. Why don't you remember it again?"
Han Shu was defeated by his father, which meant that all the efforts he had spent on this case were completely denied by his father, who regarded as his career idol. He couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, so he ate and stopped talking.
Fortunately, Han’s mother saw this and quickly rescued the situation, “I don’t like you, father and son, discussing work at the dinner table. It’s rare to have a good meal together, so there’s nothing else to say?”
Dean Han probably felt that his words were heavy, and his face calmed down a little, "What do you say? Putting aside work, won't your son make you feel a headache? He is thirty years old and still looks like a child who never grows up, and he has no place to settle down. The ancients said: To manage the family and govern the country and pacify the world..."
It's coming again, it's coming again. Han Shu held his cheek with a painful expression, but he still couldn't stop Dean Han from continuing to say, "...Is it my explanation for the so-called family and career? Only when a man dares to take on the burden of his family and faces the responsibility can he be considered truly mature, and then pursues better development in his career, but you can't even do this and don't know how to check your private life..."
"Why am I not careful!" Han Shu almost jumped up, put down his chopsticks and argued, "I've talked four or five times..."
"You can't remember how many times you have talked about it, four times or five times? Isn't this a bit of indecision?" Dean Han shook his head.
Han Shu pulled her mother's hand and told the revolutionary history, "Mom, you testify to me. Although I have had 'several' girlfriends, I didn't succeed in the end, but any love was not serious, and it was legal and reasonable? I neither gave up on the whole, nor did I commit adultery, incest, promiscuity, homosexuality... I did not violate fairness and good customs, nor did I violate the law. Why did my private life become more conservative?"
After all, they are two generations. Dean Han always felt indecent when he heard Han Shuxin say words like "adultery" and "incest" and so on, so he had to stop the topic quickly, afraid that the child would become more and more outrageous. So he reached out and made a gesture to stop. "Don't say so much, just find a girl with a good appearance in peace and stability, and settle down, which is more powerful than any quibbling."
Han's mother also touched her son's hand and said worriedly: "Baby, what kind of thing do you think you are looking for, a fairy or a female star?"
Han Shu looked unbearable and waved his hand and said perfunctorily: "I want to find a mixture of slow sheep and lazy sheep."
Dean Han and his wife seemed to have heard of Mars and were confused.
"What sheep?"
Han Shu held back her laughter, "It's Slow Sheep and Lazy Sheep. Dad, Mickey is no longer popular now. You should go and watch "Xi Yangyang and Big Big Wolf", which is a very good cartoon, and it is also very popular among the elderly who are lonely and widowed."
Only then did President Han understand that his son was making fun of him in different ways, he didn't understand. Why did his son, who he taught step by step, make him unable to understand more and more. Such serious life events were like a joke. This anger made President Han almost vent his anger, pointing at his old wife and shouting again, "Send your son to see a psychiatrist, no, go directly to the mental hospital, hurry up!"
Han Shu quickly picked up food for his father, "I will go immediately after I have enough."
As expected, as Han Shu expected, as long as he had a meal with his parents peacefully, he would be scolded to death with softness and hardness. Next, the earnest "Education of Love" in Han's mother tongue and the harsh Taoist theory of Dean Han could hear him chewing wax with a meal, and finally he could only use his trump card, covered his stomach and said that he had a stomachache, and he took off from the dining table, and finally saved his life.
After dinner, Han's mother was cleaning up in the kitchen. Dean Han watched the "News Broadcast" on time. Han Shu quickly called her sister overseas and urged her to surf the Internet.
When Han Lin's face appeared on the computer screen, Han's mother immediately put down the work in her hand and ran out of the kitchen. The mother and daughter had a great time chatting. Dean Han watched the TV intently, but his ears stood up.
After all, it was a distance between the two ends of the earth. The microphone sound was intermittent and the voice could not keep up, Han Shu chatted with her sister on the keyboard instead of her mother. She also exchanged her experience of watching "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" with Han Lin. Speaking of which, the cartoon was recommended by Fei Ming, the child said that her aunt also liked to watch it. Han Shu found her homework and finally fell in love with her and recommended it to her sister.
The enthusiasm of Han’s mother to chat with her daughter was as eager as a reunion in another lifetime. More than an hour later, Han Shu finally got the opportunity to drink water from her mother, leaving him and her sister alone.
"Waiter, mom's baby egg, Big Gray Wolf, why are your expressions so bad?" Belgium is six hours later than in China. Han Lin is still noon at this time. She was sitting on the windowsill holding her laptop, smiling as clean and warm as the winter sun.
My sister is one of the few people around Han Shu who can speak well. It would be fine if she didn't ask. After asking, Han Shu actually found that her eyes were a little red. She was afraid that Han Lin would laugh at him, so she held it back and asked quickly before her mother rushed back.
"Sister, I'll ask you...just ask... it's someone else's business... have you ever forgotten people and things for many years?"
"Just ask, when does a big man become so embarrassed... many years refer to how many years... I forget a group of people every few years."
"After ten years...for example, eleven years."
Han Lin thought seriously with her head on her back, and then said seriously: "I think there is one."
"who……"
Seeing Han Shu lowering her voice and sneaking, Han Lin couldn't help laughing, "It's you, did you return the tape of Zhang Xinzhe album you borrowed in high school to me?"
Han Shu had already heard the movement of her mother, and she was not angry in desperation, "Oh, let me tell you seriously!"
Perhaps because of the network signal problem, Han Lin's lip shape and voice were slightly delayed. Han Shu first saw her smiling and opening her mouth to close her mouth, and then she heard her sister's voice.
Han Lin said: "If it were me, I would not forget it for eleven years, so why would I still compete with myself? I would just never forget it for the rest of my life. What's wrong?"
"What are you talking about? The brother and brother muttered." Han's mother's figure appeared behind Han Shu.
Han Shu quickly raised his voice and said to Han Lin: "I will send you the skin care products you mentioned last time in a few days."
Han Lin answered very smoothly, "Double copies, you bought it, let mom send it to me."
After chatting with my sister, Han Shu sat on the sofa and watched TV with Dean Han for half an hour. After finding a reason, she said she wanted to leave.
Dean Han told him again that he could not sit still at home as if there were nails under his butt. Fortunately, Dean Han also made an appointment with some friends at work after dinner. The driver was already waiting downstairs, so it was not that difficult for Han Shu to escape. Han’s mother arranged to pack nutritional supplements for her son, and each time they were two big bags.
While complaining that he died of overnutrition sooner or later, Han Shu said goodbye to his parents. When he walked to the elevator, a young man happened to come out of the elevator.
Seeing this, Han's mother, who sent her son, explained to Han Shu: "This is your father's driver Xiao Xie. The young man is very diligent. You are carrying so many things and the parking lot is far away. Xiao Xie is waiting for your father, so I will ask him to come up and help you."
"As for it? How can your son eat so many nutritional supplements that he can't even handle this little thing?" Han Shu said to his mother with a disapproval, but he also understood that the old man loved his son, so he was inconvenient to let go of his good intentions.
The young driver had already taken Han Shu's hands quickly and wanted to carry them all for him. Han Shu felt embarrassed and handed the bag in one hand to the young man. After thanking him, he signaled his mother to go back and entered the elevator with the driver.
The floor where Dean Han lives is high, and there is only Han Shu and the driver in the elevator. It was the first time they met and there was nothing to say. Han Shu Xiaoxiao and stood silently.
The little driver had a simple smile and looked handsome. Han Shu had never seen his father's new driver, but he knew that the High Court where his father was located had just carried out personnel reform not long ago. Similar to drivers, ordinary clerks, and receptionists, other common jobs in society, no longer use staff members, but all of them were contract-based employees recruited from the outside. This young man was probably hired during this reform.
Han Shu grew up in a cadre family since he was a kid. He knows that for some leadership positions, full-time drivers are one of the closest people around them. His father is rigorous and there are mostly taciturn people around him, just like Ji Nian's father Xie Maohua. This little driver looks like he is only twenty years old at most, so why was he picked up by the old man?
Xie Maohua! Han Shu felt nervous, and then he remembered what his mother said just now, what is the young man’s surname? Whether his surname is Mo or Zeng, no, he remembered it, the young man’s surname is Xie!
Han Shu felt a little sad again. He thought, it wouldn't be so evil. On Christmas Eve, he heard Tang Ye's girlfriend's surname was Xie, and he was alert for a while and despised himself for suspicion. As a result, he really collided with Xie Juinian. But what does this surnamed Xie mean?
"How old are you?" He raised his jaw and asked the little driver standing in the corner of the elevator.
"I'm already eighteen!" The little driver quickly emphasized that the elevator had already parked on the first floor at this time. Han Shu parked his car in the parking lot closest to the gate. The little driver also followed him two steps away, and walked step by step and said, "I have been driving for Dean Han for more than half a year, and I'm driving very steadily."
"What's your name?" Han Shu asked while taking out the key.
"Xie Wangnian. Section Chief Han, my name is Xie Wangnian, Wang in Wangjiang Tower, the New Year... Just call me Xiao Xie, my father has driven a car for Dean Han before...Oh..."
Han Shu's sudden stopping steps almost made Xie Wangnian, who was following him, almost stopped. Fortunately, the young man reacted quickly and immediately settled his footing. Even so, he almost fell into trouble.
Han Shu stood firmly for a while, but still hadn't digested it completely. He turned around with a strange look and asked Xie Wangnian with a puzzled look on his face.
"You are Xie Maohua's son... so old... so... you, are Xie Juinian's younger brother?"
When talking about the three words "Xie Ju Nian", Xie Wangnian showed a hint of embarrassment, but he nodded honestly, "Yes... my sister has a criminal record, but our whole family has not been in contact with her for a long time, so President Han also knows this."
Han Shu understood why the young man was so concerned. The staff of the judicial system were more cautious in this regard than other units. Xie Wangnian was afraid that his family's background would make him lose a good job. However, Han Shu felt uncomfortable. Although he had always known that Ju Nian lived alone with Fei Ming and rarely interacted with others, it was the first time he had learned from her brother that the person she dearest had been completely isolated from her.
If it were him, he would drown in this isolation.
And who is the culprit that caused all this?
There were still dozens of steps away from the parking lot. As Han Shu walked, he suddenly lost the courage to let the people behind him serve him. It was not someone else, but her younger brother, with the same blood as hers.
"Thank you, I'll do it myself."
Han Shu wanted to take back what Xie Wangnian had in her hands without saying anything. Wangnian was shocked and thought that he was young and ignorant. He said something wrong inadvertently, annoyed Dean's young master, with a bitter face and refused to let go, and kept repeating, "I'll do it, I'll do it."
But he didn't know Han Shu's confusion and fear. Seeing that Han Shu looked like this, he simply wanted nothing. Anyway, the pile of nutrients was useless, and it would be a pity to abandon them. He got into his car as if he had escaped. He started the car and wanted to leave as soon as he stepped on the accelerator. He was afraid that he would take a few more glances and see familiar traces from that young face.
The car passed by Wangnian, and Xie Wangnian was holding a bag of things that Han's mother prepared for her son, standing there blankly, wondering what was going on.
Han Shu finally parked the car beside Xie Wangnian.
Chapter completed!