"Jingle Bell......"

Just when Xu Lang was distressed because he couldn't find the three people including Ji Xin, his cell phone on the table rang.

Xu Lang opened his eyes, sat up straight from his chair, picked up his phone and glanced at the caller's name - Lai Pi.

After seeing that the caller was Lai Pi, Xu Lang suddenly became energetic and quickly answered the phone.

"Have you found Lu Xiujie?" Xu Lang asked straight to the point.

"..."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and then Lai Pi's voice came over.

"We haven't found Lu Xiujie yet."

"That's it."

The mood that was exciting and even full of anticipation just now returned to depression once Lai Pi couldn't find a word.

After Lai Pi came back, just in time for the murder of Xu Lulu, he was sent by Xu Lang to investigate Lu Xiujie. However, many days passed, and there was no response from Lai Pi. Occasionally, Xu Lang would call

He went to ask about the situation, but the reply he received was that there was no situation and he could not find Lu Xiujie.

"Although Lu Xiujie was not found, I discovered some other circumstances that may be helpful in solving the case." Lai Pi's voice came from the other end of the phone again.

"What clue?" Xu Lang asked casually.

To be honest, Xu Lang didn't really have much expectations for Lai Pi's so-called clues. However, since Lai Pi took the initiative to mention it, Xu Lang still listened patiently, but what Lai Pi said next made Xu Lang confused.

Lang felt a sudden sense of enlightenment.

Lai Pi said on the phone that he was investigating Lu Xiujie's affairs and found that Lu Xiujie left the entertainment industry more than two years ago. He immediately cut off contact with everyone and his whereabouts are unknown since then. Lai Pi first investigated Lu Xiujie.

The relationship network before the disappearance was investigated one by one.

After some investigation, it was discovered that although these people had a good relationship with Lu Xiujie, they only had a good relationship, not a good one.

Lu Xiujie graduated from the university where Li's father went, which is also a top university in the country. He still has certain advantages in finding a job. However, after Lu Xiujie graduated, he did not find a job. Instead, he entered the entertainment industry and began to work as a screenwriter.

To put it bluntly, I wrote the script.

The screenwriter's status in any film crew is actually second only to the director. Lu Xiujie has a certain talent, so he naturally receives a lot of respect and flattery. However, Lu Xiujie's personality is not very good.

It may be that talented people have a certain temper, or it may be due to some other reasons. Apart from writing scripts, Lu Xiujie is almost unwilling to get too close to other people. This also leads to Lu Xiujie not having many friends.

In fact, many people know about the relationship between Lu Xiujie and Li Ziyu, but they just pretend not to know. Although Lu Xiujie is a good screenwriter, and Li Ziyu is also a good actor, good is only good after all. There are many people who are more talented than Lu Xiujie.

There are many actors with better acting skills than Li Ziyu.

Lu Xiujie was not willing to join in with the people around him, and some even looked down on them and disdained to play with them, while others were not willing to play with Lu Xiujie. Anyway, it was a situation where they disliked each other; Li Ziyu himself did not have a big family background.

, since his debut, he has always relied on his acting skills and is unwilling to take over the unspoken rules. Naturally, he will not be liked by others.

More than two years ago, when Li Ziyu was exposed in the scandal, many people were actually gloating about her misfortune. As the saying goes, what you can't get is the best. Since you can't get her, then destroy her. This is what some people

Some people have some dirty psychological thoughts, and naturally some people do it. Therefore, when Li Ziyu was exposed in the scandal, many people were added to the trouble.

At this time, Lu Xiujie also revealed that he had broken up with Li Ziyu and wanted to get close to Xu Lulu. In the eyes of many people, this was both envy and anger. They felt that Lu Xiujie was just wishful thinking and no one thought highly of him. But the fact is that

Indeed, after abandoning Li Ziyu, he followed Xu Lulu and was abandoned soon after. Naturally, he was ridiculed and ridiculed by the people around him.

It was also at this time that Lu Xiujie left the entertainment industry and cut off contact with everyone. No one cared about Lu Xiujie's departure. Only a few people who had a good relationship with Lu Xiujie felt very sorry. However, Lu Xiujie left very quickly.

Suddenly and decisively, they were unable to contact Lu Xiujie. As time passed, they gradually forgot about Lu Xiujie.

After investigating the people who were related to Lu Xiujie, Lai Pi didn't find many clues related to the case, so he began to look for other investigation directions. The simplest and most troublesome way was to go to Lu Xiujie's hometown to investigate the situation.

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Lu Xiujie's hometown is Anyu Village.

Anyu Village is affiliated to S City. It is a small village. The living conditions of the village are consistent with its name. It relies on fishing for a living. The living conditions are not bad. It cannot be said to be rich, but it cannot be said to be poor.

Before, when investigating Lu Xiujie's files, the files showed that Lu Xiujie had only one child in his family. However, after Lai Pi entered the village and conducted an in-depth investigation, he interviewed many elderly people and discovered one thing. Lu Xiujie actually had two children in his family.

, in addition to Lu Xiujie, he also has a sister.

Lu Xiujie is thirty-one years old, and his sister is ten years older than him.

Although the reform and opening up have been carried out for many years now, people often mention the issue of gender equality. However, the idea of ​​​​preferring boys over girls still exists, especially among farmers.

This is especially true for the village, especially the older generation of people.

During the investigation, Lai Pi learned that Lu Xiujie's mother had been pregnant twice after getting married forty-two years ago.

Because people's living standards were not good at that time, and they were in rural areas, the medical conditions were very average, and physical labor was heavy. Therefore, Lu Xiujie's mother had two miscarriages, and the third pregnancy happened to be in

Forty-two years ago.

After experiencing the previous two miscarriages, they paid great attention to this pregnancy. When Lu Xiujie's mother was seven months pregnant, the couple went on a long trip together, saying it was to visit relatives, but as for the specifics,

What, the old people in the village didn’t know. In short, after half a year, they came back. They were two people when they left, and they were still two people when they came back.

Everyone thought that when they came back this time, they would definitely bring a child back, but they didn't.

After asking the villagers, they learned that there was another miscarriage and the child died. This made everyone feel sorry and sympathized with them. Of course, while feeling sympathy and regret, they also began to look at Lu Xiujie in a strange way.

The parents felt that they had done something immoral and suffered retribution, so they did not have a son or a daughter.

Of course, these are just people's private speculations, and no one will say it to their face. After all, rural people are sometimes very kind.

I don't know if it was because of the sequelae of three miscarriages. For the next eight or nine years, Lu Xiujie's mother's belly didn't have any movement, but some women began to talk about it.

Of course, these are not the point.

The point is, since Lu Xiujie's mother had her third miscarriage, every year, the couple would leave Anyu Village for more than a month and go to Hengyang City, saying they were visiting relatives. And every year during the Chinese New Year, a family of three would come.

I wish them New Year greetings. Every time they come, they bring a little girl with them.

At first, people didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that this was their distant relative. However, as time went by, someone discovered that the girl looked somewhat similar to Lu Xiujie's mother. This discovery immediately made her

It aroused people's discussion, but Lu Xiujie's parents never explained it.

Ten years later, Lu Xiujie's mother became pregnant again. This time, there was no miscarriage and she successfully gave birth to a baby boy, Lu Xiujie.

Sometimes good things are not necessarily good things. Although Lu Xiujie's mother provided incense to the Lu family and gave birth to a baby boy, she died of a massive hemorrhage during a normal delivery.

Firstly, the medical conditions at the time were not good, and secondly, Lu Xiujie's mother was already an advanced maternal age when she gave birth. Pregnancy is inherently a high-risk matter, not to mention that the birth was natural.

It was a pity for Lu Xiujie that he lost his mother right after he was born.

After his mother died, Lu Xiujie needed to breastfeed. At this time, the kindness and generosity of the rural people were shown. The women who used to look down on Lu Xiujie's mother and even talked about her behind her back showed their great maternal love at this time.

On the other hand, they all helped this child who was born without his mother.

In this way, with the help of people in the village, Lu Xiujie grew up day by day.

Maybe it’s because he grew up eating hundreds of meals, maybe it’s because his father educated him since he was a child, or maybe it’s because they are in a big family in the countryside. Lu Xiujie has been very docile and kind since he was a child.

When he was studying, he also showed his intelligence. People in the village liked him very much, and the teacher also liked this child very much.

However, in the year when Lu Xiujie was admitted to high school, his father died of illness. Originally, Lu Xiujie did not plan to continue schooling. However, Lu Xiujie's grades were very good and he was admitted to a key university. With the help of his teachers, he still

With the help of people in the village, they helped Lu Xiujie go to high school.

Lu Xiujie did not live up to the expectations of the people in the village. Not only did he have excellent academic performance when he entered high school, but he was also admitted to H University during the college entrance examination. This is a big event for Anyu Village.

Son.

Over the years, Anyu Village has also produced college students. However, in the ten years since Lu Xiujie was admitted to college, the highest academic level in the village was a high school, and it was a third-rate high school. Therefore, Lu Xiujie was their pride and theirs.

I hope that since Lu Xiujie is admitted to H University, no matter how bad his family situation is, he will still go to this university. So, with the help of people in the village, Lu Xiujie enters the university and continues his education.

It stands to reason that Lu Xiujie's past and experience are indeed very unusual, but for Xu Lang, who has seen too many things, these are nothing.

According to Lai Pi, since Lu Xiujie went to H city to study at university, except for receiving help from people in the village in the first half year, he spent the remaining three and a half years solving his tuition and living problems by himself.

After he graduated from college, during the Chinese New Year, he came back, bought a lot of things, and went door to door to pay New Year greetings.

At this time, Lu Xiujie seemed to be a man who always repaid his kindness. However, this situation, which lasted until more than two years ago, came to an abrupt end.

He has not returned home for two consecutive years, and people in the village cannot contact him, which makes many people feel strange. However, if you think about it carefully, Lu Xiujie is almost three years old and has lived in a big city for these years.

The person we were talking about got married. If he doesn’t come back now, he probably has settled in the city. Everyone in the village understood this and didn’t say anything. They just complained about Lu Xiu occasionally.

Why don't Jay come back and see them.

After listening to Lai Pi's story, Xu Lang frowned and was silent for a while before speaking.

"You said Lu Xiujie has a sister, is it the child from when his mother had her third miscarriage?" Xu Lang asked.

"Yes, although the police station and many villagers here said so, I found a few elderly people who are the oldest in the village and have the best relationship with Lu Xiujie's parents. After asking, I learned that in fact, Lu Xiujie's mother did not have a miscarriage back then.

, not only did she not have a miscarriage, but she also gave birth to the child, but unfortunately, she gave birth to a daughter." Lai Pi explained on the phone.

"You favor boys over girls, so you gave the child away?" Xu Lang's frown tightened a little more.

"Well, that's what the villagers said, but based on the results of my previous surveys, it shouldn't be the case."

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Xu Lang asked.

"If it's just a simple preference for sons over daughters, then the child should be given away. There is no need to visit the child every year, and there is no need for the adoptive parents to bring the child to visit them every year. This doesn't make sense."

"You mean, there was probably a reason why this child was given away?"
To be continued...