Chapter 7 Limited Truth
Zhang Ke took a cab and rushed back to the Elephant Mountain Forest Park, retrieved the washed and printed photos and film from the print store, and then took a car back to the city, rushed home to the sky has been completely dark.
Zhang Zhixing sat on the sofa, gloomy face: "Where did you go all day?"
Zhang Ke stood in the doorway and thought to himself: no wonder dad is angry. Getting Ye Xinming to pass on the words that Tang Xueqian wanted him to go out and take shelter, the idea of leaving or staying had been struggling in Dad's mind. The news of Uncle Grandpa's passing away should have come from his hometown this afternoon, which gave dad an excuse to leave Hai Zhou, while he himself is playing missing at this time, no wonder he is harboring a bellyful of fire in his stomach.
"Uncle Grandpa left today, our family is going back to Dongshe to organize the funeral for your Uncle Grandpa, you didn't go home for a day, where did you go?" Liang Gezhen stood behind her husband, waited for most of the day, and did not see home for lunch at noon, her classmates' home phone calls were all over the place, she almost went to the police.
Zhang Ke stood in the door skimmed, looked at his father with a gloomy face, said, "Why do you want to leave Haizhou, Uncle Tang's things, you do not want to care?"
"What Uncle Tang's matter?" Zhang Zhixing made Zhang Ke a bit puzzled by these words, "Why do you say these inexplicable words as soon as you come back?"
Zhang Ke didn't have time to slowly unveil the truth like a guessing game, and couldn't care less if this is what his sixteen-year-old self should say, "Isn't Uncle Tang under quarantine review? Dad is afraid that the provincial inspection team is going to ask you to be investigated next. Everyone else says that Uncle Tang has problems, you insist that Uncle Tang has no problems, other people will not tolerate you; but you have to pour sewage on Uncle Tang with a clear conscience, you will have a bad conscience for the rest of your life. What should we do? It's good to be able to leave this place of wrongdoing, even if there's no Secretary Ye to bring the message, dad will still go to the East Society to take refuge ......"
"Who taught you to say these words?" Zhang Zhixing was like a cat that had its tail stepped on, completely not expecting that these words were still coming from his sixteen year old son.
"Who taught me to say this? All these years at home, all these things happened, ushered in these people, see more, naturally understand, need others to teach me?" Zhang Ke also do not care about the words said appalling, to stab dad at once, stabbing pain, stabbing sober to do, "uncle died, funeral is not the third day, we are in such a hurry to rush back, cousin uncle, what will they think?"
Zhang Ke saw his dad's face gradually become iron blue, lest he lose control of his emotions for a moment and take himself as a human sandbag to vent, seeing him show signs of a seizure, he took the first step to hide in his own room, mentally speculating on what effect the words just said would cause in his dad's heart, with his ear pressed against the door, eavesdropping on the conversation outside.
"Little Scribe is right, isn't it these concerns that you've been hesitating over and over these days?"
"Is that something a kid his age would say?"
"Why not? Xiao Ke's nature follows you, early intelligence and precociousness, although he's been a stuffy child since he was a child, no one else knows what's in his heart."
"You know I'm with Tang Xueqian from the teacher's college to the city, if I splash dirty water on Tang Xueqian, he can't wash it off how to wash it off, I'm afraid that some people know this layer of relationship between me and Tang Xueqian, come to abet Xiao Ke blindly talk."
"Your own son still can't trust, who are you going to trust? My son is boring, but he has a lot of heart, he's sixteen years old, who can abet him? If you want to worry, just call your son out and ask him ......"
"You go and call him ......"
"No one told me what to say," Zhang Ke stood behind the door and heard this, walked out of the house himself and handed that photo of Tang Xueqian and Xu Si to his dad, "Is it all said outside that Uncle Tang is engaged in that relationship with this woman?"
Zhang Zhixing almost jumped up, shivering as he took the photo, staring at his son with an unbelievable look, "This photo, where did you get it?"
"Don't worry about where I got this photo, the provincial inspection team will soon see the same kind of photo," Zhang Ke said calmly, "If Uncle Tang's bribery charge is confirmed, dad, you leave Haizhou at this time, will people think that it is a deliberate attempt to avoid the provincial investigation team's investigation? ......"
Zhang Zhixing was shocked in a cold sweat, these days he only thought of escaping, but did not consider deeper issues, but also sixteen-year-old son to help himself to a point. He mixed in the circle for seven or eight years, on the inside of the rules again is clear, then even if they have no problem, but also can not guarantee that others do not splash sewage on themselves, the position of deputy secretary-general, although not prominent, but staring at the people still have some.
But this is a sixteen-year-old child said? On the contrary, Liang Gezhen hates his son is the world's most outstanding and smartest teenager, but did not think there is too much abnormality, and even think that her husband is a bit fussed, but she also felt that this photo fell into the hands of his son is too strange, and asked him, "Where did this photo come from?"
Zhang Ke knew that his words and actions would cause a great shock to his father, and if he didn't tell the truth at this time, he would delay the moment: "Dad has been with Uncle Tang for so many years, why does Uncle Tang still distrust dad so much, and also let Secretary Ye bring a message for dad to leave Haizhou to take shelter?"
"What else do you know?" Zhang Zhixing does not know why his son will suddenly and inexplicably say these words, but it does point out the doubts in his own heart, but he has never been able to see through and guess, inside the municipal government, everyone knows that he is with Tang Xueqian into the city, all gloating to avoid themselves, what news can not be obtained.
Zhang Ke saw his father sitting upright, knowing that he began to face his words.
Zhang Ke, of course, will not be stupid enough to say that he knows what happened five years later, to tell the truth, but also to make up a reason to convince Dad. This reason, Zhang Ke thought of on the way home: "This woman," Zhang Ke pointed to the photo of Xu Si, "I once saw in the back of Elephant Mountain, just a short time ago, outside a villa in the back of the mountain, saw her with a man, but not Uncle Tang, but a everyone absolutely can't think of anyone ......"
"Who is it?"
"You don't care who it is first," Zhang Ke still thought to round up the lie first, "Yesterday, I heard mom say that Uncle Tang had that kind of relationship with this woman, and I wondered in my heart, and early in the morning, I went to Elephant Mountain's backyard to take a look around, and sure enough, I saw this man again in that villa ... ..."
Zhang Ke will today the northern foot of the mountain red brick villa in front of the photos taken out: "in the forest park ask the mouth to rent a camera, shoot the effect can be, you look at this like who?"
The first photo of the black Nissan is driving into the red brick villa; the second photo is Ding Xiangshan short body into the Nissan, although not Ding Xiangshan's first car, but the license plate of the municipal party committee, the red Corolla car parked next to the head of Ding Xiangshan did not shoot, but Zhang Ke believe that his father can be recognized at a glance; the third photo is the red Corolla car out of the red brick villa, the red Corolla in the background of the photo of Tang Xueqian and Xu Si. The red Corolla appears in the background of the photo of Tang Xueqian and Xu Si. Although the light in the forest is dim, did not turn on the flash, but the shooting effect is not bad, the lower right corner shows the time of shooting.
Zhang Ke believes that if he stuffs two eggs into his dad's mouth at this time, he won't even be aware of it.
"After taking the photos, I went to the print store in Shannan to develop the film, I didn't expect to bump into this woman also there to take the photos, in the photos she took from the print store, there was a photo of her and Uncle Tang, I took advantage of her not caring to take one," Zhang Ke picked up the photo of Tang Xueqian and Xu Si, "it's this one ......"
Dad's brain and not stupid, I believe that soon can think clearly about the causes and consequences, Zhang Ke rubbed his hands and asked his mom, "There is still no rice, I'm starving to death ......"
"How did you know to take these pictures?" Liang Gezhen took her son by the shoulders, pushed him into the kitchen together, "Do not get in the way of your father ...... you did not come back, we do not have the heart to eat, come with me under the noodles, and then beat two eggs to make up for it ...... "
"Xiao Ke ......" Zhang Ke just went to the kitchen with his mom, his dad called him in the living room, "You put what you saw today and I carefully said again."
Zhang Ke didn't know how deep Xu Si was in, only to have to think of another way, so he couldn't tell everything between himself and Xu Si, and only said what happened in the morning.
"Why is Ding Xiangshan?"
Zhang Ke heard his father say Ding Xiangshan's name just by talking to himself, and knew that he had already guessed part of the truth.
The province received the report and sent an inspection team down to investigate before they could obtain any substantial evidence, pointing the finger directly at Tang Xueqian and imposing an isolation review, and at the right time, Haizhou made so many whole things unfavorable to Tang Xueqian, there must be a powerful figure at work here, and dad was aware of this, he just didn't know exactly who it was, and why it was like this.
"What exactly is the relationship between Uncle Tang and this woman, this group photo looks quite ambiguous?"
"I'm not sure," Zhang Zhixing sighed, "You're still young, things between men and women won't be very understandable, there are some things that I'm only afraid that Tang Xueqian himself can't say ......"
"I know, if Uncle Tang really understood, he wouldn't have these photos ......"
"Oh ...... where did you learn all these?" Zhang Zhixing reached over and touched the back of Zhang Ke's head, "Kids nowadays, it's so hard to understand."
Zhang Ke hee hee a smile, see dad face has not just come back when the gloom, know he will not put the heart of the doubts out to discuss with himself, or wait for things to happen step by step, and then a little bit of reminder of the dad is not too late, perhaps dad heart has already grasped the key issues may also say.
Liang Gezhen will be good noodles out, Zhang Zhixing pick up the bowl, wind roll like, two or three times will be a bowl of noodles are poured into the stomach.
Zhang Ke is afraid of hot, a bowl of noodles has just gone down less than one-third, see dad put chopsticks over to fish his bowl of noodles, hurriedly jumped up to avoid: "I have not eaten a day, this bowl of noodles is not enough for me to eat ......."
"I just came back to hate to be eaten," Liang Gezhen allocated his own bowl of noodles to her husband's bowl, "this moment with the chickens grabbing food like, you two masters eat first, I go down some noodles ...... "
"No," Zhang Zhixing stopped his wife, "you go out to buy food, pick the good ones, and when you come back, it's best to let the people in the yard see it, these days, the people in the yard see me as a bereaved dog, and they are all waiting to see what I'm going to do, no matter whether or not there is any chance of a turnaround in Tang Xueqian's affairs, but we can't just go along with the wishes of these people now! ......"
"What's the point of fighting for these intentions at this time?" Liang Gezhen was a bit puzzled.
"Mom, this is not to fight for what intention, the dog in the water, everyone is willing to fight ......" Zhang Ke said on the side, "the more disillusioned, the more can not let others look down on, especially in this yard, which people are waiting for the opportunity to step on others a foot, knock others a stick?"
"Heh ......" Zhang Zhixing laughed, hitting his chopsticks to knock his son's head, "Who are you calling a falling dog?" And urged his wife, "You are not even as good as Xiao Ke to see, quickly go, quickly go ......"
Liang Gezhen saw her husband with a look of completely put down the heart of the matter, relieved to ask: "You all think understand?"
"Xiao Ke's words reminded me that Tang Xueqian can trust Ye Xinming, why can't he trust me? Tang Xueqian really have what unseemly things, but also his full-time secretary Ye Xinming know more about the bottom. Ye Xinming help Tang Xueqian to bring words, may be a pit, I can not touch the black and jump in ......"
"Then what do you do, just these few photos can play any role?"
"Maybe it can't play any role, maybe it can play a big role ......," Zhang Zhixing said vaguely, "Don't they want me to leave Haizhou, when I arrive at Dongsha tomorrow, I'll know whether these few photos can play a role or not now."
It was only then that Liang Gezhen couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter, still have to go back to the East Society?"
"Of course I have to go back to the East Society, I have already asked Zhou Fuming for a good leave, I can't just say no, that's not good, besides, everyone avoids me like the plague, even if I stay in the city, there's no use," Zhang Zhixing drank his wine, his cheeks flushed, "but not all of our family go back to the East Society, I'll go back to the East Society with Xiao Ke, you stay here," Liang Gezhen couldn't resist asking, "What is it? Ke back to Dongshe, you stay to see how things will develop, even if hearsay, but also can know some news, we agreed to talk on the phone a few more times a day, something back is also convenient."