Is he teasing me

Chapter 160 He died twenty-six years ago
I can't say I like it, but it doesn't seem appropriate to say I don't like it.

Zhang Moyan was still weighing, Xiao Guotao said, "I already know."

He already knows?Zhang Moyan was at a loss, please, she didn't know it yet, so how did he know it?
"You remind me of someone." Xiao Guotao looked at Zhang Moyan raptly.

Zhang Moyan was uncomfortable seeing him, and touched his face: "Really... who is it?"

Xiao Guotao rubbed his eyelids with his thumb and forefinger as if his eyes were dazzled by a strong light: "...you are very much like my younger brother."

Zhang Moyan bit her lower lip.

"It's my younger brother who passed away twenty-six years ago. His name is Xiao Guoxi." Xiao Guotao's voice was a little sad, and he stared at Zhang Moyan intently.

Zhang Moyan was a little surprised: "Is your real brother?"

Xiao Guotao looked melancholy, as if caught in some kind of memory: "Yes, he is Xiao Huai's grandfather."

"Xiao Huai's grandpa..." Zhang Moyan nodded, and then asked in confusion, "Yes...do I look a lot like him?"

Impossible, no matter what, she is a man and a woman, and she is in her twenties when she is in her prime, how could Xiao Huai's grandfather be fifty years old twenty-six years ago, right?How similar can this be?
When Zhang Moyan was thinking wildly, Xiao Guotao put on his reading glasses, opened the drawer and took out a photo album that looked old.

"I'll show you." Xiao Guotao got up with the photo album, went around the table to Zhang Moyan, and sat down on the chair on her right.

Zhang Moyan was suddenly a little nervous.

Open the album, the photos in it are at least the product of the 90s in terms of paper, color, and clothing of the characters.

The first photo on the first page is a group photo of two energetic uncles on a similar ferry or cruise ship.The green water in the background is far away, it should be a photo taken during a tour of a famous river somewhere.

Of the two uncles, the one on the left is Xiao Guotao. At that time, his hair was still black and his face didn't have many wrinkles, but he was still recognizable from his facial features and figure.

The other person in the photo is younger than Xiao Guotao, looks very similar to him, but a little stronger than him.

"I don't think I look much like your brother?" Zhang Moyan looked at the photo and said bluntly.

Xiao Guotao looked at her and smiled kindly: "I didn't say that you look alike to him, but I think you have very similar personalities."

"Oh." Zhang Moyan seemed to understand, but in fact, she didn't quite understand what kind of character she was.

Xiao Guotao fondled Xiao Guoxi in the photo with his fingers, and then slowly turned several pages back.

In this photo album, many members of Xiao's family appeared in the photo. She saw Xiao Weijiang, Xiao Weichen, eldest aunt, and second aunt when she was young, and she even accidentally found several places of Xiao Weijiang.

"Guoxi left too early. If he is still alive, he will be very relieved to see Xiao Huai is so good now." In the silence, Xiao Guotao suddenly said emotionally.

Zhang Moyan looked sideways at Xiao Guotao, the old man's cloudy eyes were moist behind Fang Fang's lenses.

"It would have been nice if they hadn't gone to that inspection back then." Xiao Guotao turned over another page of the photo album, and slowly pulled out a photo from a side of transparent plastic paper.

Zhang Moyan followed his gaze, and the photo in his hand was a group photo of three people, Xiao Guoxi was in the middle, and two young men in their prime, a man and a woman, were around him.The location of the group photo was in front of a small courtyard. There was a black-and-white signboard hanging at the entrance of the small courtyard. Most of it was blocked by the body of the young man, and only the words "Institute" under his arm could be seen.

"What happened to them?" Zhang Moyan had a vague premonition.

Xiao Guotao sighed.

"That was twenty-six years ago." He put down the photo, took off his glasses and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves: "At that time, a kiln site was discovered in an archaeological project in Luoyang, and many exquisite crafts from the Song Dynasty were unearthed. Celadon tiles. Some experts pointed out that it may be another Northern Song Dynasty official kiln site. The Luoyang Cultural Relics Bureau led experts from all parties to investigate and appraise it.

"Who knows what's wrong?" Zhang Moyan asked.

"Unexpectedly, none of the three came back."

Zhang Moyan opened her eyes wide: "Didn't come back? Is... something happened?"

"No one knows what happened," Xiao Guotao closed his eyes in pain, and looked up at the void: "The three of them were alive and well when they left, but after half a month, we rushed to Luoyang after receiving the bad news All I saw was the icy remains of Guoxi."

When Xiao Guotao said this, he choked with sadness, as if he was not talking about an old event twenty-six years ago.

"How could this happen?! It turns out... what about these two proud students?"

Xiao Guotao shook his head helplessly: "They are missing and their whereabouts are unknown, so we once suspected that these two people murdered Guoxi."

"Murder?!" Zhang Moyan was horrified. For the first time in her ordinary life, the word murder was so close. "Grandpa Guoxi was murdered?"

Xiao Guotao nodded heavily: "But a year later, Luoyang captured a serial murderer who admitted to killing Guoxi while confessing his other crimes."

"Oh..." Not being killed by his favorite student, it seems that this is also something to be relieved.

"What happened to the murderer?"

"Sentenced to death, he was executed that year."

"It's too cheap for him... Then, have there been no news or clues about those two young people?" Zhang Moyan couldn't help asking.

"I don't know about the woman, the man should be dead." Xiao Guotao said slowly.

Zhang Moyan was puzzled: "Why should it be?"

Xiao Guotao stared at the young man in the photo: "I received a last letter from him twenty-five years ago, but I couldn't find the source of the letter, so I'm not sure if he really passed away later."

Zhang Moyan wanted to ask about the content of the last letter, but when the words came to her lips, she felt that she was too gossip, so she swallowed it again.

"Xiao Zhang," Xiao Guotao called her suddenly, and looked at her, "How many years do you think it takes for a person to be reincarnated in the underworld after death?"

"Ah?" Zhang Moyan couldn't react at all, only felt that Xiao Guotao's thinking seemed to be jumping, and she was always caught off guard by changing the subject. She was stunned by the question, "I don't know about this!"

She has never seen this knowledge in books, and even the brain-opening web articles she has read don't seem to mention this knowledge point.

"Old Mr. Xiao, why did you suddenly ask this?"

Xiao Guotao carefully stuffed the photos back into the album, tidied up all the corners, and then raised his head: "I'm a little worried that if one day I go to report, I don't know if I can see Guoxi again."

He closed the album, slowly stroked the cover of the album, and sighed deeply: "I really miss him!"

With a throbbing pain in her heart, Zhang Moyan burst into tears, and there was hardly any time to brew it.

"What's the trouble in this life,

Never forget the past.

Brother first I did not,
Lonely and young are by my side. "

It's about Xiao Guotao's sad life. With the memory of his brother, he took care of his wife and children all his life. When he was dying, he still looked forward to reuniting with him at the spring.

Xiao Guoxi must be a very good person, Zhang Moyan thought.

From the corner of the eye, Zhang Moyan was wiping tears, and Xiao Guotao turned his head, his eyes gradually loving: "My child, I'm a little tired, you go back to the room! Now that your identity has been exposed, you should leave early, let me tell you, No one will embarrass you! I believe that you will do what you say, and you will not talk nonsense."

Zhang Moyan couldn't believe it, she was pardoned just like that.

Xiao Guotao stood up and began to clear the things on the table: "Let's go, before I change my mind."

Zhang Moyan immediately stood up: "Thank you, Mr. Xiao!"

　The second day without Teacher Xiao, I miss him.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)