Chapter 134 Antecedents
"He...why did he go down the mountain?"
When Lan Lian confirmed that Fang Yi was the little Taoist priest in her memory, she suddenly felt as if she had been exhausted from all her strength and sat heavily on the wide boss's chair. The past seven or eight years ago flashed through her mind like a movie.
As the economic and political center of China during the Republic of China, Jinling gathered many wealthy families in China at that time, and the Lan family was one of them. They once monopolized the textile industry in China, including Southeast Asia, and the famous department store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai was opened by Lan Lian’s ancestors and Hong Kong Islanders.
Like Chen Liejin's family, the Lan family transferred most of the family's assets abroad the year before the liberation of Jinling. However, unlike Chen Liejin, Lan Lian was born and raised abroad and did not return to Jinling until the early 1990s.
Lan Lian returned to Jinling and took over the family's industry Xinbai. At that time, she was exactly 27 or 28 years old. Because she had been studying abroad, although Lan Lian had a boyfriend, she was not married. What she didn't expect was that it was because of her unmarried identity that caused her a lot of trouble.
Lan Lian has a high education and is beautiful, which makes many young talents in Jinling look like male peacocks who have taken hormones. They want to show themselves in front of her. Lan Lian is easy to deal with these people. Her years of life experience abroad have given her enough emotional intelligence to reject these people.
However, in addition to these people, as the new generation of Xinbai helmsman, Lan Lian also needs to deal with many people from the bank and official positions. Dating with these people is the most troublesome thing for Lan Lian.
One of them was the president of a bank in Jinling. He was a divorced man. When he first saw Lan Lian, he was shocked and various methods of pursuit followed one after another. However, Xinbai had little demand for funds at that time. Lan Lian had no good feelings for this man who was bald when he was less than 40 years old, so he never accepted his pursuit.
However, in the third year when Lan Lian came to Xinbai, she encountered a global economic crisis. It had a great impact on Xinbai, which has always taken the high-end route. The shareholder families abroad were also affected by the economic crisis and could not withdraw funds to support the country for a while.
Under this situation, the status of banks suddenly became important, but the global economic crisis also affected banks. Almost all banks tightened their monetary policy and suspended foreign loans, so they went to several banks, but Lan Lian couldn't lend a penny.
In this case, the bank president who had been pursuing Blue Lotus took the initiative to come to the door and did not mention any excessive conditions, so he agreed to borrow a loan of money to Xinbai. The funds were soon in place, solving Blue Lotus' urgent needs.
The president's behavior was undoubtedly a timely help. Lan Lian suddenly became more fond of him, and the other party did not mention any conditions, which made Lan Lian lose his guard against him and think that he was a more reliable man.
After several invitations from the president to dinner and social activities, Lan Lian went there. First, the face was unexplained, and second, Lan Lian, who had just broken up with her boyfriend abroad, also wanted to try whether she could start a new relationship.
But what Lan Lian could not have imagined was that everything the president had done before was just a concealment.
During an outing in the second year, Lan Lian was in a good mood. Unconsciously, she went deep into the mountains with the president. When she was about to return, the president suddenly tore his face apart. When Lan Lian told him that he had a menstrual period, she still wanted to invade her.
Lan Lian, a woman, could not resist a big man? After a few minutes of work, most of her clothes were torn to pieces. Lan Lian, who was desperately resisting, was finally knocked out by the man who had lost his patience.
However, before she fell into a coma, Lan Lian vaguely remembered that several half-aged children ran over. When she woke up again, she was surprised to find that the man who was originally invading her died ten meters away from her and was surrounded by three boys.
The reason why Lan Lian is called a boy is because it is indeed a few children. Perhaps because of the malnutrition in the mountains, these children are not very tall and look only eleven or eleven years old. However, their behavior shocked Lan Lian.
After letting the other two guard him, one of the boys actually carried the dead president away. When Lan Lian, who was panicked in her heart, saw the two boys walking towards her, she simply continued to pretend to be unconscious.
After about half an hour, the boy who left with the body on his back came back alone. The body he took away was gone. Lan Lian was already pretending to be unconscious and was carried back to a dilapidated Taoist temple by the three children in turn.
After seeing an old Taoist priest with white hair and kind appearance, Lan Lian finally let go of her vigilance, pretended to be awake, and told the old Taoist priest what happened.
What surprised Lan Lian was that after hearing the news that the little Taoist priest seemed to have killed someone, the old Taoist priest did not show any panic and fear. Instead, he cursed the man hard, and did not feel anything wrong with the little Taoist priest killing people.
Whether at home or abroad, Lan Lian was exposed to the laws and murder was a serious crime. She thought that the old Taoist priest had lived in the mountains for a long time and did not understand the laws outside, so she told her what she was worried about and explained that she was willing to help the Taoist priest hire the best lawyer to get rid of the crime.
But what Lan Lian didn't expect was that the old Taoist priest had no intention of telling this matter at all, but told Lan Lian that he had reported to the police station through the people in the village at the foot of the mountain, saying that two tourists who were visiting the mountain encountered a wolf pack, and then died and injured. As for the wound on Lan Lian's head, she was injured by herself while she was avoiding the wolf pack.
Blue Lotus, who has always believed in Jesus abroad, has never lie in this life. However, in order to save her children, after the police station arrived, she could only tell the story compiled by the old Taoist priest according to the old Taoist priest.
But Lan Lian changed the story a little, and attributed her escape entirely to the president's lead to the wolf pack, which also made the story more credible. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to explain that she could escape and met a few Taoist priests.
When they heard that something happened to Xinbai and a president of Jinling was happening, the police station quickly led by Fang Yi, the Taoist priest of the Taoist temple, and went to the place where the incident occurred. Sure enough, they found blood on the ground and footprints of some wild beasts, but the president disappeared.
After searching for a distance, I finally found a corpse with residual blood and flesh on its body in a valley. After the forensic identification arrived later, it was found that the corpse was from the bank president.
No matter how high the level of the forensic doctor is, it is impossible to identify the bones that are not even intestines. They were stabbed to death by a knife. Therefore, this incident was finally defined as an accidental attack by a wolf pack. For this reason, the city held a memorial service specifically for the president who sacrificed himself to save others. It was a great death.
After the matter was over, Lan Lian went to the Taoist temple in the middle of the mountain. She originally wanted to thank the little Taoist priest, but unfortunately, the little Taoist priest went to the mountain to collect herbs. The old Taoist priest received her and gave her a calligraphy and a talisman, asking her to carry the talisman day and night, so that she could protect her from worry-free for three years.
Lan Lian, who was originally a devout Christian, believed in the words of the old Taoist priest for some reason. Before leaving, she proposed to donate money to help the old Taoist priest re-cultivate the Taoist temple to shape the Three Pure Ones, but was rejected by the old Taoist priest, saying that they were not destined to be the ones who might be in the future.
The character is naturally the picture "Tao follows nature" hanging in Lan Lian's office at this moment. The talisman was suddenly burned and destroyed after Lan Lian was worn with her for three years, which also damaged Lan Lian's Hermes Kunbao.
It was also after the talisman disappeared that Lan Lian developed insomnia. She always dreamed of the scene that happened in the mountains that year, which made her afraid to sleep all night and became more and more mentally deteriorated.
Lan Lian had also been to the mountain once, but found that the Taoist temple was even more dilapidated. Not far from the Taoist temple, she saw the tomb of the old Taoist priest. Lan Lian thought that the little Taoist priest had already come down the mountain after the old Taoist priest passed away, so she had no choice but to return.
In fact, what Lan Lian didn't know was that she didn't meet the little Taoist priest when she entered the mountain this time, but Fang Yi deliberately avoided her. At that time, Lan Lian did not wear this pair of black-framed glasses. When Lan Lian was still dozens of meters away from the Taoist temple, he was recognized by Fang Yi. He didn't know what Lan Lian was coming, so he avoided it from afar.
Chapter completed!