Original Mystery Novel: "B***ard Manor" EP53

"Zhang Zhenyu invited everyone, and your father invited everyone—Old Zhou was the middleman, right? He arranged it?" Xu Ziqian nodded. "My father was in charge of the venue, and Zhou Zhengguo was in charge of the list. He knew better than anyone who was still alive and who had come into contact with evidence from Fog Valley. He spent sixteen years clearing everything away, but there was one thing he couldn't get rid of." "What's that?" "You," Xu Ziqian said. "He couldn't erase you. Because when you were sent away, you didn't remember anything. He couldn't track someone who didn't know they had ever existed. Not until that negotiation three years ago—your name appeared in the news. That's when he realized there was another child from Fog Valley alive, alive and well." Chen Mo leaned against the wall. The papers on the wall rustled behind him, like hundreds of tiny voices whispering at once. "So this manor," he said, "this seminar, all the invitations, all the coincidences—" "Were designed by Zhou Zhengguo," Xu Ziqian said. "He spent three years gathering everyone who might have had contact with clues from Fog Valley. Zhang Zhenyu, Lin Jing, Shen Yuehua, Fang Guodong, my father... and you." "What does he want to do?" Xu Ziqian didn't answer. He took something else out of his pocket—an old pocket watch. When he opened the lid, a tiny photo was tucked inside. It showed two boys standing side by side. One had an 'S' scar on his left wrist; it was Xu Ziqian's older brother. The other... was Chen Mo. The two were smiling. The background was the old banyan tree in Fog Valley Village. "He's your brother..." (To be continued)