Chapter 4 The Man on the Tombstone 02
If you ask me if I have ever felt guilty towards anyone in the past 18 years, I will answer without hesitation that she was a girl named "Mosquito".
Wang Meiwen, the mosquito between me and Li Wei.
Since kindergarten, I have often played with two girls, one is the "tomboy" Li Wei, and the other is the "crybaby" Wang Meiwen.
Until junior high school, the three of us went to the same school, the same class, and stayed together all day, like conjoined twins.
Although we were born in the same year, my birth month is the oldest, so I naturally became the eldest among the three of us.
In fact, compared to me, a boss without much momentum, Li Wei is more suitable to be the boss.
In addition to studying, Li Wei and Wang Meiwen spent more time together, because they both signed up for art classes, learning violin, dancing, etc. But I was born without artistic talent, and would rather sleep at home than learn those things.
But this does not affect the relationship between the three of us.
Wang Meiwen had always been a bully since she was a child. But as she grew older, she became more innocent and more pitiful, and was also increasingly envied by some girls and harassed by more boys.
Every time encountering those situations, the mosquito can only cry.
Whenever Li Wei saw Mosquito crying, she would quickly make those people who made Mosquito cry, so that they would never dare to see Mosquito again.
As for me, among the three of us, I'm not bragging, but before I was beaten by Leng Yuting, my brain was indeed the most useful, so I was the best choice to negotiate with teachers and parents and help Mosquito and Li Wei get rid of the crime.
The three of us have a clear division of labor in everything we do. Wang Meiwen is weak, Li Wei is strong, and I am somewhere in the middle. We balance each other out and never conflict.
I once thought that no matter how the world changed, the three of us would always be friends.
However, the sudden change was beyond our control.
It’s not that our friendship was not strong enough, but that we were not mature enough at that time and did not understand the importance of this relationship.
I have said before that Li Wei’s father was not a good businessman. Now I would like to add that Ai Sheng, who was my father at the time, was not a good businessman either.
The relationship between our three companies has always been very good and we often have economic exchanges.
Of course, I only found out about this later.
We were in the third grade of junior high school when the incident happened.
At that time, Ai Sheng had been involved in the real estate industry for less than two years and was preparing to develop a mid-range villa area. He contracted the project to Wang Meiwen's father, Wang Qi.
All tragedies stem from human greed. In order to reduce costs, Ai Sheng joined hands with Li Wei's father to develop the land. Many of the building materials used did not comply with regulations. Before the buildings were completed, an accident occurred at the construction site - a floor under construction suddenly collapsed, killing several workers, and the matter became a big deal.
According to the evidence I secretly checked later, I don't know what method Ai Sheng used to make Wang Qi voluntarily take all the responsibility, and the whole thing ended with the construction site contractor committing suicide out of fear of punishment for embezzling the project funds.
That year, Mosquito's father died , and her mother was so sad that she went crazy.
Overnight, Mosquito's family was destroyed.
At that time, Li Wei and I were both daughters of business tycoons, living a life that many people envied. We had no idea that the tragedies that occurred in our best friend's family were related to the father we respected and admired.
When the incident happened in Mosquito's family, Ai Sheng suddenly said that he wanted to take the whole family on a trip.
Being young and ignorant, I happily followed Ai Sheng to Hong Kong. At the same time, Li Wei and her family also went to the Maldives for vacation.
When we came back, we saw what happened to the Mosquito family in the newspaper and realized that the Mosquito family was ruined.
We were so innocent at that time. It was obviously our father who killed the person, but we still foolishly went together to find the mosquito, under the pretext of worrying about our friend and comforting the mosquito.
I think, when we went to see Mosquito, no matter whether she knew the truth or not, she must have found it ridiculous to see us, her two best friends who had abandoned her and her family to enjoy a carefree life at her most difficult time, coming to comfort her so late!
But in fact, we don’t even have the chance to be laughed at by mosquitoes.
Mosquito's house was sealed off and no one was there. All we know is that Mosquito and her crazy mother were taken away by their relatives, and no one knows where they went.
That year, Li Wei and I only knew that we owed Mosquito because we were out traveling and failed to comfort her in time, but we didn't know that we owed her so much.
I finally learned the truth when my mother accidentally let it slip during an argument with Ai Sheng.
I'm not a fool. I understand that this is a big deal. I secretly checked Ai Sheng's computer and found a lot of information.
Before Ai Sheng knew that I was not his biological daughter, he wanted to train me to be a business elite. Therefore, I was very familiar with the financial statements since I was a child. Although the information about Mosquito's father's crime was falsified, there was still evidence to support it.
The information is incomplete, and it is impossible to understand the whole story, but at least it can be seen that Ai Sheng is involved.
The missing information is most likely in the hands of Li Wei's father. Judging from the situation, he must be involved.
Mosquito's father is not completely innocent either. He also participated in cutting corners, but his crime does not deserve the death penalty.
I think the reason why he committed suicide was that Ai Sheng and Li Guangming promised to give his family enough benefits afterwards, so he was willing to take all the blame.
As for what the benefits are, I don't know.
This truth, just like the secret that I suffered from an unknown neurological disease, has been hidden in my heart. I have never told anyone, including Li Wei .
I have always felt guilty for what Ai Sheng did to Mosquito, but I didn't intend to report Ai Sheng at that time. First, because Mosquito was not found, and second, because at that time he was indeed a good father to me, who loved me and took great pains to raise me.
I can call Ai Sheng a scumbag, but I cannot deny that my glorious past is inextricably linked to Ai Sheng.
The sudden appearance of the mosquito caught me off guard. Should I continue to hide that secret?
Standing at the entrance of the Student Activity Center, looking at the heavily made-up girl on the huge poster in the window, my eyes were badly stung.
When did the mosquito, who was once innocent, pure and delicate like a white lotus, become so worldly and enchanting now?
The pair of clear eyes that I once envied so much are now covered with bright makeup, and the girl in the picture doesn't look like Mosquito at all.
