My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 321 Parents' Secret

This car looks like it is used to transport small goods in the store. Maybe because I needed the car too urgently, Li Momo arranged one for me temporarily. It seems that this young lady has finally come to her senses and knows what a family car is.

After the driver got out, he handed the keys respectfully to Li Han, and said that Mr. Li had instructed him to use the car as he pleased and return it when done.

Li Han took the car keys, thanked the driver and gave him two packs of September Five Supreme. He has always had a good grasp of the ways of the world.

The driver looked at her more eagerly, as if he was looking at... the master's son-in-law?

I put this strange thought out of my mind, got in the car, started the engine, shifted into gear, released the handbrake, and then drove towards my alma mater.

It is about 17 or 18 kilometers from the ruins of the Ming Palace to the Xianlin Campus of Nanjing University. Although it was not rush hour, there were still many vehicles on the road. Li Han drove for more than an hour and finally arrived at his destination.

It was already past twelve o'clock, which was the lunch break time. I parked the car, had lunch, and then called the teacher who taught Chinese history.

The teacher who taught Chinese history was named Hu Mingyuan, a national second-level professor. He had already retired and was re-employed when he taught Li Han, and he is still working hard in the school.

"Hello, is this Teacher Hu? Yes, yes, yes, I'm Li Han. You still remember me. Nothing much to say. I just happened to be back at school and wanted to come and see you. Hey, you're in the staff unit building. Okay, I know where it is. I've been to your place for free meals many times before."

Hu Mingyuan has a house in the city, but he is also allocated a staff house in the school. He lives in the school when he has classes. It seems that he is lucky today, as Hu Mingyuan happens to be in school.

When Li Han arrived at Hu Mingyuan's house and opened the door, he saw a amiable old man walking out.

"Xiao Li, long time no see, come in." Hu Mingyuan smiled kindly as soon as he saw Li Han.

"Teacher Hu, long time no see. You are still so energetic!" Li Han walked in with a smile.

"You, you've been graduated for several years, and you didn't even come to see me. Do you think I, an old man, can't teach you anymore or what? If you have anything to say, just tell me. You never come to see me for no reason."

Hu Mingyuan teased Li Han while pouring water and then handed the cup over.

Li Han took the tea with both hands, feeling a little emotional. Teacher Hu was really good at judging people.

He didn't keep the secret and said directly, "I really have something to ask you. Teacher Hu, you should have been assigned to teach in our school directly after graduating from Peking University, right?"

Hu Mingyuan nodded and said, "Yes, that should have been around 92. Yes, I entered the school in 92."

Li Han pondered. According to his aunt, his parents entered school in 93. There were not so many college students at that time. In that case, Hu Mingyuan should have taught them both.

"Then do you have any impression of the name Li Jianshe, who majored in Ming history? There is also another one named Lin Yujin, who majored in archaeology."

"Li Jianshe, Lin Yujin?"

Hu Mingyuan half frowned as he recalled, and then asked, "As for the archaeology major, I only taught their public courses, and I don't really remember the name Lin Yujin. But as for Li Jianshe, which class was he from?"

"I enrolled in 93 and graduated in 97."

"For the class of 97, Xiao Li, please wait."

Hu Mingyuan seemed to have remembered something, and went into the study to look for it. After a while, he took out a thick photo album. "These are the graduation photos of the students I taught. If it's the 97 graduation, let me look for it. Hey, here, Xiao Li, take a look, is Li Jianshe in the photo?"

Li Han took a stack of photos, which should be graduation photos of different classes. He looked through them carefully and found that there were not many people in each photo, only about twenty people. The number was small, and it seemed that college students at that time were really the chosen ones.

After searching through the photos one by one for a long time, Li Han finally found the portrait of his father in the photos.

My father at that time was only in his early twenties, with thick hair and full of energy, nothing like me now, who looks old and dated.

"Teacher Hu, that's him. Do you still remember him?"

Hu Mingyuan took the photo and looked at it, then he suddenly realized: "Him, Li Jianshe, I remember him now, this guy left a very deep impression on me!"

Li Han was overjoyed when he heard this. It seemed that he had finally found some clues about his father. He hurriedly asked, "Teacher Hu, what is so special about him that impressed you so deeply?"

"He is the most courageous student among all the students I teach. He started dating right after entering the school. Oh, by the way, his girlfriend is a student majoring in archaeology, her name is Lin Yujin!

Although dating is not prohibited in college, all college students at that time wanted to study hard and be assigned to a good unit in the future. Only this guy was obsessed with finding a partner. In the end, after graduation, he did not go to the unit he was assigned to, but instead started a self-employed business!

It's a pity that this kid has such a smart brain."

Watching Hu Mingyuan chattering on and on, Li Han didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He never expected that his father had such glorious deeds.

In the early 1990s, men and women were still strictly separated. You needed a letter of introduction to book a hotel room. During the crackdown, anyone caught a hooligan would be sentenced to death. My dad was not afraid that the police would arrest him as a hooligan.

"If there is anything special about this guy, it seems that he is particularly interested in Ming history, and the questions he asked are very strange. They are about the geography of the Ming Dynasty. This research direction is very niche, so I was so impressed."

Things about Ming Dynasty geography?
Li Han was completely confused. What was going on? His mind was in a mess and the clues he found didn't make any sense at all. There was no logic at all.

I really want to pull my parents out and ask them what they are doing and why they are so secretive.

Then Hu Mingyuan helped him ask the archaeology teacher about Lin Yujin, but he didn't get any useful information.

There was no other choice but to go to the library again to look for clues and see if I could find out what book my parents were researching.

It just so happened that one of Hu Mingyuan's students stayed on to work in the school library after graduation, so he could be considered Li Han's junior. After helping to make the contact, Li Han got up and said goodbye.

Before leaving, she gave the Huanghuali bracelet to Hu Mingyuan. Although Hu Mingyuan scolded her seriously and said that the bracelet was too expensive and inappropriate, he still accepted it.

But seeing how Hu Mingyuan couldn't let it go, Li Han felt it was worth it, as long as the teacher liked it.

When he arrived at the library, the junior received him warmly. All books borrowed from the library were on a real-name basis, and only people with a library card were eligible to borrow books.

In this way, as long as I look up the name of Li Jianshe or Lin Yujin, I will know what books my parents borrowed.

However, the younger brother couldn't find the names of the two in the computer system. Li Han was a little puzzled. The school library had long been managed by computers, so how could he not find their names?

(End of this chapter)