Chapter 634: Death Is the End of the World, and Things Are Unpredictable

The incident of Xu Zhimo's death is not much different from that in history.

Yesterday, Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman had another quarrel at home, and then he took the train to Jinling alone. This morning, he was going to take a plane to Beijing, because tonight he was going to attend the Chinese architectural art lecture held by Lin Huiyin for foreign envoys in the Peking Union Medical College Auditorium.

For this lecture, Lin Huiyin also called Ye Luo to inform him that he could come to see it if he was free, but because of the recent resignation of the principal and the Wanrong incident, Ye Luo was unable to get away and had to politely refuse.

After quarreling with Xu Zhimo, Lu Xiaoman stayed at home angrily and did not accompany him to Beijing.

Xu Zhimo also notified Liang Sicheng in advance to send a car to pick him up, but Liang Sicheng waited at the airport until 4:30 pm today, but Xu Zhimo did not come.

Liang Sicheng, who was puzzled, called from Beijing, and after several rounds of transfers, he finally learned that the China Airlines "Jinan" mail plane that Xu Zhimo was riding on had crashed due to bad weather.

Lin Ruxian told Ye Luo that after getting the news from Liang Sicheng, she sent someone to China Aviation Company and also asked officials from relevant departments in Jinling.

It is said that when the plane arrived in Dangjiazhuang, south of the capital of Shandong Province, there was suddenly a thick fog and it was difficult to tell the direction.

In order to find the correct route, the pilot had to lower the flight altitude. Unexpectedly, the plane hit the mountain and immediately fell into the valley. The fuselage caught fire and all the people on board (two crew members and Xu Zhimo) died.

Regarding the cause of Xu Zhimo's death, it is tentatively determined that there was a heavy fog, the main crew member Wang Guanyi was busy preparing for his daughter's wedding the night before, and he was too energetic during the flight.

"There are unexpected changes in the sky." Ye Luo sighed. After traveling through time, Xu Zhimo was one of his few good friends in China.

Since Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman got married, they came to Shanghai from Peking to live. It was when Ye Luo started his car business.

I still remember that on the day when Ye's car dealership opened, Xu Zhimo brought Lu Xiaoman's paintings to celebrate.

As Ye Luo's business grew, the friendship between the three never changed. Ye Luo also helped them stabilize many unstable factors in their marriage.

I never thought that Xu Zhimo would die in this disaster.

"I'm afraid it's not a natural disaster or a man-made disaster." Lin Ruxian whispered.

At this time, the Japanese invaders invaded the north, and Ye Luo was fighting with many forces, fighting openly and secretly.

Although Xu Zhimo was not a politician, he was quite famous in the literary and educational circles, and he was keen on resisting Japan and saving the country and criticizing the internal struggles of the Kuomintang.

The sudden crash of the plane inevitably made people wonder whether it was related to political struggles.

What Lin Ruxian and others were more worried about was that this was a disguised warning from the Japanese invaders to Ye Luo.

Ye Luo took in Wanrong and Jin Bihui, which was equivalent to publicly tearing his face with the Japanese invaders. The Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Shichitaro Yada, wanted to eat Ye Luo alive.

It is possible that the death of Xu Zhimo could be used to attack Ye Luo.

Ye Luo looked at Lin Ruxian, then glanced at Lu Xiaoman and others, and said in a low voice: "Just in case, sister-in-law, send more people to protect the Ye Mansion, and then let Yongzhen and others secretly investigate to see if it is really related to the Japanese."

"I know, don't worry, leave it to me." Lin Ruxian is the oldest among these women and has experienced the most ups and downs. Xiao Aqiao is now busy at home nursing the baby, so she is the second mistress of Ye's investment.

After talking about these, Ye Luo returned to Lu Xiaoman and patted her back to comfort her.

Lu Xiaoman cried like a tearful person: "Wow, wow, Ah Luo, if I had known this, I shouldn't have said those harsh words to him last night, and if I had been more frugal. Zhimo, Zhimo wouldn't have to make cargo planes, maybe..."

"Xiaoman, now that things have come to this, don't take all the responsibility on yourself." Ye Luo knew that Lu Xiaoman was the one who suffered the most this time, but he had no choice but to comfort her softly, and then help to take care of Xu Zhimo's funeral.

After his death, Xu's family and his ex-wife Zhang Youyi couldn't sit still, and it was estimated that they would soon rush to Shanghai.

As one of Xu Zhimo's best friends during his lifetime, Ye Luo naturally had to take on the position of chairman of the funeral committee.

Lu Xiaoman really blamed herself now.

Since coming to Shanghai, her expenses have been getting bigger and bigger. For her, Xu Zhimo had to take on several positions and travel to many places, often exhausted.

After Zhang Youyi broke up with Tang Ying and the others last time, Lu Xiaoman lost her stable source of income. She was too embarrassed to go back to the Black Cat Ballroom to work and get money, so she was gloomy at home all day.

Although Tang Ying and the others reconciled with her with the help of Ye Luo, she couldn't make money after all, so she couldn't be thick-skinned and stick to them again.

As time went by, the expenses became bigger and bigger, and the core conflict between her and Xu Zhimo broke out again.

Last night, because Xu Zhimo insisted on attending Lin Huiyin's speech, the two had a big quarrel, and Xu Zhimo left in anger. In the end, he had no money and had to take a cargo plane to Beijing.

If it weren't for these things, she felt that Xu Zhimo should have gone to Beijing normally.

After this incident, Ye Luo couldn't leave Shanghai again in the near future.

Moreover, Xu Zhimo's body had not been claimed yet, so he had to accompany Lu Xiaoman to claim the remains.

But before they set out to claim the remains, Xu Zhimo's unexpected death and the tragic condition before his death became well-known news.

According to various tabloid reports, Xu Zhimo's death was extremely tragic.

Not only were his hands and feet burned to charcoal, there was also a big hole in his head, and half of his body was completely broken.

It seems that Xu Zhimo suffered inhuman torture before his death, and did not die suddenly.

After learning the news from the newspaper, Lu Xiaoman became even more frightened. She was afraid that she would collapse when she saw her husband's tragic condition.

Therefore, she never had the courage to go to the scene to claim the body. No matter how Ye Luo persuaded her, she would not move. She kept curling up in her bed at home, looking pitiful.

Later, there was really no way, so Ye Luo had to go to Zhang Youyi.

Zhang Youyi was much stronger than Lu Xiaoman. She endured the severe pain and took Xu Zhimo's son Xu Rusun to the scene to claim the body.

Finally, a few days later, with the help of Ye Luo and others, Zhang Youyi transported Xu Zhimo's body back to Shanghai and sent it to the funeral home for burial.

After Xu Zhimo's body was transported back to Shanghai, Lu Xiaoman saw the only relic on the scene—a long scroll of landscape painting.

This painting was created by Lu Xiaoman this spring and can be regarded as Lu Xiaoman's early representative work. What is more precious is its inscription. Xu Zhimo brought this scroll with him, intending to ask someone to add inscriptions in Beijing. However, because the scroll was placed in an iron box, it was not buried with the person.

Lu Xiaoman looked at the scroll and thought of Xu Zhimo's good qualities, and she couldn't help crying.

After Xu Zhimo's death, Lu Xiaoman vowed not to go out to socialize, but to stay at home and concentrate on painting, like a different person.

Not long after, Ye Luo held a rather grand funeral for Xu Zhimo in the name of the chairman of the funeral committee.

Things are unpredictable. Lin Huiyin and her husband failed to wait for their friends to attend their lecture, and had to go south to Shanghai to attend the funeral.

Lin Huiyin also wanted to come, but because of her pregnancy and poor health, she could not resist Liang Sicheng's insistence and could only pay tribute to him from afar at home. She called Ye Luo several times to express her thoughts and condolences.

Everyone was stained with a layer of haze in their hearts because of Xu Zhimo's death.

The funeral was held as scheduled, and Lin Ruxian was also continuously investigating the truth of the plane crash.

Perhaps this was really an accident. With the power of Ye's investment, no trace of the trick could be found out.

But while investigating, Lin Ruxian found something interesting and useful! (End of this chapter)