Sapphire case

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It was the latest news from Xunzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, with a close-up photo of Jiang Cheng's elder brother Jiang Xu attached.

Jiang's eldest son, who had been missing for more than half a year, according to a letter from Jiang Cheng's confidants on the southern coast, has recently haunted Huainan and contacted many southern bandit student organizations!

This is really shocking news. As soon as Jiang Cheng received the telegram, he urgently called the Xunzhou liaison officer to confirm that the information was true, and then reported it to Jiang Zhiya. Obviously, Jiang Zhiya had also received the news. When Jiang Cheng returned to the Jiang mansion, he heard Upstairs, Jiang's mother, Song Shuzhen, was faintly wailing.

Jiang Cheng owed his father, Jiang Zhiya raised his hand to stop his movement: "This matter is very important, it's not easy for me to leave by myself, it seems that you have to go down to the south of the Yangtze River yourself, So as not to cause other troubles!"

"Yes!" Jiang Cheng responded with a nod of his head, and turned to say, "Father, the assassination of Ida Kazuyuki, the execution of Liu Mian may not be able to convince the Japanese. They are clamoring everywhere that someone behind Liu Mian is instigating and exaggerating the matter. There is a plan to use this to invade; and your birthday is approaching, when people from all walks of life will come, if I am not around, I am afraid that the affairs will be inconvenient and cause suspicion..."

"Hey," Jiang Zhiya interrupted him, "Your father has lived at this age, you don't need to worry about this matter! Your mother has been thinking too much these days, if it is really your elder brother who appeared in Huainan this time , Finding him back is also to help our family inside and out! You go, I will deal with it here."

"Yes!" Jiang Cheng stood up straight and bowed to Jiang Zhiya, "Take care. Farewell."

He ordered people to contact the liaison officer in Jiangnan to ensure that there are personnel from Jinzhou to Xunzhou to respond. Most of the land in Jiangnan has not been affected by the war, business activities are prosperous, and the situation is relatively stable. The concession can provide some shelter.

He rushed back to Bieyuan at a high speed, and said to Lao Zhang who was driving: "You and Xiao Li hurry up and pack up your belongings, it's not too late, we'll leave at noon!"

Lao Zhang answered "yes" and got off the car.When Jiang Cheng walked into the other garden, Gu Sheng was flipping through the books downstairs, when he heard this movement, he closed the book in his hand, stood up and asked, "What's the matter?"

Only then did Jiang Cheng notice that he was downstairs, and his eyes flicked to the playbook on the coffee table. He suddenly remembered that he said in the morning that he had accepted a invitation from a tycoon in Shanghai and was going to sing at the New Year's Hall. He raised his voice and said with a smile: "What a coincidence! I also have to go to the south now. I just received a telegram saying that my long-lost elder brother was found in Jiangnan. Jiang Zhiya insisted that I go to Jiangnan to pick him up. Him once."

As he spoke, he poked his head from the stairs, looked at him helplessly and said, "Hey, you see, I didn't mean to follow you to the south of the Yangtze River. Come on, if you have anything you want to bring, hurry up and make an exception. You bring an extra handbag!"

Gu Sheng froze for a moment, and his expression became a little complicated. He put down the book, hesitated and said: "My things have already been packed. But... you are organizing the birthday banquet for Commander Jiang, so you don't need to stay in Jinzhou? "

His tone couldn't help showing disappointment, because of this coincidence, Jiang Cheng had a legitimate reason to go to Jiangnan with him.And the Shanghai tycoon's invitation has already been accepted, it is impossible to allow Gu Sheng to change his mind suddenly.

"Jiang Zhiya is personally in charge here. What's more, he has a garrison in Xunzhou. I also have the task of contacting the old department when I go south this time..." Jiang Cheng obviously misunderstood his sudden depression, but he still came down from the stairs , sighed, and rubbed the young man's slender neck with two hands.

The gates of the city collapsed, the wind and rain swayed, the new wind passed by, and the rivers and mountains seemed to die.

The war is full of smoke, the rain and snow douse the beacon fire, the setting sun is setting to the west, thousands of miles of sad songs, the wind blows the earth hundreds of feet high, and the rays of the sun are as magnificent as blood.

The fast-moving off-road vehicle crossed the mountains and ridges, ran over the white grass, and crushed the remains of the corpses. The Langyuan collapsed, the palace walls were scorched and peeled off; The team fled.

They did not choose the plane, but drove day and night. Although the journey was exhausting, it was difficult to be detected by people with ulterior motives.

At this moment, Gu Sheng was sitting on the back seat of the car, his eyes flicked over the picture of the car speeding backwards outside the car window, his face looked a little inexplicable and indifferent.Jiang Cheng suddenly remembered a long time ago, when he forcibly brought Gu Sheng home from the theater for the first time, Gu Sheng was also in the back seat like this, and the car window that covered half of the curtain separated him from the busy street outside. However, those water-colored eyes were rubbed into the skylight, embellished with something similar to sadness.

Jiang Cheng was afraid that Gu Sheng would be emotionally affected by the scene, so he didn't dare to stay longer, so he drove out of the city non-stop.

In fact, during the two days on the road, Gu Sheng has been a little sleepy. Since Jiang Cheng expressed his heart to Du Han last time, he has tried his best to change his ways and start a new life. He also restrained himself from messing around in the Maolin mansion. Others are trying to make up for the mistakes that have not been done in the past, and make persistent efforts in the places that have done well in the past, and always follow him.

Seeing that he is not in a high mood, it is only thought that he is sentimental. He has already taken root in Jinzhou these years, and wandering around will inevitably feel sad; not to mention that the Jingguan war broke out again, and Jiang Cheng himself is also responsible.Therefore, along the way, I tried to put the attributes of the trip in the south of the Yangtze River on the basis of "swimming with arms".

Gu Sheng probably sensed his efforts, but he didn't bother to respond.Occasionally, he took out the dowry with headdresses in the bag, and slowly stroked those delicate and complicated objects with his slender fingers. There was a warm feeling in Jiang Cheng's eyes that he had never seen before, and a kind of love that he didn't know where to start. coolness.

When Jiang Cheng saw him playing with those things again, he speculated that he might want to go back to the stage, so he coaxed him: "Hey, don't worry too much, Shanghai's enthusiasm for folk art is not inferior to that of Jinzhou. You go to pay Feng Zheng a pier, and he will give you face no matter what."

Feng Zheng was the tycoon who sent the greeting card to Gu Sheng, a well-known figure in the south, black and white, covering the sky with one hand, even Xunzhou in Shanghai also watched his face to eat.This person was helped by Jiang Zhiya when he got up, Jiang Zhiya's strategy for him was to win him over if he could, and never become an enemy if he can't be a friend.When Jiang Cheng took over, he continued this policy of respecting each other as guests. Now that he is in the south of the Yangtze River, using Gu Sheng as an excuse to say hello to someone can really deceive people and get the best of both worlds.

Gu Sheng nodded indifferently, and looked out of the window again.

Jiang Cheng was afraid that he would just nod his head without saying a word, and always felt that he had no idea. Seeing that he was still holding the wooden box, he said provocatively: "It seems that you really like that hair mask. An old craftsman, I will ask someone to find out if there is any way to order another set..."

"No need," Gu Sheng said annoyed, "I'm tired."

"Oh, ok. Is it cold? Take my overcoat and put it on?" Jiang Cheng nodded hurriedly, and lifted the woolen overcoat on the passenger seat, "Then why don't you rest for a while?  … We should be able to reach the junction before dark..."

Gu Sheng lay down sideways on the back seat of the car, still holding the dark oak box tightly in his hands, his eyes fixed on the roof of the car for a while, and then slowly fell down.

Jiang Cheng saw it in the rearview mirror, and for no reason he could see a hint of sadness from it.

Three days later.

Jiang Cheng and his party have already approached the boundary of Jiangnan.The scenery outside the car has also changed a lot. In December, the Jiangbei wilderness has lost the atmosphere of northern chill, and places that have not been affected by the flames of war still have the color of keeping a low profile.

The sound of the mighty river came from far and near for several miles, and the spire of the Gothic church emerged from the mist.

Jiang Chengteng flipped through the map with his hand, turned his head and said to Gu Sheng: "After crossing the river, we will be there soon. Do you want to eat something first? Or keep going? Are you okay?"

Gu Sheng closed his eyes and shook his head in the back row, Jiang Cheng stopped the car after thinking about it, and handed him the pineapple cake.

Gu Sheng slowly opened his eyes without answering, opened the car door and leaned on it, drank a couple of sips of water, looked away with a pale face.

Jiang Cheng reckoned that this short cut was bumpy enough, so he carefully followed his back: "Hey? Is it uncomfortable?"

Gu Sheng took a breath and took a half step back, "...I'll stand by myself for a while."

"Huh? Okay, I'll accompany you." Jiang Cheng nodded, turned his head to confirm that Lao Zhang's car also stopped in a shelter, turned his gaze to look into the distance and said, "Don't tell me, I have been to Jiangnan before. A few times. After I’m done, I’ll take you to Chenghu Lake, right? This place is different from the north, with a lot of water, and it doesn’t look like it. Maybe you like it haha... Hey! The water rushed into the Dragon King Temple, I forgot You are from the south, I remember where you are... Are you from Yingzhou?"

Jiang Chengwu nodded to himself: "Yes, yes, I remember...is it Jinzhou who escaped?"

He asked people to investigate Gu Sheng at the beginning, but only found Hongxin Troupe and Yan Dezhi. There are not a few orphans in the theater troupe, and it is very common for Gu Sheng to escape from disaster. Jiang Cheng didn't think much about it, at most he asked In addition to asking where his ancestral home is, he is not familiar with places in the south of the Yangtze River, so he knows that there is no problem.

Gu Sheng still lowered his head halfway, noncommittal to his words, his face still not looking good.Jiang Cheng wondered whether to ask Xiao Li to take some medicine, and the moment Jiang Cheng turned his head, Lao Zhang's roar came——

"Young commander! Be careful!—"

Jiang Cheng hugged Gu Sheng beside him, dragged him down forcibly before he could react, and rolled on the spot in his arms!

"boom"!

"Boom boom boom"!

The off-road vehicle was suddenly overturned five meters away from the trench dug before the war, a ball of flames rose from under the hood, and thick black smoke suddenly diffused with the continuous loud noises produced by the explosion of the fuel tank. Rolling silently, the flames quickly licked the body, the glass shattered, and the skeleton deformed and folded!

Jiang Cheng pinched the back of Gu Sheng's head and pressed him against himself. The force was so great that he lost his senses. The loud explosion was deafening, and it seemed that the ground was shaking for a moment.

The roar of the car engine was approaching, and Lao Zhang's red eyes were exposed from above the trench: "Young commander! Get in the car!"

The roaring large-caliber bullets pierced through the rear windshield of the car, protruding from the front at a speed of [-] kilometers per second!

As soon as the young man let out a miserable cry, he lost control of his body a moment later, and hit the steering wheel suddenly with his forehead that had a hole in it.

"Little Li!"

Lao Zhang looked back in horror. The big boy who had just followed him for a few months and kept telling him that his master should learn from him had always half-opened his eyes, and his life was frozen on the brake that was stepped on at that moment.

Jiang Cheng pulled open the door of the driver's seat and took a sudden breath. However, the sniper bullets that were chasing him did not allow him to think too much. He almost instinctively pushed Gu Sheng into the back seat with one hand, and pushed Gu Sheng who was stiff in the driver's seat with the other. The young man dragged it out, jumped into the car by himself, stepped on the clutch, pulled up the handbrake, and slammed the accelerator. The engine roared like a beast, and roared towards the river!

The dark car is like a dragon drifting and flicking in the following bullets, and the engine that needs to be strengthened is squeezed out of unprecedented potential. The effective range of the sniper rifle is only 2000 meters, as long as you escape this death distance ...

Jiang Cheng's brain seemed to have been hit hard by a heavy hammer. He almost frantically shifted gears and turned his direction, and roared in an instant: "No! No!"

The other party was not a straggler who took advantage of the fire to loot here. They specially chose the riverside as the place to carry out the assassination. Naturally, it was absolutely impossible to let him escape their control!

——There must be an ambush ahead!