Breaking Through the Clouds

Yan Yan blurted out: "Be careful!"

The accident happened so fast, he only had time to throw himself on Jiang Ting's ankle, and hugged the stone pier at the same time, stopping Jiang Ting's tendency to slide out in an instant.

But in the blink of an eye, one of the three people who were originally on the embankment was half suspended in the air, and all the weight was tied to Yan Mao's hand holding the stone pier, and it froze at the last minute.

"I'm a liar...but there's only one sentence that lied to you." The weight of Bu Wei's fall made Jiang Ting overwhelmed, and every word sound was squeezed out through his teeth: "That's the sentence, what's your name? It doesn't make sense to say...it's not like that. From the very beginning, you are just yourself in my eyes, you have nothing to do with me, and you are not my shadow."

Bu Wei raised her head, only one of her elbows was tightly held by Jiang Ting's right hand, the weight of dozens of kilograms made Jiang Ting's pale nails dig deep into the flesh.

"King of Spades is lying to you, no matter what he told you, it is lying to you. You are too young, and you have been distorted by him before you can see the truth, but as long as you come up... "

Jiang Ting felt that his center of gravity was tilting outward centimeter by centimeter, cold sweat slanted across his cheeks from his temples, and his face was blue because he gritted his teeth too hard:

"Just come up and I'll tell you, Buvi, everything that's happened over the years, all—"

Buwei finally reacted, and her soft laughter came from the wind:

"You might as well wait until the bottom and tell me together."

At this time, the balance was at the end of the crossbow, Bu Wei grabbed Jiang Ting's arm with the other hand, and pulled him down with all her strength!

Yan Xi lost his voice: "Stop!"

Jiang Ting slid outwards under the force, and Yan Yan's heart almost stopped beating in an instant, and his mind went blank; when he reacted, he had already firmly grasped Jiang Ting's ankle, and most of his body leaned out. Within a short period of time, the momentum of weightlessness was barely stopped——

Immediately afterwards, Buwei fell straight into the river from the dam several meters high like a kite with a broken string!

Pfft!

The splash of water was reflected in the depths of Jiang Ting's pupils.

He was completely suspended above the waist, and the wind howled on the river, making it impossible for people to maintain balance, and even the protruding stones on the embankment could not be reached.Jiang Ting gasped for breath while standing upside down, and suddenly shouted: "Yan Xie! Let go!"

Yan Yan gritted his teeth and cursed: "You fucking..."

"Let go!" Jiang Ting roared hoarsely and changed his tone: "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hide it from you!"

Yan Yan was taken aback, Jiang Ting suddenly pushed his hand away, and in the gap that was more hasty than the blink of an eye, the whole person fell into the river with Buwei!

"Fuck!"

Yan Mao's scolding came from the bottom of his heart, and it was more real than 24K real gold.He got up quickly, took off his trousers and kicked off his shoes, without thinking about anything, he jumped over the embankment and jumped out!

The river water rushed towards the face, and instantly hit the eardrum heavily.

Yan Yan came out of the water exhaling air bubbles, took a deep breath, plunged into the river again, and swam forward with all his might.

Fortunately, it was midsummer, and the river was not too cold at night, and Yan Xie's swimming speed was very fast; after a while, he felt that the current in front of him was turbulent, so he hurried forward a few steps, and sure enough, he stretched out his hand and bumped into a person.

——That figure is clearly Jiang Ting.

Although Yan Xie was a child, he was the only son of the richest man after all. In order to prevent such bloody dramas as kidnapping, he still received serious training in necessary skills such as diving, drag racing, and survival in the wild.Jiang Ting's swimming skills are not bad, but his water quality is definitely not as good as that of a semi-professional like Yan Xie. He was strangled from behind in two or three strokes, struggling to get to the shore amidst splashes of water.

"Huh...huh..." Yan Yan's soaked shirt was pressed against his chest muscles, and with his panting heaved violently, he forcibly dragged Jiang Ting to a section of pebble beach under the river embankment, pinched his chin and bowed his face left and right. I took several shots.The force wasn't heavy, but it wasn't light either. Jiang Ting couldn't help it, and finally spat out a few mouthfuls of water from his throat.

"Cough, cough, cough!..." Jiang Ting leaned over on the rough pebble beach, his face covered with water, and was wrapped tightly into his arms by Yan Yan who was sitting opposite him.

"Are you crazy, you dare to jump in this kind of water in the middle of the night?!"

"I caught her in the water just now," Jiang Ting coughed and said hoarsely, "Just a little bit, just a little bit..."

Yan Xie patted him on the back hard.

"She has a lot of money of her own, and told me that she plans to go south to work. I guess she will contact Spade King in the future. Although she will definitely not be able to contact her, she may be able to catch Ginger and more of his accomplices through her... ...I didn't expect that she would directly..."

I don't know if it's emotional or lingering fear, but Jiang Ting's whole body is wet and cold, trembling violently.Yan Yan tightly grasped his palm, letting him put most of his weight on himself, sitting on the bank of the river almost in a half-embracing and half-embracing posture, only listening to the wind and the sound of water roaring away to the distance of the river, Disappeared at the far end of the plain.

"It's useless, you can't be saved." Yan Xie said concisely and forcefully in his ear, "Rescue in the water requires the cooperation of the rescued, but she just wants to drag you to die together."

Jiang Ting shook his head and nodded, after a long time, he leaned against Yan Yan's fiery arms and gradually calmed down.

"Spades K." Suddenly Jiang Ting said without warning, his voice still hoarse after soaking in water: "He is particularly good at inducing this kind of anti-social tendency in his nature, or his mentality is not fully developed, and he is easily bewitched by power. This young man. This is his innate talent. He has been gifted in this area since he was a child. Not only for Buwei, but also for me..."

"I know." Yan Yan said in a deep voice, "You and Spade K are the real first pair of victims in the serial kidnapping case, aren't they?"

Jiang Ting was silent for a long time, then nodded.

"What year did it happen, and you were also fifteen or sixteen years old?"

"……Do not."

Yan Yan lowered his head slightly, and met Shang Jiang Ting's gaze, only to see a short smile on the corner of his bloodless mouth: "It was when I was ten years old, when I first met the king of spades."

Yan Mo was slightly surprised.

He could guess that the two knew each other very early, but he didn't expect it to be so early!

"I was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage since I was a child, not this orphanage." Jiang Ting feebly raised his chin in the direction of Jiayuan Road in the distance: "It was a foreign place. In those days, everyone's living conditions were generally not good, and it was a remote village. , it’s not as fashionable to adopt a child as it is now. I grew up in the orphanage until I was ten years old, and I didn’t study much. A little boy of about the same age, well dressed, playing the violin against the water..."

In the early summer evening, when the sky was full of red clouds, a well-dressed little boy was standing by a small river in the countryside playing the violin.

If this scene is handed over to a great director to shoot, it will definitely be a very romantic, poetic, and perhaps beautiful scene.But for some reason, probably knowing what happened later, this scene actually made Yan Mao feel a weird chill in his heart.

"I've never seen this little boy in the nearby villages and towns, so I felt very rare in my heart. I guessed that he might be the young master of a rich family. Later, after spying a lot, I found that he often played the piano in the abandoned theater. The sound of the piano was very strange. It sounds good, so I sneaked out of the orphanage, ran several miles to the theater, and hid behind the scenes on the second floor to listen to his performance."

"I made friends after going back and forth—I really thought they were friends at the time." Jiang Ting laughed at himself: "It's all my fault that I committed Tai Chi. I was very curious since I was a child, and I couldn't control my dirty hands."

Yan Xie was holding his hand, her palm was close to her palm, and when she heard this, she made a gesture and slapped him on the back of his hand.

"How did K of Spades introduce himself to you?" Yan Yan asked.

"A 90-year-old kid, what introduction is needed, I can't even remember the fake name he made up...it should be called Kai Kai or Ke Ke or something. Anyway, I didn't think much about it at the time. I made a new friend, and sneaked out to play foolishly and cheerfully every day, and occasionally the orphanage didn't have enough to eat, and when I was hungry, he would bring me some snacks and treats." Jiang Ting raised his hand embarrassingly to block his face, "Don't look."

Yan Yan took his hand away gently but forcefully, and looked directly at the pale face: "So when you encounter kidnapping, you will do your best to protect your little friend?"

Jiang Ting lowered his head, and nodded after a while.

"K of Spades is not the kind of self-made drug lord. On the contrary, his family origin concentrated the three elements of money, background and crime. I didn't know until later that he was sent to the country because his family was involved in several The two big drug lords fought against each other, in fact, they came to avoid disaster, but I didn't expect that they would not escape the fate of being kidnapped in the end, and they would take me along with them."

"...Is the whole kidnapping process the same as that of Buwei and Shen Xiaoqi?" Yan Yan asked in a low voice.

Jiang Ting buried his head in front of his chest. From Yan Yan's slightly higher angle, he could only see the dripping black hair and a small patch of fair cheek, which slightly reflected the light of the street lamp in the distance.

"Yes," Jiang Ting said with difficulty for a long while.

"At that time we were trapped in the valley, and he was still having a high fever. I could only look for water everywhere. I was so thirsty that I almost coughed up blood and didn't dare to drink... Actually, I didn't think much about it. I thought that if I died, I should No one will care about it. But he must be a young master with parents, relatives and love, like a fairy, if there is really only one person who can live, it is more worthwhile for him to live."

——When a ten-year-old child was on the verge of desperation, such an idea was in his mind.

Yan Xie has been rough since he was a child, and has never paid attention to the so-called gap between rich and poor or class thresholds.But at this moment, the self-ashamedness and cautiousness of an orphan from the valley more than 20 years ago roared through time and hit his heart hard.

"Shen Xiaoqi swore to Bu Wei that he would repay her when he got out. This detail is the same as back then, because Spade K also said so. Maybe his original words are more serious than Shen Xiaoqi, why swear to be brothers forever in this life? It's like a TV series line, but I can't remember it for more than 20 years."

Jiang Ting smiled wryly, and looked away from each other, looking at the sparkling river.

But at that moment, Yan Yan felt what Jiang Ting was thinking like a tacit understanding - he didn't remember clearly, on the contrary, he always remembered it very clearly.

It was because it was so clear that he was even more unwilling to mention it.

"You were saved afterward?" Yan Yan asked warmly, "The so-called mineral water is..."

"What water, there is no such bottle of water." Jiang Ting shook his head sarcastically, "The so-called betrayal of Spade K is a metaphor for another thing - after we were trapped for several days, we were dehydrated, high fever and injured, almost to the limit That’s right, Spades K’s guys finally tracked them into the valley. At that time, my consciousness was not very clear, I only vaguely felt someone shouting ‘grab the rope’ above my head, I subconsciously stretched out my hand, but Spades K moved Faster, suddenly pushed me from behind, grabbed the rescue rope first, and I watched him being dragged up."

"They left you?!"

"That's not true." Jiang paused and said, "But it was indeed a long time later, even the sun had gone down... before someone pulled me up."

It would be an understatement to say it now, but for a severely dehydrated and dying little boy, the joy of hope, the despair of being disappointed, and the suffering of waiting for hours alone are beyond the imagination of many adults.

Yan Mo's lips moved, but she didn't know what to say. After a long while, she managed to say: "That group of people..."

"I don't really want to save me." Jiang Ting said softly, "I know."

The faint moonlight pierced through the clouds, reflecting the river, the plain, and the mountains and rivers beyond.Jiang Ting closed his eyes silently, and when he opened them again, he seemed to see a similar night, also the same desolate and quiet moonlight, passing through the rough frosted glass windows of the township hospital——

Lying on the small hospital bed, he opened his eyes and saw a familiar figure standing in front of the bed against the light, holding a small handful of wild fruits in his arms.

Neither of the two children spoke. After a while, the standing little boy asked abruptly:

"I pushed you, do you remember?"

"..." Xiao Jiang paused and nodded.

"do you hate me?"

Jiang Ting thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"why?"

The high fever caused Xiao Jiangting to speak weakly and hoarsely, and said softly, "Because they are your family members. They should save you first, right?"

"..."

"I have no family."

The little boy finally moved.He carefully placed the handful of wild fruits in his arms on the head of the hospital bed, then stood on tiptoe, and leaned into Xiao Jiangting's ear, his voice was soft but firm:

"I am your family."

"From now on, you and I will share wealth, status and power equally, and you will be my only brother."

The wind sweeps across the earth from the depths of the sky, passing through mountains and rivers, plain railroad tracks, and the vast and ethereal lights of the city, blowing a sharp whistle, whirling and flying straight to the end of the horizon.

Jiang Ting shivered slightly, and was immediately embraced by Yan Yan, pressing the wet black hair on the back of his head with his palms.

"So you grew up with the King of Spades?"

Although it was a question sentence, Yan Mao's tone was a gentle statement. In fact, he was ready to accept any answer.

To his surprise, he felt Jiang Ting shaking his head in his arms: "No. Do you still remember that I told you that when I tracked down the new fentanyl compound 'Blue Gold' a few years ago, in an already The abandoned village drug production base encountered the king of spades, and he pointed a gun at the head?"

Of course Yan Xie remembered, that was what Jiang Ting said when they returned to Jianning from Jiangyang County on the night he was forced to climb the window and drag him out to drink - but the veracity is still open to question.

"That's true." Jiang Ting seemed to see through his thoughts, with a wry smile in his eyes: "It was the first time I met the adult King of Spades 20 years after the kidnapping incident..."

"So now you know why after the secret investigation was exposed, he silenced those informants, but agreed to let me go, and even promised to cooperate."

It was raining heavily outside the factory gate, and there were countless pale blue ghosts flickering in the depths of the darkness. The endless light filled the field of vision, as if will-o’-the-wisps were dancing in the [-]th hell.

"Twenty years have passed...but I have never forgotten you."

In the distance there was a vague crash in the heavy rain, bang, bang, bang—it was a gunshot.

Jiang Ting's fingers hanging by his side couldn't stop trembling, but he forced himself to calm down and raised his head slightly, even though this action might touch the cold muzzle on his temple:

"Then you want to kill me now?"

"No." He heard the K of Spades laughing: "You are my only brother, and have always been. My wealth, status, authority, and all the bizarre things in this world can be shared with you..."

"It's like 20 years ago, you and I shared the spring water in the mountains and forests, the wild fruits, and the life-saving rope later."