murder begins in summer

"Brother, you said 'kidnapping'."

"Well, it's kidnapping." Shi Zhanyang handed the computer to Qiu Shili. The location marked on the satellite map was on the U.S.-Mexico border, near the Gulf of California. "She's here, waiting for us to send money to replace her."

Qiu Shili scrolled the mouse to zoom in. Arizona, Yuma County, a small town named Somerton, was covered with brown and green wheat fields, and the border a few kilometers away was all desolate mountainous areas.

"She wants to take the fourth child back to Brazil?"

"No, she doesn't want to raise him now, she just wants to elope with her lover," Shi Zhanyang took off the cap of the cigar, and lit it patiently, "If she can't get money, she can't let us get someone, Probably just kill it and walk away."

The plane made two broadcasts and began to glide. After taking off, it rose rapidly.

"So we're going to send her money?"

"Yeah, there's no need to make a fuss, and it's not a gangster movie." Shi Zhanyang just watched the cigar burn slowly, and knocked off the ash. "Father, even one of his subordinates can't bear to entrust it to him. After all, it's his wife who ran away with others." I can only leave it to me, I just finished working in Korea yesterday, and I don’t want to do this kind of thing alone, and I can’t miss the family scandal, so I need ナナ to help.”

"Then how long will she wait for us?" Qiu Shili asked with clenched fists.

Shi Zhanyang looked at his watch, "Over there is 15 hours slower than here, we still have a day and a half left, and we still have a small half of time to spend on the plane."

Qiu Shili kept his mouth shut, and silently looked through the local information in Somerton. There were many immigrants, and the shape was regular. It was actually a tourist town, with vast and desolate mountains, and a warm and rich low-latitude sunset.

"We met at a gas station restaurant next to Highway 95 at about twelve o'clock in the local midnight." Shi Zhanyang smiled, "It looks more and more like a gangster movie."

Qiu Shili was preoccupied, "How much does she want?"

Shi Zhanyang stroked Qiu Shili's back so that he wouldn't be so nervous, "I have enough money, and all I bring are gold bars. This plane will wait nearby to pick up the fourth child, and we will leave directly. "

"There are also two of them?"

"It's Carina," Shi Zhanyang mentioned the Brazilian woman's name strangely, "and her lover. One of my father's former subordinates, named Lan Shan, cut off his ear before he ran, and threw two earlobes on him. The door of the rented house."

These words sounded scary, but Qiu Shili was gradually relaxed, and moved closer to his elder brother.He had a slight impression of this Lan Shan. He used to be an outstanding senior with a good reputation, and sometimes he would hunt and drink with Shi Zhanyang.

"I don't think things are that simple." He pondered, "Carina should know that she has little chance of winning. This kind of risk is just to make a fortune and then elope? But Lan Shan should be more aware that this is..."

"What is it? Are you courting death?"

Qiu Shili nodded.

Shi Zhanyang took a puff of the untouched cigar, "Father really wants me to kill them, but I'm not going to do it. It's enough to bring the fourth child back alive."

Qiu Shili put down the laptop, and wiped the cigarette ash off his elder brother's fingers with his fingertips.

Shi Zhanyang said again: "Nana, do you remember? Around this time last year, I told you that I did something completely unethical and asked you to wait for my results."

"Now the result is out?" Qiu Shili recalled the conversation that day, "Is it what brother wants?"

"Not exactly, it's not the end yet, but it's coming soon," Shi Zhanyang looked neither sad nor happy, "I'll explain it clearly from beginning to end now, and you can decide whether you want to participate or not."

Qiu Shili nodded cautiously. He wanted to say that he would participate no matter what, but he knew that before the actual action, this was the least weighty words.

Shi Zhanyang looked directly at him peacefully, and said, "At first, it was my father's intention to ask you to leave home. He wanted to send you back to Japan. I was unable to keep you. The most I could do at that time was to send you away." Go to China and go to university. My father didn't object any more, but what he meant was that I don't want you to come back."

"Don't want me...?"

At that time, the eldest brother didn't mention a word, Qiu Shili really naively thought that he just spent his life before adulthood in another place, tried the life of ordinary people, and learned a little more, which would only be beneficial in the future.He never thought about it in this way, because he didn't feel that he had made any heinous mistakes, which caused his adoptive father to put the word "abandoned" on him silently. Perhaps, without the protection of his elder brother, he would directly Not necessarily killed.

But now, it is absolutely impossible for him to touch his earlobe anxiously, or to show that he has been seriously injured.

Shi Zhanyang's heart twitched, and he gently stroked the back of Qiu Shili's hand, "ナナ, listen to me. I know that it is very difficult to negotiate terms with him. …The more he asks me to do those things for him, the more confidence I have. Now most buyers and factories, as well as some friends in the political circle, recognize me. But it is still not enough.”

"not enough?"

"It's not enough at all. I thought it wasn't enough two years ago, and it probably still is. Do you understand? He's getting old every day, so old that his whole heart is cold. He has it for me and you, and the second child. Beware, we are no longer his sons from the moment we enter the industry, and just working for him may harm his partner. It is completely useless for me to talk about feelings with him now, and it will be more efficient to exchange terms," ​​Shi Zhanyang The tone seemed to be stating a simple established truth, "However, when a person is old and his wife dies, he will need an outlet for his feelings more, and he will treat someone he thinks is innocent."

Qiu Shili breathed evenly, a huge and terrifying conjecture was vaguely in his mind, "Is it the fourth child?"

"The fourth child is just an accessory, what he really believes in is Carina," Shi Zhanyang sighed, "A woman who is locked up, raised, and restricted by him, and is not even allowed to learn English, who is more than 40 years younger than him , in his eyes, she is just a flower without a brain, an angel who has pulled out her wings. Because she disdains to doubt, she is defenseless, which is also the reason why he is fragile."

"Then Carina betrayed him." Qiu Shili bit his lip and hesitated, "Brother, is this all what you expected?"

Shi Zhanyang's eyes paused for a moment, then softened again, and said infinitely calmly, "I gave Lan Shan a sum of money and made an agreement with him to do things for me. He is a very attractive man who can say Portuguese is also much better than an old man in his 60s when it comes to pleasing women, Carina really fell in love with him very quickly, she was madly in love, and could die for him.”

Before Qiu Shili could say anything, Shi Zhanyang said again: "I promised Lan Shan before that as long as he succeeds in instigating Carina to flee, ask her to wait for him somewhere, and use the fourth child to blackmail us, he will get more rewards." money, and the position he wants, and Carina will definitely die on the road alone. No one knows who her elopement is, only that she betrayed her father. Betrayed, what will happen to father?"

Qiu Shili said in a daze, "He will no longer trust anyone."

"No, no," Shi Zhanyang shook his head, "He will have a serious breakdown on the psychological level, but he has to cover up this matter, and moreover, he has to trust someone, who he wants to catch before he collapses Come to rely on, because he can't do anything by himself, and now he can't even hold a gun. I'm the one to trust. Although I won't contribute in vain, my conditions are limited, and I also Always keep your word.”

Qiu Shili was stunned for a long time before he could speak clearly, "So, brother, you know that father will definitely ask you for help, to save the fourth child, to kill Carina... and your condition is that you let I come back."

"Half right, the first thing is to let you come back and really participate in our business, and the second is to let the second child take his drug-related bullshit business and get out of the house, don't wait for one day to be caught by the tail .”

"Father agreed?"

"Of course. He won't mention letting you go again, but what about the second child depends on my final results."

"If he doesn't agree, will you still go to save the fourth child?"

Shi Zhanyang was silent for a while, "I think I will. I actually started this matter, and the fourth child is also my relative, and the only one who is not wrong. But my father definitely believes that I will not be so kind. , that's why he listened to my conditions."

Qiu Shili looked at him without saying a word.

Shi Zhanyang was also speechless for a while, looked down at his watch again, rang the bell on the table, and almost immediately, a young man with yellow hair opened the partition door between the two cabins, respectfully walked quickly.The noise of the brothers in the back cabin has also been quieted down a lot, and it seems that they didn't even continue playing cards.

"Get two clothes for the third child."

Soon, a set of neatly folded suits was brought over, Shi Zhanyang nodded, and his men retreated to the back cabin, and closed the door tightly.

Qiu Shili shook out his shirt and suit jacket. The tailoring was exquisite, all made of pure black light fabric, and his initials were embroidered on the cuffs, but he didn't remember customizing such a set.

"Newly made last month," Shi Zhanyang explained, "Change it, the T-shirt denim looks like you are too childish."

"How do you know my size?"

"The tailor has records."

"But what if I grow taller and gain weight?"

"Not at all," Shi Zhanyang smiled harmoniously, "I can hug her out."

Qiu Shili also laughed, as if he had accepted the fact that he had stopped growing. With his head lowered, Zhanyang took off his student attire when his back was turned, and picked up his trousers and put them on.The correct order is actually to put on the shirt first so that the waist can be cinched, but now, he feels embarrassed if he doesn't put the underwear on first.

Shi Zhanyang didn't tease him any more, Qiu Shili put on his shirt smoothly and was buttoning the bone buttons one by one, when he suddenly heard him say quickly: "Lan Shan used to be my good friend, so it's rare to hit it off. Think carefully about it." When I think about it, I have counted my father, brother, and friends in this matter, and I have suffered because of it. So ナナ, you should be able to understand now, why I said it was immoral at the beginning, And it's growing nefariously."

Qiu Shili turned around and half-buttoned it. When he saw Zhanyang was looking at the large white clouds outside the porthole, the edges and corners of his side face and the light and shadow looked quite lonely, but the whole person still looked calm and indifferent.

"Brother, can I say, are you doing this for me?" Qiu Shili walked up to him barefoot, stepping on the short pile carpet.

Shi Zhanyang smiled and didn't look at him, "Of course not, it's my wish and my responsibility to let you go home, and this matter has not been completely successful so far. Don't take this kind of thing on yourself .”

Qiu Shili put his hands on his shoulders and said softly, "Then can you button my button?"

Shi Zhanyang was slightly surprised, and finally turned his face to meet his gaze.

"Button me. Like before." Qiu Shili repeated.

"...that was when you were a child, I taught you how to wear it." Shi Zhanyang seemed helpless, but he still straightened his waist and raised his hands, and carefully buttoned the olive-shaped buttons made of dark brown horn into the buttonholes one by one.Qiu Shili's gauzy lower abdomen gradually disappeared, and it was not half-covered. Now his whole body is black, pure black.

He stood up straighter, without rushing to tuck the hem of his trousers, and handed out the small roll in his right hand to Shi Zhanyang, "And the tie."

The wine red one, made of matte silk, Shi Zhanyang slammed twice, hugged the back of the younger brother's neck, made him bend down and lower his shoulders, and handed the collar to himself.Qiu Shili tidied it himself first, and the collars on both sides were raised up cutely, and he moved closer, pushing the neck that was pressed by the fabric forward.

"I want a Windsor knot." He breathed warmly on Shi Zhanyang's forehead, "Brother tie is much better than mine."

"There is an idiom in China that practice makes perfect."

Qiu Shili frowned quietly, "I don't think you are evil."

He suddenly mentioned this matter, and said the word seriously, Shi Zhanyang couldn't help laughing, "It's a pity that I am. I don't think I can keep it from you and let you know that I am a big villain and help me do bad things. "

"But you can't feel that you are despised because of this incident. I respect you, now, forever, and want to do anything with you, so I don't agree that you don't respect yourself."

A perfect Windsor knot was tied, and the neckline was neatly turned down, showing a proper sense of uprightness. Shi Zhanyang let go of the lower end of the tie.

"ナナ, I haven't finished what happened just now." Shi Zhanyang considered, "I originally expected that Lan Shan would withdraw in time as planned, and I would also kill Carina according to the plan, and take a video for my father to watch. Bringing back the fourth child, I don’t really need your help, I can do it alone.” He raised his eyes and looked into Qiu Shili’s eyes intently, “But Lan Shan didn’t do that. Last night, he finally Called me and said that he couldn't live up to the woman who treated him so sincerely, that's what he gave up everything to protect, so he cut off his ear, ran away with her, and stood on the opposite side of us superior."

"He really fell in love with Carina."

"I value love and righteousness. I really didn't make friends before, although he was not a good collaborator." Shi Zhanyang's dark pupils reflected the sunlight, but they were still black and impenetrable. There was a dry turbulence in them, he It seems to be envious, but also seems to be in despair, "So, I don't plan to kill them anymore. I can't kill them. Lan Shan even participated in my deception, and Carina also confirmed her betrayal, and even exchanged her own flesh and blood for money, but more than Compared to my selfishness, they are innocent."

Qiu Shili was engrossed in listening, and suddenly, his eyes were red, and holding Shi Zhanyang's shoulder, he sat on his lap suddenly, and opened his arms to hug him vigorously.

"Brother," Qiu Shili said sullenly with his chin resting on his neck, "If your theory of innocence is true, and if you are so good at finding out the so-called 'excusable circumstances' for others, then I will Help you find it."

Shi Zhanyang put his arms around his waist and remained silent.

"You said they were innocent. Kelanshan did not have any sincerity at the beginning, and Carina did not have the loyalty as a wife, let alone the love as a mother. They appear innocent and pitiful because they have some real feelings. It gave up some things, and it may have exploded with amazing courage," Qiu Shili said word by word, "but the more you give up, the greater your courage."

"Nana..."

"And they are still asking for money, and if they don't give the money, they will kill the fourth child. They don't just want to die together romantically. Can you tell if Lan Shan is thinking about gold bars?" Qiu Shili sucked Sniffing, he asked again: "On the other hand, what advantage did you find for yourself? You want me to go home because my father wants to drive me out, and you want my second brother to leave with those businesses because he and I Drug dealers cooperate. Are you doing this for yourself? Are your feelings fake?"

Shi Zhanyang's scalp was numb, he rarely saw Qiu Shili so strong and persistent, "...I don't know what to say when you're like this."

"Needless to say, listen to me," Qiu Shili let go of his shoulders, but still rode on him, staring straight at him with downcast eyes, and said sternly, "I have done everything in this line of work, even You can see clearly that you and your father are in a cooperative relationship, but in the end you have to forcefully distinguish the good from the bad, insisting that you are the worst, and even more childish than my classmates, I will laugh at you."

Shi Zhanyang put his hands on his eyelids and covered his face with a smile.

Qiu Shili frowned, "Brother, you won't... laugh at yourself."

"No." Shi Zhanyang shook his head.

Qiu Shili grabbed his wrist, took his hand that was covering his face, and continued to look straight at him, "Then what are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, the tripe pot in Korea is quite delicious, I'll take you there sometime."

This attitude made Qiu Shili feel ashamed and angry, blushing, "Be serious!" He cupped Zhanyang's face with both hands and pinched it, "What I just said, do you have anything to say? "

Shi Zhanyang seemed to have thought about it carefully. Qiu Shili was waiting for him to make a serious review, but he was pinned down by the back of his neck, and the two of them were face to face.

"I want to say, I love you."

"Huh?" Qiu Shili's eyes widened.

But Shi Zhanyang rubbed his cheek, and pressed a button on the table, and there was a sound of locking the partition door, "Say I love you, my ナナ." This is what Qiu Shili heard before he was kissed. The last sentence he heard, after that he couldn't hear anything except the sound of water between his lips, let alone ask anything, because his elder brother kissed him so that there was no gap at all, just like before every parting, or every reunion , this kind of hot entanglement and hug...

It's a little different, Shi Zhanyang is indeed hugging Qiu Shili, but there is no barrier like the previous layer of clothes.He reached into the loose hem of his shirt with both hands, and held the tight and slender waist. He heard Qiu Shili gasping for a little exclamation, as if he was afraid of alarming something, he rubbed gently and slowly. Then, continue to touch it inch by inch, the skin is green and smooth, as if it is beating under his hands, beating his sinful mud, his pure snow, his unresolved, and his haunting dreams.