murder begins in summer

Empty.

It took Shi Zhanyang a few seconds to really understand the word.

The first reaction was, of course, that I had heard a lie.Whether it is now or before.

Who else lied, was it Risako Eguchi, the old man surnamed Qin, the current doctor, or... her mother.

But the operation more than ten years ago was not a fake, of course it couldn’t be fake——the healed scar on Qiu Shili’s chest, such a slender scar, grew up with Qiu Shili, although it’s been too long, it’s quite shallow Faded, but Shi Zhanyang has seen it countless times, touched it countless times, and even kissed it countless times!He remembered its shape, its tiny bumps, the strength with which every inch of it slipped under his fingertips.

It cannot be said that these are all illusions.

It must be that Shi Zhanyang's expression at this time has reached a certain level of terror. Of course, the doctor also felt that he couldn't do his job. There was also a camera installed above the operating table, so he hurriedly asked the nurse to switch over.The shadowless lamp illuminated everything quite clearly, but Shi Zhanyang couldn't see Qiu Shili, he could only see a large piece of sterile drape spread out, with an opening in the middle, where the chest opener was placed, and the metal tube was inserted in to close the incision. The remaining blood inside was sucked out, it was dazzlingly red, and something was beating.

It is the human body, and the human body is treated as such, not as a human being.Shi Zhanyang stared at the screen with tears in his eyes.The operation process is a race against time, and it is even more so at this time. In a short moment, my thoughts are racing.He knew that it was the heart, and he also knew that it was the location marked in the operation record, and it was cut open there, but there was nothing.After carefully listening to so many times during the consultation, seeing so many surgical alternatives, and seeing so many 3D model demonstrations, he, a layman, would not be blinded.

He also knew that the place where the Eguchi Group buried things was chosen very cleverly. It would not have much impact on the heart function in the short term, and maybe not in the long term. It is quite stable in terms of physics and chemistry.On the other hand, the diameter of the chip cannot enter the blood vessels to participate in the circulation. Once the position is moved, Qiu Shili will have obvious symptoms of embolism.

This is the conclusion confirmed by many experts, not only the three beside the operating table, but also a dozen of Shi Zhanyang's trusted friends in the medical field.

So what is it all about?The chip wasn't here, it wasn't anywhere, it was gone, like it had completely melted at one point.

But where the fuck is it, and whether it will disappear or not, Shi Zhanyang only cares about one thing from the beginning to the end.If it didn't exist, then Qiu Shili was opened such a big hole for no reason. Under his arrangement, he listened to his words and helped him find so many ridiculous clues, just to open himself.

There is also that kind of unpredictable anxiety, just like you dropped a thumbtack on the bed, and the thumbtack got stuck in the cotton, and it still carried the poison that you don’t know when it will attack. In a blink of an eye, it disappeared, but you are still here Lie on the bed until the end of time.

Shi Zhanyang seldom felt afraid, including the few minutes when he was gradually losing consciousness while watching Qiu Shili in the dark cave, he was not afraid.At that time, he felt that he might be about to lose something. He had expected it and really accepted it in those few minutes.But he can't now.

"Mr. Shi? Mr. Shi!" The expert gestured and called on the screen.

Shi Zhanyang yelled back, he asked them to hurry up and sew up, and then he turned to Shi Yufeng, "What you saw just now, you can't mention it to the outside world, and it's the same with your sister-in-law, do you understand!"

Shi Yufeng nodded and looked at him strangely, "You are bleeding from the nose."

Shi Zhanyang froze for a moment, only to realize that his mouth and nose were filled with the sticky smell of blood, so he took off his coat directly, and a custom-made cashmere suit was held in his hand like a rag, and it was in a mess between his nose Wipe it on the ground, and the blood stopped dripping, so he threw it on the ground, as if he had a monstrous hatred for the cloth.

Shi Yufeng silently took a soaked towel from the bathroom, Shi Zhanyang took it with one hand, and pressed it on his face, maybe because he used too much force, the water was squeezed out, with a fishy smell and a piercing coldness. , flowing along the bulging veins of his forearm, and flowing into the cuff.

"I know you want to hit someone very much now. Although I don't know what 'empty' means." Shi Yufeng said seriously, pinching the bridge of the elder brother's nose with the strength of concentrated five fingers like last time, and patted him again. his shoulders.

Shi Zhanyang's eyes were pinched, and he almost laughed out loud.

"But you're like this, when sister-in-law wakes up, he will be worried." Shi Yufeng stared straight at his red eyes, "He told me that if you want to be a mature man, you must learn to control own emotions."

Shi Zhanyang covered his eyes dumbfounded, and still remained silent. In his eyes, he was still a complete loser, so he knelt on the ground—no, kneeling was not so easy for him.

But he gradually calmed down, and the nosebleed stopped quickly.

Six and a half hours later, in the early hours of the morning, when Qiu Shili woke up and recovered to a state where he could meet again, he was already that "mature man" who fully met the standards.

The ring-shaped warm lamp was quietly turned on in the ward. Qiu Shili was still very weak, and his face was pale and small, like a dimly lit lamp.The oxygen mask is still hanging, the tube is inserted on the back of the hand, and various instruments are connected to the body. A lively person can't even stand up now. of cracking.

He could only lie flat like that, looking down at Shi Zhanyang, stretched his five fingers, and was immediately grasped by a warm hand.

The operation was very successful and we are safe.Shi Zhanyang's eyes were soft, and he told him in a low voice.

Qiu Shili didn't seem to care much about this, so he groped for a while, only when the ring on Zhanyang's ring finger was still there, his heart finally settled down.Shi Zhanyang looked at him intently, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and smiled softly, as if all his troubles were gone, he also pinched the root of his finger, reminding him that the ring that he had to take off before the operation has now been put back on.

Qiu Shili laughed, and the mask became white. Shi Zhanyang put his knees on the edge of the bed and leaned over to listen. This action was not easy for him.

He heard Qiu Shili say, "Brother, I think I can be discharged from the hospital after the stitches are removed in a week."

"Nonsense." Shi Zhanyang pushed back the dark hair on his younger brother's forehead, "The thoracotomy surgery requires at least three months of recuperation, and half a year if it is longer. I discussed it with ナナ before."

"But that's scary."

"horrible?"

"...I can't help you with anything." Qiu Shili opened his eyes wide, stumbled, and looked into Shi Zhanyang's pupils, "I am in good health and can recover faster than others."

"Really?" Shi Zhanyang gently stroked the thin eyelid, seeing Qiu Shili closed his eyes obediently, he carefully touched the root of the thick eyelashes.The last thing he wants to hear about "health" is Qiu Shili. Qiu Shili is always full of confidence in his physical fitness, as if the experience of being seven years old is nothing, and it is nothing now, let alone other bloody incidents.

It seems that bleeding is not as embarrassing as crying.

Shi Zhanyang even heard from his subordinates that when he was in a coma, Qiu Shili personally took the lead to go to the Thai-Myanmar border to toss with the drug dealers who intercepted the goods. He was hit by a local soil bullet in his upper arm, and he actually picked it out with his hands.

Later, Shi Zhanyang did find the hideous scar. He looked at it and was speechless, so Qiu Shili put his arms around his neck, pressed it softly to his ear, and explained quietly that it was because he didn't know what to do. Be careful, but it's all over.

It seems that he firmly believes that he is made of steel and iron, and he doesn't need to care about the wounds and sufferings at all. He doesn't know if he really thinks so, or he has to ask himself to believe it under too much pressure.

Either way, naivety or helplessness, made Shi Zhanyang feel weak and frustrated. It wasn't that he couldn't understand Qiu Shili's thoughts, and because of his understanding, he understood that many reasons did not make sense with Qiu Shili, and they also He himself was too weak to give Qiu Shili a greenhouse that no knife point could poke into.

"Nana, look at this," he pressed the fake chip prepared a few hours ago into Qiu Shili's palm, rubbed his fingers, and rubbed it with him for its shape, texture, and size like a little finger cap, "this is It was taken out of your body, it stayed in it for 17 years, it grew together with the flesh and blood, now it comes out, doesn't it hurt you?"

Qiu Shili took a deep breath, Shi Zhanyang's gaze was too tender and too close, making him look delicate and wronged, as if it was a matter of course, "It hurts..."

Shi Zhanyang continued softly: "Is it as painful as when I was a child?"

Qiu Shili subconsciously grabbed the elder brother's hand. At this moment, he was dazed by the pain-relieving ingredients in the medicine. Some memories and reality overlapped, making him float in the water with blurred impressions. Wish to recall the details, "When I was a child, it was even more uncomfortable," he said slowly, "I can't remember clearly...but, during the operation, I seemed to be able to see the doctors and nurses, hear the knife, and be placed in the iron. on the plate."

His five fingers were embedded in Shi Zhanyang's, and the tighter and tighter they were, Shi Zhanyang's heart was also clenched, as if someone had squeezed him hard.

Without full anesthesia, is it to suppress the changes in various indicators of the body and achieve a more daily, more adaptable state that can drive the chip?So Qiu Shili saw the blade that was about to cut himself.See expressionless masks and binoculars.See blinding lights.Shi Zhanyang didn't know, and couldn't think any further.

He kissed Qiu Shili's forehead, and asked again: "What do you remember? If you remember, you can tell me."

"Later, I was locked in the room and recuperated on the bed. I kept saying that I hadn't recovered well, and I couldn't go out. It seemed that there were guests at home. Sometimes, I was eating, sleeping, watching TV... I heard the noise from the next door. There were the cries of children."

"child?"

"He just kept crying, just kept crying. I knocked on the wall and asked him what was wrong, and then grandma came in and said it was a ghost." Under Shi Zhanyang's calm and steady comfort, Qiu Shili closed his eyes hard, whispering Muttered, "Until grandma died, I was released and I could climb trees again. The other rooms were all empty. They said that her manuscripts were all buried together in Kyoto. Then, I saw Aunt Kazue, I see... brother."

Somehow, his tears overflowed, a thin line of water meandering down from the corner of his eyes, he refused to open them. "Okay, okay." Shi Zhanyang didn't ask any more questions. How could he make Qiu Shili cry again? In a tone of discussion, he persuaded softly, "It only takes two weeks, and then we will be together." Get out of the hospital and go home, okay?"

"En." Qiu Shili nodded obediently this time.

"The matter of the blood diamond has not been resolved, I can't accompany you these two days," Shi Zhanyang wiped away the thin tear stains, his waist could no longer support him, and he sat back in the wheelchair, of course he couldn't let Qiu Shili see his Looking embarrassed and feeling sorry for himself, he clasped Qiu Shili's hand again, not daring to touch the blood vessel with force, "If there is anything, just ask Shao San and the others to do it, and the fourth brother will help."

"Xiaofeng needs to go back and drive." Qiu Shili scratched his palm.

"He won't go back." Shi Zhanyang said briefly, "Don't touch a single cigarette again, eat well and sleep well."

"Yeah. I promise." Qiu Shili thought of those cameras, and felt a little pure joy. In this joy, he didn't forget the business, "But, brother, Eguchi Risakko is still waiting for the rubidium mine. She doesn't know about the Mori-"

Shi Zhanyang interrupted: "I took the time to kill her."

Qiu Shili was startled, as if he was pondering something carefully, then he just nodded.

"Go to sleep." Shi Zhanyang smiled, looking very relaxed, "I will kill her." He said it again, as if it was good night.

He didn't intend to leave right away, and silently watched Qiu Shili fall asleep, thinking, thinking, thinking:

Yes, I want Risako Eguchi to die, it's only a matter of time.What I want more is the collapse of this organization, its disappearance, its ruin, and its failure to recover.

I want to find out what those rubbish have done to you, and who lied to me, and list them one by one.

Revenge and go back.

The next morning, Qiu Shili was still drowsy under the effects of residual anesthesia and drugs. The nurse called inside and said that an injection would be given in 10 minutes. When he woke up, he suddenly found that there was no one around him.

And Shi Zhanyang has already boarded the plane to Aomori, a Boeing 737 is full of cabins, filled with all the manpower he wants to use.Twelve hours later, they landed at Aomori Airport.

Shi Zhanyang didn't make much fanfare. The Fenghuang Village was basically ruined back then. The heavy snow crushed the cherry trees. He took a small number of his men to live here secretly. The tree when they first met is still there. Under the tree, looking up at the snow, I vaguely remember Qiu Shili jumping down from above, like a transparent young fox fairy.The fox fairy gave him a fish-shaped lantern when he was 14 years old.

Within a few days, the guys searched all over the courtyard where Qiu Shili once lived, and even searched all over Fenghuang Village.

The manuscripts and the like have indeed been removed, and the water, electricity and floor heating can still be used after repairs. Shi Zhanyang sleeps in Qiu Shili's small attic room. The attic is divided into two halves. The next one, he came to visit when he was 14 years old. It was locked when it was opened, and it was said that there was a problem with the heating pipe and it could not be used.Shi Zhanyang found small scratches on the wall of that room, with oxidized black blood, the nails should be very narrow, it was the child's hand.

He lay quietly on the tatami again, smelling the stale smell of years, listening to the wind outside the wall, imagining a child crying like a ghost, and also imagining how his own child was listening and knocking on the wall face, and asked through the cracks in the plank.

The hatred should have started at that time, and it was too late to fall into my heart at this time.A conjecture also took shape in Shi Zhanyang's mind.

He felt a headache and shuddered because of this, but he also had a determination similar to excitement.Am I finally crazy?he thinks.Within the controllable range, Shi Zhanyang appreciates his madness. In a sense, this puts an end to his indecision and overflowing sympathy.

A few days later, the "Tomb of the Eguchi Family" far away in Kyoto was very lively. This is a cemetery located in the outer suburbs. The few novice monks had been knocked out and tied up.

Under the tomb is the urn of ashes of the entire family's ancestors. Shi Zhanyang is sitting among the dense pines and cypresses in the garden. He was wearing a thick gray blanket, and Ba Zai was behind him, standing upright, holding a black umbrella for him.

This is a typical Japanese old-fashioned "three-section tomb", where a family is buried together. This custom began in the early Edo period.The three smooth gray-white stones are called Ganshi, Shangtai Stone and Xiatai Stone respectively. The four characters "Eguchi Chiharu" are written next to her husband's name, which is bleak but particularly eye-catching.More than a dozen men started to pry the pole stone used as a tombstone, and moved the upper stone. When the lower stone was removed, the ashes and funeral objects were underneath, and some men went down immediately, and there were also those who spread raincloths to keep out the snow.

The rest of the staff, those transported by Shi Zhanyang by plane, and those usually arranged in Japan, are also gathered here at this moment, standing upright behind the boss, surrounded by a thick layer, and lined up in a long line, watching the orderly The grave digging movement, the black off-road vehicle circled around the cemetery, giving birth to a kind of cold and solemn.

"Boss! There are twelve boxes of manuscripts! Some are buried in the soil."

"Move them out." Shi Zhanyang flicked the cigar, and the ash with sparks floated in the wind, hit the rain and snow, and immediately turned black.

Now that he has shown up, he is certainly ready to be visited.Sure enough, in the middle of the move, Risako Eguchi arrived late, followed by a dark crowd behind her.

The guys from the Shi family gave way to them.

Risako was wearing all black, and her high-heeled shoes stepped in the puddles, and even the umbrella holder couldn't keep up with her.She stood still in front of Shi Zhanyang, her face was extremely dark, and she spoke with great difficulty: "Cousin, what are you doing?"

Shi Zhanyang turned to look at her, put down the cigarette stick, and said casually, "Digging your ancestral grave."