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The scene was somewhat tense, Huo Mingxu couldn't sit still in the car, wanted to get out of the car but was afraid that this would alarm the people on the other side, so he put his hand on the door for a while and put it back.

Jiang Yan stood behind Rong Xia and looked at the opposite side. In the dark, he couldn't see clearly what was going on with Xi Zhikong, he only heard someone approaching from the opposite side.He was anxious, put his hand on Rong Xia's arm, turned his head to meet his eyes, and asked him, "What should I do now!"

Rong Xia didn't answer, but turned to the other person and said, "I have to see how the person is doing. I threw everything away as you said. It's okay to look at the person now, right?"

The visitor stepped across a green belt, and Rong Xia's heart skipped a beat at the momentary reflection at his waist, and he retreated with Jiang Yan again.

When the two people crossed the second green belt without saying a word and walked to a position three or four meters away, Jiang Yan finally saw Xi Zhikong with his head drooping through the dim lighting across the road.

At this moment, he felt that his soul and will had gone through the mountains of swords and seas of fire and completely fell on Xi Zhikong. What stood there was just a hollow body inside. He had never seen such a distressing appearance of his emptiness.His messy hair covered his gentle eyes, his lips looked dry and pale, and sweat kept sliding down his cheeks.

He couldn't move his mouth to say his name, but he walked towards him uncontrollably.

He didn't see a dagger on Xi Zhikong's waist, and he didn't care about the possible danger at all. Rong Xia grabbed his wrist at the last moment and made a condition in time, "The information is for you, and the person is for us. The file of the case is in Jiang Yan's hands, but Xi Zhikong came here incompletely, you can try to see if you can get it today."

"Are you kidding me, officer? Wouldn't it be a bad thing for me to lose my things after the person passed by?"

The man sneered, stepped back the dagger on Xi Zhikong's waist, and said, "You should know, the boss spared his life because of his pity at his young age, you—"

"Then give it a try." Rong Xia stared at the dagger and did not dare to let go, "If he is really pitiful, then what are you trying to do to get the case information? If you are afraid of overturning the case, you are afraid of overturning the case. You are not afraid, your boss is afraid." , If you move a hair on Xi Zhikong today, the kid in front of me will not give you anything even if he dies, think about it."

He said so, but Rong Xia was actually not very at ease in his heart. He gambled that the kidnapper was not a heartless person, but what if he was really a heartless person?He stepped back into the darkness, holding the gun with one hand, thinking if he could save Xi Zhikong immediately if the other side moved.

The man smiled instead of anger when he heard a few words from him: "Okay, you can say whatever you want."

He poked on Xi Zhikong's shoulder to push him forward, Xi Zhikong almost fell down again, his feet were unsteady, and he staggered forward.

Jiang Yan took a big step with sharp eyes and quickly caught the man firmly. Xi Zhikong held his arm tightly, as if he hadn't breathed just now, and only now began to gasp for breath.

"Kongkong, it's okay, brother caught you."

He let Xi Zhikong put the weight of his whole body on him, his arm was so painful from his grasp but he was reluctant to take his hand away, the hand on his shoulder could clearly feel his trembling.

Xi Zhikong blinked his eyes, and the water vapor that had been lingering in his eyes since he heard Jiang Yan's voice finally came out of his eyes at this moment, and tears fell on Jiang Yan's arm one drop after another.

He really didn't have any strength at all. He had been having nightmares during the two hours of sleep in the abandoned factory building. After waking up, he learned the sad news of Xi Chuzhi's suicide. With nothing to rely on, his spirit and consciousness were so light that he couldn't touch the ground.

Like a walking dead, but desperately trying to survive, or seeing or touching Jiang Yan.

Gritting his teeth and holding back his choked sobs, he leaned on Jiang Yan's shoulder and called Jiang Yan brother Yan angrily, then completely lost consciousness.

……

On the way back, Rong Xia drove very fast, and found the nearest hospital to send Xi Zhikong to the emergency room. After the doctor saw it, he prescribed an infusion first. Jiang Yan and Rong Xia carried him to the hospital bed for observation, and the nurse pushed him. The car came in.She glanced at the two people standing on the left and right beside the hospital bed, and began to treat Xi Zhikong's wound on the back of his hand and the scratch on his chin carefully.

Even though the alcohol stimulated the wound, Xi Zhikong still fell asleep. Even after the nurse finished treating the bandage and gave him a hanging needle, he fell asleep peacefully without any sign of waking up.

Jiang Yan sat by the bed and watched over him. Huo Mingxu and Rong Xia didn't dare to leave easily. After waiting outside the ward until two o'clock in the middle of the night, Huo Mingxu was so sleepy that he dozed off. Rong Xia couldn't bear it, so he patted him on the shoulder and whispered Said: "Go back and rest, I will guard."

Huo Mingxu straightened up and shook his head, Rong Xia said again: "I often stay up late, you are different, you all—"

"Officer Rong, Prosecutor Huo, you go back first, my dad will send someone over right away, you go back to rest early, I have worked hard for you today."

Jiang Yan stood at the door of the ward, while Huo Mingxu and Rong Xia Qiqi turned their heads to look at him.Rong Xia didn't speak, just stood up and stretched, Huo Mingxu also rubbed his waist and said: "Then we will leave when your family comes over."

Jiang Yan nodded in thought for a moment, went back to the ward and took something out of his coat pocket, held it in his hand, hesitating and didn't know how to speak.

Seeing his strange expression, Rong Xia asked him, "What's the matter?"

"I'm sorry, Officer Rong, Huo Jian. I copied a copy of the USB flash drive with the adapter in the car today. I know that those people asked us to exchange the data and exchange the blanks just to see our sincerity. I can only do what they said. Do, I know this information won't help, but..."

Huo Mingxu froze for a moment, took the USB flash drive in his hand and looked at it: "Your?"

"Well," Jiang Yan nodded, and said with some regret: "I have copied all the materials, but the important paper materials still haven't been able to..."

Rong Xia's mood was a bit complicated. He looked at the USB flash drive in Huo Mingxu's hand and didn't know whether he should praise Jiang Yan for being bold and careful or beat him up according to the original plan.He crossed his arms and stared at the person for a while before he spoke again: "What's the use? Isn't it a matter of minutes for them to destroy the archives in the system? Those things were sorted out by Huo Jian and I in private, let's do it again Many witnesses may not dare to speak."

Jiang Yan's head lowered even more. Huo Mingxu coughed lightly to comfort him and said, "Jiang Yan, there is more than one way to solve the problem. The case must not be touched in the short term. Xi Chuzhi committed suicide in prison. What happened to him?" Even if Xi Zhikong was kidnapped, we can’t go any further. When Xi Zhikong wakes up, you must persuade him——

"If you want to protect your family, you must be strong enough. There is no other way."

When the person arranged by Lian Guangji arrived, Rong Xia and Huo Mingxu helped to send Xi Zhikong to the advanced ward, and they left after seeing that everything was in order.The bodyguard stood outside the door and recognized the bed doctor and nurse in advance, and no one else could get close.

Jiang Yan got up and pulled the curtains, carefully opened half of the quilt, lay down beside Xi Zhikong, put his hands through his waist, hugged him tightly, buried his head on his neck, and couldn't stop My legs are weak and I am afraid.

From knowing that Xi Zhikong was kidnapped at seven o'clock in the afternoon to eleven o'clock when he was rescued just now, these were the most difficult hours in Jiang Yan's young life.Xi Zhikong has been by his side for a long time, and the two have been together in another more intimate capacity for more than half a year. This is the first time he disappeared without warning.

Jiang Yan didn't know what the person in his arms was thinking when his life was hanging by a thread, but he only knew that when he saw the row of bright red characters, his whole body seemed to be pulled out of his soul, and everything turned into nothingness.

Without seats, let alone fairness and justice.So he heard what the kidnapper said, as long as Xi Zhikong can be saved, nothing else is important to him, everything can disappear with the air in the long river of time.

Except for the empty seats.

He felt that it was his other life-like existence.Perhaps the kidnapper just held a gun against Xi Zhikong's temple, but the bullets had already left him riddled with holes.

Now that Xi Zhikong was breathing peacefully and sleeping peacefully in his arms, he slowly put his heart back into his chest.However, even now, he has no intention of pursuing anyone or anything else.

Xi Zhikong's words kept echoing in his mind. He told himself clearly on the phone that he chose the latter between his father's innocence and his fate.What makes Jiang Yan still desperate is that this group of people seems to have personally destroyed a vivid aspect of Xi Zhikong.In the past, no matter what, he had to wait for his father to come back before returning him an innocent Xi Zhikong, but today he took the initiative to tell him that he didn't want anything, he just wanted to live and live by Jiang Yan's side.

It doesn't matter if you live as a human being or anything else, as long as you can live.

Jiang Yan had nightmares all night, woke up several times to find himself covered in cold sweat, Xi Zhikong had finished his injection, and now he slept more deeply than before.

When the sky suddenly appeared, Jiang Yan loosened his arms a little, so as not to make Xi Zhikong sweat.He turned over and got out of bed and went to lie in the toilet, washed his face and returned to the bedside, seeing Xi Zhikong's sleeping face in the faint morning light, couldn't help but leaned over and kissed him on the lips.Sitting on the chair, he stroked Xi Zhikong's eyebrows with his fingertips, tapped his nose twice, and laughed out loud.

Later, he felt drowsy again after sitting, and fell asleep on the edge of the bed holding Xi Zhikong's hand.Maybe it was the warm sunshine in the morning that drove away the haze in his dream, he slept soundly this time, until Jiang Wen opened the door of the ward with breakfast, Xi Zhikong woke up and he didn't wake up.

"feast--"

As soon as Jiang Wen made a sound, Xi Zhikong put his index finger on his lips and made a silencing motion, lifted the quilt lightly, and got out of bed to pick up the steamed buns and porridge in Jiang Wen's hands.

He took a stool for Jiang Wen to sit on, put the breakfast on the bedside table and sat by the bed, looked back at Jiang Yan who was lying on his stomach, and whispered, "Aunt Wen, brother Yan is too tired, we can eat it after he sleeps. "

"Then you eat first, I bought quite a lot."

Xi Zhikong shook his head: "I'll just wait for Brother Yan to eat together."

Seeing his haggard face, Jiang Wen was so distressed, she walked over to untie the bag, sat next to him, put a bun to his mouth, and coaxed: "Xiao Kong must be hungry, eat first, don't wait for Brother Yan Auntie will take it and warm it up for him later."

Xi Zhikong swallowed, Jiang Wen saw this action, she smiled and said: "Eat first, Auntie will give you one."

"Thank you, Aunt Wen..." Xi Zhikong was so hungry, he opened his mouth and bit a small steamed bun into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, he choked on his chest and couldn't swallow it, so he took a sip of porridge and took a sip. It took a heartbeat to recover.

Jiang Wen wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue and said, "It's all right, Xiaokong eat slowly!"

She fed Xi Zhikong a few more, looking at his appearance, she couldn't say what she had prepared before coming.Putting down the chopsticks, she raised her hand to stroke his eyebrows gently, "Xiao Kong will be an adult soon, time flies so fast."

"Aunt Wen, I'm sorry for causing you trouble." Xi Zhikong felt that tears were about to roll out of his eyes again, wiped them away with his hand in advance, held back the emotion in his voice and said: "Auntie was worried about me yesterday, I heard Brother Yan said that Auntie fainted."

Jiang Wen gently hugged him into her arms, and did not respond to him immediately, but shifted the topic to what she wanted to say.

"Xiaokong, about daddy..." She nodded and said only half of her words, when she raised her eyes, she saw the sparkle in the corner of Xi Zhikong's eyes.

Jiang Yan was still asleep, Xi Zhikong stood up, waved with Jiang Wen, turned and left the ward.

It seemed that the emotions that were completely dominated by fear and guilt yesterday were released in an instant, and turned into a raging wave of grief, which overturned his whole body to the ground with an earth-shaking momentum.He stood in the toilet, clasping his fingers tightly to the edge of the sink, trembling all over.

He swallowed hard to relieve the soreness in his eyes, bit his lower lip tightly, and the scene of getting along with Xi Chuzhi was vivid in his memory.After years of separation, he didn't know how to face this farewell. He felt that he should at least cry, because that was the father who gave birth to him and raised him, but he felt that he couldn't do it. He wanted to say sorry wherever Xi Chuzhi appeared in his memory.

He clearly knew that it wasn't his fault, it wasn't that he could stay in prison for decades and then get out of prison without overturning his original intention, and it wasn't that if he didn't pursue anything, everything wouldn't happen.

This was a ridiculous mistake at the beginning, but no one made up for this mistake, and it turned into an unmanageable mess, and finally all this was quelled at the cost of Xi Chuzhi's life.He still couldn't figure out why Xi Chuzhi committed suicide. In order to protect his son, his father did many things that ordinary people couldn't understand. As a son, he couldn't understand his father's sacrifice anyway.

He stood in the toilet for a while, leaned over and washed his face with water, sobered up a lot. Before he put his hand on the doorknob and pressed it down, he made a mental contribution for himself. Jiang Wen was soft-hearted. If she saw herself crying , definitely can't help it.She can no longer be made to worry about herself. Once Xi Chuzhi dies, Jiang Yan's family is his only hope and motivation to live.

I don't know when Jiang Yan woke up, and now he was standing with Jiang Wen at the toilet door waiting for Xi Zhikong, both of them felt that when Xi Zhikong opened the door in front of him, it would be another him.

Xi Zhikong bent the corners of his mouth as much as he could, and there was still a slight layer of water vapor in his eyes. He sniffed and exhaled quietly, opened his arms to hold Jiang Yan and Jiang Wen in his arms, and said softly Thank you several times.

Jiang Wen's spirit is not very good yet, but she saw that Xi Zhikong was trying his best to restrain his sadness, and she didn't dare to use her emotions to influence him. She patted him on the shoulder and said, "Uncle is dealing with Dad's funeral. Yes, Xiao Kong, from now on..."

She held Xi Zhikong's hand in her palm, and then pulled Jiang Yan's hand over it, holding hands of the two of them and said: "From now on, our family will never be separated again, and we will not let Xiaokong suffer any more. gone."

"En." Xi Zhikong nodded heavily, turned his hand over Jiang Wen's, and slowly took Jiang Yan's hand hesitantly.

……

There was no bitter cry, no mourning, nor even the cremation of Xi Chuzhi's body, nor his peaceful burial. Xi Zhikong waited for a long time, until one rainy day, he quietly went out with an umbrella.

He had a letter that Xi Chuzhi hurriedly wrote to him before committing suicide in his coat pocket. He stood at the door of the small villa and looked back. From emotion to expression, he didn't look like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy at all.

When he received the letter from Jiang Wen, he didn't dare to read it carefully. He knew that he couldn't accept the fact that Xi Chuzhi was gone. All his sad emotions had been vented as early as two days after he got the news. It's over, and until now he feels that Xi Chuzhi just changed places to accompany him.It was like going to jail a few years ago and growing up with him in a strange place.

A few days ago, Jiang Wen even Guangji and Jiang Yan went to the cemetery to see Xi Chuzhi, but he did not go with him. This time he was fully prepared and ready to complete this solemn farewell seriously.

He took a taxi, and the driver comforted him after sending him to the place. He thanked him politely, but the moment he got out of the car to hold the umbrella, his shoulders were still wet from the rain.

The cemetery is very large and the environment is very good. He is very grateful to the Jiang family for everything he has done for him. He feels that there is nothing to repay, but he accepts their contributions and gifts uncontrollably.He thought, he seemed to have really regarded himself as a member of the Jiang family, and also regarded the Jiang family as his own family.

This was his first time here. Last night he intentionally asked Jiang Yan which tomb it was, and it took him a while to find it today based on his memory.

The wind was much lower than when he went out, but the rain was heavier.

On the tombstone, after Xi Chuzhi lost his job, Gu Yishu took a picture of him with his mobile phone when Haitou resumed his resume. He learned simple PS techniques online and gave him a ID photo with a blue background. Now it has been turned into a white background by P. It was also changed to black and white, and it was pasted neatly in the middle of the tombstone.

Just like when he was alive, he was upright, his eyebrows and eyes were upright, and he was a upright person.

Xi Zhikong stood in front of the tombstone with an umbrella and looked down for a while, bent down to wipe off the rainwater on the black and white photo, and soon the whole photo was "occupied" by the fine and dense rainwater.

He called Dad cautiously, for fear of waking up the people who had been sleeping here, and for fear of awakening the mourning suppressed in his heart.

The sudden rain in August seemed to bring some chills from the autumn that was just around the corner. Xi Zhikong was blown a little cold. He stood still and rubbed his arms, clamped his chin on the handle of the umbrella and took out the envelope from the inside of his jacket.He hadn't seen Xi Chuzhi's handwriting for a long time, and the last time he saw it was his confession.

Fortunately, there was no wind, and an umbrella completely covered the space and prevented Xin from getting wet.He carefully and slowly took the letter out from the opened seal, and the unfolding movements seemed so pious and solemn.

"My dear son, I am very glad to be able to exchange letters with you after so many years. The last time I wrote to you was a parent-child activity in your school.