dark crossing

Jiang Maiyun's complexion is darker, and the hand holding the old man's health status record book on the hospital bed is a healthy brown red, and there is a lifelike tattoo of wings on the tiger's mouth.

"Are you feeling better today?" He was wearing a medical mask and a white coat, with a friendly and gentle tone, and his emotions were not the slightest bit different.Those who don't know will definitely not be able to see that this is a poor father whose beloved daughter has just been kidnapped.

Jiang Maiyun has always had the habit of doing volunteer work.Although his daughter Jiang Shiyin had been missing for several days, he still cheered up and came to this nursing home to report when he had made an appointment to serve as a volunteer.

The haggard old man lying on the hospital bed looked like a gossamer, with an oxygen inhalation tube inserted in his nose, and he nodded to him with great difficulty after a lot of effort.

Seeing this, Jiang Maiyun lowered his head and wrote down the words "clear consciousness" on the record book printed with "Kuntai Shanai" in big red characters.

There is a street near Jiuyi East Road, Jianghu City. This street is famous all over the country for its frequent public welfare activities and dense charitable companies. It was once called "a street of charity".

On this street less than 500 meters away, there are hundreds of public welfare organizations, large and small, registered.

On both sides of the road, the shop facades that have just been renovated are covered with light boxes with heart-warming slogans such as "hospice care" and "love for the elderly".

And "Kuntai Shanai" is a large-scale nursing home on this street with complete medical staff and a public welfare nature.

Jianghu City is economically developed and densely populated, but like many economically developed areas, it is facing increasingly severe population aging problems.

With the changes of the times, young people's self-display and the need for independent space have been repeatedly emphasized on various media platforms.

Under such a trend, the new generation has been subtly influenced, gradually subverting the old ideas of "the elders speak with one word" and "blindly worship the old" in the traditional concept.

More and more young people prefer to "stand on their own" in adulthood.This change in lifestyle has led to an increasing number of empty-nesters living alone, which means that the traditional old-age care model based on family care is gradually weakening.

This situation is particularly evident in first-tier cities like Jianghu.

The Jianghu Municipal Government realized the importance of supporting and developing new elderly care projects a few years ago.

In order to promote the implementation of elderly care projects, the government has formulated a series of subsidy policies for non-profit private elderly care service institutions.

In this favorable formal environment, various elderly care projects such as "Kuntai Shanai" have sprung up in the Jianghu stock market.

"Kuntai Shanai" has been recruiting volunteers for a long time, and also welcomes caring people from all walks of life to visit the elderly in nursing homes.

Therefore, many people of all kinds frequently enter and leave this place every day.

Those who came to show their love were particularly active in probing and looking around as soon as they entered the door.

More than [-]% of these elderly people living in Kuntai Shan'ai are suffering from cancer and metastases.Most of them are in wheelchairs.There are also many elderly people who are bedridden due to illness and have lost their ability to take care of themselves. They can only rely on the daily care of nurses to maintain their basic lives.

And those caring people from all walks of life will silently observe these old people as soon as they enter the door.They usually quickly locate a target intuitively, and then strike up a conversation.

The attitude of these caring people is gentle and comfortable, and the topic of communication completely revolves around the sick elderly.

The issues they are concerned about are various, such as what diseases the old people have, what treatments they have received, and how much the monthly treatment costs.It is as small as eating a few meals a day, how is the bowel movement in recent days.

Caring people with kind smiles tirelessly delve into the bottom line of these boring details and listen to them.

They are often more concerned about the physical condition of the elderly than their biological children.When asked, the attitude was meticulous and appropriate, as if everyone was a model of caring for the elderly.

The community workers who occasionally come for routine inspections cannot help but be touched by these enthusiastic people's care for the dying elderly for several years.

However, ordinary people are always used to judging others by themselves, and most of them will never encounter a situation where their hearts are blackened by their huge desire for profit.

Thus they often underestimate the insatiability of the human heart.I never thought that in the face of huge interests, those monsters in human skin who fell into the eyes of money would regard other people's lives as worthless.

In this environment that seems to be full of concern, people's hearts are warm, and the years are peaceful, everything seems so beautiful and kind.

But everything in the world has two sides, there is good and there is evil, and everything is reversed.Between beauty and ugliness, sometimes there may be only a thin banknote.

And when intimidating those who have done bad things, we always like to say: If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts.

It seems that seeing ghosts is the most frightening and terrifying thing in the world.

But in fact, what is so scary about ghosts?Why don't I show you people's hearts.

……

"How can a man like me be a husband?"

"A man can be a husband."

"Of course you can be a husband! There is an idiom that tells people to do their best." Huang Chenghao's erudition made everyone laugh.

Xu Kai, who was hiccupping, laughed so hard that he fell down and rolled on another sofa not far away.

"Damn it! Don't be so unlucky!" The protagonist of the party, who was still cheerful just now, sat up straight suddenly, and the veins on his forehead bulged from the sudden rage twitched faintly.

Huang Chenghao, who was sitting next to him and was laughing vigorously, was taken aback, and said in surprise: "It's so good, what are you doing?"

"Who told me that the groom-to-be is very lucky on the eve of the wedding? Damn! I lost a lot of money! What a fucking bad luck!"

The shouting one is Shao An, a groom-to-be who will enter the marriage hall tomorrow.

As a member of the playboys in the same social circle as Song Ci, the crazy single party on the eve of the wedding is of course indispensable.On the eve of the wedding, Shao An called a group of cronies and friends, and made an appointment to gather in the royal world of Song Ci's house to make a fool of themselves.

After drinking for three rounds, the beautiful "Miss" and "Master" have also performed several private performances.The young dandies who had their fill of fun slumped on the sofa and swiped their phones.

Shen Ting was dragged by Chu Huainan to have dinner together, so she was late for the appointment.

As soon as he pushed the door of the box open a crack, he heard Shao An's loud "bad luck" and got out from the crack of the door.

"What's the bad luck? How could anyone curse themselves like that before marriage!?" Shen Ting closed the door with his foot with a half smile, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Shao An, are you going to be unlucky and cuckold? Like to be a father?"

The box was full of smog, and several well-dressed little girls in stewardess uniforms were amused by the boss's words and giggled.

Shao An has a very bad temper. He was already in a bad mood after losing money, and after being laughed at, he couldn't help being furious.He didn't dare to get angry with Song Ci, so he took his temper out on the waitress and scolded: "Get out! What's so funny? Something that can't wink!"

The girls with bare legs and waists suddenly didn't dare to speak anymore, and looked at their boss pitifully one by one.

Seeing Shen Ting waving at them, they all lowered their heads and filed out.

The flowers who were in charge of adding to the fun were kicked out, and there was only a bunch of green leaves that were wilting on the sofa because the first half was too powerful.

Xu Kai was almost drunk again, and the girls in charge of ordering songs were scolded out of the box, so he had to order songs by himself. Right now, he was lying on the KTV's song ordering device, squinting his eyes to look for the "Youth Practice Manual".

When Huang Chenghao saw Shen Ting, he consciously moved a little space between himself and Shao An.

Shen Ting sat down unceremoniously, smiled at Shao An who was drooping his head, and asked, "What's the matter? Bridegroom officer, why are you so angry?"

Shao An sighed and covered his forehead bitterly: "I lost 100 million just now!"

Huang Chenghao was holding a handful of Brazilian pine nuts and was crackling. Hearing the amount, he couldn't help being happy: "100 million? It's easy! You go out and look for the poisoner with tattoos on his hand. When you find it, you can get it." Follow the clues and ask his husband to go."

Huang Chenghao's straight outstretched paws were blocked by Shen Ting's hand with a smile, pointing at his knuckles, and immediately twisted in the hollow of the palm and pinched the tendons.

Huang Chenghao didn't take the pain, and bounced away with an "oh", but the twisted finger was still tightly held in the palm of Shen Ting's hand.

Shen Ting rolled his eyes slightly, but his smile was not a smile, "Whose husband are you talking about?"

"You, you can always be Chu Huainan's husband! Brother Ci, let go, my finger will be broken!"

"That's pretty much the same. As a human being, you can't turn your elbows outwards. The elder brother still has to teach you this rule."

"Don't let people tell the truth?" Huang Chenghao grinned and rubbed his fingers that had just been rescued from the claws of the devil, and said angrily: "Like Chu Huainan, if you can be on top of him this time, I will turn my head off for you Be a urinal!"

Although the words were full of air, but when Shen Ting glared at him, he immediately gave up again, put his sore fingers behind his back, nodded and said, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this." Then he turned his head and asked Shao An, who was cursing and cursing, "Isn't there a crackdown recently? Ding Jun's place has been investigated and dealt with. I have no place to play recently. How did you lose money?"

Shao An was sending out a message to the one who bet for him. Hearing this, he raised his face and asked mysteriously, "You really want to know?"

"Don't be foolish, tell me quickly!"

"It was introduced to me by Wang Qin from Mando Holdings." Shao An leaned back triumphantly, "Recently, his relationship with his father has eased a bit, and he probably has some money in his hands. I have been in the past few days." Looking for fun near Charity Street, Jiuyi East Road..." Shao An raised his hands and put his mouth together and said mysteriously: "You must have heard of that place, right?"

In terms of background, Wang Qin, the super-rich second generation, has the best family background among them. Mando Holdings, founded by his father Wang Yuanguo, started with wire products, and the company's market value exceeded [-] billion early.

But Wang Qin himself is not the most generous among this group of small businesses.In the early years, he had a girlfriend by himself, and gave birth to a daughter before meeting his parents. When the relationship became strong, the two secretly prepared a marriage certificate at home.Wang Yuanguo, who has always had a strong desire to control, was very angry.

Wang Yuanguo and his ex-wife seem to be inseparable, there are so many lovers out there, and there are also a lot of illegitimate sons and daughters.He couldn't understand the disobedient and rebellious boy born to his first wife, and the father and son broke off contact for a while.

Until the end of last year, Wang Qin's wife flew to the United States to have a test-tube baby and gave birth to twin sons for the Wang family.Only then did Wang Yuanguo let his son bring his daughter-in-law and grandson, whom he had never met, back to the Wang family to recognize their ancestors.

Wang Qin's personality is actually very similar to his father Wang Yuanguo.He is ruthless, decisive and decisive.In the past few years when I didn't get along with my father, I dared to earn any money, but I never lacked pocket money.

Huang Chenghao had heard about "that place" introduced by Wang Qin in Shao An's mouth.With a rare serious expression on his face, he frowned and said in distaste: "Then I think it's better for you to lose. How dare you win such an unlucky game? Even if you earn this kind of dirty money, it's bad for you." of."

Shao An was annoyed by him, "Don't be stupid, money is money. Is money in this world divided into virtues or virtues? You can't make money if you lose people's lives, and those who jump off the building due to blood loss during a disaster There are a lot of them, do you want the stock exchange and various fund companies to be dissolved on the spot?"

He crossed his legs and put his mobile phone on the coffee table, especially oily and salty, "If you really want to believe in cause and effect, then I would rather believe that poverty is the original sin. Poverty makes everything ugly. There is no distinction between noble and inferior money. , even the flowers dedicated to the Bodhisattva have to be bought with money!"

Shen Ting listened silently at the side, and suddenly remembered a similar conversation between Chu Huainan and him during breakfast one day.

The capitalist looked at the cup with lowered eyebrows, and the silver coffee spoon dangled slowly between his fingers.

He said: "Money has only advantages and no disadvantages. Some people always say that the disadvantages of money are that it distracts people's hearts, makes desires skyrocket, and delays justice. But these disadvantages are not money, but people."

"You mean, money has only advantages and no disadvantages"

"No, there are still shortcomings."

Facing Shen Ting's slightly puzzled expression, the capitalist smiled softly: "The real name of a person is desire. The most fatal shortcoming of money is that there is never enough. Moreover, for most people, money is It can be easily spent."

As ordinary people who believe in "a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way", we can't complain that our imagination is limited by kindness, but we should lament that there are some ugly things in this world, which are too unexpected.

It is hard for anyone with a conscience to imagine that the "Charity Street" bathed in warm sunshine has another name in the hearts of some people who are morally bankrupt and desperate for money-"Death Gambling Street".