north bird south

When Xu Zhiyuan was returning home, he happened to bump into Meng Che coming back.

He told Xu Zhiyuan that Xu Zhenping had been assassinated at a banquet, and although he was fine, he was injured now, and the date of coming to Huai City needs to be postponed.So I asked Xu Zhiyuan to write a letter of greeting to his father, and send it along with his invitation letter to change the time.

Xu Zhiyuan already knew about Meng Che's plan, so this request was nothing more than a blatant threat to him.

Xu Zhenping didn't know how he felt when he saw an invitation letter almost "Hongmen Banquet" sent together with his son's greeting letter.

But Xu Zhiyuan obeyed Meng Che's wishes, took a few pieces of letter paper and a pen from the study, and went back to his room.

The thin paper in his hand was wrinkled by Xu Zhiyuan. After hearing everything from Yu Yao, he began to fear that this assassination was planned by Yu Yan.Leaving aside whether the Tongpaohui can successfully rescue these bewitched "hostages", finding and persuading them is difficult.

Xu Zhiyuan wrote stroke by stroke under the lamp, and just when the ink ran out, he finished writing the word "far".

Xu Zhenping is like a tree disguised among thorns.And the intricate, intertwined and thorny canes have already wrapped his whole body.There were too many eyes staring at him, if he disappeared or ran away rashly, maybe even the comrade who helped him transfer would also get involved.So they are planning a clever "secret secret" for Xu Zhenping, and it will definitely take a while.During this period of time, Xu Zhenping will definitely try to keep a low profile, so as not to let the eyes staring at him catch any clues.If you think this way, Xu Zhenping will definitely not go to Meng Che's appointment.However, in order to tell the truth to his "kept in the dark" son, there is still the possibility of coming to Huai City.

So Xu Zhiyuan had an idea, and used intermittent ink to fill in another line of words on Xu Zhiyuan's book - "I know what I told me last time. You can calm down and heal your wounds, don't worry about me."

Xu Zhiyuan occasionally exchanged letters with his parents in Wuzhou, but those were all written by Li Anrong.In the past few years, the two arrogant father and son hadn't spoken at all, let alone told them anything.

But Xu Zhiyuan somehow felt that Xu Zhenping would read every letter he sent.

So this "one who commanded" has become a code word.

After finishing writing, Xu Zhiyuan drew "Old Yu" at the end of the letter.I drew a few more blind lines, pretending to be the traces of scribbling when the pen was out of ink.

The distorted villain Doodle stared at two decadent black eyes and Xu Zhiyuan stared at the small eyes.I don't know if Xu Zhenping can remember the "Old Yu" drawn by his 19-year-old bastard son on the test paper, and think that Yu Yao has seen Xu Zhiyuan again... Anyway, he is a dead horse.

Thinking this way, Xu Zhiyuan folded the letter and stuffed it into the envelope.He knew that Meng Che still had to check, so he didn't stick to his mouth at all.

……

"Master, the doctor Pei you sent has been working there for many days. As you think, everything is going well."

Meng Che was lying on the bed, and his adjutant was changing his dressing.Meng Che said, "Did Yu Yan do the assassination in Wuzhou District?"

"Because the drug purchase channels in Fulin District are limited, he went to Wuzhou a few days ago to buy medical supplies."

"Then it must be him," Meng Che said. "The purchase is just a legitimate excuse. If it's just such a trivial matter, do you still need him to come forward in person?"

After the new bandages were changed, Meng Che said: "We must strengthen the concealment, and we must not let the group of people in the villa have any accidents. Yu Yan may still have doubts about us, so we must not relax our vigilance."

The adjutant paused and said, "Do you still think there is something wrong with that telegram?"

A gloomy expression appeared on Meng Che's face, and he said, "Although I sent people to intercept Yu Yan's confirmation telegram, those idiots were not reliable, and they didn't stop them, let alone those who were in the same robe. In the name of sending back false documents to Yu Yan."

"That is to say, Yu Yan's confirmation telegram has actually been in the hands of the telegraph operator of the Brotherhood, but why Yu Yan still got a fake response. Since Yu Yan can believe it, it shows that it is extremely expert in disguising."

"Are you afraid that this is their plan?"

"Not necessarily, maybe there are other reasons," Meng Che frowned, and said intuitively, "It's best to find out the person who secretly received Yu Yan's news."

……

Pei Zhen worked non-stop all morning, his hands were trembling, and while there was nothing disturbing, he was watching the master pruning the branches and leaves in the garden of the villa.It was cloudy in the afternoon today, and the weather was a bit cool, so Pei Zhen put on a coat.

When Yu Yan came back to see him, he tugged at the sleeve of his coat and said, "Doctor Pei, you are so leisurely."

Pei Zhen didn't look at him, but snatched the corner of his clothes from his hand, and said, "Don't give me any yin and yang aura, I've been taking care of you gods for several days, and the cattle in the field still have time to rest."

Yu Yan smiled and said, "It's the job of a doctor to save lives and heal the wounded."

Although Pei Zhen's nose was a little insensitive due to the smell of disinfectant and blood rust these days, he still smelled some blood. He asked Yu Yan, "You are injured."

"No problem, just minor injuries." Yu Yan put a big bag on the ground and said, "The goods have arrived, do you think these are enough?"

Pei Zhen's blood pressure rose, he rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and said, "You can't transport medicine like this."

Yu Yan first went to the house to ask for a glass of water, then came back and said, "I'm sorry, I came back this time very quickly and in a hurry, and my own life can barely be 'preserved'. I really don't have that much thought to take care of these things."

Pei Zhen inspected it, uttered some words that Yu Yan could not understand, and asked, "...where are the narcotics?"

"This control is really strict, and I have tried my best."

"There are not many left here. If you can't get it yourself, let Meng Che go in. If there are many more wounded, the operation will not be possible at all... And..." Pei Zhen said seriously, "I'll let you find one. Where's the doctor?"

"I've already contacted you. On the way here, you should be able to arrive tonight." Yu Yandao, "We won't come to the wounded for the time being. We move the location every month, and there are still two days left. The new local supplies will arrive at that time." Enough."

"Then the doctor was tricked by Meng Che again, right?"

"No, it's the colleague I secretly contacted when I came back from Wuzhou." Yu Yan said quickly.

Although Pei Zhen knew a lot, he was not all-round and proficient. He had been looking forward to such a helper for many days, so he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank God."

"God doesn't care about our place." Yu Yan teased, "You can thank me."

"..." Pei Zhen dragged this bloody ancestor back to apply medicine.

Hard to be clean tonight.

Pei Zhen stayed for a while when he saw the mirror in the bathroom, and it took him a long time to realize that the haggard-faced person above was himself.Subconsciously, he took a handful of water and washed his face. The dirt could be wiped off, but his demeanor couldn't be washed off.

People always miss their hometown and relatives when they are tired or suddenly find that they cannot stand the years.Pei Zhen was no exception, he couldn't help thinking of Wu Yuan and his daughter in his hometown at this moment.There were drops of water on his face and hands, and he wetly twisted a longevity lock around his neck.

This was originally something that Pei Zhen's ex-wife left to his daughter. Before he left, Pei Linwan hung him around his father's neck on a whim and asked him to come back earlier.

Under the color of the moonlight, the silver ring on his finger has the same soft radiance as the longevity lock.

He looked at it for a long time, and the water-stained hair was hanging on his forehead. Finally, he took off the ring slowly and put it in the pocket of his coat.

"I also put a piece of silver jewelry on my younger brother. But the old man in my family often said that men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha. I put the silver Buddha on Ayao wrongly." Yu Yan's voice suddenly appeared, and he said, "I wondered why so many Superstitious rules, A Yao was blessed by some god, isn't that a blessing?"

"...I'll call you big brother, can you say hello before you talk?" Pei Zhen was startled by him, took a deep breath, followed his words, and said, "Actually, many superstitions were originally just good wishes. It’s just that many essential meanings have been distorted in the inheritance.”

"Best wishes..." Yu Yan sat on the window sill, pointed at his longevity lock with his chin, crossed his legs and said, "For example, the person who gave you this wished you a long life?"

Pei Zhen smiled gently and said, "My daughter gave it to me. She probably didn't think too much about it, she just thought it was beautiful and precious."

"Maybe you really think so." Yu Yan curled his lips and changed the subject, "You actually have wives and daughters, and we are still single. Those who have a family should give more care and selfless dedication to the bachelors. It's a good thing, right Dr. Pei."

Pei Zhen: "?"

"What's the reason for this?" Pei Zhen looked at this patient who urged himself to "dedicate himself to his job" all the time, and said, "If you become a landlord or a capitalist, you must be a pickpocket."

Yu Yan giggled, but his voice stopped abruptly after a while, and he suddenly turned his head to look out the window.

His reaction made Pei Zhen nervous, and he asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing but..." Yu Yan looked intently in the night for a while, rubbed his temples with his fingers, and said, "The nerves are tense these days, and I'm always suspicious."

Pei Zhen also knew the purpose of his trip to Wuzhou a few days ago.Xu Zhenping is scheming, and if he wants to fight him, he needs to be careful.Pei Zhen advised him not to worry, let him go to rest first.I changed the medicine for the patient and then went to rest.

"It rained heavily on the road, the doctor must have been delayed for a while, thanks for your hard work." Yu Yan patted Pei Zhen on the shoulder and went to sleep "following the doctor's advice".

For some reason, it was obviously a pure night, but Pei Zhen's mood was not at peace because of the shock just now.Perhaps it was just like what Yu Yan said, there was a heavy rain in the afternoon, which not only blocked many roads, but also made people's hearts muddy.

Pei Zhen took a night tour with a lantern and checked the front and back of the villa. When passing by the garden, mud spots splashed on his trousers.After closing the doors and windows, he slowly walked up to the third floor and opened a door.

The patient lying in this room was already very familiar with Pei Zhen.From the beginning of the meeting, they kept silent to chat about some household and trivial matters from time to time.Although Pei Zhen didn't know the name of this colleague, he knew that there was an old mother and a younger brother with weak legs in his family.When people talk about missing people, their emotions are interlinked. Pei Zhen found some subtle sympathy with him, so he also likes to come here to talk to him when he has nothing to do.

The night was getting dark, Pei Zhen reckoned that he was asleep, so he didn't greet him when he gently pushed the door.Pei Zhen put the things in his hands on the cabinet and put on the gloves slowly, but he always felt that something was wrong during the process, perhaps because the mixed smell of blood and hydrogen peroxide that disturbed his nasal cavity from time to time always disturbed his nerves.

But when he was turning around, the open window in the room lifted the curtains, blowing a fresh stench on his face.

Pei Zhen's brows furrowed suddenly, he stood on the spot, stretched out his hand into the darkness with some sense, and pushed aside a screen in the middle of the room.Surprised to find the nurse lying in a pool of blood, the clothes and the floor were bloody.

Pei Zhen broke out in a cold sweat suddenly, turned his head to look at the sleeping comrade on the bed, immediately reached out and pushed him, but got no response.Seeing that his face was blue and purple, Pei Zhen tremblingly opened his eyelids to confirm his death.He took a few steps back in silence, and it took him a long time for his thoughts to explode in his mind, and he immediately ran to the door.

But before he touched the doorknob, his ear nerves picked up a small, soft mechanical sound amidst the eerie silence.

It was the sound of loading hidden in the dark.

……

Yu Yan suddenly opened his eyes, sat up on the bed, his eyes were like an eagle at night, and turned to the door.

He just had a nightmare when he was in a light sleep, and the constant thunder in the distance woke him up.

But when Yu Yan opened his eyes, he heard a fleeting abnormal sound, and his hair grew terrified in the silence of the night. This probably reminded him of the sharp touch he had been in the crisis for too long.Almost by muscle memory, the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to tuck the gun in his cuff.

He sat for a while, then slowly landed on his bare feet, opened the window halfway, and the moist cool wind gently blew on his skin, making people feel the mixed raindrops.

Yu Yan lowered his eyes, walked back to the bed, and extinguished the candle.Lie down slowly, and after the room was quiet for a while, Yu Yan lifted the sheet almost suddenly, and fired a shot into the ground.

Sure enough, there was a muffled groan from below, and a figure sprang out from the side, quickly grabbed his ankle and dragged him off the bed.Yu Yan knew that he had made the right bet, and at the same time, the agility of the visitor made him break out in a cold sweat.

I don't know where the shot hit just now, but with it as a constraint, the assassin's speed was slower than Yu Yan's.Yu Yan rolled over, and simply pressed the man against the wall with his back. At the same time, he quickly wrapped the leg that was caught at the wrist around the assassin's head, strangling his neck tightly. .

Relying on the light, Yu Yan touched the dagger and gun on the assassin's body. The assassin who was not breathing well beat his calf hard. The assassin was also directly killed by Yu Yan.

Yu Yan leaned against the edge of the bed, gasping for breath. Through the candlelight, he saw the face of this assassin, dressed in black, with a high nose and deep eye sockets, and short brown hair. He looked like a foreigner.His gun was a model Yu Yan was not familiar with, and it was equipped with a silencer. The only offensive things were a dagger and an iron hook on a nylon rope around his waist.And his left eye was bleeding profusely.Only then did Yu Yan realize that the shot he fired just now under the bed just hit him in the eye.

Thinking of the assassin's quick reaction just now, he thought carefully and was terrified, thinking that if he had hit other parts, he might not be able to gain the upper hand in the scuffle just now.

He was looking at the corpse when the door creaked open, Yu Yan raised his head vigilantly and raised his gun.

The door was blown open by the wind—the corridor window was also open, and it happened to be ventilated with the window of his room, so the unlocked door was blown, and the curtains outside were also fluttering like ghosts and ghosts. It shines like day.The ominous image slowly crawled into Yu Yan's heart like an ugly worm.

He obviously locked the door when he entered the house, and the nurse and Pei Zhen would habitually check the doors and windows before going to bed.

He didn't even notice the assassin's entry, so the others...Yu Yan's premonition suddenly reached the threshold explosion point, and he immediately left the balcony and ran towards the door.

But at this moment, a hand stretched out through the gap in the half-open window, and suddenly wrapped it around his neck.

Before Yu Yan could react, his entire upper body was dragged out of the window. He hooked his feet to the inside window sill so as not to fall from the third floor. At this moment, heavy rain poured crazily on his face, It hit him hard enough to close his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the stabbing pain exploded from the back and side, and when the knife was stabbed in and pulled out, the cold rain was frantically pouring into the blood hole, and the hot blood was soaked to lose its temperature.

Enduring the severe pain, Yu Yan firmly grasped the assassin's knife-holding hand, and turned around in a half-hanging posture. Taking advantage of the moment when the assassin's body was twisted, he shot at the iron hook at the end of the nylon rope.Coupled with the lubrication of the rain, the support rope jingled and slipped, and the assassin fell unexpectedly, bringing Yu Yan, who was overwhelmed, with him.

The sound of their fall was buried in the pouring rain and thunder, knocking down the bushes that the gardener had cut that morning.The assassin was placed under Yu Yan's body, and the blade of the dagger in the fight was pointing downwards, and it was inserted straight into the assassin's chest by gravity, almost without the handle entering into the flesh.

Yu Yan struggled and shot him in the throat, and saw his face clearly - his facial "foreigner" features were more obvious than the first person who stabbed him in his room.After Yu Yan confirmed that he could never get up again, he lay down in the rain for a while, panting for the rest of his life, and the rainwater flowed into his lungs.

He coughed up the stench of blood and rain, got up with difficulty, clutched his horrific abdomen, and climbed upstairs.

He kept dodging behind the wall with his gun raised in a bluff, for fear of encountering a third assassin, but there was no other change until he went upstairs.

Yu Yan was mentally prepared for the worst, but the tragedy upstairs still exceeded his expectations. The wounded and nurses in each room...all of them were spared.

Yu Yan let out a low and mournful scolding sound from his throat.Based on the abilities and professional qualities of these two assassins, he should have been one of the dead bodies.Probably because of Yu Heye's cover, and the simplicity of killing the whole house, the two of them neglected to be vigilant towards Yu Yan. Coupled with the blessing of luck, Yu Yan escaped this disaster.

...Who will reveal their location, and can contact and send this kind of killer to deal with the wounded in the entire villa.

...Where are the so-called Mengche guards who "guaranteed everything" to guard the villa?

...Maybe the doctor who was on the way had already encountered an accident.

Yu Yan clenched his teeth and popped up many questions illogically, but he couldn't think too much.The bleeding and pain began to blur his consciousness, and he knew that even if he killed the two assassins, the wounds on his body would still make him die.In the end, he fell down next to a corpse and closed his eyes unwillingly.

……

When he opened it again, he found himself lying on the bed, next to a dim light.

His body seemed to be in a state of slight anesthesia, and his mind was not clear yet... But he remembered Pei Zhen saying that the anesthetics in this villa were running out.

Pei Zhen's voice came from the side, he was strangely wrapped in two overcoats, wearing a mask, sitting on a stool, and was meticulously treating his wound.

"You bear it, you are sewing stitches."

Yu Yanxi moved his lips, and found that his voice had lost its original timbre. After a narrow escape, he finally met a living person, and his tear glands began to function physiologically. He asked, "Why are you alright?"

"I'm playing dead."

Yu Yan: "?"

Seeing his bewildered expression, Pei Zhen stared at him quietly, his voice was still as soft as the first sentence, and said: "Why, do you really hope that I have something to do?"

"..." It sounded like Pei Zhen's original flavor, and Yu Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, the relief from the pain made him grin his teeth for a while, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Where are the others?"

"You are still alive, and the rest of the supplies are..." Pei Zhen's fingers trembled, he tried his best to pinpoint the end of the thread, and said, "There is only enough for one person."

Yu Yan closed his eyes, forcibly endured the grief, and said, "Damn it."

"These two assassins cannot be mobilized in the country, who did it..."

Pei Zhen didn't speak, Yu Yan turned to look at him.Pei Zhen who was concentrating on it said, "I don't have time to analyze with you right now."

"Just talk to me and divert the pain."

"Second Master Guan didn't talk as much as you did when he scraped the bone to cure the poison, so you're the only one who is busy."

"Tsk." Yu Yan said, "Doctor Pei, can you treat patients with a better attitude... Besides, we are also brothers who were born and died."

Pei Zhen sighed helplessly.

"Let me tell you, I'll take you to Beicheng... Hiss... There is a big rock in my hometown in Beicheng. Let's sacrifice a few peaches there and form a righteous relationship. From now on, we will be brothers and sisters... Xu Zhenping and I are both... The way to worship there... Tsk, why are we talking about him again." Yu Yan looked at the ceiling, "Forget it, let's not talk about it...you talk about your own affairs, I am not clear-headed now."

Pei Zhen chuckled lightly at his distracting thoughts.After all the work was over, his hands were trembling uncontrollably, so he leaned back in the chair, used "talk therapy" to "transfer the pain" of the patient, raised his head and talked about his own affairs, saying: "... I said I wanted to study medicine, but my mentor asked me, do you want to save lives or make money, and I said of course it is to save lives and heal the wounded. He then said that you should go to study surgery." His voice was as soft as a gust of wind, amidst the rain and thunder. Stumbling, "After studying for many years, as I got older, I realized that I was actually a layman, so I went back and asked my teacher if I could re-choose the way to make money. The teacher said, if you choose a thief ship, you still want to come down halfway." , it’s quite beautiful to think about.”

The freshly stitched wound made Yu Yan not laugh too much, he said: "Although your teacher has good intentions, he speaks like a bandit."

Pei Zhen also looked at the ceiling together with him, and continued: "Later when I went abroad to study, my supervisor found that I was inexplicably talented, so he took me to do research, and I somehow 'changed' and followed him to study internal medicine. Doctorate."

He said it jokingly and lightly, but the hardships and painstaking efforts behind him receiving such a high reputation at such a young age were covered up by his own short words.So Yu Yan could only listen quietly.

"I always feel that my doctor's name is a miscellaneous name. I don't have much energy to specialize in the field. I am short of knowledge and can't be proficient in all kinds of things. Even after studying for so many years, I can't even save my lover. What I said before The lofty ambition of 'rescue the dying and heal the wounded' seems to have become ethereal."

Pei Zhen said: "One time I was too busy in the hospital and couldn't control my emotions. I went back and complained to Yuan, 'Maybe I will be performing surgery until I die, and the patient will only be grateful to God and God when he wakes up. I also don't remember planting a Pei Zhen on his operating table, but Yuan didn't blame me after listening to it. She told me, if you don't like it, don't force yourself. But I seemed to wake up and forgot to complain... ...I remembered what my mentor said, and suddenly thought, what else can I do now besides 'saving people'."

The two fell into a long silence under the candlelight, and Yu Yan suddenly said, "You saved me, I remember you."

Pei Zhen was wearing a mask, only one pair of eyes turned, looked at him, laughed, and said, "But I don't want to save you." He said, "I finally found a panting man in all the houses. People, I found out that it was you... Originally, I thought it was better to let this person fend for himself."

Yu Yan: "?" He said: "Pay attention to Dr. Pei's medical ethics."

After talking and laughing, Pei Zhen said to him again with difficulty: "When you go back, remember to see my daughter and wife... Yuan and Xiaowan regard me as the person they rely on and are closest to, but I'm sorry for them." Zhen's movements seemed to be rusted from exhaustion. After a long time, he took out the longevity lock on his neck and the ring in his pocket, put them on the bedside table next to Yu Yan, and said, "...help give these to them."

"Also," Pei Zhen stretched out a hand and said, "You have to tell Ah Yao...say sorry for me."

"You should tell and tell yourself," Yu Yan looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and said, "Although it is a bit difficult, it is still possible to escape with you, and there is no need to be so pessimistic."

Pei Zhen snorted, took a deep breath, and said, "If you're optimistic, think about it, I'm tired, let's rest for a while."

Yu Yan is not a qualified patient, and time will not allow him to be delicate and sick. After he felt his pain relieved, he slowly moved out of the villa. He found that the car had been dismantled and almost declared scrapped, so he held on Umbrella walked around outside.

That night, Yu Yan almost believed in the existence of the goddess of luck, and she favored him for the second time, allowing him to find a motorcycle in the weed pile not far from the villa.It was very concealed, and the shell formed a natural concealment. He found a nylon rope on it, and guessed it was left by the two assassins.

The wind was so strong that he almost missed the umbrella and slowly moved back to the room.Called: "Doctor Pei, I found it."

Pei Zhen had already taken off his mask, and was taking a nap on the table with a calm face, as if he was sleeping very comfortably.Yu Yan patted his shoulder lightly, and there was a muffled sound of heavy clothes, and he asked, "Doctor Pei, get up."

Pei Zhen didn't reply.

Yu Yan shouted: "Doctor Pei?"

"..."

"Pei Zhen!"

Yu Yan was stunned for a while, then pushed Pei Zhen's two layers of coat away with a chill on his back, a strong smell penetrated his nose, Yu Yan didn't know what kind of medicine smell it was, but it perfectly covered up the stench of blood.

The scarlet had already soaked through his white shirt, but it had been covered up by the overcoat. At this moment, it slowly dripped down the chair legs to the ground.

He said... he escaped by pretending to be dead?

Who would believe such a clumsy lie.

But Yu Yan, who was shrewd all his life, believed it.

When Yu Yan looked at him, the newly stitched wound was resisting his dishonesty with severe pain, and his brain was empty, his lips could only move, and his throat could not make a sound.He pushed Pei Zhen a few times in disbelief, and he clearly said that he was just resting.

Everything about that night—the stabbings, the corpses, the wounds, the smells, even the weather—was horrific.Only Pei Zhen's face was so quiet and pale that it seemed like a lifetime ago.

If it weren't for the fact that he was no longer breathing, it really made people think that he was just asleep.