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2018 years.

Si Zhao sat by the wooden window of the study and looked into the distance. From this position, he could see a whole row of tall and large coconut trees. Behind the coconut trees was a dense jungle, full of green shadows.There were a lot of coconuts on the top of the coconut trees, and with a gentle breeze, a man with a belt on his feet climbed up one of the coconut trees.He is going to pick coconuts.In a closer place, people dressed in exactly the same way, so that it is difficult to distinguish gender, are busy drying fruits on the ground.There are more than one way to dry fruits. Some have spread banana leaves on the ground, and dried sliced ​​mangoes and pineapples on the leaves; Drying on the shelf, others just peeled the mango, put a pineapple into four vertical strips, and placed it on the shelf paved with stones.

The doors and windows in the study room were all open, and for a while the sweet fruity aroma from outside flowed in, and for a while the aroma of food poured in from the direction of the corridor.The sun is so good, there is no wind, only the sound of branches talking to each other, only the whispering of waves and waves, and occasionally a high leaf will talk to a flower on the ground, and it will fall with the wind, falling to the side of the flower.

People do not talk to each other, but there is no lack of communication between people. People will not fight, confront each other, and despise each other because of their different ways and styles of acting.Everyone has their own way of doing things and their own pace of action. People understand each other and maintain the greatest goodwill.Everything is so orderly and harmonious.Man and nature coexist and co-exist peacefully, and man and man live in peace and love each other.

"Dong dong." Someone knocked on the door, and Si Zhao saw that Xu Xiufen was standing at the door of the study, looking at him thoughtfully.

Si Zhao said, "Come in, sit down." He closed the window.

Xu Xiufen closed the door, brushed her clothes, and asked, "Have you read the letter of recommendation that Mr. Xu wrote to his son?"

A scent of mango was locked in the house.Si Zhao rubbed his nails, looked down at the crevices of his nails, his voice became much softer, as if he was very unconfident: "You asked me that day..."

Xu Xiufen said: "It's okay, you don't need to tell me everything." She sat on the sofa far away.

Si Zhao looked up at her, Xu Xiufen's eyes flickered, she avoided his gaze, and sat stiffly with her head slightly lowered.Shi Zhao let out a sigh.Xu Xiufen quickly glanced at him, but soon stopped looking at him again.

"Xiu Fen." Si Zhao stared at her, his voice was heavy, "There should be no secrets between me and you."

He immediately took out a key and opened a drawer under the desk. There was a locked compartment in the drawer, and he lowered his head to unlock it.

At this time, Xu Xiufen asked hesitantly, "Have you... decided what to do with that gun?"

Si Zhao shook his head, took out a stack of documents and threw them on the desk, frowning, extremely dissatisfied and disgusted with their existence.He said: "That night, you asked me where I went. I went to Seven Fairies Mountain, and I went to see Mr. Ge and Mr. Liu."

Xu Xiufen raised her head, opened her mouth, clutched the hem of her clothes, and kept blinking her eyes, as if she was afraid that his thoughts would be seen through by him, so she didn't dare to look at him, but she really wanted to taste something from his expression , had to look at him.

Si Zhao said: "So you see so much mud on my shoes. That day, I asked Xiao Wang to borrow a car."

Xu Xiufen swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I know..." She leaned forward a little, and hurriedly explained, "William, I don't doubt you, but I saw Xiao Wang changed his car that day, and Lawyer Wang came to handle it." Xiao Wang and Lawyer Wang said that they crashed it, so I asked more questions.”

"Driving at night, I accidentally bumped into a deer." Si Zhao stood up, took the stack of documents, walked to the sofa, and handed them to Xu Xiufen, "Look, this matter is also related to Lawyer Wang."

Xu Xiufen took the documents and smiled: "It's very dark at Seven Fairies Mountain at night, as long as you're okay."

She smiled very reluctantly.Si Zhao said, "Has the damaged car been dealt with?"

"It has been dealt with."

Si Zhao sat next to Xu Xiufen, and still said, "Just take a look." He closed his eyes in pain, "It's best not to talk too much with Lawyer Wang in the future, and to have less contact with him."

Xu Xiufen hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I only asked Xiao Wang after Lawyer Wang left."

Si Zhao covered his face with his hands, looked at the floor, and said in a low voice: "It's not a solution to always rely on Lawyer Wang for the office. , children who were born without a registered permanent residence, get a registered permanent residence, in case they need to leave How Island in the future, want to leave How Island..."

Xu Xiufen grabbed Si Zhao's hand: "William! No one wants to leave! We won't leave!"

Si Zhao smiled miserably: "Isn't the child always wanting to leave?"

"The child is... she is still young! Girls have such moments." Xu Xiufen said, she was facing Si Zhao now, her eyes were fixed, her eyes were firm: "We will not leave."

Si Zhao waved his hands and sighed shortly: "Maybe there is a last resort, when everyone has to leave." He slowly put his hands together, "No one knows what will happen in the future."

He said: "You will understand my worries after reading these."

Xu Xiufen then opened the stack of documents to look through.The two sat quietly for a while, and Si Zhao choked with sobs and said, "Xiu Fen, I am really in pain, very tormented."

He rubbed his forehead: "Every day I am here to see the progress here, I see that on this island, we are far away from the turmoil of the outside world, the interference from the outside world, those poisonous thoughts from the outside world, and those who are invaded by prime substances, ours... …These brothers and sisters who are willing to believe in us, who are willing to develop in a good direction, whose mind and body have been purified enough, I see that everything is so harmonious, so orderly, I feel that everything I do is worthwhile, but at the same time, I feel that everything I do is too dirty. In order to maintain the operation of the island, my hands are already too dirty. I am no longer the person I used to be. Yes, Xiufen, I wanted to tell you these things a long time ago, and I should have told you a long time ago, but I really don't know how to open my mouth. On the day I went to Seven Fairies Mountain, Mr. Liu and the others asked me..."

Xu Xiufen didn't answer, Si Zhao only heard the sound of flipping paper, he took a deep breath and said, "Let's start from the beginning.

"After the news of Teacher Shanlin's death spread, do you remember that many people came to see him off? The statue was sent by Mr. Liu at that time. Teacher Shanlin was very opposed to idolatry, but Mr. Liu sent it to the capital. It's here, and I'm too embarrassed to refuse. Do you know what's inside that statue?

"They made a hidden compartment at the bottom, and they shipped money in it. A lot of money came in. Mr. Liu said it was a gift for me, and said that Teacher Shanlin had left, and he would be happy to cooperate with me in the future."

Si Zhao was excited for a moment, and his voice trembled: "That's when I realized that How Island was used as a platform for money laundering. They also taught me how to operate and how to avoid supervision. Lawyer Wang is their person. They said that Shanlin The teachers were very cooperative. They persuaded me that I should cooperate with them like Teacher Shanlin. It is not harmful to anyone...

"I don't know what Mr. Shanlin went through, maybe he was threatened by them, and at that time, they showed me the information of a shell company opened in Cayman, and you saw the address sent by the bank in Cayman to Hong Kong Is the letter from you? Open it and have a look. In short, the company does not know who took my ID card and opened it in my name.

"I know that if I go to someone to expose their money laundering, they will definitely have a way to get away in the end, and I will definitely be the scapegoat, and the island will be forcibly closed...Xiu Fen, I am telling you this now, am I right? I hope that one day something really happens to me. When they come to you to help them continue to do bad things, they still say that I did this for them before... You see those bank documents, company documents, all I am operating in the name of , and you think I am a heinous, hypocritical hypocrite."

Xu Xiufen let out a sob, and Si Zhao continued to bow his head and said, "After Teacher Shanlin died, I initially stopped cooperating with them on the grounds that I wanted to reorganize the school. Do you remember that I kept going to land at that time, and I I just want to find a way to see if I can get rid of them completely, and if I can get away without implicating the island. After they found out, they said they would take back the ownership of the island, expose us, and sue us for human trafficking. They also prepared some They are planning to frame us as a cult organization. You know their influence in the Yancheng Public Security Bureau, right? And they are scheming, and there is no way to trace the money laundering back to them. I have no choice, I really can’t think of any way , I don’t know anyone in the Mainland at all, so in desperation, I have no choice but to continue to assist them..."

Si Zhao covered his face: "I don't know if what I did was right or wrong, but I really don't want it to be like this... Our efforts just go to waste..."

He said with tears: "I shouldn't have agreed to them, so now they are so open-mouthed, asking me to open a second, a third company, to help them launder more money... We are indeed at one point one. To change the world a little bit, I sometimes think, it’s just money laundering, I didn’t do anything harmful, and I used their influence to spread our reputation and attract more people to learn and experience. These people are all upper-class people. We can infiltrate from the upper class. It is much easier to change the world from the top down than from the bottom up. Is there nothing wrong with it? But... this is wrong after all, Xiufen, I It's really contradictory."

Si Zhao finally went to see Xu Xiufen, this capable woman bit her lip at this moment, trembling all over, as if she had made up her mind, she asked him: "What do you need me for?"

Si Zhao shook his head: "I don't know." He sniffed, stroked Xu Xiufen's hand, and said solemnly, "I hope that if something happens to me one day, it's like Teacher Shanlin died suddenly in a fire... Things like this may really happen, you must help me to continue on How to Island."

Xu Xiufen's gaze was firm: "William, He Dao has lost Teacher Shanlin, and can't live without you. I'm not even one ten thousandth of what you are."

Si Zhao still shook his head: "You have the experience of living on land, and you often communicate with people from the outside world. If How Island is gone, I will be gone. Brothers and sisters here, you have to help them a lot. Although they are very strong, they are extremely fragile when facing the world outside the island." He touched his chest and sighed, "Recently, I feel that I am more and more powerless, and everything in the world has an end , How Island has gone far enough."

"I can go out and walk around more. The Secretary Yu who came from the Yancheng Public Security Bureau before, he is not from Liu's place, right? I think he seems to want to rectify the internal situation, and then, William, we can slowly Like expanding outside the island, just like in Hong Kong before, open a school, spread our ideas, and buy an island with tuition fees! We can make the second, and the third how the island!"

Si Zhao was still very worried: "It's a way, but they won't allow it. Once we go outside the island to develop, it will easily attract unnecessary attention. It won't do them any good. They will definitely sell me out."

Xu Xiufen had a plan in mind: "Can you transfer that company to my name?"

"What do you mean?"

"If something happens, I will bear it alone. I have nothing to help you. I'm not smart enough. I'm the only one...William, I believe in you." Xu Xiufen held Si Zhao's hand, "You Just do what you want to do, whatever tricks they want to do, if they want to sell, they will sell me!"

Si Zhao was not without emotion, but it was difficult to accept it.Xu Xiufen's eyebrows twitched, and her complexion became ugly again: "But doing this will also affect Hedao..." She muttered, "Is there really no way to completely cut off from them and preserve Hedao's reputation?"

"I haven't thought of it yet," Si Zhao forced a wry smile, "Maybe as long as our hearts are sincere enough, opportunities will always come to us."