To die

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Hanqian finished signing the last contract and put the black pen on the table.

Dyson sat opposite him, and Lu Hanqian slowly pushed the thin paper over.

The tall and deep-eyed Frenchman shrugged: "Lu, I really didn't expect you to agree to my request."

Lu Hanqian asked him back: "You are trustworthy, aren't you?"

Dyson laughed, accepted the contract, got up and shook hands with Lu Hanqian: "We will meet again."

Lu Hanqian glanced at the stormy sky outside the window, and whispered: "I hope so."

Then he grabbed his coat, made a "excuse me" gesture to Dyson, and walked out quickly.

Dyson looked at him with a smile, and said in romantic French behind Lu Hanqian: "Go! Go and protect what you love!"

Lu Hanqian clenched the paper bag in his hand, and walked into the elevator leaving Jinye without hesitation.

——This behemoth that once cost him countless efforts is no longer worthy of his protection.

He was going to destroy it with his own hands.

At 04:30 in the afternoon, Lu Hanqian returned to his private house in the suburbs.

He went straight to the second floor, but Lin Yan's room was empty and there was no one there.

Lu Hanqian was taken aback, and couldn't help but search from room to room, calling Lin Yan's name loudly.

When they found the first floor, they saw Lin Yan walking in slowly from the door.

His body was covered with dust, and he had a strange smell of being damp for a long time without ventilation.

Before Lu Hanqian could speak, Lin Yan said, "Your father's people have been here. I was in the basement just now."

Lu Hanqian paused, did not speak, hugged him, and then opened the car door: "Let's go."

But Lin Yan stopped in front of him, looked at Lu Hanqian with a thoughtful and hesitant look, and asked, "Are you really thinking about it?"

Betrayed your father, your family, your rights and wealth, completely against them, never regret it?

Lu Hanqian accepted Lin Yan's gaze, and bent his lips suddenly, and smiled.

He took out a paper bag from the car and handed it to Lin Yan: "My father's collusion materials with the political circles. The bribery certificates of Jinye in the past four years are also in it. Put it away and hand it in to Beijing."

Lin Yan was slightly startled, but Lu Hanqian smiled lazily, and continued: "You can see what you can tell from the little financial records you have learned by yourself. If I want to make fake accounts, even gods will not be able to find out the problem. This There is a specialization in the planting industry, and it must be done by top students from the University of Pennsylvania.”

Lin Yan was speechless. He opened the paper bag, flipped through a few pages, and was overwhelmed by the amount of information contained in it.

Lu Beizheng's bribery records with politicians over the years, every seemingly insignificant but hidden secret financial transaction between Jin Ye and the evidence of the Lu family meddling in malicious trading in the stock market were all found out by Lu Hanqian, and they were sorted out by categories with clear logic , the frame is clear——

He should know the consequences of handing over this material better than anyone else, but he still handed it over to Lin Yan himself!

"Once upon a time at a reception, I asked you if you wanted to enter the entertainment industry, and you said no. Because 'not everyone likes to do nothing like you'."

Lu Hanqian squinted his eyes, looked up at the setting sun, a fiery red sky, his hair was a little messed up by the wind.

He said: "But Lin Yan, I'm actually not such a waste. A few days ago, I wanted to protect Jin Ye and fight you openly. But yesterday, what happened in the mental hospital. This kind of dirty thing... ...not worth my protection at all."

Lin Yan pursed his lips and looked at him, Lu Hanqian casually lowered his head and smiled: "It's really a pity that you were allowed to go through this way...knowing that I have some skills."

It is said that all male animals have a common feature: when they meet the object they like, they can't help but show off their abilities and try to attract the attention of the other party.

Peacocks open their tails, birds love to sing, and human males often do the same.

It's just that Lu Hanqian was an exception. When he proved his ability to Lin Yan in this almost spontaneous way, it also meant that they were about to say goodbye forever.

He drove Lin Yan away from the urban area, and they were very quiet along the way.

Lin Yan was sitting in the co-pilot, watching the lush vegetation fall back quickly in front of his eyes.

Lin Yan was sitting in the co-pilot, watching the lush vegetation fall back quickly in front of his eyes.

When we arrived at the place arranged by Lu Hanqian, it was already dark.

In the low night, the stars are shining.

Lu Hanqian turned off the car and got out of the car with Lin Yan.

He stood in front of Lin Yan, and both of them knew that this was almost the moment of their final farewell, but neither of them spoke in a very tacit understanding.

"...Jing Chan Temple, it's quite spiritual."

During the long silence, Lu Hanqian smiled first, and said jokingly: "You begged 'to overthrow the Lu family, with life for life', but you never thought it would come true so soon."

"...life for life refers to Lu Beizheng and Mrs. Lu."

Lu Hanqian looked at Lin Yan quietly, and exhaled with a smile, but didn't speak.

It was unlike any farewell they had ever had before.

At that time it was called breaking up, although Lu Hanqian repeatedly promised that he would never bother Lin Yan again, but the world is small and small, maybe we will meet each other by fate sometime.

This separation will be an unpredictable future.

Whether Lu Hanqian will be imprisoned by Jinye, whether Lin Yan will encounter any new threats in the more undercurrent of Beijing, the future is uncertain, and no one knows what will happen next.

"...Finally, give me another hug?"

Lu Hanqian opened his arms pretending to be free and easy, and said rather than 300 taels of silver here: "When I was in the United States, this is how friends say goodbye."

He smiled and watched Lin Yan walking towards him, and then hugged him tightly.

He smelled the faint fragrance of Cangshan Mountain and ancient trees on Lin Yan's neck for the last time, touched the two extremely thin butterfly bones on Lin Yan's back, and inhaled heavily.

"I love you as hell."

Lu Hanqian leaned against Lin Yan's ear and said softly, "It's true."

Immediately, he let go of his arms, leaned against the car, put his hands in his pockets, and said to Lin Yan, "Okay, let's go."

Lin Yan stared at him and said, "If necessary, I will attend as a witness, and I will not let your father blame you for everything."

Lu Hanqian raised his eyebrows, flicked Lin Yan's forehead, and said in a ruffian tone when they first met, "It's okay. Lin Yan, you forgot, I'm a bad guy, and I'm not afraid of going to jail."

The helicopter in the distance is ready, and the lights can be seen faintly.

"Come on."

Lu Hanqian urged him: "If you delay for a while, I will regret it."

Lin Yan glanced at him, finally turned around, and walked forward quickly.

His back is thin and thin, but his back is extremely straight.

In the dark and heavy night, like a crane struggling to break through the darkness.

That kind of self-admired arrogance and fearless courage are exactly the same as when he coldly gave Lu Hanqian a cold look in Yundu.

There is always a kind of person, you push him into the abyss, step into the mud, and when he stands up again, his eyes are still clean.

There are stars in the deepest night sky, and damp flowers in the worst mud.

Lu Hanqian leaned against the car, put his hand close to the dancing flame of the lighter, and lit a cigarette.

He watched Lin Yan leave, and only said goodbye in silence.

I like him so much.

Lu Hanqian silently thought, but I'm too stupid, I'll hurt him if I get too close.

Since then, the mountains have been high and the roads have been far away, Lin Guyan has never seen her again.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Lu's Manor.

All the servants were gone, Lu Hanqian parked the car in the garage and went directly to the third floor.

However, the third floor was quiet, and Lu Beizheng didn't seem to be there.He frowned, and stood at the stairs to call Lu Beizheng.

Before the call was connected, a voice came from the second floor: "What?"

Lu Beizheng unscrewed the door, walked to the aisle, and looked upstairs: "What day is it today, I came back without making a sound."

Lu Hanqian smiled, and seeing Lu Beizheng coming up, he sat down at the western table on the small platform on the third floor, and lazily raised his legs: "It's nothing, come back and play."

"A plea for your little lawyer?"

Lu Beizheng seemed to be able to guess what was going on in his mind, and said with a smile, "Where did you hide him? How can you hide him for a lifetime?"

"Where is my mother?"

Lu Hanqian asked casually: "The doctor said she was discharged from the hospital today, and I came back mainly to find something about her."

"She fell asleep, and she was very tired after making a fuss today."

Lu Beizheng's expression didn't change at all. The room he came out of just now was Mrs. Lu's room.

Lu Hanqian seemed a little strange, because in his memory, Lu Beizheng hadn't been in the same room with Mrs. Lu for more than ten years.

"You like that little lawyer very much?"

Lu Beizheng sat across from Lu Hanqian, poured himself a glass of red wine, and signaled to Lu Hanqian, Lu Hanqian shook his head.

"You thought you could manage your emotions well."

Lu Beizheng said: "As the helm of a family who wants to inherit, I am very disappointed that you can't tell which is more important because of personal feelings."

Lu Hanqian raised his eyebrows and seemed to look at him with interest: "What is there for you to be disappointed about? Can you do it? —— Or do you have no feelings at all, and there is no chance to face such a choice?"

Ever since he became an adult, Lu Hanqian and Lu Beizheng seldom sat opposite each other like this, talking outside of official business.

And tonight was especially quiet, the servants in the whole house had rested, and in the long silent night, no one would disturb them.

From Lu Hanqian's perspective, looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can also see a courtyard of flowers—this is a custom that Lu Beizheng arranges every year.

"How can someone have no feelings?"

Lu Beizheng raised his glass slowly, took a sip of red wine under the dim and ambiguous wall lamp, and said unhurriedly: "Actually, you are more thoughtful than me—20 years, can you only love the same person for 20 years?"

"I can."

However, Lu Hanqian said word by word: "I am willing to die for him, 20 years, 30 years, and I will love him in the next life."

Lu Beizheng laughed, and asked with a half-smile, "But is your love worth it? Lu Hanqian, don't you still know the identity of that little lawyer?"

"From the very beginning, he has been using you to get close to you on purpose. In other words, if your surname is not Lu, or my son, he won't even give you the corner of his eye."

"You still have the face to mention?"

It's okay if you don't say it, Lu Beizheng's words just hit Lu Hanqian's deepest grievances.

Every late night when he knew Lin Yan's life experience, he used to toss and turn, thinking bitterly and injustice why he was Lu Beizheng's son.

If his surname was not Lu, if he hadn't been born in this family, if Mrs. Lu hadn't been snatched by Mrs. Lu as a tool for her own selfishness, then everything after that would never have happened.

He will meet Lin Yan as Chen Xi's child, and maybe Lin Yan will even take the initiative to find him after returning to China.

They might live together, neighbors apart, growing up as childhood sweethearts.

Instead of being separated by thousands of hills and ravines like now, Lu Hanqian felt that he was not qualified to touch him!

"Because half of your blood flows in my body, from the moment I was born, I was destined to owe him a lot."

Lu Hanqian's lips trembled slightly, extremely excited and forced to restrain: "You said you love his mother, huh? Then why did you kill her, let her fall from the balcony of our house, and watched her die indifferently? Are you perverted!?"

Lu Beizheng squeezed the wine glass, his fingernails turned white due to the force.

He whispered calmly, "I didn't."

Lu Beizheng took out a wallet from his pocket, opened it, and there was a very old photo in it.

Although the surrounding areas have turned yellow, the overall condition has been preserved very well.

20 years have passed, and the woman in the photo still looks extremely moving when she looks back and smiles. It can be seen that it took a lot of effort to preserve it.

"I love her so much..."

Lu Beizheng gently stroked the surface of the photo with his fingers, and said softly, "No matter what she looks like or who she has been with, as long as she is willing to turn around, I will love her."

"So you tortured her into insanity?"

Lu Hanqian asked back: "Just to get her? It's a pity that people would rather jump off a building than want you!"

"I said, I didn't!"

Lu Beizheng suddenly raised his voice, as if this was something that could not be slandered: "There is no point in discussing this, but I must make it clear that Gu Gu's death has nothing to do with me!"

Lu Hanqian stared at him, Lu Beizheng looked back silently, after a long time, he said very softly: "Do you want to know who made her go crazy?"

Lu Hanqian was taken aback for a moment, before he had time to react, Lu Beizheng continued, "Your mother."

"Twenty years ago, the piano teacher surnamed Lin was seriously ill, so he had no choice but to return to China to continue taking plays and extend his life."

Lu Beizheng said: "I did look for her, but I didn't force her at all. The one surnamed Lin couldn't be cured at all. I just told Gu Gu that if she is single again, she can still come to me if she wants. I still waiting for her."

"But your mother, she's crazy. She thought that with you, I wouldn't divorce, but she didn't expect Gu Gu to come back."

A very obvious look of disgust appeared between Lu Beizheng's brows: "So, she committed an unforgivable crime."

In Lu's mother's understanding, the reason why Lu Beizheng never forgets Gu Gu is probably because he is greedy for her beauty.

But how could a man, especially a man with such a high position and power as Lu Beizheng, still like a woman who has been defiled and looks like a broken flower?

At that time, Gu Gu spent a lot of time filming on location, some small remote places.

When law and order were not good enough, it was easy for Lu's mother to find someone to attack.

What he didn't expect was that even though she got it, even though Gu Gu had suffered a great mental blow from such a major accidental humiliation, and was so painfully traumatized that he became mentally disturbed, Lu Beizheng still loved her.

In order to take care of her and protect her from any harm, he even took her into his home and guarded her every step of the way.

"How could I think she was dirty?"

Lu Beizheng murmured dryly and in a trance: "No matter what she has suffered, I love her. Lin Yan is only [-]% like her, and you will lose your mind - Gu Gu is like a naive little girl who doesn't understand anything. Often self-willed, you don't know how beautiful she is."

"...if you really love her that much."

Lu Hanqian's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said hoarsely: "Why do you still do something to Chen Xi. You can't control your things like that?"

Lu Beizheng paused, as if he was quite surprised that Lu Hanqian would know the name Chen Xi, and raised his eyebrows slightly:

"It seems that you know a lot."

"I am Chen Xi's child."

Lu Hanqian stared at him firmly, and asked word by word: "Really? You don't know, you know everything about Chen Xi."

Lu Beizheng laughed, didn't care, even changed his sitting position lazily, and said lazily: "Yes. You have to thank you for being Chen Xi's child, otherwise I would have strangled you to death in the cradle long ago."

After Gu Gu went abroad, the relationship between Lu Beizheng and Mrs. Lu was actually shattered.

Therefore, when Mrs. Lu suddenly gave birth to a boy and made him the eldest son and grandson of the Lu family, Lu Beizheng was very suspicious.

He clearly remembered that the fetal examiner told him that Mrs. Lu was pregnant with a girl and why she was born a boy.

Lu Beizheng's first reaction at the time was that Lu's mother stole a wild child from outside in order to keep her status.But after DNA comparison, Lu Hanqian is indeed related to him by blood.

Soon, Lu Beizheng found Chen Xi.

"After Gu Gu accidentally fell from the building, I can't wait for her to die."

Lu Beizheng said slowly: "But on the one hand, the news of Mrs. Lu's shameful scandal cannot be spread, and on the other hand, she simply died. How cheap she is."

When Lu Beizheng said these words, the deep-rooted hatred in his voice, and the uncontrollable joy and pleasure of the revenge that was about to be completed for many years, made people feel it as it is.

"Gu Gu has suffered such a great crime, until today, it will finally be settled."

Lu Beizheng folded his hands happily: "Maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's today, the doctor said, probably in a few days."

Lu Hanqian stared at him blankly. Suddenly, every time Mrs. Lu called Lu Hanqian and begged Lu Hanqian to take her to the hospital and asked him about the physical examination, they were all connected with Lu Beizheng's words at this moment.

"......what have you done?"

Lu Hanqian couldn't believe it. In this home, where he lived for more than 20 years, every day and every second was shrouded in Lu Beizheng's murder?

"I did nothing."

Lu Beizheng spread his hands: "She got the disease herself. I have neither poisoned nor domestic violence. What does it have to do with me?"

In the medical field, there has always been a view that people's diseases are related to good or bad moods.

Mrs. Lu refused to divorce and made him lose the person he loved the most in his life. Lu Beizheng spent 20 years taking revenge on her.Let her live in this golden and gorgeous tomb, and watch him come back with different women every night until he dies of depression.

Lu Hanqian almost shuddered, but Lu Beizheng said in his dazed eyes:

"Is it crazy? Actually no, if you lost Lin Yan, how would you treat his murderer? I'm afraid you will be much more crazy than me."

The night was dark.

Lu Beizheng stood up, put the wine glass on the western table, and walked to the French window.

He looked at the sea of ​​flowers in the courtyard, which swayed low and low with the wind.

Like the tide under the moonlight.

"Today is No. 20 years since Gu Gu left."

Lu Beizheng said in a low voice: "I very much hope that the murderer who killed her will die of illness today. I wonder if God's will will give me this honor."

"......what sound."

In the silence, Lu Beizheng suddenly frowned and turned his head to look into the distance.

Lu Hanqian also listened intently for a while, but then laughed, looked at Lu Beizheng and said, "The siren is sounding."

"what."

"Siren sound."

Lu Hanqian repeated it, and said slowly: "I called the police."

A puzzled and incomprehensible expression appeared on Lu Beizheng's face, and he even smiled inexplicably: "Arrest me? What crime?"

"Corruption, bribery, murder, willful injury, obstruction of justice..."

Lu Hanqian counted everything: "Very comprehensive, but I won't slander you."

"It's the police from Lancheng."

Lu Beizheng sneered and said, "When they arrive, they dare not even enter the gate of my Lu family, believe it or not."

"Lin Yan is gone."

Lu Hanqian said, "The helicopter that took me a few hours ago has probably arrived by now. He didn't find the right person last time. This time I pointed the way. Tell him who is not your party member. You said that if it is Beijing With the phone call from over there, would the police in Lancheng dare to enter this gate?"

Lu Beizheng's expression changed slightly, but he was still quite calm.Lu Hanqian looked at him, smiled and continued:

"Don't worry, I also prepared the materials for him. You have trained my son for so many years, and you still have some ability."

"...You betrayed your father just for an outsider..."

Lu Beizheng gritted his teeth and took out his mobile phone to make a call, but Lu Hanqian rushed forward, pressed his hand, and snatched the mobile phone away.

"Did you take me as your son!?"

Lu Hanqian said angrily, "Did you ever think that I'm your son when someone drove over me to protect yourself?"

Lu Beizheng fought back to grab it, but Lu Hanqian simply threw the phone out.

"You tortured Lin Yan with electric shocks and allowed Chen Xi to be imprisoned in a mental hospital for more than ten years. You fucking have the nerve to call yourself 'father'!"

The two wrestled together, and the phone was pushed further and further away.

It wasn't until "Gulu Gulu" rolled down the stairs that Lu Beizheng finally gained the upper hand and rushed over.

However, when he managed to grab the phone, patted the dust off his body and stood up, he was suddenly stunned.

I saw Mrs. Lu standing at the corner of the stairs, her hair scattered and her pajamas messy, staring at him blankly.

She didn't know how long she stood there, and how much she heard, she just stood there blankly.

Years of painstaking maintenance have made her look very young and her skin is very good.But I don't know why, it's been a long time since I saw her, Lu Hanqian looked over at this time, but felt that she seemed very haggard and weak.

"So you already knew."

Lu's mother nodded, and looked at Lu Beizheng in dismay: "For so many years, I have tried my best to please you, but you kept looking for a concubine. It turned out that it was just to torture me. Revenge me for that bitch."

The sirens were getting closer, and Lu Beizheng was very impatient. He ignored her, picked up his mobile phone and walked downstairs.

Looking at his back, Mrs. Lu felt her headache was about to burst.

Lu Beizheng ordered the family doctor to conceal her condition, including all the test sheets obtained in the hospital, which were also false results after processing.

Mother Lu looked at her luxurious and complicated pajamas and the diamond ring the size of a pigeon egg on her finger, and suddenly felt a sense of sadness for no reason.

She staggered after Lu Beizheng who was going up and down the stairs, hugged him tightly, and then rolled over, pulling Lu Beizheng down the stairs together.

Lu Beizheng was taken aback, and the phone that was being connected fell out, and he rolled down several flights of stairs with Lu's mother.

During the struggle between the two, Mrs. Lu knocked down the decorative candle lamp standing in the aisle with one hand. The candle lamp swayed, and the flickering light fell into Mrs. Lu's eyes.

She seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and laughed, and pulled the candle lamp even harder until the rope was torn apart, and the whole candle lamp fell downwards.

The flames were like poisonous snakes, and the carpet in Lu's house burned instantly.

While Lu Hanqian called the fire department, he ran to the first floor to get a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, but Mrs. Lu kept pulling the candle lamps, several candle lamps fell down, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

Lu Beizheng roared: "You crazy woman, do you want to die!?"

Mrs. Lu held him tightly, her beautiful red nails grabbed Lu Beizheng's suit, and coughed violently to drag Lu Beizheng into the fire.

Lu Beizheng began to break off her nails, trying to escape, but the strength of the dying man was extremely strong, and he desperately wanted to pull this man to be her back.

When Lu Hanqian was completely separated from the two of them by the flames, he saw that the flames were like a red curtain, and the two overlapping figures kept struggling, Lu Beizheng continued to curse, but Mrs. Lu laughed loudly.

This farce that has been entangled for 20 years finally came to an end on this night.