hope for redemption

After they broke up that day, An Sheng made the biggest outburst in the past few years, and directly ordered Jiang Xi to be locked in the room, asking him to reflect on what he had done.Not even taking him on a family trip that was originally planned.

Jiang Xi didn't even bother to talk to her, what a fart to think about.Even if the WiFi in the room is cut off, and the TV, laptop and other electronic products are removed, he still has books to read.When An Sheng was arranging classes for Jiang Xi, he stopped all the teaching courses related to domestic high schools and universities. He was worried that he would not find time to review.It just happened that all the textbooks he had learned before were here, and no one came in to disturb him, so he was happy and relaxed in the room alone reviewing the book knowledge for the college entrance examination.

Although Jiang Xi didn't know if he could go back before the college entrance examination, nor did he know what the situation in Lin County would be like after he left.However, there is a saying that is good, be prepared before any danger, in short, prepare for all benefits and no harm.

An Sheng locked Jiang Xi in the room for more than a month. Although she didn't see any effect, she couldn't keep him locked up anymore.

Not only is there the reason why Noah's Ark needs to come back, but more importantly, the anniversary of Song Dengchen's death is coming soon, and Jiang Xi cannot be absent.

Every year when this day is approaching, the atmosphere in the manor is the most depressing and the most gloomy stage.

Not because of An Sheng, but because of Jiang Xu.

Just like at this moment, Jiang Xi was sitting in front of the bay window with her legs crossed, looking at the back of the figure standing in front of the clock tower in the southwest corner of the manor.

Jiang Xu has been sitting there all night.

I don't know if it was because of meeting Song Dengchen, but last night was the first time Jiang Xi suffered from insomnia the night before Song Dengchen's death.Because of this, I found Jiang Xu who was smoking and drinking alone in front of the clock tower.

Jiang Xi thought that Jiang Xu would leave after a while, but he didn't expect him to maintain the sitting position at the beginning, from midnight until the sun rose in the morning.During this period, I don't know how many packs of cigarettes I smoked and how many bottles of wine I drank.The curved back reveals a dejected and hopeless state that Jiang Xi has never seen in him.

Although it was the first time seeing Jiang Xu like this, it seemed to be expected, Jiang Xi was not too surprised.He loves her, he loves her, this is the most torturous thing in the world.Compared with others, this ending may be regarded as the best now, shortening the long period of pain to a period of sadness, and restoring the half-true happiness after the given time.

If it is said that before talking with Song Dengchen, Jiang Xi would hope that this state will continue, because he himself has dissatisfaction and resistance to the fact that Jiang Xu and An Sheng are together.He believed that An Sheng could only belong to Song Dengchen, and what Jiang Xu did was disrespectful to Song Dengchen.

But now, if you want to find a person in this world who can give An Sheng all the sincere and passionate love, then only Jiang Xu.

As for Jiang Xu, his cousin who was related by blood, Jiang Xi hadn't been close to him since he was a child.It's not because the people in the Jiang family rejected him, but because Jiang Xu himself made Jiang Xi feel uncomfortable. You must know that children's emotions are the most sensitive and acute, Jiang Xi can easily You can feel the darkness and cruelty in Jiang Xu's heart, even if he pretends to be polite and personable.

So after arriving in Guangzhou, Jiang Xi often didn't go home and stayed at Song Dengchen's house partly because Jiang Xu, the cousin who lived in his house, couldn't afford to provoke him or hide him.Of course, it was more because staying with Song Dengchen was so fun and comfortable.

Jiang Xu, like Jiang Xi, was discovered by Song Dengchen to be capable, and coupled with his own embarrassing situation in the Jiang family, Jiang Xi was not surprised at all when he chose to follow Song Dengchen and the others.

What surprised Jiang Xi was that Jiang Xu fell in love with An Sheng, and when Jiang Xi found out, he was already in love to the point of being crazy.

This alone is fine, everyone has the qualification to love someone, Jiang Xi doesn't say anything even though she feels a little uncomfortable.However, what Jiang Xi didn't expect was that Jiang Xu was with An Sheng later on!Most importantly, it was less than two years since Song Dengchen died.

When Jiang Xi knew about it, he ran away on the spot, pointing at both of their noses and yelling, calling Jiang Xu ungrateful, Song Dengchen can be regarded as his mentor, and he did such a shameless thing.It was this rampage that completely broke the relationship between the two cousins ​​who were not close to each other.In Australia for more than four years, the two have been strangers to each other. They haven't confronted each other but they don't want to see each other.

Although Jiang Xi has grown up and grown up now, logically speaking, he should look at people and things more rationally and maturely.But when he recalled this incident, he always felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable.So I never thought about easing up the relationship with Jiang Xu, let alone how pitiful he is, even looking at his gloomy face at this time of year, feeling the low pressure in the manor, Jiang Xi even has a trace of inexplicable revenge. pleasure.

If there is a real turning point in the attitude towards this matter, it is now.At this moment, while recalling what Song Dengchen said, he looked at Jiang Xu's lonely back.

Jiang Xi rubbed his numb legs, took out a thin blanket from the cloakroom, walked out of the room in pajamas and slippers, walked through the fountain and the small garden of tulips, and climbed up the bell tower.

The four seasons have turned to autumn. Although the early autumn in Australia is not as cool in the morning and evening as in Linxian County, the water vapor rising at night at this moment condenses into dewdrops as the temperature rises and clings to the surface of things. Occasionally, the breeze blows by. Will bring a slight chill.

The clock tower was here before the manor was bought. For unknown reasons, it occupies a corner alone, which is incompatible with the surrounding bustling and gorgeous, but it is a school of its own.The masonry rocks have long been worn by wind and rain so that the original color and shape cannot be seen, but only they have been preserved during the renovation.

The original precarious and steep wooden staircase has been replaced with a stronger iron spiral staircase, and the copper incense candles have replaced the wooden oil lamps. While lighting up the bell tower, it also adds a bit of softness to its solemn atmosphere.The rusty wall clock was also replaced with a golden tripod clock engraved with Sanskrit that was specially shipped from Egypt, but it was used only a handful of times, and the dust on the clock face seemed to complain about their waste of money.

Jiang Xi frowned and kicked away the wine bottles and cigarette butts all over the floor, threw the blanket on Jiang Xu casually, took out a paper towel and wiped the seat, and sat down beside him half-disgusted and half-pretty .

"I didn't expect you to come," Jiang Xu unceremoniously draped the blanket over his shoulders, biting his cigarette butt and said, "I thought you would sit there and watch the meal."

Jiang Xi looked at the rising sun half submerged below sea level in the distance, and said, "Do you have eyes behind your back?"

Jiang Xu smiled slightly: "That's not true, it's just that my alertness will increase at night. If you stare at me so motionless and intently, I can definitely notice it."

"Oh, then your... skills are quite powerful." Jiang Xi dryly squeezed out a word of appreciation.

For Jiang Xi's compliment, Jiang Xu didn't express anything else, he just gave a hum in response and didn't express anything else.The old god was sitting there smoking and drinking, what Jiang Xi had done before he came was what he is now.

Jiang Xi didn't know what to say to him, so he sat there in embarrassment and thought for a long time before he could say: "Give me a bottle of wine."

After a long time, Jiang Xu ignored him and smoked while staring at the distant scenery as if he didn't hear him.Jiang Xi frowned dissatisfiedly, pushed his shoulder and repeated: "Give me a bottle of wine."

Jiang Xu puffed out a puff of smoke, and the curling white smoke curled around his forehead, he squinted and said, "Jiang Xi, you are an adult, why are you still as rude as you were when you were a child, don't you know the basic etiquette of calling people? "

How could this Jiang Xi not know, but the relationship between him and Jiang Xu is really too estranged, even when they are usually alone at the dinner table, they would not call each other for anything but Call the housekeeper to help you get it.Now, when only the two of them are left in the whole space, Jiang Xi ponders for a long time and doesn't know how to shout.

When Mingming begged him before, he yelled "Brother" so smoothly.

"...Brother..." Jiang Xi yelled forcefully, before the end of the sentence, he quickly turned to the next sentence, "Give me a bottle of wine."

The distance between the two was close and there was no other noise around. No matter how fast Jiang Xi turned, Jiang Xu would have heard it when the syllable came out. Seeing Jiang Xi's blunt appearance, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and lifted a bottle of wine from his feet He came to Jiang Xi, and said like a gangster teaching a primary school student: "Did you eat all morning? I'm all strong whiskey. Your brain can drink fruit wine, and your delicate stomach can't handle even a little cold. Can you bear it?"

Jiang Xi looked at the glaring alcohol level in front of him, knowing that he could not touch it.But Jiang Xu's mocking words echoed in his ears again, and he retorted unconvinced, "I can drink beer now! Four cans are not a problem!"

Zhuang Zhuang and Da Fei have to drink no matter what they eat every time they are released. In that kind of atmosphere, Jiang Xi inevitably drank a little, and gradually his drinking capacity increased, not the same as before. People who can get drunk with fruit wine and pineapple beer.

"Oh!" Jiang Xu shouted, pulling the old man with a really great mocking expression, "Then it's a pity you didn't go to Palm Springs, and you couldn't show your four bottles of beer."

"Are you... are you Jiang Xu? You talk so much." With a suspicious expression on his face, Jiang Xi turned his head and looked him up and down, imagining that his sight was the infrared light waves emitted by the scanner, to see if it was true Someone is sitting here wearing Jiang Xu's skin.

"You owe me a lot of scolding," Jiang Xu squinted his eyes and stretched out his hand to nod, "Isn't it just right that I delivered it to my door again after enduring it for so long?"

Jiang Xi laughed angrily at him, pulled the blanket off his shoulders, draped it over his shoulders, and pulled it tightly: "Go away, I really came up because I had a convulsion in my brain."

After finishing speaking, he added another sentence: "You deserve it for being cold. You can't sleep, and you play Shen Shen here in the middle of the night."

"Can you sleep? It's the night before his death." Jiang Xu turned his head to stare at Jiang Xi and asked faintly.

Jiang Xi's heart skipped a beat when she was asked, she pursed her lips and thought for a long time before replying: "I used to be able to sleep, but now... I can't."

"Ah...you're really ashamed to say that I'm ungrateful and wolf-hearted," Jiang Xu mocked, "I slept like a normal person."

These words really made Jiang Xi upset, and he mercilessly pierced through: "Could it be that you can't sleep because you are sad about Brother Dengchen's death? You can't sleep because, you know, my sister is going to sacrifice Brother Bidenchen again , to pay homage to the lover who will never forget in her heart and occupies an important position."

"And you, there's nothing you can do about it."

"Jiang Xi..." Jiang Xu rushed forward and clasped Jiang Xi's shrunken shoulders. His movements were so fast that people couldn't see clearly. There was a shivering cold light in his slightly narrowed eyes, and he breathed out a cold air. Said, "You... If you were on that plane, how nice it would be to die with him..."

Speaking of this, Jiang Xu could clearly feel the slight trembling of the skin he held in his hand, a smile appeared on his face, and he increased the strength in his hand: "You said... the height of this bell tower should be able to fall to death Well, the monitoring can't even show here. If I just push you down like this, it will be said that you made a mistake..."

"Don't touch me!" Jiang Xi was told by him as if he had really seen the picture of himself falling from the building. He pushed him away in horror, jumped off the platform in a panic, and didn't hang on until his feet hit the ground. heart down.

Jiang Xuyin followed him down with a sullen face, sat on the sofa along the wall and warned: "Blood relationship is the smallest thing with me, so this is not capital that you can be arrogant and unscrupulous. This is the second time, Jiang Xi. From the third time on, I will let you see blood."

Without the heightened threat, Jiang Xi's originally flustered mood gradually stabilized with the firmness of his feet, and his rationality gradually recovered, so he was not afraid of his threats and warnings.

On the contrary, he also saw his weakness in the shell covered with spikes.

Jiang Xi sat next to him, snatched the cigarette from his hand, and threw it out of the window: "Did the poke hit your pain point? After all these years, do you feel that you are like a joke, no matter how hard you work and how you pay? Everything is nothing compared to a dead person."

"You..." Jiang Xu let out a weird smile in his throat, and he quickly grabbed Jiang Xi's throat in a blink of an eye, got up and went up, turned around and at the same time copied the wine on the table bottle, smashing it against the wall.

The crackling sound was accompanied by the splashing whiskey. Before Jiang Xi could react, Jiang Xu pressed the sharp corner of the broken wine bottle against his throat, and the pain that he knew was followed by the smell of blood spread into his brain sensory organs.

"Originally you were quiet, and I can let you go regardless of the past. But why are you so ignorant." Jiang Xu's hand increased, and his tone was ethereal.

"Let me go?" Jiang Xi pressed his wrist to give herself a little room to breathe, endured the sting of the alcohol in her eyes, and shouted, "Are you going to let yourself go? Who are you willing to be like this?" Is it a consolation product that can be made? Even if you make everyone shut up, how long can you deceive yourself and others!"

"Deceive yourself?" Jiang Xu's face was contorted, and he roared like venting his anger, "Will I ever be able to live a life of self-deception like this?"

"Your existence is to break all my illusions of self-paralysis. You should feel lucky that I can resist sending you away in a gentler way instead of sending you to see Song Dengchen."

"You..." Jiang Xi was stunned by the information behind his words, stared at him in horror, and said incoherently, "You...what do you mean...you won't murder It's..."

"I didn't expect you to be so stupid." Seeing that the blood was bleeding enough, Jiang Xu withdrew his strength, flicked the wine bottle, stood up and grabbed Jiang Xi's blanket that fell on the sofa, and wiped it. With one hand in his hand, he said contemptuously, "Murder Song Dengchen? Did I have that ability at that time?"

"Then you..." Jiang Xi sat up, clutching his neck, and looked at him in bewilderment.Suddenly, a thought hit his brain, and Jiang Xi seemed to know some shocking secret, and said incredulously, "You... I learned from Yang Jue back then..."

"Well, it was arranged by me." Jiang Xu responded calmly, "Do you know how annoying you are, can't you be more peaceful when you return to China, what do you want to do by jumping up and down to log in to various websites."

"If you're not so active, maybe you can still lie comfortably in your gentle hometown now. Instead of blocking my eyes here."

Jiang Xi didn't expect that Jiang Xu, who has always been obedient to An Sheng, would do such a thing, let alone that the accident he thought was a long-planned plan. From the beginning to the end, his every move, every detail Responses were calculated and predicted.

Such a scheming city completely overturned his perception of Jiang Xu.

"You...you the hell..."

Jiang Xu gave Jiang Xi a disdainful look, and said with disgust: "Jiang Xi, you are really well protected. You are lucky enough to survive in Noah's Ark until now, apart from being sheltered."

"Never underestimate anyone who can sit in a high position in Noah's Ark. My means, abilities, and know a lot more than you can imagine."

Hearing what he said, Jiang Xi immediately realized something, the original panic dissipated immediately, and the prototype of the plan began to appear.

Jiang Xi snatched the blanket from his hand, pressed the bleeding wound: "Why did you send me away? How did you know the meaning of the name ALS?"

Hearing Jiang Xi's question, Jiang Xu turned his head suddenly, his eyes filled with shock, as if he didn't expect Jiang Xi to ask such a question.

Looking at Jiang Xu's expression, Jiang Xi knew that he had guessed right.Jiang Xu hadn't done anything to him for the entire four years before, why he couldn't bear it all of a sudden.

There was only one reason, he knew something that made him intolerable.

Putting it on Jiang Xi and combining all the causes and effects, there is only one unbearable thing.That is the meaning of Jiang Xi's own existence - the "crystallization" of An Sheng and Song Dengchen's love, their child.

Whenever Jiang Xi appeared in front of An Sheng, she was reminding her of Song Dengchen's existence and her love for Song Dengchen.In this way, An Sheng will never forget Song Dengchen, and Jiang Xu will never be able to replace him.

Just as Jiang Xu himself said, Jiang Xi should feel lucky, he couldn't bear to send him to meet Song Dengchen after he knew about it.

"Jiang Xu, I love my sister, she is one of my few family members." Jiang Xi said, "She is very important to me. But Lin Wang is more important to me. How much do you love my sister , I love him so much."

"More importantly, we should not live in the past. Brother Deng Chen...he will live in our hearts, and should live in our hearts, and be remembered by us for a lifetime. But not in a way that makes us torture each other, let us The way each other suffers."

"We can't hate him, and we don't want to hate him. But if we go on like this, we will inevitably hate him. I don't want to do this, and you probably don't want to. No matter what, he is your teacher."

While talking, Jiang Xi slowly approached Jiang Xu, squatted beside him and held his hand, looked at him with hope and begging eyes and said: "You help me go, I will help you let my sister let go of her obsession." read."

"Oh, that sounds really good," Jiang Xu smiled mockingly, not being moved by Jiang Xi's words, looked down at him and said, "Compared to this, wouldn't it be more convenient for me to kill you directly?"

"You won't," Jiang Xi said firmly, "You already understood, didn't you, you won't let a second Song Dengchen appear in my sister's heart again."

The reason why Song Dengchen could occupy such an important position in An Sheng's heart was not only because of the unforgettable love between them, but more importantly, he died at the best time.

It's brutal, but also realistic.

The same is true for Jiang Xi.In this most beautiful period.

Jiang Xu's eyes flashed a hint of admiration and amusement, his younger brother...is a bit interesting.

"Well..." Jiang Xu shook his hand from the side, squatted down to close the distance with Jiang Xi, leaned into his ear and whispered, "I hope you can always love him so firmly , just stay by his side and don't go anywhere, and don't be shaken in the slightest. This time, you have to hide your things well. "

After speaking, he let go of his hands, pulled away from his body and stood up, and sat back on the platform with his long legs, and ordered indifferently: "You should go."

Jiang Xi didn't dare to move, for fear that what he was holding would disappear if he touched it, for fear that it was an illusion.He just squatted there in a daze, his feet were numb and he didn't feel anything.Until the piercing pain in his palm woke him up.

He jerked violently, and just about to exclaim in surprise, he immediately stopped his expression and stared blankly at Jiang Xu who was sitting on the table drinking.

At this time, the sun has completely broken through the water, and the light it emits becomes more dazzling after being washed by the sea.Jiang Xu, who was facing the light, was also given a golden edge, and the silhouette shimmering with halos was so beautiful that it was unreal.

Jiang Xi asked with a nasal voice: "Isn't it...that from..."

"From China to Australia, the [-]-hour flight, what kind of plane do you think it is?" Jiang Xu interrupted without looking back, "Jiang Xi, you can think of it with a little brain."

When he said this, Jiang Xi immediately understood, and after thinking about it, he just felt stupid.

Jiang Xi tightly held the object in his hand, and said to Jiang Xu in a crying voice: "Thank you, thank you very much."

"It's not for you," Jiang Xu said, "I won't cooperate with you. You are too weak, and you will only fail to succeed and fail."

"No, I..."

Jiang Xu lit the cigarette with his head down, squinted his eyes and took a puff, then slowly raised his head and exhaled the smoke, commanding in a calm voice: "You should go, Jiang Xi."

Jiang Xi clenched the object in his hand and knew that Jiang Xu had exhausted his benevolence so far, and he also knew that he couldn't ask for anything more, because of the facts Jiang Xu said.He was really too weak, the strong never bothered to cooperate with the weak.

Jiang Xi closed his eyes fiercely, turned and left the bell tower without saying a word.

Taking the lost and recovered necklace and diamond ring, he left the clock tower.

Listening to the sound of footsteps that were fading away, Jiang Xu extinguished the cigarette.He took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket and made a call. After connecting, he ordered: "You can release me."

London, England.

There were very few pedestrians and vehicles on the streets in the middle of the night, and London, which had been noisy all day, finally found a moment of peace at this moment.It is precisely because of this silence that the sound of boating, which was not very loud, is particularly clear and harsh at this moment, as abrupt as several sneezes in the ancestral hall of the Buddha, which is extremely eye-catching.

Fortunately, after a short row, the boatman wobbled the boat under the arch of the bridge and then moored. He set up the oars, walked to the stern with a cigarette in his mouth, and opened the heavy chain on the iron box standing at the stern. , while the cabinet door was pulled open, it quickly flashed to the side, and the objects in the box slammed hard on the ship's plank instead of pressing on him.

The boatman didn't intend to help, leaning against the door of the box, he lit the cigarette leisurely, looked at the dirty wriggling object on the ground, and asked with a smile: "Is your leg useless? Do you need to arrange for a doctor to amputate it?"

The unknown object on the ground snorted in pain, twisted and shouted bitterly: "No need!"

"That's it... that's okay," the boatman grinned, bent down and took out a cloth bag from a box in the dark, and threw it beside the man like alms, and said, "ID cards, guns, bullets, etc. 50 hair, bank card, bank card password, key, address are all in it, take it and get out."

The man on the ground finally slowed down a bit, propped himself up and turned around. Following his movements, the signal lights hanging on the boat flickered, and the dim light and darkness alternated on the man's face, making it difficult to see clearly. His whole picture.

But as the shaking became smaller and smaller, that person's appearance was completely outlined by the light.

It was Yang Jue who had been killed by a sniper and declared dead!

"You guys are so fucking disgusting!" Yang Jue took the bag fiercely, glared at the boatman and cursed, "I told you I hate sheep's blood! That smell will make me sick for three days and three nights." Dinner! Why are you still adding sheep's blood to my body armor? I don't believe you can't buy cow's blood, chicken's blood, and duck's blood!"

The boatman clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction: "You are in a hurry, so you don't say it early, and you can buy sheep's blood as soon as you buy it."

"Is that my problem? That woman gave me the order after I arrived at BM, and didn't I tell you that it is possible at any time, didn't I tell you to prepare early?" Yang Jue He took off the body armor that had disgusted him for more than three months, and threw it directly at the boatman.

"Also! Are you sick? Let me go after you agreed to finish. What nerve did you put me in that box! Let me stay with this thing for so many months! I haven't had a single The meal is edible!"

"Then you have to ask yourself." The boatman turned sideways sensitively, avoiding the attack of the clothes, "If you don't make up your mind, you will have lived your comfortable life long ago."

Being exposed by him like this, Yang Jue wasn't embarrassed either, and shouted with a natural look: "This is what he owes me, and the injury will let him lie on the bed for a few months at most! Besides, I haven't seen Jiang Xu How much he cares about this younger brother, what are you going to do for me at this time!"

"I don't care, but you ruined the original plan too hard." The boatman said coldly, "You should be thankful that you have a better plan, otherwise, I would have fired all the bullets."

Seeing Yang Jue choked up, the boatman... no, it should be said that the sniper kicked his foot in disgust, and said, "Hurry up, I've spent too much time watching you here." Too much time."

It was only when he reminded Yang Jue that he realized what the really important thing was. He hurriedly opened the bag to check the contents, and the excited expressions appeared on his face like fireworks.

From now on, he is finally free and can finally live the life he wants!

"Then...then when can I walk on the street without a cover?" Yang Jue got up and asked.

"Originally, it could be done in a few months...but..." the sniper said regretfully, "Sabrina knows that you disobeyed the order, if you are lucky enough not to be discovered by her people, it will take a few months You can try it later."

Yang Jue twitched the corners of his mouth with difficulty, although it was expected, he still fantasized that he would not be exposed.Now it seems....

He sighed, and said helplessly, "I'd better go to Korea for plastic surgery." After that, he picked up his things and climbed onto the aisle while holding the pole of the boat.

"Up to you," the sniper glanced at him, walked to the bow, and picked up the oar.Just when he was about to paddle, he turned his head to look at the back of the limping away, and warned, "Treasure this hard-won freedom, and don't be stupid again in the future and be caught by others and become a pawn on the chessboard. "

Yang Jue paused, turned his back to him and raised his hand, shouting: "Love and hate are all over!"

The sniper lowered his eyes, his face was covered by the night, and his expression could not be seen clearly.The fluctuating emotions are fleeting, and when he looks up again, he is still the executive machine who has nothing to worry about and hits every shot.

The sound of paddles beating the water leaves a string of notes along the rivers of early spring in London.