Rarely affectionate

Manhattan, New York.

When the slightly humid warm wind blows through Central Park in early spring, Rose Thorne finally stopped calling doctors to his private villa.Soon, some large-scale medical equipment was moved out of the house, and were loaded and sent away one after another.

All of this did not cause much disturbance. After just half a day, the villa returned to its former solemnity and tranquility.

"He really said that he doesn't need a plastic surgeon to see it? I know several famous experts. Let alone the finger bones, it's not a problem to reattach a hand..."

Rose Thorne sighed, and gently put the newspaper in his hand on the breakfast table: "Ike, do you think I've been eating for nothing the whole winter I've stayed here? I've asked more than a hundred questions about hands Again, if he doesn't want to treat him, I can't tie him up and treat him, right?"

Ike blushed: "I didn't doubt what you meant, I just found it strange..."

"It's nothing surprising." Rose Thorn picked up the newspaper again, but his tone was a bit perfunctory, "There is a saying in the East that the body, hair and skin are the parents, and there is a saying that the father wants the son to die, and the son has to die. It means that the child's body is given by the parents, and the father's disposal of the son is all right, legal, and not excessive... Don't look at me with such an expression, and I didn't say that this view is correct! Lang Bai may think that his father caused the gunshot wound on his hand, so he is unwilling to undergo plastic surgery, that is his decision, and there is nothing I can do about it.”

Ike was tongue-tied: "No, I still can't understand your statement..."

"If you don't understand, ask him yourself." Rossthorne glanced at the clock: "He should be walking in the garden at this time. Do you need me to ask someone to take you to the garden?"

Ike didn't need him to say it a second time. He immediately dropped the half-eaten bread and ran away.

Behind him, Rossthorn closed his eyes and sighed softly.

A whole winter has passed, but all the upheavals of that night are still vivid in my memory, and I still feel thrilling when I think about it.

When the incident happened that day, Lang Bai's original intention was not to allow him to come to Hong Kong in person, but Rose Thorne still came without warning out of caution and selfishness. ——Facts have proved that luckily he didn't listen to Lang Bai, otherwise the grass on Lang Bai's tombstone would have sprouted today.

Ross Thorne still remembers that when he arrived at the beach where he was supposed to meet up, the surveillance personnel immediately sent a message that "the Yuan family dispatched elite mercenary troops", which almost made him turn pale with fright.Although the Yuan family smuggled, they were semi-government smugglers. The family's armed forces were all registered with the government. Where did they get such an "elite mercenary unit"? !When Lang Bai was making plans in advance, he never expected that such an armed force would be in his father's hands!

Before he came to his senses, the following news immediately made him realize that the situation was not good: Yuan Cheng did not know why he came to the surface of the sea himself, took control of the target speedboat, and soon Lang Bai's communication was cut off, and no matter how much he called, he couldn't get an answer!

Amidst the rustling of communication currents, Rose Thorn personally experienced what it means to be at a loss for the first time, and he even had a premonition that a catastrophe was imminent.

Facts have proved that his premonition was very correct—one and a half hours after the interruption of the audio, the sea surveillance personnel sent the news that the target speedboat had turned around and returned to its voyage; immediately after that, the sea frogman search and rescue team sent an emergency notice, asking the rescuers on the beach to act immediately. Get ready to rescue the seriously wounded!

Ross Thorn's mind was almost blank, and he subconsciously asked, "Are you dead?"

The subordinate answered him: "It's still alive. But it has developed in the worst direction. Are you going to return to the voyage immediately?"

"There is no time to return to the voyage! Immediately rescue on the spot!"

When Lang Bai landed, he almost had his last breath hanging in his throat.He was shot in the abdomen and right hand, and he was in a deep coma caused by drowning, and he looked as if he was dead.Fortunately, he had already prepared the second action plan in case the plan failed, and the first aid equipment was extremely complete. Rossthorne could immediately set up a temporary ward on the beach, and even the initial treatment of cardiac resuscitation and digging out the bullets. can do.

Before Lang Bai decided to act, he arranged two sets of troops to wait at sea. One set was his own, ready to pick up Yuan Xiao and send him to the United States; Unfortunately, Bai's plan failed and he was shot and fell into the sea. They were able to fish him out of the sea in the first time.

Lang Bai's original words were: "I put my life in your hands, you have to keep it safe for me."

This sentence aroused Roththorne, and he almost took out all his family assets.

The temporary rescue on the beach took more than an hour, and the strange thing is that Yuan Cheng didn't even send anyone to chase after him, Ross Thorne was able to calmly wake Lang Bai up, and then took him away in a car.Fortunately, he was shot in the abdomen not deep enough to cause penetrating and crushing gunshot wounds. It can be seen that it was a palm mine with a range of only two meters. In the body - if the bullet's range was more than half a meter, maybe Lang Bai would really sleep forever in the bottom of the sea.

The more serious one was the penetrating gunshot wound on the right hand, causing three metacarpal bones and three phalanx bones to be completely shattered, and the entire hand was fragmented, and there was basically no possibility of complete recovery.

Ross Thorne loaded Lang Bai on the plane and took him away from Hong Kong. It was already late at night, and looking out from the cabin window, he could see a faint line of white belly in the eastern sky.

He turned his head, unexpectedly found that Lang Bai had woken up, opened his eyes slightly, and looked out the window.However, before he could be happy, he noticed that there was some water in the corner of Lang Bai's eyes, silently, slowly flowing down his cheeks.

Only then did he realize that Lang Bai was crying.

Afterwards, Rossthorn wanted to ask Lang Bai countless times what went wrong with the operation that day and why it failed.However, as long as he thought of Lang Bai's tears that night, he felt unable to ask.It seems that there are many things that he never knew, happened when he didn't pay attention, and then ended where he couldn't see.

The moment of tears was replayed over and over again in his mind, so that later he even doubted the authenticity of that scene, suspected that there was a problem with his memory, and wondered whether Lang Bai could really cry and shed tears.He couldn't figure out the answer to this question, just as he couldn't figure out what happened that night between Lang Bai and his father who was fighting against him.

……

Ike couldn't wait to run out of the villa and into the garden. Only 10 minutes later, he jumped out of the garden again like burning his butt, almost knocking over Rose Thorne who was walking towards him.

"What the hell did you say to Ike, in such a hurry?"

Lang Bai sat on the stone by the pond and read a book without raising his head: "Although I, a dead man, don't need to go to school, his graduation thesis still has to be handed in. I just reminded him a little bit."

Ross Thorn was silent for a while, the expression in his eyes changed, and it took him a while to suddenly hear him say: "Lang Bai, as long as you want, you can coax everyone around you well, and everyone will make you a confidant. You still listen to your words according to your heart... Do you know that I really look down on your habit of eloquent words."

Lang Bai turned over a page of the book, "You don't have to read it if you don't like it."

Ross Thorn choked for a moment: "...I'm just wondering, why have you never been polite to me?"

"Because some people don't need to be polite to him." Lang Bai put away the book with a snap, raised his head, and stared at Rose Thorn calmly: "Since you are a China hand, you should know that the Chinese have a saying that is 'Busy with nothing.' You are one of those 'busy with nothing'."

Ross Thorne was really blocked at this time, and he coughed after a long while and said, "You, you don't have to be so direct."

"There are different ways to deal with different people. Speaking of which, how is the Yuan family doing recently? Is there any news?"

Lang Bai's eccentricity of not reading news about himself was brought into full play in Roththorne's house. Ordinary newspapers were not touched at all, and important news was read to him.Ross Thorne really couldn't understand his weird habit, so he could only shake his head and say, "How can this kind of thing in your family be exposed, it can only be spread in private... But I heard that Yuan Cheng's little I was shocked by the death of my son in front of my eyes, got seriously ill, and for some reason last week, I got angry with my eldest son and drove him to Taiwan."

Lang Bai was startled: "Rush to Taiwan?... Ha, is my father willing?"

"Your father is still old enough to have a few more children, right? You don't have to have Yuan Zou! If Yuan Cheng can live for 40 years, then even his grandson can see him, why leave the family business to the eldest son alone? The advantage of Yuan Xiao's birth is only valid in front of you."

Lang Bai was very disdainful when he heard the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but smiled wryly: "You don't understand, the advantages of birth can only work in front of me, and I am the only one who likes this! Isn't it, I am so My father drove my elder brother to live in Taiwan for a while after all the living people died. If I hadn’t died, maybe he wouldn’t even be able to hurt his hair. Speaking of which, birth is really the key.”

Ross Thorne is the grandson of their parents. He couldn't answer this question, and he couldn't empathize with it, so he could only laugh.Who knew that Lang Bai hadn't finished sighing, and added another sentence: "So I am a staunch supporter of the modern monogamy system, not for anything else, but because my children will all be born by one mother in the future. See How harmonious!"

Rose Thorn's face changed suddenly, but he returned to normal in just a moment, and said with a smile, "I'll talk about this kind of shadowless thing later. I just came here to ask a question. I've been thinking about it for the past few days. What do you plan to do in the future? Although Yuan Xiao was sent to Taiwan, but your father came out to take care of things again, I really don't think about returning to Yuan's house..."

At the deepest point of this winter, it was widely rumored in many places that Yuan Cheng might fall ill, or even pass away directly.Rose Thorne mentioned it to Lang Bai, but Lang Bai just sneered, and it was obvious that he didn't believe it.

Or he believed it rationally, but his heart was already cold emotionally, and he didn't believe that Yuan Cheng would be so sad because of his death.

Ross Thorne could see his thoughts, since then he seldom mentioned anything related to Yuan Cheng, and only talked about the news and turmoil of the Yuan family, and he only talked about the bad ones.Later, the situation in Yuancheng improved, and the Yuan family gradually resumed normal operations after a turbulent winter, and Rose Thorne stopped going to Hong Kong in front of Lang Bai.

He once thought that if Lang Bai's impression of the Yuan family was bad to a certain extent, he might stop thinking about returning to Hong Kong after he recovered from his injury.He is a member of Skull and Bones, and he will receive a lot of help from other members in the United States. He can start a company as a shareholder and get a considerable amount of dividends every year. Why not return to Hong Kong?

Besides, he is so smart, so good at scheming, if he stays in the Rosethorn family, if he stays with him,...

It's okay to think about these thoughts in your own mind, and you must never say them directly in front of Lang Bai.Rose Thorne only spoke halfway, then stood there, looking at Lang Bai with a smile.

Lang Bai obviously didn't expect so much, and said casually: "Let's read it again, I'll eat you for a while before I talk about it." Then he put away the book casually, got up and walked into the house.

Roththorn followed him inside while watching his figure.Lang Bai lost a lot of weight after his serious illness. He was wearing cotton white home clothes, and his top was loosely draped over his shoulders, revealing a fair and almost transparent neck.The hair was soft, black and shiny, with a slight luster under the sunlight, so soft that one couldn't help but want to touch it at first sight.

Rose Thorne knew that he couldn't touch it, but after looking at it for a while, he still couldn't help laughing and asked: "You live and eat me for nothing, and you have nothing to pay me back. Why don't you just..."

Lang Bai didn't hear clearly, he turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

Ross Thorn didn't know why he stopped talking, smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing,...it won't be too late to talk about it later."