north bird south

The author has something to say: not Zhiyuan.There are two chapters left.

What Xu Zhiyuan didn't expect was that a rare visitor came recently.

When he saw Dong Yibai in the living room, he thought he hadn't woken up, so he went back and washed his face, but when he came back, the man was still there.

After Dong Yibai left, Meng Che called Xu Zhiyuan over and told him to visit Dong Jianshu.He said that Dong Jianshu's driver had epilepsy on the way home by car, which led to a very serious traffic accident, and he was unconscious in the hospital at this time.

Xu Zhiyuan knew in his heart that this could not be a simple accident.But he agreed with his mouth, and bought some things the next day to visit.

Dong Jianshu was in a separate ward, and there was no noise or people around.When Xu Zhiyuan walked in, he saw that only Dong Yibai was guarding the bed, he was staring intently at his father's hand with the needle inserted, his tired eyelids and deep dark circles could tell that he probably hadn't rested for a long time .He supported his crumbling head, like a nervous deer, a slight sound - even his own breathing, could wake him up.

Xu Zhiyuan heard his heart thump, and watched the tired Dong Yibai cover the quilt on Dong Jianshu's body, thinking of his father for some reason.

Family love is really a noble and bastard feeling.He can make a sane person willing to give for no reason, no matter how persistent the obsession is.If it is not for the determination or indifference, who can truly kill relatives with righteousness and remain indifferent.

At this moment, Xu Zhiyuan seemed to sink into Dong Yibai's body, feeling the pain of this involvement.Xu Zhiyuan had no way of knowing whether this was pity for Dong Jianshu in disguise.But he claimed that he would not deny Dong Jianshu's crimes or justify his crimes because of any "pity".But to be moved by the people and things that Dong Jianshu has affected is nothing more than a sense of empathy.

Xu Zhiyuan gently knocked on the door and walked in, the moment he saw Xu Zhiyuan, Dong Yibai couldn't even make a fierce expression, he said, "What are you doing here?"

Xu Zhiyuan put his things on the cabinet, and accidentally saw a faded tin box of candy on it, and there were a few more scattered inside.It was the same brand as the one he used to steal in Yu Yao's office.Xu Zhiyuan stared at Dong Jianshu condescendingly for a while, and said, "Come and visit our enemy."

The two were silent to each other, Dong Yibai suddenly said: "Yu Yao is actually not dead."

"It has nothing to do with you."

Dong Yibai raised his head and stared at him resentfully, "Why did you lie to me?"

Xu Zhiyuan pointed at Dong Jianshu on the bed with his chin, and with a look of knowingly asking, he said, "Isn't it because you know that Yu Yao is not dead through your good father?"

Dong Yibai opened his mouth helplessly, but finally closed it.Even though he didn't agree with what his father did, but because of this bloodline, he couldn't get away from his sin.He clasped his fingers together and said, "I owe Yu Yao a favor... I can help you a favor. We will pay it off after we finish helping."

Xu Zhiyuan really wanted to smoke a cigarette, but since he was in the ward, he held back and said, "You always wanted to tell me this?"

"Yes."

He slipped a pistol out of his sleeve, threw it to Dong Yibai, and said, "You shoot Dong Jianshu to death."

"..." Dong Yibai was taken aback by the cold touch when he got it, and he said angrily, "You came to visit someone in the hospital...with a gun?"

"I'm used to it, it's not targeting Dong Jianshu." Xu Zhiyuan put his hands in his pockets and said indifferently, "Can you help me with this?"

When Dong Yibai stood up, he staggered due to exhaustion, returned the pistol to him, and said, "Impossible...except this."

Xu Zhiyuan retracted the pistol, stopped beating around the bush, and said straight forward: "Then there's no need. Besides, the person you owe is Yu Yao, not me."

Before Xu Zhiyuan left, he said, "Meng Che intends to win you over recently, because you are Tian Song's only heir. He doesn't really help, so don't rely too much on him...Of course you can choose not to believe me, after all, our two families are also enemy."

Dong Yibai clenched his fingers tightly.

"Also, Dong Yibai, stop trying to find psychological comfort by helping me." Xu Zhiyuan secretly glanced at Dong Jianshu, and said, "He has suffered enough crimes and human lives to die eight hundred times, it wasn't you A single favor can pay off."

"Don't help me anymore, or I will make you regret it." Xu Zhiyuan repeated word by word.

Dong Yibai tried to struggle to refute what's wrong, but was interrupted by Xu Zhiyuan's door closing.

……

All the recent things mixed together made Xu Zhiyuan have a nightmare. The fear and trembling when he saw the shooting and killing people up close for the first time, the numb scabs that had spread over many years seeped into his body The hairs on his skin stood on end, and he almost woke up with a start.

So that night, Xu Zhiyuan secretly packaged his important things - including all letters, photo albums, and notes - and shipped them to Fang Jingxing.

He told Boss Yang Zhi that he was planning an escape, Fang Jingxing immediately frowned and asked him what he was going to do.

He said that he didn't want to stay in Huai City anymore, and he was going to Beicheng to find his uncle.

Fang Jingxing stared at him for a long time without saying a word.

Xu Zhiyuan spent four years weaving a huge net of interests. Both the business community and the coalition government have his nets, so that Fang Jingxing and other colleagues in Huai City can get timely, accurate and smooth information.His current position is very important, and he can be regarded as the third person to take on this important task after Wu Shenyuan and the traitorous businessman who met at the banquet.

"Xu Zhiyuan, if you don't have the will to persevere, it won't work no matter how much I force you, so we won't force you to do it." Fang Jingxing said solemnly, "But you have to think about it. After we safely transfer Xu Zhenping, we will definitely I will also evacuate you together, do you want to endure it for a while and return to Beicheng with honor, or do you want to escape now for the sake of some love for your children?"

Xu Zhiyuan sat in the candlelight for a long time, and when he calmed down, he took back his previous words and said in a hoarse voice, "Did you send the letter to Yao'er?"

"If it goes well, he has already received it."

Xu Zhiyuan lowered his head, bloodshot eyes appeared in his eyes, and the broken hair on his forehead grew back. It looked like it hadn't been taken care of for many days, which made him look haggard.He said, "Sorry."

It was late at night, and he rushed to Fang Jingxing's place in a hurry, which surprised Boss Fang.Xu Zhiyuan buried half of his face in his palms, and said: "I just... I always have nightmares recently, dreaming about blood, fire, and gunshots. When I wake up, I really want to see Yao'er and talk to him."

Fang Jingxing could only pat him on the shoulder, sighed and said, "Your nerves are too tense, go to the doctor tomorrow morning and prescribe a soothing prescription."

Xu Zhiyuan asked without beginning or end: "Is Pei Zhen really dead?"

"Ah."

He looked at his fingertips and said, "I can't imagine how Aunt Yuan and Lin Wan felt when they found out about this. Every time I want to study it carefully, I always put myself in it, and it becomes special... ..."

He didn't say the word "fear", he looked up and saw Fang Jingxing's face, although it was full of concern and kindness, it was still different from his little uncle.

So he said, "...it's all right."

Pei Zhen's unexpected death opened a hole in his solid barrier, and the fear and sorrow of death are hidden in it. No matter Xu Zhiyuan wants to see it or not, there will always be something crawling out of it to disturb his mind. thing.

He couldn't figure out why Pei Zhen would leave so suddenly, like a friend who had a temporary conflict and left you without saying hello, and never came back.

He was afraid that someone would suddenly leave his side in the future and never come back again.

He kept these words in his heart and didn't say them out.After asking Fang Jingxing to send his things to Beicheng first, he went to the Central Hospital in a daze to get some medicine - he saw that the familiar director's office had been replaced - and returned home like this.

……

October [-]th, a day engraved in Xu Zhiyuan's heart all his life.

The day before yesterday, Fang Jingxing told him that the preparatory work for the transfer had been completed, and that Xu Zhenping would arrange an "assassination" and "fake death" two days later.

But the next day, Fang's family was sealed off, and all the people who had been in contact with Xu Zhiyuan disappeared.

On the third day, he saw Fang Jingxing and a group of people he knew and did not know come out of the public prison and were sent to several cars.Fang Jingxing took a deep look at him, but mixed in the crowd, the two of them couldn't say anything.

Xu Zhiyuan found out that these cars were going to Wuzhou, and they were all suspects arrested for "rebellion".Xu Zhenping, the military commander of Wuzhou District, redeemed them all from the prison and transported them to Wuzhou on the grounds of interrogating them personally. It is said that this aroused the suspicion and dissatisfaction of the coalition government, but Xu Zhenping insisted on going his own way.

Xu Zhiyuan found a figure in black clothes and black hat among the crowd of onlookers. When he saw his weeping expression, Xu Zhiyuan's dark fire and anger crawled up his spine.

That man was Mou Xianzhi, the elusive and stalking fly who turned from Sishan to Dong Jianshu.

Perhaps because he knew that Meng Che was not easy to mess with, Dong Jianshu was eager to "make up for his mistakes", even though he was lying in the hospital unable to move, he still "conscientiously" became a shit-stirring stick.

How Mou Xianzhi found out the details of these comrades, Xu Zhiyuan did not know, there must be a lot of elements of "I would rather catch the wrong than let it go".But he knew that Fang Jingxing and those who were redeemed to Wuzhou were safe.It's just that the price at the same time is that Xu Zhenping has completely stood on the edge of the cliff.

Sure enough, on the fourth day, that is, on the sixth day, Xu Zhenping came to Huai City with Meng Che's invitation letter.

The moment Xu Zhiyuan saw his father, Xu Zhiyuan was startled.His father was not very old, and his figure was as tall and stalwart as ever, but his hair grew gray on his temples.

Xu Zhenping was also stunned when he saw his son in a suit and leather shoes. When Xu Zhiyuan stepped forward to stand side by side with him, he realized that this boy was already as tall as him.

Xu Zhiyuan was in charge of picking Xu Zhenping home, accompanied by other people, and Chen Yansong was also sitting in the co-pilot.So Xu Zhiyuan spoke in a sly way, and simply said the first sentence that the father and son asked when they met after many years: "...Is Mom okay?"

Xu Zhenping stared straight ahead, and said, "There's nothing serious about it, it's just a frequent cough."

"Oh."

The two were silent all the way.

Meng Che chatted with Xu Zhenping for a long time, and Meng Che seemed very happy about Xu Zhenping's invitation.During their conversation, Xu Zhiyuan lay on the bed alone, waiting for the study to open, but the light in the study was still on when he lost consciousness.

Waking up from the cold in the middle of the night, Xu Zhiyuan saw a person sitting beside the bed.Driven by vigilance, he immediately bowed and drew his gun, and pressed it against the man's neck, only to hear the figure slowly say: "Xu Zhiyuan."

"Xu... Er... Dad?" Xu Zhiyuan woke up from the slumber and said, "Why are you here?"

He quickly put away his self-defense weapon, and reached out to pull the lamp.But Xu Zhenping grabbed his wrist and said, "That's all, I can see clearly."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't take off his suit, didn't wash his face, his hair was messed up like a bird's nest, Xu Zhenping caught him by his appearance of resting on the bed.He thought his father would have to bother him again, but Xu Zhenping didn't.

The indifferent moonlight illuminated the father and son, and Xu Zhenping's hair was hidden in the night, making it difficult to tell whether the whiteness was from the sideburns or the moonlight.

Xu Zhenping heard him put away his gun in a panic, and said, "Have you ever killed someone?"

Xu Zhiyuan was silent for a long time before saying: "No."

"Oh," Xu Zhenping continued, "You seem to have gained a lot of limelight in the past four years."

Xu Zhenping's tone made Xu Zhiyuan feel that there was a sense of ridicule, as if he was saying that he was like a child who used toys to scare people.Maybe the speaker didn't mean it, but the sensitive listener felt it.Xu Zhiyuan didn't know which tendon was wrong, maybe because he had never chatted with his father in such a quiet situation, he was momentarily embarrassed and blurted out: "You came here to tell me this?"

Xu Zhenping turned his head to stare at him, making Xu Zhiyuan feel uncomfortable.Xu Zhiyuan said: "I'm a little sleepy, you should go to bed earlier."

When Xu Zhiyuan covered himself with the quilt, the sound of his heart beating against his chest was clearly audible. What he actually wanted to say was—why did you come to Huai City? What did Meng Che say to you? I actually know a lot of things Can help you do something.

I... am not a child anymore.

But all of these were wrapped tightly by his contradictory "face", just like he wrapped himself in a quilt.

Xu Zhenping was silent for a long time, and said, "Did you see your uncle?"

Xu Zhiyuan lowered his eyelashes.Sure enough, Xu Zhenping had read those letters.

He said, "Yeah."

"He's safe now," Xu Zhiyuan said, still cold and unreasonable, "You have to listen to his arrangements."

Xu Zhenping and Yu Yao are two names that cannot coexist in Xu Zhiyuan's mind.If they were pieced together, it would only make the slap in the memory and the scar on the back faintly ache.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't answer him at all, and there was an inexplicable soreness in his chest, as if he had choked on a sip of vinegar, which made his nose, tongue, and lungs numb.

Xu Zhenping added: "From now on, you have to listen to your mother and take good care of her."

Xu Zhiyuan tried his best to make his voice sound normal, and he replied nonchalantly: "You don't need to tell me about this, I have been in contact with her all the time."

Xu Zhenping gently rubbed the callus on his palm with his fingers, and the texture of his voice was like a piece of iron soaked in moonlight: "You just need to understand."

After Xu Zhenping finished speaking a few words, Xu Zhiyuan heard him get up and thought he was going to leave, but after a while his clothes rustled, there was no sound, it turned out that Xu Zhenping stood by the bed and did not move.

Xu Zhiyuan waited for him to leave, but after a while, he felt a warm and rough touch from the back of his neck - Xu Zhenping's big hand was covering his scar.

Because of this wound, Xu Zhiyuan almost survived on the operating table, and Li Anrong didn't speak a word to him for a whole year.

Xu Zhenping has always been proud, conceited, and majestic in front of his son, and he rarely praises him, let alone such gentle emotions as comfort and guilt.Although Li Anrong often pampers and dotes on her son, she is also independent, strong and informal.The family they form is not a loving mother and strict father in the traditional sense, where the father dominates the outside and the mother dominates the inside.So Xu Zhiyuan lacked some soft care since he was a child.

Xu Zhenping and Li Anrong have always known that Li Anrong can still talk to his son intimately and peacefully, but Xu Zhenping, who is in a hurry, doesn't know how to make up for it - this feels like when Xu Zhiyuan's cub was just born, the young him In a daze, he put his hand on the child's immature neck that could be circled with two fingers.

It was also like now, when the cub had grown enough to stand side by side with him, he could only helplessly put his rough palm on the scar on the back of his neck.

Xu Zhenping opened his mouth and closed it again.

After hesitating for a long time, he said, "In the past four years, you have done a great job."

"..."

Xu Zhiyuan, who had his back turned to him, couldn't see the subtle changes in his expression, and only when he regained his composure did he realize that the pillow was wet.

He obviously had no expression on his face, but his tear glands were inexplicably cracked, and he didn't dare to turn around to look at Xu Zhenping with tearful eyes - it would be embarrassing.

Xu Zhiyuan said, "Oh."

He thought of the old self who stood at the door with a certificate of merit, waiting for Xu Zhenping to come back to fulfill his promise of "bringing the little bastard out to play".

If Xu Zhenping could come back at that time, or if he could think of that incident now and say "sorry" to himself that was more than ten years late.Xu Zhiyuan would always look back at him.

But Xu Zhenping can't, this person will choose to bump into the south wall in a devious way, and use the most awkward expression to decorate his apology, and he will never say "I'm sorry" to himself directly.

Xu Zhenping took his hand away, and the temperature on the back of Xu Zhiyuan's neck disappeared.

Suddenly, Xu Zhenping covered his mouth with a handkerchief.Xu Zhiyuan turned his head back in shock, and struggled for a while, only to see the familiar silhouette swaying in his hazy eyes.

After a few shakes, Xu Zhenping's lips moved up and down very slowly in a blur.

Before Xu Zhiyuan lost consciousness, he felt his father's fingers tremble, and he didn't know if it was because he touched the tears on Xu Zhiyuan's face.

……

Meng Che had a distorted emotion of admiration and hatred towards Xu Zhenping. He hoped that Xu Zhenping, who betrayed the coalition government, would die, but he didn't want his senior brother whom he had admired for many years to die "as a traitor to the coalition government".

Xu Zhenping was going to be killed by his comrades, and the epitaph of "Traitor of the Fellowship" was crowned, this is what Meng Che wanted.

Xu Zhenping is a traitor who has always been loyal. Since he was born in a disguise, he should die in a disguise.

But even so, Meng Che still felt that the coalition government was not qualified to execute him, and he was the only one who could decide Xu Zhenping's life and death.

His desire to control is too sick, for his subordinates, for Dong Jianshu, Xu Zhiyuan, Meng Miaochang—even Xu Zhenping.

So he raised a group of knives like Yu Yan, but after the "knives" were slaughtered, he relentlessly arrested his colleagues in Huai City and threatened Xu Zhenping to come to his side.

But Xu Zhenping didn't do what he wished, and became a beast with low eyebrows in the predicament.The second day after Xu Zhenping came to the Meng Mansion, he surrounded the Meng Mansion with soldiers loyal to him.

Only then did Meng Che understand that Xu Zhenping didn't want to ask him to maintain his precarious disguise anymore, he came here to settle accounts with him.

I heard from passers-by that this caused a huge commotion in Huai City. The police station and the Huai army sent people to surround the Meng Mansion round after round.

The embattled Xu Zhenping didn't turn his head back, and pointed the gun to Meng Che's forehead. He didn't express shock or puzzlement at his crazy remarks, but mocked him for acting like a hysterical childish child who did whatever he wanted.

Xu Zhenping's trigger was pulled, and so were the triggers of the peripheral snipers.

Xu Zhiyuan woke up in the carriage, tied up like a wriggling worm.The sense of uncertainty in his heart was overwhelming, he struggled and fell out of the carriage, and was almost knocked by the stone on the side of the road until he vomited blood.

It was Chen Yansong who stopped his horse and picked him up.Xu Zhiyuan asked him where Xu Zhenping was, but Chen Yansong didn't tell him, but let him go with him.

Xu Zhiyuan couldn't listen, and tried his best to break free from the rope.Chen Yansong said in a pleading tone: "I'll take you to see An Rong, Zhiyuan, you still have a mother."

Xu Zhiyuan was dragged back to the carriage by Chen Yansong in a daze.He followed Chen Yansong to Li Anrong's residence with such a tinge of uneasy hope and support, but when he opened the door, there was no one there.

Xu Zhiyuan's heart instantly felt like a furnace in the room.

Chen Yansong hurriedly searched all the rooms, calling Li Anrong's name, but he still couldn't find anyone.Xu Zhiyuan, who was even more worry-free, also escaped from his custody that night and returned to Huai City on foot.

Uncle Wang, the warden of the prison, said that Xu Zhenping, the traitor, was left alive to serve his sentence. Many people gathered around the narrow gate of the prison, and many people stopped people from entering.

But a woman broke in with a gun, stood beside Xu Zhenping, and helped him up.Xu Zhenping was held by her shoulders, and his broken leg stood up straight.

Li Anrong yelled three times to the "audience" at the gate and countless soldiers, policemen, and executioners: "Xu Zhenping is not a traitor, Xu Zhenping is a hero."

Later, the two were shot at the same time. According to the onlookers, they stood upright and did not kneel until they died.

……

That night, the fire in the Xu Mansion burst into flames, thick smoke filled the sky, and it took a long time to extinguish. It must have been deliberately set on fire. Obviously, the housekeeper and servants were not there to watch the night, but the police found a charred body inside.