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Li Daneng is dead.

According to eyewitnesses at the scene, Brother Da Neng lost his balance and fell down in order to hold a worker next to him who had almost slipped.

Although Li Daneng's death was an accident, but a safety accident occurred on the construction site, it is naturally impossible for the company to completely break away from the relationship.Jiang Chiyu stayed in City H to cooperate with the follow-up matters, while Yu Duo went to Li Daneng's hometown on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to organize his funeral.

Li Daneng's home is in a county below the city. The traffic here is blocked, and there are no advantageous resources. The development is very limited. Most young and middle-aged people choose to go out to work, and only the elderly, weak, women and children are left at home.

On the first day of Yu Duo's arrival, Li Daneng's 80-year-old mother beat her out with a cane.He stood in the main room without saying a word, beating and scolding, without defending himself.

The old lady was getting old, and soon she couldn't move anymore, and she was tired of cursing, and finally fell into Yu Duo's arms and cried hoarsely, and kept asking Yu Duo, how could his good son become a man after he went out for a year? A handful of ashes in the box.

Yu Duo couldn't answer. After the incident happened, he looked back countless times. If he could have arrived earlier that day, if he hadn't accepted the project of Oriental Garden at the beginning, if he had worked under Chen Li with Li Daneng for the rest of his life, what happened? Is it going to be different.

But time is like running water, once it passes, there is no turning back.

Yu Duo didn't know the local funeral customs. He studied the local customs and etiquette carefully and arranged all the funeral affairs.Li Daneng's son couldn't accept the news of his father's death, so he locked himself in the room and didn't see anyone who came.Yu Duo knew that he was not welcome here, so in order not to embarrass the Li family, he did not show up during the days of Li Daneng's funeral.

On the last day of the funeral, a fire was ignited in the open space in the backyard of Li's house, and all the relics left by Li Daneng at home were burned to ashes in the fire.The villagers and neighbors who came to help also dispersed one after another, and the Li family, which had been noisy for several days, returned to tranquility.

Only then did Yu Duo carry a jug of wine and a bag of good vegetables, and went up the mountain step by step, and came to a new grave.

There are two monuments on the mountain bag, Li Daneng and his dead wife were buried together.Li Daneng on the tombstone was several years younger than he actually was. The incident happened suddenly, and there was no suitable photo at home to take as a posthumous photo. In the end, he found a photo of his social security certificate several years ago in Yu Duo's mobile phone, and he was in time The tombstone was engraved at the last moment.

"Hello, sister-in-law, it's our first time meeting." Yu Duo sat down in front of the tombstone without any surprise, placed two small wine glasses in front of the photos of Li Daneng and his wife, and filled the glasses one by one: "Your old lady It's really powerful, my forehead was beaten by her, and it's still buzzing today."

"Brother Da Neng, your son looks like you, very strong." Yu Duo said as he took out the appetizers from the bag and poured them on a disposable plate: "In two years, he will be taller than you Taller."

It didn't know when the sky started to rain, and the icy rain fell on Yu Duo's body. He was only focused on talking to Li Daneng, unaware of the coldness.Since Li Daneng's accident, he hasn't closed his eyes properly, and he has lost weight and become depressed.

Yu Duo picked up the wine glass, touched the glass in front of the tombstone lightly, and then spilled the wine in the glass on the concrete floor with his backhand.Immediately afterwards, he filled the glass again, raised his head and drank it down.

After drinking the 52-degree liquor, his eyes suddenly turned red.Li Daneng is good at wine, and Yu Duo has endless entertainments outside every day, exchanging glasses with all kinds of strangers, but rarely has the opportunity to have a good drink with Li Daneng.

He still remembers the day when the company was established, everyone had a bright vision for the future.Now that Li Daneng is dead, he is gone.Si Mao was blinded by lard, and drifted away.In order to plug the hole in the Oriental Garden to pay the migrant workers, Lin Shengnan cashed in the real estate that he had worked so hard to buy over the years at a low price.And Yu Duo himself will soon bear a huge debt.

Life once gave them hope, and it quickly took it back.Yu Duo remembered a sentence from Jiang Chiyu's book, *Birth is like rain, some people fall in the desert, some fall in the oasis, and those who fall in the mud like them, do they live forever? Unable to escape the swamp.

"Brother Da Neng." Yu Duo lit a piece of paper money, and said with a half-hearted smile, "You said that we have been going around in circles, what's the point..."

The mountain rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was bitingly cold when it hit the body. The flame that Yu Duo finally lit was extinguished in the heavy rain.Just when he was about to give up, an umbrella stretched over his head, keeping all the rain out.

Yu Duo looked up and saw that it was Jiang Chiyu who came, and because he wanted to hold an umbrella for him, half of Jiang Chiyu's body was exposed in the rain.

Seeing Jiang Chiyu at this time is like walking at night in the rain, seeing a cave with a bonfire.The invulnerability that Yu Duo forcibly propped up almost collapsed at this moment.

But at the critical moment, he still controlled his emotions and did not show his weak side in front of Jiang Chiyu.Li Daneng's unexpected death, Jiang Chiyu's heart will not be less sad than him.

Yu Duo withdrew his gaze, lit a stick of incense and handed it to Jiang Chiyu, and asked casually, "When did you arrive?"

"Just arrived." Jiang Chiyu took the incense in Yu Duo's hand, stuffed the umbrella into his hand, came into the rain by himself, and bowed three times to the tombstone of Li Daneng and his wife.

During the period when Yu Duo was here dealing with Li Daneng's funeral, Jiang Chiyu faced a tough battle while staying in H City. The competent authorities launched investigations on them one after another, and none of the punishments and compensations came down.

Fortunately, it finally came to an end now. As soon as the matter was settled, he came to Yu Duo and drove all day and night.

Yu Duo watched Jiang Chiyu's movement of offering incense, and said, "Brother Da Neng died in my arms."

"Before he left, he asked me, Yu Duo, do you think Sanya is fun?"

"A few days ago, he clearly said that after all the projects in hand are finished, we will close the stall."

Jiang Chiyu knelt down, put the incense into the incense burner, turned his head and said to Yu Duo, "Yu Duo, this is not your fault."

Yu Duo asked back: "Isn't it my fault?"

Jiang Chiyu replied firmly again: "No."

Yu Duo laughed inexplicably, without saying anything else, he looked up at the sky, and said to Jiang Chiyu, "Let's go, let's go down the mountain."

After staying in one sitting position for too long, Yu Duo's feet started to go numb, and when he got up he staggered, and was supported by Jiang Chiyu.

Because of the rain, the road down the mountain became more muddy and difficult. Fortunately, the two supported each other along the way, and finally reached the foot of the mountain safely.

The black Passat was parked quietly in the rain, like a temporary shelter.Yu Duo suddenly realized, yes, he still has Jiang Chiyu.

The battle is not over yet, and the road ahead is bumpy and difficult. I don't know what difficulties are waiting for them, but no matter what, he must protect Jiang Chiyu well.

No matter what it costs him.

***

In a luxurious apartment far away in the center of H, the couriers were piled up at the door and no one picked them up for several days.The property manager went up to take a look worriedly, and found that someone was actually at home.

This is Si Mao's home. This three-bedroom, one-living room house is located in the core area of ​​H City, and the monthly rent is equivalent to a month's salary of an ordinary white-collar worker.

After seeing off the troublesome property manager, Si Mao closed the door, reclined on the sofa again, fiddled with the wine bottle at hand, and took a big gulp.

After Li Daneng died, Simao did not show up on the construction site for a week.At this time, the projects in the company were in chaos, and no one noticed his unusualness.

At this time, a girl's voice rang from the mobile phone on the coffee table: "Have you really decided?"

Si Mao opened his eyes and looked at his own shadow on the TV screen, and nodded.After a while, he remembered that the other party couldn't see him, so he opened his dry lips and said, "Well, let's break up."

"Why?" the girl asked.

"Wenwen." Si Mao called out the girl's name, paused, and said dully: "You are too kind, I am not good enough for you, we are people from two worlds, there is no way there will be any result. "

"You've been wrong all along." The girl's voice was choked with sobs: "Luxury cars, famous watches, luxury hotels, Michelin restaurants, these are never what I need from you, every minute and every second with you can be given to me Bringing happiness is enough."

Great sadness welled up in Simao's heart, he didn't dare to listen to the girl anymore, and hung up the phone in a hurry.

After hanging up the phone, Si Mao lay back on the sofa and drank the remaining wine in the bottle in one go.In fact, he has been drinking like this day and night at home for a week.

He couldn't sleep at all without alcohol.Whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of Wenwen for a while, and for a while he sees the scene of going to Li Daneng's office to find him on the day of the accident.

At that time, Li Daneng was about to go to lunch, but Si Mao stopped Li Daneng and told him that Yu Duo was too naive and that it would not work to ask for salary through legal channels. We can only compare him to Mr. He is more rascal.

Li Daneng asked him what he planned to do, and Simao told him that he had already discussed with the workers and went to the construction site together to "take a walk".

At the beginning, Li Daneng was still a little hesitant. After all, the matter had not yet developed to this point, so there was no need to fight to the death.But Si Mao doesn't think so. He feels that every day he delays, the chance of getting the money is reduced by a few points.

Before Si Mao came to find Li Daneng, he had already persuaded several foremen, and the foremen came together to persuade Li Daneng.In fact, in that situation, the workers below had already become red-eyed under Si Mao's instigation, no matter whether Li Daneng agreed or not, they would make such a trip.

Seeing that Li Daneng was a little shaken, Si Mao repeatedly assured that they were just standing on the roof of the building to make a show to force that surnamed Zhao, and they would never act rashly.Li Daneng also wanted to recover the money as soon as possible, but was finally persuaded by Si Mao and agreed.

Everyone knows what happened later, and the source of this tragedy is Si Mao's eagerness to make meritorious service in front of Yu Duo.

Now that the matter had already happened, no matter how much he felt guilty and annoyed, it would not help. Besides, he had done nothing wrong, all of this was just an accident.

After figuring this out, after waking up the next day, Si Mao didn't try to get himself drunk again, but rummaged through the boxes at home and found a lot of famous cigarettes, wine, jewelry and bags.

Some of these things were given by Wenwen, some were offered by suppliers, and some were bought by him with his own money.

Si Mao walked around the house, but after finding nothing of value, he opened his stock account and took a look.He hesitated for a while staring at the phone, but in the end he did not withdraw the money from the account, but went back to the room and took out a green car book from the bedside cabinet.

After everything was ready, he picked up a cardboard box from the balcony and piled the things all over the floor into the box.

Before sealing the box, he took off his watch and threw it in together.

Si Mao sat on the sofa in the living room and made several phone calls back and forth, finally picked up the valuable cardboard box, opened the door and left the house.