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His gaze dropped to Li Qingyun's right wrist.
Noticing Li Liang's gaze, Li Qingyun did not hide, but pulled up his sleeve, exposing the entire wound completely under the boy's eyes.
There were dots of dark red marks on the swollen red skin, like moldy fungi on a swollen steamed bun, growing in the blood and about to infect the whole body as it flowed.
"I accidentally bumped into it while repairing the car today." said Li Qingyun.
As to why he was careless, he didn't say much.
Li Liang sighed softly: "After you finish this matter, let's go to the hospital to see a doctor, so as not to hurt any bones."
Li Qingyun smiled, a very brief smile.
"Will there be a future for me?" he asked.
The question was asked in a strange and abrupt way, but it seemed as if neither of the two people present noticed the oddity.
"Why not?" Li Liang reached out and patted Li Qingyun's clothes, brushing off the dust that had gotten on him. "You just think too much every day."
Li Qingyun turned to look at his cousin, a face he once knew so well, and suddenly asked, "My father's death is nothing to you, is it?"
Li Liang's hands trembled slightly. "I know you are very sad about the death of my uncle, but life is not just for the dead."
"Don't say that again," he said, restraining his smile and pausing, "You're just too sad this time, I don't blame you."
Li Qingyun was silent for a long time, then he lowered his eyes and said, "I understand."
Turning around, a hint of green in his pocket was half visible as he walked.
"Qingyun—" Looking at the boy's back, Li Liang couldn't help but call him. But when he met the boy's gaze, he forced a smile and said, "I just want to ask, why did you call me here and ask me to come here? Isn't there something?"
Li Qingyun stared straight at Li Liang, as if he wanted to imprint this face firmly in his eyes. After a long time, he spoke.
"Nothing, I just want to see you." After saying this, he left without looking back.
Li Liang seemed to be fixed in place by some kind of magic. He wanted to call out to the person, wanted to reach out and grab the other person, wanted to chase after him, but he stopped where he was, like a living statue sealed in wax.
The red wax gradually seeped out into warm and sticky wax due to the temperature, filling his throat and sticking to his feet. He was trapped.
A familiar shadow appeared quietly, and with just one glance, he was instantly unblocked.
Li Liang quickly hid to one side, subconsciously trying to disappear into the darkness, but the entire venue was dazzled by the headlights and he had no way to avoid it.
Jiang Qing entered the room and stood face to face with Li Qingyun.
From Li Liang's perspective, he could only see the two people's gradually becoming excited body language.
He knew what they were arguing about, and precisely because he knew it, he found time even more unbearable.
Leaning his head against the wall behind him, Li Liang suddenly felt his nerves wandering. Everything that unfolded today seemed like a dream, a dream in which he was both awake and unconscious.
Jiang Qing's name was engraved in his heart. He ground the name between his teeth, with a faint taste of blood.
This is the key to closing Pandora's box. Only when she dies, can he have a moment of peace from the hot and boiling blood that has been flowing all day long.
The pungent smell of blood spread, and Li Liang could even imagine his thin skin being cut by a sharp blade, like a plastic film that was suddenly punctured, with blood flowing out impatiently.
The blood factor was spreading, and he suddenly smiled, although the smile was so faint that it was almost pale.
"Li Liang——"
A hoarse voice sounded, familiar yet strange. It was Li Qingyun calling him.
Li Liang came back to his senses and walked out.
As far as the eye could see, a person was squatting with his back to him, and a familiar girl was lying at his feet. Red liquid was dripping from the girl's black sleeves, quickly forming a small puddle.
Not far away was a fruit knife with a green handle and a blood-red blade, flashing with a sharp light.
The footsteps were gradually approaching from behind. Li Qingyun held the person in his arms and did not look back.
"I killed her." His voice was hoarse.
The girl's face was pale, and she lay there calmly, like a rag doll that had lost its life.
Li Liang: “I saw it.”
He saw it, and his boiling blood seemed to finally find a moment of calm, and Pandora's box seemed to finally close, and he seemed to finally get a moment of respite from suffocation.
He tried to look sad, but an uncontrollable smile appeared on his face.
The smile was distorted, crying looked like laughing, and laughing looked like crying.
"Qingyun, you—"
Li Liang opened his mouth, but his outstretched hand froze in vain, because Jiang Qing suddenly opened his eyes and met his eyes.
The eyes looked at him calmly, as if looking at him from the morgue across a distant time and space.
There was no emotion, they were a pair of dead eyes.
But why would a dead person open his eyes?!
Under the strong stimulation, his hand suddenly changed direction and slapped Li Qingyun in the face.
"Why didn't you kill her?" His brain was buzzing, his blood was rushing backwards, and in an instant, all his rationality collapsed. "You coward!!!"
After a crisp slap, one side of Li Qingyun's cheek felt hot, and tiny capillaries burst, staining it with large areas of blood red.
As if he had lost consciousness, he ignored all his feelings and just stared at Li Liang, "Why do you want to kill Jiang Qing?"
It only took twenty minutes for me to go from disbelief to belief.
What they said was actually correct.
Those stubborn and familiar eyes cooled Li Qingyun's dizzy brain instantly. Everything that happened today lingered in his mind, and he realized something at that moment.
"That's not what I meant." He smiled unhappily. "I thought..."
"You thought I was dead," Jiang Qing stood up. Red liquid dripped down her sleeves, making a dripping sound. But her voice was still clearly audible. "Li Liang, what is the grudge between us?"
Faced with the two people's questioning, it was difficult for Li Liang to think of words in such a short time, but it didn't matter. He was clearly aware of one thing at this moment.
"You and Jiang Qing plotted against me together?" His tone gradually became sharper. "You actually betrayed my uncle-in-law."
"I'm just happy to see Jiang Qing die, but you..." The boy's face was strangely excited, and his spirit suddenly became excited, "Li Qingyun, you betrayed me and your father."
Li Qingyun's face suddenly lost its color, as if his bones had been pulled out. In that instant, his situation was reversed with Li Liang's, and he became extremely weak.
"I didn't." Facing Li Liang's questioning, he seemed so powerless to even explain.
"Ha!" Li Liang just laughed sarcastically.
It turned out that his biggest trophy today was not Jiang Qing, but Li Qingyun.
Da, da, da——
The sound of scattered and mixed footsteps came from behind, and Li Liang turned his head.
The lights illuminated the faces of the people coming, some familiar and some unfamiliar, but even if more people came, Li Liang would not be surprised at this moment.
The moment Jiang Qing opened his eyes, he realized that everything that happened today was a trap, and it didn't matter to him whether there were many or few people involved.
He has already got what he wanted most.
This is a farce, from beginning to end, Li Liang thought.
Until a girl among the group of people who came said——
"The car accident was not caused unilaterally by Jiang Liangcai."
Li Liang's expression froze. Jiang Liangcai, such a familiar name. He was Jiang Qing's father, and one of the people who died in the car accident.
The boy's face was covered with a shell again, with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, "What did you say?"
Jiang Qing nodded at Jiang Qing, then turned around and said, "You know what I mean."
Li Qingyun suddenly turned his head to look at Li Liang, but only saw Li Liang staring at Jiang Qing with a sullen face.
Lin Nanyan stepped forward to block Li Liang's view. He looked at Li Liang and said, "Li Guohong, an employee of Lanyu Transportation Company, was assigned to transport steel pipes in Jingsi District at 4:10 pm on April 24th."
"But at 4:50, he appeared at Xiangwei Avenue in Tianfu District in a white van. At 4:52, he collided with another vehicle at the intersection. Both drivers died on the spot."
"Between 4:10 AM and the time of the accident, Lanyu Company hadn't assigned any more tasks. This means that Li Guohong left his assigned area on his own that day and headed to Tianfu District, which is in the opposite direction of Jingsi District."
"And Xiangwei Avenue in Tianfu District happens to be the closest of the several roads that pass by your home."
As soon as the boy finished speaking, the air seemed to freeze.
In this cold and silent atmosphere, Li Liang suddenly sneered, "So? What does this mean?"
"That means my uncle-in-law shouldn't have passed that avenue, shouldn't have crossed that fork in the road, and that the avenue at the end of the alley should have been empty that day, with only Jiang Liangcai being allowed to pass!"
Jiang Qing's face turned pale instantly.
"That means he's left his post," Jiang Qing retorted loudly, "That means he was called away. That means if he does it once, he'll have another one!"
"What do you mean?" Li Qingyun turned his head with red eyes.
"Don't you understand?" Jiang Qing pouted. "Your dad was called over by his family, and it happened more than once."
"Li Liang..." Li Qingyun called out, but Li Liang ignored him.
It seemed that from the moment Li Qingyun betrayed him, he was no longer important in his eyes.
The boy's eyes slowly slid across the faces of the group of people in front of him, "What else do you know? Just tell me."
"Since you've asked for this, let's be frank."
Jiang Qing winked at Chen Heng, indicating that it was his turn.
Chen Heng glanced at Lin Nanyan, and seeing that he still looked indifferent, he knew what he meant.
The information was provided by Lin Nanyan, but——
He sighed to himself and took a step forward.
"A senior doctor I'm familiar with in the hospital happened to be in charge of Li Guohong's case."
"Based on the relevant tests done during his last hospitalization, various indicators showed obvious abnormal changes."
"Including core blood pressure indicators, endocrine and metabolic indicators, organ function damage indicators and other related indicators." Chen Heng omitted the specific medical term analysis.
"On the whole, Li Guohong has symptoms of high blood pressure, which is not a big deal after being suppressed by medication, but--" He paused and looked at Li Qingyun.
Li Qingyun knew everything Chen Heng said.
High blood pressure is a very common symptom in modern society, and transportation companies also have relatively strict control over drivers' blood pressure.
During the pre-employment test, the driver's blood pressure is also required to meet the corresponding standards. Since his father was able to get the job, he must have passed the blood pressure test.
However, as he grew older, the symptoms of blood pressure fluctuations became slightly more obvious at certain times. In order to better control it, his father would add additional medication.
But the look Chen Heng gave him made Li Qingyun's heart sink suddenly.
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