In B City, Lian Jun had indeed traced Li Jiuzheng, and through Shi Weichong's phone call, he had located Li Jiuzheng's position.
Gua Jiu stopped typing and said, "The target's phone showed a location on a highway near the border of L City, and it was moving very fast. The target turned off the phone after making the call, and it was impossible to continue tracking."
Shi Weichong raised his hand and wiped his face after hearing this. The last bit of luck in his heart disappeared, and he leaned on the sofa in a slightly dejected manner.
Li Jiuzheng said on the phone that he had been staying in Rongcheng for a while and had never left. He also said that although he received a call from Shi Jin last night, he did not communicate with Shi Jin, and Shi Jin was silent throughout the whole process. Now, Lian Jun's subordinates have located Li Jiuzheng in L City, not far from B City. Judging from the direction of movement, it seems that he has just left B City and is heading towards L City, which is completely different from what Li Jiuzheng said on the phone.
Moreover, not long after Lian Jun retrieved Shi Jin's call records last night, he got the call recording of the last call restored from Shi Jin's mobile phone. The recording showed that Shi Jin spoke after the call was connected. Not only did he ask for help, but he also reported his location in detail.
A large number of surveillance videos retrieved later also showed that a black car had briefly stopped on that street last night, and the time of the stop perfectly coincided with the time when Shi Jin hung up the phone.
Most importantly, Lian Jun's subordinates found all of Shi Jin's personal belongings in a trash can somewhere. After that, they checked the nearby surveillance video and confirmed that the person who lost the things was the same person as the black car driver captured by the surveillance.
All clues pointed to Li Jiuzheng. Before, Shi Weichong could comfort himself by saying, "There is no definite evidence of Li Jiuzheng and the black car, so I can't directly suspect that it was Li Jiuzheng who took Shi Jin away." Now that Li Jiuzheng has killed himself, he can no longer deceive himself - his youngest brother was actually taken away by his fifth brother, who he thought was the most honest, and his whereabouts were deliberately concealed.
He couldn't understand why Li Jiuzheng would do this. After all, Li Jiuzheng had never shown obvious malice towards Shi Jin.
"Maybe Jiuzheng just wanted to help Xiaojin treat his injuries..." He found a far-fetched reason for Li Jiuzheng's deception that he himself didn't quite believe.
Lian Jun came out in a wheelchair and said, "There's no need to hide someone to treat his injuries. Guayi, book a flight to Rongcheng, and send someone to track Li Jiuzheng's location at various highway intersections."
"Yes." Guayi nodded in response, turned around and did it.
Shi Weichong frowned and said, "Even if it was really Jiuzheng who took Xiaojin away, he certainly wouldn't really hurt--"
"Are you sure that Li Jiuzheng has no ill intentions towards Shi Jin?" Lian Jun interrupted him and got to the point.
Shi Weichong was dumbfounded--no, he couldn't be sure. Everyone in the Shi family, including himself, had absolutely no good intentions towards Shi Jin before seeing the changed Shi Jin now.
Shi Jin was really too annoying in the past. The negative emotions accumulated over the long ten years could not be covered up with a simple "maybe". He knew clearly why everyone did not show any ill will towards Shi Jin in the past. Although Li Jiuzheng never showed anything on his face, no one could tell what he was thinking in his heart.
Seeing that he could not answer, Lian Jun curled his lips slightly and showed a sneer, saying: "You brothers are really more ridiculous than each other. How did Shi Jin let you down?" After that, he walked away in a wheelchair without even looking back.
Gua Er and others hurriedly followed.
In a blink of an eye, Shi Wei Chong was the only one left in the study. He held his phone, thinking about the words left by Lian Jun, and found the New Year's greeting text message that Shi Jin had sent last night. His fingers tightened more and more, and finally he stood up and strode out of the study.
...
Shi Jin was injured, and he had been bumping around in the car, so he couldn't get a good rest. He managed to stay awake for a while, but he couldn't help but faint again. Not long after he fainted, he had a high fever. Not to mention finding a chance to escape and report the news, even staying awake became very difficult.
Li Jiuzheng quickly discovered that something was wrong with him, looked at him sideways, moved his fingers, and chose to ignore him.
A few hours passed unknowingly, and when the sunlight was the thinnest in the afternoon, the car finally stopped - Li Jiuzheng had arrived at his destination.
Shi Jin was forcibly awakened, and got out of the car with weak hands and feet. At Xiao Si's reminder, he looked forward with his swollen and dizzy head, and was so scared that his heart almost stopped beating - Li Jiuzheng actually brought him to the cemetery. What was he doing? Killing people to silence them? Destroying corpses and traces?
"New Year's Day is a good day for worship." Li Jiuzheng said in a flat tone, waving his hand to signal the driver to wait outside the cemetery, and pulled Shi Jin into the cemetery.
"Fifth brother, why did you bring me here..." Shi Jin was pulled forward, his throat hurt and his eyes were blurry, and he walked very stumblingly. If Li Jiuzheng hadn't been pulling him, he would have slipped to the ground.
Li Jiuzheng heard his hoarse voice, almost inaudible, and looked at him sideways. He stopped, took out a few pills, fed them to his mouth, and said, "Take it, you can't faint now." Shi
Jin didn't force it, and obediently opened his mouth and swallowed the pills dry. He took a deep breath and tried to cheer himself up, and asked again, "Fifth brother, where is this place?"
Li Jiuzheng continued to drag him forward and replied, "The place where my mother is buried."
"What? Bury your mother... cough cough cough cough." Shi Jin spoke too quickly and was accidentally bitten by the pill stuck in his throat. He immediately bent over and coughed continuously.
Li Jiuzheng was forced to stop, turned his head and looked at him with his eyes down, and the hand holding his arm slowly tightened, and his expression became a little scary.
"Jin Jin, the progress bar has risen again, it's 910." Xiao Si was panicking, always feeling that something was wrong with Li Jiuzheng's condition.
Upon hearing this, Shi Jin hurriedly held his breath and suppressed his cough, his throat choking uncomfortably for several times, he looked up at Li Jiuzheng, signaling him to continue moving forward and not to worry about him.
It must be said that Shi Jin's current appearance is really pitiful, his complexion is terrible, his lips are bloodless, his cheeks are a sickly red due to high fever, his hair is limp, the hospital gown he casually put on last night is very ill-fitting and hangs loosely, his coat is worn in a mess and is stained with blood, and his wrists exposed outside the clothes are full of traces of frozen blood vessels, you can tell he is very cold just by looking at him.
Li Jiuzheng looked at his current appearance with a dazed look in his eyes for a moment. After he came back to his senses, his expression suddenly became gloomy. He stopped talking, grabbed him tightly and strode towards a corner of the cemetery.
Shi Jin followed staggeringly, but he didn't dare to talk to Li Jiuzheng anymore. He only communicated with Xiao Xin in his heart: "Li Jiuzheng's mother died? Why didn't the original plot mention this!"
Xiao Si was also surprised by this, and replied hesitantly: "Maybe it's because the original plot was written from the perspective of the original owner. The original owner didn't know about this, so it wasn't mentioned in the plot."
Shi Jin felt bitter and said painfully: "Such important information is not mentioned. The plot is too tricky. No wonder I just asked Li Jiuzheng why he was not at home with his family during the New Year last night, and the progress bar soared. It turns out that his most important family member has passed away. My question really hits the heart."
Xiao Si was very anxious. He was more worried about his physical condition than the plot, and said, "Jin Jin, you need to receive follow-up treatment and have a good rest. You can't delay it any longer."
"Of course I know, but now we don't have the conditions for treatment and rest..." Shi Jin glanced at Li Jiuzheng who was dragging him forward with big strides, and said with difficulty, "And Li Jiuzheng's attitude is really weird. I always feel that I can learn something from him... Let's see the situation first, I can still hold on."
Xiao Si had no choice but to add a bunch of buffs to him, hoping that he would feel better and hold on a little longer, secretly praying in his heart that Lian Jun would come soon.
The two of them followed each other and walked for a long time before they arrived at the grave of Li Jiuzheng's mother. Afterwards, Li Jiuzheng pushed Shi Jin to the still new tombstone, reached out and touched the photo on the tombstone, and said, "Look at her, take a good look."
Shi Jin was pushed so hard that he almost bumped into the tombstone. He supported himself on the ground with his hands and barely managed to stabilize his body. His knees rubbed against the ground and it hurt so much that they must have broken the skin.
He frowned and endured the pain, and he changed his posture to sit in front of the tombstone instead of kneeling. He looked up at the photo that Li Jiuzheng pointed at, and then he was stunned - Li Jiuzheng's mother actually didn't look like Li Jiuzheng at all, but had some similarities with his eyebrows and eyes.
No, not that they don’t look alike at all. If you look closely, there are still some similarities between Li Jiuzheng’s mother and Li Jiuzheng, such as the facial contour and the shape of the lips, but just these eyebrows…
“Not alike, right?” Li Jiuzheng bent down, put one hand on Shi Jin’s shoulder, touched the photo on the tombstone with the other hand, and looked at the gentle and beautiful woman in the photo with Shi Jin, and whispered, “Obviously, I am her child, but I don’t look like her at all. On the contrary, it’s you… She dreams of having a child who looks like her. You say I should give you to her, okay?”
… Bullshit!!!
Shi Jin was startled back to his senses by this sentence, and his mind was full of random words - it turned out that Li Jiuzheng’s deep murderous intention towards the original owner all came from such a hellish reason. Who would have thought that Li Jiuzheng’s mother would actually look like the original owner!
But doesn't the original owner's face look very similar to the original owner's mother? How come it looks very similar to Li Jiuzheng's mother? Xu Chuan and Rong Zhouzhong clearly said that the original owner looks like his mother... Wait! The original owner looks like the original owner's mother, and now the original owner has some similarities with Li Jiuzheng's mother. Doesn't this indirectly prove that the original owner's mother and Li Jiuzheng's mother also look very similar...
Some very important information was about to jump out of his mind. Shi Jin was about to think carefully, but suddenly his neck hurt. He lowered his eyes and found that Li Jiuzheng actually took out a surgical knife and put it on his neck, and gently rubbed a small cut. All thoughts in his mind immediately disappeared.
——This time he is really going to die!
Xiao Si collapsed and screamed: "Go! The progress bar has risen to 990! Do something!"
Shi Jin was about to collapse. Do something, what can he do in this situation! It would be better to just kill himself with a knife and end it all! Li Jiuzheng is simply a madman, how can such a dangerous person be a doctor who treats and saves people!
Wait, doctor?
Shi Jin suddenly had an idea, and with the idea of gamble everything on his life, he raised his hand and held Li Jiuzheng's hand holding the scalpel, and said seriously: "Brother, don't use this, and don't do it here. The scalpel is used to save people. Don't dirty your hands because of me."
Li Jiuzheng's hand froze, and his tone suddenly became heavier. He said coldly: "Do you think I will let you go if you say that?"
"I just hope you can let yourself go!" Shi Jin replied quickly, trying to relax and lean against him, and glanced at the time of death of Li Jiuzheng's mother on the tombstone. He had an idea in his mind and said softly, "Brother, over the years, you have had countless opportunities to kill me, but you never did it. You don't want to kill me, right?"
Li Jiuzheng didn't say anything, nor did he push him away. He looked at the tombstone with deep emotions in his eyes that were difficult to discern.
The wound was a little uncomfortable because of the pressure. Shi Jin frowned, but still tried to keep his tone steady. He slowly leaned sideways and tentatively put his arms around Li Jiuzheng's waist. Xiao Si added a bunch of buffs to himself and his voice became lower: "Brother, I know you just felt sad because you just lost your mother, so you acted impulsively... You could have spent the New Year with her this year, but you suddenly lost her before the New Year and lost the chance to spend the New Year with her forever."
Li Jiuzheng's hand on his shoulder suddenly tightened and his body tensed up.
Shi Jin hurriedly pushed himself into his arms, hugged him tightly, and took the scalpel out of his hand, stroked his back soothingly, and continued: "Brother, I am the same as you. I am also alone this year, and it has been so many years. I don't even know what my mother looks like or where she is buried. I don't even have a single memory of her in my mind. Brother, I only have you guys left..."
Li Jiuzheng didn't say anything. He tightened his hand holding the scalpel, then slowly relaxed, and pursed his lips.
"Brother, let me accompany you. We can celebrate the New Year together like before. It will all pass. It's okay. It's okay now." Shi Jin continued to soothe him, letting Xiaosi increase the various buff effects to the extreme.
"...What are you?" After a long time, Li Jiuzheng finally spoke in a low voice with a hint of sarcasm. His hand holding the scalpel slowly dropped down, and his body relaxed. He sat down on the ground as if exhausted.
Xiaosi reminded him in surprise: "It's down, down, the progress bar has dropped to 950!" Shi Jin
breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the plan of selling his life to seek recognition worked, he quickly lay down in Li Jiuzheng's arms, rubbed his shoulder soothingly, and continued: "Brother, if you really feel bad, just cry, I'll accompany you."
Scientific research shows that hugs and emotional venting can quickly soothe the emotions of emotionally traumatized people. Shi Jin only hopes that after Li Jiuzheng vents so much, he can reduce his murderous intent towards himself.
However, Li Jiuzheng did not cooperate with him. Although he did not push away his embrace, his emotions slowly calmed down. His eyes showed the same aloofness and indifference as at the beginning. He said, "Only waste would cry. I'm not waste."
"..." Shi Jin suddenly regretted not watching more emotional talk shows before and learning the hosts' tear-inducing skills.
The progress bar was still very dangerous, and Li Jiuzheng's murderous intent was obviously not completely gone. Shi Jin weighed the current situation and said considerately and obediently: "Then I will cry for you. Anyway, I am not powerful at all. I was too young when my mother died, and I don't know if I cried. Now we are brothers in distress. If you can't cry, then I will. It's okay. The younger brother will always be the warm little cotton-padded jacket of the older brother." After that, he let Xiaosi add some buffs to himself, and he burst into tears with a twitch of his nose. The tears flowed as if they were free, and soon Li Jiuzheng's shoulders were wet.
Li Jiuzheng: "..."
"Wuwuwuwu, a child without a mother is like a grass, we are all grass..." Shi Jin cried and couldn't help singing, and rubbed his snot all over Li Jiuzheng's clothes.
Li Jiuzheng, who was a bit of a germaphobe, froze for a moment, raised his hand and pushed him out in disgust.
Shi Jin was crying so hard, how could he let him push him away? He stretched out his hand and strangled his neck, hugging him tighter, howling and stabbing Xiao Si in his heart: "What kind of buff did you add? Why do I feel so uncomfortable in my heart, I want to cry down the Great Wall to vent."
Xiao Si said weakly: "I, I added the buff that Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall..." Shi Jin
: "...Ah, ah, ah."
The north wind blew, and the sun gradually set.
The two brothers sat in front of the tombstone, one with his hands hanging down, looking at the tombstone expressionlessly, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled, and his eyes suppressed and forbearing; one hugged the other and cried so hard that the sky collapsed, as if he would not stop until the sky collapsed.
Some people who came to sweep the graves saw this scene and couldn't help but imagine a bloody drama of life and death. They sighed a few times and walked away shaking their heads.
After more than an hour, Shi Jin's crying finally weakened. Dehydration, high fever, hunger, and all kinds of negative conditions entangled him. His consciousness gradually became a little fuzzy. Because of the cold, he couldn't help but curl up his limbs and curl up in Li Jiuzheng's arms as much as possible.
"When she met Shi Xingrui, she was just an innocent girl under 20 years old."
Li Jiuzheng suddenly spoke, his voice soft but emotionless. Shi Jin's drowsy consciousness was pulled back a little, and he tilted his head and rubbed it against his chest to show that he was listening.
"She was the last woman Shi Xingrui had an affair with... that was the case before your mother showed up. Although Shi Xingrui abandoned her immediately after I was born, she still had fantasies in her heart - you see, your father still cares about you, and he hasn't looked for other women, so maybe he will come back someday... It was these ridiculous ideas that made her perfect those imaginary fantasies, and then gradually indulge in them." Shi
Jin opened his eyes, a little dazed.
"But fantasy is just fantasy after all. Your mother appeared, and her fantasy was shattered... Then she came up with another dream - you see, that woman looks a lot like me, your father just lusted after young flesh. It doesn't matter, when she gives birth to a child like me and her body becomes deformed, your father will realize who is the best one... But your mother is special, and you are special too." Shi
Jinqiang propped himself up and looked up at Li Jiuzheng's expression.
Li Jiuzheng lowered his eyes to look at him, expressionless, raised his hand and touched his face: "Then she went crazy, in the truest sense of the word. She began to wake up and sleep in between, not believing that she had been abandoned. She ignored the existence of your mother, and willingly believed that you were also his child. She blamed me for all the reasons why Shi Xingrui didn't come to see her - because I didn't look like her or Shi Xingrui, so Shi Xingrui hated me and abandoned her. Later, she even suspected that I was taken away by the wrong person. Isn't it ridiculous? I was right in front of her, but she thought that you, whom she had never seen, were her child."
"Brother..." Shi Jin felt sad when he heard this. He wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know what to say.
"Genes are really a strange thing. There were many things I couldn't understand back then, so I studied medicine." Li Jiuzheng blocked the lower half of Shi Jin's face and only looked at his eyebrows, his eyes gradually becoming dazed. "Later, I understood a lot. I knew why I was not like my parents, and I knew that she had dreams like that because there was something wrong with her body. I tried my best to treat her and carefully maintain her mental state... Then Shi Xingrui died, he finally died, and I thought she could finally wake up from her dream..." "
Brother, stop talking." Shi Jin raised his hand to pull his hand, trying to stop him from talking.
Li Jiuzheng put down his hand, his expression completely blank: "But she died, she woke up from her dream, she didn't even have the last bit of will to live, no matter how I tried to keep her, she still died, right in front of me, she even blamed me before she died, asking why I didn't look like her." Shi
Jin quickly grabbed his hand again and said, "Don't blame you, she's just sick, brother, it's all Shi Xingrui's fault, your mother is just sick, don't blame you."
"I almost made the same mistake as her and had the same dream as her - if you had never been born, it would be great, if you were really her child... But what does this have to do with you, you are just a child who lost his mother..." Li Jiuzheng slowly pulled out his hand, and built a thick wall in his eyes, hiding all his emotions inside and preventing others from entering, "Shi Jin, you go."
Xiao Si exclaimed in surprise: "It's dropped! Jin Jin, your progress bar has dropped directly to 500! It's incredible!" Shi Jin was stunned
, then frowned fiercely, looked at Li Jiuzheng and said: "Fifth brother, I won't leave, don't think too much, life will get better."
"Go ahead." Li Jiuzheng stopped looking at him, picked up the scalpel on the ground, and suddenly looked towards the path not far away, saying, "That man is here to pick you up, right? He came straight here after seeing you... Go ahead, I don't want to see you again." Shi
Jin was stunned, and looked in the direction he was looking, and saw a familiar figure sitting in a wheelchair coming towards him from the end of the path. His eyes lit up, and he instinctively got up and wanted to go over to him. He just took a step and quickly took it back, bent down and snatched the scalpel from Li Jiuzheng's hand, pulled him up from the ground, and said, "On the first day of the New Year, we worship our ancestors. Now that we've finished worshipping, it's time to go back and continue celebrating the New Year."
Li Jiuzheng frowned, stood up and reached out to grab the scalpel in his hand, saying, "Give me back the knife."
"No, it's mine." Shi Jin simply stuffed the scalpel into his pocket, grabbed Li Jiuzheng's hand, and pulled him towards Lian Jun, saying, "I told you I'll stay with you. Both of us brothers have lost our parents, so it's good to spend the New Year together. Let's go home and I'll make you dumplings."
Li Jiuzheng stood still: "In Chengdu, we don't eat dumplings during the New Year."
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