Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Fang Shimian went to the monitoring room...
When Fang Shimian arrived at the monitoring room, Xu Long was already there. He looked very annoyed. When he saw Fang Shimian, he stood up suddenly, stared at him for a while, frowned, and asked, "Did you offend anyone recently?"
He himself felt strange when asking this question, because in Xu Long's impression, Fang Shimian was the most cowardly person, most afraid of conflicts with others, and always played the role of the good guy who got bullied.
It seems that he can forgive anyone who bullies or wrongs him.
How could such a person possibly cause trouble?
Xu Long racked his brains but couldn't figure out who Fang Shimian had a conflict with, and who he had offended so much that he was not allowed to rent a house.
Fang Shimian handed one of the two meals in his hand to Xu Long, sat down, ate while thinking, and said slowly: "Maybe it's because I beat someone up on the bridge last time."
He didn't ask Xu Long why he suddenly asked him this question, but just answered honestly according to the procedure.
Xu Long's eyes suddenly widened and he cursed loudly, extremely surprised and incredulous, "You?"
He pointed at Fang Shimian and asked, "You said you hit people?"
"Although you, Brother Long, have eaten pig feed, you can't really treat me like a pig, right? You're so small, how can you beat someone up!"
Xu Long forced a few laughs, wanting very much to treat this as a joke.
Fang Shimian had no intention of joking at all and nodded very seriously.
Xu Long's smile froze on his face.
Gradually I couldn't laugh anymore.
He must have been bullied outside.
Fang Shimian's fight caused a huge shock to Xu Long's inner world.
It’s like a piece of paper that is so weak that it will be blown away by the wind if you let go of it, but suddenly one day it tells you that it is the Thanos who saves the world.
He also showed off his muscles generously.
Xu Long looked at Fang Shimian in silence. The brat finished his rice and drank milk as if nothing had happened. "Didn't you go to rescue someone that day? Why did you get into a fight with him?"
Fang Shimian lowered his head, fiddling with the straw with his hands, and looked up after a while and said, "Because there is a misunderstanding."
Xu Long got angry when he heard this. He wanted to scold Fang Shimian for not finishing his speech, but then he changed his mind. There are so many good people and good deeds, but Fang Shimian's publicity method this time was special. There was no complete surveillance video. The official account reposted a brief video taken by a passerby, and the report was also very brief...
"You, fighting against several people alone?"
Xu Long sat down, looked at Fang Shimian's still intact limbs, and sighed, "Why didn't you call me? Don't you know that your brother Long is best at fighting?"
"I'm not kidding about the Sanda I've learned these years." He waved his fists in the air twice, "See? I'm not pretending."
Fang Shimian flattened the milk carton and threw it into the trash can. After thinking seriously, he answered, "I was in a hurry at the time and didn't have time to call you."
Xu Long was half-believing and half-doubting. He slowly picked up the dinner that Fang Shimian had presented to him as a gift and looked at it.
Oh, it’s takeout from Yipinlou.
"Don't worry about the house, I'll find it for you."
"Go sleep at my place for the time being. I'm too fat, so you'll have to sleep on the sofa."
Fang Shimian tidied up the operating table, tied the bag and placed it next to the trash can. He remembered that he had signed the contract and had not yet transferred the rent to Huo Zhongshan.
"I have a place to live."
Xu Long's eyes widened, as bright as the high beams of a large truck at night, "Nonsense! How come I didn't know?"
"It's in this neighborhood. The landlord is someone I know. He said he couldn't rent out the place. The contract has already been signed."
"This neighborhood? Yunjin? Can't rent it out?" Xu Long yelled like an explosion. "No, that's not right. There's something fishy! You have to live with me."
“But I signed the contract.”
Xu Long asked; "How long did it take to sign?"
Fang Shimian lowered his head and fumbled around on the operating table.
"You didn't read the contract!" Xu Long was convinced, "How much is the rent?"
Fang Shimian also realized something was wrong at this moment, "Same as before."
Xu Long cursed, "You have bad intentions... You are not allowed to live here. You have to live with me. You can live on the sofa. After get off work, I will buy you a curtain to cover that place. You can just treat it as your room."
Fang Shimian nodded obediently.
Xu Long was still a little angry at first, but when he saw Fang Shimian cooperating so well, he calmed down immediately, as if he had been poured with a basin of water. "Okay, it's settled. I'm going to sleep now."
There was a display screen on the monitoring wall that was burned out during the circuit maintenance last night due to a sudden power outage during the maintenance process, resulting in the real-time monitoring of the entrance and exit of the underground garage and the entrance hall not being able to be played on the monitoring wall.
Fang Shimian marked the repair information in red, hoping that the display screen could be replaced quickly. Otherwise, the monitoring room would not be able to notice whether there was congestion in the garage in time, and would easily receive calls from the owner to scold them.
After dealing with issues with several owners, it was already past ten o'clock. Fang Shimian suddenly saw a message from Zhu Ze an hour ago on the WeChat logged into his computer.
Zhu Ze: [You and Huo Zhongshan went to Anhe for a physical examination? ]
Zhu Ze: [Why didn't you want to go when I asked you to?]
Fang Shimian put his hands on the keyboard, hesitated for a moment, and closed the page.
In the second half of the night, Xu Long took over Fang Shimian's sleeping position, but Fang Shimian tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. He kept thinking about problems in his head, which made his head hurt, but he couldn't control it.
When I close my eyes, I see some very bad images.
I didn't feel a little sleepy until after seven in the morning. Before I could turn off my phone, a strange yet familiar phone call came in.
Fang Shimian didn't make any notes, but he knew the number by heart.
His heart started pounding. Maybe it was because of staying up late or being emotional, his vision went dark. His hands were shaking as he picked up the phone, "Dad..."
The familiar voice came out of the electric current and became unfamiliar, "Come to Oasis Bay, I have something to tell you."
Fang Shimian sat up and wiped his face with his hands, "Now?"
"What else? Do I need to make an appointment to see you?"
The call was hung up unexpectedly. Fang Shimian held the phone in his hand for a long time, lost in thought. The familiar roar of the machine made him feel uneasy for no reason.
Fang Guohong's words that day still seemed to linger in his ears. He said that even if Fang Shimen died outside, it would have nothing to do with the Fang family. He even bluntly severed the father-son relationship and would never see each other again.
Although Fang Shimian didn't know his father's intention, he was extremely nervous. He knew that his father already had a new family. The house in Oasis Bay was well decorated. Fang Shimian had been there once and was very happy at that time, thinking that it was his home...
Xu Long's original plan to buy bed curtains was temporarily put on hold. Fang Shimian had to go to his father's house, so he could only buy them in the afternoon. In fact, he was even more shocked when he heard Fang Shimian say that he had a father. He initially thought that Fang Shimian was an orphan, a poor child who had barely finished high school and had no place to go.
However, Xu Long always kept his distance from other people's family affairs. After listening to what Fang Shimian said, he planned to go back to sleep first.
Fang Shimian was worried that something urgent might happen, so he told his manager and left work half an hour early.
Oasis Bay is located in the suburbs of Hai City. It is very secluded, with a large forest to isolate the city noise. At that time, you had to have purchasing qualifications to buy here. On the surface, it was welfare housing provided to teachers of nearby schools, but in fact it was a clearly priced transaction for the powerful, because Hai City's high-tech zone was very likely planned in this area.
When Fang Shimian arrived at the gate of the community, the live-in nanny came down to pick him up. The nanny looked very kind. Although she didn't say much, she immediately took the fruits and flowers from Fang Shimian's hand and told him not to be too restrained.
When the nanny opened the door and led Fang Shimian in, the first thing Fang Shimian saw was Fang Guohong sitting in the living room, smiling happily and bending over to play with the child.
Hearing the noise, he looked up and saw his eldest son standing at the entrance like a wooden stick. He frowned and coughed, his expression unnatural.
The woman sitting on the sofa also turned her head at the right time, smiling brightly and saying, "Xiao Mian is here, come and sit down."
Fang Shimian stood there motionless. He looked at the baby waving his arms and legs, his heart dead silent.
It has been exactly eight months since his parents divorced. The child in front of him must have been born during Fang Guohong's marriage. No wonder he was in such a hurry to retire, no wonder he didn't dare to say how much he loved him, and no wonder he said so decisively that he would never see him again.
"Come here, I have something to tell you." Fang Guohong was best at dealing with his cowardly eldest son. He stood up and his tone sounded extremely serious.
Fang Shimian walked in front of Fang Guohong almost subconsciously, with all his senses numb.
There was an open tea room facing the French window in the living room. Fang Guohong stood there and poured himself a cup of tea and drank it slowly. He was too lazy to beat around the bush with Fang Shimian and got straight to the point: "I heard that you have been very close to those people from the Huo family these days. Is that true?"
Fang Shimian said slowly: "I have met him a few times, but we are not familiar with each other."
"That's not what I heard, Fang Shimian. Don't lie to me. You know what will happen to you."
Fang Guohong stared at his eldest son who was too scared to look up, and his disgust grew stronger. "I know you are good friends with the young master of the Huo family. Your Aunt Zhou has a brother who graduated from graduate school this year and wants to work at Anhe Hospital. Go and help him say hello. I'll give you the kid's phone number later. Ask him to go to work after the deal is concluded."
Fang Shimian didn't answer.
"By the way, it's best to stay here in Hai City, or go to the main hospital." Fang Guohong put down the teacup, "Okay, there's nothing else to do, you can go now."
Aunt Zhou said, "Hey, why don't you stay for dinner?"
"I don't agree." Fang Shimian suddenly said, "I don't. I don't have the ability to do it."
The air froze for a moment. Fang Guohong never expected that his son would one day go against his wishes. When he understood the meaning of those words, his body reacted even faster than his brain could think.
"Bang!" Fang Shimian turned his head and heard a loud noise beside his ears. His face felt numb at first and then extremely painful, as if someone had poured a basin of hot oil on him. His jaw and ears also felt sharp and stabbing pains.
The smell of blood slowly flowed out of his mouth. It had been a long time since he had been beaten like this. Fang Shimian thought he should have forgotten the feeling of fear, but it turned out to be engraved in his bones.
Tears rolled down from his eyes, but when Fang Shimian looked at Fang Guohong, there was no pleading or fear in his eyes, only bottomless emptiness and indifference.
Half of his face was numb and itchy with pain, but he still said, "I won't go."
The baby in the living room was frightened and started crying. Aunt Zhou quickly hugged the child, looked at Fang Guohong reproachfully, turned around and carried the child into the bedroom.
Fang Guohong lost face as a man in front of his son whom he despised the most. He wanted to beat this unfilial son to death and shouted angrily: "I raised you for so many years, but you didn't study well, and now you can't even do a small thing! What's the point of giving birth to you!"
Fang Shimian swallowed the blood and lowered his head as usual, "It's useless to raise me."
"Are you going to do this or not? It's just a matter of words!" Fang Guohong grabbed Fang Shimian's hair and looked into his eyes, as if he wanted to defeat his indifference and reveal his previous cowardice and fear.
Fang Shimian also looked at him, his eyes fell on his chest, and he shook his head slowly and stiffly.
He is not afraid.
How can I not be afraid?
Fang Guohong, realizing this, was like a completely enraged wild beast. He kicked Fang Shimian a few times, then picked up the broom that his aunt had placed next to the floor-to-ceiling window and started beating him madly.
Fang Shimian stepped back almost out of habit, accidentally tripped over the little doll and fell to the ground.
There was no sadness or disappointment on his face, but numbness and indifference. Although his tears were still flowing uncontrollably, he made no sound.
Fang Guohong had a good reputation outside. Even though he was implicated in a corruption case, he managed to escape unscathed. However, he had never had any patience for Fang Shimian.
He hated that marriage, hated the negative comments his wife made about him, and hated the many pressures put on him by the outside world.
Fang Shimian is stupid and has no opinion of his own. No matter how talented or good-looking he is, or whether he has a good personality or not, Fang Guohong can always find enough reasons to vent all his bad temper on him and give full play to his violent side.
Many times, he may not be a father, or even a person.
Even though he would realize at some point that he was being cruel, the habit had already been formed, and he maintained his proud dignity as a father, unwilling to look back or face his own mistakes.
He always felt that Fang Shimian would forgive him.
But now, he wasn't so sure.
He watched Fang Shimian slowly stand up and look towards the tea table without looking away.
At the end of my sight is a palm-sized utility knife.
Fang Shimian walked over step by step, and until the moment he picked up the knife, Fang Guohong's trembling and shocked eyes fell on Fang Shimian's face, "You, what do you want to do!"
The blade with cold light was hanging in front of his eyes. The boy was having difficulty breathing. Beads of sweat rolled down his temples along the tears that had not yet dried. There was a dead silence in his eyes. Even Fang Guohong thought in a trance that his retribution had finally come.
But he said, "Kill me."
The most cowardly son who was most afraid of pain was talking to him with a knife in his hand.
"If you hate me so much, just kill me."
It was a very calm tone, without any trace of heart-wrenching emotion.
"Let me die, it's that simple."
The knife handle was stuffed into his hand. Fang Guohong lowered his head, but only saw his son's hands trembling with pain.
"From now on, we owe each other nothing."
No one owes anyone anything.
Fang Guohong couldn't believe it. How could Fang Shimian say this?
He dropped the knife and stick in his hands, and seemed to have aged in an instant.
"You, what nonsense are you talking about..."
He didn't like his son, but he didn't want him to die.
Eighteen years have passed, and there are still some warm memories left.
After Fang Guohong retired from the position of dean, he was rehired as a university teacher, but his words were basically no longer effective.
When you really calculate it, his new wife's salary is higher than his, which sometimes makes him feel uncomfortable. After a lot of effort, his wife asked him to do something, but he couldn't find a suitable relationship. Then he heard that his son was close to the powerful people in the Huo family, and that's when he started to have ideas.
He was also certain that his son, who adored him so much, would never reject him.
"Don't kill me, okay." Fang Shimian lowered his eyes to look at the knife, wiping the blood from his mouth. "Then... now that we've finished talking, can I leave?"
It is a question, and it is not.
The connection between this father and son had always been maintained unilaterally by Fang Shimian. Now that Fang Shimian had completely given up on family affection, he severed the connection himself and no longer held out any expectations.
Fang Guohong seemed to sense something. He felt uneasy and said subconsciously, "I have an ointment for bruises and injuries..."
Fang Shimian turned around and walked out without looking back. When he left, he saw that the fruits and flowers he brought were placed together with the garbage at the door by the aunt and were not brought into the house at all.
In fact, I no longer feel sad about these things.
He was always very tolerant.
The sky was dark and the continuous drizzle was bitingly cold. Fang Shimian walked in an unfamiliar neighborhood. He felt pain all over his body, but the pain did not kill him. It just tortured him.
He felt an itch on his neck, so he reached out and touched it. It felt wet and sticky. He opened his hand and saw blood on his fingertips. The blood was stained by the rain and flowed through his fingers. Fang Shimian wiped it dry on his pants.
There was still a long stretch of sparsely populated road after he walked out of the community. No one took the taxi order. He was just thankful that his legs were not broken, otherwise he might not even be able to walk out of Oasis Bay. Fang Shimian felt pain in his back. Every step forward, every breath seemed to be affected, and even his internal organs were in pain.
It is painful for a useless person to live.
The dark-colored supercar sped past Fang Shimian, but then slowed down at a bend not far ahead, slid a distance, and then stopped by the side of the road.
Fang Shimian deliberately walked further inside. There was only one road on this highway and he was the only one walking on it. He didn't want others to notice his embarrassment, so he could only walk slower to make his walking posture look less weird.
But things did not go as planned. When Fang Shimian was passing by the car, he was suddenly stopped. The person in the car saw that he did not stop and honked the horn.
Fang Shimian pretended not to hear.
Zhou Yu frowned in the car. He hated all disobedient creatures. He placed one hand lazily on the steering wheel. On a rainy day, he was even more reluctant to take the time to get out of the car to pull a stubborn donkey.
I simply zoomed in and took a few photos with my mobile phone, and even recorded a five-second video. After sending the location to the unreliable boss, I stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
Fang Shimian breathed a sigh of relief after the vehicle drove away and slowed down his pace. The rain was getting heavier. Fortunately, he had walked out of the most remote area of Oasis Bay. The pain was becoming more and more obvious, and breathing also caused great pain.
Maybe he's going to die.
Fang Shimian thought so and simply changed the destination of the taxi.
When Zhou Yu became worried and turned back to look for someone, the road was already empty.
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The rain and fog caused great trouble to vehicles traveling at high speeds. The weather forecast on the mobile phone issued a heavy rainstorm warning. There was heavy rain under the thunder and lightning. Pedestrians hiding under the eaves to avoid the rain could be seen from time to time on the city roads. No one expected that the rain would come so violently.
"How come we can't find anyone!" It was rare for Huo Jun to act so angry in front of his subordinates, but in fact, the real target of his anger was not the innocent subordinates who were incompetent, but Huo Zhongshan, who was sitting in the main seat with a stern face.
After those people left, Huo Jun leaned back in his chair irritably and asked in a cold voice: "Why don't you install a positioning system for him?"
No one responded.
"I'm asking you, why don't you install a locator on him?!"
Huo Zhongshan showed such a strong interest in Fang Shi Mian that he did not keep him under absolute surveillance. Huo Jun could not understand it, and for the first time, he felt a strong dissatisfaction with this respected second brother.
He can’t even look after one person...why can’t Fang Shimian be his?
If there was a positioning device, we could catch the injured rabbit immediately. Why would we waste time here waiting for people to check the surveillance?
There was surveillance footage of Fang Huaimian getting into a car, but it was a rainy day and there were few people on that stretch of road. The surveillance equipment was old, and the person and the car were far apart, so they couldn't be identified at all.
You have to know that when he saw the video sent by Zhou Yu, some time had passed. When he sent people to Oasis Bay, no one was there. He also sent people to Fang Shimian's rental house and Yunjin monitoring room to look for him, but without exception, he was not there, and the hospital did not have any medical registration information.
Zhou Yu is not a good person. He didn’t even know how to take him back when he saw him. It’s a pity that he still has the pendant designed by Fang Shimian around his neck!
The door of the president's office was not closed. The young bodyguard pushed the door open and walked in expressionlessly. "The taxi was heading south. We got on the highway at 10:11 and stopped at Yangliu Town."
"My name is Songshan." Huo Zhongshan frowned slightly, his eyes were cold and his brows were downcast. He stood up and strode out.
Seeing Huo Zhongshan's confident tone, Huo Jun hurriedly followed him, with a puzzled look on his face, "Mountain? You mean Fang Shimian went to climb a mountain in this heavy rain with injuries all over his body?"
Three black off-road vehicles sped out of Hengshi's underground garage. The roar of their engines was like sharp arrows that could break through the rain curtain, tearing the earth apart amid roaring thunder.
It was rare for the two brothers of the Huo family to sit in the same carriage. Huo Jun had too many questions. No one would go up the mountain in such horrible weather. He was afraid of finding the wrong place and losing a lot of time and experience. He kept asking and probing along the way, but it was a pity that Huo Zhongshan had a cold personality to begin with, and now his face was even colder. He always adhered to the principle of being frugal with words and was unwilling to say much to him.
Heavy rain hit the car windows as we drove to Yangliu Town. The first off-road vehicle stopped on the side of the road, and two minutes later a middle-aged man in a bright red raincoat got on.
The Huo brothers were in the second car. Huo Jun saw the people in the bodyguard's car in front of him and subconsciously glanced at his second brother in disbelief, "You even hired a tour guide?"
Huo Zhongshan looked out the window, his brows stern and his eyes indifferent, as if he was keeping people at a distance. It was obvious that he did not want to communicate with Huo Jun.
The car started to go up the mountain. The off-road vehicle was large and the mountain road was narrow. When it rained, the originally dry mud on the asphalt road was washed away by the rain, which was a test of the driver's skills. However, the higher we went up the mountain, the more difficult it was to drive. There was no cement on the back section of the road, and it was muddy after the heavy rain. The advantages of the off-road vehicle's high chassis were also reflected, and the journey was relatively smooth.
The car in front stopped at a bend.
The bodyguard got out of the car and said that the car could not go up the last section of the road and they had to get out and walk, and he suggested that the employer change his shoes.
Huo Jun was not in the mood. He lowered his head and fiddled with his phone. He asked his subordinates to check Fang Shimian's consumption records again and try to contact the driver again to find out the situation.
Huo Zhongshan threw a pair of sneakers in front of Huo Jun, glanced at him with a cold face, and finally said the first words since he went up the mountain.
"Fang Shimian bought a cemetery on this mountain."
Cemetery, who did you buy it for?
Fang Huaimian's parents are divorced and have remarried, so he doesn't have any close family members.
Thinking of this, Huo Jun suddenly raised his head and in a flash had a terrible guess. However, Huo Zhongshan had already closed the car door and followed the bodyguards up the mountain.
The road is difficult to walk on, with deep grass and much mud. It is easy to slip if you are not careful. It is very dangerous to slide down this kind of slope because there is a large blind spot. Fortunately, there are many trees planted along the path, which can provide support from time to time.
Huo Jun's hair was wet, his hands and feet were covered in mud, he had never been so miserable in his life. He thought that if Fang Huaimian really came here, he would definitely be beaten on the butt by Huo Zhongshan.
It's really annoying that it makes people worry so much.
Even if Huo Zhongshan could resist taking action, he would still find a chance to teach that stupid rabbit a lesson.
Stupid guy.
The man in the red raincoat climbed in front, and the heavy rain made his mumbling unclear.
"He has great potential. He can earn two hundred thousand at such a young age."
"Poor thing, he said his grandparents loved him... it's a pity he died."
"How could he be here in such heavy rain?"
"But I did hear that someone pulled someone up on a tricycle today and got two hundred dollars."
"He is young, maybe an orphan. He asked me to collect his body and gave me 10,000 yuan for the burial fee... I said it is unlucky for young people to talk about these things, he said..."
"The feng shui here is good. If I reincarnate in my next life, I will definitely be alone."
The two brothers of the Huo family became more silent as they listened, and their expressions became uglier.
It was raining so heavily, but there was no wind in this forest. Raindrops dripped from everywhere, along the tree trunks, along the leaves, and onto this land that nourishes all things. The noisy sound of rain here was even more ethereal.
"We're here. Over there, come and have a look."
The middle-aged man was unwilling to go forward when he reached a low step. He tightened his raincoat around himself, pointed in a direction, hunched over, raised his hand, lit a cigarette, and looked down the mountain.
The bodyguard walked ahead in the direction indicated, but they stopped after climbing over a small hill. They turned their heads to look at the employer who had already walked in front of them. Their eyes were quite complicated and solemn, and they seemed to be hesitant to speak.
No one could watch this scene without feeling any emotion.
silence.
Next to the two adjacent graves is a small mound without a tombstone.
The middle of the crude earth mound was slightly sunken and covered with a few large banana leaves. The pale-faced boy huddled quietly among the leaves. His bloated and old down jacket covered part of his chin, and his whole body was covered with mud.
Next to the mound there was a pool of mud washed away by the rain.
He may have tried to dig his own grave, but he had no strength left, so he lay here and fell asleep.
The trees around the grave had been cut down, and the heavy rain just fell directly on Fang Shimian. He clasped his hands in front of his knees, like a baby in the mother's womb, warm and safe.
He walked here step by step, not because of the desire to live, but because of the unshakable will to die.
I don’t know how he managed to run up here by himself in such cold and bad weather. I don’t know how many times he fell and how much suffering he endured.
I don’t know how long he stayed here as a child all alone.
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