Chapter 47 Funeral
He slowly lowered his eyelids and looked at Chen Wan who was a few meters away.
She lowered her head, most of her facial features hidden in the semi-darkness, and her fine hair covered her eyes, making it impossible to see her emotions.
The silent time and suffocating space were stretched infinitely, creating a chasm between the two of them.
Chen Wan recalled the morning a few days ago when she asked Lin Yu to help her find Chen Shan's whereabouts.
His brief hesitation and deliberately restrained emotions turned out to be because he had met Chen Shan before.
Sweat flowed down his eyebrows and fell into his eye sockets. The stinging sensation made Lin Yu close his eyes tightly.
After a brief period of darkness, he saw Chen Wan's clear pupils.
The misty eyes in her eyes hit Lin Yu's heart hard.
Like an island washed away by the waves, the solid cliff suddenly cracked and became fragmented in the chaos.
"Chen Wan, I'm sorry."
He said.
Sorry for not telling you sooner.
If he had said it earlier, perhaps Chen Wan would not have been brought to this place and faced his father's death in such a humiliating manner.
Zhang Jinzhi snorted and chuckled, saying jokingly, "If saying sorry is useful, what do we need the police for? Isn't that what they say in TV dramas?"
"As soon as you left that night, Chen Shan's condition worsened. Do you police officers really need to kill people to silence them? Or do you think people who are no longer useful should die?"
Lin Yu's raised hands gradually clenched into fists, suppressing his increasingly restless breath and looking at Zhang Jinzhi.
In this tense atmosphere, when both sides were at a stalemate, Lin Yu's cell phone, which was in the inside pocket of his coat, vibrated three times rhythmically.
On the way to the cemetery, he told Song Xianzhe that he would be responsible for delaying time. After Song Xianzhe and his men were ready for the ambush, he would send three text messages, using the vibration signal as a signal.
The hill behind the cemetery is surrounded by a circle of lush green pines and cypresses, casting most of the shadows and hiding the light.
Chen Wan kept looking at Lin Yu, observing his emotions calmly.
From the slightly relaxed lines of his brows, I could sense that he was gradually calming down.
The dark undercurrent in his eyes gradually subsided, and he became more relaxed.
She felt relieved for a moment and turned her attention back to her own situation.
The protruding bones at the back of his neck were pressed by Zhang Jinzhi, as if they were put in sticky shackles.
But Chen Wan did not feel the expected pain. As a slight trembling hot flash came from Zhang Jinzhi's palm, her restless mood calmed down a little.
He tried hard to maintain a calm and composed facade, but eventually the mask began to crack.
At the same time, a thought vaguely emerged in Chen Wan's heart that Zhang Jinzhi did not want to kill her.
As he himself said, he just wanted to talk to people and try to find clues.
To confirm the truth that he believes in his heart.
Perhaps because of Chen Shan, Zhang Jinzhi showed mercy to her.
From the moment he appeared, he always gave Chen Wan a strong sense of disharmony.
He used bluffing anger and a cold and exaggerated tone to cover up some deep sorrow.
Her eyes fell on the tombstone and she saw Chen Shan's warm eyes and gentle smile.
Perhaps this smile has really given some people in darkness a faint sense of salvation.
So that he doesn't completely lose his humanity.
"Zhang Jinzhi, it's still not too late for you to surrender now." Chen Wan only exerted a little force and broke free from his hand.
After breaking free from the shackles, she coughed twice, slowed her voice, and spoke with a little more sincerity, "Don't be so stubborn. Before my father went to prison, he told me that if you show up again, he told me not to hate you. He said that since you chose to live in hiding, then live a good life and stop doing evil."
Zhang Jinzhi looked at her, and a layer of turbid water light slowly covered his vision.
Now he has reached a dead end, with no escape or hiding.
But when he heard Chen Wan say, "Live a good life," he immediately recalled that miserable day a long time ago.
He collapsed like a prodigal dog at the entrance of the dirty corridor, and saw the thin and bony back in front of him, which shielded him from the biting malice.
"Don't touch my friend."
Chen Shan stood in front of him and repeated, "Don't touch my friend."
Although his voice was trembling, his posture was resolute.
At that time, he felt that his roommate lived an even poorer life than himself. When he got his salary, he counted it again and again, wishing he could spend it on flowers, and then rushed to the bank to deposit the money.
It’s just a few dollars, is it that important?
But on that day, this poor roommate took out the salary he had saved for several months and saved half of his life.
Zhang Jinzhi said he had no money to pay him back and said he was self-righteous.
When Chen Shan heard the words "not paying back the money", he opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself. After a while, he sighed deeply.
He acted like a goody-goody and said, "It's fine if you don't want to pay it back, but if I can buy your safety with this money, it will offset the loss."
He shook his head and sighed, then continued, "I have to go back to school. How about you take my place at the factory? At least your life won't be safe."
How much money can you make as a flow worker? If you end up living as stingy as him, it will be so degrading.
The poorer you are, the more vain and arrogant you become.
Zhang Jinzhi snorted and ignored Chen Shan.
After a few days, near the end of the month, both of them had no money to pay the rent and were ruthlessly kicked out by the landlord.
Before parting ways, Chen Shan said, "I hope that when we meet again, we can both live the life we want."
Then he left a bag of anti-inflammatory ointment for Zhang Jinzhi, dragged his suitcase, and walked away dejectedly.
He threw the bag of ointment away, thinking that this man was such a fool.
Kind people are all quite stupid.
Even if you suffer a loss, you still say it is accumulating blessings.
Zhang Jinzhi has been struggling at the bottom of the dark society since he was a child. He has seen a lot of dirty malice, but this is the first time he has seen such pure kindness.
Later, when he met Chen Shan again and learned that he needed money, he borrowed a large sum of money, but still failed to save his seriously ill wife.
After that, Chen Shan's life lost its vitality, and he became more and more decadent, like dead branches and fallen leaves in late autumn.
Instead of continuing to disguise yourself with a mask of bluffing, it is better to give up everything in exchange for a clear self-awareness.
Zhang Jinzhi introduced him to drugs, saying that it would make life easier.
But as Chen Wan said, at that time he really thought that he had finally turned Chen Shan into the same kind of person.
He dragged Chen Shan into the quagmire and completely destroyed his life.
Chen Wan saw his hesitation and continued, "You brought me here today, not to kill me, right? So what do you want to do?"
Zhang Jinzhi's hand holding the gun slowly dropped, and his gaze passed Chen Wan and fell on the tombstone.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Yu quickly took out the spare pistol he got from Song Xianzhe from behind, slowed down his pace, and approached Zhang Jinzhi silently.
At the same time, Chen Wan secretly moved back a few steps, trying to create some distance between himself and Zhang Jinzhi.
After the previous struggle, the restraints on my ankles had loosened a lot, and at least it was no longer so inconvenient to move.
"Little policeman, what else did he say to you that night besides giving you the USB drive?" Zhang Jinzhi suddenly looked at Lin Yu, then raised his gun and pointed it at Chen Wan again, "Tell me, or I'll really do it."
The knuckles on the trigger suddenly froze because of Zhang Jinzhi's action. Lin Yu controlled his emotions, looked at him with a calm face, "In addition to the clues to the case, there is also the matter of Chen Wan." After a moment, he paused and said, "Also, Chen Shan said you are his friend."
The pitch-black muzzle of the gun gradually moved away from the sight. Chen Wan's throat moved slightly, and he swallowed a breath, and his tense mood eased a little.
"Friend...it turns out he still considers me a friend." Zhang Jinzhi put down his gun nonchalantly, and his dull laughter hit his empty chest, sounding like the howl of some beast.
He finally got the truth he wanted to know.
In this world, there are still people who truly treat him as a friend.
Seeing that he had let down his guard, Lin Yu's dark pupils gleamed, and he took a big step and rushed forward.
He suddenly reached out to separate Chen Wan and Zhang Jinzhi and pulled her into his arms.
When Chen Wan came to her senses, she was already hugged tightly by him.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt Lin Yu's shoulders trembling slightly, and his disordered breathing lingering above her head.
Treasure it and treat it with care.
Then Lin Yu half covered Chen Wan's face with his coat, and his elbow brushed against her nose. The light scent of grass and trees carried a reassuring warmth.
The distance between them was so close that Chen Wanqing could clearly hear his panicked heartbeat.
She leaned on Lin Yu's heaving chest, slowly stretched out her hand, hugged him, and felt the most direct protection.
Lin Yu bent his elbows and held Chen Wan in his arms, then raised his face, closed his eyes, and tried his best to calm his surging emotions.
The emptiness that had frightened him before was finally filled, and his heart slowly settled down because of the person in his arms.
It turns out that lost and found is such a precious word.
He pulled Chen Wan closer, put his hot palms close to her ears, and gently covered her ears.
Lin Yu lowered his head and looked at her, and warned her word by word, "Wanzi, bite your teeth and let your eardrums bulge, otherwise it will hurt."
Chen Wan was stunned for a moment, feeling Lin Yu's slender knuckles pressing lightly behind her ears, and a hot sensation came over her.
Just like his controlled breathing.
Her heartbeat and breathing became disordered, but she felt calm and at peace.
Because the person in front of him is Lin Yu, whom he has been thinking about.
She held him close, burying herself in the soft folds of his clothes, her eyes lost in a warm dimness.
The senses of hearing and touch were connected, the senses were infinitely amplified, and his steady and powerful heartbeat sounded like an ancient bell, calming all the noise and chaos.
Chen Wan could even clearly picture the lines on his fingertips in his mind.
Then she slowly raised her eyes and saw Lin Yu's smooth jaw, straight nose, and clear eyebrows.
Still like a tree that shelters her from wind and rain.
Lin Yu quickly raised his right hand and fired a shot into the air.
Zhang Jinzhi suddenly turned around and saw that the situation had changed. He was stunned for a moment and his eyes became much sharper.
The detectives who had been lying in ambush for a long time received the signal and cautiously surrounded them from the shadows of the pine and cypress forest.
Holding guns and ready to strike, they completely blocked Zhang Jinzhi's retreat with their actions.
Seeing this scene, Lin Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he hugged Chen Wan even tighter in his arms, without reducing the strength in his hands at all.
Qu Zheng brought two police officers to Zhang Jinzhi and urged him to surrender in a stern tone.
After hiding from the police for so many years, when he was in this desperate situation, Zhang Jinzhi felt a sense of happiness from the bottom of his heart.
He looked at Lin Yu and Chen Wan not far away, and his tense shoulders slowly collapsed like a collapsed mountain after the rain.
"I surrender myself." He dropped the gun in his hand and looked at the photo on the tombstone. After a moment, he smiled softly and said, "Chen Shan, I have brought your daughter to you. There are so many police officers here too. You can finally leave with peace of mind."
After hearing his words, everyone looked at the solemn stone tablet in the sun, silently remembering the man named Chen Shan.
Qu Zheng stepped forward, handcuffed Zhang Jinzhi around his wrist, pushed his shoulder, and said, "Let's go."
Before getting into the police car, Zhang Jinzhi looked back one last time, remembering the tombstone that had become a small black dot in his field of vision.
He whispered, "Have a good journey, my friend."
Chen Wan slowly turned his head and saw this scene, and a speechless sadness rose in his heart.
Perhaps Zhang Jinzhi arranged so many people to attend Chen Shan's funeral just to say this from the beginning.
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