45 "You returned to Rongcheng to check on me, right?"
At 11:30 that night, Wen Dongyang was driving on a winding mountain road in the suburbs. When he turned, a speeding truck from the opposite direction rammed straight into him.
The car was pushed out of the guardrail and lay crookedly on the edge of the cliff. Because the accident happened in a remote area, it was discovered by passers-by more than 40 minutes later. When the police and emergency medical staff arrived at the scene, Wen Dongyang was already unconscious.
He suffered intracranial hemorrhage and skull fracture, and was given a critical illness notice as soon as he entered the operating room.
He Yu was the first person to get the news. When he rushed to the hospital, Wen Dongyang's parents and Huang Zheng were also there.
"Why would he go so far?"
Huang Zheng remained calm and looked at He Yu, remembering that Wen Dongyang had sent her a message before leaving get off work.
She was stunned when she received the call from the police, and she climbed out of bed with unsteady steps. It was so sudden that her heart rate, which had suddenly tightened, had not yet fully returned to normal.
He Yu glanced at her and was about to answer when the police arrived.
Lu Yuan had just returned from the scene of the accident. After Wen Dongyang's accident, his nerves, which were already tense due to staying up late, were suddenly tightened. For this reason, he followed the traffic police to carefully inspect the scene again, and confirmed that the driver was taken back to the police station. Only after finishing the work at hand did he have time to come to the hospital.
Lu Yuan had a bad feeling due to his innate sensitivity in his profession, but when he saw Wen Dongyang's parents with tears in their eyes, he chose to comfort the two elders first, and only got back to work after the atmosphere around them stabilized.
I went to the stairwell at the end of the corridor with He Yu, and only started asking him about the situation after closing the door.
"He was with me in the evening and arrived at my house around nine o'clock."
He Yu recalled carefully and looked at the time. "It should have been less than half past ten when we left."
The alcohol in his body dissipated quickly on the way here. When a person wakes up, he will inevitably feel pain. His good brother's life or death is uncertain. At this moment, he even began to regret why he did not stop him from leaving.
Even if I had just asked one more question or delayed a little longer, I might have been able to avoid the situation. But life is like a storybook that likes to drop unexpected surprises. You never know where the turning point will come from.
"Did he tell you what he was going to do before he left?" Lu Yuan thought of Wen Dongyang's condition in the afternoon. He was in a good mood and didn't look like anything was wrong.
"No, he said he had to go out for something." He Yu frowned and quickly added, "But when he left, he was looking at his phone. It seemed like there was some news."
Lu Yuan frowned. He hadn't found Wen Dongyang's phone. It wasn't in the flattened car, on the road, or near the cliffs, and it wasn't on him either.
"Has he behaved abnormally recently?"
Just as Lu Yuan finished speaking, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the door.
They both thought something was wrong, so they opened the door and saw Tao Wangjia who had rushed back from Jingping overnight.
She looked exhausted, her coat was wrinkled, and her bare face made it even more obvious that she had two obvious dark circles under her eyes.
He Yu felt a sudden pang of pain in her chest, as if she had witnessed countless days and nights of her pursuit of the truth in this very scene. Of course, he wasn't much better off now than she was. The two of them stared at each other like they were looking in a mirror. Tao Wanjia glanced at her and quickly looked away.
"Officer Lu, is it convenient for me to talk to you alone about the situation?"
Before He Yu could think about how these two people knew each other, Lu Yuan said when he turned around: "Then Mr. He, please go out and wait for me first."
Tao Wanjia passed by him with an indifferent look as if he didn't know him at all.
He walked out and watched the stairwell door close.
Time passed minute by minute. He Yu stood in the corridor where the incandescent lights were always on, looking at the operating room and the fire escape on this side.
He was very confused and started to care about time for no reason. Twenty minutes later, Tao Wanjia pushed open the door and came out.
She didn't look at him this time. Even though he was standing at the opposite wall, she didn't even pause and went straight to Huang Zheng.
Huang Zheng's state wasn't exactly panic-stricken, but it was almost. Because she had experienced a major trauma, Tao Wanji knew that she would uncontrollably recall the past at this time, so when he saw her arms shaking, he hugged her immediately.
"Don't worry, it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay."
Tao Wanjia stroked Huang Zheng's trembling hand again and again.
She had lost all feeling in her limbs. All she could think about was the bloodied face of Wen Dongyang before he entered the operating room, and the fire. She had ignored attempts to rush into the blaze, watching firefighters carry people out on stretchers. Amidst the acrid smoke, the bodies of Tao Zhiyong and Liu Sulan were lowered to the ground.
But the moment Huang Zheng moved forward, she felt like vomiting. She didn't dare to look and couldn't look. The white cloth stained by smoke was covering the body. She wanted to reach out her hand but couldn't lift it. She felt like most of her soul had been taken away. She trembled and cried, completely forgetting everything, and couldn't even feel the scorching flames in the distance.
At that time, she also felt that she had stepped into hell. It was Tao Wanjia who calmly pulled her away from the scene, through the crowd and into the smelly public toilet outside the family building.
In the dark, enclosed room in midsummer, flies were flying everywhere and the smell was pungent. The two of them pushed each other away, hugged each other and cried loudly, taking deep breaths and then exhaling deeply.
After so many years, Huang Zheng had to experience this kind of pain again. She couldn't hold back her tears until her face turned blue and purple. She gradually calmed down under Tao Wanji's comfort.
I covered my face and didn't want to make a sound, as waves of hot tears washed over my skin.
At four in the morning, after the operation, Wendong Yang was sent to the ICU.
The doctor said that the patient's life was saved, but the severe intracranial injury may affect some brain functions and cause a vegetative state. Whether he can wake up in the future depends on the follow-up treatment.
Upon hearing this, Wen's parents' legs weakened, and they were supported to barely stand. They were both ordinary people, and when faced with natural disasters or man-made calamities, they would simply think of fate as unfair. However, this car accident was actually full of doubts, and the young people standing nearby more or less had some idea of it.
Since they were in the ICU and couldn't be visited, Tao Wanjia suggested sending them home first after comforting the two elders. It would be a real hassle to stay in the hospital, so taking care of their health was the most important thing. He Yu watched her like a spinning top, trying to comfort Huang Zheng and persuade Wen's parents, so he asked Xiao Zhang to drive them home first.
Lu Yuan was ready to leave soon as the investigation team still had a lot of things waiting for him to deal with, but before leaving, he called Tao Wanjia aside and gave him a few instructions.
"I will apply to the bureau for protection at the hospital and try to get as many people as possible to protect it. Dongyang's case will also be investigated as soon as possible."
He lowered his voice, caught a glimpse of He Yu's gaze behind him, and asked doubtfully, "Do you know Mr. He?"
"My childhood neighbor." Tao Wanji glanced back and said in a cold tone, "Not very familiar."
"Be careful. If you need any help, you can contact me." Lu Yuan handed over a business card. "This phone is open 24 hours a day."
Tao Wanjia thanked him, watched him leave, and then returned to Huang Zheng.
She refused to leave the hospital and didn't want to go even if she couldn't see Wen Dongyang. Tao Wanjia's persuasion was useless. In order to reassure her, he had to listen to her and go back to accompany Huang Shengsheng.
Walking out of the hospital building, He Yu stood at the entrance of the steps under the starry sky and the approaching bluish-white light of dawn.
"Let me take you back."
He walked over to her, and the smell of alcohol on his coat wafted over with the wind.
Tao Wanjia finally met his eyes. She was extremely tired after running around all night, and her words became sharp unconsciously.
"You reek of alcohol, do you want to take me home or to the police station?"
She didn't have the energy to care about his self-destructive behavior. After realizing that her tone was bad, she took the keys from him and turned around to get into the car.
He Yu's brain stopped working after hearing her words. It was not until she honked the horn that he realized she wanted to go with him. He opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat, worried that the remaining smell of alcohol on her body would leave a gap in the car window.
"Close it."
Tao Wanjia suddenly said, "It's very cold."
He Yu subconsciously reached out to touch her forehead. It was almost May and even though the temperature was low late at night, it wasn't that cold. However, before his fingertips could touch her, Tao Wanjia suddenly stepped back.
She dodged his hand.
"I'll take you home first. I also need to get something."
His heart was in his throat for a moment, and He Yu slowly withdrew his hand as she spoke.
He actually had a lot to say. He wanted to ask her where she had been and what she had been doing these past few days, and he also wanted to ask her about Wen Dongyang, but those words kept rolling in his mind along with the questions, and in the end he suppressed them.
We arrived home in silence.
Tao Wanjia went straight to her room after entering. She had left in such a hurry a few days ago that she had forgotten something, and she couldn't find her spare recorder no matter how hard she looked. She had been busy with undercover investigations these past two days and hadn't found time to buy one, so she thought she'd come back to look for it.
She always had a special feeling for items she'd used for a long time, especially when they contained her previous information. After searching around, she found it in the cracks of the mattress and put it into her backpack.
She went downstairs and prepared to leave, and He Yu suddenly grabbed her hand before leaving.
"What have you been busy with lately?"
He had already taken off his coat and seemed to have changed his shirt. The smell of alcohol had vanished, replaced by a faint aroma.
Under the chandelier, Tao Wanjia noticed a barely noticeable wound on his jaw. Without bothering to answer, he pointed with his finger and asked, "How did you get this?"
"fine."
He Yu avoided her gaze and decided to speak after hesitating for a long time.
"You left home these days to go to Huang Zheng. Was it to accompany her or to avoid me?"
He couldn't directly tell her everything he had discovered, so he could only ask her in a roundabout way. Although the alcohol had worn off, He Yu was still slow to realize that the concentration in his blood was only now taking effect.
Although, he looked extremely calm at the moment.
"What a messed up question!" Tao Wanji's brows twitched, and he forced a smile as he looked at him. "Why should I hide? It's not like before."
After saying that, she leaned closer to his face and breathed softly on the wound, "Does it hurt?"
This was her method. After she realized it, she didn't want to answer and continued to hide it.
The two of them stood very close, so close that He Yu seemed to be able to kiss her mouth if he just lowered his head. But at the same time, he felt extremely far away, because the person in front of him was no longer her.
To be more precise, there is a river with undercurrents between them.
He was not a fool, how could he not see it? Even without the traces she left in the study, he would have been able to notice it, because they knew each other too well. Even after being separated for so many years, their reactions to things were almost the same as before.
He was just worrying over nothing. He knew the truth but couldn't convince himself to act as if nothing had happened.
He Yu avoided her affection and stepped back.
"Tao Wanjia."
His voice was cold and his heart was tearing with pain.
"You returned to Rongcheng to check on me, right?"
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