Chapter 72 He probably doesn't want to live anymore.
That day, Qin Qiao and his friends were tricked by the shop owner and couldn't find Gate 35 at all. When Officer Ma arrived and took them to question the shop owner, the owner disdainfully turned the tables and said, "I just didn't think you were good people."
Since there were no witnesses, physical evidence, or even surveillance footage showing Chen Jiashu in the car, the police could only infer the situation based on the locations where Lu Jianguo's son had been driving around for the past 30 days and the route he took on the day of the incident. Without any concrete evidence, they had no choice but to stop in front of Lu Jianguo's house.
The next afternoon, Officer Ma received a search warrant from the county public security bureau, and he and the local police station officers entered the house to search, but found nothing.
That evening, the gate of Lu Jian's house was brightly lit, and about a hundred villagers surrounded the gate, demanding that the police and the family members who advocated the search apologize in person for their reckless behavior.
Qin Qiao refused to apologize, which angered the public. Just as they were getting into a police car under police protection and preparing to leave, the villagers suddenly rushed over and overturned the seven-seater van.
Back at the local police station, Officer Ma told them that in many villages, the villagers' sense of unity is beyond imagination, especially in remote mountain villages. Dozens of households in a village may belong to the same clan, and they are united against any external threat. From one person to a hundred, unless there is irrefutable evidence… Officer Ma advised them not to risk entering the village again until they found the Lu brothers, otherwise it could escalate the conflict and put themselves in danger.
On the third day, based on the coordinates of the watch provided by Chen Cheng, Officer Ma found professionals who went down to the bottom of the cliff and found the watch, which was turned off and had a broken dial. Fortunately, Chen Jiashu was not found at the bottom of the cliff.
Chen Cheng told Qin Qiao that the emergency contact for the watch had been added to two email addresses. The system found that Chen Dong's health data showed abnormal fluctuations at 5:20 pm on February 3, and emails were sent to these two email addresses respectively.
She recognized it as Zhu Ao's email address.
As Qin Qiao was pondering, Tian Jiayue, who was sitting next to him watching the screen, recognized him and suddenly raised her voice: "President Sun's email!"
The wind rustled as his phone rang. Zhu Ao had just seen off a major client. He waved goodbye and waited until the car's taillights disappeared into the night before answering the call.
"Qin Qiao, is there any news about Jia Shu?"
Yao Man was walking towards Zhu Ao when she heard the name "Qin Qiao," and she paused, stopping on the first step.
After hearing what was said on the other end of the phone, Zhu Ao's brows furrowed even more deeply. When the other person finished speaking, his face was filled with self-reproach.
He put down his phone and quickly swiped the screen, the faint white light illuminating his thin lips.
Before the call ended, Zhu Ao said, "It's in my... spam folder... I don't know how this happened? Maybe the system automatically identified it as an unknown email..."
"Have you found Jia Shu?" Zhu Ao's voice trembled just right. "If it weren't for the fact that several of the group's projects are at a critical stage... but if something goes wrong, there would be even less way to explain it to him."
The understanding voice of Qin Qiao came through the receiver: "There is no news yet... Zhu Ao, you need to take care of the group. The overall situation needs someone to stabilize it."
With a flick of her red lips, Yao Man switched her purse to her other hand, then hooked her arm around Zhu Ao's, playfully pressing her index finger lightly against his waist, and whispered in his ear, "Let's go home."
Zhu Ao nodded emphatically, "Okay, don't worry, I'll handle it as soon as possible."
The call ended, and Zhu Ao frowned. The light under the rain shelter illuminated his reddened eyes and the large patch of water glistening on them.
The hand holding the phone lingered on its surface.
Yao Man wanted to say something, but seeing Zhu Ao's expression, her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly closed her red lips.
The two of them were drinking and celebrating last night. Chen Jiashu is definitely not coming back, but now he looks like this... Yao Man can understand this man less and less.
...
Qin Qiao put down her phone, raised her hand to rub her temples, and felt that the light was too bright and dazzling.
She closed her heavy eyelids and rested for a while.
"President Sun, please don't come, please don't come. With my brother away, the company's affairs, big and small, still need you and President Zhu to oversee them..."
“Yes, my sister-in-law is with me…” Tian Jiayue glanced at Qin Qiao, who was watching her, “Then let’s leave it at that for now, you should get some rest.”
After hanging up the phone, Tian Jiayue told Qin Qiao that when the watch sent the email, Mr. Sun was on a flight to Frankfurt. He, who never missed an email, had somehow missed it that day. Upon learning that Chen Jiashu had been missing for ten days, Mr. Sun was filled with remorse, apologizing repeatedly and offering to help with the search.
"Mr. Sun... is he and Jia Shu on good terms?"
Judging from Tian Jiayue's account, Mr. Sun was very anxious after learning of Jiashu's disappearance, which suggests that the two had a close relationship.
"Sister-in-law, you know Mr. Sun."
Tian Jiayue saw herself clearly in Qin Qiao's slightly dilated pupils: "My brother used to call him Brother Sun. Didn't you two see each other often back then?"
Sun Gang...
It's really unexpected that Attorney Sun was poached by Jia Shu.
Before their divorce, Chen Jiashu would always bring her along whenever he met with Sun Gang. Although the two were more than ten years apart in age, they got along very well. Sun Gang was the quintessential elite lawyer, speaking with substance and without any of the frivolousness often associated with empty talk.
It makes people willing to believe.
Having not slept well for several days, Qin Qiao fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow that night. She dreamed of Sun Gang, back when they first met fifteen years ago. He had suffered a car accident that resulted in comminuted fractures of both legs, and he was sitting in a wheelchair, unshaven, looking utterly dejected and lifeless.
Chen Jiashu took her there, saying he wanted her to help a friend with "talking".
"You like Boss Chen? Is it because he's handsome and can make money?" Sun Gang asked her with hostility.
"You have a lot of insight into 'liking'?" she asked, finding it odd.
“You women are all the same. You value a man’s ability to make money. Once he loses that ability… you’ll throw him away like trash.”
At that time, Sun Gang was in a very bad mood because he was diagnosed that he might never be able to stand again and his newlywed wife had left him.
She said, "It's only human nature."
Receiving a disdainful, mocking look from Sun Gang, she continued calmly, "In this world, some people leave because of reality, and some stay because of love; it's all human nature... But if you trap yourself in resentment, you're only trapping yourself..."
Sun Gang was speechless after hearing her words. Much later, Chen Jiashu told her that her "talking" had been very effective; her family members said they no longer locked themselves in their rooms and were willing to go to the hospital for rehabilitation.
Later, Chen Jiashu was robbed and injured by a group of people. Zhang Shuang was furious and went to seek revenge, seriously injuring one of them. It was Sun Gang who helped him and secured the lightest possible sentence.
“Brother Sun is an upright and impartial person, like a scale that only recognizes facts and the law. I admire him very much.”
Whenever Sun Gang is mentioned, Jia Shu always speaks highly of him; he genuinely admires this man.
*
The door was pushed open from the outside, and the brilliant sunset shone brightly on the concrete floor. Zhongqin, carrying a bowl full of food, limped across the light and shadow.
She placed her rice bowl on the table and glanced at the bowl of rice that had been delivered at noon, which remained untouched, as did the water in her teacup.
Zhong Qin turned her gaze to the man on the bed who had his eyes closed and seemed to be asleep.
The room wasn't bright, but his skin was extremely pale, and because he had been injured a few days ago, his face was even more bloodless, as white as a very thin piece of porcelain, as if it would shatter at the slightest touch.
Zhongqin sighed for no reason; this person probably didn't want to live anymore.
To prevent the police from finding him, Old Wu, who ran the shop, consulted with the village chief and then had several people hide him in the back mountain, where they kept him for two days and two nights. An older woman went in to check on him; he was unconscious, his head covered in blood, and no one was providing him with medical treatment.
The village chief's meaning was, if we can't survive, then so be it.
When they went to check on him again on the third day, he had woken up, so the uncle went to pick him up.
At noon that day, the man asked her, "What time is it now?"
She said, "Eleven o'clock."
But he can't hear.
Zhongqin came up with an idea. She went back to her room, took out an old book that she no longer needed, and used a ballpoint pen to poke words on the paper. With a try-it-and-see attitude, she showed it to him to touch.
The man's fingers were long, slender, and fair, exceptionally beautiful. Using "beautiful" to describe a man seemed odd, but she couldn't think of any other word.
She pulled his index finger and placed it on the word, circling it twice with her fingertip. He read it aloud: "Eleven o'clock?" He then asked, "Is it daytime or nighttime?"
She "wrote" down: Daytime.
After the man finished touching the words, for some reason, he seemed to be suddenly greatly frightened. His body trembled violently, and the notebook slipped from his hand and fell to the ground with a "thud".
After that, the man stopped eating and drinking, and this has continued for two days.
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