Secret Past (10)
Jiang Yingying shuddered and tried to run back, pulling Qu Qing, but was stopped in her tracks by Li Ming's cold words.
"You are still on the mountainside. If you take a few more steps, you will fall down. If you fall, you will either die or become disabled."
Li Ming's voice was unusually cold. If Jiang Yingying had not heard and seen it with her own eyes at noon, she would not have believed that the man who confessed to her at noon was the same man standing in front of her now.
There was a cliff behind her and Li Ming was pressing forward in front of her. In panic, Jiang Yingying gritted her teeth and stood in front of Qu Qing. Although her voice was a little shaky, it was very firm.
"Li Ming, I beg you to let us go. We won't tell anyone, and we won't look for anyone after we get down the mountain!"
"We just want to live. Please let us go. I beg you!"
It was dark at night, and Jiang Yingying couldn't see Li Ming's expression clearly. She could only tell from the sound of his footsteps that Li Ming was approaching them step by step.
"Li Ming, I beg you..."
Li Ming seemed to have stopped, but Jiang Yingying could sense that he was still standing in front of her. Li Ming didn't say anything. After a rustling sound, there was a snap, and a strong light came on, illuminating the surroundings and also piercing Jiang Yingying's eyes.
Jiang Yingying stood in front of Qu Qing, blocking most of the light. She stretched out her hand to block it for a while, and then moved her hand away after her eyes adjusted. Li Ming's face, covered in rain and blood, hit Jiang Yingying's eyes straight.
Li Ming's expression made Jiang Yingying feel unfamiliar. She knew that Li Ming's hands were stained with human blood, but when she really faced Li Ming like this, her legs couldn't help but go weak.
This "brother" whom I have known since I was ten years old, the man who was proposing to me just a few hours ago, is now trying to kill me.
Wait, a proposal?
Jiang Yingying calmed herself down and spread her arms to block Qu Qing and Zhu Zhi completely.
"Li Ming, let them go, and I'll go with you!"
"I'll agree to what you said to me this morning, but you let them both go!"
After hearing this, Qu Qing could no longer sit still, but with Zhu Zhi on her back, she couldn't free her hands, so she could only speak anxiously.
"No! How could you! He is..."
Jiang Yingying tilted her head and replied:
"No matter what, you two must live!"
Then, Jiang Yingying turned her head back and continued to deal with the expressionless person in front of her:
"Li Ming, if you want me to stay with you, I will. If you want me to marry you in the future, I will."
"But you have to let them go!"
Li Ming threw the flashlight on the ground, and the light illuminated his face from bottom to top. The wound caused by Qu Qing was still bleeding, which was a terrifying sight.
Li Ming stared at Jiang Yingying and chuckled twice.
"It's too late, Jiang Yingying. You agreed too late."
Jiang Yingying became anxious and began to speak faster:
"No! It's not too late. Don't you like me? I promise you now, as long as you let them go, I won't tell anyone about what you did!"
This sentence made Li Ming's eyes move. Jiang Yingying thought her words were useful and planned to press on with her victory, but Li Ming's next sentence brought her to the bottom.
"What we do? What do we do?"
"Didn't you kidnap that boy?"
Li Ming's face was tense, and he raised his foot and walked towards Jiang Yingying again with a stiff tone.
"You know?"
Jiang Yingying was forced to retreat, and Qu Qing behind her also followed suit. Then Qu Qing felt the stones behind his feet falling down, and he was likely to fall down if he took a few more steps back.
Jiang Yingying in front was still struggling, tears mixed with raindrops streaming down her cheeks, her voice trembling as she tried to turn around her desperate situation.
"I know nothing, I know nothing!"
"Let us go! I beg you, Li Ming, I beg you..."
They couldn't retreat any further. Qu Qing and Jiang Yingying were already very close to each other. If they took another step back, the three of them would fall into the abyss.
Li Ming and Jiang Yingying were only half a meter apart. He was facing the light, and Jiang Yingying looked at him, feeling strange in her heart.
"You really do know."
Endless despair invaded Jiang Yingying. She could no longer hold back and buried her face in her hands and cried loudly. Her thin shoulders twitched a little with her movements.
"Please let us go... let us go... I beg you..."
Li Ming did not stop. Qu Qing, who was standing behind Jiang Yingying, seemed to see a silver, metallic luster in Li Ming's sleeves the moment Li Ming walked.
Jiang Yingying was still crying, and suddenly she felt as if someone was hugging her. When she looked up, she found that it was Li Ming hugging her with one hand.
"Stop crying."
Li Ming's expression suddenly softened and became the same as before. Jiang Yingying thought she had finally impressed him and raised her head in his arms.
"I will really promise you, please let them go..."
Qu Qing, who was behind Jiang Yingying, became more and more panicked. She felt that Li Ming would not let them go so easily.
"Okay, I promise."
Li Ming touched Jiang Yingying's wet short hair, his eyes were gentle, and he even curled up the corners of his mouth, while Li Ming's other hand quietly rested on Jiang Yingying's waist.
Qu Qing saw clearly that Li Ming was holding a fruit knife in his other hand!
"No! Yingying, in his hand..."
Before Qu Qing finished speaking, Li Ming stabbed the sharp knife in his hand into Jiang Yingying's waist without hesitation.
It wasn't until she felt a sharp pain that she realized what had happened. She touched her abdomen in disbelief and felt some warm liquid.
When she put her hands together again, they were covered in blood.
"Li Ming...you..."
"I like you, but that doesn't mean I will give up everything for you, Jiang Yingying."
"You are too naive. You know everything. There is no way I will let you live."
Li Ming pulled out the knife, blood dyed the tip of the knife red, then he pushed hard with one hand, pushing the three people into the cliff.
Everything that happened afterwards was like a dream. Jiang Yingying, Qu Qing and Zhu Zhi fell down the cliff. In Jiang Yingying's eyes, Li Ming, who was standing on the edge of the cliff, gradually turned into a small dot and finally disappeared completely from her sight.
The falling process was very painful. Jiang Yingying felt as if she had hit many trees, with severe pain coming from all parts of her body, and her head also hit some rocks.
It hurts so much.
She felt she had never felt so much pain before.
She felt a dull pain in her head and legs before she lost consciousness, and finally she fell into complete darkness.
Jiang Yingying didn't know how long she had been unconscious. She thought she was going to die, but she unexpectedly woke up from a series of slaps.
The moment she regained consciousness, the immense pain in her body was too much for her to bear and she almost fainted again, while the person in front of her was still patting her face gently and talking non-stop.
"Little girl! Wake up!"
"Ouch...how did you get hurt like this!"
Then, she vaguely heard someone helping her up and stumbling to a place where there was no rain.
"Oh! Why is your stomach still bleeding? What a sin! Why does it look as big as my sweetheart..."
"Never mind, I'll take you to the hospital first..."
Jiang Yingying didn’t know what happened next, and her thoughts returned to darkness again.
A long time passed, so long that Jiang Yingying thought she was really dead. She slowly opened her eyes again. The dazzling sunlight took her a while to adapt before she could see clearly what was in front of her.
The tidy and clean room, the white bed, the smell of disinfectant in her nose, and the ticking sound of medical equipment beside her ears made Jiang Yingying realize that she was in the hospital.
The pain, along with her loss of consciousness, made Jiang Yingying groan. She tried to turn her head, but found something around her neck, forcing her to lie straight on the bed. She could only glance around and found herself in a triple room. There were people lying on the beds next to her, but she couldn't see who they were.
Where was Qu Qing? Where was Zhu Zhi? Were they...were they still alive? How had he been rescued?
After she fainted, it seemed like someone woke her up, and from the voice...it seemed to be a woman?
Jiang Yingying lay in bed, trying to recall the scene. The clock in front of her turned a circle, and the nurse on rounds noticed that she was awake and hurriedly called the doctor.
The doctor came to examine her and told Jiang Yingying that she had been in a coma for ten days.
One early morning ten days ago, a woman in her thirties drove hurriedly to the hospital emergency room and said that she found three girls seriously injured at the foot of the mountain.
Jiang Yingying was diagnosed with the most serious injuries, suffering multiple fractures, a dislocated arm, a moderate concussion, and a dislocated arm. Qu Qing and Zhu Zhi were similarly injured, but had one less stab wound to their abdomen.
Normally, falling from such a high mountain would result in death or disability, but there were many trees that provided cushioning, and the three people were rescued.
The knife wound on Jiang Yingying's abdomen was obviously man-made, so the doctor decided to call the police.
A female police officer rushed to the hospital and took a statement from the middle-aged woman. The middle-aged woman said that she went to the mountains to visit the grave of her deceased daughter that day. When she came down the mountain in the evening, she wanted to rest for a while. As a result, she woke up in the early morning. The car had not driven far when the middle-aged woman found three girls in the grass on the side of the road.
Since the three girls were still asleep, the policewoman said she would come back after they woke up, and the hospital staff nodded repeatedly.
When the three people were rescued, they did not have their ID cards or other items, so the hospital had to entrust the police to investigate who the three girls were. Naturally, this matter fell on the shoulders of the female police officer.
Since there was no identity information, the registration was done by a middle-aged woman.
Hearing this, Jiang Yingying thought, does this mean that Li Ming and the people behind Li Ming cannot be found for the time being?
"If we had come any later, you would have died from the wound on your waist. Luckily, she was at the foot of the mountain, so you were rescued."
The middle-aged woman also paid for their medical expenses during their coma. Hearing this, Jiang Yingying couldn't help but feel grateful.
"So...will she still come to the hospital?"
The doctor nodded. "She also said at the time that if any of you wake up, you should contact her first. I just called her and she should be here soon."
Jiang Yingying lowered her head and grabbed the quilt, and replied, "Thank you, doctor."
After the examination, the doctor found that Jiang Yingying had recovered well, but she still needed to be hospitalized for observation for a while. He left the room and let her have a good rest.
The nurse helped Jiang Yingying raise her bed so that she could sit on it. She gently turned her body and looked to her side, and found that the two people lying next to her were Zhu Zhi and Qu Qing, which made her feel at ease.
Great... all still alive.
Jiang Yingying waited for an hour, and the door of the ward was opened again. A female police officer and a middle-aged woman in plain clothes walked in.
The middle-aged woman had a kind face. She sat beside her bed and asked her how she rested, whether she still felt any pain, etc. Jiang Yingying knew that the person in front of her was her savior, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
The woman in the middle noticed her entanglement and embarrassment, and softened her tone and said:
"Little girl, don't be nervous, just call me Aunt Lin."
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