Chapter 84

Yan Yan blurted out: "Be careful!"

The accident happened too fast, he only had time to pounce on Jiang Ting's ankle, and hugged the stone pier at the same time, instantly stopping Jiang Ting's tendency to continue to slide out.

But in the blink of an eye, one and a half of the three people who were originally on the river bank were suspended in the air, all the weight was tied to Yan Xun's hand holding the stone pier, and it was frozen in a close call.

"I'm a liar...but only one sentence deceived you." Jiang Ting was overwhelmed by the weight of Bu Wei's falling, and every word was squeezed out of his teeth: "That's the sentence, what is your name? Come to me. Saying it doesn't make sense...it's not like that. From the very beginning, you were just yourself in my eyes, not related to me, and not my shadow."

Bu Wei raised her head, only one elbow was tightly grasped by Jiang Ting's right hand, and the weight of dozens of kilograms made Jiang Ting's blue-white nails deeply dig into her flesh.

"The king of spades lied to you, no matter what he said to you, it was all a lie to you. You are still too young, and you have already distorted a lot of concepts by him before you can see the truth, but as long as you come up... "

Jiang Ting felt that his center of gravity was tilting outward one centimeter by one centimeter. Cold sweat slanted across his cheeks from his temples. His face was blue because he gritted his teeth too hard:

"I'll tell you as soon as you come up, Bu Wei, everything that's happened over the years, all—"

Bu Wei finally reacted, and her gentle laughter came from the wind:

"You might as well wait until the next, and then tell me together."

At this time, the balance had reached the end, and Bu Wei grabbed Jiang Ting's arm with the other hand and pulled him down with all her strength!

Yan Yan lost his voice: "Stop!"

Jiang Ting slid outward under the force, Yan Xun's heart almost stopped beating in an instant, and his mind went blank; by the time he reacted, he had already grabbed Jiang Ting's ankle, and most of his body reached out. In time, Kankan stopped the momentum of weightlessness——

Immediately after, Bu Wei fell straight into the river from a dam several meters high like a kite with a broken string!

Pfft!

The splash of water was reflected in the depths of Jiang Ting's pupils.

He was completely suspended above his waist, and the wind on the river was howling, making it impossible for people to balance, and even the protruding stones on the riverbank could not reach. Jiang Ting stood upside down, gasping for two breaths, and suddenly shouted, "Yan Yun! Let go!"

Yan Yan gritted his teeth and cursed: "You fucking..."

"Let go!" Jiang Ting's hoarse voice changed his tone: "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hide you!"

Yan Yan was stunned for a moment, Jiang Ting suddenly pushed his hand away, and in the gap faster than the blink of an eye, the whole person fell into the river with Bu Wei!

"I am!"

Yan Yan's scolding came from the bottom of his heart, and it was more real than 24K real gold. He got up quickly, took off his trousers and shoes twice, without thinking about anything in his mind, he jumped out across the river bank!

The river water rushed towards his face, slamming into his eardrums in an instant.

Yan Yan spewed bubbles to the surface, took a deep breath, and another fierce man plunged into the river and swam forward with all his might.

Fortunately, it was midsummer, the river was not too cold at night, and Yan Yan was swimming very fast; after a while, he felt the water flow in front of him was turbulent, so he stepped up a few steps and rushed forward. Sure enough, he reached out and ran into someone.

——It felt like Jiang Ting was clearly in the shape of his hand.

Although Yan Yan was a mixed bag when he was a child, he was the only son of the richest man. In order to prevent him from encountering a kidnapping plot, he still received the necessary skills training such as diving, racing, and survival in the wild. Jiang Ting's swimming skills are not bad, but his water skills are definitely not as good as that of a semi-professional like Yan Xun.

"Huh...huh..." Yan Yan's soaked shirt pressed against his chest muscles, and as he panted violently, he forcibly dragged Jiang Ting to a pebble beach at the bottom of the river bank, pinching his chin and arching his face left and right I took several shots. The force was not heavy, but it was not light either. Jiang Ting couldn't help it, and finally spit out several saliva from his throat.

"Cough, cough!..." Jiang Ting leaned over the rough pebbled beach, his face full of embarrassment, and was wrapped into his arms by Yan Yan, who was sitting opposite him.

"Are you crazy, this kind of water dares to jump down in the middle of the night?!"

"I caught her in the water just now," Jiang Ting said hoarsely, coughing, "just a little bit, just a little bit..."

Yan Yan patted him on the back hard.

"She has money of her own and told me that she plans to go south to work. I guess she will contact the king of spades in the future. Although she will definitely not be able to contact her, she might be able to catch Jin Jie and more accomplices under her... ...I didn't expect her to directly..."

Whether it was emotional or lingering fear, Jiang Ting was wet and cold, shaking violently. Yan Yan grabbed his palm tightly and let him rest most of his weight on himself, almost sitting on the bank of the river in a half hug and half hug, only to hear the wind roaring away from the river with the sound of water, Disappeared at the far end of the plain.

"It's useless, it can't be saved." Yan Yan said concisely and forcefully in his ear, "The rescue in the water requires the cooperation of the rescued, but she just wants to pull you to death."

Jiang Ting shook his head and nodded, and after a long time leaned against Yan Yan's fiery arms, barely calming down.

"K of spades." Suddenly Jiang Ting said without warning, his voice still hoarse after being immersed in water: "He is very good at inducing a little anti-social tendency in his nature, or his mind is not fully developed, and he is easily deceived by power. The young man. It was born to him, and he has been gifted in this area since he was a child, not only for Bu Wei, but also for me... also..."

"I know." Yan Yan said in a deep voice, "You and K of Spades are the real first pair of victims in the serial kidnapping case, aren't they?"

Jiang Ting was silent for a long time and nodded.

"Which year did it happen when you were fifteen or sixteen years old?"

"……Do not."

Yan Yan lowered his head slightly, facing Shang Jiangzing's gaze, and saw a short smile from the corner of his bloodless mouth: "It was when I was ten years old, when I first met the king of spades."

Yan Yan was slightly surprised.

He could guess that the two knew each other very early, but he didn't expect it to be so early!

"I was abandoned at the entrance of the orphanage since I was a child, not this orphanage." Jiang Ting raised his chin feebly in the direction of Jiayuan Road in the distance: "It was out of town. The living conditions of everyone in those days were generally poor, and it was a remote rural area. , it's not as popular as it is now to adopt a child. I grew up in a welfare home until I was ten years old, and I didn't study much. I ran around the mountains and wild to play when I had nothing to do. Until one summer evening, I met a man who looked like a A little boy about the same age, dressed very well, playing the violin in front of the water..."

In the early summer evening when the sky was full of red clouds, a well-dressed little boy stood by a small river in the countryside and played the violin.

If this scene is handed over to the big director to shoot, it will definitely be a very romantic, poetic, and maybe even beautiful scene. But don't know why, maybe knowing what happened later, this scene made Yan Yan feel a grotesque chill in her heart.

"I had never seen this little boy in the nearby towns, and I thought it was very rare. I guessed that he might be a young master from a wealthy family. Later, I peeped a lot, and I found that he often played the piano in the abandoned theater, and the sound of the piano was very loud. It sounded good, so I sneaked out of the orphanage, ran several miles to the theater, and hid behind the scenes on the second floor to eavesdrop on his performance."

"I've made friends since I came and went I really thought they were friends at the time." Jiang Ting laughed at himself: "It's all my fault for committing Tai Chi. I've been curious since I was a child, and I can't control my cheap hands."

Yan Yan was holding his hand, the palm of his hand close to the palm of his hand, when he heard the words, he gestured and hit the back of his hand.

"How did the King of Spades introduce himself to you at that time?" Yan Yan asked.

"A child in his 80s or 90s needs an introduction. I can't even remember the fake name he made up later... It should be called Kaikai or Keke. Anyway, I didn't think much about it at the time. I have a new friend, and I sneak out to play foolishly and cheerfully every day. Occasionally, the orphanage can’t get enough to eat, and when I’m hungry, he even brings some snacks for me to eat.” Jiang Ting raised his hand to block himself. face, "Don't look at it."

Yan Yan took his hand away gently but firmly, and looked directly at the pale face: "So when you encounter kidnapping, you will do your best to protect your little friend?"

Jiang Ting buried his head and nodded after a while.

"The king of spades is not a self-made drug lord. On the contrary, his family background concentrated on the three elements of money, background and crime. I also learned later that he was sent to the country because the family was involved in several A big drug lord was fighting each other, in fact, to avoid disaster, but he did not expect to escape the fate of being kidnapped in the end, and he also took me with him."

"...Is the whole kidnapping process the same as Bu Wei and Shen Xiaoqi?" Yan Yan asked in a low voice.

Jiang Ting buried his head in front of his chest. From Yan Yan's slightly higher angle, he could only see the dripping black hair and a small piece of white cheek, which slightly reflected the light of the street lamp in the distance.

"Yes," Jiang stopped for a long time and said sternly.

"At that time, we were trapped in the valley, and he had a high fever. I could only look for water everywhere. I was so thirsty that I coughed up blood and didn't dare to drink it... In fact, I didn't think much about it. I thought that if I died, I should No one would care. But he must be a young master with parents, relatives, and love, like a god. If only one person can live, it is more worthwhile for him to survive."

——A ten-year-old child had such thoughts in his head when he was on the brink of desperation.

Yan Yan has been rough since he was a child, and did not pay careful attention to the so-called gap between the rich and the poor or the class threshold. But at this moment, the self-consciousness and cautiousness of an orphan who came from a mountain valley more than 20 years ago roared through time and hit him heavily.

"Shen Xiaoqi swears to Bu Wei that she will repay her when she goes out. This detail is the same as that year, because the king of spades also said the same. Maybe his original words are more serious than Shen Xiaoqi, what swears that he will always be brothers in this life and so on. It's like a TV series line, but I can't remember it for more than 20 years."

Jiang Ting gave a wry smile, staggered to look at each other, and looked at the sparkling river.

But at that moment, Yan Yan felt what Jiang Ting was thinking - he didn't remember clearly, on the contrary, he always remembered it clearly.

It was because it was so clear that he was even more reluctant to mention it.

"Afterwards, you were still saved?" Yan Yan asked warmly, "The so-called mineral water is..."

"What kind of water, there is no bottle of water at all." Jiang Ting shook his head sarcastically, "The so-called betrayal of Spades K is a metaphor for another thing - after we were trapped for several days, dehydration, high fever and injuries were almost reached their limit. Now, the guys at the K of Spades finally tracked down the valley. At that time, my consciousness was not very clear. I only vaguely felt someone calling 'grab the rope' above my head. I reached out my hand subconsciously, but the K of Spades moved. Faster, he suddenly pushed me from behind, grabbed the rescue rope first, and I watched him get pulled up."

"They left you?!"

"That's not true." Jiang paused and said, "But it did take a long time before the sun went down... Only then did someone pull me up."

It’s an understatement now, but for a severely dehydrated and dying little boy, the joy of welcoming hope and the desperation of a fleeting loss, as well as the ordeal of waiting for hours alone, are beyond the imagination of many adults.

Yan Yan's lips moved, but she didn't know what to say. After a while, she squeezed out a sentence: "That group of people..."

"I don't really want to save me." Jiang Ting said softly, "I know."

The faint moonlight shone through the clouds, reflecting the river, the plain, and the tops of the mountains beyond. Jiang Ting closed his eyes silently, and when he opened it again, he seemed to see a similar night, with the same cold and quiet moonlight, passing through the humble frosted glass windows of the township hospital—

Lying on the small hospital bed, he opened his eyes and saw a familiar figure standing in front of the bed against the light, holding a small handful of wild fruits in his arms.

Neither of the two children said a word, and after a while, the little boy who was standing asked abruptly:

"I pushed you, do you remember?"

"..." Xiao Jiang stopped and nodded.

"do you hate me?"

Jiang Ting thought for a moment and shook his head.

"why?"

The high fever made Xiao Jiang stop speak weakly and hoarsely, and said softly, "Because that is your family. They should save you first, right?"

"..."

"I don't have any family."

The little boy finally moved. He carefully placed the wild fruit in his arms on the head of the hospital bed, then stood on tiptoe and leaned over Xiao Jiangting's ear, his voice soft and firm word by word:

"I am your family."

"From now on, you will share wealth, status and authority with me equally, and you will be my only brother."

The wind swept the earth from the depths of the sky, passing through the mountains and rivers, the plain railroad tracks, and the vast and ethereal lights of the city, blowing a sharp whistle, whirling and flying straight to the end of the horizon.

Jiang Ting shivered slightly, then was hugged into his arms by Yan Yan, pressing his palms against the wet black hair behind his head.

"So you grew up with the King of Spades?"

Although it is a question, Yan Yan's tone is a gentle statement, in fact he is ready to accept any answer.

To his surprise, he felt Jiang Ting in his arms and shook his head: "No. Do you remember I told you that when I was tracing the new fentanyl compound 'Blue Gold' a few years ago, I Abandoned village drug production base encountered the king of spades, and he pointed a gun at the head?"

Yan Yan certainly remembered that that was what Jiang Ting said when they were forced to climb the window and pull out to drink on the night they returned to Jianning from Jiangyang County - but the authenticity is still up for debate.

"That's true." Jiang Ting seemed to see through his mind, and a wry smile appeared in his eyes: "That was the first time I met an adult K of spades after the kidnapping incident 20 years ago..."

"So now you know why after the secret investigation was exposed, he silenced those informants, but agreed to let me go, and even promised to cooperate."

It was raining heavily outside the factory gate, and countless pale blue ghosts flickered in the depths of the darkness. The shimmering light that could not see the end filled the field of vision, as if ghosts were dancing in the eighteenth hell.

"Twenty years have passed... but I have never forgotten you."

There was a vague crash in the heavy rain in the distance, a thud, a thud, and another—it was a gunshot.

Jiang Ting's fingers hanging on his side couldn't stop trembling, but he forced himself to calm down and raised his head slightly, although this action might affect the cold muzzle on his temple:

"Then are you trying to kill me now?"

"No." He heard the K of Spades laughing: "You are my only brother, and always have been. My wealth, status, authority, and all the weird things in the world can be shared with you..."

"Just like twenty years ago, you and I shared the spring water in the mountains and forests, wild fruits, and later that life-saving rope."