Chapter Ninety-Four: Don't Jump, Big Brother Gives You a Top!
The moment the driver stopped, I hurriedly got out of the car, and the driver followed.
We rushed into the neighborhood and pushed through the crowd, and there was a huge red life-saving air cushion on the ground of the neighborhood at the very front.
The air mattress was inflating, drumming more and more, and there was a commotion all around.
"Young man, don't jump, how old are you, old man, I have lived for more than seventy years, isn't it good. ā
"Child, what should you do if your parents don't have you, don't do stupid things. ā
"It's over, if he really jumps, the housing prices in our community will definitely plummet, especially this building!"
Amid the chatter, I crossed the blockade.
"Comrade, what's the matter, don't come in!" a young policeman stopped my way.
"I, my friend, my friend!" I said impatiently.
With my words, the policeman frowned, and he pointed to the roof of the tall building in front of him: "He's your friend?"
As soon as I heard the policeman's words, I looked up, in the dazzling sunlight, I half-squinted, and then I saw Zhang Lei wearing a vest and shorts, stepping on a pair of sandals, holding a beer bottle in his hand, sitting on the steps of the top floor platform, he was drinking, muttering something in his mouth, and there were firefighters and policemen on both sides of the persuasion.
"Yes, yes, he's my friend!" my heart went to my throat.
"Are you Chen Nan? We were on the phone just now, right?" At this moment, a middle-aged policeman crossed the cordon.
"Yes, it's me, I'm here. "I gasped for air and swallowed two empty mouthfuls of saliva.
"Xiao Zhang, immediately take Comrade Chen Nan to the top floor, maybe he can rescue the jumper. The middle-aged policeman said busily.
"Yes!" the young policeman hurriedly agreed.
"Comrade policeman, I sent him here, and he suddenly drove through a red light when he happened, can he be exempt from punishment?"
"Report your license plate number to me, and I'll call the traffic team. ā
"Okay, okay, thank you, comrade policeman. ā
Under the continuous sound of words, I followed the young policeman across the cordon, into the corridor into the elevator, and when I looked at the buttons, I realized that the building was as high as eighteen floors.
The elevator went straight up to the eighteenth floor, and then the young policeman and I pushed open the staircase door of the hallway and ran up to the rooftop.
As soon as we got to the rooftop, we were stopped by two policemen, and I also saw Lin Qiang.
He walked back and forth anxiously, not knowing what to do, as if he had just tried to persuade and it didn't work.
"Comrade policeman, IāI'll go and persuade him!" I hurriedly spoke.
"Captain Wang, he is Mr. Chen Nan, and he is also a friend of the jumper. The young policeman said busily.
"Brother Chen, hurry up and persuade Lei Zi, this, what's the matter!" Lin Qiang burned his eyebrows, nervously chirping cigarettes.
As soon as I heard this, I walked forward again, but was stopped by Captain Wang.
"Mr. Chen, I'm Team Wang, this is our negotiator, Officer Jiang, Officer Jiang, you and Mr. Chen talk about how to persuade him. Captain Wang introduced himself, and then looked at a man with glasses beside him, that is, Officer Jiang.
"Mr. Chen, usually people who jump off buildings to find their lives, they are under a lot of pressure, they all hope to be liberated through death, they are no longer able to face the world, to face the people they know, do you know what I'm talking about?" Officer Jiang was holding an amplified horn in his hand, and he reminded me earnestly.
"So, what am I going to do?" I anxiously wiped the sweat from my forehead.
"It is difficult to persuade a person who insists on jumping off a building, it is very difficult, unless you can empathize with him, or say that you are worse than him, even more pitiful, more worthy of sympathy, once he can understand you, then he will shake his determination to jump off the building, which is the best way to delay time. Officer Jiang continued.
"I'm worse than him!" I snatched Officer Jiang's loudspeaker.
"W-What?"
"Mr. Chen, don't be impulsive?"
Whoa!
Before a few policemen could stop me, I rushed into the cordon on the top floor platform.
"Mr. Chen!" Officer Jiang shouted.
"Don't come here!" I yelled, stepping closer to the edge steps where Zhang Lei was sitting.
The firefighters on both sides had long since dispersed, their eyes were fixed on Zhang Lei's every move, and they would rescue Zhang Lei if they had the opportunity.
"Leizi, look at me, I'm your brother, I'm Chen Nan!" I turned on the amplified speaker, my eyes moist.
Now I am facing my lifelong brother, this brother saw that I was down, and was willing to sell the car to help me, and he was willing to go to the soup for me to repay me for knowing him back then.
"Chen, Brother Chen, why are you here?" Zhang Lei was dragging a beer bottle in his hand, he turned back in horror, slowly turned around, and stood on the steps.
Looking at Zhang Lei's actions, I breathed a sigh in my heart, and my eyes swept to the soles of his feet.
"Leizi, hurry up and get me down, you're still not a man!" I said in a cold voice.
Whoa!
The sound of the loudspeaker resounded throughout the community, and the originally noisy sound disappeared all at once, becoming silent.
"Brother Chen, don't persuade me, my wife is gone, my job is gone, my house is gone, I don't have the face to see my father and fellow villagers, and I don't have the face to live!" Zhang Lei laughed miserably, he looked downstairs, as if he was going to jump down at any time.
"Are you as miserable as me? If you jump today, I will look down on you for the rest of my life, and you will never be my brother!" I yelled.
"Brother Chen, go back, I've made up my mind!" Zhang Lei continued to speak, and he threw the beer bottle in his hand down.
"Not good!"
With a crunch of crackling bottles touching the ground, I can imagine the crowd starting to disperse.
"Isn't it just that the wedding was messed up? Isn't it just that my wife ran away? Isn't it just that I lost my job? Leizi, you look at me, you look at me!" I pointed at Zhang Lei.
"Chen, Brother Chen, I'm really a failure, I don't want to live anymore!" Zhang Lei burst into tears.
"What are you failing? My wife cheated, Duoduo is not biological, I went bankrupt doing seafood, I lost my job, my wife is still fighting with me for family property, I have to fight a fucking lawsuit now, you dare to compare with me, you don't deserve to fuck at all, Lao Tzu has lived until now, I have experienced more than you, you are a miserable fart!"
"I--" Chen Nan said.
"You don't have a wife to look for again, you can find a job again, you're still young, don't you just have no money to buy a house? I'm your eldest brother, I'll give you a down payment, I'll buy you a house, right? You fucking give me a good life, brothers are in trouble together, and they suffer together, if you are a man, then give me down!"
I word by word, hysterical!
"Brother Chen!" Zhang Lei heard my words, he knelt on his knees and knelt on the steps.
"Leizi, don't be stupid, can't the eldest brother give you a top?" I continued to speak, moving closer and closer to the past.