Chapter 3 Why don't you jump yet?
The carriageway in front of the Warwick Building was indeed temporarily closed to half of it, and on the sidewalk downstairs, hundreds of people stood in the black press.
A fire truck was parked on the side of the road, and the sidewalk, an area of about 100 square meters, was surrounded by a cordon, and five or six firefighters were in the circle, moving quickly to lay a bright yellow air cushion.
"Ahh
Ivy shuddered with her eyes closed. After a few seconds, I opened my eyes and looked at a black leather shoe lying in the middle of the air cushion.
She quickly raised her head and put her right hand in front of her forehead to block the dazzling sunlight. The man on the roof of the building sat on a concrete guardrail, his two dangling legs dangling in the air.
A plane whizzed over her head, whether it was a passenger plane that had just taken off or had already returned.
"Scourge! Whether to jump or not to jump, it will cause Lao Tzu to be late for work. ”
"I am willing to gamble and lose, be proud when I make money, and show off here when I lose money. ”
"Isn't it a man, hurry up and jump, I've been waiting for more than half an hour. ”
The crowd began to buzz, and most of them were laughing and sneering, saying something ruthless.
Ivy scrambled to pull out the camera in her backpack. In the past, every time she went out for an interview, she had a big hood covering herself, and he was responsible for the shooting, so she basically didn't have to worry about it.
As soon as she pressed the record button on the machine, she heard a heart-rending cry around her.
"Dad, Woo Woo, you come down! Woo Woo-"
A sixteen or seventeen-year-old little girl with a ponytail and a blue and white school uniform sat on the ground, crying so hard that her body was shaking like chaff.
The people around them chose to watch the scene in front of them coldly, and some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures, but no one went up to pull her or tell her what to do at this time.
Ivy turned her head to look at her, struggling inwardly for a moment, and then focused on the camera in her hand.
"Woo, Dad, woowoo-"
The girl's crying became more and more miserable, Ivy couldn't concentrate on her work, she bit her lip, closed the LCD of the camera, walked in front of her in three or two steps, and shouted to the onlookers who were taking pictures: "Don't shoot, she's still a child, do you have any sympathy." ”
"Why! aren't you filming too?" a middle-aged man pointed at Ivy's nose.
"I'm a journalist. Ivy explained.
"The reporter is amazing!"
"Isn't it the paparazzi?"
"I hate reporters the most, and I make things up all day long. ”
The people around were in a hurry.
Without time to reason with them, Ivy crouched down and wiped the tears from the girl's face with her hand. The girl stared at her with big frightened eyes, and her lips trembled twice to say something, but she choked up and couldn't make a sound.
"Little sister, the man on the roof is your father, go up and persuade him to come down, he will definitely listen to you." Ivy said to her eagerly.
The girl, whose face was as white as paper, had a glimmer of light in her eyes, and she held the concrete floor with her hands, struggling to stand up.
Ivy put her hands under her armpits, helped her up, patted her on the shoulder, and pointed to the entrance on the side of Warwick Building, "Quick, take the elevator up from there." ”
The girl nodded at her, and took a vain step, but she stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
"Be careful!" Ivy stepped forward to hold her up, holding her towards the entrance.
The entrance to the building was sealed off by the police, and several men and women blocked the door, negotiating with the auxiliary police, holding cameras, microphones or cameras, and they looked like Ivy's peers.
"Let's go up, let's hide behind the flower beds, and make sure not to disturb the people above. ”
"Why don't you let us go up, let me tell you, journalists' right to interview is protected by law. ”
The assistant police officer had an indifferent expression, no matter what several reporters said, he just shook his head and repeated a sentence: "On the orders of the leader, no." ”
Ivy took the girl in school uniform and said to the assistant police officer guarding the elevator door: "Officer, we are the family of the man on the roof, let's go up, please, please!"
The assistant police officer glanced at the two of them, and the girl's red and swollen eyes and trance didn't look like they were pretending. He let go of the iron horse and waved for the two to enter.
Ivy pulled the girl and ran quickly to the elevator, and the two reporters also wanted to take the opportunity to sneak in, but they were grabbed by the assistant police and stopped at the door.
On the seventh floor, eighth floor, and ninth floor, the elevator "ding" and stopped at the top tenth. Ivy pulled the little girl out of the elevator door.
In the rooftop garden, the man sits with his head down on the concrete guardrail, and several empty beer bottles are scattered on the ground. The guardrail is only half a meter high, and it makes people shudder to look at.
There is no cover above the head, and the sun shines down from the top of the head domineeringly, making people a little unable to open their eyes.
A few meters away from the man, there was a policeman, his police uniform was soaked, the person was wilted, he crossed his hands on his waist, and weakly persuaded the man: "Brother, if you want to open a little, money and foreign things ...... you"
When the policeman heard the sound of hurried footsteps, he turned to look at the two men who had just rushed in, he pointed at them with his finger, and reprimanded them loudly: "Hey, who are you, and who told you to come up?"
"Officer, this is his daughter, we are here to persuade him. Ivy pointed to the little girl beside her and quickly explained.
"Dad!" the girl shouted at the man's back.
The man slowly turned his face, his eyes darkened and his lips white. After seeing his daughter, his eyes lit up, and he opened his mouth with difficulty and said, "Xiaoyuan, after your father dies, you go to your mother, she won't leave you alone." ”
The girl cried even harder, and almost collapsed: "Dad, I beg you, hurry down, can't I stop studying abroad? I don't look for my mother, she has her own home, and she doesn't want me for a long time." ”
"Dad doesn't want to bother you, I'm dead, and the mistakes I made will be written off, and it's over. When he made such a move in front of his daughter, the man was ashamed and embarrassed, and his voice became quieter and quieter.
The conversation between the father and daughter stung somewhere in Ivy's heart. She didn't know where she got the courage to shout at the man: "Coward, why are you so selfish!"
One of her roars shocked everyone, and then she said in a loud voice: "Those people downstairs are waiting to see your jokes, you think that you can make up for the mistakes you made with death, but in fact, you are passing on the mistakes to your daughter, and your relatives, so that they will not be able to get out of this shadow for the rest of their lives." Uncle, come down quickly! In life, there is no mistake that cannot be corrected, but when you die, you have no chance at all. ”
Listening to Ivy's words, the man's shoulders twitched rapidly, and he buried his head in his chest and began to sobb quietly.
At this time, no one noticed that the girl ran to the guardrail on one side like crazy, crying and shouting: "Dad, if you jump, I won't live." ”
Frightened by his daughter's actions, the man clumsily tumbled off the guardrail and fell to the ground on the rooftop.
The girl sat on the fence, and suddenly her center of gravity shifted, and her thin body swayed in mid-air.
Ivy was closest to her, and before she had time to think, she rushed forward with an arrow and reached out to grab the girl's arm. She herself was dragged by the huge falling force and lost her balance. She leaned forward, her feet off the ground.
The two of them are about to fall from the building! Life and death are on the line.