At the age of thirty-five, Lin Wanbai had a small success in his career, his fame was completely out, the scale of the studio was larger, and the various systems were more perfect.

On this day, she went abroad to participate in a week-long academic exchange.

On her way back, she met a man at the airport. It can't be said that it was encountered, and the person looked like he was waiting for her on purpose.

Because she came back early and didn't notify her family, no one came to pick her up.

When the man saw her come out, he took the initiative to come up to her, and said, "Miss Lin, if you have time, I have something to say to you." ”

Lin Wanbai swept around, and finally fell on this person and asked, "Who are you?"

He said, "Don't worry, it's not someone who came to harm you." ”

Lin Wanbai's sixth sense told her that the person in front of her had something to do with Fu Zhenxing, so in the end, she didn't hesitate for too long and followed him.

His car was parked outside, an ordinary Volkswagen, and on the way to drive, he lit a cigarette and took two puffs, and all the cigarette ash floated in the direction of Lin Wanbai, and he smoked a burst of second-hand smoke.

He probably noticed it and immediately threw the cigarette into the mineral water bottle that was sitting next to him.

The car sped all the way into the city center, drove for a while, and finally stopped on the side of the road, walked some distance, and took her into a cheap steamed restaurant.

It's not time to eat yet, and there is no one in the restaurant.

But he still asked for a private room, ordered a few dishes, and said, "I haven't eaten lunch, I'm hungry." You can just reluctantly eat two bites with me, okay?"

Lin Wanbai sat upright, and she walked into the restaurant with her outfit.

ST stared at her for a long time, but Lin Wanbai did not evade it, and looked at her calmly.

Lin Wanbai said: "You still have something to say." ”

ST touched his face and said, "Haven't we met before?"

Lin Wanbai looked at him, thought for a while, didn't have a big impression, and shook his head, "I don't seem to have seen it." ”

"I'm a colleague of Fu Jixing. ”

Sure enough, she guessed that it should have something to do with Fu Zhenxing, but she was not happy in her heart, she nodded politely, "Hello." ”

ST: "Don't you wonder what I'm looking for you?"

Lin Wanbai pursed her lips, "If I had to guess, I don't think it would be a good thing." ”

ST smiled, lowered his eyes, didn't look at her again, looked down at his fingers, was silent for a while, and said, "The old man is dead." ”

Lin Wanbai was stunned, his expression remained unchanged, he smiled, and said, "Count the days, this year is the seventh year after Fu Jixing's death, right?"

"It's not. ST looked serious and said, "He's really dead." ”

The expression on Lin Wanbai's face froze for a moment, and after a few seconds of silence, he returned to his normal color and said, "You just want to tell me this, if you just say this, in fact, I don't think it's necessary, so I came to tell me." ”

"Fu Zhenxing died in Nancheng seven years ago, and to this day, everyone believes that he has long since died. So, why do you have to go out of your way to tell me about it?"

ST didn't respond to her words, but just took out a yellow cowhide bag from his bag, which contained all the files of Fu Jixing, the sins he had committed, the merits he made, every stroke was clearly written, and his life deeds were all here.

"Originally, I shouldn't have come to this trip, but after thinking about it, there are some things that I always have to let you know, so that I can live up to Fu Jixing's trip to this world, and I will not live up to his deep affection for you. ”

Subsequently, ST talked about the events of the year again, and implemented what Lin Wanbai thought in his heart, he just died.

She has always believed in this, and to this day, she has always felt that everyone is okay and not bad.

ST said: "Actually, every time you go on anything, it's a life and death, and he specializes in drug dealers and arms dealers. Drug dealers, in particular, are the most vicious people. Many of my brothers fell at the hands of these people, and they died very miserably. The old man is actually really smart, and there are advantages and disadvantages of scientific and technological means, every time he goes out, I am always relieved. But this time......" He was silent for a while, working with Fu Zhenxing for all these years, although he didn't show it on his face, he had already regarded him as a brother in his heart.

He saved him, and he helped him.

None of them went out on this trip, and they waited for six months, and finally only a few people came back, and the mission failed, and they suffered heavy losses, and many people went but did not return, and most of the people who came back were not intact.

One of them said that Fu Jixing was captured by drug dealers and his whereabouts were unknown, and that they stayed there for a long time, but they could not find out Fu Jixing's whereabouts, and finally, they returned with the bodies of a few brothers.

These people died silently, and no one knew who they were, and no one knew what they had done.

ST's eyes were a little red, he sniffed hard, took out the photo that was already a little yellowed from his pocket, handed it over, and said, "Before the old man left, he told me that if he couldn't come back, he would tear the photo out." I hesitated, but I never gave up, and after thinking about it, I would like to return the photo to you. This is a picture of the old man pasted on the head of the bed, and it is the only thing you have in his room. ”

"He doesn't dare to keep anything from you, and if he lets the outlaws know the slightest clue, it will bring you a disadvantage. He died in the first place so that you could restore a peaceful and bright life, and he would not drag you back into a dark corner. He said that he hadn't cherished it before, and if he had a chance in the future, he hoped that he would have another chance and be able to cherish you again, and if so, he would definitely do a good job. ”

"I'm sure he'll do a good job. ST's voice trembled a little, "He can do anything well." Maybe he went the wrong way before, but in the past few years, he has made a great contribution to this society, and he is a good person. ”

After saying this, Lin Wanbai didn't react for a long time, and she still had a standard smile on her face.

The whole person seemed to be still, motionless, and didn't even blink his eyes.

It wasn't until the boss came in with the dishes that she seemed to have turned on the switch, she opened the cowhide bag, hesitated, and finally didn't take out the file inside, "Thank you, thank you for coming here, give me this, and tell me the truth." ”

ST said: "Actually, he will go to see you every once in a while, originally said that after this mission is over, he will use the remaining three years to secretly protect you, and do nothing else, just follow you and protect your safety." The boss also agreed, but it's a pity that ......"

He sighed, and felt a little annoyed, and finally only sighed.

Lin Wanbai comforted him in turn and said, "I think, if you want to die in the hands of Luo Jiuye, it is not as vigorous and valuable as the martyrdom." ”

ST looked at her so calm, and asked a little puzzled, "You don't love him anymore?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Aren't you sad? He's dead, he's really dead, don't you feel anything at all?"

Lin Wanbai pursed her lower lip, her throat moved slightly, and she swallowed the sourness that came up. For seven years, she insisted that Fu Jixing was not dead, she was used to this identification, and after a long silence, she said softly in a low voice: "I don't think he is dead." ”

There is no confidence anymore.

"I just treated him as if he wasn't dead, he was by my side, and everything around me was him. I watched a movie a few years ago, and a line in it was very good. She took the wine she ordered, took a sip, closed her eyes, smiled, and said: "The clouds in the sky are him, the wind blowing in the ears is him, the waves of the river come and go, the waves are all him, I see the wild mountain flowers, the mountains are all him, I have traveled thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are him." ”

"He has never left me, and he will not be willing to leave me. ”

She closed her eyes and didn't open them, her lips didn't fall with a smile, the corners of her mouth trembled slightly, and tears still fell from the corners of her eyes after all.

Lin Wanbai didn't know how she got home, she drank a lot of wine, but her mind was very clear. There were several phone calls from home, but she didn't answer any of them.

When she returned to Pujiang, the security guard at the door stopped her, she leaned on the car window, and asked lazily, "What's the matter?"

The security guard said, "In the evening, a courier came, and there was a box that said it was for the young lady, would you like to take a look?" I checked with the captain, and it was safe inside. ”

Lin Wanbai pushed the door and got out of the car, followed the security guard into the security room, and there was a box inside, which had not been disassembled. She crouched in front of the box and looked at it, but it did not indicate who the sender was, nor did she specify the address of the other party.

She held her chin in one hand, and after being stunned for a while, she asked the driver to come down and carry the box into the car, and take it back to the room first.

When I got home, Lin Jingyu and Liang Zhixia were watching TV in the living room, and the two of them were chatting enthusiastically, and they were a little surprised to see her come back, and she was still drinking.

"Didn't you say you'd be back tomorrow afternoon?"

Lin Wanbai kept smiling and said, "It's early, when I meet a friend, I will go to dinner together, and I drank some wine, it's nothing, you go ahead and I'll go back to the room first." ”

"What's in your hand?"

Liang Zhixia quipped: "Did you buy us a gift?"

Lin Wanbai: "No, this is ...... This could be my baby. ”

She grinned, didn't say anything more, and went back to her room.

The box was very well packaged, Lin Wanbai didn't open it for a long time, so he looked around for scissors, but couldn't find it, so he had a fire in his heart, very impatient, and finally found the scissors, the action was too anxious, and he accidentally scratched his fingers.

There is also a big opening.

When Liang Zhixia came in, he saw this scene, and the blood rushed out, which was terrifying.

"How? Liang Zhixia hurriedly came in, snatched the scissors from her hand, took a tissue and wiped it for her, and then went to find the medicine box, which rummaged for a long time, and when she came back, Lin Wanbai had calmed down, opened the box, and was looking at the contents inside.

The index finger was cocked high, wrapped in a tissue, and the blood was dazzling.

Liang Zhixia walked over and took a look, there was a black cardboard box inside, and the box was full of letters.

"What is this?"

The envelope did not leave a word, Lin Wanbai unfolded one of the letters, which was only a note, and the characters were replaced by letters. People who don't know the inside story will see it in vain, and they can't understand it.

"Who gave it to you?" Liang Zhixia pulled her, "Come and sit down first and see the condition of the wound." ”

Lin Wanbai sat on the sofa as he said, Liang Zhixia carefully lifted the tissue, and after looking at it carefully, he said, "It looks a little deep, do you want to go to the hospital?"

"No, not yet. ”

Liang Zhixia glanced at her and dealt with her first, the iodine wine rubbed on the wound, the stinging pain, Lin Wanbai's brows furrowed slightly, and she said, "I'm going to take an indefinite vacation." ”

"What?"

"I'm resting, I'm going to go out. ”

"Where are you going?"

Lin Wanbai didn't answer, Liang Zhixia felt that something was not quite right with her, "Who is this box of letters?"

Lin Wanbai glanced at her, "I know what I'm doing, and I also think about what I want to do next, I'll just inform you." Lin Wanbai thought about it and decided to explain honestly, "I'll go find Fu Zhenxing." ”

Liang Zhixia opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say a word, she suddenly seemed to think of something, and looked at the box, "Don't tell me, this is ......"

"Yes. ”

Lin Wanbai nodded, "He wrote it." ”

"So he's really alive!"

"No, if he were still alive, I wouldn't have received this. Lin Wan's white eyes were pale, and she turned her head to look at Liang Zhixia, "Don't tell my mother about this, okay?"

Liang Zhixia nodded, "Don't say it." ”

The next day, Lin Wanbai went to the studio to explain the work arrangements after that, and then stayed at home for a few days and read all the letters.

Fu Jixing's narrative is very simple, so simple that it is obviously a dangerous thing, like child's play.

At the end of each letter, it is written, I hope you are well.

From beginning to end, her name never appeared, but she felt that every word was written about her.

Before leaving, Lin Wanbai chatted with Fu Linsheng all night, she didn't hide it from him, he is also older now, and he has always been precocious, he understands many things, so there is no need to hide it.

She said, "I'll go find your father." ”

Fu Linsheng glanced at her, now that he is in junior high school, his eyebrows and eyes are becoming more and more similar to Fu Zhenxing, and the eyes are almost the same, "Are you going to die?"

Lin Wanbai laughed and patted his thigh, "Kill you, you're not married yet, how can I be willing to die, I'm just going to look for him." I will be back. ”

A child is still a child after all, his eyes were slightly red, and he said, "You used to say that Dad would come back." ”

"I promise, I will come back for sure. ”

Early the next morning, she contacted ST and left the North City together.

She also contacted Luo Ye, hoping that he would help. She thought simply, she wanted to see the corpse when she died, and she didn't want him to be left behind.

Luo Ye was silent for nearly a minute, and finally agreed to her.

With Luo Ye's help, it will be more secure.

ST is on leave, which does not mean anything, only on behalf of himself to come to this trip.

For the route of Fu Zhenxing's mission, ST is still relatively clear, this trip is in Guangxi.

When they arrived at the place, they changed their clothes and changed their identities, and Lin Wanbai disguised himself a little to make himself look a little dirty. The two of them disguised themselves as brothers and sisters, and searched carefully in the realm where Fu Jixing had an accident.

It is difficult to find, and the process of searching is full of dangers.

Fortunately, Luo Ye's people protected him and avoided the crisis.

When the search reached the third month, ST wanted Lin Wanbai to give up, "It's very dangerous for you to look for it like this, if you let those contraband bosses notice something, not only will you be dangerous, but even your family will be in danger at that time." ”

"For the sake of the overall situation, you better go back, and I'll look for it again. ”

After Lin Wanbai hesitated, he said, "Give me another three months, if you still get nothing, then I'll go back." ”

ST saw that she was persistent, so he agreed, and asked Luo Ye to send more people.

Fortunately, half a month later, news came from Luo Ye's side, and with clues, he locked the location where Fu Jixing last appeared, near Jinshanjiao.

ST didn't let her go, but Lin Wanbai insisted on leaving.

She said: "He has worked so hard for me so many times, and this time he changed me." ”

They went by boat, and ST kept her by his side and watched over her carefully, for fear that something would happen. It was so dangerous that he didn't even dare to blink.

Fortunately, nothing bad happened along the way, and the search went well, but the body found was not Fu Zhenxing's.

Three months and three months, peeling back the cocoon, one clue after another, in the end, it was all gone.

Now, they have one last piece of information in their hands.

ST said: "If this place is still wrong, then we won't look for it, and I have to go back, and I can't keep looking for it." ”

Lin Wanbai nodded, "Okay." ”

They followed the address, inquired all the way, searched all the way, and arrived at the former drug trafficking village.

It's been controlled by the police, and the people inside are clean, and it's a relatively safe place, and no one will do anything wrong.

There were too many setbacks along the way, and both of them were a little frustrated.

The village is on a big mountain, the scenery is very good, and the air is very fresh.

Lin Wanbai said: "Even if you can't find it, it's not in vain." It gave me a deep understanding of how bad his living environment is, and it is not easy for him to live safely year after year. ”

"He also has a sense of mission in his heart. If you take this road, you can't go on without a sense of mission. ”

Lin Wanbai smiled and said, "It's good, he finally doesn't have me alone in his heart, which shows that his mental illness is really better." ”

On the way, they met several elderly people, who had been violated by contraband, and all ten fingers were incomplete. ST went up to inquire separately, and finally found a village house.

They stood in the doorway and shouted twice inside.

ST can speak the dialect here, but Lin Wanbai kept silent all the way, pretending to be a dumb person.

After a moment, a man's voice came from inside, hoarse, as if his throat had been artificially damaged, "Here we are." ”

When Lin Wanbai heard the voice, she raised her head suddenly, and her heart instantly rose to her throat, even if this voice was broken, she could hear it, this was Fu Jixing's voice. Her eyes were fixed on the doorway, and it was so quiet that she could hear footsteps coming from inside.

The sound seemed to be trampled on her heart, and she clutched her clothes tightly, waiting for the people inside to come out.

The moment Fu Shixing walked out of it, Lin Wanbai's legs were weak, and ST reacted quickly, and immediately held her up.

Obviously, Fu Zhenxing never expected to see them here, he was stunned, stood there, and did not move.

At this time, he was wearing the clothes given by the villagers, he was very thin, his skin was dark and rough, the scars on his cheeks had not completely faded, the whole person looked a little weak, his face was not good, and it was estimated that it was difficult to survive.

His clothes didn't fit well, and his hands and feet were long, revealing his arms and ankles.

Slowly, his eyes turned red, tears rolled in his eyes, and he lowered his head, suppressing the churning emotions in his heart.

ST was very happy, happy to see that he was still alive, "Old man!"

At this time, the old lady who took in Fu Zhenxing came back, and when she saw them, she was a little strange, there was no hospitable look on her face, she wrung her eyebrows, and asked Fu Zhenxing what was going on.

Fu Zhenxing only said that ST was his brother, and then beckoned the two to come in.

Lin Wanbai didn't speak, walking behind ST, his eyes falling on him.

The two have been separated by a certain distance, Fu Shixing beckoned them to sit down, took the initiative to boil water, took two cups, washed them repeatedly, looked around again, wanted to get a tea, and finally poured two cups of water.

She walked to the table, first placed one of the cups in front of ST, and then handed the other cup to Lin Wanbai.

The two looked at each other, his hand holding the cup tightened, and when he was about to put it down, Lin Wanbai took the cup first, including his hand.

He paused, didn't move, and his fingers struck him in the heart as if they had been electrocuted.

"Long time no see. Lin Wanbai looked at him and said in a low voice.

He bent over, glanced at her, quickly withdrew his hand, took a chair, sat down at a distance from her, and said, "Long time no see." ”

ST's gaze swept around the two of them, thought for a moment, and asked, "Where is the toilet?" I want to go to the toilet, but I've been holding it for a long time. ”

Fu Zhenxing said, "I'll take you there." ”

"No, just point me out, my direction is super good, you can give me the location at will, I can find it myself." ST looked at him with a smile and patted his arm vigorously, "Come on, I'm suffocating." ”

Fu Zhenxing pointed him out, and ST immediately walked out of the house.

The old lady of the family was preparing food in the kitchen, and this would be the only two of them in the house.

Fu Zhenxing was still sitting in his place, the chair was very low, and he was such a tall person, sitting there, it looked a little difficult.

He lowered his eyes, did not look at her, did not take the initiative to talk to her, and pursed his thin lips slightly.

His sleeves were rolled up, and his arms were not as clean as before, and there were more scars.

Lin Wanbai's vision slowly became blurred, and the moment the tears fell, Fu Jixing happened to glance at her, and he immediately stood up, and the chair was kicked over.

The movement was a bit big, Lin Wanbai raised his head, and two tears slipped from the corners of his eyes in unison, the appearance of pear blossoms with rain was really distressing to death.

He clenched his fists, restrained his desire to step forward, and suddenly became clumsy, "You, what are you crying about." ”

Lin Wanbai's eyes widened, his voice was very small, and he was holding the water he gave him in his hand, "I thought you were really dead." ”

He pursed his lips.

Lin Wanbai continued: "Do you know, I'm here to collect your body, I'm here to take you home. ”

She looked at him with burning eyes, and without any other superfluous movements, she sat firmly in her chair and looked at him like that.

Fu Shixing lowered his eyes, as if he didn't dare to look directly into her eyes, he was so afraid, he was afraid that he would drag her to his side again.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "You shouldn't have come, you're taking a risk and it's going to affect your family." If you die, you die, it's the same wherever you die, I don't care. ”

Lin Wanbai put down the cup, stood up, walked to him in a few steps, and narrowed the distance between the two, she brewed for a while, wanting to swallow the bitterness, but as soon as the words came out, her voice was still trembling, or choking, she asked, "How did you survive?"

She knows that dealing with drug dealers is a very dangerous thing, she used to watch movies, but now that she really sees it, Lin Wanbai knows how dangerous and terrible it is.

Her eyes looked carefully at him, up and down many times, and when she got closer, she really found that he was actually in a very bad state, and she couldn't imagine what he had experienced for so long.

He had changed, and he hadn't changed, at least those eyes, the way he looked at her, had never changed.