Chapter 16: Scarlet May (I)

Time passes bit by bit, getting closer and closer to May, a steady stream of texts, photos, and even slower video footage from Jakarta show that at least in the streets of Jakarta, it is relatively calm for the time being, except for the suburbs of Jakarta, where there is occasional news of some Chinese attacks, and in May, even the Indonesian media, which often smear Chinese in March and April, are quiet. Despite this, Zhang Lexing couldn't feel at ease, he knew that no matter how calm he was now, it was just the calm before the storm, and after being suppressed for a long time at this time, the outbreak would only be more violent at that time, and his feeling became stronger after entering May, and was soon noticed by Chen Zishan.

One evening in early May, Zhang Lexing was staying in his own studio in the villa as usual, looking at the interview materials that had just been transmitted back today in front of the computer. Chen Zishan took a glass of hot milk, knocked lightly on the door, and then walked in and put the milk next to the computer monitor, carrying the tray with one hand and gently resting the other on Zhang Lexing's shoulder.

"Le Xing, are you looking at the news from over there again?" Chen Zishan asked softly.

Zhang Lexing sighed and said, "Hey! Yes, the situation over there is a little unclear now. ”

"Lexing, don't be too annoyed, you don't need to care too much about that kind of small place. It's not too early, so let's rest early. ”

"Okay, I'll turn over the pages and I'll come back. Zhang Lexing turned his head, gently touched Chen Zishan's hand on his shoulder, and said, "You go to sleep first, soon." ”

Chen Zishan leaned over, kissed the corner of Zhang Lexing's mouth, and said softly: "Don't be too late, remember to drink the milk." ”

After speaking, Chen Zishan turned around and left the workshop, Zhang Lexing looked at her departing figure, sighed softly in his heart, turned his head back, and stared at the screen again, trying to find out the information he had missed.

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It happened after all, and on the evening of May 12, Zhang Lexing was watching the interview materials that came back that day. Since this morning, attacks against Chinese people have begun to occur frequently, and coincidentally, Indonesian President Suharto flew to Egypt to attend a conference the day before, and military dignitaries happened to arrive in Malang City, East Java, to attend a ceremony.

Zhang Lexing also felt that the situation was not good, although he was not in Jakarta, but the more frequent attacks on Chinese made him feel a chill from the depths of his soul, he didn't know why he felt this way, but he also understood that this would never be a good thing, and he wanted to do his part in the end.

Regardless of the fact that the time was already in the evening, Zhang Lexing picked up the phone and dialed two numbers successively, first contacted Dai Shihua, the minister of the media division, and asked him to say hello to the following, as long as there is an attack on a Chinese from Indonesia, it is necessary to see the newspaper, hang it on the Internet, and go on the TV news as soon as possible. Then Zhang Lexing called Yan Ruofei, who was only promoted to administrative director this year, and asked her to find a way to contact those air charter companies, at least to get back more than five large passenger planes and supporting crews, and before tomorrow afternoon.

Zhang Lexing's sudden order made Dai Shihua and Yan Ruofei a little inexplicable, but Zhang Lexing never arranged work after work before, and both of them felt that something big was going to happen this time, so they didn't say anything, didn't ask the reason, just said that they would definitely complete the task.

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The next morning, since he got up, Zhang Lexing has been feeling a little restless, and almost threw the eggshells into the pot when making breakfast. Zhang Lexing helped her to the sofa, and wanted to rub her feet with bone-setting wine, but he couldn't find it.

"What a hell today!" Zhang Lexing couldn't help but muttered dissatisfied, then returned to Chen Zishan's side, looked at the left ankle that began to be red and swollen distressedly, and said, "Otherwise, I'll send you to the hospital." ”

"It's okay, it's just that I've got my foot down, just go to Jingyijia's medical center and have a look. Chen Zishan gritted her teeth and replied with a smile, in fact, she felt quite painful, but seeing Zhang Le's worries and worries, she was a little unbearable, so she had to try to be stronger.

At this time, the two were not in the mood to eat breakfast, Zhang Lexing hugged Chen Zishan and walked out, and Ma Guanghai followed closely with a few bodyguards. opened the car door, carefully put Chen Zishan in the back seat, and then Zhang Lexing got into the car from the other side, told the driver the address of Tang Jing's IKEA Medical Center, and soon the car started and drove out of the villa by the sea, and the bodyguards followed behind in a business car.

Tang Jing's medical hall was not close, Zhang Lexing was worried about Chen Zishan, so he simply packed some breakfast on the way, and the two of them had some casual food in the car to deal with it. After passing through the cross-sea tunnel, the car came to Wencheng Street, Jordan Road, where Tang Jing's IKEA Medical Center is located, and it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

Zhang Lexing took Chen Zishan out of the car, and when she came to the door of the medical hall and was about to knock on the door, Tang Jingyi happened to open the door and came out, and when she saw someone coming, she was slightly stunned for a moment, and immediately saw the person clearly.

Tang Jingyi saw Zhang Lexing's panicked face, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Zhang, who are you?"

"Shanshan, she seems to have broken her feet. Zhang Lexing hugged Chen Zishan and said anxiously.

"Oh, if it's just a foot, it's not a big problem. Tang Jingyi instructed: "Mr. Zhang, you first carry her to the sofa outside and sit down, I will wash my hands, and then I will come to check." ”

"I'm sorry for you. Zhang Lexing thanked him and hurriedly walked in with Chen Zishan in his arms.

Carefully put Chen Zishan on the sofa, and after she lay down well, Zhang Lexing sat on the chair next to her and waited anxiously. Soon Tang Jingyi came, first moved a square stool to the sofa and sat down, then rolled up her sleeves and asked, "Is it the left foot?" ”

Chen Zishan held back the pain and nodded: "It's the left side, it seems to be a little swollen." ”

Tang Jingyi leaned down, pinched Chen Zishan's left foot with her hand, and asked while pinching, "Does it hurt here?"

When pinching a certain position, Chen Zishan couldn't help but scream, and cried out in pain: "It hurts, it hurts so much here." ”

"Is the situation serious?" asked Zhang Lexing with concern.

Tang Jingyi raised her hand and rubbed the hair that had fallen back, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a small problem, I'll just take some medicinal wine to wipe it." ”

Zhang Lexing let out a long sigh at this time, the look on Chen Zishan's face seemed to be much better, Tang Jingyi stood up and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go get the medicinal wine." ”

As soon as Tang Jingyi walked away, Zhang Lexing's mobile phone suddenly rang. In the past, Zhang Lexing rarely carried his mobile phone around, and even if he had a mobile phone, he would throw it to his assistant, but this time was a special situation, especially in recent days, in order to receive news in time, he didn't leave his mobile phone almost every day.

Zhang Lexing took out his mobile phone from his pocket, pressed the answer button, and then put it to his ear, and Dai Shilong's anxious voice came from the microphone: "Boss, something happened, something big happened in Indonesia." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhang Lexing asked, but he had already guessed that it must have happened.

"In the early hours of this morning, there was a big riot in Jakarta, many Chinese industries were attacked, houses, shops, shopping malls were smashed and looted, and even set on fire, many Chinese were also attacked, I heard that not only Jakarta, but also several large cities in Indonesia have the same situation. ”

Zhang Lexing only felt a chill rushing from his feet to his head, and he asked anxiously, "Do you know the specific loss?"

"Now the whole of Jakarta is in chaos, we also received the news half an hour ago, the specific situation is not clear at all, only two of the four interview teams can still be contacted, and there is a French team that has not been heard from since yesterday, and we are still trying to figure out a way. Boss, do you have a TV set by you? If so, turn it on now, our Phoenix TV has already started to report. ”

Zhang Lexing noticed that there was a TV outside, and Tang Jingyi happened to come back with medicinal wine at this time, so he asked, "Miss Tang, can this TV receive Phoenix Satellite TV?"

"It seems that you can, Mr. Zhang tried it himself, and the remote control is next to the TV. After Tang Jingyi finished speaking, she came to the sofa, poured some medicinal wine on Chen Zishan's left foot, and began to rub it slowly.

Zhang Lexing turned on the TV, replaced it all the way with the remote control, and really found Phoenix Satellite TV, the famous female anchor on the screen was saying something with a serious face, and before Zhang Lexing could hear it clearly, the picture switched, and then shocking photos appeared on the screen, with a heavy voiceover commentary.

"In the early morning of May 13, riots broke out in many Indonesian cities, including Jakarta, and a large number of Chinese-owned shopping malls, shops, and companies were looted, destroyed, and set on fire...... Many Chinese were attacked by mobs on the streets and even in their own homes, and according to eyewitnesses, at least hundreds of people were killed...... Dozens of cases of Chinese women being raped or ** by thugs took place in broad daylight on the streets of Jakarta and in buses...... According to eyewitnesses, there was no sign of the military and police who normally roamed the streets in the area where the atrocities occurred, and there was no response even when the police call came...... According to eyewitnesses, many of the rioters arrived at the scene en masse in vehicles and then left en masse, raising suspicions that the violence was organized......"

Zhang Lexing originally thought that he could treat this matter objectively, but when the first photo of the Chinese being mutilated appeared on the TV screen, he only felt a surge of blood, with the flashing of the photos behind, he felt that he had never hated the "person" in a certain place like this, the growing anger was burning in his heart, his clenched teeth made a low creaking sound, his body trembled slightly irrepressibly, and his fists were clenched tightly and even his nails were embedded in the flesh. In addition to anger, Zhang Lexing's heart is still angry, he only hopes that this uncivilized thing that cannot be called a human being can be completely wiped off the earth.

Under Tang Jingyi's rubbing, Chen Zishan felt that her left foot seemed to be much better, and the swollen place of her ankle seemed to dissipate a little, and the sound of the TV turning on made her instinctively look up, but unfortunately the speed of changing the channel was too fast, and she didn't have time to see anything clearly, so she focused on her feet again. After a while, the show seemed to have stabilized, and the voice coming from the TV also stabilized, Chen Zishan looked up again, it was this glance, so that she could not forget this moment in her life.

A photo of a Chinese woman being mutilated appeared in front of Chen Zishan's eyes, but the content of the photo is not very clear, and if it were not for the voice-over introduction, it might be difficult for people to associate the bloodstained, defenseless body in the middle of the photo with the weak woman. Chen Zishan had heard that Indonesia was the world's largest archipelagic country, with tens of thousands of islands, and she even remembered the description of the Indonesian flag, "The flag is composed of two equal horizontal rectangles of red and white...... Red symbolizes bravery and justice...... White symbolizes freedom, justice, purity ......", now it seems that "bravery, justice, freedom, justice, purity" these beautiful words seem how ironic at this moment, it turns out that bravery is to treat defenseless women and children with violence, freedom is to be free to commit atrocities on the street, purity is those blood stains on the screen, how wonderful red and white. The huge fear mixed with sadness hit Chen Zishan's nerves, making her cry silently, and tears gushed down.

Tang Jingyi noticed Chen Zishan's abnormality, in fact, the sound of TV in her ears had made her understand what was going on, but the habit she had developed over the years made her have to endure her grief and finish what she was doing.

Ma Guanghai is still habitually sitting at the door, just seeing the TV from the side, although the photos on the screen are not clear, but just by the introduction of the voiceover, he has already depicted the appearance of the incident in his heart. The atrocities and shocking photos made Ma Guanghai can't help but punch the wall and roar: "Beast!"

Zhang Lexing heard Chen Zishan's crying, and as soon as he turned around, he saw her fearful and sad expression, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, and he stepped forward to pick her up from the sofa, hugged her into his arms, gently stroked her back, and comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, there is me." ”

Chen Zishan leaned on Zhang Lexing's warm embrace, the fear in her heart gradually dissipated, but the feeling of grief became stronger, she sobbed in a low voice and said: "Lexing, why is this happening, why is this happening." ”

"I don't know why. Zhang Lexing gently stroked Chen Zishan's back and replied: "But I know that there is a saying, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, not that it will not be reported, the time has not come." Those who do evil will not end well after all. ”

Chen Zishan didn't speak again, but leaned on Zhang Lexing's arms with her eyes closed, she knew that what Zhang Lexing said was right, and it had always been like this before, she didn't want to think about anything anymore now, she just wanted to quietly enjoy this safe and comfortable arm. Tang Jingyi, who lowered her head, heard Zhang Lexing's words, her eyes flashed, and the expression on her face became focused, she agreed with this, and she also planned to do so. Ma Guanghai, who was standing at the door, also noticed what Zhang Lexing said, although his eyes were still on the TV screen, but a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

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