Chapter 20 Brotherly Love The Past Is Like Smoke
Recently, there have been infinite sad things, who is more with the long talk? Pay from the teaching, green windows and red tears, early geese and early warblers.
One of the major characteristics of this inland city where Zhao Deming is located is that the climate is cool, although it is the height of summer in August, but the three of them who got up early to go to the cemetery did not feel a trace of scorching heat. When entering the gate of the cemetery, Yang Le suddenly said something that made Zhao Deming feel a little inexplicable: "You have to be mentally prepared, then I didn't tell you that it was for your condition."
"Why did you say this all of a sudden, what do you mean?" Zhao Deming looked at Yang Ledao with some puzzled eyes, and a trace of uneasiness flashed in his heart.
After Yang Le finished speaking, he didn't seem to want to explain anything, but quietly continued to walk forward, Zhao Deming had to put away his doubts when he saw this, and followed everyone to the depths of the cemetery.
The entire cemetery was built on a hill, surrounded by green pines, shining in the morning light, probably because of the burial of the dead, the atmosphere here was very oppressive, and everyone was silent all the way until they reached their destination. When Zhao Deming saw the photo on the tombstone, he didn't know what was going on, but he felt that he was spinning for a while.
"Why? Why ......" Zhao Deming let out a roar of pain from his heart, grabbed Yang Le beside him and said, "What's going on, you...... Tell me! At this time, Yang Le, who was already full of tears, let his roar rush towards him, and did not move.
"This ...... What's going on? Zhao Deming's blood-red eyes could already eat people, and he asked Yang Le again.
"Hey! It's the same as you said that day, neither of us thought that the other party would have a weapon, Zhang Lei suddenly shot during the arrest, and then ......"
"What about the murderer? Did you catch it? Zhao Deming asked.
"There were seven of them in total, four were killed on the spot, and three ran away, and there should be a murderer in the run, and they haven't been caught yet."
Silence, everyone fell into silence.
"Knock ......" Zhao Deming punched Zhang Lei's tombstone, and a burst of pain hit, but it still couldn't relieve his incomparably painful heart.
"I'm going to find him and kill him with my own hands, ah......" Zhao Deming's cry resounded throughout the cemetery.
The picture seems to be frozen at that moment, where the three people in front of Zhang Lei's tombstone stayed for a long time, only their ever-shortening figures tell everyone that time is still passing.
Zhao Deming looked at Zhang Lili after calming down for a while and said, "Lili, can you help me prepare some meals?" It's been a long time since we've had a drink together, and today ...... I want to have a drink! No drunk, no home."
Time flies, the two people who have been making trouble all morning gradually stopped, looking at the two people lying on the ground and drunk, Zhang Lili's eyes turned red again, she stood there for a long time in black, and said kindly: "Brother, you have two good brothers, but is it worth it?" You tell me, tell me...... "She was not as irritable as the two of them, but just spoke softly, and her tone gave people a sense of more concern.
At this time, in a bush on the other side of the mountain, a black shadow took in everything that happened to Zhao Deming and them here, and his slightly trembling body seemed to indicate that the scene in front of him had touched him.
When Zhao Deming woke up and found that he was already at home, it seemed that he was really drunk, and there were faint bursts of sharp pain in his head, and he only sobered up after drinking some water for himself. Sitting alone on the couch, he has no sleep, and he has been thinking about the question, is all this really worth the cost of a good friend's life? Maybe it's time for him to quit.
His negative state was also distressed by many people who cared about him in the following week, and a person who could survive from the brink of death looked so fragile after a friend fell, the only thing that could cheer him up was the news about the murderer, which was really too little valuable.
"You know, you will disappoint many people like this" Zhang Lili has too many complicated emotions about Zhao Deming, especially Zhang Lei's death, it is really difficult for her to forgive Zhao Deming, but at the same time, her reason tells her that she must do something, otherwise she will regret it for the rest of her life, so there is a conversation she started with Zhao Deming.
"Be disappointed, be disappointed, it's nothing remarkable" Zhao Deming muttered in his heart, ignoring Zhang Lili.
"It seems that I can only tell you that thing, only we know this thing, we can recognize each other again, I really have to thank you, otherwise I really don't know when to wait, remember that meeting, he recognized the bow at a glance, although I was very confused at the time, but I also felt something, maybe this is family affection, nothing can stop it" Zhang Lili's face rippled with a happy smile "Everything later is so natural, we cry together, happy together, It was the happiest time of my life."
Although Zhao Deming didn't understand what he heard, but this "he" and that butterfly, he was still very impressed at that time, Zhang Lei's gaffe moment is really rare, and now I hear Lili talk about it, is it ......
"Our parents died when we were young, and my memory is full of shadows of my brother taking me from house to house, when I was a child, I had already seen all the bitterness of the world, but even then I was still very happy, as long as my brother was around, I could get through any difficulties, but one winter, I was very sick, my brother really had no choice, so he sent me to the children's welfare home, and then although my illness was cured, but I couldn't be with my brother anymore" Speaking of this time, Zhang Lili has begun to choke, and her red eyes are full of tears" There are rules in the welfare home, and my brother doesn't want to go to the welfare home, saying that he wants to earn money and wants to give me a home, and I sometimes think that if I hadn't had that illness, we would never have been separated."
Zhang Lili took the bow from her neck and held it in the palm of her hand and said: "This bow was specially made up for me by my brother who was afraid that I would think about it in the welfare home, saying that the bow has magical power and can protect me, isn't it funny?" Zhang Lili in the smile is so gentle, "I didn't expect it to become the only thing he left me"
Zhao Deming listened to all this quietly, and his clenched fists were already a little white because of the excessive force.
"The weather was very good that day, a few foreigners came, I don't know what they were talking about, but then a teacher told me that I could leave here and go to a far away place, where life is very good, and I could see that the teacher was very happy for me, but I didn't want to leave, because my brother was waiting for me, maybe because I was making a lot of noise, they lied to me and said that my brother had gone first, so I went to England" Zhang Lili was still smiling, but her red eyes betrayed her, "Am I stupid?" ”
Zhao Deming didn't speak, because he didn't know how to answer her.
"Because my adoptive parents are Freemasons, I also joined Freemasonry very early, they are very good to me, they have no worries about food and clothing and receive a good education, to be honest, if it were not for them, I would never be where I am now, so I have always been very grateful to them, they are actually my biological parents, but I have always been worried about my brother, this is a knot that I can never untie, and then my adoptive parents also found out, after we had a long talk, they also felt that I should go back, it can be regarded as a coincidence, Freemasonry in China is growing rapidly and is in dire need of a large number of manpower, so I will return to China."
"I didn't expect you to be brothers and sisters, your brother's matter, I'm really sorry, I will definitely catch that murderer, believe me!" Zhao Deming was really relieved for them after listening to Zhang Lili's narration, it was really a happy thing to find his relatives in the vast sea of people, but it was a pity that they had to be separated again because of him, and this time the separation was permanent, and he suddenly felt so cruel.
"If I say this for your revenge, then I won't say it...... Really, you don't need to explain" Zhang Lili stretched out her hand to stop Zhao Deming, who wanted to speak, and then continued: "I'm glad that my brother has a friend like you, but now you ...... But it was ...... that I failed my brother" Zhang Lili is difficult to say those words, and the death of a loved one is really difficult to describe in words, "Now you are shouldering the future of the entire human race, you should have a kind of pride in giving up on me, not ...... Be a shrunken turtle! ”
Quiet, surprisingly quiet......
"Hey! I'm not as good as you think, and I don't think I'm capable of doing this well" Zhao Deming really has no confidence, human beings, such a huge race, he feels that he really doesn't have that qualification, not to mention that Zhang Lei's matter hit him really hard, the only thing to be thankful for him now is Zhang Lili, he can make some compensation through Zhang Lili, he knows that this is definitely not enough, but he has no better way now, so he can only wait for the time being.
"Nope! You can" Zhang Lili resolutely denied Zhao Deming's idea, and she was a little angry and continued in a tone twice as high: "If I still have doubts about the prophet's choice of you at the beginning, then now I really admire the prophet's discernment, I believe that you can not only do it, but also do it very well."
"Why?" Zhao Deming looked at Zhang Lili with suspicious eyes.
"Because of your character, you told me about the conversation you had with the prophet, I didn't understand it at that time, and even suspected that it was you who lied to achieve the goal, and now I can be sure that your heart has always been the most important to the prophet, so she emphasized that in the prophet's opinion, technology and everything are false, and only the things in the human heart are the most real and powerful" Zhang Lili's words are heartwarming
"Maybe you're right, but I really don't think I'm capable of leading humanity," Zhao Deming still couldn't convince himself.
"Maybe you doubt your ability, or are afraid of taking responsibility, these have nothing to do with me, this is all your problem, I only know that you are the most suitable for the current situation on the earth, and about my brother, I accept your apologies and appreciate your kindness, but please don't show your cowardice in the name of my brother" Zhang Lili didn't seem to realize the weight of what she said, at this time Zhao Deming was already standing motionless like an electric shock, "My brother is a strong person, so please be strong"
After saying these words, Zhang Lili turned around and walked straight out, but when she walked to the door, she suddenly stopped and turned her head and said: "The prophet is going to see you tomorrow, if you want to give up, tomorrow is a good opportunity"