Chapter Twenty-Four: Life and Death

The arguments are seamless, and the ironclad evidence of perjury is like a mountain.

She has a weak red mouth and white teeth, how can she refute it? Under the bullet of the lewd gun, who allows her to refute?

Such a big net that covers the sky and the sun, from an hour ago, maybe longer, has been lurking in the dark places full of crises, stealing beams and changing pillars, and moving flowers and trees.

Ping Yan tilted her head slightly, her gaze pierced through the clouds and fog, and hit Shen Dashao's face. Her face is unharmed, still indifferent to the world, there is even a little charm in the slightly curved eyebrows, but her eyes are white, with a ruthless coldness, like a cold knife that wants to swallow life alive.

Li Yong shuddered unconsciously, she had always been bold and old, and she was forced to have nowhere to retreat by a woman's quiet gaze. He lowered his head, and a thin cold sweat broke out in his palms, and he was weak and resentful. After all, the anonymous report call and physical evidence were all quietly made by him an hour ago. Although he was ordered by Da Shao, he was also uneasy to send a twenty-eight beautiful woman to Huangquan with his own hands.

Shen Dashao steadily accepted her gaze and negotiated with each other. He saw the various emotions in the woman's eyes really, the anger of being used, the hatred of being deceived, and a trace of despair and sadness mixed with life, and the desire to survive in death. He suddenly remembered the bending autumn wave of his eyes that day, smiling like a fox smartly and gently, and there was a strange feeling like a drop of water under the eaves smashed into his heart, trembling in the softest place, he thought about it for a long time, only to know that this feeling was faint, never nervous, reluctant.

At the moment when his heart was like a mirror, this faint emotional surge filled his mind unscrupulously and couldn't be shaken away. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, reaching until his knuckles were white and convex, and he lost consciousness. Those manic, disobedient thoughts gradually calmed down.

From the day the Shen family lost power, from the moment he was trampled in a pool of mud by countless pairs of cold military boots, what he wanted was a supreme position of power, not a woman who charmed the mind and brought disaster to the country and the people.

Ping Yan is just a chess piece, he can abandon it if necessary, he can't be merciful, and he can't allow himself to be tempted.

"Secretary-General Liu, although this is a matter of the Chinese Concession, don't blame us for being nosy. Everyone is contributing to the people of Limin, after all, it is the capable who work hard. Inspector Wang turned to Liu Muyun with a smile, and he had a sense of spirit, "After all, it was a murder case that happened on the territory of Qingzhou, and Secretary General Liu was far away in Beiping City, so if you don't know the truth, it is inevitable to catch the wrong murderer, as for this confession in your hand, I don't want to suspect Secretary Liu's ulterior motives, so I won't investigate." Second Young Master Shen is pampered, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll be frightened by this kind of thing, so let's cultivate well. ”

Liu Muyun smiled faintly, but his face was cold. According to the original plan, Shen Yuchen didn't have to die, but now he lost the life of a Chinese girl in vain. He hated these foreign jackals, but he suffered from the weakness of the nation, and it was difficult to contend with them, so he could only indulge them. All in all, regardless of whether Shen Yuchen is the murderer or not, this murder has more or less traversed between Lin Heng and Gao Yuan, and their trade cooperation will definitely be reduced to a certain extent, so that the income of the Qingzhou Metropolitan Governor will be greatly weakened, and it will definitely not be reversed. He is also considered to be up to the task.

Inspector Wang nodded at Shen Dashao and ordered the team to be closed, "Escort the murderer away." ”

When the dust settled, the reporters scrambled to squeeze around, dragging the cameras, and the magnesium filaments flashed and went out, stabbing on Ping Yan's face. The crowd resounded with waves of applause and cheers for the murderer's case, and she was vigorously framed, and out of her misty vision, only the surrounding fluctuations remained, with colorful crowds, gossip, insults and abuses, like piercing the ears of magic sounds, one after another in her mind. She could only bite her lip.

"I'm a murderer! I am! Take me! It has nothing to do with her! It seemed that there was a pure white figure like a solid wind, stretching out its arms to block his body.

She looked up and saw the man's back, who was wearing a spotless white suit. She remembers that there was a very old apricot blossom tree planted under the courtyard of her family, and the spring flowers were clustered and piled up on the branches like snow, which was also spotless. When the apricot blossoms turned yellow, the green apricots couldn't wait to arch out, and she remembered that there was once a handsome boy who climbed on the branch of a tree and plucked a bag full of apricots that could sour her teeth.

The patrols looked at Inspector Wang's face, and the city wall was like a distance blocking Shen Yu's traces, unmoved.

Inspector Wang's face was embarrassed, and his eyes fell on Shen Dashao's way. Shen Yu snatched the spear of a nearby patrol officer quickly, bang! Bang! Bang! Caught off guard, three shots were fired into the sky, and the intricate and twisted glass lamps overhead shattered to the ground in the flames of bullets and gunfire, and the people in the hall screamed in amazement.

Shen Yuchen pointed a spear at Inspector Wang, his eyes were deep, and he asked word by word: "I am a murderer, can you catch it?" ”

Ping Yan looked at his slightly trembling shoulders in dismay, and when her eyes moved up, she could see the arc of her lips.

Inspector Wang had been treated recklessly by such a yellow-haired boy, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, and he was a little frightened for fear that the shining gun in front of him would go off. can only be expedient for the time being, balance the two sides, and order someone to escort Shen Yuchen and Ping Yan to Stone Town Prison together to listen to interrogation.

The dark clouds turned into a drizzle, hanging down obliquely and densely from the blue sky, like wisps of willow silk soaked in frost for a long time, splitting their heads and covering their faces. Ping Yan and Shen Yuchen walked side by side, quietly along the green brick road, with a group of guards in front of them and behind them. Ping Yan rarely saw such a serious Shen Yuji, he took step by step, facing the wind and rain, and his steps were steady and steady, like a uniform drum beat, soothing her heart, and her heartbeat couldn't help but echo it, tending to be calm.

The other man stood in the dimly lit hall, looking at the two of them who were drifting away, his expression gloomy. A few flicks of wind slipped in, lifted the corner of his trench coat, and stirred his memories.

From last night to this morning, he has been secretly sending Li Yong to follow the gang of kidnappers to verify their purpose. An hour ago, Li Yong hurried over, got something, and secretly reported their actions. It was the same as what he had guessed before, and he had no choice but to do it, and an hour ago he took the opportunity to go to the French Concession, and followed the advice of Inspector Wang, an old classmate of the military school, and chose a scapegoat to cover people's ears, and this scapegoat was undoubtedly Ping Yan, who occupied the right time and place.

Although he understood that Shen Yuchen's self-determination was only for the so-called freedom of marriage, for the sake of the Shen family, which was different from the past, he would never allow Shen Yuchen to insist on going his own way and hand over the fat on the Lin family's lips.

In the stone prison, in the dark and damp cramped spaces, the screams and wails of the prisoners are hidden and fierce, and there are also ghostly long and low cries floating, as if every inch of the air here is stained with thick blood, the smell is rotten, and the blood light makes people chill all over the body.

There was only a small square window on the mottled and peeling stone wall, and a crescent moon on the top of the sky was hidden in the misty clouds, leaking into the prison with a palm-sized white and cold light. Ping Yan leaned against the wall motionlessly, and the moonlight made her face pale and peaceful.

Behind this wall, Shen Yujian is closed.

"Actually, that time at the dinner table, I deliberately mentioned the night of Fu Chunju in front of everyone, and asked you to give an explanation, at that time, I took into account that you were the eldest brother's person, for fear that you would tell the truth to the eldest brother, so I insisted on letting you tell a lie, thinking that if you told the eldest brother, I could threaten you, but I didn't want to really drag you into the water, it seems that in the end I still affected you." Shen Yuchen, who had never spoken, sighed, full of apologies, because he really didn't expect that the eldest brother would be behind Huang Que and use this way to save the situation. He looked at the quiet woman through the rusty iron rods helplessly, not knowing what to say, and after thinking about it for a long time, he was filled with righteous indignation: "Don't worry, you will be born when I live, and I will let you live when I die!" ”

Ping Yan remembered the events of that day, raised her face, and saw his bright and resolute eyes through the haze, and felt a warm feeling in her heart, "You are confused, in fact, I have burdened you, from the life of Fuchunju to your injured leg, it can be said that I have caused it indirectly." She smiled slightly, very sincere, but also very bitter.

His heart tightened, he clenched his fist and released it, swallowing the words that had rolled to the tip of his tongue with difficulty. What she misunderstood was what he couldn't explain. Captain Gao's death was inevitable in Qingzhou's trip, and she just happened to be involved in it, as for his leg, he felt that it was very important to change the life of a person who seemed to be affectionate but valued for justice.

"Captain Gao does all kinds of evil, we are innocent, we are doing the right thing for heaven. As for my leg, I'm lame and can walk without saving, and I can trust your medical skills. He laughed twice.

Ping Yan thought that he was pretending to be relaxed and having fun in the midst of suffering, but he looked really relaxed and casual, as if this was not a prison, just a courtyard full of moonlight, and he leaned diagonally against the wall. In fact, she is really strange about what such a young master who grew up in a greenhouse has experienced to cultivate such a calm heart.

At this time, the prison warden arrived with two guards, opened the lock and came in, and said directly: "Shen Yuchen, you can go." So saying, he beckoned the guards to drag him.

Shen Yuchen yelled and struggled twice, looked at Ping Yan a little anxiously, and resisted: "What about her? Won't you let her out! ”

The warden sneered twice and wrung a glance at him, "We only received the password from above, and we only said that we wanted to release you, but we didn't say that we wanted to release her...... Second Young Master Shen, please hurry. ”

Shen Yuchen clasped the iron rod with his hand, let the two guards drag him, and only frowned and stared at Ping Yan, "I'll go out if she goes out!" ”

The warden touched his cheeks and mocked coldly, "I didn't expect Second Young Master Shen that you are still a lover, but this is not up to you." He waved his hand impatiently, and the guard understood, put his gun to his head, and stomped the crook of his leg.