Ping Yan ran over and saw that he was unharmed, and most of his hanging heart had been released. She had been guarding outside, and could only hear the plain and conflictless conversations in the room, but seeing his empty appearance now, she was even more unsure of what was going on.

"Is something wrong?" She asked softly.

Shen Yuchen shook his head, as if he had just pulled back his thoughts from the boundless conjecture. He closed his eyes, let out a long, long exhale, and said inexplicably, "The taste of freedom is so good." As he spoke, he opened his eyes and looked at Ping Yan, his starry eyes were shining. Just at the thought of it, Ping Yan suddenly felt that he had become different, the depths of his smile were no longer mixed with any drunkenness in the foreign field, it seemed that there was a fanatical and unrestrained power that was trying its best to contain it, and it was completely awakened, like a kite with a broken string, which could choose the direction arbitrarily.

"By the way, the leader took out a piece of paper, and it seems that he also pressed his handprint, what is that?" Ping Yan had no choice but to knock on the side.

Shen Yuchen propped his jaw with one hand, tilted his head to look at her, and the moment his lips hooked slightly, he couldn't help but think of the conversation in Fang Cai's room.

"This is an accomplice's confession, as long as you sign it, and then go to the birthday banquet with us tomorrow to go through the motions, I promise not to hurt you in the slightest. If you don't sign, even if you cut off your finger, we will put a fingerprint. The leader's words were concise, and one of the guards handed the paper to Shen Yuchen's eyes.

Shen Yuchen picked it up and looked at it carefully, it was really an ingenious chance, Fuchunju's murder case went around and around, and he still found him. The content on the paper is tedious, the plot twists and turns, and it can be summed up in just a few sentences. Even the death of Deputy Captain Gao Zhanbiao he is also guilty, the crime is indignant at the injustice done by Captain Gao for a while, bewitched by the mastermind, and helped the mastermind to commit murder, now that the mastermind is dead, he took the initiative to surrender as an accomplice, spared his life, and hoped to reform in the future.

He believes that with this piece of paper, he and Lin Lixue's marriage will not be able to draw that one.

Captain Gao's father is Gao Yuan, the president of the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and there are many foreign goods stores and other big business factories under his name, and he has a lot of cooperation with the chief of finance and taxation who manages the import and export of goods in the French Concession, and Gao Yuan used this channel to induce Lin Heng to use his power for personal gain and help him monopolize most of the business in Qingzhou. This set of transactions was completed, and finally as a reward, thirty percent of the profits were returned to Lin Heng.

Although Shen Yuchen didn't understand it so clearly, he still had a slight eyebrow, and he knew that the relationship between these three forces hindered each other's profits. Moreover, if there was no industrial chain of Qingzhou, which is a conspiracy between China and foreign countries, how could a large amount of tea and medicine purchased by his father in various parts of Yuzhou, the provincial capital, change hands in such a short period of time.

His mind suddenly cleared, and he finally pried through the middle joint. Since these people chose themselves as the most critical move, it could only be that they took a fancy to the relationship that they were Lin Heng's quasi-son-in-law, and then took advantage of Captain Gao's death to kill three birds with one stone.

It is clear that it is to get away from the three giants in Qingzhou.

"Then how do I know if you're going to find someone to kill me after you're done using me?" Shen Yuchen smiled, raised his hand and pretended to be around his neck.

The leader smiled gently, "Don't worry about this, Sir has been kind to my master, my master has a clear grudge, as long as Sir is obedient and cooperates with our actions, we will never kill Sir." By the way, please don't pursue the name of my master, I can't disclose it. ”

Whether his words were true or false, Shen Yuchen couldn't figure it out for a while.

"In fact, there are only two ways in front of Mr., either cooperate with us, sign and draw, and act tomorrow without saying a word. Either we will force you to sign and draw a pledge, and then we will kill you. To put it bluntly, there is a path, one must die, and the other may be life, as long as Mr. is trustworthy enough to us. There was no other choice, and the gentleman had to gamble. ”

Actually, he was right. Except to bet on the master who had been gracious in his mouth, Shen Yuchen really had no choice.

It's just that he has just set foot in his homeland, and he can't think of anyone he has ever had an indelible favor to after racking his brains.

He pulled out the cap of the pen, signed it with great joy, dipped it in ink, and pressed his handprint firmly.

In fact, this is a dangerous move that is embattled. If he fails, he will be the target of public criticism. If successful, it will also fluctuate a series of interest chains. Among them are the trade cooperation between Lin Heng and Gao Yuan, the conflict between the French Concession and Qingzhou, and the trade materials hoarded by the Shen family may also be unsalable.

And it was precisely because he wanted to take advantage of this that Lin Heng could doubt and alienate himself and reconsider Lin Lixue's life.

Even if the Shen family was completely defeated, he could flip it with one hand. But his lifelong marriage and love, a free future, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot withstand trampling.

It's just these, Shen Yuchen didn't mention a word. He didn't intend to tell Ping Yan the truth, although he didn't care about his life to save her, admired her, and even had some budding admiration, but he didn't fully accommodate her and trust her. He always remembered that she was the eldest brother's person, and once this matter was leaked, the eldest brother would do everything possible to stop it.

"What's wrong with you? What did they just tell you? Ping Yan was a little suspicious.

Shen Yuchen raised his eyebrows and smiled, sincere, "Actually, it's nothing, they just said that they were going to take me to Uncle Lin's birthday banquet tomorrow, what the specific purpose was, they didn't say, and I couldn't guess." ”

Judging from his tone and demeanor, Ping Yan really couldn't draw any suspicious clues. Although she didn't ask any more questions, a string in her heart seemed to be being carefully plucked, disturbing her heart.

Obviously, Shen Yuchen's words must have been concealed.

And according to the ease that he showed from time to time in his expression, the part he concealed must have been beneficial to him.

Above the top of the clouds, in the frost moon in the sky, in the deep fog of the secluded alleys, a chaotic sound of trembling branches and leaves suddenly appeared out of thin air, causing a group of roosting birds to be frightened, restlessly flapping their wings, singing loudly, tearing through the quiet night.

The sound was about to stop, and suddenly there were a few lonely nightingales not far away.

Ping Yan has been collecting medicine in the mountains for a few days, so she is naturally very familiar with the call of the nightingale, and she also knows that the nightingale, a bird, has a cautious habit and hides in the mountains and forests, and it is impossible to haunt the streets and alleys where people live.

After that strange bird call, more than a dozen attendants in the dark surrounded them with guns, blocking the door of the house in an impenetrable manner, looking around vigilantly.

Ping Yan had already guessed that they had found this place, so she simply sat down peacefully, glanced at Shen Yuchen lightly, lifted the tea cup on the table and sipped it slowly.

His face was a little strange, Ping Yan pushed over a cup of tea to him, his eyes were deep, and he whispered: "Second Young Master, do you say that such a big movement is the eldest young master coming to save us?" ”

"Maybe." Shen Yuchen reacted quickly, took the tea, and took a sip.

The moment he put down the teacup, several tiles between the roof beams fell unexpectedly, and they fell into several petals. The attendants were quite organized, some of them rushed into the house with quick movements, and some stayed in the courtyard and patrolled uncertainly.

I don't know who shouted that it was on fire, but before the words were spoken, a huge heat wave wrapped in the choking smell of gasoline came from all corners of the house. With gusts of wind, before everyone could react, waves of flames rose rapidly from outside the back wall and burned straight to the roof, and between the tiles falling off, large and small fires and bricks smashed down one after another.

Ping Yan stood in the flames, like a mud puppet, motionless.

Shen Yuchen was in a hurry to pull her, and as soon as he touched her hand, he was thrown by her. Like a frightened rabbit under a bow and arrow, she slipped under the table in a puff of smoke, her face shrunk into a ball, and she trembled around herself.

The two big men grabbed Shen Yuchen's body and dragged him out, he couldn't move, but the voice he roared gradually split, "Quick!" Come out, Tao Yan! Tao Yan! Come out! ”

In the rolling waves of fire, he saw her for the first time, and her tears flowed.

A wooden beam fell and smashed a corner of the table, and she shrank back into it, crying silently, her face as white as paper.

It was also such a fire that burned all her relatives and burned her whole life. And she could only watch the bricks and tiles, grass and trees in the courtyard, burned to ashes. Since then, the raging fire has become her inner demon, the nightmare, the clusters of flames, like claws reaching out from the depths of hell, grabbing her throat and tearing her flesh apart.

"Tao Yan!" His screams were drowned out by the sweeping sound of the fire.

A few bullets pierced the flames, and several big men next to them snorted, and they all planted straight backwards with their eyes wide open. A few more gunshots rang out, and the attendants were panicked, loaded and leaned around, and shot at the door. Taking advantage of this chaos, Shen Yuchen broke free from the coercion, bent down and dragged Ping Yan out and protected him in his arms.

Without further ado, he threw off his best strength and pushed her out the door.

Ping Yan stumbled a few times and rolled to the ground outside. She lay on the ground as if she had lost her soul, her clothes and hair disheveled. It was frosty in the middle of the night, her back was against the earth, wet and cold, she looked at the bleak moon, tears overflowed from her eyes, like a white mist, obscuring her vision. It was as if she could no longer see the raging, raging, scorching sea of fire.

The one of the past, the present one.

Vaguely, there was a person leaning down, like Shen Dashao. All she knew was reaching out to hold his sleeve firmly, opening her mouth weakly, her voice was like a mosquito, and she kept repeating, "Help, help...... Shen Yuchen, save ...... Sink...... Yu Marks....