Chapter 149: Life hangs by a thread
Su Yuli's schoolwork made it impossible for her to stay in China for too long, and after visiting Jiang Xu, she went to see Jiang Zhuoyi again before leaving for school.
Approaching Christmas, the Illeman School of the Arts organized an orchestra among the students to prepare for a tour in China, Su Yuli was successfully selected, Andrew originally wanted to arrange Zora to be included, but Zora refused, she congratulated Su Yuli, and said that she would be selected next year with her own strength.
After the tour schedule was sent, Su Yuli found that the school orchestra would be touring to the city where Tracy was located, and she could just stop by to see Tracy.
In addition to the excitement, the practice was also carried out in an orderly manner.
During this period, Jiang Xu applied several times to come and see her, but Su Yuli politely refused.
"I'm really pretty much done with things on my side."
On the other end of the phone, Jiang Xu's subwoofer was very Su, and it came through the earpiece, which made Su Yuli's ears a little hot.
"I miss you."
“……”
Su Yuli was sitting at her desk at this time, with two thick books and electronic dictionaries in front of her, reviewing what she had taught in class during the day.
She put down the pen in her hand, thinking that the world is really wonderful, this man, who would have thought that a person who was so cold before would actually become the ruffian he is now, and even coquettish with her dumb voice.
"I've got a lot going on during this time, I have classes to attend, the orchestra has to rehearse, and I'm going on tour in two days, so I don't have time to play with you."
"Then I'll follow you on tour, and I just happen to be a tourist."
"No, you can't."
“……”
Su Yuli pretended to be serious and said.
"Jiang Xu, you have time to pester me, it's better to go and recuperate your body. The few times I've seen you, I think you look like you have a kidney deficiency, you're not small anymore, and you can't be as casual as before. ”
In the living room on the top floor of Vientiane No. 1, Jiang Xu had just taken a shower and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in a bathrobe.
Listening to Su Yuli's words, he was stunned for a moment, and through the reflection of the night and the glass window, he helplessly looked at the mirror image he presented in the floor-to-ceiling window.
He even reached out and pulled the bathrobe a little more away and looked at it for a moment.
Kidney deficiency? Not really.
He was really busy some time ago, tossing and turning late every day, and his body was often in a state of exhaustion, but he had the same things on him.
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Xu suddenly thought that he had already passed the thirty mark, and Su Yuli was just over twenty-five, and he was indeed much older than her.
He even remembered that when he went to Su Yuli's school before, he saw those white and tender foreign men, one by one, handsome and fresh, still young, and maybe he still liked to call people one sister after another.
For the first time in his life, a sense of urgency arose in his heart for no reason.
Jiang Xu said almost through gritted teeth.
"Lili dislikes me. I'm old and decrepit. ”
“?”
There was an inexplicable vinegar in Jiang Xu's tone, and Su Yuli couldn't be rectified.
"What the hell are you talking about......
"I'll practice tomorrow."
Jiang Xu had already lowered the bathrobe to his waist at this time, and he did delay his fitness because of those things in the company some time ago, and he assessed it, and he did lose some muscle compared to before.
"Whatever you want to see, nothing will be missing you."
“!?”
Su Yuli only felt a wave of enthusiasm suddenly staining her cheeks red, this man was really getting more and more improper.
"You, you, you, nonsense! I didn't! ”
"Yes is the best."
At that end, Jiang Xu was kind and inducing, "There is no way to cultivate slowly." ”
"Besides, I'm hanging up."
“……”
Seeing that Jiang Xu finally shut up obediently, Su Yuli asked about Jiang Zhuoyi's situation, and Jiang Xu told her that Jiang Zhuoyi was already well, but because she was too lazy to deal with the rest of the finishing work, she had been lying in the hospital and refused to leave, so Su Yuli was relieved.
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The orchestra's tour began as scheduled.
When the tour arrived in F City, Su Yuli went to Tracy's house a day earlier for a night.
The next day, Seneca drove her and Tracy to the Central Concert Hall.
This tour, Su Yuli and another outstanding girl in the orchestra, Clara, took turns to play the principal violin, and Su Yuli specially reversed the order with her and played as the principal violin in this recital.
After the recital, Su Yuli nervously asked Tracy how she was doing, and Tracy was satisfied that her playing was getting richer and richer, with Andrew's unique oily and smooth notes.
Su Yuli couldn't cry or laugh, even if she knew that Tracy spoke in this style, she couldn't tell for a while whether Tracy was praising her or scolding her.
The recital will be held in the morning.
In the afternoon of the same day, Tracy had other trips, so she said goodbye to Su Yuli at the door of the central concert hall.
The school has booked evening train tickets for the orchestra students, so in the afternoon, the students can play freely.
Su Yuli and Clara decided to go to Grandpa Zola's shop together.
Since this is a Christmas-themed performance, the music style is lively, so Su Yuli uses the violin made of Alpine spruce that was ordered by Grandpa Zola.
Clara also liked this sound very much, and immediately wanted to customize it.
However, after listening to Su Yuli talk about the price of this piano, she was a little embarrassed.
After struggling for a while, Clara embarrassedly asked Su Yuli if she would like to accompany her to the bank first to see how much money was left in her passbook.
Unlike China, electronic payment is not well developed, and the main forms of payment are cash and bank cards. Banks' online business is not as mature as in China, and it is not possible to directly use mobile phones to check balances.
Su Yuli and Tracy have lived in this city for more than a year, and they don't have anything they want to visit, so they simply agreed.
Christmas was approaching, many banks were closed, and the two girls searched for four before finding one with their doors open.
The hall was a little deserted, a security guard with a big beer belly sat in the corner, taking a nap with Erlang's legs crossed, there were no citizens who came to handle business, and there were no staff, and even the counter was only open.
Clara was called to the counter, and Su Yuli sat on a bench in the hall waiting for her.
Han Shiya sent her a message, saying that the brand of cosmetics she liked was out of the Christmas limited edition, and asked her if she could give the whole set.
After Su Yuli replied to Han Shiya's message, she inadvertently raised her eyes, but suddenly caught a glimpse of two strangely dressed people sneakily opening the door of the bank and walking in.
Her first reaction was that Jiang Xu had arranged for someone to protect her, but the two people wrapped themselves tightly and couldn't see their faces clearly, but their actions looked very hurried.
Before Su Yuli could figure it out, the two of them had already taken the first step.
One of them pulled out a black pistol from his bosom and shouted in English with a thick local accent.
"Robbery! No one is allowed to move! ”
Before she could react, she was picked up by one of the robbers and thrown to the ground.
The sudden change startled her, and the robber shouted a few more words, but she didn't hear clearly.
I only knew that the few people in the bank suddenly became very panicked and squatted on the ground in a hurry.
Clara also squatted outside the cabinet with a pale face.
Su Yuli held her head, and she caught a glimpse of one of the two robbers walking towards the bank counter, where he threw a black leather bag into the counter, pointed a gun at the bank teller, and asked her to put all the money in it.
"Hurry up! I'll only give you three minutes, and I'll blow your head off if you're not satisfied! ”
The other robber had been standing by the door of the hall to keep the wind in check.
The robber inside looked at his watch and urged the teller to speed up his movements.
Three minutes seemed extraordinarily long, so long that even the sirens sounded, and the robbers' watches at the counter had not yet been counted for three minutes.
He heard the sirens and turned around and shouted at the robbers at the door.
"! Damn it! Didn't you just probe and say that there are no police on this street? ”
The robber at the door had already begun to tremble in his voice at this time, "I...... I do not know...... I really didn't see ......"
"We are the only bank on these streets, and the surveillance in our bank is directly connected to the police station, sir."
At this time, the security guard who was squatting in the corner of the wall made a muffled voice, he was very fat, and his face was already red due to the squatting action.
"Shut up Pig's Head!"
The robber at the door was visibly nervous, roaring and even firing a shot in the direction of the security guard.
The robber stood very close to Su Yuli, and the sound of the gunfire seemed to crack her ears.
Su Yuli had never seen this posture since she was a child, and she couldn't help but exhale lightly on the spot, and she was successfully noticed by the robbers who were already out of control.
"What's your name! Who made you scream! ”
He rushed over and picked Su Yuli up, one arm was imprisoned around Su Yuli's neck, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed at the little girl's face from the bottom up, which directly scared Su Yuli stupidly, she closed her eyes tightly, didn't dare to look, and didn't dare to make a little more sound.
In a crisis situation, the human brain instinctively goes blank.
"Calm down, brother!"
The other robber was calmer, he saw that the police car had stopped in front of the bank, and a policeman rushed down from the car with a pistol and cursed secretly.
"Put that girl down! You're going to get both of us sentenced even more! ”
"Shut up! You lied to me! You said most of the police were on holiday before Christmas! We'll just grab a little bit and leave, and no one will be held accountable! It's because you're so greedy! You've been standing there for too long! ”
"! You coward who only blames others! You're blind, and there's definitely a police station in half the block you explore! You hurt me! ”
At this time, the police outside the bank had raised their guns in the direction of the bank gate and shouted inside with a loudspeaker.
"Listen to the people inside, you have been surrounded, release the hostages immediately!"
"Let me go!"
The robber who had imprisoned Su Yuli broke down and yelled, "It's my first robbery! I haven't grabbed anything yet! Let me go! ”
His hand even nervously grabbed Su Yuli's hair in front of him, pulling the little girl's scalp painfully.
"You can't escape, but now you haven't grabbed anything, you haven't hurt the hostages, you won't be sentenced very severely, kid, don't let things get worse."
Outside the bank, a gray-haired policeman shouted inside the bank.
The robber standing at the counter had already thrown his gun on the ground and raised his hands in surrender.
And the robber by the door was obviously getting more and more excited, and he was screaming and crying, like a bear child who had not yet grown up, and suddenly had to take responsibility for the wrong things he had done.
"I don't listen! I have a bright future ahead of me! If I get caught, my future will be ruined! You are not allowed to arrest me! Let me go! ”
His voice was harsh.
Su Yuli felt that her hearing had suddenly become very sensitive.
She heard the slight tremor and desperation in the man's tone that had shackled her, and she heard the trigger of the gun not far from her making the sound of parts moving, somewhat like the sound of gears running.
Time slowed suddenly, and her perception seemed to slow down to a frame-by-frame slide.
She suddenly felt that she had entered a marquee state, and she thought that she had been shot in the head, and that her death should be ugly.
What will Tracy, Han Shiya, Zola, and the others who love her have on their faces when they come to her funeral?