Forced into the Deep - v2 Chapter 23

The Supervision Committee’s inspection of the Shen family lasted three days. After three days, a group of people evacuated the Shen family. For some minor issues that were not enough to deal with major issues in principle, the Shen family paid a hefty fine.

After the monitoring team left, Deputy Director Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief and made a phone call to express his gratitude to Xing Zhongwan.

Xing Zhongwan hung up the phone, looked up at the indifferent man on the news, frowned, Qi Yun’s physical condition Xue Qing has been reporting to him regularly, his injury has not been healed, Qi Yun is very strong, what he has to do No one could persuade him to stay, and he couldn’t stop because of the current situation. The Supervision Committee’s investigation of the Shen family stopped so easily. It was one of them that they couldn’t find a big problem, and the other was Qi Yun’s safety.

Xing Zhongwan’s face was not good, and he hadn’t slept well for the past few days under the tension and high pressure. Looking at the desk calendar on his desk, he should return to Country X…

Qi Yun was changing dressings in the lounge, and he couldn’t help frowning when the cotton swab slid across the wound. When Shen Congxin came in, Qi Yun was putting on his coat and preparing to go out. He stepped forward to help him, “Let’s rest a little longer, there will be a press conference later, and there will be a memorial service and a funeral tomorrow morning. Your injury…”

Qi Yun buttoned the coat and smoothed the wrinkles on the sleeves, “You don’t want to go to the memorial service tomorrow.”

Shen Congxin nodded obediently, “Big cousin, I think what Gao Qiao said is right. You really should go to the temple. This year, you are too bad.”

Qi Yun was a little confused, “Gao Qiao?”

Shen Congxin said, “Yeah, I met him at the company yesterday. Didn’t their family cooperate with the Shen family? He came to send the materials, saying that there is a temple in Jiangnan that is very spiritual and asked me to take you for a walk.”

Qi Yun was stunned for a while, then suddenly the corners of his mouth twitched into an arc. Shen Congxin wondered if this was so funny? Why is the eldest cousin still happy, he is about to die of worry, okay?

“Tell Gao Qiao to thank him for his kindness, and I’ll definitely go over there to take away my bad luck.”

At Qi Zongcheng’s memorial service, Qi Yun sat in the seat of his relatives and looked at the huge portrait in front of him. This man who has lived his entire life, his relatives by blood have just passed away, gone so disgraceful, and died of anger, is it sad? ? sad! In the last few years, he had tasted Qi Yun’s hardships, and he didn’t forget to take his only grandson to hell. Grandpa, you didn’t want to give me a chance to be a good person.

Qi Yun coldly watched people go up to salute and offer flowers, and his thoughts had long since been emptied. Feeling the cold string of beads in his hand, he took off the beads on his wrist. He had never been willing to leave his body for five years, but now he is no longer qualified to wear it anymore. Qi Yun’s hands are destined to be stained with blood and no longer worthy of it. , I can’t afford to give this bead to my heart in the past.

Qi Yun took Qi Zongcheng’s urn to Jiangnan the next day. Qi Zongcheng’s hometown is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the urn will naturally be brought back to his homeland. It is impossible to verify whether Qi Zongcheng had this wish before his death, but Qi Yun can just use this guise to return to Jiangnan because he wants to see someone.

Qi Yun’s secretary was seriously injured and was still recuperating in the hospital, with only Shen Congxin by his side. The volunteers and teachers in the temple are all familiar with him, where all living beings are equal, and all rights and positions are false.

Qi Yun put on the incense, knelt on the futon and kowtowed respectfully. The wound on his abdomen was still not healed, and he didn’t care because the movement involved the wound. It was raining and raining in the south of the Yangtze River in winter. His leg joints that he had injured in his early years were swollen again. This kind of wet and cold weather was fatal to Qi Yun. When he knelt down, it was so painful that he lost his strength. Shen Congxin hurried to go. Fu, Qi Yun blocked him, and stood up little by little with his hands on the ground, the pain from the friction at the joints made his back soaked. He stood up straight and straightened his back as if nothing happened. The volunteer took a lamp. Qi Yun took the brush and paused for a while, then wrote three words. The volunteer asked him if he had sent the lamp to the back as usual. on the lamp case. Qi Yun refused, “Please help me get it back.”

The volunteer nodded and took it. He glanced at the lamp offering at the back, there was someone there. The moment he knelt down and bowed, he saw a familiar figure, and he knew who that person was.

The volunteers came out soon, “Sir, there is a ginkgo forest behind the temple, which is very beautiful.”

Qi Yun nodded, looked back and took a deep look at the lamp offering place, and left the hall.

Standing behind was Xing Zhongwan. He could see Qi Yun’s every move clearly when he entered the hall. He lost a lot of weight, and there were a few more white hairs on his temples. Xing Zhongwan stared at his temples with a serious expression.

Qi Yun’s eyes were less obsessive but firmer than before. He had made up his mind. Xing Zhongwan leaned against the door with his hands down and looked at the safety lamp that Qi Yun asked the volunteers to bring in. On the note below it was written the words “wish well”. Xing Zhongwan raised his hand and gently stroked it. The undried ink left marks on his white fingers. Xing Zhongwan’s eyes hurt, but the corner of his nose is sour, but a smile emerges from the corner of his mouth. This is the only time he has since returned to China to smile from the heart.

Qi Yun, you really let go…

Behind the temple is a long path with a wall in the middle full of ginkgo biloba. There are very few people on this mountain road, and it is even rarer on rainy days. Qi Yun asked Shen Congxin to wait in the car below, holding an umbrella by himself, looking up at a row of straight ginkgo trees walking to the fence.

He paused for a moment, looked down at the already wet leather shoes, then looked forward and walked slowly. The drizzle hits the black umbrella without making a sound. The drizzle is always so small but dense, and it can slowly soak the dry objects, just like the feelings are soaked without knowing when. full of hearts.

There was the sound of feet stepping on fallen leaves on the other side of the fence, and Qi Yun knew that he was coming.

“Actually, I don’t remember how you looked when I first met you, I only vaguely remember that you were dirty, thin and not beautiful, and took my hand and said you wanted to marry me. I was very angry at that time, this stinky boy has long eyes. Where, men and women can’t tell the difference.”

There was a chuckle from the other side of the wall, and Qi Yun also laughed. There was no trace of worldly disturbances, adding a touch of warmth to this rainy winter.

“When you came back, I actually wanted to ask you if it counted when you said you wanted to marry me? If you want to marry me, just marry me.” The footsteps on the other side of the wall paused and did not answer.

Qi Yun stretched out his hand and brushed over the wet weeds beside him, “Since I met you, I have often wondered if we would have developed differently if we didn’t feel so embarrassed when we first met. It’s not Qi Yun who is paralyzed, nor is he being forced to. Xing Zhongwan, I will pursue you in an upright manner.” It seemed that he was amused by his own words,

“估计会被你揍的满地找牙，就你那暴躁脾气就算我们两家祖辈关系再好你也不会给我好脸色的，毕竟仙女姐姐变成男人，初恋破灭了吧？”

Xing Zhongwan at the other end of the wall laughed and replied, “You really know me. But if you weren’t injured, you would have to say a word to you a thousand times in your mind if you were not injured. , am I trying to harm you? I have seen you before, when you went to the Xing family to break off the marriage, with that face like everyone has a **** feud with you, why are you so unlikable.”

Qi Yun remembered that he couldn’t help touching his face back then, “You’ve been taking care of you for so long because you’re so unpleasant.”

Xing Zhongwan touched his nose, pulled out a cigarette and held it in his hand but didn’t light it, “So I owe you in my last life, and I came to repay the debt.”

Seeing that he had already walked halfway, Qi Yun lowered his head, “Now that I think about it, the days when I was paralyzed on the bed were the happiest time for me. At that time, I tried desperately to get better and wanted to see you, but now I really want to see you again. paralyzed back.”

Xing Zhongwan snorted, “Don’t, there is no fool to take care of you if you are paralyzed again.”

Qi Yun paused, “Are you still angry? I lied to you.”

Xing Zhongwan sighed, biting his cigarette and looking up at the cloudy sky, “I’m angry, I’m so angry! But it doesn’t make sense if things are tangled up, it’s been so many years that I’ve been holding on to it for so long. I don’t love myself.”

Qi Yun turned to look at the wall covered with moss, “Thank you.”

Xing Zhongwan exhaled, “Thank you, everyone is a man and can still cry, make trouble and hang himself, but next time you meet someone you like, you can’t use this method. Be honest, it’s about feelings. It’s impossible to calculate, people who love you will always stay for you, and those who don’t love you will torture each other.”

Qi Yun slowed down, he was almost at the end. Will you meet someone you like again? It’s probably a little difficult.

“Shen Qinghong said the same thing to me back then. I don’t know how to love someone. I’ve troubled you during this time. I’m sorry. What you said to me in the small building that day was indeed wrong. Saying that I deserve better, but in fact I don’t. I have done so many wrong things in my life, and I can’t even remember the things that need to be atonement. I have spent my life’s luck when I met you. I can’t stop Coming down, one wrong step is the one that forced myself into the current dilemma.”

Qi Yun stopped and faced the wall, he knew that Wan Wan was listening quietly, “The previous step-by-step push towards you almost brought you into someone else’s trap again, when you meet me, I will bring you It’s all trouble.”

Xing Zhongwan was stunned for a while, “It’s not troublesome, you always don’t give yourself some leeway when you do things. It’s too cruel, hurting others and hurting yourself.”

Qi Yun’s hand brushed the moss-covered wall, and finally turned around to look at the road that was about to end, “This is the first time we have opened up our hearts to chat, isn’t it earlier that we can actually become friends, even when we are worried? It’s time to call each other and make an appointment for a drink together.”

Xing Zhongwan’s eyes were red, and the hand holding the umbrella handle burst out because of the force, he was holding back.

Qi Yun looked at the black car that was waiting for him not far ahead, “Go back, don’t come back, this is a place of right and wrong, stay in country X. I will visit my aunt’s tomb from time to time, you rest assured.”

Xing Zhongwan could no longer hold the cigarette in his hand, his eyes were red and dripping with water, his fist was tightly pressed against his lips, and there was a deep circle of teeth marks on it.

“If… I mean if.” Qi Yun said carefully.

“Next time we can meet again, can you call me brother?”

Xing Zhongwan squatted down, his eyes were congested, it was so uncomfortable that he couldn’t stand at all, and squatting down could relieve the pain in his heart.

Qi Yun smiled, “I want to call you one last time.”

Xing Zhongwan buried his head between his knees, and a soft sound from the other side of the wall made him unable to hold back any longer.

“May you be well. Have a safe journey.”

Qi Yun stared at the wall in a daze, a line of tears slid down the white and thin chin. Then turned around and walked towards the black bridge car, step by step firm and steady, without looking back.

The two people holding umbrellas finally walked across the wall and walked to the left and right sides. They were never the same travelers.

Xue Qing took Xing Zhongwan’s umbrella and wiped the raindrops from his shoulders, “Cry if you’re not happy, don’t hold back, I won’t laugh at you.”

Xing Zhongwan said nothing, turned around and got into the car. There are two boxes in the car, one is a bracelet, and the bracelet that was knocked off by himself is being held by Xing Zhongwan. When Shen Congxin sent it, he said it was Qi Yun’s intention. This is what belonged to his Xing family, please be sure to accept it when it is returned to the original owner. In the other box is the Buddhist beads he gave to Qi Yun five years ago. The reason why he gave the beads to Qi Yun was that he wanted to take away his anger, leave more room for everything, and have more peace in his heart with less obsession. It was obvious that he returned the bead, this road must be covered with blood, and he no longer deserves it.

Qi Yun was about to start, and he endured so long just waiting for him to leave and return to Country X.

If you don’t advance, you will retreat, and Qi Yun has no way to retreat, so he can only move forward. The two who don’t want to drag each other down can only part ways. Maybe one day in the future, they can really meet and toast each other and smile.

Xing Zhongwan bent down and buried his face in his hands. Xue Qing couldn’t see his expression but could understand his heartache. There were too many things to do in life, and he had done his best to get to this point. It cares that a person likes a person, even if that person has caused harm, but after years of washing away the entanglement, only the joy is left. It’s not that they are facing each other for a long time, but that they can really do something for each other. Even if they live well in different corners of the world, it is the best reward for each other. Xue Qing turned around and didn’t speak again, and ordered the driver to drive to the airport.

Xing Zhongwan raised his face, the redness in his eyes did not fade away, but he could not shed a single tear.

Qi Yun, if I could go back to that time, I would still say those words, Sister Fairy, how about I marry you when I grow up?

Qi Yun was sitting in the car, the rain was getting heavier, and the sound of raindrops hitting the glass window was noisy. Shen Congxin opened the car door and sat beside Qi Yun, “Big cousin, they’re gone.”

Qi Yun stared at his soaked trouser legs absentmindedly, did he leave? Just leave, it will be safe to return to Country X, and he can do it…

“The Story of the West Chamber” was playing in the car, Qi Yun smiled. In this life, I don’t know if I’ll have the chance to hear you sing the West Chamber.