They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes - Chapter 22

Luo Jun sat for a long time before realizing that there was only a busy tone to hang up on the phone.

It’s no surprise,

After all, all that has to be said has been said.

The other party’s attitude is gentle, and most of them treat him as the family member of the victim. Naturally, they will not greet each other as politely as in the business field.

That Ming family… there was no need to greet him politely.

Mingjia’s field is at sea, not only in cruise ships and maritime trade. Few people know the depth of the family that is entrenched in the sea, but everyone who has a boat in the business knows the rules.

The hottest routes on the high seas have to go to the Ming family for a ruling on conflicts and disputes; if there is any trouble on the way to the sea, as long as they seek shelter from the Ming family in time, most of them can turn the corner.

This accident was just a rather inconspicuous medium-tonnage cruise ship owned by Mingjia. The rescue was very professional and timely. Most of the people were just a little frightened, and even a few were injured. The amount of compensation for each passenger was still staggeringly high.

Luo Jun thought endlessly, and suddenly, after realizing it, he was sharply stabbed by a certain word in his original thought.

The thought grew sharper and sharper, until it pierced his flesh and strangled him with blood.

…Victims.

It is clear that the rescue is professional and timely, and even the injured are few, why would anyone be killed?

Why is it Luo Zhi who was killed?

He thought so, and knew better than anyone how ridiculous these thoughts were. He seems to be making a poor court testimony, desperately denying every word, every word is not attacking himself.

Because he didn’t think of Luo Zhi until the end, no matter how professional the rescue was, he couldn’t save an empty shell that wouldn’t move.

Because he watched his younger brother become an empty shell.

He was finally unable to deny his crime, which was not limited to the shipwreck of the cruise ship, but extended forward thirteen years, back to the afternoon when the lost child was brought home.

He never had any qualifications to teach Luo Zhi a lesson. He was cowardly and self-righteous, and stood on the sidelines ridiculously, and now, he still can only rely on doing something more cowardly and ridiculous to offset the thorns that are grinding flesh and blood growing in his memories.

Luo Jun raised his eyes, he saw the car waiting outside the door

That car was the usual car of the Luo family and would take him home. Luo Jun didn’t know what he would face when he got home, so he thought of Luo Zhi again.

Does Luo Zhi have such an experience every time he returns to Luo’s house?

Not accurate, it should be more difficult than him.

I don’t know what will be waiting at home, and I don’t know how everyone will treat him.

It’s like floating on a dark sea of ​​ice, possibly being dragged by any wave into the boundless drowning that is only cold.

…

Look, he is no better than Jian Huaiyi, and he is shamelessly comparing himself with Luo Zhi.

How to match and compare with Luo Zhi?

He deserves it.

Luo Jun stood up. Instead of going out and getting into the car, he picked up his mobile phone and made another call.

It didn’t take long for the other side to pick up this time: “Is there anything you want to do with me?”

“Ren Chenbai.” Luo Jun said, “You should have a lot of Jian Huaiyi’s handle in your hand, leave it to me.”

The other end of the phone didn’t answer immediately, and was quiet for a few seconds, then smiled softly.

The laughter is as gentle as the person’s usual image, but the meaning is not clear. Luo Jun didn’t have the patience to accompany him to fight Jifeng, and continued: “I know you are working with him, and you are helping him recently.”

He knew that Ren Chenbai was secretly working with Jian Huaiyi. In fact, Jian Huaiyi’s methods in the business field are not as precise and ruthless as those who study people’s hearts. There are many places where he is not careful enough because of his inexperience, and those small actions are almost self-conscious.

Luo Jun didn’t know what transaction Jian Huaiyi and Ren Chenbai did, or even why the two got together.

He didn’t check it out, because in his opinion, it wasn’t a big deal.

There was no conflict in the business between the Ren family and the Luo family. Mrs. Luo and the deceased mother Ren were old friends. The children of the two families had been in contact with each other since childhood, and Ren Chenbai had always been kind to Luo Zhi.

If you want to get some commercial secrets of the Luo family, and go all the way around the adopted son of Jian Huaiyi, you might as well go directly to Luo Cheng…

Luo Jun’s thoughts were running, and he was suddenly tripped by a thought that jumped out, and paused for a moment without warning.

…

It seems that after the self-deceiving blindfold was removed, many inconspicuous details that seemed to be unnecessary to think carefully, let alone pay attention to, suddenly became noticeable.

Ren Chenbai has always been good to Luo Zhi, why did he go to Jian Huaiyi to cooperate?

Why did Ren Chenbai cooperate with Jian Huaiyi?

what have they done?

Before he could sort out his thoughts, the person on the other side of the phone smiled again, half-jokingly said, “What’s the matter, your brother stole your seal?”

Luo Jun fell silent and did not answer immediately.

He knew very well who the “your brother” the other party was talking about.

He personally gave Jian Huaiyi the identity, so the people in the circle secretly disdain the adopted son of the dove occupying the magpie’s nest, but also show more respect and courtesy to Jian Huaiyi.

– Of course, this identity brought much respect and courtesy to Jian Huaiyi, and the original “magpie” who had occupied the nest was naturally treated with coldness and disdain accordingly.

After being sent out to do things as an adult, with more experience, you naturally know how to move forward and backward, but it is difficult for teenagers to fully grasp these things.

Luo Zhi fought many battles because of these things.

Because of what happened in those three years, Luo Zhi was seriously short of nutrition when he was most in need of nourishment. In fact, his health was not very good, and he was often sick from childhood to adulthood.

But Luo Zhi never suffered from a fight like this.

The pampered young masters have never fought so much—of course they are not opponents when they fight alone, but even if they find a group of people to surround Luo Zhi, it will not take any advantage.

They were almost being played around by Luo Zhi. They were so angry and disheartened that they couldn’t find anyone. When they looked up, they saw Luo Zhi sitting on a tree and basking in the sun.

Luo Zhi has never suffered a single loss. He knows how to use strength to fight and how to set up traps. No one can beat him at all.

…

So Luo Jun never figured out what Luo Zhi was afraid of.

What was Luo Zhi afraid of, and why every time he woke up in an unfamiliar place, he would roll into the bed reflexively to find what to use as a weapon. It was like a cub who was only driven to a dead end, his eyes were so dark that no light could enter, and there was only a desperate growl and whimper in his throat.

He didn’t speak, and Ren Chen, who was on the opposite side, didn’t know what to say. He just took the joke by default and comforted him casually: “Check it out again, maybe it’s a misunderstanding?”

“I know you have a handle on Jian Huaiyi.” Luo Jun repeated in a deep voice, “Give it to me, or I will deal with you together.”

Ren Chenbai seemed to finally notice his strangeness.

The other side of the phone was silent, and there was a faint sound of fingers tapping on the table.

“Luo Zhi.”

Ren Chenbai finally asked, “What happened to Luo Zhi?”

Luo Jun’s breathing was blocked in his chest.

He thought that this question would first be asked by Luo Family Master or Luo Cheng after returning home, and he was probably ready by then, but Ren Chenbai was the first to ask this question.

He couldn’t give an answer, and he was silent for a long time before slowly opening his mouth: “What?”

“It can only be like this.” The voice on the other side came from the phone, but there was still no turbulence, as if to explain an obvious fact, “He only deals with Luo Zhi alone, unless he is crazy, he will be so early. plotting your stuff.”

Ren Chenbai said: “As for you, even if Jian Huaiyi demolished Luo Zhi and sold it piece by piece on the street, as long as you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you wouldn’t believe it.”

“That’s why Luo Jun.” Ren Chenbai said, “Why don’t you tell me directly, what did you see Jian Huaiyi doing to Luo Zhi?”

Ren Chenbai rarely speaks like this, and most of the time he wears his gentle mask in front of people. At this moment, he didn’t know what it was for, when he opened his mouth, there was no room for him, and there were cold and sharp words that even he himself had not noticed.

Luo Jun’s throat seemed to flow through the red hot molten iron that had just been poured.

He still couldn’t answer the question.

Those false self-reflections and confessions had only lasted for less than ten minutes before the molten iron poured over by Ren Chenbai’s words melted away, exposing the ugliness and ugliness inside. under harsh light.

Of course he wouldn’t believe it.

Not only did he not believe it, but when he saw Luo Zhi’s wound, he felt disgusted and felt that Luo Zhi was lying.

Luo Zhi was wearing that windbreaker. At that time, Luo Zhi was not so thin and pale that he seemed to melt into the waves. Luo Zhi was playing his game with his mobile phone in his arms, as if he was casually walking up to him.

Luo Zhi can only do this. Luo Zhi was like this when he was a child. He pretended to read a book while walking. After a long time, the book hadn’t turned a page, but people walked up to his desk without a trace.

How much did Luo Zhi expect from him at that time? Maybe not anymore. Luo Zhi no longer insists on explaining what happened even if no one listens, as Luo Zhi does every time. Such actions seem to be just a habit of the body.

Luo Zhi just jokingly said to Luo Jun that he should give Jian Huaiyi his share of the property and blow Jian Huaiyi out.

At that time, why didn’t I think to ask Luo Zhi, why would he suddenly say such a thing?

“Aren’t you working with Jian Huaiyi?” Luo Jun couldn’t mobilize any more thoughts, so he could only ask back, “Why don’t you know?”

He thought that this sentence would be mocked and denied by Ren Chenbai in the next moment—perhaps Ren Chenbai cooperated with Jian Huaiyi for this reason. He thought that perhaps Ren Chenbai was protecting Luo Zhi secretly, just to help Luo Zhi collect the evidence of Jian Huaiyi for them to see.

Thinking like this, Luo Jun even unconsciously gave birth to some ridiculous expectations.

He actually expected this denial and ridicule to be more severe.

Ren Chenbai can scold him for three hours, and he can scold him for three days.

You can take him to Ren’s house, throw him a box of documents, let him see how Jian Huaiyi framed Luo Zhi, let him see clearly what he indulges like blind.

The longer Ren Chenbai scolds him, the more it shows that Luo Zhi was at least protected during that time.

Even if this protection did not come from blood-connected family members, or from those who were supposed to protect Luo Zhi, it was a rare comfort after all.

He will repay Ren Chenbai, and he will pay for it far more than what Ren Chenbai paid…

Luo Jun stopped thinking.

He didn’t hear anything on the phone.

He thought that somewhere on the phone was broken, he looked at the page he was talking on, and checked the headset again: “Ren Chenbai?”

There was no answer from the other side, but there was a sound of breathing.

For some reason, the frequency of that breathing made him familiar and uneasy, and Luo Jun suddenly remembered that he seemed to be panting like this on the lifeboat.

It’s not suffocating or nervous, unpleasant or rushing, it just has to be slow enough, because every breath doesn’t seem to fill the bottom of the lungs.

Because it seemed like a hand was clutching his chest.

Luo Jun’s voice was a little hoarse: “Ren Chenbai.”

“I’ll talk to you in detail later.” Ren Chenbai finally said, “Which hospital is Luo Zhi in?”

Luo Jun stayed in place, the molten iron solidified on his throat and chest, slowly becoming heavy and cold.

“He doesn’t want to see me? Then don’t, don’t force him.”

Ren Chenbai said: “When he was hospitalized in my hospital before, the doctor said that he seemed to have other problems with his body. Remember to check him.”

Ren Chenbai thought for a while: “By the way, he doesn’t seem to hear.”

Probably because the tone on the phone was too bland and indifferent, Luo Jun even took several times the usual time to finally fully understand the meaning of these words.

His chest heaved up and down, the thorns that he had avoided with self-criticism quietly extended along the bloodstream, the cold and poisonous thorns penetrated the blood vessels and restrained his heart, lungs and internal organs.

Luo Jun remembered the family dinner that night.

The question that Luo Cheng once asked his father, Luo Cheng said that Brother Chenbai said that Luo Zhi killed Aunt Ren.

When I heard this secret, I was shocked, shocked, and surprised, and suddenly flowed out along the gap cut by the thorns, turning into a thick and cold ominous premonition.

How did the father respond?

The father said that the Ren family should have told Ren Chenbai so.

My father said, that’s it.

Father said that the truth may not be tolerated by Ren Chenbai.

“Ren Chenbai.” Luo Jun heard himself ask, “Do you really think that Aunt Ren’s death was caused by Luo Zhi?”

The silence on the other side of the phone was too long, so long that the bottom of his heart sank inch by inch, sinking into the bottomless abyss.

“Don’t mention this? I just decided last night to stop thinking about it and be nice to him.”

Ren Chenbai smiled helplessly: “Now think about it, it’s a bit too much to trick him into Ren’s house when your family gathers.”

Luo Jun repeated in a low voice, “It was decided last night?”

He spent so much time understanding this sentence that it took him more time than before to realize that Ren Chenbai had lied to Luo Zhi during their family gathering.

Is Luo Zhi appearing at Wanghai Villa because of this?

What did Luo Zhi do that night in the villa?

On the cruise, Luo Zhi turned into what Jian Huaiyi said, does it have anything to do with this incident?

“Why last night.” Luo Jun said, “What happened last night?”

“I heard that Jian Huaiyi invited your family to take a cruise, so I went to Huaisheng Entertainment to go around and got some things.”

Ren Chenbai said, “By the way, do you want Jian Huaiyi’s handle? I’ll send it to you later.”

Luo Jun is not thinking about the reason at all now.

He clenched his fist slowly, the coldness in his palm was spreading, and his fingers were starting to become stiff.

Because Ren Chenbai on the other side of the phone didn’t know that Luo Zhi was also on the cruise, and was still chatting casually along this topic, saying more to him.

Most of Ren Chenbai didn’t even know that the cruise ship sank, the Ren family’s business didn’t go by sea, and Ren Chenbai didn’t have the habit of watching the news.

If it is not relevant, not everyone can know all the major events happening in this world anytime, anywhere.

…even if it’s relevant, it’s not always the case.

Luo Jun listened to the voice on the phone, and he was not even sure if he was dreaming.

Because he was too bad for Luo Zhi, he was taught a lesson by Auntie Ren, who was the most protective of Luo Zhi, and had an absurd and outrageous dream.

“You don’t bother Luo Zhi now? Then let you know something more, and be nice to the brother you don’t recognize.”

Ren Chenbai teased him half-jokingly, and continued to say: “Your tie clip was actually obtained by Luo Zhi, and my mother helped him pull the thread. It took a lot of effort, Luo Zhi sent it. Your birthday present…”

Luo Jun asked, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

Probably because his voice was too cold and rude, Ren Chenbai paused for a moment before replying dumbly: “Master Luo, I told you earlier, you won’t take off this tie clip and throw it into the sea, won’t you see it in your life?”

Ren Chenbai just counterattacked casually, and didn’t say anything in particular. They often joked like this, but Luo Jun seemed to be cut alive by these words.

Luo Jun suddenly began to gasp for breath.

His eyes were pale, his body bent and leaned down, one hand tightly gripping the microphone on the headphone cable.

When Jian Huaiyi decided to tear his face with Luo Jun completely, he once told him that one day he might go crazy and find someone to fish in that sea for a month.

Luo Jun was indeed being punished for his own crime.

He thought this was the limit, and he didn’t think there could be any more severe punishment than admitting his guilt. Then he found out that everything had not started at all, and it was not until now that Ling Chi really stabbed the first knife.

How many are waiting for him?

Suddenly, he no longer dared to rummage through his memories.

He finally realized that this was the real punishment. Those black thorns that had all turned into blood dripping in the past, he couldn’t even have enough courage to go inside to find traces of Luo Zhi.

Will he throw it? Of course he throws.

He has always been like this.

The gifts that Luo Zhi gave him were all thrown away by him with disdain, and he could no longer find where to throw them away.

Even if the tie clip was of great significance to him, even if it helped him win his first eight-figure order… If he thought that Luo Zhi helped him, it would probably only make him feel ashamed and annoyed at that time. Bar.

He would probably never wear that tie clip again, he would probably be annoyed by Luo Zhi’s unnecessary actions, and he wouldn’t think about how much shame and anger there was in it.

He remembered the drenched cold tie.

He didn’t even know when the tie clip fell.

The tie clip was so inconspicuous that he didn’t notice it.

What about Luo Zhi?

Is Luo Zhi eye-catching?

Where did Luo Zhi fall? Did Luo Zhi call for help? Did Luo Zhi see him?

Luo Jun was trapped in every possibility. He found that none of these possibilities was not cruel, and there was no one that would prevent him from standing as if the sea water rushed up and drowned all the air in his lungs. Chen Bai was still talking.

“I can’t contact him anymore. Did he change his phone again?”

“I didn’t find him… I didn’t know why I was soft-hearted. I wanted him to go out and relax for a few days. I didn’t expect him to run away.”

Ren Chenbai seemed to be flipping through the documents, and his voice was still a little careless: “Is he okay, is he still feeling uncomfortable?”

“…Okay.” Luo Jun slowly released his stiff fingers, “It shouldn’t be uncomfortable anymore.”

Ren Chenbai should have nodded his head, there is still a meeting to be held on his side, and it is almost time.

Ren Chenbai confirmed with the assistant again, promised to send the handle of Jian Huaiyi to Luo Jun later, and was about to hang up.

Luo Jun stopped him: “Ren Chenbai.”

Ren Chenbai walked to the conference room. He stretched out his hand to hold the Bluetooth headset, and the background sound became empty: “Is there anything else?”

“You… find him.”

Luo Jun said, “Look for Luo Zhi and help me, I lost my brother.”

Luo Jun whispered, “I can’t find him anywhere.”