Ling Shu felt unlucky.
Obviously, he was not the one who ordered Chen Wendong to monitor He Youan, and he was not the one who chased and killed Chen Wendong. In the end, instead, he was forced to face the end of death by holding a gun against his temple
Did he go out without reading the Huang Li, or was he too close to Yue Dingtang and was contaminated by his bad luck
Ling Shu still remembered that when he was in school, Yue Dingtang was indeed a little bit unlucky.
When several people play cards together, Yue Dingtang always draws the worst cards.
When going out to eat, the dishes ordered by Yue Dingtang are always sold out.
Even buying a ticket to watch a movie, as long as Yue Dingtang buys a ticket, only those spots in the corner will be left.
To sum up, Ling Shu believes that he has been completely contaminated by this bad luck.
"Write a letter." Chen Wendong's voice sounded.
"What letter?"
"A letter of help for Yue Dingtang." Chen Wendong said coldly, "Leave the letter, follow me, and let him bring what I need in exchange for you, otherwise, you will die."
Ling Shu laughed: "I said, Brother Chen, what do you think I am? I am neither a peerless beauty, nor his father and mother Yue Ding Tang, why should he be coerced by you for my middle school classmate? Are you bowing your head? Are you taking me too seriously?"
Chen Wendong: "It doesn't matter, as long as you go with me, you will already be on Mr. Cheng's death list. Even if Yue Dingtang refuses to save you, you can only escape with me to save yourself. Opportunities are always greater than one person."
Ling Shu felt something was wrong: "Why am I being chased by Mr. Cheng?"
Chen Wendong looked at him mockingly, but in the dim light, his expression was no longer important.
"Because a person as suspicious as Mr. Cheng, since he has already identified me as an inner ghost, if you go with me, I will definitely leak more or less about Mr. Cheng to you, including his identity. Since the disaster will break out from time to time, it is better to destroy it together while you and I are walking together."
"So, you have nowhere to go now, unless Yue Dingtang is willing to use his strength and connections to save you."
Ling Shu thought about it for a while, and it was true.
No wonder Chen Wendong was so cheerful just now that he told him Mr. Cheng's true identity. It turned out that this guy had long since buried a mine with bad intentions.
"I have another choice, and that is not to go with you." Ling Shu said.
"You have no choice." Chen Wendong put the gun on the safety lock directly.
He only needs to move his index finger lightly and pull the trigger, and he can immediately send Ling Shu to heaven.
Raise the quilt abruptly to block the opponent's sight, and use that fraction of a second to roll under the bed, or shrink into the quilt and roll out of the bed, or grab the iron plate next to him and hold it in front of his head and rush towards the opponent. Hard work, these methods flashed through his mind quickly, but they were all rejected one by one.
The safe distance between the two is also enough to make Ling Shu's resistance unlikely to succeed.
The form is stronger than that of people, Ling Shu sighed, got out of the quilt, and raised his hands.
"You have to make me wear a coat, don't you?"
Five minutes later, Ling Shu, who had changed his clothes, began to write a letter for help.
"Dear Mr. Yue, Mr. Chen Wendong is here to visit and chat with me for a while. I am in love with each other..."
Ling Shu felt awkward, so he quickly crossed out the last four words and wrote it again.
"The two of us met very late. I heard that Mr. Chen wanted to settle abroad. I was particularly reluctant to give him a ride in person. I also asked Mr. Yue to prepare air tickets, tickets, and road expenses for Mr. Chen, so that Mr. Chen has a smooth journey. Not to mention gossip, see you at 1:00 in the afternoon in three days, by the side of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing."
He originally wanted to leak some rumors in the letter, but Chen Wendong has been staring at every word he wrote, and he would be discovered if he was careless, and he couldn't do anything at all.
Ling Shu is not nervous now.
On the contrary, his thoughts are very complicated, and even a little imaginative.
Chen Wendong won't kill himself for the time being, that's for sure.
Otherwise he would have fired the moment he entered the door.
He now wants to find a way for himself to survive. Even if the straw of Ling Shu seems to be easy to sink, Chen Wendong wants to try it. After confirming this, Ling Shu starts to look for various loopholes.
He didn't find Chen Wendong's loophole for the time being, but when he wrote this letter for help, he remembered another thing.
At the beginning they received a still photo of He Youan hanging in a certain movie.
Not only that, but there is an inexplicable little poem behind the photo.
The beauty in front of the pond, the fragrant bones behind the bridge, and the dead tomb in the town. Winter is over, spring is coming, blood and tears inside and outside.
It looks like a crepe, but it's actually nonsense and inconsistent.
It is precisely because of the failure that Ling Shu will firmly remember it.
He never understood what the meaning of this little poem was.
What's even more interesting is that the other death threats He Youan received were all obtained by herself, but the still photo was stuffed by someone on the road in a newspaper.
At this moment, lightning flashes, this poem came out for no reason, and spontaneously jumped in front of him.
Ling Shu, who wanted to write a letter for help but failed to write a poem, remembered another inexplicable little poem instead.
Pond, bridge, town, winter, spring, li.
Is this a place name? !
Ling Shu knew about Tangqiao Town, which was just outside Shanghai, but he had never been there, so he didn't know if there was such a place in Winter and Spring, but the problem was—
Who gave them this place name, He Youan, or someone else
What is the purpose of this place, let them go to find something
In fact, it is not difficult to understand the hidden head of this little poem, but the authorities are fans. At that time, no one thought of this stanza, and they all speculated on the content of the verse.
Ling Shu can't wait to fly to Tangqiao Town immediately to see what the other party is hiding there.
"What are you thinking about?"
It's just that the cold muzzle on his forehead quickly pulled him back to reality.
Chen Wendong's voice was like a talisman, which made his head hurt.
Ling Shu was helpless.
"I didn't think about it, I wrote it, you can see it."
Chen Wendong glanced at it, and there was no problem.
"Let's go."
"where are we going?"
"You'll know when you leave."
There wasn't much room for him in the ward, but when he left the hospital, it was difficult for Chen Wendong to see and listen in all directions, so Ling Shu would definitely find many opportunities to escape.
But Chen Wendong seems to have expected this for a long time, and he is extremely cautious.
Ling Shu's hands were handcuffed and covered under the scarf, a gun was pressed against his back waist, and Chen Wendong was wearing a coat on his arm.
There was a rickshaw waiting at the door.
The driver was taking a nap in the car when he saw Chen Wendong coming out, so he hurriedly said hello.
"Sir, you are here so I can wait!"
"Get in the car." Chen Wendong said to Ling Shu.
The two of them were riding in the same rickshaw. The location was small and uncomfortable, but Ling Shu had no room to resist.
Chen Wendong's gun was safe.
But the rickshaw driver was not satisfied.
"Hey, this gentleman, we didn't say we wanted to add another person. It's hard for me to pull it, let alone going to the train station!"
"Three times the price." Chen Wendong said concisely, took out a big ocean from his pocket and threw it. "This is a reward for you, not counting the fare."
The rickshaw driver had never received such a large amount of money before, so he took it over and checked it over and over again, and even put it into his mouth and gnawed on it, beaming with joy.
"Then thank you sir!"
"Let's go now and go to the train station. I have to catch the earliest train."
"okay!"
Generally, it is difficult for a driver to pull the two of them, but Ling Shu found that Chen Wendong had deliberately selected a strong and healthy one, and it was not slow to drive down this way.
If you want to go faster, you will naturally take a car, but in that case, you have to drive alone. Chen Wendong is not sure that Ling Shu will not be able to drive. Even if he does, he does not trust Ling Shu, for fear that the other party will take him to the ditch. go inside.
This also shows that Chen Wendong doesn't trust anyone now, and he doesn't have any useful people around him. He is embarrassed and can only rely on himself.
"Where are we going, Nanjing? From Shanghai to Nanjing, the earliest bus is at 8:05 in the morning. Will it be too early for us to go there now, and we have to wait at the train station for a long time."
Ling Shu was at a loss for words.
"What time is it now? Lend me your watch. Alas, I said Brother Chen, you have always maintained a posture, your hands are not sore, and you also said that from the moment I left with you, Mr. Cheng will Let me solve it together. In this case, we are grasshoppers on a rope. Or we can have a discussion, you put down the gun, and I will follow you as usual until Yue Dingtang brings what you want to replace him. How about it?"
"To shut up."
Chen Wendong couldn't bear it any longer, and two words popped out between his teeth.
Ling Shu was finally quiet.
But after a few minutes, he spoke again.
"Turn off the insurance, I'm timid, I'm afraid your hands will shake, if the wheel hits a stone and bumps..."
As soon as the voice fell, as if to verify his thoughts, the rickshaw really crooked and was slightly shocked.
Chen Wendong's body also involuntarily tilted towards him.
Ling Shu was shocked.
"Watch out, watch out, keep your hands steady!"
The gunshots did not start, and the hand holding the gun only vibrated slightly with the car, and returned to normal.
Ling Shu breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Wendong laughed: "Look at your courage!"
Ling Shu: "You don't know, it was because I was timid that I asked my brother-in-law to go through the back door and become a policeman for me."
Chen Wendong sneered: "The police are not dangerous? The sky will collapse if you sit at home, why don't you do anything!"
Ling Shu: "You don't understand, right? There are many types of police officers, those who patrol the streets, those who handle cases, and those who work as clerks in the office. I followed the path of the district police chief at the time. As soon as I entered, I would organize files and spend my leisure time every day. If you can’t do it, you can go to work when you want to go to work, and leave early when you want, as long as you flatter your immediate boss, and keep it and no one cares about you, but I found out later that it can’t be done!”
On the streets of Shanghai in the middle of the night, there were naturally few pedestrians, and it was difficult to see even a street light. At first glance, it was empty and silent. Chen Wendong had been vigilant for a long time, and now he was a little tired. He did not stop Ling Shu from speaking, but instead Received a sentence.
"Why not?"
Ling Shu smiled: "There is no oil and water, think about it, being a small policeman, you only need to pay a month's salary, and you have to please your boss and make friends with colleagues. I have lived the rest of my life comfortably, but I am a timid person, and I don't want to see those who fight and kill, so I had to go out again and go to the local police school to be an instructor for a year, and after I came out..."
Chen Wendong interrupted him: "Where does the oil and water come from being an instructor?"
Ling Shu: "You don't understand this, right? If you want to be a police officer, your family should have some connections. The rich and noble son and brother naturally despise our line of work, but those well-off and rich peasants with innocent backgrounds also want to let them know. The children in the family are on duty to get public food, so after they come in, they should teach more and less, whether they can be lazy or whether they can learn more, isn’t it all the instructors have the final say?”
Chen Wendong was speechless.
Ling Shu: "What's even better is that these students are not like those in the military academies. They often have to study for a few years, and they leave in a month or two at most. They are all pre-employment training. Even if they are dissatisfied, it will not cause them to accumulate over time. Resentment, in a word, the hard-hitting instructors, the students who are running water, the oil and water I get in one year is enough for me to sit in the office for several years!"
Chen Wendong: "You really make a fortune."
"Good talk good talk."
Ling Shu didn't care about his sarcasm at all, and was quite content.
"Don't say, this world is a little chaotic, but the good thing is, you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't cross the line, no one will chase you, cheat, cheat, and take a little advantage. It's nothing, compared to murder and arson, it's already a good citizen. But then again, Brother Chen, I have to talk about you, what can we do, do things for the Japanese? Not my race, If someone can take care of you, isn't that obviously someone crossing the river and demolishing the bridge? If you started working for Lu Tongcang or the Zhen family, maybe you would have crossed Erlang's legs by now and hugged him from side to side, wouldn't you be happy?"
Chen Wendong sneered: "How clean do you think the Zhen family is? Which of these so-called famous families did not do some dirty deeds secretly! If nothing else, if Shen Shiqi didn't have Mr. Cheng, would he be as arrogant and domineering as before? The big guy who can speak upright, who is not bloodstained on his hands?"
Ling Shu: "What you said also makes sense. So, Shen Shiqi is really a traitor? He provided Mr. Cheng with a lot of confidential information?"
Chen Wendong: "It wasn't that Shen Shiqi provided Mr. Cheng, it was Mr. Cheng who sold the news to Shen Shiqi. In terms of well-informed information, no one in Shanghai can compare with Mr. Cheng. He can even influence the Kwantung Army's decision-making in the customs..."
Ling Shu was waiting to listen, but Chen Wendong was silent.
"You two, the train station is in front!"
When the car finally stopped, the rickshaw driver was out of breath, unable to say a word.
Chen Wendong paid three times the fare and pulled Ling Shu to the ticket office in the direction of the station.
Ling Shu was still not finished, but he also knew that he couldn't ask any more questions.
Just now was the most relaxed moment for Chen Wendong. From the moment the driver called out his destination, he became vigilant again, and no words could distract him any longer.
Ling Shu: "Are we really going to Nanjing? There are at least three hours before 8:05. The longer you stay here, the easier it is for you to be caught up by Mr. Cheng's people."
Chen Wendong: "Buy Hangzhou tickets, the earliest one."
He stuffed Ling Shu with the money and asked the other party to buy it, while Chen Wendong himself followed closely behind, not leaving for a moment.
After buying the tickets, the two of them sat down in the corner of the waiting room with forty minutes before the departure time.
Chen Wendong glanced around from time to time, eliminating suspicious candidates sent by Mr. Cheng to hunt him down.
His body was so tense that in the cold weather, sweat began to form on his neck.
Ling Shu wanted to say something to divert the other party's attention to see if he could get something out of his mouth, but Chen Wendong's current situation was obviously not suitable for any more conversations. Excessive action.
After dawn, the first person to visit him may not be Yue Dingtang.
According to his usual habit, after waking up, the surnamed Yue would take a walk in the back garden of his home and play Tai Chi before having breakfast. After that, he would go to school beforehand. Even if there was no class, he would spend the morning in the office, preparing for lessons and correcting his homework. Take the time to go to the city bureau, or go to the hospital to see him.
If the first person to receive the letter for help was not Yue Dingtang, he would have received the news even later.
As for whether Yue Dingtang would really agree to Chen Wendong's conditions, Ling Shu felt uncertain.
Even if the two are now superiors and subordinates, coupled with the affection of old classmates, and at most Yue Chunxiao's love for Ling Shu, but that's all, Ling Shu really deserves Yue Ding, Tang Da, and Zhou Zhang to bring people to rescue.
If he is willing to save him, it is because he cares about his old feelings and his righteousness is thin. If he is not willing, no one can say a word of accusation.
After all, this matter has nothing to do with Yue Dingtang from beginning to end.
At that time, even if Yue Chunxiao asked, he spread his hands, and regretted it was over.
Ling Shuwei really didn't hold out much hope in this matter.
Gotta find a chance to escape.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but meditate in his heart.
But the opportunity is hard to find.
Chen Wendong is a seasoned veteran, and his experience in this area is enough to give Ling Shu a headache.
The train that arrived at the station finally opened the gate to let people go. Passengers flocked to the gate. Chen Wendong and Ling Shu were not in a hurry to push forward, because Chen Wendong was afraid that there would be too many people and they would be washed away, so they stayed at the end. boarding.
The carriages in the early morning were already bustling with people carrying suitcases, carrying hot water bottles, and pushing carts to shout and sell. Contrary to the deserted road on the road, the hot air was blowing in, making people sweaty.
"Let Rang, Ran Rang! I'm in the first-class carriage, borrow it!"
"Hey, you bumped into a child, do you know that?"
"Are you cheating? Just now I clearly didn't encounter anything!"
The quarrels between petty citizens are not uncommon all the time.
These movements reached Chen Wendong's ears, and they didn't make any waves at all, and they were wiped out in an instant.
He took Ling Shu to find a vacancy.
These days, trains have not been assigned seats, they are all on a first-come, first-served basis, and those who are quicker have those who are not.
They bought a second-class carriage, which is neither as conspicuous as the first-class carriage nor as crowded as the third-class carriage, which is easy to expose and cause trouble.
There are four seats here, facing each other. In order to avoid irrelevant people, Chen Wendong bought all four seats, but in order to monitor Ling Shu, he naturally wanted to sit on the side with him.
When others were about to sit down again, seeing Chen Wendong's murderous expression, they were all timid and left without looking back.
So when the conductor passed the ticket check, he saw two big men huddled together in the same row, shoulder to shoulder, but the two seats opposite were empty.
Chen Wendong motioned to Ling Shu to take out the ticket for him to check.
"Sir, since you bought the two seats on the opposite side, you might as well have one seat on the other side, which is also more spacious." The conductor suggested kindly.
Ling Shu smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid of the cold, so it's warmer to sit with friends."
Chen Wendong raised his head and glanced at the conductor, as if he was looking at a dead man.
The latter did not dare to speak, and fled.
"Brother Chen, I'm thirsty."
"Be patient."
"Didn't we go to Nanjing, why did we buy tickets for Hangzhou?"
With the roar, the train started to move, and the scenery outside the window was no longer static.
The bustling crowd also began to gradually quiet down and restore some order.
There were fewer people walking by, and Chen Wendong's mood gradually calmed down.
"The letter I asked you to leave is Nanjing, so there is no need to go to Nanjing first." He said, leaning back on his seat and relaxing slightly. "Go to Hangzhou first, then leave from Hangzhou."
Ling Shu smiled and said: "That's not bad, Hangzhou has a lot to eat and the scenery is good. After we arrive at noon, we must have a good meal. I will take you to the building outside the building, but let's say it first, I don't bring any money. ."
Chen Wendong: "You just go with the flow, and you're not afraid that I'll shoot."
Ling Shu: "I'm afraid, is it useful to be scary? If you don't die, you still have to eat and drink. Brother Chen, when you go to Hangzhou, you will sit for five hours. Are you planning to let me drink a sip of water? "
Chen Wendong closed his eyes and meditated without saying a word.
Ling Shu had to shut up.
The conductor came with a kettle.
Ling Shu hurriedly stopped him and asked for two glasses of water.
"Sir, did you bring a water bottle or water bottle?" the other party asked.
Ling Shu: "No."
Conductor: "There are cups in the dining car, why don't you go and get them with me."
Ling Shu smiled and said, "My brother and I haven't seen each other for many years. We have a lot to say. We don't want to leave each other for a moment. Just help us with it."
The conductor looked strange and hesitated, but after all, he didn't say anything, and turned around to get them a cup.
In the current train, the passengers in the first and second class carriages are either rich or expensive, at least literati or have some status. Generally speaking, the conductors should not dare to offend, and they must be diligent and diligent. Don't be so polite. The so-called "watching people's dishes" is exactly the same.
He took the cup and poured hot water, Ling Shu held it in his arms, feeling satisfied.
"It's so cold, a cup of hot water is enough to warm my body and mind."
Chen Wendong did not go to get the cup, nor did he stop him from drinking water.
Ling Shu smiled and said, "Don't be so nervous, Mr. Cheng's people would never have guessed that you wanted to go to Nanjing, but detoured to Hangzhou first..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the back compartment.
"Catch the thief! There are thieves!"
"You stop!"
The movement of chasing back and forth was accompanied by the sound of rushing running. Ling Shu turned back subconsciously, and saw the two of them rushing over from far to near.
Running in front was a young man wearing a peaked cap, and chasing behind was a middle-aged woman, wearing a cheongsam and stepping on leather shoes.
Everyone was talking a lot, and they didn't react for a while, but the peaked cap had already run away, and rushed to them from the third-class carriage in a blink of an eye.
When Ling Shu turned back, the other party ran in their direction, and when he threw it, the handbag landed on Ling Shu's lap, and the person had already disappeared!
The woman behind and her husband caught up, sweating profusely and anxious.
The train was about to arrive at the station, and the speed gradually slowed down. At this time, if the cap jumped out of the window and escaped, he would definitely not be able to catch up.
Ling Shu handed out the handbag.
"This is what he just fell, is it yours?"
The woman grabbed the handbag and opened it.
"There's nothing left!"
She was anxious and angry, instead of thanking her, she yelled at Ling Shu.
"Are you guys in the same group, why did he throw the bag to you!"
Ling Shu was speechless: "Aren't you biting Lu Dongbin? If I were with him, would I be waiting for you here?"
The woman was furious: "Then how do I know, if you stop me now, I won't be able to catch up at all! You have to pay me back! There were dozens of dollars in my wallet, and that's our life-saving money! "
This is really a scholar who meets a soldier, and it makes no sense.
Ling Shu spread his hands: "I don't have any money, but my brother has. You can ask him for it."
The couple naturally looked at Chen Wendong beside Ling Shu.
Just when Ling Shu thought they were going to extort theories from Chen Wendong, an accident happened.
Even Chen Wendong didn't expect that this middle-aged woman in her 30s and 40s with a normal face and even some wrinkles at the corners of her mouth would suddenly pull out a gun from her coat pocket and aim it at the center of her eyebrows!
Ling Shu: ? !
At the moment when the gunshots sounded, Ling Shu almost bent down to hide at the same time!
He no longer cares whether Chen Wendong will shoot himself.
Chen Wendong, on the contrary, got up and pounced on the woman, deflecting the opponent's wrist, and the bullet also went in the wrong direction, hitting the head of the passenger next to him!
Blood splattered everywhere, and the passengers fell down!
There were screams all around, and everyone in the carriage subconsciously got up and fled, and ran to both ends of the carriage with all their might!
Missing a hit, the impact of the crowd disrupted the plans of the other two. Ling Shu and Chen Wendong took advantage of the chaos to get out in the crowd.
Even if the killer is unscrupulous, it is impossible to shoot and waste bullets in such a dense crowd.
Chen Wendong and Ling Shu rushed towards the third-class carriage.
Because there are many rich people and relatively few people in the first-class compartment, it is not easy to hide, while the third-class compartment is cheap, noisy and crowded, which is convenient to hide in the chaos.
The chaotic crowd hindered Ling Shu's escape plan. He wanted to get out of the car, but the door was blocked. The train hadn't stopped completely, and it was obviously too late to get out of the car window.
He could only keep pushing forward.
The target of the two killers may be Chen Wendong, but Ling Shu doesn't want to take this risk. After all, Chen Wendong is right. In Mr. Cheng's eyes, the one who can "escape" with Chen Wendong is, of course, a companion, and it is not wrong to solve it together.
There was another gunshot behind, and it was unknown who was shot and who fell, and the crowd was in chaos again.
The bathroom was in front of him, Ling Shu twisted the doorknob and got in.