Swallowing the Seas

"As long as you open your mouth, I will believe anything you say."

Wu Yu's expression seemed a little strange, but it was not superficial, so even the slightest shadow change could not express the expression of that moment.

The air of stalemate froze, and eyes with different meanings from all directions were intertwined on him.After a few seconds of being still, he finally opened his mouth slowly. He was a little hoarse because he hadn't made a sound for a long time, but he was very calm:

"I have nothing more to say."

——Indeed, there is nothing more to say. Lin Hao, who should explain, has explained everything clearly, but there is no evidence to come up with.

The truth in this world is so helpless, even if the whole world is willing to believe what happened in the past 12 years, but without that thin piece of paper with a red stamp on it, no matter how tragic the sacrifice, no matter how hard the feat is, it will change accordingly. Feeling a little guilty, a little unsteady.

Bu Chonghua still looked at him persistently: "You can say anything, just tell us that Lin Hao is telling the truth."

"...'Truth'." Wu Yu slowly repeated these two words, and then the shadow on the side of his cheek moved slightly again, and this time he could finally see that it was a brief smile: "You don't understand, step team, words It doesn't really make sense now."

He called him "team".

Bu Chonghua forcibly suppressed his emotions: "No, Wu Yu, the language in this world is effective as long as it is spoken, listen to me..."

"I wasn't originally called Wu Yu."

Bu Chonghua stopped suddenly.

"I didn't have a name at first, and I didn't know when I was born. Every family in the village eats opium. After eating opium to a certain extent, my mind becomes crazy, and my parents are no exception. The year I first went to the field to mow grass They both died without knowing why. My father died all at once. Before my mother left, she told me that she had a younger sister who fled to 'outside' to make a living when she was young. If that younger sister came to me one day, she told me to I want to go with her and go 'outside' to live a good life and see the big world."

Bu Chonghua vaguely guessed who that "sister" was, and sure enough, Wu Yu paused and said, "About the second year after my mother left, some adults came to the village one day, and there was a woman among whom I was the first." I knew who she was right away. Because she looks exactly like my mother, really, even I look like her."

"She is Xie Xing's mother."

——The very good-looking young woman was wearing a pink silk shirt and a white pleated skirt, squatting in front of the grove with a smile on her face, holding a little child who was very similar to herself in her arms.

The immature face was tense, and he stared at the camera cautiously from bottom to top. The blood-gray sky in the border poisonous village more than 20 years ago was reflected in the eyes of the child, without the slightest smile.

"She wanted to take me away, but other people in the same group told her that the preparations were not complete this time. Although it is legal for them to leave the country and come here, if they bring a child back, they will have to take the smuggling route, border guards' It’s not ready yet’. So she can only leave the village with those people first, and before leaving, she told me that she has a child about my age, called Xie Xing, who is seven years old this year, why not call me Agui from now on, It is also counted as seven years old. She said that she will definitely come back after one or two months at most, and then she will take me away completely, and go to a big city where there is no opium, no poppies, and it is spring all year round, and she will be with her son. Let's live together."

"I believed it, and I'm very happy. You see, I finally had a name and an age that year, but I didn't expect that to be the last time I saw her."

Wu Yu smiled sadly.

"Half a year has passed, a year has passed, and more than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. She is gone forever, and has never returned since."

"..." Bu Chonghua asked awkwardly, "Why?"

"I don't know why, but I really want to know. After all, it was the first chance in my life to change my destiny." Speaking of this, Wu Yu also laughed at himself a little: "It wasn't until more than ten years later that I was able to protect Ma Yin Deli finally gained a certain status with Thayer, the "big boss" of our entire village, and managed to win the first opportunity from him to participate in the "trading" of drug gangs, that is, to cross the border and sneak into the north. To monitor and facilitate a drug deal with Thayer. But in fact, I was trying to find out, and I had spent several years of hard work and time trying to find out his whereabouts."

Bu Chonghua's expression changed uncontrollably, and he finally remembered the night after Mayin's death, in the car galloping towards the hospital, Wu Yu was leaning on the passenger seat covered in blood, and murmured to him those chaotic flashback memories— —

"The first time I met Ah Gui was when I was an intern in my sophomore year. I was on an arrest mission with the anti-drug team. He saved my life the first time I met..."

"Urgent help! Urgent help! Two sellers broke through the encirclement and are running away!"

"Stop—oh! . . . "

"Do you want to die, little policeman, didn't you see the grenades in the pockets of those two men?"

……

"Yes, all the plots in the story actually happened, but the protagonist who was supposed to be standing in the center of the stage has already changed clothes with the double." Wu Yu raised the corners of his lips briefly, drawing them into a straight line: "And when I went to see him, my motive was very simple, just to ask why his mother didn't come in the end. It didn't take too much nonsense, because Xie Xing also recognized me at the first sight."

"...You...I know you." Jian Jianxing's shocked and trembling panting was heard in the bushes, his pupils constricted, and he said in disbelief: "Are you Agui? Are you Agui?!"

That was the first time they looked at each other. Ah Gui originally thought that the years of anticipation, longing, disappointment and resentment would make it difficult to utter these words, or once he uttered them, he would become hysterical; but in fact he was calmer than expected .

He heard himself say calmly, "I've been waiting for her."

The chaotic arrest scene in the distance and the flashing police lights were silent for a moment, only these two incomparably similar faces faced each other, as if fate had just played a bad joke.

"She knew, so she went to you twice."

Agui was startled.

"After she came back that year, she searched for people everywhere, and soon went to Myanmar again, but just as she set off, she encountered civil strife in Shan State, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the coalition forces and the government forces. The smugglers she hired refused to continue to venture into In the armed rebellion area, she had to go back home. In the second year, she fell ill and had part of her body removed... and missed the short few months before the general election in Myanmar. When she recovered, she got up and dressed. Hire people and then smuggle people across the border, but time is running out. The Burmese army suddenly announced the overthrow of the election results, and the situation immediately deteriorated again. The Mengtai Army in the Golden Triangle Kunsa expanded rapidly in Shan State, and drug gangs, large and small, began to divide. The site, your village was completely sealed off after being occupied by the armed drug lord named Thayer. When she came back, she said that the Shan State Army was stationed on every mountain, every village was guarded by strong soldiers and heavy artillery, and every piece of farmland was Burned by militants, driving villagers like cattle and sheep to plant poppies. She almost never came back."

Ah Gui stood motionless, his mind blank.

He heard machine guns roaring in the woods, flames covered the farmland in the village, and camouflage trucks roared past the burning ridges; he saw rows of soldiers in camouflage uniforms flying into the sky in the explosion, and when they landed, they had turned into A piece of stumped limbs and arms were destroyed, and the gunpowder smoke covered the crying and wailing of the villagers in fear.

"She couldn't wait until the day when the war subsided." Xie Xing's eyes were flushed, and he said, "She died the year the Mengtai Army surrendered, and her cancer recurred."

She failed to survive those drug lords. In fact, even the big drug lords could die, and their ashes could still be sprinkled into the sea.

"But my mother never forgot you until she passed away, Agui. She left the photo to me, saying that you might still be alive in this world."

"She said that if I can find you one day, I must find a way to bring you back to this world from the other side of the poppy field."

……

"When I was young, I thought that Xie Xing's mother had broken her promise, but in fact she never forgot to find me. Ten years ago, I thought Zhang Boming gave up his undercover life for righteousness, but in fact Zhang Boming was still planning for me at the last moment. "Wu Yu's eyes were bloodshot. Standing in the shadow of the concrete pillars of the unfinished building, he looked at Bu Chonghua calmly: "Zhang Boming, Xie Xing, Hu Liang'an and even Lin Hao, everyone I have met over the years has done their best. No one gave up trying to pull me out of that hell, but all efforts were of no avail. Civil strife, war, disease, death...every accident of fate is actually the natural result of reason , I wrote today's ending from the very beginning."

The ending isn't all bad either.

During the war in the Golden Triangle in the 80s, and in the 90s, Shan State used poison to support the army. Countless local people were displaced.Under the background of that era, for a young orphan to survive, and to be able to stand here today, is already such good luck that even more unjustly dead souls dare not even think about it.

"People like you shouldn't touch those, team. You look at me as if I'm standing on the flat ground like you, but in fact, there are thousands of miles of land under your feet, and countless corpses under my feet." Wu Yu smiled, Said: "I don't want to climb up on Xie Xing's bones anymore. When he left, his body was already full of scars."

Bu Chonghua was choked by a sharp pain: "But——"

"Calm down the team." At this time, Jiang Ting stepped forward at some point, and patted him on the shoulder from behind: "Let them take Wu Yu away first, it's really impossible not to clarify this matter."

Bu Chonghua pinched his palm tightly with his nails.

The three of them stood by the corner of the wall near the floor-to-ceiling windows, and Secretary Weng Song Pingping and the leader were all standing in the hall about ten steps away.Only Yan Yan looked at Jiang Ting, his keen intuition seemed to smell some kind of uneasiness, and he subconsciously took two steps forward.

"You shouldn't have insisted on coming here with us today. It would be risky for you if there was a commotion." Jiang paused, and persuaded: "Let's go, let Wu Yu explain clearly."

Bu Chonghua stared straight at Wu Yu, only to see him smile one last time, seemed a little sad and regretful, then lowered his eyes and walked towards the crowd.

Just now, when there was a quarrel, they wanted to resort to means. In fact, they were rushing to speak in the midst of chaos. Now that Wu Yu gave up resistance and walked over here, the tense nerves of several leaders relaxed a little.

Jiang Ting naturally took half a step back and turned to face the crowd.

"...You ask him to explain clearly." Bu Chonghua's voice trembled slightly at the end, and asked, "But how do you explain this kind of thing now?"

Indeed, if everything in this world could be clearly argued, then the word unjust, false and wrongly decided would not exist in the dictionary.Lin Hao also hesitated and opened his mouth, just about to say something, but Wu Yu stopped in his tracks, turned around and smiled slightly:

"I know I can't explain clearly, but what should be done still needs to be done."

Everyone was stunned.

At this moment, Yan Yan lost his voice: "—stop!"

Before the words fell to the ground, Bu Chonghua was already clear in his heart, but it was too late—Jiang Ting happened to be standing with his back to Wu Yu, and he grabbed his throat as soon as he stretched out his hand, and was dragged in front of him like lightning:

"Stop for me!"

The scene froze in an instant, Jiang Ting exclaimed, and was dragged by Wu Yu abruptly back a few steps, he stepped on the edge of the empty window sill!

"Don't come over, or I'll jump down with him!"

"Stop the fuck!" "Team Yan!" "Call someone, call someone!!!" "You can't call someone if the team is still here!!"

Lin Hao was stunned, Bu Chonghua didn't know how to react, Yan Xie was pulled by Song Ping with all his strength like a raging lion.The scene was like an exploding frying pan, everyone was shouting, and everyone was turning around. As soon as the director subconsciously took out his mobile phone to make a call, Secretary Weng quickly snatched it and smashed it, roaring: "Anyone will be killed!" Do not call the police!"

These words are usually black humor, but no one can laugh at this moment.

"Get me a car, remove the license plate, fill up the gas, open the door and start it, and put 2000 yuan in cash in the car." Wu Yu said coldly: "Move quickly, I know that the net that just caught Lin Hao has been taken away." , jumping down now, both of us will die together!"

Song Ping roared: "Don't act recklessly!"

"Put down Jiang Ting, he didn't let you down!" Yan Xie broke free and took two steps forward, yelling loudly: "Don't you know why Xie Xing dropped out of school and went undercover, Wu Yu?! You want to admit that you are a drug dealer Do you want to be said to have committed suicide in fear of crime after death?!"

This questioning hit the nail on the head, and every word was aimed at the opponent's weakness, but suddenly Jiang Ting's trembling voice sounded: "Don't... don't be afraid, Yan Yan."

With so many eyes focused on him, Jiang Ting was trembling all over, and it was difficult to speak because his throat was constricted: "Still...do you remember our meeting in Yuanlong Gorge?"

Yan Xie froze like an electric shock.

Jiang Ting looked towards the crowd with a face full of fear, his appearance seemed to be both calm and weak, but he still forced a trembling smile: "If I die today, I will... I will also become the unsurpassable one in your heart. A winner."

Among all the people present, except the two of them, no one knew what happened in Yuanlong Gorge—for a moment, Yan Mao's surprised eyes met Jiang Ting.

"..."

The tense muscles on Yan Yan's back loosened a bit, but no one noticed this change in the chaos, and he stopped in doubt.

"Don't talk nonsense." Wu Yu was blocked behind Jiang Ting, and said coldly, "I'll give you 10 minutes to park your car under the southeast wall of this building, or Professor Jiang will die."

This scene is simply absurd. The person sent by Yundian was promoted by Jinhai to be the captain of the detachment, and then the associate professor of Jianning Police Academy who was born in Gongzhou was kidnapped in front of Jinhai's leaders. What is even more frightening is the Jianning detachment Zhang Huan was standing there watching helplessly.I don't even know who to hit when this pot is thrown out.

What's even more absurd is that because of Zhang Zhixing's special occupation, the play that was temporarily decided to be staged in order to arrest him was not prepared at all. The reason why the ancient tea-horse road could not be wiped out once the news leaked out was that the twenty or so leaders of the municipal party committee who held a secret meeting at the municipal bureau at that time were all transferred to the arresting scene of the unfinished building in accordance with the secrecy regulations. Hai's Bu Chonghua didn't miss it!

Now it was impossible for them to hide Bu Chonghua and then go to the police. The only local policemen present were Song Ping and the technical directors of the Municipal Bureau. Could they be expected to rush forward and fight Wu Yu to rescue the hostages?

The atmosphere was tense, several directors looked anxiously at Song Ping, Song Ping looked at Secretary Weng, Secretary Weng pondered for a few seconds with a pale face, then turned his head and ordered: "Do as he said, and don't disturb the police in the jurisdiction."

The few people didn't need him to order a second time, they turned around and ran out of the unfinished building.Not long after, someone rushed back and whispered something in the leader's ear. Secretary Weng turned to Wu Yu and said in a deep voice, "The car and cash are ready."

——This is probably the fastest ransom preparation process in history. Even the bank is closed, it is difficult to collect money, and you can’t find old banknotes with serial numbers. After all, the kidnappers only need 2000 yuan.

Wu Yu grabbed Jiang Ting's throat with a protruding hand like iron pincers, and said lightly, "Get out of the way."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Bu Chonghua opened his mouth to say something, but forced himself to be patient, and slowly retreated to the corner with the crowd.

Wu Yu didn't look at him again. Using Jiang Ting's body as a shield, he leaned against the wall and slowly moved to the iron ladder on the floor, and then stepped back downstairs step by step.

Song Ping and Bu Chonghua met each other's eyes, stepped forward decisively, and Yan Xie also followed quickly with a gloomy expression.

The dark and deserted unfinished building is now tense, and Wu Yu is holding Jiang Ting hostage like this, and he is confronting with twenty or so people from the leadership team of Jinhai City. Five or six floors, until the corner of the corridor on the fourth floor suddenly stopped.

Wu Yu's chest continued to rise and fall. Looking out from the window beside him, a black car with the door open and started was parked on the construction site downstairs. The headlights reflected two red lights in the dark night.

On the fourth floor, there are support frames outside the building, which is already a relatively safe height.

If you go down from this height, it will take a minute or two for the pursuers to rush from the stairs to the ground, the escape time will be more leisurely, and it will be safer to release the hostages after driving out of the traceable range.

Wu Yu swallowed, and saw Jiang Ting in front of him move his finger back in the dark, it was a urging gesture.

"...Don't jump, Wu Yu." At this moment, Yan Yan seemed to feel something, and a trembling voice sounded from the upper corridor: "Jiang Ting is not in good health, he will be in danger if he goes down this height. "

Jiang Ting froze suddenly.

"Yes, it's fine for you to go out from the first floor." Bu Chonghua was also unsteady, but overall he remained calm and calm: "We won't follow, and no one will stop you. Listen to me and walk through the main entrance of the building. "

"..."

Jiang paused, and Wu Yu stood behind him. Neither of them could see each other's expressions, but their breathing involuntarily became a little heavier.

They just stood in the shadow of the corner of the stairs, and there were more than [-] people crowded on the upper floor in front of them. The air in the stalemate was silently tensed and evacuated every second, like sharp claws grabbing their hearts and lungs, and they were alive and well. Squeeze out the burst blood——

Jiang Ting gritted his teeth, and made an extremely concealed gesture backwards, meaning to jump!

"Wu Yu! Jiang Chuan has been lying in bed for three years!" Suddenly Yan Yan roared angrily: "If you still have a little conscience, let him go, he has had a craniotomy! His head really can't—"

Right at this moment.

Wu Yu pushed forward violently, Jiang Ting was caught off guard, and bumped into the handrail of the corridor with a bang; he didn't care to stand still, so he suddenly turned around, and a strong wind blew from his side, and Bu Chonghua flew down from the upper corridor!

But he was still half a second behind.

Wu Yu jumped back and jumped out of the window, and the cold wind rushed into his ears; Bu Chonghua's hand stretched out with all his strength only had time to touch the corner of his raised clothes, and then his palm was empty!

"Wu Yu!!"

The body fell sharply, and the night sky was getting farther and farther away, and only Bu Chonghua's frightened, sad, and anxious face was left in the field of vision.

The picture was immediately overwhelmed by memory fragments flying all over the sky.

Thousands of crystal-clear snowflakes are circling in the wind, each of which reflects the war-torn years and the old and yellowed vistas, as well as countless weeping, running, working and struggling selves.Wu Yu closed his eyes in the heavy snow, and he saw a small figure of a child in the distant village, waiting alone, and the boundless blood-colored sky was reflected in his pupils——

"I have a child who is seven years old this year. His name is A Xing. Why don't we call you A Gui from now on!"

"Bath in Yi, wind in dance, singing home - it means to go home happily while blowing the breeze and singing songs in the comfortable and peaceful world."

"Ah Gui, one day I will take you to a land where no poppies bloom. You can go to school with Ah Xing and go home happily together!"

"There is no land where poppies bloom," he murmured to himself.

In an instant, the wind whizzed away, and time traveled upstream in the long river, returning to that dilapidated and dilapidated border village more than ten years ago——