Chapter 2: Little poor thing.

When the meal in the backyard came to an end, the condolence guests gathered in the front yard one after another, and even the most sorrowful emotions could be washed away by a meal, not to mention that these so-called "relatives and neighbors" were not familiar with each other in the first place.

The hidden courtyard door was pushed open without warning, and the crowd gathered at the edge of the hearth looked back in unison before suddenly falling silent.

Shen Ke, who is tall and long-limbed, walks at the front, followed by Song Zhi, Shen Zhangqian's personal assistant, and behind him are two of Shen Group's senior legal officers.

Under the dead silence of the crowd, Shen Ke walked to the front of the hearth, his line of sight lingered for a few seconds on the last photo on the square table, then slowly lowered and finally landed on Lin Jian, who was kneeling next to the fire pit.

Skinny and thin, that was Shen Ke's first impression of eight-year-old Lin Jian.

Little Lin Jian raised his eyes alertly and looked at the uninvited guest in front of him.

At this moment, Shen Ke's eyes moved away from him and turned to Lin Jiangyue, who was muzzily preemptive before he had a chance to speak: "Who are you?"

Song Zhi replied for Shen Ke, "Ms. Lin, this is Chairman Shen's son, representing the Shen Group and Chairman Shen to offer his condolences, your condolences."

As a matter of fact, just after Song Zhi's word "Shen" was uttered, Lin Jiangyue, as if someone had pressed an invisible start button, first trembled violently, and then suddenly jumped towards Shen Ke, his withered fingers clutching Shen Ke's arm, and then wailing sounds resounded through the courtyard: "It's you guys! Because of saving your father, my brother took a life!"

Tears are true and false, but never mean to make their appearance when they should, and after she had howled like that, it gradually dawned on those around her--

It turned out that the man Lin Jianghe pushed away at the last moment was the father of the young man in front of him.

The bodyguards at the entrance of the courtyard were the first to hear the news, rushing to Shen Ke's side the moment Lin Jiangyue swooped in, even the two senior legal officers behind her tried to pull the hysterical woman hanging on Shen Ke's arm away from her after a moment's hesitation, and Song Zhi carried a black password box in one hand and went to help the person in the other hand as well: "Ms. Lin, take it easy, we're here to-"

"How can we expect our family to survive?" Lin Jiangyue was almost crazy, tugging on Shen Ke's arm and not letting go, just crying at the top of her voice, "This is a life for a life! How could my brother have such a hard life and become your father's scapegoat? Da Lin ah - you open your eyes, sister also take away ...... my brother ah -"

Shen Ke's accompanying bodyguards were all professionals, and it would be easy to pull a rural woman away, but Shen Ke inclined his head slightly and used a very simple look as a stop.

He hadn't necessarily not thought about the current scenario before coming here, and even though it wasn't exactly decent at this point, the outbursts seemed to him to be justified compared to the other man's pain at the loss of his closest relative.

After the accident, Shen sent a private medical team to the remote prefecture, and after some coordination with the local government, Shen Zhangqian was brought back to the city as quickly as possible.

When Shen Ke received the news and flew back from abroad, Shen Zhangqian had already been transferred to the guardianship ward. Although the surgery was timely and efficient, and the medical resources were top-notch, the private doctor who had served Shen for many years still expressed his regret: "Even if he recovers well in the future, I am afraid that Chairman Shen will not be able to get out of the wheelchair in the second half of his life. "

In the hospital room, after a suffocating silence, Shen Zhangqian, who was covered with catheters, said to Shen Ke in a weak but low voice, "Find that family and go see them. I just can't stand up for the rest of my life, but this life was given to me by others."

Although the accident investigation report and construction site surveillance video brought by Song Zhi showed that Lin Jianghe's location and direction of escape were fundamentally predetermined that he would not have been spared, the Shen family's perceptions were highly consistent with those of Lin Jiangyue in some respects - the

Lin Jianghe himself run or not run away is one thing, but he saved Shen Zhangqian a life, but it is indisputable and indisputable fact.

The more people gathered in the courtyard turned out to be, the original whispers turned into undisguised comments, Lin Jiangyue was still shouting at the top of her voice, Shen Ke, with a sullen look on his face, finally spoke in a low voice amidst the chaotic clamor, "Ms. Lin, please let me have a pillar of incense first."

He put his hand on Lin Jiangyue's arm and pulled her up from the ground with a little force, and then handed her over to the nearest aunt, "Please, take care of her."

From the moment he entered the door until now, Shen Ke's attitude has always been gentle and restrained, with a gentlemanly demeanor of warmth and sparseness, but at the same time, the man himself brings a strong sense of oppression that cannot be ignored, which gives him a contradictory yet natural aura.

As the white moon hides the cold peaks.

Lin Jiangyue stopped crying and froze with the crowd, watching Shen Ke, dressed in a black suit, take three sticks of incense and light them on the sacrificial table. He retreated to the statue, bowed three times with the incense in his hand, then very gently blocked Song Zhi's hand, stepped forward and inserted it into the incense stand himself.

After a short pause, Shen Ke stooped down and entered the hut, squatting down in front of little Lin Jian.

Among all the people present, there were people wearing white mourning belts and white paper flowers, except for this child, who was dressed in heavy mourning clothes from head to toe, wrapped in a white bag, kneeling alone next to the fire pit.

The light in front of his eyes was blocked, Lin Jian slowly tilted his head up and looked at the person in front of him, his palm-sized face was full of dust that fell from the burning of the paper money, mixed with traces of water that he didn't know whether it was sweat or tears that had flowed through his eyes, and it snaked around his forehead and cheeks leaving dark marks.

Too thin and with a face so small that it appeared to be in proportion to the features, those eyes were surprisingly bright.

The two men just stared at each other for a few seconds, one with deep eyes, the other cold and defensive.

After a long moment, Shen Ke softened his voice and asked him, "How old are you and what's your name?"

Lin Jian first glanced at his great aunt, but the light was blocked, so he couldn't see the look on Lin Jiangyue's face, and after a long time, he answered, "Lin Jian, eight years old."

Shen Ke frowned imperceptibly as he realized the boy's voice was shaking as he spoke.

The mourning clothes were so wide that it was impossible to tell how much clothing was worn underneath, but it was obviously freezing.

Shen Ke only considers it for a second before unbuttoning his suit jacket.

Lin Jian only felt a blackness in front of his eyes, the complete darkness only stayed for a moment, the next moment, he was wrapped by the residual body heat, his eyesight downward, he saw a pair of white and thin hands, the finger bones were clear but not abrupt, but the green veins on the back of the hands seemed to contain a steady strength.

Those hands gathered up the lapels of his jacket for him, and the cold wind outside was suddenly cut off, his whole body falling into a soft barrier.

The chill of a late fall was warded off, the first warmth of a long dark night for little Lin Jian after he lost his dad.

Lin Jian raised his eyes warily, and then the youth in front of him was silent for a moment and whispered.

"Poor little thing."

Lin Jian's lips moved slightly, without uttering a word, he inhaled a mouthful of cold air unexpectedly, and Lin Jiangyue's sharp voice once again broke through the cold air and came out---

"It's not pity! His mother ran away a long time ago, and now his father is gone, leaving such a half-grown child with me, the child is pitiful, and our family is even more so - how can we live in the future, we can't live ah!"

Shen Ke looked at Lin Jian with some surprise, although he had thought of the uncontrollable circumstances that would arise before he came to offer his condolences, including but not limited to the family's outbursts, accusations, and even bitterness, the reality of the family's situation was clearly the first surprise he hadn't anticipated.

The home, and even the boy's situation in the home, didn't seem to be what he thought it would be.

Shen Ke stood up and walked out of the funeral parlor, when he passed by Song Zhi, the other party followed him very wisely, Shen Ke took the password box in Song Zhi's hand and handed it over to Lin Jiangyue on the opposite side of the room, and in the second when the other party stopped crying instantly, he said warmly, "Ms. Lin, for this accident, my father and I are very sad, the pain of losing a loved one is too great, but I understand the grief of you and your family, but the deceased has passed away, the living have to look forward. Very painful, the pain of losing a loved one is too great, I do not dare to say that I empathize, but understand the grief of you and your family, but the deceased has passed away, the living still have to move forward, although the significance of saying these words may not be very meaningful now, but ......"

Shen Ke slightly pause, as gentle as possible, said: "This is a little bit of the Shen family's intentions, is grateful but also owed, said to make up for the weight is too light, just hope that you and your family can live better in the future."

Lin Jiangyue froze, holding that black password box in her hand, after a long time before she seemed to come back to her senses, she sluggishly turned around and rushed to greet her husband, her trembling voice exposing her nervousness: "His father, look at this ...... "

From the time Shen Ke and his group entered the door until now, He Guodong did not make a sound, but at this time, he could not hold back as if he had broken away from the crowd, ran over with two steps, grabbed the combination box and hugged it tightly in his arms, as if he had been dazed by the surprise that had fallen from the sky: "This, this is ...... "

Song Zhi walked over and handed Lin Jiangyue a note and a business card, saying in a low voice: "It's a little bit of preparation for you and your children's future life, above the note is the password, in addition, this is my business card, in the future, whether it is in your family's life or in other aspects, as long as you encounter difficulties, you can contact me at any time. "

It was a box full of cash. Originally, Shen Zhangqian had given him a check, but before the car left the city, Shen Ke suddenly instructed the driver to turn around and go to the bank, where he converted it into banknotes.

After all, based on the residential address provided by the assistant, this family probably did not have the experience of going to the bank for large check cashing, and he did not want to add unnecessary trouble for the other party because of these detailed trivialities.

Lin Jiangyue at this time has been smashed by this heavenly fortune dumbfounded, will only follow Song Zhi's words sluggishly nodded good, and Assistant Song how refined, this just a few minutes has been this family's real situation to see clearly and thoroughly, at this moment glanced at Shen Ke's face, can't help but trespassing to add a sentence: "Let the child have a better life, and his father can also feel at ease."

The matter should have come to an end, before leaving, Shen Ke once again walked into the hearth, Lin Jian thought he wanted to take back his jacket, raised his hand to take it off and return it to him, but Shen Ke once again squatted down and said, "Wear it."

After a pause, he added, "Grow up well."

However, a second surprise that Shen Ke hadn't anticipated came out of nowhere.

As he was about to turn around and walk out of the hut, Lin Jiangyue and his wife, who had just received a large sum of money, suddenly blocked in front of him, and in the same mournful and hoarse tone of voice, they shouted out a stone-cold sentence---.

"You can't just leave! If you're going, you have to take the boy with you!"