Chapter 3: The tiger sniffs the rosebud

Everyone present, relatives, neighbors, Shen's people, including Shen Ke, did not expect things to take a turn in this direction.

And the most unexpected person is little Lin Jian.

He grew up with few words, never like other children as chirping, stumbling to grow up to now, after going to school is still the most silent one in the class, and at this time, that pair of dark, rarely emotional big eyes at this time finally flooded a ripple, revealing a little bit of this age should have the cluelessness and bewilderment, dumbly called out:" ...... big aunt?"

The voice was too weak, dispersed in the dry, cold air as soon as the wind blew, and too faint to be heard by any but Shen Ke, who stood backlit in front of him.

"You can't just leave!" Lin Jiangyue rushed over with the note and business card clutched in her hand, still screaming and crying, "That's easy for you to say, you are rich people, you think you can take money in exchange for a human life, no way! That's a life, my brother's life!"

Song Zhi immediately said, "Chairman Shen did not mean that, and I have just conveyed that in the future, if you have any difficulties, you can ......"

"Don't talk nonsense!" He Guodong pushed Assistant Song away and harmonized with his daughter-in-law, "Looking for you? Aren't you just a part-timer? What if you quit one day? What if you get laid off? Who are we going to look for? Your words are useless!"

Song Zhi from the age of twenty-five into Shen's to now, with Shen Zhangqian around five or six years of time, by virtue of personal hard professional standards, from the director's office commissioner all the way to the position of chairman of the special assistant, to deal with large and small business winds and waves, but with this kind of tricky skin Lai Hou deal with is the first time in real, at this moment can only once again show position: "Shen's most important commitment, and--"

Lin Jiangyue again interrupted, "If we believe in you rich people, we will still celebrate the New Year every day. A box of money just want to buy a life, under the sky there is no such reason!" After that, he turned to howl again, "My bitter brother--"

Although human beings do not share the same sadness and joy, Shen Ke's attitude is always gentle and calm, and the other party is Lin Jianghe's relatives, he is still polite: "So what do you have in mind, or what else do you need us to do? Just ......"

"I told you!" He Zhou rushed over from the doorway of the hall, not a big person, but Diao Pi momentum is not lost to his parents, his hand pointed toward the hearth, "to go can also, you take him away, his father and his mother are gone, our family by what to give someone else to raise a child ah!"

"Sinning!" The people who had been watching from the side couldn't stand to watch and chanted, "That's your uncle's son, your cousin, yo! How can a family talk like that ......"

"What's my last name and what's his last name? What does that make us family?" He Zhou cursed back, "My parents said, our family's money will have to pay for my sister and me to go to school, and to get me a family and a daughter-in-law, so why should we support him?"

Speaking of money, Lin Jiangyue also stopped howling, "rubbing" a scurry over, directly on the hands of He Zhou's bulging pockets, "What's in it? I didn't say I wouldn't let you take the money! This loser ancestor!"

Mother flipped her son to block, another girl from the He family came over to stop, the scene once chaotic escalation.

He Guodong tightly clutching the box of cash does not let go, gave an ultimatum: "Let's talk straight, this money we accept, you owe a life, should be given! But as you can see, I have two children at home, four mouths waiting to eat, and raise another, or a boy, not that condition! How much does it cost to go to school for ten years? How much will it cost to build a house for him? That's a lot of money. I don't owe the Lin family anything."

"Young master, look at this ...... " Assistant Song stumbled for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Is it better to give them another ...... "

Shen Ke, however, shook his head very lightly.

He knew in his heart what was wrong with this family. Poverty, greed and indifference, no matter how much money is given, it is still the same, and the problem does not lie in the money, even if more money is given, how much of it can be spent on this child? Even if you give more, how much can you really spend on this child?

In that case, the phrase "grow up well" was just a joke.

Shen Ke returned to China in the past ten days has been in a highly loaded state, Shen Zhangqian is still lying in bed, but the operation of the group can not be stopped, according to Shen Zhangqian's instructions, he first dealt with some of the company's thorny issues, and then began to work on the handover, in the middle of the Philadelphia, United States, for the academic formalities, and almost sleepless! I've been tossing and turning all these days, but I've also had to take care of comforting my mother's emotions. Now, the fatigue that had accumulated over the past few days was finally showing through in the chaos.

Shen Ke pinched his brow, took out his phone and stepped aside to dial Shen Zhangqian's private number.

Given the current situation, it was necessary for him to consult his parents.

Cong Wan answered the phone, Shen Ke called out "Mom", Cong Wan gave a "hey" and asked him in a warm voice if everything was okay.

Shen Ke pondered for a moment, and to make a long story short, he explained the current situation clearly in three or two sentences and said, "I think we need to ask Dad what he means about this."

Cong Wan on the other side of the phone was silent for a long time, then sighed heavily and said, "Wait a minute."

A few moments later, he heard Shen Zhangqian s voice, still hoarse, but a little less weak from the previous days, and asked, "How is that child ...... now?"

Shen Ke pondered the language for a moment and said succinctly, "Not very well."

And after a long silence, Shen Zhangqian said in a deep voice, "Mourning tomorrow?"

"Yes." Shen Ke said.

"Gotta let the kid send it off, don't spoil the old routine." Shen Zhangqian s voice paused for a second, then sounded again, "Then ...... bring it back first."

Shen Ke froze and frowned slightly, "Dad?"

"You stay over there one more night, do not let the child suffer at this time, tomorrow ...... first bring the person back before you say."

Hanging up the phone, Shen Ke hopelessly pinched his brow, after twenty years of being the pride of the sky, he knew for the first time what is in and out of the dilemma.

In fact, even if Shen Zhangqian didn't tell him to do so, he couldn't leave peacefully judging by tonight's situation.

Not far away from the crying continues, Lin Jiangyue and relatives cried, and neighbors complained, some people persuade, some people block, some people let her think about it, some people say that she did this thing coldly, but Shen Ke is no longer go up to comfort, he went straight back to the little Lin Jian side, once again squatting down to look at him flatly, and asked: "Is it a whole night you have to be in here to watch. He asked, "Do you have to stay here all night?"

Little Lin Jian's reaction was still half a beat slower, his dark eyes looked at him, and he nodded his head in the middle of the day. Shen Ke still wanted to say something to him, but he didn't expect him to take the initiative to open his mouth, and asked unexpectedly, "Is it true that it's really my father who exchanged your father's life?"

The word "change" is inappropriate in any way, but in the face of such a small person, even though Shen Ke is always rational, the so-called "truth" can not be declared at this moment.

After a long time, Shen Ke said, "It's save, it's your dad who saved my dad, so I want to thank you."

At that time, eight-year-old Lin Jian could not yet understand the difference between the words "change" and "save". According to common sense, he was the one who had the most right to cry and vent his anger and even resentment, and he would throw himself on the person in front of him or kick and punch him, just because his father died because of this person's father. Because his dad was gone for the sake of this person's dad, he was a child who could express his emotions in a way that was careless.

However Lin Jian did not.

When his father was still alive, he would always tell him, "Son, when you grow up, you have to be a good person, warm-hearted, don't have so many crooked hearts, dad will be satisfied", and after school, what is written in the textbook, what the teacher teaches on the blackboard, and let him have a clearer understanding of his father's words.

So Lin Jian sniffles and just asks, "So is he a hero?"

Those four words had been the nicest interpretation an eight-year-old could think of for the sudden loss of his father.

Shen Ke obviously did not expect him to ask this, first silent for a moment, and then give an affirmative answer, "Yes, it is to see justice, your father ...... is a hero."

Lin Jian nodded slowly, and lowered his eyes again, but stopped saying anything.

Shouting and burning ashes filled in the cold air of the mountain village, such a night is destined to be depressing. Shen Ke stride out of the hearth, to the still crazy Lin Jiangyue two families to close the case, first let the child to his father's funeral, and when things are done, people he took away.

He said so, Lin Jiangyue also do not make a scene, as if afraid of his backtracking, but also as if he did not believe it, asked: "That, that took away ...... give us back to send back not?"

What kind of family is this? Shen Ke's slightly colder eyes swept past several people, did not say a word more, turned around and left this absurd farce.

I can't go, but I'm in more trouble if I stay for one night. Shen Ke leaning against the body does not want to talk, just look up at the sky scattered stars, Song Zhi learned of the next arrangement, the first time is to find a place to stay, they traveled six people, two cars, subordinates how to make do with a night, I'm afraid that just returned to Shen Ke can not make do.

The village is bound to be no place where people can live, the town is a hotel, not a serious hotel, opened on the side of the national highway, to the passing of the big truck drivers resting place, and the only county-level hotel in the county, next to the county government, although not star, but at least can be counted on to be clean, but the distance is too far to drive over to more than two hours.

Shen Ke's blouse still on the boy, Song Zhi took out a coat from the car, and, in passing, told him about the hotel, inquiring, "Young master, do you see ......"

After staying in the night wind for a long time, his arms and even his fingers were numb, Shen Ke put on his jacket, his voice a little tired and stiff: "Don't toss and turn, just spend the night in the car."

"How can that be!" Song Zhi was a bit embarrassed, "We're all fine, the key is you ......"

"It's not that pretentious." Shen Ke said.

He said this, Song Zhi can not be persuaded, so a few people get in the car, drive to a little farther to an empty field, the car on the warm air, the temperature quickly back up, Shen Ke will take off the jacket, leaning on the back of the rear seat, the body is actually tired, but the spirit can not relax, these years of drawing and designing the old habits, the more tired the more can not sleep.

Turn over the cell phone album, a design map to see the past, the last rendering is the work before returning to China, the creation of the mood, the landscape axis, the connotation of the space, the function of the site ...... Every detail of the design is a work of heart and soul, from the concept of the manuscript to the plane to the three-dimensional shaping of the combination of Chinese and Western gardens, the designers to create the ideal of the individual and the personal The collision and fusion of ideas ...... Even the German tutor, who is known for his strictness, could not help but praise him, "In me the tiger sniffs the rose".

And this sudden change of heart, breaking more than a family calm? With Shen Zhangqian seriously injured, he applied to the college for a delayed graduation, returned to China to deal with the internal affairs of the group ...... Even if the chest gulch mountains and rivers ten million, in the end there is only left in this mountain village night appendage alone Pin smashing.

It's late at night, the time on the cell phone screen is past midnight, Song Zhi is asleep in the front passenger seat, and the night in the mountains is as quiet as if no one is there.

The only thing that was not far away was the small courtyard with a vague glimmer of light.

Under the shadow of the lamp, there should be another skinny and reticent child, lying alone in the cold sky of the night dew.

Shen Ke pressed his bulging, aching temples, put away his cell phone, and got out of the car with his jacket.