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    370.Death of Zhao Jiaqing

    Douglass was silent, and Yan Xi understood immediately, “Is there really no hope?”

    “Yan Xi, I don’t want to lie to you. Your mother’s situation is very bad. It is the best outcome to be able to maintain it like this.” Douglass said.

    Yan Xi looked desperate and held Zhao Jiaqing’s hand tightly, “Mom, wake up and take a look at me, even just for a glance. Mom, I am Xiao Xi, your favorite Xiao Xi.”

    Dougs looked at Yan Xi who was crying like a child, and felt a little regret in his heart. Shouldn’t he tell her the truth like this, “Yan Xi.”

    Yan Xi ignored Douglass.

    **

    In the Yan family, Yan Anbang has been called back by the leader of the army. It is not clear why. Qin Yan is pruning flowers and trees on the balcony alone, humming a piece of music in her mouth, obviously in a good mood.

    When the phone rang, she was watering the potted plants. She put down the watering can. Qin Yan glanced at the number on it, paused, and then picked it up, “Hello.”

    The person opposite said something unknown, and Qin Yan’s lips curled up with a hint of coldness, “I understand, tell him and I’ll be back right away.”

    After hanging up the phone, Qin Yan looked at the huge Yan family. The once bustling Yan family was now only an empty house. Qin Yan’s eyes were full of satisfaction.

    Yan Anbang is now separated from his wife and children, and his reputation is ruined, but this is not enough.

    Qin Yan thought for a while and dialed a number. “Tell that person that the second plan is started. Within three days, I want to see the results. If it can’t be completed, the final payment will be forgotten. If it is done, I can give him another sum of money, enough for him to live a life without worries.”

    “Okay, ma’am.”

    “Also, book me a flight ticket to country Y. The sooner the better. I won’t be back here in a short time. You should know what to do next.”

    “Understood, please rest assured, Madam, just leave the matters here to me.”

    Qin Yan hung up the phone. After a while, a text message was sent to her mobile phone, which was the flight information to country y at ten o’clock tonight. She smiled and threw the mobile phone aside.He picked up the kettle next to him and started smashing things.

    After a while, it turned into a mess from the bedroom to the door. If you look carefully, you will find that it is likely to be the traces left after a struggle.

    Seeing that the scene was almost done, Qin Yan made herself a cup of coffee in the kitchen, then sat in the living room and watched TV, waiting for nightfall to fall.

    Winter nights always come very early, and the sky is dark. Qin Yan goes upstairs to change clothes, takes out a hat from the cloakroom, and covers her hair. She wears sunglasses, covering most of her face. She finds a mask and puts it on. After being fully armed, she goes to the garage and drives a car.The car was heading to the suburbs. When it reached a place without surveillance, she stopped the car, threw down the equipment on her body, and made a phone call. After a while, a car drove towards her and stopped in front of her. She got in the car and said, “Go to the airport.”

    **

    Yan Anbang came out of the army. He turned around and looked deeply at the place where he had spent most of his life. The emotions in his eyes were very complicated. The leader of the army had told him that he hoped that he could take the initiative to submit a discharge application. His position had been removed long ago. Now he is not as good as an ordinary soldier. After all, he is still young, and he is just an old man.

    Yan Anbang once imagined that he would retire from the army when he reached his age and then take care of himself at home, but he never thought that he would leave the army in this way and lose the honor of the Yan family. In the future, even if he died, he would not be able to see the ancestors of the Yan family.

    Yan Anbang took one last look at this place and turned to leave.

    When I got home, I just opened the door and looked at the mess in the house. I immediately felt that something was wrong. The room was too messy.

    “Yanyan.” Yan Anbang called for someone, but no one responded. He looked a little ugly. When he went upstairs, the bedroom was also in a mess. The flower pots on the balcony were smashed, and there were debris and dirt everywhere on the ground.

    He called Qin Yan, but it showed that the phone was turned off. All the valuables at home were still there, even Qin Yan’s passport and ID card, except she.

    Yan Anbang looked anxious and ran to the community gatekeepers to ask about Qin Yan’s whereabouts, but no one said they had seen her. Yan Anbang immediately realized that something had happened to Qin Yan, so he ran to the police station to call the police.

    “When did the person disappear?” the policeman asked.

    Yan Anbang shook his head, “I just came back from the army, and the person who came back disappeared. The house was in chaos, as if it had been robbed.”

    “Did you lose anything valuable?”

    Yan Anbang continued to shake his head, “No, all the valuable things in the house are there, except my wife.”

    The policeman looked at Yan Anbang with a strange look in his eyes, “Your wife usually likes to go somewhere. Is she in a bad mood and going out to relax?”

    Yan Anbang’s face darkened, “No, she knows I will be worried and will call me even if she goes out. Comrade police, something must have happened to my wife. Please help find someone.”

    “Mr. Yan, it has been less than forty-eight hours since the person disappeared. Even if we want to file a case, there is nothing we can do. Maybe we are overthinking it. Maybe your wife is already waiting for you at home when you get home.” The policeman’s attitude was very perfunctory.

    Yan Anbang looked ugly. In the past, how could a small policeman have the guts to treat him like this?He walked out of the police station and called his former friends, but either they didn’t answer the phone, or they spoke hesitantly and were not willing to help at all.

    Yan Anbang was so angry that he smashed his cell phone. It was like a tiger being bullied by a dog.

    Back home, Yan Anbang continued to call Qin Yan on his home landline, but the phone was still turned off. Yan Anbang didn’t know if Qin Yan had any friends in Nancheng. It was also at this time that Yan Anbang realized that he didn’t know Qin Yan at all. She didn’t seem to have any friends. When she went home on weekdays, she didn’t talk about going out for a walk or shopping with friends except staying at home.

    Yan Anbang couldn’t find anyone to help, and he didn’t know where to find someone, so he had to wait at home. What if, as the police said, Qin Yan went out just because she was in a bad mood?If something really happened to Qin Yan, whether it was kidnapping or revenge, the other party should call him.

    Yan Anbang waited all day. The phone at home was quiet, not even an advertising call. Yan Anbang couldn’t sit still and went to the police station again, but the police’s statement was still the same. Qin Yan’s kidnapping was just Yan Anbang’s speculation and not evidence. The person had been missing for less than forty-eight hours, so the case could not be filed.

    Yan Anbang really wanted to cause a scene in the police station. The policemen’s perfunctory attitude made Yan Anbang feel very uncomfortable. However, he is no longer the original Chief of Staff Yan. He is just Yan Anbang now.

    Yan Anbang was sure that if he dared to make a scene, these people would dare to let him in. When he came out of the police station, he looked at the streets with cars and people, and his whole body became cold. This coldness penetrated from his collar, into his heart, and into the seams of his bones.

    **

    In the hospital, Douglas finally persuaded Yan Xi to go back to the hotel to rest first, leaving the hospital to Yan Shengyu to take care of.

    Douglas covered Yan Xi with a quilt and said softly, “Don’t think about anything, just have a good sleep first. I will accompany you to the hospital to see your mother tomorrow.”

    Yan Xi looked haggard. After staying in the hospital for so many days, it was a miracle that her mental state could get better.

    Yan Xi couldn’t sleep, so she pulled the corner of Douglas’s clothes and asked, “Can you talk to me?”

    Douglass, who was about to leave, stopped here and sat down on the edge of the bed, “What do you want to talk about?”

    Yan Xi shook her head, “I don’t know. Whatever, just tell me what you want to tell me, or tell me about things you encountered in the past.”

    Dougs heard this, looked at it for a while, and then spoke slowly, “This is a patient I met shortly after I became a psychiatrist. She is a fifteen-year-old girl. She has been dependent on her mother since she was a child. She has a very good relationship with her mother. They are like the closest friends. Her mother rejected the pursuit of many good men for her and stayed with her until she grew up. She thought that after she graduated, she could accompany her mother and live with her for the rest of her life. But sheUnexpectedly, one day when she came home from school, she saw her mother sleeping in the bed, and she never woke up from her sleep.”

    Yan Xi listened quietly. After hearing this, she asked, “Her mother passed away?”

    “Well, because of the hardship of life, her mother worked several jobs alone in order to give her a better life. In the end, she fell asleep at home because of lack of physical strength and left.”

    “What happened next?”

    “The little girl couldn’t accept the fact that her mother had left her. She neither called the police nor called the hospital. Instead, she went to and from school on time every day as if her mother was still alive, and slept with her mother’s body at night. It wasn’t until the workers at the place where her mother worked saw that her mother hadn’t gone to work for several days that they came to the house to find something was wrong.”

    “At that time, her mother had passed away for more than a week, and because of the hot weather, her mother’s body had a bad smell. The workers were shocked and quickly called the police. Only then did the neighbors realize that the pillar of the family had fallen.”

    “Her mother’s body was cremated with everyone’s help, and the child was handed over to the child’s uncle’s house. However, the uncle soon discovered that the child was in a bad mental state. He often sat there alone in a daze without talking, and had a tendency to self-mutilate. More than once, her uncle saw her slashing her own arm with a knife.”

    “Then her uncle saw her and brought her to you for treatment?”

    Dougs nodded, “Well, I did a series of tests on her and found out that she suffered from severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It can be said that if her uncle had not sent her here for a while, the child would have tortured itself to death. I treated her for almost three years and her condition gradually improved until she returned to a normal life. Now she is married and has become a mother and has a new life of her own. I have seen photos of her child, and they are very cute.She held the baby and smiled warmly at the camera.”

    Yan Xi was silent, and after a long time, she spoke softly, “Dougs, you told me this story to tell me that if my mother…do I have to be strong?”

    “Yan Xi, you are a smart girl. Even if I don’t say some things, you should understand that the best thing about your mother’s situation is to lie in bed like this for the rest of her life, without her own consciousness or the right to move freely.”

    “Dougs, you are so cruel. Why are you telling me such a thing? Can’t you tell me that my mother will wake up and stay with me like she did in the past until she grows old?” Yan Xi’s eyes were a little moist.

    Douglas reached out and touched her hair lovingly, “Of course I will say this, but Yan Xi, this will not do you any good. What you should learn is how to be strong.”

    Yan Xi closed her eyes, “Dougs, stop talking, I want to sleep.”

    Dougs said gently, “Okay, you rest first, and I will leave after you fall asleep.”

    Yan Xi closed her eyes, and Douglas looked at her quietly. He didn’t leave until she fell asleep.

    The next day, as soon as Yan Xi and Douglass walked to the door, they noticed something was wrong. There was no one in the ward, and both Zhao Jiaqing and Yan Shengyu were missing.

    Yan Xi’s expression changed. Douglas grabbed a nurse and asked, “Where are the people in the ward?”

    “The rescue is on the way,” the nurse said.

    The insulated box in Yan Xi’s hand suddenly fell to the ground. She turned around and ran to the emergency room of the hospital. Sure enough, she saw Yan Shengyu at the door of the emergency room.

    Yan Shengyu leaned against the wall with a dull expression. Yan Xi walked over and said, “Brother.” His voice trembled slightly.

    Yan Shengyu glanced at her but said nothing. The door of the emergency room opened and the doctor walked out. Yan Shengyu immediately greeted her.

    “I’m sorry, we tried our best.”

    The light in Yan Shengyu’s eyes went out instantly, and Yan Xi’s eyes widened in disbelief, staring at the doctor, “What do you mean you tried your best?”

    “I’m sorry, please have your condolences and be patient.” The doctor said. Such life, old age, illness and death are common for us. From the initial unbearability to the current normality, the doctor has also developed a heart of stone.

    However, such a farewell is an indelible pain for the family of the deceased, and it cannot be healed by the words “sorrow and resignation”.

    Yan Xi’s legs went weak and she fell to the ground. Douglass quickly reached out and hugged her, “Yan Xi, are you okay?”

    Yan Xi’s lips trembled slightly. She wanted to speak, but found that she couldn’t make any sound at all. Her ears were buzzing. She could only see the mouth of the person in front of her moving, but there was no sound.

    Her consciousness gradually drifted away, her vision went dark, and she finally fainted completely.

    “Yan Xi!”

    “Yan Xi!”

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