AWB Chapter 1455: Shock in the Rain, An Youwan was hit to death?
Chapter 1455: Shock in the Rain, An Youwan was hit to death?
Rumble!
There was a rumble of thunder in the distance, and a storm was brewing on this May evening.
The violent wind made the windows of Nianwei Hospital's office on the fifth floor rustle.
Bang bang bang!
Brush brush!
The window hit the wall gently, making a sound as if it was about to shatter, and countless materials were blown all over the room by the wind.
"...Uncle Lin has thundered. I will take time to visit your workplace tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and we can talk in person!"
Li Xiangnan, who was on the phone behind his desk, straightened up, hung up the phone, rushed to the window to close it, and couldn't help but look up and look outside.
Dark clouds were already rushing towards the hospital under the influence of strong winds. The air was filled with wind and clouds, and from time to time, the clouds in the sky flashed with shocking flashes of lightning.
Li Xiangnan looked at the watch and estimated that heavy rain would come in half an hour and he would not be able to return home!
So he quickly picked up the materials on the ground, grabbed his bag, closed the door, and hurried downstairs.
"I told you to go home!"
Wang Defa was running upstairs, a black vinyl raincoat draped over his arm, "Go slower on the way, it's probably going to rain, you're just getting home, bring it with you anyway, be prepared!"
Li Xiangnan didn't hesitate and put it on after taking it. Then he greeted people and hurried to the carport downstairs.
"Mr. Li!"
But just as Keren reached the bottom of the stairs, a voice suddenly called him. He turned around and was a little surprised.
An Youlei was just coming down the stairs and just passed by him.
"Mr. An?" Li Xiangnan frowned, wondering why he came to see him at this time.
"Mr. Li, are you going out?" An Youlei sounded a little anxious.
Li Xiangnan looked at him and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"
An Youlei tightened the briefcase in his hand, wanting to say something but stopping himself. The strong wind ruffled his hair. He looked up at the sky, saw Li Xiangnan's raincoat, and suddenly asked urgently, "Does your cooperation with my sister still count?"
"..."
Hearing this, Li Xiangnan was a little surprised.
An Youjun has been arrested, why is An Youlei still holding on to this matter?
He frowned and pushed the cart out, his tone neither agreeing nor rejecting.
"But Mr. An, as far as I know, the director who approved the project for Miss An seems to have been arrested? I saw him in the news. Is this project still not a success? I heard that all the projects approved by Director Shen before will be sent back for reexamination. This should include Miss An's project, right?"
An Youting's expression suddenly became gloomy.
"Mr. Li, there is definitely no problem with our project! My sister invested so much money in the early stage, and we really want to realize the profitability of this land as soon as possible. You see, the approval materials from the Science and Technology Bureau are all here, with their red seal, which cannot be ignored! What you heard is just a rumor. This is a matter of finality, can such a large organization still go back on its word?"
An Youlei hurriedly pulled out a lot of materials from his briefcase and "enthusiastically" showed them to Li Xiangnan, as if he was afraid that he would leave, and followed his bicycle to lobby him.
Li Xiangnan said calmly: "Okay, where is Miss An? I'll talk to her in detail later!"
He certainly wouldn't tell An Youlei that he already knew An Youjun had been arrested, and now he was pretending not to know about it.
"That..." But An Youlei was extremely embarrassed, with an embarrassment look on his face, and for a moment he seemed to have not reacted at all.
Crash.
But suddenly, a strong wind accompanied by heavy rain came in an instant, and suddenly the entire world was submerged.
"Congratulations, Chief!"
Suddenly a loud shout sounded in front of the two of them.
Li Xiangnan and An Youlei turned their heads to look at the same time.
The big raindrops hit the exposed red bricks, scattered steel bars and potholes in the mud, splashing turbid water.
The construction site diagonally opposite was like a pot of boiling mud soup. The bamboo scaffolding was shivering in the gray rain, and the rainproof straw mats hanging on it were torn by the wind, making a whimpering sound.
"Chief Zhu! Chief Zhu, please listen to me!" A figure shouted at the top of his lungs, but the voice was drowned out by the sound of the pouring rain.
He was soaked to the skin, his navy blue Dacron shirt clinging to his body, and he was chasing after a middle-aged man in a gray cadre uniform and holding a black umbrella.
The face under the black umbrella was as stern as a slate. It was none other than Zhu Xuanlong, the chief of the Approval Section of the Municipal Land Administration Bureau.
And the person who called him was actually An Youwan!
"You Wan..."
Li Xiangnan naturally didn't know An Youwan, but An Youlei beside him murmured at the first moment.
"If the documents are not complete, we cannot start the work!"
Section Chief Zhu kept walking, not caring about the muddy water that poured into his black leather shoes. Behind him were two young men with equally blank expressions. "I can't do anything about it. The higher-ups only gave me a notice to inform you to obtain all the compliance procedures before you can start work. Now you're rushing to put all these things on the line. You're so anxious. Who's responsible if something goes wrong? Ah?"
"Don't worry, my sister has reapplied for her certificate and it will be approved soon! But you can't let us stop the preliminary preparations, this also takes time!" An Youwan wiped the rain from his face, and couldn't tell whether it was sweat or tears. "The prefabricated panels have been delivered, and dozens of workers are waiting to eat! Please be merciful and give us two days, just two days!"
"No room for negotiation!" Section Chief Zhu stopped abruptly, raised his black umbrella, and the rain splashed all over his face. "Work must be stopped today! I'll come back to check tomorrow. If anyone is still working, they will bear the consequences themselves!"
His tone was firm and full of unquestionable authority. The two followers also glanced coldly at the workers hiding under the shed to avoid the rain, with rain dripping down the brims of their plastic raincoats.
Inside the shed, workers crowded at the door, watching the confrontation in silence.
Some people were holding unlit Daqianmen cigarettes, which were limp from the dampness; some were wrapped in tattered cotton-padded jackets, with numb eyes. They were all villagers brought from their hometowns by the foreman here, and stopping work meant losing their livelihoods.
An Youwan's shoulders slumped down as if a muscle had been pulled.
He watched Section Chief Zhu and two other men get into a green Jeep 212.
The jeep started, white steam gushing out of the exhaust pipe, the wheels rolled over the mud, splashing mud half a person's height, and then it turned around mercilessly, trying to drive towards the road in the rain.
"Chief Zhu, please wait a moment. I will show you our current procedures. Please wait a moment..."
An Youwan, who chased to the door, suddenly caught a glimpse of his elder brother standing with Li Xiangnan, and hope suddenly ignited in his heart.
But when he ran halfway and subconsciously looked back, the jeep had turned around and drove away.
An Youwan stood there in a daze for a long time.
"Youwan!" An Youlei shrank his wet shoulders under his black umbrella, shouted, and stuffed the document he had just taken out back.
"Grass!"
An Youwan came to his senses and spat in the direction where the jeep disappeared, a mixture of rain and mud.
He just felt a surge of evil fire rushing to his head. The frustration, anger, and guilt towards his sister and father burned his internal organs so much that they ached.
He forgot to bring an umbrella or to take shelter from the rain. He just walked towards the road outside the construction site in a daze, taking one step forward and one step back, wanting only to leave this terrible place as soon as possible.
The rain got heavier, and the sky and the earth were covered in white.
The cement on the road was washed shiny by the rain. Occasionally, a car would pass by slowly with dim headlights on, like ghost eyes in the fog.
suddenly!
A dazzling beam of light, much brighter and faster than other car lights, tore through the thick rain curtain!
The roar of the engine came from far away, at an astonishing speed!
It was an old-fashioned "Liberation" brand truck, and its green front looked particularly large and ferocious in the rain.
In Li Xiangnan's eyes, the car was actually heading straight towards him.
But An Youwan stood between Li Xiangnan and the car.
"Youwan! Car!!"
An Youlei let out a heart-wrenching roar with a trembling voice.
An Youwan looked back blankly.
At this moment——
"boom!!!"
A dull and heart-pounding roar drowned out the sound of heavy rain!
The speeding truck, like an out-of-control steel monster, slammed into An Youwan's thin body!
He was knocked flying, drawing a short and cruel arc in the air, like a bird with its wings broken by the strong wind, and then fell heavily into the mud and water a few meters away.
The blue work hat he had just worn, which now served as an umbrella, rolled away.
Time seems to have frozen.
The rain was still falling madly, hitting the mud, the iron sheet of the truck, and An Youwan's silent body.
There was deathly silence in the shed.
All the workers seemed to be frozen in place, with their mouths open and eyes wide open, their faces showing extreme fear and disbelief.
The cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground and no one noticed.
The enamel pot in someone's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and the boiling water mixed with the muddy water, and the heat was gone in an instant.
"Someone...someone's dead!!!" A young worker finally found his voice and broke into tears.
"Quick! Go check on Mr. An!"
"It's over, it's over!"
"The hospital is across the street, hurry up, save them, save them!"
The crowd was in an uproar. The workers ignored the heavy rain and rushed out of the shed, stumbling towards the figure lying in the mud.
The scene suddenly became extremely chaotic.
But that car seemed to be the only calm person at the scene. The headlights flashed twice in the rain and then went out.
Then, it passed by everyone silently, leaving a beautiful tail in the rain, and rushed straight into the heavy rain and disappeared!
Some people were so scared that they squatted on the ground, some tried in vain to stop passing bicycles, some ran to the hospital to call for help, and more people gathered around An Youwan, looking at the dark red color under his body that was quickly diluted by the rain and then continued to spread, at a loss, with rain, tears and deep fear intertwined on their faces.
The rain curtain enveloped the chaotic scene. Only the lonely blue work hat was spinning in the muddy puddle, like a helpless piece of duckweed.
In the distance, the blurry outline of Nianwei Hospital was silent in the rain, like a cold footnote.
An Youlei has already pounced on his younger brother.
Li Xiangnan turned around, put his palms in front of his eyes, and stared at the license plate of the car with wide eyes.