Chapter 21 Chapter 18 A Bigger Conspiracy

The end of 2012.The earth is not yet destroyed. It has been nearly two years since Jiang Xia left the United States and returned to Beijing.He finally didn't go to Schwell's laboratory again, and booked a plane ticket back to Beijing the second week after returning to New York from Boston.Zhou Qingzi also came back with him.Neither of them got their degrees, of course, but they spent their last week in New York at Cartier on Fifth Avenue and bought each other a lifetime commitment. Jiang Xia's parents did not understand their son's sudden decision to return to China, but soon acquiesced.After all, the son has a caretaker when he returns to his side, which also saves a lot of lovesickness.Jiang Huafeng was very satisfied with Zhou Qingzi, the young couple had gone through such a bizarre love and finally got together, it was a match made in heaven.Qin Shuyan also liked this new daughter-in-law, but kept laughing and complaining that Jiang Xia didn't discuss such a big matter with his parents.

With the support of Ye Guangting's father, the two founded a small investment company, specializing in biomedical projects.This also fits the profession of the two of them at the same time.During the three years when Jiang Xia lost his memory, he met many dignitaries. Later, because of his illness, he went to the United States for medical treatment, and because of the deliberate manipulation of his parents, he lost contact.Soon after starting his business, Jiang Xia gradually continued his working friendship with these people, but everyone still thought he was Zhao Cheng.Jiang Xia didn't care about the intrigues in the business field, and the name became the secondary thing.

Today is a big day, Ye Guangting has finished his studies at New York University, and couldn't even wait for the graduation ceremony, so he hurriedly checked out of the house and came back from the car dealership.Jiang Xia and Qingzi picked him up at the airport.Qingzi fiddled with the high-definition camera in his hand, preparing to leave an eternal memory for Ye Guangting's return. "You said that the dude doesn't want to study. In the end, we both returned empty-handed, and this kid really came back with a degree! An MBA has been studying for three years, so it's hard for him!" Jiang Xia held a large bouquet of flowers in his left hand, and the right hand Holding the waist of Qingzi who was about to be a mother, "I want to bring him to our company, what do you think?"

"Okay," Qingzi felt amused, "but his father is still the chairman of our company, when is it your turn to decide where his son will go?" Jiang Xia sneered and said: "That's right! Co-authors, we are here to pick up the boss today, ha ha." "Come out!" Qingzi's eyes were sharp, and he recognized Ye Guangting, who was still dressed in bright clothes, from a group of tired passengers pushing their luggage.She hurriedly waved her hand, turned on the camera and started shooting. "What's up bro!" Ye Guangting greeted exaggeratedly, "Are you men and women? Your stomach is big enough! When will you give birth?"

"The due date is just a few days," Jiang Xia looked at Qingzi's stomach and said, "There is really no way to invest, and even the birth check is done a few times less than others. You have to be responsible if you give birth to a little monster." Qingzi slapped Jiang Xia lightly on the cheek, and said with a smile, "I've tried my best to pick you up, uncle baby." She rubbed her stomach, and a strangeness flashed between her brows. "Where's Ding Xiwu? Is there a connection? Why didn't you come to pick me up?" "He scares you! Eight out of ten sentences are thorny. The nose is not the nose and the eyes are not the eyes. He asked me to bring you a good one." Jiang Xia took Ye Guangting's luggage cart, "I asked him to come The company did it together, after all, he was his boss before. Who knows that this kid has a personality, and he can't live or die. He said that he felt awkward being with me after going through all these things. I didn't force it anymore. I heard that this guy last year I really opened a travel agency, I was stimulated!"

Ye Guangting nodded, and said seriously to the two of them: "I was watching the cabin TV on the plane, and there was a live CNN news on it, something big happened!" "Oh?" Jiang Xia stopped, as if she had a premonition in her heart.He saw the smile on Ye Guangting's face and heaved a sigh of relief. "I won't repeat it, you have to read it yourself." Ye Guangting took out his ipad from his bag, connected to CNN network news and handed it to Jiang Xia and Qingzi. A line of headlines at the bottom of the screen is eye-catching: Columbia University professor arrested for homicide.

The female reporter stood in front of the medical school building that Jiang Xia was very familiar with and quickly broadcast the report: "Professor Richard Schwell of the Department of Biomedical Sciences of Columbia University came from here this morning because of his involvement in a murder case 30 years ago—he The office on the 17th floor was taken away." Following the gesture of the female reporter, the camera panned to the top of the medical school building.At the same time, a photo of Schweil is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen. The female reporter's voice-over continued: "Schwell is a well-known neuromedical expert. The neurosignal imaging research he led is expected to have a new understanding of the working mechanism of the human brain. Earlier today, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation The bureau held a short press conference after taking Schwert away. We're watching the press conference footage."

When the screen changed, it was a middle-aged man in a black suit, but his hair had almost fallen out.The subtitles identified the man as: FBI special agent, Johnny Nash. Jiang Xia remembered this person.In 1997, he and another FBI agent took Faina to identify bones buried in the walls of Boston Children's Hospital.At that time, Fei Na pretended to be blind so Jiang Xia could not see the faces of the two detectives, but remembered their names. Detective Nash speaks at a moderate speed and in a low voice, much more sophisticated than a decade ago: "We have enough evidence to show that Schweil is related to a murder that occurred at Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts 35 years ago. "

Some reporters couldn't wait to insert a question: "Detective Nash, why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in the investigation? Is this case determined to be a terrorist incident?" Nash thought about it calmly and said, "I have no comment on your first question. As for the second question, we currently have no evidence to support that this is a terrorist attack." Jiang Xia knew in her heart that this was of course a terrible incident, but no one except Faina and him knew how terrible it was. "Our sources say that a mysterious person has provided the police with key clues, please confirm."

Nash also paused and said, "We have various channels for obtaining intelligence." Okay!Jiang Xia couldn't help admiring that Nash already possessed the level of a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and answered the question as if he hadn't said it.It was the reporter's question that reminded Jiang Xia.This is probably because Faina deliberately left some traces when she checked the bones with the FBI in 1997, such as Schweil's hair or clothing debris, and then used her method to alert the police at an appropriate time.In Faina's plan, the content of getting rid of Schweil and Pat is indispensable.

"So what do you mean by sufficient evidence?" another reporter asked. "I can't disclose the details of the evidence to you, but I can tell you that we found the suspect's hair in the victim's remains, which is the beginning of our in-depth investigation." Nash had obviously begun to lose patience, and he looked at his watch , and looked at the reporters who were still eager to try, "The last question." "Detective Nash," shouted a male reporter, "on December 16, 2007, there was a gas leak in an old building in Boston and an elderly woman was injured. My question is, Why did the FBI get involved in investigating such an accident? We later learned that this is the place where the suspect Schweil once lived. May I ask if there is any connection between that incident and the cracking of this murder case, thank you." "No comment," Nash said, before stepping off the podium. The scene switched back to the female reporter on location. She obviously felt helpless at the news conference without much information. She pursed her lips and shrugged her shoulders: "CNN reporter Delilah reports from New York." Ye Guangting looked at Jiang Xia and Zhou Qingzi: "What do you think? I was shocked when it was broadcast on the plane. I really wanted to break open the window of the plane and jump out to watch it with you. Later, when I thought about jumping off, it was filmed in Alaska at most. On the ice of the ice lake, just bear it." Qingzi looked at Jiang Xia with a nervous look on his face. "I told you before," Ye Guangting said proudly, "Schweil is very suspicious." Jiang Xia knows the ins and outs of the matter. Although no one has harassed him in the past two years since he came back from the United States, Schweil's arrest still relieved him of a problem.When I saw this news, I felt surprisingly comfortable in my heart, and realized that he was still very afraid of Schweil.However, Ye Guangting and Qingzi didn't understand the mystery, and they both felt terribly afraid that Jiang Xia had been working with a murderer. The cordon in front of Faina's residence was actually left on purpose by her. The first purpose is to let the FBI shift its focus from her to Schweil, and the second purpose is naturally to leave a password reminder for Jiang Xia. Jiang Xia pushed Ye Guangting's luggage cart and walked towards the parking lot, as if to "no comment".He didn't want them to know too much. "Ah!" Qingzi screamed from behind, and hurriedly shouted, "Jiangxia Jiangxia! No way! Hurry up!" Jiang Xia quickly turned around and ran over. "Fuck! His father!" Ye Guangting had never seen this situation before, and he supported Qingzi vigorously, "You are going to be Jiang's father! Go and get a wheelchair! Is the water broken?" Two or three travelers had gathered around to see if they could be of help.Jiang Xia borrowed a wheelchair from the counter and helped Qingzi, whose forehead was dripping with sweat, onto it. "Did you come here in my car?" Ye Guangting pushed the luggage and ran while clearing the way for Jiang Xia and Qingzi who followed closely behind. "Yes, yes! The key is in my pocket. After you put your luggage, I will put Qingzi on the back seat and you will drive. I will pay you a fine for driving as fast as you can!" Jiang Xia said pantingly. Qingzi said, "How do you feel?" "It's better, don't drive too fast. I can still block it for a while." Even so, judging from Qingzi's expression, she was experiencing unprecedented pain. Jiang Xia called 110 while running to call the police. The airport police heard the situation and decided to send a police motorcycle to clear the way for them on the congested streets of Beijing.The police motorcycle flashed its lights, followed by a Maserati speeding fast, and passers-by frowned.Ye Guangting slammed on the accelerator happily, when had he ever enjoyed such a cool treatment? Thirty kilometers away, five o'clock in the afternoon, Beijing. It took only 30 minutes for the police to escort them to Xiehe Hospital. Jiang Xia changed into blue medical uniform and put on hood and shoe covers.The camera that was supposed to record Ye Guangting's exit from customs happened to be used to film the birth of the child.His hands were shaking all the time, from the excitement in his heart.Jiang Xia didn't have much feeling for children at first.Especially when he sees other people's children crying for no reason, he is always disturbed and afraid to avoid it.But the moment Qingzi told him "I have it", he suddenly changed.He became sentimental, and the little things that were originally inconspicuous would bring tears to his eyes.He became very careful, and every jump or sway of Qingzi's walking would make him very nervous.He became more forgiving, as if nothing could really bother him anymore. He's going to be a dad. When he arrived at the hospital, Qingzi's cervix had already been dilated.She began to breathe heavily and her legs were raised.The doctor instructs her how to exert force.Jiang Xia was at a loss, he didn't even know where to stand and where to shoot.Seeing the normally optimistic and happy Qingzi being so sad at this moment, he really felt distressed.Jiang Xia put the camera aside, stood next to Qingzi and held her hand.Fingers intersected, Jiang Xia only felt that it was painful, but he was happy in his heart, because they were going through together, working hard together, and looking forward to it together. It's kind of a romance anyway. There were tears in Qingzi's eyes.Jiang Xia stared at her closely, unknowingly shed tears.It seems that they went back to the night when they first met a few years ago, back to the beach where they held hands and could see the lighthouse, back to the coffee shop where they sat facing each other, back to New York, back to Boston...there The heaven and earth are blue car windows dotted with transparent teardrops, filled with the fragrance of green grass after the rain. Doctors and midwives were busy, they seemed to be in some trouble, only one nurse was left to teach Lepton to breathe, and the other doctors looked under Qingzi's body.Qingzi was very tired and in pain, she closed her eyes tightly.Jiang Xia turned to look at the doctors who were discussing, and then at Qingzi. She didn't know what happened, but she had a bad premonition. After discussing for a while, a nurse came over and said to Jiang Xia: "Your wife can't give birth naturally, we are going to give her a caesarean section, you need to avoid it." Jiang Xia's heart was pulled up, anxiously looking at the expressions of the doctors and nurses one by one. "What's the matter? Is it dangerous?" "Don't be nervous, the child is too big to grow out, it's just a minor operation." Qingzi nodded, her face was covered with sweat, and the nurse wiped her gently with gauze.Jiang Xia kissed Qingzi's forehead for a long time, squeezed her hand, turned and left the operating room. Ye Guangting waited impatiently outside, came up to greet him, and said with a smile, "How is it? Male and female? You won't be dizzy like you were at MIT again?" Jiang Xia shook his head and fell down on the chair tiredly.They were not prepared for a caesarean section at all, Jiang Xia felt sad when thinking of Qingzi going to suffer that knife, and couldn't help but worry.He imagined all kinds of bad outcomes, and he even thought that if the doctor came out and asked him "to protect the child or the adult", he would say "protect the adult". It seemed like a long time had passed, but in fact, it was only a short while before the loud crying of a child came from the delivery room!Jiang Xia jumped up as if he had been injected with a large amount of energy, and leaned against the door of the operating room to listen, tears welled up again.Ye Guangting stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Congratulations, Father Jiang, congratulations." That voice is so beautiful, Jiang Xia felt for the first time that a child's cry was the most beautiful sound in the world. After a while, the doctor came out with a blank expression on his face. He called Jiang Xia aside and said in a low voice, "Your lover is fine, but..." The doctor looked up at Jiang Xia with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Your child...is it still ...you come in with me." Jiang Xia's heart was tightly pressed, and he had a very bad premonition. Under the glass cover in the intensive care unit, lay her own child.He kicked his hands and feet indiscriminately, and his eyes were struggling to open from the thick layer of vernix. The doctor has explained that his child is a pair of conjoined twins.But during development, one absorbs the other and becomes a fetus within a womb. Jiang Xia held onto the glass cover and poked her head closer. The baby's chubby belly seemed to have a slight ups and downs. He seemed to see his brothers being swallowed under that layer of belly.