After listening to Qiu Ye's words, Liu Yunxiang punched Liu Gen in the chest: "Brother Gen! Haha... I really didn't see the wrong person back then!" Then he looked at Qiu Ye and put his arms around Liu Gen's shoulders: "If we say, in this world,
There is also someone worthy of admiration for Xiangzi, who I can’t kill, and that person must be Yanagi Gen.”
"Are you... fellow villagers?" Qiu Ye could tell from their accent that they were from the same place.
Xiangzi laughed and replied: "We are brothers, close buddies!" After saying that, he glanced inside the school gate and asked: "Don't you need me to send you in again?" He wanted to send Qiu Ye away as soon as possible so that he could take her with him.
I gave him three hundred yuan and went to eat and drink with Liu Gen.
Qiu Ye blushed slightly, lowered his head and combed the ends of his hair, with a smile on his lips, and replied: "No, I can just go in by myself, thank you, Brother Xiangzi." After saying that, he glanced at Liu Gen and walked towards the school gate.
.
Watching Qiu Ye turn around and walk into the school gate step by step, Xiangzi raised his hand that was still holding Qian and waved, and put his other hand around Liu Gen's shoulder: "Let's go, Liu Gen, the fragrance wafting here has lured me to tears."
It’s saliva.”
Liu Gen remained silent while Xiangzi was talking to Qiu Ye. That was because Qiu Ye was there.
"Xiangzi, how can you ask for money from a girl?" Liu Gen glanced at the money in Xiangzi's hand and asked unhappily.
"Haha... This is the first money I have ever earned by my own skills in my life!" Xiangzi said, cheering and shaking the banknotes in his hands.
"You earned it?" Liu Gen didn't believe it, how could he earn so much money from a girl.
"Of course! You didn't earn it, did you steal it? Didn't you see Qiu Ye handing me the money readily just now?" Xiangzi said with some pride.
"Did you blackmail me?" Liu Gen pushed Xiangzi away with a palm: "Answer me honestly, did you blackmail me for this money?"
Xiangzi said with a helpless look: "I'm wronged! I can't kill Xiangzi. When has Xiangzi ever done such an immoral thing?"
"Then why did they give you three hundred yuan for nothing?" Liu Gen asked reluctantly.
"You haven't changed your bad temper at all. You are still the Liu Gen I knew in the past. I can't beat Xiangzi. He has never obeyed anyone since he was a child. Why did he obey your bad temper?" Xiangzi stepped forward again and hugged Liu Gen.
Shoulder: "Find a place to eat, sit down, and I'll tell you slowly. I'm hungry. I haven't eaten anything decent since I gnawed two steamed buns in the morning!"
Liu Gen raised his hand and hugged Xiangzi's neck, saying in a tone that left no room for argument: "Let's go, I'll treat you to something delicious!"
"Please invite me...hehe..." Xiangzi said cheerfully: "It seems that the sun is really going to come out from the west!"
"In the past, it was you who treated me to delicious food. Now, it's my turn to treat you to delicious food." Liu Gen said expressionlessly, took a big step away, tightened his elbow on Xiangzi's neck, and faced
He was walking back to the school just now, as if he was afraid that he would break away and run away.
"It seems that you have become rich, haha... for the first time, you want to treat Xiangzi, who I can't kill, to eat and drink!" Xiangzi thought that the current Liu Gen was no longer the former Ganggou Village who had no shelter from the cold and no food.
He was a poor boy, otherwise, how could he win the honorific title of 'Brother Gen' when he went to a first-class university in Nanhai? He happily followed Liu Gen's elbow and followed him forward.
Passing by one barbecue shop and teppanyaki restaurant after another, Yanagi showed no intention of stopping and sitting down.
Xiangzi asked strangely: "Liu Gen, what delicious food do you want to treat me to?"
"Don't ask so many questions, just follow me!" Liu Gen strode forward with a straight face.
Xiangzi thought to himself: It seems that Liu Gen is really going to treat me to a big dinner tonight. He doesn't like these snacks on the roadside.
Liu Gen hasn't eaten anything at the food stalls on Daxue Road, so he doesn't know which one has good food. However, when he came back just now, he passed by a Shanxi shaved noodle shop and the door was still open.
When Liu Gen's arm held Xiangzi's neck and walked into the noodle shop, Xiangzi realized that what Liu Gen treated him to was not big fish or meat, but sliced noodles.
"Yaugen, please treat me to some noodles!" Xiangzi tried to free himself from Yanagi's elbow, but it was useless. Yanagi's arm trapped him tightly like a steel rope: "I want to eat barbecue..."
"
"Boss, let's have a bowl of beef noodles!" Liu Gen said loudly to a man wearing a dirty white hat who was sitting at a small table watching TV. Then he sat Xiangzi on a plastic stool and said, "Sit down.
do not move!"
Xiangzi couldn't laugh or cry, and wanted to stand up, but Liu Gen pressed his hand on his shoulder and was unable to shake him: "Liu Gen...Brother Gen...there are so many delicious food outside, you can't bear to pay me to treat me to expensive ones!"
The words 'Brother Gen' were obviously sarcastic.
"Isn't it just to eat to your heart's content? No matter what you eat, it's not the same! I'm a poor student, and you..." Liu Gen stared at Xiangzi and said with a wry smile: "We are the same now! You are no longer the one with stuffed pants in your pockets."
Qian’s coal boss is your son!”
"You..." Xiangzi glanced at the master who was shaving noodles in the pot, but did not say anything. When he lowered his head, his eyes were full of tears, he sniffed and whispered: "Don't you even want to see me?
Yet?"
Yanagi Gen patted Xiangzi on the shoulder and sat down next to him: "What are you thinking about? Am I, Yanagi Gen, that kind of person?"
"Would you like a big bowl or a small bowl?" the boss asked inside.
"How much does a large bowl cost?" Liu Gen then remembered that he hadn't asked the price yet.
"A big bowl of beef shaved noodles for eight pieces and plain noodles for five pieces!"
"It costs eight yuan." Liu Gen replied.
"I want two bowls." Xiangzi raised his head, wiped his tears with the back of his hand and said, "Put more beef in it."
"If you add meat, it's ten yuan a bowl." The boss said.
"Then you get two bowls worth eight yuan, and then add four yuan worth of meat, which must be packed separately." Liu Gen was careful. When others brought it out, he had never eaten it, so who knew whether there was meat in it.
"Why don't you eat?" Xiangzi asked.
"I've had dinner, and I'm not hungry." Liu Gen replied. In fact, he was already hungry. The big meal he had at Wen Hanmei's place was not full at all, and he had walked so much with Xia Yang, so he was already hungry.
He grunted, but he endured not eating, not because he was reluctant to spend a few more dollars, but because he was worried that he was used to eating late night snacks and would spoil his stomach and cause trouble at night. Appetite, once indulged, would
But the remarkable thing is that he doesn't have the luxury to have late-night snacks.
"Now tell me clearly the origin of these three hundred yuan!" Liu Gen took matters into his own hands and poured a glass of water for Xiangzi.
Xiangzi then told Liu Gen how to save Qiu Ye, she wanted to give him money, and finally escorted her back to school and accepted the money with peace of mind. However, he did not say that he heard the gangsters calling each other's names.
He didn't think it was important.
"If I had wanted to do something bad, and I can't beat Xiangzi to death, would there be any need for me to end up living on the street?" Xiangzi emphasized in the end.
Yanagi Gen also thought so. If Xiangzi wanted to rob people or steal for extortion in order to make a living, he would not have to live on the street. He believed what Xiangzi said.
The boss brought up two large bowls of cooked noodles and gave Xiangzi a sideways look. He then brought a small bowl of braised beef and gave Xiangzi another sideways look.
Liu Gen took out twenty yuan and paid the bill.
"Boss, why don't you sell some barbecue at night like other restaurants?" Liu Gen asked casually.
"We can't afford to hire people. Besides, my store is a bit far from the school entrance, so it's not very popular," the boss replied.
"From the accent, you're from Shanxi?" Liu Gen glanced at Xiangzi, who was eating in a hurry, with his stomach growling. He tried not to think about the food, but started chatting with the shop owner.
"I'm from Shanxi, and my house on this street is the authentic Shanxi shaved noodle restaurant." The boss sat back in front of the TV, changing channels with the remote control, as if he didn't want to talk to Liu Gen too much.
"How much money can this store make in a month?" Liu Gen asked again.
"Haha... It's not that easy. The rent is too expensive. After calculating the expenses, it's good to be able to live a full life." The boss replied with a wry smile.
"Well, it's delicious!" Xiangzi quickly finished a large bowl of shaved noodle soup without leaving any drop, and then he had time to talk and started to work on the second bowl.
The boss glanced sideways at Xiangzi and asked Liu Gen: "Classmate, is he your relative?"
"They are brothers." Liu Gen replied.
The boss curled his lips, shook his head, turned off the TV, stood up and said, "It's getting late, I should make some proofs too!" It was obvious that he regarded Xiangzi as a beggar and was trying to drive people away.
Xiangzi sulked, and quickly took the second bowl of noodles into his stomach. He picked up the sea bowl and drank up the soup. He was sweating after eating. He put down the bowl, burped, and said with a smile: "This
It’s the most delicious noodles I’ve ever eaten, uh... I didn’t expect my appetite to be as big as yours, uh...”
"Let's go, boss, it's time to call it a day." Liu Gen gave Xiangzi a hand.
The two of them walked out of the noodle shop and walked toward the university gate.
"Xiangzi, where is Uncle Kui? Why isn't he with you?" Liu Gen then asked what he had wanted to ask.
"My father... he went back and surrendered!" Xiangzi choked with sobs.
"When did it happen?" Before Liu Gen came to school, he didn't hear that Xiangzi's father went back to surrender.
"I left ten days ago," Xiangzi replied.
"Your family..." Liu Gen hesitated for a moment, as if he was wondering whether he should say it.
"What's wrong with my family?" Xiangzi was very sensitive and asked immediately.
"After Uncle Kui escaped with you, the miners who had not received their wages moved all your belongings away. Also, the family members of those who died in the mining accident even burned down your house..."
Before Liu Gen finished speaking, Xiangzi gritted his teeth and said: "These ungrateful guys! They forced my mother to death! They also want to kill me! I remember that at the beginning, all of them were shameless and cried and begged my father and mother to let them come to my mine.
Mining coal to earn money for the family..."
"But your family's coal mine exploded and killed so many people. There are old and young people in those families, how can they live?" Liu Gen did not sympathize with Xiangzi. He knew that the mining of Xiangzi's coal mine did not meet the standards, but
It was his uncle who was the deputy county magistrate of Qiong County County Government that kept him from being shut down.
"Yes, there are problems with the coal mine my father opened, but my father didn't pay those bastards less!" Xiangzi argued.