The low self-esteem caused by his severed finger and his strong self-esteem doomed him for the rest of his life.
When Ergou became an adult, he went home for a Spring Festival and had a gathering with his family. He said, "Ergou, uncle, I regret that I chose this path."
Ergou said: "Uncle, your current situation after demobilization and your character determine that you will eventually take this path."
He said: "Maybe it's okay not to leave."
Ergou said: "Why?"
He said slowly: "As long as the medical conditions are a little better or the doctor just pays more attention, my finger will not need to be amputated at all."
Ergou was speechless. It was the afternoon of New Year's Eve again. It had been exactly twenty years since the incident mentioned above. Outside the window, there was also heavy snow falling. In these twenty years, Ergou had gone from a person who had just remembered the incident. The silly boy turned into a strong young man, fighting for his ideals in a foreign land. Zhao Hongbing changed from a veteran with military exploits and honors to the most notorious gangster leader in the city. At that time, Ergou should be the same as twenty years ago. Zhao Hongbing was the same age as before, but the difference was that Ergou was full of longing and hope for life when he was 24 years old, while Zhao Hongbing was full of pessimism and despair because of his broken finger.
And for all that has happened to Zhao Hongbing in the past twenty years, is that mediocre military doctor responsible for it? Isn't the importance of three fingers worthy of this mediocre military doctor taking it seriously? Fingers were given by parents, and on the battlefield When someone was injured while defending the country, could it be that they cut off the work and responsibilities of these mediocre military doctors just to save trouble? Didn't they think that the young soldier in front of them would have to pay the price of being disabled for most of his life for their carelessness? That bright five-pointed star on his head? Who are they right?!
On the first day of the new year after the Spring Festival, Ergou got to know three comrades Fei Si, Xiao Ji and Li Si who were demobilized at the same time as Zhao Hongbing. Their so-called comrades were not comrades in the same company, but enlisted in the same year in our city and then If you join the same group army, the number of soldiers in urban areas is limited, so you will feel more familiar even if you are not in the same company. Moreover, these people were classmates in the same class in high school, so they interacted with each other a lot.
Li Si and Zhao Hongbing are both scouts, and Fei Si and Xiao Ji are both artillerymen. Although these four people are not in the same company, they all participated in the battle of Laoshan. Fei Si is tall and strong, with a height of 185cm. He is not very handsome but has a more masculine look. After he was demobilized, he was assigned to drive in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. He started working before the Spring Festival. Li Size worked as an orderly in the municipal government. He is dark and thin, and appears to be more capable. Xiao Jize has nothing to do with his family. A powerful man was assigned to work in the government of a small town nearly 30 kilometers away from the city. He was unwilling to go, so he started a scrap recycling war not far from Zhao Hongbing's home. Not only did he collect some scrap copper and iron, He also collects some stolen parts and cultural relics from factory machines. This person always has a bad smile on his face, which makes people feel that this person always has bad intentions.
To be honest, although Ergou had played with them since childhood, he basically only knew their nicknames. He only learned their names after seeing the notice posted at the door of the city court that read "xxx was sentenced to xx years for xx crimes." know
As the saying goes, you can tell the world by watching a leaf fall. Qiu Ergou has seen how capable these comrades of Zhao Hongbing are.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Fei Si and Xiao Ji first came to Zhao Hongbing’s house to pay New Year greetings. Since Grandpa Zhao was a leading cadre, he went to the city hotel to attend group greetings on the morning of the Lunar New Year. Zhao Hongbing was the only one left at home who could play at that time.
There weren’t many things, unlike today’s world of flowers. Fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival were the favorite thing for young people at that time. The city where Ergou is located pays attention to “welcoming the God of Wealth” on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means setting off firecrackers and double-ring charges all morning.
Fourth, the arrival of Xiaoji and Li Si really opened the eyes of Ergou’s family home.
Speaking of this, I have to talk about how Fei Si played the "double bang". Normal people would put the double bang on the ground, light the twister, and run away. But our citizens have been relatively tough since ancient times. Both adults and children use the double bang.
Hold it in your hand and gently hold the top of the double beep. After igniting the fuse, it rings once in your hand. The double beep will automatically fly up to the sky and ring the second time in the sky. This is also the principle of rockets. Although it is more dangerous to do this, it is generally
There's no big problem unless there's a double blast
But how did the man surnamed Fei play the double ring? He held the double ring firmly with his right hand and lit the fuse with his left hand. The first double ring exploded in his hand. He did not let the double ring fly out, but still held it firmly until the second time.
About 2 seconds before the ring goes off, throw the remaining half of the ring out like a grenade. It will basically explode within five meters of him. The sound is so loud that others are so scared that they dare not look at it, but Fei Si laughs.
Laughter. Maybe in the eyes of an artilleryman like Fei Si, the thin and short double sound is really nothing to fear.
Ergou's father gave him a brief comment: "cattle"
What Fei Si did was just being brave and not following the rules, while Xiao Ji's behavior was extremely bloody. At that time, Zhao Hongbing's family had a new black-backed wolf dog, and Xiao Ji was attracted to this wolf dog as soon as he entered Zhao Hongbing's family.
He was interested until Zhao Hongbing said: "Let's set off the firecrackers." Xiao Ji grabbed a 500-ring earth-red steel whip and tied it firmly to the wolf dog's tail. Before the wolf dog could understand what was going on, Li
Si had already lit the hanging whip, and the crackling sound started. The dog with the special ring of the hanging steel whip was frightened, and began to bark and run. He first ran in the yard for about 10 seconds, and then went up at a loss.
He climbed up the wall, jumped from the wall to the roof of the second floor, and started barking and running wildly on the roof of the second floor. No matter how hard he ran, the poor dog could not escape from the 500-meter hanging hanging behind its tail.
The ringing steel whip ran back and forth on the roof of the second floor for 2-3 times before stopping.
The loud noise of firecrackers, the pitiful howling of the wolfdog running wildly on the roof, and Xiaoji's wild laughter left a very deep impression on Ergou for the rest of his life.
At this moment, Grandpa Zhao came back after attending the group worship. When he opened the door, he happened to see his pet dog running wildly on the roof with a whip hanging from its tail.
Xiao Ji walked over and kicked him. Xiao Ji ducked away with a smile. Ergou had to admire Grandpa Zhao, because he didn't even see who tied the whip to the dog's tail, but he walked directly towards Xiao Ji.
I went over and kicked him. It seems that Grandpa Zhao knows these friends Zhao Hongbing very well.
Among Zhao Hongbing's three comrades who came to pay New Year's greetings that day, only Li Si did not do anything fancy with the firecrackers. At that time, Ergou thought that this uncle was more honest and not so frivolous, but within five days, Ergou
Completely changed the impression
It was the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. Zhao Hongbing took Ergou and Xiaobo to Li Si's unit to play. According to the custom of our city, it was time for the Yangko team to come out. First they played on the street, and then went to each unit to pay New Year's greetings. It was said to be a New Year's greeting, but in fact it was
Asking for money in disguised form. There seemed to be 5 or 6 yangko troupes in our city that year asking for money one by one. It was really annoying to death. At that time, Li Si was responsible for distributing money to these yangko troupes.
Li Si is also particularly annoyed by these Yangko teams that simply force others to give money. Although the leader gave Li Si money to send these Yangko teams, what should Li Si do if he just doesn’t want to give it? Of course, they have clever tricks, so he will take them first.
He took out a drum containing carbon paper. The drum was about 70-80cm long and about 30cm in diameter. He used this as a core and pasted layer after layer of kraft paper on the outside. The ratio of diameter and length was about the same as that of an ordinary double ring.
The outside was wrapped in red paper leftover from Spring Festival couplets, and a hole was drilled underneath the thing, and a fake twister made of waste kraft paper was stuffed like this: The largest double ring in human history was born, although it was a forgery.
Yes, it won’t ring no matter how you click it.
But it was this fake double ring that played a vital role. Around 11:30 a.m. on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, that is, after Li Sigang finished making the extra-large fake double ring, a Yangko team entered the courtyard of the Municipal Industry and Commerce Bureau.
The gong and drum players started to perform Yangko dances, and they kept doing it. It seemed that they were going to keep doing it until the unit came out to give money. But this time, what they were waiting for was not money at all, but an extra-large forged double ring.
I saw Li Si holding this half-person-high big double ring in his arms and rushing out of the building door of the unit and rushing directly towards the Yangko team. His rushing posture was very much like that of a sharp knife squad attacking, and he was holding the extra-large fake double ring in his arms.
It's like the hero Wang Cheng holding a blasting tube. At that time, the reform and opening up had just begun, and there were new things almost every day. The people in the Yangko team were very curious when they saw the extra large double bell, and they twisted and stared at the double bell.
Unexpectedly, Li Si rushed into their yangko team, poked the fake double ring in the middle of the team, pulled out the twister, and then lit the cigarette in his mouth, pretending to use the cigarette to light the double ring.
Let me ask you this: Who wouldn’t be afraid to see a double ring that is half a man tall and thicker than a human thigh?
At the moment when he made the key points, the members of the Yangko team let out a chorus of exclamations and wails. The team was immediately in chaos. Because everyone in the Yangko team was walking on "stilts", it was not very convenient to walk, and some fell down.
Some people rushed out of the hospital. For a moment, they were on their backs, while Li Si kept holding on to the extra-large fake double-click, making key points again and again, and every time he made a gesture but did not light it.
When he made a show of making the double ring for about the seventh time, all the members of the Yangko team rushed out of the courtyard. They still seemed to be in a state of palpitations. Everyone covered their ears and watched in horror as no one in the courtyard dared to come in because they all knew that the courtyard
There is a large explosive bag inside. No one will dare to enter this hospital anymore, let alone ask for money.
This trick worked so well that on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce did not pay any Yangko team a penny.
Ergou now analyzes: Zhao Hongbing, Fei Si, Li Si and Xiao Ji are a group of veterans who have no worries about food and clothing and are idle. Each veteran has more clever ideas than the other. They gather together all day long. It would be strange if they don't cause some trouble. But there is no such thing.
What comes to mind is that they caused so many big troubles that those who survived later became underworld big brothers with their own docks.