As the sunset filled the sky, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin walked towards the village with simple luggage. The luggage bags mainly contained pickles and other things that their mother had brought them.
Someone from both families sent it.
On Xu Tongdao's side are his mother and sister, and on Xu Tonglin's side is his mother.
When they were about to leave the village entrance, Xu Changsheng caught up with them from behind and said he wanted to see them off. Comrade Xu looked at him and saw that Xu Changsheng looked a little embarrassed. The smile on his face was unnatural, but his eyes were bright.
Xu Tongdao deliberately fell behind and walked with Xu Changsheng. After walking for a while, Xu Tongdao whispered: "Changsheng! We are still brothers, right?"
Xu Changsheng nodded quickly, "Yes! Yes! Of course! Of course!"
Tongdao Xu smiled and continued: "In that case, you can help me take care of my house when I'm not at home! If, if Xu Hengbing behaves like a monster again, can you help my brother?"
Xu Changsheng thought for a while and nodded again, "Xiaodao, actually you don't need to tell me this. This time, when your Xiaolu and Xu Hengbing started fighting, I didn't know. By the time I found out, something had happened to Xiaolu.
I, I can’t contact you..."
Comrade Xu nodded and said nothing.
After walking for a while, Xu Changsheng opened his mouth several times and finally said: "Xiaodao, I, I actually want to go to the county town with you to make money, but right now... I can't leave."
Tongdao Xu smiled lightly and shook his head slightly, "It's okay! Let me know when you want to go in the future!"
After receiving this promise, Xu Changsheng smiled, his expression became much more relaxed, and his tone became much brisker, "Oh, oh, good! Thank you, thank you, Xiaodao!"
Comrade Xu raised his hand and patted his back, "It's okay! Don't be so polite to me, we are brothers!"
"Hey, hey!"
Xu Changsheng nodded vigorously with a bright smile.
…
Time is like water, constantly moving forward.
In the blink of an eye, more than a week has passed.
Under the starry night, Zheng Qing, wearing black clothes, black trousers and black leather shoes, walked unhurriedly into Baiwan Village next to Xujia Village.
In the dark night, he looked a bit pretentious wearing a black sun hat.
But his expression was very calm, without the usual pretentiousness.
From the moment he walked into Baiwan Village, from time to time, the native dogs guarding the house suddenly stood up and barked at him on the roadside. Zheng Qing turned a deaf ear. Only when a few bold native dogs rushed towards him did he
After a cold look, the boldest black dog rushed in front of him and opened its mouth to bite him, but was kicked away by him.
Not long after, Zheng Qing came to the counter of a small shop with the lights still on in the middle of the village. A young woman knitting a sweater was sitting at the counter.
Seeing Zheng Qing arriving, the young woman subconsciously raised her head and glanced at him twice.
In fact, it was a place in the countryside and it was late at night. Someone dressed so seriously as Zheng Qing and wearing a sunhat late at night was a bit eye-catching.
"Do you want to buy something?" the young woman asked curiously.
Zheng Qing hummed, took out ten dollars and handed it over, "Bring me a pack of Ashima!"
As he spoke, he glanced at the room behind the young woman, because the sound of mahjong playing could be heard very clearly in that room.
"Oh, okay! I'll get it for you!"
The young woman took the money and happily gave him cigarettes.
Zheng Qing, who bought the cigarettes, did not leave in a hurry. Instead, she stood in front of the counter, opened the cigarette, lowered her head and lit one.
He seemed to ask casually: "Is there anyone playing mahjong here?"
The young woman looked at him a little warily, frowned and asked, "What do you do? Are you here to catch gamblers?"
Zheng Qing smiled slightly and shook his head silently.
The young woman looked at him again, smiled, and said, "Yes! Do you also want to play twice?"
"OK?"
Zheng Qing seemed to be moved.
When the young woman saw it, she immediately put down the sweater in her hand, stood up and stretched out her hand to signal, "Okay! Come on, come on! I'll take you in and have a look! They happen to be playing Pai Gow inside. There are not too many people playing Pai Gow. Come on, come on!"
Zheng Qing smiled, flicked the cigarette ashes in his hand, raised his feet and followed in.
Following the young woman, Zheng Qing walked into the room and saw a dozen people gathered around a table, playing Pai Gow.
On the periphery of the crowd, there were a few old men and women watching the fun.
But Zheng Qing's eyes swept across the faces of these people, and soon fell on the face of Xu Hengbing in the crowd.
His gaze didn't stay on Xu Hengbing's face for long. After about two seconds, he looked away without attracting anyone's attention.
The young woman at the canteen introduced him to the banker who was playing Pai Gow. The banker was a fat man with a big belly. Hearing this, he looked at Zheng Qing with a pair of pee-bullet eyes, nodded and said with a smile: "I won! As long as you have money, you can bet whatever you want! Since I
If I dare to be the banker, I won’t be afraid of you guys coming to play! Haha..."
Looking at the pile of money in front of him, he probably won a lot of money tonight.
Under the scrutiny of more than a dozen people, Zheng Qing approached the gambling table and did not go anywhere else. He stood next to Xu Hengbing.
Xu Hengbing glanced at him impatiently, then cursed and urged the dealer to deal the cards quickly.
…
time flies.
Behind the counter of the canteen, a young woman knitting sweaters was still knitting, and the sound of playing mahjong could be heard from time to time in the room behind her.
Maybe it was late at night, but although the young woman was still knitting a sweater, she couldn't help but yawn.
Just in the middle of a yawn, a loud curse suddenly came from the room behind her: "Hit you Mabi!! Do you dare to hit me? Do you know who I am?"
"Please clear your mouth when you are riding a horse!! Can you try to curse again?"
This voice sounded familiar to the young woman, like the man in black clothes and hat who bought cigarettes from her before.
She was startled, and the second half of her yawn was frightened away, but she did not get up and go to the room to see what happened.
She had long been accustomed to the occasional quarrels between these gamblers.
He couldn't help curling his lips slightly and cursed in a low voice: "Noisy, noisy, if you can, let's fight! A bunch of idiots..."
Before she finished speaking, a loud "bang" sound suddenly came from the room behind her, as if a stool hit the door. Because the noise was too loud and sudden, the young woman was so frightened that she screamed and fell off the chair.
He slid up and down and fell to the ground.
Before she could react.
In the room behind her, screams, dissuasion, banging sounds of fighting... and screams could be heard constantly.
Soon, the sound of fighting in the room disappeared, but the sound of screaming became louder.
The chaotic exclamations did not disappear either.
The young woman got up from the ground with her face turned pale with fright. She raised her feet and was about to go to the room to take a look. The door was suddenly opened by someone inside. She was wearing black clothes, black pants, black leather shoes, and a black sun hat.
Zheng Qing lowered his head slightly, raised his hand to hold the collar of his shirt, raised his head, and met her eyes. He raised the corner of his mouth slightly, gave her a crazily and evil smile, and then he calmed down.
The ground is gone.
The young woman stared blankly at his back, saw him taking out the pack of Ashima as he walked, lowered his head slightly, and lit another cigarette.
Someone exclaimed in the room: "Xiao Bing, Xiao Bing, don't move! Don't move! Your leg seems to be broken, oops! Who were you just now? Do you know each other? This is too heavy a blow.
Alright?"
Hearing these words, the young woman's face changed, her brows furrowed, and she hurried into the room. As soon as she entered, she saw Xu Hengbing lying on the ground among the messy tables, chairs, and benches, with tears and runny nose coming out from the pain...
His right leg was bent at a weird angle that ordinary people couldn't bend.