After coming out of the swimming pool, he had to send his sisters home personally due to their injuries.

And along the way, he didn't say a word to them.

On the way home to send them home, he thought about a lot of things, including how to explain when he saw their father - although his sister jumped off the platform by herself, in the eyes of a father, he may not think that it is his daughter's fault, he will see the driving force behind him as himself, and then take his anger on himself, especially a father like Lin Tao. Facing Lin Tao, what he worries about is not what the future will be, but whether he has a future.

He could only pray that when they were sent home, Lin Tao was not at home, he prayed that Lin Tao would never know about it, and prayed that their sisters would be tight-lipped for the rest of their lives, just like the accident in the lotus garden.

He secretly made up his mind to stay away from the Lin sisters from now on, unless they completely concealed the matter from Lin Tao, and unless their sisters reconciled and stopped hurting each other. He also hoped that this indifferent attitude and self-righteous way would make the sisters seriously reflect on themselves.

Today, he sincerely taught his sisters how to swim and tried to help them ease their relationship, but it backfired.

He participated in their sisters again and again, and then, again and again, he regretted not doing it at the beginning.

Today, my brother made an appointment to meet him, but he chose to go swimming with his twin sisters.

He regretted that he had not turned down their sisters' invitation, and that he had neglected his brother.

The next morning, while he was studying at home, he was concentrating when he suddenly heard someone open the door, and he knew it was him.

When his brother appeared in front of him, the first thing he said was, "I'm sorry." ”

He closed the door gently, walked over to him, pulled out the chair next to him and sat down, "Where were you yesterday?"

He bowed his head and said nothing.

He lifted Erlang's legs, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and showed an indifferent look on his face, "I was afraid that grandma would come back, so I didn't dare to wait for you at home, I waited for you downstairs for a whole day!"

He lowered his head and said, "I'm going to the swimming pool." ”

He frowned, "To the swimming pool? with whom, with them?"

He nodded.

"Chen Zifeng, you can. He tapped him on the shoulder, "It's getting to this point, it's pretty fast!"

"Not what you think. ”

He asked, mockingly, "What do I imagine? What kind of swimsuits do they wear, what kind of intimate encounters do you have with them?"

He opened his brother's hand on his shoulder, "Why are you talking so disgusting!"

He quipped, "I'm curious now, what kind of swimsuits, bikinis, they wore yesterday?"

He nodded.

He laughed, "Damn! You kid, you're not shallow!"

After his brother said this, he wondered if he had heard it wrong, he had never heard his brother say anything in his life. The time Lin Shiyu gave him the hat, Wang Meng humiliated him in front of the whole class, and he didn't scold a word, but now, the harsh word "I rely on" came as soon as he opened his mouth, which was especially smooth.

He felt that his brother seemed to have changed as a person, what had he been through outside? In just a few months, his brother had turned into his most disgusting appearance, "Chenzishan, you have changed." ”

"I haven't changed, you're the one who has changed. You are not one to break our contract easily, and now, you can easily break our agreement. You should know how difficult it is for me to ask you out once! With them in school, you can't even separate your weekends? In order to date them, you can throw your own brother downstairs for a day! You still righteously say that I have changed? Who has changed?"

The embarrassment on his face was a little unbearable, "Are you still finished?"

Seeing that his younger brother was a little angry, he smiled even more, "Tell me quickly, how are they in shape?"

He stood up suddenly, pointed at his nose and shouted, "How long has it been since you showed up, and you came to see me today just to chill me?" ”

He smiled awkwardly, "Just kidding you, don't take it too seriously, if you take it seriously, it only means that you care too much about them, right?"

"I care about them, I admit it, aren't you the same? When you were expelled, why did you take Xu Shiya with you, do you think I don't know what you're thinking...... Aren't you just trying to use Xu Shiya to make the principal soften and go back to school? Grandma told me that you insist on finishing junior high school, are you just for a junior high school diploma? With your intelligence, it is not a problem to get a master's degree or doctorate, and you will return to school for a junior high school diploma? Actually, you are reluctant to let their sisters go, you want to accompany them in their last student days, and you don't want to leave regrets...... You say, which of us cares more about them?"

He laughed self-deprecatingly, "How long have we not seen each other, why is the topic still inseparable from them?"

They were silent.

After a few moments, he asked, "How is Grandma?"

He sat down slowly, his grim expression turning to sadness, and he whispered, "Not very well...... Since you left home, she has spoken less and less, her legs and feet have become more and more uncomfortable, and she sighs more and more. ”

He sighed deeply.

"Brother, you send Xu Shiya back, tomorrow is Monday, let her go to school." Tonight, if you bow your head to your grandmother and admit your mistake, I am sure that she will forgive you...... Brother, go home. ”

He shook his head.

"What's the matter, are you still waiting for the principal to let go? Still insisting on going back to school? Do you really can't let go of their sisters in your heart?"

He buried his head, "It doesn't matter if the principal lets go of his mouth anymore. ”

"Since you don't care if the principal doesn't let go, you should send Xu Shiya home! What has become of grandma, but if you are filial, you should go home early!"

"It's not as simple as you think. ”

"What's the complication?"

"At first, I was as simple as you thought, using Xu Shiya's simplicity, saying that if you take her away, you will take her away, and if you say you send her home, you will send her home," Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly, "I underestimated Xu Shiya, and I thought I could control this girl, but now, she firmly controls me." ”

"Xu Shiya resolutely dropped out of school for the sake of 'you', and left her parents behind for 'you', why do you think you can control her, you are too naïve...... Where is she now?"

"There's a character named 'Brother Guang' near our house, you've heard of it. ”

He nodded, feeling an uneasy premonition about what he was going to say next.

"Then you should know that he has an underground workshop. ”

"Xu Shiya is there!"

He nodded.

Fear crossed his countenance, "Who is that place! She's alone there now?"

"Hmm. ”

"I said why can't anyone find her, so you hid her there! You leave her alone in the wolf's den now, don't you worry?"

"Why don't you worry, I'm quite relieved! You don't know the current Xu Shiya......"

"What's wrong with her?"

"What's wrong with her, she has a knife in her waist all the time, and if anyone dares to provoke her, she will stab someone. ”

"Won't it?"

"One time when I was not with her, Brother Guang's men provoked her, she took out the knife hidden in her waist and stabbed the man in the stomach. Fortunately, there was no big problem, they took care of the loss, and Brother Guang didn't pursue it, so the matter of paying some medical expenses was over. Now that Brother Guang's gang saw her, they all walked around her, and when they saw her, they were like mice seeing cats! They gave Xu Shiya a nickname, called her 'Female Devil', and Xu Shiya called them 'Xiao Long Bao', and the ruffians were puzzled and asked Xu Shiya why she called herself Xiao Long Bao? Xu Shiya smiled and said to them, 'Your belly is like Xiao Long Bao, and when you tie it, it will break, and it will flow into soup', and she enjoys it all day long, and she thinks that this kind of life is quite interesting.

"I warned her, 'If one day, you really stab someone, you will go to jail,' but she said, 'I stab all the bad people, and the bad people kill one by one, and the price of peace is the river of blood.'" ”

He was stunned.

"You say, she's like this now, how can I send her back? Can I still send her back?"

"Is she still the Xu Shiya in my impression? ”

"Maybe this is the real Xu Shiya...... The environment I gave her allowed her to discover her true self. ”

He scoffed, "If the headmaster sees his daughter like this, he must not be crazy!"

He said apologetically, "yes." ”

The two brothers fell silent.

After a long silence, he asked, "The headmaster's gang is not a little embarrassed for you." ”

"Needless to say. ”

"I originally thought that if I took his daughter, the gang at school would be polite to you, but I didn't expect that what I envisioned was all the opposite. ”

He pulled a cigarette case out of his trouser pocket and handed it to him.

"You're crazy, you're smoking here, grandma will smell it when she comes home. ”

He smiled, "Like, it's not a cigarette, it's a tape recorder." ”

He took the tape recorder disguised as a cigarette case, the outer packaging turned out to be made of cardboard boxes, he opened the lid of the box and saw that there were several cigarette rolls standing in the corner, "The disguise is really like, if the empty space of this 'cigarette box' is filled with cigarettes, who would have thought that it was actually a tape recorder." ”

He also gave it to him, "What do you mean by showing me this tape recorder?"

He tore open the outer carton and said to his brother, "This is the second insurance to hold the principal...... I never planned to use it, and now it seems that I have to. ”

At this point, a white plastic box in the shape of a cigarette box appeared in his hand, "Seeing that the high school entrance examination has passed, with the current attitude of the principal, I think he will try his best to stumble you and make your future come to naught! When he makes trouble for you again, you let him listen to this." ”

He pressed the play button hidden at the bottom of the plastic box:

"Hmph, as a father, I don't want you to give me privileges, it's enough to understand! Do you understand me? If you expel my classmates, who will dare to approach me in the future? If you let your classmates reject me, this is your cultivation of me?"

"As the head of a school, what you want to cultivate is every student in the school, Chen Zifeng from the first year of junior high school to the present, people have never dropped the top ten in the school in every exam, and when the high school entrance examination is approaching, you actually expelled someone, you have broken off other people's studies and broken people's future!"

"Why did you do this, and what right do you have to do this! You say that he violated school rules and discipline because of the fight, but what about Sun Hao, who beat people? What about Wang Meng, who beat people? The person who was beaten was expelled, but the person who beat people was not held accountable, I think you, the principal, are just cultivating the children of powerful families!"

A crisp slap rang out.

"Bastard! I'm the principal of this school, I can fire whoever I want, I can cultivate whoever I want, I don't need you to point me at what I do!"

He pressed the stop button and put the tape recorder in his palm again, "This thing is enough to deter him, you play it to him, he will never target you again." ”

He admired, "You're amazing!"

"Don't admire me, I never wanted it to come in handy. ”

"I'm not praising you for your cleverness, what I sigh is that you used Xu Shiya to this point, so I admire you. ”

Seeing that he was speechless, he then asked, "Why didn't you hand it over to the Education Bureau?"

"He is no longer human, after all, he is still Xu Shiya's father, he loves his daughter very much, but his love is stepping on top of our heads. As a principal, he is wrong, and as a father, we should understand him, he is not like our ......", and he ended his unfinished words with a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart.

He knew what his brother wanted to express, and he didn't answer the next call, but just handed the tape recorder back to him, "I don't need to use Xu Shiya's things, you can take it." ”

"We are different from other people, we use others today in order not to be used by others tomorrow, you don't understand this truth. ”

"I said, I don't need to. ”

"Don't be high, your future is more important than anything else. ”

"Of course I know, that's what you're here for today. He took out the voice recorder hidden in his bag and showed it in front of him, "What you think, I have already thought." ”

He smiled faintly and patted him on the shoulder again, "We deserve to be brothers." ”

He smiled too, "Twin brothers." ”

"You can handle it yourself, it couldn't be better. He picked up the pencil on the table and wrote down a series of phone numbers on straw paper, "This is my mobile phone number, contact me anytime you need it." ”

He asked again, "Write it down?"

He looked at the phone number in front of him and said, "Write it down." ”

He erased the phone number from the paper with an eraser, "I've seen your ability to remember." ”

He looked at him, "You're worried that grandma will see it, you're too careful, it's actually too much." ”

"Trust me, it's better to be careful. ”

"You don't believe me, do you?"

"If I hadn't believed you, I wouldn't have seen you at home today. ”

"That's right. ”

"It's time for me to go, I'm not worried about Xu Shiya's safety, I'm worried about what kind of mess she will make again. He stood up, "Take good care of grandma at home." ”

"Wait a minute, there's something I don't quite understand. ”

"You say. ”

"Where did you get the money to buy your phone, and where did you get the money to solve your life problems?"

"You won't want to know the answer. ”

He closed his eyes and turned away when he saw the mock papers written on the table, and the memories of his student days came to his mind.

He opened the door and lowered his head to say goodbye to his younger brother, "It's going to be a high school entrance examination soon, come on, the only hope for the Chen family." ”

He gently closed the door and stared blankly outside the door, his back to the door, and silently shed two lines of tears.

"It's only been a few months, why does it feel different? Is it my problem?"

"I'm obviously standing at the door of my house, this is where I have lived for more than ten years, a lot of things are here, a lot of memories are here, why do I feel like I don't need them anymore? Why do I feel like I am a superfluous person the more I stay here? Is it really my problem........."

"Since I was a child, you have kept telling me that you have never favored anyone between us brothers, and we have always been treated the same, but what about ......"

"When I was a child, we brothers liked the same toy, you were reluctant to buy two of the same, you only bought one for us to take turns to play, and in the end, I always watched him play, I was always waiting for him, I was waiting for him to play tired......"

"There are only a few pieces of meat in a dish, you have to help us with the meat, your pair of chopsticks can only pick up one piece of meat, and his bowl is always your first choice. You look at my bowl, and you don't want to put it in my bowl again, I look at the pitiful few pieces of meat, and I say I don't like meat, I always stuff my teeth when I eat meat, you can eat it. The most ridiculous thing is that you actually believe ......"

"Is there any child in this world who doesn't love meat, don't you know how long your grandson doesn't know the taste of meat...... I don't believe it, you don't know. ”

"You have always instilled in me from childhood to adulthood that the big should be humble to the small, I want to ask you, how much older am I than him, a year, a month, a day, or a minute...... I don't know, you come and tell me. ”

"For this family, for Chenzifeng, I have paid so much, and I have never said a word, even a word......"

"It's been sixteen years, and this is the only time your own grandson has begged you, and this is the time when he needs you the most in sixteen years, but you ...... But you drove him out of the house...... Do you know how disappointed and sad he must be? ”

"For sixteen years, this is the only place for him to go, his parents don't want him anymore, where do you want him to go?"

At this point, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Do you feel that the decisions you made are all right, do you feel that you are tough, do you think that your well-behaved and sensible grandson will one day succumb to your toughness? I tell you, when he makes up his mind, he is even tougher than you!"

"If you don't have this grandson, don't you think he's not filial...... Perhaps, this world should not have him. ”

He leaned lightly against the door and listened to his cry, and he also cried quietly, "A pair of twin brothers, separated by a door...... And this door is actually a Taoist door. ”

......

On Monday afternoon, the school bell rang.

He quickly packed his schoolbag and got up to leave his seat, when the head teacher appeared at the door of the classroom, "Chenzishan, you go to the principal's office now." ”

"It's out of school, you don't care where I go. ”

"You won't be here tomorrow. ”

He hesitated, "Why should I go to the headmaster?"

"Why do you know it in your own heart? ”

"I'm not going. ”

"If you don't go, if you don't go, call your grandma. ”

"I don't call. ”

"You don't call it, you don't call me to invite it personally! I have your home address anyway. ”

He slammed his clenched fist against the desk.

After a muffled sound, she turned to look at him, "Headmaster, they're too bullying. ”

Sitting inside, she also showed a look of pity, "Otherwise, let our father come forward, and he will help you deal with them." ”

"No, I'll take care of it myself. ”

Sitting outside, she said, "You've been dealing with it for so long, and the school guys still target you every day." ”

"Give our dad a call. ”

He stopped them from making a fuss, "Don't make a mess, you sisters just take care of yourselves." ”

"What do you call chaos?"

"Didn't Chen Zifeng mention to you that it was with our father's help to protect you at the beginning. ”

He pretended to be grateful and said to them, "We are ordinary ordinary people, and we are really grateful that he can help in this part in his busy schedule." He has a lot of opportunities every day, how can our Chen family be able to bother his old man again and again. ”

Before leaving, he added, "I will handle the affairs of our Chen family myself, and when Chen Zifeng looks for you again, please tell him that what you owe to others will have to be repaid." ”

......

Principal's Office.

"I don't want to talk too much nonsense with you, where the hell is my daughter?"

"I also want you to ask your daughter where she hid my brother!"

"Little rabbit cub, you dare to bite my daughter? You stinky vegetable sellers, none of them have a good thing!

"What's wrong with the vegetable sellers, the vegetable sellers are at least better than the scum of society. ”

The principal pointed at him viciously, "Do you know that when my daughter left home, she took 200,000 yuan, 200,000 yuan from home! I am afraid that I will freeze so much money and transfer it away, how can my daughter know this, it must have been taught by your younger brother! Abduct a little girl, want to get something for nothing, but you should tell me, who is the scum scum?"

His gaze touched the ground, "Dear principal, if you want to say this, I don't understand, you mean that my brother defrauded your family of 200,000 yuan through your daughter, why don't you go to the police?

He looked up at the principal, "Are you in such a hurry, is it because your daughter lost it, or did she take the 200,000 yuan?"

He suddenly had an epiphany, "I understand, your daughter ran away from home, and you don't plan to let the police interfere, precisely because she took the 200,000 yuan from home! ”

The headmaster sat back in his chair and said with a blank face, "That's nonsense." ”

"Yes, if you continue to listen to my analysis, what problem does Xu Shiya's ability to easily take away 200,000 yuan from her home mean? It shows that you don't care about this mere 200,000 yuan, that is to say, these 200,000 yuan is just a drop in the bucket for you! Then the question arises again, your monthly salary is only a few thousand yuan, where does you get so much money? How much oil and water do you make in school?"

"Why are you talking nonsense in my office without evidence or evidence! What are you, how much money do I have to report to you? You poor people never think about how to change your current situation through hard work, you will only blindly be jealous of people who are richer than you, and your inferior quality is the reason why you poor people are poor all your life!"

After listening to the headmaster's vicious words, he actually laughed, "You are too good at...... Didn't you keep saying that you wanted to find your daughter? Then you call the police, you let the police find it. ”

"I lost my own daughter, and I explained to the police why a anxious father didn't call the police. ”

"My daughter is not a three-year-old child, let alone abducted by human traffickers, why should I call the police? She is young and ignorant, so she is in your way, and when she wakes up, she will naturally understand your villain's heart!"

"If I mobilize the people to call the police and make a fuss in the whole city, how much impact will this have on her future! After all, she is a daughter, so how will she look up and see people in the future?"

Speaking of this, the principal shook his head, "You don't even know where your own father is, how can you understand what it's like to be a father." ”

The headmaster sighed, "Why am I talking to a little kid about this stuff?" ”

"I don't want to talk to you either, since you firmly believe that Xu Shiya will come back, then you don't need to target me at school every day, let me go, it's good for everyone. ”

After hearing his words, the headmaster glanced at him with contempt, "Let you go?" do you think it's possible? Do you think I'll forgive you so easily?"

"So you came to me today to give me an 'ultimatum'. ”

"I've already expelled a Chenzifeng, and I'm still missing you a Chenzishan?"

"What do you mean?"

"I always have only one meaning, you let Chen Zifeng let go of my daughter now, I can guarantee that you are safe. ”

"If I can't, you'll use your authority to expel the student. However, this time it was much stronger than the last time Chen Zifeng was expelled...... It's good to be above board, I like to be upright, I really don't like to steal chickens and touch dogs. ”

"What can you do?"

"Don't forget, Headmaster, that when you decided to expel our brother, don't forget who saved me. ”

The principal took off his well-dressed appearance, revealing the appearance of a dog's lungs and a wolf's heart, "Why don't you use Lin Tao to press me! I don't know what you have to do with Lin Tao, even if you have a relationship, are you really afraid of him? He is the oldest, and I am the principal of this school! I can't decide who I want to fire!"

He tried to restrain himself from laughing, "That's enough, don't go any further," he pulled out a voice recorder from his bag and pressed the stop button, "Headmaster, you've been very successful in saying what I wanted, and more than I expected. ”

The enraged headmaster suddenly deflated and sat back in his chair.

He looked at the principal's frightened face, "Don't you like to talk about credentials, do you think this thing is considered a voucher? If you dare to fire me, believe it or not, I can lay you off! Do you want to see who will be the last person to laugh between you and me?"

The principal's face gradually returned to calm, and the principal sighed, "To deal with your Chen family brothers, you really have to be prepared with both hands, you have suffered a loss once, but you can't eat it again." Would you like to see it? Let's just wait and see. ”

When he left the principal's office in confusion, a villain's laughter came from behind him, "Chenzishan, when you can't take the high school entrance examination, see if I'm still sitting in this position...... Young man, don't be too confident, there's still a long way to go. ”

......

Guangge's underground workshop occupies an abandoned factory, surrounded by some dilapidated houses, vacant farms, etc., this area is the "soft underbelly" of the regulatory authorities, and many underground workshops are hidden here.

Guangge's underground workshop mainly processes cheap plastic products, and he buys a large amount of waste plastic from the surrounding scrapyards to produce some simple daily necessities.

In fact, this kind of small-scale production does not have much profit margin, and the underground workshop is just a front for Brother Guang, and the underground casino hidden in the underground workshop is his real livelihood.

Another important reason for him to set up this workshop was to attract foreign laborers to gamble in his casino.

When migrant workers first come to the city, they can find accommodation and work in this area, so this area is also a gathering area for foreign workers

Among the foreign laborers, some people have the mentality of wanting to explode overnight without hard work, and the cruel reality has crushed the will of these people, but not their dreams. It's not terrible to gamble just for fun, it's terrible to gamble for the sake of making a fortune, and when the blood breaks through the mind, they can fight for hard-earned money and even life-saving money.

Of course, before they start gambling, they will also carefully choose their own casino, their first impression of Guangge's casino, this casino has many similarities with their own working environment, the cruel working environment on weekdays made them taste all the hardships, I didn't expect that one day I would stand out from this place. The familiar environment brings a complex to their hearts, which makes them feel safe in their hearts, as if God has given them the opportunity to get out of here.

They had never seen a casino before, and it actually had the taste of "human affection", coupled with the fact that the workers they knew were shouting and shouting here, mixed with joy and sorrow, and the excitement instantly offset their resistance mentality.

From ten to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, from losing to winning, from winning to losing, unconsciously, they departed from the normal spiritual track and gradually stepped into the clutches of Brother Guang.

When people stand on the hillside, they will always look up at the higher hillside, and the same is true of Brother Guang, who is admired by most people in the old city.

When can I say goodbye to the dark business, when can I step into the light in a suit and leather shoes, when can I spend money like dirt, when can I be like Lin Tao, who is obviously a villain who has done a lot of evil, but has become a hero in people's minds.

If a bad guy does it, he will become a hero, Brother Guang sees it this way, and this is also his dream day after day.

Brother Guang waited and looked forward to it, until he arrived, Brother Guang suddenly brightened, and he finally saw the road to the peak.

The day after Chen Zishan and Chen Zifeng met, Brother Guang suddenly suspended the operation of the workshop and summoned his five capable brothers to gather in the workshop office.

Except for the day when the six brothers were married, Brother Guang was never as serious as today, and he seriously discussed the future fate with everyone.

Brother Guang, who was dressed in a suit, sat on the office chair in the office and said solemnly to the brothers, "Call everyone over today, I have an important matter to discuss with you." After thinking about it, it is not appropriate to put this matter on the wine table or anywhere else, but this is the most appropriate place. ”

The five brothers around Brother Guang looked at his one-size-larger suit and felt a little funny, they didn't show it, they were also shocked by Brother Guang's serious and serious aura.

Brother Guang looked up at the workshop outside the glass, the rusty lathe had already turned black, Brother Guang sniffed carefully, the air was filled with a mixture of earthy smell and sour odor, he looked at the mountains of cheap plastic products piled up in the corner, and said slowly, "Brothers, how many years has our workshop been running?"

The second child replied, "It's been more than ten years." ”

Brother Guang asked, "How many years?"

The brothers looked at each other, and for a moment, none of them could tell the exact number.

Brother Guang smiled lightly, "I asked myself some time ago, I actually thought about it for a long time, this was originally a matter that came out of our mouths, why can't we say it right away?"

The crowd was silent.

Brother Guang asked the person closest to him, "Have you forgotten how old your son is?"

The second child replied, "Of course not." ”

"You have no problem remembering, so how can you forget how many years the factory has been running?"

"Whoever is idle and has nothing to care about this, the workshop can't make a lot of money, it's just a pretense. ”

Brother Guang looked at the brothers, "The second brother talked about the idea, the workshop is just a cover, and the casino is our business, so our mind is basically used on the casino, and we rarely care about the current workshop." ”

The third said, "The workshop doesn't make money, if the workshop makes money, who still takes the risk of running a casino, and who doesn't want to live a stable life honestly." ”

Brother Guang said, "Our brothers are natives of this place, we have played here since we were young, fought here, and worshipped here! We all met in this place, established brotherhood in this place, and created our empire in this place!"

Brother Guang smiled bitterly again, "Empire? It's better to call it 'Earth Country', an underground country...... In the eyes of those outsiders, we are an empire, and in the eyes of those in the center of the city, we are like a swarm of ants building their own 'underground castle' in the untouched underground...... I'm afraid that the underground castle is not counted, it is just self-comforting, in their eyes, it is like an 'underground tomb'!"

Brother Guang belittled himself so much, everyone's eyes widened.

The second child broke the silence first, "Boss, not really." ”

"No, I'll tell you, as long as we don't make trouble, they won't bother to pay attention to you, and it's best to fend for yourself." ”

Lao Wu said, "The well water does not interfere with the river water, and it is good to fend for itself." ”

Lao Liu added, "As long as they don't provoke us, we won't provoke them either." ”

Brother Guang shook his head, "Fifth and sixth, I'm really too lazy to talk about you two." ”

The second child said disgustedly, "You said that you two have a little money and are all addicted to drugs! You have money to buy ice, but you don't have money to buy needles, and a broken needle is used in turns, look at the two of you, what kind of disease are you all infected!"

Brother Guang stopped, "Second brother, stop." ”

Brother Guang turned to the fifth and sixth children again, "No matter what illness you two have, the brothers will never dislike you, let alone give up on you, as long as I have a bite to eat, I will ensure that you will not starve to death." ”

The fifth elder said excitedly, "Boss, no matter what you plan to do in the future, no matter what you do, even if you command, I and the sixth child will go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and we will not give up!"

The sixth clasped his hands into fists, "Boss, from now on, the lives of me and the fifth are yours!"

Brother Guang nodded, "There will be a place for you." ”

The second brother said, "Boss, what important matter do you have to discuss with your brothers gathered here today?"

Brother Guang cleared his throat, "One day in the future, we will leave this hellish place. ”

The second and third children were surprised at the same time.

The second child asked, "Why are we leaving?"

The third child asked rhetorically, "Our parents are here, how can we leave?"

Brother Guang said, "The parents and ancestors are living here, are we destined to guard this ghost place too? The second and third brothers, among our brothers, only the two of you have children, the second son is in elementary school, and the third son is in kindergarten, do you also hope that your children will study in this ghost place in the future? If you don't give them a good educational environment, they will be like us, they will guard this place for the rest of their lives, and they will have no interest for the rest of their lives!"

"There's nothing wrong with thinking about your seniors, but you can't think about your juniors. ”

The second child said, "Why are we going to drag our family out of here?"

Brother Guang took out two tortoiseshell bracelets from his suit pocket and showed them in front of the brothers, "These two tortoiseshell bracelets in my hand, one is real and the other is fake, which of you can tell the difference." ”

The two bracelets are almost identical in appearance, with a natural texture, a clear structure, and a collection of tiny dots of color, showing a masterpiece of nature.

In terms of weight, you can't feel the difference at all when you weigh it with both hands.

Everyone passed the bracelets, they observed for a long time, and no one could see a name, if Brother Guang didn't tell them in advance, they didn't even know that one of the two bracelets was fake.

The fourth held the two bracelets in the sunlight for comparison, through the penetration of the light, and then observed the texture inside, after a while, the fourth expressed doubts, "Boss, are you sure that one of the two bracelets is fake?"

"I'm pretty sure. ”

"If one of the two bracelets is an imitation, then this imitation has been imitated into the bones, and it is so fake, it is too fake!

Brother Guang said, "Fourth, what do you think?"

"I can't tell if it's from a master. ”

"Convinced?"

The fourth brother returned the bracelet to Brother Guang, "Convincing!"

The fourth child added, "The real thing, you can see the bloodshot or blood spots inside through the light, and many fakes are only colored on the outside, and it is easy to distinguish them in the sun...... And the fake in your hand is actually colored inside! Boss, tell me quickly, which master made it?"

Brother Guang smiled, "Far away in the sky, close in front of you." ”

The fourth child was surprised, "From us?"

Brother Guang played with the bracelet, "Fourth, you have always been in charge of the workshop, and you didn't know that it came out from under you?"

The fourth child suddenly said, "Boss, don't tell me, it's that kid from Chenzifeng!"

"That's right, it's him. ”

"There is no one else but him, and the rest of the fools can make a bracelet, which can be regarded as a compliment to them, let alone a high imitation. ”

"Fourth, can you tell how Chenzifeng is made?"

"He should use moisture separation to make hair, knead the casein alkaline solution with dyes and softeners, extrude it, and then harden it in the formaldehyde solution, dry it and then process it...... These are not difficult, the difficult thing is how to perfectly embed the dye in the process of fusion," the fourth shook his head, "This work is too delicate, and ordinary people don't have this technique." ”

Brother Guang nodded, "Fourth, can you do this technique?"

The fourth looked at the blank and expectant eyes of the brothers, and the fourth shook his head bitterly, "This is not just a matter of technique, let me give you an example, like neurosurgery, it is far from enough to understand medical knowledge and the complex structure of the brain, you also have to have many years of accumulated experience and unique techniques, which requires a lot of time to exercise, and you must have the guidance of a master, and most importantly, you must have this talent." ”

In other words, he is the only one who can do it at the moment. ”

The fourth nodded.

The second child asked, "Boss, how did you find out that Chen Zifeng has this skill?"

"A few days ago, a gambler borrowed money from the casino, and the gambler stole her daughter-in-law's bracelet and mortgaged it to me. At that time, I simply thought that he just wanted to borrow this bracelet to coax his little girlfriend, but he borrowed it anyway, and I didn't think much about it, so I gave it to him. ”

Speaking of this, Brother Guang laughed, "Within a few days, he really returned it to me, but what I didn't expect was that he returned two bracelets to me at once!"

Brother Guang smiled and continued, "I asked him, 'What do you mean?, do you pay me back the interest?' borrow you to play for a few days, and my interest will not be so high', he said, 'It will be Xu Shiya's birthday in a few days, and I don't have any money, I was going to make a bracelet like you and give it to her, but after I finished it, I accidentally got confused, and I couldn't tell which one is yours and which one is mine." You can only find someone to do spectral analysis, or to distinguish the taste by combustion, so I'll give it all to you', I asked him, 'What if I don't bother to find someone to do the identification?' you gave it all to me, what to give to your little girlfriend', and he replied to me very casually, 'I already know how to imitate it, make another one', and after listening to his words, I couldn't close my eyes all night...... This is a talent, no, this is a genius! God opened his eyes, let me meet such a genius!"

Brother Guang stood up, "So what I'm going to do, you should understand...... He will change my fate, no, the fate of all of us...... When we soar, do you still want to guard this hellish place?"

Hearing this, the second and third children stood up at the same time, "Boss, we will follow you too!"

Brother Guang looked at the fourth child, "What about you?"

"I have long found out that he is different from these workers, it is fundamentally different, and he is indeed a genius," the fourth child said this, but sighed, "but can we control such a genius? He is still young, and now he is desperate to put his place on us, and when his wings are hardened, can we still keep it? If we really handle this business, and one day, he has his own ambitions, if this time comes, will we not be empty of both men and money?"

At this time, Brother Guang lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, "Fourth, do you think he can escape from my palm?"

As soon as these words came out, all the brothers felt the oppression, and at the same time, they also realized Brother Guang's foresight - their brothers have followed Brother Guang for so long, and the reason why they can have today is all due to Brother Guang's means. No matter how smart that kid Chen Zifeng is, in terms of playing with people alone, he is too young compared to Brother Guang.

The fifth child pleaded with Brother Guang, "Boss, I still have something to ask for." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Chen Zifeng is useful to us, Xu Shiya's stinky girl doesn't matter, she stabbed me, I really can't swallow my breath. My fifth child is also a character here, and I was stabbed by a girl, and I don't even dare to let out a fart until now! Boss, my fifth child has to meet people. At the beginning, you stopped us and didn't let us take revenge on her, but now we have made it clear that only Chen Zifeng is valuable to us, and that girl is useless, you can leave it to me. ”

Brother Guang suddenly became angry, "Who said it was useless! I repeat it again today, no one is allowed to touch a single hair of Xu Shiya! Did you hear that?"

Everyone nodded, but the fifth child remained silent.

"We can keep Chen Zifeng at present, it is precisely because of Xu Shiya's existence, don't you still understand this? Now is the critical moment when Chen Zifeng is needed, you move Xu Shiya, can Chen Zifeng still follow me with all his heart?"

As soon as these words came out, the office was dumb but speechless.

Brother Guang slowly lowered his head, "There is another reason why I don't let you touch Xu Shiya." ”

The second child asked, "What is the reason?"

Brother Guang sighed, "You only know that Chen Zifeng eloped with Xu Shiya, but you don't know how many unknown deceptions are hidden behind the two little guesses." ”

Everyone was puzzled.

"In the world of the rich, their children are nothing more than tools for their profit...... I will share one more thing with you today, Xu Shiya's girl has a background, she is the only daughter of the principal of Yuchen Middle School, and she is under the protection of Lin Tao. ”

The five brothers were shocked at the same time.

"The day after Chen Zifeng and Xu Shiya came here, Lin Tao's subordinates came to me, and she brought me Lin Tao's message. ”

The second child asked, "What message?"

"Xu Shiya is safe, you are safe, Xu Shiya has an accident, you are buried with you!"

The third child asked, "Why does Lin Tao want to protect Xu Shiya? Could it be that they are relatives?"

The second child questioned, "How can they be related? If Lin Tao really wants to protect this girl, he can easily rescue her and hand her over to her principal father." ”

The third child nodded, "You have some truth in that. ”

"If Lin Tao doesn't want to get involved, Lin Tao can completely reveal Xu Shiya's location to her father and let her father handle it himself, or, Lin Tao simply ignores it," the second child looked at Brother Guang again, "And why did Lin Tao leave such a message for you?"

"How did I know, when I learned Xu Shiya's identity, I was already confused. ”

Lao Wu clenched his fists, "Boss, how do you know that the person who sent the message was Lin Tao's person." ”

Brother Guang glanced at Lao Wu, "I can't say who it is, I am afraid of hurting you, it is enough for you to understand a little, since it is a person from Lin Tao's faction, he first convinced me that what the person he sent said was his words." ”

The fourth child asked Brother Xiang Guang, "I don't quite understand, how can such a big character as Lin Tao have anything to do with the elopement of these two little children?"

"You don't understand, I don't understand, we are not people in that world, how can we understand the things in that world? You just need to understand one thing, if Chen Zifeng is our car to that world, then Xu Shiya is the key to get into the car, all of you must understand this. ”

Hearing this, the fifth got up and left.

Brother Guang looked at the back of the fifth child leaving, and shouted, "Fifth brother, where are you going?"

"It was so hot, the whole bottle of beer was drunk. ”

Brother Guang ordered to the sixth child, "You show him to me, if he does something stupid, everyone here must be buried with him!"

After the sixth child got the order, he immediately chased after the fifth child.

The fourth child said, "Boss, I still think we should stay away from Chenzifeng, the things that these two children are involved in are not something we can control...... Don't get to the end, we didn't get anything cheap, but we got angry. ”

Brother Guang looked at the mountains of plastic products piled up in the corner of the workshop, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly used force with both hands, and squeezed the two bracelets in the palm of his hand, "People can go back, because there is a way to go." And if people want to go forward, go up, go up the mountain, there will always be a dead end in the blank grass, and we will either have no way to go, or find another way. On the way to the peak, there was no turning back, we could only move forward, keep our eyes open, and carefully take every step. ”

......

Small shop near the workshop.

The fifth and sixth children sat at the door of the store, drinking beer and talking about their anguish.

Talking about the sore spot, the fifth and sixth touched a bottle, "Sixth, it's all in the wine, it's dry!"

The fifth didn't wait for the sixth to speak, raised the wine bottle high, and poured it into his stomach in a big gulp.

The sixth picked up the beer that had just been opened, hesitated, he knew that he was not better than the fifth child, but today's fifth child was really depressed, and in order to accompany his good brother, he had to go out.

Lao Liu tried his best to press the contents of his stomach to his throat, and dried the beer in the bottle again.

As soon as the sixth child put down the empty wine bottle, he heard a "bang" again, and the fifth child opened another bottle for him.

"Sixth, let's touch another bottle. ”

The sixth child burped, "Fifth brother, slowly, slowly." The sixth took the wine handed by the fifth and put it on the ground.

"You eat something and drink. Lao Wu rummaged through the mountains of snacks in front of him, but they were all empty bags, and Lao Wu shouted at the store, "Cripple Zhang, come out." ”

A thin man limped out, and the thin man said with a smile on his face, "Fifth brother, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter, I'll find you a cripple, come and drink with the fifth brother. ”

The thin man shook his head and waved his hand again, "Don't dare, don't dare ......"

The thin man noticed the mountains of snack bags and empty wine bottles all over the floor, and asked, "There are not enough snacks and wine, I'll go inside and get some more." ”

Lao Wu nodded, "Understand people." ”

When the shopkeeper nodded and left, Lao Wu stopped him again, "Wait a minute." ”

"What else does the fifth brother command?"

"Does the female devil come to your house every day to buy snacks?"

"Yes, yes. ”

"Has she been here today?"

"Not yet. ”

"What does she usually buy?"

"Snacks, how can a little girl not like snacks. ”

"Nonsense! Of course I know it's a snack, I'm asking you, what is her favorite food and what does she buy most often?"

"Favorite ......" The owner recalled for a long time, but he didn't come up with Xu Shiya's favorite.

Lao Wu was a little impatient, "She likes tomato-flavored potato chips the most, and it is still the most expensive barrel." ”

Yes, yes, she loves buckets of tomato-flavored chips. ”

"You sell her things every day, and I don't know yet?"

"I don't have a good memory, not as good as you. ”

Lao Wu kicked the lame shopkeeper, "Fuck you! What do you mean? I'm a big man, go and remember what kind of snacks a girl likes to eat? What do you mean?"

"I was wrong Fifth Brother, I made a mistake. ”

"You take all the snacks that the devil usually buys, and bring them all!

After the shopkeeper left, the sixth spoke, "Fifth brother, when we were drinking, we said okay, and we won't touch Xu Shiya again." ”

"Did I touch her? Did I touch her? You won't let me touch her, okay, I won't touch her! I eat up her favorite snack, isn't that okay?"

The sixth couldn't help laughing, "This is okay, this is okay, this is the revenge of a real man against a girl, hahahaha......"

"You think too much, I'm a big man, can I deal with a girl?" As he spoke, Lao Wu opened another bottle of beer.

"We did think too much, we misunderstood you. ”

"Sixth, after finishing this bottle of wine, I will turn the page on her affairs. ”

The sixth child raised the wine bottle high, "Okay, after this bottle, let's turn the page with her, come!"

"Come!"

The two blew out the whole bottle of beer, and the sixth man who was anxious for his bladder suddenly said, "You can hold it too much, I see that your stomach can hold two cases of beer, I can't hold you, I have to find a urine to soak in." ”

"Go ahead. ”

In the shop, the owner's daughter-in-law said, "Are you crazy? Give it all to him, and he won't be able to live this day." ”

The shopkeeper looked sad, "Do whatever he says, hurry up and ask this plague god to leave." ”

The shopkeeper handed the empty bag in his hand to his daughter-in-law, "What are you still rubbing, hurry up and load it, the potato chips in our barrel are only tomato-flavored?"

"The barrel is only tomato-flavored, this luxury is around, only the little girl can afford to eat it, she loves tomato-flavored food, and I don't have other flavors on it. ”

"You put it all in. ”

The owner's daughter-in-law reluctantly took the bag, "What a plague god, a plague god!

"Be quiet, aren't you troublesome enough?"

The shopkeeper carried two large bags of snacks and came to the fifth child, "Fifth brother, have you seen enough?"

"All the female devil's favorite snacks are here?"

"It's all here, including bucket chips. ”

"Let's go, I have something to discuss with the sixth child, you and your daughter-in-law stay away. ”

"Okay, okay. ”

Lao Wu looked around at the empty surroundings and looked back at the empty shop, so he took out a needle from his trouser pocket, pulled out the needle cap, skillfully plunged into his arm, and drew a small half tube of blood from the needle hole of long-term drug injection.

Lao Wu picked up a box of potato chips, and compared the color of the package with the color of the blood in the needle, Lao Wu smiled with satisfaction.

"My words count, I promise them not to touch you, I will never touch you...... But they didn't say they wouldn't let you taste the blood I shed for you. ”

With that, he plunged a needle into the box.

After finishing the matter, Lao Wu carefully separated the box of potato chips from other snacks, and he pretended to have nothing to do, waiting for the arrival of the female devil.

The sixth brother, who was convenient to come back, sat in his original position, "Fifth brother, you poured me too much today." ”

"Spit on?"

"I vomited, my stomach was empty. ”

The sixth picked up the most conspicuous box of potato chips casually, and when he was about to unpack it, the fifth child immediately stopped him, "Eating potato chips after vomiting stimulates the stomach." ”

Lao Wu opened a pack of drunkard peanuts and handed it to Lao Liu, "Eat some peanuts to nourish your stomach." ”

"I don't know what kind of stomach people will have when they live? I eat whatever I want now, I want to eat potato chips now, I will eat them. ”

Seeing that the sixth child insisted on opening this box of potato chips, he was in a hurry, "Old five, the female devil loves to eat this kind of potato chips, should we leave a box for her." ”

"Hey, did I drink too much, did I hear it wrong? The fifth brother I know is actually thinking about a girl!"

Lao Wu smiled reluctantly, "No, no, I'm worried that we have eaten all the snacks that the female devil likes to eat, and when she comes over, there will be nothing, and she will trouble us again." ”

"Makes sense. The sixth shouted at the store, "Cripple, come out." ”

After a while, the shopkeeper obediently appeared in front of them, "Sixth brother, what's the matter?"

Lao Liu handed the box of potato chips to the shopkeeper, "You take this box of potato chips and keep it for the female devil." ”

The shopkeeper took the potato chips and responded, "Okay, Sixth Brother." ”

"Cripple, wait a minute, you take all these snacks back and keep them for the female devil. ”

When the fifth child heard this, he immediately snatched the snack from the sixth child's hand, "Sixth, she can't finish eating so many snacks." ”

"If you can't finish eating, I'll eat tomorrow. ”

"You say, the female devil is idle all day long, and you have left her such a big bag of snacks, and she can't eat them all! She is still young, and eating too many snacks is not good for her health. ”

Hearing this, the sixth laughed heartily, "My fifth brother, why have you changed into a person? I almost don't recognize you! It seems that this wine is really not in vain, although the place is a little broken, but drinking with you, no matter where you drink, it is bright." ”

The sixth picked up the wine bottle, "Come, brother will sacrifice his life to accompany him to the end today!"

The fifth child raised the wine bottle, drank wine with the sixth child, and motioned for the lame man with potato chips in his hand to leave.

The two were eating and drinking, and before they knew it, the sky had darkened.

The fifth said to the sixth who was so drunk that he couldn't even speak, "Can the female devil come over today?"

The sixth stammered, "It's dinner now, I guess...... I guess it's enough, I heard that Chen Zifeng ...... today. When she goes far away, will she ...... Will you find Chenzifeng? ”

"Chenzifeng has always been alone, and it is impossible for the female devil to know where he wants to go. ”

"The two of them are a small couple, how can there be ...... What's the secret. ”

Lao Wu asked rhetorically, "No, is it not right, they have such a good relationship?"

The sixth child also asked, "They live together and have a ...... relationship Can the relationship be bad?"

"Sixth, didn't you notice that Chen Zifeng is often in a daze?"

"It's normal to be in a daze, young people like a girl...... Don't you often be in a daze?"

"No, his sluggishness is not the sluggishness of liking a person, liking the sluggishness of a person is to release the passion in the heart, amplify the senses of the body, and be in a daze happily......... When he was in a daze, he seemed to be compressing his feelings, condensing the compressed feelings to a certain point, and he was in a melancholy daze. ”

Speaking of which, the fifth child took a sip of wine alone, "He doesn't change his face when he encounters an accident, but he is still young." ”

The sixth raised his heavy head and stared at his misty eyes, "What do you mean...... Do you mean that Chen Zifeng doesn't like the female devil?"

The way Chen Zifeng usually looks at the female devil is not the eyes between boyfriend and girlfriend at all, even if his face is full of forced smiles, his eyes still betray him. ”

"You're talking too ...... It's too mysterious. ”

"I never mentioned to you, how I was stabbed by the female devil, now I'll tell you, you listen to what is called Xuanhu!"

The sixth was curious, "You say." ”

"As soon as the female devil came here, I became a little curious about her......"

The sixth child suddenly interrupted him, "What curiosity, are you trying to ...... Let's try to do wrong. ”

"Don't interrupt me, listen to me, in fact, I was just observing them, and through that time of observation, I found a problem that I couldn't understand. ”

"What's the problem?"

"The Devil is a virgin. ”

"Virgin? impossible!"

"During the day, every time the devil washes clothes and bed sheets, every time she dries clothes and bed sheets, I watch from the corner, and I have never seen the sheets she used have ever been bloody. At night, they always slept quietly, without any movement. You say, a young man and a woman live under the same roof, sleep in the same bed, in the dead of night, and dry wood meets a blazing fire, can't they be 'hum two generals'? How can they be so peaceful?"

"So you ......"

"So I guess that Chenzifeng may be impotent. Coming to this conclusion, I took advantage of the morning wind to work, I found her alone, I asked her, 'That kid of your family is impotent at such a young age, how lonely you will be in the future!, brother, I can do it, or you can try', the female devil didn't say a word, and stabbed me, I didn't have any preparation...... At that time, I could still hear her perverted laughter, and she said, 'My man is not impotent, he is not like you scum.'" ”

"If Chen Zifeng is not impotence, then is he ...... Isn't it stupid to not eat the meat in your mouth?"

"He's not stupid, he's too smart, and he doesn't like the female devil in his heart, so there's no need for him to get into trouble...... If I want to guess, not only does he not like the female devil, but his heart should belong to something else. ”

When the sixth child heard this, a wave of interest suddenly ignited in his mind, and this interest broke through his heavy drunkenness, "That is to say, the female devil was played by him! ”

"I understand what you mean, he doesn't even want to touch such a beautiful girl every day," Lao Wu then sarcastically said, "Sleeping in the same bed with a girl he doesn't like every night and doing nothing, he's really a serious boy." ”

"Why don't we give Chen Zifeng some medicine one day, and see if he's still serious!"

Hearing the words of the sixth child, the fifth child thought of the potato chips that the cripple took away, if the female devil eats this box of potato chips, and Chen Zifeng has sex with her again, she can get rid of the two thorns in her eyes at once, and the fifth child's eyes widened, "Okay, I'll see it." ”

Lao Wu couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, and laughed and said, "Your idea is really good, when will we do it?"

As soon as Lao Wu's words fell, a warbler's cry sounded from behind them, "You dare! You two xiaolongbao, do you want to be knifed again?"

......

Suddenly a strange wind blew on the calm sea, blowing the hat on his head and blowing away her long hair.

"It's true that your brothers have gone through a lot of hardships that your peers haven't gone through, you have a lot of ideas, a lot of prejudices, but not all of them are as complicated as you think," she said. ”

"Don't be cynical, adult feelings may be based on money, what does the relationship between two little guesses have to do with whether the family has money or not? Love just say it out loud, hate it out loud, dare to love and dare to hate isn't it the innocence of me and Xiaoxue!"

"Don't think that only Xu Shiya deserves sympathy, our sisters have only paid more than her, not less than her! In the future, don't use your poor and sour theories to indiscriminately beat people who are better off than you. ”

He replied, "I thought that only Xu Shiya was simple around me, but it turns out that you are also very simple." ”

"Taunting us again with that tone, I hate your tone. ”

"Your feelings are also mixed with other things, what kind of feelings do you use to treat me, what kind of tone will I use to reply to you, is there a problem?"

"I didn't expect that in your heart, our sisters' feelings for your brothers are actually linked to something else, Chenzishan, I tell you, I can tolerate you mocking our sisters for being stupid, but I will never allow you to slander us with ulterior motives!"

"If that's the case, there's one thing I really can't figure out, you can help me analyze it. ”

"You say. ”

"Our Chen family and your Lin family can't get along, why does your father care so much about us? When our brother was about to be expelled by the principal, you only made a phone call to him, and on this phone call, he agreed to you to save me, don't you think it's funny? Even if it is a request made by his daughters, even if he dotes on you again, this kind of matter involving his daughter and boy, he has to ask in detail, as a father, his heart is really so big? Haven't you, who are naïve, think that he has no self-interest in agreeing to your request so happily? Or is it that your father and daughter have already colluded? ”

She was disdainful, "The dog bites Lu Dongbin, and I don't know the hearts of good people." ”

"It is worthy of being a high-achieving student who graduated from college with excellent character and learning, and it is different from me, a wage earner, who scolds people so well. ”

"I don't want to quarrel with you, you said we have ulterior motives, do you have proof?"

"Of course I don't have evidence, how could a person as cautious as your father leave evidence. ”

"It is useless to say anything else, and to have no evidence is to slander. ”

He was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered something, and he smiled contemptuously and said, "Although I have no evidence, I have witnesses." ”

"Witness, who is your witness?"