Chapter I

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In the north of February, the weather is cold and the northwest wind is howling.

On this snow-capped land sits a village, mostly of abandoned tiled houses, with few families living here.

In one of the tiled houses in the village, the tattered windows in the tiled houses were crumbling by the cold northwest wind, but in this abandoned tiled house, there were two seven or eight-year-old children curled up on the cold kang, their bodies covered only with a thin old quilt, the shabby quilt exuded a strong musty smell, and the children's little faces still clinged to it, leaving no gaps.

The little boy gasped into his frozen little hands, "Mommy, come up." ”

Another boy shivered and said, "Mom, we're so cold." ”

"Mom will go up immediately, and after a while Mom will put her arms around you, and you will not be cold. ”

As she spoke, the mother pulled out a brick from under the edge of the kang, stuffed a black bag into the compartment, and inserted the brick back in what seemed to be intact.

The mother dusted her hands off and quickly got into the bed, she opened her coat and took the brothers into her arms.

The children snuggled in their mother's arms gradually stopped shaking, and a warm smile appeared on their young little faces, and one of the boys looked up at his mother, "Mother's arms are so warm." ”

"Warm you up a little longer, and Mommy will find someone to fix the windows. ”

"There aren't many people around, where can I find someone to fix the windows?"

The other boy said, "yes, Mom, don't go, just put your arms around us." ”

The mother hugged the two sensible children tightly, and a deep guilt welled up in her heart.

The boy asked, "Mommy, how long are we going to stay here?"

Another boy also asked, "Mommy, did Daddy not want us anymore to bring us here?" ”

"Why doesn't he want you, you are still young, don't think about adult affairs. ”

The little boy said, "We didn't think about it, in fact, we knew that Dad didn't feel sorry for us, but Grandma felt sorry for us, and we didn't want to leave Grandma behind." ”

"Of course, Mom knows that Grandma loves you, and when you grow up, you must honor Grandma. ”

Another boy said, "When we grow up, we will honor Grandma and you." ”

Mother stroked the two well-behaved little heads, "Are you still cold?"

The brothers, lying in their mother's arms, shook their heads.

The mother kissed their foreheads separately, "Sleep with me in your arms, if you fall asleep, you won't be cold." ”

The brothers closed their eyes and pressed their faces against their mother's chest.

The howling wind cut through the broken window like a knife, and the cold wind poured into the room through the opening, and the mother's arms were like a green green mountain, resisting all the cold with her strong back, just for the little tree behind the mountain to have a little warmth.

After a long time, several "clang" knocks on the door came into the house, waking up the confused mother.

The mother was not fully conscious, and the sound of a rough slamming of the door came in again, and it sounded like a feeling of not giving up until the rotten wooden door outside the courtyard was smashed.

The frightened mother immediately picked up the sleeping children, she looked at the broken cabinets, then looked back at the mess on the kang, panicked as if looking for somewhere to hide them, and finally she found the window leading to the backyard of the house.

The brothers rubbed their sleepy eyes, "Mom, are we leaving?"

"Someone's coming. ”

The mother warned them with extreme nervousness, "The bad guys are about to break in, you hide in the back of the house, don't speak, don't make any noise!"

"Bad guys?" the boys looked at their mothers in confusion.

Mother peeked at the gate outside the courtyard, the crumbling wooden door was about to collapse, and the mother quickly pulled them under the back window, "Remember what I said, no matter what happens, you must not make a sound!"

They stared blankly at their mother, but did not respond.

The mother lowered her voice and angrily ordered them, "Did you hear what I said?"

The brothers nodded.

The mother quickly carried them out of the window, afraid to waste every second.

The brothers had never seen their mother so flustered as they were now, and the brothers who stood under the window outside the house stared at her mother with wide eyes, and they found that her mother's frightened eyes were full of guilt, and her eyes seemed to be hiding from them.

The mother ran to the side of the kang, grabbed the broken quilt on the kang, and quickly ran back to the children and stuffed it, at this moment the mother has the courage to look into the eyes of the children, maybe she is reluctant to her children, want to take a good look at them, "cold, just wrap it in it." ”

The mother closed the window tightly and ran to the kang without looking back.

She knew that the children outside the window were peeking at her, and she turned her back to the children and gave them a gesture to lower their heads.

With a "bang", the gate outside the courtyard collapsed under heavy damage.

The mother immediately jumped on the kang, she lay down, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

The angry footsteps gradually approached her mother, and she silently counted how many people were in the chaotic footsteps. When her footsteps stopped, she felt a hungry wolf-like snort gasping for her face.

Suddenly, a slap slammed into her mother's face, and a hot pain rushed up, and she suddenly sat up straight, and three men immediately met her eyes.

Although the men standing on both sides had fierce faces, the fear in her eyes did not come from them, but from the man standing between them.

The man standing in the middle was very handsome, but his handsome face concealed a biting coldness. The man was also looking at her, but the empty pupils made the woman feel that he was not looking at her, and his elusive thoughts seemed to fly to a terrifying world that women could not imagine, and the invisible pressure made the woman involuntarily lower her head.

The woman covered her red and swollen face, "You guys...... Why are you here?"

The man on the left pointed his outstretched hand at the woman again, "You greedy traitor, you have to smash the door open to see you?"

"I was so tired, I slept too deep to hear. ”

The woman peeked at the expressionless man in front of her, a face that was suffocating with calmness, and her empty eyes made her shudder. Men don't mean to express their stance at all, which is what makes women feel the most terrifying.

The man on the right yelled, "I'm so tired, let's hide from us." ”

"You think you can't find you if you hide here. The man on the left interjected.

"I'm not hiding, what am I hiding? I just want to go back to my hometown for the New Year. The woman replied with a pretended composure.

"Now that we've found this place, don't you understand?" the man on the right shouted angrily.

"You traitor are still pretending to be here, and you have lost all the trust that Friingo has placed in you!"

"I know, I know, but you're looking for the wrong person, I've already handed over the things to Keiko. ”

Hearing this, the two men who spoke burst into laughter at the same time.

They asked the man who didn't say a word, "Brother Lin, what do you think?"

The handsome man pulled a switchblade out of his pocket and pushed the button forward, and the silver-white blade popped out.

He slashed the cold blade across the woman's pretty face, along the woman's ear, down the woman's ear over the top of her head, then across the other half of the woman's face, and finally, stopped when the tip of the knife touched the woman's chin.

The woman stared at the silver tip of the knife, and she didn't dare to gasp.

Suddenly, the man suddenly exerted force, the tip of the knife picked up the woman's chin, and he said to the woman eerily, "I guessed that you would push it to Keiko, just like Keiko bites you to death." ”

In such a cold weather, the woman felt sweat on her forehead, and the woman looked at the blood red flowing down the tip of the knife, which was clearly her own blood, why didn't she notice the obvious stinging, "Brother Lin, we have known each other for a longer time than him, do you believe him or not?"

The man licked the blood from the blade, "People are lying, and even the blood that comes out smells of lies." ”

He then asked, "Little naughty, where do you say is the most precious thing to a man?"

"It should ...... Should be...... Below"

"You're right, Si'er baked that soldering iron red, and it was dazzlingly red, Si'er liked that, and the fire was played just right! Keiko saw the fiery soldering iron, and tears came out of her eyes nervously...... I gently pinched the underneath, like this," Brother Lin pinched a handful of the woman's long hair, simulating his movements at that time, "I gently pinched it, and gently approached Si'er's soldering iron, and when the height was less than five centimeters, before I could speak, Daqing suddenly howled, and I let go of my hand in fright......"

Brother Lin shook his head while reminiscing about the scene at that time, "Keiko's scream is the worst I've ever heard, but that smell is the most fragrant smell I've ever smelled in my life, and it's also my favorite taste, the taste of honesty." ”

He ...... What did he say. ”

"He said things were divided between you two!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man ordered the two people beside him, "Search for me! The other half must be hiding in this room!"

The woman watched them toss the messy room even more, and she was worried that they would find it, and she was even more worried that they would search the window.

The woman prayed silently in her heart, praying that her sons had gone away at this moment.

"Keiko is dying, and she still wants to be greedy for money...... He deliberately pushed it to me, sent it away to you, and then embezzled the other half!Brother Lin, we were all wrong, the most precious thing about Qingzi is not his underneath, it is his greed for money!"

The woman slanted a glance at the man who was staring at her, and then at the two people searching near the back window, and she continued, "Brother Lin, if I had taken your things, I would have sent them early," she pointed to the broken window behind her, deliberately diverting everyone's attention, "Look at the point where I am down now, such a cold day, the window is broken and there is no money to repair it, if I take your things, will I have such a miserable life?"

Brother Lin picked up her open coat with a knife, "On such a cold day, I can't afford to repair the broken windows...... So you can sleep without a quilt and with your clothes open?"

Brother Lin patted the woman's white neck with a cold knife, and ordered the two subordinates behind him, "It's hard to find things, first find out the person she is hiding." ”

Only then did the woman realize that the quilt had been given to her sons, and when they broke in, she was still pretending to be asleep on the kang, and when she thought of this, the woman's eyes were eclipsed and her heart sank. She couldn't find any excuse to explain it clearly without affecting her son.

Then, a voice that made the woman even more devastated reached her ears.

There was a "squeak", and the backyard window was opened by them.

The exhausted woman suddenly tensed her nerves, but she endured her anxious heart and didn't look at it, and tried her best to restrain herself from looking, she knew very well in her heart that if she had any change in expression, Brother Lin would definitely find out, he would search that place more carefully, and it would really be over at that time.

The person who opened the back window was about to probe when he was stopped by another person, "Are you stupid? Can she hide such an important thing outside? Come and help me remove this cabinet." ”

"Didn't Brother Lin say to find someone first?"

"Yes, yes, yes, if it's human, it's possible to hide outside. ”

With that, they stuck their heads out of the window together.

Seeing this, the woman who could not bear the pressure of tension couldn't wait to close her eyes, but Lingo's sharp eyes were staring at her, and she couldn't give up with a glimmer of hope.

"There's only a broken quilt, what's the problem, you can help me move the cabinet quickly. ”

Hearing their conversation, the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. But she thought about it, where had the sons gone, and where they went, the farther away the better.

The woman wanted to lie down on the kang with her floppy body, but she couldn't.

"Brother Lin, we are about to demolish the house, and we haven't found anything. The man who asked to remove the cabinet gasped.

Brother Lin looked down at the woman gloomily, he picked up the woman's hair, put it in front of his nose and sniffed, he nodded in satisfaction.

The woman couldn't understand what Brother Ringo was thinking about at all.

Brother Lin let go of the woman's long hair, and thousands of strands of green silk slipped from his palm, and when he saw that it was all detached, his white hand skillfully retained the last one, and pinched the hair in the posture of an orchid finger, "You can also be regarded as a beautiful woman, you say, the most precious thing in a woman is hair?"

The woman chimed in.

Brother Lin looked at the hair in his hand, he said, "I have two daughters, I will comb their hair in the morning when I have time, in fact, I am also telling them that hair is very precious for a girl, and I hope they will also cherish their hair." You may think I'm a vicious man, but you don't understand that I'm also a competent father. ”

The frightened woman stared at the hair in his hand in a daze, and even her breath stopped.

Suddenly, the knife shining with silver light slashed down in front of the woman, and the knife as fast as lightning cut the green silk in two, and the edge of the knife grazed the woman's pretty face, and if it got closer, the knife would have shaved off the woman's delicate flesh.

One piece of the severed hair fell back into the showfall, and the other was pinched in Brother Lin's hand, "Your hair does feel different from my daughter's, a little rough," Brother Lin stretched his brows, "However, it is still softer than a man's." ”

"But this man has no hair, but he looks more manly, if a woman is bald, is it more feminine?" Brother Lin flicked lightly, the broken hair was bounced out, and he fell in front of the woman, "You say, can a woman's precious hair be exchanged for my things?"

The woman begged, "Brother Lin, I beg you, stop torturing me, you let me go, the thing is really not with me." ”

Ringo commanded his hand, "Hold her head down for me." ”

The two men behind Brother Lin, one rushed onto the kang, pushed the woman down, and pressed her hands to ride under his crotch, while the other grabbed the woman's head and pressed it on the edge of the kang.

Under the restraint of these two strong men, let the woman struggle desperately, she just can't move.

Brother Lin grabbed a handful of the woman's long hair and put the knife on it, "I ask you, where the hell is the thing?"

The woman begged bitterly, "Brother Lin, you really wronged me, the things are really not with me." ”

Brother Lin smiled disdainfully, and then slashed down.

Thousands of scattered hairs are like willow leaves in their prime, swept away by the wind, scattered helplessly, and when sprinkled on the earth, there are still signs of life.

The murderous Ringo ruffled the woman's hair again and again, like a butcher, and cut it down with a knife.

Hot tears flowed from the corners of the woman's eyes, wetting the makeup on the woman's pretty face.

The unkempt woman stopped pleading and let Ringo wreak havoc on her.

It didn't take long for the woman with a beautiful head to have only a messy broken hair, and Brother Lin couldn't catch such a short length, "Do you really want to shave your head?"

"Brother Lin, please let me go, please let me go, the thing is really not in my hands...... It was Daqing who deceived you, and it was Daqing who framed me...... He said he took half of it, but he actually took it all...... He knew that he couldn't hide, in order to let you gain something, in order to let you let him go, so he planted the half he left on my head!"

Brother Lin looked at the woman who was abused by himself who was not like a human and a ghost like a ghost, and shook his head, "That's not right. ”

The woman's two men looked at Brother Ringo suspiciously, and one of them asked, "What's wrong?"

Ringo put the knife back, and he repeated, "No. ”

Another man also asked, "Brother Lin, what do you mean, the thing is really not in her hands?"

Brother Lin, thoughtful, continued to shake his head, "No, no. ”

"What's wrong, you say. ”

"Did you wronged her? It was Daqing's grandson who lied to us!"

Brother Lin nodded reproachfully, "It's true that I wronged her." ”

When the woman heard this, a glimmer of light flashed in her tear-soaked eyes.

The man riding on the woman let go of his hand, "Have you wronged her?"

Brother Lin stared at the woman's turbulence and smacked his lips, "It's true that I wronged her." ”

Speaking of this, Brother Lin laughed fiercely and said, "I shouldn't have wronged her, hair is not the most precious thing in this woman." ”

Brother Lin took out the switchblade in his pocket again, and a chilling smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "The hair can grow if it is gone, but the flesh on the body is cut, but it can't grow." ”

With a "snap", the blade of the switchblade in Brother Lin's hand popped out, "You two give it to me!"

When two rough men heard this, they immediately pounced on the petite woman and tore her coat desperately.

The woman struggled with all her strength, and how could she, with her thin body, resist in the face of two strong men.

The only thing she could do was to resist while trying her best not to make any noise, so that the children in the neighborhood would not hear her.

The woman's coat had been ripped off by them, and the sweater inside was about to be torn, at this moment, Brother Lin stopped the two subordinates who were like wolves, he put the knife under the woman's neck, and with a strong slash, the woman's sweater was immediately opened.

The tenacious woman still wanted to hold herself down from being violated, she never expected that her hands would be so easily lifted by the two men beside her.

Brother Lin used a cold knife to reach into the woman's warm skin, "Don't say it yet?"

The woman bit her lower lip and tilted her head to the other side.

Brother Lin smiled lightly, "Very good!"

Brother Lin provoked with a knife, and the snow-white surging was exposed in front of the three murderous men.

One of the men, who was holding the woman, lamented, "What a pity. ”

Ringo held the knife in front of the woman, "This knife has been with me for a long time, it has only licked the blood of men, and today, it can taste the blood of women again." ”

"Say it, I won't be able to get my knife by saying it. ”

The woman looked at the sharp blade, her breathing became rapid, and finally, she took a deep breath, and her empty eyes slowly closed.

"What a stubborn woman!" Brother Lin, who gritted his teeth, was about to start, but felt a pain in his skull.

"Don't bully my mom!"

Ringo turned back, and there was a child standing behind the window, and a stone was rolling on the ground.

As the domineering boy spoke, the stone in his hand was aimed at Brother Lin, who was holding a knife.

Ringo laughed, "Hahahaha...... Bring him in for me. ”

As soon as the two men received the order, they rushed to the boy who was standing outside the window.

At the same time, the woman who was struggling to resist completely collapsed, and the tears that poured out broke with the last line of defense in her heart, "Don't touch him, I'll tell you where." ”

Brother Lin sighed in frustration, "It seems that I was wrong again! The most precious thing about you is a child! I misjudged you, I thought you were not that kind of woman...... It's rare for an outlaw like you to give up your children. ”

"You're wrong, you shouldn't have brought your daughters here!" another childish voice sounded in the other direction of Lingo.

Brother Lin turned his head, and his face of joy instantly became ugly.

Brother Lin saw that his daughter was being held hostage, and the person holding her hostage was a boy who looked exactly like the one outside the window.

Although the boy was holding something against his daughter's back, Brother Lin only saw courage on the boy's face, and he couldn't see a trace of viciousness.

An admiring smile appeared on Brother Lin's face, "It turned out to be twin brothers." ”

Brother Lin looked at the woman, "People say that if there is a father, there must be a son, but you, a woman, have a mother and a son." ”

"We both have knives in our hands, and under the knives are each other's most precious people," the boy poked the girl hard in the back, "Do you still want to hurt my mother?"

"At such a young age, he has such courage and a bright future. ”

Brother Lin withdrew the switchblade in his hand and yelled at his daughter in front of him, "Didn't I let you stay honest in the car?

The little girl said, "Look out the window." ”

Everyone turned around, and at some point, there was an extra girl next to the boy outside the window, and the girl who looked exactly the same was also held hostage by the boy outside the window. However, the height of the windowsill obscured the view, and they could not tell what the boy was holding the girl hostage.

"Your two daughters are in the hands of our brothers, and you are so powerful that you may stop me if you join forces, but can you stop my brother outside the window?"

Brother Lin smiled bitterly, "Count your brothers ruthless." ”

Brother Lin waved his hand and motioned for the two men to evacuate first.

Two vicious men passed in front of the boy, one hand firmly strangled the girl's neck, and the other hand was firmly pressed against the girl's back, and the boy kept a safe distance from them at all times.

Seeing his subordinates leave, Brother Lin's expression became serious, and he asked the boy in front of him, "Little friend, do you know why I let my subordinates leave first?"

"Because your precious daughters are in the hands of our brothers, and you fear that your men will be too impulsive and injure them by mistake. ”

"Big mistake! My daughters are in the hands of your brothers, but what can you do to them at a young age?"

Brother Lin then sneered at him, "You don't have any knives in your hands. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Why don't you try?"

"Do you really want to try?"

"Didn't you say you had a knife in your hand, do it. ”

"You ......," the gritted tooth boy's face showed a hint of embarrassment, and he added, "Why should I hurt your daughter when you've already let your men go?"

"Little liar, are you still acting with me? I have seen from the side, what black thing did you cover your hands with, tell me what it is?"

"That's right, I'm covering my hands with a hat, I just don't want others to see that I'm a bad person like you!"

"Sharp-toothed child, the reason you are looking for is as meaningless as covering your empty hands with a hat. ”

Ringo walked quickly up to the boy and snatched the hat from the boy's hand, the boy's empty hand still resting against the girl's back.

Brother Lin smiled at the embarrassed boy and said, "If you really have a knife in your hand, why do you have to cover your hands with this hat?

Seeing that the boy was speechless, Brother Lin continued to ask, "Little friend, do you know why I let my men leave?"

The boy trembled and said, "You want to ...... You want to talk to me alone?"

"You kid is really smart," Brother Lin smiled lightly, "you don't have anything in your hands that can threaten my daughter, even if you really have a knife in your hand, they can't stand here honestly, my child, will never succumb to a knife! What kind of child does the tiger raise, doesn't the tiger know? Now I will ask you again, how did you two manage to make my precious daughters so cooperative with your actions in such a short period of time? Tell me the truth, and I will spare your whole family." ”

"You have to count when you speak. ”

He smiled, "I always count when I speak, and I treat children the same. ”

"When I found them sitting in the car outside the hospital, I knew they were going to be your daughters, so I asked them a question. ”

"What's the problem?"

"Our mom was bullied by your dad inside, what if the person being bullied was your mom?"

"And then?"

The girl next to the boy rushed to answer, "Then my sister and I asked them, what do you mean, you want to blackmail us?"

The boy looked at the girl, "You're safe in the car, why do we ask this question if we want to blackmail you? Shouldn't we trick you out of the car first? We want your sisters to help us." ”

The girl said to the boy, "Why should we help you, when it is clear that your mother did something sorry for our father before she was punished by our father, and it was not our father who was sorry for your mother first, what reason do you have for us to help you?"

The boy looked out the window at them, "Why? I have to say a reason, because ...... Because aren't your sisters and our brothers twins?"

Ringo turned to his daughter, "It's that simple?"

The daughter smiled and nodded, "It's as simple as that." ”

Ringo asked the boy, "I hurt your mother, will you take revenge on me when you grow up?"

"No, it won't. ”

"Why?"

"She took your stuff first, she made her mistake first. ”

Ringo touched the boy's head, "Right and wrong. ”

The woman wrapped her tattered clothes tightly around her upper body, she pointed to the brick under the edge of the kang, and said guiltily to Brother Lin, "Brother Lin, your things are ...... down there."

Brother Lin picked off the brick and took out a package from it, he looked at the package in his hand and smiled bitterly, "Wouldn't it be good if you did this earlier, why bother so much! You remember, what is not yours will never belong to you, even God can't take it away." ”

Brother Lin took off the black windbreaker on his body and draped it over the woman, "Although you are a stubborn woman, you are quite sensible. You are not suitable for our meal, honestly find a serious job, and take good care of these two smart and sensible children. In addition, I have a few thousand dollars in my pocket, and I will lead your children to live in another place, and pass the year first. ”

The woman gripped Ringo's trench coat tightly and nodded vigorously.

Ringo then said to the boys, "You brothers have remembered for me, and if you dare to hurt my daughter in the future, and let me see you again, I won't be as cheap as you are today!"

The boys nodded.

When the girl was taken away by her father, the girl looked back at the boy, "What's your name?"

"My name is Chenzishan, and my brother's name is Chenzifeng, what about you?"

The girl playfully snatched the hat from her father's hand and put it on her head, "My name is Lin Shiyu, you have to remember it." ”

Another girl ran in from outside the door, took her father's other hand, she turned back to him and said, "Chenzishan, you also have to remember my name, my name is Lin Shixue, you also have to remember it." ”

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