Three o'clock in the morning.

An urban village in Jingzi District.

Yang Dong, Luo Han and Lin Tianchi, after climbing over the wall and entering the independent courtyard rented by Li Chao, walked into the bungalow, and rummaged in each room.

Two or three minutes later, Luo Han came out of an empty room, looked at Yang Dong and Lin Tianchi standing in the living room, and shook his head slightly: "No one is here." ”

When Lin Tianchi heard that Li Chao was not at home, he frowned: "Could it be that after this kid caused trouble, he was scared and ran away?"

"It's not like!" Luo Han shook his head: "His change of clothes and mobile phone accessories are all thrown at home, not like running away, by the way, Li Chao and his father seem to be working in a nearby factory, why don't we look for his father?"

"Don't involve his family in this kind of thing. Lin Tianchi waved his hand and rejected Luohan: "Dongzi is disgusted with this." ”

"Good!" Rohan nodded, not continuing to mention the stubble.

After a short conversation, Lin Tianchi and Luo Han both set their eyes on Yang Dong and waited for the following.

"Bang dang!"

Yang Dong stretched out his hand, dragged a chair, and sat swaggering in the center of the living room: "Don't leave tonight, wait for him to come back here." ”

......

Meanwhile.

An open-air barbecue stand near Nova Park.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man cleaned up the barbecue stove and asked the middle-aged man who was squatting by the tricycle and smoking: "Dad, what time is the stall closed today?"

"Who the knows, five or six people came, and they ordered less than a hundred yuan in total, and they all sat here for half a night, and I lived for more than 40 years, and the first time I saw someone come out to eat barbecue, and JB brought his own alcohol, and it was bulk liquor. The barbecue stall owner's eyes were red, and he looked speechlessly at Li Chao and the others who were making noise not far in front of him.

"A group of two fools, except for bragging B, are nothing, and they really use themselves as knives and guns. The boss's son heard Li Chao and others talking about the history of several social brothers in the city, and scolded him angrily.

On the barbecue table.

"Chao'er, I'll give you another glass, today's matter, you did too good, really!" Xiaobo held half a glass of white wine, his eyes full of compliments and worship.

"Hehe, it's necessary! In the future, our buddies will be mixed together, and in less than half a year, I will definitely be able to take you to shovel up in Big L. Li Chao had drunk at least half a catty of liquor at this time, and his words were full of pride.

"Super Brother Niu B!" Several young people under the age of twenty on the side also nodded in agreement.

"Chao'er Niu is not Niu B, do you still need to say it!" Xiaobo saw that everyone stole his limelight, his face was slightly displeased, and he continued to compliment: "Xiaochao has only been mixed in the society for less than three months, you say it yourself, now from Dadonggou to Xiaoxin Zhaizi, who hasn't heard of Li Chao's name?"

A few young men next to him nodded like pecking rice: "That's a must, if anyone dares to say that he doesn't know Brother Chao, I'll twist his arm off, insert it into his eyes, and dry it directly into a potted plant." ”

"Low-key, low-key!" Li Chao felt the small language touted by everyone, and his heart was not only a little fluttering, but he still pretended to press his hand deeply.

Xiaobo saw Li Chao's demeanor, revealing his yellowed big teeth: "Chao'er's bearing, he really looks like a big brother!"

"Come on, when it comes to the momentum of the big brother in society, I am far worse than the big brother Baolong, I can have today, isn't it all brought out by him!" Li Chao waved his hand slightly, and once again pretended to be a B in a low-key manner.

"Brother Baolong?Liu Baolong?!" A few young people on the side who had just met Li Chao were shocked when they heard him mention Liu Baolong's name.

Li Chao glanced at the young man: "Nonsense, there is a second Baolong in G Jingzi?"

"Damn, Brother Chao, you are really hidden!" The young man immediately raised his glass: "My son lies, I have heard the name of Brother Baolong since I was in elementary school, and now that Wanchang nightclub, isn't it opened by Brother Baolong!" Brother Chao, I must toast you again, there will be Brother Baolong covering us in the future, who the are we afraid of in Big L!"

"Hehe, that's for sure, in our group, I had the best personal relationship with Brother Baolong. Li Chao pursed his lips and smiled, and took a sip of the liquor in the glass.

Hearing the conversation between Li Chao and the young man, a person next to him was a little puzzled: "Brother Chao, since Brother Baolong is so good to you, why don't you stay with him now, but come out by yourself and come alone?"

"Social things, you don't understand, although Baolong's big brother is very OK, if I follow him, I can live more comfortably than now, but behind him, I can only be a younger brother, only when I come out by myself, I can be a brother, when I met Baolong before, I have enough horsepower, I have to call him a big brother, now I come out alone, although I am a lot more depressed than before, but I and Baolong, but become friends. Li Chao shook the bulk liquor in the disposable paper cup, and replied with a social atmosphere: "This is growth." ”

"Brother Chao, with your courage and brain, if you can't get mixed up, Big L won't have a big brother in society anymore. After listening to Li Chao's words, the young man who raised the question lowered his head and pondered for five or six seconds, and then responded with great admiration.

"Brother Chao, you will be our eldest brother in the future, you said let us go east, we will never go west, you let me beat the dog, I will never pick up chickens!" A group of young people who have just entered the society and whose experience is equivalent to a blank sheet of paper have become Li Chao's hardcore within the time of a meal, and Li Chao's vanity has also been greatly satisfied, and what he said is becoming more and more marginal.

"You talk first, I'll go to the toilet. Xiaobo saw that Li Chao was fighting with a few newcomers, but he snubbed himself, got up with some resentment, walked under a street tree, unbuttoned his trouser belt and began to water the flowers.

After Xiaobo finished peeing, he tied his belt and was just about to go back, just when the young man who had been holding Li Chao's stinky feet during the banquet also came over to relieve him, and after the two met, the young man smiled at Xiaobo: "Brother Bo, pee!"

"I'm not going to pee, come and gnaw on the bark?" Xiaobo saw the young man who was competing with him for favor, and choked him with disgust.

"Hey, Brother Bo, let me ask you something. The young man didn't know if he really didn't see that Xiaobo was annoying him, or if he didn't take it to heart at all, so he continued to ask: "Brother Chao really messed with Big Brother Baolong before?"

"He's a JB!" Xiaobo saw Li Chao who was gesturing at the wine table, and was inexplicably a little irritable: "He turned out to be a waiter in Baolong's big brother's KTV, once a guest in the song hall drank too much and scolded Baolong's big brother twice, Li Chao went up and gave that person a wine bottle, because of this matter, Baolong's big brother paid more than 100,000 yuan to the guest, but the other side was not the owner of the bad money, he had to find Li Chao for revenge, he was afraid, and he resigned and ran away the next day." ”

"Waiter?" The young man was stunned when he heard this: "Didn't Brother Chao just say that he is the most popular thug under Brother Baolong?"

"Look at his physique, he is not as strong as JB of a good old man, does he look like a thug!" Xiaobo glanced at the young man: " Before leaving, Brother Baolong felt that Li Chao was causing trouble no matter what he said, but also to give him a head start, so before Xiao Chao left, Brother Baolong gave him 20,000 yuan, and said politely, saying that Li Chao had something to call him, Xiao Chao has been floating since he took 20,000 yuan, let me tell you, Xiao Chao is a bit of a bully and afraid of hard, and he is bold before doing things, but he is cowardly when he encounters something, just like today, we set fire to and smash the car, and if it is not good, it will be a big problem, do you want to mix with him in the future, you have a score in your heart。 ”

"Brother Bo, if Brother Chao is really as good as you say, then why are you still playing with him. After listening to Xiaobo's words, the young man blinked, and then asked tactfully.

"Fuck, we've been playing with bare butts until we get big, and now he's in trouble, can I not help him?" Xiao Bo glanced at the young man and turned to leave.

"Fuck you, if Li Chao really didn't work, you would have run away a long time ago, and you would have fucking five or six people pretending to be good people with me here, aren't you just afraid that I will stay and steal your limelight." The young man looked at the back of Xiaobo leaving, muttered a word of disdain between his words, and stood under the tree and untied his belt.

Half an hour later.

After Li Chao and the others ate all the barbecue they ordered, they got up one after another, planning to go home, a few people were just about to leave, Li Chao's phone rang, he answered the phone and said a few words, and then looked at the people around him: "All go to F Shun with me to do things, just pretend, don't do anything, you can come back tomorrow morning, 200 people per person." ”

"Super Brother is mighty!" several young people boiled again when they heard this.

......

Nothing to say all night, the next day, morning.

Yang Peng lay on the bed in the hotel, thinking about his brother's desperate eyes the day before, he stayed awake all night, as soon as the day dawned, he got up from the bed with red and swollen eyes, first went to the supermarket for a turn, and then walked to the farmers' market with a cardboard box, intending to help Yang Dong with the store.

An hour later.

Yang Peng stood in front of the burned tin shed, watching the restaurant that Yang Dong had been carefully taking care of for several months being burned, and looked at a woman cleaning in front of him with some astonishment: "Sister, let me ask, what's wrong with this store?"

"Such obvious traces of misfire, I told you that it was a fart collapse, do you believe it?"

"Who did this?" Yang Peng asked in disbelief as he smelled the pungent smell of burnt paste in the air.

"If I knew who did this, I would have been a detective a long time ago, and I would still be able to sweep the floor here?" The woman glanced at Yang Peng, cleaned up and continued: "It's a small restaurant, it's a small restaurant, and if you don't say it's gone." ”

Yang Peng looked at the wreckage in front of him and sighed: "Then how did this fire start, do you know?"

"Then who knows, but the management office to the outside of the statement, seems to be caused by the merchant's own improper operation, the owner of this shop is only in his early twenties, hard work, personality is also very good, every time we pass by, he is very enthusiastic to greet us into the house to drink water, I heard that this child's life is still very bitter, no father and no mother, there is a particularly uncompetitive brother at home......"

Yang Peng didn't listen to the woman's next words, this was the first time he came over after Yang Dong's small restaurant opened, looking at the chaotic environment around him, Yang Peng's heart seemed to have a string plucked suddenly.

Since his parents died in the line of duty, Yang Peng inherited his father's business, entered the shipyard as a worker, and with the help of relatives and friends, he worked hard to train Yang Dong to become a talent, and was admitted to the medical university.

Yang Peng has forgotten the scene when he gambled for the first time, and for several years, Yang Peng, who has long been numb by life, seems to be able to find a feeling of being alive only in front of the gambling table.

Looking back now, he found that this home, which had only been supported by Yang Dong alone in recent years, turned out to be like a flat boat in the wind and rain, facing capsizing at any time, and the home in his memory had long been shattered.

"Whoa!"

A breeze blew, and the thread of the carton in Yang Peng's hand broke in time, and the cake inside fell to the ground, stained with dirty dust, as if the life of these two brothers was disgusting.

This day is Yang Dong's twenty-third birthday.

Yang Peng stood in front of the ruins and was silent for a few seconds, then reached out and wiped the corners of his eyes, and turned away with messy steps.

......

Two hours later, the big L entered the city expressway.

"Squeak!"

With a sharp sound of brakes, several private cars that had just gotten off the highway slowly stopped along the roadside outside the toll station, and after the door opened, Li Chao took a few little brothers around him and got out of the car one after another.

"Brush!"

After the window of a car was lowered, a hand stretched out from the window and handed less than 3,000 yuan in cash to Li Chao: "Count." ”

"Don't count, I'll rest assured that you can do something. Li Chao gritted his teeth and took the money handed out of the car: "Brother Ma, next time there is such a thing, you will still look for me, I now have a group of little brothers under my hands, and I am too thirsty in my pocket, hehe!"

"Brush!"

After the people in the car handed over the money, they didn't look at Li Chao at all, and directly raised the window and left on the road.

"Pretend to be a criminal!" Li Chao looked at the distant vehicle and cursed in a low voice.

"Brother Chao, our money, this is in hand!" Seeing the convoy leaving, several young people gathered around Li Chao, staring at the money in his hand, inexplicably excited.

", follow Brother Chao together, you're still afraid of starving to death!" Li Chao grinned and put the money in his pocket.

"Brother Chao, let's go out and eat something good, then take a bath, and do a health care again, they don't care about food in the morning, I'm hungry!" a young man made a suggestion very excitedly.

"With such a damn amount of money, I have to feed several of you and do chicken feather health care!" Li Chao glanced at the man who spoke: "Take a taxi, go to the house I rented, cook some instant noodles, and deal with it!"