Inside a black internet café.

"Ringing ringing!"

Li Jingbo, who was sitting in a chair watching a movie, was startled by the sudden ringtone, and after seeing the unfamiliar number on the caller ID, he was stunned at first, and then picked up the phone instantly: "Hey, Xiaochao?"

"Xiaobozi, I'm your Uncle Zhou in the village. After Lao Zhou on the phone identified himself, he then scolded: "You tell me the truth, are you causing any trouble outside?"

"Trouble, I didn't. Li Jingbo frowned a little panickedly when he heard Lao Zhou's unkind tone, and the first thought that flashed in his mind was that Yang Dong and the others went to look for him at home.

If you don't get into trouble, can your grandmother walk more than ten miles of mountain roads under such a big sun and beg me to call you? If you don't get into trouble, can the court's car go to your house!"

"The court's car ......" Li Jingbo was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Hey, Jingbo, can you hear me?" On the other end of the phone, Li Jingbo's grandmother's old voice came out of the earpiece.

"Grandma, I can hear you!" Li Jingbo took a deep breath and nodded in agreement.

"Hey, Xiaobo!" On the other end of the phone, Li Jingbo's grandmother didn't lean forward at all, but stood beside Lao Zhou, shouting loudly in the direction of the phone: "Bozi, the people from the court came to the house today, notified you to go to court, and asked me for your phone, I said I don't know, they said to me, you borrowed money from others, we have to pay it back, if you don't pay back this money, you will have to go to prison." ”

Lao Zhou looked at the vicissitudes of life of the septuagenarian in front of him, sighed, and put the phone in front of the old man.

"Bo'er, you listen to grandma's words, we don't want to be rich and expensive, you can work hard outside, better than anything, don't cause trouble, you said that if something happens to you, leave grandma a lonely old woman, then what's the point of me living." Grandma Li Jingbo's face was full of anxiety: "Xiaobo, take time, you go home for a trip, I will give you your father's funeral expenses, as well as the money I have earned from picking mushrooms in the past few years, together, there are more than 20,000 yuan, these money, I keep it for you to marry your daughter-in-law, you take the money, pay it back to others first, if it is not enough, grandma will go out to earn it for you, you are obedient, don't cause trouble, ah!"

"Grandma, I see. Li Jingbo knew that his grandmother couldn't hear his voice clearly, but he still lowered his head and responded, and when he looked up again, he was already in tears, although Li Jingbo always thought that he had grown into a man, but in Grandma Li's eyes, he seemed to be just a child who should always be cared for.

Lao Zhou saw that the old lady had almost finished speaking, put away his mobile phone, and said: "Xiaobozi, you heard what your grandmother said, hurry up and go home, pay back the money you owe to others, you listen to my advice, don't make your grandma angry, how old is she, you still don't do your job all day long, if those people in the court come to the house every day, really make your grandmother out of a hurry, there is really no one in this world who loves you!"

Li Jingbo sobbed silently.

"I said that you are a child too, you learn to repair cars well, you have to fool around with the old Li Chao in the front yard, that child has no interest since he was a child, don't you know? I tell you, you learn better in the future, stay away from him. ”

"Uncle Zhou, you can help my grandmother bring a message, let her not worry, I can handle this matter myself. Li Jingbo wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and gritted his teeth in response.

"What can you do, hurry up and go home!"

"Duh... Toot ......"

didn't wait for Lao Zhou to finish speaking, and on the other end of the phone, there was already a busy signal.

......

Meanwhile.

Since Li Chao burned Yang Dong's restaurant and smashed Luohan's taxi, the three brothers lost their jobs in an instant, and Yang Dong and Luohan had no good place to go for a while, so they could only temporarily live in the yard where Lin Tianchi rented a doll, sitting under the tree in a daze during the day, and living in the plug-in room in the room at night, doing nothing all day long, completely eating and mixing in the dark.

Inside the yard.

"Dongzi, the lawyer called me just now. Lin Tianchi walked to the shade of the tree and said a word to Yang Dong, who was looking at the recruitment information in the newspaper.

"Well, what's the situation?" Yang Dong put down the newspaper and looked up and asked.

"It's not going to be good. Lin Tianchi said bluntly: "The lawyer told me on the phone that Li Jingbo's father was a martyr, and after his father died, his mother ran away with someone, and only he and his grandmother were left in the family. ”

"Hmm. Yang Dong nodded, responded without being salty, and continued: "And then?"

"The lawyer said that this account is not easy to ask, and Li Jingbo has not shown up now, if we press too hard, the court people will go to his house twice in three days, I am afraid that his grandmother will not be able to stand the fright. ”

"It's okay, keep chasing. Yang Dong said expressionlessly: "Tell the lawyer, no matter what means he uses, we must come out of this account, no matter how much he wants to come out in the early stage, he will first pay 30% of his lawyer's fees, and as for the rest of the money, after I get it, I will find a way to make up 50,000 yuan and return it to Luohan." ”

"Isn't it a bit inhumane for us to do this? Lin Tianchi was a little embarrassed: "According to the lawyer, the conditions in Li Jingbo's family are really difficult. ”

"When those people came to my house to collect debts, my brother took me out to hide debts, when I was hungry, I even ate the grass on the lawn, Tianchi, if I had a way out now, I wouldn't force Li Jingbo like this, but Luohan's car was bought by him with the discharge money of four years as a soldier, you say, because of my business, he threw the only family wealth into it, can I not give him an explanation?" Yang Dong rubbed his face irritably:" Since Li Jingbo also participated in the smashing of the car, he should pay the price, I didn't report and warn him to destroy the property, it is already considered benevolent and righteous, listen to me, just do it. ”

"Okay. When Lin Tianchi heard this, he didn't say anything more, and continued: "Do you still need to say hello to Luohan?"

"Forget it, Luohan has been a soldier and his thoughts are simple, if he hears that Li Jingbo's father is a martyr, he will definitely be soft-hearted. Yang Dong waved his hand and rejected Lin Tianchi, and continued to pick up the newspaper, looking for a job that suited him.

......

On the other hand, in the face of Yang Dong and others' forced debts, Li Jingbo, who was already desperate, left the black Internet café, and the words that Lao Zhou told him kept circling in his mind, yes, if the people in the court really go to the house every day to make trouble, then the frail and sick grandmother, under the worry, will definitely not be able to withstand this kind of toss, Li Jingbo himself is not afraid of causing trouble, but thinking of the worry on his grandmother's face, he felt a pantothenic acid in his heart.

Li Jingbo didn't think about compromise, just 50,000 yuan of chips, for this little gangster who has no money for the object's birthday, it is a completely unattainable mountain, he doesn't want to lose the coffin book saved by his grandmother because of his hot impulse, and it is not enough.

Li Jingbo, who was alone, squatted on the corner of the street, thinking about what had happened recently, his mind became more and more confused, he couldn't understand why the initiator of all this was obviously Li Chao, but he became the ultimate victim, under the exclusion of various negative emotions, Li Jingbo, who has always been relatively autistic, finally made a crazy decision to seek revenge on Yang Dong, just like he snatched Li Chao's IOU in Yang Dong's hands, and snatched back the IOU he wrote.

Li Jingbo, who is paranoid in thinking, has not blamed Li Chao for the matter until now, but chose to take revenge on Yang Dong, who is also a victim, because Li Jingbo, who is simple-minded, is extremely convinced of the interpretation of the word friendship in his heart, and he always believes that the reason why Li Chao has not shown up until now is because he still does not know his situation.

Just a few minutes later, Li Jingbo made a decision, and then with a circlip knife in his arms, he hibernated quietly at the entrance of Yang Dong's rental house, but he didn't know that this house had been returned by Yang Dong as early as the day Yang Peng went to Hainan.

Two hours later, Li Jingbo did not wait for Yang Dong to appear, but met a friend at the entrance of the alley.

"Jingbo, what are you doing here?" a friend who passed by on a motorcycle saw Li Jingbo squatting at the entrance of the alley smoking, and asked with a smile.

"It's nothing, I'll wait for someone. Li Jingbo smiled and reached out to hand over a cigarette: "Why are you here?"

"Ah, I recently changed jobs, this side is close to the unit, and the rent is cheap, so I moved here. The friend took the cigarette with a smile, lit it, took a puff, and continued: "Hey, I heard a while ago that you weren't with Li Chao and went to the gambling game to put loan sharks, how can you do it well, and you don't do it again?"

When Li Jingbo heard his friend's question, he immediately frowned: "How do you know that we are gone?"

"Haha, that's what I'm saying, if you continue to do such a lucrative job as a loan shark, will Li Chao go back to Wanchang Nightclub to be a waiter. The friend grinned: "What's the matter, did you let the money fly?"

“...... You just said that Li Chao went back to work in Wanchang?" Li Jingbo was stunned for three seconds before asking, "When did this happen?"

"What's the situation? Li Chao, haven't you two been together all day long, he went back to work, you don't know about this?" The friend heard Li Jingbo ask, and continued without taking it seriously: "Last night, our unit had a party, and my colleague sang the song in Wanchang, and after I met Li Chao, I chatted with him for a while. ”

"Are you sure that the person you saw is really Li Chao?"

"You asked, we've known each other for five or six years, and I still don't know him. ”

"Dude, I have something to do, let's go first!" Li Jingbo listened to his friend's words, patted his friend on the shoulder, and then strode directly to the taxi at the entrance of the alley.

......

Night.

Since Li Chao returned to Wanchang Nightclub, he has been recuperating in the dormitory for less than three days, and he was supported by Brother Ming to do the work of a waiter, and it is completely unpaid voluntary labor, but Rao is so, Li Chao is still working hard, Yang Dong's knife has broken Li Chao's guts, at least stay in Wanchang KTV, he can still sleep soundly.

Because Li Chao's injuries have not healed yet, he can't do the heavy work of moving wine and serving fruit plates for the time being, so he can only do some simple cleaning work.

That night, after Li Chao wiped the floor of the corridor on the second floor with a mop, he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, just about to light a cigarette and take a break, in the process of taking out the cigarette, his eyes glanced out casually, but he happened to see Li Jingbo who stepped down from the taxi.

Seeing the figure downstairs, Li Chao's action of lighting a cigarette froze, and his brows suddenly twisted into a pimple.

After Li Jingbo got out of the car, he clutched the circlip knife in his pocket with both hands and strode towards Wanchang Hall.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor, Li Chao saw Li Jingbo's gloomy face clearly through the glass, stood in place and was silent for less than three seconds, and then turned around and hurried towards the direction of the hall downstairs.