Chapter 9: The Value of Friendship
The back alley of Wanchang nightclub.
"Is there a letter to the business that Lu Jianwei talked to us about last time?" After Liu Baolong went out, he walked in the direction of the park, and at the same time turned his head to ask the people around him.
Liu Baolong is just in his early thirties this year, his figure is slightly fat, and there is a strong aura between his eyebrows, and his gestures are full of the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes.
"I talked to Lu Jianwei on the phone in the afternoon, and listened to what he said, it seems that something has changed in this business, and it has to be postponed for a while. Liu Baolong's side, a young man named Xiao Dai, responded quickly.
"Change?" Liu Baolong stopped and squinted at Xiao Dai beside him.
"Yes, Lu Jianwei said, there was something wrong with the approval of the project, and it had to be postponed for a few months. ”
"He's just running out of us, and he's going to break up with us and play tricks here." Liu Baolong responded with a cold face and thought for a while: "In the past few days, you have found a way to invite Lu Jianwei to the store, and I will talk to him." ”
"Hey!" nodded in response.
"I've been mixed up in the past few years, and I don't declare force to the outside world, these fools may think that I am good, just right, just start with Lu Jianwei, I must use a bloody knife to help this group of dog baskets recall what I Liu Baolong relied on in the first place. Liu Baolong tidied up his clothes, walked in the direction of parking again, pressed the car key, and then the lights flashed.
"Brother Long! Brother Long!" Before Liu Baolong could open the car door, Li Chao limped up from the other side of the car.
"Who?!" As Li Chao appeared, the two young men beside Liu Baolong suddenly looked at him with a vigilant expression.
"Brother Dai, it's me. Facing the young man's questioning, Li Chao walked out of the shadows and answered in a low voice.
"You B-raised, the front door is not allowed to enter, and JB comes to the back door to block, are you finished?" Brother Ming, who drove Li Chao out of the front door before, pointed at Li Chao's nose and scolded.
And Li Chao stood in place, as if he hadn't heard Brother Ming's scolding, and nodded to Liu Baolong: "Brother Baolong." ”
"Oh, it's Xiao Chao. Liu Baolong saw Li Chao appear, although he didn't take him seriously in his heart, but when he saw him covered in blood, he still asked casually: "What's the matter, why do you let people cut him like this bear?"
"Brother Long, I came here today to ask you for help. Li Chao looked at Liu Baolong's eyes, and his expressions of apprehension, restraint, and fear were clear at a glance.
"Please help me?" Liu Baolong couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth when he heard this: "What, who wants to kill you?"
"Not to kill me, but to kill my brother. Li Chao paused for less than a second, and then quickly responded: " I have a small hair, named Li Jingbo, recently he because of a little debt problem, with a restaurant owner together, at the beginning always suffered, and then Li Jingbo found that he was not strong enough, so he found me, after a few rounds of fighting, the restaurant owner found that I couldn't fix me, so he played yin, went to Li Jingbo's house to ambush, and caught Li Jingbo, and then it was me who went over, and I worked hard to rescue Li Jingbo, and now those people's plans have been thwarted by me, so they are looking for me everywhere, Brother Long, my side is really a tiger can't stand the wolves, think about it, I can only come to beg you。 ”
Liu Baolong glanced at Li Chao, who was covered with knives: "I don't see it, you kid is quite particular." ”
"It's not particular, Jingbo and I are brothers, and when he had an accident, I didn't have time to think about it, so I rushed up, just instinctively reacted. Hearing Liu Baolong's praise, Li Chao did not brag as usual, but responded with very real words, but at the same time as saying this, Li Chao hung up the phone call from Li Jingbo again and turned off the phone.
"Huh. Liu Baolong smiled: "What is the name of that restaurant owner?"
"Yang Dong. ”
When Liu Baolong heard this, he set his eyes on Xiao Dai beside him, Xiao Dai frowned and thought for a while, and shook his head: "I haven't heard of this person." ”
"Brother Long, this Yang Dong is a fast food restaurant in the farmers' market, and he has never mixed in society. After Li Chao explained to Liu Baolong, he stopped at the right time.
"Since you can't stay outside anymore, let's stay in the store for the next few days. Liu Baolong thought about it, nodded and agreed to let Li Chao stay, but he never mentioned anything like helping Li Chao solve trouble.
"Hey, thank you, Brother Long!" Li Chao heard Liu Baolong let him stay in the store, and the stone hanging in his heart instantly fell to the ground.
"Okay, you are familiar with the people in the store, find a place to live by yourself, I have something to do when I go out. Liu Baolong's voice fell, Xiao Dai and Brother Ming opened the car door and followed Liu Baolong to get in the car and leave.
Inside the car.
Brother Ming drove the car out of the back alley of the nightclub, and glanced at Li Chao who disappeared at the back door of the song hall through the inverted mirror, with a thick disgust in his eyes: "Big brother, Li Chao is a little rabbit cub who runs a train with a mouth, do you really plan to let him live in the store and waste food to raise him in vain?"
"I have money to burn, support him to be a JB?" Liu Baolong grinned: "When he left the nightclub, after all, it was because he helped me run errands, and now he has something, I don't care about him, it's not appropriate to spread it, let him work as a waiter in the store for a while, there is no salary, and when the injury is healed, you can find fault and take him away." ”
"Good. Brother Ming nodded: "This kid has thief eyebrows, from the first sight, I annoy him." ”
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At the same time, in the video game city of a shopping mall.
At the same time that Li Chao sought refuge from Liu Baolong, Li Jingbo hid in the corner of the video game city, sat in front of a broken machine, and talked on the phone with the "broken shoes" girlfriend in Li Chao's mouth: "Daughter-in-law, things are not what you think, I really want to accompany you for your birthday today, but something happened to Xiaochao temporarily, and it was delayed." ”
"Li Jingbo, how many times have I told you to keep your distance from Li Chao, why don't you listen to me!" On the other end of the phone, an angry female voice came out of the earpiece.
"I know that Xiaochao is a very bad person, but anyway, he is also my friend who has played since childhood, when he was in the countryside before, he was not like this, but in the past few years, he has been mixed in the city and blinded by prosperity, in fact, he is not bad in nature. Li Jingbo heard his girlfriend's accusation, and explained in a pale manner.
"Whatever you want. The girlfriend's tone was a little helpless: "Li Jingbo, when you chased me at the beginning, you kept saying that it could bring me a sense of security, and I have always believed in you, but with what you are doing now, how can you make me believe in your so-called protection and sense of security?"
"Daughter-in-law, I ......"
"That's it, I'm tired. After his girlfriend finished speaking, she made a gesture to hang up the phone.
"Daughter-in-law, wait a minute. Li Jingbo thought about it and quickly added.
The girl across the ...... didn't respond, but she didn't hang up either.
"Well, do you have any money in your hand, can you lend me some. Li Jingbo's voice fell, and his face turned red: "I called Xiaochao for an afternoon, but he didn't answer any of them, I feel that something should have happened to him, maybe he will use the money." ”
"Li Jingbo, is it worth it?"
"Lele, we are brothers......"
"I only have more than five hundred in my hand, you can come to my school and get it. ”
"Give me the money, is your living expenses enough?"
"I still have more than 200 left in my meal card, save a little, it's enough to spend. ”
"Daughter-in-law, when this matter is dealt with, I will definitely compensate you twice. While speaking, Li Jingbo pushed away the chair next to him and walked out of the game hall.
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Three days later.
In a dark Internet café with old equipment and basically only primary school students entering and exiting, Li Jingbo, who could not find Li Chao's whereabouts at all, held a total of less than 600 yuan in cash in his hand, and was squatting in front of a machine munching on instant noodles, and on the computer table in front of him, there was also a drink bottle full of tap water, although there were still hundreds of yuan in his pocket, but Li Jingbo did not spend it indiscriminately, because he was sure in his heart that Li Chao did not answer his call, there must have been some accident, and the remaining hundreds of yuan in Li Jingbo's pocket were intended for Li Chao to run away。
Li Jingbo cared about Li Chao at the same time, but he didn't care about his own situation, although he wrote an IOU of 50,000 yuan to Yang Dong, but in the eyes of Li Jingbo, who didn't graduate from junior high school, there was no concept of legal responsibility at all.
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While Li Chao was nibbling on instant noodles, Lin Tianchi took a taxi to the G Jingzi District People's Court, and after finding a law firm near the court, he filed a civil lawsuit against Li Jingbo.
In the afternoon of the same day.
Under the operation of the lawyer, the court's law enforcement vehicle drove into Dadonggou Village, Jingzi District, and after crossing the village, it continued to walk nearly ten miles of mountain road before finding an independent courtyard on the hillside.
At the gate of the dilapidated courtyard of Li Jingbo's house, the court staff held a summons in their hands and looked at the old lady who was over 70 years old in front of the door: "Auntie, may I ask if this is Li Jingbo's home?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" The old lady adjusted the hearing aid on her chest, looked at the law enforcement vehicle behind everyone, and her eyes were a little flustered: "Our family Xiaobo, is there something wrong?"
"Auntie, he didn't cause trouble, we just came here to find out the situation. Seeing that the old man was so old, the court people didn't dare to tell her the facts of the case, and asked tactfully: "Excuse me, are Li Jingbo's parents at home?"
"His father was a soldier in the early years, died in the northwest, his mother ran away with a mason in the same village, there is no one in our family, only me and Xiaobo Niang, I am his grandmother, you can tell me if you have something. Li Jingbo's grandmother saw the police car behind everyone, and her palms trembled a little: "Comrade, although Li Jingbo has no one to discipline this child since he was a child, he is an honest child, and he will never do anything hurtful, are you mistaken?" ”
"Auntie, you misunderstood, we are not from the Public Security Bureau, we are from the court, a few days ago, Li Jingbo borrowed a sum of money from others, and now he has been sued, this is a summons from the court, when he arrives home, please hand it over to him......" The court staff heard that Li Jingbo's family was left with only the two grandparents and grandchildren, and helplessly told what happened.
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Li Jingbo's grandmother asked about the cause and effect of the incident, and after sending the people from the court away, she walked for more than an hour on crutches and dragged her sick body to the village along the mountain road, and then walked to the door of a family next door and knocked on the iron door: "Lao Zhou, are you at home?"
More than ten seconds later, a middle-aged man in his forties heard the shout and walked out of the courtyard: "Aunt Li, why are you still here on this hot day?"
"Well, I beg you, this is the number left for me by our family Xiaobo, please help me call him. The old man, who didn't know how to use a mobile phone at all, stretched out his palm, which was suffering from Parkinson's, and trembled and handed over a piece of paper with a phone number written on it.
"Aunt Li, they are all from the township, just make a phone call, what are you going to do with the money for me. Lao Zhou took the piece of paper with the phone number written on it, pushed the dollar back, then took out his mobile phone and dialed Li Jingbo's number.