When Zhai Yinglin heard me ask about the three gourds, he was stunned for a moment, and then looked at me with some curiosity: "Why did you ask about this person?"

"Do you know him?" Seeing Zhai Yinglin's expression, I continued to ask.

"I don't know. Zhai Yinglin shook his head: "But this person is also part of our plan." ”

"What plan?" I blurted out.

"Hehe, you're out of the question. Zhai Yinglin smiled and said nothing.

'Whoa!'

Seeing Zhai Yinglin's expression, I took out my pistol, put it directly on his head, and lowered my voice: "I'll ask you!

"Looks like you care about this guy. Zhai Yinglin saw my hideous expression, and was not afraid of the gun in my hand: "Give me another cigarette." ”

I stared at Zhai Yinglin and didn't move.

Zhai Yinglin looked at me: "Do you still want to know?"

"!" I scolded irritably, put away my gun, and stuffed the cigarette into Zhai Yinglin's mouth.

"Sanhulu, I haven't seen this person, but I just received an order from above, saying that I want to contact this person, but this contact, whether to win him over or get rid of him, I don't know, because this matter has always been handled by Gao Jin, since you have found the second blind man, then the name Gao Jin, you should be familiar with it, right?"

Hearing Zhai Yinglin mention Gao Jin, I suddenly remembered that about half a year ago, I bumped into the time when Sanhulu met Gao Jin, so the conversation changed: "This Gao Jin is your person, right?"

"Yes, but I don't know him well. Zhai Yinglin moved his chin at me, took another puff of his cigarette, and then continued: " For so many years, the core goal of our casino is only one, which is to make money, until recently, as the majority shareholder of the casino behind me has become more and more powerful, we have begun to think about other things, because our forces are not here, so the personnel change in the casino over the years, all the big bosses have sent people over......"

"You're lying. I interrupted Zhai Yinglin's words: "I don't want to know about your internal personnel changes, but this Gao Jin has been here for so many years, and you are working for a boss, you don't understand, is this possible?"

"What are you talking about?" Zhai Yinglin was also stunned after listening to my words: "You said that Gao Jin has been here for many years? Didn't he be temporarily sent by the big boss half a year ago?"

"You really haven't seen Gao Jin before?" Seeing Zhai Yinglin's reaction in an instant, I felt that he really didn't look like he was pretending.

"I said, if the topic of the two of us is related to the core secret, I won't say it, but since it's a chat, I won't hide this kind of inconsequential topic from you, understand!" Zhai Yinglin decisively responded to my words, and also became curious: "This is impossible, the stall of the underground casino has always been in charge of me, if Gao Jin has been here before, it is impossible for me not to have contact with him, if your intelligence is correct, then Gao Jin may be a secret move of the big boss." ”

"How much do you know about Gao Jin's contact with the three gourds?" I didn't get too entangled with Zhai Yinglin about Gao Jin, and continued to ask about the three gourds.

"I said, I don't know much, when Gao Jin contacted me, it was the meaning of the big boss, and the two of us were equal, so I didn't have the right to ask about him, but looking at Gao Jin's posture, it seemed that he was going to do something with the three gourds, at the beginning, the two talked about cooperation a few times, but then I don't know why, he turned his face with the three gourds again, the last time the two of them met, Gao Jin was shot by the three gourds, but he didn't die, and he was still with us for two months with injuries......"

"And then?"

"There's only so much I can say. ”

In the time that followed, my conversation with Zhai Yinglin reached an impasse, and he began to remain silent no matter what I asked.

It's been almost a month since Sanhulu said that he was going to go to the gang of drug dealers to help me get back the person who killed Lao Leng, but there has been no news back, and when I think of what Sanhulu said to me before he left, if he no longer contacts me, something must have happened, and I feel terrified from the bottom of my heart.

In the past six months, Sanhulu has betrayed Brother Dong, betrayed Brother Kang, offended Fang Devils, and finally betrayed those drug dealers, it can be said that these people's attitude towards him is to kill and then quickly, but from beginning to end, I have never hated Sangoulu from the bottom of my heart, don't care what he does to others, but for so long, he has been good to me from the heart, which I can feel.

This night, I finally fell asleep in my worries about the three gourds.

……

When people are busy, they always feel that time flies, but this time is free, the days are like boiled water, there is no taste, unconsciously, we have spent almost a week in this small mountain village, there is nothing to do every day, just full of food and dark, there is no news from Dongge's side.

At noon that day, Shi Yigang was basking in the sun at the gate of the yard after a few of us had lunch, and suddenly heard a muffled sound of '吭~~' from the direction of the village, which startled Shi Yigang: "Damn, what is JB moving?"

"I don't know, maybe the tires of the big car have burst. Zhou Tong was also a little stunned when he heard this voice.

"Let's go, go over and take a look?" Shi Yigang said after suddenly seeing the excitement.

"What's so nice about a flat tire. "I was so uninterested that I sat still.

"Watching them change tires, isn't it better than sitting and pouting, let's go!" Shi Yigang continued to pout.

"Okay, let's go, I'm going to the store to buy a cigarette. "In the past few days, I have run out of cigarettes, and it is really boring to squat here, so I want to go for a walk.

Zhou Tong also stood up: "Then you two will wait, I'll go change my pants and see if there are any good-looking little girls in the village, I want a WeChat or something." ”

"What pants to change, what are we doing here, you don't know what to do. Shi Yigang took out his gun and threw it to Zhou Tong: "You stay and watch the house!"

"Then you can help me bring me a bag of spicy strips. Zhou Tong snorted and compromised.

"Okay. ”

“……！”

Shi Yigang and the two of us left the dilapidated house, and walked along the village road for about ten minutes, and from a distance I saw an old man sitting in a small square in the middle of the village, with an iron stove in front of him lit on fire, and the old man was shaking the stove in his hand, which was an old-fashioned popcorn machine with black rumbling.

This old man's popcorn machine is now almost extinct, but in the countryside back then, there were still many old people who walked the streets and alleys, and they liked to carry the burden of popcorn to earn some money for tobacco and alcohol.

In the early days of popcorn processing, the grain is placed in the iron drum container for heating, so that the corn is pressurized in a state of high temperature and high pressure, most of the moisture in the rice grain becomes water vapor, due to the high temperature, the pressure of water vapor increases, so that the rice grain that has become soft expands, but at this time the pressure inside and outside the rice grain is balanced, so the rice grain will not burst in the pot, and so the machine lid is opened, the corn is suddenly released at room temperature and pressure, the gas in the pot expands rapidly, and the pressure decreases quickly, making the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the corn kernel larger, resulting in the high-pressure water vapor in the corn kernel also expands sharply, and the corn kernel bursts instantly, that is, it becomes popcorn, as long as there is this sound on the street back thenThe children of every family must have begun to run out carrying corn and rice, which is the memory of many post-80s and 90s, but this kind of street scene is now rare in the city.

"Oh, I haven't seen this kind of foreign stove for a long time!" Shi Yigang looked at the converter in the old man's hand, it was very fresh, smelling the fragrance in the air, Shi Yigang wiped his saliva, we have been here in the past few days, and the food is basically bread and instant noodles, and there is really no taste in the mouth, so looking at the popcorn in front of him, it suddenly made him appetite great, Shi Yigang looked at me on the side: "Brother Fei, are you hungry?"

"I'm okay, if you want to eat it, let's buy some!" I hadn't eaten this kind of stove-pressed popcorn in a long time, so I squatted on the ground and grabbed a handful.

"Uncle, what can you do in this pot?" Shi Yigang squatted next to the road, stuffing popcorn into his mouth, and asked, The popcorn we ate when we were children was generally rice and corn, so what Shi Yigang wanted to ask should be this.

"Collapse, my stove can collapse anything!" the old man glanced at the ignorant Shi Yigang, and then with a 'bang', another bag of popcorn burst out.

"Why are you so good at bragging!" Shi Yigang listened to the old man's answer, and he was also energetic: "Then I'll give you two bricks, and you can also collapse?"

"You bring it, I'll give it to you!" The old man was also quite stubborn.

"Okay, you wait here, don't go away!" Shi Yi just turned around and walked back.

"Xiao Gang, don't!" I saw that Shi Yigang had nothing to do here, so I frowned and scolded.

"Oh, I'm not stupid, I can really let him break bricks!" As soon as Shi Yi spoke, he turned around and ran back, shouting at the old man at the same time: "You wait, I'll take something!"

"This kid has a missing brain!" the old man muttered, then took the rice and a dollar of processing money from a child, and continued to open the furnace.

In less than ten minutes, Shi Yigang was holding a potato seed in one hand, ran back again, and handed it to the old man: "Hey, uncle, give you twenty yuan, you can give me two potatoes to eat, okay?"

"Broken potatoes?" The old man listened to Shi Yigang's request, and was a little confused.

"Ah, I don't want to eat popcorn, I want to eat potato chips, but the village store doesn't sell them!" Shi Yigang said and took out twenty yuan: "Can you take this job?"

In fact, I can see that this old man is still quite resistant to Shi Yigang's request, but looking at the twenty yuan in his hand, he hesitated, and still took the potatoes: "I haven't collapsed this B play~ But being idle is also idle, I'll give you two a try!"

"Let's do it!" Shi Yigang grinned, and squatted on the side with a look of longing and waited.

Watching the old man put the potatoes into the converter, start to light the fire, and heat it, Shi Yigang and I squatted on the side, with a huff dripping from the corner of our mouth, waiting for the potato chips to come out of the pot.

After about five minutes, the old man glanced at the pressure gauge of the road, raised his arm to remove the converter, put a sack on the exit, and stepped on the handle of the furnace with his foot.

'Boom'

After hearing a loud noise, a heat wave erupted, and the two potatoes that Shi Yigang had put in earlier were directly shattered, and the two of us, as well as a few children waiting for popcorn around us, as well as the surrounding ground, were full of runny mashed potatoes.

"Oh shit, why are you still collapsing shit?" Shi Yigang looked at the mess all over the place, with a confused expression.

The old man who broke the popcorn looked at the machine in his hand and was also stunned: "Oh, I'm! How can I come up with such a result...... This stove gives me a whole drop, it's too buried!"

"It's not...... Uncle, where do I drop potato chips?" Shi Yi just watched for a long time before he reacted.

"It's also a JB wool chip, don't you see that it's all crumbling into slag? Mom, I'm under B, I shouldn't be greedy for your twenty yuan! How old am I, and I'm still pulling this calf with you two coars~" The old man was very angry, and he was about to pack up his things and leave: "I finally found a good weather to come out to work, and I just collapsed two pots, so I have to go home and brush the stove!

"Hey, hey, don't go, uncle!" Shi Yigang grabbed the old man: "It's okay if this potato fails, anyway, I spent twenty yuan, you can give me something else!" Shi Yigang turned his head to look at me as soon as he said: "Brother, look at it, don't let this old man run away, I'll go home now, bring the half of the pineapple that I ate last night, and let the uncle collapse for the two of us!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Broken Chicken Feather Pineapple. I was speechless.

"If you really can't do it, I'll take two more eggs!" Shi Yigang agreed, turned around and was about to run home.

"You two hurry up and give me a JB calf! Give it to you, give you the twenty yuan, you quickly take your money and spoil the old lady who sells pancakes at the entrance of the village! Let him spread a pineapple cake for you!" As soon as the old man heard that Shi Yi was going to ask him to give him another pineapple, he didn't even clean up the base, and he carried the stove and flirted with it.