After listening to Brother Hulu's words, I was slightly puzzled: "Since you got on the train, shouldn't you go to Inner Mongolia, why did you get to Anyang again?"

"Alas...... Don't mention it, when I mention this matter, I feel aggrieved, and even now when I think about it, I am just as aggrieved. Brother Hulu smiled helplessly: " After I got on the train, according to the method taught to me by a few pick-ups, when I met the ticket check, I went to the toilet to hide, and the green train at that time, the management was not strict, the ticket checker saw you in the toilet and called a few times, and it didn't matter at all, but the train was too slow, and it was half a day and a night, and I didn't get to the place, and I was in a daze, I fell asleep in an empty seat, and when I was woken up, the ticket inspector had blocked me in the seat, when the conductor asked me to make up the ticket, I stood up and pretended to go to the front car with him, but how could I have money, so when I passed by a window, I planned to jump out of the window along the windowAnd the person sitting at the window was a young man with a plaster on his arm, and I kicked on his arm, and the arm that had just grown, clicked, and was kicked and broken, so that all the passengers on the train were gone, and I began to fight, and I was also beaten urgently, so I began to fight back, and the police arrested me, and when the train was moving, they locked me in a hurry without a window, and when the station was over, they handed me over to the railway police, and the place where I got off the station was Anyang. ”

After listening to Brother Hulu's words, I realized that it was a mistake that he first came to Ayang.

"At that time, an old policeman of the railway public security, after listening to what I had happened all the way, was also very sympathetic to me, saying that as long as I accompanied the young man with a broken bone for 200 yuan, they would not hold me accountable and let me go. Speaking of this incident, Brother Hulu showed a smile: "The old policeman in charge of my case also laughed angrily when he saw me like this, and in the end he helped me advance the money, but according to the procedure, I was still detained for fifteen days, and the day of squatting detention was my nineteenth birthday, and it was also that day that I met Zhang Kang in the detention center. ”

I was a little surprised: "You and Brother Kang, did you meet in the detention center?"

"Well, but at that time, Zhang Kang was only a young man in his twenties, very famous among his peers, but he was not famous in society, but his cousin Zhang Fan, at that time in society, was already a very powerful big brother, at that time, Anyang City, not at all the current pattern, at that time, the two most famous bastards in the urban area were Mu Jun and Luo Hongcang, Mu Jun was a worker in an iron mine at the time, he began to mix in society since he was a teenager, and a large group of workers' children and small blind runners gathered around him, fighting in the urban area, never lost, and another person with the same name as him was Luo Hongcang, Luo Hongcang was very famous in the society at that time, but no one was afraid of him, because Luo Hongcang was very lonely, and he usually didn't have any friends, no matter what he dealt with, he went alone, and he didn't like to cause trouble, so he was famous, but it was nothing great, from Mu Jun and Luo Hongcang down, it was Zhang Fan, Mao Yuejin, Fang Yonggen, Guan Zhonglei these old bastards, at that time Fang Yonggen was still doing forced demolition business, Zhang Fan was the owner of the Emperor's Terrace nightclub, Mao Yuejin was the boss of the Golden Queen, and Guan Zhonglei and those people, although they were famous, but there was no entity, in the nineties, rich bastards were not easy to make, and social bastards generally looked down on those who were doing business while mixing, people at that time were talking with their fists, and later after the millennium, the situation changed, and the social atmosphere also changed, those bastards who had no entity slowly all declined, as for Zhang Kang, at that time, even Dingtian was an idle street hooligan, even Wang Shen, who followed Zhang FanAt that time, all the cities in the Northeast were full of countless unemployed vagrants, and everyone was abandoned by the enterprise, in order to survive, they could only do what they could do with money, which led to the number of bastards in the society, which increased dozens of times, with the rapid growth of bastards, the social security also began to be chaotic, not for desire, but for living. ”

Hearing that Brother Hulu gradually led the topic to the social environment at that time, I opened my mouth and returned to the topic: "Have you been with Zhang Kang since then?"

"It's not. Brother Hulu shook his head and smiled: " At that time, although Zhang Kang was not very famous, but he was very proud, when I was locked up in the detention center, it happened that he was also detained in that number because of a fight, and was in charge of the number, so as soon as I entered, he began to take people to clean me up, and then he beat me up, I did it with them, but I was alone, how could I have beaten a group of them, less than ten minutes, I was beaten and couldn't stand up, and then they continued to go back to the shop to play poker, that afternoon, Zhang Kang won a lot of money, was in a good mood, and chatted with me a few words, learned that it was my birthday, gave me a cigarette, and spent money to buy me a bowl of noodles at dinner, the next day, he was released, at that time I only knew that his name was Zhang Kang, and I didn't know that he was a bastard, and after he left, I then squatted for fifteen days, and then was also released, after leaving the detention center, I was penniless, and I didn't dare to pick up the train anymore, in order to keep myself from starving to death, I found a job near the train station, and burned the boiler for the bathhouse of the railway oil section, I remember very clearly, at that time my salary was eighty-one yuan a month, thirty yuan for the rent, and twenty dollars for food, I could save thirty-one yuan a month, at that time, in order to save money, I didn't dare to smoke at all, and I didn't dare to drink, every day was steamed bread with mustard, and occasionally gluttony, just go to the back alley of a big hotel on the side of the train station, turn over the swill bucket, find some meat scraps in it, go home and soak it in water for a night, wait until there is no smell, and then cook a soup with hot water, now think about it, my life at that time, it was really not as good as pigs and dogs, but I was still unaware at the time, because for me like me who has no relatives in the world, and I am just twenty years old young people, it is great to be able to support myself, the original society, unlike now, there are job opportunities everywhere, at that time in the northeast, just caught up with the tide of layoffs, I was lucky to find a boiler job, which has made many people in the city enviousAt that time, I was quite satisfied, and I felt that it would be nice if I could burn the boiler for the rest of my life, but my dream lasted less than two months, and I was fired because there was a bath worker in the bathhouse, and his nephew was idle at home and needed to work. ”

"What happened later?" I couldn't help but be moved as I listened to the tragic experience of Brother Hulu when he was young.

"Later?" Brother Hulu laughed to himself and lit a cigarette: " Later, I took more than 30 yuan saved in two months, and got out, after leaving the bathhouse, I had more than 30 yuan in my hand, and there was no way for me to survive, so I still had to find a job, but at that time, the society was full of laid-off young people, not to mention long-term workers, even those who carried big bags and worked hard temporary workers, I couldn't grab it, at that time in this city, there were only two kinds of people living the most nourishing, first, the official, the second, the bastards, these two groups, as if they had not received any impact, especially under the influence of the laid-off tide, the bastard world was also set off a high tide, the bastards of the year, the way to make money was very limited, just a few, the first is to "eat Buddha", that is, to feed thieves to make money for themselves, the second is to "step on the plate", that is, to rob, and the third is to "go to insurance", that is, to collect protection money, Zhang Kanggan's livelihood at that time is to "go to insurance" , Under his hands, there can be twenty or thirty little brothers, who gather around him every day, and Zhang Kang is also very arrogant, and the protection money collected, not a penny, all of them are spent on these people, at that time, his territory is the most prosperous area in the city center, and the current city government is the old cinema in the city, with the cinema as the center, and there is a knitting market next to it. Farmers' markets and snack streets or something, the stall owners in these places, every week to pay Zhang Kang, at that time his fee was not high, it seems that only two yuan a week, and the money, he is also really good, because Zhang Kang is too ruthless, so in the area where he collects protection money, the thieves in the city will be very tacit detour, I no longer burn the boiler, holding the thirty yuan in my hand, hesitated for a long time on the street, whether to rent a house, in the end, I also vetoed this idea, and then took the thirty yuan, went to the market to wholesale some melon seedsAt that time, I sold melon seeds by the bowl, a bowl of three cents, calculated down, a day can earn a piece of five to two yuan a day, sometimes lose money, because in that era, those who can go to the movies are either hooligans, or the official son, it is okay to meet the rich son, when buying melon seeds, they are not a cent, if they meet hooligans, they don't want it, if they meet hooligans, they don't have a point, grab two handfuls of melon seeds and leave, if you dare to open your mouth to ask for money, they will take out a knife, if the bastard at that time is not like now, is to scare people, in that era, as long as the knife is bright, then ninety percent of them have to see blood, you say, I can fight with people for two or three cents? So in this case, the money I earn every day is barely enough to eat and drink, at that time, I set up a stall at the door of the movie theater during the day, and at night I went to the bridge cave or a broken house where no one lived for the night, it was already the end of the year, it is not an exaggeration to say that the temperature can really freeze to death, I was afraid that I would close my eyes, I couldn't wake up, I spent three yuan to buy an alarm clock, and when I went to bed at night, I would open my eyes every half an hour, get up and run around, move my body, and then go to sleep...... The days passed like this for a week, and then Zhang Kang's people came to me to collect protection money, and the people who came at that time were Long March and Da Kui, that day, Long March hung a horse, and asked the girl to go out to eat at night, so when collecting protection, the amount was temporarily raised to three yuan, and the other stall owners gave the money, but I didn't give it. ”

"Didn't you just say that you don't want to fight with people for such a small amount of money, why didn't you give it?"

"I want to give, but I just did a week, plus every day to buy, how can there be three dollars in my hand, that day I held two dollars in my hand, begging grandpa to tell grandma and Da Kui, I will give two yuan this time, as for the remaining one dollar, wait for them to come over next time, I will definitely make up for this money, at that time Da Kui saw that I was very pitiful, so I agreed, as a result, other stall owners saw that I gave two yuan, and they also began to come up and ask for money back and forth, Da Kui saw that he couldn't help me, so he asked me in front of those stall owners, I had to pay all the money, but I really had no money, so I choked with Da Kui, at that time, the Long March was also anxious to go to dinner with the girl, and I was very excited, began to beat me, and I was like a beggar for a while, both aggrieved and aggrieved, and soon they were in a hurry, and picked up a long knife for cutting rice cakes from the stall next to me, and after rushing up, the two knives scared Da Kui away, and then on the leg of the Long March, a knife pierced a piercing. ”