Qiqihar, a small restaurant that is open day and night, is empty, and only two people are sitting in the corner.

"Old Ghost" and "Little Leizi", here one person and one plate of dumplings, half a head of garlic will pass the festival.

However, even such a simple Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the "old ghost" ate it for a long time, and only barely swallowed it with a bowl of dumpling soup.

Not because it didn't taste good, but because he was sick, with a fever, cough, shivering.

Judging by his own experience, there is a good chance that it is pneumonia.

And "Little Leizi" looked at him uncomfortable and couldn't bear to persuade him.

"Big brother, let's go to the hospital. Seeing you like this, I don't worry, where can I go by myself? Or wait until you are well, let's ...... together."

But the "old ghost" said firmly.

"Nonsense, the door was finally cleared, the money was given, and you didn't leave when it was time to leave? ”

"What's more, only one person is the safest, in case we both have to 'fold', not to mention losing our old capital. Maybe if you 'go in', you should bite each other. No one will be at ease with anyone, and in the end, no one will be able to live......

"Little Leizi" retorted excitedly.

"Big brother, I won't. Even if you die, I won't betray you. ”

The "old ghost" sneered hehehe.

"That's your childishness. Why don't you understand? We took this path to live, and our lives were more important than anything else. You have to live by all means. ”

"I'm not afraid you don't like to hear it, for example. If we do lose one, I promise to leave without looking at you. There's no way you're going to drag me down. ”

"Leizi, it's not so easy to be a 'play master'. If there is an evil, there will be a reward, and neither of us is a good person. No one will end well. ”

"I'll give you one last word. At this point, you'll have to keep moving forward on your own. If you can endure the bitterness, you will be able to mix for two more days. If you can't stand it, it will be a positive result as soon as possible. Weigh it yourself!"

With that, he took another thing out of his bosom and passed it under the table.

"Take it, it's yours. ”

"Little Leizi" saw that it was the "old ghost's" self-defense weapon, a three-edged military thorn, and he naturally wanted to refuse.

But the "old ghost" coughed again, and stretched out his hand to prevent him from speaking.

When he recovered, he told him categorically.

"I'll have to stay in the country for the time being, safer than you. But you're different, you're in a foreign country from now on, and it's okay to have a guy who doesn't have a good hand in your hands?"

"You have to remember that you have to have long eyes behind your back, and no one can believe it. If you are unfamiliar with life, you can endure it, but if you can't bear it, you will kill it!"

"By the way, I've really stood on my feet outside, and I'll never come back. No kidding, I've seen it through. We don't have room for people like us in this country, and the government is too powerful. If you really break the law, let alone live in seclusion, you can only hide from the first day of junior high school, not the fifteenth. ”

"It's still 'Red Boy' who can see it, we used to think people were stupid, but now it seems that we are stupid. No one wants to be angry, not willing to be poor. But no one can see that the times have changed, and if you want to live as a person, you can no longer only be a hooligan. ”

"I regret it now, I regret that I led you to a dead end. Don't blame Big Brother ......"

"Little Leizi" felt a sour feeling when he heard this, and said again unconvinced.

"Big brother, where can you think like that? I don't regret it, I really don't regret it! I thank you before it's too late. ”

"If I hadn't followed you, I would have been killed if I didn't starve to death. Say it's a big brother, you actually treat me like a father to a son. ”

"Big brother, I haven't been separated from you yet, I don't want to leave. I can't bear to ...... you."

The "old ghost" choked and coughed again, and gave him a mouthful of anger.

"It's not good! Why are you like a. You are such a soft egg, the hard work I have spent on you is in vain. Everyone has their own destiny, and now they can only go which step to say which step. Do you understand?"

Seeing that "Little Leizi" was taught a lesson, he was speechless.

The "old ghost" couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted, so he patted him on the shoulder, softened his tone, and comforted him a few more words.

"Don't be upset. Mountains and mountains cannot be touched, but people can always meet. As long as we can all live, we can always meet. People are destined. ”

Then he instructed, "Go, don't think about it." Find a cook and bring me another bowl of dumpling soup. Lao Tzu will go out to pee first, and when I come back, your kid will serve me again and give me a good back. ”

In this way, "Little Leizi" had a little spirit, and hurriedly ran to the back kitchen after being instructed.

It's strange to say, when he brought the dumpling soup back, he waited for five or six minutes and didn't see the shadow of the "old ghost".

Gradually, he began to feel that something was wrong, and he was about to take his bag and go out to find someone.

But now I found something strange.

Because his bag was bulging, there was an inexplicable hard thing that passed through his hand.

When I opened it, it turned out to be a small music box made of pure gold, only the size of an inkwell.

At this time, the "little thunder" was stunned, and bad luck came to his heart.

This is the only token that the father of the "old ghost", a Cossack officer who had served for the Tsar, was repatriated to the Soviet Union in 1954 and left his own son.

"Little Leizi" knows that this is the really most important thing around the "old ghost".

When he was a child, he thought it was funny, he saw it, but he couldn't touch it, but now he actually "flew" into his bag.

This...... What does this mean? Do you need to ask?

A burst of desolation and irrepressibility surged into the heart of "Little Leizi".

His heart moved, and he suddenly realized that the best person in the world had left him quietly.

didn't even let him fulfill his promise to pinch his back again, and just walked away empty.

The ruthless words just now were even more deceitful to him, just to let him leave happily.

Oh bad!

"Little Leizi" went crazy all of a sudden, and felt 10,000 sorry for the "old ghost" in his heart.

I feel that if I don't get my eldest brother back, I won't be able to live at all.

So he ran out of the door of the restaurant.

It's a pity that at a glance, there is snow in all directions.

The streets and alleys were so cold that the lights were so dim that you couldn't even make out the footprints.

"Big brother!"

"Little Leizi" shouted in the loudest voice.

There was no response at the end of the street, only two kicks.

He ran to the other end again, and howled again.

But still, this time there seemed to be a few more thunderbolts.

He was still unwilling, tried his best, and shouted again and again.

"Big brother, big brother, big brother, big brother!"

It was definitely louder than the roar of a locomotive.

Unfortunately, apart from the echoes, there was only silence, and the faint roar of firecrackers could be heard in the distance.

He couldn't scream anymore, his legs went limp, he fell to his knees on the snow, and cried with a whimper.

At this time, when he opened the lid of the music box again, two bare-bottomed little angels popped out.

As they turned, the melody of a requiem resounded in the streets.

Harmonious, serene music ripples and drifts away in the night.