A modified Poussin is speeding wildly through the wind and rain, and with the roar of the engine, the sound of heavy metal music can be heard in the car. If someone sees it, they will definitely think that the driver is a madman, or has a mental problem and wants to commit suicide.

"Two tigers, two rats, run fast, run fast ......"

There was a faint singing voice that was not too ugly, but it was not very good. A smile appeared on the old stone's face, and he bent down to pick up a small shovel and added some coal to the stove, making the furnace even more vigorous.

"Bang"

The door was slammed open, the wind swept in with the rain, and then the door slammed shut.

"It's back!" said the old stone without looking up, muttering to himself.

Xing Lie didn't speak, took off his wet clothes and threw them on the chair on the side, then walked to the basin of noodles and sat down, picked up chopsticks and snorted and ate.

More than ten minutes later, a whole pot of noodles was eaten by Xing Lie. Then he threw down his chopsticks and touched his stomach and burped.

"It's so cool!"

The old stone sat there, smoking a cigarette all the time, as if Xing Lie didn't exist.

Xing Lie chirped, "What kind of stove is there in this big summer." ”

Old Shi said, "I'm old, with old arms and legs, and the weather is too humid to stand it." It's been raining all day, and I'm going to get in your way with a stove?"

Xing Lie rubbed his nose: "Is there a cigarette, bring me one." ”

"No!" Old Stone glanced at Xing Lie: "What do you want to do next?"

Xing Lie stood up and put his wet clothes on his body, "Do what you want." ”

The old stone knocked the dry tobacco pouch on the sole of his shoe: "Go ahead, do what you have to do." With that wave of his hand, "Get out of here." ”

Xing Lie laughed loudly: "Old man, let me ask you something." ”

The old stone said impatiently: "If you have something to say, let it go." ”

Xing Lie said: "I'm not going to be a soldier, are you disappointed?"

Old Stone pursed his lips: "What do I have to do with you? If you don't become a soldier, I'm disappointed." ”

Xing Lie's expression suddenly darkened, "In the era of peace, war is everywhere, and my Lao Tzu died on the battlefield." Just because there was no man in this family, I became a wild seed in other people's mouths, and my wife was almost forced to jump into the fire pit and enter the ranks of women who had lost their footing. ”

As he spoke, a tear slipped down the corner of Xing Lie's eyes, and his voice was low and depressing, "The word soldier may be sacred in the eyes of others, but in my eyes it is bullshit." I remember very clearly a sentence that my son said to me when I was very young. If you are a man, you have to be a soldier to protect your family and defend the country...... Old man, don't you think the four words of protecting the family and defending the country are ridiculous? My Lao Tzu died on the battlefield, he defended the country, but what about the family? Who will protect him, no one, no one. ”

"Ha!" Xing Lie smiled miserably, "it was the people he protected with his life and blood that almost demolished his home, insulted his woman, and killed his son." The scar on my back is still itchy on a cloudy day and rain. It also reminds me all the time of that humiliating past. ”

The old stone lit the cigarette pouch pot again, and smoked it, listening to Xing Lie's narration.

Xing Lie opened the door, the wind and rain came to his face, and his clothes, which were already a little dry, were instantly wet again, "The profession of a soldier is too sacred, but it is not suitable for me." I can't let that woman lose her man, and then lose her son. ”

Looking at Xing Lie's figure walking out, Lao Shi sighed, turned on the radio on the table beside him, leaned back, and slowly closed his eyes.

Xing Lie's home is not far from the national highway, only seven or eight hundred meters away, and then walk north along the alley, turning a small corner.

Xing Lie parked the car outside the gate, pushed the door and got out of the car, and then walked into the yard. The mourning shed rests against the wall of the courtyard, with a shelf made of wrist-thick wood, and a rainproof cloth on the outside. The front was open, with pine branches from the mountains stuck in the edges, and a small light bulb hung in it, giving off a dim glow.

Because of local customs, people who die outside are not allowed to enter the house again. Therefore, Xing Tao's body was placed in the spirit shed, with a kang table in front of it, on which were placed tributes, and a bowl with three incense sticks inserted, which was burning.

"Xiao Lie is back!" shouted from the house behind the shed, and then a group of people walked out of the house. It was originally a bit chaotic, but when they came behind Xing Lie, they suddenly quieted down, and they stood there and looked at Xing Lie in a daze.

I don't know how long it took, Xing Lie came back to his senses, picked up a half-pack of cigarettes that I didn't know who put on the offering table, lit one, and then put it in Xing Tao's cold mouth, and then lit another one himself.

"Xing Tao, when you insisted on becoming a soldier, I didn't listen to you no matter how much I persuaded you. Well, if you want to go, go ahead, with your intelligence and ability, that is, to be a big soldier, there will be no danger. Sure enough, you recovered safely, and then you brag to me every day, how awesome you are in the army, twenty or thirty people can't get close to you. Since you are so powerful, why were you killed like this, are you ashamed?"

"Brother!" a girl shouted behind Xing Lie in a hoarse voice.

This girl's name is Xing Wen, Xing Lie was still called Glory back then, when he moved in with his mother Jian Yunfang, the two families became neighbors, Xing Wen was like a little tail, running behind him every day.

When he was ten years old, there was a heavy rain that day, and Xing Wen, who was only eight years old, was afraid that he would get drenched in the rain, so he ran to the school gate with an umbrella and waited for an hour. When he came out of school, the little girl was standing in the rain shivering with her slender shoulders in her arms.

After that day, the little girl fell ill, with acute pneumonia, and almost lost her life. Since then, the little girl's body has been very weak. And he dotes on the little girl even more, except for the stars in the sky that can't be picked off, as long as the little girl wants something, he will try his best to get it.

Later, a series of things happened, Xing's father took good care of him and his mother Jian Yunfang, which moved Jian Yunfang, and then married Xing's father, and the two families became a family. Xing's father treats him closer than his own son, and whether it is Xing Tao or Xing Jun or Xing Wen, he treats Xing Lie like a brother, and he keeps anything delicious for him. Especially Xing Wen, he is very clingy to him, and the third brother and third brother talk about it all day long.

This also made Xing Lie even more determined, no matter what, he must protect this family well, and he must not let anyone be harmed...... But today, he still lost his big brother who has no blood, but is better than blood thicker than water!

Xing Lie slowly turned around and rubbed Xing Wen's head: "It's raining so much, hurry back to the house, don't catch a cold, I'll stay here with my eldest brother for a while." ”

"Brother!" Xing Wen shouted, and then tears crackled and fell, watching his favorite sister in the world cry in front of him, even if his heart was as strong as iron, he could not hide the sadness in his heart. To put it bluntly, in this world, if he Xing Lie really wants to do something, there are really few people who can stop it, but what else can he do about what has happened?

Xing Lie gently hugged his sister's somewhat thin body: "Don't be afraid, the eldest brother is gone, you still have the second brother and the third brother, I will protect this family and you well in the future, so that you will not be hurt again." ”

"The principal is back!" a flowing voice suddenly sounded.

Xing Lie looked up suddenly, including the others, and saw three people standing at the gate, all wearing black suits. Especially in the middle of the night, it was still raining, and the three of them were wearing sunglasses, and they were not afraid of walking and hitting the telephone pole.

"Third brother!"

"Third brother!"

Two young men of about the same age as Xing Lie ran out, one was named Sun Jin, who was dark and strong, and the other was Du Zhiyuan, thin and small, both of whom had grown up with Xing Lie since childhood, and they were also the two people Xing Lie trusted the most.

Xing Lie patted the shoulders of the two and walked over, "Something?"

"Is there something, can you do it?" A guy with a full beard and two big teeth when he spoke, squinted at Xing Lie.

"Xiao Lie!" Xing Jun walked over, "It's them, they came in the afternoon and said that they gave us 500,000 private." ”

"Unexpectedly, the person in charge we waited for for a long time turned out to be a little cub. The beard looked at Xing Lie again, "Since you can do the master, our boss said, give you 500,000, just treat it as if nothing happened, don't look for trouble and make fools." ”

Xing Lie narrowed his eyes slightly, "Excuse me, who is your boss?"

A fat man next to the bearded man said: "Our boss is the chairman of Cangyuan Group, Liu Cangyuan. ”

"Oh!" Xing Lie sighed, "You go back and tell him that I am not short of money." ”

"Little cub, give you 500,000 and you will take it, don't give it to your face. The fat man raised his carrot-thick fingers, pointed at Xing Lie's nose and scolded.

Xing Lie grinned: "Let's just talk, it's not good to scold people." ”

"Paralyzed, don't talk to me hippie smiley, my lord is still ......"

"Slap" Without warning, Xing Lie raised his hand and slammed it on the fat man's face.

The fat man screamed, and his body of about 200 catties was beaten to the ground with both feet off the ground, and his upper body fell heavily to the ground. Half of his face was beaten and deformed, he opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, and he still had five or six teeth between them, and he struggled for a long time without getting up.

The beard was stunned, he couldn't have imagined that Xing Lie was so bold and dared to do something to them, which made his eyes flash with a fierce light.

Suddenly, another person next to the beard moved, stepped in front of Xing Lie in two steps, turned to one side, raised his elbow and slammed into Xing Lie's neck. Don't think about it, this guy wants Xing Lie's life, if he hits it, his neck will definitely break.

A cold glow flashed in Xing Lie's eyes, he raised his arm to protect his neck, and with a bang, the guy felt as if his elbow had hit the iron plate, and his entire arm didn't seem to be his. I shouted in my heart that it was not good and wanted to retreat. At this moment, his head was grabbed by the large hand that had been being held, and then an irresistible force surged to press his head down, and one knee quickly enlarged in front of his eyes.

"Bang!"

With a buzz, the guy lost consciousness instantly, his head was raised high, blood beads flew in the air, and then his body fell straight backwards.

The beard took a step back sharply, his scalp tingling, his throat rolling, he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it. just stared at Xing Lie with his eyes, afraid that he would suddenly attack.

Xing Lie didn't even look at the beard, bent down and grabbed the fat man and the other guy's hair, dragged them to the spirit shed, and then threw them in front of the offering table, "Xing Tao, you are really good enough." He said with an angry roar, which frightened everyone into trembling, "Those two years of soldiers you were in vain, and you actually died in the hands of this kind of garbage." Now I don't care about anything when I close my eyes, but what do you do with your sister-in-law, unborn niece, and parents?"

Xing Lie took down the burned cigarette butt from Xing Tao's mouth, then carefully wiped the cigarette ash that fell on his face with his hand, and then lit another cigarette and put it in Xing Tao's mouth: "Smoke, this is the last cigarette you smoked in your life......

After speaking, he took a deep breath, walked to the beard, and said coldly: "When people die, money can't solve the problem." You go back and tell Liu Cangyuan that it is an eternal rule that killing people to pay for their lives is an eternal rule, and someone must be responsible for this matter. ”