I grinned and set up the chess pieces, and then shouted: Beibei, make a pot of tea!

After shouting, I remembered that An Jiabei was still lying in the hospital, so I got up and made a cup of tea for the old man, the old man blinked twice and stared at me with cloudy eyes, and when I sat down, he smiled at me and said: Chenghu, do you treat your parents like this at home?

I shook my head and said, my family is taller than my generation is my father, grandparents passed away when I was very young, I was ignorant when I was a child, I always thought my dad was too scumbag, and I quarreled with him at every turn, I grew up in the past two years, I want to express my filial piety with him, and there is no chance, so looking at an old man like you, I feel very kind.

"And what about your mother?" the old man jumped the horse first.

I smiled bitterly and said that I divorced my dad and pursued my own happiness! If I had a mother, maybe it wouldn't be like this now.

"Did you ever hate your mother?" he asked me.

I nodded, and then shook my head and said: When I was young, I was ignorant and hated! I'm not afraid of your jokes, I once secretly ran to the house where she married later, smashed the glass, stuffed toilet paper into the lock hole of the security door, and even beat the man, now I am sensible, I think it's ridiculous, sometimes I ask myself, what am I!

The old man nodded and said: The most arrogant language in the world is, what are you! The most modest language is, what am I! Arrogance requires ability, modesty requires cultivation, and the real strong man is not to knock people down, but to help people up, which means that you have transformed into a strong man!

I picked up the teacup and joked with a wicked smile: Then I'll cook your bowl of chicken soup for the soul first!

I moved my "face" and smiled at the old man and asked, "What about you?" What is the situation at your house? If it is inconvenient to say, I will not ask.

The old man arched a step and said: My sons are quite competitive, some are doing business, and some are working in the unit, but the grandson does not let people worry, either they eat and wait for death, or they are full of crooked and evil seeds, Chenghu, you said that a hundred-year-old tree is sick, should it be uprooted directly, or is there something wrong with pruning?

"There must be something wrong with the repair, you said it yourself, a hundred-year-old tree, it must not be easy to grow!" I said with a smile on my face.

The old man sighed again with a heavy heart, and chatted with me for a while.

After playing a few games of chess back and forth, the old man patted the back of his head and stood up as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to me: I have to go back first, I forgot to turn off the fire when I left, there is still soup on the stove, and I have time to invite you to my house.

"Okay, shall I send you?" I stood up and cleaned up the chess pieces for him.

The old man waved his hand and said, "No need!" I live very close, if one day Chenghu needs to ask you for help, will you promise me?

"Yes, we're forgetful!" I patted my chest and assured him.

The old man didn't say anything, but turned around and walked away quickly, and when he was far away, I realized that he had forgotten to take the chess, and smiled and said to himself: "I'm really old, and I don't have anything to do with my brain!"

I put the chess pieces in the yard, when the lid was fastened, I suddenly found that there was a chess piece behind it, there was a small "hole" written on the back, at that time my brain was a little confused, to be honest, I am really a little sensitive to this word now, stupidly sitting on the sofa, staring at this chess piece.

When I was in a daze, Jiang Long limped in from the outside with the fat man in his arms, and the fat man was holding a pure white dog in his hand, which was half a meter tall, sticking out his tongue, and looking very scary.

I frowned and asked the fat man, why don't you stay in the hospital for two more days?

The fat man shook his head and smiled at me and said: Third brother, you don't know, I'm a naturally thick-skinned person, and I can't sit still, and the hospital doesn't allow Xiao Lei to wander back and forth from the ward.

"Who is Xiao Lei?" I asked confusedly.

The fat man squatted down, patted the big dog's head and said happily to me, it is Xiao Lei, my son! Third brother, you forgot, we just did He Lei at that time, I named it Xiao Lei, I didn't expect it to grow so big, right?

When I heard the name He Lei, I was stunned for a moment, and my memory seemed to be pulled back to a long, long time ago, I remember that at that time, I and the fat man were bullied by He Lei in all kinds of misery, and he let him beat people like pigs' heads at every turn.

I leaned over and touched "Xiao Lei"'s head, smiled at the fat man and said: "It has grown up, and you have also become fat! But fortunately, we are still brothers, silly basket, you don't blame me, let you hurt yourself last night, right?

"Brother, well, brother!" The fat man stuck out his tongue innocently, and gently stroked the back of "Xiao Lei" twice, shook his head at me and said, how can it be, since I was a teenager, I have followed you, what kind of person are you, I still don't know, but sometimes I really miss the stupid years at that time, no money and no power, a cigarette we take turns to smoke, a bowl of instant noodles, we rush to eat, often talk about a girl, a chat is the second half of the night, alas... I just can't go back!

"Isn't it good now?" I handed the fat man a cigarette.

The fat man nodded and said, good is good, but I always feel that there are shortcomings, people always like to miss the past, forget it, don't be hypocritical, third brother, if you are fine, let's have a drink for a while? I remember that my father was going to take me back to Chongzhou to study, and we drank half a sleeve of Erguotou from the street, and when I left, your eyes were red, it was so good at that time!

Suddenly, I realized that it had been a long time since I had a good chat with this brother who had been with me for the longest time, and put my arm around his shoulders and teased: "Yo yo yo, you have learned literature and art now, how is Liu Yue? Are you two okay? Do you have any plans to get married?"

The fat man blew a puff of smoke and said, wait until you, the brother, solve it first.

"Jiang Long, you help go out to buy a few side dishes, and bring a few bottles of Erguotou back by the way!" I instructed Jiang Long next to me.

"Huh, you let me go?" Jiang Long was stunned for a moment, then nodded "oh" and walked out of the bath.

I laughed and scolded, didn't this kid be the boss for a few days, and be stupid, right?

Lei Shaoqiang told me that now the city that never sleeps is basically taken care of by Jiang Long, and the other brothers are slowly transforming into the right line, it can be said that Jiang Long's current status is the same as the God of the past, this kid is also willing to work, and he is a little smart, and things are really in order.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no one else around, I really wouldn't want to instruct him to be an errand runner.

The fat man squinted at Jiang Long's back, hesitated for a few minutes, didn't say anything, and started gossiping with me again.

After a while, Jiang Long came back with food, I invited him to drink together, Jiang Long waved his hand and said: The third brother and the fat brother recall the past, I will not mix, I will go upstairs to watch TV for a while, what is the matter, the third brother will call me again.

After Jiang Long went upstairs, the fat man bit his cigarette holder and said, Third brother, do you know which point of you is the most unpopular?

"What?" I grabbed the bottle, twisted it open, and took a big sip from my neck.

The fat man learned from me, and after taking a sip of "coodong", he said with a dry smile: In your eyes, we are all brothers, no matter when, what status, what status, we are still your brothers, but you have never thought that now everyone is rising, not everyone is still the same as in the past.

I pouted and said, "Yo, is this blaming me?"

The fat man touched the head of "Xiao Lei" and said, there are no complaints, just to give you a wake-up call, I always feel that this kid Aaron has become a little strange recently, third brother, you must know, when we first accepted him, he was also a little famous big brother, and there was a wave of little ruffians under his hands, which person who was a big brother could not have some ambition?

"What do you mean?" I took a bite of food, but I didn't think about it so much, when Jiang Long never opened a small shop in the city that never sleeps, I felt that this guy was a talent, so I took him in, what he has done in the past few years, I have also heard a little, and he has always been conscientious about the king.

The fat man shook his head and said, I don't talk nonsense about things without evidence, I won't talk about him, let's talk about myself, third brother, if I make a mistake, will you forgive me?