Chapter 8 People from Xiangjiang
During the Spring Festival this year, Xu Jing spent it at Zhou Xiaoxun's house. This year, Mao Amin landed on the Spring Festival Gala with "Missing", Zhao Lirong made people remember this little old lady with "Emergency", and Chen Peisi's "Dog Baby and Black Girl" won a full house.
On the afternoon of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Jing just came back from the movie theater, and saw a fat man in a suit and leather shoes squatting at the door of his room smoking, thirty or forty years old, about 1.8 meters tall, so fat that even his neck was almost gone, but his figure was not round, because of his height, he looked more burly. The hair is a little messy and looks dusty.
"Uncle." Xu Jing shouted to him, this is the person he has been waiting for here for a long time.
"Small... Xiao Jing! You're back. The middle-aged fat man turned around when he heard Xu Jing's voice, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and got up and walked towards Xu Jing.
Xu Jing nodded.
"Okay, okay, I didn't expect you to be so tall!" The middle-aged fat man was a little excited, and said on Xu Jing's shoulder.
The middle-aged fat man's name is Lin Jianguo, and like Xu Jing's biological father, Yang Laosan's old comrade-in-arms entrusted Yang Laosan to Yang Laosan, and it is precisely because Yang Laosan adopted Lin Jianguo and Xu Jing's biological father that he did not remarry, in Lin Laosan's words, "You will be my own son in the future!" Therefore, Father Xu and Lin Jianguo grew up together since childhood. Later, after Xu's father was killed by a stray bullet in that turmoil, Xu Jing was half a father in addition to Yang Laosan's "grandfather", and his uncle was also half a father.
Later, after the turmoil ended, because he also followed Yang Laosan to practice martial arts, Lin Jianguo was sent to Xiangjiang by Yang Laosan, as for the reason, in fact, Yang Laosan is more conservative and traditional, and always wants to pass on the kung fu that he has honed out like the original "Jiuzhou Boxing" and carry it forward.
At that time, the environment of Huaguo was obviously not suitable for opening a boxing gym, and later I heard that martial arts were prevalent in Xiangjiang, so I thought of a way to send Lin Jianguo and his wife and daughter to open a martial arts gym. Later, due to the inconvenience of the contact between the two places, and Xu Jing and Yang Laosan often traveled around the country, Xu Jing has not seen Lin Jianguo since then.
It's not that Lin Jianguo hasn't come back, it's just that Xu Jing has been in the southern army several times, and Lin Jianguo only saw Yang Laosan.
"Uncle, let's go in and talk." Xu Jing opened the door and brought Lin Jianguo in.
"Uncle, how did you find here?" Xu Jing couldn't help but be curious.
"I received the message you left, so I hurriedly flew back to Yanjing, and it was Old Man Liu who told me your address." Lin Jianguo said that Old Man Liu was the old chief in the compound.
"How are you doing in Xiangjiang? My grandfather and I called you before, but the person who answered the phone over there said that you had moved away, so I could only leave a message to tell you about this when I saw you. Xu Jing made Lin Jianguo a cup of tea, and then asked.
"You... Are you cured? Lin Jianguo didn't answer, but was surprised by Xu Jing's words, he had indeed not seen Xu Jing for ten years, but every time he came back to see Yang Laosan, Yang Laosan sighed that Xu Jing's life was not good, and he had a disease that could not be cured, but now what Xu Jing said is not like what an eleven or twelve-year-old IQ person can say.
"yes, alright." Xu Jing nodded and said.
"Good! Good! That's it! What an eye-opener! After listening to the old man talk about you at that time, your aunt cried a lot, if the old man didn't let me, we would have taken you abroad for treatment. Lin Jianguo's eyes were a little red with some excitement, and then he explained the origin.
It turned out that after Lin Jianguo took his wife and daughter to Xiangjiang, he did rent a venue to open a martial arts hall, but the truth did not go as smoothly as Yang Laosan thought. The martial arts hall was opened, but in the seventies and eighties, the business of the martial arts hall was not easy to do, after all, it was a peaceful era, and there were not a few apprentices in total, and they were all children of poor families, how could they afford to support a family. So the martial arts hall couldn't go on, so he closed the martial arts hall in the 80s and turned to smuggling, that is, reselling some general stores and the like to the mainland.
Lin Jianguo is actually full of shrewdness, his head is bright, and he is especially good at dealing with people, in that turmoil, Yang Laosan was also let go with the old chief, and later he still relied on Lin Jianguo to get it back, otherwise with Yang Laosan's stubborn and violent temper, maybe what would happen.
Lin Jianguo, who smuggled department stores into the mainland, became a nouveau riche in a few years, earned tens of millions, and bought a house in Xiangjiang, but the good times did not last long, somehow, in eighty-four years, he smuggled this matter was known by Yang Laosan, but you can imagine what the result will be, Yang Laosan was so angry that he almost didn't go to Hong Kong in person to discount his legs, in Yang Laosan's words, "You don't want to carry forward my kung fu Guan Da, forget it, and dare to do this kind of bastard thing that exploits the people, It's just more capitalist than a capitalist! It's only been a few years since you arrived in Hong Kong, and you've been corrupted by capitalism? Has the chairman's education been forgotten? ”
In desperation, Lin Jianguo had no choice but to give up his smuggling work. It's not that he's afraid of Yang Laosan, it's just that he understands what kind of stubborn temper Yang Laosan is, and it's not easy to pull him and Xu's father.
"After the old man sent Xiaojun and them to Xiangjiang, I set up a hotel so that the big guy could also have a place to live, and the extra rooms would be rented out." Lin Jianguo said.
"Everyone's okay?" Xu Jing remembered something and couldn't help asking.
"Well, that's good. Last year, I opened another film company to give the big guy a job to do. ”
"Film company?" Xu Jing's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this.
"Yes, it was because of the opening of the film company that I sold the house, and I couldn't contact you and the old man, if I hadn't happened to go back to the place where I used to live a few days ago, I wouldn't have known about the old man." Lin Jianguo's eyes turned red again as he spoke, wiped his eyes and said, "By the way, you can take me to see the old man." ”
When Xu Jing took Lin Jianguo to say the small mountain bag, Lin Jianguo couldn't cry, knelt on Yang Laosan's grave and kowtowed.
"Xiao Jing, you go back first, I want to talk to the old man here." After a long time, Lin Jianguo stopped and said to Xu Jing with red eyes. Xu Jing nodded and left.
"Big Mac, where did you just go? I'm not here to look for you. Xu Jing came back, and just as he was about to go to the fourth floor, he saw Zhou Xiaoxun poking his head out of the window and asked.
"Oh, just went out." Xu Jing replied, and after speaking, he walked upstairs. Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoxun hurriedly retracted his head and followed.
"Big Mac, let me tell you, when I was playing at my mother's just now, a guy came in to buy something, guess who?" Zhou Xiaoxun was listening to the song in the Walkman and said casually.
"Who?" Xu Jing replied a little absentmindedly.
"It's the guy you beat that night, and he still has a sand cloth on his head."
"Oh."
"When he saw me, he was startled and ran away! Giggles. Zhou Xiaoxun laughed happily.
"Oh." Xu Jing still replied absentmindedly.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Xiaoxun finally sensed that something was not quite right with Xu Jing, looked at Xu Jing and asked.
"Xiaomi, I'm going to Xiangjiang." Xu Jing pondered for a moment, then looked up and said to Zhou Xiaoxun, who was looking at him.
With a "snap", Zhou Xiaoxun turned off the Walkman.
"To Xiangjiang? Why? Zhou Xiaoxun asked a little stunned. Then Xu Jing talked about Lin Jianguo.
After listening to Xu Jing quietly, Zhou Xiaoxun didn't speak, just got up and left.
Xu Jing looked at the back of Zhou Xiaoxun leaving, and suddenly felt a sense of reluctance in his heart. For this girl, if you count the previous life, Xu Jing's psychological age is thirty or forty years older, but he can't feel the generation gap under the age gap of ordinary people, maybe it's because Zhou Xiaoxun is the first friend he has made in this life, or even the first friend he has made in two lifetimes, Xu Jing thought so.
It's just that he didn't expect that Zhou Xiaoxun was not only the first friend he made, but also the only friend he made, as for why, Xu Jing didn't expect it, or that this 'why' had been filtered out by him subconsciously. People are always like this, and things that they don't want to touch are often subconsciously sealed.
After Zhou Xiaoxun left Xu Jing, he returned home and walked straight to the room, and closed the door tightly with a 'bang'. Lying on the bed, Zhou Xiaoxun's mind was full of paste, completely chaotic.
She is a little rebellious at home, and there is an insurmountable generation gap between her parents and her; Outside, she has a hearty personality and is a little flamboyant, but she is always out of place with her peers. At this time, Xu Jing walked into her boring world.
For Xu Jing, from the very beginning, Zhou Xiaoxun just regarded him as a little friend who could play with her, but, unconsciously, Zhou Xiaoxun didn't notice her gradual dependence on Xu Jing; didn't notice that as long as Xu Jing was there, a sense of security would rise in her heart; Nor did she notice how much she had laughed these days. When she pulled Xu Jing out of her world, she felt as if she heard a "bang", something shattered.
For dinner, Xu Jing plans to eat at Zhou Xiaoxun's house, these days, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother treat him like a close junior, they eat at their house on weekdays, and they take care of him more in work and life, and now they plan to go to Xiangjiang, there is no reason not to explain to them. When Lin Jianguo came back, he bought a lot of cigarettes, alcohol, fruit and pastries and the like.
When Xu Jing and Lin Jianguo came to the door with big bags of things, Zhou's mother happened to make dinner, and Zhou's father also came back.
"Xiao Jing, you guys are really, and you're so expensive." Zhou's mother welcomed them in, and after a lot of noise, she shouted at Zhou Xiaoxun's room: "Xiaoxun, come out to eat." ”
"I'm not eating." Zhou Xiaoxun didn't come out, but the voice came out through the door.
"This child, I don't know what kind of temper she is, don't care about her, come, sit, let's eat." Zhou's father said.
"Brother Zhou, these days are really troublesome for the two of you, Xiao Jing has suffered a lot since he was a child. It was good to have his grandfather take care of him before, but if you hadn't taken care of him during this time, I don't know how much suffering I would have to suffer. "Lin Jianguo
"Hey, don't bother, don't bother, Xiao Jing, this kid is honest, capable, and very popular everywhere." Father Zhou touched a glass with Lin Jianguo.
"Actually, in addition to paying tribute to his grandfather, the main reason I came back this time was to take him to Xiangjiang so that I could take care of him. Lin Jianguo drank it all and said.
"Oh, that's right. Then Xiao Jing, you are about to start a new life when you arrive in Xiangjiang in the future, have you thought about what to do? Or do you want to be a painter? Father Zhou said.
"I want to make a movie." Xu Jing replied.
"Making a movie?" Everyone present was surprised, especially Lin Jianguo, who stopped with a smile on his face, but no one noticed it.
"Hmm."
"Dad, Mom, I'm going to Xiangjiang too!"
At this moment, Zhou Xiaoxun suddenly opened the door and shouted.