After eating, my mother went to wash the dishes, and my father started watching the news broadcast. Zhang Zhao casually found a book and looked at it, but it didn't take long for him to be a little unbearable.

Smack, First blood you killed Mt. Buzz, you get the first blood.

Bang bang, Killing spree, double kill you killed Mt. bite and don't let go, you kill Mt. pretend you can't see me, you complete a double kill, you're killing big kill.

It's a pity that before dominating the game, the master of a certain Mt team calmly sucked blood and escaped, leaving a big bag, which ended Zhang Zhao's big killing, and also made him completely crazy: "Mom, why are there so many mosquitoes in the house?" ”

Zhang's mother replied: "No way, the mosquitoes in Liqiu are evil, and when the white dew is over every two days, the mosquitoes will drink the dew in half." Why don't you go under a mosquito net? Ruizhong, help the child hang up the mosquito net. ”

"Forget it, I'll go for a walk." Zhang Zhao hurriedly shook his head, in such a hot weather, you can't die of heat if you get into a mosquito net?

"Be safe!" Zhang's mother told uneasily.

Zhang Zhao answered, turned around and walked out the door. In the yard, Grandpa was washing, and his bronzed skin was foaming. Seeing Zhang Zhao come out, he nodded, and watched him walk out of the courtyard gate.

It was early autumn, and it was already dark at 7 o'clock in the evening, and there were no street lights in the alley, only a few rays of light shining through the cracks in the curtains of the front room. Zhang Zhao walked out of the alley quickly by the light, but there was a different scene on the west road.

Every ten meters, a street lamp illuminates the whole road, and under the street lamp there are guys playing poker in a circle, women sitting in a row playing sweaters and chatting, and of course, groups of children.

Most of the boys were running like crazy, fighting on horseback, and snapping.

Girls, on the other hand, are jumping rubber bands, kicking shuttlecocks, or playing house. Listening to the immature children's voices of the little Lori: "One meter, two meters, three on the high mountain, riding a red horse down the south of the Yangtze River, three red flags, liberating Taiwan's ......"

"Learn from Li Xiangyang, resolutely not surrender, the enemy comes to arrest me, I will jump off the high wall, the high wall does not work, I will drill a hole in the ground, there are guns in the hole, and I will fight the little RB."

Thanks to the great family planning policy, many couples rushed to have a second child before 83, and by 85, the army of bear children was spectacular.

There are only about 100 households on both sides of the road where Zhang Zhao is located, and there are more than 50 preschool children. Parents are laid off, the college entrance examination is expanded, self-employment is chosen, housing prices have skyrocketed, and retirement has been delayed......

"Zhang Zhao, you're here, come and play dumb emperor with us." A few children came over, led by the little fat man Li Gang, followed by Lin Zhiguang (Lin Dazui) next door to the west side of Zhang Zhao, Hu Feng (Tie Dan) from Xishan, and Wang Yansong and Wang Yanbo who went to the front room.

Behind them was a two-and-a-half-year-old oil bottle, Lin Zhiguang's sister Lin Jia.

Well, the little girl is white and clean, with big watery eyes, long eyelashes, and two ponytails, she is really a beautiful embryo, why don't you let your aunt trick her into coming to the house to talk? Well, that's too dangerous, so forget it.

"No, not interested!" Zhang Zhao replied casually, how can people in their thirties be interested in playing games with children? And Li Gang, the little overlord, must be the emperor, so he still plays with yarn.

"Let's go, I don't need you to be a prisoner today, let you be the emperor!" Hu Feng said on the side.

"Then I won't go." Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. Zhang Zhao rolled his eyes and saw that Li Gang's father was sitting at a low table with two colleagues, drinking with a small plate of peanuts, so he swaggered over. Leaving Li Gang behind him, he hesitated and didn't dare to come over, and said in his heart: Strange, Zhang Zhao, this kid is usually timid, how dare he come to my father's side now?

Uncle Li took a sip of wine with an enamel jar, and when he saw Zhang Zhao walking by, he beckoned with a smile: "Little San, come, uncle will give you peanuts and beans to eat." ”

Zhang Zhao had a chill, and his mind couldn't help but think of all kinds of pictures and videos of rape that he had treasured in his previous life, no, this nickname must not be wanted: "Uncle Li, can you call me by my name directly, the name of Xiaosan is a bit weird, I don't like it." ”

Uncle Li said indifferently: "Your father is my third brother, if you are not a junior, can you still be a junior?" ”

Well, the fourth child is even worse, ranking after the second mother and the third child, and he doesn't even have a chance to turn positive...... However, it is impossible to correct the wrong grammar of people thirty years ago, how do they know that in 30 years, chrysanthemums will not be flowers?

"Li Gang, what are you doing with your brain?" At this time, Li Luyuan's drunken eyes were a little confused, and when he saw his trembling son who didn't dare to step forward, he shouted: "Hurry up and roll over to Lao Tzu!" ”

"Dad......" The little bully Li Gang lost the bullish spirit when he grabbed the candy at this time, and walked over with his head down.

With a snap, Uncle Li's slap slammed on the table, shaking the peanuts for a while, and then there was an unbearable criticism. The two uncles who were drinking together couldn't persuade them, so they had to signal Li Gang to leave quickly.

Li Luyuan didn't care when he saw the child walking away, so he returned to his seat and clinked glasses with the two of them, and drank the wine in a big gulp. There was already an empty bottle of one-pound two-pot head on the table, and the second bottle was almost bottoming out. He and two of his colleagues worked in the train loading and unloading team, loading and unloading several tons of cargo every day, and the heavy manual labor combined with widowhood made him develop a habit of alcoholism.

Zhang Zhao recalled that he had seen Uncle Li at the funeral of his grandfather in later generations, when he was also over half a hundred years old, and his body was still quite strong, but his back was already hunched, because of long-term alcoholism, rheumatism and stomach ulcers. And his son Li Gang was sentenced to a year of re-education through labor for gathering crowds to fight when he was in high school, and then he went to work in other places and never came back......

"Wait a minute..."Zhang Zhao finally couldn't help but chase after him and called out to Li Gang.

The little fat man wiped his eyes and said hatefully: "You traitor who informed, I will never play with you again!" "Well, it's not like this, can't you be a traitor?

Zhang Zhao gently hammered Li Gang's chest with his fist and said, "We have been in a relationship for so many years, when have I ever sued Hei Zheng?" "Before being reborn, Zhang Zhao was afraid of reprisals, but after being reborn, he was too lazy to care about children.

Li Gang blocked Zhang Zhao's fist: "Cut, if you dare to sue, I will beat you." He thought of Zhang Zhao's usual performance, but he was also relieved.

"Okay, you're amazing, I'm scared of you." Zhang Zhao shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "Say, do you want to borrow a toy from me or carry a black pot this time?" ”

Li Gang hesitated for a long time before he said embarrassedly: "It's Dou Qiu, he heard that you have an electric submachine gun, so he said that if you can lend him two days to play, he will give me 2 matches." ”

If Li Gang is the overlord of the two alleys before and after, then Dou Qiu is the child king of the entire residential area. His parents died, and he had heard of an uncle, but he had never met him.

For many years, I have lived with my elderly grandmother, who did not work when she was young, so naturally there was no retirement salary (there was no social security in this era, and the wages of all retired workers were borne by each unit), and the source of income was only a few yuan per month from the street five insurance households, in addition to picking up rags every day.

11-year-old Dou Qiu only went to primary school for a year and a half, and all of them were in the first grade. Now that he has completely stopped going to school, he wanders around the residential area every day. Occasionally pick up some scrap and exchange it for a box of battery cigarettes.

Malnutrition, coupled with a long-term smoking, he was not short, but he was as thin as a hemp stalk. The throne of the child king in the entire region is not because of his strength value, but because of his skillful hands.

Various insects and animals are woven from dogtail grass, flutes are made from willow branches, slingshots are made from tree forks and rubber inner tubes of bicycles, and boomeraangs are made from leftover ice cream sticks......

Of course, the most popular thing for children is to make a match pistol with a few bicycle chains, bicycle wheels and a rubber band, load the match into the gun, pull the trigger, you can hear the snap, and you can see the fire at night. This is definitely an artifact in an era when you can only buy two boxes of small whips with New Year's money.

Zhang Zhao sneered: "Who can ask for the things borrowed by Dou Qiu?" For Dou Qiu, the children in these residential areas are his main source of income, and everything he makes is to be exchanged for money, and it is impossible to give it to anyone for free.

Li Gang was a little embarrassed, because Dou Qiu was originally talking about exchanging two match guns for electric submachine guns, but he was not qualified to exchange other people's ones, so he had to say that he was borrowing. His idea was to wait for Dou Qiu to play enough with the submachine gun in two days, and then he would come back or exchange it for other things, of course, after a few days, he might not even forget about the need to ask for toys, anyway, Zhang Zhao's coward didn't dare to ask him for it.

Zhang Zhao asked, "If you want a match gun, why don't you change it with your own toys?" ”

Li Gang said: "I don't have any toys, so I can borrow them if I want to play with them." Zhang Zhao was silent, he somewhat understood why Li Gang was later sentenced to re-education through labor. The influence of childhood on a person is really too great, if Li Gang did not have a rough and stingy father, or he did not have such a strong physique to rob other people's things, maybe his life trajectory would be different.

"Do you really want matchsticks that much?"

"What, you're going to do it?" Li Gang asked hopefully.

Zhang Zhao shook his head and said, "I won't do it, but I have a way to ask Dou Qiu to give you one for free." ”

"Really?" Li Gang shook Zhang Zhao's shoulder excitedly and said, "Okay, if anyone wants to find trouble in the future, I will help you beat him." ”

Zhang Zhao's face darkened, has this violent maniac written beating people in his genes? He shook his head and expelled the image of Li Gang wearing a black vest and slashing people with a knife, and said, "I don't need you to help me beat people, so let's do it, if you really get a match gun, you will be my little brother in the future." ”

"Little brother?" Li Gang was stunned and said, "I was already a month younger than you, so I should be your little brother?" ”

Zhang Zhao was speechless, he forgot that it would take ten years for the old boy who had influenced a generation of gangsters to start filming, so he had to explain casually: "Er, that means that you will listen to me in the future and call me eldest brother." How, agree or not? ”

Li Gang hesitated for a long time, but still lowered his head under the temptation of the match gun: "Okay..... Eldest brother. ”

"Okay, since you decided to mess with me, being the boss will definitely not treat you badly, and you will be a double flower red stick in the future. Let's go, let's go with the big brother. "This little brother is too easy to collect, it seems that my domineering spirit is not bad.

Zhang Zhao, who was in a good mood, changed his stuffy gourd appearance in his previous life, and walked in front of him in high spirits. Or maybe he's never had social phobia, just isn't confident.

Li Gang followed behind, and heard a bunch of words that he didn't understand at all: What happened to Zhang Zhao, this kid, today, it feels like a different person? Forget it, let's see if he can get a matchstick for me.

It's very simple to find Dou Qiu, as long as you look at where the children gather the most, you must be. Zhang Zhao and the two squeezed through the crowd and saw Dou Qiu in the group of children. He was wearing an old overalls that had grown a lot bigger, and the cuffs of his clothes were torn, revealing raw edges. At this time, he was staring intently at the dogtail grass in his hand, a pair of slender and thin hands flexibly flipped up and down, and after a while, a lively little rabbit appeared in his hand.

"Thank you, Brother Dou Qiu." Standing opposite Dou Qiu, a little Lori wearing a floral skirt smiled sweetly, and handed out a dime note in exchange for the little rabbit.

"Okay, who else wants?" Dou Qiu took out a flat metal pill box, opened it and pulled out a brown battery cigarette, lit it with a match, and took a deep breath, the smoke made several children in the inner circle cough, and the crowd involuntarily dispersed.

"Brother Dou Qiu, can you lend me your matchstick to play with for a while? I'll give you the bean stalks. A child who was closest to him spread out his hand, and there were 4 or 5 gummies stained with yellow bean noodles in it, this kind of penny bean stalk was the same as the small candy ball that Zhang Zhao was robbed of, because of the cheap price and chewy taste, it was the most popular snack for children at this time.

Dou Qiu took a cigarette roll in his mouth and said lazily: "Two matches and five pieces, or a box of three or five cigarettes, don't come to the ink if you don't have money." ”

Zhang Zhao walked up to Dou Qiu, and the pungent smell of inferior tobacco made him frown: "Dou Qiu, right, you told Li Gang that you wanted my submachine gun?" ”

Dou Qiu raised his head in surprise, in his impression, this kid of the Zhang family belongs to the kind of honest child who can't beat a fart with three sticks, how can he dare to talk to himself face to face today? But he didn't care very much, anyway, everything was done by Li Gang, and now it was obviously unsuccessful, and he had no pressure: "It's nothing, I just want to take it apart and see how this thing is made." ”

Zhang Zhao nodded secretly, and sure enough, it was similar to what he thought. This child, who is 6 or 7 years older than them and quite mature in mind, is not interested in toys, but just wants to see if there is another way to make money.

After all, the sales of match guns are limited, except for Zhang Liang, the little tyrant of Zhang Fatzi's family who killed pigs, there are not many children in this residential area who can take out two yuan and five to buy a match gun.

"Okay, we'll promise to lend you two days." Li Gang, who couldn't help it, jumped out and said, his eyes kept aiming at a few match guns on the ground.

"Li Gang!" Zhang Zhao stopped Li Gang, and then said to Dou Qiu: "I can lend you a gun, but you definitely can't do it, don't believe we make a bet?" ”

Dou Qiu was not fooled, took a puff of smoke and said: "I didn't say that I would definitely be able to make it, I just wanted to try it." ”

Zhang Zhao looked at the two match guns placed on the ground and said, "This is not easy to sell, right?" ”

Dou Qiu replied: "It's okay, three have already been sold." ”

"Three a day?" Zhang Zhaoqi said, at this time, the spending power of the bear child is not so strong, and it is not the era of clicking on the screen to buy diamonds.

"There are three of them."

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