Chapter 1: Returning Home

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In front of the railway station in Pingjiang City, Beihai Province, Zhang Shidong took a deep breath, opened his arms above his head, raised his head and closed his eyes, tasting the taste of his hometown, six years, finally back, and finally able to proudly face his parents Your son is not a waste.

In early autumn and late summer, the temperature in Pingjiang City is still above 20 degrees, Zhang Shidong has a pair of yellow rubber shoes, army green pants and a striped T-shirt of twenty or thirty yuan on the street, a huge sack on his shoulder with one hand, and those migrant workers who go back and forth between cities and towns are no different, his fingers flick in the pocket of the T-shirt, a cigarette pops out and holds it in his mouth, lights it, stands at the exit of the station and looks at the bustling crowd, takes a few puffs and flicks his hand, and pops out the remaining half of the cigarette.

"I wasted the innate conditions given by my parents, and I really have no quality." The person who secretly muttered this only paid attention to Zhang Shidong's height of about 180 centimeters and his delicate face, and did not see that when the cigarette butt left Zhang Shidong's hand, the burning part was extinguished by him with his fingers, and the cigarette butt crossed an arc and 'coincidentally' fell into the garbage bin on the side of the road.

"Catch the thief, catch the thief!"

The train station in every city is a mixture of dragons and snakes, thefts are frequent, the man with the lost glasses keeps shouting, the thin figure is holding a leather bag and a dagger in his hand and rampage through the crowd, all the people are afraid to avoid it, the graceful posture with a police uniform pursues, and the thin figure is getting closer and closer: "Stop him......"

The police catch the thief, and the common people give way to the thief. The panting thief brandished the dagger with a fierce look in his eyes, which meant that whoever dared to stop him, the dagger would not recognize anyone.

Zhang Shidong carried the sack to the taxi stop near the exit of the station, it was the train arrived at the station and the flow of people rushed out of the station, the thief squeezed through the crowd and ran wildly, coincidentally in front of Zhang Shidong brandished a dagger and rushed through, his feet moved slightly, and he saw the thief screaming and throwing himself out and falling to the ground, not caring about the painful place, the calf of his right leg covered his right leg with both hands and writhed and howled frantically on the ground.

The thief was caught, his calf bone was fractured, and when he took the record afterwards, the thief only remembered that he suddenly felt a sharp pain coming from his calf, and he couldn't think of anything else, and he didn't know how it all happened.

When the policewoman caught the thief and looked around, Zhang Shidong had already taken a taxi home.

In the past six years, the city has changed greatly, and the neighborhoods that Zhang Shidong is familiar with are no longer there, and occasionally I will be a little excited when I see the unchanged building, I have been to that Internet café, and the roast leg of lamb in that restaurant is delicious.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Shidong was dumbfounded, in the past few years, few letters have been sent to his mother's unit, the old white building is gone, and what catches his eye is a high-end residential community, and the security guard standing at the gate looks at him with the wrong eyes.

Zhang Shidong shook his head: "It seems that this surprise is difficult to give." In his trouser pocket, he took out the latest iPhone that made the community security guard roll his eyes, and lit a cigarette while dialing the familiar number in his heart.

Kong Mei is the chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of Pingjiang Central Hospital, and is very famous in the Department of Orthopedics in Pingjiang City.

Sandwiched the cases and information, Kong Mei, who was about to attend the afternoon meeting, heard the mobile phone ringing, looked at the unfamiliar phone number and frowned and picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Mom, it's my ......" Before the word Xiaodong behind Zhang Shidong was spoken, Kong Mei had already shouted excitedly: "Son, is it your son?" ”

The sudden rise of the voice made some of the doctors in the conference room look sideways, what could make Director Kong so excited?

"Mom, it's me."

"Where are you, son......"

"I used to be on the street where our house was, and the old houses were ......"

"I know, you stand at the door of the community, I'll let your sister pick you up, and I'll go home immediately."

Kong Mei handed the materials to others casually, smiled apologetically at the people in the conference room, and couldn't hide her excitement: "My son has come back from the army, I ask for leave, and I won't attend the afternoon meeting." ”

Jishu backbone, the number one in the department, the pillar of the hospital, this is Kong Mei, no matter how excited the person is, he doesn't dare to ask for leave like this, he meets the vice president in charge, and when he hears Kong Mei asking for leave from a distance, he smiled at Kong Mei, who ran out in a hurry, and has no sense of blame.

Zhang Yiqing's expression became very stiff when she received a call from her mother, but the blood was thicker than water, but she still walked towards the main gate of the community, and followed behind her by a yellow-haired young man who was also dressed as her: "Xiaoqing, what are you doing, let me tell you, this time your dad will cause big trouble, I heard my dad say that the 8.15 robbery and murder case failed to arrest the criminals, the bureau suspects that your dad leaked the news, and now your dad is being investigated and collected, you have to listen to me, no one can save your dad except my dad." ”

Zhang Yiqing turned around and glared at the other party angrily: "Li Dong, don't treat me as a fool, that murderer was hiding in the Emgrand Bathing Center at the time, who doesn't know that the boss there is your father's dog, isn't it that my father got something unfavorable to your father in the process of solving the case, and was framed if he didn't want to go along with your father?" I, Zhang Yiqing, just begged for heaven and earth, and I won't ask for it in front of you, you are less delusional. ”

Li Dong was furious: "You don't fart, stinky bitch, if you talk nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart, you can eat things indiscriminately, and you can't talk nonsense!" As the son of the deputy director in charge of public security work of the sub-bureau, he would never allow anyone to chew his father's tongue behind his back.

Originally, Zhang Yiqing's eyes swept over Zhang Shidong's body, but it has only been six years, and she was still a yellow-haired girl, and she couldn't overlap the image of a man with the image of a migrant worker and her arrogant and domineering brother, and Zhang Shidong was also stunned by Zhang Yiqing's current dress, you must know that she pointed to her nose and said that I don't have the words of a gangster brother like you, if she didn't say her name, Zhang Shidong really didn't dare to recognize it.

As soon as Li Dong picked up his arm, he felt a sharp pain that made his whole body unconscious, and then the pain of his back hitting the wall made him shrink in pain and scream with tears.

What about Zhang Yiqing? What she saw was a migrant worker with a cigarette in his mouth and kicked Li Dong in the stomach, and the trapeze flew five or six meters away and crashed into the wall.

Zhang Shidong walked up to Li Dong's side, squatted down, grabbed Li Dong's hair to make him raise his head, and exhaled a puff of smoke: "Don't stare at me, believe it or not, gouge out your eyeballs." Li Dong saw the picture that made him difficult to erase from his memory for the rest of his life, the fingers of the man opposite easily dug a hole in the sidewalk colored bricks on the ground, if this finger was on his eyes, Li Dong didn't dare to imagine, his eyes were full of horror and his legs continued to move backwards, as far away from this man as possible.

The distance of ten meters made Li Dong regain his courage, and pointed at Zhang Shidong: "Do you know who I am?" Dare to touch me, I will kill you. ”

Zhang Shidong tilted his head and asked his sister, "Who is this deflated calf?" ”

After all, they are brothers and sisters, although Zhang Shidong is taller and stronger, and he is dark, Zhang Yiqing still recognizes him after careful identification: "Li Jianguo's slug......"

"Holy!" Zhang Shidong came to charge, and before Li Dong could react, he came to his side, grabbing him by the neck and giving him a big mouth: ", my brother hasn't been at home for a few years, and you've become a character, right?" ”

"Zhang Shidong, don't you fight, don't you think our family is messy enough? If you come back, you'll get into trouble......" Zhang Yiqing yelled at Zhang Shidong, a look of disappointment appeared on his face, six years later, he is still him.

Hearing Zhang Yiqing's name, Li Dong's eyes really showed deep fear this time, during his childhood and youth, Zhang Shidong's three words were his nightmares, and to this day he will still dream of the figure that gave him JJ a rubber band, burning his hair, kicking into the river in winter for winter swimming, and playing ice slides with his bare ass for 39 days......

His sister's words made Zhang Shidong let go of his hand, and a touch of guilt flashed in his eyes, for the guilt of the year, even his sister still remembers that Zhang Shidong in her heart after six years, it seems that she was really a failure to be a man.

Li Dong ran away with a crawl, ignoring the pain on his face, this fear was a sense of superiority that surpassed all status, status and power, he once thought he had forgotten, and when he really met Zhang Shidong again, he found that he couldn't erase the shadow he left in his heart at all.

The remaining brother and sister who should have not seen their emotions for a long time stood awkwardly at the gate of the community, Zhang Shidong touched his nose and re-lit a cigarette, until Zhang Yiqing whispered with me, and then followed her into the community with a sack.

"Is it that the life of an ordinary person is no longer suitable for me?" The sister's indifference made Zhang Shidong's heart cool a lot, and there was an urge to turn away in the smoke.

"What's going on at home?"

Zhang Yiqing's subconscious answer was exactly the same as the attitude of six years ago: "You can't help if something happens, just don't make a mess...... Uh, sorry. ”

Zhang Shidong raised his head and wanted to touch his sister's head, but when he saw the resistance of the dodging eyes, he had to draw his hand in the air: "Were you in a hurry to go out just now?" Why are you still wearing the wrong shoes? ”

Zhang Yiqing was stunned, looked down and saw two kinds of Converse cloth shoes with pink on his left foot and green on his right foot, and burst out laughing: "You're out, it's popular now, don't you think I look good in it?" ”

Brother and sister, the feeling of blood dissolving in water cannot be erased by anything, and the strangeness and resistance are all dissipated between a joke.

Zhang Shidong looked at his sister's hair mixed with several colors, a huge skeleton painted on the wide hoodie, the front and back of the eight-point jeans were all broken, the big black circles and colorful nails, the jewelry hanging on the neck, and the big earrings on the ears that were still shining on one ear, scratched his head: "Maybe I'm old, right?" ”

One sentence made Zhang Yiqing suddenly choke up the impulse, six years, the elder brother who has taken care of him since he was a child left home to go to the most difficult mountainous area to serve as a soldier for six years, look at what he wears, look at his dark skin, he must have suffered a lot, subconsciously, Zhang Yiqing wanted to come forward and let him touch his head again.

A sharp brake sound interrupted Zhang Yiqing's thoughts, the car door opened Kong Mei rushed to Zhang Shidong excitedly, tears flowed out of the corners of her eyes, and hugged her son's body tightly: "Son, you want to kill your mother." ”

At this moment, Kong Mei's true state shattered all Zhang Shidong's negative thoughts, and it feels so good to go home!

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