6

From the back door of the hippie bar to the mechanical assembly shop that Zhong Min frequented, it was only a little more than ten minutes' walk. Walking through an alley sandwiched between four or five brick houses with signed graffiti on the walls, you will come to a backstreet full of abandoned restaurants converted into various storefronts. Turning a corner, through the first alley, I saw a small cigarette shop on a depressed road that was converted from a telephone booth more than 100 years ago, and it was counted as the territory of the "Blue Snake Gang".

"The second girl is here?"

The person who called Zhong Min "two girls" in the shop was not a character with a head and a face, but an old lady with gray hair and a long face. Since all the cigarettes sold were vending, she had to sit on a bar stool that had lost its elasticity, wearing a sweater that she couldn't tell what it looked like.

However, those who are a little familiar with Xiacheng will know that she is the old eyes of the Green Snake Gang outside the territory, and she can notify the gang of the situation as soon as there is any trouble. And because she is a confused old lady on the surface, and she can't actually do anything, no one sees her as a dangerous person.

"Grandma Zhao," Zhong Min regarded his identity as a granddaughter completely, with an innocent look on his face that no one else could see. "Is Greenhair here today?"

"Who?" She didn't seem to hear what Zhong Min said, but it was a code word, meaning inside. If there are three words in the reply, "louder", it is not there, and "I didn't hear clearly" means that it is inconvenient to see people in the gang now.

"I said greenhair." Zhong Min naturally understands code language.

"I don't know, you can ask someone else." This means that now everyone can go to the person they want to meet. So Zhong Min smiled back and led a few people to continue to the mechanical assembly shop.

At this moment, Gu Yu suddenly stopped in front of the pavilion window, put one hand on the window, and raised his face slightly from his hat. "Grandma Zhao, I haven't seen you for a long time, and your body is still tough?"

Grandma Zhao's skillful front suddenly stopped, she helped her reading glasses, and focused her gaze on Gu Yu's face. "Are you...... Gu Yu girl? ”

Zhong Li, who was walking behind, saw Gu Yu gesturing with Grandma Zhao for something. "Do you still recognize me?"

"If you recognize it, how can you not recognize it? After all these years, you still haven't changed at all. ”

"Change or change, but no matter how much you change, aren't they all children in front of you?" When Gu Yu was talking to Grandma Zhao, his body kept his back to a few people. Zhong Min also noticed this, so he stepped back and carefully observed her movements. But she didn't do much more than a few subtle, indistinct gestures.

"When I'm done, I'll come back and see you." Gu Yu also seemed to notice the sight of several people, so he simply ended the greeting and caught up with the footsteps of several people.

Entering the narrow alley, except for the gangsters who were watching at each alley, there was no one around, Zhong Min took the opportunity to ask: "Miss Gu Yu and Grandma Zhao are also old acquaintances?" ”

"When I came here to do business, I had a few friendships."

"So, those legends about the Grim Reaper in the lower city from many years ago, the protagonist is really you?" Maybe it was because they had been together for a long time there, Zhong Li didn't have a sense of fear for Gu Yu, at most he was just a little rational and vigilant, so he raised the question that the three of them were curious about.

"Who else could there be?"

Although they couldn't think of other candidates, the parties' simple and straightforward admission still surprised Zhong Min and Yuan Xian.

"But how old were you then?"

Gu Yu smiled, "Then guess how old I am now." ”

"It's not much different from me." Zhong Li could only answer vaguely, "It's even a little smaller than me by visual inspection." It's not that he is deliberately saying good and obedient, but Gu Yu is indeed more like eighteen or nineteen years old.

Gu Yu didn't reply, but continued to ask: "Isn't Miss Yuan Xian also small?" Zhong Li couldn't reply to these words.

"That can't be too far off, right?"

"As far as I know, wasn't our second lady still in school when she started to break into the lower city?"

Zhong Min nodded in agreement, "I'm fourteen years old." ”

"But after all, eight or nine years have passed, and even fewer people have begun to know the legend. At this time, the protagonist of the legend was standing in front of him, about the same age as himself, and he felt incredible no matter how he thought about it. Zhongli was not so much talking to Gu Yu as he was saying it to himself.

At the end of the graffiti wall, the warm yellow glow of the sunset rose to the west, and three or two young men were nesting in a corner playing cards. Behind a slightly wider street, and a not-so-long alley, you will find the mechanical assembly shop.

After the sunlight was all blocked by the brick dilapidated buildings, seeing that there was no one around, Gu Yu suddenly stopped in place.

"What's wrong?"

Zhong Li was originally out of concern, but he didn't want Gu Yu to suddenly laugh on the spot, although the voice was not loud, but it was quite mocking in it, which was not common for her, who usually had to hold three points when she spoke and did things.

"What do you mean by that?" It was Yuan Xian who asked. She is neither as familiar as Zhong Min with Gu Yu in her heart, nor as familiar as Zhong Li.

"I'm sorry, I just suddenly think it's funny that some rumors or legends are here." She quickly restrained her playful smile, "And those are just some oral legends, they passed me on to the Grim Reaper of some lower city, did I really become the Grim Reaper?" Am I honestly walking with you? ”

"But these legends aren't all made up, are they?"

"It's true that the gangs that are disbanded are disbanded, and the dead are really dead." Seeing that the three of them were full of doubts, Gu Yu said again: "Forget it, I have long wanted to clarify these rumors or something, and today there happens to be a person here who speaks in Xiacheng District, so I will tell the situation at that time, and some people in the province will see me in the future as if they met the plague god." ”

7

Because Grandma Zhao's loud voice had already informed all parts of the Blue Snake Gang of the news of the arrival of Zhong Min and others, a lot of people gathered at both ends of this not too long and not spacious alley. However, Zhong Min has always been friendly with the Blue Snake Gang, and Gu Yu's name is also known to the older people, so everyone is watching the four of them from a distance, and they are listening to what they are talking about, and they don't really gather around.

Gu Yu had already noticed that there were more and more people, but she still decided to explain the matter, or she was willing to have more listeners.

"Now the most and most evil thing in Xiacheng is the 'Lishui Gang' back then, what do I say in order to take revenge on the three masters who have bad intentions towards me, I made him into a prosthetic work of art, and then the second boss went crazy in the sewers, and this is not the end, and I intercepted their leader's plane. Although I didn't have any skills at the time, do you think that a little girl entered such a big gang by herself, and then ended them up overnight, isn't this the same as the scripts of some divine dramas more than a hundred years ago? ”

"And what about the facts you're going to say?"

"The fact is that at that time, the second boss coveted the position of the gang leader for more than ten years, but instead of abdicating, the big boss became more and more active as he got older, and the popularity of the newly promoted third boss in the gang became higher and higher. It just so happened that when I went, the big boss went out, and then the second boss took the opportunity to hold a banquet, put chronic sleeping pills in the last two glasses of wine between me and the third master, put us in the same room, and then directed a plot in which the three masters plotted against me.

Originally, he wanted to let his subordinates find out about the situation and charge the three masters with a crime and imprison them first. As a result, I didn't want the medicine of the third master to be in full supply, so I fought with the second master's men. The third master was seriously injured and was sent to the operating table for rescue by his own people, and the conspiracy of the second master was discovered, so he stumbled into the sewer while being chased and killed. I slept in my room in a daze, and perhaps because I couldn't get in the way, I was lucky enough to wake up at dawn and escape from the Tachisui Gang, which was already in a mess. ”

"What about the three masters who were made into prosthetics and the big boss's plane and hit the mountain?"

"The big boss is simple, he was originally calculated by the second master, and the second master must eliminate him at the same time, otherwise when he comes back, his murder of the third master will be revealed. As for the things of the prosthetic people, it was their own people who did it later.

"Although the Lishui Gang fell apart after that incident, it still exists, but it is just a small gang that has declined to the second rate. At that time, the Lishui Gang was leaderless, and later took over the leaders of the Lishui Gang, in order to gather the people below, they arranged the whole story into the version you hear now, and then under the banner of revenge for the old masters, retained many young people who didn't know the truth of the matter. ”

"Aren't you going to be hunted down every day?"

"Actually, it's okay, because at that time, the first task of the remnants of the Lishui Gang was to stabilize the situation within the gang, not to come to me for revenge. In addition, they had a holiday with many gangs back then, as long as I didn't go into their territory, those stunned young gangsters would not take me seriously. ”

"And then, because you disbanded more than one gang of the Lishui Gang, right?"

"Those ones are actually pretty much the same. When I tracked down the business related to the Tachisui Gang, there were many other gangs later. At that time, it was the time of the change of generation in Xiacheng, and with the rumors that I was in the Lishui Gang before, many gangs made a fuss about me, and then came to engage in this kind of generational change. Of course, there is no gang with more than one person who wants to plot against others, so it is normal to disband a few. ”

"If you do too much injustice, you will be killed." Although Yuan Xian just commented so lukewarmly, Gu Yu could hear that she had actually accepted this explanation. "It's just that after so many dangers, how did you manage to be unharmed?"

"If the things of the Lishui Gang depend on luck, the latter few basically rely on fame. People who want to take advantage of my reputation usually don't harm me, and people who fear my reputation don't do anything to me easily. Of course, I'm also an intelligence dealer myself, and I'm well-informed from all sides, so I hid when I should have hid. ”

"So, do those four gangs and more than 20 lives have anything to do with you?" Zhong Li asked, of course he didn't want a girl who would never think of the word "ugly" to carry so many dark pasts on her back.

Gu Yu sighed lightly, "It can't be said that it doesn't matter at all, if it weren't for my reputation, maybe some things wouldn't have gotten to that level." I just happened to be the catalyst. ”

Zhong Min looked at Gu Yu, who had a little regret in his eyes, and he didn't know when he felt a ray of sympathy. Perhaps the legend of the Grim Reaper merchant in the lower city was too bizarre, but now that she explained it like this, it was more like something that could happen to people like them who often mingled in the lower city, so she had similar feelings.

"Why are these things being said now?"

"Sometimes reputation is a form of protection in itself, you know? Today's Xiacheng is not as bloody as it was back then, and I'm also an outdated figure, so it doesn't matter if I say it. ”

The setting sun was slanting more and more, and the large golden light on the brick wall gradually turned into an orange-red band of light, and Gu Yu's white clothes and hat were dyed with a purple color by the increasingly faint shadow.

Maybe it was because she had said too much, Zhong Min was not as afraid of Gu Yu as she was at the beginning, but she could see from the reactions of various old people to Gu Yu that she didn't want to be as evil as the rumors said, nor was it as simple as it seemed at first glance. Including eight or nine years ago, the people who knew the truth were either dead or had already been abandoned by the newcomers in the lower city in some corners, which is as unsolvable as Rashomon. At present, she can only understand Gu Yu for her brother and Yuan Xian, two people who seem to be smart but are actually simple-minded.

"It's not too early, let's hurry up."

Gu Yu stepped out of the shadows. "yes, enough of the story."