The most powerful restraining force against crime is not the severity of the punishment, but the certainty of the punishment, for even the smallest consequences, once they are certain, always make the heart palpitate. ———— Beccaria

Liu Xiaocui refused to say a word after being taken to the public security bureau because of the child's death, just blindly silent, and Li Hongmei didn't know what kind of stabbing she received, she didn't say a word after she was taken to the public security bureau, and Zhou Yongli and Wu Jiu, the two big men behaved like a resentful woman in a deep boudoir, just sighed vigorously, but the seven-year-old child Wu Shan, after being taken to the public security bureau, took the initiative to say a lot.

Zhou Yongli's family and Wu Gai's family, the two families have lived in Sanli Village all their lives, before, when the county seat was not fully developed, there was no road from the county seat to Sanli Village, only a very difficult path, and these two families lived in the mountains.

Zhou Yongli and Wu Gai are counted according to their generation, they are burdens, they are peers, Zhou Yongli is three years younger than Wu Jiu, but Zhou Yongli's parents left early when he was a child, and they all said that the children of poor families are in charge early, Zhou Yongli is like this, he left Sanli Village when he was sixteen years old and went out to work and make money.

Because his family is poor, he has never gone to school, he has not studied, and he is young, the regular unit does not dare to ask him, he can only choose to work on the construction site with a very mixed population, in order to make money, Zhou Yongli basically does everything, the most dangerous shelf, the most tired mason, the most waste-eyed plumber He has done, although he is not specialized in learning these, but Zhou Yongli has endured hardship, and is willing to work hard to study, and he is also very diligent, so some teachers are willing to teach this child.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yongli has slowly become a small bag foreman at a construction site from a rural boy who knows nothing, and in the ten or twenty years he has been wandering outside, he has suffered a lot and suffered a lot of crimes, but his life has slowly improved.

Wu Jiu's fate is better than Zhou Yongli's, after all, Zhou Yongli lost his parents since he was a child, and Wu Jiu still has a father alive, Wu Jiu is the only son of the Wu family, although Wu Gai has four children, but only one son, in the countryside, the old man still has the idea of patriarchy, so, Wu Jiu has not suffered much since he was a child, the land at home is planted by Wu Gai himself, and Wu Jiu has never been allowed to interfere. And Wu Jiu just needs to study hard.

Wu Jiu studied elementary school and junior high school, he was not admitted to high school, Wu Gai saw that Wu Jiu was young, and sent him to the technical school in the county for three years, when Wu Jiu graduated from the technical school, he also turned eighteen years old, and then, he stayed at home for two years, two years later, Wu Jiu didn't want to be the same as Wu Gai, facing the loess with his back to the sky in the field to eat, he saw that Zhou Yongli, who was younger than himself, went out to work and make money, so he also went out.

At the beginning, Wu Jiu didn't go to Zhou Yongli, after all, Wu Jiu is a person who has read books, he went to work in the factory, maybe he didn't suffer much since he was a child, maybe Wu Gai spoiled this son too much, what was delicious, good to drink, and easy to use were left to him, so when Wu Jiu went out to work, he felt very uncomfortable, for going to work on time every day, and often working overtime, Wu Jiu felt very unaccustomed, he was often late, absent from work, and didn't save any money for a month, he didn't have a long time in a factory, the longest time was only half a year, and then he was fired by the factory.

In this way, Wu Jiu went around and around outside for two or three years, but he still achieved nothing, and he didn't accumulate any savings.

When he was twenty-four years old, during the Chinese New Year, he only returned to his hometown Sanli Village with only a few hundred yuan in his pocket, and saw that Zhou Yongli was also back, and he found that although Zhou Yongli was darker than before, he had a lot more money in his pocket than him, so after the New Year, he went out to work with Zhou Yongli.

According to seniority, Wu Jiu wanted to call Zhou Yongli an uncle, but Wu Jiu was older than Zhou Yongli, and after they went outside, the two of them did not follow the rules in the countryside to be so commensurate with uncles and nephews, but according to brothers.

When Wu Jiu first started working with Zhou Yongli to make money, he still couldn't get rid of his lazy habit, fishing for three days and drying nets for two days.

The construction site is different from the factory, if you want to make money on the construction site, you have to work hard, and no one will pay you a salary if you don't work, so Wu Jiu spent the money he brought out at the beginning, so he had to borrow money from Zhou Yongli, at the beginning, Zhou Yongli also lent him money, but after a long time, Zhou Yongli couldn't get used to Wu Jiu's appearance, so he didn't lend him money.

Zhou Yongli refused to lend him money, Wu Jiu had no financial resources, it cost money to eat, drink, and sleep, he had no choice but to start working with Zhou Yongli, although he was working, but Wu Jiu always liked to be lazy, he was lazy if he could, he was lazy if he could, he was fooled by the past, the latest one went to work every day, and the earliest one finished work, although Zhou Yongli once said that Wu Jiu, but Wu Jiu still did his own thing, and Zhou Yongli didn't say anything.

In this way, the two of them have been rolling together for more than a year, and in the past year or so, Zhou Yongli has begun to undertake some small projects on the construction site, and Wu Jiu is still the same, passive and slacking, moonlight clan.

A year later, when they were working at a construction site near several factories, Zhou Yongli and Wu Jiu often ate at a nearby restaurant, where they met Li Hongmei and Liu Xiaocui.

Zhou Yongli liked Li Hongmei at the beginning, after all, Li Hongmei is beautiful and can speak well, so she is naturally liked, Zhou Yongli likes Li Hongmei, and Wu Jiu also likes Li Hongmei, Liu Xiaocui likes Zhou Yongli, and Li Hongmei likes Wu Jiu.

Liu Xiaocui is Li Hongmei's cousin, she is a few years older than Li Hongmei, she came out of society early, knows a lot of things, and looks at the problem the most practically, when she saw Zhou Yongli and Wu Jiu, she saw it, although Wu Jiu is more mature and handsome than Zhou Yongli, but Zhou Yongli is more stable and rich than Wu Jiu, so Liu Xiaocui likes Zhou Yongli and doesn't like Wu Jiu.

Li Hongmei and her cousin Liu Xiaocui have different ideas, she entered the society later than Liu Xiaocui, she is still an immature girl, she doesn't think so much, and she is not so practical, and Wu Jiu can speak well, when the four of them are together, it is basically Wu Jiu who says it, which makes everyone laugh, so Li Hongmei slowly likes Wu Jiu.

The two sides knew each other for less than three months, and under Wu Jiu's rhetoric, Li Hongmei and Wu Jiu began to live together, and Zhou Yongli and Liu Xiaocui didn't know it at that time, and by the time Zhou Yongli knew, it had been more than half a year.

In this half a year's practical ability, Zhou Yongli found that Wu Jiuyi changed his previous laziness and took the initiative to start working, Zhou Yongli felt very happy after discovering this, after all, both of them were in a foreign land, and there was nothing to talk to around them, seeing Wu Jiuken motivated, Zhou Yongli was naturally happy, so he didn't think much about it.

Until one time, when Liu Xiaocui asked Zhou Yongli to come out for dinner, he inadvertently said that Li Hongmei and Wu Jiu were together, at that time, Zhou Yongli's mood was particularly complicated, he liked Li Hongmei, at that time, he had suffered a lot since he was a child, and he also knew that if he wanted to pursue happiness, he needed a material foundation, and what was the material foundation built on? Naturally, it's money, so Zhou Yongli has been constantly taking on some small projects and starting to make money like crazy, so naturally he doesn't have time to date Li Hongmei, so when he learned the news, Zhou Yongli put it down except for a big drink with Wu Jiu.

At the end of the year, Wu Jiu and Li Hongmei were together, and Zhou Yongli was also with Liu Xiaocui, and during the New Year, the four of them returned to their hometown Sanli Village together and spent a New Year here.