28 The darkness in the heart of the Gospel of Wei

On the way to the water house, Li Yuehua went into the commissary to buy a pack of cigarettes, and Wei Gospel followed behind without saying a word, seeing that she was a little cramped and uneasy, and she obviously had no talent for how to behave in the world, treat people and things, and be sleek and sophisticated.

Zhang Wentao lay on the rocking chair, with a cigarette in his mouth, squinting his eyes, half-asleep in the dim light, looking at the mother and daughter in front of him, and said slowly: "Oh, you come to me, what can I do, it's not that I don't help, I really can't help with your family's affairs."

Li Yuehua's clenched fists let go slightly, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to him, Zhang Wentao didn't even glance at it, a wisp of white smoke came out of his mouth, Li Yuehua's hand stretched out in mid-air froze, and he turned his hand slightly embarrassed and put the cigarette on the table next to him.

Zhang Wentao got up and paced around in the not spacious room, his home is not far away, five minutes by car, but most of the time he likes to stay here, here he feels an unprecedented sense of satisfaction, as if he has found the meaning of life all of a sudden, he used to feel that Da'an is tattered, deserted, and lonely ghosts will wander here.

After taking over, he found out the benefits of this, he was born as a farmer, caught up with the country's good policies, their generation fled from the countryside and became oil workers, in the eyes of outsiders, the conditions here are difficult, there is no grass, but in his eyes it is a treasure of feng shui.

People living in Da'an generally do not have a high opinion of Zhang Wentao, he is mean, forgetful of profit, and strong outside...... Any bad words will not be used too much on him, such a person is actually in a high position, and he is obedient to the lecture of his wife, who is less than one and a half meters.

Zhang Wentao is famous for being afraid of his daughter-in-law, several times Wei Gospel went home and passed by the water room, and bumped into a short and fat middle-aged woman, with one hand on her waist, and the other hand pointed at Zhang Wentao's nose and scolded, Zhang Wentao lowered his head and waist, and he didn't dare to breathe, that scene was really ridiculous.

The relationship between the woman with heavy makeup and Zhang Wentao at the door just now was unclear, Li Yuehua muttered, when the woman had no money to pay the rent, she would call Zhang Wentao to her house and do some despicable deeds, although Wei Gospel didn't understand what Li Yuehua was referring to, and vaguely understood that it was definitely not a good thing.

"Third brother, you are doing well, Wei Fuhai was arrested by the police, for the sake of our family, we will remember your great kindness for a lifetime."

Li Yuehua wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in a choked voice: "You also know that Wei Fuhai is a person who is timid and afraid of things, and he doesn't dare to do anything illegal if he is given ten guts."

Zhang Wentao glanced at Li Yuehua from the corner of his eye, and admired the hard-working and capable woman in front of him more or less in his heart.

After listening to Li Yuehua's words, Zhang Wentao had a gloomy face, was silent for a while, and said: "What's the use of you coming to me, I don't know the police, even if I know the police, no one can help you if you steal the country's things, you better go back."

Li Yuehua's face gradually fell, she originally felt that Zhang Wentao might be the last straw, but now he completely ignored his friendship with Wei Fuhai in the past, and he didn't even have a word of concern, so he coldly threw out such an excuse.

Perhaps Li Yuehua's lifeless eyes stung Zhang Wentao's last bit of conscience, he raised his hand and waved, and said in a deep voice: "You guys go back, I don't have a problem with this, the only way is to use money to fish people out, you go home and prepare money."

His voice was indifferent, Li Yuehua was enlightened all of a sudden, although Zhang Laosan was indifferent, but the method he said was effective, Li Yuehua was sad and depressed just now, and he didn't expect it for a while.

Wei Gospel doesn't like to run the door, Sun Tingting invited her several times, she has only reluctantly gone to her house twice in the past seven years, Sun Tingting's house is clean and warm, the tables, chairs and sofas are neatly placed, Wei Gospel thinks this is what a home looks like, what makes her most envious is that Sun Tingting has her own room, lives alone, clean and tidy.

As the saying goes, 'the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels', Wei Gospel is not sitting at Sun Tingting's house, nor is he standing, the two of them are lying on the table to do their homework, Sun Tingting's mother is very happy to see her, served a plate of fruit, and said with a smile: "Wei Gospel, you can teach her if there is anything I can't do in my Tingting, my Tingting is stupid, and I don't study well without you."

Wei Gospel smirked awkwardly.

Walking out of the water room, Li Yuehua cursed viciously: "These people really have no conscience, it rained this summer, and the roof of the water room leaked, and your father carried a bucket of hot asphalt alone, climbed to the roof to help him fix the leaking place, our family didn't ask for a penny, and your father said what kind of money he wanted, and the neighbors in the street talked about money so hurtful and angry."

There is no need for Li Yuehua to say more, Wei Gospel's heart is like a mirror, this is like Wei Fuhai's style, the education she has received since childhood is to respect teachers, love classmates, respect the old and love the young, be honest and kind, humble and reasonable, Kong Rong let pears, and pick up gold...... But the more I grew up, the more I found that something seemed to be wrong, people older than myself were sometimes not worthy of respect, not all teachers would teach and educate people with hard work, not all police officers would be upright and upright, not all doctors would save lives and help the wounded, and treat people modestly and reasonably, but they could not be exchanged for the same treatment, inextricably linked, she became more and more unable to sort out her thinking, everyone was equal before the law, was the book wrong, or she was wrong.

Walking all the way, Li Yuehua scolded indignantly all the way, Wei Gospel followed behind and bowed his head and said nothing, although she was taught to respect her elders since she was a child, she really didn't respect Zhang Wentao, just what she saw and heard made her sneer.

Zhang Wentao is proud of his martial arts in Da'an, just like the emperor here, he, the emperor of the soil, is quite comfortable, for what he does, although many people grit their teeth with hatred, but helplessly, within his jurisdiction, he can only swallow his anger, more is better than less, as long as it is not about his own interests, the affairs of others have nothing to do with himself.

Da'an is more than 1,000 meters away from the nearest urban area, located in a remote area, water and electricity bills are calculated according to industrial water and electricity, three 20-watt light bulbs in the kitchen and room of Wei Gospel's house, a second-hand color TV that has been used for more than ten years, and a radio bought in order to let them learn English, there are no decent electrical appliances at home, and the monthly electricity bill makes Li Yuehua frown.

Every time I go to the water room to fetch water, the water bill will rise, how much the water fee depends entirely on Zhang Wentao's preferences, a bucket of water opens seven or eight yuan, most of the people here dare not be angry, while scolding Zhang Wentao for being black-hearted, such a bad person should be struck by lightning, but countless times the thunder has not been split on Zhang Wentao's body, they had to go to the well dug in the backyard of Wei Gospel's house to draw water, although the clothes washed out of the well water will have a layer of white powder on it after drying, but fortunately, it will fall off when patted, Although saltwater washed clothes are not as soft as freshwater washed clothes, they have rough skin and thick flesh, so they don't care about this.

Wei Gospel did not welcome people who came to her well to draw water, and when Wei Fuhai proposed to dig a well at the back of the house, they were all strongly opposed, and they expressed their opinions.

"You dig a well here, what if a child plops down and falls into it!"

Wei Fuhai had no choice but to dig a well in an overgrown place, the mosquitoes in the grass bit him all over the body, the mouth of the well was not big, Li Yuehua moved a heavy cement slate from the abandoned sewer as a manhole cover, and everyone calmed down.

The well was not dug deeply, Wei Gospel was particularly curious, last night it was clear that there was no water in the well, but early the next morning, the well was filled with a pool of clear spring water, she didn't understand where the water came from, so she lay on the side of the well and carefully observed for a long time.

"Take money to get people, take money to get people, but how can our family still have money."

Li Yuehua said to herself, she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, with tears in the corners of her eyes, and said: "Your father always lends money to others, lends money to others to do business, those people have made a fortune, and now he has an accident, but no one is willing to come to the rescue."

"Mom, this is human nature, if it were me, I wouldn't help, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, the trees fell and scattered, it has been like this since ancient times." Wei Gospel suppressed the anger in his heart and said calmly: "Mom, if our family has money, let's take it out to save my father."

Li Yuehua was stunned and shouted: "How can our family still have money!" Do you think I'm hiding my money to save your dad?" As she spoke, there was a feeling of suffocation in her chest, her body trembled, she glared at Wei Gospel angrily, and turned over her big hands back and forth, as if she wanted Wei Gospel to see clearly, her palms and backs were empty.

After a while, Li Yuehua shouted heartbreakingly: "Where can I get money, your father gave me all the money he earned, but the money was taken away by your father before it was warm in my hands, he lent the money to this and to that like a wealth boy, who will lend us money when it is time to use the money!"

"After so many years of marriage, I have never guarded against your father, I put the money and passbook behind the photo frame, who knows when your father will take out the money, and when I find out, it will be too late, I think there are four of you Your father should not mess around, who thinks he still sent the money back to his hometown, what is the use of me arguing."

Li Yuehua said that she was tired and couldn't care so much, so she patted the soil on the ground and sat down, wiped her nose and tears, and complained to Wei Gospel.

"Your dad just thinks I'm stupid, I keep lying to me because I can't settle accounts, although I can't do it, but I'm not stupid, your dad is not like other men who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, your dad is too filial, he listens to what your grandfather says, your grandfather asked him to buy a daughter-in-law for your third uncle and fourth uncle, and he really went to Vietnam to buy a daughter-in-law for them."

Wei Gospel stood next to Li Yuehua, silent, she seemed to understand the intricate relationship between adults, and she understood one thing, their seemingly warm and stable little family had no foundation here, and it was stormy.

"Mom, what should I do with my dad?"

Li Yuehua sat and rested for a while, got up, stretched out her finger and pointed to a row of dark houses in front of her, and said, "Let's go, let's borrow money."

Wei Gospel looked in the direction of Li Yuehua's finger, and his heart sank.

The row of bungalows sat under the quiet night as usual, the silhouette was darker than the night, Wei Gospel took a breath of cool air, and followed behind Li Yuehua with great reluctance.

Standing in front of the cold big iron gate, Wei Fuxin clenched his fists, his nails were deeply sunk into the flesh, he didn't feel it during the day, and at night he looked at this bungalow looked particularly gloomy and weird, the pitch-black wall stretched for hundreds of meters from west to east, the eaves of the wall were covered with dense broken glass, flashing cold light in the night, and the dry branches of a winding creeper extended to the outside of the iron gate.

Li Yuehua stood outside the door and knocked lightly on the iron door, Wei Fuxin's mind was buzzing, and he ran away if he wanted to.

After a while, there was a "squeak", and the heavy iron gate was pushed open, and a terrible dog bark came from the courtyard, cutting through the dark sky.

Without waiting for Li Yuehua to speak, Wang Fengmei welcomed them in with a smile in her eyes, and Wei Fuxin raised her legs and walked into the dim courtyard without saying a word.

"Stop screaming."

Wang Fengmei yelled at a corner of the yard, the barking of the dog stopped immediately, and the rhubarb was lying in her nest with a chirping.

The dazzling light in the room made Wei Gospel unable to raise his head, and sat next to Li Yuehua sluggishly, listening to her sad story.

"Hey, what are you talking about?"

Wang Fengmei sat opposite them and said sympathetically.

Good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, and I guessed with my feet that Wei Fuhai was arrested by the police has long been spread in Da'an District, and it has become the talk of these people after dinner, Wei Gospel sneered in his heart.

"How's Old Wei?" Wang Fengmei asked with concern.

"I'm a woman, how can I ever encounter such a thing." Li Yuehua didn't know how many times she cried tonight, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, "The person was arrested, and now I can't even see my face." ”

There was silence for a while, Wei Gospel didn't expect Li Yuehua to come to Wang Fengmei for help, and he didn't see any dealings between them, barely acquaintance, nodding friends, Li Yuehua did not have a high evaluation of Wang Fengmei's character, just two words: profiteer.

Maybe it was because she was desperate, Li Yuehua had the cheekiness to beg the person she had always looked down on, which showed that she really had no choice.

Wei Gospel sat on the sofa with a heavy heart, and cold sweat broke out in his palms.

"Mom, who's coming?"

Suddenly, a low magnetic inquiry voice floated out of the back room, which seemed abrupt and harsh, Wei Gospel was stunned, slowly raised his head, and looked in the direction where the voice came from.