"Catch my brother." Xie Jianmian stretched out his hand and poked Zhou Zhi's shoulder, "I'm hungry." ”

Zhou Zhi then remembered that they had been exploring Xishui Village for a day, and they didn't bother to eat a mouthful of food, he was used to it, and he didn't care much about more or less meals, but Xie Jianmian looked like a pampered and delicate young master, and it was difficult for him to follow him so much.

Zhou Zhi just gave birth to a rare trace of guilt, and suddenly reacted, and it was not that he had to let Xie Jianmian follow, someone was not tired of begging for nothing, what was his guilt.

Zhou Zhi didn't stop, without pity: "Oh. ”

"Hey." Xie Jianmian flashed in front of Zhou Zhi, pretending to be pitiful, "Won't you invite me to a meal?" ”

Zhou Zhi raised his eyebrows, thinking that this person didn't know how to be cold and indifferent in front of him, so he didn't have anything to pretend to be like this to show him.

"Why should I invite you to dinner?"

"I don't know my life." Xie Jianmian thought about it, and replied very seriously, "I only know you." ”

"I'm honored then."

Xie Jianmian smiled and winked at Zhou Zhi, I have to say that his skin is really good, and the owner of the skin is never hesitant to use this to bargain, he smiled, Zhou Zhi felt that there was a string under his left chest that moved subtly, and he was stunned when he refused.

“…… Let's go. ”

Leave Xishui Village and walk two miles to the east, bypassing the narrow streets and alleys, there is a small shop at the corner, the location is hidden deeply, the boss is also low-key, not many people know this. Zhou Zhi is a frequent visitor here, he is worried about the wontons in this shop, the skin is thin and sunken, with a bowl of clear soup, sprinkled with some green onions and coriander, and a few dried shrimps floating on the soup noodles, which looks simple, but other restaurants do not have this taste.

The boss is a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, born with five or three thick, but his face is very thick, and he greeted Zhou Zhi with a smile: "Zhou Zhutou, I haven't seen you for a few days." ”

"Isn't this coming?" Zhou Zhi found a table where no one was, pulled out the bench and motioned for Xie Jianmian to sit down, and replied with a smile: "Boss Wu, come and have two bowls of wontons." ”

"Okay." Although it was not summer, he would still sweat a little when he was busy, Boss Wu wiped his forehead with the sweat towel hanging around his neck, and saw Xie Jianmian sitting at the table, "Yo, Zhou Zhutou friend?" This little brother is really handsome. ”

Zhou Zhi glanced at Xie Jianmian, and saw that Xie Jianmian was looking at him with interest, and he didn't seem to have any intention of speaking, so he had to say "hmm" vaguely.

Not long after, two bowls of steaming wontons were served by the shopkeeper.

Zhou Zhi handed one of the bowls to Xie Jianmian, and took a pair of bamboo chopsticks for him: "Eat." ”

Xie Jianmian took it, and even said thank you rarely, which made Zhou Zhi feel really flattered.

Xu is really hungry, Xie Jianmian didn't say anything, he ate the wontons one bite at a time, and it could be seen that he must have had a good family education since he was a child, and he was extremely cultivated, even if he was hungry, he would not gobble it up, it must be a child from a prestigious family, but among the few big families in Jinzhou who can be named, none of them are surnamed Xie.

"Hey, I'll ask you something." Zhou Zhi couldn't hold back his curiosity, put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked at the person opposite, "Why don't you stay at home and come to Jinzhou?" ”

Xie Mian didn't raise his head, and said casually: "Hmm...... Because I'm miserable. My family is poor, I can't eat, my father and mother can't support me, so I have to let me pay for an old woman, I don't want to, so I ran away from home. ”

Nonsense.

This kid is dressed in a noble line, and he can see it at a glance, and he is embarrassed to say that his family is too poor to afford to eat? What family can't even afford to eat can raise a person like him?

Zhou Zhi knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks and snorted softly: "Knit, then weave." It's such a fascinating story. ”

"Okay." Xie Jianmian fortunately didn't eat either, he said to Zhou Zhi in a good tone, "Why don't we make an exchange, I explain your question, and you also answer me a question." ”

"What's the problem?"

"Just now in Cross River Village, you said you were a gangster, why?"

Zhou Zhi frowned, and regretted his momentary gaffe, just a little thief who met in Pingshui, what is there to say. But after thinking about it, it's just a little thief who met in the water, what can't be said, and those experiences are not secrets.

Some things have been buried for a long time, and if you don't bring them out to see the light, I'm afraid they will rot in flesh and blood.

Xie Jianmian saw Zhou Zhi's hesitation, and also saw that he would not refuse, so he beckoned the shopkeeper over and asked for a pot of wine.

"Drink." Xie Jianmian poured two glasses for himself and Zhou Zhi respectively, "You can only spit out the truth after drinking." ”

Zhou Zhi took the cup, shook it at Xie Jianmian, and asked in disbelief, "The amount of wine is good?" “

"Hmm...... I guess it's okay. ”

Zhou Zhi snorted and drank all the wine in the cup: "Say it." ”

"There's not much to say." Xie Jianmian took a sip of the wine in the glass, obviously not used to drinking this kind of cheap liquor brewed by the street shop, frowned or swallowed, "My family treats me very well, and I will meet any request, but I feel bored, so I want to come out and go around, and I ran around to Jinzhou." ”

Zhou Zhi couldn't quite understand the thoughts of this kind of rich young master, so he considered the wording and said, "Your family is not worried? ”

After all, this young master obviously has no experience outside, and he has such a swaggering face, and it is common for him to be deceived by others.

"I have to come out, they can't stop me."

Xie Jianmian didn't know Zhou Zhi's inner thoughts, and even stuck out his tongue a little proudly, bringing out a bit of innocence that was incompatible with that face.

"It's really uncomfortable."

In fact, after a day of getting along, Zhou Zhi found that Xie Jianmian was a little contradictory, looking a little frivolous and frivolous, but in fact he was very naïve, probably really taken care of too well since he was a child, he had not seen much of the sinister hearts of people, and he did not have the slightest wariness of this world.

"I'm done, satisfied or not satisfied, that's it. What about you? Xie Jianmian looked sideways at Zhou Zhi, raised his glass and drank the wine, "Why did you become a gangster?" ”

This topic is a bit long, the root is some not very good memories, he has carried these memories alone for more than ten years, the ubiquitous fire and the bloody gas in the sky are like poisonous vines, densely entangled around his mouth and nose, inch by inch into the flesh, he has never spoken, he dare not speak.

Sometimes he thinks that when he dies, these black crumbs of the past will probably really be scattered into the dust and no one knows.

But listening is simple, but talking is hard.

Zhou Zhi laughed at himself, hiding the sourness in his heart, poking the root of the inhumanity into the soil word by word, postponing the story until the day when he could see the light.

"My father and mother died early, there are no relatives at home, when I was a child, I often fought with the street gangsters in order to survive, although I was young at that time, but I fought hard, do you know that kind of lifeless fighting, no one taught me kung fu, I fought with my life, and then the rest of the gangsters were afraid of me, no longer troubled me, and I was able to live a little bit."

Zhou Zhi had no expression on his face when he spoke, as if he was talking about an innocuous experience, but what he didn't say was that he was only eight years old that year, an eight-year-old child, he was still very young, he was alone, helpless, and had only one thought: to live.

It's obviously a little bigger than a bean, but it's full of ruthlessness in his bones, and his eyes are like a dangerous wolf cub staring at people, and he will bite you if he doesn't catch it off.

At first, the thugs used to tease him, snatch his food, and spill his water, thinking that this was just a little beggar that no one wanted, but one day the dirty little beggar suddenly broke out, and in the end there was blood on both sides.

At that time, he was lying on the ground, clutching the stick tightly in his hand, panting and glaring fiercely at the trouble-stirring gangsters, with a great posture of ending up together.

Since that scene, he has gradually gained some prestige, and people who are often in that scene know that there is a child surnamed Zhou who fights and dies, and it is very difficult to provoke.

This journey is seven years.

"And then?" Xie Jianmian drank the wine in his hand one by one, "How can you be a fast catcher?" ”

"Because of my master."

Zhou Zhi frowned and looked at Xie Jianmian's never-ending wine, feeling that something was going to happen if it went on like this, he raised his hand and pressed the wine jug, trying to stop the hand that kept pouring wine, only to find that the wine jug was empty.

Xie Jianmian didn't look like he was drunk, confirming this, Zhou Zhicai continued: "When I was fifteen years old, the fight was seen by Zheng Kaishi, the head of the government at the time, he thought I had good bones and wanted to pull me into the right path, so he accepted me as an apprentice, taught me kung fu, and asked me to investigate the case with him. ”

Xie Jianmian nodded, propped up his elbows to support his cheeks, Xu was indeed a little too drunk, his face was slightly red, and his lips were more colorful.

"What about your master?"

"Five years ago, he threw all the burdens to me, saying that he wanted to give juniors a chance to exercise." Zhou Zhi snorted, "I don't know him yet, doesn't he just want to play in the mountains and rivers, and he is not serious." “

Xie Jianmian wanted to say something more, but when he looked up, he noticed that he was a little drowsy, his head was so heavy, and the catch in front of him was a little ghostly, and he squinted to see people clearly.

No one answered for a long time, Zhou Zhi glanced at him in surprise, only to find that Xie Jianmian didn't seem to be very awake, his eyes were unusually misty, and when he looked at him, he seemed to be covered with a layer of hazy light.

"Hey." Zhou Zhi walked over and patted him on the face, "Really drunk?" ”

"Huh?" As if sensing the coolness on Zhou Zhi's hand, he tilted his head and rubbed against the broad and powerful skin, "...... Not really. ”

Zhou Zhi: "......"

Zhou Zhi withdrew his hand a little embarrassed, feeling that the red on Xie Jianmian's face had rubbed against his hand, crispy and numb. As soon as Zhou left with his hand, Xie Jianmian had no support, and instantly lay on the table.

"Don't sleep here." Zhou Zhi shook Xie Jianmian's shoulder, but the other party didn't have the slightest consciousness of getting up, "Where do you live?" I'll send you back. ”

Xie Jianmian slowly straightened up, it took him a long time to understand what Zhou Zhi's question meant, but his mind was a mess, as if he was stepping on the clouds, the whole person was in a fluttering state, this question seemed to be a little difficult, he frowned and thought for a long time and finally came up with an answer that he thought was correct: "Inn." ”

"Hiss...... "This is teasing him, right?" Can you live on the street without staying in an inn? Who swore just now that he had a good amount of wine, and this is just a pot and that's it?

"If you can't drink it, don't drink it, what can you do? And no one is forcing you. ”

Zhou Zhi leaned over to set up Xie Jianmian in resignation, his whole body was soft as if there was no skeleton, and all the weight was leaning on Zhou Zhi.

"Can you still go?"

“…… Yes. ”

said yes, but the weight on his body was not light at all.

Zhou Zhi sighed, carried Xie Jianmian behind him, and walked home with the moonlight.