In a chaotic urban village on the outskirts of the city, thick white smoke rises from stalls selling skewers, and the smell of chili powder chokes passers-by incessantly coughing. The roadside stalls were full of people eating supper, shouting and punching, and blowing the awesome stories of the people in the market. From time to time, a person who drank a few glasses of cat urine went into the dark alley, and the girl in the alley wearing cool heavy makeup welcomed him into the door with a smile, and then closed the roller shutter.

A crow flies over people's heads like a bat in the night, and those who see it spit and scream "bad luck", and drink two sips of beer to suppress the shock.

The crow lingered for a long time in the aroma of roast mutton, and finally flew into a secluded corner in the distance with a long croak, stopping at a laurel branch outside the window of a rental house.

Jiang Deguan sat on the shabby sofa with his eyes closed, the cigarette on his fingers almost burning to the cover of his fingernails. At this time, a strange crow crow came from outside the window, which frightened him and threw his cigarette on the ground.

Seeing that the floor was full of advertising paper and plastic bags, he had to pick up the cigarette butts that were still burning and put them out in the ashtray.

Jiang Deguan glanced out the window, the night was dark and dreary, the light of the low street lamps in the distance was shining, the jagged shadows of the osmanthus trees were swaying in front of the window, and the leaves were blown by the wind, like the ridicule of a group of ghosts.

There wasn't even a bird in the tree.

But he clearly heard the crow. It can't be the crow coming along, right? He guessed suspiciously.

Just now, in the spacious patio of the old power plant, he had arranged everything properly, but out of nowhere, a crow appeared out of nowhere and croaked at them, and his people suddenly became crazy, and even his own mind was confused, and he didn't know what was going on.

Of course, he didn't believe that the crows had any magical powers, he just felt that he was unlucky today.

Tuk tuk, someone knocking on the old wooden door of the room.

"Come in." Jiang Deguan said.

The subordinates walked in and called out to Jiang Ye, and they stopped talking a little.

"Say whatever you want." Jiang Deguan said weakly.

His men said, "Our men are ...... was taken over by Huang Ziqiang. ”

"Huang Ziqiang?" Jiang Deguan shook his head, "Impossible, he doesn't have that much ability." ”

"The news from Huang Ziqiang's people, he just helped to release the wind and clean up the battlefield today, and it was ...... who really went to help"

"Who is it?"

"It's Li Wei of the Xia family and a young Chinese man named Quiy Wolf from Canada."

"Who?" Jiang Deguan felt incredible, "Impossible, impossible......"

He said more than a dozen impossibilities in a row, and then raised his head and asked his subordinates: "Have you checked it out, can you be sure?" ”

The subordinate nodded: "Sure." ”

Jiang Deguan sat down on the sofa in a daze. No wonder such a perfect layout was easily broken today, with the help of the Xia family and the North American Hong family, his hope of revenge is almost non-existent. Moreover, after this battle, he Jiang Deguan could no longer gain a foothold in the Sanwu and Shenzhou regions, and it became unrealistic to even go to the United States.

Jiang Deguan waved his hand weakly: "You all go, there is still some cash in the basement, take it and share it with the brothers." ”

The subordinate opened his mouth to say something, but finally only said, "Then take care." Then he went out.

Jiang Deguan heard the sound of the door closing, and felt that the air was gradually condensing in the room, and the whole room was like a coffin prepared for himself, and everything became lifeless.

Another crow chirped outside the window.

Jiang Deguan slowly closed his eyes, and everything around him darkened and gradually brightened again.

A small clear river bends, along the banks are row of brick bungalows, and a high arched stone bridge connects the homes on both sides. The stone steps behind the house lead to the bottom of the river, and the moss crawls sparsely on the stone steps, and the occasional boat passes by, and the waves rush to both banks, lapping against the embankment and making a loud noise.

The woman crouched on the stone steps and pounded her clothes, beating the clothes on the stone surface with sticks. A child jumped into the water from the shore with a bang, and the splash wet the woman's clothes, causing the woman to curse.

The children in the water giggled and played for a while, and then shouted to the shore: "Brother, come down and play!" ”

There was a small table at the back door on the shore, and an older child was doing his homework at the desk, and when he heard the child's voice, he smiled in the river and said, "Don't play, I want to review my homework." ”

The child plunged down, and after a while he floated up, picked up a clam in his hand, threw it towards the shore, and smashed it on the small table, wetting the book.

The older boy stood up in exasperation, looked at the woman on the stone steps who was bent over and pounding her clothes, and looked at the children in the river with a smile, then sighed and sat down, wiped off the wet book, and continued to write.

The children in the water burst out laughing.

Suddenly, the river swelled violently, and the waves rolled like a white snake that had been enraged, and swept violently towards the shore.

Many people came out of the houses on the shore and shouted, "The flood is coming, run for your life!" So the people ran and told each other, and scattered in all directions.

The upper reaches of the river were gray, and it was impossible to distinguish between heaven and earth, and suddenly a yellow-brown tide appeared, and the tide heads several feet high rushed over the sky, like ten thousand horses galloping, making a rumbling sound, and even the earth trembled.

The older boy pushed the small table, and the books fell to the ground with a thud. But he didn't care about the books, so he rushed down the stone steps to pull the woman: "Mom, run!" ”

The woman cried and pointed to the undulating shadow in the middle of the river: "Your brother...... Go and save your brother! ”

The older boy jumped into the water and went to find his younger brother. After a long search, he finally pulled his brother ashore, but the woman was gone.

The flood had receded and the whole village had been razed to the ground, except for the old stone arch bridge, which sat there intact as if he had seen all the vicissitudes of life.

The brothers cried among the rubble, looking for traces of their home. Finally, they found the dying woman.

"Take care of your brother." These were the last words left by the woman.

"Mom!" The older boy burst into tears, and this was the last time he called the woman "Mommy".

He dragged his younger brother along the muddy roads, begging in every village, and suffered to the fullest. They moved from the countryside to the city, and among the tall buildings, the younger brother asked the elder brother in fear, "Are we going to die?" ”

The elder brother looked up at the towering building and said, "No, we won't die, I will let you eat the best meal here, stand on the top of the highest building and watch the scenery." ”

Years later, the elder brother fulfilled his promise. He took his younger brother to eat at the city's only three-Michelin-starred restaurant, and watched the city at night from the top of an 88-story building.

"Take care of your brother."

My brother always remembered his mother's words before she died.

However, he saw the charred corpse, and the smell of burnt meat skewers filled the air.

He heard the woman scold, "Why are you so useless, you can't even take care of your brother!" ”

A crow cries came from nowhere.

Jiang Deguan burst into tears, covered his face and cried.