I looked around and didn't see any black shadows, so I asked Li Huaishan where they had gone.

Li Huaishan's mind was on the game, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses, slapped his head hard, and said that he forgot to let Xiao Hei come out of the suitcase.

I hurriedly opened the suitcase, only to find that the big and small were sleeping soundly, and the bright light in the room did not wake them up.

Li Huaishan glanced at me and found that Xiao Hei was asleep, so he continued to play the game.

Seeing Li Huaishan's obsessed look, I really doubt whether he was serious when he said that he would not become a burden.

I don't know if it's my delusion, since I left the old alley with Li Huaishan, he seems to have become more irresponsible than in the past.

On the one hand, I do feel that Li Huaishan seems to be becoming more and more unreliable, and on the other hand, I don't want to hit his self-confidence and make him think that he is really a burden, so he can only hide it, and let his temperament come for the time being.

When it was almost nine o'clock, Gai Dong came up with a big food bowl, I didn't expect him to go upstairs to deliver the food in person, and I didn't expect him to ask me for 20,000 yuan as soon as he put down the bowl full of egg fried rice.

At first, I thought that 20,000 yuan was the money for tonight's dinner, until Gai Dong told me that he needed a little money to take care of the affairs in Kunming for me in advance, and bluntly said that I should do this kind of thing by myself in the future.

He told me that the man surnamed Hu lived in an urban village, the village was relatively deep, and the road was narrow, so it was inconvenient to park for a long time, so he helped me find a parking lot in advance, and planned to renew the parking fee for three months, and also helped us rent two fuel mopeds, and the rent was also planned to be paid for three months.

I saw that he only paid for three months, no matter what kind of money, and out of curiosity, I asked him why he paid for a few more months, but he just smiled at me and refused to say anything else.

I don't know anyone in Kunming, of course, everything is taken care of by Gai Dong, as for how much it costs to park and rent a car, and how much is left of the 20,000 yuan, he didn't say clearly, and I didn't ask.

After that, Li Huaishan and I stayed in Shanghai for two days, occasionally going out for a stroll during the day, and staying in the shop in Gaidong at night.

However, Gai Dong himself does not live in the store, and every day after closing, he will pack up his things and go to the Bund, as for where he went, he also did not say, and I did not ask.

It was only later that I learned that Gai Dong's master had opened a big bar on the Bund, and the head of Kongyun asked me to go to the Bund to find Gai Dong before, just because he didn't know about Gai Dong's branch in Zhangyuan, and thought that Gai Dong was still working as a bartender at the old store.

Since Gai Dong has to go to school during the day and run a store at night, I actually have very little intersection with him, and occasionally chat a few words, and most of the things we talk about are also painless and itchy.

During my time in Shanghai, I tried to call the casual worker surnamed Hu, but no matter how many times I called, he wouldn't answer. In the end, Gai Dong contacted him and told him that Li Huaishan and I were going to their house to spend the night, and Hu casually agreed.

I couldn't understand why Hu didn't answer my phone and asked Gai Dong, who said that Lao Hu had a deep fear of unfamiliar numbers, and blessed him not to call him again until I met him.

On the morning of November 29th, Li Huaishan and I embarked on the journey again, because Gai Dong had a class in the morning, and he didn't have time to come back to see us off, but he just told us to lock the door of the store when we left.

From Shanghai to Kunming, it was a distance of more than 2,300 kilometers, and I grew up so big, except for the last time I went to Gongshan, I had never driven for such a long time.

Moreover, the last time I went to Gongshan, the car was driven by me and Li Huaishan in turn, but he was really aggrieved by the temporary car inspection, and this time he refused to rotate with me, so I could only drive by myself.

When it comes to physical strength alone, driving is not a physical task for me at all, but the problem is that as long as I drive for more than four hours, I am very sleepy, and my upper and lower eyelids are tired of holding a toothpick.

There is no way, in order to arrive in Kunming alive, we can only go into the rest area from time to time to rest, and every time we dare not get off the car at the same time, we must leave one person in the car to watch the big black and the hammer.

Once Li Huaishan got out of the car to smoke, there was really a half-old child suddenly lying on my car window, I guess he saw the hammer, and felt curious and came over to hug him, I was not afraid that he would see the hammer, and I was afraid that the yin qi on the big and small black body would hurt him, so I quickly got out of the car and drove the child away with a roar.

The child's father almost got into a fight with me over this.

At that time, I began to worry about how to settle the big and small black after arriving in Kunming, although Hu casual workers should not be able to see them, but as the days go by, the yin qi on the big and small black will always make him uncomfortable.

There is also a hammer, which does not look much different from an ordinary cat, but it never eats, and after a long time, people will definitely see a little problem.

But anyway, we're already on the road, Gai Dong suggested that I go with the flow, then I'll just let it be, anyway, it's just annoying to think too much about things like this, and there's no solution, so it's better not to think about it.

When I entered Yunnan, Gai Dong gave me a phone number, and asked me to call this number when I arrived in Kunming, and naturally someone would come to show me the way.

I vaguely remember that the person Gai Dong contacted seemed to be his junior high school classmate or high school classmate, I forgot what it was called, I just remember that he had a good personality and was a self-acquaintance.

As soon as Li Huaishan and I entered Kunming, we got in touch with the classmate who built the building, and under his guidance, we put the car in the parking lot and took out two new Mulan motorcycles from the motorcycle dealership.

That person didn't seem to follow us to find Hu casual workers, or led us to the entrance of the urban village, and left without entering the village, oops, this has been a whole ten years, and some less important details will really not be remembered for a while, I only remember that when I entered the village, there were only two people, Li Huaishan and me, and it happened to be the work point again, except for the occasional old man or two on the village road, most of the time it was unusually quiet.

The whole village is built on a long ramp, on both sides of the village road are cement walls and lined doors, it may have just rained a few days ago, there is some water on the ground, and on the left side of the road there is a trough that extends from the top of the ramp, which is covered with moss, and occasionally wisps of clear water can be seen flowing quickly along the bottom of the sink.

Li Huaishan looked up at the sky and sighed: "Blue sky and white clouds." ”

I said, "Isn't Bohai Bay a blue sky and white clouds?" ”

Li Huaishan: "I always feel that the sky on our side is not as bright as here." ”

I also looked overhead, and the sky did become blue against the gray walls on either side, but even without these dark walls, the sky was very clean.

The address Gai Dong gave me was very detailed, which direction to go first after entering the village, how many intersections to turn at, how many meters to walk, and which direction to turn again......

We followed the route he gave us and finally found a brick wall in the deepest part of the village that was not coated with cement.

Most of the houses here are double-storey, except for the one in front of you, which is a low bungalow and the rest of the road in the village is covered with cement, except for this one, which has a damp soft mud in front of the door.

Li Huaishan and I glanced at each other and frowned at the same time.

"Hehehe."

Then I heard a woman's laughter coming from the house, and it was very short, it only appeared for a second or two before disappearing completely.

This burst of laughter seemed to make Li Huaishan feel a little uncomfortable, and I saw him squeeze his eyes on the spot.

"Is it Brother Hu's house?" I craned my neck and shouted to the door.

After about a minute or so, there was a brief burst of laughter in the room, and then a man responded, "Wait a minute, come right away." ”

Li Huaishan gently grabbed a handful of his earlobe and whispered, "This family, isn't there something wrong?" ”

I made a silencing gesture at him, signaling him not to talk about people at the door.

After a few more minutes, the door was pushed open, and a slightly emaciated middle-aged man emerged through the crack.

I heard Gai Dong say that Hu Sangong is thirty-five or sixteen years old this year, but the person in front of me makes me unable to distinguish his real age, his skin looks dark and firm, but the wrinkles in some places are extraordinarily deep, especially the Sichuan lines in the center of the eyebrows and the crow's feet in the corners of the eyes, like carved by a knife.

With a smile on his face, he quickly approached me and Li Huaishan.

I stretched out a hand to him: "It's Brother Hu, right?" ”

He hid his hands behind his back and smiled shyly: "I just came back from outside, and I haven't washed my hands yet." What's that, just call me Lao Hu. Come in, the car is also advancing, and the village has lost a lot of cars by recruiting thieves nearby. ”

Li Huaishan opened his mouth and asked: "Listen to your accent, aren't you a local?" ”

Lao Hu just smiled innocently and didn't say anything.

Li Huaishan and I pushed the motorcycle into the door, only to find that Lao Hu's home can be said to be a family with four walls, only a table and two benches in the hall, a light bulb hanging on the roof, and there are no other furnishings, just when the door of one of the bedrooms also started, I took a look, and there seemed to be only a simple double bed in that room.

Before I could retract my gaze, a very bloated woman rushed to the bedroom door.

The woman was unkempt and mentally abnormal, standing inside the door with one foot and outside the door with the other, staring at me and Li Huaishan with dull eyes.

After Lao Hu closed the door, he smiled and shouted at the woman: "Thunder, crazy girl, come into the house." ”

The woman's gaze turned to Lao Hu's side, first a very hearty smile bloomed on her dull face, and then as if she was really worried about thunder, she cautiously raised her head to look at the roof.

Lao Hu shouted again: "Crazy girl, come into the house." The woman quickly shrank back and flashed into the house.

(End of chapter)