Chapter 31: The Riot (Part II)
"Why are you smashing the house? Is it a crime to know? "I stood in front of them, although I also hated Xiao Yin's behavior, but no matter how much I hated it, I wouldn't use this extreme way to manifest it.
"Get out of here!" The young man pushed me away at once. "If you dare to stop it, you will even smash it together."
"What do you fool know? We invested in Huami shares, and now the value of the shares has plummeted, and we are all about to go bankrupt. An older uncle suddenly appeared behind the young man, looking furious. Now that he has fled to the United States, what do you say we will do? Who do we look for? β
I was about to say something, but they knocked me to the side, and one of them stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
The group ran forward like a demon, as if there was no one else, nothing else in their eyes, only the anger that would burn their eyes at that moment.
I know where Xiao Yin's hometown is, at this time, when I can't stop these people who have lost their minds, the only thing I can do is to rush to the old house before them and rescue Xiao Yin's old mother. Xiao Yin's mistakes are wrong, but it has nothing to do with the old man, as a former friend, now I naturally have the obligation to act bravely.
Running wildly all the way, facing the cold wind of this late winter, I felt like a knife cutting my face, and I didn't dare to touch it with my hands.
Xiao Yin's hometown is in a faculty and staff family home, and there are three five-story small buildings in the family courtyard, and Xiao Yin's house is exactly in the middle. This family home was in disrepair before I was born, and the government had plans to demolish and replace the resettlement house a few years ago.
Although the faculty and staff family home is located on Ping'an Avenue, it does not directly face the main entrance of the street, and its main entrance is hidden in an alley in the alley, and the mob with brick-moving sticks will have to make a long detour to break into it.
And I'm different, when I skipped class with Xiao Yin and went online in high school, I knew that there was a small dog hole in the wall of Xiao Yin's family home, because there was this dog hole that could penetrate into the hospital at once, so Xiao Yin could stay in the Internet cafΓ© for fifteen more minutes every time.
I didn't expect this inconspicuous little thing to play a vital role today, I got into it through the hidden dog hole, and then arrived at Xiao Yin's door in three steps and two steps, although it has been many years, I still remember the location of his house very clearly. 2 units and 2 units on the 2nd floor of Building 2, I can't be mistaken.
Bang bang bang! I knocked the door, and I didn't care about any etiquette at the moment.
"Auntie. Look at the door! β
After knocking on the door and shouting three times, Xiao Yin's mother slowly opened the door, and I glanced inside the house, the cleaning here was quite clean, and the furniture was exquisite, but it was still beyond my expectations. I thought that now that Xiao Yin has earned so much money, he has become one of the top richest people, how can he make his mother's house splendid, but when I look at it today, it is nothing more than that, although it is not down, but it is not noble.
"You are?" Aunt Xiao looked at me, her eyes were both strange and familiar
In the parent-teacher conference in high school, I once had a relationship with Aunt Xiao, I haven't seen her for more than ten years, she is still so thin, her figure is not the same as before, but her face is much older, her hair is white and wrinkles are deep and shallow, and she looks like an old man. But if you think about it, Aunt Xiao is only less than sixty years old, but she is like an old lady in her seventies and eighties, it seems that Xiao Yin has been wandering outside for so many years, and Aunt Xiao is worried about her son.
"Auntie, I'm Xiao Yin's classmate Liu Quan, if you don't explain it to you first, you can go with me." I dragged Aunt Xiao downstairs, I knew that if the tone was not firm, this Aunt Xiao would definitely hesitate, it was better not to say anything, and send her to a safe place first.
"Willow ...... Liu Quan, I remember you, oops, you've grown so big. I don't even recognize you. "Aunt Xiao didn't resist, she followed me downstairs, but her legs and feet were not as light as when she was young, and her speed was naturally slower." Where are you taking me? β
I heard that Aunt Xiao's voice was still a little hoarse, as if she hadn't woken up, and when she looked closely, her eyes were swollen from crying, and her already somewhat shriveled skin and a pair of red and swollen eye sockets made people unbearable when they saw it.
It seems that she was heartbroken for her son last night, Xiao Yin is now standing on the cusp of public opinion, and she is putting on a free and easy appearance on the TV show, but she doesn't know that her mother is worried about him and can't sleep at night.
As soon as I brought the old aunt to the community, I saw the mob at the gate rushing in, and their dancing and angry appearance frightened Aunt Xiao into staggering. I hurriedly dragged her into a corner.
"What do these people do?" Aunt Xiao said in a panic.
In fact, I didn't have to answer her at all, because as soon as she finished asking the question, the young people smashed the stone into Aunt Xiao's house, and the height of the second floor was just enough to be hit by the stone, and then the window of the living room was punched out of several holes, and then the whole piece was shattered.
"Ahh Aunt Xiao's legs were weak and she almost collapsed to the ground. "What are you doing, these little bunnies! This is my house for decades. Aunt Xiao began to cry again, she was so angry that she gritted her teeth, and she was almost about to push me away and run to the mob to judge.
"Auntie, don't go over." I dragged Aunt Xiao to death, how dare I let her rush over at this time. "These people are a bunch of mad dogs right now, and you can't judge them."
"This! This is my house for decades, and I have left this house all my life to teach and educate people. Aunt Xiao choked up and was almost speechless.
"Many of these people have entered the shares of Huami Company, and in the past two years, Huami Company has gained strong momentum, and some people have even bet all their family assets on it." Now that I'm basically out of danger, I'm finally able to breathe a sigh of relief and have a real fight with my old aunt. Say a few words. "Xiao Yin's resignation has caused the shares of Huami Company to explode, and almost all of these people are bankrupt, and they now have nowhere to vent their grievances, so they can only smash your house."
After hearing this explanation, Aunt Xiao suddenly lost her confidence, she was still full of anger just now, but now she only has guilt left. "Hey, Xiao Yin, this little brute, how many people have been harmed......"
"Auntie, you can't live here for the time being, when the turmoil passes, we will come back and repair this house." I say. "Now come with me to my house to avoid the limelight."
Aunt Xiao nodded helplessly, with a sad face, to be honest, she really didn't have any choice now.
She could only keep looking back at her messy home, and then she kept sighing.
I didn't dare to linger on the street with Aunt Xiao, because now there are atrocities and protests everywhere, and banners insulting Xiao Yin are on almost every street. Seeing that her son was a young talent yesterday and a sinner for the ages today, she probably fainted sadly.
So I hailed a taxi and asked the driver to drive me directly to my tea house. Aunt Xiao has been sobbing in the car, which caused the driver to be very suspicious, I naturally didn't dare to tell the driver that this is Xiao Yin's mother, just said that this is a distant relative of mine, in extraordinary times, I really have to guard against it, maybe a slow and reasonable person will become a thug in an instant.
Today, the whole city is making a fuss about Xiao Yin's affairs, I and Yu Ge's tea house is not a customer, the tea room of Nuo Da seems empty, when we get off the car, Yu Ge is standing at the door and looking around boredly, and no one wants to watch the slender figure at the moment.
"Izumi, why are you here now?" Yu Ge hurriedly asked anxiously when he saw me. "I'm worried about you to death, today your human world is going to riot, I'm afraid that you and that Xiao Yin have too much intersection and will be affected because of this."
I gave Yu Ge a face, Yu Ge has always been smart, but today for some reason I just couldn't pay attention to what I meant, and began to babble endlessly. "It's really not that I didn't expect this Xiao Yin to have such a big influence, and now it seems that he is really going to be doomed."
"Yu Ge......" I whispered a reproach. Don't talk about it yet, go to the house and make a cup of warm tea for your aunt. β
"Auntie?" Yu Ge glanced at Aunt Xiao carefully, her vision was much finer than that of humans, and she could naturally detect the similarity in appearance between this mother and son. "Is it?"
After saying that, she covered her mouth, hurriedly ran into the tea shop, and brought a pot of hot tea in a short time.
"Auntie, sit down. It's so cold outside, you drink a cup of hot tea first. Yu Ge's reaction was really sensitive, and the change in attitude was so fast that he didn't leave a trace.
Aunt Xiao slowly found a chair to sit down, then slowly picked up the teacup, covered it in the palm of her hand but refused to drink it. "Hey......"
From just being in the car, Aunt Xiao sighed incessantly, and every sigh was like a piece of frost, which was applied to people's hearts and stinged.
"Auntie, my girlfriend has always been indiscriminate in her speech, don't take it to heart."
Aunt Xiao shook her head, and new tears fell from her eyes that had just dried up, and they splashed into the teacup. "No...... What the little girl said is right, Xiao Yin is indeed doomed, not to mention that these people who have been let down by him can't forgive him, and I, the damn one, can't forgive him. β
"Auntie......" I gently stroked Aunt Xiao's shoulder, hoping to give her some comfort.
"Liu Quan, I really didn't expect you to think about helping me at this juncture, it's good that Xiao Yin can have a friend like you." Aunt Xiao said this, and I felt sad for a while.
"Auntie, I don't like to lie, to tell the truth, I am also very repulsed by Xiao Yin's approach, the reason why I went to pick you up is actually just because I don't want to see what danger you have as an old man, it has nothing to do with Xiao Yin."
Aunt Xiao gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, coughing and complaining. "Hey...... Liu Quan, you call it righteousness, if only Xiao Yin could have half of you. β
"Auntie, don't say that, Xiao Yin is better than me in all aspects, he has done such a big business, and how can I compare with him." Aunt Xiao's words made me feel uncomfortable, and I had to say some polite words. "It's just him...... He didn't take the sunny road, but he went astray.
"Hey...... The kid ......" Aunt Xiao pressed the tea table, feeling that her nails were about to break. "It's all to blame for not disciplining her properly."
Looking at Aunt Xiao's appearance, I knew that it should be difficult for her to come out of her sad mood in a short time, and at this time, talking to her about Xiao Yin's mistakes will only make her more heartbroken, it is better to ask some things about Xiao Yin, she must know more about Xiao Yin as Xiao Yin's mother, maybe from her mouth we can also know why Xiao Yin did such an outrageous thing.
"Auntie, has Xiao Yin contacted you recently?" I don't dare to ask too directly at once.
He ...... The last time he contacted me was a month ago, and one night he came back out of the blue, staying at home for the night. Aunt Xiao looked at me and replied slowly. In the past five years, it is the first time that he has gone home without a holiday. β
I thought about it carefully, wasn't that the day Xiao Yin came to the tea shop to look for me more than a month ago? After he and I had a long talk, he should have taken the car home, so Aunt Xiao should have not hidden it.
"Did Xiao Yin tell you something? Whether it's work or feelings. β
Aunt Xiao nodded. "In fact, he never told me about work, of course, I never asked, usually when I talk to him, I urge him to get married. Before going to bed that night, I said to him, you are such a big man, you should find a daughter-in-law, I am still waiting to hold my grandson? β
This is really a clichΓ©, and when mothers reach this age, they basically care about their grandchildren.
"But this Xiao Yin, that night was really a bit weird, because usually, when I told him this kind of thing, he would excuse himself in various ways. At the beginning, when he was having a hard time in Beijing, he would fight me when I said this, saying that he had nothing and no one liked him, but then he worked smoothly and achieved a little success, and when I said about it, he said that he was too busy with work now and didn't have time to do this. Aunt Xiao said worriedly. But that night, he suddenly replied that in fact, he had always had a girlfriend and had been talking for more than five years. β
I naturally know that the girlfriend in Xiao Yin's mouth is actually the product of Orchid Gu, that is, the other half of Xiaolan in Xiao Yin's dream.
"I was so happy at the time, I said it's good to dare to be affectionate, hurry up and bring my daughter-in-law home for me to see? And guess what he said? He said he was the only one who could see the girlfriend. Aunt Xiao complained. I got angry that night, so I ignored him and went to bed alone. β
"That night, did Xiao Yin only tell you this?" This really disappointed me, I, an outsider, Xiao Yin, had a long talk with me for a long time, how could I say such two words to my mother Xiao Yin.
"I'm not done yet." Aunt Xiao sighed and replied. "Later, in the middle of the night, he suddenly ran into my room, howled and cried, and knelt down to say sorry to me."
"Huh?"
"It was the first time he knelt down for me, and I was so startled that I picked him up and asked him what was the matter? Is it difficult to work? β
"And what did he say?" I realized that this matter might have something to do with Xiao Yin's current situation, because when Xiao Yin chatted with me that day, although he also said some strange things, he was generally in a good mood. He suddenly knelt down in front of his mother and confessed, there must be something hidden in this.