"What the hell are you looking for me?" I held back the restlessness in my heart and asked.

"In this way, you really already know about it." Sima Lao Thief smiled coldly, "Yuan Long, this person is just not ruthless enough to you, if he had listened to me earlier, there wouldn't have been so much trouble." Dare to carry me anywhere on your back, it's like killing yourself. ”

"Did you say enough?" Qin Feng shouted.

Sima Lao Thief was unmoved, and continued: "Since everyone knows it, then I will tell you what I mean, I am a handful of people, I have always felt inconvenient when I have done things in the past few years, I heard that the young man who is with you is good, and the Cao family Ajin in the thrift market, there is a place, I want a few of you to accompany me on a trip." Although this is a transaction, there are still rules on the road, and I will not lose any of the lama's money. ”

When I heard this, my head grew bigger. Hey, this special lady is really evil, it's only been a few days, I have to go to the fat man's hometown for a while, and it's Boss Sun's business for a while, and now Sima Lao Thief actually came to me. Lao Tzu has just entered the industry, I didn't expect this schedule to be quite full, it seems that I don't have the ability to rob tombs, but I have a cheap life as a thief.

"Why should we trust you, take out the contents of the bag first." Qin Feng knew that I had been worried about these things, so he understood that what the old thief Sima said was a great temptation to me. But now it was Sima Lao's words, so Qin Feng felt that he couldn't believe him.

The old thief smiled, "Do you think I came all the way here to deceive you little dolls?" ”

"Then why don't you take it out, let's take a look first. What are you saying, there are a lot of fake things in this world, how do you want my master to believe it? Qin Feng continued.

"It's not helpful to say more. I can only tell you that with this jade talisman in my hand, you can easily find clues to your background as long as you take a look. I'll give you a few minutes to think about it. ”

Qin Feng wanted to say something more, but was stopped by me.

"Tell me, where do you want to go?" I stared at the old thief Sima in the room and said.

"Oh. agreed so quickly, hehehe, sure enough, he is not the same as Yuan Long. Sima said with a smile.

I know that my decision was very arbitrary. But there are so few clues I can find about my origins. Let's not talk about what happened to that jade talisman, at least I can be sure that Sima Lao Thief is one of the people who knows the inside story of this matter. Deal with him. Naturally, I can't calculate. But more or less, you should always know what is going on.

Ordinary people can't understand my current feelings of not knowing my own life experience, in fact, I am very confused now, even if it is a straw, I want to grasp it, let alone such an important clue.

Sima Lao Thief continued: "Since you agreed, we don't need to be in such a hurry. Heck, it's going to snow, so I'm going to have to find a warm place to take shelter. At the beginning of spring next year, I will naturally come to you. But I'll talk about the ugly things first. In this world, there are no people who have promised me anything and are still alive. ”

Spring next year? I really want to say that you're a bear or something, and you have to spend the winter. However, since Sima Lao Thief said so, the matter must be done. It's just that I don't know where he wants us to go, and I don't know if the fat man and peanut will agree. It's useless to be anxious now, all of a sudden so many things are piled up in front of me, and it seems that in the next few days, I still have to clear my mind.

I thought that after the matter was settled, the old thief Sima and his buddy would leave. But I didn't expect the two to close the door after they finished speaking, and they didn't leave until the evening. It seems that what Daddy said before was right, this guy really didn't dare to show his face in the sun, and the thought of cooperating with such a person who was neither a living nor a dead person still broke out in a cold sweat on my forehead.

After the old thief was gone, I could still feel the lingering gloom in the bedroom.

I quickly packed my things. Just as he was about to go out, Qin Feng suddenly hesitated.

"What's wrong?" I looked at him.

"Master, if we wait here for the night, maybe the master will really come over." Looking at Qin Feng's expression, he still remembered Daddy.

I sighed, feeling a little ashamed. Although I am not related by blood, I am also my father's son, but I am not as filial as Qin Feng in any place. When he said that, I also kind of wanted to stay. But I know it's too much of a mess right now. Second uncle, they must know what is going on in the Ludao Hospital, and now the Li family in Shanxi is looking for trouble again, so they may find me. Now, I'm going to protect myself so I don't mess with them. There are a lot of things in front of me, and more importantly, it is too risky to meet the current daddy directly.

The right thing to do is that we should stay away and ask around. If Daddy's thinking is exactly the same as before in Ah Cheng's body, I believe that the first thing he has to solve is the conflict with the Li family.

The other reason is that I don't want to see him now.

I've now learned to think from the sidelines, but no matter what I think, I still have a faint sense of blame for Daddy. Once there is a gap between people, even if it is just a trivial matter, it is not so easy to talk again. So it's better to be realistic, as the fat man said.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, the fat man had already set up a table of dishes in the shop in the thrift market, and I also met the chattering little guy who handed me a mobile phone in Beijing last time. The four of us sat at the table and ate, and the junior was busy pouring us wine and serving food. At first, I was a little embarrassed to nod at him, but it didn't take long for me to almost forget about him.

The fat man said don't look at Xiao Sanqing, but under his hands, he is the guy who has been doing it for the longest time. The fat man is upright, he has nothing to say, and he doesn't talk and do things. Ordinary people can't stand it, so his buddies are like prostitutes in the red light district, changing batch after batch. The only exception is this little three. This person has very few words, what does the fat man say, although he can't do big things, but as long as the fat man confesses the general problem, Xiao San guarantees that he will do it properly, and he has never let the fat man pick out any thorns. However, Xiao San is not like Qin Feng to Daddy to the fat man, on the thirtieth of every month. He always came on time to ask the fat man for his salary, and sometimes asked for a salary increase or something.

Eh, fat people still like this kind of person. Therefore, the monthly salary of the junior is actually very good. And people have already made it clear to the fat man, he only worked for the fat man for ten years, and when he was done, he went back to his hometown to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law. The fat man said that one of the biggest advantages of Xiao San is that he is easily forgotten by others. Sometimes the fat guy is in the store. Xiao San stood behind him, and the fat man didn't even realize it.

"Heh, then you guy's ability is not small, those big hotels in Beijing need such people, staying here is really condescending." Qin Feng said with a smile.

"You don't know how to speak, don't look at Lao Tzu's shop, the things in the store are much better than those guys in Pan Jiajia'er who can't pay for their lives. Tong Suo is not bullied, you can see it. In a few years, the shops in the surrounding row will all have the surname Cao. ”

"Hey, it's up to you?" Qin Feng couldn't get used to the fat man's virtue at first glance.

As soon as they said that they were about to make a bar again, I quickly brought the wine and let everyone have a drink. Putting down the wine glass, I asked the fat man, "Yanran, where is your hometown?" ”

"It's not far from Beijing, it doesn't take seven or eight hours by car, and then we can walk a little more to the place, find a ravine, and then go inside, which is our Caojia Village."

"Not far off? Why, I'm tired enough to hear you say that. I took a bite of food and asked, "Eh, who is your mysterious person who can connect my fingers, don't you fool me." ”

The fat man looked at me impatiently, "It's my second uncle." ”

"Your uncle?"

The fat man put down the chopsticks, lit a cigarette, and then pointed to his right hand, "When I was a child, this right hand was also broken once, worse than yours, the whole hand fell from the wrist, and the hospital said that there was no hope, but my second uncle didn't use it for a few days, so he helped me get it." ”

"Really? So, how did he pick up your hand, and why didn't I see the scar on your wrist at all? "I couldn't help but be a little skeptical, thinking that even if it was the best hospital to relieve my hands, I should still have a scar.

"My second uncle's person is not ordinary, he knows everything about the way, these things are still trivial." The fat man said proudly.

Qin Feng said: "Listen to you, there are a lot of capable people in your Cao family, why are you alone in Beijing?" ”

The fat man glared at Qin Feng, but sighed after the most slugging. "I think this is the fate of the special mother is not good, there are more than 70 people up and down our Cao family, and there are many men and women who have run out and done things, and they all want to make money, but all of them come to ensure that there is nothing good, and they all go to the village to hide in the last place."

"So, you are the most outstanding person in your Cao family?" I laughed.

"Of course." After the fat man patted his chest and finished speaking, his expression was a little strange.

"What's wrong?"

The fat man smacked his lips and drank another glass of beer, "I have earned a little money over the years, but those people in my family are old-fashioned, and after knowing that I am doing that business, my parents will scold me for not being angry, and the most outrageous thing is that I also scolded me for not being able to change what dog eats, do you say that this special mother has a natural reason, and it is not that Lao Tzu is born to like to be a thief, and it is not forced by the family environment." At that time, the elders of the village almost broke off relations with me. But anyway, now that I can send money back to the village every month, and the family has enough to eat, I don't ask for anything else. ”

The fat man was about to take a sip after speaking, but Qin Feng brought the wine glass in front of him. "You're quite capable, if only you were so stubborn."

The fat man smiled, "Okay, then in front of Brother Feng, Lao Tzu will be a little more restrained." ”

Seeing the two of them post like this for the first time, they couldn't help but be happy.

At the dinner table, Peanut was the least talkative, but we were used to him like this, and the three of us didn't bother him much except for the occasional toast with him.

I drank this wine until the second half of the night, and I don't know if Lu Dao was drunk or what, the big guys were not so drunk that they were lying under the table, but they really couldn't sit steadily.

I was shaking my head there when Qin Feng suddenly pounced next to me.

"Sir. No Ulu Ulu. "This guy must have been drunk in a long time, and now he can't speak.

"It's still far away. Come. As I spoke, I filled the glasses of the two men again. Just about to pick it up, Qin Feng pressed the wine glass.

"What's wrong, admit defeat?" I smiled, but suddenly I saw a serious look on Qin Feng's flushed face.

"Master, I, I want to ask you, one, one thing." Qin Feng shook for a while before finishing his words.

"Say." I slapped the table with a majestic bang.

Qin Feng looked at me seriously. Then he took out a gold necklace from his arms and stuffed it directly into my pocket.

"What are you doing?" I straightened up, "I don't wear silver or gold." ”

Qin Feng patted me. "This chain is what I plan to give away."

"To whom?"

"Me, my wife."

"Huh." I couldn't help but laugh, "You, you have a wife?" ”

"I said sir. Why, I'm in my thirties. You can't have a wife. Let me tell you, my hometown is in Yibin, Sichuan, I live on Cuiping Mountain, and there is an old lady at home, and my wife has always been taking care of me alone. I don't have time to go back all year round, although I send money home every month, but my wife always says that she. She wanted a gold necklace. ”

I patted Qin Feng, "She is not satisfied"

Qin Feng waved his hand. "No, it's not, hehe, my mother-in-law is trying to tell me to go back." Qin Feng straightened up, and then said, "This chain will be put here first, master, if I don't die, I will take it back and send it to him myself in two years, if it is me, I will hang it, and you will help me send it back and hand it over to her personally." ”

"Say what you can't die, come on, drink and drink." I raised my glass again.

"Remember, Yibin, Cuiping Mountain, under Nezha Temple"

"Oh, okay, okay." I hurriedly put the wine in Qin Feng's hand, greeted the fat man, and the three of them continued to drink.

At that time, I thought that Qin Feng was worried about his wife at home, but later I realized that Qin Feng's intentions were too deep. After staying with the old fox for a long time, I can't change the fox to have two more eyes. Hey, we'll talk about the rest slowly.

When I really felt that everything was starting to blur, I faintly saw Peanut leave the room, open the floodgates, and go outside. The night was as cold as water, and when the wind blew, I couldn't help but shiver, and I followed the peanuts out of the curtain.

The streets outside are already very deserted, but on the streets of Beijing, it is difficult for you to think about the darkness, but when the light of those street lamps sprinkles on the peanut, there is no trace of his existence on the ground. I don't know why, but when I saw peanuts smoking a cigarette in my mouth, and I didn't take a puff in the distance, I felt very tired. It was as if his young face was full of thoughts, but it seemed so calm.

I leaned against something and just squinted at the peanut, trying to say something, but I couldn't say a word.

"Yuan Jie."

Peanut suddenly whispered to me.

"Uh" I didn't react a bit.

"What do you think I am now?" Peanut said, looking at the not-so-clean night sky.

"Count us together, brother." I said.

Peanut smiled slightly, "The fat man knows that he is a member of his family, Qin Feng also has his own home, you can continue to find your biological parents, I thought about it just now, and suddenly found that I seem to be a person with no future." ”

I didn't know how to answer, but Peanut was right. He's been dead once and for all. Before that time, he had decided to let go of everything and sleep forever in the Forbidden City of Phantom Snow. But fate played a joke on him, he came back to life, but the only thing that was once meaningful to Peanut was withdrawn from his body, so now, Peanut is like a corpse that suddenly woke up, everything in the past is no longer important, and everything new, he doesn't seem to be interested. Now he will be with us, except for what happened in the Phantom Snow Forbidden City, more than that, it should be a natural choice.

A man who has no future

This sentence sounds as if it is saying that there is no point in living. But when I said it from Peanut's mouth, I felt more helplessness and helplessness. But. How can I understand a person who has no past to understand him who has no future?

"The future is something that needs to be found." I thought about it for a long time before I said that. "Go on adventures, go to discover, I think, even if you don't like these things very much, you should still find something when you're done."

My words were as empty and meaningless as a tutor speaking to a group of students on a podium. Peanut laughed anyway. "Yuan Jie. Regardless of your background, you are a very special person, albeit from the outside. You are the weakest of us, but I think something has been quietly changing in you since some point. I can't find the right words to describe that kind of thing right now. and so on. I'll tell you. ”

After saying that, Peanut continued to look into the distance, smoking his cigarette.

After thinking about it, I turned around and went back to the house. After returning from the Forbidden City, we all managed to get a good night's sleep. After resting in Beijing for two days, the fat man found a tattered SUV, Qin Feng drove, and we set out on the road to Caojia Village.

Seven or eight hours in the mouth of a fat man. After the end, it became a whole day, and we were almost out of Henan. Along the way, he thought that Qin Fengche was driving too slowly. Helpless. We were delayed on the road for another night, and at noon the next day we arrived at the edge of the mountain col where Caojia Village was located.

I don't know if the north is too desolate in winter, or if this ghost place reflects the northern winter as desolate. We looked back and forth for several minutes, but we didn't see any village or anything in front of us.

"Dead fatty, you said you were going to walk a little bit, how far is that?" I looked back at the fat man.

The fat man was taking out the gifts for his family from the car, and the big bags were piled up on the ground. "It's not far, it's a two-hour walk."

Walking is already a daily routine for us, and two hours is really not far for us. But there's no road ahead, so do we still have to walk through that ravine?

But looking at my left hand, I said in my heart that this is the only time to live or die, so the big guy helped the fat man lift those gifts and started the winter off-road.

These roads were already very comfortable compared to the snow mountains we had walked before, but in less than two hours, we saw a village appear in the ravine.

When I went up to take a look, I found that the houses were still made of mud, and many of them could not be called houses, but only shacks. At the entrance of the village, there was a thin yellow dog, and when he saw that we were coming, he barked at the village like crazy, but no one came out after barking for a long time.

"Yanran, didn't you call your family before you came?" I said.

Qin Feng smiled, "Master, you see where this place seems to be able to install a telephone, I don't think there are even wires." ”

Anyway, it's going home, and the fat man is more excited, so he didn't talk to us about this. He walked alone, shouting at the houses as he walked: "I'm back, father, mother"

I don't know how the fat man shouted the names of dozens of relatives in one go, but seeing that we were all about to reach the end of the village, none of us came out. But I could see that there were a few faces behind those windows peeking at us.

"Fatty, why do I think these people are hiding from you?" I asked.

The fat man was a little embarrassed, "Leave them alone, countrymen, thin-skinned, it's good for everyone to know each other in two days." ”

At this moment, in a mud house in front of it, the door was pushed open, and an old lady came out of the room.

"What's the noise, come back when you come back, don't you think you're embarrassed enough to be outside? If I were you, I'd take a detour home from the back of the village. "This old woman is thin, but I didn't expect it to be quite fierce, and she scolded the fat man as soon as she met.

But the fat man was not angry at all, and shouted with a smile: "Mother." ”

"Huh?" Qin Feng and I were both stunned, and said in our hearts that this was the fat man's wife.

No, this, this mother is too fairy, how can she give birth to a big size like a fat man? It seems that time is really strange, it is estimated that Caojia Village has always been so poor, and it was eaten poor by fat people when they were young.

"Uh, auntie, auntie," I couldn't even speak.

The old lady glanced at the three of us angrily, "What are you doing standing there, let's go into the house." "She said she wanted us to come into the house, but the old lady went straight in the other direction, as if she did not intend to entertain her son and us.

The fat man didn't care at all, and urged us into the house. I thought to myself, why Yanran was so unpopular in the village. (To be continued......)