The night breeze blows the dilapidated courtyard in front of you, occasionally lifting a layer of adobe peeling off the wall, driving the squeaking sound of some broken wooden houses in the corners, at first glance, it does not look like it is inhabited, but more like a courtyard that has been abandoned for more than ten years. The only difference is that there is no wild grass more than one person tall on the entire ground, and a large vegetable patch is enclosed on the east side of the yard, which looks a little angry.

A brazier erected in the courtyard was about to be extinguished, and the four fresh fish caught in the afternoon, a foot long, were all reduced to bones. At this moment, in the faint light of the fire, Momoko looked at the boy and the greedy snake lazily napping on his arm with a shocked expression. You must know that their grandchildren are tired for a day, and they may not be able to eat such a big fish in one meal, but tonight, with the addition of nearly forty dried fish roasted, looking at the appearance of the young man is still a little unsatisfied.

"Brother, are you full?"

"Half-full! Grandpa's cooking is so delicious, I've never eaten such delicious fish before. "In the past five or six years on a desert island, when the boy was hungry, he would draw death from the sea creatures, and occasionally eat some fish and food, without fire and spices, and mostly eat some raw. Although the old man's family is destitute and his cooking skills are not clever, after all, he has lived in a fishing village all his life, so the fish he makes is simply the most delicious food in the world when he is a teenager.

Rolling up a home-grown tobacco leaf to rub the foam, gently swallowing, hearing the young man's words, the old man smiled happily, and said: "There is not much food at home, anyway, I will go to the beach every day, if you like to eat, I will make more for you tomorrow." ”

"Grandpa. If only I gave it all to my brother. Where do we have fish to sell for money?" Although Momoko also wants to feed her new friends that she has made with great difficulty, perhaps because of the heartfelt fear of those who chase the debt, Momoko pursed her mouth tightly and said.

"You kid, the guests are still here, why are you mentioning these?"

I have to say that the old man is a sincere and kind person. But at this time, when I heard my granddaughter's words, I was in a relaxed mood when I had dinner at night. He sighed lightly and said, "The season of fish fat has passed, and now there are few fleets sailing, and most of the villagers are maintaining their boats and repairing their fishing nets for more than a month. Occasional departures, also offshore. If it is left in the past, the family will inevitably be tossed by King Jiayan's minions during this time. ”

"Who is King Jia Yan?" Looking at the fear that involuntarily appeared on the old man's face, the young man asked curiously.

"It's the one who Momoko owes his father and mother. Drifting Village. In seven or eight villages within a radius of 100 miles, it is considered one of the richest villages. The village has been fishing for generations, and there are many good handlebars, so the life of the villagers is also good. This Jia Yan Wang is a large family in the village for five generations, his grandfather is a top shipbar style, from his beginning, to now there are more than 100 years, their family manages five fleets, the leader Li Zhuang during the day, is the chief of the Jia family, now it can be described as a big business, there is a family property in the water navigation city, and the city is also regarded as a head and face. ”

"The old lady of the Jia family used to be a good person, and she had an excellent reputation, and when she met someone with a difficult or a disaster, she was never stingy when she could help her. It was only when it was passed on to this generation of Jia Lao Er that his reputation gradually deteriorated. He is the only seedling of the Jia family's generation, with only one sister above, and a wealthy family, so he has been hanging since he was a child, and at the age of sixteen, because he played with a beautiful girl in the village, he killed people and was sent to the city to report to the official. At that time, it was just in time for the early days of the change of the city lord, and the new city lord took office with three fires, and he actually sent three summoning grandmasters to lead the guards to arrest Jia Laoer. Later, he had to abscond with a fleet to a relative's house in the south. ”

Speaking of this, the old man took out a cigarette again, picked up a fire stick and lit it, took a few deep breaths, and continued: "For almost three years, the murderer was not caught, and the matter gradually faded into oblivion. Jia Lao Er's father is relatively sleek, and it is said that he used a fierce beast blood pill that his grandfather occasionally got from the sea to pay filial piety, which naturally opened up the relationship with the city lord, and with the follow-up and down, the matter was slowly revealed. As a result, the Jia family was involved with the City Lord's Mansion of Shuihang City. ”

It's just that after Jia Lao Er came back, he didn't give up, and instigated a group of ruffians to kill all the four members of the family of the girl who reported to the official. This incident caused a great sensation in Shuipiao Village, but everyone knows that his father was even bedridden when he was sick because of this disdain for his son in those years. The villagers are not stupid, and they know in their hearts that such a big industry and relationship of the Jia family will have to be handed over to Jia Lao Junli sooner or later, so for fear of follow-up retaliation, it will not be done in the end. ”

Sure enough, not long after, Jia Lao Er became the house. Although he did not do a proper job when he was young, after he really ran his family, because of his ruthlessness, he secretly suppressed and intimidated the villagers who formed other fleets, and quietly destroyed fishing boats on the beach. In the next few years, whether voluntarily or forced, the slightly more decent fishermen in the village were recruited by him into Jia's family. I have to say that the two Jia are not very good, but in the past ten years, the Jia family has more than doubled in his hands. It's just that he has a bad conscience, borrows money for interest, organizes a group of thugs, and does some murderous and oversold things at sea along the way. After a long time, everyone secretly gave him a nickname, called King Jia Yan. ”

The old man shook his head with a bitter face, and said: "Peach's father and mother used to make a boat handle style in Jia's house, which was quite important to Jia Laoer, and then the husband and wife wanted to contract the ship and do it alone, and handed in their share every year, and they didn't know how to make sense of Jia Laoer, but the other party had a condition, the contract was OK, and the boat had to be bought, and the crew was matched by the Jia family." ”

"At that time, I always felt that doing things for others was tired of dying and living, and in the end I had enough food and clothing, and Peaches and his father were ruthless, so he responded to this request, but the family didn't have enough money, so he could only borrow money at interest temporarily. Speaking of this, the old man stopped his mouth at the right time, and smoked the cigarette in his hand fiercely, and the young man who was smoked by the thick smoke couldn't help but blink again and again.

"If you owe money, you will pay it back, what are they doing when they come to the house to break and fight?"

"The money owed has two cents of interest, Peaches is still a child, and I am a crippled old man, I go to the fleet to find something to do, and no one wants to do chores, so I can't pay it back at all. The longer it drags on, the more money you have to pay back. The old man explained with a wry smile.

"I see. I see that on the beach in the afternoon, those villagers are not very friendly to you and Peaches, what's going on?"

"It has something to do with the fact that I can't afford it. After Peach's father and mother left, the family's house was taken away by debt, and our grandchildren were relegated to the most remote part of the village in this deserted courtyard where wild cats and wild dogs used to live. If we can't repay the debt, King Jia Yan naturally doesn't have a good impression of us, and now almost all the people in the village are begging for work in Jia's house, and we have to act according to his face, so the villagers naturally don't have a good impression of us. ”

"It's also a pity for the child Peach, because her parents died early, it was okay in the first two years, the villagers in the village helped a little, and some children played with her, but then everyone's attitude gradually changed, and they all said that she killed her parents. Over time, now the adults in the village are afraid to avoid her when they see her, while the children often throw stones at her and chase her to beat her. ”

"The death of my parents was an accident, what does it have to do with Peaches? These people are simply hateful!"

In the blink of an eye, looking at Peaches hanging her head again, she naturally showed a look like a discarded kitten, her hands kept clutching her tattered clothes, and the young man stretched out his palm to stop the latter, and said, "Peach, don't go to your heart, those people are garbage!" In my heart, you are a goddess of luck. I don't know, I was supposed to go ashore to resupply the ship yesterday, but the people who went to explore the way were intercepted and killed by pirates, and if I had gone with them, I might have died. You see, when I went ashore today, I met such a good friend as you, and such a good grandfather, and made such a delicious meal. It must have been you who secretly protected me!"

"Brother, do you really think I'm not a mourning star?" Hearing this, Momoko's already forcibly held back tears suddenly flowed, and her eyes were firmly fixed on the young man.

Touching Peach's eyes full of anticipation and seemingly a little fearful, the young man's heart couldn't help but tremble, to be honest, he never knew that there could be a look that could contain so many complex sour feelings. She is just an innocent and beautiful little girl, it was God who forcibly imposed the catastrophe on her, ruined her childhood and life that should have been happy, ruined the face that should have been cute and laughing, and made her like a fairy who was beaten down to the world, hiding in a lonely corner of being bullied, and silently endured a qiē.

At this moment, a dilapidated and leaky courtyard, a fire that was about to burn out, and a face that seemed incomparably beautiful to the young man. It was these tearful eyes that were inexplicably imprinted in the softest depths of his heart.

"What I said is true. Peaches, my brother promises you that as long as I am here in the future, no one in this world will dare to bully you again!"

This sonorous and powerful word came, and he felt an invisible and intimidating momentum rising inexplicably from the young man, and Zhang Hao, who was sitting leisurely on the wall, couldn't help but be moved. For the young man's ability to lie casually just now, while he smiled bitterly, he also knew that the other party wanted to comfort the little girl, but after so many years of getting along, he understood the young man's personality, the former's personality was extremely calm and sophisticated, and he was definitely a person who was not words, but he was full of words.

"But my brother will be leaving in two days!"

"Then I'll stay two more days. Don't look at the greedy snake is not very big, it is very good at catching fish, tomorrow we will catch a lot of fish together and help grandpa pay off the debt. The boy nodded emphatically and said.

"Brother, you're so nice. Hearing this, the little girl immediately smiled happily, and suddenly stretched out her palm to hold the young man's arm, and leaned her head on the other's shoulder.

"Amount"

Looking over, seeing Peach's little head leaning over, the young man's body was almost as straight as an electric shock, and there was a rare inexplicable softness in those eyes that had always been weird and cold, Zhang Hao shook his head and smiled.

"Little kid, it's so easy to get tempted?"

Ignorant love, the most bland, the most shy, the most unforgettable, perhaps never experienced the world of the teenager does not know, at that moment of this night, there is a country girl with two small whips into the heart, but, emotions are like wine, ignorance does not mean that the wine will not be self-pregnant aromatic, a qiē, hand over to time (to be continued......