Chapter 34: Xiaoyi is gone
When I went home in the afternoon, Uncle Liu was packing his luggage, I asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was going to go somewhere else first, and the longer he stayed here, the more unsteady he became, and he was afraid that the people from the Public Security Bureau would arrest him, and he was even more afraid that he would affect us.
I thought about it for a while, and told him that I would discuss where to go after dinner.
During this time, Xiaoyi has not been taboo, no matter whether she has meat or vegetables, she has stuffed it into her stomach, and her face has been round in just one week.
I laughed at her and was about to feed herself into a piglet, she hit me angrily, and shouted Ye Hulu in her mouth, you dislike me, I said I don't dislike it, but there was an expression of "how can I not dislike it" on my face.
I thought in my heart, I don't dislike you, really, Xiaoyi, don't dislike you, no matter how fat and ugly you become, I don't dislike it, as long as you can always be by my side.
After dinner, the whole family sat in the living room and chatted, Uncle Liu frowned and smoked vigorously, and his father had no way to keep Uncle Liu, after all, it was a crime to kill people, and now the state system is so strict, it is not at all like before liberation that it can be settled with money.
I said, "Uncle Liu, come with me tomorrow, my nephew will take you to Dalian to play for two days, and then buy a ticket directly to Chong'an Temple, no one in the Taoist Temple will check." ”
Aunt Lu hurriedly said no, I knew that she was afraid that I wouldn't come back.
Xiaoyi knew my thoughts, and when she saw that Aunt Lu rejected my suggestion, she said, "Auntie, I'll go with him, and I'll bring him back when it's done, don't worry!" Dad and Aunt Lu glanced at each other, Dad couldn't hold back, grinning with a smile, he said to Aunt Lu: "Sister-in-law, it's so decided, those Taoist priests should be able to help with this, how can they also give Fulu a little face, that, Xiaoyi, you and San'er go up and rest first, I will talk to your aunt and your Uncle Liu for a while." ”
It seems that my father has regarded Xiaoyi as his daughter-in-law, and I smiled bitterly in my heart, how can I, a lonely person, be willing to pit Xiaoyi?
After lunch the next day, Xiaoyi and I took Uncle Liu out of the house, when we went to the city, Uncle Liu told me that he didn't want to go to the Taoist temple, he wanted to go back to his hometown to find a place to hide, I rejected him, he was obviously displeased, in fact, I knew what he was thinking, he just wanted to sneak back to take revenge.
Uncle Liu kept saying: "San'er, why are you so ignorant, why don't you even listen to your Uncle Liu?" I replied to him without looking back: "I haven't heard it before." ”
When I arrived at the Lido, as soon as I approached the transparent glass door, two service staff helped me open the door, followed by a dozen or so people, I looked inside, amazingly, more than a hundred or so little hooligans, all standing in a proper manner to greet me, as soon as I walked in the door, everyone in the hall bowed to me.
"Hello Brother Seven!" I waved my hand and asked them with a smile: "How are you having these days?" The big bastard leaned on the railing on the second floor and shouted, "Just finished eating! Seventh brother and seventh sister-in-law, I have arranged the room." I made an "ok" gesture to the big bastard and turned to look at Uncle Liu.
Uncle Liu was already stunned at this time, he dragged me aside in disbelief, and asked me quietly: "San'er, do you know these people? Why don't they look like good people?"
I said, "These are here to help." Hearing me say this, Uncle Liu's face bloomed with joy, and he asked me excitedly: "San'er, there must be more than a hundred people here, right?" I couldn't tell for a while, so I asked the big bastard loudly: "How many people are there in our Jinping Branch?" Seventh brother, a total of 342 brothers acted according to your orders, stationed 142 people in Jinzhou, and the remaining 200 people have all arrived in Jinping County a day in advance, ready to be on call, Seventh brother, you said let us go east, we will not go west, you let us beat dogs, we will not catch chickens, absolutely obey the orders of the leader. ”
Seeing his hippie smiling face, I really wanted to pump him, so I stepped quickly on the spot, jumped up, and instantly came to the second floor with the help of the power of the column, and before everyone could react, I was already standing next to the big bastard, and the big bastard's face was so frightened that I thought I was angry, and almost knelt down for me, I flicked his head and said, "If you were such a good bird, you wouldn't be a big bastard now." He hurriedly said that he was not a good bird in the first place, but now that there is a divine beast like Seventh Brother in the lead, he has become a good bird even if he is not a good bird.
He was happy to be joked by me like this in front of the little minions, and I don't know who summed it up, and the two of them joked to prove that they were close, so those little rascals have already positioned the big bastard as the second-in-command in addition to respecting me like a god.
After the arrangements were made, I called the big bastard and asked him to rent some rural houses for the brothers, preferably in the same fort and the same street, as close as possible.
The big bastard said that he didn't need to be instructed, he had already taken care of these trivial things.
I told him to bring a few trusted brothers to my room in the evening, and he asked me if I was going to solve the problem of Dongzi, and I gave him a cold look, and he was silent, and hurriedly bowed his head and left.
After dinner, I came to Uncle Liu's room, he asked me when I would take someone to take revenge, I said we will go to Songyuan tomorrow, he happily patted me on the shoulder: "San'er, Uncle Liu really didn't expect you to be so powerful now, you have so many small soldiers, and you have so many properties, I sold half my life to the Ye family, your father, your sister, and you, one is more powerful than the other, as long as you can take revenge this time, your Uncle Liu can close his eyes when he dies, or I really don't have the face to see your aunt." ”
I hesitated for a moment and said to Uncle Liu, "Uncle Liu, if you take revenge this time, where do you want to go?" Uncle Liu replied without thinking: "Turn yourself in." Your uncle and I have violated the law of the country, and if I surrender, I may be able to save my life. ”
I told Uncle Liu, since you want to take revenge, don't leave anyone behind, let's go back to our hometown this time, either we don't take revenge, and if we want revenge, we will come to the end, he will ruin your family, and I will let him behead all over the house.
Uncle Liu asked me: "San'er, I heard your father say that you are timid, but my uncle doesn't look like you." Why are you so ruthless?"
I looked at Uncle Liu and couldn't help but retort: "It's true that I'm cowardly, but when I'm cowardly, my uncle has been harmed like this, and I don't talk about benevolence, righteousness, morality, or anything else, is it a little wrong? I'm ruthless? Your own wife and children have been killed, is it useful for you to talk about kindness with the enemy?" Uncle Liu was speechless by what I said, lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked me: "San'er, will I implicate you?" Uncle himself can take revenge, and I'm sorry for your parents to take you in. "I asked him to relax, I went to Jilin this time to go around, and I stopped by to see Grandpa Liu's second elder.
I have been cultivating the Tao for nearly seven years, and although I don't understand what the Tao is, my master has taught me that the Tao is the law and the law.
The brothers told me that everything is the Tao, the Tao is the righteousness of the earth, and the Tao is the cycle of heavenly principles.
The sixth brother said that the Tao is to kill people to pay for their lives, and to repay injustices and revenge.
Xiaoyi said that there is never a person who repays grievances with virtue, but those who indulge in the enemy are either hypocrites or ruthless people, maybe the enemy is strange and profitable, or maybe he is fishing for his reputation under the guise of benevolence and righteousness.
You forgive the enemy, but the enemy has never hated himself, and your forgiveness may only be exchanged for the enemy laughing at you for being stupid behind his back, scolding you for being stupid, and maybe he will send you a few dark arrows, and your forgiveness is not even as good as bullshit in the end, and your lost relatives and homes have been lost in vain.
In Matsubara in July, the road was scorched by the sun, and the air smelled of burning, like the dead smell of potatoes baked in the stove when I was a child.
Xiaoyi and I each had a popsicle and sat under a big tree on the side of the road to escape the heat.
"Fulu, are we really going?" Xiao Yi was covered in sweat, and the skin on her neck was also covered with beads of sweat, and it took a while to fade a little.
"Go, why don't you go? This is just the first step of a long march of 10,000 miles, how can you liberate the toiling masses of all China if you don't take it?" I said to Xiaoyi with a hippie smile, I don't know when I became so able to speak so much.
"Where did you learn the oily tone? It's not like you. Xiaoyi looked at me with a frown, and when I looked up at her, she smiled at me again.
"Secretary Song, this matter will trouble you. I held the hand of Song Jiefang, secretary of the Songyuan County Party Committee, and my tone was sincere.
"Little brother, what's the trouble is not troublesome, I am a servant of the people, and I should do things for the people, I really didn't expect that there would be such a bully in our county, it was my dereliction of duty, don't worry, I will verify the situation you reflected." Secretary Song's face was full of wrinkles with a smile, and the fat on his face seemed to be squeezed to his cheeks.
After I left, Song Jiefang picked up the "report materials" I sent, flipped the thick envelope with his hand, opened it, and stayed on the seat in shock.
In the middle of the night, he carefully put the envelope into his briefcase, stuffed it into the drawer of his desk, and deliberately locked it before drinking a glass of ice water with peace of mind, and said solemnly to the secretary who was smoking outside the door: "Xiao Zhang, call me the old guard Wangtou, and say that I have something to look for him." ”
"Hulu, do you give a little too much, 100,000 yuan, how many people can't earn it in a lifetime. Xiaoyi asked me with a pout, and I said to her in a salty way: "Life can't be bought by money, and if he makes Uncle Liu's family ruined, I will let his whole family die! 100,000 yuan to buy four lives, although it is distressing, but it is worth it." ”
After I finished speaking, I smiled at Xiaoyi, but she looked at me with a solemn expression, only to see her walk up to me, salute me, bow her head and say, "Seventh Uncle, you have changed, have you been burdened by the glory of the world? The disciple will leave today, and if there is a fate in the future, Chong'an will see each other, and the disciple will retire. ”
The sudden change caught me off guard, Xiaoyi threw the backpack to me and left by herself.
Looking at her back, I stood in place and my brain was blank, trying to stop her but shouting, my heart seemed to be missing something, very empty, very painful.
I walked back to the county guest house alone and asked the housekeeper who was cleaning the room if the girl I was traveling with had left, and she said that she had left a quarter of an hour ago, as if she was still crying. The female administrator seems to be very concerned about this kind of thing, and has been nagging next to me that it is normal for the little couple to quarrel, and the more noisy the better, and what to say that the young people of today are too far behind the young people of their time, she grinds a lot, I didn't listen, and my mind is full of Xiaoyi.
I didn't bring anyone with me when I came back this time, but I came with Xiaoyi and Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu found a place to hide when he arrived in Songyuan, and now he is a wanted criminal, and he must not be too bold at home. I didn't bring outsiders here because it was my own business, and secondly, I used a knife to kill chickens, and there were many people with big goals, so I didn't want to be so ostentatious.
In the car in Jiangbei Village, I kept rubbing my temples, and I wanted to go back to Chong'an Temple to find Xiaoyi, even if I could only meditate and chant in front of the Sanqing statue in this life, so that at least I could see her in the Tao.
I seem to have gotten used to her around, so when she left yesterday afternoon, I felt like I had lost my soul, and I couldn't sleep.
I stood at the entrance of Jiangbei Village, watching some farmers enjoying the shade under the big trees not far from me, I straightened my clothes, picked up the fruit I had just bought, and walked straight to them.
I asked where the old Liu's family was, and I heard that I was looking for the old Liu's family, and a long-haired man in a white vest in the crowd vigilantly asked me which old Liu's family I was looking for, I laughed and deliberately raised my voice and said: "It's the old Liu family who killed Li Dong's father!"
Everyone was shocked, and the long-haired man spat on the ground, and asked me who I was provocatively, and I said in a contemptuous tone: "Who I am and what does it have to do with you?"
He said that he was Li Dong, and I snorted and ignored him.
A few peasant women next to me were afraid that I would be bullied, so they hurriedly pointed to the front and said to me, "Young man, go all the way from this road, and the one with the stone mill in front of the door is the one." I said thank you and walked straight over.
When I arrived at the door of Liu's house, I took a closer look at Liu's house, only to see that the courtyard wall made of stone and dirt was a little inclined and deformed, as if it was about to collapse, and the iron gate was also broken a hole.
I carried fruit and a backpack into the house, where old newspapers were plastered all over the walls and ceiling, and the room was almost empty, except for a table on the floor of the outhouse, on which a thin layer of dust fell from the dishes.
Walking into the back room, two gray-haired old men came into view, their clothes covered with patches, skinny but piercing eyes.
Grandma Liu asked me who I was looking for, Grandpa Liu lay on the kang and didn't raise his head, angry but helpless said: "What do you still want, my family has two old bones now, if you want to die, you will take it, the kitchen knife at home has been taken away by you, you bring the knife and I will do it myself." ”
Looking at the second elder, I couldn't control it, tears fell all at once, and I stood in front of them, not knowing what to say.
Grandma Liu asked me who I was, Grandpa Liu sat up from the kang and asked me tentatively: "Did my son let you come?" I nodded, Grandma Liu quickly let me go to the kang, pulled my hand and began to cry, asked me where Uncle Liu was, Grandpa Liu was also a little sad, and chanted: "It's good to be honest and not let Dongzi's family catch it."
After a while, I said that I was a little thirsty, and Grandpa Liu said that the water tank and water scoop were smashed, and Grandpa should go and fetch water for you now.
I stopped him, took out a few apples from the bag, wiped them and handed them to the second elder, and I picked one up myself and took a bite.
Grandpa Liu's teeth are okay, but Grandma Liu's mouth is full of teeth, and she has a hard time eating, and she can't even swallow the apple peel.
Grandpa Liu asked me quietly: "Your name is Ye Fulu, right? I hugged you when you were a child, and that time scared your whole family to death." ”
I don't remember when I was a child, and I don't have any impression of the two elders in front of me, and I don't know which time Liu Laohan said that he scared the whole family to death.
"Is your dad okay? Did your Uncle Liu go to find your dad? Let him run quickly, find a place to hide, and hide for ten or eight years, it should be fine. ”
I asked the second elder if he hadn't eaten lunch, Grandma Liu sighed and said: "Yesterday afternoon, Dongzi came over and smashed the water tank, and the pot was also smashed. ”
I rummaged through my backpack and found three loaves of bread and two sausages, which Xiaoyi had prepared for me when I was on the train for fear that I would be hungry.
Grandpa Liu seemed to be a little choked, and he kept his neck tight and didn't move, and it took a while to recover.
I went to the courtyard and found the pole and the bucket, and carried them to the big well at the entrance of the village.
The crowd chatting had not yet dispersed, and Dongzi seemed to have finally caught a personal bully, staggering to me, and asked me without words: "Who are you from Lao Liu?" If you can find him, tell him that he is a gentleman, come back, his grandfather, I will wait for him here, ah!"
Before Dongzi could finish speaking, my flat shoulder had already smashed into his face, and in an instant the left side of his face was bleeding.
He grinned and cursed, and the crowd under the tree had gathered at the well, and even Liu Laohan and his wife staggered over.
Dongzi covered his face and hummed, and when he saw that there were more people, he shouted loudly: "Do you know who my cousin is? My cousin is the number one in the county!
I lit a cigarette and asked him contemptuously: "Your cousin is the old king who guards the gate of the county party committee compound? I don't know if that old thing is dead or alive now, and you dare to pretend to be a relative of a state cadre to do evil? This crime seems not light, right?"
Seeing me say this, the villagers sighed for a while, it turned out that the "cousin" that Dongzi usually took out to brag turned out to be just a gatekeeper.
When Fuyuko saw that I had dismantled him, he yelled angrily, "You are talking nonsense!" and rushed at me as he roared, and I grabbed him by the neck and threw him at the pile of stones by the well, and he couldn't move.
The villagers did not panic, they all witnessed the good show, and some even gave me approving glances.
Dongzi struggled to get up, rubbed his lower back, wiped the blood from his face, and said to me viciously: "Don't run if you have a kind, I'll find someone to treat you!" After saying that, he limped back home.
Grandpa Liu said, Ye family boy, you go quickly, it is estimated that Dongzi called someone to go.
I was surprised and asked, "Can this dog still call someone?" I won't leave, I'll just wait here, and if he can touch me, try it." ”