Chapter 32: Goodbye, Dad
The Li family's grocery store has been open on this street for more than 30 years, and due to its remote location, there has been no business, but Boss Li has not slackened off because of this, and still opens on time every day, even if most of the time, there will not be a single customer.
In this regard, people are very curious, what did Boss Li rely on to hold on to such a dismal business for more than 30 years?
However, Boss Li is usually quiet and has a very bad temper, so no one really ran to ask him.
Recently, however, the Li family's grocery store has finally seen a hint of improvement: about a week ago, every afternoon, a young man dressed in avant-garde clothes would come to hang out in the store, and this person was Xu Ye.
Although Xu Ye was just hanging out and didn't buy anything, he would bring a pancake for Boss Li to eat every day, so Boss Li couldn't say anything, so he simply let him do whatever he wanted.
That afternoon, Boss Li was still expressionless behind the counter looking at the newspaper of the day, but he couldn't help but think in his heart:
"It's all like this, usually the young man should have come here a long time ago, why didn't he come today? Alas, no one came to this store all day long, and I was a little unaccustomed to it. ”
As the saying goes, Cao Cao Cao arrived, Boss Li still wondered why Xu Ye didn't come on the front foot, and Xu Ye just came on the back foot. The difference is that today he didn't carry the pancakes he brought for Boss Li in his hands as usual, and his footsteps sounded a little hurried:
"Boss Li, you're in good spirits today. ”
"Hmm. ”
"Well, I'm sorry, but I want to ask you for something. ”
"Huh?"
"What, can I borrow your phone and use it?"
In the 80s of the last century, the telephone was still a rare item, not just anyone could have it, but the Li family grocery store had a telephone!
No one knows where Boss Li's phone came from, just as no one knows why Li's grocery store has been open for so long, but this does not affect everyone who always wants to borrow Boss Li's phone.
It's a pity that for these guys who came to borrow the phone rashly, Boss Li has never given them a good look. Therefore, when Xu Ye proposed to borrow the phone, Boss Li's first reaction was to refuse.
But after thinking about it, after all, this kid will come to the store every day to accompany him for a while, and he didn't even forget to bring a pancake for himself to eat, although Boss Li is not uncommon with Xu Ye's pancakes, but this heart still has to be received:
"Oh. The phone is on the cabinet in the back, so go over and use it yourself. ”
"Okay, thank you Boss Li. ”
After thanking him, Xu Ye walked quickly to the phone, picked up the microphone and directly dialed the police number of the local police station:
"Hey, hello, is this the police station? Well, I'm going to call the police······"
In fact, the local police station is not very far from that small alley, and the reason why Xu Ye chose to come here to call the police is only because he doesn't want to have any direct contact with the police, otherwise, if he is taken back by the police to ask a question, investigate an ID card or something, who knows what kind of new trouble will be caused.
About a minute later, Xu Ye ended the call, thanked Boss Li again, and left the grocery store in a hurry.
On the other side, after Xu Ye teleported and disappeared, Xue Lezi fell directly into a coma due to mental trauma and excessive blood loss.
However, the remaining more workers were chattering and arguing, some said that Xue Lezi should be sent to the hospital first, some said that he should go to the police station to report the case first, and some complained because they regretted participating in the operation.
After tossing for a long time, everyone finally agreed on their opinions: send Xue Lezi to the hospital first, as for going to the police station to report the case, it is absolutely impossible, after all, this matter is still planned and provoked by them, if the police are really called, Xu Yunze will not be arrested, but none of them want to run.
So everyone lifted Xue Lezi with all hands and feet (and there was a bold one who ran to pick up the leg that Xue Lezi was cut off), and a group of people walked towards the east entrance of the alley.
However, before they could walk out of the alley, they only heard a "pop", Xu Ye suddenly appeared like a ghost again, blocking the middle of the road impartially, cutting off everyone's direction of progress!
It turned out that Xu Ye had already figured out the route to go to the hospital, so after coming out of the Li family's grocery store, he immediately teleported to the east entrance of the alley, just blocking them in the alley to avoid the police coming and no one to arrest.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Xu Ye asked with a smile, but at this moment, his smile was even more terrifying than the demons and monsters in hell in the eyes of the workers opposite.
This is also something that cannot be helped, as an evolutionary, there are too many things in Xu Ye that cannot be explained by common sense, such as the three sharp claw blades in his right hand that bounced out of nowhere, and his strange methods that suddenly disappeared and suddenly appeared.
But the most frightening thing is his style of doing it without warning.
Seeing that Xu Ye had no intention of letting them go, among the many workers, the "tiger" who had the best relationship with Xue Lezi had no choice but to stand up and ask:
"Xu Yunze, what else do you want to do? Let me tell you, if Xue Jiansheng has something to do today, you can't afford to take this responsibility!"
"Oh, haven't you noticed that he's been long and short now. Xu Ye deliberately delayed time, so he simply changed his face to a hippie smile: "Speaking of such a serious incident of gathering a crowd to fight with weapons, didn't anyone think of calling the police?"
"Hmph, we've already sent someone to call the police, it's still too late for you to run now. Of course they didn't dare to call the police, just to scare Xu Ye away.
"Wow, that's such a coincidence, in fact, I also called the police!" Xu Ye didn't show the slightest expression of fear.
"Who are you bluffing, if you really went to the police, you can still stand here?"
"Oh, believe it or not, why don't we gamble on something······"
In this way, Xu Ye blocked the east entrance of the alley, just didn't let them go, and the other party didn't dare to break through, the two sides were deadlocked, and suddenly heard the police car bell ring from the other end of the alley, I don't know who shouted "The police are coming!" The workers suddenly made a mess, threw down their weapons one after another, and tried to escape from this damn alley.
So the question is, there are only two exits in the east and west directions of the alley, which end should I escape from?
Forget it, the police are coming from this direction, and running from the west is simply throwing themselves into a net.
It didn't work to run from the east, Xu Ye, who was blocked in the east, had already shown his Erdman metal claws, and he had a posture of scratching whoever dared to come, blocking a large number of workers who wanted to escape from the east.
So, the workers who ran to the west met the police, and without saying a word, they turned around and ran east, and the workers who ran to the east were stopped by Xu Ye, so they had to squeeze to the west, and as a result, the two groups of people were all blocked in the middle of the alley.
"Xu Yunze, you really called the police, aren't you afraid of being arrested and imprisoned?" roared the tiger with red eyes, he was one of the few workers who did not panic.
"I don't care, they can't catch me anyway. ”
After that, Xu Ye forcibly consumed 50 health points and teleported away from this place of right and wrong.
At dinner that day, Xu's family received news: the police arrested a crowd armed fight in a certain alley this afternoon, the party Xue Jiansheng was seriously injured and has been sent to the hospital for rescue, the party Xu Yunze, because he deliberately injured people and absconded, has been wanted by the police, and the rest of the participants are detained by the police······
That night, Xu Ye sneaked home, planning to say goodbye to his father and grandparents for the last time before leaving, but when Xu Zhong saw the "little son" coming back, he couldn't help but say that he was a big mouth:
"You unfilial thing! Why do you still have the face to come back? Get out of here! Get out of here! Get out of here, the farther away the better!"
After that, Xu Zhong slammed the door and entered the house alone, leaving only Li Guilan, Xu Yunfeng and Xu Ye in the courtyard looking at each other.
After being silent for a while, Xu Ye took the lead in speaking: "Mom, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have to go to hide in the field for a while, and I probably won't come back in a short time." ”
Li Guilan had tears in her eyes, and said in a choked voice: "Alas, Xiao Ze, tell me about you, why are you so worry-free since you were a child······ (Hundreds or thousands of words omitted here)······ With your brother at home, don't worry too much, remember to take care of yourself outside······"
"Okay, okay, you just don't have to say a few words, it's not for you to get used to it since you were a child!"
Before Li Guilan's words were finished, Xu Zhong walked out of the house and stuffed a bulging cloth bag to Xu Ye:
"Your mother and I haven't done anything in the past 20 years, so we saved 20,000 yuan, which was originally intended to be used to buy a house for your brothers and marry a daughter-in-law······ Here's your share, a total of 10,000, save some flowers. ”
"Dad, let's keep this money for my brother, I have a lot of connections outside, and I don't lack money. ”
"Alright, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get out!"
After that, Xu Zhong seemed to be more than ten years old in an instant, turned around and walked back to the house.
The next day, the police came to Xu's house to investigate the situation, and the Xu family unexpectedly cooperated, and answered any questions, but they didn't mention anything about Xu Ye's return last night.
Of course, this is also what Xu Ye specially explained before he left last night, in order to let the Xu family completely get rid of him in front of the police and save him from being affected in the future.
On the third day, people were surprised to find that Xu Yunze, who should have run away a long time ago, actually appeared in the factory blatantly!
He used teleportation to evade the police, sneaked into the factory's radio room, and used the radio to announce to the entire factory's employees:
"Hey, hey, OK. Hello everyone, I'm Xu Yunze. I'm sorry to disturb your normal work, but there are some things I have to say: for some reason, I will be out of here for a while, but please rest assured, I will be back!
The reason why Xu Ye did this was entirely because he considered that after he left, Xue Lezi would find someone to take revenge on the Xu family, so he said that he would come back, after all, no one wanted to provoke an outlaw who might come back at any time to find trouble.
In fact, he really wanted to kill Xue Lezi directly, but if Xu Ye really did this, then this matter would not be as simple as an ordinary civil case, and would be upgraded to a criminal case.
In this way, the father will always live under the surveillance and control of the police, and in a sense, they will lose a certain amount of freedom.
After leaving the broadcast room, Xu Ye secretly found Xu Yunfeng again and handed him the 10,000 yuan:
"Brother, you take this money, help me buy a house in Beijing in your name, try to buy it in the second ring road, if it's not enough, you can help me put it on first, if I don't come back in ten years, the house will be yours." ”
Xu Yunfeng nodded with the money and didn't say anything, but his face was full of sadness.
"Okay, then I'll go, say 'goodbye' to my dad for me, I'm sorry for him, if I can, I hope he doesn't have my son. ”
In fact, this sentence of "goodbye" is what Xu Ye wants to say to Xu Yunfeng, but it's a pity that his current identity is Xu Yunfeng's younger brother.
"What do you say, don't say that. Xu Yunfeng frowned and said, "No matter what, you are my brother and our father's son." ”
Xu Ye didn't refute after hearing this, but just shook his head with a wry smile, turned around and left:
"Goodbye, Dad!"