It's late autumn, and the nights are getting colder.

Li Tong got off the train at the South Street Station at Jiaodaokou, wrapped himself in a smock, walked north along the South Street for about 200 meters, turned westward, and was just about to enter the former Yuanensi Hutong, when he heard Jia Zhang's familiar sound of breaking gongs from a distance.

"Director Wang, you must be the master of our orphans and widows."

Under the dim street lamp, Yi Zhonghai, Jia Zhang's and others led the stick terrier to stand at the door of the police station, and there were two people's policemen wearing uniforms and large-brimmed hats standing on the side.

Li Tong also knows these two people, one is called Ma Changjun, nicknamed Ma Dayan, who lives in Juer Hutong, and often went to Li Tong's house to inquire about the movements of the eldest brother Li Guoqing a few years ago, and then the eldest brother went to work under the arrangement of Aunt Xu, and Ma Changjun never visited the door again.

The middle-aged man standing with Ma Changjun is called Wang Shengli, and the residents in the nearby alleys call him Wangsuo, he was originally a fighter of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, his hometown is Fengtian, Liaoning, and he was transferred to the capital to work with his daughter-in-law after retiring from the army, and is now the director of the Jiaodaokou Police Station.

The group standing opposite them was full of residents in the courtyard, including Jia Zhang, Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong. By the way, I almost forgot that there was a decaying stick stalk.

It's not that Li Tong slanders the stick terrier, it's really that his current appearance is really too scary.

His left eye was swollen like a light bulb, his cheeks were bulging wide, and the corners of his mouth, nose, and eyes were bruised everywhere, and he was obviously beaten severely.

Li Tong suddenly chuckled in his heart, he suddenly remembered that last night, the little chubby dun Hao Kun came to warn him not to get too close to the stick terrier recently, it would be dangerous.

I didn't expect it to come true so quickly, and the other party was ruthless enough, Li Tong now wonders if the stick terrier was the remaining front tooth that couldn't be saved.

Seeing Aunt Jia crying in front of the police station, Li Tong decided not to join in the excitement, turned around and returned to Jiaodaokou South Street and walked two steps north to Houyuanensi Hutong. Li Tong suddenly looked back and forth nervously before entering the alley, and found no sign of an ambush before entering the alley.

First I walked slowly, then I paced briskly, and finally I ran faster and faster.

Stepping on the stone steps and crossing the street gate, Li Tong was relieved, and as soon as he turned the corner and came to the open space in front of the upside-down house, he saw Jiang Tianliang, the little fat man, jumping up happily on the spot, pointing at Li Tong and shouting to Lu Mingtao, who was dejected on the side: "Third brother, is it back on time, you will help me sweep the yard for three days from today!" ”

After Jiang Tianliang finished speaking, he trotted to Li Tong and handed the broom in his hand to Li Tong as if offering a treasure, it turned out that Jiang Tianliang and Lu Mingtao bet each other whether Li Tong would be the first to break the rules, and the loser would sweep the yard for three days for free to the winner.

Lu Mingtao naturally bet that Li Tong would not have time to come back, Jiang Tianliang bet that Li Tong could come back, fortunately Li Tong came back by bus, otherwise Jiang Tianliang might really lose.

After Li Tong took the broom, he found out that it was his own family, but he didn't expect Jiang Tianliang to be so careful in addition to being able to resist things, but Li Tong is now more curious about the injury of the stick terrier.

"Count yourself lucky, I just ran all the way back from the mouth of the alley. By the way, what's going on with the stick terrier, I just saw a man at the intersection who led the stick terrier to block the door of the police station. ”

"Haha, third brother, let me tell you, I'm about to die of laughter." Jiang Tianliang didn't say anything, but he was so happy that he couldn't straighten his waist.

"It's Zhao Xinwu of the North Terracotta Hutong." Lu Mingtao said with a drooping face.

"I'll talk, I'll talk." Jiang Tianliang waved his hands to stop Lu Mingtao from continuing, and said with a smile after adjusting his mood.

"Third brother, didn't you go to Xu Jingli's house, we still followed the team home as before, but I didn't expect to meet Zhao Xinwu at the entrance of the alley just after leaving the team, he is Zhao Xinyang's eldest brother. The stick terrier is a thief, and he wanted to slip away when he saw that the situation was wrong, but unfortunately he was smashed by Zhao Xinwu with a brick and his leg didn't run, and then the stick terrier was beaten by Zhao Xinwu into his current appearance. ”

Li Tong frowned and looked at Jiang Tianliang's hands and feet and compared the scene he saw at that time, especially when he heard Jiang Tianliang say that Zhao Xinwu almost recognized Lu Mingtao as himself, the expression on his face became even more gloomy.

"Are you saying that this Zhao Xinwu almost beat Lu Mingtao?" Li Tong asked.

"That's right, third brother, you don't know what you could have scared Lu Mingtao, a coward, into at that time, and almost peed your pants." Jiang Tianliang looked at Lu Mingtao behind him with disdain and mocked.

"Jiang Xiaopang, you are talking nonsense, who peed his pants!" Lu Mingtao angrily argued.

"Phew! If I hadn't explained it for you, believe it or not, the brick in Zhao Xinwu's hand would have wedged your face at that time! Why do I think you should sweep my yard for a few more days to repay me for saving my life? Jiang Tianliang spat on the ground.

Lu Mingtao wanted to continue to defend himself, but what happened was indeed as Jiang Tianliang said, if Jiang Tianliang hadn't rescued him at that time, I really don't know if Zhao Xinwu would have beaten himself like a stick terrier.

Thinking of the miserable appearance of the stick terrier who couldn't stand up later, Lu Mingtao couldn't help but shiver.

Li Tong naturally saw the frightened look on Lu Mingtao's face, and Li Tong estimated that he should not be able to get rid of his fear of Zhao Xinwu in a short time.

This Zhao Xinwu is so fierce, elementary school students fight and wedge people directly on the bricks, so they are not afraid of killing people?

There is a certain degree of legal protection for minors, and they can be exempted from criminal punishment, but not a penny of civil compensation is indispensable. He doesn't have to go to school anymore, and the personnel file will also become a death resume because of this, which unit will accept murderers, it is estimated that he can only become a thief and other lawless personnel in the future, and he doesn't know when he will be caught and beaten to death by the angry people.

In this era when work is based on distribution, it is really difficult for Li Tong to imagine whether this Zhao Xinwu has a problem with his brain, otherwise how dare he do such a reckless thing.

"Third brother, Uncle Yi, they have already gone to the police, this Zhao Xinwu is estimated to be arrested soon, but you have to be careful before he is arrested, I feel that he will come to you." Jiang Tianliang said hesitantly.

"Interesting, Zhao Xinwu said let me wait for him, right?" Li Tonghu asked.

"Hmm." Jiang Tianliang nodded frantically like a chicken eating rice.

"Okay, I'll find a way to solve this matter, let's sweep the ground first, so that we don't have to wait for the third master to come back and say that we mill foreign workers want to be lazy." After Li Tong finished speaking, he walked to the patio in the front yard, and when he passed by Lu Mingtao, who was standing in place, Li Tong also reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

Under the moonlight, Li Tong slowly walked through the Hanging Flower Gate, and when he looked up, he saw his mother Li Wangshi sitting behind the threshold of the house at the moment, busy with the work in his hands, and from time to time he would raise his head to look at the Hanging Flower Gate as if he was looking for something.