Chapter 31: New Hatred and Old Hatred
Two things happened in the second semester.
The first is directly related to Tangshan; The second thing was discussed in private, thinking that it was also related to Tang Shan, but Tang Shan not only denied it, but later mentioned it with his friend Chen Yusheng, and said with hatred:
"Fuck, I wish I had done it."
The first incident happened shortly after the start of school, when Mr. Zhou beat someone again. This thing was originally commonplace, but the only difference was that he shot harder this time. To be more accurate, Mr. Zhou hit the student not with his hands this time, but with his feet.
Zhou Weiliang kicked a student from the second floor to the first floor for the sole reason that the student came too early at noon and was playing with a few classmates in the classroom, making him unable to take a nap.
Teacher Zhou, who was sleep-deprived, was angry and kicked out of Foshan Wuying's foot for the first time, but he didn't grasp the proportions, so the student rolled down the stairs and lay on the ground for a whole afternoon without getting up.
In fact, it was two months after the student got up and walked again. Because the diagnosis of the hospital showed that the student's lower leg was severely fractured, and after treatment, he was left with lifelong sequelae, the length of his legs was different, he walked slowly and his body was not obvious, and his body was shaky when running.
This unlucky student is Tang Shan. Chow did not know that the injured person was the same person as the only outstanding student who passed last semester.
If this happened today, no matter which student it fell on, parents would not give up. But when it happened at that time, and the victim happened to be Tangshan, things became insignificant.
Although Tangshan's parents are not divorced, they have long since separated and become strangers, and he grew up with his elderly grandmother.
On the day of the fall, Tangshan's alcoholic father rushed to the school angrily and claimed to ask for an explanation.
The perpetrator Zhou Weiliang was extremely arrogant at first, his mouth was full of Sichuan-flavored foul words, and he tried to suppress the other party with momentum. But just a few words after the "day", Tang Shan's father suddenly lifted the wine bottle, threw it from the first floor to the second floor, smashed it on the door frame of Teacher Zhou's dormitory, and roared with wine in his mouth:
"Raised by a son of a bitch, believe it or not I dug a pit and buried you?"
Zhou Weiliang didn't dare to speak anymore, and shrank in the room without showing up. Later, the principal came forward and persuaded the father of Tangshan, who was full of alcohol, to go back. The victim's path to justice ends here. In the end, nothing is said.
Let's talk about the second thing this semester.
One day three months later, Zhou Weiliang was wandering around the village after eating and drinking, and whenever he saw a woman with a good face, he walked up to greet him warmly, this time not in Sichuan accent, nor in the local dialect, but in Mandarin:
"Beauty, do you want to talk?"
It sounds gentle and elegant, but the sentence is not original by Mr. Zhou himself, and a discerning person knows that he is the number of ways for people in the city to flirt with girls on the Internet, and directly moves it to tease the village girl.
Teacher Zhou's accosting routine, of course, is more than this, if he drinks a few glasses of wine, or which village girl looks back and smiles, giving him infinite confidence, he can also speak English. Sometimes turning a corner of the house, he coldly popped out a sentence:
โHello!โ
The countrymen don't know it, and such a foreign sentence often scares people into running away.
Due to the poor effect, Mr. Zhou changed his strategy and used a simpler greeting "Hi! Supplemented by the movement of spreading out the hands, or shrugging the shoulders innocently, it can often make one or two silly big sisters giggle.
Later, learned people in the village counted that there were only four English words spoken by Mr. Zhou Weiliang, in addition to the two greetings above, there were also "Yes" and "No".
When you say "Yes", you nod your head. When he said "No", he didn't shake his head, but stretched out his right index finger and shook it from side to side in front of people's eyes.
On this day, Zhou Weiliang did his best in the village, and finished practicing Mandarin and English countless times, but he did not gain much. After all, it was the busy farming season, and few village girls would be bored enough to wander around the alleys.
Until nightfall, he had to go back to school in disgrace.
Zhou Weiliang walked to the entrance of the village, and suddenly several black-clothed people appeared, covered his head with snakeskin bags, and then punched and kicked. There were villains who slapped him three times on the head with bricks, and there were those who were so powerful that they stabbed him in the chest and abdomen countless times with sticks.
The attacker was relatively kind, Zhou Weiliang's hands and feet were intact, not only were they not disabled, but they were able to run back to school afterwards. Counting the battlefield, a total of fifteen stitches were stitched on the two wounds on the head, and two ribs were broken on the chest.
Zhou Weiliang called the police with a crying voice.
This incident alarmed the Public Security Bureau and the Education Bureau, the former vowed to severely punish the real culprit, and the latter lamented in front of the media.
However, the two departments investigated and investigated, and reluctantly found that there were only victims and the place where the crime was committed, and no criminal suspect could be found.
Zhou Weiliang himself couldn't even tell the tools of the crime, one moment he thought it was a brick, and another he thought it seemed to be a stubborn stone; At first, he swore that he was holding a wooden stick in his hand, but he turned his head and changed his words and said that it was not right, it should be an iron rod, otherwise his ribs would not be so easy to break.
But at the scene of the crime, none of these things were found.
In the end, the case was closed, and it became the biggest unsolved mystery within a radius of ten miles.
Later, there were various rumors and speculations about the case, one of which was that the attack was related to Tangshan and the motive was revenge.
But this statement was not accepted by the police, after all, Tangshan at that time was just a seven-year-old child, and his legs and feet had not fully recovered, so it was impossible to participate directly; To say that he didn't come forward himself, but gathered so many adults to avenge him, it is even more nonsense, who can believe that he has this appeal?
Of course, the child has no ability to make a move, but Tangshan's father has the motive and ability to commit the crime. But this was also overturned by the police, because Tangshan's father had perfect alibi: at the time of the incident, an eyewitness said that he was drunk in his backyard.
The other argument is more credible. Zhou Weiliang often flirted with the village girl in the village, angering her husband, boyfriend, or the father of an underage girl, and these people spontaneously organized themselves and planned a perfect attack.
In any case, this case became a turning point in Zhou Weiliang's life. After the summer of that year, he quit his teaching position and returned to the city, not looking for a serious job.
Zhou Weiliang took Dongcheng as his base and began his career of fighting on the streets. With the physique of being a soldier and the wisdom of being a teacher, in just one year, he began to emerge temporarily.
One of the most famous fights in Maple Grove is still talked about today.
The fight took place in the middle of the night, and on one side of the fight were more than a dozen young people dressed uniformly, each with an iron rod in their hands, and their shots were all professional moves, and even the steps of walking were so neat. These dozen or so people beat thirty or forty people on the other side to the point of crying dad and mother.
Overnight, the face of the rivers and lakes in Fenglin Town changed.
Later, it was rumored in the rivers and lakes that these dozen young people were Zhou Weiliang's comrades-in-arms specially summoned from other places.
One day a few years later, Zhou Weiliang became the biggest tyrant in the Dongcheng area after crippling another famous person. Successfully took control of the illegal casinos in the East Side, as well as the legal hawker stalls, the former secretly pumping water and usury, and the latter overtly collecting rents.
After another two years, Zhou Weiliang bought a motorcycle to build a mansion, which made others envious. It is rumored on the street that he can go to the officialdom and order the pawns of the peddlers to be so popular.
I haven't seen any empirical evidence in the officialdom, but the relationship with the peddlers and pawns is what everyone sees. Every time he walked past the vendor stalls at the farmer's market, people scrambled to shout "Viagra."
At the beginning, Zhou Weiliang enjoyed the title of "Viagra" very much.
He is a generation that grew up watching Hong Kong gangster films, and he knows what it means to have the word "brother" after a single name.
Later, Zhou Weiliang saw that his title appeared quite frequently on the advertising paper at the door of some pharmacies and adult product stores, and only then did he react, the word "viagra" could not withstand careful consideration, it sounded powerful, but in fact, it was called too much, but it greatly reduced a certain function of men.
Gradually, these two words became his heart disease.
Zhou Weiliang walked over the hawker stall again, the hawker nodded and called "viagra", he got up, kicked over the stall, and scolded:
"Your mother, call me good brother."
The peddler was full of grievances, and he didn't know where he offended the great god, so he had to pick up the vegetable gang on the ground and quickly apologize:
"I'm sorry, Brother Liang, I'm sorry, Brother Liang."
Since then, people have called him Brother Liang to his face.
However, "Brother Liang" has the same sound as "Brother Niang", objectively speaking, Zhou Weiliang is not a mother from the inside out, and even a little wild, but with the word "Niang" in the title, he is not a man after all. As a result, the word "mother's brother" soon became Zhou Weiliang's heart disease.
However, this time there is no way to change it, and the phlegm that I spit out cannot be licked back again.
Later, when others nodded and called "Brother Mother" step by step, Zhou Weiliang would always have an angry face for no reason.
In fact, behind the scenes, Zhou Weiliang's most widely known nickname is Zhou Papi.
The vast majority of people don't know the origin of this nickname, only Tang Shan knows that it was taken by Chen Yusheng and copied directly from the "Midnight Chicken Crow" in the primary school textbook. It's not creative, and it's too disrespectful of the copyright of the original work, but everyone loves this catchy colloquial name.
So, in everyone's private discussion, Zhou Weiliang is nothing but a brother, and can only become Zhou Papi.
Zhou Weiliang has never known Tangshan.
One of the reasons is that Tangshan's appearance has changed greatly from a child to an adult; The second reason is that Zhou Weiliang has too much life experience, how can he remember that the only passing student he ever taught, and at the same time, he was a naughty boy who was kicked by himself and left disabled?
Tang Shan always remembered Zhou Weiliang. He watched Mr. Zhou become Viagra in the city, and called himself Brother Liang, and finally became Zhou Papi in the mouth of his friends.
Over the years, the hatred in Tang Shan's heart has not been relieved. It's just that he has never found a chance for revenge.
This time, the opportunity has finally arrived.