In the front hall of the rental house, mahjong has long since ended, after all, it is two o'clock in the morning. Fang Lian didn't sleep, she carried the broom horizontally, crossed her legs and straddled a bench, waiting with a grand attitude, just like Guan Yunchang holding the Qinglong big knife horizontally, sitting on the red rabbit horse.

Her daughter Fang Tang sat on the side, looking timid, and her usual willfulness was almost like two people.

Tang Shan felt that today's atmosphere was a little strange, because at two o'clock in the morning, Fang Lian's front hall was still lit. He wanted to go through the back door and go upstairs quietly, because he was blocked in his heart and didn't want to meet anyone.

But he went around to the back and pushed the door, only to find that it had been bolted from the inside.

In normal times, it would be a good thing for Tang Shan to have the lights on in the front hall, because he didn't need to go upstairs in the dark. In the past, Tang Shan often went home late at night, and as soon as he turned on the light when he walked into the front room, Fang Lian gritted his teeth and scolded in the inner room:

"your lungs, don't you have to spend money on my electricity?"

So, most of the time, in order to avoid hearing her scolding, Tang Shan didn't bother to turn on the light, turned on the mobile phone screen and groped upstairs. But once you accidentally hit the edge of the table, or kick over a stool, in the dead of night, the sound will be multiplied, and Fang Lian also scolded in the inner room:

"Fall to your death, servant street. In the middle of the night, he wandered around like a ghost. ”

Tang Shan was a little flustered today. Because there is no sound of mahjong in the front hall, and the atmosphere is so abnormal, could it be that the police came to arrest him in advance? After thinking about it, I felt that it was unlikely, the matter had not happened yet, how could the police arrive in advance?

Besides, if the police were waiting for him, they were also quietly hiding in his room, and it was unlikely that they would stay in the antechamber.

Tang Shan made up his mind a little, if it wasn't for the police, it must be something in Fang Lian's family, and it had nothing to do with him.

So he boldly walked into the front hall and saw Fang Lian's mother and daughter domineering appearances. He grinned, and was about to walk past Fang Lian.

Unexpectedly, Fang Lian suddenly looked at King Kong angrily, didn't speak, picked up the broom in his hand, and went straight to Tang Shan's waist with lightning speed.

The fierceness of the offensive is even worse than that of the mother insect Gu sister-in-law on Liangshan Cottage back then. If you are unfortunate enough to be swept by the end of the stick, it is not trivial, the kidney is weak, and the spine is displaced.

Tang Shan was taken aback, his body flashed outward, his left hand turned outward, and he grabbed the end of the broom.

Fang Lian scolded angrily:

"You're a servant."

As soon as Tang Shan heard this, he knew that the matter didn't seem to be so serious, because he knew very well the three levels of Fang Lian's scolding, if it reached the point of killing people in anger, Fang's face should be scolding "Lose your mother", not just "You are a servant".

Tang Shan's mind was racing quickly, searching for the reason for offending this angry fat man, and it didn't take much time to remember that he hadn't paid his rent this month, and it had been four or five days before the deadline.

Tang Shan is young after all, whether it is his head or hands and feet, his reaction is faster than that of a fang-faced woman. Before Fang Lian could scold the next foul word, he quickly took out a stack of money from his pocket, shook it in front of her, and said in an old-fashioned manner:

"Rent, huh? Take all of them, and keep the rest for the next month. ”

Tang Shan actually didn't know how much money he had caught, and it was estimated that it was more than two thousand. His one-bedroom living room plus kitchen and bathroom, according to the price marked by Fang Lian, the monthly rent plus water and electricity bills will not exceed 1,500 yuan.

In any case, this money was enough to make Fang-faced woman shut up and put it away.

At first, Fang Lian thought that Tang Shan had taken out some short weapon from his body and was going to attack his face, so he instinctively blocked it with his palm.

When his eyes froze, he saw that Tang Shan was holding a handful of money in his hand, and immediately put away the foul words that were about to be scolded, grabbed the money and stuffed it into his waist pocket.

Tang Shan took a long breath, thinking that the world is so wonderful, no matter how big the anger and hatred are, it can be resolved in an instant with money. Sighing, he let go of Fang Lian's broom with his left hand, shook his head sadly, and was about to go upstairs by himself.

Unexpectedly, Fang Lian just put away the money, adjusted her posture, changed her move, and the broom attacked again, and her mouth was still the same sentence:

"You're a servant."

This time, Tang Shan was careless, and he was caught off guard and hit a trick on his back.

Fortunately, the end of the broom, that is, the end of the sweep, hits, the force area is wide, and the pressure is small; And this end is made of straw, the texture is soft, and it doesn't hurt much on the body, but it splashes a cloud of dust on the back of the head.

Tang Shan's hair was full of ash, and the back of his clothes was probably stained with and phlegm.

The square-faced woman has a few hens in the front yard and often poops in the front hall; When the front hall is used as a mahjong room, gamblers do not spit out phlegm into the garbage, but spray it directly on the ground.

The broom that hit Tang Shan's body didn't make it clean up on the ground just now.

Tang Shan felt sick. At the same time, I was furious. He took a big step forward, walked up the stairs, turned his head and glared and shouted:

"Dead fat woman, didn't she give you money? Why is it endless, you? ”

Fang Lian succeeded in one blow, ignoring Tang Shan's rhetorical question, changed to a routine of Mount Tai's topping, and hit Tang Shan with a broom again, and the scolding in her mouth was a few more words:

"Servant Street, I can't spare you. Day and night defense, it is difficult to prevent house thieves. ”

This time, Tang Shan was in full battle, and of course he wouldn't let her hit him. But listening to the meaning of Fang Lian's scolding, it seems that it is not because he did not pay the rent, but because there is something else hidden.

Have one's hand in the till? Could it be that her house was burglarized? Damn, what do you have to steal from your house? In addition to the broken TV set hanging on the wall, the two automatic mahjong tables are worth a lot. Which thief is so discerning that he came to your house?

Besides, even if your house is burglarized and you suspect me, you can't say that you are a "house thief", I am just a tenant, not a member of your family.

This dead fat woman speaks upside down without brains. Or rather, she doesn't have a brain at all.

Tang Shan took another step back up the stairs and shouted:

"Stop. Let's make it clear first, what the hell is going on, otherwise you're welcome. ”

Fang Lian saw that Tang Shan was really angry, and she felt a little weak. She poked the broom to the ground, pointed at Tang Shan with one hand, and suddenly burst into tears:

"You don't have a chicken, my chicken has this daughter."

The square-faced woman was angry and spoke Cantonese Mandarin, and the chickens came and went, nondescript. Tang Shan understood, but didn't seem to understand, what does this have to do with her daughter?

He looked behind Fang Lian, but Fang Tang didn't look angry at all, he was still there covering his mouth and laughing.

Monk Tangshan Zhanger was puzzled, and he didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd of the mother and daughter of the living treasure.

Because of this noise, most of the tenants woke up, and a few guys were still probing their brains at the door, hoping to collect some gossip news.

Being woken up in the middle of the night, usually everyone is angry, but for that bit of gossip, he even endured the justified anger.

Tang Shan thought to himself, this matter has to be made clear, although he has always been very lucky, and he is not a person, but he has never disdained to do things like stealing chickens and touching dogs, don't be full of firewood by the dead fat woman, and give Ann any bad charges in a daze.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and said patiently:

"Aunt Fang, if you have something to say, don't call indiscriminately, it's so noisy in the middle of the night that people can't sleep."

Fang Lian's sleeves flicked at the corners of her eyes, pinched her nose with two fingers, blew her nose, and rubbed it on the staircase railing.

Tang Shan thought that she would calm down and speak, but she didn't expect that her tears would not flow, but she was crying and crying, looking more grief-stricken than her dead father.

Tang Shan was tired for a while, but he heard Fang Lian shout inarticulately:

"You're a servant, you made my daughter's belly bigger, and you pretended to be innocent."

A few tenants who watched the excitement next to him burst into laughter, and one guy sprayed the water in his mouth on a frame. Tang Shan opened his mouth for a while, and after a long time, he stammered and asked:

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Fang Lian stopped crying for a while, and scolded very quickly:

"I'll lose your mother. Am I talking nonsense? She admitted it herself, do you still want to deny it? There is no door, if you don't give an explanation today, I will fight with you. ”

Tang Shan calmed down a little, and finally figured out the reason why Fang Lian used all his strength as soon as he entered the door.

He looked at Fang Tang in the distance again, didn't his belly see how big it was? But he knew that Fang Lian was really angry at this time, and actually scolded the most vicious "Lose your mother".

At the same time, Tang Shan scolded the fat woman in his heart, don't say that I haven't touched your daughter, even if there is such a thing, you shouldn't shout so loudly in front of all the tenants in the middle of the night, for fear that others don't know.

Before Tang Shan could speak, a bad tenant was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he interjected in a strange way:

"No, he enlarged your daughter's belly, and you lost his mother again, this relationship is all messed up."

There was another round of laughter.

Fang Lian was stunned for a moment, and then became furious, lifted the broom and flew out, and went straight to the head of the guy who intervened, the person reacted very quickly, his head shrank back, and quickly closed the door, the broom hit the door frame, flicked to the side, and fell into the darkness a few meters behind Tang Shan.

Tang Shan laughed and laughed, trying to stop Fang Lian from continuing to spread wild, and shouted again:

"Fang-faced woman, talk before you figure things out, don't mess around."

Fang Lian didn't have time to open her mouth, and another villain next to her interjected earnestly:

"Hey, handsome guy, other people's daughters have already admitted it, isn't it clear enough? Pull out the radish and forget the pit, you have too no conscience, right? ”

After saying that, he covered his mouth and laughed. On this occasion, there has always been no shortage of muddy waters, and as soon as this person's voice fell, the third interjected in a playful and consoling tone:

"Handsome guy, if you want me to say, you shouldn't call people 'Fang-faced woman' or even 'dead fat woman', it's too disrespectful to the elders, and it's not right to call Aunt Fang. You have to be clever and shout 'Hello mother-in-law' three times when you enter the door, won't there be nothing?" We won't be unlucky enough to be woken up in the middle of the night after you. ”

The laughter next to them came and went. Fang Lian's broom had been taken out of her hand, and there was nothing to throw at the interjector, so she had to shout hoarsely:

"Shut up all of you servants, or the rent will rise by 500 yuan per person next month."

This had a somewhat calming effect, and many people immediately shut up, and a few even put their hands on their faces. Tang Shan looked at this situation and knew that this situation and this scene were basically in vain, and with this gang of villains next to him, no matter what he said, it was getting darker and darker.

Thirty-six plans to go up, you must get out first.

So Tang Shan didn't say anything, hurriedly went up to the second floor, and walked towards his room. took out the key and opened the door, Tang Shan was stunned on the spot, his head was as big as a fight for a while, knowing that in addition to the murder case tonight, the matter of Fang Lian's mother and daughter in front of him alone was a hundred times more complicated than he imagined.

On the edge of the bed in his room, a man sat calmly. A girl, her name is Jiang Suping. It is the person who Tangshan has always wanted to see but did not dare to see.

Fang Lian reluctantly followed Tang Shan upstairs, because Tang Shan was stunned after opening the door, she saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so she squeezed in sideways. His daughter Fang Tang wanted to hold her along the way, but her strength was not as good, so she was dragged by her, staggering and following in the room.

The four of them stared at each other, and none of them could say a word.