Chapter 8 Muslim Hotel

After the summer vacation, I went to school as usual, and naturally met Liu Xu. This kid didn't get good grades, he stayed for many levels, and he sat at the back all the time, and I got average grades and sat in the middle. As soon as I started class, I felt a chill in the back of my neck, and when I turned around, Liu Xu was lying on the table, staring at me like a poisonous snake with a pair of eyes. Liu Xu is a head above me, and I am not an opponent in terms of single-handedness, but fortunately, my partners are all in school, and he is invincible with 24 hands with both fists, so I am not afraid, but there is a section of the road after school, I have to walk by myself, and we must meet on a narrow road.

"Stand there, you're a bull, cut me with a kitchen knife." Sure enough, not long after my partners and I separated, Liu Xu followed me to the alley, and I picked up half a brick nearby, threw my schoolbag, and stared at him.

Liu Xu pulled out a chair board from his schoolbag, and suddenly came to me, I turned my head sideways, and the chair board hit my arm, which hurt me and bared my teeth, and I felt that my bones seemed to be broken, I raised my hand and smashed the brick over, but I was small, and the brick only hit his arm, and Liu Xu blocked it with his hand, and the brick fell. Liu Xu raised the plank and rained down on me, I turned around and ran, the hero doesn't eat the loss in front of him, I can't let him catch me.

There was a Muslim restaurant near my house, so I went headlong into it and went straight to the back kitchen, and Liu Xu followed closely. The restaurant was opened by my classmate, her parents knew me, there were few restaurants in those days, and they were all railway workers, and most of my family knew each other. This Liu Xu has been causing trouble since he was a child, and he has become notorious in the village at a young age, and several adults pushed the belt frame and blasted him out, but Liu Xu was also stubborn, so he stayed at the door and waited for me to come out. Later, Uncle Ma, who was still the owner of the Muslim Hotel, sent me home.

Uncle Ma knew that my parents were working in the field, and there were only two elderly people at home, and for several days, Uncle Ma carried a rolling pin and picked me up at the school gate, so that Liu Xu never found a chance to take revenge. Many years later, I traveled to the capital, and met Liu Xu again at the station, and we boarded a train at the same time that day, the difference was that I was well-dressed and sitting on a sleeper, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was locked in the luggage car wearing a handcuff, which is a later story.

Uncle Ma has a son and a daughter, the son is the same age as me, and he is my classmate. This time, because his father saved me, I was much closer to him, and the soldiers protected him everywhere at my behest, so the ponies naturally became part of our little gang.

Xiaoma's family runs a restaurant, the family conditions are good, the food and clothing are much better than ours, but the person is not fat, skinny, with big eyes, and the little boy looks as handsome as a girl. We used to call him "Sister Ma", but then he joined us, and whoever called him "Sister Ma" again we would beat him. Many years later, the pony in the small village mixed well, people look spirited, coupled with strong capital, people changed to call him Ma Dashuai, pony later joined the army, became a company-level officer, but later died in a car accident, that year was only 24 years old, even married has not been married, but the world is impermanent, this is also a later story.

Although we didn't have time to mess around anymore after the start of school, we still remembered the door in the cave, and always thought of the way to go in again, so we planned together. Pony has been with us for a long time and knows the ins and outs of this matter, but he actually told his dad the secret.

Uncle Ma is a businessman, I heard that there may be gold in it, although I think what the child said is not to be believed, but what is behind the gate, his curiosity suddenly rose, the old horse took his three brothers up the mountain, along the line we buried and touched in, sure enough, found the iron door.

In the winter of that year, a major event occurred in China, the country began to reduce the army on a large scale, and the division headquarters stationed in our village began to move, and I saw with my own eyes a fleet of tanks roaring past me, the towering barrels wrapped in oilcloth, pointing obliquely to the sky, indescribably mighty and majestic, our school was on vacation, and the students and children of the whole village ran to see the excitement, and I saw that my blood was boiling.

But it was also that winter that a major event happened in our small village that I will never forget, and some people began to sell arms at a clear price.

"A magazine costs two yuan, a bullet is ten yuan, a gun shuttle is 20 yuan, a heavy machine gun bullet is five cents, a 54-style bullet is two cents, and a rifle bullet is one piece." One of our classmates began to spread the word at a clear price, and a few of us were stunned.

"Where did you sell it?"

"Muslim Hotel, Pony's house." The classmate said mysteriously.

At that time, we didn't expect that it was Pony's father who dug the tunnel, and stupidly asked Pony, Pony blushed and said that it was his father's way to contact, saying that the local garrison had retreated, and a batch of ammunition was discarded, so Uncle Ma bought it back as scrap and now sells it to students. After a few days, the pony gave each of us a magazine with five golden rifle rounds. It was the early 90s, and we didn't understand that it was illegal, so we were elated, but we just wanted more, and Pony said that he couldn't help it, and his dad wouldn't let him touch these things. We have limited pocket money and can't afford it, but we have a good relationship with the ponies, who often steal some to give us a few points.

These bullets have become a stearful commodity in schools, and even circulated as currency, rich children spend money to buy, and children without money rely on ghostwriting homework in exchange, and the golden bullets undoubtedly have a huge attraction in the eyes of our children. This made Liu Xu very greedy, this guy sat in the last one all day long, staring at the bullets of his classmates, with a light in his eyes, if it weren't for the fact that there were many of us, he would have robbed it a long time ago. But who would have thought that Liu Xu, who was itching, would take a risk in the winter of his thirteenth year, and since then he has gone further and further on the road of crime.