Chapter 92: Heartbeat
After an afternoon of nervousness, Lao Liu's tears were almost dry, and he looked like a psychopath with his unkempt hair.
I don't know how many days I haven't eaten a full meal, Lao Liu grabbed the bread in his hand and gnawed it down, as if this was the most delicious food in the world.
I sighed, what kind of devil could force such an honest man to be like this.
"You eat Lao Liu slowly, there are still here, it's not enough, I'll let you buy the scorpion again."
"Yes, Uncle Liu, no one is robbing you, don't swallow it." The scorpion is also worried.
Lao Liu didn't seem to listen to us at all, and ate bread too quickly. When I swallowed it, I grabbed the mineral water and drank it in a big gulp.
Lao Liu dried three loaves of bread in one go, and his expression was extremely depressed.
Now Lao Liu's nerves are very sensitive, even the sound of passing cars can scare him into a trance, shouting and falling on my body, the sour smell of not taking a bath for dozens of days is very pungent.
Lao Liu was full of food and drink, and the whole person was a little broken, he didn't know what to think, so he covered his face and sobbed. But the tears dried up, and I could only hear his wail.
"Lao Liu, can you tell me what's going on, the scorpion said that you got in the car, you should be in Xiangnan at this time, why are you still in Jiangcheng?"
I patted Lao Liu on the back, Lao Liu covered his face and sobbed, he was extremely uncomfortable: "It's Liang Wencong, it's his ......"
"Liang Wencong? What happened to Liang Wencong? ”
The scorpion asked busily.
When I heard the name, my brow furrowed, and my anger grew.
"The train I was doing that day was stopped not long after it left the platform. Liang Wencong took someone into the car and pulled me down on the spot, and I couldn't escape. ”
Lao Liu recalled unwillingly, and kept choking up when he spoke.
"And then?"
"Later, I was beaten up by them and locked up in a house on the outskirts of the development zone, and I don't know where it was. I, I was locked up like this for half a month, during which I tried to sneak out, but every time I ran halfway through, I was caught back, and every time I was caught, I was beaten up, and I didn't dare to escape......."
Lao Liu's eyes were extremely hollow, and he was creepy when he recalled it, and countless goosebumps appeared on his body.
I clenched my fists, and the muscles in my face were beating uncontrollably: "Liang Wencong, how did he know that Lao Liu was in the car?" ”
The scorpion was startled and waved his hand: "Brother Feng, I didn't tell anyone, I confessed to Xiaobai that day." I don't know. ”
I wondered, did Xiaobai leak out? It's impossible, could it be that Xiaobai is our internal undercover agent, and I suddenly feel that something is very wrong.
But Xiaobai followed the scorpion before, and he didn't know me at all, so what good did he do for him.
I felt that something was not quite right, but the scorpion looked at me with great certainty: "Brother Feng, you shouldn't be suspicious of Xiaobai, Xiaobai shouldn't." ”
"I didn't say I doubted him, but now is the time of day, do you know what I mean?"
The scorpion swallowed, and he nodded.
Lao Liu pulled me nervously: "Xiao Yang, Uncle Xiao Yang really has no money, I have no money." You go and beg Liang Wencong, let him let me go, my house is sold, my land is sold, I have nothing, I just want to live, please. ”
Lao Liu cried out, old tears were all over the place, and his deep eye sockets seemed to have lost his soul.
I hurriedly reassured Lao Liu: "Lao Liu, don't be afraid, I'm here, Liang Wencong doesn't dare to do anything to you." ”
"No, it's not, Brother Ba, Brother Ba, he's going to cut my kidney."
Lao Liu shouted in fright, grabbing his hair like crazy: "I don't gamble anymore, I don't dare to gamble anymore." ”
"Uncle Liu, you said that your house and land, shouldn't you go in with interest?"
The scorpion hurriedly asked, Lao Liu seemed to be crazy, and his body trembled: "I sold them all, but Brother Ba didn't say enough, I really don't have any money!" There really isn't any! ”
As soon as I heard it, I knew that things were not simple, Lao Liu sold all his assets, but it was not enough to repay the money. Obviously, they are all rolling over, this group of blood-sucking ghosts, if they don't squeeze the last drop of Lao Liu's blood, they won't give up.
Today's Lao Liu is a little servile in his eyes, and it seems that he has been beaten these days.
I took Lao Liu's hand, it was full of bruises, because I hadn't taken a bath for many days, and a few places had rotted and were inflamed, which made me feel heart-wrenching.
"Lao Liu, how did you escape?"
I asked cautiously, for fear of touching Lao Liu's nerves, Lao Liu shook his head, very scared.
"I, they've been staring at it lately, as if something has happened to catch a rabbit, and I don't know what a rabbit is. However, Niu Tianba wants to blackmail me, if I can't come up with the money again, he will kill my kidneys, I'm afraid, I'm really afraid. So while the caretaker was asleep in the night, I grabbed a rock and beat the stalker, and then I escaped, and they chased after me, and then I jumped into the river, and I escaped. ”
Lao Liu was terrified, as if he still remembered the night of his escape.
Lao Liu is suffering from such inhuman torture, Niu Tianba's group of people, under the protection of Hong Zhiyang, are already lawless existences.
"Xiao Yang, I want to go home, my wife and children are waiting for me, they worry about me every day, I miss them so much."
Lao Liu washed his face with tears, and there was no light in his eyes, as if the world was dark.
Lao Liu's appearance is very similar to the days when my parents had an accident, my whole person was empty, and I once suspected that it was just a dream, and even wondered what the meaning of life was.
Nowadays, family is Lao Liu's only sustenance, and the last will to flee is only the family's hope.
"Lao Liu, calm down. I'll help you go home, but the wounds on your body are inflamed in several places, you listen to me, I'll take you to the hospital to deal with it first, and then we'll go home, okay? ”
I coaxed Lao Liu like a child.
When Lao Liu heard about the hospital, he shook his head desperately: "No, I don't want to go to the hospital, they will find you." I don't want it, I want to go home, I want to go home! ”
Seeing that Lao Liu was crazy, the scorpion hurriedly stepped forward to hold him down, for fear that Lao Liu would run away in a mad manner.
"Okay, Lao Liu, don't get excited, let's not go to the hospital. Don't get excited, I'll buy you a ticket home tonight, don't be afraid. ”
Lao Liu was persuaded by me, and finally calmed down in the madness, swallowed his saliva, and looked at me in a trance: "Really? Xiao Yang, thank you so much, I ......"
I frowned, Lao Liu's state, and his current situation, I don't dare to imagine if he can hold up the journey home.
"Lao Liu, you look like this now, if you return home, what will happen to your wife and children. You believe me, I will definitely send you home, but before you go home, you listen to me, I will take you to a place. It's safe there, you recuperate well for the afternoon, and I'll send you back tonight." ”
I comforted.
After Lao Liu listened, he seemed to understand something, he looked at his current appearance, and seemed to think that what I said made sense. Finally, he looked at me fearfully: "Really? Xiao Yang, you didn't lie to me. ”
"What am I lying to you for? I don't lie to you. ”
Lao Liu was skeptical, and even now he didn't believe me very much, and nodded after a long time: "I, I listen to you." ”
"Good!"
I patted Lao Liu on the back and rushed to the scorpion's ear: "Take Lao Liu to those old clinics at the end of the cave to treat the wound, and tonight you arrange a trustworthy little brother to follow Lao Liu out of Jiangcheng, and then come back by car." I don't want to see Lao Liu stopped halfway again. ”
The scorpion nodded: "I know Brother Feng, but the old clinic at the end of the cave is all for venereal diseases." ”
"Lao Liu refused to go to a regular hospital, so he could only take him to an informal clinic to hide, he is now inflamed in many parts of his body, and the clinic happens to have penicillin, which is better than not dealing with it."
"Hmm!"
The scorpion said it understood.
In this way, we coaxed Lao Liu to the old clinic like a child, and along the way, Lao Liu's eyes splashed everywhere, for fear that he would be arrested by Liang Wencong's group.
In the afternoon, Lao Liu was forced to undergo treatment, and when he saw the needles during the treatment, he was scared and excited. Fortunately, I coaxed and deceived Lao Liu to finish dealing with the wounds on his body.
Not long after, Lao Liu took the medicine prescribed to him by the doctor and fell asleep.
I walked to the door of the clinic and smoked a cigarette in a frustrated way, and the scorpion was also distraught.
"Are you okay, Brother Feng?"
The scorpion came up to me to comfort me, and I waved my hand and said, "It's okay, I just don't understand." Why do you say that the human heart is so ugly, I don't understand human nature more and more now. You said that Hong Zhiyang, a character with a head and a face like Chen Fangtai, is wrapped in a glamorous shell, but in private he does everything that destroys human nature. On the surface, he is an entrepreneur and a big philanthropist, but he helps Liang Wencong and Niu Tianba and other wicked people. We just want to live, Lao Liu just wants to live, is he wrong? ”
The scorpion didn't speak, and reflected deeply.
"It's the people who are wrong? Or is it unfair? What to say? When justice cannot be served, when social injustice befalls you. Will you continue to pursue the faint light, or will you plunge into the darkness and decide to fight violence with violence? Or sit back and wait? ”
I sneered and asked myself, shaking my head.
I don't have an answer.
Or is the world not black and white, when you decide to uphold justice and fight violence with violence, then you are the righteous one? Or the abuser?
Maybe everyone is not wrong, it's just all the psychological burden, and there is no excuse for it.
At this moment, the scorpion's mobile phone rang, and the scorpion took the call, it was Lao Yu calling. The scorpion nodded: "I know, I'm with Brother Feng now, I'll go over now." ”
After hanging up the phone, the scorpion said weakly: "Brother Feng, Xiao Yuhang and Xu Yanlu are about to leave Jiangcheng, Lao Yu asked me to ...... over there."
"Go ahead, I'm fine."
I patted the scorpion on the shoulder, my thoughts a little misty.
"Well, then I'll go over first, and I'll let Wang Yang come over to accompany you."
The scorpion was a little worried about me, so when he left, he called Wang Yang and asked Wang Yang to come and accompany me.
After the scorpion left, I sat alone in Dongwei Old Street, watching the sky gradually darken, passers-by coming and going, I smoked cigarette butts, and still didn't find the answer.
I let out a long sigh and sat down on my worn stone chair, looked up at the sky, and closed my eyes in weariness.
Just when I was about to empty my emotions, suddenly there was a call from the clinic, Ping Pong knocked over things twice, and then Lao Liu yelled like crazy.
I woke up suddenly, and looked straight at the old clinic, Lao Liu suddenly went crazy, and shouted: "Don't come, don't come......"
I chuckled in my heart, what's wrong, what's wrong with Lao Liu?