On the winter solstice, pedestrians fly away on the road with ice and snow. The deep-sea river is impenetrable, and it is uncomfortable day and night.

Vulgar desires haunt the heart, and the long night is restless. Working overtime in the office day and night, going bald in the morning and evening.

It has been more than a week since the decision to dig the pit, and Xu Yang these days, as the poem says, is busy for those few taels of silver. During the day, he sat in Jiangyang to receive goods, and stationed at night to make up new stories, but he really went out early and returned to labor at night.

Fortunately, the emperor has lived up to his wishes, and today this pit is almost over, so he is waiting for the right time to invite you into the urn.

Xu Yang sat on the chair and stretched comfortably, looking at the time and stopping early, he thought about what to do. Xu Yang took out his mobile phone and called Shen Xiaoli.

"Dudu~~~"

"What are you doing, uncle, aren't you busy?"

The phone didn't ring twice, and Shen Xiaoli's sweet voice came.

"Yes, it's a phased completion! What are you doing, how about going to the movies together at night? The moment Xu Yang heard Shen Xiaoli's voice, his mood was much better.

"Tonight? I'm afraid not, grandpa will be back tomorrow, and I'll help at home tonight! ”

"Oh, that's right, then you better help, do you need me to help?"

"No need, I'm just filling up the numbers, and there are troublesome things for Auntie! Uncle, if you have nothing to do, go to Sister Xu's to sit down, she has called me several times, and she is always asking you what you are busy with and I don't see you to see her. ”

"Ah, yes, it seems that I haven't seen Sister Ruyan for a long time, and I forgot if you don't say it."

"Well, then you go and see Sister Xu! Oh, by the way, tomorrow grandpa will come back, there will be a family banquet at home in the evening, and my father asked me to call you, an intern son-in-law, too, you can't be absent! ”

"Well, okay, I'll go straight after work."

"Okay, uncle, I'm hanging up, dad called me!"

"Good!"

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yang shook his head: "Hey, there are many big families!" ”

After packing up his things and getting dressed, Xu Yang clocked in and set off directly from work to the Ruyan Bar.

The winter in Haicheng is not so cold, but for some reason, the winter in Haicheng this year is exceptionally cold, that is, the kind of cold that can be splashed into ice.

Because there are very few pedestrians on the cold road, and there are few cars on the ring road, but they are all slow, maybe it is too cold to run.

Xu Yang also went to the Ruyan Bar after a while.

In order to keep warm, the original hollow windows of the bar have been opened, and the door is even tighter, and the water droplets on the door glass can prove the warmth inside. Xu Yang pushed the door in, and the bell on the door rang non-stop.

There aren't many people coming to the bar this season, there are only a few customers in the house, and even the waiters are a few fewer than before.

Xu Bing, who was on duty at the bar today, saw it as soon as Xu Yang came in: "Brother Yang! ”

Xu Yang looked for the sound and found that it was Xu Bing, so he came to the bar in two or three steps: "It's such a coincidence that you're on duty, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

Xu Bing: "No, it's been a long time, Sister Ruyan talks about you every day!" ”

Xu Yang: "Hehe, I've been too busy lately, and I've been at home." Where's my sister? ”

Xu Bing: "Sister Ruyan is upstairs." ”

As soon as Xu Yang heard this, he got up and was about to go upstairs, but Xu Bing hurriedly stopped him when he saw this: "Brother Yang, there are guests upstairs today, you can go up again later." Want to drink something? Is it the same as before? ”

Xu Yang raised his ass and sat back again: "Okay, what kind of guest is here!" ”

Xu Bing took a glass of grass-flavored soda and pushed it to Xu Yang: "I don't know who it is, it is from Hong Kong." ”

Xu Yang: "Macau? Sister and there is also business over there? ”

Xu Bing: "I don't know, Sister Ruyan didn't say it." ”

While the two were talking, the bell rang again. Xu Bing looked up, and Xu Yang also turned his head to look. With the sound of the bell, two beauties came in at the door, Xu Yangxin said that it was a coincidence, these two Xu Yang at the door knew each other, this was not Ding Ying and Ma Qing.

However, Xu Yang was a little surprised, I don't know if the sun came out in the west, on weekdays, these two girls are wearing heavy makeup and sexy and enchanting together, as if the thousand-year-old charm fox can charm all the men in the world. But today the two of them are indeed simple and plain, and the most important thing is that they usually go to nightclubs, why did they come to such a quiet bar today.

"Oops, why are you two here?" Xu Yang was the first to say hello.

Ding Ying and Ma Qing only saw Xu Yang at this time, and with Ding Ying in Ma Qing, they naturally wouldn't answer first.

"Why are you here, you don't have to work overtime today? Everything is finished? ”

Xu Yang: "Well, it's almost over from the company's side." Why didn't you go to a nightclub, it's not your style. ”

Ding Ying: "Oh, Qing'er is not in a good mood, so I want to find a quiet place to drink." ”

Ding Ying answered Xu Yang's question while finding a booth and sitting down. Xu Yang took two bottles of beer and his own soda and walked over.

"Why do you still have a bad temperament."

"The business of my little shop is so bad that it can't be run anymore." Ma Qing replied softly with Xu Yang's beer.

Xu Yang: "That's it?" If the business is not good, you can do something else, and the living will never be suffocated by urine. ”

Ma Qing: "That's right, but only the people on the stall know how difficult it is, and besides, I don't plan to be in Haicheng anymore, I want to leave." ”

"Why, isn't it good?" Ding Ying asked.

Ma Qing: "Actually, I came to Haicheng to look for someone, but I haven't found it for so long, I want to leave." ”

Ding Ying: "Looking for someone?" Who are you looking for? ”

Ma Qing did not answer Ding Ying's question directly, but took out a photo from his wallet. The style of the photo is a little old, it should be some years, the photo shows a boy and a girl, the boy is a little short, and the girl is holding him behind him.

Xu Yang saw that the girl in the photo was very similar to Ma Qing, so he looked up at Ma Qing and waited for her to finish the story. Ma Qing didn't disappoint Xu Yang either, and continued after a slight pause.

"I have a younger brother named Ma Zhi, and this is a picture of us when we were young. My mother left early, and my father raised my brother and sister. Ma Zhi was sixteen years old that year, which was the age of rebellion, once he was injured in a fight with someone outside, and later the family came to the family and demanded compensation. At that time, the family had some money, and his father was angry and beat Ma Zhi again, but the kid ran away from home and never came back. ”

Halfway through the story, Xu Yang knew that this must be a sad story, people often fall into a catastrophe because of their youth, and then run away, and when the time passes, the years go by, and they regret it and are very ashamed.

After he ran away, his father fell ill in a hurry, and later died of cancer not long after. Before leaving, my father told me that I must find my younger brother, and a few years ago I heard from a fellow villager that Ma Zhi ran to Haicheng, so I also came here. But I've been looking for seven or eight years and there's no news, hey, I'm tired, I don't want to look for it. ”

After Ma Qing finished speaking, he picked up the wine bottle and drank all the wine in the bottle, Xu Yang beckoned to the bar, and Xu Bing also understood and took a few more bottles of wine.

Ding Ying looked at Ma Qing's appearance and couldn't help but feel sad in her heart. Listening to Ma Qing tell about the joys and sorrows of an ordinary family, but who can understand the bitterness and bitterness except for the parties themselves?

"Qing'er, do you have any clues about how long you have been here?" Ding Ying's voice involuntarily dropped a little.

"I only know that he was the little brother of a woman named Xu Ruyan, oh, he is the boss behind this bar. But that woman is a big person, how can I find it. Ma Qing replied weakly.

"Huh?"

Ma Qing's words surprised Xu Yang, and Ding Ying was also taken aback by these words, and raised her eyes to stare at Xu Yang.

"Are you sure you're the owner of this bar? Then you haven't been looking for it? Xu Yang asked with some suspicion.

Ma Qing nodded: "Sure, I've also come to look for her, but I haven't seen her, I only heard her subordinates say that she is no longer in Haicheng, but I don't know where I went." ”

"Oh, that's right." Xu Yang nodded.

Ding Ying: "Yang, Xu Ruyan is not your sister, you can ask!" ”

When Ma Qing heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, and looked at Xu Yang with bright eyes, but then the light in his eyes dimmed again.

"Ying, Xu Yang said before that he didn't recognize this Xu Ruyan."

Xu Yang wanted to open his mouth and say a try, but after listening to Ma Qing's words, he seemed to remember something, and he seemed to have said this.

"Uhhh Sister Ma, this is too complicated, I did say it when you asked me, but the person you said is really the owner of this bar, and when Sister Xu comes, I can help you ask. ”

"Really?" Ma Qing looked at Xu Yang as if he had seen a life-saving straw.

Xu Yang nodded.

Coincidentally, Xu Ruyan happened to take two people downstairs while several people were talking.

Xu Ruyan saw Xu Yang on the stairs, but the two people behind him didn't call him.

Xu Yang was chatting with Ma Qing and Ding Ying, and he also felt movement on the other side of the stairs and turned his head to look, just staring at one of the two people. But this glance couldn't help but make Xu Yang frown, and his intuition told him that these two people were not ordinary.

Xu Ruyan took the two of them downstairs, chatted a few more words near the bar, and then beckoned Xu Bing. He turned his head sideways and explained a few words to Xu Bing before shaking hands with the two of them, and then Xu Bing and the two left the bar.

When the three of them left, Xu Ruyan walked over to Xu Yang and them.

"You kid still know that you came to me, and I thought you forgot about your sister after disappearing for so long."

Xu Yang hurriedly got up when he heard the voice: "How can it be, sister, I've been too busy lately, and I'm here just after finishing it." Xiaoli, that girl still let me bring it to you! ”

Xu Ruyan smiled slightly: "It's about the same, Lily still has a heart, she will come over when you are not there." ”

Xu Yang grinned: "Hehe, that's that, sister, sit down first, sit down and talk!" ”

"Ying, you're here too, but you haven't been here for a long time!" Xu Ruyan greeted Ding Ying and Ma Qing at this time, but she didn't know Ma Qing, so she just nodded to Ma Qing.

Xu Yang waited for Ding Ying to say hello and Xu Ruyan to sit down before speaking.

"Sister, this is Ma Qing, and he is also my landlord. There's something she wants you to help with, this... She's very difficult, sister, if it's convenient for you, help her. ”

After Xu Yang finished speaking, Xu Ruyan raised his eyes and looked at Ma Qing again, "Since it's your friend, don't say whether you can help or not, just say anything straight, I will naturally not shirk what I can do." ”

As soon as Ma Qing heard this, his eyes immediately turned red.

Xu Yang: "Sister, it's such a good thing, Ma Qing has a younger brother named Ma Zhi, who said that he was your little brother before, and she just wanted to ask you if you knew the whereabouts of this younger brother." ”

"Ma Zhi..."Xu Ruyan thought seriously for a while, "Hey, I've been with my little brother too much, and I don't have much of an impression of this name." ”

Ma Qing's eyes turned even redder after hearing this, as if the hope that had just been ignited had been extinguished again, and hurriedly said, "Boss Xu, please think about it, please, please." "And I'm going to kneel down here.

Xu Ruyan was also a little moved when she looked at Ma Qing's pitiful appearance, and she couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in her heart.

"Hey, I'm really not impressed, so let's sit here for a while, and I'll make a phone call and ask."

After speaking, Xu Ruyan got up and went back to the office on the second floor, leaving Ma Qing, Xu Yang, and Ding Ying with anticipation.

Xu Yang, who was sitting on the side, really felt that Ma Qing was pitiful, he didn't know that she had so many sad things before, but he just felt that this woman was a little frivolous and had been deliberately estranged, which would be idle Xu Yang looked at Ma Qing carefully.

Xu Yang was taken aback when he saw this, only to feel that there was a particularly light light red mist lingering around Ma Qing's body, this felt that Xu Yang was experiencing it for the first time, Xu Yang thought it was his own dazzled so he rubbed his eyes, and looked at Ma Qing again, and the light red mist disappeared.

Xu Yang didn't care that he was just dazzled, so he carefully looked at Ma Qing's facial features, and Xu Yang was a little happy for Ma Qing, so he spoke directly.

"Sister Ma, don't worry about Jiren's own natural appearance, you and your brother have not finished their fate, and the day of reunion is not far away."