There are always intermittent rainstorms in July, and the Taohuaping street leading to Guifei Lane has been flooded, and people close to the river can still see fish on the road.

Lu An, Ye Run, and Li Dong all went to Jinling in the end, and the originally promised casual meal became very festive.

Ye Run made a good dish, Li Dong boasted a good cow, Lu An drank a little wine, and the atmosphere was rich.

Li Dong drank too much, chewed his big tongue and said: "Brother, we have to become bigger and stronger, and work together to collect all the beauties of Jinling." ”

Ye Run said sarcastically: "Didn't you say that you won't go to the same city with Lu An after the college entrance examination?" Why did you change your mind again? ”

Li Dong hehehe: "Ye Run, don't hit people in the face, didn't you follow us to Jinling, you still have a school with my brother." Later, when Lu An walked in the dark night, he relied on the light bulb to illuminate it. ”

Ye Run pouted: "You think I want to, I can't help it." ”

Listening to the two bickering, Lu An was very happy.

He is very happy to be with Ye Run, without it, he has a good hand. I even thought about it, I went over there to buy a big bungalow as a studio, and then fooled her to cook for herself from time to time.

Ouch, think about that day, let's not talk about it, it's really beautiful.

In the evening, when the three of them were drinking, two uninvited guests came to the door number 8 of Guifei Lane, Sun Lina and the male Shaoqing.

Lu An opened the courtyard door and said to the two of them with a little bit of alcohol: "The sun came out in the west today?" How did you guys get here? Come, come in, we're drinking and eating, and we're having a good time. ”

Sun Lina seemed to be anxious, and pulled him to the mouth of the alley: "Something happened to Li Rou's family, let's go and see together." ”

"Huh?"

Lu An looked stunned, and instantly lost all his sense of alcohol: "Li Rou's family? ”

"Yes."

"What's going on?"

"I don't really know, I'll know when I go."

Lu An was a little puzzled by being pulled, but he still didn't go back.

Sun Lina has an extremely good relationship with Li Rou, so she took him to a jewelry store that sells gold jewelry.

As soon as they entered the door, all three were dumbfounded.

There was a commotion inside, and twenty or thirty people blocked the entrance of the building, and shouted to Li Rou and Wei Fangyuan on the second floor: "Lao Li and Xiao Li have run away, and no one has paid us our salaries." ”

The crowd pushed and shoved, and it was very angry.

Fortunately, Zeng Lingbo and Chu Jian tried their best to block it at the entrance of the building, so they were not rushed up by everyone for a while.

However, Zeng Lingbo and Chu saw that they were weak and couldn't stop twenty or thirty people at all, and after a stalemate for a while, they were drowned in the sea of people.

Someone shouted: "Li Rou, your family has all run away, you have to give us an explanation." ”

"Yes, you have to make it clear to us!"

"You still owe us three months' wages, when will you pay it?"

“.”

A crowd of people shouted and rushed up to the second floor.

Faced with this scene, Wei Fangyuan's face turned pale with fright, and he pulled Li Rou to hide on the third floor.

Seeing that Zeng Lingbo and Chu Jian were both trampled underfoot, Li Rou knew that there was no way back, so she stood up and said:

"I don't care about the money, and I don't know anything at home, so let's do it, you can take whatever you like in this store, take it and leave, I won't call the police, and I won't pursue it afterwards."

After listening to this, the hearts of the employees who were neat just now were immediately confused.

I don't know who roared, everyone abandoned Li Rou and began to rummage through boxes and cabinets to move things, some people found gold necklaces in the corners, some people found gold rings, some people grabbed table lamps, some people picked up the landline and ran outside, and some people jumped to pick up the calligraphy and paintings on the wall.

Even the glass counter was picked up and left.

There is a middle-aged woman who seems to have a prejudice against Li Rou, or has a deep grudge, and she takes advantage of the chaos to touch it and shines on her ears: "Wear gold and silver every day, scratch your head and make a posture, I have long seen that you are not pleasing to the eye, old lady." ”

The middle-aged woman does rough work on weekdays, and she has a lot of strength, and Li Rou was slapped directly to the ground without paying attention. Seeing this, the former was triumphant and seemed to chase after the fan.

said that it was too late, Lu An rushed up from the first floor, trotted to help, and kicked directly on the middle-aged woman's back.

"Ahh

The middle-aged woman fell to the ground in response, but her physical fitness was very strong, and she scolded when she got up: "You are a son of a bitch."

Seeing that there were bloodshot at the corners of Li Rou's mouth, Sun Lina, who was following behind, was angry, and before the middle-aged woman finished scolding, she slapped her with a few slaps.

The young man was afraid that his girlfriend would suffer, so he hurriedly protected him.

This time, the middle-aged woman recognized the situation clearly, knowing that one person could not deal with three people at all, so she immediately drooped her head and ran away from the entrance of the building with a rolling belt, and she didn't dare to let go of a fart.

After a while, the jewelry store, which had been noisy just a moment ago, quieted down, the store was empty, and the people were gone.

Wei Fangyuan helped Li Rou up and wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue, "I'll take you to the hospital to have a look." ”

Li Rou shook her head: "It's okay, a small injury, let's leave quickly." ”

Lu An helped Zeng Lingbo up, and then asked Chu Jian, who was injured all over his body: "Can you still live?" ”

"I can't die." Hatsumi barely stood up, and his legs and stomach were still swinging.

Leaving the store in a hurry, Zeng Lingbo asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Li Rou didn't speak, lowered her head and trotted vigorously until she ran 400 meters, crossed two streets, and led the group into an inconspicuous old house.

After resting for a while, Lu An asked Li Rou, "What happened?" How did it come to this? ”

Li Rou came back to her senses and said: "I met a very powerful competitor, and my family went bankrupt." ”

A very powerful competitor, Lu An understood it as soon as he heard it, and he didn't ask any more questions.

Sun Lina grabbed Li Rou's hand and couldn't help asking, "Your father and your brother both ran away, why didn't they take you with them?" ”

Hearing this, Li Rou's eyes were blank, "Seeing that the situation is wrong, Dad ran away yesterday, with the family's money and a woman." ”

Zeng Lingbo interjected: "Isn't your mother dead, and your father still has a woman?" ”

When I first saw it, I grinned in pain: "Her father is so rich, of course there is no shortage of women, and there is more than one." ”

Li Rou ignored them and said to Lu An and Sun Lina: "My dad ran away, and my brother was in a hurry, and then ran away with the rest of the money and my sister-in-law." ”

Zeng Lingbo was very heartfelt, and he had long been accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, so he said hesitantly: "If you bring money and a woman, you don't care about your sister, this is a son inheriting his father's business, a glorious tradition." ”

Lu An glared at him angrily: "Can you shut up?" ”

If the others said this, he had ordered Bo Bao to go back, but in the face of Lu An, his eyes wandered, and he picked up his clothes and began to check the wound on his belly.

Seeing that his belly was covered with blood, Lu An leaned over and asked with concern, "Does it hurt?" ”

Zeng Lingbo took a breath and scolded: "It hurts, how can it not hurt?" The skin was shattered, and those bastards didn't look at it when they walked. ”

Wang Lina asked Li Rou: "Then what are you going to do?" ”

Li Rou said: "Those competitors will not let our family go, I have to escape from Baoqing as soon as possible." ”

The male young man asked, "Where are you going to leave Baoqing?" ”

Li Rou said: "My dad took the woman south, my brother ran west with the woman, I have to go to Shanghai and run separately." ”

Hatsumi stood up: "There are many of them, I'll go and find out the news for you, and wait for me to come back." ”

Li Rou looked at him and said, "You pay attention to safety." ”

Hatsumi nodded sharply, then slipped out the side door.

Li Rou didn't seem at ease, followed to the window, lifted the corner of the curtain and peeked out.

Three minutes later, she suddenly turned around, bent down and dragged a large bag out of the two-door cabinet, and said to several people, "Let's go, let's go quickly." ”

"Huh?"

Wei Fangyuan, who was not deeply involved in the world, was very stunned, and asked in surprise: "Don't wait for the first time?" ”

Li Rou said: "My dad and my brother's subordinates have betrayed, it's not that I don't trust the first meeting, but I can't bet, the other party offered a price of 50,000 for the Li family." ”

With that, she opened the door of the back room, and after some manipulation, opened an underground passage.

Seeing this, everyone was stunned.

This girl can be said to be close-minded, she is really a person from a blood-licking family, and she is not chaotic in the face of danger, and she is not eating this meal for nothing.

The underpass is not long, passing under the street, from the house on one side of the street to the house on the other.

At this time, it was almost dark, and Li Rou said to a few people: "There are many people, the goal is big, Lina, Shaoqing, um, and Ling Bo, the three of you go through the back door, go west and go back to the school, don't come here in the future." ”

Everyone looked at each other for a while, but they were not hypocritical, they all knew what Li Rou's family was doing, it was easy to make enemies, and they couldn't be sloppy at this juncture.

Sun Lina, Nan Shaoqing and Zeng Lingbo left through the back door.

After Li Rou arrived at the door, she looked at the three of them and disappeared safely at the entrance of the street before turning to the two and saying, "You two come with me." ”

After the words fell, Li Rou opened the door of the inner room again, opened an underground passage, and took the lead in getting in.

Lu An and Wei Fangyuan glanced at each other, a chill appeared on their backs, and their eyes were full of complicated emotions.

Lu An stretched out his hand and patted Wei Fangyuan on the back: "Don't think about it, follow first." ”

With him there, Wei Fangyuan was not so afraid, stabilized his emotions, and entered the passage.

Lu Ann walked to the end, and after handling the passageway, he came to another street again.

Seeing the two of them coming out in turn, Li Rou's eyes were full of sadness: "Do you think I'm too cruel?" ”

Then she said to herself, "But I don't care about that. ”

Luan asked, "When were these passages built?" ”

Li Rou shook her head: "I don't know, my dad got it a few years ago, he said that the three holes of the cunning rabbit, I didn't expect me to use it today." ”

Luan asked, "Is it safe here?" ”

Li Rou said: "Safety, these houses have been bought for more than 5 years, except for me, as far as my father and my brother know, for fear of arousing suspicion, we usually never come here." ”

Wei Fangyuan squatted at the window and watched outside for a while, and suddenly asked the two: "Are you hungry, there is a grocery store diagonally opposite, why don't I go out and buy something to eat and come back?" ”

Li Rou grabbed her, "Wait a minute, the state-owned enterprise hasn't worked the night shift yet, and we'll buy it when the night shift is over." ”

Lu An asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Li Rou looked at him in the eyes and said, "Go to the capital." ”

Lu An nodded: "Where did you volunteer to fill in the college entrance examination?" ”

Li Rou said: "Beijing." ”

Without waiting for him to reply, Li Rou added: "The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven and is the safest place." ”

Hearing the word "Beijing", Lu An shut up and didn't ask.

Before, this girl said that she would go to Shanghai, but now she has changed her words to Beijing, who knows which place is true?

I can't say that these are smoke bombs.

Seeing that Lu An and Wei Fangyuan had distrust of him, Li Rou lowered her head and tears flowed down her eyes, but she didn't explain.

The reason why she left two people was that one was her best friend in high school, and the other was someone she liked, and she wanted to stay with them more when she left. Maybe you won't see you again.

For a while, there was some dead silence in the room, Wei Fangyuan was a soft-hearted person, and he sighed and began to comfort her in a whisper.

Listening to the chatter of the two women, Lu An didn't speak, squatted behind the window in place of Wei Fangyuan, always vigilant outside, and kept picking out information about Li Rou from her memory in her mind, but not much, she looked for herself twice in a row when she was about to graduate from high school in her previous life.

At that time, he was very introverted and didn't respond at all, and then the two broke off contact completely.

Now that I think about it, it should be that after the Li family suffered a great change, this girl didn't come back.

After 9 o'clock in the evening, the crowd on the street outside suddenly increased, all of them were blue and blue cloth labor uniforms, all bicycles, all of them were state-owned enterprise workers who worked the night shift.

Li Rou and Wei Fangyuan stopped saying yes, came to the window, lifted the corner of the curtain and looked out cautiously.

Finally, Wei Fangyuan asked, "Can I go and buy it now?" ”

Lu An estimated that the little hair was hungry, stood up and said, "I'll buy it, you two don't come out." ”

Seeing that he was going to go through the underground passage, Li Rou couldn't help but grab his right wrist and look at him fixedly.

Lu An read her eyes: "Don't worry, I don't usually have much contact with you, those people shouldn't know me, I'll go and come back quickly." ”

Li Rou stared at him for a full 5 seconds, then finally let go and said, "I knew you when I first saw you, you have to keep an eye on it." ”

Luan nodded and entered the underground passage.

Wei Fangyuan subconsciously looked at Li Rou.

Seeing that her friend was wary of herself, Li Rou smiled sadly: "This is the last nest." ”

Wei Fangyuan said with some embarrassment: "I"

Li Rou interrupted her: "No need to explain, I understand, you have had a good relationship since childhood."

Halfway through speaking, she interrupted, her eyes staring straight at the group outside.

Wei Fangyuan recognized one of them, lowered his voice and said, "That's Yang Lianting?" She also betrayed? She's bringing someone to you? ”

Li Rou was very anxious, "She knows Lu An." ”

The two girls recognized Yang Lianting, and Lu An on the other side of the street naturally recognized it.

He first cowered and did not move, and waited until the group had passed for a long time before bowing his head and going out.

Not daring to stay outside for a long time, he simply picked out some biscuits and water, and then hurried back to the house.

Five minutes later, Lu Ann met up with the two girls and began to share biscuits and water.

Lu An asked curiously: "Yang Lianting betrayed, why didn't he betray at first sight?" ”

Li Rou said: "Four years ago, he was injured and passed out by a ditch, and my brother and I took him to the hospital when we passed by, saving his life, and he followed my brother after that." ”

Wei Fangyuan asked sadly: "How was the first time you saw you?" ”

Li Rou said: "I don't have much contact with him, but my brother likes him more, saying that this person can't fight, but he is ruthless and very righteous." ”

On this night, the streets outside were very noisy.

First several groups of people kicked and stomped past, and then several sirens sounded, and the windows of the entire street were crowded with people.

Lu An moved a low stool and sat behind the window, looking out at the neon lights of the city center.

Not to mention, from this point of view, Baoqing is still very prosperous.

Another police car flashed through the street, and I don't know if the comrades sitting in the car are looking for the Li family's rivals?

Later, the neon signs slowly turned off, and the pedestrians on the road gradually thinned out, so that there was none, and it was pitch black outside.

Wei Fangyuan, who was sleepy, didn't know when he had fallen asleep on the bed, and Li Rou walked over to Lu An after taking a look at the bedside for a while, and said, "It's early in the morning, let's rest too." ”

Luan asked, "Don't keep vigil?" ”

Li Rou said: "If you don't keep it, other houses have turned off the lights, and we also turn off the lights so that they don't look abrupt." ”

"That's right."

Lu An reached out and hooked the rope and pulled it down, and the dim electric light went out immediately.

In the dark night, Li Rou slept in the same bed with Wei Fangyuan.

Lu An found a bed and slept on a bamboo mat at the door.

After the lights went out, Li Rou didn't say a word, and after about 10 minutes, she suddenly asked, "Lu An, do you remember what I looked like in junior high school?" ”

Lu An, who listened attentively outside the door, thought about it and replied truthfully: "I don't remember." ”

Li Rou was a little sad: "But I remember you." ”

Lu An said for a while, "Thank you." ”

Li Rou then spoke: "Actually, I have known you since I was a child. ”

Lu An wondered: "When?" ”

Li Rou said: "When I was a child, my dad was a street gangster, often gathered a group of people to do nothing, my mother set up a shoe stall in order to support the family, every year your aunt will take you to our stall to choose two pairs of shoes, a pair of waterproof shoes in winter, and a pair of flat sandals in summer." ”

Lu An tried to recall, and finally had a vague impression: "You are the girl who often nests next to the coal stove?" Frequent two pigtails? ”

"Yes, that's me, I like to stay by the coal stove when I accompany my mother to sell shoes in the winter." Li Rou was very happy when she said this.

Luan asked, "Have we spoken?" ”

Li Rou said: "No. ”

Then she said: "If only I had talked to you at that time, we would be childhood sweethearts, and maybe we could fall in love." ”

Lu An said: "I met Qing Shui earlier, and I knew each other when I wore open crotch pants. ”

Hearing this, Li Rou, who was still talking about it just now, fell into a long silence, and said for a long time: "Lu An, it seems that I will never forget you." ”

Lu An looked at the ceiling with his eyes open: "Alas, it's better not to use this word forever." ”

At this point, both of them stopped talking and slowly fell asleep.

Just after three o'clock in the morning, Lu An woke up and found that there was tenderness in his hand.

Looking sideways, I could vaguely see a person sleeping on my side, it was Li Rou.

I don't know when she was lying on her side, sleeping with her eyes closed.

Luan's gaze flickered back and forth over her, and finally stopped on her chest, and after a few moments he withdrew his hand and leaned back against the door, pulling a little distance.

In the dark night, Li Rou made a cold voice: "Is it still flat?" ”

Lu An was thinking about things just now, and he didn't pay attention to it for a while, "What did you say?" ”

Li Rou sat up and grabbed her hair with both hands, "It's nothing, I have to go." ”

Lu An sat up with a bone: "Now? ”

"Yes, now."

"Where to go?"

"I'm going to walk from the back of Guifei Lane."

Lu An instantly understood what she meant: "Go over the mountain to the next town to take the train?" ”

Li Rou said: "Only in this way is it 100% safe. ”

woke up Wei Fangyuan, and the three of them smeared back to Guifei Lane.

Lu An pulled her into the house, then took out the wig and fake beard that he had always kept for her, and then took out a set of his own clothes:

"Put this on."

Seeing that she was a completely different person in the mirror, Li Rou was a little shocked, and then she was very happy: "How did you do it?" ”

"It's amazing." Wei Fangyuan also sighed on the side.

"Amazing, this is called imitation technology, I only have a little bit of skin." Lu Ann cleaned up, found a stick and walked back to the mountain.

Li Rou reflexively hugged Wei Fangyuan and said, "Fang Yuan, the back mountain is very high, don't climb it, go home and sleep." ”

Wei Fangyuan said: "I'm from the countryside, what's there to be afraid of, you look down on me, let's go, it's dawn in more than an hour." ”

After persuading Wei Fangyuan a few times, Li Rou was moved to tears, and then followed Lu An to the back mountain.

They are all poor children from the countryside, and climbing the mountain is not a hard job for the three of them, but they can encounter a snake from time to time on the road, which makes Lu An cheer up.

After walking for 3 hours in a row, the three of them who were sweating finally arrived in the next town.

Luckily, I only had to wait 11 minutes for a slow train.

Before parting, Li Rou first hugged Wei Fangyuan, and then hugged Lu An.

In his arms, Li Rou kissed the corner of his mouth regardless of the person next to him, and said later: "The next time you see Meng Qingshui, you can tell her sorry for me." ”

Then let go of him and walked out of the wicket.

After only walking a few steps, she turned around again, took out 1,000 yuan from her pocket and stuffed it to Lu An: "I'm not a good person, you invited Zeng Lingbo, Sun Lina and Nan Shaoqing to have a meal for me, which can be regarded as my apology." ”

Lu An confiscated the money, "You have to go far away, take the money yourself." ”

Li Rou whispered: "I have money in my bag, and I also left a handful of money order, I will send it before filling in the volunteer today, I will go to the provincial capital and wait for this registered letter before leaving, don't worry about me." ”

Lu An understood: "You have a house in the provincial capital? ”

Li Rou snorted, "My dad used to raise a woman there, and now the woman has run away, and the empty house is just right for me to receive letters." ”

Lu An instructed: "Don't live inside. ”

Li Rou didn't make a sound, stared at his face affectionately, said thank you for a long time, and followed one by one: "Goodbye, Lu An." ”

"Goodbye." Seeing the girl who turned away, Lu An whispered.

The train left and Li Rou left.

It wasn't until he couldn't see the shadow of the train that Wei Fangyuan turned to look at him: "Lu An, you are really popular with girls." ”

Lu An stretched and yawned and said, "What's the matter with me, it's all my mother's fault." ”

Wei Fangyuan asked, "How do we go back?" ”

Luan said, "Follow me." ”

Out of the station, the two stopped the car on the side of the road.

It's a pity that there are very few cars these days, and it takes a long time for one to appear on the country road.

It was too sunny, and then the two didn't want to wait, so they simply spent money to catch a walk-behind tractor.

After a change of train in the middle, I finally returned to Baoqing City.

Wei Fangyuan asked her, "Do you want to go back to your hometown?" ”

Lu An said, "I want to go back." ”

"When are you leaving?"

"The day after tomorrow, I'm going to go to Meng's house tomorrow."

"Then I'll stay one more day and go back with you."

"Okay, you sit down first, I'll take a shower and send you back to No. 2 Middle School, and then invite Sun Lina and Lao Zeng to have a meal."

Wei Fangyuan said: "I know where Sun Lina and Nan Shaoqing live, and I will take you to find them later." ”

"Hmm."

After taking a bath in a hurry, the two went to the house of the male Shaoqing's cousin, and sure enough, they found Sun Lina and the male Shaoqing.

Seeing the two, Sun Lina hurriedly asked, "What about Li Rou?" ”

Wei Fangyuan said: "It's gone." ”

Sun Lina asked, "Where did you go?" ”

Lu An interjected at the right time: "She said to go to Shanghai." ”

Then he took out 1,000 yuan and told Li Rou about the treat.

Sun Lina cried, crying so much that Lu An and the young man were inexplicable.

After that, the four of them went to No. 2 Middle School together, Zeng Lingbo was playing basketball on the playground, covered with beads of sweat, and the smell of sweat could be smelled from afar.

Lu An shouted: "You are looking for death, playing basketball at noon, you don't want to die in such a big sun?" ”

"People are dead and immortal, what are you afraid of." Zeng Lingbo's mouth has always been full of words.

ps: Lazy split, two in one.

(End of chapter)