Chapter 4 Bullying and Domination of the Market
"In such a hurry, where is this going?" Zhao Mingding was a little confused, and asked as he walked. He really didn't want to go with Zeng Xiaorou, but he was afraid that she would have an accident, so he had to go with her.
"Don't ask, you'll find out then." Zeng Xiaorou took out her previous mobile phone in the cloth bag as she spoke, dialed a number, and after connecting, she only said "Wait for me downstairs at the Dongfang Hotel" and hung up, and then said to Zhao Mingding, "I don't want anything in the hotel, let's leave Guangzhou immediately." ”
"Where to go?" Zhao Mingding asked again.
"You're stupid, of course you're back home." Zeng Xiaorou said, but she didn't stop at her feet, didn't wait for the elevator, and took Zhao Mingding directly up the stairs, and walked from the third floor to the gate of the hotel in less than three minutes. Zeng Xiaorou didn't say a word, opened the door of the back seat and sat in, Zhao Mingding thought about it and sat in the back seat.
The driver was a middle-aged man about thirty-five years old, with a thin figure, eyes full of energy, a high nose bridge but a scruffy beard, giving people a feeling of being unkempt.
As soon as the Land Cruiser drove onto the road, it shuttled through the traffic, and saw Zeng Xiaorou fasten his seat belt, and Zhao Mingding immediately fastened his seat belt. None of the three said a word. There was silence in the car for a while, except for the faint noise outside the window from time to time.
"Xiaorou, where do you want to go?" After driving a few blocks, the driver finally broke the silence and asked.
"Uncle Qing, I want to go back to my hometown." Zeng Xiaorou said listlessly, "When you get to Taihe County, put him down." As he spoke, he turned his head to Zhao Mingding and said, "I'm sorry for messing up your blind date today." ”
"I've told you everything, it's a joke, how can you take it seriously?" Zhao Mingding smiled bitterly.
"Look at how you look like a dog, you really don't even have a girlfriend?" Zeng Xiaorou looked at Zhao Mingding in disbelief, "But if you take the initiative, it should be easy to make a factory girl, right?" ”
"You're too young to understand!" Zhao Mingding smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Okay, you know!" Zeng Xiaorou said, raised her head back, and closed her eyes, "I've been running around for a day, I'm tired, I'll rest for a while." ”
The Land Cruiser is a good car, good on the national highway, steady and comfortable. What makes Zhao Mingding a little puzzled is that if you don't take the highway in good condition, why do you take the national highway, and sometimes take the county road and the country road? At the same time, I couldn't help but be curious about Zeng Xiaorou's identity: if I asked for money, I would get 100,000 yuan immediately; Say you want a car, and a car will arrive at the designated place immediately. Which lady is this socialite? Zhao Mingding thought for a long time, but there was no answer, so he simply didn't think about it, closed his eyes, leaned his head on the headrest, and fell asleep.
The distance from Guangzhou City to Jiangxi Taihe County is about 550 kilometers, and it takes 8 hours to take the normal highway, but Uncle Qing took the 105 National Highway and only took 6 hours to reach Taihe County.
"My phone number and home address are on your mobile phone, remember to come to me on the second day of the Lunar New Year!" When Zhao Mingding got out of the car, Zeng Xiaorou said lazily, almost the moment the car door closed, the Land Cruiser rushed out like an arrow from the string, and disappeared at the turn of the street in the blink of an eye.
It was midnight, and there were few pedestrians on the streets of the small county town of Taihe, and the occasional motorcycle soliciting customers drove by, adding to the loneliness.
Zhao Mingding found a snack bar in Shaxian County, which was open all night, ordered a fried mein, and after eating, he raised his hand to stop a motorcycle carrying passengers, negotiated the price, and returned to his long-lost home in the cold wind and bumps. Zhao Mingding knew that although he said that he was away all the year round, his grandmother insisted on cleaning her room every day and cleaning the bedding from time to time, so that she could come back to live at any time. In the dark, smelling the faint smell of sunshine on the quilt, Zhao Mingding finally slept with peace of mind, and had no dreams all night.
Early the next morning, Zhao Mingding opened his eyes on time and heard the sound of his grandfather sweeping the floor in the yard and the sound of his grandmother boiling water and cooking rice in the kitchen.
"When I heard the sound last night, I knew it was you kid back!" Grandpa stopped the broom in his hand and looked at Zhao Mingding who came out, with a smile on his face.
Zhao Mingding said hello to his grandfather, and then walked into the kitchen to see his grandmother, and saw that she was washing rice and putting it in the pot, and after calling grandma, he hurriedly went to the water well to press a bucket of fresh water.
"Xiao Ding is back?" Grandma looked at Zhao Mingding lovingly and said, "Why don't you sleep more, why do you get up so early?" ”
"When I came back last night, I saw a load of white radishes in the yard, and it is estimated that Zhushan will be a polder today, so I got up early so that I could sell radish." Zhao Mingding said with a smile, "Today I will buy some offal and come back and have a good meal." It's been a long time since I've eaten offal from my hometown, and I want to eat it so much. ”
"Eat, eat, you know how to eat." Grandma sighed and said dissatisfied, "It's another year to come back for the New Year, right?" What about the girlfriend I asked you to find? You see, the people in the village who went out to work at the same time as you are now three or four years old. ”
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, so let everything go naturally." Grandma, you don't have to worry about this. In order to prevent his grandmother from nagging anymore, Zhao Mingding hurriedly comforted, and at the same time helped his grandmother light the stove, and took a hug of firewood from the firewood and grass to the kitchen, then washed his hands, came to the yard that had been cleaned, and began to practice.
At that time, the morning light began to appear, a thin layer of frost spread all over the ground and roof, the leaves of the jujube tree in the yard have fallen, and a few red persimmons hung on the persimmon tree scattered on the ground, the thin layer of hoarfrost is like the precipitated frosting, tempting people to take a bite and taste the sweetness and fragrance that penetrates the spleen.
The village where Zhao Mingding lives is called Hangbang Village, which faces Zhushan Wei across the Ganjiang River. There is a huge cliff near the Zhushan Wei River, which is like a knife cutting and axe, which is extremely smooth, and the quiet river water flows under the cliff. It is said that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang had posted a list on the cliff, recruited troops and horses, and resisted the Yuan soldiers, because the ships in the Ganjiang River from the south to the north had to pass under the cliff, so it was convenient to watch and read the list text, so the village across the river from the cliff was called the list village. Zhao Mingding is familiar with this allusion, because his grandfather often mentioned it to him when he was a child. Since he can remember, Zhao Mingding has been living with his grandparents, for his parents, there is no slightest impression, occasionally ask about his grandparents about his parents, only tell him to go out to do business, after a long time, he is used to it, and never ask again, fortunately, the surrounding neighbors have a few playmates who are the same age as themselves, chasing chickens and dogs every day, fishing and touching shrimp, living a good and unhappy life, but it is a pity that the creation makes people, the last game of the college entrance examination was framed for cheating, and since then there is no chance with the university, provoked a group of brothers to go to the framed person to settle accounts, and they were unwilling to go to college, and they wanted to accompany Zhao Mingding. After some hard persuasion, in the end, in addition to tearing up the admission letter of the Computer Department of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and following Zhao Mingding with all his heart, Luo Shuming entered Beijing Foreign Studies University, Zou Yongxing entered Harbin Institute of Technology, and Xiao Longheng entered Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. It's a pity that after the framed person left the examination room, he disappeared like the world, and no trace was found.
After Zhao Mingding practiced the family heirloom 32-style Zhao family boxing, he practiced the family heirloom Qi Mei stick and pear flower gun again, and then he finished washing, and had breakfast with his grandparents. Zhao Mingding from the age of three with his grandfather to practice ancestral kung fu, perennial months, never slack, is to be young, a body of kung fu but not to be underestimated, especially the pear flower marksmanship, it is said to be from the Three Kingdoms when Zhao Yun, so especially Zhao Mingding's love, the deepest effort, I hope that one day I can also become a hero like Zhao Zilong, prancing horses and guns, defending the country.
After breakfast, Zhao Mingding went to Luo Shuming, He Caishan, Zou Yongxing and Xiao Longheng's house to say hello to their parents, and then picked up the load of white radishes in the yard and went to Zhushan Wei with his grandfather to sell them in exchange for a little hard-earned money to buy some New Year's goods. Those who live by farming the land make a living from the harvest in the field.
Zhushanwei is a small town by the Ganjiang River, the seat of the Zhangtang Township Government, with only two streets, in a T-shape, and can be completed in ten minutes. As the end of the year approaches, there are so many people who come to buy and sell on the streets, and the whole street is crowded. Zhao Mingding found a vacant seat on the street, put down the radish burden, handed it to his grandfather to take care of, and began to wander around the street, preparing to buy some pork and beef for the New Year. After walking dozens of steps, I heard a burst of shouting and scolding, and when I looked around, I saw someone fighting at the T-shaped corner of the street, both men and women, and next to it was a wheelbarrow that overturned on its side and spilled the white radish on the ground.
There were three men and one woman, three men and one woman, and the weapons used were all flat poles. In the countryside, the flat tan is often used as a self-defense weapon as a labor tool that accompanies the side, and when encountering the enemy, the flat tan can be used as a stick, so the move made by the flat tan is actually a stick method.
The three men, about twenty-four or five years old, were surrounded by a young girl of about seventeen or eighteen years of age, dressed in rags. Although the girl was surrounded, she was not panicked, the flat shoulder in her hand blocked left and right, and occasionally fought back, but she resisted the attack of three tall and powerful men with her delicate body, and won the applause of the onlookers. The three men couldn't attack for a long time, their faces were a little unbearable, and their hearts became anxious, and they suddenly screamed, raised the flat pole in their hands and smashed them together, wanting to use brute force to knock the girl down. It was too late, but it was too late, and I saw that the girl shrank back, and retreated into the arms of the man behind her, and with an elbow of her hand, knocked him to the ground, and then sent him forward, knocking down the man in front of her, and then swept left and right, knocking the last man to the ground. The whole action is done in one go, as fast as lightning.
Seeing that the girl had saved the day, the surrounding onlookers all breathed a sigh of relief and gave a shocking compliment. And when the girl saw the three men fall to the ground, her face was distorted in pain, and she lost the ability to resist, so she put down her shoulder and went to clean up the turnips that had fallen to the ground. A cart of turnips means new clothes for a poor family, Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve fish and meat on the dinner table.
Seeing that the fight was over, some people went to help the man who fell to the ground, and some people went to help the girl pick up the radishes sprinkled on the ground, but when they saw a commotion in the crowd behind, they gave way, and someone shouted, "The Flying King is here!" Immediately afterwards, a tall and burly bald man of about thirty years old stood in front of the girl who was picking radishes, and said coldly: "Sister, you are the one who beat me?" ”
When the girl heard this, she stood up and replied coldly, "These brutes are begging for a beating!" ”
"Do you know who I am, and how dare you speak to me like that?" The bald man still had a straight face and asked coldly.
"I don't care who you are." The girl replied coldly, "Even if you are the king of heaven, you can't lift a single word." ”
"I see that you are a woman, so I am so kind to talk to you." The bald man said, "Don't be embarrassed!" ”
"You're a bunch of shameless stinky rascals!" The girl was-for-tat.
"Since you are shameless and will find death, then I will fulfill you!" The bald man said, hooked his foot, and kicked a flat pole on the ground at the girl, shouting, "Make a move!" ”
The girl saw that the flat burden was fierce, on one side of her body, with her left hand, she caught the flat burden, held the tail of the flat tan with her right hand, and held the middle of the flat arm with her left hand, and the front end of the flat tan pointed upwards at the bald man, with her left foot in front and in the back, and her right foot in the back. The Gan people are still martial, and the old, weak, women and children can do a few kung fu, so it is not uncommon for this girl to be able to defeat four with one.
Someone in the crowd of onlookers recognized the girl, saying that she was from Luojia Village, Wanhe Township, named Wei Jiumei, 18 years old this year, studying in high school in Taihe No. 2 Middle School. At first, the three men who were beaten were the subordinates of the bald man who claimed to be the Flying King, who specialized in extortion and protection money on the streets. The girl also gave ten yuan of protection money at first, but the three men were not honest, and one of them saw that when he saw it, he took the girl's hand with his hand, and with the other hand touched the girl's high and trembling breasts, which annoyed the girl, so he fought. The bald man is nicknamed the Flying King, his kung fu is extraordinary, and he is known as the invincible opponent of Taihe, and he is the head of this group.
"Encountering this gang of ruthless and unreasonable ruffians, it seems that this girl is going to suffer a big loss today!" Someone in the crowd couldn't help but sigh.
Zhao Mingding didn't expect that it had only been a few years since he left home, and Zhushan had such a hero, and when he heard everyone talking, he saw that this group of people was bullying the weak and bullying people too much, and his heart was suddenly unfair, so he slowly approached the wheelbarrow with radishes, and took two radishes and held them in his hands.
At this time, the sky was overcast, and it was drizzling, and in the biting cold wind, I saw the Flying King put his hands behind his back and slowly walked towards Wei Jiumei, who was holding a flat shoulder.
There was silence all around, and the onlookers seemed to hold their breath.
Wei Jiumei saw the Flying King approaching step by step, so she retreated step by step, and finally stuck her back on the wall behind her, and there was no way to retreat.
"If you come over again, I'm welcome!" The ninth sister shouted.
The Flying King turned a deaf ear, still with his hands behind his back, and approached Wei Jiumei step by step.