Xifeng Community is the most marginal community in the western suburbs of Nangang, which was originally a few small villages, and was later integrated into a community, which made preparations for the next step of urban expansion and construction. With the development of time, the urban area has been divided into new and old, but at the current pace of development, it is still unable to accommodate more and more people.

The Nangang urban area is expanding to the surrounding areas every year, but this work is the most difficult urban development project in history, involving all people's livelihood issues, and the progress is slow.

After the original pattern was broken, the inherent stability was destroyed, and with the influx of migrant workers, many urban-rural areas such as the Xifeng community became representatives of the bad side of the city.

Li Xiaogang, a former native of Xifeng Village, is now a resident of Xifeng Community, his father died early, died of untimely death, his mother was frail and sick for a long time in bed, suffered from cataracts for many years and finally lost his eyesight completely, he was lazy and lazy to live a bad life, often stealing chickens and touching dogs, and was spurned by neighbors.

Under Li Xiaogang's guidance, Li Mai drove around two streets in the huge Land 6200, through three small alleys with potholes, and finally stopped in front of a separate courtyard far from the community center.

This is a typical Nangang house in the seventies and eighties, usually in the shape of a "door", and has only one floor, with a rubble roof for the older ones and a concrete flat roof for the newer ones. It seems that this should be Li Xiaogang's ancestral house.

The wing room on the left has collapsed, and the kitchen and dining room on the right have also collapsed, leaving the main room still standing.

This kind of yard was built a few decades ago, and that family had to be built at a certain level. But time has passed, Li Mai doesn't understand, but it can be seen that this family, in addition to being fragmented, has been decaying for many years.

By this time, the sky had gradually darkened, but there was no light in the room. For a blind man, light loses its meaning.

Li Xiaogang's love was very excited, and his whole body was trembling, but he lifted the cake tightly, and it seemed that no one could take the cake away from him.

"My mother has never eaten cake. Li Xiaogang choked up and said, "I wanted to buy her a cake, so I robbed someone else's money." But I didn't use it, the money was grabbed, but the people were arrested. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Li Mai, "Sir, I beg you something." Can you not sue my mother for breaking the law?"

Li Mai, who was smoking slowly, nodded.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoyu led Haohao, and the big cat followed Haohao and walked over.

Li Mai turned around and said, "You guys just wait in the car." ”

Shaking his head, Zhang Xiaoyu said, "I'll accompany you in." ”

Her tone was light, but resolute. Li Mai couldn't refuse, Zhang Xiaoyu was a smart woman (girl?), she knew what Li Mai was doing, but she was obligated to accompany him without hesitation.

Li Xiaogang turned around, put down the cake, and bowed deeply to Zhang Xiaoyu, then to Haohao, and then to Li Mai.

With that, he picked up the cake and walked briskly into the house.

"Mother. ”

Li Xiaogang shouted, tears had already burst out of his eyes, but he tried his best to hold back his crying voice, and forcibly suppressed his feelings.

I turned on the light, and the room suddenly became clear.

Li Mai's family of three stood at the door, and the big cat squatted beside Hao Hao like a dog, looking curiously at the qiē in front of him.

There was a bed, a black thick mosquito net of historical value, and then there was a wooden table with a missing leg, and pots and pans in a corner of the room.

There is nothing else, and the four walls of the house seem to be indescribable.

A woman on the bed struggled to get up, and Li Xiaogang hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Xiaogang, what are you doing again, don't go home these days. ”

The woman was about forty years old, but she looked like an old man of sixty or seventy, with an old and bloodless countenance, and a pair of vague eyes, very thin.

She scolded weakly.

"Mother, I've been busy in the store these days, so I can't take care of going home. Li Xiaogang said.

The woman raised her hand and slapped Li Xiaogang accurately, "Still talking big things! Aunt Liu told me, you went to steal chickens and touch dogs!"

"No! I don't have it!" Li Xiaogang argued, he didn't want to make his mother angry for the last time, he looked back at Li Mai, and said, "I really don't! There are so many things in the store! No, our shop owner heard about your birthday today, so he sent me back, and bought you a gift, and a big cake!"

The woman listened intently for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Really?"

"Really, why am I lying to you!" Li Xiaogang looked at Li Mai pleadingly.

Li Mai knew that the woman must have heard their breathing, and no one dared to underestimate the blind man's hearing. He stepped forward and said, "Sister, I see you're here." ”

The woman held Li Mai's hand, believed Li Xiaogang's words, patted Li Mai's hand at the moment, and kept saying, "Boss, Xiaogang is uncertain by nature, and he has caused you trouble." ”

Li Mai glanced at Li Xiaogang, "There's no trouble, he's quite capable." Sister, today is your birthday, I wish you a happy birthday, every year has today!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a stack of money and placed it next to his pillow.

"Eldest sister, I still have something to do here, so I'll leave first, you, I'll let Xiaogang feed you the cake in a while. Li Mai said, glancing at Li Xiaogang.

Li Mai walked out with Zhang Xiaoyu, who was constantly dripping with tears, Haohao also felt the sourness in it, and became very silent, the big cat understood human nature, and also experienced the changes in the feelings of these human beings, and walked no longer jumping and jumping.

In the yard, Li Mai took out a cigarette and smoked it, feeling very complicated. He is not such an easily impressed person, on the contrary, he is cold-blooded and hard-hearted. I don't know why, since he had Haohao, he seems to have changed as a person, and he has become compassionate and compassionate.

Zhang Xiaoyu gently rubbed Haohao's little head, looked at the red sky in the west, and was silent. She wants to distinguish between what Li Mai is doing right and wrong, but how can she distinguish between right and wrong if it is beyond the scope of the law.

Helping Li Xiaogang escape from the round-up, Li Mai violated the law, but helping a dying man to fulfill his last bit of filial piety is a sign of high morality.

In the house, Li Xiaogang opened the cake and lit candles, but he forgot his mother's birthday, so he put on eighteen candles to express his mother's eighteen years of nurturing grace.

The lights were turned off, and on the wooden table with a missing leg, the cake was on the table, and the flames of eighteen candles were beating. Li Xiaogang helped his mother to sit on the chair and said, "Mother, this cake is so big, it cost more than 500 yuan." I lit a candle, and you make a wish to blow out the candle. ”

The woman reproached, "What! More than 500 dollars!

As he spoke, he raised his hand and called.

Li Xiaogang didn't hide this time, and explained, "Mother, it's the boss's money and a birthday gift for you." My salary, he didn't lose a cent of me. ”

Then the woman put her mind at ease, sighed, and said, "If you had been so sensible, my mother would not have to worry every day." ”

"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely not do bad things in the future, I want to be a self-reliant person. Li Xiaogang said firmly, tears gushing out like a river bursting its banks, and he was trembling all over his body and couldn't hold back his crying.

"It's good if you can think like this, if you can think like this, my mother will be relieved, and I will have the face to see your father. The woman said with relief.

Li Xiaogang finally couldn't hold back, knelt down on his knees with a puff, and kowtowed heavily, "Mother, I'm sorry for you." ”

In the western corner of the courtyard, six or seven men with their hands stretched out their hands approached quickly, all with pistols in their hands. Lu Chen raised his palm to signal his subordinates to stop their movements, and quietly poked out half of their heads to take a look. Li Mai's car stopped in front of the yard in front of him, and Li Mai was standing in the yard with a girl, a child and a pet, as if waiting for someone.

What Lu Chen didn't know was that in the corner less than fifty meters behind him, a man and a woman were secretly watching them.

The man and the woman were Miao Huazheng and Wang Yan.

It turned out that Wang Yan had been secretly following Lu Chen, and accidentally found out that he was following Li Mai, so she sued Miao Huazheng. Out of concern for the instructor, and at the same time feeling that Lu Chen's behavior was abnormal, Miao Huazheng gave up following Lin Zhengchun and rushed to meet Wang Yan.

So, they saw such a scene, but they didn't know what Lu Chen was going to do.

Looking at the time, Lu Chen whispered: "It's all stopped, Li Xiaogang must be in the house." Remember, capture alive, don't shoot lightly. In addition, the three people in the courtyard, don't hurt them, just control them. Do you understand?"

"Got it!"

Lu Chen knew that Li Mai's background was not simple, so even if he suspected that he had assisted Li Xiaogang in escaping from Beiling Mountain, he didn't dare to be ruthless.

He was a little excited, Li Xiaogang's escape from the police had already alarmed the provincial department, and the relevant leaders of the province also sent a message to catch Li Xiaogang, even if Lin Zhengchun's big tree fell, he didn't have to worry too much, maybe he could remove the word "agent" from "acting captain".

In order to capture Li Xiaogang alive, Lu Chen made some arrangements very seriously. He divided the people into three groups, and the two groups approached the courtyard from the east and west sides, first controlling Li Mai in the hospital, and then breaking into the house to arrest Li Xiaogang. Another group guarded the window at the back of the courtyard.

Even if Li Xiaogang can fly, he will have to take a few shots.

By about 6:30 a.m., it was already a little dark. Li Mai's brows furrowed slightly, and he adjusted his position, blocking Zhang Xiaoyu and Haohao behind him.

Suddenly, several people rushed out from both sides, and they ran over with their guns raised, shouting in a suppressed voice: "Raise your hands, hold your head, and squat down!"

Lu Chen led someone to rush over from the right and looked at Li Mai with a sneer.

"The surname is Li, you know the law and break the law, you can't say that Li Xiaogang is your informant of the Internal Affairs Bureau this time, right?" Lu Chen smiled proudly, suppressed his voice, and waved his hand to surround the room.

Who knows, Li Mai gently pulled the corners of his mouth and said lightly:

"No, I have the final say. ”