Chapter 130: The Old Man
Wang Jintong remembers that a lawyer once said that entering a prison can make a legally illiterate person become a lawyer immediately after he comes out. There are all kinds of strange cases that make people want to hit the wall after listening to them, so Wang Jintong, a gossip person who has a thousand-year-old corpse love, likes to do the most is to help people analyze the case to satisfy their own raging gossip fire.
Tianyang sat in front and briefly told Wang Jintong about his case, Wang Jintong felt that this case was meaningless, because it was too simple, it was a civil conflict, which evolved into a brawl, and finally a case of death caused by a mistake
And this case can be said to be the lowest level of society, a typical case, Tianyang and his grandfather are not the first to be arrested and will not be the last, this case represents the voice and wail of hundreds of millions of people at the bottom of society.
After the confiscation of the evil wolves raised in captivity that day, the grandfather and grandson looked at the spacious market road in a daze, and the small bridges and flowing water houses on both sides of the street, the endless flow of carriages and crowds on the street, all of which made the simple grandfather and grandson living in the mountains full of curiosity and longing for Hedong.
The old man is a little better, after all, he is over half a hundred years old, and he has reached the realm of no matter what he wants, where he lives, for him, there is no difference.
"Master, don't go back, let's find something here, I'll make money and provide for you." Tianyang took a baked cake and a bottle of inferior soju and looked at Dadao excitedly and said.
"Haha, the crab baby can raise me. The old man's face was flushed, and he was a little happy, and before he knew it, the tiger-headed grandson, the little doll who followed his ass to pick mushrooms, had grown up.
"Bang bang. ”
"Why can't I, I have the strength of a board. Tianyang looked at the old man and didn't seem to believe him, so he patted his strong chest fiercely, and almost slapped the baked cake out.
"Okay, I've been in the mountains all my life, and now I'm enjoying the blessings. The old man dragged the heavens and disappeared into the street.
The simple grandfather and grandson decided to go to Hedong and take root here, but it seems that this beautiful Hedong does not have the spirit of accepting all rivers, and Hedong, which has millions of people, cannot accommodate these two people.
Tianyang didn't want the old man to engage in manual labor with him, but the old man had extra thoughts, and he kept thinking about saving a few taels of silver to give Tianyang a family affair.
Tianyang and the elderly, although they have no culture, but in the vast mountains and forests, they are endowed with the strength of a board, the strength to compete with tigers and leopards, and the endurance of pulling stones and grinding mules.
The two rented a house in Hedong County, and went directly to the riverside wharf as a laborer, one or two silver per person, and just started to contract the foreman, and they didn't want to use this old man, thinking he was too old.
The old man didn't say a word, a hundred and fifty pounds of sandbags, one finger, directly picked up, his face was not red, his breath was not panting, and his legs were not trembling.
"From today onwards, the two of you are going out of the river to fight the sacks. The foreman was obviously a little dazed, he was a strong man at the peak of his thirties, and he had to shake his body straight to resist the sack, so he was a little surprised.
A month later.
"Little brother, isn't it time to pay your salary today?" The old man's face was full of mud, and he could no longer see his face clearly, and he could only imagine his simple smile from the white teeth that appeared from his mouth.
Next month, this month, the dock is tight. The foreman tentatively said a word, pretending to be embarrassed.
Wang Jintong still can't figure it out, the big owner who can afford to rent an entire wharf, no matter how tight the funds are, what does it have to do with you paralyzing a stinky bag foreman?
"Okay, no hurry. The old man nodded understandingly, picked up a sack and hummed a little song, and walked in the direction of the warehouse more than ten meters away.
The foreman looked at the old man who was full of mud, gray hair, and had a rickety figure, and said with disdain: "Stupid B!"
Two months later.
"Little brother, silver. The old man stretched out his calloused old hand, a little embarrassed to scratch his head, he felt that he was always urging the contractor, a little unrighteous, if it weren't for him and Tianyang, who were already penniless, and didn't even have money for food, he wouldn't have brought it up.
"Wait, wait, and the money will be set down at once. The foreman continued to say perfunctorily.
"Okay, don't get angry. The old man also comforted the foreman.
After a difficult month again, the old man and Tianyang had to rely on eating the moldy leaves thrown out by the dock cook, but that's it. They still insisted on working, and the old man was still humming a little song when he carried the sack, but his trouser belt could not be tightened any longer.
It was at this time that the unexpected happened.
One night, the old man was so hungry that he wanted to go out to find something to eat, and he walked along the street, and in a tavern, the contractor and a few people from the construction site walked out with a smile on their faces.
The old man squatting on the corner of the street saw the contractor, and then he was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: "Hehe, this little doll is not good-looking, and the daughter-in-law is quite handsome. ”
The old man was just about to leave, when the girls spoke.
"Come on, come on., don't you want to play? "A few girls in the red candle door, when they saw the old man, thought that this guy was choosing people with his eyes, because there were many people who looked out of the window a few times, and only those who were in the picture would come in.
So these old ladies lifted their skirts, revealing their ass without underwear, and teased the old man vigorously.
"Fuck the kiln. The old man's face turned a little red, and then he lowered his head and trotted back to the construction site.
Early the next morning, on the dock, the old man stood at the door with his waist pinched and his face very ugly.
"A couple of little brothers, they're back. The old man smiled, and then said to the foreman of the contractor, who came over in a daze, and to the workers who followed him.
"Well, what are you doing standing here if you don't work?" the foreman looked at the old man with annoyance.
Oh, don't do anything, my grandson and I, I don't want to do it, I want to tie up a piece of money with you. The old man was not embarrassed this time, and his honest smile was gone, and he used concise language to suppress the anger in his heart.
"Uh, come on, wait, just a few days. "The contractor is still perfunctory.
"No money?" asked the old man.
"Yes, no. The foreman nodded.
"Why, I heard from others last night that they were all paid. The old man continued.
"If you tell you that there is no money, there is no money, why don't you believe it. "The foreman is getting a little impatient.
"Okay, there's no money, right, I'll go and ask your boss above, if you really don't have any money, I won't say anything, pack up my things and leave immediately." "Later, I heard that someone who was looking for the owner couldn't bear to watch the old man being deceived, and secretly told him last night.
"Look for you to be paralyzed, don't be embarrassed. The foreman grabbed the old man's shoulder, and then the remaining workers surrounded the old man.
He originally wanted to wait for the end of the work, but he took the silver and ran away, but the old man found out.
"What are you dragging me for?" the old man was furious, and his eyes glared slightly.
"Get out of here, old fellow. "The foreman has squandered the old man and Tianyang's salary, and he took out six taels of silver himself, and he is still distressed, so he decided to play a stinky scoundrel.
The old man's shoulders shook, and he broke free of the contractor's claws, and then walked towards the place where the proprietor lived on the dock.
"Beat him, drag him out and beat him. The foreman roared angrily and kicked directly at the old man.
There are always some stupid bs in the world, stupid bs who don't know the height of the sky!! Lian Po is old!! But how can it be compared to a bunch of pawns? When the old man was young, he smashed the head of a vicious wolf with his bare hands, and killed bandits in the white mountains and black waters!!
This is a fierce man who is nearly sixty years old and can still run between the mountains and forests, hunting tigers and killing leopards with bows and arrows, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a master in the world.
"Do you still want to do it?" the old man turned around, dodging a kick from the contractor, then straightened his waist and raised his eyebrows to look at a few stupid bs.
"Beat him. A worker threw his big fist at the old man's head.
The old man raised his arms, blocked his head, and slammed his left fist into the man's stomach, no mistake, the old man was left-handed.
"Pong. ”
The worker who was punched was directly in the air for less than a second, yes, yes, vacated, the kind of vacant with his legs off the ground.
"Poof... ”
The worker fell directly from the air to the ground, splashing some dust, and then opened his mouth and vomited a mouthful of bright red blood.
The foreman of the contractor and a few migrant workers were stupid for a moment, and they had heard that Li Yuanba had killed a cow, but who had the fuck heard that an old man who was nearly sixty years old would vomit blood with one punch.
It was this punch that broke the intestines of the migrant workers, which is a lot of strength.
The old man, lying down, turned around directly, and continued to walk towards the owner's house.
The foreman looked at the old man's back, his face was cloudy, he was afraid of the old man, but he was more afraid of the owner who hired him, he was afraid of losing the job, the foreman stared at him, looked around, and at this moment, his eyes stopped not far away, the corner where the sand shovel was placed.
The foreman ran over in two steps, reached out for a shovel, and then gritted his teeth, waved the shovel, and slapped the back of the old man's head.
The old man felt the wind in the back of his head, and his years of hunting experience made him react extremely sensitively, and he slid a step, then turned around and instinctively used his right hand to block his head.
"Poof. ”
The sharp shovel cut the old man's arm directly, and in the summer, the old man was only wearing a sweatshirt, and he couldn't see the color and thin shirt, and blood flowed down his arm.
"you grandma. ”
The old man was completely enraged, grabbed the wooden stick in the middle of the shovel with his backhand, and kicked the contractor open.
"Hack you to death. "Yes, at this time, the old man stared at his eyes full of murderous intent, and saw that the contractor was a tiger, a wolf, and a stupid robe, but he was not a human being.
The rustic old man, enraged, with his blood-stained hands in his youth, decided to sweep away a scumbag for society again, raised his shovel high and slashed at the head of the foreman.
The shovel that has been polished by countless sands, coupled with the old man's perverted hand, to paraphrase a sentence on the rivers and lakes, that is, his mother's all the way to the withering and decaying, setting off a boundless evil wind.
The foreman instinctively put his hand on his head.
"Click, click. ”
The sharp shovel directly chopped off the wrist of the foreman, and the blade smashed on the head of the foreman, and then sank for half a minute, tightly embedded in the disgusting head of the foreman.
"Poof. ”
The neat incision of the foreman's wrist, like a spring, showed a bright red bloodstain, which sprayed on the ground in an instant, staining the crystal sand grains red.
"Ahh A second later, the foreman screamed, got up directly, and ran to the outside of the dock, with a shovel more than a meter long still embedded in his head, but he also forgot the pain, and it was important to save his life.
"Bell. . . Poof. ”
The violent shaking directly caused the shovel to fall to the ground, and the Tianling cover of the foreman spewed blood again.
"Poof. ”
The foreman of the contractor, who ran out seven or eight meters away, fell to the ground and died, and the dock in front of his head was mixed with blood and brains.
Tianyang, who was working at the wharf, got the news, carried an iron rod, and rushed out in a daze, and saw his grandfather with a red arm, and then looked at the "little brother" of the contractor who was standing in place and holding a brick in his hand, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Zhan Tianyang made a throwing action to shoot the evil wolf five meters away, which was more standard than the top masters on the rivers and lakes and the most famous hunter in the village, and the rusty iron rod was full of infinite killing power.
Thick Tianyang, angry, although he is honest, but no matter how honest he is, he can't touch his bottom line, the only bottom line. More than a dozen catties, more than a meter long iron rod was thrown from his hand, like a rocket through the air, straight to the head of one of the workers.
"Mom. ”
The worker screamed, turned his head and ran, but he had no choice but to have a cramp in his legs, and just turned around and knelt directly on the ground, and it was this kneeling that saved his life. The grinding shiny head of the cold iron rod pierced directly into the worker's calf, penetrating directly without a pause, and the tip of the blade with blood pierced directly into the ground, nailing his right leg to the ground.
"I'm going to kill you. "Tianyang raised his fist and was going to kill.
"Pong. ”
The old man's arm was like a plice, and he grabbed Tianyang's wrist fiercely, and then shook his head.
"Run, run. ”
"What are you doing stupidly? ”
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The workers who took pity on the grandfather and grandson reminded the old man and Tianyang to run quickly, but the old man sat cross-legged on the ground: "What are you running? The old man's words were loud and loud.
Yes, the old man, who is almost sixty years old, once again taught this group a lesson. This old man, who is a little thin and coughs from time to time, interprets it so thoroughly.
He disdains to run away, the sun of the primeval jungle has shone on the old man's life, how could he choose to live like a rat crossing the street?
Half an hour later, the owner, patrolling, rushed to the scene of the crime.
The old man had been sitting cross-legged on the ground like an old monk. When the patrol led the team listened to the other workers narrate the case, they looked at the foreman and the brains who died violently on the street, gritted his teeth, and said two words: "It should be killed." ”
Patrol the visceral disgust for this foreman and resentment against the scum of the contractor. The old man and Tianyang were invited to the yard car by the patrol, and the tinkling iron chain around his waist was never taken off. He admires this old man with his own moral bottom line from the bottom of his heart.
After listening to Tianyang's narration, Wang Jintong and the new cell head worshipped the old man psychologically. If Wang Jintong has the ability, he will not hesitate to save the old man's life, but the current Wang Jintong is also a prisoner, and his own affairs are difficult to deal with, and he is unable to help the old man at all.
"Brother, my father, are you sure that you will be sentenced to death?" Tianyang bit his lip stubbornly, but he couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes.
"Yes. Wang Jintong is also very uncomfortable, but more powerlessly, killing people in front of everyone, eyewitnesses, confessions, and evidence are all directed at the old man. Dead. I guess I didn't run away.
Tianyang was silent, and tears crackled and fell, as if he had lost his soul.
From now on, I will be your relative. Wang Jintong patted Tianyang's shoulder and said seriously.
However, Tianyang didn't speak, turned his head, and stared blankly at the prison bar, thinking about the question he would never understand, he couldn't figure it out.
His grandfather, who once fought the most vicious bandits for the Great Song Dynasty, held a shotgun and carried a big bow with ox tendon behind him, standing on the dirt slope, in this forest, dedicating his life, but in the end he had to go to the execution ground.
Be kind to people, fuck be kind to people. Grandpa has been kind to others for a lifetime, but in the end he has to die in a prison cell, knives, guns and sticks, is his best choice, from then on a pair of iron fists, a big knife, all the injustices in the world. Yes, Tianyang has changed since then.
It was also from this day that Wang Jintong got the first official younger brother in his life, everyone else is the eldest brother to accept the younger brother, and Wang Jintong is the younger brother to receive the eldest brother. If you don't accept it, if you don't accept it, the younger brother is likely to beat the eldest brother. Wang Jintong thought that he couldn't beat him, because this guy inadvertently told Wang Jintong that he could kick a small tree with a thick bowl mouth, which was paralyzed and perverted.
And Tianyang sadly believes that Wang Jintong is the only good person in this world, a good person.
And Wang Jintong took advantage of the arraignment to meet with Huang Lawyer a few times, and told him about Tianyang's case, he said that this case is quite simple, you can help with activities, and there is no big problem of being released from prison within three years.
Time flies, more than a month has passed in peaceful days, and in the blink of an eye, Wang Jintong welcomed the first New Year in prison.
In later times, Wang Jintong always recalled this period of time, and also remembered a person, a person who had a great influence on him. So far, Wang Jintong doesn't know his name, and Wang Jintong is in prison, and he talks to him very little, only a few words.
The day when Wang Jintong really talked to him was on the day of the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and at that time, he was still five days away from the end of his life, and he received the verdict of the case on the 29th of the first month, and was sentenced to death on the fifth day of the first month.
Since Wang Jintong was very bored when he was in prison, he basically had nothing to do except read books, so he liked to observe some prisoners.
Coincidentally, he is one of the few people that Wang Jintong observes nothing, Wang Jintong is interested in him, mainly because this person is very special, and others have the opportunity to speak and can't wait to finish everything in this life.
But he has always been very quiet, as if it is difficult to arouse his interest in anything, and this man does not seem to like to be favored, because in the prison usually for two or three days, the cell boss will give some leftovers to other prisoners, but he never eats, but seems to enjoy gnawing on the "stone", Zizi drinks boiled water and pickles leaves.
And such a person, after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, came over to ask Wang Jintong for liquor to drink. To tell the truth, Wang Jintong's jar of wine, outside, can be worth ten jars of silver outside, and others will not give him a drink at all, because in the prison, it is too difficult to get drunk.
But when Wang Jintong first came in, he stayed in the dead man's pit for a night, how to say that he also had the fate of "sharing the same bed", so he gave him a drink, and when he drank, Wang Jintong noticed that his hands were trembling, and there was obvious redness in his calm eyes.
The two met in this way, and in the next five days, the two had many conversations, and every word of his was worth savoring by Wang Jintong, and every sentence was the essence of compression, which was the truth that he had precipitated for many years.
The first paragraph is about the discussion of "fighting ruthlessly".
"Golden boy, why did you come here?" asked the middle-aged man, eating sugar and drinking liquor, squinting at Wang Jintong.
At that time, outside the courtyard of the farmer's house, Hulala rushed into more than 10 people, and the man with a machete in his hand said that it was too late and that it was fast, and I was a tiger leaping. Took out the short knife ...... "Wang Jintong added countless waters, and spit flew everywhere, describing the fierce battle at that time.
After finishing speaking, Wang Jintong glanced at the middle-aged man quite proudly, waiting for him to praise himself.
But Wang Jintong never expected that he glanced at Wang Jintong quite silently, and then said with a hint of disdain in his tone: "Hehe, no wonder you will come in, even if you don't come in this time, you will definitely come in next time, fortunately.
"Why? Wang Jintong was not happy.
"Golden boy, let me ask you, since you came in, have you seen this new cell boss beating people so far?" The middle-aged man did not answer Wang Jintong's words, but asked him instead.
Wang Jintong was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and found that this new cell leader had indeed not been beaten once, and he had not even been angry, so Wang Jintong shook his head.
"You said, he hasn't been beaten once, so why are the more than 30 prisoners in our No. 7 prison afraid of him?" the middle-aged man asked again with his eyes like torches.
"......" Wang Jintong didn't speak, but pondered.
"Golden boy, the body is skinny, the parents who are subjected, use the body to fight fiercely, after all, they will be inferior, the kind of ruthlessness in the bones, the kind of coldness in the psychology is what you lack, I have always heard you talk about it, that person named Huo Jun, let me ask you, if he was in the farmer's house that day, who would dare to do it?"
"......" Wang Jintong was silent again, and his psychology already had an answer.
The second conversation was about "brotherhood."
"Big brother, why haven't you seen your friends and brothers depositing money for you for so long?" Wang Jintong was very curious.
Because although I don't know why this middle-aged man came in, and I don't know what he is doing outside, but from his speech and demeanor, it is not difficult to find that this should be a very energetic person.
"Huh. I haven't been in touch for years. The middle-aged man directly snatched Wang Jintong's book and read it with relish.
", I haven't been in touch for many years, and you're still called brother?" asked Wang Jintong angrily.
"Then let me ask you, what do you mean by brother?" The middle-aged man didn't even raise his head, looked at the book, and continued to ask.
After listening to this, Wang Jintong replied without thinking: "Life and death are shared, there are difficulties together, and there is a feeling that the gun cannot be pierced and the knife cannot be cut." ”
"Oh, what you say cannot be said to be wrong, but it is the lowest opinion. The middle-aged man's tone was still disdainful.
Can we not pretend to be b? Say something nutritious? or you won't be struck by lightning, big brother. "When Wang Jintong found out that he was the person, he would always pour a basin of cold water on you when you were most excited.
"Ten years ago, I was doing seafood trading, when I was young and vigorous, a little silver after the squandering of money, and then the business was sluggish, coupled with poor management, the little silver I had just accumulated, I lost not a penny, I wanted to die at that time, because those silver, I saved a penny.
At that time, I was only in my twenties, and this incident hit me very hard, so I drank every day, and I was depressed, and several of my very good brothers came to me, and drank with me every day in a shabby restaurant, and everyone had no money, although they enlightened me every day, but I found that our group of people drank together, and the more we drank, the more uncomfortable it became, because we were not very good, and in the end they did not persuade me, but made themselves very depressed, so they sent everyone, one of them took a rope and hanged himself. The middle-aged man took a sip of water.
"Say it quickly, say it quickly, what about later?" Wang Jintong's gossip fire ignited, and continued to urge.
"Hehe, later, a brother of mine who has not been in touch for many years, I don't know how to hear about it, my predicament, directly killed from a far away place, after seeing me, he didn't say a word of nonsense, took out a hundred taels of silver tickets from his arms and slapped them on my table, and then said to me: "What's the point of losing some money, you can spend whatever you want, and we will have it if you lose it." ”
The middle-aged man glanced at Wang Jintong, and then continued: "The moment I saw the silver, I was depressed for many days, and I was gone, but I was full of energy, and decided to fight again, it was this hundred taels of silver, which made me regain my self-confidence and re-enter the seafood market, just one year, I spent thousands of taels of silver in the seafood market, and it was a good brother who accompanied me to drink, and it was also a brother who gave me silver, they undoubtedly wanted to help me get out of the predicament, but which method is more convincing?"
"......" Wang Jintong pondered again.
.“ One is the brother who watched you enter the predicament and was anxious and couldn't help, and the other was the brother who had a certain ability and social status after years of hard work, he could give me confidence and make me rise again at the most critical moment, and even save my life at a critical moment, if it were you, which brother would you choose to be your partner?"
"......" Wang Jintong continued to ponder.
Wang Jintong has always believed that he can survive in the bloodier and more dangerous bloody rivers and lakes in the future, and he has an inseparable relationship with this middle-aged man.
It's not that the conversation with him in just five days has changed Wang Jintong, but that he is like a key to enlightenment, often his words intentionally or unintentionally can always wake up himself at a critical moment, making Wang Jintong think of many previous events.