"Boy, this is a special delicacy here, called Wu'an Ramen. How do you like it?"
I slurped the noodles and raised my head and said, "Master Liu, it's delicious, but Brother Yu and I have been staying here for two days. When do you think the people from Pi County will come?"
"Also, when you ask someone to do something for you, you need to give a gift, right? What do people like? Tea? Cigarettes? Antiques? Or beautiful women?"
"What kind of beauty? If you are already in your seventies or eighties, why do you need a beauty?"
"The man you are going to meet is named Qian. According to the information I heard, old man Qian will pass by Handan and stay in Wu'an for a few days. The specific reason is not clear at the moment. It seems that coming to Wu'an is related to Zhong. He has a little grandson. Then it’s up to you to take advantage of the opportunity..."
In order to wait for this old man named Gan to come, Brother Yu and I really spent two days wandering around Wu'an.
I remember there was a park there called Xiling Lake Park. You could row a boat on the lake for five yuan. The boat was very old, but there were many people rowing on it. On the shore, there were young men and women dating in twos and threes, and some people paid a fee to take photos.
Brother Yu and I took a photo under a big rock, and now the edges of the photo have turned yellow.
In the photo, Brother Yu put his arm around my shoulders and smiled, showing his neat white teeth. We made memories in Xiling Lake Park.
Finally, after staying in the hospital for several days, on the morning of the fourth day, Mr. Liu sent someone to drive us to a place called Nanguan Street.
Nanguan Street is just a road. At that time, there were all stalls selling things, including food, drink, clothing, and dogs and cats. Judging from the physical condition of the cats and dogs in the cages, I guessed it might be Dogs stolen from rural areas by dog dealers.
"Xiao Liu, are you sure it's that child?" beggar Liu asked the driver beside him.
The driver leaned out of the window and took a closer look, "Yes, Mr. Liu, that's him."
At the entrance of the Nanguan Street Market, a little boy of about ten years old was squatting next to a cage, using a branch to poke a native dog in the cage.
Mr. Liu said to me: "Go ahead. If you build a good relationship with this kid, you can meet his grandpa. As long as his grandpa likes you, Wu Le will not cause trouble for you."
I said, why don’t you go directly to his grandfather? What are you doing with a little kid? Besides, Mr. Liu, why is this kid going shopping alone with no bodyguard to watch over him? Isn’t his grandpa very awesome?
Mr. Liu said: "Don't worry about that. The older you get, the softer your ears become, especially for your grandchildren. This is a shortcut to your survival that I'm showing you. Go quickly."
I got off the car on the side of the road and walked straight towards the entrance of the market.
"Why did you stab this dog?" I asked.
This little boy of about ten years old was wearing a brand new cotton-padded jacket, and he was very bright. When he heard me talking to him, he rolled his eyes at me and said, "I'm happy to do it."
"Hey, I'm here, where are you?" I pretended to pick up the phone and make a call.
"Game hall on the third floor?"
"Fighting Contra? Okay, ten yuan a handful, let's see who is better. After we finish fighting Contra, we'll fight Double Dragon."
After hearing what I said, the little boy's expression changed obviously. After all, no one could resist the temptation of the game console for children at that time.
"Are you going? Will I take you to play?" I put down my phone and said.
"I won't go. Grandpa said he won't let you go far. He will go back for dinner later."
"It's not far, just in front. Let's go play for a while and then go back to eat. No one knows."
He thought for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said let's go and play for a while.
At the end of Nanguan Street is a department store, which is not as big as the new department store in Yinchuan. After all, this was just a small county-level city at the time.
There is an arcade on the third floor of the department store. It is coin-operated and costs 10 coins per dollar.
Not long after I put in the coins, I became familiar with this guy.
"Let me eat the laser bullets! Give them to me! You eat the shotguns!"
"Died, died again, it's all your fault."
"It's okay, there are still coins, let's have another one."
After playing in the game room for a while, he said that I had to go back to eat and do my homework in the afternoon. Let's play in the evening.
"Your grandfather doesn't care about you? Where are your parents?" I asked tentatively.
"My grandfather? He is busy working on his broken clock. As long as I don't run away, he doesn't care about me at all."
He stayed at the Blue Sky Hotel, and I agreed with him that we would come to the game room to play games after dinner in the evening.
This child's name is Qianlong, and he is now in his twenties. This kind of person is considered the real rich third generation.
His grandfather was one of the senior figures of the Changchun Society in the 1980s, and he was from the same era as Xie Qirong. I don’t know his grandfather’s real name, but people of the older generation call him Ganba.
It's Ganba, not godfather. This man is the inheritor of Earthly Support Cannon Boxing.
At about seven o'clock that night, it was dark and very cold. Qian Longlong, who was only ten years old, and I met under the department store. Because I took him to play games and buy food, he started calling me Brother Feng.
At 10:30, we came out of the game hall. He wanted to go back to the Blue Sky Hotel, which was not far away. I went to take him back.
There is still more than a month to celebrate the New Year, and people here on Nanguan Street have already started selling Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers.
At that time, no one was in charge of setting up stalls to sell firecrackers. The popular firecrackers here in Handan had two blasts, rub the cracker, throw the cracker, drop the core, two kicks, and flag fire.
"Do you want to buy it, kids?" The person setting up the stall called Qian Longlong.
Qianlonglong's eyes rolled around and he said, "What cannon is the most powerful?"
"Hey, you've come to the right place," the stall owner secretly took out a plate of firecrackers from under the stool and said, "This thing is called a ground mouse. You'll know how powerful it is when you put it in."
At this time, an older child on the roadside bought a flag fire, lit it in his hand, and let go.
"Bulls... da!" Feitian exploded.
Qian Longlong felt itchy when he saw others shooting cannons. He said he would buy this ground mouse. After that, he took out fifty yuan from his pocket and paid for it. He also bought two boxes of a kind of cannonball called Hei Laoda.
He walked forward with the cannon, and I asked him to release it wherever he went. But don’t release it on the road. There are cars.
Qianlong tugged on my clothes, smiled and pointed to the public toilet across the road.
He pulled me to the door of the women's restroom, struck it hard like a match, and threw it into the women's restroom after it started to smoke.
"Snapped!"
A scream came, which scared me and I immediately hid aside.
This guy is so bad. I said you can't do this, but he said let's go blow up the men's room.
Because I had something to ask for, I had to coax the kid, so I said yes and went to blow up the men's room.
There was no light in this public restroom, and the men's restroom was dark and empty. There were unknown traces of water on the ground that were covered with ice, and the ice that formed was all yellow.
The gopher lead was very long. He held it in his hand and lit it. After taking two steps, he raised his hand and threw it into the pit.
I thought the gophers were just ordinary firecrackers coiled up, but when I lit them I realized they were not the same thing at all!
I was so scared that I peed!
Crackling!
Countless fire rods of various colors were flying around and flying out of the latrine, like mice, so I subconsciously ran out.
He also ran outside, but before he could take a step, he fell directly into the pit because of his small stature and the ground was covered with ice.
You know the pitfalls of public toilets, right?
There was a very smooth slope in the pit, and Qianlonglong slid down the slope in the pit.
He shouted for help, but the rats were still running around. I quickly ran over and grabbed him, pulled him up, and dragged him out of the public toilet.
When I came out and saw it, I almost vomited.
Qian Longlong was originally clean in a new cotton suit, but now his whole body is covered with toilet paper.
There are also strips, lumps, and sticky things everywhere, and the stench is overwhelming.
He sat on the ground, crying and picking toilet paper off his clothes.
"Fuck! Don't throw it on me. Come on, walk on. Go back and take a shower as soon as possible."
After leading him into the Blue Sky Hotel, the security guards at the door covered their noses and ran away, saying that he had fallen into a manhole or something.
I said yes, it just fell into the pit.
I took the stairs to the third floor, followed the instructions he gave me, and rang the door of room 302.
"Ding dong...."
"coming."
The door opened and I saw a middle-aged woman who seemed to be well-educated, probably about forty years old.
"Who are you......"
I said this is your child, right?
I'm here to give you a baby. Wash him quickly.
After saying that, I moved away.
The Qianlonglong hidden behind me was revealed.
