"What kid? This is our eldest..."
Xiaomao glared at Mouse and said with some energy.
"Ah... He looks only seven or eight years old? How can he be our boss?"
Mouse asked in confusion.
"Without her... I wouldn't have earned 400 yuan yesterday, and you wouldn't have the money to brag with Lu Xue and Sihu!"
Ximao gave Mouse a white look, took off his cotton-padded jacket, and wrapped it around Tianyi's body.
"Tianyi... wake up... I am Ximao, hey... wake up!"
Seeing that Tianyi didn't respond, Xiao Mao shook Tianyi's body vigorously and shouted anxiously.
"Cough cough cough......"
After spitting out a mouthful of ice water, Tianyi finally woke up.
"I'm scared to death. If something happens to you, my mother will beat me to death before your mother can beat me to death."
Xi Mao punched Tianyi on the chest and said with a smile.
Looking at the nervous-looking big boys in front of him, Tianyi pointed at the figure floating behind them like a gust of wind, and asked weakly.
"who is he……………."
Several people looked in the direction of Tianyi's finger...
I saw an old man in his 60s or 70s with white hair and a white beard, wearing a patchwork cotton jacket, large oil-porcelain hemp cotton trousers for his feet, and thick cotton shoes with a thousand-layer sole. He looked like a ballerina. Dancing waltz on the ice, the graceful posture seems to be accompanied by music.
"Fuck... Madman Wu! This guy, Tiantian claims that he has obtained the true inheritance of Hong Qigong and can subdue the dragon with the eighteen palms. He also said that Yanzi Li San and he are brothers in the same sect and can fly on grass and float on water."
Looking at Madman Wu with disheveled hair blowing in the wind, Erpi said happily.
"He will... look at him, isn't he floating on the ice? He looks like a little swan!"
Lemon said with a smile.
"Stay away from him, be careful if he scratches you. I heard his fingernails are poisonous."
Mouse said seriously.
"Is it poisonous or not? Have you watched too many martial arts movies? Mei Chaofeng? There is still poison hidden in the fingernails? Hurry up and find a place for the boss to warm up and change his clothes first."
The fine hair tapped the mouse's skull.
"Well……………."
The mouse touched his beaten head and closed his mouth.
"I can't go to my house. My mother will scold her if she sees it."
Xi Mao discussed with a few people.
"Go to my house, my family is full of women, they can take care of people!"
Erpi said enthusiastically.
"Okay... I'll go to your house wherever you are. If you're a fat rat, take the boss on your back!"
Xi Mao ordered.
"good……….."
"I can walk by myself......"
Tianyi spit out another mouthful of ice water and reluctantly stood up.
"He ate yours and Lu Xue's. He's strong. Let him carry it..."
Mouse turned around and squatted down, Ximao picked up Tianyi, put Tianyi's little hands on Mouse's shoulders, and wrapped Tianyi's cotton jacket around him, and they walked towards Erpi's house together.
"You guys, how could you leave a female doll in an ice cave? Poor child, it's so heartbreaking to see!"
Erpi's mother used a hot towel to wipe Tianyi's body and shouted loudly in the room.
"Hmm? The boss is a woman?"
Mouse looked back at Xiaomao with a confused look on his face and asked in confusion.
"I didn't say the boss is a man? It's good if he can make us money. Do you care whether he is a man or a woman?"
Xi Mao looked at the astonished expressions on several people's faces and said disapprovingly.
"Brother Mao, she is only 8 years old, and she is still a girl? How much money can she make with us? Look at her small body? She didn't even do anything today, and she ran into the ice cave. If we really follow her from now on When people start a fight, she can't let others throw her into the sky, right?"
Erpi said with a look of disgust.
"The boss is a penguin, isn't he? He's from heaven to earth? Did you each get 50 yuan yesterday? Without her, you wouldn't be able to make any money. Besides...if she didn't have her mouth today, Sihu's knife would be useless She inserted it into my ribs, she saved my life, this is strength, this is called loyalty!"
As he spoke, Xi Mao took out the 100 yuan that Tianyi had put back into his pocket and threw it on the table.
"Yes Yes Yes…………."
Mouse looked at the crumpled 150 yuan and nodded in agreement.
"Let me ask you, what do you want when we hang out on the street?"
Xiao Mao nodded at the banknotes on the table and asked several people.
"Ask for money!"
Erpi pulled his neck and said seriously.
"Seeking money is one thing, but on the other hand, don't we just want a good brother who can lead us out of Taoyuan Road, have both dignity and face, and won't get into trouble?"
Xi Mao explained seriously.
"She has the face, and it is impossible to join the bureau for the time being, but she is only 8 years old, so if we don't lose it, it's good. Waiting for her to earn it for us, isn't it a bit of a daydream?"
Erpi argued with Ximao.
"Don't worry, this is the first time. I've known you for 13 years, and you haven't helped me make a single penny or earned me a single face. Why do you want her to do it right away?"
Ximao looked at Erpi confidently.
"Brother Mao is right. We have to give the boss some time. I think she can do it. Judging from the way she fought to save Brother Mao today, she is a righteous person! I recognize this boss."
Saying this, Lemon patted her chest.
"I admit it too... When I never had more than 10 yuan in my pocket, it was the boss who made me feel proud in front of the four tigers. Isn't this face-saving? What is it?"
As he spoke, Mouse also patted his chest.
"I have recognized her for a long time. When we hooked up the fish yesterday, I already admired her from the bottom of my heart."
As he spoke, Xiao Mao also clenched his fist, hit his left chest, and said with a smile.
"Okay...since you all admit it, then I will admit it too!"
As he spoke, Erpi also patted his chest.
Hearing the conversation of some big boys in the outer room, Tianyi felt both happy and embarrassed in his heart.
I am happy that I have received four more younger brothers. I am embarrassed that I have eighteen martial arts skills in my heart, but my legs and feet are like those of a newborn baby.
It seems that in order to match brainpower with strength, one must find a master to practice seriously.
Otherwise, it is really not easy to get along on Taoyuan Road without a strong body.
Thinking of this, the naked Tianyi sat on the fire bed and asked Erpi's mother beside him with a smile.
"Auntie, who is Madman Wu?"
"You saw..."
Erpi’s mother looked at Tianyi mysteriously.
"Um……….."
Tianyi nodded vigorously, her little butt burned red.
"He... is a pitiful man. When he was young, he was a martial arts coach at the Sports Academy. He won three national championships. He was about to join the national team. Later, because the leader asked him to pay 50,000 yuan in benefits, he was asked to He refused, but his place was taken by someone who was willing to spend money."
"Hey...the sports industry is much darker than the entertainment industry!"
Tianyi sighed.
"No, he is a person with real skills, strong learning ability, and serious work. So he thinks that he can join the national team based on his own strength. There is no need to use any back door. What kind of gift should he give?"
"You're so naive. You're standing in the latrine trying not to poop. Aren't you trying to hold back the next person after your death?"
"Yeah... He was so stupid that he told people everywhere that the leader helped people go through the back door to accept bribes. He also wrote a letter of accusation to the mayor's office, hoping to single-handedly break the unspoken rules of the entire sports circle. You said... he Is it wishful thinking?"
Erpi's mother kept talking while putting Tianyi's clothes on the fire kang to roast them.
"Haha... If you don't break the rules, he will become what many people call a bastard!"
"It's... the little leader who was exposed, I don't know where to get a doctor's diagnosis. It must be that because he didn't join the national team, he was mentally stimulated and suffered from delusion, which is a kind of mental illness. That’s it.”
Erpi's mother handed the dried cotton pants to Tianyi and said with a look of regret.
"I'm going to call a deer a horse and confuse right and wrong?"
"No... everyone knows that he is a good person, and everyone knows that he was framed by the leader, but no one dares to stand up and speak for him. Because everyone is dirty and unwilling to stand in the sun and take off their clothes. Show it to others, so everyone later spread rumors and said that he was really mentally ill. Alas... a good living person, just when everyone closed their eyes and told lies, he began to doubt himself. . Over time, he became a well-known mental illness, a famous martial arts maniac in Four Seasons City. At first, everyone ignored him and said he was sick. Later, he ignored everyone and pretended to be sick when he was not sick. His words and deeds began to gradually change. When you are not normal, you are most normal when you are eating. When you are practicing martial arts, it is like transcending the devil. You are neither human nor ghost."
Finally finished, Erpi's mother breathed a sigh of relief, handed the dried cotton-padded jacket to Tianyi, and helped Tianyi put on the cotton-padded shoes dried by the stove.
Tianyi put on soft and fluffy cotton clothes and trousers, put on warm cotton shoes, touched her hair until it was completely dry, and walked out of the house as if she had been reborn.
"Boss, are all your clothes dry?"
Xi Mao looked at Tianyi who was full of energy and asked with concern.
"Um…………."
Tianyi smiled and snapped his fingers.
"What should we do next? If the Four Tigers don't let us catch fish, we won't catch it?"
Xiaomao put his hands on his hips and kept circling on the ground, thinking that the way to make money he had just found was blocked by the four tigers in one day?
"He won't let it go even if he doesn't want it. Does he own the moat?"
Tianyi said with disdain.
Hearing Tianyi's confident tone, several people suddenly became energetic again.
"What are we going to do? He has so many people that he can't defeat him head-on!"
Erpi was eager to seek answers.
"Is his home on Taoyuan Road?"
Tianyi hugged his arms, touched his chin, and asked several people.
"It's not...his home is in Balipu. He didn't dare to enter Taoyuan Road. I guess he took a detour to get off the bridge today. There is an unwritten rule between Taoyuan passers-by and people outside, which is not to infringe on each other. We passed each other, opposite the intersection on the east side of Taoyuan Road, No. 103 Middle School. We just stood on both sides of the road and cursed at people. We never really fought. Although there were many people, they did not dare to enter Taoyuan Road, because if If someone wants to enter Taoyuan Road and cause trouble, then Taoyuan passers-by will unite to resist the foreign enemies."
"In other words... they can only look for trouble during the day?"
After hearing Xi Mao's words, Tian Yiji came to his heart.
“Yes…………..School goes to school at 7 in the morning and ends at 5 in the evening. The Sihu and the others basically go home at 6 o’clock.”
Xiao Mao seemed to be remembering something.
"If it doesn't work during the day, we can do it at night. He comes home at 6 o'clock, and we start at 7 o'clock. If we stagger the time, how can a living person still choke to death?"
Tianyi glanced at the money on the table and said with a smile.
"I'll go. This method is good. No one will disturb us at night. We don't go to school. It doesn't matter how late we get home!"
Mouse said with shining eyes.
"The boss is the boss, but his ideas are different!"
Erpi extended his thumb to Tianyi in admiration.
"But it's still a bit dangerous at night. You should bring flashlights and heating equipment. Don't fall into the ice hole like me. Isn't it easy to fish for people at night?"
Tianyi reminded kindly.
"Don't worry, boss... Although it is said that wealth can be found in danger, we never do anything that costs money and lives!"
After listening to Tianyi's words, Xiao Mao's tangled heart suddenly became enlightened.
If I can continue the business of hooking fish, I don't have to look at my mother every day. She is already very old, and she is still going out to attract bees and butterflies and make a fool of herself.
"Okay, then you go on, I have to go home, Lao An will be anxious later!"
"Okay, then we will hook fish in the evening, sell the fish in the morning, and share the fish money after school. Do you think that's okay?"
Xi Mao looked at Tianyi who was about to walk out of the door and said in consultation.
"Okay..........you can figure it out!"
Tianyi opened the door.
"good…………."
Xiaomao replied happily.
As soon as he took one foot out, Tianyi suddenly seemed to think of something again and asked thoughtfully.
"Where does Madman Wu live?"
"Uh... Boss, why are you looking for him?"
Xiaomao looked at Tianyi with a confused face.
"Learning martial arts? Otherwise, I would have to protect me all the time. How embarrassing would it be?"
Tianyi held the door frame, turned around and made faces with a few people, and said with a smile.
"Do you want to learn the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms? Or learn to fly on grass and float on water?"
Mouse asked curiously.
"Learn from the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, hahaha..."
After saying that, Tianyi walked away.
"It's over, the boss is going to learn martial arts from psychiatry."
Looking at Tianyi's leaving figure, Mouse said stupidly.
"Holy shit...what if I become mentally ill?"
Erpi said happily.
"It's not illegal to hit someone with a mental illness, but the boss is still superior..."
Lemon raised his thumb in admiration.
Xi Mao grabbed the 150 yuan on the table, put it in his pocket with a smile, and told a few people.
"Shut up, everyone...I think you are a bunch of psychopaths!"
Although they were all joking about Tianyi, deep down in their hearts, they were also looking forward to the future with Tianyi, because they had tasted money for the first time.
The ice began to melt, the water in the moat began to ripple, and new branches sprouted from the groves on both sides. Counting the days of continuously delivering meat buns to Madman Wu, it had been almost three months.
It happened to be the weekend, and Tianyi took the meat buns to Madman Wu's house again.
Looking at the dilapidated house, the old poplar tree with all its leaves in the yard, and the yard filled with garbage, Tianyi cleared his throat.
