The night is dark, and the water waves are far away with a faint light.
A cat slipped from the shore and jumped into a awning boat not far away, looking for the smell of fish in the gaps in the deck.
A woman was arguing with a man. She shook off his hand and walked away without looking back.
Lin Yue lit a cigarette and took a puff in the breeze.
"I went to watch the day you competed in the rally in 2022."
"Why are you?"
Xu Tailang couldn't understand what his participation in the car rally had to do with Lin Yue. Could it be that this guy also likes racing? Judging from his driving tonight, it is indeed possible.
"Actually... Xiaohua passed away in 2022."
"Died? How did you die?"
Xu Tailang always felt a little depressed when he thought about her face. Although this woman was not his mother, now that they knew her, they could finally be friends.
Lin Yue looked sad: "Melancholy, I was delayed at work for something, and she couldn't think about it and threw herself into the river."
"How is that possible! How could she do such a thing?"
"If you have never dealt with patients with depression, naturally you don't know how sensitive and fragile they are when they have an emotional breakdown." Lin Yue raised his head and blew out a long smoke dragon into the sky.
"Didn't you say that she has been cured by you?"
"Yeah, cured, but she saw you on TV."
"I?"
"Yes, I saw the shadow of Xu Zhengtai in you, so you fell ill again."
Xu Tailang felt somewhat guilty after hearing this, although he didn't think it was his fault: "Then you go to the rally venue..."
"I went to beat you up, but unfortunately there were too many people and I didn't squeeze in. However, I was very happy to see you ridiculing Xu Zhengtai in front of reporters and the audience."
"..."
Xu Tailang didn't know what to say. He really didn't save any face for his biological father at that time.
"Later, you took him for a ride, and I followed you in the car." Lin Yue continued: "You chose a rugged downhill road, and I chose a relatively flat road. According to my opinion, Stop you at the bottom of the mountain, and then tell Xu Zhengtai about Xiaohua’s death to see if he will feel guilty and beat you up again, but it’s a pity..."
He patted the guardrail of the stone bridge and said: "The train has accomplished what I wanted to do but failed to accomplish. However, I was also implicated and involved in your car accident. I was very angry before and wanted to beat you up. I vented my anger, now think about it, what if this is God deliberately giving me a chance to redeem Xiaohua?"
Xu Tailang nodded, and finally understood why the two of them were so angry when they met each other, and asked him why a rally champion can drive dangerously? So that's what happened.
Speaking of which, this uncle is quite infatuated.
He has now accepted the setting that Lin Yue was born in 1976. After all, the ID card says that it is impossible to make a fake second-generation ID card in this era.
"So that's it. It seems that the beating I received was not in vain."
Lin Yue didn't speak, and pretended to take a deep drag on his cigarette. In fact, he was already happy in his heart. It felt so good to lie and hit someone with confidence.
In fact, Xu Zhengtai said that he was a liar, which was absolutely correct.
"By the way, your cooperation is still needed for the next thing."
"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Lin Yue turned his head and whispered something.
After hearing this, Xu Tailang's expression changed: "Are you kidding me? What good will this do to you? Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it..."
He said "no" three times in a row.
Lin Yue said: "Don't forget that I am Xiaohua's husband. She told me a lot about Xu Zhengtai. I want you to tell me... do I know him better, or do you know him better?"
Xu Tailang wanted to say that I was still his son, but thinking about how Xu Zhengtai was released from prison after Zhang Suzhen jumped from the building, and then thinking about how he looks now, he did not refute the above sentence.
"In that case, okay."
Lin Yue waved his hand, held the cigarette in his hand, and walked to the other side of the bridge. The fire swayed gently in the night, leaving a faint red.
…
Three days later.
Beloved cabaret.
Xu Zhengtai hooked Xu Tailang with his left arm and Liuyi with his right arm, and walked into the largest box in the song and dance hall.
"Brother, it's a bit excessive for the three of us to occupy such a big room."
"But how can we pass?" Xu Zhengtai patted Liuyi on the shoulder: "Now, Luo Li will come over to negotiate later. We can't let him underestimate us. Momentum is very important. Momentum, do you understand?"
Liuyi doesn't understand, but he can pretend to understand.
Xu Tailang lowered his voice and said: "Liuyi, don't curse for a while, and don't come up and start a duel."
"What? Please speak louder, I can't hear you." Liuyi frowned and leaned over.
Xu Tailang said in a slightly higher voice: "Did you see that the lower the voice, the more carefully they have to listen, and our momentum will increase."
"Oh." Liuyi understood and gave him a thumbs up.
Next, Xu Zhengtai called the girls out to greet them again, but the rule here is that the girls can only sing and are not allowed to touch.
Xu Tailang felt very disappointed. Liuyi took the initiative and chose Jiayi, but he didn't stay in the box. Knowing that he didn't like him, he gave her 50 yuan for free to sing outside.
Twenty minutes later, Luo Li appeared on the scene with two of his men.
Liuyi heard a scream coming from the corridor, and then a thin man walked in with his face covered. He suddenly became angry: "Dare you pick up my woman?!"
Luo Li was delighted: "You also have a woman?"
Liuyi remembered what Xu Tailang said just now, took two steps forward, and said something with a volume not much louder than a mosquito flying.
"Louder."
He said something again, but his voice was still very low. Luo Li was so angry that he slapped him in the face: "Did you leave your fucking vocal cords at home?"
When Xu Zhengtai saw that his younger brother was being beaten, he stood up with a cry. However, he was scared the next second because Luo Li took out a pistol from his waist and said, "I'll see which of you dares to move."
The three of them returned to their seats and sat down.
Luo Li closed the lapel of his shirt and walked to the sofa next to him to sit down.
"Let's talk."
Xu Zhengtai pretended to be calm: "What are you talking about?"
Luo Li said: "You invited me here, what did you talk about?"
"Oh, right." Xu Zhengtai looked at the pair of Hengha generals on the left and right: "This beloved song and dance hall has always been the territory of our Shotai Gang, and the girls here are also protected by me, Xu Zhengtai."
"You, please watch less Hong Kong movies. A bunch of girls only show off their skills but not their bodies, ha..."
"This is the characteristic of the dance hall. Hey, the girls just don't want to, what can you do?"
"Don't give any hints if you don't want to." Luo Li didn't dare to straighten his spine and speak in front of Huang Zhiqiang, but facing the three kittens of Zhengtai Gang, it can be said that he was full of aura: "Wearing such sexy clothes, what do you want to do? Qian Xiang I want to make money and build a memorial arch. There are so many good things in the world."
He looked at Liuyi and Xu Tailang again: "Let me say, they are blind if they think you are their eldest brother."
After speaking, he took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and threw them on the table: "Look, do you recognize them?"
Xu Zhengtai took a closer look and felt that he had never seen this thing before and didn't like it either.
Luo Li smiled and was about to get up and leave: "Think about it again about the dance hall. I'll give you a week? That should be enough."
However, as soon as he stood up, the box door was kicked open from the outside, and four or five people in police uniforms broke in, with Director Jin from the police station standing at the back.
Luo Li subconsciously touched his lower back.
"Don't move." Director Jin pointed with his hand: "Luo Li, someone has accused you of hiding a firearm."
Luo Li suddenly woke up and stood there, not daring to move. Sweat had already begun to form on his forehead, because he thought that if he had not kept his sense just now, the outcome waiting for him would most likely be to attack the police and be shot to death.
His three men didn't dare to move. They held their heads and slowly squatted down, acting like repeat criminals who know what to do.
Liuyi didn't know, so he got up from the sofa and within two steps, he was knocked down by a policeman and handcuffed.
Xu Zhengtai watched helplessly as a policeman disarmed Luo Li, licked his lips and said, "Jinsuo, it was Luo Li who took the gun. He has nothing to do with Liuyi. Can I let him go?"
The policeman who captured Liuyi said, "It doesn't matter. Why is he running away?"
Xu Zhengtai said: "When he was a child, he set up a stall with his father. He was afraid of being caught by the urban management, so he wanted to run away when he saw someone in uniform."
Seeing that no control equipment was found on anyone else, Director Jin asked, "What are you doing here?"
Xu Zhengtai pointed to the TV: "Singing?"
"Sing?"
"SIR, do you want to sing a song? Can you sing "Tears Behind Bars"?
Director Jin pointed at him: "You kid, don't give me that playful smile."
Xu Zhengtai smiled and said: "No, really not, we really came here to have fun."
"Be honest." After saying this, Director Jin waved to his subordinates: "Let's go."
Several people escorted Luo Li and Luo Li's three horsemen out of the box.
Liuyi rolled his eyes and quickly ran over to close the door, looking frightened.
Xu Zhengtai frowned and his gums squeaked.
"Who do you think reported this to the police? How did Jinsuo arrive so promptly?"
Xu Tailang said: "I repaid you."
"Did you report it?" Both of them stared blankly.
"Is there a problem?"
"The problem is huge." Xu Zhengtai said: "How can you do such a thing?"
"Why can't I do it? He has a gun in his hand."
"Alang, I'm not telling you. Matters on the road should be settled by the rules of the road. If you do this, if the matter spreads, how can our Zhengtai Gang gain a foothold in Tinglin Town in the future?"
Xu Tailang was stunned. Others had drawn their guns. How can you still be moral here?
Xu Zhengtai said: "Originally, I had to deal with Luo Li. If Lin lost his bet, he would have to get out of Tinglin Town. Now it's fine. If I tell him that the problem has been solved, he will ask how it was solved. I said Jinsuo helped me solve it, is this called gambling? This is called cheating!"
Xu Tailang turned his head away with a gloomy face and muttered in a low voice, "My mother's taste is really bad."
Alas, I didn't expect that Lin Yue was right. This young father's brain circuit is indeed very strange.
