Two days later.
On the balcony of the side room of the Xu family's old house.
Xu Zhengtai, Xu Tailang, and Liuyi were enjoying the hot pot.
“It’s getting colder and colder, so it’s a good time to eat hot pot and drink beer.”
Xu Zhengtai rubbed his belly and burped.
Opposite me, Xu Tailang put a piece of meat into Liuyi's bowl: "Come on, Liuyi, eat more, put on more autumn fat, let's see how thin you become."
"Alang, thank you."
Liuyi clinked the wine glasses with Xu Zhengtai, drank the wine in one gulp, and let out a sigh of relief.
"I asked someone to inquire. Luo Li was sent to the detention center for illegal possession of firearms."
His expression was like that of a child who got an expensive toy and wanted to show it off to his friends.
"Liuyi, aren't you talking nonsense? If you think about it with Kuaizi, you know that Luo Li will be imprisoned." Xu Zhengtai poked Kuaizi on the table and went to pick up the quail eggs in the pot, but he didn't follow up. Still not clamped, he was so angry that he threw the kuaizi away and stopped clamping it altogether.
Seeing that he drank a little too much, Xu Tailang asked tentatively: "Azheng, how are you and Xiaohua...?"
"It's not you yet. We have to call the police. Several girls have been called for questioning by Jin Suo. Nowadays, dance halls have to be operated with caution. However, your sister-in-law is quite reasonable and did not embarrass me on this matter."
"I'm asking about marriage. How is she thinking about marriage?"
"What can we do? It's still like that." Xu Zhengtai burped again: "You said such a big diamond ring, why can't you just say you can't find it?"
Liuyi said: "Do you need to say this? Boss, the person named Lin must be hiding."
"Why is he hiding that? Is he going to use my ring to propose to Xiaohua? This is too cheap."
"I understand." Liu Yiyi slapped his thigh: "His family is poor and cannot afford a diamond ring."
Xu Tailang slapped him: "I can afford a car but not a ring? Are you stupid or am I stupid?"
Liuyi looked dissatisfied: "What if his car is stolen?"
Not to mention, although the car was not stolen, it was almost stolen.
Seeing that the two people were talking more and more outrageously, Xu Tailang quickly gave each of them an egg: "Eat...eat the egg."
Xu Zhengtai was very unhappy: "Why can you pick up this egg? I can't pick it up?"
"Uh, um..." Xu Tailang stammered for a long time and couldn't come up with a reason. He could only attribute the egg-clipping thing to his talent: "Let's talk about ponies."
"Xiao Ma?" Liuyi waved his hand: "The network cable must have been broken, and he went to find someone to fix it."
Xu Zhengtai nodded: "His dial-up phone can disconnect three times an hour. If I were him, I would have smashed the computer."
All the members of the Shotai Gang gathered together to eat hot pot, and naturally it was impossible to leave Xiao Ma behind. He also bought Xiao Ma's favorite frozen tofu, but when the three of them went over to take a look, they found that the door was locked. They searched nearby and found nothing for a long time. Seeing the figure, I had no choice but to go home and change the four-person seat to a three-person seat.
Liu Yi nodded, feeling that Boss Xu could indeed do it.
"Hehe...the food is pretty good."
A voice sounded from behind.
Xu Zhengtai turned around and frowned: "Why are you here?"
Liuyi suddenly stood up: "You are not welcome here."
"Don't be so irritable, you will suffer a loss." Lin Yue said, "I came to you for business."
"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Xu Zhengtai drank the wine in the glass and stood up: "I know you can fight, but now it's three against one, you have no chance of winning."
"If Xiaoma was here, it would be four against one, but it's a pity..." Lin Yue glanced at him provocatively, took out a letter from his pocket and handed it over.
"This is the letter Xiaoma left for you, take a look."
Pony's letter? The three of them looked at each other. Why did Xiao Ma let him take the letter?
Xu Zhengtai took the letter from Lin Yue's fingertips, unfolded it against the light bulb on the shelf next to it, and looked at the contents carefully.
Liuyi followed suit and pointed at the words above with his elementary school education and stumbled over his words.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"Brother, I thought about it seriously... I'm not good at fighting, I can't make money, and I always hold the Shota Gang back, so I'm leaving... Don't look for me anymore, and don't worry about me, I... …”
Before Liu Yi finished reading, Xu Zhengtai threw the letter on the ground, rushed to Lin Yue, grabbed his collar and said: "Tell me, did you trick Xiao Ma away? Tell me... was it you? ?”
"Azheng, calm down."
Xu Tailang tried to persuade him from the side, but was pushed away.
Thinking about it carefully, it is no wonder that Xu Zhengtai is so impulsive. Lin Yue not only wants to compete with him for Xiaohua, but now he has poached Xiaoma away. This is a new grudge against the old grudge.
Pa~
Just hear a crisp sound.
Lin Yue held Xu Zhengtai's fist towards the door.
"Xu Zhengtai, don't you understand that everyone has his or her own ambitions? Xiao Ma has been with you for a while, right. What did you give him? Money? Women? Career? Or the future? The title 'boss' is not something a child should use. Every family is not about satisfying your selfishness and desire for power, but about responsibility. Only brothers can have gangs. Xiaoma's glasses are placed in front of you. You don't even realize that Luo Li kidnapped him. Following this Boss, what’s the point of telling me?”
Xu Zhengtai was stunned by his question.
Although he doesn't want to admit it, Xiao Ma is really incompatible with the Shota Gang. He can't do anything well. He is also the last to eat and can't keep up with everyone's rhythm.
Lin Yue released his hand from Xu Zhengtai's fist.
"So I changed my mind. I wanted to be the president of the Shota Gang before, but I don't want to do that now. I think abolishing your gang will make a greater contribution to society."
"You're thinking shit."
Xu Zhengtai was still thinking about the above problem. The person who called Lin Yue was dreaming was Liuyi. Along with the voice, there was a bench.
Lin Yue stepped aside, took Liu Yi's hand and twisted it back, then raised his foot and kicked the front man's butt.
Just listen to the sound.
Plop~
The poor guy flew out from the rooftop of the side room and plunged into the small ditch next to it.
It is now November, and the river water is very cold at night.
The guy fell into the water and flopped a few times on the shore. He crossed his arms and shivered. Xu Tailang quickly took off his coat and handed it to him.
"Change quickly, don't catch a cold."
Xu Zhengtai no longer bothered about Xiao Ma. He looked at Lin Yue and said, "I, Xu Zhengtai, founded the Zhengtai Gang. You can abolish it if you want? Do you think everyone is the same as Xiao Ma? Liuyi will never betray. Mine, isn’t it, June 1st?”
"That's right, I, Liuyi, will never betray my elder brother in this... this life..." Liuyi was shivering from the cold, and the words sounded like they were squeezed out from between his teeth.
Lin Yue chuckled: "We'll see."
After that, he walked out of the yard.
Xu Zhengtai watched his back disappear, looked back at Liuyi, and quickly asked Xu Tailang to get a towel from the room.
"Little flower, little flower..."
He originally wanted to ask Xiaohua to boil some hot water for Liuyi, but no one answered after calling twice. He couldn't help but frown, wondering where she had gone.
…
"stop".
Lin Yue left the Xu family's residence and walked less than fifty meters when a man stopped him.
"I thought you worked in a dance hall."
There was a woman standing under the lamppost behind her.
It was Xiaohua. She was wearing a knitted cardigan and standing under the light with her elbows on her hands.
"I heard your conversation with them. It's obviously for Pony's good, why can't you talk about it properly?"
"I am not a saint. Facing a man who hurts the woman I love, I cannot repay evil with kindness."
Xiaohua was speechless immediately, and after a while she said, "I don't understand, how could Ah Zheng hurt me?"
Lin Yue said: "There is a saying that it is difficult to have both loyalty and righteousness. If loyalty and righteousness are so true, then what do you think he will do if there is a conflict between brotherhood and love between men and women?"
"..."
Xiaohua knew what he meant when he said this. Although he didn't explain the process, he could roughly guess what the conflict was caused by. Considering Xu Zhengtai's personality and the thoughts in his mind, what Lin Yue said... was indeed very likely. will happen.
In fact, what Lin Yue said was not entirely nonsense. According to the movie, Xiaohua committed suicide due to postpartum depression shortly after giving birth to Xu Tailang, but was it really just because of this? The fundamental reason is probably that Xu Zhengtai was sentenced to six years of irritation.
The Beloved Cabaret was over and she was unemployed.
The newlywed husband became a murderer.
In addition, it is very tiring to take care of a child after he is born.
There are also various "noises".
These factors combined led to her death.
So is it wrong to say that Xu Zhengtai’s dream of being in the world hurt her? right.
"I..." Xiaohua looked at him with a very complicated look: "I still don't believe that we will live together in the future."
"I've said so much and you still don't believe it? Well...it seems like this is the only way."
Lin Yue sighed and walked over to meet her puzzled gaze.
