Gradually, various scenes in the painting came to life in front of me. Little by little, I walked in, walked into the archway of Yancheng Town, the stream flowing into the town from the outside, the stone arch bridge erected on the stream, and the stone arch bridge beside the stream. The old man wearing a raincoat fishing, the shops on both sides of the street in the town, the banana trees on both sides of the street, and the endless flow of people all really appeared in front of me, and I traveled through...
"Come on, come on, Lang Chao is bullying again."
"That's right! It's too much. Father Zhang was almost beaten to death!"
"Lang Chao is really lawless, he can do whatever he wants, hey!"
A bunch of fellow villagers gathered towards the east end of the town, but I was still in a daze.
"Zhang Yi, why are you still standing here? Your father is about to be beaten to death!"
A strong man carried a hoe, wiped the sweat with a sweat towel around his neck, and pulled me away quickly. The man's face was so familiar that I shouted out unconsciously.
"Third Senior Brother, why are you here?"
"What? What did you call me?" The man who looked like Li Huhu was stunned and looked at me suspiciously.
"You, aren't you Li Huhu?"
The man slapped me and scolded me: "You are stupid, I am your neighbor Ai Hu."
"Ai Hu?" Before I could react, I was pulled away by him.
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"Beat, beat to death you old scoundrel for not paying your rent." A man who looked like Lin Feng was directing two of his men, punching and kicking a gray-haired old man.
The old man who was beaten screamed in pain, and his moans were heartbreaking.
"Bah, you damn old man, I'll give you three more days. If you can't pay the rent by then, I won't take over your house. Let's go!" The arrogant Lin Feng-looking villain walked out with his two servants. go.
I immediately went to help the old man. When I turned him over, I was stunned and said, "Master... Master, you are... Master."
An aunt came up to me again and said, "Master, this is your father, silly boy."
"Ah...he is my father!"
"Nonsense, why don't you even know your biological father? Hurry up and take it to the doctor for a look. Hey, the man named Lang is really dirty. He won't even spare an old man of such an age."
"Yes, Lang Keming is really lawless and commits murder in broad daylight." Someone from the crowd of onlookers agreed.
Although I was still in a fog, I still carried the beaten old man on my back and went to the doctor's house in the town. After checking his pulse and taking medicine, I carried the old man who I didn't know was my master or my father on my back again. Make a home and take good care of it.
After three days of careful medication, the old man's condition did not improve, and the coughing of blood became more and more serious. I was extremely anxious, but there was nothing I could do...
"Yier."
"Hey, Dad." I was taking medicine outside the house, and I called back to the house.
"Come here." The old man, I don't know if he is my father or my master, greeted me.
I quickly put down what I was doing, went into the room and sat next to him.
"Cough cough cough..." After a violent cough, the old man vomited out a large mouthful of blood.
"Dad, please bear with me for a while, and I'll get you some medicine."
"No." The old man grabbed my wrist with his withered hands.
I turned around and looked at his deep eye sockets, his skin as wrinkled as cracked earth, and his lifeless and helpless eyes. I was heartbroken, as if I had experienced the moment before my master died again.
"Yi'er, daddy can't do it anymore. From now on, you will be the only one in the family. You have to be strong and live strong. After I die, you have to carry forward the lintel of the Zhang family."
As soon as I said these words, I couldn't tell whether he was the master or my father. These words were too similar to the third thing the master told me before he died.
The old man's breathing became weaker and weaker, and he was about to die. I took the opportunity to ask, "Are you Hu Yida, the 227th generation successor of the Yakuza Sect?"
The old man didn't respond, so I opened his eyelids and his pupils were dilated...
Yancheng Town is far away from the city and almost isolated from the world. Although the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, it is very backward. There are no coffin shops or funeral parlors that deal in the dead.
I could only buy a large roll of straw mats from the town, wrap the old man up, put it on a wheelbarrow, push it to an undisturbed area of pure nature, and bury him. There was not even a stone tablet for the death of the man. The inscription was written on a piece of wood I picked up along the way.
The old man was hastily buried, and while I was kowtowing to the grave, Ai Hu appeared, holding a shiny sickle in his hand. His eyes were as sharp as Li Huhu's.
"Zhang Yi, your father was beaten to death like this, are you still indifferent?"
I already had a lot of questions, but if I didn't answer his questions directly at this time, I was afraid that he would come down with a sickle and wipe my neck.
"Why am I indifferent? Although I don't know whether this old man is my father or my master, I still saw him being beaten. Since ancient times, people have killed people to pay debts and pay back money. How could I pretend that none of this happened?"
"Hmph, you still have some conscience! Do you dare to go with me to deal with this bastard Lang Keming tonight?"
When I heard that I was going to kill someone, I hesitated. Born in a legal society, how could I kill someone just because I wanted to kill someone? I would have to bear criminal responsibility.
"Killing someone? Isn't that bad? Can't we call the police?"
"Police? What are police?"
I said casually and then I remembered that it was during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty and the police had not yet appeared!
"Oh, no, we should report it to the government and ask the government to send a policeman to arrest Lang Keming."
"Report to the official, naive, Lang Keming has been running rampant in the countryside for more than ten years. If the government is in charge, can he be arrogant for so long? I have tolerated him for long enough, I must kill this beast."
Looking at Ai Hu's red eyes, I was scared, as if he was Li Huhu's previous life, and Tai Suiyin's murderous temperament was passed down from another life.
"Zhang Yi, let me ask you, Sha Lang Keming, will you follow me?" His eyes were wide open and he looked scary, as if he wanted to eat me.
"Go...go, I will accompany you to kill him."
Ai Hu smiled, took out the dagger from his waist and threw it to me, "Tonight is the end of the Lang family. Give me this dagger to kill Lang Keming, and leave the others to me!"
Then, he and I never separated again until late at night, when we secretly climbed over the wall and entered the Lang family's mansion.
"Did you see that big house, that big house with the lights on? Lang Keming lives there. You don't need me to teach you what to do." Ai Hu pointed to the north house and was about to leave.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I, hum." Ai Hu took out the fire seal and held it in his hand, "I do what I should do."
I was stunned on the spot, it turned out that he was the arsonist in Yancheng Town.
When I tried to stop him again, he was gone!
I jumped off the wall lightly and walked into Lang Keming's room.
