Lu Tao went away for a night, and when he returned to the hospital, Guan Lei was still lying in the single ward without waking up, and he also fell asleep on the accompanying bed.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Tao was awakened by the sound outside the ward. He stood up in a daze and asked the nurse: "How is he? Is he awake?"
"I woke up once at noon and again after one o'clock."
The nurse explained: "According to my experience, he has to sleep and wake up several times before he regains consciousness. But since he wakes up, it's not a serious problem."
Lu Tao stretched out his hand and rubbed his face: "You have worked hard all night, take a rest, I will do it for you."
The nurse smiled naively: "Boss, I'm fine. I just do this job and I'm used to it! Since you paid, I should be here to watch over you!"
Lu Tao couldn't help but push the nurse away from the bed: "Everyone is here to support their families, there is no such thing as high or low, you can sleep, it will be fine."
After a while, the nurse's slight snoring sounded in the ward. Lu Tao sat on the chair beside the hospital bed and took out the blood-stained photo from his pocket, which looked like a sculpture.
The moon rises and sets, and the lanterns come on.
A ray of light shone on Guan Lei's face through the window. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lu Tao sitting by the bed. His lips moved: "Brother..."
"Wake up!"
Lu Tao saw Guan Lei waking up and held his hand: "It's okay, I'm here!"
The pale Guan Lei felt the warmth of Lu Tao's palm and squeezed out a smile: "I have been really lonely in the past three years... It's great to have you back."
"Don't worry, now that I'm back, you won't be left alone."
Lu Tao picked up the disposable paper cup next to him and moistened Guan Lei's lips with a cotton swab dipped in water: "I talked to the doctor. You only have a slight fracture and there will be no sequelae."
The dripping water fell into his throat, giving Guan Lei some sensation on his numb tongue. He swallowed and whispered: "Brother... either way, forget it."
Lu Tao's hand paused for a moment: "What did you say?"
Guan Lei took a deep breath: "The person who came to see me today is Li Hancai's biological brother. When Zhang Bing was alive, he had to give him three points when he saw Li Hancai."
Lu Tao nodded understandingly: "Are you afraid?"
"I have died once. After returning to Northeast China from Guangxi, I feel that I have made a profit every day of my life. No matter when I die, it is not a loss."
Guan Lei's eyes were red: "You also know that my parents died young and I was raised by my brother, so his death hit me hard! Although you and my brother are not related by blood, you get along well. Like a real brother, I also treat you as a real brother! In the past three years, I have been helpless. After seeing you, I found the feeling of being alive...Brother, I don’t want anything to happen to you. "
"Do you know who is most easily bullied in this society? It's not the naughty and misbehaving people, but the honest children who follow the rules! In prison, such people will be trampled to death!"
Lu Tao continued to wipe Guan Lei's lips: "For people like you and me, who have no background and no capital, if you want to climb up, you will always have to pay a price! The only thing that belongs to us in this world is this damn life. If we can't If you risk your life, you will never get ahead! You have made people suffer like this. If I don't do anything, I will not only be sorry for myself, but also sorry for your brother!"
After hearing this, Guan Lei was silent for a long time and said: "Brother Tao, after I recover from my injury, let's avenge this revenge together, okay?"
"I can't bear to see you lying here and letting those people get away with it."
Lu Tao shook his head, looked into Guan Lei's eyes, and said seriously: "Other people will choose to turn back when they hit the south wall, but I, Lu Tao, will choose to rush up and knock it down! Don't think about anything, just feel at ease. Recuperate, I will double the debt they owe you to help you get it back!"
Not long after Guan Lei woke up, he fell asleep again because of the anesthetic.
Lu Tao waited for the nurse to wake up and went to Binbin's ward to take a look. Seeing that Binbin didn't wake up either, he took Jin Rui downstairs, found a fly restaurant opposite the hospital, and each ordered a bowl of noodles.
Jin Rui saw that Lu Tao's eyes were full of red bloodshot eyes and said, "Brother Tao, either I'll keep an eye on you at the hospital tonight, and you can find a place to have a good rest! Brother Lei and the others are all fine now, so don't make yourself miserable." broken."
"It's okay, I've slept enough during the day."
Lu Tao picked up the garlic in his hand and looked at Jin Rui: "Binbin and Guan Lei have become like this today, do you still want to continue to hang out with us?"
Jin Rui was stunned for a moment when asked, and then smiled: "Although there was blood, no one died."
Lu Tao heard Jin Rui's answer and looked at him with interest: "Were you really working in other places before?"
Jin Rui nodded: "Really! I work as a waiter in a karaoke bar in Beijing. I usually get to know a bunch of bad friends. I always go out and fight with them to earn some pocket money. I have experienced similar scenes."
Lu Tao ate noodles and asked, "Why are you back?"
"We got into some trouble! In our karaoke bar, there was a mommy who was the concubine of a local big brother, and we had a bit of a romantic affair. Later, the mommy got pregnant, and she happily went to the big brother, but she was kicked out by him. I was beaten and had an abortion on the spot. Later I found out that the eldest brother had been stabbed when he was young and had lost his fertility."
Jin Rui scratched his nose: "That incident made that big brother very unhappy, and he said something to incite me. I went to the train station to buy a ticket, and was chased and chopped by a group of people. I ran over the wall and ran into the train station. , boarded a coal truck and got rid of them."
Lu Tao asked with a smile: "Is this the end of the matter?"
Jin Rui pouted: "Actually, I know very well in my heart that that mommy's child is not mine at all, because we only had sex once, and I even brought a condom! But I knew her when I first went to Beijing. And she has always taken good care of me. If I ran away, I would take care of this matter! Otherwise, if the big brother knew that he had cheated on more than one cuckold, why wouldn't he chop her up?"
While the two were chatting, Lu Tao's cell phone rang. He saw a number ending in five nines and pressed answer: "Hello?"
"Your matter is clear."
When Chen Jinfa heard Lu Tao's response, he said straight to the point: "Ma Hanhua has a man named Lao Mao who is drinking at the True Love Bar."
Lu Tao frowned: "The person I'm looking for is Ma Hanhua, not the cats and dogs around him."
Chen Jinfa's attitude on the phone was no longer as polite as when he met face to face: "The favor you owe me can only allow me to do such a big thing. It's enough that I haven't broken my promise! Lao Mao is Ma Hanhua's right-hand man, and he can't do anything." He was also involved in your brother's matter. As long as you can find him, you can investigate the rest by yourself."
Lu Tao was noncommittal: "How many people are around Old Cat?"
"He has no other hobbies. He hangs out in major disco bars almost every day, and the people around him are not fixed. When I just received the news, there were seven people in their group, four men and three women."
Chen Jinfa paused for a moment: "After you find true love, you can easily find your target. I guess he is the oldest non-mainstream person in the entire disco bar. He has colorful hair and looks like a peacock. That idiot is him!"
"Thanks."
Lu Tao said nothing, ate the remaining noodles in a few mouthfuls, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and asked Jin Rui, "Can you find the real Eddie Bar?"
Jin Rui nodded: "The one on Heping North Street? I went there with my friends a few days ago!"
Lu Tao stood up and threw the car keys of Guan Lei's Liberty Ship to Jin Rui in his pocket: "You drive and accompany me there."
Jin Rui just vaguely heard the content of Lu Tao's call and asked: "Brother Tao, do you need me to call and ask a few friends to come over?"
Lu Tao's face was gloomy: "No, your friends can't handle what I have to deal with."
