Lu Yan frowned, opened the car door, got out of the car and walked over.
He didn't take more than two steps and heard the sound of opening the door again, followed by a heavy arm, which was hugged tightly, and a furry head rubbed against his arm.
Lu Yan lowered his head and looked into Mu Tang's somewhat uneasy but bright and expectant eyes. He couldn't help but raise his hand to rub her head and whispered:
"Let's go."
Mu Tang narrowed his eyes and smiled.
She was afraid, resisted, but couldn't control the expectations behind the unknown high wall.
Mu Tang said softly:
"If only everything could go smoothly."
Lu Yan's mouth curved and he said warmly:
"Will do."
When we arrived at the place where there was commotion, it was the regular customer who caused the commotion - a middle-aged man.
This couple caused a lot of trouble along the way, and every disturbance was related to them, but this time, not many people could express their blame.
The middle-aged man held a child tightly in his hand, with a knife across the child's neck. His face was ferocious, and his eyes were fixed on the young couple in the crowd.
The young woman was still desperately pulling on the soldier's clothes, pointing at her child, and screaming hysterically:
"Kill that lunatic quickly, he is holding my child hostage!!"
Qi Yang frowned and motioned to the soldiers next to him to drag the woman away, then looked at the middle-aged man and said in a deep voice:
"Calm down first, we can discuss it and express your demands."
Lu Yan was careful and discovered that although the man held the child hostage, the sharp knife edge was consciously kept away from the child's tender skin. His arms could obviously strangle the child's waist or pinch the child's neck, but he chose to hug the child. waist and hips.
This action is a lot more strenuous than the previous two, but the child can feel much more comfortable.
Qi Yang also noticed this and patiently came down to talk to him.
The expression on the middle-aged man's face seemed to be crying but not crying, his lips were trembling, his eyes were scarlet, his nose was full of tears, and his voice was filled with despair:
"Sir, let me tell you a story."
The young woman screamed:
"Whoever wants to listen to your story, please let my child go, you lunatic!!"
Before she finished speaking, the middle-aged man's face immediately became more ferocious, and there was a ruthless look in his scarlet eyes.
Qi Yang had a headache and asked the young woman to be dragged down. The young woman became unhappy on the spot and beat the soldier's body hard and continued to scream:
"What are you doing? Let me go!!"
Her husband also came over and pushed, trying to pull his wife out of the soldier's hands.
Qi Yang looked cold and suddenly growled:
"Shut up!!"
The woman was stunned and looked at Qi Yang's cold face.
Qi Yang continued:
"Shut your mouth. I know exactly what you two have done. Either you go over and apologize to others and ask for their forgiveness for letting your child go. Otherwise, you just shut your mouth and watch carefully." "
The young couple finally calmed down. Qi Yang turned around and looked at the middle-aged man, and his tone was more tolerant:
"You say it and I listen."
The middle-aged man laughed miserably and slowly said:
"There was a man who offended the leader of his work unit because of his lazy and selfish temperament, so he was fired. He had no choice but to leave the prosperous big city and return to his hometown, a small, shabby and underdeveloped county."
"He was unhappy in his heart and always felt that he was being treated badly by staying in this small county, so he drank all day long and lived around at home. He only complained about the unfairness of his fate, but never thought about getting up on his own, so he could only die in At home, I blame everyone every day."
"His mother finally couldn't bear it anymore and told him to find a wife - a woman who was married for the second time. The reason for the divorce was domestic violence by her ex-husband. After the divorce, her ex-husband wanted back the original gift. Her parents were unhappy and had no choice. , I can only seize the time and package her up and sell her at will. Even if the target is a rotten person like a man and has no hope of future life, her parents don't care."
"The woman moved into the man's home. There was no wedding. When she came, she only brought two quilts and an old color TV as a token token."
"The man is very dissatisfied with this marriage. He comes from a big city. How can he marry a second-married woman? This woman is not worthy of him at all. He looks down on this woman."
The middle-aged man talked nonchalantly. Although he said it was a story, everyone knew that he was actually talking about himself.
The man seemed to be lost in memories, his expression was a little confused and a little painful:
"Actually, that man knew in his heart that he was a bad person. No girl from a good family would marry him. That woman was really unlucky. She married such an ex-husband and had a pair of profit-seeking parents. She had no desire to resist. That’s why I married him.”
"But this man avoided the fact. He never looked at his newlywed wife, and he still drank all day long. His wife had to go out to work in order to support the family, but he took it for granted and continued to point fingers at his wife and make sarcastic remarks."
"He forcibly devalued his wife's status in his mind to gain that small sense of superiority, paralyzing himself again and again."
"The days passed like this day after day, and finally one day, the unlucky woman accidentally lost two of her fingers by a machine while working. Her boss was eager to escape responsibility, and bullied the woman without anyone to support her. Symbolically I gave her two thousand yuan and fired her."
"The boss was very smart and gave the woman 30,000 yuan to her family. The woman's parents called the next day and told the woman not to pursue the matter any further. The woman was already used to this kind of thing. After hanging up the phone, she started looking for a new job. .”
"The family had no financial support and collapsed within a few days. This man listened to his wife making phone calls next door one by one looking for a job every day and watched her go to trial jobs. However, due to the disability of her hand and the injury that had not healed Being declined.”
"After another two days, his wife finally fell ill. This good-for-nothing man huddled in the room, listening to the increasingly feeble coughing of his wife next door. During this period, his wife came and knocked on his door, but he did not open it. The sick and groggy wife was left to fend for herself in the house.”
"This man is timid and has no future. This room, which never sees light all day long, is like a turtle shell, tightly covering him inside. Leaving this room means leaving his comfort zone. He is afraid."
A rotten man and a rotten man's wife, the middle-aged man told this story with a painful face.
Mu Tang opened her ignorant eyes and listened to the man's words. She slowly tightened her grip on Lu Yan's hand and pressed against him.
Lu Yan felt the little girl's heart was touched, lowered his head and patted her shoulder comfortingly.
The middle-aged man continued:
"Finally one morning, there was no movement in the house, and even his wife's suppressed coughing sound disappeared. He finally knew he was anxious, opened the door and rushed out of the room, and then saw his wife who was half dead..."
The subsequent story is very simple. The middle-aged man was finally willing to take that step and go out to find a job.
But the poor and humble couple were miserable. He changed, but not completely. He was still bossing and sarcastic to his wife, and he still didn't get rid of the sense of superiority in his bones.
He looked down upon his wife and the small county town.
The middle-aged man cried and said:
"It would be nice if he was just arrogant, but his bones are not that hard. Once on the street, he was hit by a passing tricycle. The other person came down tremblingly, nodded and bowed to apologize. But he refused. Rao, threatened to call the police, but the other party could only compensate him 500 yuan. But this man seemed to have discovered a new world, and it turns out there is such a way to make money quickly..."
"He walked into the house with the money in a big way, slapped the money in front of his wife, and proudly told her how the money came from. He said, 'You worked in the factory day and night for a week, I It only takes two minutes'."
"My wife looked at the money in front of her quietly without saying a word, but he seemed to have been poked in his weakness, and angrily threw the money in her face. From then on, he lived a life of cheating, and sometimes even took his wife with him. .”
"His wife was reluctant at first, but then she got money one by one, and finally she became silent and even actively cooperated."
"In the end, this man went crazy and dragged his parents into him. He single-handedly turned the entire family into a den of liars."
"Ill-gotten gains like this were only made a few times before the police discovered it and the man went to the detention center. The family became notorious and became celebrities in this small county."
"However, even at this time, his wife did not divorce him, but chose to take care of the man's parents. But no matter how much she wanted to find a job, no one was willing to take her in, and life became more difficult."
When the man said this, the expressions of some of the people around him became disdainful.
The middle-aged man looked at the expressions on the faces, suddenly laughed, and pointed at his face with the knife across the child's neck:
"You guessed it, that man is me, isn't it hateful?"
People around him whispered that if they thought this man was pitiful just now, no one would sympathize with him now.
Even the woman who sacrificed herself was labeled as "deserving" by the crowd.
The middle-aged man chuckled, staring at the young woman stopped by the soldiers, and said word by word:
"I am such a hateful man, but my wife has endured me for 20 years. She has been tortured for these 20 years, and she finally waited until her scumbag husband discovered her conscience."
The middle-aged man became excited and shouted:
"Obviously we are already here, we have obviously seen the wall, but just because of saving this child, she has never had a good life in her life, and she has never been able to live an upright life!!"
"So what?! We didn't ask her to save the child. It was all of her own free will. It's none of our business if she dies. How can you blame us?!"
The young man finally couldn't help but said:
"It was your wishful thinking that forced these emotions on us and the child! We never asked her to save the child..."
Before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man interrupted him and yelled:
"Then why don't you at least say 'thank you' to her?!"
The young man stiffened and opened his mouth, but suddenly lost his voice.
The middle-aged man suddenly let go of the child in his hand and rushed towards the young man with a knife!
Of course, it was impossible for him to rush in front of the young man. The surrounding soldiers quickly controlled him and forced him to kneel on the ground.
The middle-aged man raised his head and looked at the young couple in front of him with eyes filled with hatred, wanting to skin them and remove their bones:
"What I hated was never that child, nor was it the fact that you abandoned the child and ran away, but that you never showed any gratitude to her from the beginning to the end, but the contempt you expressed for her life!!"
Mu Tang was shocked by this reason and asked Lu Yan next to him in a low voice:
"So he held the child hostage just to let everyone listen to his story?"
Lu Yan nodded.
Mu Tang was very strange:
"But what's the point of doing this? Wouldn't it be more difficult for him to live like this?"
Lu Yan raised his hand to straighten the broken hair on her forehead and said softly:
"People are emotional. For people, many emotions are strong and profound, and they are far more important than themselves."
