father snake

Half of the road faces the sky, Shi Xiaochuan is walking in front, and the child is following behind. At first glance, it looks a bit like an elder brother who wants to sneak out to play and is forced by his parents to take care of his younger brother. reluctance.

Here Shi Xiaochuan intends to send the child back to the police station, no matter whether he is a human or a monster, at least he still looks like a weak child now.

In fact, in my heart, there is another reason for wanting to send the child to the police station. If the child wants to do something bad, maybe there can be a little restraint, Shi Xiaochuan thought a little uncertainly.

He doesn't know how powerful the seemingly weak kid is, and he doesn't know what he wants to do, but from his words and deeds, it can be seen that he has been wandering around Lingshan Town for a purpose.

Moreover, this purpose may be a disaster for Lingshan Town and the Shi family. However, there is no obvious sign at present. He has only made some judgments and guesses based on some vague rumors and information, and he is not sure. .

If he really has deep feelings for the Shi family and Lingshan Town, maybe he will keep a close eye on the child to prevent him from doing anything unpredictable.

However, Shi Xiaochuan raised his head and looked at the shop signs next to him. The street was a bit potholed. The road built a few years ago was a bit broken and was about to be repaired. The trees next to it were full of branches and leaves. It was still green and shiny, as if it had been coated with oil.

In such a bleak season, these trees are still clamoring so much, it seems a bit weird, maybe he thought too much, Shi Xiaochuan shook his head.

He doesn't care much about what will happen to the Shi family. In his opinion, the Shi family is also a place surrounded by many secrets, and there is always a fog that people can't see through.

On the way, a few children ran over chatteringly, and Shi Xiaochuan saw Shi Xiaoshan, whom he hadn't seen for a while, wearing a sports suit and following the group of people. .

Those who fight are also their local dialect, which means hooligans, young people who are not doing business properly, in short, they are the kind of people who make people look down upon, look down upon, and be a little scared.

Shi Xiaochuan frowned, watching Shi Xiaoshan take out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from his trouser pocket, and grinningly distributed the cigarettes in the pack to the group of "buddies" around him, a group of teenage boys Just like that, he hid in a corner, breathing hard.

He walked over and called softly, "Shi Xiaoshan! What are you doing?"

Shi Xiaoshan was startled by the sudden shout, threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, crushed it out with his feet, raised his head and saw his disliked elder brother standing not far away watching Own.

There was a burst of laughter around, and the companions next to him laughed at his timid action just now, Shi Xiaoshan glared at Shi Xiaochuan angrily, and said angrily, "What's none of your business?"

Shi Xiaochuan walked over and looked at him quietly, "If you don't go back, I'll tell mom."

Upon hearing this sentence, Shi Xiaoshan jumped up immediately, raised his fist and waved at Shi Xiaochuan, "Are you looking for a fight?"

Just by hearing his tone, Shi Xiaochuan knew that Shi Xiaoshan wasn't joking, if he didn't walk away, maybe the fist would really hit him, but - anyway, blood is thicker than water, now that he saw , he absolutely can't just watch Shi Xiaoshan get mixed up with that group of "thugs" like this, and become a gangster on the street in the future.

In fact, Shi Xiaoshan is not bad, he has become like this now, and it has something to do with the abnormal atmosphere in the house, because of this, Shi Xiaochuan feels that he is responsible for him.

When he was still immature, and only knew how to hold his hand, follow behind him, and yell "cluck, cluck" vaguely, he once swore to protect this younger brother forever.

Since when did he see himself as if he didn't see it, and since when did he start swearing at him?

What if people never grow up?

Then, Shi Xiaoshan will always be his well-behaved and cute younger brother, the younger brother who would fight with children to defend him, instead of the boy standing there with his hands in his trouser pockets, doing nothing.

Shi Xiaochuan sighed, "Even if you hit me, I'll tell mom, will you come back with me now?" He looked at the young men with dry yellow hair who were sultry, "They are Your friend? How dare you take them back to show your mother? Shi Xiaoshan, I haven't seen you for a few days, how did you become like this?"

This sentence obviously angered the few people next to him. The few people who were on the sidelines also started to curse and spit out obscenities without repetition. Shi Xiaochuan just listened so calmly, He was neither angry nor scolded, just kept looking at Shi Xiaoshan.

Shi Xiaoshan, who was moving around uncomfortably under his watch, finally couldn't help it, "Just go, get out, I'm gone, you still don't get out!"

This kind of concession obviously made those gangsters very dissatisfied. They shouted loudly and laughed at Shi Xiaoshan, making the face of the young and vigorous Shi Xiaoshan flushed, Shi Xiaoshan turned his head and stared at Shi Xiaochuan again.

Shi Xiaochuan stared at him with those dark eyes, Shi Xiaoshan's whole body felt cold from his brother's eyes, and his feverish mind finally became sober.

Shi Xiaochuan watched Shi Xiaoshan walk away slowly and disappeared at the other end of the street, then turned his head, smiled slightly, and said to the gangsters who laughed at Shi Xiaoshan and insulted Shi Xiaochuan loudly, "Don't look for my brother again, Otherwise, I will never let you go, I will do what I say."

Those people were taken aback by his extremely serious expression, and soon they found themselves being intimidated by a young man who looked thin and lonely, and immediately became angry, but at this time, Shi Xiaochuan had already walked away. Far.

After the incident just now, at least in the short term, Shi Xiaoshan will not have any interaction with them. Shi Xiaochuan knows his younger brother, that stubborn and face-saving young man, and will definitely avoid this group of people after losing face this time.

This is exactly the purpose of Shi Xiaochuan's direct provocation just now.

Shi Xiaochuan suddenly remembered that he hadn't paid attention to the child for a while, and was only focused on solving this matter just now. He quickly turned around and saw the child standing under the big locust tree not far away. His body was not as thick as a tree, standing there, it seemed as if he was about to be swallowed by a tree.

It looks very pitiful.

Shi Xiaochuan walked over, squatted down, and stretched out his hand, "Let's go." He said.

The child looked at him silently, and it took him a long time to put his small hand in Shi Xiaochuan's. Shi Xiaochuan held his hand and walked to the police station at the end of the street.

When I got there, I realized that it was not an easy task to send the child back, because the police station was overcrowded and every corner was full of people.

The police aunt was talking to a few people with a big smile on her face. I could tell from her expression that she was dying of anxiety.

People from the two families confronted each other at the police station. In order to prevent the situation from expanding, the police brought all relevant people to the police station to control the situation. The scene over there was temporarily blocked and no one was allowed to enter or leave. On the other hand, it is also an excuse to evacuate the crowd.

People from the Shi family and the young and old from the Zhang family glared at each other, and there were also many young and middle-aged men who came to the Shi family to support the scene. Such a pair, they seemed to be fighting with weapons.

Shi Xiaochuan led the child and stood at the door, unable to advance or retreat, leaving the child here, what if there was a real fight, bumping into each other?

He just hesitated at the door like this, not knowing what to do after much deliberation.

At this time, he saw Zhang Guo, whose face was full of murderous intent and hatred that could not be concealed, staring at the group of people in the Shi family opposite him, which made Shi Xiaochuan shudder. In the past, he hacked to death the group of people on the opposite side to avenge his sister.

But soon, he lowered his head again, and then raised his head again. The deep-seated hatred on his face was no longer obvious, but Shi Xiaochuan looked at his red eyes and knew that this did not mean that he no longer hated him. But that kind of hatred has penetrated deep into his heart, and it can't be solved by staring alone.

He was afraid that Zhang Guo would do something stupid.

He walked over quietly and pulled the corner of Zhang Guo's clothes. Zhang Guo turned his head suddenly as if shocked, and looked at him fiercely, as if looking at an enemy. Shi Xiaochuan was caught by his gaze Startled.

The corners of his eyes were red and bloodshot, and it seemed that he was not far from madness.

After seeing that it was Shi Xiaochuan, he was stunned and finally calmed down a bit. Shi Xiaochuan pulled his clothes and pointed out the door. Zhang Guo nodded and followed him out.

When you come out of the police station and walk tens of meters to the right, the dense buildings disappear, and the gradually sparse houses indicate that this has left the town.

They walked one after the other, and finally arrived at a place where no one was around. Shi Xiaochuan stopped, and Zhang Guo stood beside him, looking blankly at the harvested rice fields, with stubble left in it. Roots left over from harvested rice.

When he got here, Shi Xiaochuan looked at Zhang Guo, and felt full of comforting words, but there was nothing to say.

When Westerners comfort people, they always use one sentence, "I am sorry for you loss", while Easterners use more words, but they still don't know which words to choose to express the emotion in their hearts.

Maybe whatever words are too weak, words are always the inner message of secondary processing.

"Don't be too sad." Shi Xiaochuan thought for a long time, and finally blurted out such a sentence.

After Zhang Guo glanced at him, his eyes wandered to the distance again. He nodded, indicating that he knew, but Shi Xiaochuan knew that he might not even know what this sentence meant, he just heard it. But his mind didn't accept it at all. He was still in his own thoughts and hadn't escaped.

They were silent for a while, Zhang Guo suddenly asked: "Shi Xiaochuan, do you know the rumors about your Shi family?"

Shi Xiaochuan shook his head, "I'm not sure, I-I may not have told you, I used to be in the town, and they didn't pay much attention to me."

Hearing this sentence, Zhang Guo finally came back to his senses, looked at him in surprise, and said nothing, "Well, I heard a lot today, what my mother said before, is what I told you before, except Those, there are still many things."

"What else?" Shi Xiaochuan asked softly.

Zhang Guo sneered, "It's too much, for example, fifteen or sixteen years ago, during the severe drought, they said that the reason why there was an armed fight between the two villages was because the Shi family interfered with it, and because they used to marry into the Shi family every year. A few brides would die, and later people around here knew about it, and they refused to marry their daughters to Shi, so they had no choice but to go outside to deceive and snatch young girls back."

He paused, adjusted his emotions, and continued, "Of course, some of these young girls died, but that was a long time ago, and no such strange things have happened in recent years, so my mother ——that’s why I agreed to my sister’s marriage.”

He clenched his fists, "I didn't expect, I didn't expect—"

Shi Xiaochuan walked over, put his hand on his shoulder, and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't think too much, I don't know if these things are true or not, if you think so, your sister——will never come back. "

"I don't care, I will let Shi Shouli live with my sister. My sister died so unjustly, and he must have something to do with it!" Zhang Guo stood there motionless, saying each word.

Shi Xiaochuan could feel the chill coming out of his words.

In the end, this matter is also a matter of nothing.

In order to appease the elders of the Zhang family, the Shi family invited a famous forensic doctor from the provincial capital to open the coffin for an autopsy, and finally came to the conclusion that it was a natural death, and there was absolutely no possibility of murder. Half a month has passed.

Shi Daquan paid a large sum of money to compensate the Zhang family in order to calm down the matter.

In the south, where Shi Xiaochuan and the others were, they would pay tens of thousands of yuan for funeral expenses if they killed someone. Speaking of it, it is also a drop in the bucket.

In fact, in many cases, human life is really worthless, but in the eyes of other people, their relatives are priceless treasures. If you give tens of millions, you can't get that person back, so Mama Zhang threw the money at that time. On the face of Shi Shouli who came to make amends, let him "go back with this stinky money".

For most of the people, the matter gradually calmed down, and even the aunts at the police station were relieved, and the gossip between aunts and aunts in the streets and alleys was almost the same.

If you don't hurt yourself, human life is just a talk!

When the final conclusion came out, Zhang Guo didn't change his expression when he heard the news. With an expression he had expected, Shi Xiaochuan remembered what he said, "The Shi family is rich and powerful. It's okay to have so many things happen, this time, my sister's matter must be like that."

He was right.

However, Shi Xiaochuan felt that Zhang Guo's whereabouts were getting more and more mysterious. He kept watching Zhang Guo all the time, fearing that he would do something earth-shattering.

Seeing that this semester has passed the mid-term, and now it has entered November, the season of the end of autumn and the beginning of the east, when I wake up in the morning, I can see a white frost on the grass.

That night, Shi Xiaochuan felt that Zhang Guo quietly climbed out of bed, put on his clothes, opened the door and slipped out, and he followed him out of the dormitory.

I saw Zhang Guo's pale black figure flickering in front of him under the not too bright moonlight. He shrank his head a little bit and started running. Soon, he stretched his limbs. Like a black cat in the night.

Shi Xiaochuan followed him, watching him run towards the road to the town.

Soon, they came to the town, and Shi Xiaochuan saw Zhang Guo running towards Shi Daquan's house.

The folk customs here in Lingshan Town are fairly simple, and there are very few theft cases, so the anti-theft measures of each household are very perfunctory. Even if it is a wealthy family, there is a simple lock on the door.

That's how Zhang Guo seized the opportunity. He pried open the door easily, and walked in with a bright butcher's knife that he got from nowhere.