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The big fish and meat on the table were left untouched, and the oil and water had condensed on the surface of the food. Under the cold light, it looked too greasy to swallow.

The policeman who came to the door and the owner of the shop selling firecrackers and paper money by the entrance of the market had already left together.

New Year's Eve is the busiest time, the boss sold most of the goods for a long time, and immediately found that the money in the wooden box behind the counter was not right.I ordered the goods again and found that there was a difference of two or three thousand yuan.How can it be possible to make more money in these few days throughout the year, and sell it on this day not only not making a profit but also losing money.

I didn't pay attention when I was busy, but when I thought about it now, I immediately realized that the kid who had been wandering around the store all morning was very suspicious.Paired with a few other temporary workers in the store, it was absolutely sure that there was no one else but him.

The police severely taught Jiang Yu and his guardian Qi Nuliang.But seeing that the child was underage and under the age of 16 and was a first-time offender, he was not arrested.Just warn him not to set an example, and if he steals again, he will have to be sent to the juvenile detention center if he is a minor.

Qi Nuliang hurriedly returned to the boss the pocket money that Jiang Yu handed over to him in the afternoon, and he also moved the last spare money in his hand to compensate for the spent part.

The boss got the money back, and seeing that the police had already severely educated the thief, he didn't pursue it too much.

Looking at the cold vegetables on the table, this was their last such a sumptuous dinner, and they didn't even have money to buy green vegetables, but Qi Nuliang's chest was blocked by other things, and he couldn't eat a single bite.

He couldn't figure out why Jiang Yu would steal money.Of course he knew that it was because he had no money to celebrate the New Year and had no money to eat a good meal, but he didn't believe that this child would be like this. Jiang Yu was not someone who would steal for a bite of delicious food.Otherwise, when he was wandering, he was hungry every day for two years, and he had never heard of him stealing.

There must be other reasons.

Jiang Yu lowered his head, put his hands on his knees, and clutched his trouser legs tightly. He thought, it's over.

He knew how much Qi Nuliang had placed high hopes on him, and he also knew how good and sensible he was in Qi Nuliang's eyes.He also has his own reasons for doing this, for example, he can't bear to watch Qi Nuliang worry about money day after day, he doesn't want to delay the treatment of his leg, and he doesn't want the two of them to live together, he just spends money and doesn't contribute at all ...but anyway stealing is a fact, no matter how many reasons to do it, it is done.

He felt that he was forced to do this kind of thing once, and the suffering in his heart was acceptable, but he didn't think that Qi Nuliang would find out if the matter was revealed.

What will happen to him?Will you be completely disappointed in yourself?Do you think his efforts are not worth it?Would he disdain to be with a thief and walk away?

"Brother..." Jiang Yu's breath was unsteady, his voice was a little trembling, and the last possibility made him terrified, "...I was wrong."

Qi Nuliang just looked at him blankly for a while, then raised his hand.

going to be beaten.

If fighting can dispel Qi Nuliang's anger, then let's fight.

When the slap fell, Jiang Yu closed his eyes tightly.With a crisp sound, Jiang Yu's shoulders trembled, but nothing fell on his face.

Jiang Yu opened his eyes and saw that Qi Nuliang's hand had just left his face, leaving a few red finger marks.

Jiang Yu was stunned, swallowed, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Qi Nuliang slapped himself, then stood up, took two dishes, and turned to enter the kitchen.After a while, he stretched out his head and said to Jiang Yu, "You bring in the rest of the dishes."

The dishes from those years filled the table again with steam and aroma. Qi Nuliang brought out the last bowl of hot soup, and also brought bowls and chopsticks to Jiang Yu's hands: "Eat."

Jiang Yu was holding the bowl, and it was the first time that he couldn't eat in front of such a table of good food.Holding the chopsticks, he repeatedly stirred the rice grains and slowly sent them to his mouth, but he couldn't taste any taste.

"Eat more, you won't be able to eat these for a while."

A fried chicken leg was placed in his bowl, followed by a few pieces of boneless fish maw, a piece of fat and thin double-cooked pork, and a few pieces of charred sweet and sour short ribs... until the bowl in his hand was piled up like a hill .

"Eat quickly, after eating, let's go to the side of the road and set off cannons."

After finishing speaking, Qi Nuliang began to eat by himself.

Holding the bowl in his hand, Jiang Yu began to chop the rice fiercely, stuffing fish and meat into his mouth indiscriminately, biting the drumstick like a vicious little beast...

However, the tears kept rolling down like broken beads, falling into his rice bowl, onto the chicken leg he tore, overflowing into his mouth, and being swallowed by him along with the food.

Jiang Yu didn't know if Qi Nuliang blamed him, but he knew that Qi Nuliang had forgiven him.

On the third day of the new year, Qi Nuliang learned from Master Zhao who was working on the construction site that their construction site had already started.Master Zhao also secretly told him that Mr. Liu would occasionally come to the construction site these days and asked Qi Nuliang to squat him.

"Xiao Qi, let me tell you, when the time comes, you will roll around, throw your injured leg in front of him, and tell him that if you don't have money to heal your leg, it will be useless. It's best to bring your child with you. The child is in such an occasion The next best use.

"If that doesn't work, you can climb on the tower crane and threaten him that you will jump off if he doesn't give you money. If you don't want to jump, you won't be able to stay on it. It's best to attract a reporter from the TV station. If he wants to be on the news, he will give it for sure."

After listening to him with a sullen face, Qi Nuliang had nothing else to say but thanked him.

"There are a lot of times like this on the construction site. Those who are stupid, some of them don't give money if they have money. But what they eat is this bowl of rice. If they don't do this, there is nothing else to do. The only thing to do is to work hard on asking for salary. I If you have experience, you listen to me, go directly to Liu, don't talk to Huang, he is Liu's son of a bitch, it's useless to talk to him."

Qi Nuliang hung up the phone, leaned against the cigarette cabinet of the small shop, took his last puff of cigarette with a sad face, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it, then turned around and went to Deng Jianghua's house.

Standing in front of the door, Deng Jianghua looked sleepy, and his usual cockscomb-like hairstyle was piled on top of his head like a chicken coop.

He yawned again, smoked a cigarette and sent it to Qi Nuliang: "Last night, I played cards until the early morning, and I just slept for less than two hours...Brother Qi, why did you come to see me?"

Qi Nuliang took his cigarette and leaned against the pillar of his porch to rest his leg.

"I want to borrow a tool from you."

Deng Jianghua caught a glimpse of Qi Nuliang's leg in plaster, and immediately understood what he meant, pointing to his leg: "How did this happen, who made it?"

"It's not anyone, I fell by myself."

"Oh, I thought you were asking me for something to seek revenge, but you look like you can't do anything."

"It's not seeking revenge, it's asking for debt. What do you have here?"

Deng Jianghua yawned and led him into the house: "I only have a steel pipe and a switchblade here. If you need a machete or something, you have to wait a while, and I will find someone to get it for you."

Walking into the yard, Qi Nuliang saw an old man chopping off a pig's head for the New Year.

The old man also looked at Qi Nuliang, and asked his grandson: "Hua Zai, who are you bringing home?"

"My friend, don't worry about it, and kill your pig's head."

"Take some dubious people home every day..."

Deng Jianghua tugged Razinuliang's arm: "Go, my grandfather is confused, ignore him."

Qi Nuliang didn't move, he caught sight of the ax that was chopping the pig's head in the old man's hand.It was a bulky lump of black iron, but the edge of the ax embedded in the fleshy bone was polished brightly.

"No way, this thing will kill people at once, brother."

Qi Nuliang glanced at Deng Jianghua with a horrified expression: "It's not for beheading people. If I don't tell you, I want to pay for it, so I will scare you."

"Then you have to control yourself, no matter how angry you are, you can't swing this thing at someone."

I don't know what Deng Jianghua's purpose is, but he insists on going with him.This kid has a motorcycle, and Qi Nuliang didn't stop him.

He was sitting on Deng Jianghua's motorcycle, his right leg stretched far inconveniently, the ax in his hand fell heavily on his arm, the rough wooden handle rubbed against his palm, and the cold wind blew on his face.

Qi Nuliang originally didn't want to do this.

Those experiences in the past gave him an animal instinct, and he knew that he was better at living on the other side of a society with fewer rules and more belief in violence than in the framework of a civilized society with complicated rules.Because compared to dealing with other people's fists, it is more difficult for him to speculate on other people's thoughts, understand other people's subtext, and avoid other people's hidden stumbling blocks... The latter is more difficult for him.

He should have made demands on those people as a strong man in a powerful way like now.Instead of making yourself a weak person by begging and entanglement.Because in any place, the weak will not get sympathy for being weak, but will only be severely manipulated and bullied for being weak.

But he also knew that this was a road of no return.During the eight years in it, all kinds of prisoners told him that that place was the end of the road.He doesn't care about going back to the place where his youth was buried, but now there is Jiang Yu.The child hangs heavily on his heart like a weight, so that he can't just consider his own likes and dislikes when doing things, he has to consider the lives of the two of them.

But it's also because of that child, if life insists on forcing a person to go astray, then that person can only be himself, not Jiang Yu.

The reason why the child stole, Qi Nuliang quickly figured out, it was all because of him——it was his leg that could not be treated when the time came, it was the melancholy that he couldn’t hide, it was because he tried his best in the face of life But still powerless.

The biggest difficulty Jiang Yu encountered in the past was nothing more than starving his stomach. It was Qi Nuliang who brought the pressure of life to him and forced him to do such a thing.

It's not that kid's fault, it's Qi Nuliang's fault.So he slaps himself, and life slaps him, reminding him of all his failures and incompetence.

If it is impossible for two people to grow together towards the sun, then he should be the one who fell into the dirty mud and turned into fertilizer.

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