one punch

This evening meal was regarded as a welcome banquet for Dou Guangmao, but most of the people who came were his old friends, and my aunt didn't bother to say hello to each of them, so she dragged my grandfather and two children to sit on a small round table set up separately next to them.

Seeing that there was an empty seat beside Dou Guangmao, the uncle patted Dou Tianxiao on the back lightly, motioning for him to sit over.

When Dou Guangmao watched his son walking towards him, he attentively opened a chair for him and poured him a drink.

"Thank you." Dou Tianxiao said.

"Why are you being polite to me?" Dou Guangmao patted his head.

This time Dou Tianxiao couldn't dodge it, he just smiled awkwardly, "It's just being polite."

Those friends of Dou Guangmao enthusiastically asked him questions at the dinner table, asking him about everything from height and weight, academic performance to hobbies.

Dou Tianxiao is not good at communicating with people, and feels very boring to this kind of blunt politeness.

Later, the people at the table started punching and toasting to brag again, and some people simply raised their heads and blew on the wine bottle when they lost.

Dou Tianxiao glanced at the table next to him after two mouthfuls of food, hoping in his heart that the meal would be over soon, but whenever he wanted to get up, someone would always ask him questions, out of politeness, he did not leave the table casually .

During the dinner, he also heard Dou Guangmao mention the reason why he was imprisoned that year.

"At that time, Li followed them to attack first. When I went up, the man just grabbed my clothes and asked for help. He beat me much harder than me, and it was all on my head that he refused to admit it."

"The shit-eating lawyer wanted to charge me with intentional homicide. Fortunately, the man took drugs and died himself."

When Dou Guangmao said these words, there was no smile on his face, and his face was extraordinarily fierce. There were many unpredictable things in his eyes, and Dou Tianxiao felt terrified after just a glance.

And Dou Guangmao seemed to realize something, so he didn't continue this topic.

The group of people sitting together had accents from all corners of the country, and their voices were particularly loud. The pungent smell of smoke contained unrestrained obscenities, making the surrounding air turbid.

Even the sharp-mouthed aunt dared not say anything more, so Dou Tianxiao could feel that these people were all hooligans that ordinary people would avoid.

When he saw Ye Xi finishing the rice and preparing to go upstairs, he finally put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm going upstairs to do my homework."

At this time, Dou Guangmao, who was on alcohol, suddenly realized something, and smiled at the people present: "Okay, okay, the last drink, I won't drink it after drinking, my son still has to do his homework."

However, after half an hour, the dinner was still going on, some of them were lying on the table talking in their sleep, some were still singing loudly, and changing glasses.

Dou Guangmao belongs to the latter.

"Your dad can drink really well, but my dad can't. After drinking a bottle of beer, his face turns red." Ye Xi whispered while lying on the handrail in the stairwell.

Dou Tianxiao pouted at Dou Guangmao's position, "Is he like this before?"

"I don't know, I didn't know him well before," he added at the end, "I don't know him well now either."

Dou Tianxiao glanced at Ye Xi, but said nothing.

He felt that the arrival of the group of people downstairs was uninvited guests to his uncle and the others.

For a moment, he really wished that he and Dou Guangmao had no blood relationship.

In the end, it was Grandpa who politely threw them out of the noodle shop. Some of them lying on their backs vomited before they had time to go out. Dou Tianxiao could smell the foul and strong stench on the stairs.

He almost threw up his dinner.

After a group of people left, grandpa went to the kitchen with a mop and cleaned up all the filth on the ground silently.

When Dou Tianxiao finished his homework and went downstairs, he happened to see his uncle and the others cleaning up the dishes, so he rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen to help wash the dishes, but was pushed aside by his uncle, "If you have nothing to do, go home and sleep with grandpa, don't let it go." It takes up space here."

"Grandpa is chatting with someone." Dou Tianxiao intentionally avoided that address.

"Then you go and sit outside, and when your father sees you cleaning the dishes and mopping the floor for me, he might think that I have abused you all these years." Uncle was cleaning the dishes with his hands and feet.

"Then I'll tell him that I'm voluntary." Dou Tianxiao pouted.

The uncle turned to look at him, "Be obedient, go outside to say hello today, and I will leave a sink for you to wash the bowls and chopsticks another day."

"I don't want to swipe another day... If the opportunity is missed, it will be gone." Dou Tianxiao chuckled.

"If you don't want to brush it, I will brush it according to your scalp." The uncle talked about it, and finally threw out this piece of calfskin candy.

Grandpa and Dou Guangmao sat face to face, and said with a cold expression: "My daughter doesn't want some of the cash you left before. I have deposited it in the bank for you. I will give you the deposit receipt tomorrow."

"Why does this mean that you want to break up with me?" Dou Guangmao turned the teacup in his hand with a normal expression, not looking like he had drunk too much.

If it wasn't for the group of people crawling out just now, Dou Tianxiao would have suspected that he drank Erguotou mixed with water.

Grandpa sighed silently, turned his head and glanced at Dou Tianxiao, "There is a child here, we can't stop."

Dou Guangmao took off a cigarette behind his ear, squinted his eyes and lit it, "Let the money go to you first, I still have some on hand."

"I don't know how much you have. Anyway, I have to return it to you sooner or later." Grandpa said.

"How is Ah Yue doing recently? Are you still working in the original factory?" Dou Guangmao took a puff of his cigarette and exhaled a series of smoke rings.

"No, I moved away." Grandpa talked about him from left to right, "The wages over there are not good, and they have to work overtime all the time. She can't stand it physically."

Dou Tianxiao poked his index finger into a smoke ring, and finally there was a smile on Dou Guangmao's face. He opened his mouth and spit out several smoke rings, "Then where did she move?"

"Are you going to find her?" Grandpa looked at him.

"Well, I've come out, at least I have to say hello." Seeing that his son stopped poking the smoke ring, Dou Guangmao seemed a little disappointed, and didn't continue to vomit.

"I don't think there is any need to say hello. You two have been divorced for so long." Grandpa said.

"She remarried?" Dou Guangmao realized something.

Grandpa didn't answer, he got up and asked casually, "Is there a place to sleep at night?"

Dou Guangmao took a puff of cigarette forcefully, and pointed his hand back pretending to be relaxed, "The guest house at the intersection is just enough for one night, I don't care about it."

"The guest house at the intersection was demolished and converted into a supermarket the year before last, and the house you rented has already been rented by someone else." Grandpa met Dou Guangmao's surprised and bewildered expression when he lowered his head, and hesitated for a moment, "Otherwise Just go back to the countryside with me to make do for one night."

Dou Guangmao quickly wiped out the cigarette butt and stood up, patted the soot on his trouser legs, "Then let's go."

Although the Ye family's old house is a two-story building, the vacant rooms downstairs are basically used to store sundries or park bicycles and tricycles, so there is no room for people to live in.

There are three bedrooms on the upper floor, one for grandpa and grandson, and there are no vacancies.

After going upstairs, Dou Guangmao lay down on the sofa in the living room with self-knowledge, "I'll just sleep here at night."

The sofa was facing Dou Tianxiao's bedroom, so he could see his son coming in and out.

The old man carried a quilt out of the room, and Dou Guangmao got up to take it.Grandpa took out a brand-new certificate of deposit from his pocket, "There are [-] in total, and the password is six to one."

"Oh." Dou Guangmao took the certificate of deposit and sat back on the sofa.

"Do you plan to do something next?" Grandpa looked at him, "I finally came out, and I still need to find a solid job."

"I know, you don't have to worry about it." Dou Guangmao looked indifferent.

"Don't fool around with those messy people again. If it doesn't work, I'll help you go to our factory workshop to ask. Although it's a bit tiring and busy, it's still a stable job. That's how everyone gets here." Grandpa said.

Dou Guangmao nodded silently and didn't say anything more.

But after living for most of his life, he has to return to the original point.

How can you be willing.

After Dou Tianxiao took a bath, he trot upstairs from downstairs with his slippers on, and Dou Guangmao immediately stood up from the sofa.

Dou Tianxiao hadn't gotten used to having an extra person in the family, and when he saw a black figure in the dark, he let out an "oh" in fright, and shrugged his shoulders like a cat whose hair has exploded.

"You scared me."

Dou Guangmao smiled and said, "What day is the week tomorrow, son."

"Friday." Dou Tianxiao said.

"Then I'll take you to school tomorrow morning." Dou Guangmao continued to be courteous.

"I have already gone to and from school by bike." Dou Tianxiao saw the silhouette in the dark and sat back on the sofa.

Dou Guangmao rubbed his thighs, as if he was talking to himself, "I can ride a bicycle by myself..."

Dou Tianxiao froze on the spot for a while, unable to think of any topic to continue, scratched the back of his head and said, "I'm going to bed first, you should go to bed early too."

"Yeah." Dou Guangmao watched his son walk into the house, then the sound of turning on the light and closing the door, and finally heard the sound of "click", the lock.

When Dou Guangmao lay down on the sofa, he finally couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Five years, whether it is long or not, is not short.

Time is like a pair of rough hands, using bricks and tiles to build an invisible high wall, completely isolating himself and his son.

The departure of his wife, the indifference of his son, the estrangement of his father-in-law, and the contempt of others made him lose confidence in the rest of his life.

Getting out of prison is also quite boring, everything seems to be meaningless.

Fate seemed to be playing tricks on him on purpose, making him unable to get what he wanted no matter where he was.

People are free, but it seems that there is nothing left.

That night, Dou Guangmao stared at the thin moonlight seeping through the cracks in the curtains, and lost sleep.

Although Dou Tianxiao didn't suffer from insomnia, he had a terrible nightmare - he dreamed that Dou Guangmao had killed someone.

He can't remember clearly what happened in the dream. He doesn't have any memory of who Dou Guangmao killed and why he killed him.

The only thing I remember when I woke up was the look in Dou Guangmao's eyes when he killed someone. It was as sharp as a dagger, and that smile, which is unique to TV drama villains, made me feel chills. I always felt that the next one would be his turn It's up to me.

Dou Tianxiao was woken up by fright, because of the terrifying eyes in the nightmare, he dared not look directly into Dou Guangmao's eyes for a long time.

Once in a noodle shop, he mentioned to his uncle that he dreamed about his father, and the uncle smiled and said, "That's because you care about him, so you dream about him."

Dou Tianxiao didn't take it seriously, only he knew that it wasn't because he cared, but out of instinctive fear and worry.

He felt that Dou Guangmao was different from the people he usually came into contact with.

He is abnormal.

Or should I say...he is restless.

From the cronies he hangs out with, it can be seen that he is not an "ordinary person". He is like a time bomb. When the button is not pressed, it looks safe, but once something happens, it will definitely It is a big explosion that ordinary people cannot bear.

Birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups. Obviously, Dou Guangmao is not in their "normal life circle", so even if he knows that he is his biological father and will not intentionally hurt himself, Dou Tianxiao can't help but want to avoid.

But soon, he found that he was not the only one who was afraid of Dou Guangmao.