spring dream

014

When Xiao Er walked back to the sleeper berth, the train had already left the urban area and headed for the next stop "Xinxiang".

No matter where you arrive in the front, for Lu Xiaozhao who has never left teahouses and courtyard houses, it is a more mysterious and wider distance. Everyone has a yearning for "distance", and so does he.

After driving for three stops, Lu Xiaozhao couldn't squeeze out sleepiness. He jumped out of bed, sat cross-legged in front of the dining table, stared at the constantly changing scenery outside the window, and stuffed various snacks into his mouth.

Lu Ran and Lu Xiaozhao sat facing each other, turned their heads and pointed at Xiao E to the boxed lunch they just bought, and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

Xiao Er waved his hands, tightened his jacket, bent down, leaned his back against the bed board, stepped on the edge of the opposite bed with his rivet boots, crossed his arms and closed his eyes.

Lu Xiaozhao remembered that Xiao Er was in this position before he fell asleep, and fell asleep until the next afternoon, when Xiao Er woke up, his head was still lowered and his eyes were closed.

Lu Xiaozhao glanced at his brother, Lu Ran was reading news on his mobile phone.He sat up and stretched, and quietly groped to get out of bed, intending to step over Xiaoer's legs to wash in the bathroom.Xiao E seemed to be aware of it, and stepped aside, Lu Xiaozhao asked suspiciously: "Master Xiao, are you still asleep?"

Xiao Er shook his head, squinted his eyes and took out his mobile phone. "Liupanshui" has already passed, and he will enter Yunnan City immediately, and there will be about an hour and a half before the stop "Kunming".Lao Song had just finished his last transaction and was rushing from Nanba Village to the train station when a new message popped up on the screen, "I'll be there in 10 minutes, see you at the exit."

For some reason, Xiao Er's left eyelid twitched violently as soon as he arrived at the border of Yunnan.Lu Ran laughed at him: "That's right, we're taking the 'road to get rich', let's jump."

"The stone is in your hand." Xiao Er retorted, "If you want to jump, you should jump."

Lu Ran peeled an apple for Lu Xiaozhao who had finished washing and handed it over: "What a mess, I'm just a dart delivery man, Boss Xiao, don't joke about it."

Xiao Er squinted at him, and wanted to tease him, but Lu Ran forced him to stuff an orange, and he shrugged sourly.

After getting out of the car, the temperature was more than ten degrees, and the jacket must not be worn.In the midst of crowds leaving, Xiao E simply changed his clothes on the platform, put on a "monkey head" sweater over his black vest, and followed the crowd to check out the station.

A group of pick-up people surrounded the exit, and Xiao Er could recognize Lao Song from the corner of his eye. His face was shiny and his teeth were big gold. He was a typical nouveau riche. It was also because he had stockpiled some ore materials in the early years, and the market was very popular in recent years. The appreciation was too sharp, and Baoshan Nanhong alone earned money for two villas.

Four years ago, Song Shangjing went to a teahouse to listen to operas. At that time, Xiao E had already taken over the business of the teahouse.The two were able to strike up a conversation because the string of wooden emerald beads Xiao E was wearing was the first time for Lao Song, who had been in the jewelry business for nearly ten years, to see such a grade of material. The bead-stringed person had a hostile face and cold brows, but his whole body was sluggish. The vitality on his body was entirely set off by the spirituality of the tea and jade in the hall, so he looked a bit of a normal person.

He offered to buy the string of beads, but Xiao E naturally refused to sell them. He saw the piece of Nanhong Guanyin hanging on Lao Song's chest, took him to the dark room, and used a piece of "lychee jelly" Maitreya Buddha to win his heart away. So far, every year when I go north, I have to go to the teahouse to pick up one or two treasures, and I get to know each other after going back and forth.

When receiving someone, Lao Song habitually glanced at Xiao Er's wrist. With years of occupational diseases, he couldn't walk when he saw something good.

Because he was entrusted to do things and was taken care of by others, but the other party was not short of money, Xiao Er took out a square box from his pocket: "Okay, don't look at it, I told you that this string of beads is for marrying a wife." son."

Hearing this back then, Lao Song almost didn't help his daughter as a matchmaker.

Lu Xiaozhao followed behind Lu Ran, stumbled in the dense crowd, was pulled into Lu Ran's arms, hugging his shoulders to protect his side.

"Oh, it's rare to come to Yunnan. Although I will be your driver, you will open my eyes and bring me a gift..." Lao Song didn't finish the second half of the sentence, rolled it on the tip of his tongue and swallowed it back The eyeballs almost fell out.

Inside the brocade box is a hand-carved turquoise dragon tortoise, a size that can be played with, trumpet mountain jelly material, high porcelain blue, jade surface, no trace of iron wire can be seen, it is a masterpiece.

Finally able to take a puff of cigarette happily, Xiao Erhou eagerly sipped one and lit it: "No? Then give it back to me."

Lao Song closed the lid and stuffed it directly into his underwear pocket. Instead of answering the question, he just smiled coquettishly: "Do you need to go to the hotel and open an hourly room to take a shower, relax, and then go on your way?"

Xiao Er didn't refuse, he threw his luggage on the black car, and got into the co-pilot.

Lao Song got a great treasure, but he didn't even confiscate it. The five-star hotel paid directly by the day and booked a suite.Xiao Er asked Lu Ran and Lu Xiaozhao to take a bath first, after packing up, he went to Golden Horse and Jade Rooster to visit the night scene, guarded the goods by himself, turned on the TV in the living room bored, glanced twice, there was really nothing to watch.

He opened a bottle of Madai Sukamani with Lao Song, took a sip of the wine and smoked a cigarette, feeling very comfortable.Xiao Er took off his sweater and only wore the black vest inside. His muscular muscles were smoothly tucked into the waistband of his trousers, and no excess fat could be seen.

"Abs, hey." Lao Song patted his beer belly, "How is it, Mr. Xiao is in good health?"

Xiao Er held the wine glass with the hand holding the cigarette: "I can play another [-] rounds of golf with you."

Lao Song gave a thumbs up: "It's amazing, I guess the old man will have to run two hundred."

Xiao Er laughed: "Coincidentally, I told him that too."

The two of them chatted one after another, and they didn't find it boring. While Lao Song was pouring wine for Xiao Er, Xiao Er glanced at the TV, and the screen happened to stop on the news channel. The headline reads: A chemical explosion occurred in a pharmaceutical factory in Yantai, Shandong.

He stared at the billowing black smoke and the growing flames on the screen, and suddenly heard Lao Song sigh: "Another one, why is this pharmaceutical factory so easy to explode."

Xiao Er raised half of his eyebrows: "Another family?"

Lao Song crushed the cigarettes into the ashtray: "Three years ago, there was an explosion in Ruili's Lushi Pharmaceutical Factory. The smoke and the fire almost burned to Myanmar."

At the same time, Lao Song became interested, and leaned towards Xiao Er, his voice gradually became quieter, like a thief, as if what he was going to say next was some shady secret: "In recent years, there have always been pharmaceutical companies This kind of thing happened, but it wasn't as big a commotion as that of 'Lu Shi', do you know why?"

Xiao Er was not interested in listening, but shook his head in agreement.

Lao Song patted his thigh: "I heard that 'Lu's' is a formal pharmaceutical factory on the surface, and privately develops some 'banned drugs' that cannot be sold through formal channels. After successful testing, the drugs are directly circulated on the black market. It's all rich people, which is amazing."

"Testing medicine?" Xiao Er took his eyes off the fire scene on the TV and looked at Lao Song, "How to try?"

"Then I don't know, anyway, it's definitely not a laboratory mouse." Lao Song joked, "However, there are rumors among the people that there is a collusion with an orphanage, and they only find children to test drugs. 'There are a lot of hormone-based children's medicines, which are suitable for children under the age of 16. Sometimes there are too many medicines, and there are not enough people to test the medicines, so I just collect a few from traffickers."

Hearing the word "human trafficker", Xiao Er's stomach reflex tightened, a burning sensation surged up, and his throat suddenly felt hot and painful.