Chapter 35
Chapter 34: Roll
Lantern went to the hospital to see patients.
The patient is his former landlord, Aunt Wu, and the mother of Zhang Ping’an, the foreman of his construction site.
When Lantern first arrived in the capital, he only had 200 yuan, and he went to work in many places, but basically within three days, he would lose his job, because his family sent people to follow him all the time, sabotaging his work.
He slept on a park bench, slept through a bridge hole, and finally got rid of the people who followed him through the huge flow of people in the Beijing subway, but he was penniless, with nothing but an ID card, and he couldn’t find a job. , Seeing that he couldn’t afford to eat one meal a day, he met Aunt Wu.
Aunt Wu has a small fruit stand, which is still a very old-fashioned way of selling tricycles. When she met her at Lantern Festival, the chain of her tricycle broke, because it was going downhill and it was dark. She rolled over to the stone and overturned the car, the fruit rolled to the ground, and she was also slightly injured.
Yuanxiao helped her when she saw it, and even brought a car to her. Aunt Wu and Zhang Ping’an were very grateful. Knowing that he had nowhere to go, Zhang Ping’an introduced him to the work on the construction site. .
The work on the construction site is hard work, but the Lantern Festival is not afraid of hard work. More importantly, the construction site can directly find gold when paying wages.
Since then, Yuanxiao has lived at Aunt Wu’s house, leaving early and returning late every day. He is very strong, and the work of moving bricks is just right for him. Therefore, a month later, he received his wages and paid the rent according to the market price.
Lantern has always been very careful. His family didn’t know what he would do to force him to go back honestly, so he basically went out in the dark, and when he came back at night, he wore a layer of “makeup” on his face. Later, he wanted to save more money, and often Go to some places where part-time jobs are needed. He looks good, but some entertainment clubs need part-time waiters like him.
Maybe it’s been a long time, and the family didn’t come to him. He wasn’t so careful anymore. He would go out shopping when he was resting, and also go part-time during the day. Then, he was recognized…
After that, the documents for the demolition of the old residential building in the southern district were approved. In order to get more demolition funds so that Zhang Ping’an could buy a good house, marry a wife and have children, Aunt Wu bought someone else’s “index”, but she didn’t have enough money. I wanted to give my son a surprise again, and borrowed a loan shark from a group of liars. However, the “indicator” is false and usury is true.
When the truth was put in front of Aunt Wu, and when loan sharks came to collect debts, Aunt Wu was too excited and suffered a brain hemorrhage. If she hadn’t sought medical treatment immediately, she would have almost died.
Rao is so, the loan sharks still want debts, and they will not stop asking for debts because Aunt Wu is hospitalized.
It was also during this process that Lantern found the people sent from his family. He suddenly thought of Aunt Wu’s being kidnapped. For the first time, he met those people face to face, and the truth he got from them made him angry.
But it turned out that everything that Aunt Wu suffered was caused by him, and it was not someone else who was responsible for Aunt Wu, but the person sent from the family, but Aunt Wu’s sudden cerebral hemorrhage was beyond their expectations.
Yuan Xiao, who learned the truth, was both annoyed and guilty. Because of him, the innocent Aunt Wu was implicated. How could he feel better?
Because of this, he hated the people in his family who persecuted him even more, and he didn’t want to go back.
But the usury interest owed by Aunt Wu almost doubled every day. Aunt Wu and Zhang Ping’an were both honest people with no background. He himself was not as good as the family who left the sea market. Zhang Ping’an took out his savings over the years, and he also took out the money he had saved in the past. Facing Zhang Ping’s grateful face, he couldn’t say a word.
The sum of his and Zhang Ping’an’s money was not enough to repay the loan shark. In addition, Aunt Wu also needed money for hospitalization. Zhang Ping’an borrowed money from everywhere at that time, and as the “culprit” of this incident, he could not help but take responsibility. Apart from robbing banks and selling kidneys and blood, he couldn’t think of making a lot of money overnight. After that, he ‘slept with him” for 100,000 yuan a month.
When he came to see Aunt Wu for the second time, he still chose to confess to Zhang Ping’an. It was his fault. He should take responsibility. Zhang Ping’an was not angry with him. This honest man only felt sorry for his situation and looked forward to him. it is good.
This is a bit far…
It was not a coincidence that Lantern Festival came to the ward. Aunt Wu had just fallen asleep, but Zhang Ping’an was still there.
Zhang Ping’an was a little surprised to see Lantern Festival. The two did not disturb Aunt Wu’s rest and quickly left the ward.
“Brother Zhang, how is Auntie these days?” Lantern asked sadly.
Zhang Ping’an smiled: “Okay, you don’t have to worry, you can be discharged after the rehabilitation treatment.”
Lantern nodded, took out the money from his pocket, and handed it to him: “Brother Zhang, buy some nutritional supplements for Auntie to replenish her body.”
“What are you doing?” Zhang Ping’an frowned and pushed his hand out.
Lantern put the money directly into his hands, and said seriously: “Brother Zhang, things have already happened, I will tell you and aunt that no matter how much time you apologize, the time will not be reversed. What I can do now is to try my best to protect aunt’s body. Take care and recover.” After a pause, he lowered his eyes again, so that Zhang Ping’an could not see his emotions clearly, and said, “Even if you and Auntie won’t blame me, but I can’t get over this hurdle in my heart, I hope you and Auntie can accept my little intention and let me make up for it.”
Hearing this, Zhang Ping’an couldn’t help but look complicated. He opened his mouth and closed it again. After a long time, he asked complicatedly, “Why don’t you go back?”
Lantern’s fingers tightened, he raised his eyes to look at Zhang Ping’an, and pretended to be relaxed: “Because of freedom, I will completely lose my freedom when I go back. Brother Zhang, don’t you want me to be free?”
Zhang Ping’an lowered his eyes when he said the second half of the sentence, looking at the stack of banknotes with about 3,000 yuan in his hand, his rough fingers rubbed the banknotes, and his voice could not hear much emotion: “If the price of freedom is to lose Is everything really worth it?”
“Brother Zhang, what did you say?” Lantern didn’t seem to hear clearly and asked again.
Zhang Ping’an shook his head, bit his lower lip and let it go, raised his head to look at Lantern Festival, there was something in his eyes that Lantern Festival couldn’t understand, he clenched the money in his hand, smiled reluctantly, and said, “You are from above. The 20th of the month has only been working for 12 days until today, and it will be the 20th again, so your salary this month may be too much.”
Lantern Festival was also quite helpless about this. Who asked him to go to Bu Tian, he injured his foot because of Cheng Neng on the first day, and was shot two days ago… Although he didn’t want it, it’s true that he was left behind. It’s also a good thing that he can speak German, and Qiaobutian just needs a German translator, so that he can earn some money. Otherwise, he feels a little too little to give to Aunt Wu just based on the wages that will be paid on the 20th.
However, the aunt of Butian’s family wants to resign. If she resigns successfully, he will not ask for salary. Aunt Wu.
“I’ll see if I can find another part-time job…” He didn’t tell Zhang Ping’an about the situation, because there was uncertainty on Aunt Li’s side.
Zhang Ping’an looked at him deeply for two seconds, and finally said, “Don’t be too tired.”
…
After leaving the hospital, Lantern couldn’t help scratching his arm. In a short while, a little rash appeared on his left arm again. His allergy came and went quickly, just like the people around him, forever. are constantly being replaced.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but smile.
But soon the wry smile froze at the corners of his lips and disappeared quickly, the corners of his lips pursed into a straight line, and there was a chill in his eyes.
A middle-aged man with flat facial features wearing ordinary casual clothes walked in front of him, nodded slightly at him, and said in a low voice, “Master.”
The Lantern Festival’s eyes were sharp as a knife. If Bu Tian was here, he would definitely be able to see that the Lantern Festival in front of him and the Lantern Festival in front of him were completely two people. The Lantern Festival in front of him was a white dough with black sesame stuffing inside. The dumplings were round and round, but the Lantern Festival at this time had nothing to do with cuteness. Rao was wearing cheap clothes, but the aura around him was overwhelming the middle-aged man in front of him, sweat dripping from his forehead at a speed visible to the naked eye. .
“Go away.” Lantern spit out a word coldly.
The middle-aged man’s eyelids twitched, he didn’t dare to look at Lantern Festival, so the only place his eyes stopped was the bridge of Lantern’s nose, he bit the bullet and said: “Master, the third master is ill, I want to see you for the last time, can you? …”
“I don’t want to repeat what I said a second time.” Yuanxiao interrupted him, but he didn’t even bother to say the word “go away”. He looked straight ahead, rudely bumped into the man and walked forward.
The middle-aged man was not angry when he was hit, but he chased after him with sincerity and fear: “Master, what happened to Wu Guihua is our fault, we are willing to apologize, please forgive us and come back to us…” He didn’t finish his sentence, Just because Lantern suddenly stopped, his eyes were sharp and unusual, the words behind him were stuck in his throat, and he couldn’t say a word.
The Lantern Festival’s expression is not vicious, but it makes people feel cold.
He looked at the middle-aged man for three seconds, and then said slowly and mercilessly, “Tell me when he’s out of breath, and I’ll burn two coins for him for the sake of the same surname Yuan.”
These words can be said to be not vicious. Even if the “third master” in the middle-aged man’s mouth is not dead, he will be angry when he hears this.
But the middle-aged man was not angry because of the words of Lantern Festival. First, he was not qualified, and second, he hated one person until the other party died, and the reasons were quite sufficient.
“Young master…” The middle-aged man looked bitter, “Third Master, he is real…”
“The last time, get out.” Lantern’s eyelids didn’t move.
The middle-aged man and Lantern stared at each other at close range, and the tip of his nose also began to sweat. After ten seconds, he no longer dared to look into his eyes, and now Lantern did not leave, only him.
Amid the anxiety, Lantern’s cell phone rang.
The middle-aged man’s heart was fighting, and he was startled when he heard the voice, but when he saw Yuanxiao took out the cherry phone, his eyes lit up, but in the next moment, he met Lantern’s eyes again, Lantern’s eyes He almost saw through his heart and understood all his thoughts.
Why did the Lantern Festival only use an old flip phone of 50 yuan instead of a smart phone, because the smart phone is too easy to locate. Moreover, his mobile phone card was not registered and purchased by his ID card, but a card that Zhang Ping’an got him. He only used it to make calls, and even sent little information. Because of this, the family couldn’t find him. .
Now a middle-aged man sees his smartphone and naturally thinks that it can be positioned.
The middle-aged man swallowed and lowered his head in a guilty conscience.
Lantern looked away, answered the phone and walked in the other direction at the same time.
The call was from Bu Tian.
“Across the street?” Lantern made his voice sound the same as usual, but two sentences later, Bu Tian suddenly told him that he was across the road, and he looked at the opposite side in surprise.
At a glance, I saw the familiar black business SUV.
With the driver’s window half-open, Bu Tian was wearing sunglasses and holding a mobile phone in one hand. With his Lantern 2.0 vision, he could clearly see his almost perfect profile face, so handsome that one couldn’t take his eyes off him.
Bu Tianchao, who was so handsome that he couldn’t take his eyes off him, saw that there were countless people around, but Lantern Festival gave birth to the illusion that there was only one handsome man in the car in the world.
He couldn’t help but lift his legs and walked towards Butian, seeing that the distance was getting closer, but someone walked to Butian’s car window ahead of him.
A traffic policeman.
Sent Bu Tian a fine.
Lantern Festival: “………………!!”
When the car started, Lantern couldn’t see Bu Tian’s expression under his sunglasses, and the cold voice from the phone beside his ear came again—
“We’ll be waiting for you at the bus stop in front of you.” Bu Tian said.
“…it is good.”
Lantern didn’t even know how he made his voice, but felt that the word “good” was a little erratic.