The stars are bright tonight, a rare sunny day in late summer.
Many people have fallen asleep with their thoughts, and some people think that this is just an ordinary day as usual.
Lu Xu drank some wine as usual, and was cleaning up the tables and chairs of the supper shop.
Of course, his so-called usual life is only the life in the past month.
After all, he has done very bad things before, because he was a tainted witness, so he was able to exchange for a prosecution and defense agreement, replace jail time with community service, work during the day and help in the supper shop at night, and it can be regarded as a new life.
It was almost four in the morning, and the noisy stalls were about to disperse, so there was only the last table of customers in the store.
However, the guests at the table did not intend to leave early.
To be honest, although he had spent most of his time dealing with the rich second generation or the powerful, he had also seen more of this kind of bottom. Ordering peanuts and a cucumber, and asking for a bottle of Red Star Erguotou, you can stay in the store until five in the morning, and there is no sense of guilt.
He cleaned most of the tables, turned the chairs over, swept and dragged the floor, and the two people at the table had not stopped chatting.
"Old Zhang, what you said makes sense. Our family has distant relatives who work in the police station, and you said that there is a big government move behind this. Let me tell you..."
Lu Xu really didn't listen to the gossip.
"Old Pei, I know you have a wide range of friends, and you don't tell the inside story. That's why you don't treat your brother as your own!"
"Hey, this is all the inside story that is not allowed to be said. Those four people are actually ordinary people, and only those who offended them were brought in. Why don't you watch the live broadcast, how come there is no sound at all?"
The middle-aged man raised the small wine cup, half-squinted his eyes, and said mysteriously.
Lu Xu froze abruptly.
The man opposite slammed the table and asked drunkenly, "Brother, are you serious?"
"It's absolutely true, how can it be fake!" He said, but he deliberately lowered his voice and pretended to warn, "Don't say it out loud, it's just a matter of losing your head, maybe we..."
When I said this, a dirty rag suddenly fell into the cucumber bowl that had been empty for a long time. It didn't splash the soup, but the grated garlic mixed with the dirty ash rag, which was quite disgusting.
The two men turned their heads in unison, looking angrily at the fat man who had been cleaning the store.
"I'm sorry, two bosses, my hands were a little slippery."
The fat man wore glasses and his eyes were bulging like a greasy toad. Although his eyes looked kind and humble, the gloomy look running through the rivers and lakes inside could not be hidden.
"What do you mean, do you want to fight!" The man slammed down the small wine cup in his hand, and went up with a bloody rush, ready to roll up his sleeves.
At this moment, he heard a very nice female voice coming from behind.
"Two bosses, I'm so sorry, you calm down..."
Lu Xu also turned back together. The proprietress had just come down from the second floor in her pajamas, holding her arms and leaning against the pillar gracefully.
Well, man, seeing this situation, it is obvious that his brain is hot.
Sure enough, the people at the drinking table were about to go up and move, and at this time, Lu Xu's proprietress spoke up, and she said, "My shop is not very lucky."
The two drunken men stopped immediately.
The proprietress added: "The last person who drank at my place until five o'clock was hit and killed by a car on the way home." The woman showed a gloomy and real smile, "It's really my unlucky thing, my family brought a Taoist priest here. I made a fuss and said that my shop was unlucky, so he killed his husband. That Taoist priest opened his eyes and said that because there were Yin soldiers in my shop, and the customers stayed after five o'clock, the master of the Yin soldiers was not happy, you see It's already four-twenty now... I... But I really think about you."
The two middle-aged men were already drunk. Most of the lights in the store were turned off because of the closing time, and it was pitch black outside. There was nothing but street lights, and now they were facing a vixen-like woman, and the atmosphere was indeed gloomy.
Sure enough, the two men looked at each other, instantly sobered up, threw down the wine cup and ran away without a trace.
Lu Xu looked at the proprietress very dog-legged, but only heard the woman say "the account will be deducted from your salary". After saying that, the woman dragged her graceful steps and was about to go back to sleep.
That footstep sounded like a knock on Lu Xu's heart. He looked at the ecstatic back of the woman, his mouth was dry, but he stopped talking.
At this moment, the woman suddenly turned around and asked him condescendingly, "Tell me, what's the matter with you today?"
Sitting under the lamp, Lu Xu started a long and boring narration with the cheapest rice wine in the store.
He never thought he was a good person. After all, according to his resume, he could basically be considered a complete social garbage, similar to the four garbage who are now locked up in a small dark room waiting to die. But he is in a complicated and sad mood now, not because of the sadness of other things being hurt, but because of the strangeness of fate.
The first time he saw Lin Chen, he was beaten badly because of his actions on Lin Chen. Later, Lin Chen regarded him as a useful dog and led him to investigate the case, although he offended many Fengchun's Powerful, but also gave him a chance to be a man again, and now, fate has once again linked him and Lin Chen in an impermanent way, and he probably has to thank Lin Chen again. After all, he will turn into a pile of social trash, all because of Qian Bao.
When Lu Xu said this, he looked at the woman across from the small square table. It must be because the stories he told were too boring, the proprietress drank freely on her own, and didn't pay any attention to what he meant.
He picked up the wine cup in front of him in embarrassment and drank it, the hot taste of wine slid down his throat, making him pluck up the courage to continue the following story.
"Don't look at me now that I'm full of fat and look like a toad. In fact, I was very poor when I was a child."
"My father died early, and my mother messed around with men in the village in order to support me. When I was a child, I didn't know such things as life was not easy, so I thought she was dirty and stupid."
"I'm not literate, and people from a family like me are basically not able to turn over with a schoolbag, so after graduating from junior high school, I was admitted to a secondary school in a big city. My mother forced me to go. She felt that after all, there were relatives there. With the help of that city, I was able to graduate and find a good job. My relatives were Qian Bao’s father, my distant cousin, my mother and his Qian Bao’s father slept for a week, and my distant cousin promised to take care of me. "
The more Lu Xu said, the more drunk he felt, and he couldn't even distinguish between reality and past.
He said: "I didn't know until Fengchun that Qian Bao's father was an auto repairer, but he was actually a car thief. Qian Bao was younger than me, and he was my cousin, but he studied early, so he was already a car thief. In the first year of high school, Qian Bao is different from his father. He doesn't want to do things like stealing a car with big risks and small rewards. Although Qian Bao's car stealing skills were better than his father's in high school, he has great ambitions. What has always been done is 'financial'."
He laughed, as if mocking and admiring, "A first-year student in high school knows how to cooperate with the owner of a video game store and invest in slot machines. Although I was short and fat at the time, I still had a bit of strength. No matter what, I have to take care of my younger brother, so I have been helping him to see the scene, and he will give me some money. I was poor since I was a child, and that amount of money is astronomical to me. I can’t be happy, Qian Bao said to me. I don’t dare to go west. I thought I would live like this for the rest of my life, and the best case would be to have a small game arcade of my own and get a daughter-in-law until one day…”
When Lu Xu said this, the woman opposite him still didn't make any movement. Her black hair was shining brightly under the light. Lu Xu didn't know how he became so ramble and ink, it was boring, and suddenly I don't want to go on.
Just when he was about to get up, the woman smashed the table with a wine cup, and stopped him in a long tone: "Go on, I don't like listening to stories, I heard half of it."
Lu Xu stood by the table.
He could never forget that day. Although it wasn't a big deal compared to what he had done later, after all, all the first times were still fresh in his memory.
It was the weekend, and as usual he had to get up earlier than usual to show his cousin. But when he was having breakfast, Qian Bao pushed in the door and bought him a fragrant beef roll. Although he refused, he really hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and he had no brain to think about whether there was a conspiracy behind a simple burrito. Just when he was gobbling down and pretending to be reserved and eating the burrito, he heard Qian Bao telling him to enter so he didn't have to go to the small game hall to watch the game.
His swallowing of beef was half a beat slower.
Qian Bao said: "A new machine arrived today, smuggled goods, brother, go and help me, I'll give you 50 yuan."
To this day, he can clearly recall every change of expression and tone of Qian Bao when he spoke, but these are all meaningless things.
Later, of course, he went to the pier, which was indeed a new slot machine, but there was something else hidden in the slot machine.
What happened after that was a vague nightmare of life, and it continues to this day.
The police came, broke open the slot machine, and found bags of small pills in colorful packaging. He was very familiar with these things, and Qian Bao often asked him to deliver them before. But it wasn't until he was interrogated that he realized that the thing was really not a kiss mint, but an ecstasy pill.
Of course, he also tried to give out Qian Bao, but then he knew that Qian Bao had always been in contact with the other party in his name, and even connected to the account that received the stolen money. What's more, the delivery person is also him, and there are witnesses and physical evidence, and the police will not believe it if he arbitrarily bites the police.
Since the day of his accident, he hadn't seen Qian Bao, but his mother came to see him at the police station, and wanted to save him by sleeping with the police. It's okay to be ashamed.
That was what he was thinking at the time. Shame, frustration, pain, resentment, these incomparably strong emotions completely changed a 17-year-old boy.
He was expelled from school and went to jail.
The seniors in the prison helped him analyze it. Qian Bao probably received rumors, so he sent him to pick up the goods. To put it bluntly, he was the fish that Qian Bao sent to the police on the fishing rod.
But this kind of thing is completely unimportant, and he knows that he will never go back.
The next thing is to get out of prison, in prison, out of prison, in prison, and in the middle, he also contracted a venereal disease and died. He has been with the seniors he knew in prison for many years, and he worked hard to climb from the gutter step by step. After all, the dark world is also a place with strict hierarchy.
In the end, he became a chicken head and had many girls under his command. He often beat those girls and boys, doing similar things to what Qian Bao had done to him before.
However, he never saw Qian Bao again, and he was completely unaware of Qian Bao's arrest and imprisonment.
If he hadn't seen the live video on TV yesterday, he wouldn't have been able to connect his cousin, who was always laughing and mischievous, with the black, fat and gloomy middle-aged man on TV.
And now, the feng shui turns, and he even has a precious vote in his hand to kill Qian Bao.
When Lu Xu said this, for some reason, he looked down at his hand. He felt that this shouldn't be difficult at all. How many people can't wait for such a chance in their lives to be happy. And the reason why he hasn't voted so far is just because he has to bathe and change clothes and send Qian Bao to the guillotine reverently.
As he said this, a low, dull voice came from behind him.
"Oh..." His female boss stood up from the chair, walked staggeringly to the stairs, and said as she walked, "Turn left 300 meters from the door and it's a polling place in the square, let's go."