Wei Shi and I went to the house Shen Xiaoshi rented to find him, but no one answered after we knocked on the door for a long time.
Shen Xiaoshi is a local, but since the day he was released from prison, he has no contact with his family and has been living outside. He usually looks carefree, but his mouth is very strict, and he never mentions family affairs, and Wei Shi and I have never asked.
These days, no one has any secrets that cannot be revealed.
"What should I do?" Wei Shi stared at the door lock, frowning deeply, "Break down the door violently?"
It's already past nine o'clock in the evening. Due to the poor sound insulation of the old building, the sound effects of war movies played by people on which floor or house are lingering in the corridors, and the sound of shells is constant. If the two of us break down the door violently here, people in the whole building might come out to watch the excitement.
"No way, people thought we were breaking into and robbing." It doesn't matter that I am a good citizen, but Wei Shi stood aside, with big arms and short hair, it is not a good thing at first glance.
Wei Shi scratched his head, and looked at me critically: "Have you not learned any mysterious skills from someone who has been in there for so many years?"
I glanced at him: "Yes." He became excited, "I have learned how to recognize a fool."
Wei Shi said "fuck" and continued to knock on the door.
"Third brother? Brother Feng?" Suddenly, a male voice came from the darkness.
Wei Shi and I cheered together and turned around.
Shen Xiaoshi was standing not far behind us, holding a big plastic bag in his hand, as if he was returning from shopping. His complexion is not very good-looking, there are heavy dark circles under his eyes, and his clothes are wrinkled, as if he hasn't changed and washed for a few days.
As long as people are fine, I breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to say a few words, Wei Shi strode over and slapped Xiaoshi on the head with a loud and heavy slap, which made my skin tighten in fright.
"Are you sick?" Wei Shi roared fiercely, "Recharge the phone and you will die!"
Wei Shi's strength was not a joke, he had broken even solid planks.
Shen Xiaoshi covered his head with his hands, a little aggrieved: "I just came back today... There is no place to charge my phone outside these two days."
"Just came back? Where did you just come back? I don't know if others will worry about you?" Wei Shi said relentlessly.
"Okay, okay, as long as you're okay, we'll talk when we come in." I motioned for Shen Xiaoshi to open the door first.
Shen Xiaoshi was so dumbfounded by Wei Shi's lesson, he shook out the key to open the door, and entered the room without a sound.
Wei Shi became even more angry: "What's your attitude?"
I stopped him and let him control his emotions. He is good in every way, but he is easy to get angry, and he has a lot of temper. Otherwise, it would not be possible to enter those years.
"Calm down before you come in." I said.
Wei Shi didn't get to the point of venting his anger on me. He looked at me with a dark face for a moment, then turned and went to the window to smoke.
Entering the room, I saw Shen Xiaoshi sitting alone on the sofa with his knees hugged, looking weak, pitiful and helpless. I went over and touched his head, and asked, "What happened? Tell Brother Feng."
Although Shen Xiaoshi looked young and immature, he was not an irresponsible person. He said that he only asked for one day off, and he would be missing for a few days. There was no news. Something must have happened beyond his expectations.
Shen Xiaoshi was silent for a long time without speaking. I didn't force him either. Seeing that his bag was full of food, I contacted him because he was sloppy and guessed that he might not have eaten yet.
"Shall I make you some instant noodles?"
I took out the cup noodles from my bag and went to the kitchen.
"My mother called me..." Shen Xiaoshi suddenly said, "She asked me to go back, saying that she wanted to see me one last time before she died."
I was startled, took the instant noodles and turned back, sat down and listened carefully to what he said.
"My father passed away when I was very young, and later my mother remarried and gave birth to a younger brother..." Shen Xiaoshi rubbed his eyes and said in a low voice.
His mother was a very weak and uninitiated character, she was born like a willow and could be manipulated by others. She obviously doesn't have much affection, but because of the traditional view of marriage, she thought that someone would want her to be a widow with a child, so she thanked God and hurriedly agreed to the second marriage.
As a result, the second marriage is simply a fire pit, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.
Shen Xiaoshi's stepfather is irritable and irritable. Whenever something goes wrong in his daily life, he will beat and scold his wife, which makes Shen Xiaoshi very uncomfortable. But when he was young, even if he rushed to help, he was always the one beaten by his stepfather, and his mother had to intercede for him, and then suffered more humiliation.
"My mother always told me not to quarrel with him, let me be quiet, let me be like her, just bear it." Shen Xiaoshi didn't want to bear it, and the older he got, the more he didn't want to bear it, but his mother didn't understand him, thinking that He is rebellious and impulsive, always causing trouble, "I want to help her wholeheartedly, but she treats me as an outsider. In the end, they are a happy family."
Feeling betrayed by his mother, the teenager has since made an Internet cafe his home, followed by a group of delinquents who are also homeless, and started wandering around all day long.
"If she tells me she's going to get a divorce, I'll help her leave that man without saying a word. She doesn't have to worry about money. I'll go out to earn money to support her and her brother. But she never thought of it, not even a little bit." Shen Xiaoshi I closed my eyes, and my face became paler, "I hate her. It's useless to hate her, I hate her for being indecisive, I hate her for letting me live in such a bad family and have such a childhood."
People's sorrows and joys are not connected, nor are anger and fear. The mother can't understand the son's anger, and the son can't empathize with the mother's fear. This is the beginning of the contradiction.
Before the age of eighteen, Shen Xiaoshi was a furious hedgehog who would stab everyone he saw, fight fiercely, harm others and himself, and finally put himself in prison. After the age of eighteen, under the careful training of Wei Shi and I, he smoothed out his thorns, became less cynical, and became a little more optimistic about his destiny. But he still did not reconcile with his mother, refused all visits, and never contacted her after he was released from prison.
Shen Xiaoshi said: "I thought we were going to be like this, for the rest of our lives. When that man dies one day, I might go back to see her, honor her with my younger brother and take care of her for the elderly. If that man doesn't die, I will never go home. It's not my home either. But just three days ago, I suddenly received a call from a stranger... "
Shen Xiaoshi's mother called, nonchalantly saying that she wanted to see him for the last time, and begging him to go home as soon as possible. Shen Xiaoshi didn't understand, so when he was about to ask, the other party had already hung up the phone, and no matter how much he called after that, he couldn't get through.
This kind of situation is really weird, although we haven't seen each other for many years, although we still have the same ties, the love between mother and child is still there, Shen Xiaoshi was afraid that something happened to his mother, so he asked for leave in a hurry, stopped a taxi and rushed to the old house.
But when he opened the door he was stupid...
"My mother hacked that man to death with an axe." He hugged himself even tighter, his voice hoarse, full of puzzlement, "the ground was covered with blood, and the brains were chopped out. She said she saw me The last time, he planned to die after seeing me. Why is there such a thing, brother Feng? Can’t you just leave him? Why did you put yourself in it? How could you get to where you are today if you left that beast more than ten years earlier? "
I didn't expect this development either. I thought it was because his mother suddenly got seriously ill and asked him to go back to see the family ethics drama routine for the last time. I didn't expect to jump to suspenseful murder, and I was stunned for a long time.
"Since I know about this, how can I let her die. I persuaded her to turn herself in and sent her to the police station." He choked up and said, "I have been dealing with her for the past two days, and I have to deal with the police. , deal with that man's best relatives, and keep my brother from knowing about it. I'm only twenty-three, why are you like this, I haven't sorted out my own affairs, I can't accept it... "
As if he couldn't bear it anymore, he buried his face in his knees like a kitten, and sobbed softly. I sighed secretly in my heart, leaned over to hug him gently, and patted his back.
"It's okay, we're here."
Wei Shi leaned against the door with a cigarette in his mouth, his face was gloomy, and he had been listening for an unknown amount of time.
He looked like he wanted to come but was afraid of coming, and finally exhaled a puff of white smoke in annoyance, turned around and went to the window again, probably because he didn't know how to comfort Shen Xiaoshi.
"Brother Feng, can I ask you something..." After crying for a long time, Shen Xiaoshi raised his head with tears in his eyes, sniffed and said, "It's okay if you don't agree."
The child is so pitiful, how can he be worthy of the "brother" he called me if he didn't agree
I took out two pieces of paper to wipe his tears, and said softly: "Just say it."
Shen Xiaoshi muffled: "Can I... ask Lawyer Sheng to defend my mother?"
I paused, and Shen Xiaoshi felt it. He quickly held my hand and said: "I know he is very powerful and expensive, but I will pay for it. I saved 100,000 yuan. If it is not enough, I can still write IOUs... Whether it is hundreds of thousands or millions, I am willing to pay." His eyes were flushed, "She gave birth to me and raised me, and I hate her, but I can't just let her die."
I understand what he means, and I understand his request, but the problem is... Sheng Minou doesn't necessarily listen to me.
Last time for Wei Shi, I had already used up the only favor I had, and this time I really don't know how to get him. Especially recently his temper is still so strange, Shen Xiaoshi asking him to ask him is probably much more useful than me asking him.
But facing Shen Xiaoshi's expectant eyes, I couldn't refuse anyway.
Finally, I patted the back of his hand, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll speak for you."
Since I owed a favor once, I can always make him owe it again.
After returning home from Shen Xiaoshi, I thought hard all night, and at seven o'clock the next day, I called Sheng Minou - I knew he was awake by this time.
"I'll help you win Ms. Yang's case, can you do me a favor?" As soon as the call got through, I said first.
Sheng Minou might feel really speechless, and after a long silence, he said in an arrogant and natural tone: "I could have won."
"I can make you win faster." After a pause, he added, "Maybe you can get more money."
Hearing his disdainful look, I was not annoyed, and continued, "It's fine if you don't want my help, then if I let you go whoring again, the effect will be the same."
The other end suffocated, Sheng Minou said coldly: "No need."
"Then you mean it would be better for me to help you, right?" I pulled the phone away, "I'll take it as your agreement if you don't make a sound? Hey? Suddenly the signal is a bit bad... Hey, hey?"
After pretending to "hello" a few times, I quickly hung up the phone.
Facing the screen of the call that had ended, I let out a long breath, and then I was a little annoyed.
"You still don't want to let you go whoring, are you afraid that I will poison you?" I threw the phone aside and fell asleep.