He just walked beside me like a normal person, but his demeanor was not the same as before. Before he went in, he felt reckless and straightforward, and we would fight even if we didn't agree. But after he came out, not only did his kung fu improve, but his eyes also became gloomy. Along the way, he just observed the side of the road silently, did not speak to me, and walked silently in front of me.
I was eighteen years old that year and he was nineteen.
As he was walking, he suddenly said: "I wanted to beat you up, but seeing you are so useless, you are jealous like a rabbit when you see people, so I want to eat noodles."
As he spoke solemnly, I laughed and took out a plastic bag from my purse and dangled it in front of his eyes.
"What?" he asked.
I opened the crumpled plastic bags one by one, and there was a bag of one and five yuan change inside.
"Ayuan..."
"kindness?"
I counted the dime money in my hand: "You eat with your belly open, and you can fill yourself up."
He looked at me again: "In the future, don't pay protection fees to the gangsters here, just say you are my brother."
"kindness."
"Looking at how stupid you are today, you are still passing cigarettes. I really should kick you more. Don't embarrass me in the future. People in this line of work are hard-working. You take a kitchen knife and they leave."
"Why bother, I'm just a businessman, so I don't care about them."
That day, Chu Yuanjiang ate very late until he ate all the money in my plastic bag.
"Let's go." I urged him while fanning him. It looked like it was going to rain, and it was hot and muggy.
"Where are you going?" He wiped the oil on his face with his calloused hands.
"Go back to your house." I said.
He raised his eyebrows, and I said, "Isn't my home your home?"
He smiled, showing his teeth for the first time in a long time: "Then let's go."
Later, I started a business and became self-employed, and he also made some achievements. We always help each other out.
Sometimes he would run back to our rental house covered in blood, and I would simply bandage him. Because of what he did, I also took a lot of sap outside.
Until one day he asked me: "Can you do engineering? Our boss has a project, would you like to take it?"
"Doesn't your boss have an engineering team?"
"The boss thinks the project is small and there is little oil and water, so he is unwilling to accept it."
But I'm willing to take it.
After taking over the project, all the money was allocated by the government, and three tenths of the cost was shared, including materials and artificial equipment, three tenths went into the pockets of the officials who approved the project, and three tenths went to the boss of Chu Yuanjiang , He was the matchmaker, and I also used his shell, and the last tenth became the first pot of gold in my life.
I registered the company with the money, rented an office building, and everything was on the right track.
That year, I was twenty-four and he was twenty-five. He cleared the way for me with his blood, and paved me an unhindered path.
But I didn't continue to go on, I returned to my line of work, and the project was never accepted again.
At that time, Chu Yuanjiang fought me over this. Naturally, I couldn't beat him. He slammed my head against the wall and said that my head was broken, so I gave up such a good opportunity for nothing.
I remember clearly that we had a little money back then. He and I both bought a house and lived across the street, but he just rushed to my house and smashed everything he could.
With a bruised nose and a swollen face, I leaned against the wall and fell onto the sofa: "I can accept the project now, because the people above gave me good looks. If the next time the above changes to someone who doesn't give me face, won't I be hungry and walk around?" This is not a long-term business I quit... "
He looked at me with a cold look in his eyes: "We were born like this, and we earn a lot of money. Let me cover you now."
I shook my head and laughed at him: "Didn't you see that Forbes ranks one of the top five every year? Today he relies on this to make quick money, and tomorrow others will knock him down with envy."
Chu Yuanjiang was so angry that he threw an ashtray at my head, pointed at my nose and cursed: "Are you a fucking man, are you bloody?"
I punched him with a bloody scar on the head, and immediately came up with fire, and yelled at him: "Who do you think you are! I don't want to be your little brother forever, behind your ass! You don't care about my affairs!"
That time, I quarreled with Chu Yuanjiang.
He moved, sold the house, and didn't tell me the new address.
From now on, I don't ask about him, and he doesn't ask about me.
In the end, during the Chinese New Year, I went to apologize to him with a wine bottle in my face, and then I saw him again.
Unexpectedly, he changed to a place where he lived, which was much more luxurious, and there were quite a lot of people there, called Jiang Ge Jiang Ge.
It was only then that I found out that the superior Yuan Jiang had become the boss.
He took one look at me, snatched the wine bottle away, and kicked me out the door, almost hitting my nose. Angrily, I ran to the bar and drank all night, thinking that I had fucking misjudged him, that there is something big about dick and bastard, and I have held grudges for so long, so be careful.
I didn't expect to see him guarding the door of my house as soon as I got home. There were cigarette butts all over the place. When he saw me coming back, he stood up, rubbed his forehead and said, "Those are people on the road. I know you are in serious business. See It's not good."
I was on a bear hug.
He asked me right next to my ear, "Is it my fault?"
I laughed: "It's a big deal."
Holding the steering wheel of the Cadillac, he sat quietly next to me. I couldn't help laughing, the starlight in the sky peeked out again, although it was dimmed under the city lights, there was still some shadow of sixteen years old.
I think I'm really old, otherwise I wouldn't remember what happened so long ago.
Just now he asked me why I wasn't with him at that time.
How should I put it.
In fact, I really don't want to talk about it, because this matter is my own wishful thinking. If he can understand it, he already knew it, but if he can’t understand it, it’s useless and meaningless for me to say it.
His face was a bit unreal, and the night seemed to intensify the feeling of the end of the hero.
After driving for a while, I thought about it, and I was still going to tell him what I was thinking: "Since we have taken different paths, we should work separately. If something happens to you in the future, I can still rescue you." come out."
I thought he would ridicule me, but unexpectedly he answered calmly: "Because you knew the result a long time ago?" I didn't know how to say it, so I kept silent.
Is it not the result of working in the underworld
Although there are some people who are popular and drink spicy food to spend their old age in peace, but the world is afraid that there is no way to say for sure.
Even if he is young and frivolous, I don't care, but I am afraid.
Over the years, Yuan Jiang's hands have been stained a lot. Although he calls people Chu Ye outside, drives a BMW and Mercedes-Benz, and lives in a small villa with a garden, but to put it bluntly, he is running errands for the people above. If there is anything inconvenient to do above, he will be silently cleaned up below. Great, still on top.
He also seems to be caught in the memory: "I used to think that you are so kind-hearted, it's good to be a friend, but if we fight together, I really can't find you like this. Now that I'm older, I realize that you thought thoughtfully at the beginning …”
"Oh, what are you talking about?"
"You have been staying away from my business, is it because... you want to leave me a way out?" He asked me.
"..."
Unexpectedly, after so many years, this kind of heart was finally seen, and it was not in vain to be wronged before.
When you were young, you would only yell that you didn't understand, and then put your fists on the opponent. Later, when I grew up, I learned to endure, to wait and to give.
I said: "It's not you, it's us. I want to leave us a way out."
I don't get married, I don't give affection, I just play. Because I always have a chord in my heart, that is Chu Yuanjiang. I don't know when he puts down his burden or when he needs me, but I can give him my life.
Just because we are brothers.
"Relax, it's all about me."
"Well, I hope this time it's a false alarm." He closed his eyes as he spoke.