In autumn, it gets dark earlier and earlier.
"Skewers! Let's have a skewer! Hot skewers!"
People are old and their bodies are not resistant to cold, so Mrs. Li and her wife put on thin cotton jackets early.
Their cotton-padded jackets were replaced by their sons after wearing them out. The two smoked and smoked all day long, and they always splashed some oily soup on their bodies, so they never bought new clothes, not to save money, that's what they said when people asked.
Working by the stove in the autumn wind, it can be said that the chest is hot while the wind blows the back. This feeling is not pleasant, but they are used to it, and they have to get used to it.
Aunt Li looked up at the sky, and said to her wife, "It's getting dark, let's close the stall."
Her wife looked at the old man's mobile phone suspiciously, "It's dark, but it's still early. It's only early seven o'clock. Don't we usually close the stall at nine o'clock?"
Aunt Li and her wife set up a stall across the road from Qiyuan Pet Shop. They sell breakfast in the morning and skewers in the evening. They work hard from dawn to dusk to earn hard money. Although it is not much, it is enough to support the family and provide for their son. Going to high school. It is the greatest comfort for the old couple that their son grows up safely day by day.
It was past seven o'clock in the evening. Although the rush hour for office workers had passed and most of the students had gone home, there were still some scattered pedestrians on the road. From time to time, people stop in front of the stall to buy skewers, take them away, or sit down to eat.
You can make more money if you close the stall later.
Aunt Li looked worriedly at the Qiyuan pet store opposite, winked at her wife, and said in a low voice, "It's been a rough couple of days, so let's close the stall earlier."
The lights of Qiyuan Pet Store were still on, and through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors, you could see a few people inside, including the young store manager.
She secretly felt sorry for Zhang Zian, why didn't he follow her advice and close the business to avoid the limelight? Competing with those mad dogs, don't you want to wait to be bitten
My wife disagreed, pointing to the meat skewers and fish skewers in the tricycle and said: "It's not sold out yet, it will go bad overnight! There's not much left, just go when it's sold out, it's not bad It's still early."
Aunt Li's eyelids kept twitching, which made her flustered and confused, but she forgot which eye was jumping for money and which eye was jumping for disaster. Since this is the case, it is right to be a disaster.
"No, let's go! I'm in a panic!" Aunt Li shook her head resolutely, "I'm afraid something will happen."
The wife pointed to the pet store and said, "Women, why are you panicking? You don't seem to be panicking, why are you panicking? Besides, it has nothing to do with us!"
At this moment, another customer on a bicycle stopped to ask the price of the skewers, and my wife immediately changed her smiling face and cheerfully sold them to the customer.
Aunt Li became angry, and her voice raised, "What do you mean it has nothing to do with us? Did you forget how our store was smashed?"
When the customers saw that the stall owner was arguing, they stopped buying skewers, and pedaled away on their bicycles.
When mentioning sad things, my wife stared, "I forgot? How can I forget?"
He rolled up his sleeves abruptly, a dark red scar about three inches long on his left arm was clearly visible.
"Ask if it forgot or not!"
This is the memory of that terrible night.
Uncle Li was also a bloody man back then, how could he watch others smash his shop? Immediately, he picked up kitchen knives, pans and spoons and fought desperately with those people, but in the end, two fists were no match for four hands, and he was knocked down after two blows.
How can it be so easy to forget the lesson of blood
When Aunt Li saw the long scar, her eyes turned red immediately, she sat down on the chair prepared for the guests, wiped her tears and complained: "You haven't forgotten? I think you just forgot, remember to eat or not Hit, you can't see what's going on right now? The store manager has offended people just like us, maybe at some point... "
The wife dropped her hands and remained silent.
"I know." He said hoarsely.
Aunt Li patted her thigh and said, "You know, you know why don't you hurry up? If you get us involved later..."
"I know, so I can't go." My wife said.
"You..." Aunt Li raised her head in astonishment.
"Our store was smashed, so you can bear to watch other people's stores also be smashed?" My wife's temples were stretched out, and her eyes were full of anger, but the anger was not directed at Aunt Li, but at those people. scum.
Aunt Li stood up tremblingly, pointed at him and said, "When... the head of the house, what are you going to do? Let me tell you, don't be brave! The last time those people chopped off your arm, what if they stabbed you in the stomach this time? ? If something happens to you, how will my child and I live!"
His wife sighed, the anger in his eyes gradually extinguished.
"I know, I'm past the age of being brave," he said, "but I still can't go, I stay here, at least I can help that guy call the police and call an ambulance."
Aunt Li looked at her husband in disbelief, her eyes gradually turned from shock and incomprehension to respect. After so many years of marriage, she has seen him with shy eyes, angry eyes, complaining eyes, and hating iron eyes, but it is the first time she has looked at him with respectful eyes look at him.
She only considered the safety of her own family, and she thought that she had done her best to warn Zhang Zian. It was his own fault that Zhang Zian didn't follow her advice. However, his wife, who is usually silent and silent, looks more like an upright man than anyone else at this time!
People will always worship heroes, even if it is just an ordinary hero.
The wife was a little shy when she saw her, turned her head in embarrassment and said, "You go first, I will stay here until nine o'clock, and then I will go back. You can go back to accompany the children first, and I will pack up the things."
Aunt Li didn't say much, she just picked up the rolling pin from the cart and put it in her arms. Anyway, their clothes were all their son's old clothes, and they looked fat and big, so it would be no problem to carry two or three rolling pins, let alone a rolling pin.
She showed her attitude.
His wife took a deep look at her and nodded, knowing that persuasion was useless.
"Grilled skewers! Let's get a skewered skewer! Hot skewers! It's cheap! One yuan a skewer!"
The couple greeted passers-by more enthusiastically.
As long as there are enough people gathered here, maybe those mad dogs can be deterred, right
Time passed by, and there were not many remaining skewers, and the mood of the couple gradually relaxed.
The pet store is getting less and less crowded, only the young owner and one customer are left, and it will probably close soon.
You should be able to pass today safely, right
The life of the poor is to survive every day.
At 19:45, with a sharp brake sound, a van without a license plate stopped on the opposite sidewalk.
The hearts of the couple suddenly tightened. 8