The smoke in the house was a bit choking. Xu Zhifan also smoked occasionally, but today he couldn't stand the smell of smoke.
He wanted to open the window, but there were people standing beside the door and window, and any of his actions might cause an overreaction from a group of people who were emotional at this moment.
He could only endure.
In addition to him and his father, there are five men in the house, Aunt Hu's husband, Uncle Li, three friends of Uncle Li, and Aunt Hu's brother-in-law.
Today's theme is no different from the theme of the past four months, where is Aunt Hu, if you can't hand over Aunt Hu, you have to hand over your mother, and if you can't hand it over, you have to take the money that Aunt Hu took from home first. , The money defrauded from relatives should be paid back first.
"She went with your wife," Uncle Li said. "If she hadn't said she was going with Xiao Lin, I wouldn't have let her go at all!"
"But..." Dad frowned, his voice was hoarse, and he couldn't say anything useful.
"Uncle Li, you also said that if Aunt Hu didn't go with my mother, you wouldn't agree," Xu Zhifan interrupted his father, "so you also know that my mother is a reliable person."
Uncle Li frowned, as if he didn't want to agree with him, but he couldn't refute it again.
"My mother won't hurt anyone, much less..." Xu Zhifan couldn't continue.
"So what?" my brother-in-law said, "Even if your mother can be trusted, it is a fact that there is no news now! It is a fact that if you ask for money from your family and relatives, there is no news!"
"And people are going with your mother!" One of Uncle Li's friends pointed at him, his voice was a little loud, "Now you want to shirk the responsibility if you can trust it!"
"Uncle," Xu Zhifan controlled his tone, "Whether Aunt Hu followed my mother or my mother followed her, there is no conclusion yet..."
"What do you mean!" Uncle Li roared, "What do you mean by saying this now! Do you mean that my wife cheated your mother!"
"That's not what I meant," Xu Zhifan said, "I mean it's pointless to say this at this time. Finding talent is the most important thing, and their safety is the most worrying issue."
"Don't tell me this is useless, why doesn't it make sense for someone to go with whom?" another friend said, "It's just because you left with your mother that we're here to care if you want people and money!"
"We are also looking for people," Dad said, "I also took some of the money for you, and I don't have that much money right now..."
"I say that every time! No one! I can't get the money back!" Uncle Li was a little excited, suddenly raised his hand, and slapped the TV on the TV cabinet.
The TV was suddenly fanned for half a turn, and after shaking it, the face rushed down and buckled to the ground.
At the moment of landing, Xu Zhifan stretched out his foot and put his foot between the TV and the floor, but the TV did not break.
When he pulled out his feet and helped the TV up, Uncle Li probably didn't have a chance to vent, and angrily picked up a clay pot on the table and threw it to the ground.
"I want an explanation!" Uncle Li roared, "I don't care what happens to your home! I only know that my home is going to be destroyed!"
Several men in the room suddenly raised their voices and cursed.
The intercom doorbell beside the door rang suddenly, and at the same time someone slammed the door outside.
Xu Zhifan only felt that his scalp was numb. Uncle Li had been to his house several times, but he was the most excited today, and he was probably about to endure it. Although he knew that no one had a solution, he still had to force them to ask for an explanation.
It's kind of venting.
Xu Zhifan was just a little worried, what was waiting for him outside the door.
Grandma is on the first floor, what should I do if I get scared.
Dad's health is not particularly good, he usually doesn't feel anything, and he gets tired easily when he is in a hurry.
When Xu Zhifan walked towards the door, he felt that his steps were so heavy that he could barely drag.
"Xu Zhifan!" After leaning towards the door, he heard shouts from outside.
The sound made him stunned for a while, and quickly glanced at the doorbell screen.
There were a bunch of people standing outside, the closest were the faces of Huo Ran and Kou Chen, and behind them were Jiang Lei, Xu Chuan, Hu Yi, and Wei Chaoren.
Huo Ran and Kou Chen's faces are elongated and curved on both sides of the fisheye lens, like a pair of brackets, but my mother said before that Huo Ran's face is the most photographed among your classmates, and it looks good no matter how you take it. Yes, look at it now.
If his mother comes back, he can let her watch the video, and Kou Chen's face can keep his appearance in the bracketed state.
The moment Xu Zhifan saw such a scene, he suddenly felt like a warm baby was placed in his eyes, his whole head was hot, and his nose was a little sore from the heat.
He opened the door.
Huo Ran's hand clapping the door was still in the air. When the door opened, he didn't have time to see what was inside, and grabbed Xu Zhifan's arm and dragged him out of the door.
Then Kou Chen entered the house, found Xu's father accurately, and said hello to him: "Hello, Uncle Xu."
"Hey, good." Dad Xu responded with a bit of confusion as he looked at the group of people who filed in.
"The air is not very good. Open the window, it's not good for your health." Xu Chuan squeezed between the two men, went to the window, and pushed it open.
The cold air poured into the room, like opening the lid of a stuffy can, and the heat and smoke quickly dissipated to the windows and doorway.
Everyone in the room seemed to be swept awake by the cool air, and they didn't make a sound.
"What does this mean?" Uncle Li was stunned for a while and then suddenly rushed towards the door, "Where's my daughter!"
"She's downstairs," Kou Chen said, "talk to Grandma Xu."
Uncle Li stopped and turned to look at him: "You are Xu Zhifan's friends, right? Do you want to make a big difference? Do you think we adults are afraid of you brats!"
"No, don't get me wrong, uncle," Kou Chen smiled, "We just came to find Xu Zhifan for dinner."
Huo Ran felt that Kou Chen shouldn't laugh. In his aura of a black boss and reserve, this smile seemed to have another meaning, although Huo Ran knew that he was just smiling friendly.
And the sentence that he came to find Xu Zhifan for dinner also sounded mysterious.
To put it in some movies, this sentence can almost be understood as, we want to kill Xu Zhifan, a traitor who stole our boss's goods.
Fortunately, Huo Ran's cell phone rang at this time, breaking the tense atmosphere.
Huo Ran took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number, which he usually wouldn't pick up, but in order to ease the atmosphere, he picked it up without thinking.
"Hello," he said.
"Hello, I'm a rider," the person on the phone said. "I'm downstairs to your house now."
"What?" Huo Ran's mind was filled with tension, "There is no activity in our cycling club today, right?"
"The hot pot you ordered, the hot pot is here," the phone said. "It's two big bags. Did you order it?"
"Oh! Hotpot!" Huo Ran reacted, "Yes, yes, I ordered it, but now I... Please help me put it in the security room downstairs, I'm still outside."
"Okay, there are two sets of six people on the list, there are two pots, and there are two bags of side dishes together," the rider said. "Is that right?"
"That's right," Huo Ran said, "Thank you."
After hanging up the phone, the atmosphere of the whole room seemed to loosen up a bit. After all, this phone call proved that the meal was a real meal, and the meal had already been delivered.
However, Uncle Li obviously didn't want to make a trip today and it would end like this. He pointed at Xu Zhifan: "First tell me how your family plans to deal with this."
"I've already called the police..." Xu Zhifan said.
"What's the use of calling the police!" Another man interrupted him roughly, "They're all adults, and they don't have any information or evidence to show any danger. Where do you ask the police to find someone? So many people are missing. , can they find it? Are you just waiting at home like this!"
"Then tell me," Xu Zhifan sighed, "what do you think we should do?"
"I care what you do!" the man said, "Now you have to tell Lao Li what you are going to do!"
"Our approach obviously dissatisfied Uncle Li." Xu Zhifan said.
The man was about to roar, Kou Chen took a short half-step in front of him with a cold face, several people in the room immediately moved at the same time, and the man paused.
Uncle Li waved his hand and told the man to stop talking. He stared at Xu Zhifan for a long time, then turned to look at Dad Xu: "If it wasn't for my old neighbor for so many years, I would have already done it. It's such a mess, hurry up and find someone, my son came home a few years ago, and I can't guarantee what he will do then."
After Uncle Li took the people away, the room was very empty. Dad Xu slowly sat down on the sofa, holding his head and sighing.
"You..." Xu Zhifan looked at them, not knowing what to say for a while.
"I forced them to come with me," Kou Chen said, "Huo Ran and I were very anxious when we saw you leaving. I was really worried, afraid that if there was something you couldn't handle, we would …”
"Thank you." Xu Zhifan said.
"Huh?" Kou Chen was stunned, "Damn, don't say things like this suddenly, I'm not used to it."
"Thank you," Xu Zhifan said, "Thank you, really."
"Don't talk about that," Huo Ran patted his back lightly, looked at Dad Xu next to him, and whispered, "You lied to me about such a big deal..."
"Wait for me downstairs," Xu Zhifan said, "I'll go down in a while."
"Yeah." Huo Ran responded.
Several people went downstairs and stood behind the flower bed at the corner of Xu Zhifan downstairs to take shelter from the wind.
"Have the hot pot been delivered?" Wei Chaoren asked.
"Yes, I put it in the security room," Huo Ran said. "You can eat it when you go back and eat it hot. If you want to drink, you can buy it on the way. I don't have it at home."
"Will the security guard steal it?" Jiang Lei asked.
"It's not that greedy," Hu Yi said. "The security guard is not named Jiang."
"You're wrong, radish," Jiang Lei looked at him, "is it a gang?"
"What's going on with Xu Zhifan's family?" Xu Chuan probably couldn't help it. "Can you tell me? This seems like a big deal."
"He'll come down in a while." Huo Ran said.
"Don't care about his dad? I don't think his dad is in a good mood." Xu Chuan asked.
"His dad must have fallen asleep in a while," Huo Ran said. "It's normal, but it's easy to get tired."
Kou Chen sighed, didn't speak, took a cigarette from his pocket and took it.
"Give me one." Xu Chuan said.
Kou Chen threw the cigarette case to him. Except for Hu Yi, who didn't smoke, the others all took one.
"Here." Kou Chen handed Huo Ran a cigarette he had lit.
"I don't see anyone smoking in normal times," Huo Ran took the cigarette, "Why is it like an addiction now?"
"You don't understand this," Kou Chen took another stick in his mouth and pressed the lighter, "This is called a program, it's not for smoking, it's for the atmosphere."
Everyone nodded.
"Oh." Huo Ran looked at Kou Chen.
The wind was so strong that the lighter snapped more than 80 times, and the cigarette didn't light.
"Give it back to me." Kou Chen took the cigarette from Huo Ran's hand.
Huo Ran leaned against the wall and laughed for a long time.
"Here." Kou Chen took a puff and put the cigarette to his mouth.
"I don't want it anymore," Huo Ran said with a smile, "don't do it with..."
"It's like abusing a dog." Hu Yi answered quickly.
Huo Ran and Kou Chen were both stunned, Kou Chen turned his head and glanced at him: "I can't see it, Xiao Luo can also say such words."
"Look, this is the sadness of our single dog," Jiang Lei said. "Both men can abuse dogs."
A group of people laughed for a long time.
Kou Chen didn't continue to hand Huo Ran cigarettes, and finished the cigarette in a few puffs: "My dad wants to know that I have cigarettes on me, and he can smoke me into a frosted one."
"Xu Zhifan's father should be just like your father," Jiang Lei said. "His father is honest, and he doesn't know much about arguing with others. He can't make a sound when he quarrels."
Several people were silent.
About ten minutes later, Xu Zhifan came over from the corner.
The group of people who were leaning or sitting immediately stood up straight.
"How is your father?" Huo Ran asked, "Where's grandma?"
"My dad had a headache and fell asleep after taking the medicine," Xu Zhifan said. "My grandma was playing cards on the first floor, and she was sent home after playing."
"Then now..." Kou Chen looked at him, "According to the original plan? Going to eat hot pot?"
"Yeah." Xu Zhifan nodded, "buy a few bottles of bars at the door, don't go back at night."
"Okay," Wei Chaoren responded immediately, "It's just right to go to school tomorrow."
"Is there enough room to sleep?" Xu Chuan asked Huo Ran, "Are your parents okay?"
"They don't care about me, you can rest assured and sleep anywhere." Huo Ran said.
"I want to sleep in Huo Ran's bed." Wei Chaoren said.
"Then you fight with your boss Kou first." Xu Zhifan said.
The whole group laughed.
"...Forget it," Wei Chaoren said, "I can't beat it."
While standing by the roadside and waiting for the bus to come, Xu Zhifan and the others went into the small supermarket next to them to buy wine, Huo Ran and Kou Chen stood by the roadside.
Kou Chen didn't talk much all the time, probably because he experienced such a thing, his mind was a little confused, after all, he still didn't understand what happened to that neighbor by Xu Zhifan's house.
"I have something I want to remind you of." Kou Chen said suddenly after being silent for a long time.
"Remind me." Huo Ran looked at him.
"Let me tell you first, I definitely don't want anything to happen to you," Kou Chen said, "but if something happens to you, don't hide it from Xu Zhifan, and don't think about everything by yourself. Come on, you have friends."
"Yeah." Huo Ran nodded.
"You have to tell me if you don't tell them." Kou Chen added.
"Okay, I see." Huo Ran smiled, "Then..."
"I'll definitely tell you if I have anything... But I shouldn't have a big problem," Kou Chen thought for a while, "My dad hasn't hit me for two years, if he hits me, I'll definitely give it to you as soon as possible. Calling you for help."
"...Can I not go?" Huo Ran said, "I'm afraid I can't beat your dad. No matter how he sees it, he's a trainer."
Kou Chen laughed: "Really, he and his buddies go to the boxing gym whenever they have free time, and live a very healthy life."
"Your father is really... energetic." Huo Ran said.
"I'm very energetic too," Kou Chen raised his arm, "Want to pinch?"
"...You can find a girl to ask." Huo Ran pressed his arm down, "You're almost out of character with me, and there's still a lot of cheers from girls."
"Not uncommon." Kou Chen looked disdainful.
"Then what are you missing?" Huo Ran said.
"It's rare that you treat me as a friend," Kou Chen said. "Don't hide anything from me. Like Xu Zhifan today, I saw it. What if I didn't see it? How did it end?"
"Got it." Huo Ran patted him on the back.
Kou Chen turned around and hugged him, contentedly patting him on the back like a kindergarten dog who had just been praised: "That's right."