"Xu Le is willing to see you because after the mine accident, your mother raised him for two years, and he is grateful... But you have to know for yourself that he is the person who doesn't like to cause trouble the most, and some words will rot in his stomach." Li Wei, who had returned to the apartment downstairs on Bell Tower Street, glared at Xiaoqiang and was a little worried. After all, this little guy is only a teenage child, and it would be bad if he missed the point.
The little guy pursed his mouth and seemed to be scared to cry by Li Wei's fierce eyes. Although Li Wei's eyes were always so clear, bright, round and cute, the orphans in Bell Tower Street knew that the sixteen-year-old leader What kind of ruthlessness is it when it is really ruthless.
The metal shaft in Li Wei's hand has no idea where it is placed. At this time, he is holding a bottle of beer and pouring into his stomach, sitting under the street lamp and humming a little tune, looking quite proud. The little guy glanced at him timidly, hesitated for a while, but couldn't help but ask, "Brother Le has rarely returned to Bell Tower Street in the past two years. What is he doing?"
"Who knows? But this kid likes to play crafts since he was a child. Who would have thought that he would be so cruel. Do you still remember what we saw that year?"
"I was only five years old at the time, and I forgot." The little guy licked his lips and looked at the beer in Li Wei's hand, seeming a little curious. The orphans lived a carefree life in Donglin District, but it was really difficult to find a way to find alcohol. Alcohol on the black market was too expensive.
"Yes, I was only eleven years old at that time, and Xu Le was only ten years old." Li Wei threw the beer bottle into the garbage heap under the street lamp not far away, took a deep breath, and petted the boy's slightly immature face. , with a little more numbness, "If it wasn't for what happened ten years ago, I'm afraid we are still in school now, maybe we have obtained a vocational certificate, went to Hexi University... or even... even went to Capital Star as an exchange student. ."
The streetlights pulled two figures, one big and one small, and covered them on the garbage heap in the distance. A black cat walked in the shadows, and the yellow pupils that were scattered were disturbed to find that there were no mice today. , everything seemed so lonely and dead.
In the mine accident ten years ago, more than 300 miners were buried underground. The most terrifying thing was that the collapse of the mine spread to the temporary apartment area. Many family members who went to visit their relatives also died unfortunately. I don’t know how many families were broken up.
This incident shocked the entire human society of the Federation. At a time when technology is advanced, such a tragic death has caused countless officials to be sacked. Under the pressure of the media, officials from the direct department of the capital's Homeland Security Committee, the governor of Hexi state, resigned one after another. Three officials were sentenced, and even the deputy secretary of security in Donglin District was sentenced to four years in prison.
The response of the federal government and the judicial system was not swift and violent, but in the end it was impossible to save those lives. This mining accident brought a final heavy blow to the mining industry in Donglin Region, which was already on the brink of stagnation. The company went bankrupt and was placed under federal trusteeship.
The impact of this incident is quite far-reaching, but few people think that for those orphans, the impact of this life is incomparably huge.
The orphans who rallied and demonstrated on Bell Tower Street during the day were all victims of this mining accident. Li Wei is like this, the little guy is like this, and so is Xu Le.
Xu Le is one of these orphans, or more precisely, he is an outlier among the orphans. In those years, he never cast any envious eyes on the bright-looking gang leader, he just liked Watch others fix appliances at the corner grocery store.
His people didn't look very burly and powerful, sinister and cruel, on the contrary, he always had a thick smile on his face, no matter how difficult the environment, it seemed that he could not be bored in the slightest.
- But it is very strange that none of the aggressive orphans dared to provoke him, and even vaguely, the orphans in the three streets respected him a little bit, and this respect largely came from Li Wei's sympathy for Xu Le inner respect.
Five years ago, because of an accidental attack by the government, a gang hidden in the shadows was forced to enter the back alleys of Bell Tower Street occupied by orphans, and used their cold blood and strength to successfully seize this long-abandoned place. In just two hours, three of the oldest and most courageous orphans died in this purge.
Orphans who look arrogant on weekdays are actually just little lions on the surface before they successfully evolve into those dark forces.
Xu Le, who had never participated in club activities, disappeared that day, and was unable to penetrate the police force and armament area in the lower blocks of the capital of Hexi. He suddenly entered a large area of land behind Bell Tower Street through an underground pipeline channel.
Many people died, the orphans returned to their place, and the revenge of the three dead orphans was avenged. But no one knew that on that cold rainy night, Xu Le, who had always been sluggish but cheerful, used an abandoned mecha elbow hydraulic pipe to stab the leader of the gang who finally escaped outside the garbage dump.
Except for Li Wei and the little guy who were shivering on the mezzanine slate of the abandoned factory canteen, that year, Li Wei was eleven years old, the little guy was five years old, and Xu Le just turned ten years old.
"Four years ago?" Xu Le, who hid his face in his coat and hat, repeated the words of the middle-aged man in front of him and laughed happily, confirming that the other party was cheating on him, not the one he feared most in his heart. Memories, "Four years ago, I was taking the make-up exam conducted by the state education office."
Deputy Chief Bao looked at the young man in front of him indifferently, knowing that the other party must have something to do with the farce this afternoon, but he could not confirm his own judgment. How can a young man master the schedule inside the police station, and how does he know Those that belong to the contradictions and struggles between the upper layers
"I need to know who is behind you." Bao Longtao thought that his indifferent tone was just right, and he asked exactly the right point. Of course, he didn't think these orphans who were hanging out on Bell Tower Street would not know who they were.
However, when Xu Le heard this question, he couldn't help but bowed his head and smiled bitterly. He shrugged his shoulders, as if he couldn't see the middle-aged man staring at him like a black dog in front of him, and walked to the bright street lamp, ready to go home and sleep.
Bao Longtao's hand held the baton in his hand.
The young Xu Le stretched out a slender and stable finger.
He pointed to the dark place behind the streetlight and said, "There are five electronic monitors here. You belong to the police system, not a judge, nor a member of the management committee. You can't wash off the video, so I advise you not to try Do it to me... If you have anything to say, please go and get a certificate first, and I will cooperate with the investigation."
A chill flashed in Deputy Director Bao's eyes, and his body froze. After a while, he said, "Clinical inspection, I want to read your chip."
Xu Le turned around, still did not take off his hat, and said sincerely: "Tomorrow, the deputy chief of the Second Police Department will be scolded as shit by the governor, and maybe it will be on TV news because of today's parade, who will believe him. Would you still have the intention to go out in person in the early hours of the morning to conduct a casual inspection on a harmless emaciated teenager?"
The hand that had been pointing at the electronic monitoring equipment in the dark shook slowly in the quiet night, Xu Le lowered his head and said sincerely: "I am a good person, believe me, everything I said is for your consideration. "
Bao Longtao suddenly felt that this unidentified young man was calm or sincere a little scary, the suspicion in his eyes was getting stronger and stronger, and the hand holding the baton was getting tighter and tighter.