Chapter 17 Chapter One

In the old city, at the west end, there is an undercurrent of forces from all sides, and there is a strong trend that the mountains and rain are about to come, the wind will fill the buildings, and the black clouds will press down on the city and want to destroy it.For a while, the characters who used to occupy one side in each corner of the city shuttled back and forth between each other, and the heads of all sides gathered together.After more than two months, the old mute's injuries were basically healed and he was ready to be discharged from the hospital. The matchstick was lit, and both sides were ready to gather under their respective banners. The person with the banner is "Ma Tao" in the northwest corner.At that time, Ma Tao was in his thirties, past the best age for playing around, but his prestige, qualifications, and experience in the city were still unmatched at that time.If you say that Ma Tao is all about modeling, you can't usually see who this elder brother is mixing with, but the people around him, regardless of whether they are neighbors or joking around, will respectfully call out "Brother Tao" when they see each other. , can be described as very popular.I have never seen Ma Tao turn against anyone at the door of his house, or fight with anyone, but word of mouth is that Ma Tao "blows the horn through the crack of the door - he is famous"!

At the moment of speaking, Ma Tao is in his thirties, and he worked in both the Second Kiln and the West Prison.Originally, Ma Tao was good at practicing martial arts when he was a child. He was only a few years old when he first entered elementary school. He learned martial arts in the small garden in the north of Gulou (former Yamen Gate), especially during the second kiln period.I don’t know if you have heard that Eryao has always been famous for boxing. Those who have worked hard in Eryao, but those who are young, strong, energetic, active and playful usually practice a few times. Of course, it depends How deep is your effort?Boxing is what our old Tianjin Wei called "pounding boxing". After staying in Eryao for several years, Ma Tao's boxing skills have become more and more sophisticated.After coming out, he paid homage to the famous Baji master "Pi Yunqing" in Jinzhonghe, Hebei, and studied Baji techniques hard.Let's put it this way, Ma Tao will try everything related to boxing, wrestling, and martial arts.All day by the Xinkai River, I would shake pimps, lift stone locks, play with blocks, and climb bars with a group of enthusiasts by the Xinkai River.It can be said that he has not been idle from his teens to his thirties at that time. He himself said, "If you don't practice for one day, your whole body will feel tight, if you don't practice for two days, you will become addicted to opium, and if you don't practice for three days, your feet will be rootless."While learning Baji from master Pi in Hebei, this master also taught Ma Tao a lot of "reasons" in Taoism, which benefited Ma Tao a lot. While playing around, he also learned to reason , Speak face-to-face.Ma Tao was ten years older than me. When he was my age, if there was a fight, the two sides played against each other with special rules. There were almost no group fights, and they were usually single-handed. It was agreed in advance to play boxing. It's still wrestling, whether it's playing with a stick or a knife, and then it starts to compare pictures. If one party is not good at learning and kung fu, the other party will stop immediately. No matter how much enmity there is between the two parties, the comparison is absolutely regulated. Well, the reputation of playing around at that time was not as bad as it is now.

If it is said that Ma Tao only possesses martial arts and is not afraid of single-handedly fighting anyone, it is absolutely impossible for him to be regarded as the banner bearer by the major forces in the city.The point is that this brother Tao has many glorious achievements in defeating four-handed opponents with one punch, and defeating wolves by a hungry tiger.In the early years, Ma Tao was surrounded by Da Lao Fei, Er Fei, Jin Qiang, and Da Zhu in Dingzigu. When he couldn't escape, he fought four with his bare hands. He snatched the sharp knife from Er Fei's hand, and chased those four people to flee at the door of his house.He single-handedly yelled all the way from No. 0 Road to No. 3 Road, and was blocked by many old red bridge players on Qinjian Road.Ma Tao and Jia Yudi, the old playboy of Hongqiao, drew death lots. Jia Laosi first bowed his legs and stabbed his own thigh.Ma Tao raised his leg and spun off a piece of meat with a knife on his calf.Ma Tao won this round, but Jia Laosi still refused to accept it. He put his left hand on the sidewalk again, raised the knife with his right hand, and directly inserted it into the back of his left hand. He did not pull out the knife in a hurry, but instead He said to Ma Tao with a smile on his face: "Brother, your old brother will try the blade for you with his own hands, it's okay! It's sharp enough, and it's sharp enough, I'll see you next!" He cast a provocative look at Ma Tao.Without changing his face, Mr. Jia pulled out the knife from the back of his hand and threw it to Ma Tao.Ma Tao smiled slightly, but he didn't pick up the knife. He looked down and saw a brick on the side of the road. With one left hand resting on the tooth of the sidewalk, he raised his head and said to Jia Laosi: "Brother, the knife has a sharp point and a blade. It goes in quickly and comes quickly. What can we do with it? See brother, I'll do it for you." It's brilliant, and the young and old around you will pay attention!" After speaking, he swung the brick with his right hand and smashed it at his left hand one after another, and every time he smashed it, Ma Tao laughed out loud.At the beginning, the crowd who watched also booed and counted for him.However, after a dozen times of smashing, I saw that the back of Ma Tao's hand was already bloody and bloody, and the rotten flesh and blood mixed with the smashed bricks. It was a bright red pile, and only three sticks protruding from the back of his hand could be vaguely seen. bones, while Ma Tao still talked and laughed happily with Jia Laosi.Jia Laosi was conquered by Ma Tao's bones, and shouted: "There is a lottery! It's a trick! It's enough! It's okay, brother, brother, I have opened my eyes today!"

Jia Laosi was overwhelmed by Ma Tao's iron bone. Not only Jia Yudi Jia Laosi, but all the people present were extinguished.At this time, Ma Tao raised his bloody left hand and turned around in the crowd: "Brothers, brothers! What do you say today? Something is going on, and Ma Tao in my city has seen it here. What's the matter? Is there anyone who can't see it? My brother, I still have a right hand. Is there anything else I want to keep? If no one else steps forward, how many brothers can I say with my hand?" Jia Laosi Hastily replied: "Brother, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything. Since you have such a waist, little brother, no one present here admires you. Your brother and I are Jia Lao Si of Qianjianqiao Qiaotou. Today's matter is here. Well, brother, you don’t need to be polite. If you have any ideas, just say, I’ll hold the drawer for you, brother. The Third Defense Institute will take care of the injury first, and I will give it to you in the future. You will come and go frequently in the Hongqiao area from now on. , All the way to the green light, no matter how dare there is a brother who is in the way, you should mention that I, Jia Laosi, should be useful, but if your brother and I bother you in the city someday, I hope you will not remember the past, at least you will not quarrel. Your old brother?" Ma Tao tilted his head with a bright smile on his face: "Hey! The days will be long, so I will climb up and call out big brother, big brother, how do I walk today? I walk sideways , or walk upright?" Jia Laosi immediately replied to Ma Tao: "Brother, after hearing what you said, you are a person on the right path, so how can you walk? If this is done before, your brother and I will carry a big sedan chair eight times." Carry you away, it’s not the case now, we don’t have eight sedan chairs anymore, but I won’t lose you, brother!” Jia Laosi turned around and shouted: “Jin Qiang! Bring your car here, first Take my brother to the hospital." Then he turned around and said to his brothers, "Brothers, get out of the way, my old brother in the city is dying here today, I really don't know what to do, It's enough, don't lean back any of you brothers, one of them is one, all pay to see my brother's injury first, and then I will tell you about the scene, let alone your mother Just stare, let’s pay for it!” Everyone donated their pockets to raise money, and after a while, Jin Qiang drove a Shanghai sedan chair, and Jia Laosi opened the door for Ma Tao himself, and the two got into the car one after the other. , Go to the three defense hospital, how to look at the injury and how to look at the injury.Since then, Ma Tao has his own sphere of influence and contacts in the area of ​​Dingzigu, Hongqiao.This time it was Ma Tao who fought alone to create the "territory" around the Red Bridge. Next, we have to say that Ma Tao bleeds all the way from Santiaoshi to Xixiawa, Hebei. The legend left by the junction of Hongqiao and Hebei is just like the so-called "there are no worthless people under the great name, and it is time to become famous at the time"!

Speaking of which, when I was a child, on both sides of the Beidaguan River, there was a phenomenon on almost every river, that is, children on both sides of the river yelled at each other to provoke each other, threw bricks at each other across the river, or yelled at each other.In summer, I always go swimming in the river. If you swim from one side of the river to the other, you must not go on the bank and play the tsundere.Or the other bank knows that you are not from this side of the river, and before you reach the bank, it has already smashed you back with bricks, tiles, stones, and clay flaps.This is usually a kind of game among children, it is harmless, but five words floated from the sky-it is nothing serious, and people who understand a little will not be upset because of this.But there is still such a scumbag, because of this kind of trivial matter between children to protect the calf, a bloody case broke out.The bastard parent who caused this incident is called "Old Antique". According to our old Tianjin dialect, "Ancient" is pronounced twice, and "Understanding" is pronounced softly.Lao Antique’s own family’s conditions have not been very good. He lives in Hebei Street, which seems to be called “Hunyoupu Hutong”.Because of the poor conditions of his family, Old Antique was over 40 years old when he went out of his way to find a woman with Cangzhou agricultural hukou to start a family.A year later, when you grow old and have a son, you will be honored like a jewel in your palm.The old and antique couples had no education at first, and they used their own subjective ideas as the starting point in their lives. The way they dealt with problems was completely instinctive, without considering other people's feelings and consequences, and they loved their children even more. The child is fed with a fat head, big ears, and a fat head!

Old Antique's son was doted on by his family, so he was very arrogant among the children around him.On this day, Old Antique's son led a group of children playing with him to the river to bathe and swim.On the other side of the river is Ma Tao's younger brother, soaking in the water.There are four brothers in Ma Tao's family. He is the eldest, and there are two younger sisters between him and his younger brother, so the age gap between Ma Tao and his younger brother is relatively large.At that time, Ma Tao's younger brother was supposed to be fourteen or fifteen years old, and it was also because his younger brother was much younger than him, so Ma Tao loved his younger brother very much.Ma Tao's younger brother is Ma Zhong. Ma Zhong was swimming happily in the river at that time. Unexpectedly, Old Antique's son brought a few children to the other side of the river, and they still started to scold each other across the river and threw bricks into the river. , tiles.Children are neither serious nor serious, the more they scold, the more angry they get, and the more they scold, the more anxious they become.Ma Zhong is not a good boy, he is also the leader of a group of half-grown children, and when he was just a fledgling, he was not afraid of anything.The two groups of children scolded back and forth in a hurry, and Ma Zhong took the lead and started to swim to the other side of the river. The children on the opposite side were also unambiguous, and led by Old Antique's son to meet the enemy in the water.

A dozen or so wild children who grew up by the river were divided into two groups, each of whom refused to accept the other, and wanted to compete in the river which side had better water skills and which side had better swimming skills, so they saw each of them being exposed to the summer sun. A bunch of black little ones, you throw my head into the water, and I drag your thighs into the water.The water splashed in the river, and the wild children were like live loaches, flying up and down in the water. Some were stabbed, some were pulled off their pants and leaked their buttocks, and some were choked by the water and coughed. , it was hard to tell the outcome for a while.It just so happened that Old Antique happened to pass by the river on a bicycle, which caught his eye all at once.Old Antique saw the children playing inextricably in the water, and originally wanted to enjoy the fun, so he stopped the car to the side of the road, took out a box of dry tobacco leaves and rolling papers from his pocket, and squatted by the river for a while. Looking at it with a smirk on his face, he was rolling the cigarette in his hand. He just put the cigarette in his mouth and lit it. When he looked up, he suddenly saw an all-too-familiar, obese man in the water like a hairless one. A figure like a white striped pig—that was his precious son, whose head was being pushed into the water by Ma Zhong desperately.At that time, Old Antique was so startled that his mouth was wide open, and the cigarette he just rolled fell from his frightened mouth wide open. His instinct to protect his calf made him forget about anything, so he stood up and threw off the slippers on his feet. , Before he had time to take off his big underpants, he took three steps and two steps, swearing at the street while running into the water.Old Antique took a few steps to the group of children, pulled away the children who were still fighting fiercely, grabbed Ma Zhong's hair, cursed the street, and dragged Ma Zhong's hair with one hand. Dragging on the river bank.On the embankment, Old Antique raised his hand. Anyway, he beat Ma Zhong so hard that he couldn't find his way. When the rest of the children saw an adult coming, they were afraid that their parents would know that they were swimming in the river. Suddenly, like birds and beasts, they scattered and fled in all directions.

His own son let Ma Zhong bleed like that in the water, it was tantamount to stabbing a knife in the heart of the old man!Old Antique was angry from the bottom of his heart, and his evil turned to his guts. He completely ignored his face and dignity as an adult parent, grabbed Ma Zhong's hair and beat him violently without letting go. Nosebleed dizzy.From the yelling and cursing in Old Antique's mouth, Ma Zhong realized that it was the adult of the child's family whom he was almost fooled by.After a brief enlightenment, Ma Zhong had already recovered from the fright just now. He was usually covered by his brother Ma Tao. In this area, it can be said that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. It's a sign, how can we let this momentum be fooled?Once the ambiguity at the beginning was over, he immediately became unambiguous, and he was about to fight back against Old Antique, but he was helpless. No matter how unambiguous Ma Zhong was, he was still a teenager with incompetent strength. Holding on to the hair!Ma Zhong wanted to hit Old Antique's face a few times, but Old Antique grabbed his hair and straightened his arms, so Ma Zhong couldn't hit him at all.Seeing that Ma Zhong wasn't afraid of him at all, Old Antique felt even more furious, twisted his wrist with the hand holding Ma Zhong's hair, and turned Ma Zhong's body around, facing the river.Old Antique raised his leg and kicked Ma Zhong on the waist. The bank of the river embankment was in front of him. Ma Zhong was so kicked by Old Antique that he couldn't stop, and he threw himself directly on the river slope. A big lying tiger fell into the river .Old Antique hurriedly followed behind, and before Ma Zhong raised his head, he stepped on Ma Zhong's back, grabbed Ma Zhong's hair and pressed it into the water again, and after more than ten seconds, he put his foot on Ma Zhong's back again. Ma Zhong raised his head and repeated it several times. While smearing Ma Zhong, he bastardly turned around and asked his precious son who had been dumbfounded: "Did he smear you like this? Did he smear you like this ?"

Old Antique recklessly punished Ma Zhong, his behavior angered the crowd watching the excitement, there were nosy people who saw the injustice and tried to persuade him, but Old Antique's arrogant and unreasonable energy was also at that time. It was quite scary, and those who came here to persuade him were all scolded by Old Antique: "Fuck you, what do you all know? If I came a little later, my son would have been drowned by this little bastard! Don't let your mother care about anyone, I will come with whoever cares about me today!" Frightened by Old Antique's obscenity, most of the people present dared not speak up, only a few aunts muttered in low voices.The anger in Old Antique's heart finally stopped when Ma Zhong was half dead.When Old Antique led his son to leave, he still did not forget to say harsh words: "Don't let me see you by the river again, if I see you, I'll just kick you into the river for a little brat!" Angrily, he led his fat-headed and big-eared son, and pushed his bicycle away step by step.

Old Antique is gone, looking at Ma Zhong is miserable again, his little face is pale, his eyes are red, he coughs and vomits non-stop, his belly is distended because he drank a lot of water, one hand rests on the ground, his buttocks Sitting in the water, staring blankly.After a delay of about ten minutes, the uncles and ladies on one side stepped forward to help Ma Zhong up.Ma Zhong's clothes were still on the other side of the river. After a while, he thought about going into the water and swimming across the river to get dressed and go home.Seeing that Ma Zhong was staggering and about to go into the water again, the enthusiastic aunts hurriedly stopped him, fearing that something would happen to him after he went into the water again, an aunt living on the shore took out a towel from home and put it on Ma Zhong, letting He went around the bridge not far away, and didn't swim through the water.Ma Zhong was at a loss at this time, and obediently walked to the bridge head slowly with a towel on.He took his clothes and went home, but he didn't dare to tell his family about it. He just kept staring blankly and coughing from time to time.When all the family members came back in the evening, Ma Zhong's family members felt that Ma Zhong was in a bad state and didn't eat dinner. After questioning, Ma Zhong confessed the whole matter.Although Ma Tao loved his old brother very much, he felt that there were fights among the children. Although Old Antique's participation made Ma Tao angry, after all, Ma Zhong was a young man, and it was not a big deal to suffer some stumbling blocks.But when the day turned around, Ma Zhong started to have a fever, and coughed up blood, and he was comatose and talking nonsense.Only then did the family members pay attention, and they rushed to the hospital for treatment. After an examination at the hospital, they found out that Ma Zhong had been held in the water for too long by Old Antique, causing the river water to choke into his lungs, causing the lung mucosa to bleed. Tao is in a hurry.After arranging for Ma Zhong to be hospitalized, Ma Tao began to look around for old antiques to seek revenge.As we said before, Ma Zhong is the youngest brother in the family. Ma Tao and his two younger sisters love this brother very much, let alone his parents. I swear in front of Ma Zhong that I will make up for his brother's loss this time!

For several days, apart from doing his own business, Ma Tao was looking for old antiques along Hebei Street.It is really hard to find a needle in a haystack, why?To explain this problem, we have to talk about this old antique in detail.You say old antiques, right?Horizontal?Vicious, right?He has everything, but he is not playing around, the reason why he is arrogant and unreasonable is entirely due to his character and the environment in which he grew up.Old Antique has always been ridiculed by others because of his poor family conditions and troubles in getting married. In his own work unit, he was also troubled by his temper, so Old Antique began to intentionally cultivate himself to be hostile to people outside his family, arrogant, arrogant, Under the arrogant appearance, his humble, fragile, sensitive, and restless heart is concealed. In a word, he is strong on the outside but capable on the inside.Don't look at him externally, but internally, for his family, Old Antique is definitely going all out to take care of and protect his family, because he knows that it is not easy for him to become a family and have his own offspring in this life, so he is in the ups and downs every day. Concurrently, he worked tirelessly to support his family.At that time, Old Antique was working in the transportation yard, and every day he followed a big Jiefang semi-trailer truck as a loading and unloading worker. Naturally, it was not a problem to run around and work hard. It was also because the daily work was too tiring, and Old Antique gradually developed the habit of drinking alcohol. , in order to alleviate the fatigue caused by loading and unloading heavy goods every day, I met a playmate at the wine table after going back and forth, who was a well-known "Xiaoba" in the Santiaoshi area of ​​Hebei Street. Ever since Old Antique got acquainted with Xiao Ba at the wine table, Old Antique did not hesitate to commit himself to everything, regardless of his age, he obeyed Xiao Ba's words, licked his buttocks, licked his assholes, and regarded Xiao Ba as his support.Xiao Ba naturally treated him kindly, the two of them felt that it was too late to see each other, and they talked happily every day. Listening to Xiao Ba's wild words after drinking, Old Antique felt that he was with the right person. Di'er has a backer, he has confidence in speaking, he has a backbone in doing things, and he regards Xiao Ba as a god, so he dares to be arrogant and domineering on the street for a while.Even so, Old Antique is still not playing around, so he can only be regarded as a character like "Niu Er" in the movie, at most he is a hooligan.Ma Tao always thought that he had the ability to dig out the old antiques in a short period of time, but there was a section where Ma Tao went through all kinds of troubles and kept looking for the old antiques in the circle of fun. It is difficult to dig out a nameless and hopeless philistine from a place that is not familiar to him, but the hard work pays off. An accidental opportunity completely exposed Old Antique to Ma Tao, and what followed was a lot of trouble. The bloody storm that Ma Tao himself could not imagine. We have introduced earlier that Old Antique is not a big show, and he is not well-known in the circle, but Xiao Ba, who has a good drink with him every day, is famous!This Xiaoba has a table of cards and a wine table every day. If you want to talk about Xiaoba's circle, Old Antique can't participate. First, Old Antique is too old. Second, Old Antique is not a bug here, and the duck's mouth shouldn't go Ribbed in bird food jars.The reason why Xiaoba plays with old antiques every day is that the two of them simply take what they need.Old Antique needs Xiao Ba's fame and power to protect him, and Xiao Ba spends a lot on drinking and playing cards every day, and with the money in his own pocket, it is beyond his means.Old Antique follows the car every day in the convoy of the transport yard. He has the habit of stealing some odds and ends from the goods transported by the car from time to time, and then finds the next place to exchange some pocket money.Ever since he met Xiao Ba, Old Antique's extra money has been filial to Xiao Ba.Seeing Old Antique's little bit of face, Xiao Ba also defended him in many ways, and also gave Old Antique more face.Ma Tao searched for the old antique for many days to no avail, but indirectly found Xiaoba through his contacts in Hongqiao.When Xiao Ba learns about this, he wants to stand up for Old Antique.The diligent and frugal Jia Laosi thought that Ma Zhong suffered a loss in the Hongqiao area, which was his Jia Laosi's territory, so he came forward to find Xiaoba again, making this matter more and more complicated, and more and more people involved There are many, and it looks like it will develop into an unresolved bastard.