Chapter 8 Episode eight

interprovincial highway daytime Xiaokang drove with a straight face, Lao Fan sat on the side smoking a cigarette, Shan Juan and Liu Chuan sat in the back seat, Shan Juan was in a happy mood, and Liu Chuan was full of worries. Liu Chuan's house during the day The little nanny passed by Liu Chuan's bedroom and found that Liu Chuan's mattress was messed up. She ran to grandma's room and said to grandma, "Grandma, Liu Chuan is back!" Grandma: "Liu Chuan is back?" She quickly let the little nanny support her, and walked to Liu Chuan's room step by step. Liu Chuan's room was already empty.

Grandma: "Where are people?" interprovincial highway daytime Shan Juan and Liu Chuan sat side by side in the back seat of the carriage, and Shan Juan talked and laughed freely. Xiaokang looked at Shan Juan's appearance in the rearview mirror of the car, feeling annoyed and hated in his heart. Small restaurants on the way during the day Lao Fan and others were parking on the side of the road, and Shan Chenggong had already crawled out from under the car seat.When everyone went to the roadside restaurant to eat together, Shan Juan hardly had any verbal communication with Xiaokang.Liu Chuan can see that Xiaokang has served Shan Juan many times with food and wine, and used actions to please Shan Juan, but Shan Juan always looks like he doesn't answer.road side daytime

Chief Jing's van was also parked under the shade of a tree on the other side of the road.The plainclothes people in the car were gnawing dry food, while watching the small restaurant opposite and the coal car on the roadside from afar.They saw that Fan's father and son and Shan Chenggong's father and daughter walked out of the restaurant and walked towards the coal truck, and then Liu Chuan also came out. A plainclothes poked Section Chief Jing: "They came out." Section Chief Jing and others watched as they got into the coal truck, the coal truck started, and Section Chief Jing's van also drove out of the shade of the tree.

Chief Jing: "Don't get too close." interprovincial highway daytime The coal truck moved forward at an even speed, and Shan Chenggong's father and daughter sat side by side with Liu Chuan in the back seat. In order to avoid conflicts and avoid stimulating Xiaokang, Liu Chuan tried his best to minimize the alone conversation with Shan Juan along the way, and he chatted more with Lao Shan.Shan Chenggong didn't know which part of the past he was talking about, so he laughed out loud after talking.Liu Chuan also smirked. Liu Chuan said: "When I was in the first grade of elementary school, the teacher gave homework once and asked everyone to use 'I am...' to make a sentence, like they all made: I am a young pioneer, I am an obedient child , I am a Beijinger who loves to work. The simplest thing is to create something like 'I am a boy'. I went home and asked my grandma the other day, and I said grandma, what am I? My grandma was watching For the newspaper, she was quite impatient, and she said: "What are you?you are human! 'Later I made a sentence: I am a human being!As a result, many points were deducted by our teacher.My grandma went to our school because of this matter, and she debated with our teacher. She said, what is wrong with me being a human being? Sentence making is to practice grammar. The subject, verb and object should be complete, don’t say 'I am human' That's right, even writing 'I am a dog' can't be wrong in terms of grammatical structure! "

Shan Chenggong laughed and said: "I have long forgotten about going to school when I was a child, and the only thing I can remember now is fighting. Fighting with my parents, my parents don't like me, and I don't like them either." , since I was a child, my grandma didn’t love me and my uncle didn’t love me.” Liu Chuan said: "Fighting with parents is not called fighting, but fighting with others is called fighting." Shan Chenggong said: "Fight, fight with our neighbors, teachers, and our classmates. I was so stupid at that time, I hated everyone, and I was an enemy on all sides."

Liu Chuan asked: "Then you have never been nice to anyone since you were young. There is always someone who likes you, and you like him too?" Shan Chenggong nodded: "Of course, my wife likes me." Liu Chuan: "Oh, I met your wife in Qinshui this time, she seems to be quite violent, do you usually listen to her at home?" Shan Chenggong: "In our family, she is in charge of small things, and I am in charge of big things. Have you met my wife? You have to call her a godmother in the future. Don't look at her bad temper now. She doesn't do anything except play cards and is idle. , You haven’t seen her so beautiful more than 20 years ago! She is so gentle, she is different from now. The first time we had that relationship was at the seaside, at the bottom of a cliff by the seaside, our heads I stayed under the cliff once, and stayed overnight, and Shan Juan was conceived there. Do you know why Shan Juan is called Shan Juan? That morning, just after dawn, the first thing we saw was the bloom on the cliff. There are a lot of big rhododendrons, that's called red, oh, it's so beautiful!"

Lao Fan slept in the car, and Xiao Kang drove the truck.Shan Juan interjected excitedly: "Before my mother was pregnant with me, I had this once with my father. At that time, my mother also said that her deepest impression was the piece of rhododendron on the cliff by the sea. On one side, the sea just rose. On one side is the red azalea, my mother made up her mind at that time, she will live with my father for the rest of her life." Xiaokang and Liu Chuan were listening to Shan Juan's words, and Shan Chenggong asked with a smile, "When did your mother tell you about this?"

prison day A big class on quality education for policemen had just ended, and the policemen came out of the classroom. Xiao Ke heard several policemen around him discussing: "Hey, has anyone of you seen Liu Chuan recently? Who has his phone number? My child's teacher My lover works in a factory of Liu Chuan’s family. Recently, he said that he would be laid off. Our child’s teacher asked me to come here. I begged Liu Chuan. I told her that Liu Chuan let us be fired. He never came back, who in our place still has contact with him now?" Another policeman said: "Hey, you don't know, Liu Chuan seems to have had an accident. I heard that he committed something in a nightclub and was arrested by the Public Security Bureau."

Policeman: "Yo, is that right! I don't know, who did you hear that from?" Policeman: "I know, if you don't believe me, ask Xiao Pang." Pang Jiandong, who was passing by them, looked at them and walked forward without making a decision.Xiao Ke who was behind Pang Jiandong slowed down when he heard the words, thoughtful. Zhong Tianshui walked past Xiao Ke, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Ke, did you go to see Grandma Liu Chuan yesterday?" Xiao Ke: "Go." Old Zhong: "How is it, is the old lady feeling better?" Xiao Ke answered irrelevant questions: "I heard from Grandma Liu Chuan that Liu Chuan went home yesterday, but left again, and his grandma didn't see him either."

Zhong Tianshui: "Ah, you have frequently visited Liu Chuan's house these few days. The old lady is quite lonely by herself. You should take care of her, comfort her, or tell her that Liu Chuan has gone to other places for our prison. Don’t let the old lady get angry. I’ll take a look at it with you when I’m free in two days, ah.” Xiao Ke nodded, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Zhong Da, didn't Liu Chuan ask the Public Security Bureau to get involved? If he really committed something, why did he go home again yesterday?" Zhong Tianshui also hesitated for a moment, and said, "Maybe, Liu Chuan has really gone to other places, maybe he went to other places to do something."

Xiao Ke looked at the back of Zhong Tianshui walking away in puzzlement. road dusk As the truck was driving, Liu Chuan looked out the window and suddenly felt something was wrong. He found that they had left the original road they came from and turned on an unfamiliar route.Although there are few cars and people on this route, the road is rough and rough.Liu Chuan pushed Shan Juan who was dozing off on his shoulder: "Hey, where are we going? It seems that we didn't take this road when we came." Shan Juan was confused, leaning towards Xiaokang on the other side, Xiaokang made her lean more comfortably, and then gave Liu Chuan a cold look, while Liu Chuan was completely focused on the window at this time, and after a while, the truck actually deviated from the window. Turned off the main road and headed for a narrow path that wasn't even marked.dusk by the river Soon, Liu Chuan saw a wide river.The golden rays of the setting sun illuminated the lava-like river water, and also illuminated the originally gloomy banks.The forests on both sides of the strait are completely dyed, just like autumn. Lao Fan, who was driving, parked his car in front of a disused bridge. There was no sign of people or birds in the sky or on the ground. He and Lao Dan, who was sitting in the front seat with him, got out of the car and strode side by side towards the wooden bridge. Shan Chenggong: "This is the Lusha River! There is no one here." Liu Chuan and Shan Juan also got out of the car and followed them to the bridge.Xiaokang was the last one to get out of the car and stood at the front of the car without moving, keeping a distance from them. Liu Chuan saw that the two adults had already stepped onto the crumbling bridge body, holding on to the crumbling bridge railing to look down.Facing the rolling river under the bridge, Shan Chenggong spoke vaguely, pointing and pointing, and said something to Lao Fan, but Lao Fan's voice was so clear and deep that Liu Chuan could hear every word. Lao Fan: "How many bags did you bury in total? Twelve million bills, can two bags fit?" Shan Chenggong replied calmly: "It can fit, one packs US dollars, and the other packs RMB. The RMB is only about three million yuan, and the US dollar is about nine hundred thousand yuan. The two bags are just full." Old Fan pointed to a bank washed by the river with great interest, and asked, "Where is it buried?" Old Dan: "It's buried over there." Shan Chenggong pointed to a big tree on the bank whose roots had been submerged, and said: "At that time, the roads and lanes in this area were blocked by the armed police. They stopped cars and searched people when they saw them. The cars were not spared, so the third child and the others had to bury the money first. They didn’t know that the river was in the dry season at that time. After the burial, it suddenly rained heavily for a week, and there was a flood on it. The place where the money was buried was flooded. Later, the third child told me about this place, and I visited it once. When I came to visit, the water had already gone down, and the roots of the tree were washed away by the flood. The banks of this river were washed away, and the money could not have been buried deep at that time. I saw that it had been washed away long ago. Or the third brother and the others died unjustly. They did such a big job, and their lives were on the line. , and ended up with nothing, it can only be said that it was God’s will.” Lao Fan seemed to be absent-minded when he heard it. He squinted his eyes, leaned out while leaning on the bridge railing, and carefully inspected the big tree with a crooked trunk and the barren soil on both sides of the big tree. He asked, "Did you Have you found the right place, is this the place that the third child mentioned?" Shan Chenggong smiled faintly: "Twelve million, would I be confused and look for the wrong place?" Lao Fan straightened up, thought about it, and asked again: "Could the third child have said something wrong?" Lao Shan: "The third son first talked about the bridge, and then he talked about the crooked-neck tree under the bridge. There is only such a tree here, and he can't be wrong about it." Liu Chuan watched them whispering to each other, the voice was blurred and clear, and both he and Shan Juan could understand the general meaning.Liu Chuan noticed that Shan Juan looked a little nervous, staring back and forth at the faces of the two.On the surface, those two faces were both warm and not angry, but old Fan's warm and not angry voice could be heard, it was almost a trustless interrogation. This back-and-forth conversation finally ended peacefully, and the two adults left the bridge and walked towards the truck.Xiaokang also seemed to see that the faces of his parents were all deliberately concealing some strangeness, so he couldn't help but whispered to Shan Juan who was walking behind: "What's the matter, are you okay?" Shan Juan did not answer.She didn't answer maybe just because she didn't know how to answer well. interprovincial highway night The coal cars left the great river and continued on, rejoining the main road.They walked another sleepy night on the trunk road, and the five people in the same car were all silent except for one or two business-related whispers along the way. The road at night is dark and quiet like a space-time tunnel. roadside morning Liu Chuan couldn't figure out when he fell asleep. In the early morning, he was sure that he really woke up, and he found that the car had stopped on the side of the road at some time.Although his eyes were not open, the voices of Fan Bencai and Fan Xiaokang whispering in his ears were close at hand. Liu Chuan lay on the back seat, maintaining a deep sleep, breathing evenly, and remained motionless.The voices of the Fan family father and son seemed a bit secretive, which made Liu Chuan conclude that the Shan family father and daughter must not be in the car at this time. Old Fan's voice: "I have been friends with Shan Juan's father for twenty years. This time I took such a big risk to come here to save him. It would be too embarrassing for him to hide it from me. I'll wait a few more days, it's the fox There's always a tail." Xiaokang's voice: "Perhaps he really didn't get the money. This case has been tried by the Public Security Court for at least half a year. If Lao Shan wants to save his life, he should have spit out the money to get a lighter sentence." Old Fan's voice: "It's hard to say. We don't know what he said when the court tried him. No one can tell whether they robbed the money and divided it up on the spot or if it was held by one person. Even if everyone divides it equally Now, Lao Dan should have two or three million hidden in his hand. I think that kid surnamed Liu might know a little bit of the inside story, otherwise the big city of Beijing will not wait to follow Lao Dan to Qinshui. What are you doing here with the goods in hand? Now, these kids, let’s compete with the monkey spirit one by one!" Liu Chuan's eyes were still closed, but his eyelids trembled slightly with tension.He could hear Lao Fan and his son talking about him.They spoke of him more quietly, almost a whisper. Xiaokang's voice: "Old Dan is old and cunning. He has money in his pocket that even his wife can hide from him. How could he reveal it to this kid? I know this kid. He and Lao Dan came to Qinshui not for money at all. He's doing it for his fucking Shan Juan! A few days ago, as soon as you took him to our house, I saw that Shan Juan's eyes were wrong, and you still rely on me to get angry at Shan Juan, so I won't be angry." It was Lao Fan's voice again: "If you want me to say that you bastard is not promising at all, you only know how to think about a woman all day long, I think you will be useless if you continue..." Their voices gradually amplified again, but they were immediately confused by the sound of the door opening. From the sound, it was heard that they got out of the car from both sides at the same time. As the doors slammed shut, there was suddenly silence around them. Liu Chuan opened his eyes and saw that it was dawn, and the old Fan and his son in the front seat were no longer in the car.He leaned slightly and looked out quietly through the car window. He saw Lao Shan and his daughter buying food at a roadside breakfast stall. Lao Fan and his son Xiaokang casually greeted them and shook their heads. Walked slowly with his back bent. Daytime in the small courtyard of Qinshui Regal Decoration Company Lao Fan and his son led Shan Chenggong's family of three and Liu Chuan into the yard of the decoration company.The yard is quite large, and there are piles of things everywhere, which have not been cleaned for a long time. There is a homemade basketball stand in the corner, the paint leather has faded, and it has been abandoned for a long time.On the front of the yard, there is a big room, which was originally the processing workshop of the decoration team. There is a side room on each side, one is a tool warehouse, and the other is a shared toilet for men and women. Lao Fan led Shan Chenggong to patrol around, and said: "My decoration team has not opened for a long time, and I let them go. Alas, you will lose money for everything you do now. I said you should stay at my house. Look at me." You're right, this yard is too dilapidated, and it hasn't been tidied up for many days." Xiaokang led Shan Juan and her daughter to visit the big house, introducing the history of the house and the environment around the house. Shan Juan saw an old pictorial in a pile of wooden boxes, and her eyes were covered by several tattoos on the pictorial. The pictures are captivating. At this time, Lao Fan and Lao Shan walked into the room together, Shan Chenggong said: "This room is very good, block these wooden boxes and cartons in the middle, leave an opening for entry and exit and draw a curtain, Shan Juan and her mother I live here, and Shan Juan lives there. Boy Liu Chuan, I think I can just live in the tool warehouse. I saw it just now, and the things in the warehouse can fit into a small bed." Small %%% courtyard house during the day Several of Lao Fan's subordinates helped Shan Chenggong's family clean the big house, and Shan Juan's mother yelled loudly, ordering the men to do this and that.Shan Juan came to help Liu Chuan build a small wooden bed in the next hut. Courtyard at night Xiaokang brought a few people to Lao Shan's family with two quilts, and also brought some necessities for daily life, such as toothpaste, toothbrush, pots and pans and so on.Xiaokang also personally rolled out the bedding and hung up the mosquito net for Shan Juan. Shan Juan asked Xiaokang: "Hey, does Liu Chuan have a quilt?" Xiaokang said, "Don't worry, he won't be left behind." Shan Juan looked at Xiao Kang suspiciously, wondering if what he said was true or not. cabin at night Liu Chuan opened a quilt and found that it was an old quilt, covered with sweat stains, smelling it, the sour smell was pungent.There were swarms of mosquitoes in the hut, and Liu Chuan was bitten several times on his neck and arms. At this time, Shan Juan called him outside the door: "Liu Chuan Liu Chuan." Liu Chuan responded, "Ah." big house at night Several side dishes bought from outside were placed on a wooden box, beer was poured into a bowl, Shan Chenggong picked up the bowl and said, "Liu Chuan, come, this is your godmother, this is your godmother, We drank this bowl of wine together, and we are family from now on. Come, cheers!" Liu Chuan looked at Shan Chenggong's wife and then at Shan Juan, who also looked at him with hot eyes.Liu Chuan quickly avoided Shan Juan's gaze, lowered his head and drank the beer in the bowl.Shan Chenggong also drank and said: "Xiaojuan, although you and Liu Chuan are only one year apart, you are an older sister, and you can't treat Liu Chuan like you did to me and your mother. You have to be like a sister." look." Shan Juan didn't answer, but looked at Liu Chuan with a smile on his eyes.Shan Chenggong clinked glasses with Liu Chuan again and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you a big word today with the help of my wine. I, Shan Chenggong, are now flying in the shallow bottom of the dragon, and the tiger is falling in the flat sun, but I swear, one day I want you, my stubborn girl, and my godson to live a good life! Dad drank alcohol today, so he is not afraid to say such big things to you!" Shan Chenggong's words moved Liu Chuan's heart. He lowered his head and drank to hide his expression. Shan Chenggong's wife chewed the vegetables and said to her husband: "Come on, blow it again." Shan Chenggong said: "What are you bragging about? Don't look at me begging Fan Bencai like a dog now, begging him to give me this bedding and this ration. Sooner or later, I will have a better life than him! Do you believe it? Ah! In the past two years, we have tried our best to pretend to be his grandson. Anyway, I have not been able to show my face outside in the past two years. When this gust of wind passes, no one will think of me anymore. I will let you follow me to the sky. No way Let's go abroad to find a place, and we will enjoy foreign blessings for the rest of our lives!" Shan Juan and her daughter looked at each other happily, while Liu Chuan, who was thinking, hurriedly smirked in response to the situation. cabin night Liu Chuan slept on the wooden bed in the hut, and was bitten by mosquitoes at night. Liu Chuan couldn't get rid of them, so he had to cover his head with the sour quilt annoyedly, slept for a while, turned over again, turned on the flashlight and looked on the bed.He found that there were many bedbugs crawling on the front and back of the mattress, which made his scalp tingle and the corners of his mouth tremble. Crew during the day Ji Wenzhu was filming a scene, it was a rainy scene, with "rainwater" sprayed by a sprinkler, Ji Wenzhu and an actor stared at each other expressively while being drenched in the "rain".The director yelled: "Pass!" It means that the filming of this scene has been successfully completed. The drama manager yelled: "Ji Wenzhu, someone is looking for you." The actors and the director turned their heads to the production side together, and they saw a policeman standing in front of a police car.Everyone looked suspicious, and they all turned to look at Ji Wenzhu. Ji Wenzhu walked out of the crowd tremblingly, dripping wet all over. She didn't know what she had done and how the police were called here. The policeman asked, "Are you Ji Wenzhu?" Ji Wenzhu nodded apprehensively: "Yes, what's wrong with me?" The policeman took out a delicate paper bag and said, "This is what your friend Liu Chuan asked us to bring to you." Ji Wenzhu took the paper bag suspiciously: "Liu Chuan?" She took out a small box from the paper bag, opened it, and it turned out to be a beautiful and shiny Davidoff lighter. Courtyard during the day When the sun came out, Shan Chenggong and Liu Chuan took Liu Chuan's quilt to dry in the yard. He told Liu Chuan: "Bedbugs are afraid of heat and dryness, and they crawl out when the sun is hot." He asked Liu Chuan again He found a wooden stick, and then used the wooden stick to whip the quilt. He said, "Just whip it hard like that, and that's fine. Those things will all go out." Liu Chuan took the wooden stick and continued to smoke. After the bill was successfully drawn, Liu Chuan took the bed board and the stool that supported the bed board to the gate of the yard, and knocked hard on the ground, shaking out all the bedbugs hiding in the cracks in the wood.After this exposure, Liu Chuan realized how many living things were hidden inside.Those filthy little lives lay on the ground in a black heap, seeing Liu Chuan's creeps, but Lao Shan laughed loudly: "Did you see it!" After laughing, Lao Shan said: "That's all right, I can sleep well tonight." Get a good night's sleep, and I promise no one will bite you again." Liu Chuan said: "It's okay to say that there are bedbugs, but my house is mainly mosquitoes." Lao Shan said: "They didn't bring you a mosquito net? Then...I'll ask Lao Fan later and ask you for another mosquito net. You have to bear with it for the next two days." Liu Chuan didn't speak, and Lao Shan said again: "It's hard to be a master without suffering. You follow me, and it won't be in vain." Lao Shan turned and walked into the house, and before he walked, he clung to Liu Chuan's ear, He whispered mysteriously, "Many people say that mosquitoes can kill people. That's not nonsense." Seeing Liu Chuan panicked, he added, "Because mosquitoes can annoy you to death before they kill you!" Lao Dan walked into the room with a smile, and Liu Chuan's face became even more panicked. a restaurant at night The crew had a shutdown meal here, and the investor, Boss Zhang, also came.After drinking and eating, everyone broke up happily.At the entrance of the restaurant, everyone went to drive their own cars. Boss Zhang asked Ji Wenzhu, "Where are you going? Jiuxianqiao, I happen to be on the way, and I'll see you off." night on the road Ji Wenzhu took out the lighter on the way: "Mr. Zhang, I bought you a small gift for your birthday yesterday, but I didn't have time to send it to you yesterday." Boss Zhang looked at the lighter and smiled: "How do you know I like this brand? I think you are so young and careless. I was looking for you too. I am going to shoot a fashion scene next, and there is a The role is very suitable for you, I will show you the script later." Ji Wenzhu said with a smile: "Yo, don't you want me to play the leading role?" Boss Zhang: "This character... should be the second female lead, but it's a big part of the show, and it's more flattering than the first female lead. You should read the book first, you must like it." Ji Wenzhu said: "As long as Mr. Zhang asks me to act, I will also act as female No. 8. I will listen to you." Boss Zhang said: "Then, come to me later to get the script. Hey, how much is this lighter? This brand of lighter is very expensive." Ji Wenzhu said: "It's okay, as long as you like it." Night outside Ji Wenzhu's house in Jiuxian Bridge Boss Zhang kept sending Ji Wenzhu downstairs to Ji Wenzhu's house. Ji Wenzhu got out of the car, said goodbye to Boss Zhang affectionately, watched Boss Zhang's car drive away, and then turned to go upstairs. Ji Wenzhu's house at night When Ji Wenzhu returned home, he undressed and took off his clothes, lay down on the bed and rested for a while, suddenly remembered something, took out his mobile phone and dialed Liu Chuan's number, and the voice of "the number you dialed has been turned off" came out from the mobile phone, Ji Wenzhu felt disappointed I miss Liu Chuan a little bit.Her eyes stopped on the group photo of her and Liu Chuan when they were strolling in the park by the bedside. Liu Chuan smiled so sweetly and happily.Ji Wenzhu couldn't help grinning, and laughed silently. courtyard night Liu Chuan covered his head with a quilt to resist the attack of mosquitoes. Courtyard during the day Liu Chuan was taking a shower in the yard, and Shan Juan saw red spots on his body from mosquito bites, and asked in surprise, "Hey, what's going on with you?" Liu Chuan said, "Huh? Mosquito bites." Shan Juan: "You can use my mosquito net. I'm not afraid of mosquitoes." Liu Chuan said: "No need, I'm getting used to it, let them bite." Shan Juan said again: "Why don't we share this mosquito net?" Liu Chuan said: "That's okay, we are siblings, isn't that incest?" Shan Juan said: "Whatever you are afraid of, it's not a kiss." Liu Chuan said: "It's even worse if you don't kiss me. Let your mother see me and tear me up." Shan Juan said: "I found that you are not afraid of my father but my mother." Liu Chuan said: "Maybe, your mother is too fierce." Shan Juan said: "Then am I fierce?" Liu Chuan said: "You half follow your father and half follow your mother. Your calmness is like your father. If you want to make a mess, it is probably not your mother's fault." Shan Juan said, "When did I get messed up? Have I ever messed with you?" Liu Chuan said: "You have committed a crime against Xiaokang, I saw it." Shan Juan said: "Don't mention Xiaokang to me. People like Xiaokang, you will be fooled if you don't follow him." Liu Chuan said, "I don't think he's messing with you." Shan Juan said, "I'll borrow his guts!" The two were chatting, and Shan Juan's mother called Liu Chuan at the door of the big house: "Liu Chuan, come here and help me hang the quilt." Liu Chuan went over, hesitated, took the dirty quilt, held his breath, and hung it to dry on the wire. Shan Juan's mother called Liu Chuan again: "Come Liu Chuan, go and buy me a pack of cigarettes. I want the Chrysanthemum brand. Do you have any money?" Liu Chuan: "I have no money, I still have one and fifty cents." Liu Chuan took out the money from his pocket and showed it to Shan Juan's mother.Shan Juan's mother frowned, muttered something in a low voice, then turned and went back to the room.Liu Chuan looked at Shan Juan, and Shan Juan looked at him. Liu Chuan asked, "Does your mother smoke?" Shan Juan: "Draw when playing cards." At this time, Shan Juan's mother came out of the house again, and gave Liu Chuan two yuan: "Take it and buy it." Just as Liu Chuan got dressed and was about to go out, Shan Juan called him: "Wait." She ran to her mother and asked, "Mom, give me another five dollars." Mother Cuckoo: "What are you doing?" Shan Juan: "I am useful." Mother Juan gave her a suspicious look, turned around and entered the room, went to get another five yuan, and handed it to her daughter.Shan Juan followed to the door and handed five yuan to Liu Chuan, saying, "Go and buy a box of mosquito coils and come back." grocery store during the day Liu Chuan came to a deserted street grocery store not far from the small courtyard. Just as he asked the clerk to take the mosquito coils, he saw a plainclothes under Chief Jing coming out of the back room. The secret room behind the grocery store during the day There were no other customers in the grocery store, so the plainclothes under Section Chief Jing winked Liu Chuan into a secret room at the back of the store.Here Liu Chuan met Section Chief Jing, and the two had a brief conversation. Chief Jing asked, "Why are you so thin?" Liu Chuan said: "Nonsense! You haven't seen what I eat these days, can I not lose weight?" Chief Jing said, "You're not sick, are you sleeping well?" Liu Chuan said: "Sleep? I haven't slept well on the road these days, and I didn't sleep all night yesterday." Chief Jing asked, "Why?" Liu Chuan angrily showed him the mosquito coil in his hand: "Here!" Section Chief Jing smiled: "Haven't you experienced this kind of suffering? I think you have been spoiled since you were a child. Didn't you have military training when you were studying at the OUHK? You must be more comfortable than military training." Liu Chuan didn't smile: "Military training, at least the quilt is clean, and there are not so many bedbugs, mosquitoes, and mice. I would rather go to military training!" Chief Jing asked: "Your 'godfather' doesn't even give you a clean quilt, how does your 'godmother' and 'godmother' treat you?" Liu Chuan was too lazy to say, "It's not very good." Section Chief Jing: "Not good for you?" Seeing that Liu Chuan didn't answer, Section Chief Jing asked another way, "Do you get along well with this family?" Liu Chuan was silent for a while, and then said: "Success alone is okay." After a pause, he said, "Single success in robbing a bank belongs to robbing a bank, but in daily life, at least on the surface, it's okay." Chief Jing asked, "Where's his wife?" Liu Chuan: "His wife, how should I put it, is not a good match for him anyway. She has no skills and can't make money. She always likes to gamble. If she has no money, she gambles with herself. The housework is also done by Lao Fan , Occasionally his daughter does it too, but his wife doesn't do it anyway. He keeps bickering with Lao Shan, anyway, Shan Chenggong let her go." Chief Jing: "Where's her daughter?" Liu Chuan: "Her daughter won't let her. Her daughter...cough, anyway, these girls are quite tempered." Chief Jing: "I'm asking how they treat you, do they let you work?" Liu Chuan: "Hey, Shan Chenggong's wife treats me like a servant. Hey, are there any Chrysanthemum brand cigarettes here? I have to buy her a pack of cigarettes." Chief Jing asked a plainclothes to go to the front Check for Chrysanthemum brand cigarettes.Liu Chuan said again: "I really didn't expect that I could come here. I work for others like a grandson and obey others. I have never served others like this since I was a child!" Section Chief Jing: "Anyway, you have to be careful. Shan Chenggong appears to be charitable, but he is actually a ruthless person. You must be careful. The Qinshui Public Security Bureau, a small grocery store, has already done its work and will serve as our The location of the connection, if there is a public phone nearby, you can also call me directly on the mobile phone." Liu Chuan nodded. Chief Jing said again: "Did you turn to the Lusha River on the way back from Beijing?" Liu Chuan said: "Yes, there is a wooden bridge over the Lusha River. Lao Shan said that they buried the money there before." Section Chief Jing said: "The Lusha River is indeed a place where they buried money, and that place was indeed flooded later. Did someone dig the money away before the flood came, because the site no longer exists, so now Can't judge." Section Chief Jing’s words made Liu Chuan feel very awkward, feeling somewhat lost and bored in his heart. He thought that he would throw away his family and die to personally handle this case. It was nothing more than a vast ocean that had long since passed away, and it was nothing more than an unfounded subjective guess. He couldn't help but ask, "Then we've been tossing so hard, is there any money left?" Section Chief Jing also seemed uncertain: "You can only believe what is there, not what is not. A dead horse should be treated as a living horse doctor." Liu Chuan thought for a while, and said: "Shan Chenggong had a drink with us yesterday, and then he got drunk, so I followed him well. He said he would not lose me. He also said that when the wind passed, he let us go to the sky in one step. , and said that he would take us abroad.” Chief Jing nodded and said, "Yes, if the money was really washed away by the flood, why would Dan Chenggong still say these things?" Liu Chuan: "Maybe he was talking nonsense after drinking." Chief Jing: "Or the mantra after drinking?" Liu Chuan was speechless. Section Chief Jing looked at his watch and said, "Go back, you should be suspicious if you've been out for too long." Just as Liu Chuan was about to leave, he turned around when he remembered something, and said, "By the way, lend me my mobile phone and I'll call my grandma." Section Chief Jing gave Liu Chuan his mobile phone, and Liu Chuan dialed the number at home: "Hello, grandma, I'm Liu Chuan. Ah, I'm in the south, and I'm helping our prison. A friend is here to get a loan. If you have a loan, won’t the company’s affairs be easy to handle... How is your health now? You have to keep walking every day... Great! Then you keep exercising, I Try to walk a hundred steps before going back, ah! Then I won’t talk to you anymore, I have something to do, I really have something to do, I’ll call you when I’m free... Goodbye grandma.” After hanging up on grandma's phone, Liu Chuan asked Section Chief Jing, "Can I make another call?" Section Chief Jing said: "You have been out for a long time, don't let Shan Chenggong suspect you." Seeing that Liu Chuan was still looking at him on the phone, he said: "Then call quickly." Liu Chuan dialed Ji Wenzhu's cell phone, but unfortunately, the cell phone was still turned off. Seeing that Liu Chuan was depressed, Chief Jing asked with concern, "No one answered?" Liu Chuan could only think positively: "No, the phone is turned off, she is probably filming." Chief Jing said, "Oh, is your girlfriend?" Liu Chuan returned the phone in dismay.Chief Jing said: "Hey, the Davidoff lighter you asked us to buy last time has already been bought. It costs 1,299 yuan, and there is 201 yuan left. I will return it to you when I go back." Section Chief Jing’s plainclothes came in with a pack of Chrysanthemum brand cigarettes. Liu Chuan paid the money, and Section Chief Jing continued: “We have entrusted someone from the Beijing Municipal Bureau to deliver the lighter to your girlfriend. Her name is Ji Wen.” Bamboo, right? Is she your girlfriend? She likes to smoke cigars?" Liu Chuan smiled, took the mosquito coils and cigarettes, turned around and walked towards the door, stood there again, seemed to think for a while, before turning around and answering: "Yes, she is my girlfriend, she doesn't like to smoke cigars." Courtyard during the day Shan Juan's mother was telling her fortune with cards in the house. Liu Chuan came in and gave her a cigarette. She took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it, and looked down at her cards again.Liu Chuan hesitated for a moment, picked up the pack of cigarettes from the bed where the playing cards were spread out, smoked a cigarette from it, took the match on the bed, lit it up and took a puff, then turned and left.Shan Juan's mother raised her head in a daze, looking at Liu Chuan's back, feeling dissatisfied, but couldn't say anything. courtyard night Shan Chenggong's family has not yet fallen asleep, Shan Chenggong is sharpening a rusty sharp knife on the ground, his wife is still smoking and playing cards, and Shan Juan is reading the picture book about tattoos under his mosquito net.The tattoos in the album include butterflies, scorpions, dragons, fish... Shan Juan asked, "Dad, do you know what Liu Chuan belongs to?" Shan Chenggong said: "According to age, it should be counting sheep." Shan Juan flipped through the picture album, and saw a goat's horn in the tattoo design, and she asked again: "Dad, do you know what constellation Liu Chuan is?" Shan Chenggong: "Constellation? What constellation?" Shan Juan: "What month and date was he born?" Shan Chenggong: "× month × number, I have seen his ID card. Why are you asking this?" Shan Juan: "Number X, then he is a shooter." Shan Juan's mother asked puzzledly, "A shooter?" Shan Juan: "The × month × number belongs to Sagittarius." She flipped through the album and found a bow and arrow. Shan Juan's mother: "Hey, why don't you go to Xiaokang if you have nothing to do, why do you like being with Liu Chuan so much. What is Liu Chuan doing?" Shan Juan: "Why is Liu Chuan so worthless? Liu Chuan went to college, and Liu Chuan was a policeman. What's the point of a well-off life? Apart from hard work, he knows nothing." Shan Juan's mother: "Didn't he get fired when he became a policeman? I think he must not be a good student in school." Shan Juan: "He had his official clothes stripped off to save my dad. Without him, my dad wouldn't be able to get out." Shan Juan's mother: "Anyway, if you don't live in the big city of Beijing, if you come to such a stuffy place, you will definitely not be able to get along in Beijing. If you get along well, you won't come here with your father." 单成功：“别胡说了，刘川是我劝他过来的。这孩子不错，毕竟当过警察，素质还行，在我身边我好多一个帮手。” 小院白天 刘川和单成功一起动手，开始收拾这个杂乱肮脏的院子。他们把院里的垃圾清除出去，把不能清除的东西堆放整齐。他们还把那个虽然破烂但高度还算标准的篮球架修好，把下面的地面腾空垫平。刘川在院里一个角落的杂物中，还找到了一只磨掉了色的瘪气的篮球。 Wanhe Company during the day 季文竹到万和公司来找刘川，公司的总办主任反倒缠着她问了半天。 总办主任：“你最后一次见到我们老板是什么时候，你们这两天通过电话吗？” 季文竹诧然地：“怎么了，刘川出什么事了吗？” 总办主任：“啊，没有，我们老板有好几天没在公司露面了。” 季文竹：“他不会出什么事吧，他是不是在家？我打他手机他手机一直关着，他家电话多少来着？” 总办主任：“你前一阵不是跟我们老板一直在一起吗，他没告诉你他家电话？” 季文竹：“我一般都是打他手机，他这几天是不是一直在家待着？” 秦水街边白天 刘川把那只瘪气的篮球拿到街边一个修自行车的摊子上，花一毛钱打足了气。他把球在地上拍了两下，脸上露出笑容。 Liu Chuan's house during the day 季文竹来到刘川家，给她开门的竟是刘川过去单位的同事，那个年轻的女警小珂。 季文竹见到小珂不由一愣：“啊，刘川在家吗？” 小珂：“啊，他不在，他奶奶在，你进来吧。” 季文竹进了门，也许因为小珂知道季文竹原来和庞建东好过，所以季文竹在这地方与小珂邂逅多少有些别扭，好在小珂正忙着照顾刘川的奶奶喝药，和季文竹之间并无交谈或彼此默视的时间。季文竹进去见了刘川奶奶，小珂替她向刘川的奶奶做了个介绍：“奶奶，这是刘川的朋友，来找刘川的。” 季文竹问候奶奶：“奶奶，刘川不在呀？哟，您是不是生病了，要紧吗？” 刘川奶奶对季文竹有些陌生，点点头说：“还好，不要紧。你是刘川哪儿的朋友啊，是他同学吗？” 季文竹有点尴尬：“啊，不是，我们是后来认识的。我来过您家。” 奶奶才想起来似的：“啊，上次和刘川吵架的是你吧，我好像有印象，你和刘川他们那儿的小庞一起来的，对吧？刘川平常没那么大脾气，那天跟你们一吵，还冲我发了一大顿火。你们朋友之间以后有话好好说，吵来吵去让人家觉得没有修养，对你印象就该不好了，那样对你们可不利……” 奶奶叨叨不停，小珂拿药给她喝，这才打断了她的唠叨。季文竹站在一边，走也不是，留也不是，十分尴尬。 street night 季文竹走出刘家时天已黑了，街上华灯璀璨，车水马龙。季文竹彷徨街头，不知该去哪里，寂寞孤独，油然而生。 小饭馆晚上 季文竹独自吃饭，服务员端菜上桌，季文竹拿起筷子，却无一点食欲。她的目光落在了桌前窗台上放着的一盆文竹上，又牵出了她对刘川的思念之情。 小院白天 篮球在篮筐上跳跃着，入网。 不干活儿的时候，刘川大部分时间就在小院里练习投篮上篮，篮球成了他的主要消遣，成了他排除烦恼打发寂寞的精神寄托。 单鹃站在篮板下，看着刘川投球，和刘川一起玩儿的，又多了一个小康。 小康身高体壮，篮下占优，但刘川技胜一筹，得势得分。刘川发现只要单鹃从旁观战，小康就有点成心撒野，非赢不可似的，打两下就脸红脖子粗了。 于是刘川就停了下来，擦了把汗说：“累了，不玩儿了。” 小康正输在气头上，认为刘川退出是故意晾他，所以粗口相向：“你他妈是输不起了吧，瞧你那样就不像个男人！” 刘川也不回嘴，自己向水龙头走去。单鹃笑着对小康说：“歇了吧你，再玩儿你也是输，打的臭球。” 小康赌气上篮，想要扣篮，不料篮球没扣进去，小康自己倒摔了一个仰面朝天。 单鹃格格笑起来，刘川回头，看小康狼狈的样子，想笑，又忍住了。 刘川的小屋白天 刘川正在换衣服，他闻闻自己的衣服袜子，酸臭难闻。 单鹃没敲门就进来了，吓得刘川连忙把脏衣服又穿在身上。 单鹃：“别穿了，脱下来我给你洗洗。” 刘川：“不用不用，我自己会洗。” 单鹃看见床上的那双脏袜子，刚要拿，被刘川抢先拿到，塞进自己的裤兜，他红着脸对单鹃说：“袜子太脏了。” 单鹃说：“没事，我不嫌脏。” 刘川说：“我嫌，我嫌。” 单鹃看他，他也看了单鹃一眼，冲她感激地一笑。 小院晚上 单成功一家住的大屋里，灯光明亮。 老范来了。 老范和儿子小康一起，带着些酒菜，七碟八碗地摆在用木箱拼成的桌面上。两家人围坐在一起，举杯互碰，边吃边聊，主要是两个长辈聊他们的那些陈年往事，小时候跟谁打架，谁的老婆跟谁又有一腿以及弟兄当中谁最讲义气之类的。老单的老婆和几个晚辈只是闷头听着，很少插嘴。 一瓶说不清真假的泸州老窖喝掉，老范的脸最先红了，他问单成功：“老单，你这次出事，你自己说，我范本才够不够义气？” 老单说：“当然了，你是大哥，我但凡有三长两短，就得靠你。要不我当初怎么把老婆女儿都托给你了。” 老范说：“你老婆你女儿在我这里，我绝对一点不亏她们。你给的那两万块钱，早就花没影了，你去问问她们，我啥时少她们一碗热乎饭了！” 单成功双手举杯：“大哥，我就大恩不谢了，你容我缓过这口气来，我一定加倍回报。我报不了，我儿子我女儿，接着报。” 老范说：“好啊，那我可就等着啦，来，干了！”他和老单碰了杯，又碰了刘川和单鹃的杯：“来，我跟小辈的也干一杯。小子，酒量行吗？”虽然刘川连连摇头，但老范还是命令：“喝干了喝干了！”然后他自己也一仰而尽，喝罢对老单笑笑：“报不报的，不知道哪辈子的事呢，我这人做事凭交情，只问耕耘，不求收获。倒是我现在有点难处，你要是不多心，我就跟你说说。” 老单应了声：“噢。”且听他往下分解。 老范也不绕弯，上来一句：“我现在没钱了！冲我要饭吃的人太多，我养不住他们，他们怕是要造反了。这年头不给吃饱了谁能跟你！” 老单马上做出深明大义的样子，说：“那是那是，这我都懂。你说吧，兄弟能帮你什么 忙吗？要不然，我们带着孩子到别处走走，至少给你省几份口粮。等你做大了，不在乎这点小钱了我们再回身投奔过来，你看怎样？ " 老范摆手：“哪的话，你现在往哪走？到处都在抓你，你可别大意了。老单你是我兄弟，你老婆是我弟妹，我就是再苦，你俩的这口干粮，我省不下。单鹃呢，跟我儿子感情不错，我儿子愿意养她，我管不着。老单你现在也不可能抛头露面到处找活儿干去，你就在家藏着吧，现在出去不得。我看你就别让你这干儿子整天这么闲着了，让他也出去挣点钱吧，年轻轻的，别总让别人养着。” 老单看看刘川，刘川也看看他，没有说话。老单又看看老范，看他像是认真的，便说：“好啊，你当大伯的就给他找个事干吧，他年轻，吃点苦没啥。” 老范说：“我这儿的事，都在小康手上呢，就让他跟着小康干吧。” 小康并没去看刘川，他眼睛一直盯着单鹃。单鹃张口刚想说句什么，却让单成功抢先挡了。 单成功：“好啊，小康比刘川大几岁，就算是刘川的大哥吧。小康，刘川人生地不熟的，以后你费心多给他撑着点，省得让人欺负他。” 小康斜眼看看刘川，说：“刘川只要真心跟我，我罩着他！” 单鹃大概从小康的眼神中看出了他对刘川的敌意，于是情不自禁地移目去看刘川。刘川低了头，不知该说什么，只能一言不发。