Chapter 12 twelve

Li Huikang initially seemed to have a goal as he walked down the street.At that time, the faces of the managers of the two banks, Yufeng and Taichang, appeared alternately in front of him like a swing.But after he walked for a few minutes, more faces appeared in front of his eyes, and they turned like a windmill; there were black faces and beards, some wearing glasses, some purple-colored square faces, and some wearing fake masks. The one with the otter fur hat;—there were many faces who owed him debts, even Tang Zijia's plump, oily, ochre-red face. At this moment, he also felt that he was walking on the street.He didn't know why he was walking on the street. He felt that the eyes of all passers-by and people in the shops on the street were injecting him.He understood the meaning of all these glances.He seemed to hear the air filled with noisy voices, all saying one sentence: "Ha! Li Huikang has collapsed!"

However, like a locomotive that has lost control, he continued to move forward, aimlessly. Gradually his path became darker and darker, and he also walked slower and slower.In a daze, he felt that he had passed by a group of three or four people, and he heard the words "Tang Zijia" and "a person surnamed Tang" jumping out from the group; his heart was shocked suddenly, but he still Walk forward mechanically. The road ahead of him suddenly became brighter.He instinctively walked around the bend towards the brighter place.He seemed to be his own again, those phantoms disappeared in front of his eyes, but he had a big calculation in his mind, and the accounts on this calculation were very complicated: what he owed others, what they owed him, what he owed The ones that were thrown away by others were all mixed into a big ink ball.

The last "pillar" turned into a big iron stick.He sighed instinctively.At a street corner, he stopped unconsciously.He tried his best to open his eyes wide, as if he was planning to figure out what he should do. A small hotel on the left side of the street corner is bustling at this moment.Half of the small board tables that have been placed on the street have a few people drinking.A passage like this fell into Li Huikang's ears—— "It's really a crime! The ones who were brought down by them are the real ones! They are all small shops, and the whole family relies on food; huh! Listen to me and report it..."

A series of shop names rolled out one after another from the voice of the man sipping wine, with another voice's surprised reply in the middle, and another voice's "correction" and "supplement". This string of store names flew to Li Huikang's ears, most of which were very familiar.He was shaking all over, and with his hand in his coat pocket he seized a bundle of things--a pile of papers, a bundle of bills.He felt as if he had caught most of the small shops that had been "brought down"—the shopkeepers on this street who owed him money.He knew very well that what he had seized, the amount due to him was not small!But now it has become a number on paper!

He unconsciously let out a strange cry, turned around and ran away.This time he was running consciously——he seemed to want to run away from the painfully nailed sentence: "A family depends on food." But his running this time was really It's running around.The street in front of him was bright for a while, and dark for a while, and finally his legs were as heavy as his heart, and he stopped in a relatively open place covered with a few lights. Susu's rustling sound suddenly came from all around.The light in front of him suddenly disappeared, and suddenly came out again, hitting his eyes.He couldn't help shivering several times.

He recognized it, it was the park.He had somehow run in the park.The wind is blowing quietly, and the leaves in the garden seem to be sighing and crying.Suddenly, a piece of "news" from the city of a few days ago hit his mind like lightning: a poor debtor had hanged himself in a gazebo here.His heart was beating; every time he jumped, it seemed to be narrower, and in an instant there was only the "hanging" thing biting his heart fiercely.He walked towards the gazebo unconsciously, glanced at a beam of the gazebo unconsciously, and went to untie his belt. However, footsteps came from the left outside the pavilion.His whole body shook, and he suddenly woke up and said in his heart, "What are you doing? Am I going to hang myself?" The sound of footsteps was approaching.There was just a lamp on the tree outside the pavilion here.He saw a man and a woman coming, the man he recognized as Tang Zijia's young master, the woman's figure was like a three-curved water snake.

They did not come into the pavilion.They turned their backs to the pavilion and stood under the tree.Li Huikang heard Tang Zijia's young master say: "Hey! Isn't it really a coincidence? The old man climbed the wall and left after being made a fuss by their group - I don't know where to hide! My mother got sick from fright! - Hey! Yue'e I don’t dare to go home tonight,—maybe those people come again—I escaped when the police chased those people away!—Ah, Yue’e, to the city How about opening a room at the Outer Railway Hotel? ..." "Hee hee hee, I don't! No... I want it!" The woman said with a smile.

Tang Zijia's young master suddenly hugged the girl.Li Huikang in the pavilion scolded "Shameless" in his heart, spit out a mouthful, turned around and was about to walk away, when suddenly another sharp woman's voice burst out in front of him. "Heartless! Hello, hello,—shameless, slut!" Li Huikang saw a rather stout woman jumping on Tang Shenqing's body as if flying.The woman in the shape of a water snake let out an exclamation of "Ahhh" and avoided it.Li Huikang couldn't see the face of the later woman, but he thought her figure was very familiar.Tang Shenqing was struggling fiercely. "Guiying!" shouted sharply.Li Huikang jumped all over when he heard these two words.He quickly rushed out of the pavilion, and grabbed the woman with one hand first, who else is it not his daughter!

"You, you, shameless!" Li Huikang cursed, grabbed Tang Shenqing's arm with one hand, and glared at him fiercely.Li Huikang never dreamed that he would see such a thing in person, he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while. Tang Shenqing struggled to escape.But Li Huikang's big hands are stronger than a vice.Li Guiying fell at her father's feet and wept. Suddenly, the sound of high-heeled leather shoes hurriedly disappeared behind the pavilion.Tang Shenqing couldn't help turning her head to look. "Humph! Humph! It's not enough for your father to harm people. Are you, you little bastard who hasn't shed his lanugo hair yet, harming people too?"

Li Huikang gritted his teeth and scolded, his voice trembling with anger.He let go of the hand that was holding his daughter, looked at Tang Shenqing with fire in his eyes, and raised that hand, ready to hit her down.At this time Li Guiying suddenly jumped up, hit Tang Shenqing in a frenzy, and cried, "You have no conscience! Kill a thousand swords! Give me back my proof! The proof!" Tang Shenqing fought back, and cried out anxiously, "Guiying! Guiying! Have something to say! " "Certificate? What! Hehe-ha!" Li Huikang suddenly laughed wickedly. He shook Tang Shenqing a few times vigorously, as if he wanted to shake out some "credentials". Tang Shenqing's hands tightened even more.

Although Tang Shenqing had already fainted from anxiety and was driven to faint by Guiying's beating and scolding, he still seemed to feel that Li Huikang's strange smile was extremely terrifying. "Guiying! Don't hit me!" Li Huikang suddenly stopped laughing and said sharply. "By the way! You have something to talk about! Hmph! Tang Shenqing! We really can't settle the accounts between our two families! Your old man and I have not settled the previous accounts, and you and our daughter are confused again! Haha—— — Humph! You have something to talk about! Let’s settle the debt slowly! I’m going to make you a pawn! My store is full of debt collectors, and I’m at my wit’s end. ——Good time! Please go Hold back for a while! Humph—ha! Tang Zijia himself is worth as much as Tang Zijia's young master is worth!" After Li Huikang finished speaking, he laughed wildly again, while laughing, he shouted: "Let's go!" Li Guiying's eyes were wide open and she was dazed; her father had already pulled Shen Qing to take a step, but she still stood still. "Are you still leaving? Guiying!" Li Huikang called back. "Hehe!" Li Guiying couldn't help smiling as if she wanted to come, and hurried to catch up.The father and daughter, one on each side, walked out of the park with Tang Shenqing, who was downcast, and walked onto a dark street. They hadn't walked a few steps before three or four people approached and passed by. Suddenly, one of the group turned around and shouted, "Hey! Isn't that the son named Tang?" Immediately another voice said: "If you can't find the old one, the small one is also good!" Li Huikang could understand, he was wondering what this group of people were doing, but the group had already turned around and surrounded him, two of them went straight to Tang Shenqing.One is Huang Axiang whom Guiying knew. "What are you doing?" Li Huikang yelled hastily, and let Ding Tang Shenqing go to block the two rushing people.However, two other people rushed over from behind him.He turned around hastily, the front of his robe-like overcoat flew away, engulfing himself and one of the visitors, and they all fell to the ground with a puff.The other two coaxed up, grabbed and pulled, and one of them was still shouting: "Damn it! Could it be the bodyguard's?" "Ah yo! Escaped!" A person yelled violently and got up.The other two turned around, and the two on the ground also jumped up. Sure enough, Tang Shenqing was gone, not even Li Guiying. This is just a quiet place, and there are three small alleys nearby.The four people were chattering, and they didn't care about it for a while. "You bastards!" Li Huikang stomped and grabbed one of them.He suddenly remembered that this group of short-clothed people were probably the silk factory workers who had heard that they had quarreled with the Tang Mansion. "I'm also the enemy of Tang's second child! I'll protect the ****! Why did you attack without asking why? Good! The little guy ran away! You guys should be damned!" "Oh! Oh! But he can't run away! Let's go after him!" The worker caught by Li Huikang broke free and wanted to go after him. "Not busy! Not busy! Let's chase in three ways! Agui! You and this gentleman go to the south, go in this alley. He didn't escape to the main street! Mazi and I searched in those two alleys. Go!" Huang Axiang said this. "That's right! Hurry up! Whoever catches up with him will come back here and wait!" Li Huikang ran into a small alley with Agui while yelling loudly. This lane happened to be long and dark.Li Huikang looked carefully at the walls and doorways of the houses on both sides all the way, and he was a few steps behind.They ran to the middle of the alley, but there was still no sign of anyone.There is a curved mouth here, which seems to be formed by the protrusion of someone's side room.They had already passed the entrance, when Li Huikang suddenly heard a woman's exclamation.He stopped.However, at this time, Agui also caught a glimpse of a figure in front of him, he turned his head to greet Li Huikang, and quickly rushed to catch up. "Hey! Hey!" came the voice of the frightened woman again. Li Huikang immediately recognized it was his daughter.He hurried back and ran across the mouth of that song.But the voice came again, from behind.He turned around again and ran straight into Naqukou.It turned out to be a narrow horizontal alley.He saw someone, it was his daughter and Tang Shenqing twisting together there.Li Huikang's joy was more than winning the first prize of the airline ticket. Without saying a word, he stretched out his big hand and grabbed Tang Shenqing's arm like a vise. At this moment, A Gui's voice came from outside the mouth of Qu's mouth, shouting while running: "Hey, what about this gentleman? Run back! Run back! There is no way ahead!" Li Huikang remained motionless as if holding his breath.There was a smug, sly smile line on his face.He glanced into the alley, and warned his daughter and Tang Shenqing in a low voice: "Be quiet!" He walked in quietly with the couple.Suddenly turning a corner, the lights ahead were bright, and it was the street again. "Okay! God bless!" Li Huikang breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help laughing. It was on a bustling street, and he was not afraid that his "leader" would be snatched away by others.