Chapter 8 second quarter
When Lei Yi put on the uniform of the captain, his wife was still sleeping soundly.
Standing in front of the bed and looking at his wife's smooth shoulders exposed outside the quilt, Lei Yi meditated.
——I thought I would never change in my life.
Sometimes he would look at his ten stubby fingers.It has been a long time since these fists hit anyone.He felt that the power of the palm was much weaker than it was a few years ago.But a few years ago, in his life, there were not many things for him to grasp except for "principles"; now there are too many things that he is not willing to let go.
The first time I saw Xiang Miao, she was still wearing mourning clothes, sitting with her two children on the stone pavement of Shannan Street, her face was blue with hunger.The relative she wanted to rely on had already been unable to live in Piaocheng, and she didn't know where she had moved.She had only five copper coins left on her.
Now that he said it, his colleagues would definitely laugh at his hypocrisy, but he really didn't mean to take advantage of her at that time.He just couldn't bear that such a poor widow and such lovely two children starved to death on the streets in his district.
He rented a room for them, not far from the yamen—he was still living in the yamen at that time.
Then one night two months later, when he visited Xiang Miao: she would cook him the most famous spicy nest dish in her hometown as a reward.He sat quietly at the dining table and waited.The two children also sat quietly on either side of him.He caught a glimpse of the back of Xiang Miao making vegetables in the kitchen, and he smelled the warm fragrance, which was a feeling he had dreamed of for a long time but never had—the feeling of home.He walked into the kitchen and hugged her from behind.
Then he never thought of resigning from the head position.People in Piaocheng still bleed every day, but he gradually doesn't care about it—or maybe it should be said that now Lei Yi only cares about protecting these few people who deserve his care.He wants them to have a better life.No more embarrassment when he accepts bribes.On the contrary, when he saw Kanae taking off her clothes at night, he was secretly proud that he was able to buy her more and more beautiful clothes.
Soon after, they moved into Tongtai—the mansion of Gu Shijun, who used to eat bones.Yu Runsheng negotiated a good price for him.
Lei Yi leaned over and sniffed Xiang Miao's neck.That fragrance cost him more than fifty taels of silver every month.But it's worth it.
Then he left the mansion and went back to the yamen to report to the yamen.But he won't stay long. The people from "Dashutang" informed him yesterday that Yu Runsheng wanted to see him today.
He guessed that Yu Runsheng wanted to talk to him about two things: one was that Chief Inspector Teng Yi was about to retire and return home, how he would compete for the position; the other was about Jinya Puchuan's movements.
Now Lei Yi must bring at least ten people when going in and out.Everyone knew that he belonged to Yu Runsheng, and Yu Runsheng bought his position as the head of the service for him.Now that there are undercurrents in the underworld in Piaocheng, he doesn't want to be the second "eating bones".
Lei Yi has known Jinya Puchuan for a long time.For many years, Pu Chuan was just a private lord who relied on the "slaughterhouse" for food, and indeed he made a lot of money, but he was never a serious person, and he was not even considered a "on the road".
Lei Yi still doesn't understand: How could someone like Pu Chuan become Yu Runsheng's opponent?
Yu Runsheng's home is also on Shannan Street, less than 200 steps away from the pharmacy. Di Bin stood in the front hall and scanned the surrounding furnishings.It's no different than when we first moved in.The beams, doors, and walls are all painted in a deep, comfortable color, and only two new pieces of furniture, tables and chairs, have been added, both of which are made of wood.There are not many calligraphy and painting decorations, only a few plain vases in the corners, which were already placed when the mansion was bought. From time to time, Long Bai persuaded the boss to add more good things to the house, "Otherwise, what do we do with all the money we shed blood and sweat?" The boss usually just shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's just a place to sleep and eat. It's a comfortable place to live. can." Yu Runsheng did not follow the tradition of Piaocheng, and immediately moved into Tongtai, which is adjacent to the mansion, after making a fortune.He chose this house that had been built for more than 20 years in the quietest part of Shannan Street.The original owner was a lumber merchant (because the "slaughterhouse" failed to recover a large amount of money and borrowed money, it went bankrupt overnight), and the house was built extremely firmly. The properties at the four corners outside the house, the front door, and the back door across the street were also bought by Yu Runsheng one by one for the subordinates and family members of the "Dashutang" to live in. The Longbai couple lived in the house across the street from the back yard.This house array surrounded and protected Yu Runsheng's mansion. In order to facilitate his daily work and rest, Qi Chu rented a room for a long time in an inn next to the main store of "Dashutang" on Andong Avenue; Idea: Poshili, Shannan Street and Andong Street form three command points that echo each other, which is the basic principle common to both the chessboard and the battlefield. As for the sickle, he sleeps in a different place every day... Di Bin touched the small Buddha statue amulet on his neck.Ever since the night when the sickle was tied to it, it has never left Di Bin.Perhaps because of touching too much, the carving of the Buddha statue became blurred... Di Bin looked out the window.The garden is full of bare gravel, with no rockery or gazebo, and not even a single tree planted - those who want to sneak into the mansion through the courtyard have nowhere to hide, and it is difficult to hide their footsteps on the gravel. A little boy who was only three or four years old ran across the gravel, with a line of half-dried snot hanging from his left nostril, and held up a little puppet in red clothes in his hand.The puppet's neck was split open, and its head and hair made of thick black rope swayed from side to side following the boy's footsteps, as if it was about to fall. Di Bin recognized him as the eldest of the children, and his sister-in-law called him "Heizi". Heizi stopped, and looked at Di Bin through the window.He wiped his nose with the back of his hand, wiped the back of his hand on his clothes twice, puffed out his round dark face, and fixed his eyes on Di Bin. ——This look...is very similar to his father... The girl who was chasing after him in the garden was smaller than Kuroko, and threw herself on him with the steps she had just learned.Heizi didn't seem to notice, and still stared at Di Bin. The girl wanted to snatch the puppet back from Heizi's hand, but only pulled out the puppet's head. Her crying was trembling because of the cold weather. —they have the same father.There are eight such children in Runsheng's family, each with a different mother, and three of them are still babies in their arms.Father didn't even choose a name for them... Among the mothers of these children, Di Bin only knew Heizi's mother.That girl from another race who can only speak a little Mandarin has a tough appearance.It is said that she came from a far away place in the southwest, and she often wears a machete at her waist.When she came to Piaocheng, she was already pregnant with a child. She disappeared shortly after giving birth to Heizi, leaving the poor child behind.The last time Di Bin saw her was just after she gave birth.When she looked at the fetus whose skin color changed from light purple to red and whose hair was stained with blood, her eyes were full of guilt and fear... "Sixth Uncle, good morning. Why don't you sit down?" Di Bin turned his head and saw Li Lan with a big belly, holding a smoking kettle in his hand, walking towards him with a smile and waddling. Li Lan gained a lot of weight because of her pregnancy, and her face with high cheekbones became softer.Di Bin thought of his mother.It was the same kind of smile: the kind of smile that could contain everything and seemed to soften everything around...Of course Di Bin knew that Li Lan's smile didn't belong to him.Everyone has only one mother.Still, the feeling of borrowed relief was enough to drive away the chill of a winter morning. He hastily took the kettle from Li Lan's hand, handed it to Tian Ahuo beside him, and then helped her to sit on the chair.The other two subordinates set out cups and bowls on the table to make tea. "Sister-in-law, where's the servant?" Di Bin frowned. "They're making breakfast. Uncle, don't worry, I'll get the kettle myself." The housemaids in the house are all Li Lan's former neighbors in the countryside——Yu Runsheng couldn't bear letting untrustworthy people approach his daily life Life.Li Lan never seriously treated them as servants. At Li Lan's insistence, the three subordinates followed Di Bin to the kitchen for breakfast.She doesn't know the past of these three people, or maybe she doesn't care at all. It was only after Di Bin took Tian Ahuo as his subordinate that he learned of the crimes he had committed in the past.If a few years ago, Di Bin would only be intimidated by a man like Tian Ahuo, let alone let him eat at the same table with his sister-in-law... When Yu Runsheng was not at home, Li Lan ate with the maids in the kitchen, saving them a lot of tidying up.Especially in winter, the fire keeps the kitchen warm, making it more comfortable than sitting in the main hall to eat.Looking at the slippery stone floor in the kitchen, Di Bin frowned again, not daring to let go of Li Lan's hand. Long Bai's wife and mother also came to have breakfast together.Every time Di Bin saw them, he felt a headache. The three subordinates silently sipped the hot noodles into their mouths and chewed silently.At the same table, only Feng Mei and Long Mama were talking non-stop.The maids only occasionally interjected a word or two. Looking at Feng Mei's disheveled hair, Di Bin couldn't figure out how the second brother would marry such a woman.Just because of those tits that are about to fall out of the skirt? "Uncle Six, let me ask you, why don't you marry a wife? You're not too young!" here we go again.Di Bin pretended not to hear. "Piaocheng is so big, isn't there a Sixth Uncle who likes it? I told you earlier that I would bring some of my beautiful old sisters to you for a look..." bitch.Di Bin immediately erased these two words from his mind.He didn't allow himself to be disrespectful to his second brother, even though it was just thinking about it in his head, even though Long's second brother had many women outside.He stuffed a meat dumpling into his mouth. "A woman like you, only my children can bear it." Mother Long said half-jokingly.Mother Long is half a barbarian, her skin color is darker than Li Lan's olive color.It was the first time Di Bin saw her that he knew that Long Bai's bold laughter was originally inherited from his mother.She didn't mind her son marrying a whore.Once she whispered to Di Bin: "As long as she can have children." But after several years, Long Bai still failed to become a father.Mother Long often looked at the children in Yu Runsheng's family and said: "The ones that should have been born can't be born, and the ones that shouldn't be born have produced a lot of them." The children were already full and circled around the dining table.Li Lan grabbed Heizi and wiped off the glutinous rice sticking to the corner of his mouth with a cloth towel. She gently hugged Heizi in her arms, and stroked her belly. "This child is really lucky. Before he was born, there are so many brothers and sisters waiting to play with him." Heizi pressed his face against Li Lan's chest, and looked at Di Bin again.What was going on in that little head, Di Bin didn't know.He stroked the Buddha talisman again. The maid cleared away the dishes.Di Bin told Tian Ahuo and the others to go back to the front hall and wait, and then accompanied Li Lan to the backyard. "Uncle, when will my second brother come back?" Feng Mei grabbed Di Bin in front of the door. He was silent for a while.Master Long has always been directly ordered by the boss to escort the "special" private goods, and Di Bin doesn't know the details.He had to tell her an approximate date. Feng Mei watched the two of them walk to the backyard, showing a secret smile.She suspects that Di Laoliu is a little bit ambiguous towards his sister-in-law, otherwise why doesn't this guy even have a woman?Maybe it's in my sister-in-law's belly... Finally, only the two of them were left—no, there was also Heizi who was hugging Di Bin's arms. Li Lan looked down at the small field she had marked out in the backyard, to see if the melons and fruits planted in the field had been damaged by freezing. "Uncle, what do you want to tell me?" Heizi's snot flowed down again, this time staining the collar of Di Bin's white cotton robe.He ignored it and wiped Heizi's nose with his hands. "Did the doctor say when you're going to give birth?" "It's about two months away." Li Lan supported her waist with her left hand, and felt the squirming of the fetus under her belly with her right palm.The smile from before appeared again.Di Bin hugged Heizi tightly.Such a little life is in his arms.Another one is coming... ——I am willing to protect all this with my life. "Sister-in-law, don't blame the boss, he's not at home at this time..." "I'm used to it." Li Lan's heart flew back to a certain morning in the warehouse of his hometown outside the city for a moment.The sun-baked haystacks are very warm.Yu Runsheng, who has not yet become her husband, lies naked beside her, silently staring at the roof of the warehouse... "Runsheng hasn't been like this for a long time. Every time he has something important to do, he always likes to think about it alone. He seems to lose sight of the people around him... Don't worry, uncle, I didn't annoy him. I How can you annoy him?" Li Lan looked down at her belly, as if talking softly to an unborn child: "He said: 'What we didn't have when we were young, this child will have; many things we have seen in the past that we don't want to see, he will never know in his life see.'" When Yu Runsheng's words came out of his wife's mouth, Di Bin felt a special sense of comfort. "It's you, Uncle Six." Li Lan looked at Hei Zi in Di Bin's arms, as if he saw the child's father in his eyes. "Are you still annoying Uncle Fifth?" Di Bin turned his face away, not daring to look directly at her - he was afraid that she would see his expression. "I... have nothing to worry about. How he likes to live is his own business. Maybe the boss is more disappointed than me?" Li Lan shook her head. "No. Among the brothers, Runsheng loves you and Uncle Fifth the most. You know that too." "I just love him, and I'm even more disappointed to see him like this..." Di Bin didn't want to say any more, he hung his head down and played with Heizi in his arms. "Is your little guy called Heizi?" Di Bin and the child pressed their foreheads against each other. "People call me White Bean. We just make a good couple." At close range, Di Bin saw the child's eyes again, really resembling his father. ——Twenty-six years later, when these two men who happened to be 26 years apart held swords in their hands, Di Bin saw the same look in his eyes.
Yu Runsheng's home is also on Shannan Street, less than 200 steps away from the pharmacy. Di Bin stood in the front hall and scanned the surrounding furnishings.It's no different than when we first moved in.The beams, doors, and walls are all painted in a deep, comfortable color, and only two new pieces of furniture, tables and chairs, have been added, both of which are made of wood.There are not many calligraphy and painting decorations, only a few plain vases in the corners, which were already placed when the mansion was bought. From time to time, Long Bai persuaded the boss to add more good things to the house, "Otherwise, what do we do with all the money we shed blood and sweat?" The boss usually just shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's just a place to sleep and eat. It's a comfortable place to live. can." Yu Runsheng did not follow the tradition of Piaocheng, and immediately moved into Tongtai, which is adjacent to the mansion, after making a fortune.He chose this house that had been built for more than 20 years in the quietest part of Shannan Street.The original owner was a lumber merchant (because the "slaughterhouse" failed to recover a large amount of money and borrowed money, it went bankrupt overnight), and the house was built extremely firmly. The properties at the four corners outside the house, the front door, and the back door across the street were also bought by Yu Runsheng one by one for the subordinates and family members of the "Dashutang" to live in. The Longbai couple lived in the house across the street from the back yard.This house array surrounded and protected Yu Runsheng's mansion. In order to facilitate his daily work and rest, Qi Chu rented a room for a long time in an inn next to the main store of "Dashutang" on Andong Avenue; Idea: Poshili, Shannan Street and Andong Street form three command points that echo each other, which is the basic principle common to both the chessboard and the battlefield. As for the sickle, he sleeps in a different place every day... Di Bin touched the small Buddha statue amulet on his neck.Ever since the night when the sickle was tied to it, it has never left Di Bin.Perhaps because of touching too much, the carving of the Buddha statue became blurred... Di Bin looked out the window.The garden is full of bare gravel, with no rockery or gazebo, and not even a single tree planted - those who want to sneak into the mansion through the courtyard have nowhere to hide, and it is difficult to hide their footsteps on the gravel. A little boy who was only three or four years old ran across the gravel, with a line of half-dried snot hanging from his left nostril, and held up a little puppet in red clothes in his hand.The puppet's neck was split open, and its head and hair made of thick black rope swayed from side to side following the boy's footsteps, as if it was about to fall. Di Bin recognized him as the eldest of the children, and his sister-in-law called him "Heizi". Heizi stopped, and looked at Di Bin through the window.He wiped his nose with the back of his hand, wiped the back of his hand on his clothes twice, puffed out his round dark face, and fixed his eyes on Di Bin. ——This look...is very similar to his father... The girl who was chasing after him in the garden was smaller than Kuroko, and threw herself on him with the steps she had just learned.Heizi didn't seem to notice, and still stared at Di Bin. The girl wanted to snatch the puppet back from Heizi's hand, but only pulled out the puppet's head. Her crying was trembling because of the cold weather. —they have the same father.There are eight such children in Runsheng's family, each with a different mother, and three of them are still babies in their arms.Father didn't even choose a name for them... Among the mothers of these children, Di Bin only knew Heizi's mother.That girl from another race who can only speak a little Mandarin has a tough appearance.It is said that she came from a far away place in the southwest, and she often wears a machete at her waist.When she came to Piaocheng, she was already pregnant with a child. She disappeared shortly after giving birth to Heizi, leaving the poor child behind.The last time Di Bin saw her was just after she gave birth.When she looked at the fetus whose skin color changed from light purple to red and whose hair was stained with blood, her eyes were full of guilt and fear... "Sixth Uncle, good morning. Why don't you sit down?" Di Bin turned his head and saw Li Lan with a big belly, holding a smoking kettle in his hand, walking towards him with a smile and waddling. Li Lan gained a lot of weight because of her pregnancy, and her face with high cheekbones became softer.Di Bin thought of his mother.It was the same kind of smile: the kind of smile that could contain everything and seemed to soften everything around...Of course Di Bin knew that Li Lan's smile didn't belong to him.Everyone has only one mother.Still, the feeling of borrowed relief was enough to drive away the chill of a winter morning. He hastily took the kettle from Li Lan's hand, handed it to Tian Ahuo beside him, and then helped her to sit on the chair.The other two subordinates set out cups and bowls on the table to make tea. "Sister-in-law, where's the servant?" Di Bin frowned. "They're making breakfast. Uncle, don't worry, I'll get the kettle myself." The housemaids in the house are all Li Lan's former neighbors in the countryside——Yu Runsheng couldn't bear letting untrustworthy people approach his daily life Life.Li Lan never seriously treated them as servants. At Li Lan's insistence, the three subordinates followed Di Bin to the kitchen for breakfast.She doesn't know the past of these three people, or maybe she doesn't care at all. It was only after Di Bin took Tian Ahuo as his subordinate that he learned of the crimes he had committed in the past.If a few years ago, Di Bin would only be intimidated by a man like Tian Ahuo, let alone let him eat at the same table with his sister-in-law... When Yu Runsheng was not at home, Li Lan ate with the maids in the kitchen, saving them a lot of tidying up.Especially in winter, the fire keeps the kitchen warm, making it more comfortable than sitting in the main hall to eat.Looking at the slippery stone floor in the kitchen, Di Bin frowned again, not daring to let go of Li Lan's hand. Long Bai's wife and mother also came to have breakfast together.Every time Di Bin saw them, he felt a headache. The three subordinates silently sipped the hot noodles into their mouths and chewed silently.At the same table, only Feng Mei and Long Mama were talking non-stop.The maids only occasionally interjected a word or two. Looking at Feng Mei's disheveled hair, Di Bin couldn't figure out how the second brother would marry such a woman.Just because of those tits that are about to fall out of the skirt? "Uncle Six, let me ask you, why don't you marry a wife? You're not too young!" here we go again.Di Bin pretended not to hear. "Piaocheng is so big, isn't there a Sixth Uncle who likes it? I told you earlier that I would bring some of my beautiful old sisters to you for a look..." bitch.Di Bin immediately erased these two words from his mind.He didn't allow himself to be disrespectful to his second brother, even though it was just thinking about it in his head, even though Long's second brother had many women outside.He stuffed a meat dumpling into his mouth. "A woman like you, only my children can bear it." Mother Long said half-jokingly.Mother Long is half a barbarian, her skin color is darker than Li Lan's olive color.It was the first time Di Bin saw her that he knew that Long Bai's bold laughter was originally inherited from his mother.She didn't mind her son marrying a whore.Once she whispered to Di Bin: "As long as she can have children." But after several years, Long Bai still failed to become a father.Mother Long often looked at the children in Yu Runsheng's family and said: "The ones that should have been born can't be born, and the ones that shouldn't be born have produced a lot of them." The children were already full and circled around the dining table.Li Lan grabbed Heizi and wiped off the glutinous rice sticking to the corner of his mouth with a cloth towel. She gently hugged Heizi in her arms, and stroked her belly. "This child is really lucky. Before he was born, there are so many brothers and sisters waiting to play with him." Heizi pressed his face against Li Lan's chest, and looked at Di Bin again.What was going on in that little head, Di Bin didn't know.He stroked the Buddha talisman again. The maid cleared away the dishes.Di Bin told Tian Ahuo and the others to go back to the front hall and wait, and then accompanied Li Lan to the backyard. "Uncle, when will my second brother come back?" Feng Mei grabbed Di Bin in front of the door. He was silent for a while.Master Long has always been directly ordered by the boss to escort the "special" private goods, and Di Bin doesn't know the details.He had to tell her an approximate date. Feng Mei watched the two of them walk to the backyard, showing a secret smile.She suspects that Di Laoliu is a little bit ambiguous towards his sister-in-law, otherwise why doesn't this guy even have a woman?Maybe it's in my sister-in-law's belly... Finally, only the two of them were left—no, there was also Heizi who was hugging Di Bin's arms. Li Lan looked down at the small field she had marked out in the backyard, to see if the melons and fruits planted in the field had been damaged by freezing. "Uncle, what do you want to tell me?" Heizi's snot flowed down again, this time staining the collar of Di Bin's white cotton robe.He ignored it and wiped Heizi's nose with his hands. "Did the doctor say when you're going to give birth?" "It's about two months away." Li Lan supported her waist with her left hand, and felt the squirming of the fetus under her belly with her right palm.The smile from before appeared again.Di Bin hugged Heizi tightly.Such a little life is in his arms.Another one is coming... ——I am willing to protect all this with my life. "Sister-in-law, don't blame the boss, he's not at home at this time..." "I'm used to it." Li Lan's heart flew back to a certain morning in the warehouse of his hometown outside the city for a moment.The sun-baked haystacks are very warm.Yu Runsheng, who has not yet become her husband, lies naked beside her, silently staring at the roof of the warehouse... "Runsheng hasn't been like this for a long time. Every time he has something important to do, he always likes to think about it alone. He seems to lose sight of the people around him... Don't worry, uncle, I didn't annoy him. I How can you annoy him?" Li Lan looked down at her belly, as if talking softly to an unborn child: "He said: 'What we didn't have when we were young, this child will have; many things we have seen in the past that we don't want to see, he will never know in his life see.'" When Yu Runsheng's words came out of his wife's mouth, Di Bin felt a special sense of comfort. "It's you, Uncle Six." Li Lan looked at Hei Zi in Di Bin's arms, as if he saw the child's father in his eyes. "Are you still annoying Uncle Fifth?" Di Bin turned his face away, not daring to look directly at her - he was afraid that she would see his expression. "I... have nothing to worry about. How he likes to live is his own business. Maybe the boss is more disappointed than me?" Li Lan shook her head. "No. Among the brothers, Runsheng loves you and Uncle Fifth the most. You know that too." "I just love him, and I'm even more disappointed to see him like this..." Di Bin didn't want to say any more, he hung his head down and played with Heizi in his arms. "Is your little guy called Heizi?" Di Bin and the child pressed their foreheads against each other. "People call me White Bean. We just make a good couple." At close range, Di Bin saw the child's eyes again, really resembling his father. ——Twenty-six years later, when these two men who happened to be 26 years apart held swords in their hands, Di Bin saw the same look in his eyes.