Han Xing Yuan Gu

Many people gathered around to ask the price, and some people were picky about the authenticity, so they stretched out their hands and looked back and forth.

The village head is usually decisive and tough, but he is a little embarrassed when he comes to customers. He probably knows that God is not to be offended. Li said: "It's so easy to break, you still come to touch porcelain for business, how do you know if your stuff is good if you don't show it." The village head accompanied him with a smile, "Let's show it to you, just grab it and have a look. It’s the same inside and out. It’s a business, not a lie.”

He stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling man, but the man calmed down a bit. When he was about to reach out to continue to look at other things, he found Li Gu looking at him. Children don't know how to hide, both likes and dislikes are on their faces, and the customer's complexion is not good. , Throwing the things, he shouted: "Why is this kid looking at me like that? I'm here to buy things, not to be angry." Uncle Tu hurried forward to smooth things over: "No, no, the kid is having a temper tantrum with his parents , has nothing to do with you."

The village chief pinched his arm from behind: "Don't do that."

Li Gu was annoyed, a bit unable to swallow his breath.Young people always think that life is easy, and they don't have to worry about their basic necessities, but they don't know that it's the comfort that others get by bowing their knees to life.Once I get to see the true face of life, the flimsy pride can't bear it.

The village chief couldn't do anything to force him to apologize, and he was afraid that Li Gu's trouble would ruin his business, so he endured the pain and stuffed a handful of change into Li Gu's hand: "Take Xing Xing to buy some food. What do you see?" Have fun and come back later.”

Consultant Li: "Then what do you have for lunch? I'll buy it for you."

The village chief waved his hand: "Those who brought bread and water don't need to worry about it. Go away and watch the stars."

So Li Gu took Ji Hanxing away.

On the way, he didn't know what to say to Ji Hanxing. Ji Hanxing rarely mentioned his life in the city, but Li Gu vaguely knew that he was brought up by a very educated grandfather.Since he is a well-educated person, he is probably different from Li Gu's guardian, the village chief, who doesn't need to put on a smile to make a living, and doesn't need to learn to swallow every breath he can't swallow.

At this moment, he thought with some dejection that Ji Hanxing's life was different from his. He should be raised in the cleanest and brightest house with soft carpets inside, allowing him to run around barefoot.He should receive the best education, meet clean and educated people like him, and live the best life Li Gu can imagine.What did he take him to see the market here...

Ji Hanxing shook his hand: "Brother, can you buy me that sweet potato?"

The child's voice brought him back to reality. Li Gu looked over and saw an old man selling soft baked sweet potatoes with a small tricycle. When peeled off, there were red hearts inside, and there was white mist in the winter. Warm and sweet.

As if he finally found some meaning in existence, he hastily agreed: "Okay, okay, I'll buy you the biggest one."

"Okay," Ji Hanxing smiled, showing his neat little white teeth, with an innocent and pleasing look: "The big ones can be shared with my brother."

i lost the star

The order in the town is a very barbaric order. For example, the line to buy sweet potatoes does not stand in a line according to the order of first come, first come.Instead, a mess of adults and children crowded in front of the tricycle carrying the big oven, forming an inwardly concentrated circle.Whoever stretches out his hand first and orders the one he wants will be the one who sells sweet potatoes first.

After squeezing like this for a while, Li Gu's palms were sweating, but he still remembered what the adults told him before he came, and he didn't dare to let go of Ji Hanxing's hand.

"Is it hot?" Li Gu loosened the scarf around his neck and let him breathe a little longer.

There was no impatience on Ji Hanxing's face, he just looked around and sighed: "There are a lot of people here."

"Isn't it fun?" Li asked him.

Ji Hanxing shook his head slightly, tilted his head and smiled at him: "No, this place is different from the places I've stayed in before, it's very fresh."

Li Gu rubbed his hair and said nothing.

He took the child and waited aside, and asked the people who came in front to buy one by one first.The sweet potato seller was dazzled and deaf, and when he was weighing the sweet potatoes, he put one hand into his biscuit box for money.The person who stole the money is not restrained, even familiar.People around saw it, stared at it but made no sound.The old man squinted his eyes and looked at the numbers on the scale. This old and dim-eyed man just looked at the scale, but he seemed to be concentrating on some difficult philosophical proposition.

Li Gu really couldn't understand the impudence of the little thief and the indifference of the bystanders, so he shouted loudly: "What are you doing with your hand!"

Everyone was surprised.

The old man turned his hand away, saying that the sweet potatoes on the plate rolled down, and the old man hurriedly picked them up with his hands, scalding himself enough.The person who stole the money flashed hostility, and there was a bit of guilt mixed with his righteousness. He glanced around and glared at Li Gu: "What nonsense?"

"I'm not talking nonsense." Li Gu Zhanli did not show any weakness, "It is obvious that you stole the money, grandpa, tell me! Is there any money in the box?"

The uncle lowered his head, picked up the sweet potato, wrapped it in a plastic bag and handed it to the waiting person: "Little brother, don't say a few words, this is a misunderstanding. I didn't see it, I didn't see it..."

The young man was caught off guard and stunned, and Li Gu's voice changed: "I didn't see the hand stretched out from behind in front of you, so didn't you notice that the big money is gone?"

The uncle wrapped a sweet potato for him and stuffed it into his hand: "Children don't talk nonsense, take it and eat it. Let's go."

Li Gu was really anxious: "He is stealing your money! So many people are watching."

An aunt with a basket next to him couldn't stand it anymore, so she came over and tugged at his sleeve, and lowered her voice: "It's not been a day or two, he knows, so let's not say a few words."

The tree wanted to be quiet but the wind never stopped. When Li Gu was overwhelmed by the silence and compromise of the adult world, the money-stealer was unwilling to let him go. Which eye did you see?"

"I see with both eyes!"

The man rolled up his sleeves and was about to come over, his eyes became more and more hostile, Li Gu Chong stepped forward and blocked Ji Hanxing behind: "You are unreasonable! People can't see it, but the sky is watching! Stealing is to be punished." Chopped hands."

The thief grabbed Li Gu by the collar, and a pair of old hands appeared between the two of them. The sweet potato seller held the thief down with one hand, and stuffed a few ten-cent notes into his pocket calmly with the other hand: "The kid has nothing to hide!" , don't be so angry. They are all here to make a living, everyone gets rich, everyone gets rich..."

Li Gu saw it, of course the thief also knew that the money went into his pocket, and wanted to educate this stubborn boy, but found that the old wrinkled hands on his wrists were so strong that he couldn't get rid of them.He subconsciously glanced at the sweet potato seller, with a slight fear flashing in his eyes, but the old man just lowered his head: "I have to forgive and forgive, but I'm just a child."

The thief snorted and shook off his hand, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

This is another rule taught to Li Gu by adult society.Both the person who stole and the person who was stolen knew it well, and the person who stole had a little fluke and vigilance, so he didn't take more.The person who was stolen wanted to make peace with others, and avoid disasters by ruining a small fortune.The bystanders are even more silent. It is not easy to protect oneself wisely in the dirty life, let alone get caught in the fire.

Many years later, Li Gu thought about it, if he was given another chance, would he be that silly young man.People who have accepted the rules of the adult world no longer feel that there are paradoxes and injustices in some things. They lower their heads and bend down silently, avoiding contradictions and conflicts slowly and smoothly.And only when people are young, will they be so reckless and shout "this is wrong" regardless of the cost, like the young boy who naively pointed out that the emperor has no clothes in the emperor's new clothes.Maybe we will all end up in the rules of silence and deformity, swallowing sounds to blend in with the environment, but that doesn't mean we're doing the right thing.

Holding a hot sweet potato, Li Gu gave the sweet potato seller a complicated look, then returned the sweet potato to the small three-wheeler, and turned around slowly.

"Stars, we..."

"Star?"

"Star!"

"Ji Hanxing!"

No one answered.

Not far away, a basket of steamed buns was newly baked, steaming hot, and even the small piece of air was steamed up.The small toy seller was still shaking the rattle drum at his own rhythm. The sound of killing a chicken came from a distance, and soon died down after a sharp sound.Selling, bargaining, everything seemed to be the same as before, but the child he hid behind disappeared.

Li Gu couldn't find Ji Hanxing anymore.

This is not reasonable.

He is such a child who is easy to be recognized, even though he is still small, he is easily blocked by others, but he is so beautiful that he seems to shine under the sun, how can he not be found, impossible, impossible .

Standing where he was, Li Gu felt that his mind was blank for a moment, as if his soul had left him.He was bumped many times by passers-by, and finally pulled one to ask: "Excuse me, have you ever seen a little boy wearing a dark blue scarf?"

Oh, as a bumpkin, Xiao Li Gu still doesn't know what indigo is. He walked around with Ji Hanxing over and over again, pulling everyone to ask: "Excuse me, have you ever seen a man wearing a dark blue scarf?" little boy?"

That seems to be the sentence he said the most this day.

But no one could give him a useful answer.

Talking too much, his lips were so dry and chapped in winter, Li Guhun walked back without staying.The village head and Uncle Tu looked tired but very happy, and they sold a lot of things, and they made a small profit.Li Gu looked at them desperately, and said blankly and mechanically: "I lost the star".

I go to the stars

Every time the time passed, Li Gu's heart sank a little.

Several people found that it was dark, but there was no result until the warm color of the setting sun was covered by the night.

There are old and young in Tu Qingchuan's family, and he must go back at night, so he can't stay longer.

The village chief inquired about the nearby police station and hurried over to report the case. At that time, the missing child still refused to be filed immediately.The village chief talked so much that his lips trembled when he spoke anxiously, which convinced the old policeman that the child was indeed lost and not just a fuss made by the family.

Li Gu forcibly held back his tears, trying to convey the seriousness of this matter to the other party.Although he was filled with pain and resistance when he was reminded of this possibility for the first time, Li Gu said: "Xing Xing is very obedient and smart. He won't take the initiative to go with others. Someone must drag him, or something I forced him to go. I didn't like him, he is so small, if someone wants to drag him, he will definitely not be able to hide..."

For the first time, teenagers feel the complicated taste of admitting mistakes and taking responsibility.People who make mistakes usually want to escape and evade. After learning that Ji Hanxing might have been kidnapped, Li Gu also had the idea that Xingxing was lost by himself for a moment. However, he soon realized that if he hadn't Impulsively let go of Ji Hanxing's hand, they may now be walking home in the dark with a small schoolbag full of snacks and new gadgets.

But this "if" is not true, Ji Hanxing's whereabouts are unknown now.

Enduring the pain and weakness that his heart was about to burst, Li Gu tried his best to abandon his accent so that he could speak clearly and tell the story to the old policeman.

There is nothing new under the sun, every time it is moving, and every time it is indifferent.

After Li Gu became an adult, he looked back and realized many truths. For example, a small town at the junction of several provinces, a cursed but real industrial chain, cannot be shaken by him. A cup of tea a day until the tasteless old film police can solve it.

Anyway, it's just a filing, and there's no other real progress.

There was no monitoring, and there was no era when mobile phones were popularized.Later, when Li Gu recalled it, he felt that that era was full of insecurity, as if as long as he got separated in the crowd, he would never meet again.

On the way back, Li Gu was very silent. In his small ragged backpack, there were ink and new exercise books secretly bought for Ji Hanxing, as well as colored glass beads and candies.

It was all gifts that he wanted to bring to Ji Hanxing and coax him to call him brother.

The old village chief didn't know how he told Ji Zhiqing the news.

He almost knocked on Ji Zhiqing's door with the gravity of a strong man breaking his wrist.He didn't know how to make up for this matter, and he didn't know what he could make up for Ji Zhiqing.He was afraid that Ji Zhiqing would get angry with this place because of this. If Ji Zhiqing left, there would really be no one willing to teach these wild children in the mountains.If Ji Zhiqing needed it, he could even die.But obviously, that doesn't help in any way.

Ji Zhiqing's expression quickly turned pale, but he calmly confirmed with Li Gu what happened before Ji Hanxing disappeared.

He said: "Tomorrow, I will go out for a trip."

"I'll go with you." The village head hurriedly said, Ji Zhiqing acquiesced.

Although Li Gu didn't have the face to speak, he raised his hand with his neck stuck up: "I'll go too."

Ji Zhiqing shook his head wearily, "You stay, and I will bring him back." Ji Zhiqing's eyes were almost hopelessly determined, but that look was fleeting, and Li Gu didn't even understand the meaning in it.

At night Ji Zhiqing lay flat on the bed, unable to sleep even with her eyes closed.

Finally got up from the bed, taking advantage of the faint starlight shining into the dilapidated room, he took out a photo from his wallet.The person in the photo is handsome and resolute, but the photo is from many years ago, and the man in the photo is only in his early twenties, when he was young and energetic.

"I'm sorry, I've already lost you, and I didn't expect to be able to protect him well."

A night that never closed my eyes.

Every possibility is a kind of delay to oneself.Adults always try to spread their wings to protect young children and isolate them from the real and cruel society, but they still cannot completely stop the sudden malice from life.

Ji Zhiqing couldn't help but think, but didn't dare to imagine how a child like Ji Hanxing would be treated.

Ji Hanxing is a small and soft life, like leaf tips and flower buds growing in spring, young and beautiful.It is also the continuation of the only life left by that person...

If it's just someone trying to buy a boy back as a son, probably best case scenario, he won't be abused.If he was taken to become disabled, his hands and feet were broken, and he was used as a tool for begging...even the worst possibility...such a beautiful and tender boy, if he met...

Ji Zhiqing knew that such a person really existed, holding the old photo in his hand, his expression was in a daze for a moment: "Is this, retribution?"

The sky was about to dawn just now, and the stars hadn't been completely covered.

The village head drove educated youth Ji into the city.

Before leaving, he asked Li Gu to stay at home and go to the canteen from time to time to check if there was any call.

Seeing that Li Gu was unusually silent, the old village chief wanted to talk to him but didn't know how to speak, so he patted him on the head before going out: "You dog, watch your home. Everyone has a destiny, and what is destined to come , can you stop it? Xing Xing is a wealthy and lucky child, and he will definitely come back safely."

Li Gu was grateful that he could still pay attention to himself at this time, but this kind of comfort did not make him feel much better, so he just stuffed the dry food he had prepared early into the village chief's arms: "Stop talking. Go, go quickly .”

After the village chief left, he took out a bag with the best quality from the basket where he collected plastic bags at home, and wiped it clean with a damp rag.He carefully wrapped the things he bought for Ji Hanxing in his small broken bag, and stuffed them under the bed.

The day after Ji Hanxing went missing, Li Gu disappeared.

He doesn't know how high the sky is and how big the earth is, but simply thinks that as long as the sky and the earth have an end, he can keep looking for it in his life.Even if the world has no end, it doesn't matter, there will always be a moment when he can be closer to Ji Hanxing.

He left a crooked note:

I'm going to the stars, don't worry about me.

I can't find it and I won't come back.

but what you did was wrong

The younger a person is, the easier it is to make up his mind to do something big.But you don't know until you do it. For this real world, you are not so confident.

Li Gu touched the few ten-cent notes left in his pocket, clutched his hungry stomach, and pursed his mouth.Then I went to the side of the road to pick up a small cup of cold tap water. It’s really cold in winter. The water was almost freezing, so I put it down reluctantly. a shiver.

Perhaps because his stature was not tall enough, and he looked like a beggar in a downcast and absent-minded manner, almost no one noticed the little boy squatting in the corner.

Suddenly, the conversation between the two floated into his ears.

"Yesterday's one is so beautiful, it's given this number..." The person who spoke had a broken tooth, and gestured a palm to the person opposite him.

Li Gu trembled, keenly aware of something, but he didn't move.

He heard the sound of his heart beating violently in his small chest. The news was like a giant hammer hitting his heart. Cuozhong was frightened and calmed down a little, maintained his original posture, and listened with his ears pricked up.

"It doesn't look like there are adults following it."

"It looks good and looks good, but no one cares."

"Who knows, I don't see his family members looking for it, it's best to fade away in two days."

……

Li Gu tightly clutched the plastic cup in his hand, not letting himself make a sound, he had an intuition that this was the person in front of him.

After talking to the person opposite, Huo Ya wandered around the market twice to buy some braised vegetables.

Li Gu followed the man far away, passing through the messy vegetable market and shantytowns.Until there was no one there, Kuo Ya stretched out his hand to knock on the door, but no one came to open it for a long time, Kuo Ya cursed and prepared to take out the key from his pocket.

The moment before the key was inserted into the keyhole, Li Gu turned his head with the one he picked up, and threw it at the man with all his might.

Li Gu grew up in the mountains when he was young, and his strength at the age of 14 is not too small, and his anger filled him like a bull.

Huoya was attacked suddenly, staggered and hit the door panel, making a loud "boom", and after a short moment of confusion, he cursed in a low voice to prepare to fight back.Li Gu moved faster than him, grabbed the hair from the back of his head and slammed against the door twice, then grabbed the key to open the door and kicked him in.

Li Guli should have a guilty conscience, no matter his strength or size, he shouldn't be the opponent of Kuoya, but he has been roasted by anger to a murderous aura, and he has created a little momentum of risking his life to be omnipotent.I couldn't find anything suitable to tie him up, so I had to tie up my toothless hands with shoelaces hanging on the iron bars.It uses the knotting method used to tie pigs in the village, and the more you break free, the tighter it becomes.

"Damn! Where did you come from? How dare you touch me?"

"Let the fuck go, dare to snatch grandpa's things here, few of them can get out alive!"

Li Gu didn't want to hear him swearing, so he went up and slapped him a few times, his own hands were flushed from the slap but he didn't care, he yelled like a hooligan: "Shut up, I!"

Huo Ya was really bluffed by him, he didn't come here to ask for money.

Li Gu found the kitchen and took out the kitchen knife.

The blade was shining brightly, and Li Gu felt the blood rushing to his brain, and it went up to his neck: "Tell me, did the kid you mentioned earlier wear a dark blue scarf?"

The man suddenly understood. Seeing that he was a half-sized man carrying a knife, he was really afraid that he would not seriously injure himself, so his eyes rolled around: "Put the knife away, let's talk about it later."

Li Gu's eyes turned red. He didn't know whether it was because his hands were soft or the handle was oily and he couldn't catch it.Before Huoya thought that this was just a child, no matter how well he behaved, he might not dare to attack him, but he did not expect Li Guzhen to be so ruthless.

"If something happens to my brother, I'll kill him." Li Gu's eyes were bloodshot, and he didn't dare to let go of his grip. "It was you... who abducted him, right?" Saying that word was more difficult than imagined.Li Gu didn't cry in front of the village head, but now facing the person who kidnapped Ji Hanxing, his voice choked up: "My younger brother is the smartest, he is a student, do you understand? They kidnapped him, I don't know what to do Where to send it, and I don’t know what to do when I’m cold or hungry. Maybe others won’t let him study anymore, and they will bully him... But it doesn’t matter, if someone dares to touch him with dirty hands, I’ll chop one up!”

That man turned out to be a bit sour. He walked into this business and had seen countless adults who collapsed after the incident. He was already proficient at habitually lying and clearing the ties, but in front of this young man's fierce and pure eyes, he couldn't speak. .

"I don't sell people, I just give them to the next family."

"Next house... what, where?"

"Go south." Huo Ya gave instructions. He was probably sold to the south to the countryside, where there is a shortage of boys.He may not have any good intentions in pointing him out. He doesn't believe that the police will chase after a child for clues, and he doesn't think that this kid who looks like he is going to fight for his life at any time can really get anything good.If he was discovered, he would just be dismissed. At worst, he would not live in this crappy house. He would go to another place to nest for two months, and he would be a good man again when he came back.

However, Li Gu had a glimmer of hope because of his untrue advice: "Really?"

"He looks good, so I don't have to worry about the seller. Someone must have ordered it. But maybe that person won't sell it, so I'll find a few more to get a good price."

"Why are you in such a hurry to find, can you make a living?"

Li Gu wiped away the tears that fell when he was in a hurry, no matter how much he pretended to be tough, he was only 14 years old.

He wrapped the narrow kitchen knife and the heavy whetstone in a cloth, and took out two ten-cent notes from his pocket.What is more urgent than seeking revenge is to find Ji Hanxing's mind.Abandoning the tied people, Li Gu went out and wandered around the market, the south was too big, he didn't even know where to go.I was also afraid that Huoya would retaliate against him after he broke free, and for a moment I really felt that the world was so big that there was nowhere to set foot.

At this time, I saw the old man selling sweet potatoes last time, and handed him a sweet potato: "Eat it."

Li Gu didn't want to pick it up, he hated the old man's irresponsibility and cowardice.If the old man had told the truth in the dispute at that time, maybe he wouldn't have to argue with others, and Ji Hanxing wouldn't have gotten lost.Li Gu turned his head away and didn't go to pick up his sweet potato.

The old man stuffed sweet potatoes and a piece of paper into his hand, and patted the top of his head: "Huoya will not come to you. Go south and take this bus." It turned out that the torn paper was a ticket.

Li Gu looked at him, bowed almost halfway to him, and got up with red eyes: "But what you did was wrong."

The old man didn't say anything, white mist curled up, and freshly baked sweet potatoes were brought out.

The world is sometimes such a subtle collection of right and wrong.

Li Gu couldn't hold back his sadness anymore

Little Li Gu climbed on the bus to the south, and there was only one bus going south from this small city.

On the way, we stopped at a place like a factory building. The ceiling was so high that the rolling gate was half-opened, and the inside looked dark and bottomless.There was a dingy sign over the door that said "Motor Inn."The driver drove the people in the car down to eat, and after a quick scan, he knew that the price was obviously unreasonable, and the dishes were perfunctory like kitchen waste.The driver of this kind of line is a local emperor, and no one dares to refuse to eat when the passengers are asked to buy food.Li Gu didn't want to waste the money for a meal here, and he was afraid of being bad luck by the driver, so he walked to the corner and stared at the mutton dog in the restaurant with a hungry stomach.

While he was bored and drawing circles on the ground, he recalled about Ji Hanxing.I think of Ji Hanxing teaching him how to write when he fed Ji Hanxing persimmons.

The child is so clean and beautiful, he was really abducted by human traffickers, and he didn't know how he would be treated.

He also thought that if Ji Hanxing was brought into the car, he would probably rest here as well, Li Gu was excited by this thought.It can't be wrong, there is only one bus, so Ji Hanxing must have been taken along this road.

He looked around vigilantly, and seeing that no one was paying attention, he sneaked to the back kitchen.Amid the messy piles of vegetables and the greasy air, a taciturn old man was wiping the table.Seeing that he looked kind, Li Gu walked up politely and lowered his voice: "Uncle, I want to ask you something."

The man turned his head slowly, and when he saw Li Gu, the light in his eyes seemed to dim.He is a teenager, but he is not white, tender and pretty enough.

"what happened?"

"Have you ever seen a little boy wearing a dark blue scarf? It's about this tall." Li Gubi stroked, his tone a little anxious.

The man paused and shook his head.

Li Gu didn't get the expected answer, he thought that if Ji Hanxing was really taken away from here, this person should have a little impression of him, after all he is such a little boy that cannot be ignored.

Holding his breath, he ran out of the deep mountain depression, and borrowed a bit of courage that did not belong to him from his anger to intimidate an adult, but now this advice that he didn't know the truth of was in vain.Li Gu couldn't hold back his sadness any longer, looked at the man slumped, finally couldn't hold back his tears, and cried: He is my younger brother, I lost him.

A 14-year-old child, regardless of whether he looks like a black-skinned monkey or not, is adorable when he cries.

The man looked at him for a moment, squatted down, and handed over a handkerchief, the soft cloth wiped Li Gu's wet eyelashes: "Don't cry, are you alone?"

Hands caressed his back as if soothing, and gradually stretched down...

When the man squatted down, the key at his waist was shaking. Li Gu listened to the sound, looked over unconsciously, and found the dark blue wool stuck in the key ring.

The discomfort left by being touched on the back is like being crawled by a snake through the winter cotton coat.And those threads with special colors are almost certainly the scarf around Ji Hanxing's neck.Li Gu felt blessed in that moment, and he understood many things.

He is 14 years old this year, he doesn't know much, but he has heard a lot about it.From the adult's few words and cryptic expression, he also learned some things that he should not have known earlier. At that moment, he almost precociously understood the attributes of this man.

He broke free from the man's grasp violently, those long and pale hands were not as fragile as they looked, but as strong as eagle claws.The almost beastly intuition told Li Gu that if there was a dispute, he would not be able to break free from these hands.

He made the smartest choice in the first ten years of his life. When the man looked over suspiciously, Li Gu cried "Wow", "I, I am an orphan, and the village chief asked me to help him see his relatives." My child, now that I have lost that younger brother, they will definitely beat me to death when I go back."

Submissive, well-behaved because of misery, barely qualified.

The man touched the back of his neck, Li Gu held back his nausea and begged him: "Uncle, you look like a good person, can you help me?"

Li Gu just stayed.

The driver drove the people who paid for the meal into the car like a herd of sheep, regardless of whether they had finished eating or not. When they counted the number of people, they found that the car was empty.The man in the back kitchen came out, took out something from his pocket and stuffed it into the driver's sleeve. Hearing the sound of rubbing, it should be banknotes, but the amount is unknown.The driver looked behind him for a moment, then showed an ambiguous smile, closed the door and drove away.

The man brought out steaming meals to Li Gu from the kitchen.Li Gu was indeed hungry, so he whispered thank you and took the plate. His heart was bursting with too many emotions at the moment, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hide what was on his mind just by looking at that person, so he could only hide in a corner and eat hard. Deep little pitiful look.

"You are an orphan, and you have lost another child, what will you do when you go back?" The man stared at him and sighed decently.

Li Gu glanced at him quickly, then quickly withdrew his gaze, swallowing the food in the bowl vigorously, hiding his nervousness with a famished look.

The man opened his mouth again, seductively: "If you are afraid of being beaten when you go back, don't rush away. Some people want a son who will hurt when they go back. Do you want to stay here first?"

Ji Hanxing has no intention of sitting still

Li Gu didn't have many calculations in his mind at the time, he just thought simply and stubbornly that this might be the only chance to find the stars.He had to stay with this man.

It was very cold in winter, Li Gu helped the man wash the dishes after eating that meal, and his hands that were taken out of the cold water were bitingly icy, and soon became scorchingly hot.Another car came from behind, going in another direction, and the driver drove the guests down for dinner like a pig.While collecting the money, the man kept looking away from time to time in Li Gu's direction.Li Gu knew what he meant, so he nestled timidly by the corner of the wall, intentionally not to attract too much attention from him.I just recruited the mixed-haired dog and played with it with my head down.

After sending off two more trains, this gloomy house seemed even more bottomless against the premature dusk.The man turned on a dim light, poured half a jug of wine, and ate and drank by himself.He also intentionally brought the cup to Li Gu's mouth, coaxing him to drink intimately, Li Gu couldn't avoid it, so he could only raise his head and gulp down.When he met people in the village and held weddings, he often mixed wine and drank. Compared with the man's meticulous way of drinking, a small cup is nothing, but this rather cheerful and bold action somehow dispelled the man's interest. The man waved his hand, telling Li Gu to roll to the corner and wait.

After the man ate it himself, he put a portion of the food in a bowl and put another bowl upside down to cover it, then put it in a plastic bag and carried it away.He had no intention of taking Li Gu back, he walked through the crowded back kitchen, pushed open a greasy door, revealing a storage room stuffed with quilts and old clothes, and sent Li Gu to sleep here tonight.

Li Gu stared at the meal he had packed, and then grabbed the man's trouser legs tightly.The man lowered his eyebrows and asked impatiently: "What else?"

Li Gu couldn't speak clearly, he didn't know whether he was nervous or cold, he said tremblingly, "I, I want to go with you..."

The man took another look at him, no matter how you look at him, he is a somewhat rough boy, not tender enough, nor cute enough, the freshness of being a young man when we first met is almost gone, showing a bit embarrassed expression: "I live at home. No more, you rest for one night, and tomorrow I will find you a loving father, and then you will have a house to live in."

Li Gu gritted his teeth: "I'm scared alone... Please, I don't take up space."

The man frowned, his eyes finally showing impatience and hostility.

Li Gu knew that this was not a good time to offend him, so he settled for the next best thing: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, I'll just stay here..."

The man exhaled the moist smell of alcohol from his nose and turned around.Li Gu rushed forward: "Wait, uncle!" In response, there were already dangerous flour bags piled up next to him. When the man saw it, he quickly dodged to the side, but he still didn't escape being thrown all over by the flour. .His eyes widened, like a beast about to pounce on him, Li Gu explained in a low voice: "I, I just want you to keep something for self-defense. I dare not sleep alone."

"Huh," the man snorted with a bit of contempt, cursed in dialect, roughly meaning that who would want this, then pouted into the kitchen, lowered his voice half coaxing and half threatening: "Yes A knife, for chopping bones."

The flour made a long line along where he walked.

The rolling gate outside fell, and the footsteps gradually died down.Li Gu climbed up by stepping on the stone sink in the kitchen, and reached the high window behind.Holding a knife that was so heavy that he could barely hold it, he chopped off the precarious wooden pegboard, opened a hole in the window, and relying on his immature body, Li Gu jumped from a high place.The ceiling of the factory building was very high, and when he jumped off he heard the crisp sound of bones, he must have broken a bone.But Li Gu couldn't care less about it, he was almost sticking to the ground, through the dark night, he could discern traces of flour little by little, and followed in the direction the man walked.

The amount of those white powders was not enough, it became more and more difficult to identify, and finally disappeared completely at an intersection.

Li Gu didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly chose one, but when he ran to the end, he found that it was a dead end.The young man was so anxious that tears almost fell, he bit his lip, the fishy and sweet taste permeated the tip of his tongue, there was no time for hesitation, he rushed back and took another step.

This time it was surprisingly smooth, he looked up at the entrance of the alley, and the figure of the man was reflected in the window on the second floor.

In a room of an old-fashioned residential building, a man was silently confronting that beautiful little boy.The little boy avoided his eyes, but the man's eyes lingered on him greedily.He had never seen such a cute boy like Yuxue, it was as if all his fantasies had come true, just looking at him like this was enough to make him breathe heavily.The man glanced at the broken bowl on the ground, and then at Ji Hanxing. The pretty little man calmed down the arrogance in his heart, and said softly, "My dear baby, you have been sold to me. Do you know what it means to sell to me? You are mine..."

Ji Hanxing took a step back slightly. Although everything happened so suddenly, he didn't intend to sit still. There were broken pieces of porcelain in his pocket hidden in a mess.Just when he was gritting his teeth and preparing to try his luck, he saw Li Gu's face behind the man outside the window. He was watching the man's back with red eyes, wishing he could kill him soon.

He suddenly realized that Ji Hanxing was watching

It is an old-fashioned residential building, the floor height is not very high, but it is not too low for Li Gu. Fortunately, there are messy sheds and sundries around it for footsteps.Li Gu climbed up from the second floor with his bare hands. For many years afterwards, every time he thought about it, he didn't know how he did it.Maybe if he just looked down a little bit, he would be so scared that his feet would give up and he would fall.Maybe he would give up because of the pain as long as he distracted his broken foot a little.

However, he didn't think about anything at that time, the knife that could chop bones was tied around his waist, and the exposed pair of young hands directly grasped the iron pipe that had rusted and peeled due to age, and the iron pipe was tied He didn't know it when he got into the meat, he only knew that Xing Xing was in this room, and he wanted to climb up to rescue his little friend.

Ji Hanxing was originally calm, but when he woke up in a strange place, he was only at a loss for a moment. He quickly calmed down, checked his clothes, and found no signs of being passive before he was completely relieved.He didn't lose his composure when facing the man with malicious intentions alone, but at this moment when he saw Li Gu's face outside the window, he felt a little sore for a moment, the grievance and vulnerability that a child should have surged up at the same time. Li Gu's heart trembled.

The man was no longer rational and patient due to the smell of alcohol, and Ji Hanxing refused to listen to his good words, so he no longer wanted to slowly coax the things in his pocket.A little rudely, he grabbed Ji Hanxing's direction, and Ji Hanxing quickly hid once because of his small stature.The man didn't notice the movement outside the window, his eyes were fixed on Ji Hanxing, and he couldn't tell other thoughts.

Li Gu's hands are shaking, maybe it's because of nervousness, maybe it's because