Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Mom! I'm back," Li Jing led me to her house like a puppy.

Although Li Jing's mother is only in her 40s, her hair has turned gray and her forehead has many wrinkles. She looks like she has been through many vicissitudes.

"Xiaojing... who is this? Is it your classmate?"

"No, Mom." Li Jing tugged at my arm and said, "Mom, I just caught this kid on the edge of the moat. This kid is not a good guy when he looks sneaky. I suspect he is electric fish."

"Dianyu?" Li Jing's mother asked me suspiciously: "Young man, are you from Dianyu?"

I hurriedly explained that this was all a misunderstanding, and I was not an electric fish at all.

Li Jing's mother looked at me kindly, shook her head and smiled and said: "I don't think you look like an electric fish, little classmate, Xiao Jing, you made a mistake this time, you girl even brought someone here, Apologize now."

I later figured out the situation and understood why Li Jing wanted to catch electric fish.

This is because the Shunde Forestry Bureau offered a reward. At that time, the ecological damage of the Yangtze River was serious, and the Chinese sturgeon and the Yangtze River Baiji were on the verge of extinction. The higher authorities made a big determination to protect the water environment of the inland river. This wave of actions also affected Shunde.

Anyone who catches an electric fish fried fish can go to the Forestry Bureau to receive a reward, and if one person is caught, the reward is 500 yuan!

That's why the girl Li Jing is holding on to me. He treats me like an electric fish and wants to send me to the Forestry Bureau in exchange for rewards...

Because her family is short of money.

Under her mother's compulsion, Li Jing apologized to me reluctantly. She said, classmate, I'm sorry.

Mrs. Li was very hospitable. To express her apology, she asked me to leave a piece for lunch.

It's almost two o'clock now, and I happened to be hungry and flustered, so I agreed.

For the rice at noon, Li's mother prepared three dishes, one scrambled eggs with leeks, one zucchini beans, and one cold lotus root slices.

I picked up the bowl and stewed my head to eat. Li Jing looked at me coldly. From time to time, she knocked on the porcelain bowl vigorously with her chopsticks, deliberately making a big noise, which made Li's mother frown frequently.

She disliked me for eating her eggs.

Mother Li scolded her: "Xiao Jing, why are you so unruly, how did this little classmate offend you?"

Li Jing bit the tip of her chopsticks, curled her lips and said, "I didn't mess with me, but I just don't like this kid."

I was also angry at the time.

Although I have no parents, I was born humble, and my family is poor and no one cares about me, but there is one thing, I am a person with strong self-esteem.

I put down the bowls and chopsticks at that time, got up and said goodbye to Li's mother.

"You girl, who cares to eat your eggs," I thought angrily.

As a result, as soon as I reached the door, I was pushed back by a large group of people.

There were six or seven people, all young and middle-aged men in their 30s and [-]s. They carried paint buckets in their hands, and some of them carried sticks in their hands.

"Where's Li Dequan? Li Dequan get out!"

"If you don't come out again, I'll kill your wife and children!"

They were all fierce and fierce. I had never seen such a battle before, so I was frightened and dumbfounded. Li Jing and her mother were not much better, and their faces were pale.

The man walked into the room with a paint bucket, and when he saw the food on the table, the man sneered.

"Fuck, give me money to eat eggs! If I have money to eat eggs, don't I pay back my money?"

"I'll let you eat!" The man directly lifted the paint bucket and poured a table full of red paint.

The smell of paint was pungent and unpleasant, and the dishes on the table were immediately covered with red paint. Mother Li's eyes were terrified, and Li Jing lowered her head and did not speak.

"Hey..." The man smiled and said, "Eat eggs, right? No money, right?"

He used a stick to poke the scrambled eggs with leeks covered in paint in front of Li Jing.

"Eat, the eggs are delicious, right? As long as you eat this plate today, then we'll leave, haha." Several other people also laughed in agreement.

"What are you doing!" I couldn't stand it anymore, isn't this bullying!

"Hehe," the man looked at me and said with a smile, "Brother, may I ask which onion you are?"

I took a deep breath and said, "I'm classmate Li Jing. If you dare to mess around, I will call the police!"

"Huh? Call the police?"

Suddenly, everyone around burst into laughter.

"It's only natural to pay off debts! You brat dare to call the police!"

He hit me hard on the head with the stick in his hand.

I subconsciously raised my arm to block it, but my reaction was slow and I didn't block it. I got a solid stick on the head.

My head was sticky, I reached out to touch it, my head was broken by a stick, and it was bleeding.

I just felt like the world was spinning around my eyes.

"stop fighting!"

"I'll eat! I'll eat!" Li Jing, who had kept her head down, suddenly raised her head, and she shouted loudly with red eyes.

Mother Li kept wiping away tears.

Li Jing grabbed the egg on the plate with her hand, opened her mouth and stuffed it into her mouth...

There was paint all over the eggs, and the smell was so pungent that Li Jing retched after taking a bite.

"Haha, you can't do this, eat it all! I said eat it all! Are you deaf?"

Li Jing grabbed the egg and stuffed it into her mouth.

5 minutes later, the plate of eggs was gone.

"Hehe, it's interesting. It's not in vain today. The brothers watched a good show. Also, remember to tell Li Dequan that when we come over, if there is no money, it will not be so simple."

The group left a word, cursed and left.

My head was broken and I bled a lot. I was very uncomfortable lying on the ground.

"How are you?" Li Jing wiped the paint from her mouth, and carefully helped me up.

Mother Li found gauze and simply wrapped my head. I lay on their bed and rested for more than an hour before recovering.

"Little classmate, I'm sorry for hurting you," Mother Li said to me with a guilty face.

"Auntie, what do those people do?" I still had a headache, so I asked her with restraint.

"My dad failed in business and owed them a lot of money," Li Jing said.

"Business failure? How much is owed?"

"Hey..." Mother Li couldn't help shaking her head and said, "5 yuan..."

"5 yuan! That's a lot!" I was taken aback when I heard this amount. Even if I don't eat or drink, I can't pay it for two or three years.

"Little classmate, you should live in school or go to the hospital. We'll take you back. I'm really sorry," Mother Li apologized to me again.

"No, no, I don't have to go to school, I just go by myself, I can go by myself now."

After going out, Li Jing came out to see me off.

"Hey, I'm sorry just now," she apologized to me with her head down as she walked side by side with me.

"It's okay, it's all over," I waved my hands generously and smiled.

"Aren't you from our school? Which middle school do you go to? I'll go and play with you in the future," Li Jing asked me suddenly.

"Huh? This, this..."

I lied and said, "I am a sophomore in No. [-] Middle School."

"No. [-] Middle School, then you should be doing well in your studies," Li Jing said with a smile.

I blushed and didn't dare to answer. My academic performance has remained in the bottom three all year round, which is very stable.

At that time, PHS was just becoming popular, and ordinary students couldn't afford mobile phones, so naturally they didn't leave a call, but Li Jing said that I would come and play with him when I was free, and let me help her with her homework.

Back at the hotel, Wang Baotou was drinking tea.

When he saw that I was wrapped in gauze, he almost spit out the tea.

Wang raised his head and asked me loudly: "Yunfeng, what's wrong with you? Did you fall into the pit when you were loosening the soil?"

I said with some embarrassment: "Hold on, I was beaten by someone."