my brother became a scum

I looked at this photo, curled the corners of my mouth and smiled, if time went back more than ten years ago, I would definitely pick up my coat in a hurry and go out to save him.

I would anxiously call him and tell him to drink less alcohol, and then brave the bitter wind and thick snow to take a taxi to rescue him.

I will carry him behind my back, leave a footprint in the white snow, and listen to him talking nonsense in a daze.

The past cannot be traced back, those are the past.

I put down my phone and thought of something to eat again. I cut some shredded radish and stuffed with meat and dough. It can fry two large pots of meatballs. Fatty Wang must like it.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I wrapped myself up and went to Wenzhou Airport, and held a sign to pick up Fatty Wang. After so many years, Fatty Wang is still worthy of his title. He is still a chubby but flexible person. Fatty, he saw me, looked at me and said, "Chen Heping?"

"What's the matter, don't you recognize me?"

"You look like a dog here, standing here is very impressive, I don't dare to admit it."

I threw the sign to him and said, "How many luggage do you have, pass me the luggage list?"

"Two, if you don't recognize me, I'll come out and talk about it later."

Wenzhou Airport is also full of people. We struggled for two hours before getting into the taxi. Fatty Wang touched the cigarette from his arms and was about to light it. Get out of the car and smoke again."

The driver in the front row turned his head and glanced at me: "If you want to smoke, smoke."

Fatty Wang still lit the cigarette. As soon as he took a puff, I couldn't stop coughing.

Fatty Wang pinched his cigarette hastily, and laughed at me: "What's the matter with you, I remember you are an old smoker."

"It's been a while since I smoked," I pulled out a tissue, covered my mouth and coughed a few times, "I guess I can't smell the smoke."

"Then you didn't just say it directly, why are you talking about the smoking ban?"

"The smoking ban is true. The traffic police saw someone smoking in the car, and whoever smoked was fined 200 yuan."

"RMB?"

"You can give us dollars if you want."

Fatty Wang smiled awkwardly, and replied to me: "Children's tuition fees are high, and people are poor and short-sighted."

I glanced at him and said nothing.Fatty Wang studied for another three years after he went abroad, and he studied finance. This major was originally profitable without losing money. Unexpectedly, the year of graduation was unlucky, and there was an economic crisis. In the face, these things were not told to us, and I don't know how I got through it.Things got better when I came here, and my profession came in handy, and I started to earn money desperately, anywhere, that is, I always change wives.A few years ago, I fell in love with a woman who was eight years older than him. She called me and told me that it was the true love of his life. But it didn’t take long before I encountered a new round of financial crisis. I was so poor that I lost my pants. The woman is still willing to marry him. It is said that even the wedding is spent on the woman's money. The economic situation has been good in the past few years. Fatty Wang has barely recovered, the child has been born, and life is finally back on track.

I can't accept that he got married and divorced easily when he was young, but it is his own life after all, and I don't want to talk too much. Now that he has become a good father, I think he has finally settled down, and it's good no matter what.

The taxi stopped at the hotel, I paid the fare, and helped to get off with the luggage.

"Chen Heping, buy a car when you have saved enough money." Fatty Wang carried the luggage, and we walked side by side to the service desk.

"I bought it, the number is limited today, and I can't open it to pick you up."

"Wenzhou City also has a number limit?"

"Numbers are restricted everywhere, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection is like eating a powder barrel."

"I remember that for a few years, you were still working in the environmental protection department."

"Yeah, we were tormenting heavily polluting enterprises back then, but we had never tormented the public like this."

We chatted briefly, and when we got to the service desk, we started to fill out the form and go through the formalities. I took out the card to pay, but Fatty Wang pushed me aside at once, and took his own card to swipe it neatly.

He took the credit card and swiped the money directly without entering the password.

I squeezed my fingertips: "You go back to China and apply for a domestic card, you are too unsafe."

"The amount of this one is not too big," Fatty Wang smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, and he just said with a smile, "I have an ex-wife. During the few days when the divorce was filed, they took away 20 US dollars from me. .”

"Then you are really unlucky." I felt sorry for him for a second.

He punched my back, took the room card and went up with me.

Fatty Wang didn't know why I resigned suddenly. He was also smart and didn't rush to ask about the details. I picked up the names of several restaurants and told him, and he lay flat on the bed and insisted on going to my house to eat.

I rubbed the space between my brows, and told him that I would go to the hotel right away, and it would be too late to go to my house. At least I dispelled his idea. In the end, the guy was too lazy to move, so we went directly to the hotel's buffet and had a makeshift meal.

The atmosphere was good, and he was quite relaxed, joking and bragging about his studies back then. I asked him how long he would stay in China, and he said he would do something for the head office, and he would have to go back after a maximum of two weeks.

I asked how my uncle and aunt were doing, and he didn't shy away from me, telling me that my uncle was still in prison and my aunt got married a few years ago, Fatty Wang made three phone calls a year, during Chinese New Year Mid-Autumn Festival and March [-] Women's Day , Calling at other times, there is basically no hope of getting through.

Fatty Wang asked how my grandpa was doing, and I replied, “It’s gone a few years ago, so he just oh, he seemed to want to comfort me, but he couldn’t translate any words.

I changed the subject and asked him how his daughter was. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and showed me the photo. In the photo was a five or six-year-old girl. Her eyebrows and eyes looked like Fatty Wang, but she had beautiful curly hair. Hair, eyes a little light blue.

I sincerely praised: "Fatty Wang, your daughter is much prettier than you."

"Of course, my daughter is the prettiest!" He babbled on for a long time, looking like a slave to his daughter, listening to him babble, he felt warm.

In the afternoon, I led him to a nearby scenic spot and wandered around a few times. He took a few photos with his mobile phone, and I regretted not bringing his lens back.In the evening, the shabu-shabu started to walk, the beer was drunk, and he was very drunk. The next day, he had a splitting headache, and Fatty Wang was sleeping on the bed and snoring.

After I stayed with him like this for two days, I couldn't take it anymore. He also told me to go back first. He went to contact his other brothers and asked me if I wanted to join their game.I asked for the name of the person, but I really couldn't find any impression. In addition to the previous incident in Lushi, I was more or less unwilling to join the crowd, so I directly rejected it.

I went home and tidied up the room. Some employees had already returned to Vancouver. I had a meal with them and gave some instructions.

I thought that nothing would happen in the last two or two days of the Chinese New Year holiday, but I still relaxed too early - early in the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, my mobile phone rang, and I glanced at the number, it was the police The landline number of the agency, I answered the phone, and the other side was doing business, saying that my friend was arrested in the police station for soliciting prostitution, and asked me to pay the fine and take him away.

My first reaction was that it was a scam. I don't have any close friends in Wenzhou. Even if I did, the other party would not go to whoring, but I soon realized that something might have happened to Fatty Wang.

I sighed heavily, and asked the comrade police officer, "Can you report that person's life and ID number conveniently?"

"Wang Qinglian, the last four digits of the ID card are 2556. Don't take me for a liar. You can come to the Fuqiang Police Station on Daliu Street in person."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

Wenzhou is a second-tier city, where prostitution cases are more formalized, STD testing is included, and people can be taken away after paying a fine and being detained for 15 days. Fatty Wang is a Chinese-American, and he handled it properly. After paying the fine, he can be released after being criticized and educated. people.These are the feedback results I got from a lawyer I consulted on the road.

I never thought that such a disgraceful thing would happen to my friend, let alone Fatty Wang. I can still vividly remember how he showed his love to me and his daughter a few days ago. In the blink of an eye, I was going to The police station took him out.

I stopped the car, got out of the car and locked the door. I still had a little fantasy that Fatty Wang had been abroad for too long and didn't understand the "national conditions", so he stumbled into some big health massage shop.

But I am also a man, and men know men best, and almost every man knows all these aspects.

The police station only accepts cash. I got out of the car and withdrew thousands of dollars from a nearby ATM. I went in and queued up to pay the fine. It seems that you are also a decent person, and your friend is too unreliable."

I smiled awkwardly and ignored him.The police at the police station told me the specific situation. They raided the whole process of prostitution last night and caught a group of prostitutes gathering in the massage parlor. The circumstances were relatively bad, so they were all brought back.Maybe my frown was more obvious, and the policeman added: "Shuangfei, you're really good at playing. If you know his wife, you can mention something."

These days, one more thing is worse than one less thing. The policeman said this one more thing, which is considered conscientious.I rubbed my temples and didn't know how to face Fatty Wang, but when I saw someone, he was much calmer than me. He gave me a bear hug first, and said directly: "Thank you, brother. The money is transferred to you."

We went through all the formalities and received half an hour of criticism and education. I was driving the car and heard him call his lover. Without a red face or a heartbeat, I just said that I was drunk last night and was full of my dear. Love you.Even if I could bear it, his daughter was replaced on the phone, and he spoke more tenderly this time. If I hadn't just fished someone out of the police station, I might have been tricked by him into thinking he was What a man who loves his wife and daughter.

I parked the car on the side of the road and leaned my head on the seat.No, maybe it’s not that I don’t love, but that I completely separate love from sexual intercourse, and I don’t think physical betrayal is a kind of betrayal. There are too many people like Fatty Wang, which makes me feel uncomfortable——I also I thought of Zhang Chen, in a way that I didn't want to think of.