Compete for crossing

Strange to say, Ajie hasn't seen the artillery for a while since the time he got drunk.The artillery seems to have evaporated from the world. Even if Ajie returned home at two or three o'clock, he did not see the familiar figure at the familiar barbecue stand.

But it was not a surprise to Cannon, because he went to visit his brother.

The reason he came here a year ago was to find his younger brother. The reason was simple. Shortly after his younger brother went to college, he suddenly lost contact and never called or sent letters to his family.Huo Pao once thought that his younger brother had encountered an accident, so he hurriedly chased him here.

He clearly remembered that the first time he came here, he hurriedly asked the doorman at the gate of Qiuling University, then asked the school security guard, and finally grabbed a few men and women who looked like teachers, and finally found out which classroom his brother was in .

At that time, his younger brother was in the study room, and Cannon didn't bother him, so he sat on a bench outside the classroom and waited for him to come out.But in the end, a stone fell to the ground in my heart.

In fact, at that time, he didn't care about the disaster that happened to him two days ago. After all, he brought the things over and bought some food for his younger brother with the money he got.

The fellow who had the accident was not from their village, but from the village next door. Although he was also very panicked on the day of the accident, it was important to find his younger brother, so he was not in a mood of grief or remorse.

Now the joy of seeing his younger brother dilutes this feeling again, so that he only spent two cigarettes thinking about it. He was already in his thirties, and it was the first time he came to the legendary money town, but he hadn't had a chance to see it clearly. Every plant and tree in the village is dying.

However, this situation was common in those years.

Artillery was born on the barren land of Xiong Country. When their small country and the big country here were still one, they could get the poverty alleviation allocation from the government every year.Although it is not possible to talk about making a fortune, it is still no problem to have enough food.

And when the country is divided, this appropriation naturally ceases to exist.A year's harvest depends entirely on God's gift, but even if the weather is good, you can only eat half full.What's more, the past two years have been plagued by drought or insects. The old people who can walk have gone, let alone the young.

The land is idle, and the government does not provide relief.It seems that the country they live in has not recovered from the disaster. Not to mention people living in rural areas, even if they live in cities, they may not be able to open the pot.

The village where the artillery is located is not bad. The young people ran out early. According to the current popular saying, there are many overseas relations. The east is not bright and the west is bright. The disasters in the past few years have not made them unable to eat, so he didn’t think about it at first. After coming out, I never thought of picking up trains or squeezing containers like other Xiong people.

But when my younger brother was admitted to university, things changed.The tuition fees of the university are so high that it is breathless, and the little harvest and the meager assistance from the relatives who are far away are not enough to sustain.

At that time, people who had been out in the village said that the hilly city in the neighboring country is good, and the land is full of gold. If you are willing to go, you will definitely make a lot of money.No matter how bad it is, it is definitely more practical than guarding those few acres of empty fields.

When several young people summed up, they also slowly wavered.

In addition, my younger brother couldn't be contacted soon after returning to school. The fire was so intense that the cannon couldn't sit still. Even if he didn't stay in Hilly City, he had to make sure that his younger brother was okay.

So to be precise, Huo Pao is just a stowaway. He doesn't consider himself a refugee, at least not like what Ajie described when he got drunk that day.

Thinking of the few words that Ajie said in a daze, Huo Pao didn't feel very well.But Ajie didn't know all this, and Huo Pao didn't want to keep these words in his heart.In the final analysis, Ajie also bandaged himself out of kindness, and it is better to know how to repay his kindness than to live a life of pennies and pennies.

Huo Pao turned his gaze back to the teaching building, squeezed Ajie's words out of his mind, and refocused his attention on his younger brother.

Huo Pao's younger brother is called Shanqing. This nickname sounds more like reading material than Huo Pao.

I remember that when I was a child, my younger brother just knew how to crawl, and brought him to the glass cabinet at the canteen at the entrance of the village, and gave him a gold coin and a pen at the same time.

That was the habit of Huo Pao's village. Huo Pao crawled towards the gold coin when he was young, and even put the gold coin in his mouth to chew.

The younger brother climbed to the other side of the pen, as if at that moment he was destined to become the only scholar in the artillery family.

Huo Pao has always been proud of Shanqing, not only him, but his family and even the whole village are proud of Shanqing.

It's just that this pride soon showed cracks, because when Huo Pao stood guard at the door of the classroom a year ago, expecting that Shan Qing would surprise his arrival and give him a hug like in the past, he only got an almost Yu asked indifferently—"You...why are you here?"

"I'll come and see you, why haven't you contacted us these days?" Huo Pao stood up and greeted Shan Qing who came out of the classroom door.

But Shan Qing's face was full of astonishment, not joy, and if the artillery saw it right, there was deep embarrassment.

This embarrassment made him quickly glance at a female classmate, and he hesitated for a while before approaching the artillery.

Instead, the girl smiled politely at the cannon, lowered her head knowingly and left.

Shanqing has grown taller and whiter, her clothes are neat and her hair is clean.He is more like Ajie's younger brother than Cannon's younger brother, which is another capital that makes Cannon proud.

After all, their family gave birth to a human-looking child, and the previous investment and supplies were not in vain.

Huo Pao wanted to hug Shan Qing, but Shan Qing retreated a little.Huo Pao didn't force it knowingly, and put his hands in his pockets a little helplessly.He found the lighter and cigarettes in his pocket, took them out and handed them to Shanqing.

Shan Qing frowned, shook his head, and didn't twitch.

It was a winter day in Hill City, and the cold wind was blowing the leaves rustling.The trees here haven't fallen their leaves yet, but the temperature of the wind is cold, so cold that the artillery has to light a cigarette to keep warm.

He and Shanqing walked on the campus road, while Shanqing kept a safe distance from him.

Huo Pao asked him how he was at school, whether he was nervous about studying, how well he got along with his classmates, whether he was getting enough to eat, and whether he had enough clothes.

Shan Qing responded blankly, and looked around vigilantly along the way, as if he was afraid of encountering an acquaintance who came to ask him about his relationship with the artillery.

Although Huo Pao came out of the village, he also understood that this look was chasing away guests.He is a disgraceful person, even if he passes the security booth, the security guards will look at him more.

He is a mouse strayed into this lush campus, making him more obvious than other references.

After walking for half an hour, Huo Pao found an excuse and said that he was going to go to work, "You have time to contact the family, parents are worried."

Shanqing gave a "hmm" and said that you should pay more attention before turning her head and leaving.

This was the first meeting between the two brothers after they parted, and after the artillery found out, he would not disturb his younger brother's life easily.

So he would only go to say hello when there were few people. Later, when he bought a mobile phone, he must inform Shanqing in advance, and make an appointment where and what time to meet. Stay longer.

It's the same today, he has the living expenses that should be given to Shanqing this month in his pocket.

He took it out and handed it to Shanqing, who, as always, said thank you in a neutral manner.

Thank you.

The tone was very similar to the day Ajie was hungover.

Looking at the back of Shanqing leaving, Huo Pao suddenly became a little dazed. It seems that Qiuling City is really a place that can assimilate people. Shan Qing has only been here for two years, and he is completely different from Huo Pao.

Cannon didn't get a ride that day, and he walked for a long time on the way back, until he reached the place where he lived before realizing that he had arrived home.He pushed open the door, the plane was arguing with who knows which girlfriend, and the wine bottles were kicked everywhere.

Cannon also kicked the bottle a few times, creating a path.The plane and the girl continued to quarrel as if they hadn't seen him, until the end of the quarrel, they didn't know who smashed the water glass on the table to the ground, and slammed the door to lead the war from the entrance of the corridor to the bottom of the building.

Huo Pao lay in a daze on the bed, looking at the moldy ceiling, listening to the sharp argument between the plane downstairs and the girl, and emptied himself as much as possible.

In fact, he thinks that the plane is a capable person, at least better than him.They have been around for more than a year, from selling fake certificates to selling pirated discs, and then decided to specialize in art to replace all regular movies with four boys. Waiting at the door of several bars, you can get hundreds of dollars in one night.

But he knew that they couldn't blend in here, whether it was the patrols wearing red armbands, or the assistant policemen wearing police uniforms and holding batons, even the security guards of the school, or even the well-dressed office workers like Brother Jie. Think of them as outliers.

You don't even need to check your ID card, you can tell at a glance that they are black and black households.

But even so, the plane still found a girlfriend.

Let's not talk about what those girlfriends rely on for food, but at least they are willing to live with airplanes, which is where airplanes are more powerful than artillery.And he was willing to come with him in this kind of dilapidated house where three people squeezed together, and the windows were still covered with newspapers. If you don't have a bit of personality charm, you probably can't do it.

Artillery obviously doesn't have the charm of aircraft.

But it is true, the plane looks fair and clean, and he also pays attention to his image. If he has money and dresses like Brother Jie, he will look like the locals.

Cannon is different. Cannon has bruises on his face, dark skin, hard and short hair, and often forgets to shave.

He remembered the day when he walked into Brother Jie's house, he was even afraid that the soles of his shoes would dirty the smooth and dust-free floor.Sleeping on the sofa all night was even worse, if it wasn't so cold, I wouldn't be embarrassed to cover Jiege's coat.

Brother Jie is such a beautiful and distant person, if he is really Shanqing’s elder brother, then Shanqing’s road must be easier than now, at least he can go back to his matching home for a meal on weekends Okay, instead of hiding every phone call.

Cannon took out a cigarette and lit one, then lay down and sprayed the smoke to the ceiling.

Inexplicably, he thought of Brother Jie's face again, and he also thought he was ridiculous, but it was probably the most beautiful face he had ever seen when he grew up, and it was normal to think about it.

He had an impression of those eyes, with sword-like eyebrows and apricot eyes. People in his hometown said that such people were loyal ministers in ancient times.His eyes glow when he smiles at the cannon, and that light seems to be able to shine into the cannon's dream.

There is an older brother in Huo Pao who also has such eyes, and he is a handsome guy in their village.However, his fate is obviously not as good as that of Brother Jie. After leaving his hometown five years ago, he has not been contacted again.

It was not until last year that a call was made to the entrance of the village. It was from the police station, asking the family to identify the body.

Huo Pao had accompanied a few people from his hometown to the city, and that night the small hospital was almost collapsed by the crying of the family members.

The little handsome guy died in a car accident, and was dragged dozens of meters away after hitting him.The place where the accident happened was a one-sided road leading into the mountain, with few people.

I heard that he was still alive when he was hit, and he hummed for a long time on the way, until he was found and sent to the hospital, and he was completely out of breath.

The victim was found, but the perpetrator escaped.

The little handsome boy's family members grabbed the doctors and nurses and burned incense and paper in the corridor, creating a miasma of smoke.No matter how much the hospital security tried to persuade them, it was the urban police who finally drove them away.

Huo Pao went back to the village the next day. I heard that the family continued to quarrel for a few days, but of course, this had nothing to do with the hospital, and it ended up being nothing.

There are many rumors. Some people say that he was killed by a nemesis from the next village. Some people say that it was an accident. Some people say that he probably asked for his own death. After all, the debt he owed in the city cannot be repaid. If you die, you don't have to pay it back.

It's just that this guy is wicked, and he doesn't want to die quickly. He doesn't want to jump down the mountain from the one-way road to finish the job, and he has to involve a passing driver.

It was only then that they realized that the reason why this handsome guy didn't contact his family after he left his hometown was because he had no face to do so.When he first went to the city, he still made some money, but he soon became addicted to gambling. The more he played, the more he owed.

Now that an astronomical figure is reported, the family members can only keep silent about his death.

Huo Pao felt that this was their inferiority, and it was also one of the reasons why they were looked down upon by the people here.If you have money, you don't know how to spend it or how to keep it, so it is wrong to get the money, and it will eventually return to the pockets of the rich.

It's like Huo Pao clearly remembers that he made some money by reselling those things, but he doesn't know why he lived in this shabby place a year ago, and now he still lives here.

The plane came up after the quarrel, patted the cannon's bed board, and said don't sleep, it's almost time to start work.

Huo Pao threw Cigarette off the bed, glanced sideways at the surrounding night, and jumped off the bed in response.