Against the current Hengdao

Yan Xiaodao drove out of the downtown area.The trunk of his car was loaded with dried and fresh local products brought back from Sanjiang and Luancheng, as well as a gift box of white silver needles bought in the south that year, and his godfather loved to drink white tea.

Going out of the city to the north, it is close to the suburbs. This is a residential area that maintains the original appearance of the 600-year-old city and the folk customs. The front streets and back alleys are filled with blue-gray brick courtyards.The time in memory overflows with old colors, as if the scenery in old photos is reproduced in the lens of a kaleidoscope.There are also some memories of Yan Xiaodao's boyhood.

There is a generational gap between this place and the newly built business district in the city center, with a clear distinction, providing the last place for those old guys who miss the old style to escape from the world.

This is probably Qi Baoshan's last refuge, right?

No wonder godfather would stay in this kind of place... Yan Xiaodao thought to himself.

The master chef at the entrance of the teahouse opened the door curtain and greeted the guests in a vigorous way, with a voice like a bell, and the penetrating power went straight to the courtyard on the third floor.The old master Yuemo also felt that the person looked familiar, and he could tell Yan Xiaodao had an identity just by his suit and leather shoes and his extraordinary demeanor, but he couldn't remember his surname.

Yan Xiaodao greeted the people around lightly, and asked the teahouse manager in a low voice: "Is Master Qi there?"

The manager nodded and bowed politely: "Yes, yes! The private room at No. 16 on the east side of the second floor, Boss Yan, please!"

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In the middle of the stage of the teahouse, there is a show of Jin Ge Iron Horse and Da Jiang Dong Going. The storytelling actor in a long robe and mandarin jacket slaps the gavel, and the folding fan between his fingers shakes, laughing and cursing witty words, making the audience drink The old guy with a bowl of tea and eating melon seeds listened with gusto.

Yan Xiaodao took a can of Baihao silver needles and withheld a pot of hot water from the waiter.

In the private room, Qi Baoshan was sitting at the top of a mahjong table, raising his eyelids slightly to meet Yan Xiaodao's gaze.Yan Xiaodao nodded neither humble nor overbearing, and silently greeted: Godfather, don't come here without any harm.

To be exact, Yibie was not unharmed, and Master Qi was obviously old.

I haven't seen him for several months. Even if Qi Baoshan knows how to take good care of himself and is clean-shaven, he can't hide his aging and exhaustion.The cleaner the beard is shaved on the chin, the more it exposes the thousands of ravines on the nasolabial folds around the lips.Those lines are dry and vicissitudes.The godsons all ran away with the enemy's sons, Master Qi is not considerate and nourishing in his heart!

Maybe it was a psychological effect, Yan Xiaodao even felt that the pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his godfather's nose were not as clean and bright as before, and the lenses seemed to have not been wiped clean, but this man's eyes were still shrewd and bright, and his pupils were shining brightly.

A table of Mahjong is in full swing, and the dominoes keep making crisp sounds.Yan Xiaodao silently made tea and served water for Lord Qi, with lowered eyebrows and narrowed eyes with a respectful expression.At the same time, he poured bowls of tea for the other three bosses present. This was to help Master Qi look good in front of outsiders, and Xiaodao still understood the strict rules of observing words and manners and handling affairs.

"Oh, you're welcome, Boss Xiao Yan!" A poker player boasted in a flattering tone in the business field, "Boss Xiao Yan under our Lord Qi is still very thoughtful, and Master Qi is usually good at training!"

Qi Baoshan lowered his eyes and snorted, neither exaggerating nor hurting, his emotions were hidden, at this moment he stretched out his hand to grab the card and ate it.Another poker player exclaimed: "Tsk, look, as soon as your baby godson comes, your 'cornucopia' will come, and the money is rolling in. Now it's time to start winning money from old buddies!"

Qi Baoshan pointed to the seat beside him, calling his "cornucopia" Yan Xiaodao to sit beside him.

Between father and son, no matter how many storms and quarrels they have experienced in secret, they still maintain the affectionate loyalty between father and son in front of outsiders.As soon as Qi Baoshan raised his hand, Yan Xiaodao understood it. The two had a tacit understanding without saying anything. The conflicts in the past must not be seen as a joke by outsiders. This is also the teamwork style of family businesses in the business field.Not to mention the relationship between Master Qi and Xiaodao, Zhao Qifeng's fame spread far and wide for her husband to wear a cuckold, Boss Jian can still act as a loving couple with that bitch!These people have already perfected their acting skills.

After drinking all the tea, one of the poker players got up and offered his seat to Xiaodao.

As soon as Yan Xiaodao sat down, Qi Baoshan gave him a glance, and there was something in his words: "Boss Xiao Yan, I have to rely on you to be merciful to me."

Yan Xiaodao leaned back and said, "What's the godfather talking about?"

Yan Xiaodao thoughtfully and smoothly fed cards to his godfather all the way, and the other two card players yelled, "This card can't be played, you two have a heart-to-heart connection between father and son!"

Calculating the cards is very tiring, racking your brains to deliberately feed cards for others is no easier than trying to find a way to win the cards yourself.Yan Xiaodao's mind was spinning quickly, and when facing his godfather, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he was hesitant to talk.

As long as Qi Baoshan has Yan Xiaodao at his side to help out, he will be like a tiger with wings, and he will flourish on the mahjong table. He was still playing cards in a boring and stagnant style just now.

Qi Baoshan won the "Seven Small Pairs" in the last game.

Seven pairs, a total of fourteen cards were made, and the cards were overthrown.The godson wanted to help, but he didn't help this time. Mr. Qi found these fourteen sheets all by luck, which is absolutely impossible.

Those few poker friends are "card baskets" who often have fun with Master Qi in the teahouse. They know each other very well about the ins and outs of poker games, and they sighed sincerely: "Qi Baoshan, you old boy, you are the best at playing with us. Seven little pairs , so fucking annoying!"

"From now on, the few of us will set up a rule in playing cards, and he is not allowed to make a pair. Once we make a tie, we will make a tie with such a big one, and win me 8000 yuan in one game!"

"Qi Baoshan, no wonder you had a nickname when you were young. What's your name? 'Qi is right'? 'Seven pairs'? Is it you!"

"..."

Talking and laughing in the box, the harmonious wind of mutual flattery made the air feel sticky, and the senses became dull.The noisy voice gradually drifted away from Yan Xiaodao's ears, his consciousness gradually faded and alienated, and a circle of light flashed in front of his eyes...

Qi Ye is also considered a mahjong master, he becomes more scheming as he gets older, he is very good at playing cards, so that Yan Xiaodao's bluffing hand is learned from his godfather!

Therefore, Yan Xiaodao knew all along, but he didn't tell Captain Xue and Ling He the truth.Wherever Qi Baoshan goes, he will make some poker friends.Apart from silk jackets, black cloth shoes, antique utensils, and cooking a few side dishes, this person's usual hobbies are inseparable from this mahjong table, and he got a nickname from the table, "Qi Duidui".

Several poker players saw that Qi Baoshan and Yan Xiaodao had serious expressions and each had their own concerns, and they left after playing the last round.

The storytelling artist withdrew, and the soft voice of "Yi Yi Ya Ya" came from the middle of the stage.Qi Baoshan didn't wait for Yan Xiaodao to open his mouth to get to the point, "wow" withdrew his chair, and said with a sense of humor, "What's the matter with singing! Let's go, let's sing a song for them!"

Qi Baoshan is a big customer of this teahouse, and usually spends a lot of money and donates a lot, so he directly brought Yan Xiaodao into the backstage, this is the real VIP treatment.

The backstage is where the troupe puts on makeup and changes clothes, and people come and go.Qi Baoshan was very interested today, sitting in front of the mirror, combing his hair back, and painted himself a Xusheng makeup with oil paint.The face is oily and white, and the eyelids and eyebrows are blended with oily red to create a sense of rouge.Qi Baoshan has a thin and long face, but he looks handsome when drawn.

Qi Baoshan hung the three strands of beard on his face, looked decent, and raised his hand to say hello: "Come here, Xiaodao, and show me Zhao Yun's makeup! We can sing "Changbanpo" now."

Yan Xiaodao had black lines all over his head: "How could I!"

Qi Baoshan said: "Why don't you? Didn't you transform into Zhao Yun when you were young? I taught you."

Yan Xiaodao blushed and laughed at himself: "I don't look good, I'm not good at learning."

Qi Baoshan said: "It's not bad to put on the long back of a big martial arts student!"

Yan Xiaodao had indeed come here to play when he was a boy, and turned into a handsome face of Zhao Zilong in Changshan, and then he was fully armed and gesticulating with a tiger-headed silver gun. He was very handsome.

"What are you afraid of? Your feet have returned to their original state, and they are more agile than before. Are you afraid that you won't be able to step on your thick-soled boots?" Qi Baoshan felt uncomfortable. The rouge and paint between his brows seemed to be the glow of fireworks and blood on the pier. Can you cure your feet? After curing your feet, you can subdue your heart. It’s amazing.”

Yan Xiaodao waited for the old matter to be brought up again, he sat close to Qi Baoshan, with a sincere attitude: "Godfather, I'm sorry for taking too long to come back."

The two sides had nothing to hide anymore. Qi Baoshan wore a beard, and seemed to be immersed in a big drama in life. He held his head up and said, "You have been to the south, and you know it all. Xiaodao, what do you think of doing it?" For half of Dad's life? You feel angry in your heart, you despise what I have done before, you feel that I have shamed you!"

Yan Xiaodao shook his head slightly: "Godfather, I don't feel ashamed. I understand that many things in this world are not black and white, and the way of good and evil may not be clear. Chen Jiu is not a kind person in the final analysis. I can understand that you chose to seek profit and eliminate harm back then. However, implicating many innocent people in brutal killings, some things have gone too far after all, and I cannot accept it.

"Godfather, you have taught me a lot of profound truths over the years. In life, people and actions are all based on loyalty and conscience. They are never timid but must be brave. Those of us have always been between light and darkness. Walking forward with one foot, I accidentally took a wrong step back then. If I can correct it, I will be worthy of the loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and shame that you have always taught me since I was a child... Godfather, there is nothing our father If the two of you can’t afford it, you should go to the police station and surrender yourself!”

Yan Xiaodao finally revealed his true purpose, and came to see Qi Baoshan without telling Ling He, just trying to persuade this person to surrender.

No matter what, he didn't want to see Ling He kill him again one day, the two of them relived their old enmity and killed each other in front of him.

He clasped his palms, his joints turned white, but his attitude was firm: "Godfather, Secretary You has become like that. In my heart, you are an indomitable man, better than a cowardly and incompetent person like You Jinglian." A hundred times! I think I am also ten times better than You Jinglian's son who failed in success and failed in success! No matter what happens in the future, I am always grateful to my godfather for your great kindness. If you are willing to surrender, I will accompany you; Go to prison, I will accompany you to go to prison, I will never hide! You..."

"I went to the execution ground and was shot. You went to visit me with a meal for my severed head, and then prepared a coffin for me to bury my body?!" Qi Baoshan suddenly stood up, his body suddenly appeared tall in the small room, and the dazzling oil-painted makeup under the lights made people feel alive. Feeling unreal, "Hehehehe...hahahaha!!!"

The actors waiting around noticed that the atmosphere was not right, they frowned silently and walked away, away from this kind of right and wrong, only his father and son were left in the small dressing room.The innocent Yan Xiaodao faced the heavily made-up Lord Qi. The paint was like a disguise, but it clearly aroused the most real anger.

Qi Baoshan stared at Xiaodao suddenly while shaking and faltering: "Xiaodao, let me tell you, you and my father and son are indeed ten times and a hundred times stronger than the father and son of Youjia, and your godfather and I are also stronger than the beast named You Ten times a hundred times... I just can't be reconciled."

"I really regret it..." Qi Baoshan's eyes struggled with emotion, the three strands of his beard were constantly blown by the breath, Yan Xiaodao had never seen his godfather so gaffe, so real.

Qi Baoshan told the heart-pounding truth: "That evil Chen Jiu deserved his death, I don't regret slaughtering him, hacking him to death and splashing blood all over me made my hands dirty, he was a scum! Sit on the ground and take the money and leave, but I never thought that the hotel owner and his wife came in so unluckily. I really couldn't bear it, but because of my own self-interest, I acquiesced in Zhang Tingqiang's ruthless killing of an innocent couple. His inhumanity is because I have been in debt all my life, and I have had a disturbed conscience all these years.

"That old fellow You Jinglian is despicable for being treacherous and dirty. I despise being with this kind of person all my life, and I don't usually associate with him... He was the one who took advantage of the danger and raped the proprietress."

More than ten years ago, in the outskirts of a deserted village, in a gloomy rainy night, a group of people committed a serious case, and blood stained the railing of the stairs in the hotel.A few rotten wooden boards couldn't bear the weight of several men fighting each other, and they were trampled to pieces and almost collapsed.

At the moment when life is at stake, all benevolence, morality, and humanity are all wiped out in the blood that soars to the sky.When the first drop of blood splashed on the eyelids, the viscous bloody smell was enough to cover the remaining calmness, timidity and conscience in a person's bones, and the ensuing frantic fighting was irreversible, and the knife saw blood...

Qi Baoshan was left-handed, and he carried the wide-mouthed steel knife in his left hand, and the blood on the blade dripped onto the floor drop by drop.

He had to do it, and the ferocity and cruelty displayed at that moment was precisely a talisman he relied on to protect himself.In such a scene of killing and stealing goods, if you show even the slightest bit of weakness and cowardice, you will be punished by a knife, and you may become the second ghost under the sword after Chen Jiu.Qi Baoshan has no way out, and an encounter in a narrow road makes him have no choice but to join forces with Zhang Tingqiang and You Jinglian tacitly. Whether they are willing or not, they have become grasshoppers tied to a thread. , everyone had blood on their hands.

The woman's pale face and her voiceless scream almost pierced through the pattering rain, which caught the criminal gang off guard and panicked, and the momentary restlessness brought catastrophe to the innocent witnesses... It's just that Li Shuping's hands were tied and blocked When shutting his mouth and stuffing it into the closet, You Jinglian's blood-soaked eyes actually covered that pretty woman...

Qi Baoshan was annoyed by the sudden twists and turns in front of him, which was completely inconsistent with his usual meticulous and cautious style of action. This would definitely involve more and more widespread, and a little spark would turn into an uncontrollable prairie fire.He scolded You Jinglian with disgust: "Are you so hungry? Do you have to touch that woman? How fucking shameful!"

You Jinglian's lower body was disheveled, sticking out of the closet, a puddle of sauce-red blood dripped from the edge of the closet.

Qi Baoshan was so disgusted that he kicked on You's rear door.This kick also made the two of them feel displeased with each other for many years, feel jealous, and do not communicate with each other.

You Jinglian suffers from a hidden disease, and wants to be a thief but doesn't have a good "hands-on". Attack the old and weak women and children who have no ability to resist.This guy didn't make it because of his own impotence disease, he was determined but powerless, it's really contemptible.

This person's filthy deeds finally forced them to kill again.The pitiful screams in the fire were burned into scorched corpses, which was the unforgivable sin committed in this life. All souls were reduced to ashes in the fire, and there was no way to turn back.

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Qi Baoshan seemed to be in the act, playing with his long black beard around his mouth, humming an opera, and playing with a spear.

Yan Xiaodao asked out his doubts: "Ling Huang, the boss of Ling's back then, should also be innocent. This person was also framed and imprisoned because he knew the inside story?"

"He's innocent!" Qi Baoshan cursed.A long spear came at him, Yan Xiaodao jumped back to dodge, but the long spear didn't intend to stab him, the point of the spear hit the edge of the cabinet.

"I know how I missed out on the police... because I went to the police station to report Ling Huang." Qi Baoshan looked up to the sky and lamented his bad luck, with indignation and unwillingness in his eyes, "But I don't regret reporting him to frame him , Let him go to jail, this kind of scum who attacks children and the children of his own family, everyone should be punished."

"The law is like a joke. Why doesn't the law castrate all these people and cut them into pieces?" Qi Baoshan's brows and eyes were painted solemnly, and he smiled sadly. "I guess what the child surnamed Ling is going to take revenge on. It's us who he wants to seek revenge. You Jinglian and those other bastards are out of conscience to entrap innocent people to trade in flesh and blood. I will never do it. I have never done such evil and scandalous things! Xiaodao, godfather me , there is a bottom line in life, but there are too many villains in this world who have no bottom line!"

Yan Xiaodao: "..."

Yan Xiaodao stood in the middle of the room in a daze, feeling sorry for his godfather, and wanted to talk to Ling He about his grievances, but his throat was blocked and he couldn't speak.

After a thousand sails have passed, and the truth of life has been fully understood, Qi Baoshan smiled with a strong character in the world: "Xiaodao, you boy is still loyal enough, and you didn't run away and leave me alone here waiting for the lawsuit to feed the gun. You and my father and son After all, there is no blood relationship between them, and I, Qi Baoshan, can be content with this!"

On the stage, the gong was sounded to change the board, and a Danjiao came up to perform the repertoire.The drummer beat out a crisp rhythm, which just rightly changed the mood of the two confronting each other in the dressing room.

Qi Baoshan was obviously not interested in the humming, chirping, singing voice.This man was carrying a long gun, and the old man chatted like a teenager, and howled a paragraph of Tan Pai's joke "Search the Orphan and Rescue the Orphan".

This "Searching for Orphans and Rescuing Orphans" tells the tragic story of Zhao's orphans.In order to save the orphan left behind by Zhongliang Zhao Dun who was framed by others, Cheng Ying, a disciple of the Zhao family, exchanged the life of his own child for the life of the orphan, raised the orphan of the Zhao family, and avenged the family.

Qi Baoshan's voice is mellow and hoarse, and the sense of tearing cuts through the difficult air. Yingying and Yanyan on the stage are all turned into illusory arcs of light, with a long aftertaste of vicissitudes.This person sang with a mellow and melodious voice, which made Yan Xiaodao extremely entangled and in a trance. He always felt that the words "Godfather" were full of blood, tears and bitterness, and they were sung just for him...

Mr. Ling, who was being chanted by Lord Qi with all his heart and soul, was sitting in a large empty room in the temporary residence at this time, with the earphones connected to the monitoring equipment.There were slight convulsions on his face, his face was solemn, and he sat like a figurine made of clay and wood.

Mao Zhixiu saw that this person was in a bad mood, and there must be nothing left for today's dinner, so in desperation, he made a big pot of simple and rough version of spaghetti bolognese.A large pot as deep as a basin is enough to feed five or six of them.

Mao Zhixiu said: "Boss Ling, I know it's not to your liking, so let me have a bowl as a reward, or I'll never cook again in the future!"

Ling He lowered his eyelashes, thinking hard as if he had settled down.He considered every paragraph of the heart-to-heart conversation between Qiye and Xiaodao, and his consciousness was covered by those intense emotions and complicated details. Many things were slightly different from what he originally thought. The initial slight deviation was fermented by the butterfly effect, and the approaching The end point has been outrageous.His one-sided cognition that he had held on for a long time was slightly shaken.His brows were wrinkled together: "I may be mistaken."

Mao Zhixiu didn't notice it, and was still provoking Ling He: "What did you get wrong? Aren't you always 'the most beautiful' and 'all right'!"

Ling He frowned in pain and helplessness: "I stabbed him, I may have made a mistake."

People in love are indeed crazy, Mao Zhixiu shivered coldly: "Ling He, Mr. Yan's foot has been cured a long time ago, wake up!"

Ling He subconsciously stroked his ankle, feeling the sharp pain that pierced his heart despite being wronged.The hatred that could not be relieved forced him to use his hands on the knife, and the knife stabbed him as if he had stabbed Qi Baoshan. Only now did he realize that the target person behind the knife that he had always regarded as a bull's-eye was blurred out of focus.

"Mr. Qi is not in the same group as those people, not in that circle. He has never done it, and he doesn't seem to be lying to the knife." The calm and general Mr. Ling rarely lost his usual calmness, hesitating while clutching his phone. decision.

He lowered his head to write the message, wrote, deleted, deleted, and rewritten. He didn't know what to say after the word "Xiaodao", and finally sent only two words: [Xiaodao. 】

Two words are enough to comfort lovers.Yan Xiaodao replied in seconds, it turned out to be a smiley face symbol, and he didn't say a word.

Linghe suddenly felt distressed, and Xiaodao was very sad, but he still greeted him with a smile and insisted on being strong.He quickly said again: [Xiao Dao, I want to see you. 】

Yan Xiaodao replied: [It's not convenient tonight, let's do it tomorrow. 】

Ling He typed his fingers very fast, almost blurting out his begging mood: [Xiaodao, come here, I want to lick you. 】

This line of words almost blinded his own eyeballs without accident, this is not something he can say.

Every word is very simple, put together this sentence Ling He doesn't know.

Ling He tilted his head and stared at the line he had typed, imitating the appearance of Yan Xiaodao in his brain, and deeply realized that he was indeed the result of love, he was too deep, and was completely defeated, but he still used his rational mind to compete with his fingers , Destroying one of the key characters before sending them out.

[Xiaodao, come here, I miss you. 】