In the name of father

When Xiao Yan called Xiao Yan, the second young master of the Xiao family sounded like he was still having breakfast, and when he received a call from his elder brother, the young police officer seemed very disapproving - obviously, Xiao Mo's weird behavior last night Let Xiao Yan be under the low pressure of bad mood all morning. He just lost his temper with the people under him because of an unqualified interrogation report. Now he just sat down to grab breakfast, but the phone rang again up.

The young police officer grabbed the phone and pressed it to his ear, he let out a very uncomfortable sound.

"There are still 5 minutes. I will go to the North District Police Station." Xiao Yan on the phone said concisely.

"You sound out of breath." Xiao Yan frowned, "What's the rush?"

"Catch the subway."

"Where's your car?"

"Rush hour, traffic jam."

Sitting in the office, the young police officer who had just been promoted to the captain of the area held the phone in a daze, grabbing the healthy sandwich he snatched from his colleague, Xiao Yan filled his mind with empty eyes and imagined his whole body. Xiao Yan, who was completely unaware of what was going on, sneered heartlessly as the twin brothers armed with famous brand names squeezed their hair, "What are you doing, you look like you're scared to pee by something You made yourself so embarrassed by your appearance?"

Xiao Yan's words were very bad, but to his surprise, Xiao Yan on the other end of the phone did not refute him this time, but fell into a disturbing silence. The sound of gradually calming breathing and the sound of the subway station announcement...

a long time.

Only then did Xiao Yan hear his brother ask on the phone: "What did you have for breakfast?"

"Sandwich." Xiao Yan was inexplicably asked, "What's wrong?"

"Bought from the supermarket?"

"Given by a colleague."

After Xiao Yan finished speaking, he heard his brother sneer on the phone. The veins on the forehead of the second young master of the Xiao family, who had been baffled by his brother, twitched. It’s not okay to have a good relationship with colleagues and share a breakfast with me, it’s not—”

Xiao Yan couldn't finish his sentence, because he was interrupted by Xiao Yan on the other end of the phone again—at this moment, Xiao Yan's voice sounded inexplicably happy, that feeling... as if a When a person who fell from a tall building was preparing to meet his death, he suddenly saw the feeling of another person falling from above him: "Did you not open your wallet this morning?"

"..."

Xiao Yan was silent, put down the sandwich and dragged his bag over, rummaged inside and took out his wallet with two fingers, the thickness of the hand made the young man pause slightly, spread his two fingers apart, Sure enough, in the next second, the second young master of the Xiao family showed the same shocked expression as the first young master of the Xiao family half an hour ago, and sat like a fool on his scrupulously wiped foreign-style desk after.

Xiao Yan was speechless, he hadn't grasped the point at all at this moment, he stared at the money he had worked so hard for for a month suddenly turned into air, and after a while he managed to say: "Fucking...just posted it yesterday salary."

"Isn't your salary paid into the card?" Xiao Yan sounded helpless, "How much?"

Xiao Yan, who hadn't turned his head around for a moment, said, "...more than 8000..."

"Adding the 4000 yuan in my wallet, it is enough for Dad to fly directly from China to the United States." Xiao Yan smiled mockingly, "Thank you for your generous sponsorship."

"What dad, what's the matter with that old man?" At this moment, someone pushed the door open and came in, who seemed to be reporting something to him. The young police officer sitting behind the desk waved his hand to tell him to wait, and switched the phone. On the other ear, the second young master of the Xiao family, who was being ridiculed inexplicably at this time, finally couldn't help it, "Brother, you've been acting weird since just now, what happened? Your money was also taken away by your father? What does he do with your money, and he only takes cash, my card is still there, if you want to spend money, of course it is more convenient to swipe the card, unless—"

The second young master of the Xiao family paused for a while, and his heart jumped wildly.

"Unless he doesn't want us to check any of his consumption records, or a series of records where he may have been checked, such as his customs clearance status." Xiao Yan finished speaking for his brother in a calm voice.

1 minute of eerie silence.

At one minute and ten seconds, at the gate of the newly promoted young police officer's office in the North District Police Station, the young superintendent who had just opened the door and entered was stunned to see his boss, who had turned into Hell Shura, slapped his mobile phone directly to the door. After falling to pieces, the desk that had just been placed in this office was not spared, and was completely overturned.

Xiao Mo ran away from home.

This year, the 36-year-old middle-aged man, who has ushered in the third natal year in his life, ran away from home.

****

Xiao Mo didn't know that at this moment, his two sons were undergoing shocks as if they were going through a catastrophe and ascended to immortality—in fact, to be precise, the man didn't even feel that he was running away from home.

He just wanted to be alone for a while.

So he didn't take anything, clothes, ID, everything that a person who is leaving must take, the man stayed where he was - he felt that he left these, his two clever sons It can be guessed that he is only leaving temporarily, although it is uncertain when he will return, but there is no need for them to run out to find him.

He really just wanted to be quiet—without strong external interference, return to his ordinary human nature, and think about life by the way.

So Xiao Mo didn't go far, he didn't even leave City K, he just took a few stops on the subway and took a few buses, then wandered aimlessly to the edge of the North District of City K, when the man got off the bus At the time, even he himself didn't quite know where he was——

Today's weather is very cold, even the sun has no temperature. The weather forecast is right, K City has indeed cooled down.

Xiaoqing on the Internet said that life is a journey that you can leave as soon as you say it (...).

So now, the man left the familiar environment he had lived in for 11 years with just a fanny pack. The fanny pack was tied around his waist in a very rustic way, and it contained the wallets of his two sons who had been dumped on the bed by him. The money that came out was 2000 yuan—to be honest, when Xiao Mo opened Xiao Yan’s wallet this morning, he was taken aback. He didn’t expect that the youngest son, who is a policeman, could have so much money in his wallet...with emotion After paying attention to the treatment of civil servants, the man took all the money and put it in his pocket without any guilt, leaving none of it to him (...).

Xiao Mo randomly found a "certification" number on a certain manhole cover, walked to the roadside public phone and spent 10 cents, about [-] minutes later, at the corner of the agreed excuse, a very wretched-looking gangster appeared In front of him.

That action looked like an underground party joint.

Seeing Xiao Mo, the little gangster's eyes lit up, he rubbed his big yellow teeth and rubbed his hands, and called the black-haired man in front of him, who seemed to have a slight difference in every gesture, "Boss", and then he asked him: "Boss, what do you have?" Do you need anything? You see, our business here is very complete. The ID card is the most basic and the most popular hot item - the university diploma can also be done, Peking University and Tsinghua University, whichever you say is whichever you want Even their principals dare not deny that you are their outstanding graduate—if you like foreign devils, you can come to Harvard, although that is usually a little more expensive... Our certificates are the best in K City, and no one else can guarantee it , we can assure you - generally as long as it is not a nationally networked machine, our documents will definitely not be able to tell the authenticity manually - now the New Year's Day discount is big, and you only need to submit a few color passport photos ..."

"...No need," Xiao Mo was a little dazed by this overly enthusiastic salesman, but he didn't seem to dislike the little bastard in front of him at all, he just smiled, "I just need a piece of paper. ID card."

Saying that, Xiao Mo handed over the passport photo he had prepared long ago to the hands of the gangster——

Seeing the business coming to the door, the little gangster's face turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile: "Okay, boss, two to ten minutes, boss, if you are not satisfied with the package, you can wait for me here, and you will deliver the goods and pay for them later, ID card 10 yuan for a piece, 120 yuan for a high-fidelity one, boss, which one do you want?"

"100 yuan, it needs to be highly simulated."

"..."

"is it not OK?"

"Boss, haven't you been grounded for a long time? That's not what the bargaining is about..."

"But I only have 100 yuan," Xiao Mo said, "If you don't want to do it, I'll find someone else—"

"I'll do it, I'll do it, alas, it's good to do good deeds in the New Year, I really can't even get back the original 100 yuan!" The little gangster muttered while turning around, as if he was afraid that Xiao Mo would really give the money that had been handed over to him. Seeing that the ID photo in his hand was taken back to find someone else to do it, he ran out a few steps in a hurry, and then looked back at Xiao Mo as if he remembered something, "Boss, what name do you want on the ID— —I see you are so handsome, why don't we just call him 'Chow Yun Fat'?"

Xiao Mo: "..."

"If you prefer a more humorous pseudonym, you can also be called 'Zhou Xingchi'."

Zhou owed you money and didn't pay it back?

Xiao Mo: "...Called Yuanzhen, 'yuan' in Yuanxiao, 'zhen' in Ma Yongzhen."

Little gangster: "You cultural people are really interesting. How do I know which 'true' Ma Yong really is!"

Xiao Mo smiled: "The 'Zhen' of chastity."

Little gangster: "Understood, wouldn't it be over if you said so earlier! Wait for me here, 10 minutes, [-] minutes at the latest!"

"it is good."

Xiao Mo nodded earnestly, and smiled as he looked at the little bastard clutching his big padded jacket and hunched over his waist, he really ran away at the moment—the man didn't just stand there and wait stupidly, looking at the little hoodlum who handled the certificate. After the gangster left, he turned around and came out of the alley by himself. On the street full of people coming and going, the man seemed relieved to turn on the cell phone that had been shut down for a long time. Mo glanced at the SMS inbox unhurriedly——

【FROM Retribution】: Went to work, there is no food at home, I will buy some when I get home, and remember to eat breakfast by myself.

[FROM Yan]: I'll go to Night Dance to deal with the follow-up of high-level transfers. Let's have lunch together?call back.

Now... they should have seen their wallets, right?

To prescribe medicine for himself, his son emptied their wallets and staged the act of fairy dance, laughing at himself mockingly, Xiao Mo lowered his head, read the two text messages sent by his sons several times, and just passed them Delete, but the fingertips suddenly stopped at the moment of pressing the delete confirmation button, and exited the delete interface, as if you could see a flower from these simple words——

In the end, no matter what the reason was, the man did not delete the two text messages in the end, he just took out the SIM card directly from the phone, and then looked at the two names he noted because they were taken away and stuck in the phone. The name of the note turned into a string of numbers... Xiao Mo directly put the mobile phone in his pocket, then turned around and went to a supermarket on the side of the road, bought a phone card that can be used directly without registration, and put it in the mobile phone.

The original SIM card was thrown into the sewer pipe by the side of the road.

Twenty minutes later, he got his "new ID card" at the entrance of the alley before, and then asked the little gangster who applied for the ID card, if he could take him to a place where people on the North District Road stayed... At first, That little bastard still refuses to take him—

"You can't be an undercover agent sent by the police, are you?" The little gangster looked up and down the man in front of him vigilantly, "You don't look like a brother who is on the road, if I bring a cat into In the rat nest, let the higher-ups know, so they have to abolish me?"

"Who's the guy above you?"

The little gangster hesitated for a long time, and finally reported a name, but this name was probably the leader of a certain area, probably because the position was not qualified enough, Xiao Mo had never heard of this person, so the man just clicked He nodded and said a lot of consoling words - the man has always been very good at persuading others to believe in him, coupled with his top-notch acting skills, he quickly gained the trust of the little bastard who applied for the certificate, and the man was very good at seizing the opportunity and After taking out 50 yuan, the other party immediately lost his integrity, led the way without saying a word, and happily explained the situation at the bottom of the North District Road along the way.

He was so happy, it looked like he didn't remember that the money for the certificate was actually 150 yuan.

Along the way, Xiao Mo learned that the name of this little rascal was Zhang Yiyang, and he also ate and ate casually under the cover of the Xiao family. Because he was timid and did not dare to fight, he was often absent from "tangkou activities", so he went to Beijing District for many years, all the brothers in the same batch have become small captains, and he is still standing still, and he himself does not seem to be dissatisfied with this situation: "Actually, the brothers below are doing very badly. Losing one finger and one toe tomorrow is like eating white rice, it’s useless unless you climb to a certain height—but the height of that height is beyond what people like us can imagine.”

"How could it be? I heard that the Xiao family's new head of the Azure Dragon Hall this year is a young man." Xiao Mo said lightly.

"Young people are also divided into dragons and phoenixes and snakes and rats." Zhang Yiyang smiled without pressure, "And now the four districts of K City are changing dynasties, except for the east district which is still managed by an old man, the heads of other districts are not all young people?"

After thinking about it, Xiao Mo nodded with some emotion: "It is said that the age of young people has come, and it is time for us old men to step back, so as not to get in the way and cause people to hate for nothing."

"I think you're pretty good, but at your age, you don't want to hang around much." Zhang Yiyang turned his head and gave Xiao Mo a sideways glance. Now that the certificate transaction is over, his enthusiasm for one boss and one for you He lost all energy, and seemed to have returned to his normal way of speaking, "And you said that the age of young people has come-you said this so that I feel that I have completely broken away from the ranks of 'young people'."

"How old are you?"

"23."

"Then why aren't you a young man?"

"Oh, I mean, it has nothing to do with me in the new era to be promoted, raise salary, become team leader, become the eldest brother, go to the pinnacle of life and marry Bai Fumei."

"..."

Just when Xiao Mo realized speechlessly that there were actually people in this world who were even less ideal and ambitious than him, he saw the person walking in front of him suddenly stop, and then turned his head to him with a very honest smile. Smiled: "Here we are."

Xiao Mo raised his head, and saw the familiar Tongzilou at a glance—the densely packed buildings seemed to be the symbol of the old city of K City, each building was covered with mottled spots, and the buildings were very close together—so close If you open the window, you are afraid of taking pictures of the magical distance of the windows of the opposite building. If you don’t hang curtains, there is basically no privacy at all.

It’s already time for the winter vacation, and the sound of children teasing and thundering firecrackers can be faintly heard in the corridors. Almost every household has freshly washed clothes hanging in front of the windows, and there are even Very festive red underpants—under the tube building, there are a group of old men and women wrapped in padded jackets sitting around the fire, eating grapefruit, chatting and playing chess. One of the old women probably saw Zhang Yiyang and stood up directly from the fire, with almost all hair Bai's old lady was not afraid of slipping when stepping on the icy and snowy ground, so she walked over slowly, stopped in front of Zhang Yiyang, and shouted angrily: "Zhang Yiyang! Don't pay this month and last month and the last month and the last month." Get rid of the monthly rent!"

"I'll pay, I'll pay, I'll pay!" Zhang Yiyang smiled and took out the 150 yuan that Xiao Mo gave him just now, after thinking about it, he took out three [-] yuan, and stuffed them into the old lady's hands together, "Here you are." You - didn't you pay it, oh, don't be angry, lady, look, I brought you a tenant!"

As Zhang Yiyang spoke, he pushed the black-haired man beside him forward.

After receiving the money, the old lady raised her head and swept the fair and handsome black-haired man suspiciously from head to toe: "What's his name?"

"Yuanzhen." Xiao Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, showing a harmless smile.

"He's pretty handsome, why isn't his name Zhou Runfa?" The old lady muttered, her eyes resting on the clothes on Xiao Mo's body, "You're covered with famous brands all over your body, why are you here to rent a house?—Don't be a policeman!"

Xiao Mo: "..."

Xiao Mo doesn't know what's wrong with the police these days. Does being a policeman even have the right to rent a house?Do you still have to be discriminated against as a policeman wherever you go?

"Eldest sister, I'm not a policeman," the black-haired man smiled, "The name tag on his body is also fake. Isn't this just going out to talk about things occasionally, the boss wants us to dress neatly?"

"Boss? You are also from the North District Road—yes, if it weren't for the people from the road, how could you mess with us here." The old lady of the landlady didn't seem to be as easy to fool as Zhang Yiyang, she took out a handful of melon seeds and knocked loudly, "Where did you put it? Make it clear, if the police ran in as an undercover agent, you would be hacked to death at home and dirty my house that day."

"..." Before today, Xiao Mo had always thought that his life was actually entering the nursing period for the elderly in advance—but today he realized that the spiritual world of the elderly seems to be a little different from what he imagined, "... ...I haven't started messing around yet."

The landlord raised his eyebrows: "En?"

Xiao Mo: "I still don't know the name of the big brother above my head, but I just know that our Dongxin Street is under the jurisdiction of Qinglongtang."

In order to prevent people with malicious intentions from making stereotypes, the division of neighborhoods is changing every year. Only those who are really on the road know which neighborhood is under the control of which church recently. Xiao Mo actually didn’t know such details, he just happened to I vaguely remembered that the restaurant he went to on the day Li Tang took office was on Dongxin Street some time ago—and Xiao Mo also heard that Li Tang told those people in the West District truthfully about the land grab that day. The street is now under his control.

After sitting in the high-level for a long time, Xiao Mo is a little surprised that these lower-level people are so "rigorous" about the matter of "whether they will be infiltrated by the police"—every sentence is like a code It's as if if he says a wrong sentence now, the old landlady in front of him can shoot a gun out of a window upstairs and smash his head with a wave of his hand.

And obviously, Li Tang didn't brag that day - Dongxin Street is indeed managed by Qinglongtang, and he seems to be lucky to be right.

The old lady in front of her clearly showed a relaxed expression.

He looked Xiao Mo up and down again, just beckoned and said "Come here", and led him upstairs: "Our place is full recently, can you accept living with someone else?"

Xiao Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, he doesn't care about living with others, but he will be more concerned about the quality of roommates - those who are too dirty, those who leave early and return late will affect his work and rest, and those who like men are even more absolutely unacceptable... Thinking of this, the man directly took out 100 yuan and stuffed it into the hands of the old lady who went upstairs: "It's no problem to live with him, and I hope to have a more normal roommate."

The old lady took the money and followed Zhang Yiyang's two routes. Not only did she fail to give a smile, but she also gave Xiao Mo a sideways look, and after saying "virtue", she stopped in a stairwell seemingly very casually. It came down—raised his chin, and spat out the cold melon seed shell: "That's it."

Xiao Mo paused for a moment, and looked in the direction the old lady was pointing at. He saw a rusty iron door that would probably fall off if shaken. The Dragon Boat Festival Artemisia wormwood, such a door is hung with the New Year pictures that must be pasted during the Chinese New Year. The New Year pictures are very new, bright red, and they seem to have been posted not long ago.

"This room is great. It has a separate bathroom and a separate toilet. You don't have to go downstairs to pee in the public toilet when you sleep in the middle of the night. The rent is [-] a month. I refuse to default. I am a bastard like Zhang Yiyang." It’s enough to raise one.” The landlord didn’t wait for Xiao Mo to express any opinions, he took out the key and opened the door, then stepped back a little, motioning Xiao Mo to go in and have a look.

Xiao Mo nodded, and asked casually as he walked in, "Zhang Yiyang knows you quite well, doesn't he?"

"Well," the landlady replied impatiently, "my son."

Xiao Mo: "..."

As soon as Xiao Mo entered the room, he saw a five or six-year-old girl who was sleeping soundly in such a dangerous position next to the heater and taking a nap on the sofa. The little girl's face was burned red by the electric heater, and she was so cute—so cute Xiao Mo glanced at it and wanted to turn his head and walk out the door.

Then the man just turned around when he saw a pair of boxing gloves hanging on the wall.

Xiao Mo stopped and pointed to the pair of gloves: "What are those?"

"Boxing gloves, haven't you seen them before?" The old lady rolled her eyes at the man, as if she disliked him for being so rare, "This little girl's dead father boxed in the North District, and he just played the cheapest tour. After paying this month's rent, I think they won't even be able to eat meat during Chinese New Year—if it wasn't for the girl's age, I wouldn't be able to rent such a high-end suite to them."

"..."

Xiao Mo silently looked at the "senior suite" in front of him, and it happened that a large piece of lime fell from the corner of the wall.

The man paused for a long time, until the old lady behind him asked urgently, "Do you want to rent it or not?" At the same time, the man's eyes fell on the boxing gloves hanging on the wall again——

A roommate who punches in the North Side?

Silently curling the corners of his lips, the man nodded: "I'll rent it."