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Huo Pingchuan is here.

He knew that his addiction to smoking made Huo Xiangzhen suspicious, so Huo Xiangzhen usually didn't greet him, and he never took the initiative to go to his little uncle.Now that he heard that Huo Xiangzhen actually started selling cars, he boldly came here in a daze.Sitting timidly in front of Huo Xiangzhen, he looked like a big doormat, with his shoulders arched, his back stretched and his neck stretched, and he called out in a low voice: "Uncle."

If he doesn't show up, Huo Xiangzhen will never think of him; if he shows up, Huo Xiangzhen will remember that he still has such a big nephew--this nephew is actually suffering a lot. When Mr. Huo was 13 years old, he met a famous prodigal girl Secretly got better.By the time Mr. Huo's mother beat the mandarin ducks with a club, the girl Lang was already pregnant.

The girl's reputation is too bad, she can never be promoted to be an aunt, so she was sent away from afar after giving birth.The remaining children became a problem—the eldest son, his mother is a girl, and his father is only 14 years old, which sounds embarrassing enough, and the Huo family is a decent family, how will Mr. Huo get married in the future?

Of course, when Mr. Huo grew up to the [-]th and [-]th, he also married a well-matched young lady as usual, but it seemed like he was restraining his wife. Mrs. Huo was always ill and could not live long in his house.Mr. Huo had to make a sequel every few years, and he won Huo Xiangzhen when he was about forty.When treating the eldest son of the family, Mrs. Huo and the others were unanimous in their disapproval, and the eldest son of the concubine himself did not show shame. He imitated his father when he was a teenager, and he also fell in love with the girl, resulting in Huo Pingchuan.From then on, Mr. Huo made a rule - no girls are allowed to be around the young master!An old woman who has not passed forty is not good either!

Father is not considered a genuine young master, and died early due to his weak health; naturally, Huo Pingchuan cannot be the eldest grandson of the growing room.The only young master in the family was Huo Xiangzhen, so Huo Pingchuan became an improper nephew and young master. He was abused by the nanny when he was a child, and he was frightened into a dull and timid temper.Mr. Huo had seen him as worthless for a long time, so he just supported him with ample food and clothing; Huo Xiangzhen also knew that he was muddy and couldn't support the wall, but he put a brigade commander on him, thinking that he might improve after being tempered; He managed a brigade so well that everyone was on their backs, and everyone in the whole brigade dared to bully him.

Huo Pingchuan also knew that he couldn't get on the stage, so he didn't dare to look at people when he spoke, and just stared at the ground humming and rumbling.Huo Xiangzhen asked him, "How are you doing recently?" He grunted from his throat, as if he didn't even dare to open his mouth: "Just stay at home, sometimes talk to Wan San."

Huo Xiangzhen froze for a moment, then realized that Wan San was Wan Guosheng.

Huo Pingchuan spoke again at this moment: "I heard... Uncle sold the car."

Huo Xiangzhen frowned, thinking that it's really a good thing not to go out, and a bad thing spread far and wide: "You heard that too?"

Huo Pingchuan took out a large light green stamped envelope from his coat pocket, bowed respectfully, and put his hands in front of Huo Xiangzhen: "This is... from my nephew to honor you. It's not much, anyway... Even if... ..."

He muttered and began to speak incoherently, but Huo Xiangzhen picked up the envelope and squeezed it open, only to see that there was a thick stack of banknotes inside, and he didn't know how much it was.

Pushing the envelope back in front of Huo Pingchuan, Huo Xiangzhen gave him a rare smile: "No, I won't go out much in the future, and it's useless to keep so many cars. It's a good deal. I'll accept your wish. You take the money back."

Huo Pingchuan was very afraid of him, and would not give way to him. Like Andre learning Chinese, he moved his lips silently, twisted his tall and heavy body on the sofa, and twisted his buttocks. The embroidered cushions on the sofa were a mess.

Huo Xiangzhen waited for a while, and seeing that he was only twisting, she asked again: "Do you have anything else to do?"

Huo Pingchuan snorted in a trance, "Not anymore."

Grabbing the envelope with his big sweaty hands, he got up to say goodbye in embarrassment, and then, as if he was about to fall apart, he shook the big man and walked away with his arms and legs all the way here and there.

Not long after Huo Pingchuan left, Wan Guosheng came again.Wan Guosheng and Huo Pingchuan are at the two extremes, and they can't stop talking when they open their mouths.After Huo Xiangzhen heard it, he was so disturbed by the noise that he wanted to kick him out; while Andre was dumbfounded when he heard it at the door, and suddenly felt that he couldn't even speak a word of Chinese.

After Wan Guosheng was perfunctorily gone, Huo Xiangzhen raised her hand, covered her eyes and leaned back, sinking into the sofa, motionless.He just sold a few cars of his own family, but judging from today's situation, it seems that the whole city of Beijing knows about it.Selling a few cars can do this, what if I have other actions in the future?

Either way, don't lose.Winners are princes, losers are thieves, they have lost and lost, and now they are so poor that they are making a joke, there is nothing they can do, and they are doing it on their own.

After Huo Xiangzhen sold the car, he still had some money left.He knows that money can make money, but he doesn't know how to make money.Doing business may also be a way, but the Huo family's ancestors have been officials for generations, and doing business always seems to lose their status, and he doesn't know how to do business.If you want to get a share in someone's business, there is no such access or opportunity in front of you.After thinking about it, he always seemed to have nowhere to go, and sighed out in one breath, he decided to muddle along and not think about it anymore.

After a day of doing nothing, he went to bed early at night.Holding an old book in his hand, he suffered from insomnia at first, but couldn't fall asleep no matter what; later he fell asleep in a daze, but fell asleep again, as if he was dead.Andre came up in the middle of the night and shook him desperately, but he didn't wake up.Andre was in a hurry, and leaned into his ear and shouted: "Ah!"

Huo Xiangzhen was startled, and suddenly opened his eyes: "What are you doing?"

In the dim light of the wall lamp, Andre yelled at him with a look of panic: "Fire! Garden, fire!"

Huo Xiangzhen's eyes widened, "Fire?"

Andre was so anxious that he couldn't control his tongue, so he raised his hand and pointed out the window: "It's on fire!"

Huo Xiangzhen immediately got out of bed in her nightgown, and hurried out with her slippers on.As soon as he stepped out of the building facing the cold wind, he saw the red light of half the sky.The guards at home came out in a swarm, and Lieutenant Li ran to him crying: "Report to the commander, the garden is on fire! I have already called the fire brigade of the Fire Rescue Association and said they will be there soon!"

After the voice fell, a guard ran and shouted: "Come here, the water dragon is here!"

At the same time, the sound of military horns and sirens faintly sounded from a distance, and the sound traversed the night sky, making people even more panicked.Huo Xiangzhen walked towards the garden at the back, halfway there, but was stopped by a group of guards: "Don't go, Commander, the fire is too big!"

Huo Xiangzhen grabbed a guard and asked anxiously, "Will it burn to the small courtyard?"

The guard knew that he was asking about the courtyard house where he lived in summer, so he immediately replied: "Commander, hang! It's windy tonight, and the flames are rolling forward!"

Huo Xiangzhen turned to grab a big guard: "Take off your shoes and give them to me!"

The guard took off his shoes inexplicably, but Huo Xiangzhen put on his shoes, then broke through the crowd, and ran forward.The guards were stunned for a moment, and immediately ran back to chase after him, but Huo Xiangzhen took long strides, and rushed headfirst into the thick night smoke.

After passing through several moon gates, Huo Xiangzhen ran all the way into the yard.Without thinking, he broke into the living room, and he reached out to turn on the light, but the wire was probably damaged, and the switch was snapped by him, but the room was always dark.Taking advantage of the distant firelight outside the window, he first picked up a white jade tiger from the Duobaoge—this tiger paperweight originally belonged to the Bai family.Holding the white jade tiger in one hand, he wandered around the room in a daze, and finally ran to the closet and opened the door, and found a photo of himself and Bai Mani from inside.The autumn wind that can sweep away fallen leaves is the most powerful. Suddenly there was a gust of wind outside, and the room was lit up immediately. It was the tongue of fire that had licked the edge of the garden and was about to cross the boundary.

Huo Xiangzhen lived in the small courtyard since he was a child, and he has feelings for every brick in it.But now the situation is too critical, he can't move carefully at this time.With the tiger and the photo, he turned around and ran out the door. The air was no longer as cold as it used to be, and the scorching heat directly scorched people's faces.The more he walked towards the courtyard gate, the hotter and painful his face became.Huo Xiangzhen didn't dare to stay, but just after running a few steps, she suddenly heard a loud "bang" from behind, and she didn't know which building in the garden was burnt down.

He subconsciously stopped and looked back.The fire soaring into the sky was blowing with hot wind and the fireball was really scorching red half of the night sky.The water dragons shot into the fire in all directions, and there was no effect of extinguishing the fire at all.The guards rushed to the fire site and began to dig walls and houses with the fire brigade to stop the fire in the garden.

Huo Xiangzhen stood on a high place, watching helplessly that her small courtyard was violently demolished.Holding the white jade tiger tightly in his hand, he felt that someone was pulling him, but he stopped motionless, refusing to leave.

He is putting an end to his yard, it will be gone if it is gone, and even if it is rebuilt in the future, even if it is exactly the same, it will always be different from the old house, and he knows that he has no strength to rebuild a house with a yard—now he is simply I'm dealing with living.

At this moment, someone grabbed his arm again.He came back to his senses, turned his head to look, but was surprised to see Gu Chengxi.

Gu Chengxi was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, with his hair parted and oiled. He didn't know where he came back from at midnight, or where he was going.In late autumn, it was about to enter winter, but Huo Xiangzhen was standing in the wind watching the fire in only a nightgown.Gu Chengxi thought to himself that you didn't know it was painful before, but now you don't know it's cold?

When Huo Xiangzhen saw Gu Chengxi, she regained consciousness: "Why are you here?"

Gu Chengxi still held his arm and refused to let go: "I saw your house was on fire on the road, so I forced my way in!"

Huo Xiangzhen lowered his eyes and looked at his hand: "It's nothing serious, it's about to be extinguished."

Gu Chengxi looked him up and down: "Go back to the house, I'll watch for you!"

Huo Xiangzhen felt that his words were unimaginable, but it happened that Lieutenant Li also ran over at this moment, and after taking a look at Gu Chengxi, he said out of breath: "Report to Commander, the fire path has been stopped, Commander, please go back to your room and rest! "

Huo Xiangzhen nodded, then turned to Gu Chengxi and said, "I won't stare at you anymore, you should go back too!"

Gu Chengxi looked at him noncommittally, his nightgown was put on indiscriminately, the belt around his waist was loose, and a large piece of bare chest was exposed from the open front.He thought that this chest should be kissed and caressed by himself, not blown by the cold wind and roasted by the fire.If such a good body is not appreciated or pitied, does Ping An know that he is reckless?

Huo Xiangzhen didn't wait for his answer, so she left on her own.He walked in front, and Gu Chengxi followed behind.Huo Xiangzhen entered the small building, and he followed; Huo Xiangzhen went up the stairs, and he followed.Huo Xiangzhen put the photo and the white jade tiger in the study cabinet by himself, then turned to face Gu Chengxi: "Let's go, don't come."

Gu Chengxi stood in front of him in a dilemma, and said in a low voice: "I love you, can you give me another chance?"

Huo Xiangzhen shook his head: "I'm not your fellow, and I can't be your fellow."

Gu Chengxi's heart turned cold for a moment, seeing that he was a solid rock, he didn't even leave a gap for himself: "What do you mean? Do you hate me for taking Master Bai away, or hate me for joining the revolutionary army, or... Think I'm a man?"

Huo Xiangzhen looked straight into his eyes: "All of them."

Gu Chengxi bit the bullet and said: "I'm sorry for you...but the future is long, you have to give me time and opportunity so that I can correct myself and learn well. If you think I'm a man—isn't Ma Congrong also a man?"

Huo Xiangzhen was used to watching Ma Congrong since she was a child, and she couldn't see his beauty or ugliness anymore.If Gu Chengxi didn't remind him, he wouldn't specifically think about whether the other party was a man or a woman.Gu Chengxi's words stunned him for a moment, and then he couldn't help but sneer: "What? You still want to force me to give you a reason?"

Gu Chengxi was also in a hurry, suppressing his temper at the same time, for fear that he would offend Huo Xiangzhen if he said something insignificant: "With my heart - after so many years, I think you have come up with something wrong. You have the right to be Pity me, can't you?"

When Huo Xiangzhen heard this, she suddenly became furious!

Raising his hand and slapping the desk hard, he asked loudly: "You have one heart? What heart do you have? When the revolutionary army drove me to death, didn't you have any soldiers in the team? Now I don't cooperate with you, I have to give you Can you list one, two, three, four, five reasons? Gu Chengxi, you will be your upstart, and I will be my lonely minister! You and I will not interfere with each other! If you want to find a good friend, you go out and look for it, don’t come to my house to disgust me!"

Gu Chengxi was stunned by Huo Xiangzhen's scolding.Silently licking his lips, he nodded slowly: "Okay, safe, okay. I'll talk to the east, and you to the west. I'm about to show you my heart, you fucking say I Disgusting. Okay, I don’t need you to push me out, I’ll go by myself.”

After saying this, he turned his head and pushed open the door, and walked away without looking back.And Huo Xiangzhen supported the desk, bent over and was still panting.The appearance of Gu Chengxi was like a lead wire, detonating the gunpowder magazine hidden in his heart—could he burn the garden by himself?Even if it was burned by oneself, it will be all right in the evening. Can it burn to this extent all at once?A few days after he stepped down, someone is already planning to burn his house down!

In the early hours of the morning, the fire was finally extinguished, the fire brigade retreated together, and the smoky guards also went back to their rooms to rest.Huo Xiangzhen dressed neatly and took Andre to the fire scene.

Huo Dahuo Mansion, half of the house was scorched.The flowers and trees that were almost the same age as Huo Xiangzhen were all reduced to ashes, and several pavilions and a flower hall also collapsed into dark ruins.The ground was scorching hot, and there were curls of green smoke rising from several places.There was fine sleet in the sky, and Huo Xiangzhen was stumbling along the way, and Andre stretched out his hands vainly, ready to help him at any time.

When he reached the ruined wall of the flower hall, Huo Xiangzhen didn't leave.

If you don't go, if you go on, you will still see this miserable scene.

The fire in the Huo Mansion was published in the newspapers, and within a day, it spread to the whole city.

Gu Chengxi saw the newspaper, and Lian Yi, who stayed in Beiping, also saw the newspaper.Entering the room with the newspaper, he rolled up the newspaper, then used it to slap Li Ziming on the back of his neck: "That's bad!"

Li Ziming was sitting on a grand master's chair, with his head lowered, fiddling with a cigar.Across an antique small square table, sat Bai Mani.Leaning over, he took the newspaper roll from Lian Yi's hand and unfolded it. He browsed the news on it, and at the same time, Lian Yi asked himself with a smile: "Son, do you think this kid is bad or not?"

Bai Mani tossed the newspaper back, and then took out a cigarette from the cigarette tube: "It's bad! You've lost the virtue of eight lifetimes, and you don't care if you have a mother or a father who is a scumbag!"

Li Ziming turned his head to look at Bai Mani: "Say it again?"

With a cigarette in one hand, Bai Mani touched the matchbox with the other. At the same time, he poked his head across the table and squeezed words out from his snow-white teeth, clearly and viciously: "I said, do you have a mother?" Daddy lacks the virtue of eight lifetimes, do you understand this time?"

Lian Yi strolled to Li Ziming's side, and covered his eyes with his hand: "Ziming, don't stare at him. You are such an old man, and you have the same knowledge as him?"

Bai Mani chuckled, took advantage of the opportunity to light a cigarette for himself, took a deep breath, and scolded Lian Yi: "You old and unscrupulous person, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked." Then he flicked it to the ground Flick the ashes: "Hey, give me some money, I want to go out and play!"

Lian Yi pointed to the rear door curtain with his thumb: "There is money in the back room, take it yourself!"

Bai Mani threw the half of the cigarette into the ashtray, then thumped his left leg with a clenched fist: "When the weather changes, my leg hurts, and I can't walk because of the pain. Old and unscrupulous, come and carry me into the house." !"

Lian Yi leaned over and put his chin on Li Ziming's head, and wrapped his arms around Li Ziming's neck: "Me? I can't work in vain."

Bai Mani laughed and said: "Get lost! You don't want to carry me, let Ziming carry me. Ziming will definitely be willing. I will leave after I take the money, just to make room for him! Ziming, am I right? Are you Do you want to die if you want to be old and unscrupulous?"

Li Ziming broke free from Lian Yi's shackles, got up and walked over without saying a word, and hugged Bai Mani into the back room.

After a while, Bai Mani went out.Sitting in the car, he asked the driver to drive the car to Huo's mansion.

The cars didn't stop, they just went around the Huo Mansion slowly.He lay on the car window, staring at the tall back wall of the Huo Mansion that was blackened by the fire without blinking.He thought that there might be only a wall between his elder brother and himself.There is a wall, but it is so insurmountable.

It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, and it is even more difficult to see you after goodbye.