seven relics

As soon as he got out, Li Shuai saw his second brother standing by the car, wiping the rearview mirror with his sleeve.The second elder brother raised his eyes, and seemed to catch a glimpse of Li Shuai by accident. He smiled innocently, showing his yellow teeth, and pointed to a tin bucket in the yard: "Throw the changed clothes into that bucket."

There were two wooden sticks standing on the side of the tin bucket, a rope was tied between the sticks, and a few clothes were hanging on the rope.

Li Shuai walked to the side of the tin bucket, and he immediately smelled the pungent burning smell coming from the bucket.The tin bucket was scorched black.Li Shuai still threw the clothes in.

The second brother patted the roof of the car with a smile, got in the car, and Li Shuai also got into the car.Only then did this person sit firmly in the car, the little girl ran out of the house, grabbed something in her hand, patted the car window and said to Li Shuai, "Your cell phone is in my bag!"

Li Shuai put down the car window and took the phone. The little girl lay on the window and asked him with a smile, "Bring me some hair ties."

Li Shuai nodded and saw that his elder brother had also come out of the house, standing at the door and lighting a cigarette.He asked his elder brother, "Does elder brother need anything?"

The eldest brother shook his head, and Li Shuai saw Qing Yeshuang mixing feed in front of the sheep pen again, and asked him, "Where is Xiao Ye?"

Xiao Ye also shook her head, and quickly turned her back to face the sheep.

"Go early and come back early." The little girl ran to the sheep pen, blocked Qing Yeshuang, and waved to Li Shuai and the second brother bouncingly.Li Shuai could no longer see Qing Yeshuang, nor could he see his eldest brother.He waved to the younger sister too.

The second brother turned the car around and said, "Why don't you check if someone is looking for you on your phone?"

Li Shuai pressed the phone, but the phone didn't have a code lock, and when he looked up, the little girl was still waving arms at him cheerfully.

The car drove out of Li's house.

The younger sister watched the Santana until it was out of her sight, then she lowered her arms, hummed a little tune and turned back to the house.She and her eldest brother exchanged glances at the door, and the elder brother was smoking a cigarette and staring at Qing Yeshuang in the sheep pen.

Qing Yeshuang was pouring the mixed feed into the feeding trough, and the sheep were quickly attracted by the feed. He entered the sheep pen and pushed the heads of the sheep crowded in front of the feeding trough to count the sheep.

A few sheep couldn't squeeze in, so they gathered by the wall to eat grass. He walked over and pushed them to the trough, muttering, "If they can't eat, they will starve to death."

He pulled a lamb and said, "If you eat it, you will die. It's better to die from being full than starving to death, right?"

At this time, he found a dark wet mark on the wall.This wet mark goes up a little, it is the window.He touched it, dipped his finger in the wet mark, his fingertips were wet, and he tasted it.

The elder brother's voice suddenly pierced from behind him: "What are you doing?"

Qing Yeshuang hurriedly dug a ball of mud and pasted it on the wet mark, pointed to a sheep and said, "There is a sheep running away."

The eldest brother entered the sheep pen, chased the sheep, caught it, stepped on it, hugged its head, and wrung it to death.He spat and said, "Don't be an infectious disease."

He put the sheep on his shoulders, and greeted Qing Yeshuang: "Let's go, kill the sheep."

Qing Yeshuang also spat out, and quickly followed her elder brother.

At the same time, Li Shuai was chatting with his second brother about his "work", and he found that he had had a hot chat with a woman named Juanzi on WeChat in the past month.Juanzi called him "Xiaoheng", shared everything with him, told him everything, and sent voices such as missing you and loving you several times.Several times, Juanzi proposed to meet. "Xiao Heng" didn't agree, and there seemed to be something unspeakable in his words.

One day ago, "Xiaoheng" finally agreed to meet Juanzi, and told her that there was a reason why he hadn't seen her. He also said that if Juanzi saw him and got angry after knowing his secret, she could beat him Hit him, break him up.

Li Shuai asked his second brother suspiciously: "I got married with this Juanzi behind my back?"

The second brother smiled and said, "No, you and my little sister are doing well, do you know that there is a term in psychology called 'empathy'?"

Li Shuai said: "Second brother, you know a lot, college student, right? Psychology major?"

The second elder brother still smiled and continued: "Juanzi is your customer service target. Because her marriage life is not satisfactory, her husband is cold and violent to her, and she has never had children, and her in-laws are under great pressure. She wants to commit suicide. You persuaded her to commit suicide. If you live with her, she treats you as an object of spiritual sustenance. As for you, you are really a kind person. You don't want her to give up her life like this, so you coax her. Xiaoheng is the name you use when you are a customer service. Not to mention this kind of psychological counseling, you can find any customer service online, and you can’t use your real name, right? When people ask us for a photo, we just find one and send it to them, just because we are afraid of being entangled by these people, afraid Others 'empathize' with us."

Li Shuai sat very upright, listened very carefully, and said, "No wonder I saw that the photo I sent her was another man." He asked, "I'm going to see this Juanzi later, right? "

He saw in the chat records that he and Juanzi made an appointment to meet in a coffee shop on the sixth floor of a hotel.

The second brother said: "She is very fragile. When you see her, she will do whatever she says."

Li Shuai asked: "Can we meet with the client in private?"

The second brother pointed to himself: "This is not private, I am with you, I will ask for a table next to me later, and you will be responsible for enlightening her, don't let her think about whether she will die or not." Let's look forward to the future with her."

"Then the secret I'm talking about is..." Li Shuai clicked on his circle of friends, and it was full of health knowledge forwarded, a horoscope guide, a photo of life, and no life records at all.As for the contacts, besides this Juanzi, there are only He eldest brother, second brother, and younger sister.The conversation records are all talking about some trivial things in life.He also followed some tourism public accounts and some public accounts of mental health science popularization.

The second brother said, "The secret is your hand."

Li Shuai looked at his right hand, smiled, and was speechless.In his phone album, there are some landscape photos and photos of his little sister, obviously taken in the city, maybe in Manzhouli, and some photos of cars, judging from the details of the background, it looks like they were taken in an auto repair shop.

There were still a few games on the phone. He opened them one by one and looked at them. He didn't play any of them, so he put the phone down.He sat silently on the passenger seat and looked out the window.

The second brother asked, "Do you have any questions?"

"Question?" Li Shuai turned to look at him, slightly puzzled.

"The man hanging on the beam." The second brother said.

Li Shuai said, "Then do you have anything to say?"

The second brother said: "This man came to steal the sheep, and Xiao Ye accidentally killed him. There is no way, we can't let Xiao Ye go to jail. Besides, it is the man who came to steal the sheep. Xiao Ye is a legitimate self-defense. Although this man We didn't kill it, we were still on our way back then, but we buried it together, you can be regarded as an accomplice."

Li Shuai nodded and said, "I see."

He glanced at his second brother, and this time there was a real problem: "Does our family grow figs? Big figs are rare, right?"

The second brother giggled and said, "Yes, it's figs, you can try some later."

Li Shuai smiled and was speechless again. He even closed his eyes, leaned over and dozed off.The second brother also stopped talking to him, but just glanced at him from time to time.The sun shone on Li Shuai's body and on his hands, which were just resting on his knees - he was a shadowless person.

The second brother couldn't help but gasped, and stopped looking at Li Shuai. After entering the urban area, he turned on his mobile phone navigation and sent out a few WeChat messages.

When Li Shuai heard the noise, he secretly opened his eyelids to watch his second brother enter the password of his mobile phone. He peeked at it three times and let him see it all.He also continued to sleep peacefully.

When the car arrived downstairs in the hotel, the second brother woke him up and went up to the sixth floor with him.After getting out of the elevator, the two left separately. Li Shuai still remembered the selfie Juanzi had posted in Moments, and saw her right away.He walked up to Juanzi and asked, "Hi, are you Juanzi?"

Juanzi looked up at him with a wary look: "Who are you?"

"I'm Xiaoheng..." Li Shuai pointed to his right hand and said softly, "This is the secret I told you."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his second brother sat down at a table not far away.

Juanzi was obviously taken aback, but immediately pulled Li Shuai to sit down, and said, "Sit down, sit down, you...you look like the photo..."

Li Shuai scratched his cheek: "The person in the photo is not me."

Juanzi smiled: "You look much more handsome than in the photo."

Li Shuai didn't say a word, but Juanzi said again: "What would you like to drink? What would you like to eat?"

Li Shuai said, "Make up your mind."

Juanzi called the waiter and ordered a simple meal with borscht.She folded her arms on the table and looked at Li Shuai: "It looks good in the photos, but I haven't eaten it yet. If it doesn't taste good, let's go to another one."

Li Shuai smiled: "You decide."

There was a cup of coffee in front of Juanzi, she raised her hand, stirred the coffee with a spoon, pulled her hair back, lowered her eyes slightly, and said thoughtfully: "It turns out that it feels so good to help people make up their minds, I I didn't know that before."

She looked at Li Shuai, with a slight smile, and said: "When I was young, others helped me decide what to wear, what school to go to, and as time went by, I took it for granted and listened to others. I didn't meet you..."

Her hand reached out to Li Shuai's, and Li Shuai didn't move, so she held his hand, and her voice became softer, talking to him intimately.

Li Shuai was a little absent-minded, always looking at his second brother, who also ordered, drank coffee, ate cream cakes, and was always looking at his phone.

The borscht was on the table, Li Shuai drank the soup, the soup remained in the corner of his mouth, Juanzi wiped his mouth with a tissue.He followed her all the way.Juanzi also moved to his side, sat next to him, patted his leg, and said to him, "Where shall we go for a stroll later?"

She also said, "If you don't like crowded places, let's sit upstairs?"

Li Shuai said, "You decide."

Juanzi touched his left hand: "Your hands are so beautiful, I think you are cheating."

Li Shuai laughed along with him. The two were getting intimate when a man suddenly walked up to their table.When Juanzi raised her head and saw him, her breathing became stagnant and she became stiff, but she still cuddled up to Li Shuai.The man looked 27, with a gloomy face, sat across from them, looked at Juanzi and asked, "Is he your girlfriend?"

Juanzi didn't say a word, she turned her head away from the man.The man asked again: "You think I won't find out??"

The man's voice trembled, he hugged his head, and complained tearfully: "I love you so much, why do you treat me like this? I won't give you what you want? House, car, clothes, bag! Do you want anything? Are you still not satisfied? Not satisfied? You still want to cuckold me! Still a cripple!"

Juanzi said: "Don't talk about it, get a divorce, I don't want a penny, get a divorce."

"How does this cripple feed you?"

"Could you not pay a cripple every mouthful? A fee for every mouthful?" Juanzi put on a straight face.

"Okay, you fucking..." The man gritted his teeth and waved his arm. Li Shuai thought he was going to hit Juanzi and raised his hand to block it, but the man slapped his own mouth and compared each other fiercely. It became red, and many people nearby looked around, and some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures of them.

Juanzi lowered her head, pushed Li Shuai and said, "You go first, I will contact you later."

Juanzi said to the man, "The Civil Affairs Bureau hasn't finished get off work yet, let's go through the formalities now."

The man slapped the table and jumped up: "Now? After you get a divorce, you fucking get the certificate with him? You're dreaming!"

Juanzi pushed Li Shuai again and said, "I'm fine."

Li Shuai got up, and the man wanted to arrest him, so he dodged and fled.He ran all the way back to the parking lot, found the second brother's car, waited for a long time, the second brother appeared, waved to him, ran over excitedly, and said, "Let's go, buy a hair rope for my little sister." go."

They drove to a big supermarket, and the Civil Affairs Bureau was opposite the supermarket. The second brother took Li Shuai to the Lele Burger restaurant downstairs for dinner, and asked him, "I didn't eat just now, are you hungry?"

Li Shuai was really hungry, so he ordered a hamburger set and a fried chicken set.The second brother ordered a children's meal and chose a fluffy green bunny ornament.

After taking the meal, the second brother chose a seat by the window to sit down, looked at the Civil Affairs Bureau opposite, drank coke, and played with the fur rabbit in his hand.

Li Shuai ate a hamburger, ate French fries, thought for a long time, and asked his second brother: "They won't really divorce, will they?"

The second elder brother smiled and said, "Then we can be considered as saving lives. The marriage is not happy, so why not make do with it? Wouldn't it be nice if the flying swallows each fly to a new sky?"

Li Shuai's mouth was full and he didn't answer. He settled a hamburger set meal. The second brother was still staring at the Civil Affairs Bureau. He followed suit and saw a man walking towards Lele Burger. The store came running.That man is Juanzi's husband.

Husband Juanzi entered the hamburger restaurant, swept the room, saw the second brother, came over to shake hands with him, and also shook hands with Li Shuai, and said with a smile: "You are really there. She doesn't want a house or a car. She doesn't want anything. Account, my friend took the video, and it was this woman who cheated."

The second brother said: "Then I will trouble you to introduce more business in the future."

Juanzi's husband smiled, and the slap marks on his face were still there. He patted his second brother: "That's no problem, I have something else to do, let's go first."

He stuffed an envelope for his second brother, went to buy a set meal, took a pink bunny pendant, and hurried out through another door.

Li Shuai looked at his second brother, then at the envelope.The second brother took three hundred-yuan bills from the envelope and stuffed them into his pocket, asking him, "Where's the phone?"

Li Shuai gave him the phone, and the second brother put the phone in the tray, put down the green rabbit in his hand, and dumped them into the trash can with the tray.He wiped his hands with a tissue and walked back to Li Shuai, sat down, and continued to drink Coke.Li Shuai asked him, "Is this a scam?"

The second brother said: "This is considered a fraud, so you are the main culprit, do you understand?"

Li Shuai took a bite of the fried chicken and nodded, "Understood."

"That's my job, isn't it?" he said.

He completely understood.

Stealing and deceiving is the job of their family.He was already a part of the family, an accomplice in burying the corpse, and the principal culprit of fraud. If he wanted to leave the family, he would not end well.

The second brother smiled, ate a piece of French fries from Li Shuai's plate, sat and looked at his phone, and fell silent.

After Li Shuai finished eating, the two went to the supermarket to buy some hair ties and some daily necessities before going home.

When I was about to get home, I saw a motorcycle parked in front of Li's house. The second brother stopped the car and told Li Shuai: "You take those daily necessities to your parents' house first. The old couple haven't seen you for a long time. You Say some sweet words with you, they love you the most when you were young."

Li Shuai agreed and was about to get out of the car when the second brother called to stop him and said, "Let's change shoes."

Li Shuai's shoes are worn out, and the second brother's shoes are still very new. They are the same size.The second elder brother said, "When you wear these old shoes, they will feel distressed when they see them."

The two of them changed their shoes, and Li Shuai returned to Li's house with big bags and small bags, and pushed open the door of the south room.The second brother saw him enter the house, turned his mobile phone to silent mode, checked it in the mirror, got out of the car, and entered the big house of the Li family.

The lights in the room were not turned on, only the light of the stove flickered.Sitting at the low table in front of the TV were two men with black faces and frosty temples. They were smoking a cigarette with their elder brother.

The little girl leaned aside, her face pale, and a man said, "Young girl is not feeling well, just go and lie down."

The little girl coughed twice, her breath was like a thread: "Master Aga, it's not like you don't know, it's an old problem..."

The other man nodded, frowned, looked at the second elder brother, and said with a bitter face: "I have discussed it with Xiaomei and the others, and I will give you more. In your family's situation, the village can help a little bit more." Well."

The second brother rubbed his hands and asked, "Uncle Wu, what's the matter?"

The eldest brother said: "A big boss in Hohhot expanded his horse farm. He has taken a fancy to the land in our village and wants us to move."

The second brother sat down and said, "There are still crops, how can I move them?"

Grandpa Aga handed cigarettes to his second brother, puffed out the clouds, lowered his head and waved his hands, and said, "Don't let those crops go, it's not serious." He looked at the TV in the room, "This TV can still work. Is it? How many years has it been?"

The second brother turned on the TV, but the TV didn’t respond. He patted it, the TV turned on, the screen flickered, and the picture was very unstable.

At this time, the little girl gasped for breath, trying to support herself but couldn't make any effort, so Uncle Wu hurriedly said, "Go and lie down in the house."

The little girl shook her head, her eyes were wet, and she said pitifully, "Mom and dad can't do without them... It's really hard to suffer if you make an old mistake..."

The corner of her mouth hung down, and two lines of tears fell.The eldest brother got up and said, "Don't worry about it, just go in and lie down."

The younger sister was supported by him and entered the house.As soon as the door was closed, the younger sister asked the older brother, "Should I call Third Sister back?"

The eldest brother said: "Turn down the volume of the mobile phone."

The little girl stuck out her tongue, took out a pair of earphones from the mattress, put them on, and played with her mobile phone.Big brother went out again.

In the living room, the second elder brother was still sitting with the two elders sadly.The eldest brother said: "This matter has to be decided by parents."

Aga said: "Go and see them, I haven't seen them for a while."

The second brother helped him up and said, "Slow down, I went to the station to pick up my little sister's boyfriend just now."

Uncle Wu said: "Little sister told me that she met on the Internet, but one hand was lost in an accident."

"I've seen the video a few times, and it's quite honest, I think it's good." said the elder brother.

The second elder brother said: "With our family's conditions and my younger sister's body, I don't know if I will be able to have children in the future. It will be good if someone wants it."

Grandpa Aga and Uncle Wu sighed again.

The second brother said: "The young man is quite sensible. When he came back for the first time, he brought a lot of things for the second elder. He is not a flashy person. He brought daily necessities."

Aga said: "That's not bad," he patted the second brother's hand: "Is the third brother okay?"

The group left the big house, and the second elder brother said: "It's not easy for her to be alone in Chifeng. In her husband's house, she has to look at people's faces to live. If there is any wind and rain at home, I am too embarrassed to bother her."

Everyone sighed and went to the south room.

In the south room, Li Shuai was talking to his parents.His parents are sick, yellow and thin, lying on the kang bed, head to toe, feet to head, each with a big cigarette stick in their hands. Howling: "My son, your hand..."

Dad leaned on the pillow, smoking a big cigarette drowsily, and there was a yellow light bulb hanging in the room, and the smoke was lingering.

Li Shuai asked the mother, "Do you recognize me?"

The father began to cry: "Son, you really don't remember anything?"

Li Shuai sat next to them, silently observing the room.There was not much decoration in this room, there were two wooden boxes on the kang bed, which were exactly the same as the two boxes in his room.Some newspapers were pasted on the walls, black and yellow from the smoke.There was another wardrobe, the door of which was slightly open, and it was impossible to see what was inside.Li Shuai said, "May I put these toilet paper rolls in the cabinet for you?"

He opened the closet and put things in it. There were only two quilts in the closet.After the things were put away, it happened that the second brother and his group came in.The second brother met Li Shuai face to face, and introduced: "Li Shuai, these are the two cadres of the poverty alleviation office of the village committee, Mr. Aga and Uncle Wu. They came here to see my parents. I have something to talk to them about. Discuss."

Li Shuai saw the two village officials and shook hands with them.The eldest brother urged: "Little sister is not very well, she was talking about you just now, you go and accompany her."

But the second elder brother said: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you want to keep it and listen to it." He said to the eldest brother, "Big brother, Li Shuai is a member of our family, and he has participated in a lot of big and small things in the family. It’s okay for him to stay and listen.”

Li Shuai said: "I'm going to see my little sister." Then he went out.