1999

Wu Jiusheng had never seen Hu Da in that state.The laptop in his arms was snatched away by the other party before he could hide it, and he was grabbed by the collar of his shirt just after he put on his clothes, and the surface of his sweaty skin was stained with grass that had been yellowed by the sun during the day Dry, rustle and fall down.There was silence all around, and the mouths and noses of the two people were also very close together, so close that the other's rapid and high-heated breath was sprayed into one's own mouth. It was a very ambiguous posture, but it didn't have the slightest warmth from the past. By the moonlight, Wu Jiusheng could only see the blush that reached deep into the other's eyes.Hu Da's bloodshot eyes slashed across his face, and then with such strength that he almost pulled the young man to the point of losing his balance and falling to the ground again, he grabbed the young man's wrist and stepped onto the road.

They walked too fast, sweat flowed into their eyes and faced the wind, and they could hardly keep their eyes open.There were some unknown insects in the bushes just now, and they bit Wu Jiusheng's skin on several places, it was very itchy, and there was a little tingling, burning hot.He flinched suddenly, and there was a great grievance in the flinch. He bit his lip. He didn't know where the strength came from, but he was able to struggle a few times under Huda's tug. Still crying, almost completely begging:

"Uncle, it hurts...you scratched it too much, I feel uncomfortable..."

Huda's footsteps paused for a moment, but only for a moment.He neither turned his head nor stopped, but just changed Wu Jiusheng's other arm to grab it, and threw his scratched hand aside.

Wu Jiusheng suddenly felt a wave of silent fear.He couldn't help being afraid that the Huda he knew had never treated him like this.

The two stumbled back to the bright road, broke into the life street where the shops were basically closed, and stood directly under the signboard of Jiujiu BBQ. Huda kicked the door, leaving a gap between the door and the ground The rolling shutter door kicked with a loud noise.The door went up tremblingly, and Wu Jiusheng noticed that when Huda left the store to look for him just now, he was in such a hurry that he didn't even lock the door.Before he could see more details, he was pushed on the back by Huda, and forced into the shop through the crack of the door that he had to bend down and squat down to pass.

After Huda entered the door, he locked everything that could be locked.After finishing all these things, he stood still near the door curtain, turned his head to look at Wu Jiusheng, and threw the laptop he was holding onto the nearest table with a "bang".

He panted heavily, and his voice was rough, as if it had been sanded and stoned:

"Explain." He only gave Wu Jiusheng these two words.

Wu Jiusheng backed up with trembling lips, his back climbed up the wall separating the front shop and the back kitchen by the side of the stairs, and he couldn't go back any more.

At this moment, only the anger that is obviously suppressed to the edge of reason is left on Hu Da. It is difficult for ordinary people to see any other emotions from him, and neither can Wu Jiusheng. Almost overwhelming fear.He couldn't know what kind of mood Huda had when he realized that he hadn't returned for a long time and ran out from Life Street to look for him.

Huda searched every small supermarket, Internet cafe, game room, and other places that Wu Jiu would go to in his daily life. Every time he found a place, he felt that his reason was torn apart a little bit from his inner strength. He had already guessed , the young man was lying to him, and there is a high probability that the young man who lied to him without any reason would only make such a choice in one situation.

He knew that Wu Jiusheng must have done something absolutely unacceptable to him without telling him.

But he didn't expect that Wu Jiusheng's idea was actually related to the electronics factory.

For any disputes related to the real economy as large as a factory, the amount must be huge enough to touch the standard line of criminal cases.He has received relevant training in prison, not because he doesn't understand the law, but because he understands it, he was so anxious when he recognized the figure of the young man in the dark.

Wu Jiusheng stammered and said, "I... I just... went to run errands with those people temporarily..."

Huda fixed his stern eyes on him.

"Who are you helping? What are you running for? Need you to run under the fence of the factory building at around eleven o'clock at night? Why didn't you dare to move or run when the two security guards came out? Tell me!"

Hu Da roared, and Wu Jiusheng almost cried.

"Can you stop being so fierce?" He looked at Huda with red eyes, and covered his head as if he was trying to avoid something, "I can't stand others yelling at me like that, you look too much like my father..."

Wu Jiusheng is not really fearless. He ran away from home alone after finishing high school and went to a strange city that is more than half of China away. Not because of bravery, but because life with his father has almost become difficult. Download any place worthy of nostalgia.

There are deep conflicts between him and his biological father. Apart from Wu Jiusheng's own background, there is also a large part of the reason why Wu's father started drinking heavily after he got old.After that man drank, he would transform into another person completely different from usual. The look in Wu Jiusheng's eyes was the same as that of Hu Da now, extremely fierce. In front of Wu's father like that, Wu Jiusheng had almost no right to speak. If there is a problem with eye contact, it will lead to fierce abuse and even beatings.

Wu Jiusheng seldom mentioned to others the memory that even he himself did not want to recall.He had thought that he had escaped a long way from that kind of life, but now the oppressive aura exuded by Huda unexpectedly brought him back to the scene in his long memory.

His stomach tightened rapidly, and he was so uncomfortable that he wanted to gag.

Looking at the shivering young man, Hu Da felt distressed, but he had no choice.He stepped in front of the young man, forcibly separated the hands that the young man was trying to use to cover up his facial expression, and forced the young man to raise his head and look directly into his eyes.

"Do you know that there is a concept of accessory in the law? Do you know that if it is a punishment in a criminal case, even if a person just stood on the periphery to help out during the robbery and did not participate in any actual actions, he may be sentenced to an accomplice. Years in prison? Do you know what it means to be in prison? Do you know that any criminal punishment will leave a record in the file? Can you understand what I am saying? You are so young and you will spend your whole life Do you all go in!"

Wu Jiusheng panicked.What Huda said was the consequences that he hadn't thought of.Even just now, at the moment when he thought he was going to be discovered by the security guards on the spot, Wu Jiusheng's mind was still only such trivial things as "losing his job".He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he never linked the behavior of "using computer software to steal information from the security guard's baton" with a place like a prison.

"No." He looked at Hu Da, still feeling a little bit of luck, "The team leader promised me, he said it's okay, he said it's just a gray area, it's not a crime, and four hairs, He showed me the agreement, all signed formal contracts, they—"

"Four hairs?" Hu Da frowned tightly.He caught a name from Wu Jiusheng's words that he didn't want to hear at all, "Didn't I tell you to stay away from him? Why didn't you listen to me!"

Wu Jiusheng stopped talking again.Knowing that he was wrong, he struggled again.

This time, Hu Da finally let go of the hand that restrained the young man.He raised his hand and smacked his forehead hard to force himself to calm down.The words to admonish the young man, to let him understand what is right and wrong, good and bad, can be said later. The most important thing right now is to help Wu Jiusheng separate from what Simao wants to do immediately. Hu Da thought, and the boiling brain quickly cooled down.

"Is what he asked you to do in that computer?" Huda asked.

Wu Jiusheng nodded twice.

"What is it?" Huda asked again.

"It's...the night shift schedule from the Security Department." Wu Jiusheng told Hu Da, and by the way, he also told him all about Simao's plan.

After Huda finished listening, he showed a more dignified expression.He took a step back, turned and went to the table to retrieve the notebook.

"Give me the contents of the computer. I'll go to Simao tomorrow to clarify." Hu Da said.

There were two cracks on the screen of the notebook, which may have been damaged, but the memory must still be there. He knew that Wu Jiusheng understood those things, and spread the computer in front of the young man.

"Copy a copy of the memory inside and go to Simao. We'd better keep a copy in our hands first."

Wu Jiusheng didn't quite understand what Hu Da meant.

"What are you going to say to Simao?" He asked.

In fact, that's what Huda was thinking about.The police cannot call the police. According to Wu Jiusheng, Simao and his men have not acted at all. In the absence of substantive evidence, even if the police call the police, they will not have any evidence to arrest Simao. , and if you wait for Simao to start taking action, then what Wu Jiusheng did will be formally included in the trial procedure of the criminal case, and you may be able to win a probation by virtue of the report, but after all, it will leave a stain on the file, it is Hu Da most do not want to see.

If you don't call the police, then you have to quit. A group like Simao commits a lot of crimes, and it will definitely not allow a person like Wu Jiusheng, who knows their overall arrangement, to quit as soon as he quits. Hu Da knows that Simao is a local snake. Following a few younger brothers, who have no background in the underworld and have no background, if they quit without permission, it may lead to more severe retaliation.

The only way left is to surrender.

Hu Da let out a long sigh, and put his arm around the young man's neck.

"Listen well, I will go to Simao and assure him that you will not continue to participate in this matter, nor will you continue to stay in this place. I will temporarily close the shop and ask a friend to help you find other For the work in the factory area, we moved, changed places, waited for the limelight to pass, and then started again.”

Wu Jiusheng was stunned by Hu Da's statement.

He never thought of going to any other place at all, let alone let him resign immediately, give up the job he had so hard to get, and then leave this home he had so hard to own and he was used to, or even leave Pingxiang to go to Living in a completely unfamiliar environment.

That would be almost tantamount to giving up everything he has right now.

That price would be too great.

"No!" Wu Jiusheng almost instinctively protected the computer.He snatched it from Huda and tried to protect it, looking at Huda with a flushed face, "Can we not do this? I don't want to move away."

Hu Da looked at Wu Jiusheng seriously.

"This is the rule of the rivers and lakes. Once you agree to do things for them, if you want to quit halfway, you have to pay the corresponding price. It is the best result to be able to retreat unscathed."

Wu Jiusheng shook his head vigorously.

"I'm not leaving!" he yelled, "Anyway, I'm not leaving! If you want to go, go!"

"Wu Jiusheng! Why are you messing around at this time!" Hu Da was also annoyed.He was not entirely angry with the young man alone, but more worried that the fact that he and Wu Jiusheng were found in the bushes tonight would definitely become a big topic of conversation in the factory area, and it would spread from the mouths of the two security guards. It's far away, and it's okay for those who don't know it. Those who know that Wu Jiusheng will appear in that place at that time will immediately understand that Hu Da has broken through this operation.Like Wu Jiusheng, Hu Da himself will become a threat to those people. He and his small shop do not have the strength to resist local forces like Simao.

"I didn't mess around!" Unexpectedly, Wu Jiusheng stubbornly knocked off Hu Da's hand on his neck, and said with a stiff neck, "Then I will help them! Just do it this time, can't it!"

"What did you say?" Huda opened his eyes wide, unable to believe what he heard a second ago.

"Just this time, really." Wu Jiusheng looked at him with pleading eyes, "If it's just once, I won't be caught so easily. Besides, I've already done what I should do, and there's nothing for me to do next Risk, if I have participated once, I will be on the same boat as them, and they will not embarrass us. I promise, I will quit after one time, and I will ask Brother Xue to tell them that if Brother Xue treats me well, they will definitely Will agree."

"Do you know what you're talking about?" A sudden anger burst out of his chest, and Huda almost shook his hands with anger, "Will someone who treats you well let you do such a thing? You'd rather join them, do it once You are evil, and you are not willing to pay the price for your previous hasty decision? Wu Jiusheng, you are already an adult, you are not a child, don't you even have the basic responsibility of an adult?"

"I don't know what it means to be an adult! No one has ever taught me!" Faced with Huda's anger, the young man suddenly became emotional. He jumped up and pushed Huda hard, "I just want to Knowing how hard it was for me to run away from home, what a good first half of the year! It’s only been half a year! Do you know how much I was beaten at home before? Now I have a job to support myself, I have money in my hands, and I have friends in the factory , why did you tell me to tell me to leave it alone? Don’t just do it this time, what’s the big deal, it’s fine if I don’t get caught, right? I’ve already done it, you let me go now , I have to start all over again, and how much hardship I have to suffer! We can live a good life, do you know how much they pay me, [-] yuan for one job!"

Every sentence of the young man's stubborn and reckless words hit Hu Da's heart.He felt heartbroken, and at the same time fell into deep self-doubt because of the shadow he once had when he was young, which he glimpsed from Wu Jiusheng in a flash.

Wu Jiusheng is very similar to him. They both failed to get enough education from family and society. Hu Da’s lessons were learned from prison life, with blood and wounds. He didn’t have to grow up like that. , If there was a sensible person who jumped out to stop him back then, he would not have been deprived of the precious ten years in the middle like cutting his bones, blood and internal organs.

Hu Da roared, dumped the emaciated young man against the wall, picked up the mop leaning against the wall, and dropped a stick on the young man's back.

Wu Jiu suffered from the pain, curled up and cried out.

"You said no one taught you, but I will teach you today! What is right and what is wrong!" Hu Da's eyes were red, and he suppressed the unbearable feeling in his heart. One hit.

Wu Jiusheng cried. He held his head and looked at Hu Da through the gap between his raised arms. His eyes were full of pleading and fear. He was like a frightened little animal. The panic and despair left in the pupils.

He shrunk himself up, and Huda noticed that the young man was so small, even thinner and thinner than he thought, more malnourished than his peers, full of vulnerable feelings .

He was not only afraid of the mop stick in Huda's hand, but on Wu Jiusheng's face, there was a much deeper fear than that.He was extremely resistant and repelled, and also extremely sad and sad. Huda's two strikes just now had obviously controlled his strength. Although it hurt, it was not so painful that a teenager could not bear it at all.

But now Wu Jiusheng is crying like a puppy abandoned in a rainy day.

"Don't hit me!" He grabbed Huda's trousers, trembling violently, begging, "I know I'm wrong, I'll listen to you, don't hit me, I don't want to be beaten!"

Hu Da's raised hand stopped suddenly, he hesitated, and Wu Jiusheng's uncontrollable sobbing made him instinctively feel a little unusual.At that moment, an equally severe pain fell on the softest part of his heart.

But the young man's usual gags, and the young man's bastard words that did not realize the seriousness of the problem just now lingered back in his mind.

Wu Jiusheng is not yet 19 years old.A young man under the age of 19, if he doesn't know what pain is, he won't know how to withdraw his fingers before his hands are burned by the flames.

Huda gritted his teeth with all his strength.

"It's useless for you to beg me. From today on, you have to understand that the responsibility of an adult is that he has to pay for every word he has said and every decision he has made." He told the youth that the hands Li's stick changed direction and landed on the young man's buttocks.

The stick on the buttocks was not as painful as hitting the bones, but Huda's raised and lowered hands made Wu Jiusheng's eyes dark.

Huda's strength was too great. When he was pressed down on the ground, even with all his strength, he couldn't break free. The despair strangled him like a rope around his neck, making him He choked.

All the scenes in my memory where my father suddenly became angry without warning anytime, anywhere came back to me, and I still remember that man used to be like this, hitting him with whatever was at hand, no matter how loudly he cried or how much he resisted Intense, or how to beg so hard that the voice began to hoarse, the expression on the man's face was always as cold as steel, indifferent.

Wu Jiusheng's body suddenly softened.Huda froze again.This time, he had obviously sensed that something was wrong with the young man's state. He stopped his movements, bent down to look at the young man, and immediately threw away the mop in his hand, and picked the young man up from the ground.

I don't know how many times it started, Wu Jiusheng didn't cry anymore. He didn't cry out for pain, and he didn't continue to beg Huda to stop. Instead, he pressed his forehead against the cold ground, and bit his lip tightly.

His lower lip and the corners of his mouth were completely bitten off by him, and blood trickled down. The young man's teeth were trembling, his breathing was trembling, and there was a smell of blood when he opened his mouth.Huda, who was holding him, was terrified.

Ever since Wu Jiusheng realized that he could not escape his father's violent treatment, this is how he endured every time his father's anger. He knew that resistance is useless, and begging for mercy will only stimulate the other party's tyrannical behavior, so he learned to bite his mouth like this way of patience.Only in this way, in the boredom of not saying a word no matter how hard he was beaten, his father would stop because of fatigue.

At that moment, Wu Jiusheng fell back to that nightmarish day again. Hu Da's hands that hugged him had gently caressed him and cared for him, but in just a few short minutes, it made him fall into hell.

Wu Jiusheng didn't know what he was feeling right now.The pain is only second, deeper than that, is the sadness of experiencing betrayal.He was tired from crying and became hoarse. He only remembered that the man in front of him who worriedly asked him about his situation over and over again had sworn that he would take care of him for the rest of his life and only like himself.

Eyes blurred by tears finally regain focus.Wu Jiusheng saw clearly the anxious face of Hu Da in front of him.

He pulled away the stinging corners of his mouth and smiled at Huda.He smiled very badly.

"Uncle Hu, I hate you." He said.

Huda's movements stopped.

"Why don't you have to pay for what you did, why am I the only one?" Be happy once, you can only live for yourself once. Uncle Hu, do you know how old you are this year? You are 17 years older than me, and you can be my father if you are old. When I am 30 years old, you will be 50 years old Now, when I am 50, you will be 70 years old. You may not be able to move in bed. How will you take care of me? How will you give me the rest of your life? Do you want me to watch you die? I sent it to myself I swear, I will never be left behind again in this life, but even so, you still forced me to provoke me. If you provoke me, is it over? If it is possible, I really hope that I have never met you, Uncle Hu, do you hear me clearly, I hate you. I hate you."

Wu Jiusheng pushed away the man with a frozen expression in front of him, and this time he succeeded.He leaned on the wall and stood up staggeringly from the ground, took a breath, left Huda behind, and walked up the stairs alone with weak steps.

Huda sat on the ground, his palms and backs were all wet, most of which were tears from the young man.

Three times he said to himself, breathe, breathe, breathe.Then, the sense of hearing that was lost halfway was restored, and the pain of the beating heart returned to the body.

He blankly looked up at the place where the young man disappeared above the stairs, his heart was full of crazy and desolate feelings.

Huda stood up and walked up the stairs. The doors of the two rooms on the second floor were tightly closed. He knocked lightly on the door of his own room twice, trying to say something, but couldn't.

After a while, there was still no movement behind the door panel.

A string in Huda’s heart suddenly twitched, and he pushed open the door. There was no one in the room, only the window was wide open facing the night sky. Outside the window, he jumped off the signboard of Jiujiu BBQ and the bracket of the air conditioner, and there was life below. The street was so dark that the five-fingered street could not be seen clearly.

The laptop is gone.The young man was not in the house either, he had already run away.