1999

Elbow fracture is not a minor injury. It takes four months of recuperation to fully recover if it is conservative. Even if the fracture line disappears completely, after the external fixation cast is removed, corresponding physical therapy and rehabilitation should be carried out to avoid adhesion of the elbow joint, etc. However, Hu Da insisted on being discharged after only half a month in the hospital.He didn't have five insurances, and most of the medical expenses were billed to him by the security team. Yan Tian was not present when he was discharged from the hospital, but he sent a police car to take them back to Pingxiang on the way.

It was Xiao Zhang who drove here, and he brought Hu Da 6000 yuan issued by the team as a bonus of 10 cents for reporting by the masses.For informants working for the police force, the standard for receiving bonuses is generally 6000% of the crime amount. The [-] yuan in their hands is much less than the actual amount that should be converted, but Hu Da understands that he and Wu Jiusheng stayed in Dongguan. The mess has already brought Yan Tian a lot of trouble, that is, most of the money withdrawn now should be out of Yan Tian's care.

In the past, Huda didn't care about the amount of money, but it's different now.He had promised Lin Jianhua that he needed to take over Ye Hao's next treatment, and Wu Jiusheng was by his side, and he needed to worry about his future life, which made him need money more than ever before.

For the first time, such things as RMB had a solid concept in Hu Da's brain circuit. He added up the use of the 6000 yuan, and he felt the urgency of taking care of his family after he first got married and started a business in middle age. feel.

The funds at hand are not enough, so he needs to start the business again, but in the huge Ping Township, he only has that humble little fly restaurant, not to mention even the cooking job that he relies on for a living, Hu Da thought, Maybe they can't do it anymore.

It was already the end of the day when he and Wu Jiusheng returned to Pingxiang by car with police officer Xiao Zhang. I got off the car early in the morning and walked, and hurriedly merged into the street from the side road.

Hu Da expected that he and the young man would not be able to come back here with great fanfare, but it wasn't until they actually stood in front of Jiujiu Barbecue's door that the sense of right and wrong became particularly clear and strong.

The young man standing beside him was dumbfounded.

Jiujiu BBQ is no longer what it looks like in memory.Huda locked two locks on the gate before taking him away. One of the locks with a hinge was broken by someone, leaving only the broken wreckage in two.Because of the looseness, the gate was artificially lifted up. In that gap, all kinds of fruit peel garbage were filled. The concrete floor in front of the gate was also in a mess, stacked together and covered with rainproof cloth. The plastic chairs were also dismantled and beaten to pieces. The few chairs that still had four legs were dragged like outcasts to the ditch outside the arbor, where they were soaked in sewage and exposed to the sun. , Discolored and deformed as early as a scrap product that has been damaged for 80 years, it is unbearable to use.Not to mention that some people sprayed a big "demolition" character on the rolling shutter door with a big red spray paint that I don't know where. There was a creepy aura.

Demolition will definitely not be demolished. Hu Da knows that if a block with a dense layout like Life Street is to be re-planned as a whole, it will inevitably be a major project that will affect the whole body. Those who sprayed those red letters on his door It's nothing more than trying to drive him away in the name of demolition, or even if he can't be driven away, at least he should be clearly conveyed to him——

"You are not welcome in this area, if you continue to stay, you will not have a good life" message.

That was not his imagination, just hidden in a pile of trash by the door was a message written on a cardboard card from a cigarette pack, the vicious words on it were more ugly and explicit than what Huda had imagined.Huda got it right.

He silently hid the piece of cardboard behind his back, squeezed his fist into a ball, and without Wu Jiusheng seeing it, he coughed as if nothing had happened, and threw a bunch of keys to the young man.

"I haven't been back for a long time, the front of the house is a bit dirty." He said casually to the young man, as if talking about a trivial matter, "But my hands and feet are like this, and I can't start a fire, anyway. If you can't do business anymore, why don't you take advantage of this period of time to close your business and take a vacation, which is also very good."

He said it easily, but Wu Jiusheng felt very sad when he heard it.He knew Huda's feelings for this small shop better than anyone else. Although the furnishings were simple and most of the diners didn't care, Huda would clean up the shop on the first floor carefully after closing every night.There is also a special shelf for small baskets, small steamers, and stainless steel water basins in the back kitchen. They are stacked and stacked neatly by category and size. Some of the wooden parts were cracked, and he wrapped them in a layer of soft cloth, a layer of oiled paper, wrapped them with scotch tape, and took them out from time to time to polish and maintain them carefully, and they were still shiny. Sharp as ever.

Running a barbecue restaurant is the first and only thing Huda has done after returning to social life. It is a hidden and private haven in this strange and fast-paced world. When he guards the barbecue for a long time, he He doesn't need to worry about being out of touch with the trend of the times that he has long been unable to understand, and he doesn't need to worry about being lonely and unaccompanied in life. His original plan was just to guard a shop until he died.For Huda, this is a home, a place to return to, and it is of great significance at any time.

Wu Jiusheng still remembered that he was once angry because Hu Da wanted to take him away from Pingxiang to find another way out. Thinking about it now, when Hu Da proposed to leave, what he couldn't let go of was actually several times more than his own memories and memories. Nostalgia.

He was still happy that the trouble was solved smoothly——

The turmoil in the neighboring city has come to an end, there is no need to avoid anyone, it is natural to return to a familiar place and start again. Wu Jiusheng originally imagined that, but he ignored that the rumors that had been circulating in the factory before were also inevitable in this absence. It continued to ferment for a period of time, and finally evolved into blatant and undisguised disgust and rejection.

They went home, but the homeland did not welcome their return.

Wu Jiusheng is very clear about what this result means: if a restaurant that makes a living as a small business for the surrounding residents loses its reputation and becomes unpopular, it is basically the same as closing down.And Huda and his shop are going through this, not even because he's done anything wrong, or hurt anyone who shouldn't be hurt.

Is it also wrong that they just exist?

This world is very cruel. Hu Da said that sentence to him very early on. Only now did Wu Jiusheng have a real personal experience.

"My hands and feet are inconvenient for a while, and I am too lazy to clean. After entering the house for a while, you just go to rest. I will open the small sliding door for unloading in the backyard for you, and you can go in and out at the back. It is more convenient for you to go there. As for the front, I'll pack it up after I've raised my hands, and I'll definitely clean it up in one morning." Hu Da was still pretending to be casually comforting, Wu Jiusheng pursed his lips, not exposing his lies that he said about him.

"The doctor said you'll have to take care of it for at least half a year, and you can't do heavy work immediately after removing the plaster cast. I'll do it." After he finished speaking to Hu Da, he tore off the lock on the door and entered the store.

The first floor looked fairly tidy, except for the smell of rotting garbage nestled in the cracks of the threshold that filled the room, it was no different from what Wu Jiusheng remembered.He walked to the wall where the oscillating electric fan hung, tore off a few small advertisements and takeaway flyers from the white wall, cleaned up a clean blank space, unfolded the discharge medical examination form he found in the file bag, Smooth it out and stick it with scotch tape.Among them is a preliminary screening report that Huda specially proposed for additional testing. The HIV test result shown above is negative and is not in the window period.

Huda is in good health and does not have any threatening infectious diseases.

"Let's go to the city again when it's my next weekend." Wu Jiusheng turned his head and said to him.

Even with the report from the tertiary hospital, he still wants to take Huda to the CDC to get a more authoritative diagnosis report. He just wants to post the test results on the faces of those bastards spreading rumors outside, so that they can see See who's the problem.

How could Hu Da fail to guess what the young man was thinking? He smiled and shook his head, thinking that it was unnecessary, but with a little connivance, he said "yes".

Just posting the medical examination report is not enough, Wu Jiusheng figured it out, he had to think of other ways to help Huda, the barbecue restaurant needed customers, it was a restaurant that Huda had worked hard for so many years to open alone, and it must not be called Just die.

The young man's brows were tightly furrowed, and he seemed to be holding back his energy.It is difficult for Huda to be as optimistic as he is.

He knows the thoughts of the people around Pingxiang, but it is actually very simple. It doesn't matter if you say that you will be killed with a stick, or you are too afraid to go into it. After all, it is the most important food in basic necessities, and it is that kind Just hearing the name of the disease makes people feel frightened. He knows how people will think of him when the two theories are combined.Printing out the reports and sticking them all over the wall will not save the barbecue restaurant.For them, at least the statement that the owner of the barbecue shop is gay is solid, and this is enough. Now he is healthy, but who can guarantee that he will always be healthy in the future?Huda is not so naive as to ignore the fact that in the eyes of most people, homosexuality alone is already unhealthy, perverted, and dirty.People are like this, in the face of disproportionate risks, they would rather kill by mistake than let it go. After all, people always care far more about themselves than strangers.

This small shop that has been with him for five years will probably have to be closed.

When Wu Jiusheng wasn't watching, Hu Da lowered his head and sighed, his eyes were full of deep meaning, he watched the young man's back, and the indelible tenderness melted in the corner of his mouth, turning into a smile that was almost invisible.

He has a lot of reluctance, he understands, this is life.He also has gained a lot, which is also life.Hu Da is content and doesn't complain too much.

"It takes three to five working days for the CDC to issue a report. During this time, I'm going to arrange things in the store. You...why don't you apply for accommodation again and go back to the factory."

"What are you doing?" Wu Jiusheng turned around in surprise, with a look of astonishment on his face, "Your hands are like this, just when you need help, I go to work during the day, and I can come back to help you after work, why do you have to go to the dormitory?" live?"

"Be obedient and make arrangements like this first. The news about me here has spread in Ping Township, and the influence is not good. You have been away for so many days in the name of asking for leave, and you will come back suddenly, and there is such a big commotion in the factory again. , will definitely attract the attention of others, and at this time, if you still live with me, others will be suspicious."

"What are you doubting!" Wu Jiusheng became angry, "I don't care what other people think, I'm not happy to leave you here alone for the sake of other people's thoughts!"

"Xiao Jiu," Hu Da called him gently, "Will I harm you?"

Wu Jiusheng choked.

"I'll never hurt you," Huda replied, "but I can't guarantee that Others won't. You don't have to care, but I do. I've warned you before that, under any circumstances, you must Don't be seen, we can't afford the price of exposure. Close the door, this is home, but when you open the door, I hope you can keep a distance from me, at least this time, don't be implicated by me. "

What was he talking about, Wu Jiusheng stared blankly at Hu Da's face, who is responsible for who? How could he take it for granted, obviously——

"You promised me to learn to be sensible." Huda said suddenly.

That sentence blocked all of Wu Jiusheng's arguments.

In the past ten years of his life, he only thought about himself all day long, how to make himself happy, how to make himself happy, the concept of being sensible, he didn't understand it before, but now he doesn't want to understand it. Understanding means that you You have to learn to endure unhappiness, learn to overcome your most instinctive selfish desires, and make decisions that go against your heart, but the reason is for another person you care about.

Wu Jiusheng lowered his head, nodded reluctantly for a long while.

Hu Da scratched the back of his head, turned around and took out the dustpan and broom from the back kitchen, and went to the front door to clean the pile of garbage stuffed in the crack of the door.He heard movement behind him, and turned around to find that the young man had also rolled up his sleeves, and was flipping a chair upside down on the table. After finishing that, he went to the toilet to fetch a large bucket of water, and squatted in the corner to wash up. A mop, two rags, and finally returned to the store with a bucket of heart water, and began to mop the floor and wipe the table.

"I'm not telling you to rest..."

Huda hesitated to speak.The young man's movements were very nimble, and he cleared a table in a few strokes. Only then did Hu Da realize that he knew how to work.

"Motherless children grow up like this." The young man looked at him calmly, wiped his face with his sleeve, shook off the rag, walked over and snatched the broom from Huda's hand.

He can not only work, but also weed grass, weave bamboo strips, feed pigs, and cook some simple home-cooked dishes to fill his stomach. In the northern countryside, the well water pumped out of the pump freezes in winter. Biting, the iron bucket can freeze the skin under the cotton-padded clothes. After a while in the courtyard, a layer of ice will appear on the top. For a child who is only a few years old, the iron bucket is almost half as high as himself, but You have to pick up a bucket and pour it into the water tank. When you can’t lift it, you can only hold it with your waist, and move forward step by step. After a few back and forth, your fingers will be red from the cold, and the wind will blow. , were all cracked and bleeding, and after all was done, they had to go back to the house with frostbite to burn the kang.One year, he fell down, and the iron sheet broke his knee, and the cotton coat was half wet before he had time to change it. When he returned to the house, he had already started to have a fever. Drowsily fell asleep on the bedside, and woke up shivering with cold, but the house was still that empty house, even the half bowl of stewed noodles in the cauldron was warmed up by Wu Jiusheng himself despite his dizziness .

That's why he didn't like to work in front of people in the past, and he wanted to be lazy when he could. All the hard work was buried in his memory and he couldn't get rid of it. He felt wronged for himself if he sweated a little.

He always felt that this world owed him, and it was easy to be free. If he didn't pay close attention to enjoying life and make up for himself, he would suffer a disadvantage in life.

Hu Da was dumbfounded when he looked at the young man who quickly swept half of the first floor out like a whirlwind.

"You said, you want to drive me out to live. I'm leaving, don't regret it."

The young man who tied several large black plastic bags into one glared at him, pouted his lips unwillingly, and there was a fine layer of sweat sticking to his flushed face.He turned back, shoulders slumped, sighed helplessly, threw the blackened rag into the bucket and wrung it into a white one again.

"I'm not stupid, don't treat me like a child all day long. I listen to you not because I can't beat you, but because I don't want you to worry too much. You are a patient now, and you are the one who needs to rest." The young man looked up at Hu Da, said solemnly, "I promised you, I will learn to be sensible, I will grow up, and I will be more responsible. Since you ask me for what I said, you have to take it seriously. You can't take care of me for the rest of your life. There will always be times when I need to take care of you, I will do the housework, I will learn how to cook, and I will share with you every difficulty I encounter in the future. Don’t try to hide anything, I will do it All decisions will be discussed with you, uncle, that's only fair."

Huda was speechless, and he looked at the young man, with such firm eyes on that immature face, there was a wonderful unreal feeling, as if he had raised a bird, and the bird was white after a certain farewell Returning in the deep winter, knocking on the frosted glass window, and bringing back a spring branch for him.

"I said it before, don't think about taking advantage of my absence to make some calculations for yourself. I don't agree. This is also my home, and I have a share. If I say keep it, I will find a way to keep it. , don’t believe me, let’s wait and see.”

The young man looked straight into his eyes and emphasized stubbornly.