Findings at sea

It rained in the morning and the air was cold, typical of a rainy winter at sea.

Bai Xiaohong said to pick up Ruoyu, and Ji Xingtang took a walk to the backyard alone. Under the cloudy and gray sky, on the high pavilion eaves, damp moss grew in the tile cracks.There was a bird with a shiny black body and a very long tail. It sometimes pecked its wings with its beak, sometimes flapped its wings, and finally flew away with a chirping sound.

Maybe he will encounter a time that cannot be repeated here.Ji Xingtang emptied her heart and let everything fly away like a bird.

He kept walking until he felt that every flower and tree was cold to the bone.

He walked back, and Aunt Liu had made fresh soup, and there were a few slices of Jinhua ham floating in the dried wild bamboo shoots, the hot air drove away the chill.He called Mo Bai to come to eat, and Mo Bai worked in front of the phonograph, put the needle on the disk, and then a Spanish tango tune floated out.

Aunt Liu changed the withered flowers in the vase, looked at Mo Bai and said with a smile, "The young master has eaten with Bai Ye, a bowl of egg custard and a bowl of barley porridge, the taste of the young master is similar to that of the young master."

He does not mean that.Ji Xingtang ordered, "Aunt Liu, go cook some more porridge and make some lotus paste cake by the way, Zixuan will be hungry later."

Aunt Liu nodded and went to the kitchen.Mo Bai ran over and hugged Ji Xingtang's leg, looked up at him and rubbed his face against his knee, and said coquettishly to him, "Dad, I really miss Roger, Bert, Angie, and many others Friend. When shall we go back?"

On a sunny afternoon in the United States, Ji Xingtang and Bai Xiaohong went to the church to watch the performance of the children's choir. Mo Bai stood on the stage in a small dress and waved to them excitedly.The three of them are like ordinary Chinese living in the United States, and their days are so ordinary and distant.

Ji Xingtang didn't know when to go back, but children were easy to deceive, so she lowered her head and said to him, "You still want to go back? Go back when you grow up."

After Bai Xiaohong interrogated Ruoyu, he was taken to Huizhong Restaurant and detained.When I went to pick him up again, the domineering aura of the night before had all died down, and there was only one person left, looking very bad.Bai Xiaohong admitted that beauty is true beauty, with sculpted eyebrows and phoenix eyes on the white skin, women look like men, men look like women, she is a beauty anyway, so beautiful that it makes people uneasy.It's just that it's outrageous to be ruined by outsiders and himself by this world.

Bai Xiaohong said to take him to see Ji Xingtang, but Ruoyu suddenly said that he would not go, he was ashamed to see him like this, at least it was the last time, he wanted to appear decently in front of Ji Xingtang, he wanted to look better in a few days and cut his hair before going meet him.

So the porridge was cold, and no one came.Bai Xiaohong said that if he couldn't find him, Ji Xingtang couldn't see him.

Later, Ji Xingtang took care of the assets and went through various procedures, holding the account book and feeling empty.From being poor and white to being full of beauty, rooted in Shanghai Bund, he is really reluctant to leave.He forcibly carved out a world, with a bank and a martial arts gym, and he also thought about opening a new agency. In the end, who worked hard for whom?

It's the same with Bai Xiaohong. He closed Haoguan and he calculated that he made a fortune from morphine at the right time. After the factory was closed down because of the Blue Shirts, most of the money in his pocket came from the government's spoils. to the disciples.

Later, when the two of them combined, after more than ten years in Shanghai, the money saved by the two of them was less than half of what Xu Baoshan left for Mo Bai.Thinking about it, they are often short of money in order to eat the bowl of favors. Ji Xingtang said that when the money is used up and the favors are not used up, they will make money without losing money.Bai Xiaohong said that favors are also secured by power and wealth. With power and power, favors are naturally inexhaustible, but without the former, if you want to find someone to do things, spending money is a bottomless pit.

Half a month later, Ji Xingtang met Ruoyu.

On this day, all the leaves in the courtyard turned yellow, those that could bear it hung on the branches, and those that couldn't bear it fell to the ground, life and death were like this.

Ruoyu cut off all the hair in the shawl, combed it neatly, and sat quietly on the sofa in a plain moon white mandarin jacket.

Many years ago when he first came to Shanghai, he pretended to be a child to hide his embarrassment, and he looked like he was the only one who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.He is indeed just a child, because he was beaten and scolded by Bai Xiaohong a lot, he sneaked away many times, and then he simply didn't run away, because Ji Xingtang protected him and treated him well, and he could act coquettishly and play tricks on his feet. Get into his arms to keep warm, and if you have nothing to do, get into his arms and let him hug you to sleep.They're still close without those physical bonds, but that's not all the chasm that's been torn between them.

Before meeting, Ji Xingtang had already thought over what to think and what not to think. After meeting, he still didn't know what to say, and it was pointless to get to the bottom of it. Instead, he wondered whether to take him to Hong Kong or not. Or leave a sum of money for him to let him go his own way.

Aunt Liu made hot tea, Ruoyu's dark eyeballs were wet from the heat or there were tears in them, hidden behind the long eyelashes and double eyelids, no one could see.After a long time, Ruoyu said, "What kind of world is this, you can't help yourself as a human being."

Ji Xingtang was taking out a box of betel nut cigarettes from under the coffee table, and put it back after listening to his speech.

"Think about it again. Between people, you are you and I am me. The distinction is clear. Indifference is the norm, even like snakes and scorpions. There is always something special about one person being nice to another. The reason. I am greedy for the high position and weight given by the Japanese, and the Japanese are greedy for my status as an orphan of the Qing Dynasty, so my mother can commit herself to serving the enemy, and I can recognize a thief as my father, but that short-lived ghost died, and his own son wanted to slaughter our mother and son. His father was buried with him, but my mother died and I ran away. I was afraid that you would kill me, a traitor, and I dare not come to you when I returned to Shanghai. Later, when I got tired of it, I fell in love with a young man, Lin Jinsheng, you know him, I have been hanging out with him in the British Concession. Shanghai is inseparable from wine, sex and wealth, and he is even more lustful, gambling and expensive. We are often short of money, so I will not sell myself He asked me to come out to sing an opera. I couldn’t sing or sing well. He found a little actor to sing the oboe secretly. As long as I stood on the stage, someone would smash my ticket. Needless to say, I deceived my master and killed my ancestors, and Lu Jinlang painted erotic pictures , Lin Jinsheng is taking pornographic photos, those people are not watching a show, they just look at me as an actor..."

"Don't say any more." These words are probably true and [-]% false, harsh and sad.Ji Xingtang didn't want to listen anymore, his face was full of distress, and he watched Ruoyu calmly say these words in disbelief.

Ruoyu also looked directly at him, and smiled slightly, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything, I lived like this after I left... In fact, there is no difference, you raise me and I sleep with you, others raise me and I sleep with others, and then seven Live in sloppy nonsense."

Ji Xingtang lowered his head and kept rubbing the center of his brows, he couldn't bear to look at Ruoyu's face, Ruoyu became like a heartless person, someone he didn't know.Ruoyu has already sat beside him, resting her forehead on his shoulder, "Brother, can you still hug me? Just this last time, and then we will have nothing to do with each other."

He just begged so little, and it softened people's hearts once he heard it.Ji Xingtang stretched his arms and hugged him in his arms, Ruoyu leaned his face on his shoulder, finally Ji Xingtang couldn't help crying, "Zixuan, don't say such things, I'll take you to Hong Kong, it's better than Shanghai a lot of."

After many, many years, Ruoyu finally understood clearly that he liked Ji Xingtang very much. He was more of a father than his father, and an older brother than his elder brother. Originally, blind dates were fine, but the enlightenment of sexual matters made him lose his love. He was confused, and then he added illusions that shouldn't have been added to him.Ruoyu closed her eyes, as if she wasn't talking by herself, "Brother Ji, I'm not going to Hong Kong. I'll tell you clearly, but you won't let me go. Don't believe me, go ask Mu Rusong, go Ask Mu Ke, ask Bai Xiaohong, everyone knows that only you are still in the dark...I like Mu Ke very much, but he is my own brother, can you finally give me an idea."

After Ruoyu finished speaking, Ji Xingtang was stunned. It sounded too absurd, and then realized that Ji Xingtang patted the back of his head, "What nonsense are you talking about? You made up such a story to lie to me."

Ruoyu chuckled, rubbing her face against his shoulder to wipe away tears.Ji Xingtang held his face, wiped away the tears on his cold cheeks with her thumb, stared at him blankly for a long time, as if she had figured something out, she suddenly smiled, "Why are you lying to me? Do you just hate me so much? Why lie to me...lie to me...continue to make up lies to lie to me!" As he spoke, he yelled.

In Ruoyu's eyes, Ji Xingtang looked very scary.He had endured it for a long time, and remained calm about emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy, and suddenly he yelled at himself with scarlet eyes, making him feel that he had finally gone from calm to a mighty death, and everything was stirred up instantly.

Ruoyu wanted to reach out her hand to wipe away all his sorrow and sorrow, and let him smile at herself, but she was not qualified, so she could only look at him affectionately, then pushed away his hand, stood up and walked forward, he spoke calmly as usual, "Brother, you are always like this. You have a manly body and no masculinity. Mu Rusong is the old man's brother-in-law, and you can't kill him; Mu Hua is the second chairman of the entire mining association, and you don't want to kill him." You might mess with the council; Mu Ke is the head of the advance regiment under Shen Zhengrong, and it is impossible for you to fight against the military; Mu Xi is a child, and it is impossible for you to commit crimes, and it is even more difficult for you to hold Sister Xiang’s child. .”

Walking to the door of the living room, Ruoyu looked back and smiled wearily, "You can only come to me if you want revenge. Now you should shoot me and avenge your father. Think about it, if your father is still alive, you This life will be different."

Bai Xiaohong stood at the top of the stairs and watched everything. He put the gun under the coffee table.He suddenly felt that he was too naive, they were all poor people who had been teased by fate, but they couldn't turn back, and regretted that once the medicine was taken, it would feel too bitter.

Ji Xingtang looked at him from a distance, longing for the truth, do you think it is true?Bai Xiaohong remained silent.

During this silent confrontation, two crisp gunshots sounded outside the Bai mansion.

Mu Ke led troops to surround the Bai mansion.

Coincidentally, Su Shaojiu also came with troops and surrounded the Bai mansion and Mu Ke's soldiers.

One came to ask for someone, and the other came to arrest him.