Being-Towards-Death

People who are accustomed to wandering underground must know the treasures buried underground; but most of them can only be Ali Baba's elder brother Gosimu, casting a vain and longing look at the golden empire.

The croupier's dice cup is in full swing in the air, and the sound of the dice hitting the wall of the cup can be heard endlessly; The casino is only behind that of Boss Qian.Among the crowded and noisy gamblers, there are familiar obese figures. There is no way between people, and the squeeze that occupies the advantage of body size becomes a way.

Fatty Zhang has recently started a small business, and the place of sale is in his favorite place.There is no shortage of wins and losses in the casino, laughter and sorrow are like light and shadow, cuddling each other like twins.If you win money to be happy, you need some gadgets to add to the fun, pretend to be generous, and don’t give change; if you lose money, you need noodles, and you have to have what others have. Time is waiting for the expenses to come easily, and the income is much higher.

Fatty Zhang has developed a talent for making money, and his daily life is colorful.This day is the weekend, and the number of gamblers will be twice as many as before. He bought more goods, avoiding the monitors and croupiers, and secretly sold them to regular customers.

Suddenly there was a noise at the door, the casino seemed to press the pause button, the air solidified into amber, and the creatures wrapped in it were doomed; a pair of eyes looked at the security guard who ran upstairs in three steps and two steps, nervously waiting for the final ruling.

The person in charge shouted anxiously in the croupier's earphones: "Quick! The police are here! Put it away!"

Well-trained croupiers quickly reacted to stress. This action raised the temperature to boiling point, and crowds of people rushed out of the pot like boiling water; The table full of chips that hadn't had time to take them away was scattered all over the floor in a panic; Zhang Fatty took advantage of the chaos and pulled, his plump figure blocked the way of escape, the crowd stepped and jumped on his bent back, and All he cared about was his insatiable greed for wealth.

The arena was in chaos, the police rushed in, the croupiers screamed and splashed like falling sand; the police surrounded the arena layer by layer, shouting: "Don't move! Copy bets! Squat down for me! Hold your hands together!" head!"

Fatty Zhang hid under the card table and was dragged out by the police; the "badgets" in his clothes fell out in bags, and the scattered eyes of the police immediately intertwined into the same focus.

"What is this?" The leader came over and glanced at the colorful pills inside.

Fatty Zhang was sweating profusely, but his tongue was tied, and what he said was vague and unclear.

"Good boy," the team leader licked Zhang Fatty's head, and said to the person in charge of the gambling casino next to him who was crying, "Are you brave enough to allow this to be sold?" The person in charge wanted to defend, but was interrupted again, "So A small bag, you won’t be able to eat this time and walk around, even looking for the Queen Mother, it won’t work!” After finishing speaking, the team leader beckoned two people to escort Fatty Zhang and said, “Go! Take him away!”

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Monday is Chi Xiaoyu's birthday. On this day, she got up early, chose a favorite white skirt and hairpin with a bow, dressed as a little princess, and was ready to go out with her father.

Chi Xiaoyu was very excited. Today, her father asked for leave and took her out to play. Although she didn't know where she was going, but she could stay with her father all day, any place could be an amusement park.

A rare luxury, Chi Yu stopped a taxi.After reporting the destination, Chi Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Dad, what is a prison?"

"Where people who make mistakes go."

Chi Xiaoyu hugged Chi Yu's arm in horror, and said, "Father, I will definitely eat up all the carrots in the future, don't send me to prison, and I don't want to leave you!"

Chi Yu smoothed her braids and said, "I'm not taking you there, we're going to see someone."

Chi Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, patted her small chest artificially, and asked, "Who are we going to see?"

"...You have to call him uncle."

Chi Xiaoyu couldn't distinguish the human relationship brought by the address, her little heart had her own concerns; she didn't continue to dig at her uncle, but said: "Dad, I miss Uncle Shi, will he come back today?"

"...Your Uncle Shi is busy, you are four years old today, you are no longer a baby, you need to be more sensible."

Chi Xiaoyu lowered her head in frustration, and said sullenly: "...But I miss him." She raised her eyes, the arc at the end of her eyes was exactly the same as that of Shi Guyuan, "...Dad, don't you want to ?"

Children don't understand why adults lose their right to be straightforward, and Chi Yu won't explain it—the generation gap is the contrast between the depth of the brain cortex; Chi Yu intends to answer in the simplest language: "...I think."

Chi Xiaoyu followed Chi Yu to the visiting room unhappily.Chi Yu was already familiar with the process of visiting the prison, and did not waste a lot of time like last time.He came in time for Xiaoyu's birthday, hoping to add to the joy of reunion between relatives who had never met, and to dilute the sadness of the past.

As expected, Xu Liwei was full of grief and joy, through the window, he greedily searched for his sister's face from Chi Xiaoyu's appearance - but couldn't help being a little disappointed: the girl Xiao's father, the little niece's face did not have a clear trace of his sister, but was as broken Scraps scattered all over the body: fingernails, hair, earlobes—that's all.

Chi Yu hugged Chi Xiaoyu to his lap, pushed her and said, "Uncle."

Xu Liwei tried his best to show an amiable smile, but it was like a specially made human skin to cover the face of a beast, with the smell of blood.

Chi Xiaoyu was a little scared, she retracted herself into her father's arms, sewed her mouth shut, and couldn't speak.

Xu Liwei said softly, "I heard that today is your birthday, so I prepared this for you."

It was a paper airplane folded from coated paper, and he secretly tore out a page of a magazine in the library.After the guard handed it over to Chi Xiaoyu, Chi Yu pushed his daughter again and said, "Say, thank you uncle."

"Thank you, Uncle." Chi Xiaoyu got the paper airplane, looking up as a novelty, while fiddling with it, he asked, "Why are you in prison? Dad said that you will go to prison only if you make a mistake. Don't you like carrots?"

"Xiaoyu—!"

"It's a long story, it's a very boring story, you won't like to hear it." Xu Liwei said first, "But I really don't like carrots."

Chi Xiaoyu finally laughed, and Chi Yu breathed a sigh of relief - when dealing with a criminal, he would be somewhat cautious - after Chi Yu explained how Chi Xiaoyu played paper airplanes, he let her go to the playground alone.

Xu Liwei's gaze kept on the small figure of his niece, Chi Yu scratched his head and said, "She is four years old, I think I should come and take her to meet her relatives."

"...she looks very good," Xu Liwei moved his eyes back, and said sincerely, "beautiful, smart, lively and cute...thank you, uh—"

"—Chi Yu."

"Thank you, Chi Yu," Xu Liwei said, "Thank you, you are such a good person."

"...It should be. I used to go to my senior—Sister Ling's house for dinner, and they treated me like my own brother."

Xu Liwei nodded: "You are all good people..."

"What do you need here, you can tell me, and I will send it to you."

"I don't lack anything here," Xu Liwei said with a wry smile, "I've been used to it for so many years." After a pause, he asked out of politeness, "What do you do now?"

"doctor."

"Oh, yes, yes, my brother-in-law is a doctor. You and he go to the same school, so of course you are also a doctor. But your household registration is not from Taoxian. I know the hospital recognizes this. Hey, it's not easy for you."

Chi Yu bowed his head, smiled shyly, and said, "Ask a friend, I'm working in a private hospital now, and the salary is very good."

Xu Liwei was taken aback, and asked, "Private hospitals? There are not many private hospitals in Taoxian, which one are you in?"

Chi Yu said: "It's under Hengyu's banner, I heard it's a time-honored brand."

"...Shi Guyuan..."

Chi Yu heard hatred from these three words, and was also taken aback: "What's wrong with him?"

"You know him?"

"To tell you the truth, he was the one who introduced me."

"Damn it!" Xu Liwei thumped the table and cursed loudly, and the policeman behind him immediately issued a warning.So he lowered his voice and said, "Damn, I don't know how you two met. I kindly advise you to stay away from that bastard." He leaned back in the chair and showed his body, "Hmph, otherwise you are This is my end!"

Chi Yu said hesitantly, "He... what happened to him?"

"I'm going to appeal now, suing him for intentional homicide, paying the murderer for the crime, and giving false testimony." Xu Liwei said, "My sister regards you as a younger brother, and I don't treat you as an outsider. In 93, he was in a bad mood one night. It seems that I had a conflict with Mr. Zheng—our big boss—and then went to Naner Restaurant with my brothers for dinner. Later, a man named Zhao Tieqiang came. The film is quite famous. Shi Guyuan's younger sister, a bastard, said a few dirty words, and the two of us started fighting. Shi Guyuan stabbed Zhao Tieqiang to death, let me take the blame, and promised to give my family a A house and 1 yuan per month..."

Chi Yu had an impression of that new house. It was that house that allowed the senior and his wife to officially enter the palace of marriage, and brought his years of secret love to an imperfect end.

"and then?"

After the words were out of his mouth, he realized that his throat was dry and hoarse.

"My family is poor, otherwise I wouldn't be able to leave home so far away and be used as a thug, so I agreed. But my sister is seriously ill...I...I can't help it..." Xu Liwei remorsefully inserted his fingers into the emerging hair Cha, "I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma, and asked the prison guard to deliver a letter to him—there is someone with him here, and I know who—I borrowed money from him, and I begged him to lend my sister 100 million yuan to see a doctor for her , He didn’t borrow it, what else did he say, it’s not easy for anyone to earn money... He is so rich, I’ll take the blame for him! If I was free, Zheng Dong would definitely lend me! If it wasn’t for Shi Guyuan, my sister would I won’t die! My family can’t be broken up!”

Chi Yu seemed to return to the gloomy year again: the senior sold the new house, but the disease was like a bottomless pit, the money was thrown in, and there was no response; in order to continue the treatment, he had to borrow usury... He saw the senior's face The bright sunshine gradually disappeared in the world. As a doctor, his senior saved countless patients, but he couldn't save his wife.

They were drinking at the bar that night. At that time, he was still asking for money to help the senior repay the loan shark, but it was a drop in the bucket; he didn't know that the loan shark had found the door of the cheap shanty house rented by the senior, day and night. debt collection.

The senior invited him a glass of wine, but he declined, they had to save money—he subconsciously tied himself and the senior together, but the senior untied the invisible and inexplicable rope between them.

The senior asked him, does he love Xiaoyu?He said love.

They drank a glass of wine, and the next day, the salvage team pulled a floating body from the river.

From then on, he was Xiaoyu's father.

He should have thought a long time ago, the senior is such a smart person, how could he not see through his feelings for him?But he has no choice but to use his feelings to make a living for his children.

And the source of all this is just a careless decision made by Shi Guyuan.

As long as Shi Guyuan has a little kindness, just like Xu Liwei's resentment and sadness, Chi Yu thought, maybe he won't lose his senior.

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Shi Guyuan ran all over the streets and alleys, and finally found the limited edition wedding Barbie that Chi Xiaoyu wanted in a toy store.

He carried the big box and placed it on the back seat; Song Weibin never sent back his Lexus, so he had no choice but to drive the Mercedes left behind by Zheng Zhongtian.

He got in the car, didn't rush to start it, but took out his phone and looked at it; there was a clean screensaver on the screen, and there was no phone call.

It was past noon, Shi Guyuan hesitated, not sure if Chi Yu would invite him to celebrate Xiao Yuer's birthday; he was also afraid of calling rashly, as if he was entangled.After a while, he put the phone back in his pocket.

There is still a long time, Shi Guyuan thought to himself, if there is no news when it is time to get off work, it is not too late to call again.

He went all the way back to the company, and when he came to the door of the office, the secretary stood up and said, "Mr. Shi, your friend is here."

Shi Guyuan stopped in his tracks, pursed his lips, trying to make himself look less exaggerated than the ecstasy in his heart.He pushed open the door and called out with a smile, "Chi Yu."

Chi Yu turned his head indifferently, he was holding a document bag in his hand, and the desk drawer in front of him was not closed - Shi Guyuan came back just in time, he only had time to look at what was written on the surface of the document bag, his name.