coward

After the winter vacation, it took Li Qinghe two days to tidy up the house.

Originally there was nothing there, and it didn’t matter if it was a little bit more broken, and it was still usable.

As the Chinese New Year was approaching, the debtors were expected to have a good New Year, and Li Qinghe didn't come back for a few days after returning home.If the debtors don't come, Li Yongfu is back.

It is already dark at seven or eight o'clock in winter.Li Qinghe was cleaning the glass when suddenly a loud noise shook the window.The window, which was already shattered, was finally overwhelmed and shattered.Li Qinghe couldn't dodge in time, a small piece of glass left a scratch on his hand.

Li Yongfu kicked in the door, Li Qinghe couldn't help being surprised when he saw him come back suddenly.

He looked very distressed, obviously his hair hadn't been cut for a long time, strands stuck to his scalp.The coat on his body was no longer in shape, and the inferior leather was peeling off in pieces, scattered and mottled.Like the slough of a cold-blooded animal, or the carrion of a dead person, it arouses deep fear in people.

As soon as he entered the door, he began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, smashing them indiscriminately.Obviously, he did not see Li Qinghe standing by the window.

Li Qinghe was standing by the window, blood was still flowing from the tiger's mouth, and he was still holding a rag in his hand.

Li Yongfu turned his head and saw Li Qinghe standing there.

He suddenly stopped what he was doing, staring at Li Qinghe, without looking at the messy things thrown under his feet, and walked straight to Li Qinghe.

Li Qinghe took a step back subconsciously.

Seeing his movements, Li Yongfu also stopped in a daze.

He seemed afraid to go forward and seemed afraid of scaring away the child in front of him. He put his hands by his side in front of him, rubbed them together, leaned forward, and said carefully, "Qinghe, you Are you back? Do you miss Dad?"

Li Qinghe looked at the man in front of him. His hair had already grown white at the temples, bags under his eyes were drooping, and his eyes were bloodshot. He stared at him.

Suddenly he reached out and grabbed Li Qinghe's hand.Li Qinghe screamed, half frightened, half pained, he was holding Li Qinghe's injured tiger's mouth, he was holding it very hard, holding it tightly, half dragging and half dragging Li Qinghe to the room.Hearing Li Qinghe's yell, he turned his head and gave him a hard look, his bloodshot eyes seemed to burst out fiercely, Li Qinghe trembled reflexively.

He continued to hold Li Qinghe's hand and dragged him into the room.Li Qinghe screamed.

Filled with fear in his heart, Li Qinghe struggled repeatedly, was pulled by his hair, and finally pushed into the room violently.Li Qinghe fell to the ground, rubbing his elbows fiercely on the concrete floor.

Li Yongfu was locked.He took a chair to block the door and walked forward step by step.

Li Qinghe held his arms and struggled to get up and ran to the door. Li Yongfu kicked him on the leg.

"Ah!" Li Qinghe shouted.

Li Yongfu asked coldly, "Qinghe, where have you been? Huh? Let Dad find it easier."

Just listening to his voice is like a loving father who cares about his son, and misses him very much if he doesn't see it, but his expression is ferocious, with poison in his eyes.His teeth were very yellow, and the gaps between the teeth were still black. Every word he said, matched with his expression and eyes, was Li Qinghe's unavoidable fear.

It was a fear that came from deep within him, and it made him shudder just to think about it.

"Say! Where have you been!" Li Yongfu grabbed Li Qinghe by the collar.

"Where have you been? Ah! Say it!"

"Are you trying to run? Where did you go that day?" He shouted with scarlet eyes.

Li Qinghe broke away from Li Yongfu's hand, picked up the rag from the ground, "I didn't go anywhere, I went back to school, I went to school." Li Qinghe's tone didn't fluctuate, as if he hadn't been disturbed at all.

It's okay, as long as he doesn't struggle it will stop.

Many times.

"Ha, I'll still believe you after lying to me so many times?" Li Yongfu picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at Li Qinghe.

Li Qinghe dodged and dodged.

"You've got a lot of skill, why didn't you hide before, you didn't hide before!"

"Do you want to run? Don't run, stay with Dad. Dad will treat you well." Li Yongfu pinched Li Qinghe's wound with one hand, and pulled his hair with the other. He got very close and spoke in a friendly tone. Anyone who listens is rare and affectionate.

"I tell you, you can't run away, haha ​​you can't run away!" He pushed Li Qinghe away, and said with scarlet eyes again.

Li Qinghe lowered his head without looking at him with clenched fists.

Seeing that Li Qinghe didn't speak, he said again: "Oh, by the way, don't even think about seeing that classmate of yours again!" He turned his head and stared at Li Qinghe, his throat made a sharp and stale sound like fingernails scratching a blackboard.

Li Qinghe looked at him fiercely: "Who?!"

"Haha, you're panicking, I'll break your leg if you dare to see him again!"

After a pause, he said again: "It doesn't matter, if you run around again, I will kill him. Haha, let's see if you still dare to run around. Even if you run all the way to the ends of the earth, I will catch you back. Lock it up, lock it on the bed , let you rot beside me, never to see the sun again. Hahaha..."

"Ah!!" Li Yongfu screamed, covering his head and backing away.

"Say it again?!" Li Qinghe was still holding the broken wooden chair in his hand, his eyes were red, and he stared at the man who kept retreating without blinking.

"You fucking say it again!"

"If you dare to touch him, I will kill you first."

Li Qinghe said harshly with red eyes.

"Ha, who is he?! I'm going to kill him! You dare to beat me because of him!" Li Yongfu stood up, the blood on his head was streaming down his face, he roared, his eyes were full of hatred , The killing intent suddenly arises.

He rushed forward and hugged Li Qinghe's waist, hitting him against the wall.The fist hit Li Qinghe fiercely, "Don't even try to run, if you dare to run, I'll kill him and make you miserable all your life hahaha!"

"Ah!!" Li Qinghe was torn together with him. Regardless of the pain in his back, he desperately attacked that person.

The pain was no longer pain, it had already turned into a cold knife blade that ran along his bone marrow and melted into his blood, severing a knife in his heart.

……

Li Qinghe walked out.

There were no people in this area, and there were still people who had dinner in the distance setting off firecrackers here and there. The lights flickered, and sporadic sounds fell into Li Qinghe's ears.

The sparks in the distance gradually blurred, and his face felt numb and itchy. He stretched out his hand to touch it, and his fingertips were icy cold.

He just walked forward, and when the wind blew, the smell of blood drifted from his body into his nose.

He still held the knife tightly in his pocket.

A few minutes ago, the knife saw blood.

He walked for almost an hour.He stepped forward and knocked on the iron door.Three long beeps and two short beeps.

After a while, the door of the auto repair shop was pulled open from the inside.

Li Qinghe bent his eyes, revealing half of his small canine teeth, "Brother, I haven't eaten stove candy yet."

A sigh came from inside the door: "Come in."

……

"Go to hell!" Li Qinghe lowered his head in disbelief.

His waist was blood red.

"Haha, you still hit me, why don't you hit me?"

Li Qinghe clutched his wound, his expression painful.

"Haha, it's fine if you die. If you die, you won't run away. Hahaha, don't try to run away. You will rot by my side for the rest of your life. Hahahahaha"

He yelled in Li Qinghe's ear, his voice full of distorted pleasure.

Li Qinghe looked up and saw his scarlet eyes, which were bloodshot, and a tear fell down his cheek and dripped on Li Qinghe's face.

Li Qinghe felt a pair of hands on his neck, slowly tightening it.For a while, there are verbal abuse, and for a while, there is confession.

"It's good to die! If you die, you won't run away, haha, if you die, you will be together forever..."

"Don't hate me, I don't want to..."

"It's not me! It's not me! You ran away!"

"You can't leave me!"

"Go to hell! You all die together haha..."

Tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes, Li Qinghe felt that he had nothing left.

All expectations, all hopes, all emotions.

My dad is going to kill me.

I just die like this.

That's it.

But I can't bear it.

I can not let it go.

Such a nice person.

I can not let it go.

……

"Ah! Let me go! Let me go! Qing and I were wrong." Li Yongfu moved back quickly in horror, his eyes were full of fear.

"Ah!!! I'm sorry, Dad was wrong! Ah, no, no! I shouldn't!"

With the knife in his hand, Li Qinghe approached Li Yongfu step by step.His eyes were scarlet and his face was expressionless.

"Ah, it hurts, please spare me! Please!" Li Yongfu shouted with his mouth wide open, the veins in his neck were protruding. At this moment, apart from fear, he was even more desperate.

He wasn't sure if Li Qinghe would let him go.

He didn't dare to do it before.

He never dared!

How dare he!

"Ah!!" Li Yongfu yelled and rushed forward, but was kicked to the ground.He hugged his stomach and groaned.

"Dad. This is the last time I will call you." Li Qinghe said coldly.

"Did you know? You will go to jail for murder. You should be thankful that I have not died for so many years, otherwise, you would have to go in." Li Qinghe's tone did not fluctuate, but tears fell straight down.

"Those holes are what you deserve. I won't do anything else today, but you remember." Li Qinghe wiped his face.

"If you dare to touch him, I'm not afraid of going to jail. You stay far away from him, and you can't get closer. Understand."

Li Qinghe stared at him, seeing that he kept nodding, and that thick black and red blood kept oozing from the incision on his body.

He turned and left with the knife in his hand.

No one is more embarrassed than him.

Is family affection the most luxurious thing?

It seems so.

I have been begging for so many years, but I have not asked for it.

Do it.

I seem to be sorry.

……

Li Qinghe opened his eyes and realized that he was covered in sweat. After a while, he felt pain everywhere on his body.He wanted to stretch out his hand to pull the quilt, but he accidentally pulled the wound on his elbow, and he grinned in pain.

"Let's rest, give me some rest." Wu Guang stepped forward to help him tuck the corner of the quilt.

"elder brother."

"Ah."

"I want to eat buns. Stuffed with mushrooms."

"Well, just wait."

Wu Guang turned around and left the small pavilion, and helped him close the door.Then he heard the sound of the iron door being opened outside.

Li Qinghe rubbed his head against the pillow, then shrank back into the bed.

This is his brother's place, and he doesn't worry about anything.

……

At the age of 13, Li Qinghe passed out in front of the auto repair shop where Wu Guang worked.Woke up lying on the bed in the cubicle.

Wu Guang picked him up.

Hastily bandaged his wound.

The two of them didn't say a word, Li Qinghe just didn't leave.

Very cheeky.

Wu Guang glared at him, but finally gave him a mouthful of food.

When Li Qinghe wasn't in school, he always stayed in Wu Guang's auto repair shop and didn't go anywhere.

Just behind Wu Guang, neither far nor near, squatting beside him.

Wu Guang also let him follow.

casual.

Nothing to do with him.

I love it.

It doesn't matter if you starve to death.

Li Qinghe cheekily followed behind him.

Wu Guang was lying on the ground for someone to repair a car, and he squatted beside him.

Wu Guang tested the car and he followed behind.

When Wu Guang talked about the car with the client, he still squatted next to him.

Wu Guang has to follow him when he buys food.

Wu Guang never talked to Li Qinghe.

At that time, Wu Guang had just dropped out of school and found an auto repair shop to learn how to repair cars. He was still a half-year-old child.

My heart itches when a child follows behind me without making people cry.

So after a week of Li Qinghe cheating on food and drinking without saying a word, he frowned while pinching a deep-fried dough stick, and said in an unfriendly way, "Brother Calling, I'll give you this deep-fried dough stick."

"Brother." Li Qinghe said softly.

This cry of brother has been called for six years.

……

Li Qinghe felt that someone was patting his face, and opened his eyes in a daze.

"You son of a bitch, can't you afford it? You've already bought breakfast."

Li Qinghe sat up with a smile.

"The Hu spicy soup from the one on East Street?"

"Well, the family on West Street is rushing home to celebrate the New Year."

Wu Guang pulled a small table from the corner to the middle to untie the breakfast bag.

"I'll brush my teeth first."

Li Qinghe kicked the slippers and opened the door of the cubicle to go to the outside bathroom.

"The hot water faucet was broken the day before yesterday. I changed it to the one on the right. Hey, don't get water on the wound on your right hand." Wu Guang told him standing at the door of the cubicle.

"Ah."

"Hurry up, it's time to cool down." After Li Qinghe finished washing, Wu Guang greeted him to eat.

He glanced at Li Qinghe's side, saw the swollen corner of his mouth, and didn't ask anything.

"Brother, I'll live with you from now on." Li Qinghe lowered his head and stuffed a bun into his brother's hand.

"Yo, didn't you live with your brother all the time?"

"No, it's different." Li Qinghe whispered while biting the plastic spoon.

"What's the difference?" Wu Guang killed a little bun in one bite.

"Just let me live with you." Li Qinghe continued.

"What about acting like a baby? Who did you learn from? I didn't know who was so thick-skinned before, and I couldn't drive him away. Are you stupid today?" Wu Guang stretched his long legs, and the small stool had to lean back without a backrest.

"Oh, good." Li Qinghe took a sip of the Hu spicy soup and laughed.

"What's good?" Wu Guang glared at him.

"Okay, you agree."

"You are really thick-skinned."

"Yes." Li Qing and Dafang admitted.

"Hurry up, there's still work to do later. You stay at home." Wu Guang urged him.

"Ah."

After dinner, when Wu Guang was leaving on his motorcycle, Li Qinghe asked Wu Guang to take him for a ride.

Wu Guang slapped him on the head, "Take some wool, it's cold, you must be sick or injured! Stay home and be honest." He stepped into the car.

"If you are free, go to the small square." Wu Guang put on his helmet and said.

"Yeah." Li Qinghe didn't really think about going for a ride, he just wanted to make trouble with his brother.

"Let's go. Don't cook today, I will take it."

"Well, let's go."

Wu Guang twisted the accelerator, and the motorcycle roared away.

The auto repair shop is owned by the boss.Two years ago, the boss got lucky and won the lottery.

No one knows how much he won.

The night when the boss gave Wu Guang a salary increase, his brother and the two sat in the cubicle of the auto repair shop and guessed for a long time, but they couldn't guess anything.

But it must be quite a lot, even giving his brother a salary increase.

Since then, the boss has seldom come to the auto repair shop.Wu Guang has been with the boss for several years. The boss may be more optimistic about him, so Wu Guang takes care of all the big and small things in the store.

A guy just resigned last month, including Wu Guang, there are only three or four people left.The ages of several people are not bad, and there is no barrier between them.

The end of the year was approaching, and there was no work to do, so the brothers went home after their salary was paid.

It's New Year's Eve.

It's time to go home and have a good year.

But Wu Guang lives in the store all year round.

That's what I said when I first came here.

Li Qinghe cleaned up in Wu Guang's room, wiped and wiped, and there was no dust.

His brother likes to be clean.

With nothing to do, Li Qinghe stepped on the stool, held his arms and pulled down the iron sheets, leaving a gap, and walked towards the small square.

It is said to be a small square, but it is actually a small hardened concrete floor.There is a barbed wire fence around the outside, and there is no exercise equipment, but there are basketball hoops at both ends.Young people come to play basketball from time to time during the holidays.

But usually come here except for the elderly and children.

From a distance, Li Qinghe saw a black figure shuttle in the field.

Unassuming and reckless.

The one nimbly bypassed the bricks and broken glass in the small basketball court, took up the skateboard and jumped up and down from time to time, jumping between various unevennesses.

There were even a few children beside them applauding and cheering.

Staring at the leaping figure, Li Qinghe opened his eyes slightly.

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