troubled times reckless

There was not much sentimentality at the time of parting, and the younger brother gave his mother a last look with indifference.

The mother was holding a cigarette, unable to see her expression clearly. In the night room, candles were lit, filled with blue and white light, without any warmth.

Leaving the old house where he lived for a long time, the younger brother stepped out of the threshold, a gray shadow against the darkness.

In the end, the only thing that came into view was the uncle carrying the big box, trotting all the way behind the silent younger brother, with a funny look of following each step.

Seeing that the heavy door was closed, and Fangfo separated the space, forming two completely different worlds, my mother knelt by the door and cried.

He said indifferently: "I'll help you pack some things these few days, and when you marry into the door, I should go too."

The mother looked up at him through her teary eyes: "Why are you laughing?"

He touched his face, as if he was smiling, who knows?

Turning around, he went to tidy up his mother's messy clothes.

When I left the house, my mother had wiped off the tears and looked haggard.

"I left you here, do you know why?" Mother said hoarsely.

"You said to let my brother go first, I will stay here to help you clean up, and then follow."

The mother shook her head and said in a dazed way: "That's a lie, you lied to your brother... Otherwise, how could he be willing to go with your uncle..."

"..."

The mother turned her face away, as if unwilling to face him: "I will persuade Zhiyuan in the future that he is his child, and he will recognize him one day...but you...your father mentioned it to me once before, and I didn't want to ...I think he hugs left and right, and his wives and concubines are in groups. If you really recognize him, he will not take care of you. But a few days ago, his nineteenth aunt gave birth to a daughter, and she is the fifth... So I mentioned it to me again. Your brother went back to his hometown and lived a hard life. How can the master and wife have a good face? But I will take him to my side one day...but I can't let you go...I think Find a good home for you."

"Oh." He responded calmly.

Mother sighed: "Go, change clothes, I'll take you to see him..."

"I haven't heard you say that before."

The mother smiled wryly: "I said it, I'm afraid you want to see him, you see him, he is rich and powerful, and I'm afraid you want to follow him instead of me."

"will not."

His mother pulled him closer, touched his head with her pale fingers, and said coldly, "Put on that newly bought suit."

He nodded, then walked into the house, suddenly thought of something, he turned around and said: "But don't tell your brother about this." Seeing his mother staring at him blankly, he slightly curled his lips: "Now, he I'm the only one left." After that, he lifted the curtain and entered the room.

After changing the clothes, I followed my mother into the rental for the first time.

In the dark sky, there are all kinds of lights shining, I don't know if it is day or night.

A dazzling array of rare things, bizarre hustle and bustle, and dizzying prosperity... On such a pleasing street, my mother gradually glowed with spirits, and even gave birth to some coquettish and coquettish charms.

A few passers-by on the road looked at their mother with malicious smiles.

He followed behind, but his footsteps were erratic, which felt a little unreal.

This is a lease, he thought.

People say that the ten-mile foreign market is a paradise on earth.

But for some reason, the buildings and temples with oil lamps in front of him looked more like wild grass and wild mounds with will-o'-the-wisps floating in them. He could almost smell the breath of corpses blowing from the depths.

Pedestrians on the street are hurrying, like walking corpses, with bent backs, obliterated spirit and soul, only with a greedy and fierce light in their eyes.

It was obviously a street with people coming and going, but he felt that it was not very popular. Behind the glitz, he could see the desolation that had eroded the glaze.

Walking into a resplendent casino, his mother led him to the gambling table of the biggest table. Sitting in the middle was a middle-aged man with a peaceful face.

The mother stood beside the middle-aged man respectfully.

After a while, the man finished playing the cards, and the mother called out, "Boss Luo."

The man inadvertently turned his eyes to his mother: "Why are you here?"

His mother pulled him in front of him, and the person at the same table beside the man laughed when he saw this.

The man asked, "Brother Jin, what are you laughing at?"

"Hey. Looks like you when you were a kid. How old is this year?"

"The child turned eleven last month."

The middle-aged man called Boss Luo by his mother looked him up and down for a long while: "Why is he so quiet, isn't it because you were raised as a girl by a bitch like you?"

The mother squinted and covered her mouth with a handkerchief: "Boss Luo really knows how to joke, how dare I fool Boss Luo with a girl?"

The middle-aged man snorted, waved, and walked over.

The middle-aged man pointed to the game and asked him, "How much should you bet on this game?"

"Oh, he is young, how can he gamble?" Mother smiled apologetically.

"What do you know? A man is born to gamble. If he can't even gamble, he doesn't deserve to be a man!"

He looked at the middle-aged man and pointed to the chips: "All in."

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

He said indifferently: "Men are born to gamble, if you dare not even bet on the chips, you are not worthy of being a man."

The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes: "What should I do if I lose?"

He smiled slightly: "You can't afford to lose?"

The middle-aged man stared blankly at him, then nodded to the croupier: "Then go all-in!"

The croupier pushed all the chips on the table.

And then... a round was lost.

The mother was on the side, her face had gradually turned pale.

"Look, listen to you, I lost everything, what should I do?" When the middle-aged man spoke, he stared straight into his eyes.

He looked back calmly, but thought in his heart, this man's eyes are not as mediocre and dirty as on the street, and he is still a bit popular.

"When all the gold is gone, it will come back." He said.

The middle-aged man looked at him and laughed twice, and then turned into a louder laugh.

The person at the same table also said with a smile: "Brother, today is a great day, my brother congratulates you."

The middle-aged man's laughter gradually died down, but he looked at him: "As expected, you are the son of someone from me. From today on, you are the eldest son of my Luo mansion, the eldest son of my Luo Yongrong!"

That night he went home with the middle-aged man. When his mother was collecting the money, she thanked her a lot, but she looked at him with tears in her eyes.

He sat in the middle-aged man's car, looking out the window, without saying a word.The middle-aged brother surnamed Jin drove the horses and carts for the two of them.

The middle-aged man looked at his pensive appearance and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

He couldn't find a suitable word, so he chose the simplest expression: "I think you are fine."

The middle-aged man froze for a moment: "What silly things are you talking about?"

The person driving in front laughed, "It's reversed."

The middle-aged man asked nonchalantly, "How can I do it?"

He pointed to the crowd passing by on the road outside the window: "Their eyes are all chaotic; your eyes are different, I think it's very good."

The middle-aged man was silent when he heard the words, but the person in front turned his head after a while: "Brother, you have taken in an incredible boy."

When they got home, they introduced the five girls from the Luo family, from the braided ones to the infants, namely Zhaodi, Niandi, Yindi, Yingdi, and Pandi.

The ladies are in the front row, and there are 22 beautiful ladies in the back row. They line up in two rows and fill the entire hall. They are all concubines of Luo Mansion.

"In the future, apart from me, the young master will be the biggest in this family. If I'm not here, you can ask him anything, and he will make up his mind."

A favored concubine smiled and said, "Such a young boy, he can't manage himself well, so he still makes up his mind?"

The middle-aged man frowned immediately: "Be careful what you say, and call you young master!"

He looked at this scene indifferently, the middle-aged man turned his head and asked him: "You can choose any room in this house, which one do you want to live in?"

He pointed to the largest room upstairs: "That one."

"Master, that room is the master's room." Someone reminded.

He didn't speak, just looked at the middle-aged man.

"Do you know what it means to live in that room?" the middle-aged man asked.

He nodded: "Living in that room means carrying the whole family on my shoulders."

The middle-aged man patted him on the shoulder: "I can't give you that room, I'll build you a small mansion next to it."

He nodded.

It can be seen that middle-aged people like to observe him and test him in everything. He doesn't care anyway. He has nothing to lose and no obsession.

He just felt that there must be some twists and turns in such an ordinary and tasteless life, so it would be better for him to spend some time thinking about it.Probing and observing, for him, is better than nothing, and it is a right to pastime.

He often wrote letters to his younger brother, saying that he was studying abroad and would visit him when he had time.

A year later, he was used to calling middle-aged fathers, and the man he called his father really regarded him as his own son.

He proposed to visit his younger brother who was far away in the village. His father agreed and sent ten capable men to follow him.

Under the blue sky, there are rows of villages stretching far and near, and as they walked towards the house of the famous Li family, they saw a rather dramatic scene.

The door of Li's house was suddenly opened, and a bloated figure flew out from inside, rolling on the bluestone board outside the door like a ball, and the door of Li's house was "bang" closed again.

The round ball climbed up from the ground, and he saw clearly that the original purple round face had lost a lot of weight over the past year.It was deep winter, and the man was wrapped in a thick jacket, but his whole body shivered and shivered.

A small figure ran over to lean against the man, and the man hurriedly unbuttoned his clothes, always wanting to wrap the small figure in his arms, and murmured, "Are you cold?"

The child shook his head: "I'm not cold."

The man twitched his nose, which had already been red from the cold, and a long stream of snot flowed out: "The cat...why did it die...uh..."

The child frowned: "It scratched me, so I threw it into the boiling water."

Hearing the words, the man immediately turned his face into tears: "That's my mother's cat, didn't I tell you! Now we have nothing to eat, what do you think?"

He didn't go to recognize each other immediately, but secretly watched two figures, one big and one small, standing outside Li's house blowing the cold wind.

After a while, he turned around and left with the people.

Then he never showed up again, just arranged some things with his subordinates.

Soon, I heard that the Li family's master and wife had encountered difficulties when they went out.

There are so many mountain roads in Shanwozi, and the Li family Gaotang couple were passing by in a big mule cart when they were bombed down from the mountain road.

It is said that the state of death was quite miserable. The person lay down from the door of the car, his neck was crooked, and the door and body of the car were spattered with blood.

The villagers all commented that the Li family did not do anything immoral, and the only thing that could be counted was the unworthy concubine, who was raised in front of everyone's ladies, but outside with men. adultery.The sky lantern was about to be set off, but the night before the fire was lit, the woman ran away with her adulterer without a trace.

The co-authored retribution came to the old couple.Although the old couple had a son who was well-mannered, they were born sophisticated and foolish. Even the well-matched daughters-in-law were unwilling to marry him, and they are still widowers. Although they adopted a son from somewhere a year ago, they were still not satisfied. use.

He didn't appear in front of his younger brother until the funeral, inheritance, clan and so on were all over.

When the younger brother saw him from a distance, he rushed over, took his hand and smiled: "Are you finally here?"

He nodded and smiled: "How are you doing here?"

The younger brother snorted: "I'm fine. Dad is now the patriarch, the master of the Li family, and I'm the young master. Tell me how I'm doing. The county magistrate came to our house for dinner a few days ago!"

Of course he didn't tell his brother that his men had already gone to the county magistrate's house with money and knives.

The county magistrate looked at the desperadoes in front of him and the gold bars piled up on the table like a hill, and chose the smartest path.

He lived with his younger brother in Li's house for three months, and his younger brother came to him with some reluctance: "Mother wrote to me, saying that she wanted me to go to the Army Armed Forces Primary School, and that Liang Zhiyuan would pay for the tuition. After I went, The future looks bright."

He didn't tell his younger brother, he was the one who persuaded his mother to do this, he just patted his younger brother's head: "You go."

"Father is a fool, I'm not at home, you have to protect him more."

He never regarded that man as his father in his heart, and he just replied: "You have me at home, so you can rest assured."

His younger brother is still young, and he hopes that his younger brother can grow into a real man.

Don't spend your life in a humble and hopeless life like many mediocre ants.

Such a person is not worthy to be his younger brother, nor can he accompany him for the rest of his life.

The younger brother left with the person Liang Zhiyuan sent to make contact, and he left for ten years.

And he often travels back and forth between Shanghai and his hometown. In his hometown, he is nominally the eldest son of the Li family who often travels to study and rarely returns home. In fact, he just uses the Li family as his stronghold to sell opium in the northern province.Since then, he has been in close contact with both the political and military circles, and no one can provoke the Li family anymore.

Seeing that he was so motivated and running around to open up new sources of income, his father naturally supported him with all his strength and taught him everything he could.