Burning fire

Pingming hot wine, but to respect the humility of the world, the three vulgar fireworks.

--Inscription

The twelfth lunar month, Changchun.

It snowed last night, and although we had already seen the sun in the early morning, the north wind howled, and a large piece of residual white was blown up.

As the end of the new year approaches, the streets are extremely congested, and the warm buzzing noises are bustling to and fro, digging holes in the thick cold current, slipping to the southeast, northwest, and steaming over the city.

The sweet and hot smell of sugar-fried chestnuts is blocked at the entrance of the market.An old lady with a stooped back and a low spirit, she pointed at a bag of chestnuts, and was chattering about a few odd dollars, bargaining like cursing on the street.

Bai Yuxing moved his nose, took another deep breath of the sweet and hot smell, and glanced at the aunt again, and finally reluctantly gave up the sugar-fried chestnuts.

With two large bags of fruit in his hand, he turned around and went into the nearest fast food restaurant. He quickly ordered two vegetables and one meat, and took them away.

It was cold, Bai Yuxing didn't wear gloves when he came out, and his fingers were no longer bleeding.

He stomped on the soles of his shoes and had to quicken his pace, while sighing inwardly—no way, who made him have to care about his ancestors.

Turn right at Chuicaishi Street, walk a short distance along Shengshi Avenue, turn into a dilapidated alley, and you will see a barber shop.

The barber shop has a small area, and the sign is old and faded, and the four words of "love silk hair art" are barely lifted up on it.

The door of the shop is closed, and the glass is also stained with dust. It seems that this barber shop has been closed for too long.

Bai Yuxing stopped at the door of the store, his face was too cold to wrinkle, so he could only stare blankly at the man squatting in front of him.

It's Jiangliu.This bear is not very old, he survived sixteen or seventeen, had no father or mother when he was a child, he was the number one hooligan who jumped out of the orphanage, he talked all day long and didn't do anything about personnel, so that he got a name of a bastard-everyone Call him a "bad guy".

Now the bastard squatted like a pug, holding a bag of bread to eat.A bird flew overhead, and a hot shit happened to sit on the bread.

Bai Yuxing: "..."

The second-rate man was taken aback, looked up to see Bai Yuxing, turned his hands away to throw away the shit-drenched bread, jumped up quickly, and grabbed Bai Yuxing's arm: "Brother."

Seeing Erliuzi blink his eyelids twice, Bai Yuxing immediately cried.

Er Liuzi started to cry, and called Bai Yuxing again: "Brother."

This coward Bai Yuxing has seen too much, and he has long been immobile.He just asked dumbly: "What's the matter?"

Bai Yuxing: "Have you been beaten by your brother Zhou again?"

Er Liuzi subconsciously covered his buttocks, and there were still two sole prints on his back.He shrunk his neck and said in tears, "Yes. It hurts."

It's almost impossible to read this owerden thing. ——The bum is a typical street rogue, who is intimidating from head to toe.Moxi has a dry head, wearing an army green coat, a skull necklace tied around his neck, and two large black gemstones are inlaid in the skull eyehole.There is a hole in each trouser leg, a pair of skateboard shoes, socks...polyester socks, the left foot is green, and the right foot is red.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, this living treasure can definitely beat bullshit.

"Why are you being beaten this time?" Bai Yuxing staggered his eyes, and found that Er Liuzi was longing for food in his hand.

"Stealing a wallet in the supermarket at noon, Brother Zhou happened to go in to buy cigarettes." Er Liuzi confessed honestly, then added after a pause, "I haven't succeeded yet, so I was arrested."

"..." Bai Yuxing sighed, and spouted a bum with a white face.

He took out a one-hundred-dollar ticket from his pocket, and handed it to the bum: "Get out. Go to the food court across the street to eat, by the way..."

He hesitated for a moment, then rubbed two red bills from his pocket and passed them over: "Take off the skull on your neck. By the way, go to the shopping mall upstairs to buy a pair of fleece pants. It's very cold, so you won't be afraid of freezing to death? I also changed my socks. "

"Okay, thank you brother, you are the best." Er Liuzi hurriedly curry favor, and changed his snot-nosed and crooked face to reveal two dimples.

He clenched the money tightly and went away, not forgetting to raise his voice to Bai Yuxing: "Brother, you are blessed in the sky, Gong Xi Fa Cai!"

Bai Yuxing snorted coldly, his white eyes almost rolled to the back of his head.He took two steps forward and used his shoulders to reach the door of the barber shop. He couldn't help cursing: "Actor, you slippery thing, why didn't you beat you to death?"

The door was pushed open with a "creak", Bai Yuxing walked in sideways, and then heard someone talking in the room, the voice was hoarse: "Blame me, I didn't slap him to reincarnate."

Entering the room was filled with smoky smoke, and before Bai Yuxing could catch up, he was so choked that he turned his head and coughed.

He coughed so badly that his lungs hurt, and he was lucky not to be blinded by the heat, so he quickly put down the things in his hand and opened the window for ventilation.

The cold wind rushed in unceremoniously, and the smoke was blown away and dispersed a lot. Bai Yuxing finally saw the person in front of him clearly.

——Zhou Qizun leaned on a black leather sofa that would peel off, stretched his long legs, and lay three boxes of hard red in the Great Hall of the People next to his right foot.The cigarette packs were all empty and crushed.

Bai Yuxing breathed a sigh of relief, but was still covered by the second-hand smoke: "Zun'er, can't we smoke less? Look at this room where you smoke, it's like smog."

Zhou Qizun didn't speak.

Bai Yuxing took off the wool hat on his head again, and plucked his rare and precious hair: "Smoking too much will hurt your body..."

He couldn't continue, because the opposite Zhou Qizun obviously thought he was farting, and actually took out a new box from his pocket.

I saw Zhou Qizun skillfully opening the cigarette case, shaking out one and putting it in his mouth.Then the lighter clicked.

This bullshit pipe was smoked again.

Holding his breath, Bai Yuxing stepped forward to pinch Zhou Qizun's cigarette.At this time Zhou Qizun suddenly raised his head, and the two met their eyes.

Bai Yuxing's hand froze in mid-air, and his thin lips almost disappeared.He moved his eyes, and glanced at the urn on the opposite cabinet—it contained the ashes of Jiang Qiuqin, Zhou Qizun's own mother, just half a month ago.

The hand paused in the air for a while, but finally let it go.Bai Yuxing clicked his tongue and muttered in a low voice, "Sooner or later, I'll be bald by your anger."

Zhou Qizun raised his eyes higher when he heard it, and looked at the similar Tongshan Zhuozhuo.He sprayed smoke from his nostrils, and opened his mouth neither salty nor light: "I'm bald at only 35, such a big crime, don't blame me."

"You don't come here." Bai Yuxing didn't have the heart to stand up to this scumbag, he frowned, and subconsciously glanced at the urn again, "You...you haven't eaten well these two days, have you? I'll buy it Fast food, you eat first."

When he ran out of cigarettes, Zhou Qizun spit out the cigarette butt and crushed it with the tip of his toes.He rubbed his temples: "I'm not hungry."

"..." Bai Yuxing turned his face and stared carefully.

Zhou Qizun was very handsome, with a straight nose, sharp eyebrows and starry eyes.Maybe it's because of his background as a special soldier, he always has an inviolable sternness about him, especially when he is sullen, he even has an air of calmness and prestige.

It's a pity that no matter how good the foundation is, it can't stand the disaster. Now there is not a single hair on this person's body.

Regardless of his unshaven beard and chicken coop, just the dark circles and bags under his eyes are enough to scare and cry the whole street of children.

"You..." Bai Yuxing rubbed his face resolutely. He really didn't know what to say to him, so he could only continue to speak bitterly, "People are like iron and rice are steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will feel hungry. Come on, okay? Your sister-in-law brought you some fruit."

"Okay, got it. Thank you sister-in-law for me." Zhou Qizun said.

However, he said one thing and did another, and the fast food was clearly placed by the table. Zhou Qizun stood up from the sofa, but he didn't even look out of the corner of his eye for a second.He went straight to the faucet and washed his head and face with cold water.

After washing, with cold water dripping down his face, Zhou Qizun went to close the window, and turned around to go up to the small second floor.

Finally, Bai Yuxing couldn't bear it any longer. He pointed to the fast food under his eyelids and yelled at Zhou Qizun's back: "Then you're going to eat it?"

Zhou Qizun didn't even bother to give it a perfunctory this time, he waved his hand, probably hoping that Bai Yuxing would shut up, and choked on the other side of the sentence: "In the future, don't be soft-hearted and give money to bastards, that bastard deserves a beating."

After speaking, go upstairs, close the door, and finish in one go.

Bai Yuxing stood there for a long while, then patted his conscience, and said in his heart, "What the fuck am I doing with my heart? If you have the ability, you can torture yourself to death."

But within a few seconds, he pointed upstairs, and said to himself splittingly: "I don't believe I can't pry your mouth open."

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An hour later, Bai Yuxing made a big deal of it, and actually set up a grill on the ground, sat down with a horse tie, and grilled the leg of lamb on the charcoal fire.

Bai Yuxing's cooking skills are professional. He and his wife Li Man opened a barbecue restaurant on Shengshi Avenue. The small business is very successful.He couldn't believe how many guests came in every day smelling his barbecue smell, he couldn't smoke Zhou Qizun down.

The leg of lamb soon became oily, and the rich aroma rushed to the roof.Bai Yuxing raised his head and shouted upstairs: "I roasted the leg of lamb for you. My shop is closed tonight, so I came here to roast the leg of lamb for you. There is also good wine, which your sister-in-law brewed herself. Three bowls are not enough, if you don’t drink it, you will regret it.”

He kept his head tilted and waited. Before his neck stiffened, the upstairs door finally opened.

Zhou Qizun changed his clothes and shaved his beard. It looked like Hao Lai was alive.He went downstairs and sat down opposite Bai Yuxing with a blank face: "Don't make noise. It's giving me a headache."

What Bai Yuxing wanted was this effect. He cast a sideways glance at Zhou Qizun and asked, "Can you come out without making noise?"

——Zhou Qizun is a good man, never fight with him, there will be no good results if you fight against him, but he can't stand it, if you have the patience to rub him over and over again, he will always compromise.Bai Yuxing has already figured out the invincible truth that bastards eat soft but not hard.

"Your sister-in-law said, I'll drink less and drink more for you." Bai Yuxing picked up the wine bottle at his feet and poured it into the bowl, really planning to use the bowl to drink.

The home-brewed wine is stored in a half-sized earthen jar, and it smells from Kaifeng, and you can tell it's strong just by smelling it.Bai Yuxing poured a bowl and passed it to Zhou Qizun first: "You should get drunk."

Zhou Qizun was not polite, took the wine and drank it dry, making a "hiss" when it was so spicy.He wiped his mouth and took out a small knife from his pocket to slice meat from the leg of lamb.

"Eat this piece." Bai Yuxing quickly circled a spot on the leg of lamb, "This piece is the best."

Zhou Qizun nodded and began to cut and eat.

Seeing that Zhou Qizun had eaten three pieces of meat, Bai Yu took a sip of wine.He is not good at comforting people, and he couldn't find any clever words after searching his brain, so he could only stammer and say: "Zun'er, Aunt Qin is gone, I know you are uncomfortable."

Bai Yuxing took another sip of wine.The wine was so spicy that he felt that his tongue was curled up: "But if you want to open up a bit, don't keep tossing yourself. Look at your two days...then what... just ...you are in a bad mood you..."

"Okay, stop rambling if you're stupid, it's hard to listen." Zhou Qizun sighed, and handed over the empty wine bowl, "I know what you want to say."

Zhou Qizun's words were like a knife cutting through flesh and blood: "My mother has been lying on the bed for eight years, she suffered, and I suffered. In fact, it's good to leave, it's a relief."

"Vegetable..." Zhou Qizun shook his head, "If it were me, I wouldn't be happy to pant like that."

Bai Yuxing lowered his head to pour wine for Zhou Qizun, he didn't dare to say anything, but in his heart he was pulling Zhou Qizun's collar and cursing: "Fart your mother's bum."

You bastard, what do you say?Where is such a thing?

——Jiang Qiuqin doesn't care if she keeps her eyes open or not, as long as she is panting while lying there, it is a support.Now that I am out of breath and my people have become ashes, what is left?Zhou Qizun really has nothing left.Who is still supporting him?Who is freed?

The wine was full, and so was the sour water in Bai Yuxing's heart.

The roasted leg of lamb is shiny with oil, and the aroma is so strong that it is difficult to breathe.Zhou Qizun said again: "I just thought, how unfilial I am."

Zhou Qizun: "Until she died, I couldn't find the murderer, and I couldn't find her daughter back."

His tone was neither light nor heavy, but it was like a heavy hammer that saw blood, hitting his head with a bang.Bai Yuxing was shaken all over by the blow, and muttered softly, "Don't say that."

He also wanted to say "it's not your fault", but he couldn't open his mouth no matter what.

Eight years ago, the Zhou family was burnt down by a sudden disaster.Zhou Yunheng died tragically. Although Jiang Qiuqin was rescued, the back of his head was severely injured and he became a vegetative state. He lay on the hospital bed with his eyes closed until he passed away.

And the one who needs Zhou Qizun's life the most is his little sister Zhou Yi.Zhou Yi disappeared, dead or alive.Zhou Qizun had made a lot of contacts in the past eight years, and he had searched almost all over the mountains to find her, but there was no news at all.

"Then what should I say? The case is an unsolved case. It's not a robbery or seeking revenge. The longer the time, the more clues there will be, and the murderer won't be able to catch it. Xiao Yi..." Zhou Qizun's face was numb, and he couldn't see anything, as if Speaking out is not like gouging out one's own heart.

His voice was extremely deep: "Xiao Yi is seven years younger than me, and the whole family loves her."

Zhou Qizun: "She was just eighteen when the accident happened. I remember the last time I talked to her on the phone. I remember it so clearly that I will never forget it even if I die."

Zhou Qizun picked up the wine bowl and drank half of it: "At that time, I was in Yunnan after my mission. She asked me if Yunnan was good and whether it was particularly beautiful. She said she wanted to go to Erhai Lake, and told me that she fell in love with the class. A boy from her. She said she was [-], not a puppy love, so she told me to leave it alone. "

Zhou Qizun poured down the remaining half bowl of wine: "What a girl, you make me so angry."

The smoke from the roasted leg of lamb blurred his vision, but Bai Yuxing still saw the scorpion in Zhou Qizun's hand.

The hands are rough and the palms are thick.That's the soldier's hand.He has fired guns and thrown bombs, so energetic, but he can't protect his relatives, and he can't refute the justice from home.

Bai Yuxing had known Zhou Qizun since he was a child, he could see how wanton Zhou Qizun was when he was young, and how good the Zhou family was.And then catastrophe came...Comparing the two, the taste cannot be described.

"Zun'er..." Bai Yuxing stared at the charcoal fire in front of him, his eyes began to heat up.

The two didn't speak for a long time, only the crackling of oil and fire was in the air.The strong wine was burning in his stomach, Zhou Qizun suddenly said: "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die. No matter how many years, I must find Xiaoyi."

"Look for it." Bai Yuxing quickly rubbed his eyes and slapped his thigh, "Brother will accompany you to look for it, I don't believe we can't find it, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, we will..." As he said that, his nose actually came down.

"...Can you do it? I haven't cried yet." Zhou Qizun lowered his eyelids to cover the look in his eyes.

He used a small knife to fork a piece of mutton leg and handed it to Bai Yuxing: "I'm going back to my hometown in the countryside tomorrow."

He paused again as he spoke, and unconsciously lowered his voice: "Bury it for my mother."

Bai Yuxing wiped his nose and swallowed a large piece of meat whole: "I'll go too."

Bai Yuxing: "I'll go with you, and we'll see Aunt Qin off together."