This was one of the people who maliciously teased Zhang Meizhen. He was wearing a gray short-sleeved shirt. He found that there was suddenly no signal here. He had an inexplicable premonition and quietly moved to the window. He tried to find

A little signal. At the same time, keep your ears open and listen carefully to what Zhang Meizhen and the others are saying.

Just listen to Zhang Meizhen ask: "You mean, Wang Jiusheng has never taken care of you?"

"After I was released from prison, I also wanted to find my former brothers, but they were all rich and had become 'boss', and I couldn't contact them... The people running underneath were all juniors, and I didn't know who they were." He claimed.

Ruan Xiaoshan was tugging at his clothes endlessly, occupying his hands and eyes, not daring to look towards the Beggar Gang, and said, "I am impulsive and have a weak sense of the rule of law. I only know how to pay attention to the so-called 'loyalty in the world'."

', failing to fully consider the consequences of his actions, causing great trouble and harming others and himself..."

He spoke this long string of words more smoothly than "Guankou", with no punctuation marks in one breath. It can be seen that during the period of reform in prison, he did a lot of ideological reporting. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and his tongue has been tempered and developed.

Muscle memory.

Zhang Meizhen was stunned. He had finished reciting the two main lines of "regret for the past" and "repentance" and was about to enter the sublimation theme-looking forward to the future.

Zhang Meizhen quickly interrupted his ideological report: "How do you make a living now?"

Ruan Xiaoshan glanced at her blankly and stood there thinking for a long time. It seemed that he could not make an effective summary of his life. He could only say vaguely: "Here and there... help me, I will give you some pocket money."

.”

Zhang Meizhen asked him: "Were you the leader of that kidnapping case?"

Ruan Xiaoshan stared down at the tips of his shoes and nodded helplessly. He had answered this question too many times.

Zhang Meizhen raised her pointed eyebrows and asked meaningfully: "Think about it carefully, are you going there on your own? No one instigated it? No one has encouraged you?"

In the corner, the man in the gray shirt failed to send his third WeChat message again. There was sweat on his forehead. He became anxious. He happened to hear Zhang Meizhen's words and couldn't help but raise his voice: "Zhang Meizhen, what do you mean? You want to take it?"

Who cares about what happened thirty-six years ago?"

"I just want to completely settle this grudge," Zhang Meizhen replied calmly, "Back then, people on both sides of us were in a huge quarrel because of this matter, and we didn't even sit down and talk about the causes and consequences. Now everyone has calmed down, right? It's time.

Let’s clear up all the old things so that we don’t have to take them to the grave.”

After hearing this, Ruan Xiaoshan knelt down with a "pop" sound, and the people behind him also knelt down as if on conditioned reflex. Moving forward a few steps on tiptoe, Ruan Xiaoshan faced Yang Qing with a cry.

"I'm sorry for you... I actually just wanted to scare you, but I didn't expect anyone to die... I didn't expect..."

Behind Yang Qing, there was a row of elderly people sitting sparsely. At a glance, they could see that they were filled with a heavy twilight energy. They had been grinding away at hatred and guilt for more than thirty years. These victims did not even have the strength to start a crime.

Then, they listened to the murderer's howl in silence and numbness, with a few pairs of eyes staring at Ruan Xiaoshan, and no one said a word.

"Gang Leader Yang," Zhang Meizhen turned to Yang Qing and said, "These are the children I watched grow up back then. They did something wrong back then and deserved to be jailed. Their lives deserved to be ruined. They are now

I don’t know how the fire was lit. I’m wrong, but sin doesn’t lead to death, right?”

Gang leader Yang put his hand on the plastic crutch and closed his eyes for a moment.

"But there is always someone in there who deserves to die," Zhang Meizhen said, glancing in the direction of the door, as if shouting to someone from afar, she asked Ruan Xiaoshan, "Get up and ask, why did you kidnap people back then? What did you think?

"

Ruan Xiaoshan dragged his two inflexible legs and stood up with difficulty: "I was... just twenty-one years old at that time, and I was delivering goods to a restaurant in a guest house. In the restaurant... there was a waiter, a little boy, and

He was thin and small, and he was from out of town. There were always people who bullied him. I helped him once or twice, and the little boy admired me. He thought I knew many people, was powerful, and had good reputation. He kept pestering me to join the footwear industry.

.”

When Ruan Xiaoshan said this, he looked a little dazed, as if he had no sense of reality, and felt that what he was recalling was not his own business - was he also a figure back then? Was there anyone who admired him? Was he ever so high-spirited?

Zhang Meizhen asked softly: "What happened next?"

"I went to their store that day, and when the boss was counting things, the little boy ran over and secretly told me..." Ruan Xiaoshan cast his eyes evasively at the sufferers behind Lao Yang, and after a few rounds, he finally managed to

He recognized some old traces from these old faces, and finally, his eyes fell on the one on the far left - it was the "Old Song" who Zhang Meizhen went to the nursing home to find in person. Ruan Xiaoshan stared at him and murmured

, "I said it back then... They asked me repeatedly, and I said it repeatedly, but no one believed it..."

Old Song stood up slowly: "Which guest house is it?"

"It's called...Ping'an Road Guesthouse."

"Ping'an Road," Old Song's eyes twitched slightly, revealing a somewhat weird smile, "Gang Leader Yang, back then Yang Ping had a quarrel with you and left his wife and newborn child at home, so he couldn't even greet you by himself.

He just left without fighting. You didn't find out where he lived, did you? It's the Ping'an Road Guest House. We all knew about it, but we just didn't tell you. You two have a deep love for each other, so you had to hold your head and bring the two gangs together.

Together, no matter what others thought, Elder Zhu and I were so depressed that we went to the Ping'an Road Guesthouse to meet Yang Ping for a drink and discuss how to mess up the matter... Unexpectedly, the walls had ears, and it was the little spies from the Foot Gang who heard us.

"

Ruan Xiaoshan said: "My little brother said that he heard you plotting to concoct a fake kidnapping case to sow discord and force Old Gang Leader Yang to fall out with the Walking Foot Gang... After I heard this, I asked where Yang Ping lived.

I went under the window to monitor him and listen to his contact with others. It didn't take long for me to understand what they planned to do and where they would place the person."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a "buzz" in the whole place, and people who understood what was going on for the first time exploded.

Ruan Xiaoshan's eyes were red, he ignored others, huddled there and said to himself: "That little boy, how good I am to him, what does it have to do with him? Why do you have to eavesdrop, just listen, why do you have to tell me

?Isn’t he harming me..."

The man in the gray shirt took advantage of the chaos and slipped by the wall and got out of the back door. As soon as he went out, there was a signal, but it was intermittent. He cursed something in a low voice, took two legs and ran to the other side of the road.

Once we crossed the road, the signal was full again.

The man in the gray shirt found a hidden corner and dialed the phone: "Hey, Mr. Wang, they called the police and blocked the venue signal. They couldn't even send any information just now... The old witch didn't know where to start from.

Well, we dug out the enemies of that incident more than thirty years ago - Ruan Xiaoshan, do you remember? The guy who took the lead in kidnapping - he was in jail and was stupid. The old witch kept digging holes for him.

She led him to say that there was someone behind it, and I think she wanted him to involve you."

"You are trying to embolden the police to scare me so that I don't dare to show up?" Wang Jiusheng laughed on the phone, "Sister Meizhen has been a big sister all her life. She looks like a domineering female hero, but she is actually stupid and naive.

, It’s like I haven’t grown up. Even if she bribed those fools and identified me on the spot as the mastermind behind the scenes, would the police still be able to arrest me? Thirty-six years later, how could she have called the little policemen who came to make a scene?

He’s not even born yet.”

"That's right!" Gray Shirt flattered you at every opportunity, "She must know that as soon as you come back and show up, she will be out of luck."

Wang Jiusheng was used to hearing flattery, so he turned a deaf ear and lit a cigarette for himself.

He knew what Zhang Meizhen was thinking. Back then, she was careless and lost her mind, giving up the position of leader of the North Helm to him. That time, the Foot Gang and the Beggar Gang were swept away by the "anti-criminal" operation, and they were both in turmoil.

Once upon a time, the people involved on both sides either lost their biological mothers or went to prison. The only person who benefited was Wang Jiusheng. After so many years, even a donkey should have come to his senses. Zhang Meizhen seemed to be thinking

Taking advantage of another civil strife in the Xingjiao Gang, Wang Jiusheng took the opportunity to avoid going abroad to uncover old cases and bring order to the chaos.

She was so well prepared that even the Beggar Clan was somehow invited by her to come out and cooperate with her in the performance.

But does this silly old woman really know what her gentlemanly brother Yang has done?

The gray shirt asked: "Mr. Wang, what should we do now? Are you coming over?"

"No, let them jump on the stage. I won't go on stage to act like a monkey," Wang Jiusheng said. "Wait ten minutes and I'll have someone give you something."

Gray Shirt received Wang Jiusheng's instructions and had a backbone. He put down the phone and ran to a nearby supermarket to buy cigarettes. He stood leisurely on the street and puffed away smoke.

It was already the turn of late spring and early summer, and the heat was showing its signs. The locust trees all over the city of Yanning were in bloom, and their leaves were thickly covering the sky and blocking the sight. On the big locust tree behind the gray shirt, Gan Qing

Quietly lying on the crown of the tree, masked by the rustling of the branches in the wind, she took a piece of Malice from her pocket and threw it into her mouth. The edge of the chocolate melted a little, and it stuck to her fingers.

Apply it on the tree.

The murderer Ruan Xiaoshan at the venue was holding back his sobs at first, but after a while he couldn't bear it anymore and started to cry like a child. The atmosphere at the scene was extremely strange. The murderers and the victims looked at each other in confusion, and it seemed that no one was planning to find him.

Whoever seeks revenge actually wants to cry.

Thirty-six years later, all the great loyalty has disappeared. When I think back to my miserable life, what do I have? What do I want? What kind of life have I lived?

How ridiculous!

Even if three dogs get together, they will have to fight to determine their superiority. Power struggles are everywhere. There are countless more tragic and ridiculous things than this. It's just because the old world has been restored, and the rules and loyalty of the world have also been destroyed.

They became the dregs of feudalism, and the things they fought for were completely satisfying in the eyes of future generations, so while they were tragic, they were also extremely funny.

Yan Hao took a secret look at Qin Qing. The little mute girl seemed to have become a statue, standing far away from the outside, looking blankly at the people who were just trying to erase their grudges from Huang Lian.

He shivered and hunched his neck and shoulders, feeling that his social anxiety was getting worse.

After they had cried enough, Zhang Meizhen, who had been watching coldly, signaled everyone to be quiet again, and asked Ruan Xiaoshan: "Do you still have contact with your little brother who works in the guest house? What is he doing?"

Ruan Xiaoshan's reaction was slower than before. After a while, he shook his head and muttered: "I haven't seen him since then. I heard that he joined the foot gang and was introduced by others... I think he is in Futongda now.

The company changed its name and went to work as a vice president in an out-of-town branch. I tried to find him but couldn't get in touch, so I finally got a phone number. His secretary answered all his calls."

"Oh," Zhang Meizhen slightly squinted her eyes, "your wives were separated, your families were destroyed, and no one benefited from it afterwards. It seems that only two people were successful. One, Wang Jiusheng, was ordered to take over as the leader of the North Helm.

, and the other one is the little waiter who listens to the corner. He was a small blind person from out of town who was bullied every day, but he has transformed and is now an adult."

Lao Song asked with red eyes: "What does this mean?"

"It's not interesting," Zhang Meizhen said, "I just want to know, not to mention what masters you, Elder Zhu and Yang Ping were back then, but you weren't deaf, right? It's not like a little waiter could fly to the sky and escape from the earth, eavesdropping like that outside.

Jiujiu, do you think any of the three of you know this?"

Lao Song was stunned.

Zhang Meizhen turned to Ruan Xiaoshan again: "What happened after you finished eavesdropping?"

"They planned to find a guest house to stay overnight, and then rent a car to travel around the country. I found a few brothers to ambush the place where I overheard them in advance, attacked them halfway, knocked them unconscious and robbed them.

.I drank some wine at that time, and didn’t think about what to do with these people, so I just found a place to lock them up and wait to see... what the Beggar Gang’s face would look like the next day.”
To be continued...