When I returned to Xiawuwa in the dark, it was the darkest and coldest time before dawn. I didn't want to go home at this time, let them see their embarrassment, and then interrogate and speculate. I quietly walked around Ergoudan's house, steadily held the big "permanent", stepped on the shelf behind, stretched my head to Ergoudan's window, knocked on the closed wooden window several times, and gently shouted Ergoudan's name. The rural houses in Huaibei area are all built facing south, leaving only a small window to breathe in the north. This small window is very high, one for preventing stealing, the other for keeping warm, and the other for family privacy.

"Who?" Ergoudan's muffled sound rang out in the room.

"It's me..." I originally thought this kid would sleep very hard, but he didn't expect that he would respond as soon as he knocked on the window.

"What are you climbing in the middle of the night? I lost money the day before yesterday. Today, you are short of people and I don't want to touch the cards anymore." Ergoudan probably regarded me as the person who called him to gamble.

"No one asked you to play cards! I am Daping. You quietly opened the yard gate. I came in and told you if I had something to do." I guess this kid probably couldn't sleep alone, so he didn't die of sleep.

"What the hell are you guys? You climbed in the window in the middle of the night? Can't you knock on the door?" Ergoudan said while reluctantly getting out of bed.

"I have something important to you, I don't want your mother to know." I couldn't explain it for a while, and I was afraid that he would make a big noise when he opened the door, so I quickly reminded me, "You kid, just say softly, don't wake your mother up."

When I jumped off the rear frame, my right leg touched the ground, grinning in pain, and almost screamed. In the darkness, this stick was not light. If it weren't for the big "permanent" blocking it, I would probably have been ruined. If that weren't the big "permanent" in my hand, I would have escaped from everyone's pursuit tonight, and the final outcome was unimaginable. I endured the pain in my legs and staggered back to the front. After waiting for a while, Ergoudan wore an old cotton jacket, blew a little hot air in his mouth, and opened the door for me with a grin.

Ergoudan opened the door without loud noise, but still woke up Widow Zhang: "Egoudan, you little turtle boy, you are going to play cards again. You have to bet a few money at home. Can you still live this life?!"

"I'm not going to play cards, but Daping is here to find me something." Ergoudan turned around and responded dissatisfiedly to the west wing.

"It's so late, what else do you have? I see that Daping doesn't have a woman to warm up the bed, so I feel so frustrated that I can't sleep." Widow Zhang's joking voice came from the room again.

"What are you talking nonsense? I think you can't sleep." Ergoudan lowered his voice in the darkness and angrily said to Widow Zhang.

"Okay - you little bastard, you dare to say your mother, I can't stand up and break your other leg." Widow Zhang's voice suddenly rose octave, and a sensation came from the west wing, "You are playing a bad bear outside, and pretending to be a grandson to your wife, you know how to show off your majesty to me!"

"Auntie, it's too cold outside, don't get up again." I quickly persuaded me, "I'm just what you said, no woman can't sleep, so I came to Ergoudan to chat."

Ergoudan secretly curled his lips, let me into the yard, and turned around and inserted it into the yard gate. Widow Zhang shouted in her room again: "It's going to dawn soon, Ergoudan - you turtle, stop turning on the lights, save some electricity."

I was upset by Widow Zhang's words. Ergoudan ignored his mother anymore. He took crutches in front of him and took me to the door of the east wing. I locked the big "permanent", followed him and limped into the room. Suddenly, a stench came to my face. I had been frozen all over, my teeth were giggling and trembling, and I had no time to dislike him. I lifted Ergoudan's quilt and sat on his bed.

"You kid, what's the point of doing this? What's going on in the middle of the night?" Ergoudan also got into bed and muttered to me.

I didn't know how to answer, so I pondered for a while. Ergoudan saw me sitting and not talking, and was confused, and it was even more inexplicable.

"Daping, what drama are you doing? Why don't you talk?" Ergoudan reached out and pushed my shoulder, which made me stagger. In order to protect my head, I was hit hard a few times.

"Just now, I went to find that damn person from Caoshan Mine." I rubbed my arms and whispered.

In the darkness, Ergoudan shouted in surprise: "What did you say? You...you went to the mine to find Caoshan mine? Why are you so stupid..."

"Worry, stop calling." I roared at him.

"You...you didn't suffer a loss, are you?" Ergoudan pulled the switch line at the head of the bed, and the 15-watt white woven lights lit up. He widened his eyes and looked at my face carefully, "Why are you so bloody on your face? Have you met Sanhong and his brother and his gang in the mine?"

"I don't know if it's Sanhong's brother. I can't see clearly in the dark. There are about a dozen people anyway." I tried to wipe off the blood on my face, but they had already dried up. "You kid, hurry up and turn off the lights, otherwise your mother should be screaming again."

Ergoudan pulled out the light above his head, and the blue dawn light penetrated through the south window, and the surrounding scenery began to have a hazy outline. I asked Ergoudan briefly and said the whole story. I thought about finding Caoshan Mine tonight, and chased him out of the plot to set up a plan and cut off his legs so that Sanhong and his brothers would sue him, and finally got a compensation for him. Unexpectedly, I was not careful in thinking, but instead made a fuss, and almost suffered a big loss. Ergoudan heard what I said, and knew that I was standing up for him. He was both grateful and sad, and his eyes were slightly red.

"Daping, you are such a man, my good brother. You have suffered so much for me..." Ergou Dan closed his nose and sobbed into a crying voice.

"Don't squeeze your tears anymore, I'm already unlucky enough today." I looked at Ergoudan's appearance, and I was very excited, but I said impatiently.

"When you go find them, why don't you tell me?" Ergoudan stopped crying and said in a nagging manner. "In recent years, Sanhong's brother has made a fortune and offended several colleagues in Lunan. He is always afraid of being plotted against, so he raises a group of thugs and set up many posts in the mine and near Xiaoxiaojia Village. Generally, people who can't figure out the secret will definitely suffer a big loss when they go to find him."

"No wonder this guy from Caoshan Mine dares to be clever." I said angrily.

"Fortunately, you learned a martial arts with Lu Yu, otherwise... If you don't die there today, you will have to lose your legs like me." Ergoudan looked at me and couldn't help but sigh.

After listening to Ergoudan's words, I realized that today I was too reckless, too confident and underestimated the enemy. I thought it was no problem to subdue a Caoshan Mine, but I didn't expect that Sanhong's brother was vicious and had long been guarded against himself and the gypsum Mine. When I tied the Caoshan Mine in the dark and just walked to the entrance of Xiaoxiaojia Village, more than a dozen black shadows suddenly appeared. The bastard of Caoshan Mine knew it and shouted desperately. His voice was as shrill as a pig, and it was particularly harsh in the darkness of dawn.

I was caught off guard and rushed to fight. I avoided the fatal knife and rod several times. My forehead was scratched and my body was hit a few times, especially a stick on my leg, which almost knocked me down. As the saying goes, it is hard to beat my fists, and I was pushing the bicycle to make it difficult to parry. In a hurry, I no longer cared about Caoshan Mine, so I quickly seized the opportunity and sealed the crotch of the guy who rushed up. In his scream, I pushed Da "Permanent" and ran two steps, and rode the bike out of the encirclement. On the frozen road, the bicycle was extremely fast, but it was quite difficult for people to run. I rode all the way high, and the instinct of escape stimulated my potential. Da "Permanent" did not slip or fall. I rushed back to Xiawuwa.

After dawn, I asked Ergoudan to get up, and fetched a basin of hot water for myself, scrubbed the blood on my face, and then pushed the big "permanently" back home. My mother heard the sound of the door bolt and came out of the cooking pot house. When she saw me walking into the yard, she was very surprised. My mother asked me where I went early in the morning? I followed the same caliber as Ergoudan, and said that Ergoudan suddenly had a stomachache last night and came to ask me to take him to the township health center. My mother said why didn't I hear knocking at night? I said Ergoudan was afraid of waking you up, so she knocked on my window behind the house. My mother said that the window behind was so high, how did Ergoudan climb up? We didn't answer again, and said perfunctorily that we were too sleepy. In my mother's puzzled eyes, she endured the pain in her right leg and walked quickly to the hall.

In the following days, I was looking forward to Sister Hong coming to ask me to go back to the city earlier. I was injured in my right leg and I couldn't walk smoothly. In the end, my mother noticed it. I explained that I took Ergoudan to the hospital that night, but I accidentally overturned the car on the way back and slipped on the Dayan. After the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, Sister Hong had not come to me to go back to the city. I was anxious and wanted to cross the river to find her several times, but I was afraid that she would be unhappy, so I hesitated and gave up.

On the ninth day of the Chinese New Year, I rode my bike back early in the morning. Before leaving, my mother tied a lot of food to my car frame, which made me feel very guilty. I remember that when my father worked in the factory, he carried New Year's goods at home every year, which made my neighbors envious. Now, my life is so unbearable that I have to bring things back from home.
Chapter completed!