Seeing Lu Bobo's chattering face, I amused him: "Who? Could it be that you have met the Jade Emperor?"

Lu Pobo lowered his voice and said, "Don't talk nonsense with you, I've met Hou Cripple." ”

"Hou lame, the one in Linxian?" my eyes widened instantly.

Lu Pobo nodded his head and said: "No, the old man is now a street performer, carrying a broken erhu and putting it on the big square in front of the bar street, if you don't believe it, I can show you later." ”

I paused for a long time and didn't say anything, for Hou Cripple, my mood is actually complicated, if it weren't for this dog, I wouldn't have run to the city, if I didn't run to the city, I wouldn't have the changes I have now, in the final analysis, he and I are not friends, not to say what I think in my heart, he must hate me to the core.

His leg is lame by me, if I didn't do it, things wouldn't have made a big fuss, and it was impossible for an anti-bone boy named Zhang Peng under his hand to take the opportunity to push him to the top, to put it bluntly, we were all pitted by Zhang Peng, but there was a deep hatred between the two of us.

Nie Haoran, who was pestle next to me, asked angrily, "Who is the cripple Hou?"

Lu Popo sneered and said: "An old basket, Brother Lang was almost cornered when he was in Linxian County!"

", then cut him!" Nie Haoran took out his mobile phone and fiddled with it a few times, then said to me, "Let's take a look?"

I nodded, was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "Look at it." ”

Less than a few hundred meters away from the bar street, there is a fairly large fountain square.

At this time, the square is crowded, countless men, women and children are walking in the square, not far away there is a group of large-scale square dance aunts are "dancing youth" with the rhythm of music, there are many small vendors with stalls on the street, the direction of the fountain pool in the middle and west of the square is full of people at this time, and a melodious erhu sound comes from that direction.

"Over there!" Lupopo pointed with us in the direction of the fountain.

I took a deep breath and walked straight over, squeezing to the front of the crowd, I saw that on the steps in front of the fountain pool, there was a middle-aged man wearing a linen half-sleeve and a beard, the middle-aged man had half-closed eyes, pulling the bow in a low voice, and a song full of vicissitudes of my "Daughter's Love" spread in the air through two strings.

Even though the appearance of middle age has changed drastically, I still recognize him at a glance, it is Hou Cripple, the big brother who once caused trouble in Linxian, I don't know why, when I saw him at this moment, I didn't have the slightest hatred, but a kind of indescribable sympathy.

After a song, all the people around me watched with their necks held high, and I took the lead in clapping and shouting: "Okay!"

"Okay!" Lu Pobo and Nie Haoran also clapped along with me.

People are like this, as long as someone takes the lead in coaxing, they will be echoed immediately, and as we applaud, the people gathered around us also let out thunderous applause.

Hou Lame looked up and glanced in my direction, and when he met my eyes, there was a clear panic on his face, and the bow in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously, staring at me in astonishment with a mouthful of big yellow teeth.

I looked like I didn't know him and asked with a smile: "Uncle, can you make a song?"

Hou lame hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "What do you want to hear?"

"Come to the first cool and cool!" Lu Popo hugged his hands in front of his chest, and roared in a strange voice with a male duck: "It's the inner one, the cool night is a river for you." ”

"Hahaha.." The people watching the excitement next to him were all amused by Lupopo.

Hou lame coughed twice and muttered: "I'm sorry, I only play old tunes." ”

"Let's race the first horse. I smiled and said to Lupobonu, "Don't let your uncle work for nothing. ”

"Give me a tip?" Lu Popo sneered, took out a hundred-yuan ticket from his pocket, and put it in a small aluminum basin in front of Hou Cripple, meaning something: "This person, it's actually quite fun to live, you've been serving this piece of paper all your life, no matter what kind of social brother you are or a pawn of a peddler, you don't have any money in your pocket, and the dog looks down on you, am I right, uncle?"

"Oh, yes.." Hou lame snorted with an embarrassed expression, and bowed his head in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, little buddy, for your support." ”

Lu Pobo raised his arm and patted Hou Lame on the shoulder and said, "Pull it well, maybe we will treat you to a big dinner later." ”

A few seconds later, Hou lame took the bow and wound it, and a bleak song "Horse Racing" slowly sounded.

I stared at Hou Cripple like an irrelevant spectator, I haven't seen him for a few months, this guy seems to have aged a lot all of a sudden, if I'm not mistaken, his age is at most about the same as Uncle Qi, thirty-seven or eight, no more than forty years old.

But now he seems to have aged a lot, his forehead is full of deep folds, the whole person has lost at least more than ten pounds, his skin is dark and rough, and a pair of eyes that were originally vigorous and vigorous can not see any anger at the moment, he is completely an old man in his old age, and the horse racing song that should be cheerful and lively was pulled out by him with a touch of sunset and the smell of the western mountains, and it is strange to listen to people's hearts.

After the song, Hou Cripple sat on the steps and clenched his fists to the people watching around him: "That's all for today, thank you for the love of your fathers and fellow villagers, we'll see you tomorrow..." Maybe I won't be out tomorrow. ”

When he said the last sentence, Hou Cripple looked at it meaningfully, and began to bow his head to pack up his erhu and some utensils, the surrounding crowd began to disperse slowly, I sniffed, walked directly to him, sat down on the steps next to him, handed him a cigarette and smiled: "The world is so small." ”

Hou Cripple was stunned for a moment, took the cigarette and said with a wry smile: "I wish the world could be bigger, I have been hiding in the city for so long, I was not caught by the police, but I was touched by you, this is fate, I bullied your father for half my life, and I was retributed by you." ”

"Hehe, do you regret it?" I asked him with a wink.

He stuffed the erhu into a small bag made of burlap bags, bit the cigarette and pondered for a long time, then shook his head and said: "There is nothing to regret, the bowl of rice in society, if you want to eat more than others, your hands must be darker than others, if you have to say anything to regret, I should actually abolish you directly when you first appear." ”

I didn't continue with the topic just now, but asked him curiously: "Why is the melody of the erhu always so unique, no matter what music is played, there is a sadness?"

Hou lame smiled dryly: "Erhu only has two strings, and they depend on each other for their lives. ”

"Then your life is actually more desolate than the erhu. I pinched my nose and laughed.

Hou lame bit the cigarette holder and suddenly stopped the movement at hand, and nodded his head after a long while: "Hmm." ”

I blinked twice and asked him, "Have you ever thought about revenge?" ”

Hou lame grinned, bared a mouthful of scorched front teeth and smiled: "I thought about it two months ago, and I started to be confused a month ago, and now I have completely accepted it." ”

"Then there will be no time in the future. I took out all the banknotes from my pocket and put them in the aluminum basin in front of him, waved my hand at him and said: "Chongshi is still quite dangerous, find a way to live in other places, you are not very old, start over, do everything better than in the past, honestly." ”

"You're not going to hand me over to the police?" the cripple looked at me with an incredulous face.

I tilted my head and smiled and said, "It's not good for me to hand you over to the police, besides, it's hard for me to be a threat anymore in your current state, so why should I do it." ”

Hou Lame took out the erhu from his pocket again and said to me, "I'll play another song for you." ”

"Listen up. I nodded at him.

Then he began to put the bow back on, and recited a finale poem with his head held high: "The lips and teeth are two strings together, and the horse's tail is the bow and the bow is swirled to the top." The green silk has been dyed with white frost, and it is half a world. ”

Then he began to close his eyes and play slowly, I didn't finish listening to his music, and directly took Lu Pobo and Nie Haoran and turned around and left.

Lu Popo put his arm around my shoulders and said, "Brother Long, you are really a little kind, such an old mallet doesn't beat him, and gives him money to spend?"

I sniffed and said: "I have to thank him, if he didn't force me, I don't know how high I can jump, the most important thing is that he doesn't pose any threat to me now, instead of being a wicked person and sending him to prison, it is better to leave him alive, so that Zhang Peng in Linxian County lives in fear all the time, Zhang Peng is unhappy, and the emperor and Chenzi are relaxed." ”

"It's still you.." Lu Popo bared his teeth and smiled, as soon as he finished speaking, the mobile phone in my pocket rang, and when I saw that it was Ye Letian's mobile phone number, I picked it up in confusion: "What's the matter Xiao Ye?"

Ye Letian on the other end of the phone lowered his voice and said, "I'm at the Hawker Hotel in Congtai District at this time, you come here, I'll wait for you in the lobby."