Shuffle, deal, wit, fight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAfter a hard battle, the longed-for miracle did not come to fruition, and the dream of the development of the horse victory came to naught once again.

When Ma Shengli stumbled out of the gate of the Crystal Palace as if he had drunk too much wine, the outside world was already full of lights and stars. He stood in the open space in front of the door for a moment, trying to calm his beating heart, but his mind was still foggy.

The street lamps on the road ahead reflect the halo of landing, and several tall buildings in the distance rise like silent giants in the night. Ma Shengli suddenly had a hallucination, not knowing whether he was living in a dream or in reality, and felt that the city in front of him was so strange to him at the moment.

He turned his head, his eyes resting on the palace behind him once more. Above the lintel of the Crystal Palace, a huge neon picture composed of groups of colored light tubes is constantly flickering: a gentleman wearing a top hat, smoking a pipe, and holding a king of hearts in his hand; A dancing girl who holds a wine glass, throws a flying kiss, and wriggles her fat buttocks. The gentleman's eyes are two yellow, orange and orange ingots, and the dancing girl's eyes are red with two "hearts" dripping blood. The two pictures are transformed one after another, and the two pairs of eyes are one in and one in the other, sometimes large and sometimes small, giving people a strong visual impact under the cover of night.

Ma Shengli withdrew his confused eyes, he lowered his head, and sighed softly. The subconscious was telling him that everything that had just happened should be true. He slowly turned away, ready to leave the sad place.

"Sir, don't you want your motorcycle?" Behind Ma Shengli, an old man's voice sounded.

"Oh! Car. Ma Shengli then remembered that his motorcycle was still stored at the old man at the door, so he turned around and picked up the car again. He came to the door and did not speak, but smiled gratefully at the old man. The smile was so reluctant that even he could sense the bitterness in it. The old man nodded at him and gestured to where his car was. Ma Shengli remembered that he hadn't paid for the car yet, so he fumbled his hands in his pockets. He touched the top and bottom, the left and the right, and soon his hand stayed in his pocket and did not move.

"Forget it! Don't want any money, just push it away! Seeing Ma Shengli's embarrassed appearance, the old man smiled tolerantly and said.

The old man looked at the car at the gate of the Crystal Palace for decades, and saw all kinds of proud and frustrated people, he didn't care much about the car money, because the boss of the Crystal Palace would pay him a salary every month, and sometimes he met some proud people who were generous, and he shook his hand to be a few dozen, so for those unlucky ghosts who lost their souls, he never opened his mouth to pick up the car money, and people gave it and then pulled it down.

"Thank you then!" The old man's words freed Ma Shengli from his embarrassed smile, and he pulled out his free hands in his pockets and went to push his motorcycle in the corner.

He pushed the motorcycle to the side of the road, and instead of immediately stepping on the car as usual, he stood on the east side of the intersection and looked at the west side, he was hesitating, obviously not having a plan for the destination to reach. I can't go back to home, and I can't talk to my mother and wife when I go back. But where can you go if you don't go home?

Ma Shengli pushed the cart and walked aimlessly on the road. The streets are sparsely populated and sparsely populated by vehicles at midnight. The early summer breeze blew on his body and across his face, but he didn't feel a trace of comfort. Everything seems to be in a dream, and everything is so vivid. Two hundred and ninety-thousand! With his current salary, even if he doesn't eat or drink hard for a lifetime, he won't be able to earn so much money. If my mother knew that she had made such a big mistake, she would have fainted on the spot.

For his mother, Ma Shengli couldn't know anything better. My mother is very good at living, and she is well-known in the local area. In the words of an old neighbor, even if my mother fell on the road, she would never get up from the ground with her bare hands, and she would definitely grab a handful of mud with her. When she went out with nothing to do, she saw a piece of firewood on the ground, and she would probably pick it up and take it home. Thinking about the third ring road in the entire H city, I am afraid that there is still a grass pot at home, and I am afraid that there is only one family left. If my mother heard about a supermarket that gave out free items to gather popularity, whether it was a strong wind or a torrential rain, she always left at twelve o'clock at night, so that she could be in front of the queue to get the soap and laundry detergent for a dollar or two. For this reason, Ma Shengli is often confused, there are so many supermarkets in H City, I don't know why my mother is so well-informed, and she can catch up with any supermarket. Ma Shengli remembered the most is the mother picking up the drink bottle, as long as she sees someone drinking on the road on weekdays, she always follows all the way, never tired, sometimes a follow is five or six miles away, until people throw away the empty bottle in their hands, she happily picked up and walked back. As for the diet, not to mention. My mother was frugal by nature and harsh in her household, and every time she bought vegetables, she always had to wait until the vegetable market was about to close, so that she could buy cheap vegetables. Sometimes I heard that wild cress was outcropping in the stinky ditch in the suburbs, and the family simply saved the vegetables to buy, and there was only a vegetarian fried wild cress left on the dinner table all day long.

Think about what you have done today, how can you be worthy of your mother. From childhood to adulthood, until marrying a wife and having children, when did I let my mother worry. Well, in just a few hours, even the family's real estate was mortgaged by himself, didn't this cost his mother's life? The house is the hope of her survival, it can be said to be her lifeline, I heard that her mother was for this house, she agreed to stay in this house, in a sense, if there is no this house, there will be no later self. But if you don't sell the house, where can you raise such a large amount of money, 290,000 yuan, even if you dismantle yourself and sell your flesh, you can't make so much money! Ten days is the limit, and if you don't pay back, you will pay back. Alas! Why did you sign the agreement in a daze, and put your fingerprint on it?

Impulsiveness is the devil! Impulsiveness is the devil!

When Ma Shengli fell into deep self-blame, a car sped past Ma Shengli's side. Because the speed of the car was too fast, a gust of wind swept down on Ma Shengli's body, and a heart-piercing chill instantly swept through his whole body, making him shiver involuntarily, and his brain suddenly cleared up a lot.

The sedan drove a short distance away, stopped, and then reversed back sharply, until it was next to Ma Shengli, and then turned off. The window of the sedan slowly fell, and a neutral voice popped out of the window: "Hey! Ma Shengli, you kid doesn't stand up in bed in the middle of the night, looking for a soul on the road? ”

Ma Shengli was consciously surprised, thinking who is this? In the middle of the night, when the third watch opened his mouth, he cursed. As soon as I heard the voice that came out, I understood, it was the difficult brother Heisan in junior high school.

Hei San is not surnamed Hei, but surnamed Han, called Han Hu. Because of his dark skin, he ranked third, so his brothers called him "Black Three". Hei San, like Ma Shengli, is not good at college, is addicted to gambling, and he also went to the society to mess around without graduating from junior high school, and his family was very sad for him. His parents saw that he was getting bigger and bigger, and it was not a matter to always wander in society, so they discussed sending him to a driving school. Don't say it, this kid still likes to drive, and it didn't take long to get his driver's license. So his parents bought a second-hand Santana sedan for him in the second-hand car market, even if it was for his future livelihood. Black three runs a black car, neither has an operating license, nor is it affiliated with the operating company, usually around the station, and when he sees someone carrying a large bag and a small bag, he takes the initiative to come forward to solicit business, and when he meets the arrogant master, he is doing some tricks to rip off customers.

"Black Three?" Ma Shengli was surprised and delighted: "Are you still out of the car so late?" ”

"Where! I picked up a guest in the evening and wanted to go to the provincial capital, and it was not the middle of the night when I went down for hundreds of miles? As he spoke, Hei San had already pushed open the car door and got out of the car: "What about you?" It's so late that there is leisure to wander on the road, Yaxing is not small! ”

"Hey, hey!" Ma Shengli laughed twice when he heard this, and his expression immediately darkened.

"What's wrong? Feeling bad today? Hei San looked at Ma Shengli with a wrong expression, and asked with concern.

"Alas!" Ma Shengli lowered his head and sighed heavily. He shook his head and waved his hand at Hei San again, his expression extremely frustrated.

"You kid is saying something pleasant, sighing, and the urine of people is about to come out in a hurry." Hei San is an anxious child: "You can't be a broken motorcycle, right?" No, even if the car breaks down, it won't be sad like this! ”

"The car didn't break." Ma Shengli raised his head and said, "Dude, brother is big this time." ”

"Yikes! Don't scare me. Let's talk about what's going on? ”

Ma Shengli told Hei San about his experience in the casino. Hei San listened to Ma Shengli's story, frowning and falling into deep thought. It wasn't until Ma Shengli finished speaking that he took out a cigarette case from his pocket, took out one of it and handed it to Ma Shengli, connected the fire for him, and lit a cigarette for himself. He took a puff of cigarette fiercely, opened his mouth, and spit out a huge smoke ring with a "snap", he pointed to this smoke ring, and said meaningfully to Ma Shengli: "Brother, you must have fallen into someone's trap." ”

"Won't it?" Ma Shengli gasped, a little skeptical.

"Lose first and then win, this is a common trick used by layoutists. If those fools don't feel that money is easy to win, how can they take the bait? Hei San looked at Ma Shengli: "You ran to the Crystal Palace twice in three days, and you didn't see any doorway?" ”

"I was so obsessed with it, I just thought about turning it over, and I didn't think about it so much." Listening to Hei San's words, Ma Shengli had the feeling of waking up the person in the dream with a word.

"Those guys just know the psychology of your people." Hei San said with certainty: "Two hundred and ninety-thousand! Who do you think you are, people will lend you money so happily if they don't know your family background? ”

After listening to Hei San's analysis, Ma Shengli seemed to make sense when he thought about it, he was stupid there.

"Brother, you're messing with the people in the underworld." Hei San said again: "I have to go back and raise money to pay it back!" If the deadline is really over, those people will kill people and set fires, be ruthless, and can do anything. ”

"Two hundred and ninety,000 yuan?" Hearing Hei San's words, Ma Shengli felt more and more afraid, and he said with a sad face: "Where can I get so much money at once?" ”

"Didn't you use the mortgage on the property? If you can't, you will sell the house, and a small life is worth more than a real estate. "Hei San supported him.

"Sell the house?" Ma Shengli smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that if the house is not sold, my mother's life will be sold first." ”

"That's right." Hei San said to himself: "Your mother has no job, and she doesn't have an old guard, and she is all counting on those rents to live, if you really sell the house, your family will count on your salary, food and housing will be a problem, how will you live in the future?" ”

The two of them stood on the side of the road and sighed for a long time, but they didn't come up with any good way after all. Hei San really wanted to help Ma Shengli, but he was also a poor jingle ring, and the few money he earned every month by driving his hard work, he usually got together with a few friends who played black cars and waited for guests, and everyone was idle and bored to play poker to pass the time, and they all lost it. The other two difficult brothers in junior high school, I haven't heard of any of them. But then again, those two have the ability to come up with this money, and who wants to lend the money to a gambler to pay off the debt?

"I think it's going to be like this!" Looking at Ma Shengli's sad appearance, Hei San was a little unbearable, he patted Ma Shengli's shoulder and said, "You go to my house to live for a while, don't go anywhere, let's find a way slowly." ”

Ma Shengli bowed his head and was silent, thinking that he would never be able to go back to home, and he would definitely make a fuss after a while, and maybe he would have to make a fuss, so his life would be even more sad. Seeing the truth in times of trouble, Hei San's friend is not in vain, and his proposal is his best destination at present. So, he nodded gratefully at Kurosan and agreed.

The two of them drove their respective cars to Hei San's house, Hei San brought two bowls of soup noodles to the table, pushed a bowl to Ma Shengli, and he "purred" and sucked up. Although Ma Shengli was so hungry that he screamed, he didn't have any appetite, he only felt that his chest was clogged, but he couldn't shake Heisan's heart, so he also dealt with it and ate a few bites. After washing up and going to bed, Ma Shengli's mind was full of what happened today, the more he thought about it, the more worried he became, although his head was next to the pillow, where could he sleep? This time is different from the previous small fights, he really tasted "the food is delicious, but the is hard to pull; Money is easy to borrow, but debts are difficult to repay". He tossed and turned in the quilt, sighing, so that Hei San couldn't sleep, so he had to sit up from time to time to comfort him, and said some clichés of "there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge", but it didn't matter at all. Hei San had no choice but to accompany him to smack. So the two of them sat on their feet, looking at each other until dawn.

The next day, Hei San continued to run his car and told Ma Shengli that he was going to find a friend by the way to see if he could come up with another way. Ma Shengli couldn't go anywhere, so he stayed alone in the house watching TV. said that he was watching TV, but in essence, he only saw the figures on the screen shaking, and as for the plot, he didn't put it in his head at all. In the evening, Hei San came back, and saw that the chicken cake prepared for Ma Shengli on the table did not move, knowing that he was so sad that he hadn't eaten for a day, and he wanted to comfort him a few words, but he didn't know what to say, so the two brothers continued to frown and face bitterly, and stayed up all night.

On the third day, seeing that the repayment deadline was approaching, Ma Shengli couldn't stop in the Black Three Family. He often had a hallucination in his mind, always feeling that someone was watching him outside the door of the Black Three Family, which made him panic all day long, and he became more and more worried about his possible fate in the future. Early that morning, he said to Hei San, who was about to go out, "Brother, buddy wants to ask you to do something." ”

"Brothers, don't ask for something, just tell me something." Hei San said sincerely.

"I'd like to ask you to help me sell my motorcycle."

"Selling motorcycles?" Hei San stared at Ma Shengli in surprise: "What do you want to do?" ”

"I want to go outside and hide for a while, to avoid the limelight." Ma Shengli replied.

Hei San listened, was silent for a long time, and then let out a long sigh, and said to Ma Shengli: "It's okay." H City says that it is not small, but it is not big, those people have a lot of eyeliner and will find it here sooner or later. It's not that buddies are afraid of causing trouble, it's really too much to do, so it's better for you to go out and avoid the limelight. ”

"After I leave, please go to see my mother and my wife and children often." Ma Shengli instructed: "That's right! Don't tell them about me yet, for if they do, they'll say I'm going to a friend's house and I'll be back in a few days. ”

"Don't worry! You don't have to say I'll go too. Hei San said: "I don't think those people will attack orphans and widows. ”

The motorbike was sold that afternoon. In the city of H, there is a used car market where there are people who specialize in buying motorcycles. Because it was sold too quickly, it was very cheap, only 1,800 yuan. Seeing that Ma Shengli put the money in his wallet, stuffed it into his pocket, and zipped up his clothes, Hei San went to start his car.

He handed Ma Shengli to the highway intersection and waited until dusk to stop a luxury bus bound for Province Z. He bargained for Ma Shengli and paid for his car. Ma Shengli got into the car, walked to the last row and sat down at the position where the window was open, he opened the window and said goodbye to Heisan. Hei San told him to write a letter back to report his safety after finding a place to stay. Ma Shengli said definitely. The car drove away, Ma Shengli leaned out of the car and waved vigorously at Hei San, until Hei San and his car disappeared from his field of vision, he turned around and sat back in his place. He straightened his body and leaned his head on the pillow with his eyes closed. He hadn't slept well for days on end, and he was too tired. The car drove forward smoothly and evenly, and the slight bumps were like a baby's cradle, swaying, swaying, and soon the horse was swaying to sleep.

The car arrived at its destination in the morning of the next day. Ma Shengli got out of the car and began his journey to a foreign land. He was greeted by a rare good weather in N City, Z Province for more than a month, sunny and blue. The unfamiliar accent and unfamiliar environment made Ma Shengli temporarily give up the depression and anxiety of the past few days, and he had a sense of security in his heart.

As he walked, he felt a little hungry, so he wondered if he could solve the problem of eating first. After leaving the gate of the station, he turned left, and after walking a short distance, he found a noodle restaurant that was opening. There is a large stove in front of the door of the noodle restaurant, and under the big stove, the blower is whirring, and on the top of the stove is a large stainless steel bucket, which may be simmering bone broth or something, and the smoke is curling and the aroma is overflowing, which makes people smell and come to the appetite. Ma Shengli stepped in with his legs raised, and he ordered a bowl of waist noodles. In less than five minutes, a large bowl of steaming noodles was served. Ma Shengli picked up the chopsticks and feasted on it, divided it by two by three, and dragged the noodles straight to his mouth, and after a while, even the noodle soup was wiped out by him. Yes! It seems like it's been a long time since I've had a full meal.

After eating the noodles, Ma Shengli didn't get up immediately, he wanted to sit there and think about what he should do next. After thinking about it, he decided to find a place to settle down first, and then go around the street to see if he could find a temporary worker, because he estimated that he would not be able to return home within a month or two. The mind was decided, and he set off immediately, but before his front foot stepped out of the door of the noodle restaurant, he was stopped by the waitress inside in broken Mandarin, Ma Shengli then remembered that his face money had not been paid, so he blushed and said "I'm sorry" twice, and reached out to dig out his wallet.

Odd! The wallet was obviously in this pocket of the jacket, why is it deflated now? I remember that I paid special attention to the zipper at that time, when was the zipper opened again? Broken! It must have been a thief who slept too much while sitting on the bus. Ah! Ma Shengli, Ma Shengli, you are really unlucky, not to mention the frustration in the casino, and even the escape has to be stolen to worry about, it is really unlucky that people have encountered bad luck.

Seeing that Ma Shengli was stunned, the waitress seemed to understand something, she shouted at the back room, and a chubby middle-aged man walked out and asked Ma Shengli what was going on. Ma Shengli blushed and said that he had been robbed and had no money to pay for it, so I am sorry for you. The boss listened to his accent as a provincial, and did not hesitate to think that he was here to eat, so he muttered and scolded some words in dialect that Ma Shengli didn't understand, and he saw that Ma Shengli didn't react, and more and more confirmed that his judgment was correct, so he pushed and shoved to hit him. Ma Shengli is a soft-mouthed eater, and he knows that he is in a foreign land, so he has to scold and not fight back, and let him push around with his collar, and never say a word. This situation was seen by an old man who was eating noodles at the same table just now, he walked over, separated the middle-aged man and Ma Shengli, he pointed to Ma Shengli, and then pointed to himself, and talked to the middle-aged man in dialect, which meant that Ma Shengli's bowl of noodles was paid by him, and the middle-aged man stopped and agreed to let Ma Shengli leave. There are still a lot of good people in the world! Ma Shengli went out for the first time in his life, and met a kind Samaritan, he bowed to the old man gratefully, and said several words of "thank you" in a row.

Ma Shengli left the restaurant and went out into the street alone, and a sense of desolation soon hit his heart. Thinking that if people are not going well, they will really stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, there is a slang saying about it, saying that the house leak is even rainy, and the boat coincides with the head wind, yes, yes, this is this sentence, this is really a portrayal of my reality at the moment. It's okay now, but I can't go back to H City, because I don't even have the fare for the return trip. No way! You have to get a job quickly, or eating and sleeping will really become a problem.

Jobs are not as easy to find as they seem. At first, Ma Shengli planned to find a temporary worker in the hotel first, but he inquired about several restaurants along the way, but he ran into a wall. The reason why no restaurant is willing to use him is because he is a foreigner, and he speaks Mandarin too badly, and there is a language barrier. Later, Ma Shengli changed his mind, and he decided to try his luck in the talent market. He asked several people, and finally figured out where the talent market was. Fortunately, the distance is not too far, and it is only four or five stops by bus. Ma Shengli had no money to ride, so he could only run on foot.

When Ma Shengli came to the talent market, the people had not yet dispersed, and he saw more than a dozen units hanging signs recruiting workers there. Ma Shengli thought that he had no culture, so he couldn't be too picky when looking for a job, so he specifically looked for some units that needed to sell his strength to apply. As for the salary, he didn't even think about it, he just hoped that the employer could keep him, have a bite to eat, and a place to live. But until the talent market was gone, he didn't find a job. It's not that the employer is unwilling to hire him, it's that the employer doesn't dare to use him. Originally, there were two logistics companies that needed stevedores, and seeing that Ma Shengli was strong and tall, the recruiter fell in love with him at a glance, but when he was asked to take out his ID card for registration, he was stuck again, because his ID card was still in his wallet, and the wallet had already been taken away by the thief who had been cut a thousand times. Without an ID card, who can tell which hole you crawled out of? Although Ma Shengli pleaded in every way, the recruiter was unmoved and resolutely said goodbye to him.

After running for a day and finding no work, Ma Shengli was really tired and hungry. But there is no money on him, which means that there will be no six-foot soft bed to sleep on tonight. Seeing the sun quietly go down, Ma Shengli could only wander around the street on an empty stomach, and the sadness in his heart didn't need to be mentioned.

At the beginning of the day, the night is getting darker. Ma Shengli thought that it was not a matter to walk like a fly like this, and suddenly remembered that on the way he passed, there were several long stone benches by a flower bed, and he decided that he still had to conserve his strength tonight, and he had the right to make do with the stone bench all night, and as for the work, he would wait until tomorrow.

It was a bad decision made in the wrong place.

Because it was early summer, the temperature was low at night, and the stone bench was too cold, and Ma Shengli's clothes were too thin, so he slept on the stone bench all night, and the next day he fell ill. (To be continued.) )