Zhang Xianyong, who was carrying two big united faces, was very imposing. He led Qiao Lian into a clean restaurant that was neither too big nor too small. Sitting at the dining table under the guidance of the waiter, Zhang Xianyong arrogantly knocked on the table like a nouveau riche. Tilting his little head, he said to the waiter in a tiger's voice,"Order all your signature dishes and two bottles of black earth.”
The waitress was a little girl. It seemed like it was her first time meeting such an old-fashioned brat like Zhang Xianyong. She was at a loss, but she wanted to laugh. She wanted to laugh but did not dare to. Her expression was a little seductive.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up!”Seeing that the waiter was in a daze, Zhang Xianyong, this little brat, flew into a rage. He glared at him from the corner of his eyes. It really looked like that. His aura was overbearing.
" Oh, oh..." The waiter came back to his senses and picked up the menu in a panic. He turned around and jogged back to the counter.
"Brother Yong, how domineering!" Qiao Liansheng, who had noticed the waiter gathering a few colleagues and pointing at them, smiled and gave Zhang Xianyong a thumbs-up.
Zhang Xianyong, this bastard, chuckled. He suddenly leaned over and said smugly,"Brother Qiao, I kissed the class teacher's mouth!”
Qiao Liansheng was stunned. In his mind, he naturally pictured Ye Qingxuan's elegant and graceful face wearing a pair of glasses. Then, he imagined the scene of Zhang Yong's lips touching Ye Qingxuan's tender lips. The scene was strange no matter how he looked at it.
"It's sweet. It's really sweet!" Zhang Xianyong was very proud. He closed his eyes and stuck out his tongue to lick his lips.
Looking at Zhang Xianyong's expression, Qiao Liansheng felt a little sour and asked,""How did you do it?"
"Hehe, Brother Qiao, I realized that sending flowers is useless. So I changed my method, and it worked!”Zhang Xianyong was a mischievous person. He put on airs like an old fox who imparted his experience, but he was no longer old and experienced, but abnormally excited.
"Then what did you do? Are you going to use force?" Qiao Liansheng didn't believe that Zhang Xianyong would be able to gain any advantage in front of Ye Qingxuan.
"Of course not!" Zhang Xianyong raised his head and puffed out his chest, saying disdainfully,"That's a despicable method. I don't need it anymore!”
Qiao Liansheng felt extremely embarrassed. Back then, when he became an actor's parent for 60 yuan and apologized like a grandson, why didn't this bastard think that forcefully taking off a girl's pants was a despicable method? How did it crumble?
"I could tell that my form teacher was interested in you and often asked me about you. I said we were making a deal. Kiss her and tell her something about you, but she doesn't agree. In the end, they reached an agreement by exchanging a kiss for three things.”The expression on Zhang Xianyong's face could no longer be described with just complacency. It was awesome to the heavens.
"How many kisses did you give?" Qiao Liansheng regretted asking this question. She was like an ignorant hooligan on the street who would ask a girl if she was wearing underwear. She was so bored that her balls hurt.
Zhang Xianyong raised his little finger proudly." I deliberately told her three questions about what you usually eat, what you wear, and what you buy. Then, I told her that you were sent to prison by the horse monkey. So, I kissed him twice. Impressive, right?”
"Awesome, awesome." Qiao Liansheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If this bastard started a business, no one would be his match.
"Brother Qiao, don't worry. I've already checked the goods for you. I guarantee that there's no problem. However, there are many people chasing after her. You have to hurry up. I'll help you get in through the back door.”Zhang Xianyong suddenly patted his chest with a loyal expression. He was really cute and cunning.
Qiao Liansheng spat out the tea in his mouth, spilling it all over Zhang Xianyong's face and coughing non-stop. The little rascal's words made Qiao Liansheng have the urge to hang him from the ceiling and whip him hard.
After hurriedly finishing the meal that had an unusually funny atmosphere, she pulled Zhang Xianyong and rushed out of the restaurant under the waiter's " warm " smile as if she had escaped from the crime scene.
As the sky darkened, Qiao Liansheng pulled Zhang Xianyong back to the south of Liu Li Qiao. From Zhang Xianyong, she learned about the recent situation there. The flower shop was still a flower shop, but the owner had changed. It was not Ma Houwen, nor was it the enchanting woman Ma Houwen was hugging. It was a thin man from the Northeast gang who had been collecting monthly payments.
This thin man was called Jiang Da. Although he was thin and weak, he was as fierce as 2580,000. Because of this, the flower shop's business was a lot worse, and that bastard Zhang Yong never stepped in again.
Ma Houwen left the south of Liuliqiao without taking the enchanting woman with him. Zhang Xianyong said that when Ma Houwen left, the enchanting woman was carried by another short and fat man. Ma Houwen also saw it. In Zhang Xianyong's original words, when he saw his woman being hugged by another man, Ma Houwen did not even dare to fart and just rolled away.
When Ma Houwen left, he left behind a sum of money. It was the money that Qiao Liansheng had earned from opening a flower shop. He also left behind the rented house. He had paid a year's rent and it was still empty.
Pushing open this room that was less than ten square meters, Qiao Liansheng's hands were stained with a lot of dust. There were also neatly folded blankets on the two beds. This was Qiao Liansheng and Ma Houwen's habit every morning.
Perhaps because it was late at night, Qiao Liansheng's return didn't attract the attention of the old stall owner on this street. However, Qiao Liansheng saw that the old bachelor who used to go to the flower shop every day to get some cigarettes turned his head to the side when he saw her. He looked very natural and relaxed, just like how he usually felt when he visited a brothel.
The current Qiao Liansheng was no longer the simple farmer who had just come out of Lugou Village, nor was he the good citizen who had been diligently struggling to survive on this street two months ago. He had no time to care about these gazes that were once familiar but now unfamiliar, nor would he go up to them and say a few words of shabbiness. Like a gust of wind, it blew past without leaving a trace.
Holding the bank card that Ma Houwen had left behind, Qiao Liansheng felt at ease and muttered to himself,""If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done that."
Sighing, Qiao Liansheng sat on the lower bunk and smoked a cigarette before leaving the house again. After leaving the street south of Liuliqiao, they passed two residential areas and finally stopped in front of a small tattoo shop.
The owner of the tattoo parlor was called Jiang Jun, a Cantonese man. Qiao Liansheng had chatted with him a few times before, and there were at least two Cantonese words in his Mandarin, which Qiao Liansheng could barely understand.
When he saw Qiao Liansheng, the boss politely gave up his chair and smiled at him.""Have you decided?"
Qiao Liansheng nodded and took out a painting from his bosom. It was Qiao Xianjing's painting of the Pitiful Bone Flower. This was the one that Qiao Xianjing was most proud of, and also the one that Crazy Zhang thought had the most charm of the Pitiful Bone Flower. Qiao Liansheng didn't say it, but in his heart, he had always admitted that this painting was vivid enough.
The four petals of the bright and lively Bone Flower pointed to the east, south, west, and north respectively. It wanted to show itself, but it was vivid and lifelike. The flower bud in the center was like a raised head, proudly breaking free from the ground. It was exactly the same as the one on Qiao Xianjing's stele.
"Brother, to be honest, this is the first time I've seen this flower. It's very beautiful and also very strange.”The boss took the painting and opened it. His eyes lit up as he shook his head and sighed.
Qiao Liansheng smiled and walked straight to the small bed. He said lightly,""Let's begin!"
The boss nodded excitedly and began to get busy. From the moment she saw this tattoo shop, Qiao Liansheng had the idea of carving a Bone-pity Flower on her body, but she was always hesitant. The half-blind woman said that carving a tattoo on a person's body was like carving a tattoo on a stele. It was something that could not be erased even after a hundred reincarnations. It was the mark of this life.
Qiao Liansheng hadn't made up his mind because he didn't want the tattoo on his body to reflect the tablet on Dog Bone Mountain, which was inauspicious. Having lived in Lugou Village since he was young, he was a little superstitious.
After Lame Ma brought the news of Qiao Lianxiang's death, Qiao Liansheng made up his mind. Even so, he was still very certain that he had tattooed the Bone-pity Flower not to possess such a demonic Bone-pity Flower like the man who had committed suicide, but to pay tribute to Qiao Lianxiang, who had died because of her own lies.
This was a mark that would last a lifetime. Qiao Liansheng not only had to carve it in her heart, but also on her body. Qiao Liansheng didn't need a deep-rooted bone that couldn't be erased even after a hundred reincarnations. This life was enough.
When the dyed needles pierced into the skin on her back again and again, Qiao Liansheng gritted his teeth and closed his eyes without making a sound. The image of Lame Ma leading a group of trumpets to Lu Gou Village's Qiao family to propose marriage appeared in his mind.
Qiao Lian wondered if Qiao Lianxiang knew that she and he were not biological siblings. Did he think that she didn't have the responsibility to sacrifice or even do anything for him?
The half-blind woman said that Qiao Lianxiang was an orphan. She was wearing clean clothes that were full of patches. She was kneeling in the underground passage of Beijing with her head lowered. She stretched out her two clean hands and shouted without begging,"Brother and sister pity me!" He didn't write his pitiful background on the ground to gain sympathy. He just knelt there and didn't say anything.
Because of this, the half-blind woman brought her to Lugou Village.
Qiao Liansheng had always felt that the Qiao family was not indebted to Qiao Lianxiang, but Qiao Lianxiang was indebted to the Qiao family. This little girl, who had been helping the Qiao family diligently since she came to Lugou Village, had never complained at all. There were more than 20 families in Lugou Village, and everyone had seen and remembered it. Even the old ancestor would occasionally scold Qiao Xianjing with a few words that would make him feel uneasy.
Qiao Liansheng didn't understand why the woman who had worked so hard for the Qiao family and Qiao Liansheng had lost her life in the end.
Not worth it! Qiao Liansheng thought of these three words with a sour nose. A teardrop fell from the corner of her eye, sparkling and translucent.
It had already been three hours since a bright and bewitching bone flower appeared on Qiao Lian Sheng's back. Facing the mirror and turning to look at the fresh bone flower, Qiao Lian Sheng's vision suddenly blurred and was covered in a thin layer of mist.
The Bone Flower grew on the cliff at the end of the Dog Bone Mountain. It bloomed in June, bloomed in September, and withered in December. The wind couldn't blow it down, and the thunder couldn't strike it. It stood proudly and displayed its peerless magnificence. This was a paragraph that Qiao Xianjing and Crazy Zhang, the village head, had written on the painting after returning drunk.
"You should do more while you're alive. Don't regret it in the future.”Qiao Liansheng rolled up the painting and silently read Old Xu's sincere words. He left the tattoo shop.
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