50 kilometers north of Lugou Village was Dingzhou City, which belonged to Baoding City. Qiao Liansheng, who was carrying a backpack, had walked for a day. No one could imagine his slightly thin body. His slightly tanned face was still full of energy and did not show any signs of fatigue.
Qiao Liansheng came to Dingzhou once. On the second day of Qiao Xianjing's burial, he came with the half-blind woman. That year, Qiao Lian was eleven years old. She was waiting for someone at the bus station exit with the half-blind woman.
After waiting for half an hour, a middle-aged man appeared. He was wearing a black suit and his hair was very sparse and bright. When he saw the half-blind woman, the middle-aged man was a little stunned. He walked up to the half-blind woman and let out a long sigh. He opened his mouth and shouted,"Sister-in-law."
"I don't deserve this title. Just call me Half-Blind! Everyone in the village calls him that." The half-blind woman smiled calmly. When she smiled, her face was wrinkled and looked a little ugly.
The middle-aged man was stunned. He gritted his teeth and said hatefully,"After so many years, he still refuses to give you a status?”
"He gave it to me, but I didn't answer. I'm the one who accompanied him through this life, not anyone else. That's enough.”The half-blind woman's voice was very faint, but it carried a sense of satisfaction.
The middle-aged man nodded and turned to look at the bespectacled Qiao Liansheng who was standing beside the half-blind woman. He asked with some doubt,""Is it him?"
Clearly, the middle-aged man was not satisfied with Qiao Liansheng's soft and weak body. In his eyes, such a small body would not be able to withstand anything that came crashing down.
The half-blind woman hugged Qiao Liansheng's shoulders lovingly and rubbed the back of his head. She smiled and said,""It's him. The Golden Phoenix that's hiding in a remote village will fly sooner or later.”
The middle-aged man sighed again. He pulled open his shirt and took out a neatly folded scarf from his pocket. He held it in front of the half-blind woman and carefully opened it. A green thumb ring was revealed.
The half-blind woman took it and placed it in front of her right eye. After a while, she smiled and nodded at the middle-aged man. She took the scarf, wrapped the green ring again, and stuffed it into her pocket.
"We've done our job. It's time for us to return.”The half-blind woman waved her hand and turned to leave with Qiao Liansheng in her arms.
"Ziyi, you really don't want to go back with me? He knew that he was wrong and had been feeling guilty.”Looking at the half-blind woman's back, the middle-aged man did not give up. He wanted to persuade her one last time.
The half-blind woman's body trembled, but she didn't turn her head. She raised a hand covered in calluses and waved it at the middle-aged man with her back facing him. She continued to walk forward with Qiao Liansheng in her arms. Qiao Liansheng clearly saw that when the two words "Ziyi" were heard, the half-blind woman started to cry. The tears were coming from her already blind eye.
After buying a bus ticket to Beijing in an hour, Qiao Liansheng grabbed her backpack and found an empty seat in the waiting room. She reached out and pressed her left chest. Feeling the bulge, she felt a little more at ease.
Qiao Liansheng had carefully looked at this green ring at home. There were tiny threads on it, and two words were engraved on the densely packed threads: Jun Lin. Other than these two words, Qiao Liansheng couldn't see anything special.
The half-blind woman said,"Er Mao Zi, this ring is yours. When you arrive in Beijing, you should wear it on your thumb." When she said this, the half-blind woman's face was filled with respect. Qiao Liansheng was at a loss.
Looking at the sky that was about to turn dark, Qiao Liansheng took out two steamed buns from his backpack and chewed on them. The people sitting around them were either lying or leaning against each other. All of them had emotions on their faces. There were big and small bags beside them. There was nothing else in the bags but quilts. When he was outside, with this quilt, he could have a home by relying on a wooden plank.
Qiao Liansheng didn't think too much about it. He only had two hundred yuan on him, and he didn't take a single cent of the ten thousand yuan betrothal gift Lame Ma had given him. He could believe that Lame Ma had a good heart for Qiao Lianxiang, but he still felt that Qian Zhuan was safe in Qiao Lianxiang's hands.
On the day Lame Ma proposed marriage, Qiao Liansheng had thought that he could hold that shiny knife to Lame Ma's neck and force him to divorce Qiao Lianxiang. However, that was Lugou Village. The woman who was not his flesh and blood was his sister, the sister in his heart. He could not let Qiao Lianxiang have the title of divorcee on her head, so the kitchen knife fell to the ground.
It was the half-blind woman's idea to go to Beijing, and it was also something that Qiao Xianjing had instructed him to do. She did not tell him what to do, but only told him to wear this green ring.
Qiao Liansheng didn't think too much about it. In his heart, he was thinking about his sister, who had chosen to marry someone to support him in his university studies. He wanted to earn money in the big city of Beijing. When he had money, he would bring her over to watch Tian An Men and watch the Forbidden City on television. As for how to earn money, he hadn't thought about it yet.
"Brother, where are you going?"
Qiao Liansheng was stunned when he heard the passionate voice. He turned his head and realized that the owner of the voice was not asking him, but a fat man sitting beside him. He looked to be in his thirties. The fat man was not fat, but his big belly made him look a little fat. His face was also very chubby, and his face looked like a horse's. It was pulled very long, as if someone owed him money. In his arms was a black leather bag, bulging.
The person who asked was a young man of about 23 or 24 years old. He had a crew cut, a thin monkey face, narrow eyes, and a wretched smile. He was not tall, and his body was thin like a skeleton. He was also carrying a black leather bag in his arms, but it was shriveled as if there was nothing inside.
Fatty did not answer. He glanced at the young man from the corner of his eyes and did not respond. He tightened his arms around the black leather bag. The young man didn't feel embarrassed and sat down beside the fat man. He smiled and pressed his dry black leather bag against his chest. His arms were tightly wrapped around his chest as if there was really a treasure inside. His narrow eyes looked around carefully.
From the corner of his eye, he saw the young man's actions. Fatty had a reaction. He frowned slightly and turned his head. He glanced at the dry leather bag in the young man's arms and said," Go to Beijing and get some goods." Where are you going?"
The young man looked around sneakily, lowered his head, and whispered,""I went to Linfeng, Shanxi, to buy a coal mine and make a fortune.”
Fatty was stunned. He looked at the shriveled leather bag on the young man's chest and sneered. Fatty had lived for more than 30 years and had experienced many things. He knew a little about the Shanxi coal mine. Those coal mine bosses never trusted the bank and used cash for all transactions. This shriveled leather bag could not even buy a coal ball with a thousand yuan.
Qiao Liansheng nibbled on a steamed bun as he quietly waited for this skinny young man to blow something out of his mouth.
"Brother, you don't understand the current market!”The young man pursed his lips and shook his head. He turned his head to the other side with his bag, as if he had no desire to continue speaking.
This piqued Fatty's interest. He rolled his eyes and patted the young man's shoulder. He asked shamelessly,"Brother, tell me, what's the current market situation?”
"Hehe, brother, you don't know, right?”The young man was quite proud. He lowered his head and said softly,""Some time ago, something happened in a large coal mine in Linfeng. There was a gas explosion and more than 20 people died. It was even reported in the newspapers!”
"What's so strange about that? Doesn't this happen often?" Fatty was puzzled.
"But this time, it's strange!" The young man looked like he knew the inside story. He lowered his voice and said,"In the past, the province would always suppress the coal mine accidents. However, this time, a reporter from People's Daily accidentally saw it, and he was at the scene. Things can't be suppressed anymore!"
The young man licked his dry lips and turned his body away. His eyes shone brightly as he continued,"So, we have to investigate it closely now! Several coal mine owners wanted to sell it, but the money was obvious!”
"Then…what do they want?"
The young man smiled proudly and lowered his voice again. He patted his shriveled leather bag and said softly,"Diamonds! A sparkling diamond! It's not easy to find them if they hide."
Fatty and Qiao Liansheng, who had been eavesdropping, were both stunned. They shifted their gazes to the shriveled leather bag at the same time. Indeed, there were a few protruding areas.
"Brother, hehe, one has to seize the opportunity in one's life, right? Once this wind blows over, I'll be waiting at home to count a lot of money. Even if I count until my hands cramp, I'll still grin!”
The young man patted Fatty's shoulder and sighed. He was very proud of his "business". These words moved Fatty very much, and his eyes rolled around.
"Brother, let me take a look! I've never seen a diamond in my life.”Fatty stared at the protruding part of the shriveled leather bag, his eyes shining with golden light.
"No!" The young man's expression changed. He tightened his bag and muttered,"This is enough to buy two coal mines worth of diamonds! One less pill will kill you!"
Hearing this, Fatty's eyes lit up even more. He put his hand on the young man's shoulder and said earnestly,"Brother, you can't be greedy. You have to know how to be content!”
"This is not greed, this is an opportunity.”The young man retorted with a pout.
"Hey, brother, you said it yourself. The news is tight now. If you buy two coal mines at once, you'll definitely attract attention, right? I won't take advantage of you. Name a price and I'll buy the other half of your diamonds, okay?”
The young man was still unwilling, but his face began to show a hesitant expression. The fatty tried to persuade him again, and after a while, the young man finally agreed.
The young man grabbed a handful from the shriveled leather bag and stuffed it into the fat man's shirt pocket from the front. The fat man put the bulging leather bag on his back, unzipped it, took out a stack of red banknotes, and stuffed it into the shriveled leather bag through the slit of the seat.
After the transaction, Fatty reached into his pocket and wanted to take it out to take a look, but he was stopped by the young man." Brother, this thing can't be exposed in front of so many people. It's dazzling!”
"Oh, oh, oh!" Fatty's hands trembled as he kept nodding.
"There's a washroom over there. Brother, go check the goods. I'll wait for you here.”The young man pointed at the public washroom in the innermost part of the waiting room and said sincerely.
The fat man stood up excitedly and walked shakily to the bathroom with his big belly. He looked back at the young man from time to time. The young man smiled and waved at him with a simple and honest expression.
When the fatty entered the bathroom, the young man's lips curled up slightly. He smiled strangely and patted his bulging bag. He shook his head and sighed."Greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant! In this world, hehe, I should really be rich!”
He patted his butt and got up to leave. Qiao Liansheng, who had finished eating two steamed buns, laughed softly and said to the young man with a strange smile,""Aren't you afraid of retribution?"
The young man was stunned. He stared at Qiao Liansheng for a few seconds before smiling obsequiously." Brother, you're not thinking of pulling out a knife to help, are you? You don't look like a plainclothes officer. Why are you meddling in this matter?”
Qiao Liansheng smiled noncommittally and pointed at the seat Fatty had just sat on." I'm not. He is."”Just now, Fatty had lifted his shirt when he stuffed his bag behind him. Qiao Liansheng had seen the stainless steel handcuffs very clearly.
The young man's expression changed. He suddenly turned his head to look at the bathroom door. Sure enough, the fatty from before was standing there with a smile on his face. He was gesturing around. A few men with straight backs suddenly stood up in the waiting room and kept approaching them.
"F * ck your ancestors!" The young man cursed and ran away. Before he left, he didn't forget to thank Qiao Liansheng.
Looking at the young people running around, Qiao Liansheng shook her head with a smile. If a small profit would be punished, then what about a big profit? She got up, carried her backpack, and walked towards the ticket gate. The scene of being caught like a turtle in a jar was destined to be a tragedy, and Qiao Lian was not in the mood to appreciate it…
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