Mad Dog - Chapter 16

    *His fate was one of endless panic.

    Chenkong Hutong is a very dangerous place.

    The cramped and dirty shanty towns are full of jackals, tigers and leopards.

    There is not only a stinky ditch that Zhiqi stepped on, but the whole land… There is almost no good place.

    But if it’s just the outside, it’s fine, but the most dangerous existence is his father, Jiang Quan.

    Since Zhiqi came to this alley, Jiang Qi felt that this place couldn’t stay.

    He can’t live here, nor can Zhiqi come to him again. The boy clutched the wound on his shoulder, and his pale forehead was covered in cold sweat. He lowered his head laboriously and found a roll of bandages from under the bed to wrap around his wound.

    His body was in pain and it was difficult to walk. He gritted his teeth and walked out.

    —After two hours of tossing, I arrived at the uncle Jiang Shi in Shimada District.

    Jiang Shi took the vegetable stall to go home in the evening, when he saw the boy curled up in the corner of the stairs at the door, the man’s heart suddenly squeaked.

    In fact, it is not common for Jiang Qi to take the initiative to show weakness and come to him, but the appearance of blood oozing from the shoulders of the boy’s gray short sleeves is very ‘common’. Jiang Shi frowned, walked up to him, and asked condescendingly, “Your dad beat you again?”

    Jiang Qi pursed his lips and did not answer this obvious question.

    He just asked in a low voice after a stalemate for a while, “Uncle, can my account still be transferred to your name?”

    Jiang Shi was stunned for a moment, and there was some impatient surprise in his tone: “Are you serious?”

    The boy’s voice was a little hoarse, and he made a dull ‘um’.

    Jiang Shi let him enter the door. Aunt Guan Yue just came out of the kitchen. She wiped her hands with the apron she was wearing. She was startled when she saw Jiang Qi, and then saw the boy on the shoulder. The red mark came back to God.

    “Tsk, sin.” Guan Yue spat, and pulled Jiang Qi to tore his clothes – a deep wound on the boy’s shoulder was turned over, and blood was oozing non-stop. A fishy smell rushed to his nose, causing Guan Yue to take a step back.

    But people who are used to their work can see at a glance that the wound on Jiang Qi’s shoulder was scraped with a sickle.

    And looking down from the neck, the boy’s fair skinny upper body is densely covered with scars, burns, knife wounds… Countless, the old is not gone, the new is coming again, thus layer upon layer covered half of his body.

    Jiang Shi and Guan Yue knew that this was Jiang Quan’s ‘masterpiece’.

    The woman’s heart is still softer, Guan Yue sighed, reached out and rubbed Jiang Qi’s head: “Go to the hospital for stitches.”

    In the past, Jiang Quan was drunk and crazy, and the minor injuries left on Jiang Qi could be dealt with by themselves. When encountering such serious injuries, it is still impossible not to go to the hospital.

    Jiang Qi nodded silently, obediently like a stray dog.

    On the way to the hospital, Jiang Shi and his daughter-in-law talked about moving Jiang Qi’s household registration under his own house, and Guan Yue’s eyes suddenly lit up.

    “It’s true or false.” The woman shouted excitedly, and then she didn’t know what to think, and sighed in a low voice: “But brother… can he let it?”

    Jiang Shi couldn’t help but glance at Jiang Qi.

    The boy sat quietly, his eyes were cold, but he froze when he noticed Jiang Shi’s gaze, and then said in a low voice: “I agree, uncle, you can put The house in Chenkong Hutong was sold.”

    In fact, this is what really makes Jiang Shi and Guan Yue happy.

    They are happy because Jiang Qi’s situation is different from others.

    The boy’s account was forcibly ‘deducted’ when Grandpa Jiang Qi was still alive.

    Jiang Quan was imprisoned for robbery and murder when he was a minor. After being sentenced for more than ten years, he was almost thirty years old.

    When the old man was alive, almost all the money in the family was looted by Jiang Quan viciously, except for the house in Chenkong Hutong.

    The old man hated Jiang Quan terribly, and originally planned to leave his only property that could be regarded as property to his younger son Jiang Shi—although the younger son was not literate or talented, he was still honest.

    But at this time, Jiang Quan met a woman.

    A woman who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles, and just happens to be very ‘getting along’ with Jiang Quan. She is a lady at night, and she can sleep with money. Money, she slept alone for a month.

    One month later, the woman was pregnant, and the child in her belly could not have anyone other than Jiang Quan’s.

    More than ten years ago, on the Lixia day, a woman came to Chenkong Hutong with a cigarette in her mouth, a wine bottle and a laboratory test form, and negotiated directly with Mr. Jiang.

    Plan one, give her money for abortion and compensation, she did this child, and Jiang Quan will have nothing to do with it in the future.

    Plan 2, she can give birth to this child, but after giving birth, she has to give her 20,000 yuan, and she will leave as soon as she is born, and it still has nothing to do with the Jiang family.

    Even as a nightclub lady with a rotten private life, she doesn’t want to entrust her future to a man like Jiang Quan.

    Mr. Jiang chose the latter almost without thinking, and took out his pension money to ‘keep’ Jiang Qi’s life – for the elderly, the child in a woman’s belly is theirs After the family, it is the continuation of the bloodline. Even if the poor people have no ’emperor’ to inherit, they have to work hard to keep this root.

    She and Jiang Quan are actually a natural pair, and both of them have black hearts.

    When Jiang Qi was born in October after her pregnancy, the boy was sent to Mr. Jiang without drinking breast milk for a day.

    From then on, the woman disappeared without a trace, and Jiang Qi never saw his mother again.

    And Jiang Qi’s name was on the day the woman sent him to Jiang’s house. It happened that Mr. Jiang was going to take Jiang Shi to the temple to pray for blessings, so he named him Jiang ‘Qi’ , Unfortunately, neither of them are literate, so when they went to enter the household registration, they wrote the prayer as ‘Qi’.

    Boys are wrong even with their names, and maybe they are wrong from birth.

    But the only consolation in Jiang Qi’s life is the old man.

    Mr. Jiang regarded Sun as his life and passed his household registration to his own name. He would not let Jiang Qi and Jiang Quan be involved, and even made a will to link the house and household registration to Jiang Qi .

    Unfortunately, Mr. Jiang went away within two years of his life, and in the end there was only one hukou and house left for Jiang Qi, which were all cold dead things.

      There is still the possibility of demolition in the future, so whether it is the devil-like father or the uncles and aunts who have their own calculations, they are actually thinking about the house.

    Only by passing Jiang Qi’s hukou to his own name, can he have the right to occupy the house in an open and fair manner.

    In the past, Jiang Qi was young and could only live with Jiang Quan, who was stuck in Chenkong Hutong. The anger accumulated by drinking and smoking big cigarettes every day is vented on his son, and he can’t do anything else.

    Jiang Qi has nowhere to go, nowhere to escape, and the matter of ‘domestic violence’ is not even handled by the police, let alone others.

    He could only endure Jiang Quan silently, living with him who hated each other, and then gradually got used to this kind of abuse, and gradually became numb…

    In order to go to school, he had to help Jiang Shi’s vegetable stall to collect and sell vegetables since he was a child, in exchange for a little tuition and book fees. arrived.

    Jiang Quan never thought that he had the obligation to ‘raise a son’, but Jiang Qi knew that he had to study and couldn’t be in a hurry. The childish mentality took root and sprout with hatred, and gradually spread into a towering tree He still remembered that he had to ‘get ahead’.

    Going to school seems to be the only hope of seeing a ‘street lamp’ in the long dark road, Jiang Qi does not want to give up.

      Teeth chattering.

    He was afraid of being beaten and also afraid of Jiang Quan.

    Jiang Qi thinks that he is probably very bad and dark, because he is always waiting for his so-called ‘father’ to die outside, it is best to keep quiet, and even his body does not need to be claimed of the kind.

    In this way, he will no longer have to resist in vain, and he will not be able to concentrate in class without the pain that hurts his body from time to time.

    There is no need to…

    It’s a pity that wishes are just wishes. The devil Jiang Quan is still there, but Jiang Qi no longer wants to stay with him in Chenkong Hutong.

    He is willing to use the house left by his grandfather in exchange for a place to live with his uncle, and is willing to study in middle school in Shimada District, far away from the city, as long as he can stay away from Chenkong Hutong.

    When the stitches were being stitched in the hospital, Jiang Qi kept silent the whole time, letting the sweat beads the size of the forehead bean drip slowly.

    Even the suture doctor couldn’t help but boast: “The little boy has a backbone, he can bear the pain.”

    Jiang Qi didn’t speak, but Guan Yue couldn’t help sighing softly beside her.

    —Where is the pain? Clearly used to the pain.

    The night that Jiang Qi finished his household registration was the first time in Jiang Qi’s life that someone called the police when he faced Jiang Quan’s beating.

    After Jiang Quan came to the door aggressively, the first thing he did was to hit Jiang Qi’s heart ruthlessly. Involuntarily hitting the wall with a ‘bang’, Jiang Qi frowned, his head drooping softly.

    Between Jiang Quan’s scolding, Guan Yue’s screams.

    In the chaos of the glassware crackling, Jiang Shi pulled Jiang Quan into the yard, and the door inside the house was locked with a ‘click’.

    Jiang Qi breathed a sigh of relief in the extreme pain.

    For the first time, in the confrontation with Jiang Quan, he had a feeling of being ‘protected’ – even if this feeling was exchanged for a house.

    Later, the two Jiang brothers went to the police station with bruised faces.

    After a brief description of the situation, the police seem to be not uncommon for such scenes of ‘fighting over family property’, and they only said lightly to Jiang Quan: “Burning in the room, taking the initiative, Fifteen days of detention, double the number of repeat offenses, and if there is any objection, you can go to court to sue.”

    It is impossible for Jiang Quan to go to court.

    He is penniless and relies on small tricks to cheat some money every month to live, where will the money come from to fight Jiang Shi?

    Besides, the owner of the house is Jiang Qi, whoever Jiang Qi is willing to give it to, even if he holds his identity as his ‘father’, it will not change this fact.

      , wait for his father to come out.”

    No need to say the second half of the sentence, Jiang Shi can also guess what it is.

    It was nothing more than ‘I killed him’, Jiang Quan had told them countless times.

    “Since then, my household registration has been with my uncle’s house, so I went to the first middle school in Shimada district. Later, I was admitted to the third middle school.”

    Numerous embarrassing memories flashed in his mind, but when facing Zhiqi, Jiang Qi didn’t want to narrate his past like a ‘sucking miserable’, he just gave some brief explanations That’s it.

    Just from the vague words, Zhixi could hear that it was not easy for him to be a teenager.

    His hands are slender and delicate, with well-defined joints, but there are several distinct scars on them. The scars are obviously rough. It is the hands that often work. Just holding her for a short moment, Zhiqi I can feel a thick layer of cocoon…

    Thinking of Jiang Qi’s understatement that “most of the time I help my uncle sell vegetables in the vegetable market”, the little girl’s heart clenched unconsciously.

    At this youthful age, most teenagers and girls are carefree, thinking about where to go on vacation and which star is handsome, at best, the focus is to consider studying , but there are a few people like Jiang Qi who sell vegetables in order to study and make a living.

    Zhi Qi resisted the sourness in the corner of her eyes, she knew that Jiang Qi would not want to see her useless and want to cry.

    After sniffing, the girl masked her smile and said, “Jiang Qi, it’s actually my fault, I should have thought that you must have difficulties for not going to No. 8 High School, and then I… and You are angry.”

    This is really inappropriate, the more Zhiqi thought about it, the more she felt that she was going too far.

    But Jiang Qi didn’t want to see her showing any self-blame and guilt, and the young man’s sharp eyebrows frowned: “Don’t talk nonsense.”

    He likes Zhiqi to get angry with him.

    As long as Zhixi is willing to talk to him, then everything is fine.

    “Jiang Qi, are you still helping your uncle sell vegetables?” Zhixi didn’t want him to recall those sad things, so she deliberately changed the subject, she looked at the boy’s delicate profile face With a smile: “Are you the most handsome person in the market?”

    Jiang Qi couldn’t help but stay for a while, and then realized that the girl was praising him, praising him… handsome.

    However, Zhiqi didn’t let him go, the girl pulled Jiangqi’s finger, still smiling and said, “Next time you sell vegetables, take me with you, okay? I also I want to try it.”

    She wanted Jiang Qi to know that selling vegetables is not something to be ashamed of, everyone has their own way to support their families, and she can do it too.

    Jiang Qi understood the meaning of the girl’s words, and his eyes softened little by little unconsciously.

    He said softly, “Okay.”

    Under the gaze of Jiang Qi’s amber-like eyes, Zhiqi was lost for a moment.

    She thought, the boy is so good, he is willing to listen to himself in everything, it is good.

    -His eyes are like the quietest source.

    -Let sorrow in my heart be as quiet and serene as dusk in a silent forest.

    But if Jiang Qi is really regarded as a ‘very good’ boy, that is one of the biggest illusions in life.

    What Zhiqi didn’t know was that Jiang Qi was only obedient to her.

    Treat other people, Jiang Qi may be like what Chen Liufang said before, like a 2580000 maniac, whoever provokes him, he will change without hesitation become crazy.

    Maybe because of the growth environment, Jiang Qi is extremely distrustful of everything around him and does not want to contact.

    The teenager doesn’t make friends with the people in the class, or even say a word to them. He doesn’t have the vigor and sunshine of a 16- or 17-year-old young man, and some are just gloomy.

    Jiang Qi’s taciturnity quickly became famous in the class, but even the teacher couldn’t do anything about him.

    Because it’s not a crime to not talk to others, and it’s not a crime to be gregarious.

    Besides, Jiang Qi’s grades are very good.

    The young man has always wanted to ‘get ahead’ by studying hard since he was a child. Although he is covered with ‘thorns’ that are incompatible with this world, he is very serious about his studies.

    Otherwise, Jiang Qi would not have been able to get into the third middle school with the top grades from that middle school in Shimada District, which has very backward teachers and students.

    He only speaks to Zhiqi in this class.

    In the beginning, Zhiqi didn’t think anything was wrong. She could eat with Jiang Qi at noon like before, explore questions and do homework together, and Jiang Qi could send her back at night. Home, for a little girl, is a joy without distractions.

    But gradually, there are some rumors in the class.

    For example, some people say that Zhiqi and Jiang Qi are in a puppy love.

    The word ‘puppy love’ is a very serious and taboo word in high school. Zhixi never thought that she would be related to this word.

    Because in her perception, she and Jiang Qi have known each other since childhood, interaction and close contact are natural things, and they can’t fight with “puppy love”.

    But it wasn’t until Tang Jiao called her out to whisper after school that Zhiqi realized that in the eyes of the people around her, she and Jiang Qi really had a relationship of puppy love.

    “That, Qixi.” Tang Jiao whispered with her, biting her ears, seemingly embarrassed to ‘advise’ her: “You and Jiang Qi, are you… um, are you getting too close? ah?”

    Zhixi didn’t understand what she meant at first, she blinked her eyes blankly: “What’s wrong? We knew each other before.”

    “Yes, but…” Girls are usually very embarrassed when they talk about this kind of ‘love’ thing, Tang Jiao said awkwardly to her: “But my classmates Everyone is saying, you and Jiang Qi…you two are in love.”

    When it comes to the three words ‘love’, the girl’s voice is almost faint.

    “Nonsense, nonsense!” The girl stammered in rebuttal, her voice trembling with anger: “We didn’t talk about it, we talked about that.”

    For a girl who is so pure that she doesn’t even have the consciousness of love, Zhiqi really can’t say the three words ‘love’.

    She unconsciously clenched her small hands into fists, took a deep breath and said righteously: “This is a rumor, Jiaojiao, who told us that?”

    “I don’t know either.” Tang Jiao frowned in embarrassment and sighed softly: “Xiqi, many people in the class are talking about it now, it would be bad if someone told the teacher. already.”

    “It’s better… why don’t you stay away from that Jiang Qi, don’t you think he’s weird?”

    .

    Maybe from Tang Jiao’s point of view, this is a ‘well-intentioned’ suggestion.

    But Zhiqi was still out of anger.

    Why should she stay away from Jiang Qi because of the rumors of the people around her? Isn’t it good to have a clear conscience about this kind of thing?

    Besides, Jiang Qi is “weird”.

    In fact, Zhiqi and Tang Jiao have a very good relationship, and they are almost always talking at the front and back tables, but at this moment, the girl still thinks of the first ‘friend she broke up with in elementary school’ ‘, Cui Shuangshuang.

    It was also because of Jiang Qi, because Cui Shuangshuang went with the flow and slandered Jiang Qi with the public.

    Although ‘conformity’ is human’s instinct, it still does not delay Zhixi’s thought that this kind of follow-up thinking is actually a kind of unsound personality.

    However, Tang Jiao is not Cui Shuangshuang, nor is she the naive girl who broke up with people casually.

    “Jiaojiao, Jiang Qi is not surprising, you just don’t know him.” This time Zhiqi took a deep breath and chose to explain to Tang Jiao that the little girl’s delicate face was almost like a porcelain. Serious attitude –

    “I’ve known him for years and know he’s a good guy.”

    “Not everyone in this world needs to be gregarious and likeable.”

    “Jiang Qi may be a less likable person, but I like him.”

    …

    Tang Jiao couldn’t help looking at her in astonishment.

    Zhi Qi just smiled and said frankly: “I’m talking about the love between friends.”

    “Following the trend and judging a person sometimes blindfolds his own eyes, spreading the truth and destroying another person’s reputation.” Zhiqi smiled, picked up his schoolbag and carried it on his shoulders, Before leaving, she sincerely said to Tang Jiao—

    “Jiaojiao, both you and Jiang Qi are my friends. I hope you observe him with your own eyes instead of judging him from others. Goodbye.”

     After speaking, the girl turned and went downstairs.

    At this moment, the students in the first year of high school are almost gone, and the students in the second and third year of high school are still in class.

    And under the big locust tree on the playground, there is a thin and slender shadow of a boy, waiting for her.

    She trusts him, likes him, and she just wants to.

    Zhi Qi and Jiang Qi certainly didn’t have puppy love, at least in the first year of high school when they were sixteen.

    As for later… In fact, some things they already knew.

    It’s just that in their youth, young people don’t understand the truth of which will come sooner tomorrow or accident.

    So the love that had been declared long ago was finally silenced in the ‘vigorous’ casualties.

    Now is the first time after four years that they are close to each other.

    But Zhiqi still remembered the fact that Jiang Qi was now a ‘public figure’, and the moment she took off the boy’s mask, the girl hurriedly stretched out her hand to cover his face.

    The cold lips were covered by the girl’s soft palm, Jiang Qi was lost for a moment.

    Zhixi then put the mask back on the boy like a thief with a guilty conscience. She looked cute and cute on tiptoe, and she looked like a small fan with long eyelashes that was close to her. The ‘flashing’ a few times.

    Zhi Qi took Jiang Qi’s hand and said softly, “Come with me.”

    People come and go here in Landa, of course it is inconvenient to speak, Zhiqi took the teenager to the back garden of the girls’ dormitory of Landa. It is generally a dating spot for couples. It is very popular at night, but no one cares about it during the day. It is a good place to talk.

    The two were sitting on a bench in the garden, surrounded by splendid beauty behind them, but the boy was black and out of place.

    This ‘reunion after a long absence’ is different from the one in high school, but Jiang Qi is still… very nervous, his slender fingers clenched into fists unconsciously, and his palms quickly became wet Layers of cold sweat.

    Zhixi looked at Jiang Qi’s light-colored pupils with obvious panic, and wanted to laugh, but she restrained herself, her eyes and voice were light.

    “How did you know I was here?”

    She can be very obsessed with Jiang Qi on the Internet, very fanatical, and can send messages to express her love for him every day as a tree hole.

    But in real life, Zhiqi had to tell Jiang Qi with her own attitude—she didn’t mind that the teenager suddenly appeared again and again without saying goodbye, even though she actually felt bad for him.

    “I…” Jiang Qi’s voice was muffled under his mask, and he looked at her without blinking: “I saw you at the meeting.”

    His voice was visibly disturbed.

    Zhixi was silent for a moment, then squinted: “See me?”

    The tickets she bought from other fans are not in the VIP area, nor are they in a good location. Among thousands of people, can Jiang Qi see her?

    “Well.” Jiang Qi nodded, took out his mobile phone and handed it to her obediently: “I know you went to the meeting today.”

    So, he kept looking for her.

    Zhi Qi took it suspiciously, and on the screen of her phone was a row of private messages from the Weibo ‘tree hole’ box.

    …

    The girl’s fair face suddenly turned red and burst!

      “

    Could it be that Meng Chunyu lied to her? However, this is also a shame for my wife!

    Zhixi looked at the private message list without any scruples, and if it was numb, she felt that her toes could be buried in the cracks of the ground.