Far away in Moscow

Chapter 212
"You...what about you?" Da Liu was puzzled, his eyes became more vigilant, and his voice was not as enthusiastic as before: "Brother Hu, how did you know?"

Hu Yi didn't answer, maybe he didn't notice Da Liu's question at all, but just looked at the two old people fixedly.

"You...you...you are?" Surprise and doubt alternately appeared on Da Liu's mother's face, and soon gradually calmed down.After a while, she stared at Hu Yi and nodded slowly: "By the way, you were the one who led the tour group... Director Hu, tour guide Xiao Hu."

"Yes, it's true." Da Liu's father went to the table and sat down with a blank expression, and said to himself in a low voice: "No wonder, no wonder he looks familiar. I said that night, I must have seen him of."

Hu Yi was very upset.Unexpectedly, Liu's parents turned out to be the old couple who disappeared on Arbat Street a few years ago when he was leading a tour group for Yu Feifei.

He remembered very clearly that at that time the tour guide of the travel agency and other tourists in the group agreed that the two old people chose to stay in Moscow on their own initiative, but he was always dubious and always worried that they were just lost.It was not until now that I saw the two living together with their son in the yellow building full of black households in the container market, that all doubts were completely dispelled.

Hu Yi also remembered that Uncle Yu once said to himself that Da Liu's family "borrowed money from all over the country to help him pay off his debts, but in the end they sold their property and didn't pay it off, so they had to hide here."Combined with the speculation of the tourists that day, everything seems to have a reasonable explanation.

Without saying a word, he looked at the old couple in front of him again, feeling a little sad for a while.The appearance of the two has left a relatively deep impression in my memory. Even if it has gradually become blurred in the past two years, they should be easily recognizable when they meet again.

But maybe the living environment and pressure have brought them too many changes. The body and appearance of the two are much older than a few years ago. There was a bit of a market look on his face, and there was a little indifference and suspicion in his cloudy eyes.So much so that Hu Yi didn't recognize the two when he saw them alone, and he didn't remember until they stood together.

There was silence in the room.After a while, Hu Yi pulled back his surging thoughts, and smiled at Da Liu: "It turns out that the second elder and I have met each other a long time ago, and this incident happened much earlier than I met you."

"Yes, this is really... a coincidence." The smile on Da Liu's face was a little stiff: "Dad, Mom, isn't this good? This shows that Brother Hu... really has a destiny with our family."

"Yeah, it's good." Mother Liu sighed softly, and looked at Hu Yi hesitantly: "Guide Hu, we...that day...if...cause you any trouble, please...please return Director Hu, please... bear with me..."

"It doesn't matter, the trouble is all from the travel agency, and I have not been affected." Hu Yi heard this sentence that he had been chewing on for a long time again, and for some reason he suddenly felt relieved.He couldn't bear to see the old woman so trembling, so he quickly waved his hands and said with a smile: "I'm not a tour guide anymore, you can just call me Xiao Hu from now on."

"Really? That's good..." Mother Liu was still full of worry: "But...how did you come to the market? Don't you continue to be a tour guide? It can't be us...that caused you to lose your job, right?"

"Hey, where did you go?" Hu Yi laughed: "I'm not a tour guide at all, I just picked up a group for my friends that day. You see, I met you two just by taking over so casually. , isn’t this fate?”

"Yes, it's fate." Mother Liu nodded slightly.

Several people laughed silently, and Hu Yi felt that the atmosphere in the room was still a little dignified, so he leaned forward and smelled the fried pork with garlic sprouts brought by Liu's mother just now: "Oh, auntie, the dishes you cooked are really delicious. I'm a little hungry , when shall we have dinner?"

"Oh! It will be ready soon, Xiao Hu, sit down first!" Mother Liu woke up suddenly, stretched out her hand to greet her son and said, "Go to the kitchen quickly, and bring the fish in the pot to a plate. Old man, pour it for Xiao Hu. liquor!"

The episode just now came too suddenly, and the four of them were unavoidably awkward when they first took their seats.After a few sips of wine and chatting a few words about the past, the barrier between them quickly disappeared.

Hu Yi drank a lot of wine and couldn't help persuading him earnestly during the conversation: "Uncle, Auntie, Brother Liu, listen to me one more thing. I don't know what happened to you before, and I don't want to ask. But Huang This place...it's really not decent, I'm afraid it's not a long-term solution for your family to live here?"

"The conditions are pretty bad. But...it's decent, we've lived here for more than two years, where else can we go?" The two old people looked at each other, and turned their attention to their son.

"Yes." Da Liu lowered his head and took a bite of the food: "Brother Hu, you also know that people like us can only be cats in the market."

"When will the cat be?" Hu Yi couldn't help asking: "I can't stay here forever, can I?"

"Then... who knows." Da Liu gently put down his chopsticks, and smiled at Hu Yi: "Hey, this person, once he is black, it is not easy to go back for nothing. It is not difficult to get a new identity , but what can you do if you get the identity? Maybe it will bring all kinds of unexpected troubles."

"trouble?"

"That's right. You can see that there are so many people living in Huanglou, and they all have to stay here for various special reasons. Most of them are not incapable of leaving, but they don't want to leave."

Hu Yi nodded silently. He has been working in the market for more than a year and is quite familiar with the situation here.If the market is a place full of fish and dragons, then the Yellow House is a broken basket full of rotten fish and rotten shrimps, and many people are engaged in illegal activities in it.

Even a relatively innocent resident like Liu's family relies heavily on the yellow building and the market to make a living and earn money. Once they leave here, it may be quite difficult to even survive.And they have their own scruples, they can live in a corner without a name and name, and they are satisfied with a shelter.

Hu Yi didn't say anything, but Da Liu's mother was a little uneasy.Worried about her son in her eyes, she persuaded softly: "Son, Brother Hu's words make sense. Your father and I don't care. It's okay to stay here until you kick your legs. You are not yet forty, and you will have a long time to come." Well, it's always here... well, it's not a problem, what do you think?"

Da Liu was stunned for a while, with a little bitterness on his face, and then smiled at his mother as if nothing had happened: "Hey, why are you saying this again? Didn't we discuss it before? I have been in the market for so many years, and I am very familiar with the environment here. I am most familiar with it, but when I go out, my eyes are smeared. Besides, I have a limping leg, and it is not easy to find a job here, so what are you doing outside?"

(End of this chapter)