Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 386
Siheyuan, outside the Hutong.

A figure limped past.

The visitor was less than 1.6 meters tall, wearing gray cotton-padded trousers and oversized clothes, making him look bloated.

Hands in sleeves, hairballs, unkempt.

With an ordinary sallow face and an inch-long beard, he looks very mature, like an old farmer who has been crushed by life.

While the man was walking, he swung his right leg from inside to outside from time to time, and his body swayed accordingly. His expression was even more dull, except for a pair of eyes that shone brightly when they turned.

The crippled man walked slowly past the entrance of the alley, his eyes flashed past the gate of the courtyard, and saw two figures smoking at the corner, and then continued to move forward.

After a while, I came to the alley behind the courtyard, looked carefully for a while, and then quickened my pace.

The sky was bright, but the crippled man chose the dark alley, as if he couldn't see the light.

Finally, when they came to a large courtyard, their footsteps slowed down again, and they slowly walked into the courtyard.

"Old Kang, you're back, how are you doing today?"

Entering the door, an old man asked with a smile on his face.

Lao Kang's crippled man still had a dull face, but he showed a smile, which made people feel naive and honest.

"Uncle Ma, I'm not alive today, so I came back early."

"However, it's almost Chinese New Year, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

As Lao Kang said, the old man smiled and nodded.

"You are not young anymore, it's time to find a home for yourself!"

"If you have saved enough money, tell Uncle to find you one."

Lao Kang listened, but grinned.

Say nothing.

Lao Kang swung his legs and walked home.

Uncle Ma sighed from behind, "Oh, it's all the fault of the little devil!"

Lao Kang clenched his fists tightly.

When he came to the front of the house, Lao Kang did not act in a hurry. He glanced at the traps on the side, and after confirming that no one was coming, he pushed open the dilapidated small door on the right and walked in slowly.

And when he went in, behind the small door on the left, there was a one-foot-long animal trap under it. If someone who didn't know it stepped in suddenly, his calf would probably be cut off.

Lao Kang walked in, and the inside was gloomy.

After a while, after my eyes got used to it, I put away the trap and put it under the bed.

Then, Lao Kang closed the door, sat under the window, through the sunlight, slowly raised his right leg and put it on the table.

The whole person rested for a while, and then pulled up the trouser legs, revealing half of the wood.

Prosthesis
The entire lower leg is prosthetic from the knee down.

Lao Kang looked at the prosthetic leg, his face was contorted with anger, and it took him a long time to calm down.

Others call him Lao Kang, but in his heart, this is only a mask.

Wearing a mask for a long time may become a habit, but it cannot replace the name given since childhood.

The original name, except for himself, can still say a few words silently in his heart, no one in this world shouts it anymore.

Lao Kang reached out to untie the wrapped bandages, then took off the prosthesis and placed it in front of the table.

Only then did I realize that the prosthetic limb was actually hollow, and something had fallen out faintly.

A mess of parts, a few bullets, a piece of paper, and a small wooden stick.

Lao Kang caught it with his hands, then arranged the parts neatly, and then carefully looked at the piece of paper, which showed how to assemble and use it.After reading it step by step, Lao Kang skillfully assembled the scattered parts, and soon a palm-sized pistol was assembled.

It is the FP-45 Liberator pistol.

This kind of pistol that can only fire one bullet at a time is very inconvenient to use.

And the movement is not small, basically it will be exposed after one use.

However, these are not within the scope of his consideration.

If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!
The one he used to use before was thrown into the West Sea at night because he was afraid of being discovered when he moved.

If the gun is still there, many things will be easier to do, unlike now, they still need to organize help.

However, it turned out later that this was necessary.

How many colleagues who are better than him were discovered in this way.

But he, relying on being cautious, has been lurking for a while.

"At the moment, it can only make do with it."

Looking at the assembled pistol, Lao Kang slowly fell into memory.

The mission target is Yang Xiaotao.

The eighth-level fitter of the Red Star Rolling Mill is also the designer of the heating furnace. According to inside information, this guy is also the developer of a high-yield corn.

Such young people also belonged to the B rank in their list.

However, although a talent like Yang Xiaotao does not have personal guards to protect him, he will pay special attention to everything in the street area.

These days he tried to get close to the target many times, but there were always a few pairs of eyes sweeping past him.

Those people are murderous.

Because of this, he didn't succeed.

However, he has the confidence to complete this mission, because he has figured out Yang Xiaotao's life pattern, if he is given some time, there will be plenty of opportunities to carry out the assassination.

And it can be disguised as an accident without being discovered.

However, according to the order of the organization, it is impossible not to act.

Of course, he doesn't care about the order of the organization.

Deep in my heart, I have persisted all these years.I don't care about life and death.

The only thing that supported him to live a poor life until now was never money and sex, but the hatred in his heart.

He wants revenge.

To avenge my family, to avenge my daughter-in-law, to avenge this leg, and to avenge my miserable life.

Suddenly, Lao Kang seemed to see his own world.

The servants who came and went in and out of the compound, those servants who were respectful and polite to him, those girls who wanted to climb onto his bed and offered themselves as pillows.

And all of this is gone.

Gone.

砰

Lao Kang beat his prosthesis, and the dull voice brought him back to calm.

"why?"

"why?"

Lao Kang had asked himself countless times in his heart, why did he do this?

He originally had a happy family, a wealthy life, a lot of money, and honest servants.

Then the devils came, and the family fled to the south. Later, the devils beat them away, and they came back here.

Live a carefree life again.

But later, he had nothing.

Who is hindered by their family's wealth?

Why knock them down?
Why not give them a way out?
In the end, he understood that there was no reason.

Therefore, he hated those who divided their fields.

Therefore, he wants to make these people suffer from hunger and cold forever.

So, anyone who makes this place better is his enemy.

One hit kills the enemy.

Old Kang put the Liberator pistol in his arms, and then took out a bullet.

This kind of pistol has only one chance, and it must be close to the target to be effective.

Therefore, in order to ensure the completion of the task, Lao Kang decided to add some fuel to the bullet.

Putting on the prosthesis, Lao Kang went to the kitchen again, found a small blue bottle in the bottles and jars, opened it carefully, put the bullet in it, shook it twice, took it out with tweezers, and put it on the table Let dry.

Everything, as usual.

After finishing these, Lao Kang started to cook in the kitchen, but his mind was thinking about how to get rid of Yang Xiaotao.

This action was a bit hasty, but it was not without chance.

Because of the exchange group, a lot of manpower was transferred from the surrounding police stations, and there were loopholes in the protection around the courtyard.

Just like when he passed by today, he didn't see the same person from last time.

So this is an opportunity, but before acting, he needs to confirm the location of the target.

Such a big courtyard, sometimes, there are several families in a row of houses, and he needs to find the target.

Because there is only one chance.

After dinner, Lao Kang lay on the bed and fell asleep slowly.

As usual, the compound quickly fell into calm. It was freezing cold, and everyone was under the covers. Those who had wives hugged their wives to keep warm, and those who didn't had to hug the quilts.

In the courtyard, Yang Xiaotao was sitting on the armchair, looking at the "Complete Works of Lu Xun" in front of him, while Ran Qiuye was walking around the room, coming to look at it from time to time. Both of them read this book, but every time they read it, they were rewarded.

Ran Qiuye is the harvest of ideas in the text, but Yang Xiaotao is not limited to this, he also has credits.

Now, Yang Xiaotao has accumulated enough wool in this book, and the accumulated credits have reached more than 1000. If it is not for exchanging items from time to time, coupled with busy work and less time to read books, the credits can at least be doubled.

Yang Xiaotao was thinking about how to use these credits.

At present, the engineer's assessment task has not been completed, and the main skill cannot be improved.

So you can only improve the sub-skills.

The sub-skills that can now be improved are Fishing, Cooking, Carpentry, and Mechanical Mastery.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the various levels, fishing and cooking are both level four, mechanical proficiency is level three, and carpentry is level two.

The four sub-skills give different things. Fishing skills give a bunch of tickets, cooking skills give eggs and duck eggs, carpentry focuses on vegetables and fruits, and mechanical proficiency seems to be for blueprints.

Moreover, the credits required for the four sub-skills are also different.

It takes less to upgrade the level of fishing, cooking is the same as carpentry, and the highest level is mechanical proficiency.

Yang Xiaotao thought over and over again, considering the needs of the current life and the distribution of credits, and finally decided to upgrade fishing, cooking and carpentry to the fifth level.

The credits are just right, and there are still some points left for daily exchange items.

After reading the book for a while, Ran Qiuye was already lying on the bed. Yang Xiaotao checked that it was ten o'clock, then put the book away, added quick coal to the stove, washed his face, and went to bed to lie down.

Putting his arm around Ran Qiuye, after a moment of silence, Yang Xiaotao began to upgrade.

"Ding, the host consumes 400 credits to increase the level of fishing."

"Ding, congratulations to the host, the fishing skill has been upgraded to level five, and the monthly rewards are: 10 catties of national food coupons, 20 money, one foot of cloth tickets, one catty of cotton tickets, half a catty of sugar tickets, and one catty of wine tickets."

"Ding, the host consumes 450 credits to improve the culinary level."

"Ding, congratulations to the host, the culinary skills have been upgraded to level five, and the monthly rewards are: 20 catties of meat tickets, 10 catties of eggs, 10 catties of duck eggs, and 10 catties of goose eggs."

"Ding, the host consumes 200 credits to increase the carpentry level."

"Ding, the host consumes 300 credits to increase the carpentry level."

"Ding, the host consumes 450 credits to increase the carpentry level."

"Ding, congratulations to the host, the carpenter has been promoted to the fifth level, and the monthly rewards are: 20 catties of vegetables, 20 catties of fruits, 20 catties of rice, and 20 catties of fine grains."

Yang Xiaotao, who closed his eyes, only felt a burst of random thoughts in his mind, and then a stream of information kept agitating in his mind, quickly digesting the experience after leveling up, and his whole body was trembling unconsciously.

Ran Qiuye only felt that the man behind her hugged her even tighter. The trembling frequency and the place where her hands were covering made her face slowly turn red.
After Yang Xiaotao finished digesting it thoroughly, it was already midnight. Yang Xiaotao opened his eyes, the excitement in his mind had not faded, as if he had taken a stimulant, full of energy.

The woman in her arms was like a kitten, she wiped her hands, and with a smirk on her face, she gently kissed Ran Qiuye's hair, and then lay against her neck with her eyes closed, checking the personal panel at this time.

Yang Xiaotao

Age: 23
Credits: 211
skill:
Engineer (inactive)
Fitter level eight.

Fishing level five.Level [-] cooking.Carpentry level [-].Mechanical proficiency level three.

Exchange column: 5
Pets: Wood Elf, Chinese Pastoral Dog.

Exchangeable items: cuttlefish balls, peeing beef balls, fish tofu, mushroom balls, sweet and spicy.

After reading it, in addition to giving away more things every month, the biggest gain is the improvement of skills, and the skills are better.

I thought to myself, I will practice my cooking skills tomorrow, and see how the cooking skills of the fifth level are different from those of the fourth level.

(End of this chapter)