Wu Family Sword Spirit

Chapter 1369 A faint smell

However, these are all things for later. What we need to do right now is to go to Guimen Village to settle accounts with the Huaxi woman, and also find a flower-skinned lizard to heal Xue Xiaoqi's injuries.

It's not the same thing that Xue Xiaoqi always walks with a limp. Every time I see him, I can't help but feel a little guilty. Xue Xiaoqi doesn't look good every time he sees me. .

After finishing the meal with Li Zhanfeng, I rested at home for a few more days. There were still three to five days before the New Year. The streets were already filled with the flavor of the New Year, and the sound of a group of naughty children setting off firecrackers was often heard in the community. , the suddenness can even scare me.

I found out that I sent my parents to Qingshan for almost two months, and I don’t know if the two elders are used to living there. I was thinking of going to Qingshan to accompany their two elders to celebrate the New Year during the Chinese New Year, and bring some New Year’s goods for them by the way. past.

Before leaving, I suddenly remembered one more thing. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, I always had a New Year's Eve dinner with Zhu Zhu and Xiao Xu. They were all very lively, but since I started practicing, I rarely have any contact with them, and sometimes I don’t even bother to call them throughout the year. The relationship between the brothers has become much weaker.

I admit that I have been deliberately alienating them and not having too much contact with them because I am afraid of injuring them and causing trouble for them. However, once I enter the Jianghu, I really can’t help myself, and there are some things that I can’t do. Controlled.

However, I have been paying attention to them from Gao Jianqiang. Zhuzi has been working step by step in the coal mine. Xiaoxu returned to Tiannan City and worked in a large company. My friends started a small business together and lived a decent life.

So, I contacted all of them and planned to get together in advance at Wang Chuanbao's hotel.

None of them had any objections and quickly agreed.

It just so happened that the Chinese New Year was approaching and they all had a holiday.

In the evening of that day, I secretly came to Wang Chuanbao's hotel in advance and waited for them there.

An hour after I arrived, several of them came over one after another. As soon as they met, they all greeted me one after another and became much more polite to each other.

Inexplicably, I suddenly felt a little sad in my heart. I don’t know when, an indescribable barrier developed between me and them.

In the past, when we got together, we always laughed and cursed and hurt each other. This feeling seems to be irreversible.

After everyone arrived, they each sat down. They all seemed a little cramped at first, but after drinking a few ounces of wine, everyone began to relax. When they talked about the things they had grown up with when they were children, they felt warm and familiar. It feels like I have regained some of my strength again.

Xiaoxu became more calm and less talkative. He would often hold a wine glass and watch us chatting with a smile on his lips, and his eyes under the thick glasses were meaningful.

Ever since his girlfriend was poisoned to death by Mrs. Huaxi, I have rarely seen him smile happily again.

Through the conversation between a few of us, I once again got to know some of their situations in depth. Zhiqiang’s business was not going very well. One year after graduation, he took a class for a year, saved some money, and opened a restaurant with a classmate. The rice noodle shop, the business is quite good, but there are often some small gangsters who go to make trouble, they don’t give money for the meal, and they want to extort some money from them. , made the situation worse, and reporting the crime didn't work. After the man ran away, he continued to come back to make trouble, which made Zhiqiang quite a headache.

This is interesting. I asked Zhiqiang why he didn't tell Gao Jianqiang about it. He used to hang out with Wang Chuanbao. He must know some people on the ground. Let Gao Jianqiang find someone to scare him. Those guys, they definitely won't cause trouble.

But the relationship between Zhiqiang and Gao Jianqiang was only average, and Gao Jianqiang now opened a four-star hotel with Wang Chuanbao and started a serious business. He couldn't even talk to him about such trivial matters.

A small thing like this must be a big deal for Zhiqiang, so I agreed to it and said don't worry, you can open the store how you want when you go back, I will take care of it for him, promise No one will cause trouble anymore.

I will definitely not come forward in such a matter. There is no need for me to take action at all. Ask Wang Chuanbao to go out and solve it. It should be done quickly. After all, Wang Chuanbao was also a local snake in this area before.

If it doesn't work, let Liu Xin from the special task force go over and deal with them and give them a good beating, then you will know how powerful they are.

Then, it was Zhuzi's side of things. Zhuzi told me that he would get married soon, after the New Year, and that he also bought a second-hand house in Tiannan City and moved in after the New Year.I recently got a girlfriend who is very beautiful. I plan to take her home to show my parents during the Chinese New Year. If my family thinks it’s okay, the matter will be settled and we will get married after the new year.

We are all very happy for Zhuzi about this. At his age, he is already quite old. In the village, for people as old as us, children can basically play soy sauce, and Zhuzi is not up. He is not looking for a girlfriend until now in college, it is already very late.

However, I suddenly discovered some problems with Zhuzi. Recently, Zhuzi's hair has turned very white, his entire face looks much older, and his eyes are all bloodshot.

Zhuzi digs coal under the mine, and his work is not easy. It is normal for him to appear older, but something is obviously not right about his situation. When he came over to toast me, I could smell it from his body. There was a faint odor, which was very strange. I had never smelled it before, and I didn’t know what it was.

This aroused my alarm, but I was too embarrassed to ask at the wine table.

The meal lasted until very late. Everyone had something to do, so they left separately.

Unexpectedly, after Xiaoxu and Zhiqiang left, Zhuzhu stayed, grabbed me, and said awkwardly: "Brother Xiaojiu, let me tell you something. Do you have enough money now? Can you? Lend me some money...I'll pay it back to you after a while."

Without even thinking about it, I took out 1 yuan from my body, handed it to him, and said, "Are these enough?"

Zhuzi quickly took it and said: "Enough, enough... Mainly because I just dated my girlfriend recently, and I spend more money. I just bought a second-hand house some time ago, and my money is really tight."

(End of this chapter)