20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 12
The room was dark, and Gong Baonan was snoring loudly.

Jiang Xiaodao squatted on the edge of the kang, staring straight out of the window, sniffling twice from time to time.

It's snowing, the north wind is blowing with smoke and snow, what a big scene!
Without much effort, I looked around and saw that the yard was already completely white. Looking from a distance, the sky and the earth were covered with nothing, and a dense curtain of snow was like a heavy fog, covering the top of the distant mountains.

Jiang Xiaodao remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, the door creaked.

Guan Wei carried a medicine box with an oil lamp on top, carefully walked into the house, climbed onto the kang, and came close to Jiang Xiaodao.

"Little brother... no, I have to call you eldest nephew now. How are you? Does your hand still hurt?"

Jiang Xiaodao is silent.

His hand was still there, and when Jiang Chenghai chopped him, he used the back of the knife.

Even so, when the hatchet fell, the metacarpal bone of his left hand was broken, and the skin on the back of his hand was naturally torn, bleeding a lot.

Although Jiang Chenghai helped him connect the bones, the wound had not been treated in time.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Guan Wei couldn't help but sigh.

"Oh, I really don't know if you are lucky or unlucky. I would say you are lucky, you are on a pirate ship; I would say you are unlucky. It is not easy for a young man like you to find a backer."

Jiang Xiaodao still didn't speak.

"Xiaodao, don't blame your father for being cruel. It's not easy to worship a mountain. You have to prove that you are trustworthy! I'll chop you with the back of a hatchet and break your bones neatly. You're young and you'll be fine in three or two months. Handle Bring it here, don't move it, Uncle Six will give you some medicine."

Jiang Xiaodao stretched out his hand: "I don't hate him. He could have killed me with one shot and left me alive. That's good."

Guan Wei was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said with a smile: "You are quite interesting, no wonder my elder brother cares about you."

Jiang Xiaodao turned away and continued to look at the heavy snow in the sky outside the window.

"What are you looking at? Have you never seen snow?"

Jiang Xiaodao raised his finger and pointed at the pig pen in the yard: "Are you going to kill pigs during the Chinese New Year?"

Guan Wei glanced out the window, and while giving him medicine, he said: "No, we won't kill them. Those two pigs are for business. We will buy meat for the Chinese New Year."

"Is there any sauerkraut?" Jiang Xiaodao asked, "Can you let me come over and have a bite?"

"Then it depends on whether your father's affairs go smoothly or not."

"What on earth is he going to do?"

"Stop asking. The less you know, the more secure things will be." After bandaging the wound, Guan Wei patted Jiang Xiaodao's head, "Okay, go to bed quickly."

After saying that, he raised his leg and kicked Gong Baonan.

"Silly roe deer, point over there!"

Gong Baonan groaned and moved twice.

Due to insufficient room, the three of them had to squeeze into a small room.

After blowing out the light, Jiang Xiaodao lay on the bed. Probably because of the pain in his palms, he couldn't sleep, so he hit Guan Wei with his elbow.

"Uncle Six?"

"What's wrong?"

"You guys who are in the world of martial arts, don't you know how to speak slang?"

"Of course, only when the spring point is open can you travel north and south. If the spring point is blocked, it will be difficult to move forward."

"Can you teach me a few words?"

Guan Wei turned sideways and said with a smile in the darkness: "That can't be learned in three or two days."

"Just learn a few sentences first."

"What do you want to learn?"

"Hmm..." Jiang Xiaodao thought for a while, "What does side by side mean?"

Guan Wei was a little surprised: "You still know this? Side by side are friends and brothers, we work together, that's pretty much what it means anyway."

"Where is the Buddha?"

"Thief." "What's the pole?"

"Guardian of the home." Guan Wei felt something was wrong, "You asked me to teach you, and you are still testing me here?"

Jiang Xiaodao chuckled: "That's all I've heard."

"Okay, let's go to sleep."

"Uncle Six."

"What's wrong again?"

"How do you say shit?"

"Throw the mountain."

"I want to go up a mountain."

Guan Wei cursed in a low voice: "There is no need to ask me for instructions on this matter, just go on your own, the latrine is in the backyard."

At this time, Gong Baonan also cursed at the kang: "You are talking like shit in the middle of the night, so you won't let anyone sleep?"

……

The next morning.

After everyone had breakfast, Jiang Chenghai called Jiang Xiaodao to his side.

"Son, do you remember what I told you last night?"

Jiang Xiaodao nodded: "Remember, I can't come back here again without your instructions. If anyone asks me if I know you, just say no!"

Jiang Chenghai lowered his head and glanced at his hand. Without asking any more questions, he called Gong Baonan instead.

"Lao Qi, you send him back to the city today. During this period, let him stay with Lao Cui and make a living."

Gong Baonan immediately covered his stomach and said with a painful expression: "Brother, it snowed heavily last night and I caught a cold. I have been having diarrhea since this morning. Let Guan Wei send him there."

When Guan Wei heard this, he immediately cursed: "You are really good at deceiving me. You slept on the kang like a pig last night. How come I didn't know you had diarrhea?"

Jiang Chenghai also scolded him sternly: "A lazy ass grinds his hands and urinates a lot! Lao Qi, no one else has to do this, it's just you!"

Gong Baonan curled his lips helplessly and glanced at Jiang Xiaodao: "Have you finished eating? Hurry up and get on your way after eating!"

Jiang Xiaodao was a little confused: "Dad, who is Lao Cui? I don't know him."

Jiang Chenghai didn't explain much, just said: "Don't worry about so much. You will know it when you meet him. In short, just follow him and you can make a living. By the way, Lao Cui is an old gangster. You will follow him these days. He should study hard."

Jiang Xiaodao didn't understand, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and set off with Gong Baonan.

It snowed heavily overnight, making it difficult to walk on the roads even in the city.

The two uncles and nephews hunkered down and endured the biting cold wind as they headed towards Nancheng.

Although Jiang Xiaodao had some issues with Gong Baonan, it was somewhat awkward for the two of them to walk in silence.

"Uncle Seven?"

"Ouch!" Gong Baonan pretended to be surprised, "The sun is out in the west, and you don't care if I call you son?"

Jiang Xiaodao laughed twice: "It was all a misunderstanding before, but now we are not a family!"

"Who is your family? The world is treacherous. Don't identify everyone you catch, so as not to have someone sell you one day and have to count the money for them!"

When it comes to the dangers of the world, Jiang Xiaodao certainly has a deep understanding of it. How Dahu Yazi tricked him that night is still vivid in his mind.

"Thank you Uncle Qi for your advice. I want to ask you something."

Gong Baonan glanced at Jiang Xiaodao and sneered: "You want to ask me, who is Lao Cui?"

"Yeah, I don't know this guy. My dad just told me to learn from him, but I don't even know what he does. Why should I learn from him?"

"Oh, what he does for a living is extraordinary!"

When Jiang Xiaodao heard this, his eyes immediately lit up: "Do you practice Kung Fu in the Dabao style?"

Gong Baonan shook his head: "A beggar."

(End of this chapter)