District 9

In Nanhu, next to the brightly lit Tianhong Building, Lin Hanhan was eating delicacies from a roadside stall, waving his little hand to greet Qin Yu: "Come on, come on, you can eat some too, so that you can sober up."

At the intersection, Qin Yu was drinking heavily and looked at her blankly, his heart throbbing.

More than two years ago, Qin Yu arrived in Songjiang for the first time, and he still had a gangster spirit. He met and got acquainted with her during an accidental kidnapping case.

In Courtyard No. 88, they met again, one on the left and one on the right. They got along day and night, secretly developing feelings for each other.

When she left, the two of them had made a promise, and to this day, neither of them has broken their promise. Qin Yu worked hard to catch up with the gap, and she also found all kinds of excuses to come to Nanhu at the critical moment and gave him a chance.

After more than a year of waiting, the empty room left for her seemed to be waiting for this moment.

Qin Yu didn't want to pretend or wait any longer. He took advantage of the wine and stepped forward and asked, "My hands are cold, are you wearing gloves?"

"I put it on." Leilei stood next to the stall, facing the boss, and replied casually: "It's in the bag, you can take it yourself."

Qin Yu smiled and opened the leather bag that Hanhan was carrying across his body. He looked down and saw a pair of very old gloves inside, placed in the mezzanine.

Qin Yu has known Hanhan for so long, but he hasn't given her any gifts. But when she was in Courtyard No. 88, she said her hands were cold, so Qin Yu gave her a pair of gloves, which were relatively bulky men's gloves, and she kept them...

"You haven't thrown it away yet?" Qin Yu asked with a smile.

Lin Hanhan was startled, and replied pretending not to care: "I'm too lazy to buy it. I'll throw it away when I change it one day."

Qin Yu took out his gloves, played with them for a while and said, "Let me do a magic trick for you."

"You will become Maomao."

"Here, you touch this glove." Qin Yu said with bared teeth.

"ah?"

"You're such a fart, I'll let you touch it." Qin Yu hugged Hanhan's neck.

Hanhan wiped his little hands with a tissue, took the gloves and pressed them twice: "Huh? What's in this?!"

"Open it and take a look."

"...!" Hanhan put his palm into the glove of his right hand, touched it carefully, and took out a small box.

"Snapped!"

Hanhan opened it, and a crystal clear diamond ring was shining brightly in the small box.

"Does it look good?" Qin Yu asked, baring his teeth.

Lin Nianlei blushed and stuck out her tongue: "How rude! I thought you would give me something different."

"This diamond ring is not an ordinary diamond ring. It has a story." Qin Yu tilted his head and said.

"What story?" Lin Nianlei asked curiously.

"Oh, it's too cold. Are you freezing? Otherwise, let's go home and I'll tell you slowly..." Qin Yu said in a coaxing way.

"Get lost!" Lin Nianlei stroked her hair and asked again: "Tell me, what's the story of this ring?"

"Um."

Qin Yu, under the influence of alcohol, strolled along the street with Lin Nianlei, and narrated in a calm tone: "About five years ago, the snow outside the planned area was heavier than now, and it fell white overnight. The door of the bungalow was covered with snow the next morning. Maybe they were all blocked by snow... If the greenhouses couldn’t be held, food production would be low, so food shortages came.”

Lin Nianlei was silent and listened quietly.

"It was very chaotic at that time, but Xiao Qi and I were fine. Because we were both young people and we had to bear the hardships. If we couldn't stay here anymore, we would just change places." Qin Yu did not describe to Hanhan what he was doing at that time. The miserable image of the planning area just changed the subject lightly and asked: "I told you about Xiao Qi, right? He is my brother, we are just like brothers."

"I know," Lin Nianlei nodded: "I heard you tell me."

"Xiao Qi contacted a job and sent a small boss who mined in Wangliukeng and his goods to the no-man's land in Qingzhou." Qin Yu said softly: "It's been delivered. Each person will be given a diamond, plus a thousand Bucks.”

"Thousands of kilometers, just a thousand yuan?" Lin Nianlei was surprised.

"That's a lot. There's nothing wrong with the planning. There are just a lot of people and a lot of people want to live." Qin Yu put his hands behind his back and smiled: "We were very happy at the time, so we agreed."

"Then what?"

"Qingzhou is a plateau, and the road is not good before the Era. In addition, it has been snowing, and the road there is not for people to walk at all. Cars can't pass, and there are no animals to travel. When we are about to arrive, we will use human power A few people pulled the cart forward with ropes." Qin Yu still didn't tell Hanhan that half of their group of forty or so people were gone on the road alone, and almost all of them who could make it to Qingzhou were alive. It's young people.

"Did you earn this diamond ring?" Lin Nianlei could imagine Qin Yu's situation at that time, and her eyes were filled with tears.

"It's not that simple." Qin Yu shook his head: "The mine owner has a relative there who also makes money by breaking holes. When we arrived at the place, people were confused. His relatives brought dozens of workers to negotiate with us. The road is not easy, they are short of funds now and cannot pay the money for the time being, so they told us not to go back and work directly in the mine, and we will pay it off in one lump sum at the end of the year."

"This is too deceiving!"

"Yes, it's okay for people like me and Xiaoqi who have no family and no job. The problem is that those who are going to earn money to support their families just want to go back with this little money. If you keep them, they will be waiting at home. What about the food?" Qin Yu sneered and said: "So we didn't reach an agreement in the end, and all the leaders here were killed. Once everyone saw that they couldn't resist, they had to work to save their lives. Xiao Qi and I are here I stayed there for two months. During this period, I noticed that the boss and his wife settled accounts regularly. They only collected money and made settlements in a small room... I didn't want to stay there, so I stepped in early and prepared to steal some money. , and ran back with Xiao Qi."

"But I didn't expect that there were only two diamonds and less than two thousand in cash in the drawer in that room. It was probably two days before I started, the money was taken away by the boss. But it was enough. Used, it's better than nothing." Qin Yu smiled and narrated: "After taking the things, I called Xiao Qi and was about to run away, but I didn't expect that old bastard to be on guard outside. I didn't go out before. I just happened to bump into him."

"Then what?" Lin Nianlei asked with wide eyes, as if urging a reader to update.

"I was detained, and Xiao Qi ran away with something." Qin Yu closed his eyes and said with trembling lips: "After I was pulled back, seven people beat me for four or five hours... The boss may have felt that he was caught When Xiao Qi was gone, he took it out on me, threw me in a snow cave, and asked dozens of workers to pee on the snow... The urine, snow, and me were all frozen together. Except for my arms and hands, everything else was frozen. I couldn't move. Less than half a night later, I lost all feeling in my lower body... My problem with wearing gloves and my hand-wiping movements are the sequelae of that time."

A drop of tear fell, and Lin Nianlei slowly lowered her head. She couldn't imagine that situation, but she felt it inexplicably.

"Fortunately, my brother Qi didn't fucking abandon me, and the little boss didn't expect that he would dare to come back, so I was saved."

"How did you get saved?" Lin Nianlei asked, "He's back, and it's impossible for the little boss to let you go for no reason?"

Qin Yu looked at her: "Xiao Qi lay out all night and tied up the little boss's wife in the morning before he rescued me."

"After you two ran away, did you let the young boss's wife go?"

"...!" Qin Yu was silent for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Yes, let it go."

"Xiao Qi is so kind to you."

"He is my brother." Qin Yu said in a hoarse voice: "On the way back, Xiao Qi gave me two diamonds. I refused and wanted to give him one. He said that I would enter the ninth district in the future. This diamond is useful and can be given as a gift or something. I was not polite to him, so I gave him all the money, but in the end we spent it together, haha."

Lin Nianlei wiped the corners of her eyes: "Where is your other diamond?"

"When I entered District 9, I gave it to Uncle Li." Qin Yu looked at Hanhan with a smile: "The remaining one is for me to marry my wife, so I will make a ring for you..."

Lin Nianlei bit her red lips when she heard the sound, and cursed with tears in her eyes: "Damn it, you know how to make up stories to deceive people and deceive the little girl's tears!"

"It's been more than two years, let's... be together!" Qin Yu said with a trembling voice.

"Okay, Sir Qin!" Lin Nianlei nodded cheerfully.