Three days passed and Uncle Zhao did not come back on time.
At home, Aunt Hong cooked several dishes, but after waiting all morning and anticipating that Uncle Zhao would not come back, she began to feel a little disappointed.
Ma Xiaoquan was also surprised. Logically speaking, that person's promise should have been true, but today Uncle Zhao has not come back.
"No, I have to go out!" Ma Xiaoquan said as he put on his coat and prepared to go out.
"Xiaohu, wait a minute!" Zhao Minglan grabbed Ma Xiaoquan and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
In fact, Ma Xiaoquan didn't know who he should go to. He wanted to go to the person from before, and he also wanted to go to Huang Chi, but the problem was that they didn't tell him where they appeared. Let's go to his father, Ma Liehuo.
We have already looked for him once. If we look for him again, I'm afraid it will arouse unnecessary suspicion. Besides, Grandpa is a person of some status. It has been three days and he still hasn't solved Uncle Zhao's matter. That means something has happened again.
new situation.
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoquan said to Zhao Minglan: "Go find the person you need to find!" After that, he went out.
The next moment Zhao Minglan and Aunt Hong looked at each other, Ma Xiaoquan came back again. He walked into his cabin and didn't know what he was doing. When he came out, Zhao Minglan and Aunt Hong saw Ma Xiaoquan carrying a canvas bag.
"What are you holding?" Zhao Minglan grabbed Ma Xiaoquan and refused to let go.
Ma Xiaoquan frowned. He wanted to hide Zhao Minglan and Aunt Hong, but because of his negligence just now, he was holding such a canvas bag in full view of the public. Not to mention what was in the bag, even if it contained a brick, the two women would definitely
Let him show it and take a look.
"Iron plate!" Ma Xiaoquan lied in the end, but in order to deceive others, he patted the canvas bag hard, and then, through the canvas bag, the struck plate made a banging sound.
Fortunately, the material of the flat plate was similar to metal, and when it was knocked through the canvas bag, although the sound was not as good as a real iron plate, since Aunt Hong and Zhao Minglan were not familiar with metal textures, they did not feel anything was wrong.
Aunt Hong no longer had any doubts, but Zhao Minglan still refused to let go.
Ma Xiaoquan saw what she was thinking, grabbed her shoulders and said: "Sister Lanlan, I know you are worried about Uncle Zhao, do you want to go with me, but do you know that if there is any danger, I will not only
To take care of you, you also have to think about saving Uncle Zhao."
Zhao Minglan curled her lips noncommittally and said, "What age are we in now? How can there be so many dangers?"
Ma Xiao's face darkened and he said: "Have you forgotten that someone was killed a few days ago? In fact, you don't know that the targets of those gangsters' crimes were young women like you, and first of all, and then
Kill." Ma Xiaoquan said while looking aggressively at Zhao Minglan up and down, and he deliberately set his last gaze on Zhao Minglan's proud upper body.
Feeling the intrusion from Ma Xiaoquan's gaze, Zhao Minglan subconsciously covered her chest with both hands. In this way, she let go.
Ma Xiaoquan grinned, pushed Zhao Minglan away, and rushed out the door.
Zhao Minglan reacted and realized that he had been fooled. But when he stuck his head out to look for Ma Xiaoquan, he found that the other party had already run downstairs.
"Lan Lan, okay, stop making trouble and let Xiaohu go!" Aunt Hong stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Minglan.
Zhao Minglan gritted his teeth and finally exhaled heavily: "That brat! That's too much!"
...
After Ma Xiaoquan left Lantian Community with a canvas bag on his back, he found a corner to stop and collect his thoughts.
Now that the tablet has been taken out, there is only one option, which is to go to the stadium to find the person he saw that day.
After making up his mind, Ma Xiaoquan rushed to the stadium.
Because it was daytime, there were people playing ball on the court, and there were also a few people whom Ma Xiaoquan knew, including brothers Liang Dahu and Liang Xiaohu.
I don’t know if it is because of family pressure, but today Liang Dahu looks particularly obedient. Usually he would hug one or two girls and smoke and play cool, but today, his long hair has long been cut off, and he is wearing a
With a round head, holding a basketball and playing ball with a group of people, Ma Xiaoquan found it difficult to accept it for a while.
It was Liang Xiaohu who ran over first and greeted Ma Xiaoquan.
"What happened to your brother? Has he changed his ways?" Ma Xiaoquan asked Liang Xiaohu.
Liang Xiaohu also had a bitter look on his face: "Forget it, right?"
"Then he won't hang out anymore?"
Liang Xiaohu said: "Stop messing around!"
"Let me tell you whose girl is so powerful that she can subdue your brother. I'm really curious!"
Liang Xiaohu sighed, shook his head and said, "That's not true. Something happened to the old man at home, so I have to sacrifice my brother!"
"Political marriage?" Ma Xiaoquan subconsciously said a word from his mouth.
Liang Xiaohu was stunned, then nodded with a wry smile.
Ma Xiaoquan dragged his chin and said: "Logically speaking, you are much better than your brother. I'm wondering why that family didn't take a fancy to you and your family didn't send you out to be a sacrifice?"
Liang Xiaohu shook his head: "Who said no? The sister of that family has already been promised to me. What makes me collapse is that the sister is only twelve years old now."
"What's the matter? Just wait. When I'm eighteen years old, you two have settled the matter. I'll prepare a big red envelope for you then! By the way, you haven't told me the person your brother is looking for to get married to.
What’s the object’s name?”
Liang Xiaohu sighed: "Wang Chunyan! Her sister's name is Wang Dongyan!"
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan was shocked when he heard these two names.
Two sisters, Wang Chunyan and Wang Dongyan, were considered influential figures in their city in Ma Xiaoquan's era. Of course, sister Wang Chunyan was famous for being a promiscuous person. Not only did she give birth to other men's children behind her husband's back, but she also
Her brother Zuo was in prison, but her sister Wang Dongyan was completely different from her sister. She only married once in her life. When she was young, she started a business with a man and built over 100 million in assets in just ten years. However, it is said that when she was forty-eight years old,
When the man died of illness, she did not remarry and led her two sons to expand the family business...
"You boy, you are so happy!" Ma Xiaoquan punched Liang Xiaohu.
Liang Xiaohu looked confused: "What do I have to be happy about? I haven't even found a partner yet, and I've been arranged by someone. I'm a little unwilling."
"Why are you unwilling to do this?" Ma Xiaoquan really wanted to say that although you married Wang Dongyan, she kept all the family property and chastity for you, and your pair of sons are also very good.
"Hey, let's not talk about this!" Liang Xiaohu waved his hand a little irritably. He noticed the canvas bag Ma Xiaoquan was slinging across his body and asked, "What do you have in this bag?"
Ma Xiaoquan patted the canvas bag and said: "The guy who slashed people, I provoked someone last time, and the grandson wanted to challenge me to a duel. I was afraid that I couldn't beat him, so I brought him with me!"
"Stop fooling me, you are not that kind of person!" Liang Xiaohu immediately rejected Ma Xiaoquan's words, "I saw you fighting a few days ago and you are not the kind of person who wants to kill someone."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, thinking that it was because those people were not guilty enough to die, and it was the 1980s, a society ruled by law, and murderers had to pay with their lives.
"Actually, there is an iron plate inside!" Ma Xiaoquan deliberately opened a hole in the canvas bag to let Liang Xiaohu take a look, but his movement was so fast that Liang Xiaohu didn't see it clearly.
"It's my master. You have to ask me to hand over this iron plate to someone I don't know. Hey~~" Ma Xiaoquan sighed deliberately.
"Ah? Your master? You mean Master Wang? He took over private work?"
Ma Xiaoquan covered Liang Xiaohu's mouth and signaled him to keep quiet.
Liang Xiaohu believed it to be true and nodded quickly.
After fooling Liang Xiaohu, Ma Xiaoquan did not plan to stay at the stadium anymore. After all, there were a lot of people on the stadium. If a few acquaintances came over and asked about it, they would be exposed.
After saying goodbye to Liang Xiaohu, Ma Xiaoquan chose to leave the court temporarily. He wanted to find a secluded place to study the tablet first.
In the early 1980s, there were a lot of old houses and abandoned bungalows. Because of the turmoil in the past few years, many people were killed. Not to mention whether those people were wrongly accused or not, due to certain factors
, as long as one person in the family is persecuted, his family will basically loosen up, and he will either directly draw a clear line or leave this place.
In Phoenix City in the 1980s, the area that could be developed and utilized was very small. Except for one main road in Xinhua Street, the rest were all small roads, and some places even had gravel roads.
Today's weather is exceptionally good, and the air is so warm that Ma Xiaoquan feels like it's warm spring.
Arriving at the door of a bungalow, I gently opened the door, and a faint musty smell entered my nose.
Subconsciously waving his hand, Ma Xiaoquan walked into the bungalow with a frown.
This was an abandoned bungalow, and the furnishings inside were covered with dust. Ma Xiaoquan casually pulled out a small stool, brushed off the dust on the stool with his sleeves, and sat down simply.
Ma Xiaoquan took out the tablet from the canvas bag and fumbled for it carefully.
The overall structure of the tablet is very simple, and the touch switch is also very cleverly designed. Ma Xiaoquan carefully turned it over and looked at it for a long time, and actually felt that this tablet was very similar to the high-end fruit brand tablets in the modern society where he lived.
The roof of the bungalow had been in disrepair for a long time, and small holes had formed in several places. Taking advantage of the sunlight shining through the holes, Ma Xiaoquan stood up, carefully placed the tablet on the stool, and began to search the bungalow himself.
Power outages were common in the 1980s, so Ma Xiaoquan was sure that there must be unused candles in the bungalow. Although it was still noon and the sun was just right, the lighting in the bungalow was average. It was right to find candles and prepare them for a rainy day.
decision.
Finally, Ma Xiaoquan found two unused candles from the bottom of a chest of drawers.
When he went out, he brought a match for Uncle Zhao to light cigarettes. He struck a match and tried lighting two candles. After making sure they were still usable, Ma Xiaoquan blew out the candles.