flawed

Chapter 71 Escape

In court, the Jiang family dragged Yao Huilan into a fight because she helped Qi Nuliang speak.

She and the judge cried and complained about Jiang Minggui's beating of her and the child, and lifted her clothes in public to show the scars on her body.Kneeling down and begging the judge to forgive Qi Nuliang, he did it to protect her, he didn't do it on purpose.

Her behavior completely angered the Jiang family. They firmly believed that Yao Huilan and Qi Nuliang were an adulterer and adulterer, otherwise she would not be able to speak for the murderer.

Yao's father and Yao's mother also asked her to take care of her husband's family's emotions, and even her own reputation.After all, Qi Nuliang killed someone, and if she defended him like this, it would prove that there was something wrong between them.

Qi Nuliang stood behind the dock with his hands in shackles, telling her to stop talking, he was fine.It was he who killed someone, no matter how he was sentenced, he would admit it.

He is not afraid of going to jail or the death penalty. His only regret is that he will never see Xiaolan again after he dies.

He faced the verdict of his life bravely, even a little recklessly, without flinching in his heart, because he felt that he had done the right thing, because Xiaolan got rid of that scum cleanly from then on.

Xiaolan told him that a man should control his own destiny and protect women and children.He did it, and he wasn't afraid to die the day he became a real man.

He thought that if he was shot, Xiaolan would definitely remember him for the rest of his life, and that was enough.

But because he was not satisfied, and because it was a murder of passion, and Yao Huilan, the victim's family, pleaded for mercy, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.

During this period, Xiaolan died of illness, and it was he who remembered her for the rest of her life.

"I always thought I was right, but lately, I think I was wrong."

Qi Nuliang sat in front of Yao Huilan's grave, rubbing her fingers lightly on her portrait.He took out a palm-sized flask from his underwear pocket, unscrewed it and took a sip.

The hot liquor entered his throat, scalding his eyes red.

These days, he has been thinking, if that shovel hadn't hit the back of Jiang Minggui's head, would Xiaolan still be alive, and Jiang Yu not an orphan without father and mother?

He heard from Bamei Rong that Yao Huilan died of uterine cancer. After removing her uterus, the cancer still spread.If she didn't do that, wouldn't she have this terminal illness?

If she divorced Jiang Minggui, would she still be able to return to the village, instead of being stigmatized for defending him, completely breaking with the Yao family, and never going back?

Qi Nuliang always thought that what he did was just changing his own insignificant fate like an ant, but he never thought that what he did was changing everyone's fate.Especially the child Jiang Yu, who became an orphan due to his fault, suffered so much at such a young age, so innocent.

Another sip of strong wine fell into his throat, and hot tears flowed down.

He choked with sobs: "Xiaolan, I'm sorry."

When Jiang Yu came home from school, he saw Qi Nuliang's car in the downstairs yard. He ran upstairs in three steps and took two steps at the same time. He was still taking off his shoes at the door, so he couldn't wait to ask, "Brother, are you back?"

Qi Nuliang's voice came from the bathroom: "I brought some food, wash your hands and eat."

"it is good."

Jiang Yu went to the kitchen to wash his hands, took two sets of bowls and chopsticks, and opened the packaged meals on the table. There were fish and meat, very rich, and they were still hot.

Even though he was almost so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and his stomach was clamoring to feed it some food, Jiang Yu still politely waited for Qi Nuliang to eat together.

During this period of time, I don't know whether it was because of his busy work or what, Qi Nuliang was not at home most of the time.Even if he came back at night, he came back very late, and instead of going to the room to sleep, he just lay down on the sofa with his clothes closed for the night, saying that the newly bought sofa was more comfortable than sleeping on the bed.

Qi Nuliang came out of the shower, his shoulder-length half-length hair was combed behind his head, and the black vest on his body just exposed two patterned arms.Seeing that Jiang Yu was looking at him, he immediately pulled off the shirt on the back of the chair and put it on.

"You eat yours, don't wait for me."

"Haven't you finished all the washing? Do you want to drink beer, and I'll get two cans?"

Qi Nuliang sat on the sofa and put on socks: "No, you eat by yourself, I'm going out right away."

Jiang Yu glanced at the clock on the wall, it was already six o'clock, and he said angrily, "Is it still time to go out?"

"Yes, there is something."

Jiang Yu pursed his lips: "What time will you be back at night?"

"It's hard to say, maybe you won't come back, you go to bed early, call me if you need something." Qi Nuliang tucked the vest and the hem of the shirt into his jeans, took a jacket and put it on, "Is there any money to spend?" ?”

Jiang Yu didn't speak, just stared at Qi Nuliang with a little aggrieved eyes.

He didn't ask for money, Qi Nuliang still cleaned out his trouser pocket with one hand, leaving a lot of bits and pieces.He picked out the lighter and car keys inside, and left a stack of bills on the table.

"Brother, I got the first overall score in the half term..."

"No. [-] again. I'll give you a reward. Is there anything you want?"

"...No." Jiang Yu lowered his eyelids, his face full of disappointment.

Qi Nuliang stood at the door, pouted his buttocks and put on his shoes: "Think about it now if you don't have one. By the way, next semester will be the third year of junior high school. I plan to transfer you to a better school."

"which school?"

"I haven't chosen it yet. I'll talk to you about it when I'm done. Now you have a mental preparation."

After saying this, he opened the door, hesitated for a moment, then came back and rubbed Jiang Yu's head, but left anyway.

The empty stomach is filled with grievances, and Jiang Yu sometimes has no appetite.

He hadn't stayed with Qi Nuliang all day for several months, and the time to eat together was very rare.He didn't know why this happened. Reflecting on himself, he had always had good grades, and he didn't do anything annoying.He doesn't know what he did wrong.

"Have you found him? Where is he?" Qi Nuliang asked.

"It's been captured, it's in the warehouse." In Dragon Palace Washing Feet City, he followed his brothers to the warehouse.

In the middle of a pile of cardboard boxes, the man was tied into a rice dumpling and thrown on the ground.As soon as he saw Qi Nuliang, he immediately arched his back and squirmed like a bug, kowtowed his head like garlic: "Brother Qi, I was wrong, I dare not, you hold your hand high, spare me this time... ah..."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Qi Nuliang put his hands in his trouser pockets, walked up and kicked the man in the stomach, and then screamed.

"Gag him, so as not to disturb the guests in front."

Someone took a cloth and stuffed his mouth shut.

Qi Nuliang went up a few more feet, and after a painful and crazily wriggling, he was already on the verge of death.The people around were silent, no one dared to speak, and those who made the same mistake as this person were all terrified, for fear that it would be their turn next.

Qi Nuliang bit his cigarette butt, his cheeks were flushed due to the surge of anger and adrenaline, and the veins on his forehead were bulging.He took two steps back, trying to kick again after accumulating strength, Deng Jianghua hurried up and hugged him.

"Brother Qi, it's almost there, he knows he's wrong, forget it."

"Step aside!"

"Brother!" Deng Jianghua raised his voice and tried to persuade him again, "If you fight again, something will happen."

Hearing this, Qi Nuliang calmed down and let go.

Deng Jianghua quickly tore off the cloth strip stuffed in the man's mouth, and a pile of filth mixed with blood dripped all over the floor.The blocked trachea was opened, and the man took a few breaths before he finally had the strength to moan.

Deng Jianghua ordered someone to take the beaten person to the hospital.

With a dark face, Qi Nuliang stood there and smoked hard.No one in the room dared to speak, and even breathed lightly on purpose.

Today was a rally he called. Apart from his gang of thugs, there were more pimps from the Red Street.Those pimps shrank their heads one by one, blinked their eyelids wildly, and sweated on their foreheads, they all wanted to hide from Qi Nuliang's sight.

Qi Nuliang didn't speak until the cigarette was burned to the end and Qi Nuliang took the last puff.

"In the future, if you let me know who treats the women under my command as inappropriate, forces them to do things, doesn't pay them when they sleep, or takes more than the stipulated share, everyone will see what will happen." Qi Nuliang glanced at the crowd, Those heads hung down one after another, "I don't want to say anything more, everyone, please take care of yourself, let's go."

After the pimp left, Qi Nuliang seemed to relax a bit, and beckoned to Deng Jianghua: "Let's have some drinks together tonight?"

The boss has spoken, who would dare not agree.

"Since Brother Qi is interested, let's all go together."

"Then I'll book a room?" Deng Jianghua said.

"I'll go with Brother Hua," Xiao Wu said.

Xiao Wu came in earlier than Deng Jianghua, but Deng Jianghua was with Qi Nuliang, and everyone called him "Brother".

Coming out of the warehouse, Xiao Wu sighed: "Brother Qi is not in a good mood recently, he has never been like this before. If you didn't stop him today, that guy might have to be scrapped."

Deng Jianghua, who has been with Qi Nuliang for the longest time, can of course feel that something is wrong with Qi Nuliang. In the past, he didn't do much by himself, and he just let others do the same.But the recent work is all done by myself, and the work is particularly heavy.But it was impossible for him to say such things that would damage Qi Nuliang's prestige.

"That kid is going too far. He knows that Brother Qi despises women who bully women the most, and his superiors have clearly banned them. He also asked the women under him to accompany him one by one and give him a personal confession. Anyone who is disobedient will be beaten. What is this not self-inflicted?"

Xiao Wu nodded: "That kid may not be very authentic, but I don't sympathize with those women at all. What good things are there for sale? They are all thieves. If you don't beat them, can you control them?"

Deng Jianghua's face turned cold: "It's up to you whether you have sympathy or not. We have our rules. If you don't allow anything, you won't let it. Do you want to violate the rules and not listen to Brother Qi?"

"That's not what I meant." Xiao Wu quickly changed his words, "How can I not listen to Brother Qi, since Brother Qi joined our business, the atmosphere has improved a lot, and I almost thought I was working in a formal unit."

Deng Jianghua didn't speak, but he knew that Qi Nuliang's rectification of personnel these days was mostly aimed at the management, and actually offended some people.In the past, they could eat, drink, prostitute, and gamble as they wished, but now life is not so comfortable.

But the bottom group of people all said good things about him.And Uncle Hong above is quite satisfied with what he has done, which is the most important thing.

Deng Jianghua felt more and more that he was following the wrong person.