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    In December 1989, the anti-pornography brigade broke into a privately converted shop under a residential building in Qiaoxi and took away a group of prostitutes and a dozen underage "feet-washing girls."

    The noodle shop was closed down, and the hole in the corridor at the corner was filled with cement. The rusty stairs could no longer be climbed into the dark and hot corridor. No one knew what the dark wall outside the noodle shop's kitchen had experienced.  Winter has come quietly, and this place has become a real residential building, deserted and humid, with few ragged beggars wandering around.

    When the weather turned cold, Wu Lixia took Xu Han to a tailor shop to make a coat.

    The full-length mirror is placed diagonally in the corner.  She stood in front of the mirror, wearing a newly made red coat and two stiff braids. Her thin face had slightly convex cheekbones, her eyes were hollow, and her expression was numb.  Wu Lixia walked behind her, held her shoulders and squatted down, smiling at the little girl in the mirror.

    "Red is beautiful." She said as she straightened Xu Han's collar. "Children should dress more colorfully. I will make you something else in another color when the Chinese New Year is here."

    After a moment of silence, Xu Han stared at himself in the mirror and nodded slowly.

    At the beginning of January, Wan Yuliang¡¯s school had a holiday.

    On the afternoon of New Year¡¯s Day, Xu Han was sitting in the living room writing math problems. After a while, he heard his shouting from downstairs.

    ¡°Girl¡ª¡ªGirl¡ª¡ª¡±

    She put down her pen and stood up, ran to the window of the living room, leaned against the edge of the window and stuck her head out to look down.  Wan Yuliang was standing in front of the small shop on the first floor, raising his head like a hedgehog and waving his arms at her, "Come down and play! Hurry up!"

    Looking at him without saying a word, Xu Han turned his head and looked at the manuscript papers and exercises spread out on the dining table.  It happened that Wu Lixia came out of the kitchen when she heard the sound, caught her sight, smiled and wiped her hands with the towel in her hand: "It's okay, go down and play. It's a big holiday, you have been holding it in for several days."

    Xu Han nodded, grabbed the keys and ran out of the door.

    Along with Wan Yuliang, there was an unfamiliar boy.  Standing next to Wan Yuliang, who is tall and thin, he looks very much like the cross talk actor she saw on TV.  As soon as Xu Han opened the iron door and ran out, she saw the boy's face fell. He turned around and asked Wan Yuliang in a local accent: "Why don't you ask the girl to come down and play Mozi?"

    Stopping, she understood what he said and just looked at them blankly, not moving forward.

    Wan Yuliang, however, had a straight face, stretched out his arms and pulled her over, telling her: "This is a mouse." Then he turned to the boy and said, "My sister is with me, do you want to play or not."

    The mouse pouted, his face full of displeasure.

    "Are you running fast?" He looked into Xu Han's eyes.

    After thinking about it carefully, she nodded.

    The other party immediately said: "Then you will be a thief."

    Xu Han was about to nod when Wan Yuliang squeezed his hand.  He blocked her in front of her with one arm and stretched his neck. He imitated the tone of an adult and said, "No, it's rock, paper, scissors. Whoever loses will be the thief."

    Scratching his legs, Mouse frowned in displeasure, but did not dare to say a word.

    They used rock, paper, scissors and acted together.

    Two rocks and one scissors.

    The mouse pointed at Xu Han and jumped up, "She lost! She became a thief!"

    Lowering her thin black hands, she looked for Wan Yuliang with her dark eyes, "How do you play?"

    "We will be the police and you will be the thief. Just run away and we will catch you."

    After struggling to push up his thick sleeves, Mouse interrupted: "If we catch you, you will lose and you will be a thief in the next round."

    Looking around at the winding alley between the buildings, Xu Han asked again: "Where can I win?"

    Wan Yuliang raised his arm and pointed at the main entrance, which leads directly to the alley. "If you touch the sycamore tree at the main entrance, you win. We will play rock-paper-scissors again in the next game."

    She understood and nodded slightly, "Okay."

    Worried that they would regret it, the mouse quickly said: "We'll start on the count of three."

    The three little guys are ready.

    "Onetwothree! Start!"

    As soon as the words fell, Xu Han rushed into the alley beside him.

    Most of the alleys in residential areas are interconnected. As long as you don't turn into a dead end, you can run to the outermost road no matter how you run. Along the road, you will encounter the sycamore tree at the main entrance.  Xu Han reacted quickly and ran very fast. He turned a few alleys and got rid of the two boys. He only heard the mouse wailing in the distance: "This girl runs too fast!"

    But Wan Yuliang had an idea and immediately ordered him, "You take a shortcutTurning on the bedside lamp, Old Man Ma stood beside the bed, wearing the ripped military coat, stooped back, squinting his one eye, looking her up and down, grinning, revealing a row of yellow corn-like eyes.  Ya, snorted and sneered, "You are living a very comfortable life."

    Holding the quilt tightly, Xu Han paid attention to the movement in the next room, but could not hear any sound.

    "What's wrong with Ah Liang?" she asked him.

    "I took some medicine, and my little butt slept like a dead pig!" She screamed twice, and Old Man Ma spat into the trash can at his feet, sat down on the edge of the bed, and pulled her arm.  He glared at her fiercely, with a stench coming from his body, "What did you say to those cops? Zeng Jingyuan's foot washing shop has been raided! He is looking for you everywhere now. If he catches you, he will chop it into pieces and feed it to the dogs!"

    Xu Han curled up her toes that were buried in the quilt.

    "Where's the dog?"

    "Dead!" He threw her arm away, pulled the military coat on his shoulders hard, poked her forehead with his finger, raised his eyebrows and bared his teeth and cursed, "The thing was rotten in the stomach, and he died not long after returning home.  Oh! I told you to mind your own business! If he is caught by the police, he will be arrested. At most, his legs will be broken after being released. What do you think is the use of intervening like this? He is dead, and you still provoke him.  If you kill Zeng Jingyuan, you still can¡¯t survive!¡±

    After saying that, he pushed her head hard, "You're still tough, aren't you! Ah!"

    She sat in a daze, letting him push her, her mind going blank.

    Old Man Ma panted heavily, clapped his hands on his knees, and stared at her with his one eye widened.  "Yazi has broken up with Zeng Jingyuan now and is going back to his hometown in the Northeast. I asked him to pick you up tomorrow night and leave quietly to avoid being caught by Zeng Jingyuan." He said, "Yazi owes me a life. I will give him to him in the Northeast when the time comes.  If you find a good parent, they won't let you down."

    Xu Han saw the lights in the room and the shadows on the wall.

    The whole house was quiet, only the bedroom was lit.  The light cast out from the door frame and created a square shape on the living room floor.  She thought of the day she arrived, Wu Lixia carried her through the house and walked into this bedroom.

    After a long time, she heard herself say: "I won't leave."

    "You won't leave? If you don't leave, you'll be chopped up and fed to the dogs!" He suddenly raised his voice, his face flushed, and he pinched her skinny legs through the quilt, "How do you think I know this?  Where does Tiaozi live? Ah? Do you know why Zeng Jingyuan has not been arrested until now? Ah? There is someone behind him!" His chest heaved violently, and he leaned forward to approach her face, and the fishy smell rushed into her again  Nose, "What does this thing mean? The director of the small police station, not to mention herself, just the little butt who sleeps like a pig in the room-can be killed with just a few moves! You don't want them to die, right?"  ah?"

    The surroundings quieted down, so quiet that only the breathing of the two people could be heard.  Xu Han stared at him and could clearly see every bloodshot in his eyes.

    Old man Ma narrowed his eyes, released the hand that was pinching her, and patted her knee.  Heavy, yet slow.

    "Girl, listen to me and leave quickly." He told her softly, "I am protecting your life, do you understand?"

    Xu Han said nothing.  She turned her head and looked at the photos on the bedside.  That is the photo of Wu Lixia¡¯s husband.

    Black and white photos, solemn people.

    It¡¯s not like that aqua blue jacket.

    She saw her reflection in the glass of the picture frame.  The dark outline blocks the light behind.

    Its head moved and nodded.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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