Bai Xiaolu is ready to be ridiculed, denounced and even eat a bottle of wine.
Who knows, the golden tooth boss is silent for a moment, then answered his question.
"Once."
"Once upon a time," he said
"Then..."
Bai Xiaolu did not know how to speak any more and knew that he should not continue to ask.
"She's the most beautiful girl in all the farms. She's a hundred times prettier than old John's wife. She can sing a lot of songs. When she sings, her hair is shining like the brightest sunshine."
She is also a good worker. She can do anything in the farm. She always wanted to own her own winery. It doesn't need to be big or famous. Even a winery could do it, as long as it was her own.
"We have saved a lot of money, and the winery is optimistic. As long as I finish the task of" catching Yuri ", I can leave the army and start a new life. On the night of farewell, she told me that she was pregnant, and everything will be different when I come back.
"But, hehe, the next thing you know, I became - like this."
Golden tooth boss points to his two scarlet artificial eyes with his index finger and middle finger apart.
"I'm sorry."
The White Deer bowed its head.
"No, even if I wasn't captured by Yuri, the result would be the same. Nuclear war would break out, our winery would be razed to the ground, and even worse."
Gold tooth boss low voice way, "at least now, I still live."
"What about them?"
Bai Xiaolu blurted out and regretted it.
"I don't know."
King Ya shook his head slowly. "I've been in camp X in Yuri for ten years, and I've been struggling in the waste soil for ten years. When I come back here, the old farm and the wild land have already become rolling sand, and all familiar things have disappeared. My wife and... Children, who knows?"
"Don't worry."
White Deer don't know how to comfort people, some clumsy way, "lucky people have their own appearance, they must still be alive, you can find them."
"Live, ha ha, live."
So you're stupid, kid. You're also living in this wasteland. Do you really think it's better to live like this than to die?
"I don't want them to live. I want them to be dead. At the moment of the nuclear war, in their ignorant sleep, they melt into the heat of thousands of degrees - this is the happiest result."
"Maybe they escaped to the bottom of the earth in time and lived carefree in the underground city?"
Bai Xiaolu said dryly, "you are an elite seal commando. You are a martyr who died for the motherland to carry out dangerous tasks. Should your family be given preferential treatment?"
With this remark, the golden tooth choked the wine out of his nostrils.
"Ha ha ha ha, sacrifice, ha ha ha, martyr, ha ha ha, preferential treatment!"
He shakes off the bottle and stares at the white deer. The red light in his eyes turns into an extremely dangerous flame. "Kid, don't you understand what I just said? For several years, I was brainwashed by Yuri, reduced to his pawn and killing machine, and helped him carry out the dirtiest and bloody tasks! Therefore, in the eyes of the top, I am not a martyr of self sacrifice, but a despicable traitor and the most dangerous traitor. How can I give my family any preferential treatment?
"What's more, hum, hum, hum, even if it's really the victim's family, without special circumstances, you don't want to enter the underground city and become a member of the underground people."
"Why?"
White Deer strange way, "this is not fair!"
"Fair?"
With the scale of the war getting bigger and bigger, the casualties of all the countries participating in the war are calculated in terms of tens of millions. How many of their families are there? The space and resources of the underground city are so large that they are given to the families of the victims. What should those people do? "
White Deer way: "which, who?"
"The people on Wall Street, 1% of the people, the people waving flags, the people in suits and shoes, the people with good looks, the people sitting comfortably in the office, blowing the air conditioner, operating the computer, the people who are full of" motherland "and" sacrifice "!"
Bai Xiaolu doesn't know what to say. He is not a good talker.
"Forget about me."
Gold tooth elder brother some dispirited ground waved a hand, "you, kid, in addition to and you share a body of elder brother, what relatives do you have, your parents?"
"I also have a twin sister. She's normal. I mean she's separated from us, but now she's not very good. As for her parents --"
Bai Xiaolu shouldn't have said this, but he hesitated and said, "our mother died very early, just like many women in the wilderness. As for our father, we, we don't have a father."
"You don't know who the father is?"
Gold tooth old laugh, "it doesn't matter, very normal, nine out of ten children on the wasteland, don't know who the father is."
"No
Bai Xiaolu shook his head. "We either don't know who our father is or we don't have a father. At least that's what our mother said when she was alive."
"What do you mean?"
"What is" no father "
"Near the village where we live together, a strange meteorite once fell down a long time ago. The plants near the meteorite are very luxuriant, and there are often a lot of strange and unseen small animals."
Bai Xiaolu said, "once my mother went into the depths of the 'meteorite jungle' by mistake, and it seemed that she had a sleep under the meteorite. When she came back, she... Had us."
"Ha
Golden tooth couldn't help laughing.
"We also think it's ridiculous. We don't know why mother made up such a lie."
Bai Xiaolu said with a red face, "it's very common in the wasteland. People are always born like wild animals, die like wild animals, and breed like wild animals. Nine out of ten children don't know who their father is. What's the matter with that? At least, there must be a father. I really don't understand why mother tells such a lie. It's not a shame.
"My sister and I have repeatedly asked our mother - it doesn't matter who it is, we can accept it, even if she doesn't remember, at least tell us that there is a father, and we will be satisfied.
"But my mother insisted that there was no such person. She was pregnant only after touching the meteorite. She said that our three brothers and sisters were all" children of meteorite ". It's true that, alas, since then, she has been a little crazy and died soon.
"You know, boss, for a time I hated my mother very much for her crazy words. Why did she have to cheat us with such ridiculous jokes? Why do we have to say that we have no father?
"If we have a father, even if we don't know who he is, we can imagine that he may be an invincible hero, a villain who does evil but is very powerful, a devil of evil and terror, a passer-by who wanders around the world, or a handsome underground race. That's good, right? That's good.
"But the son of meteorites? A broken stone from the sky! This joke is not funny at all
"It's not funny."
But don't hate your mother. Maybe she has a problem
"Of course, we don't hate her for a long time. We just think she's pathetic."
White Deer sighed, "anyway, in the wilderness, we have nothing. Even if we don't have a father, it doesn't matter."
At this point, they were silent again and didn't know what to say.
Maybe it's a coincidence that their eyes turned to the middle of the carpet at the same time, the "strong hand chess" played by old John and his son.
The eyes were sticky and could not break free for a long time.
"Kid, if one day you find your father."
What do you want to say and do to him
"I don't know, and you?"
White Deer shook his head, "if you find your child, what would you say to him and do?"
"I don't know. I've never thought of such a thing. They're dead long ago. They should be dead."
The gold tooth eldest brother finally retracts the vision, spits out a foul air, is unable to wave a hand way, "you should have a rest, I also should have a good rest."
"... good."
Bai Xiaolu moved to the door inch by inch, grasped the doorframe and stood for a long time. Suddenly he turned back and said in a trembling voice, "old man, old man, is it fun to play strong hand chess?"
"... maybe."
Golden tooth boss sat up and looked at the white deer, "maybe it's fun."
"Well, can you teach me how to play?"
Bai Xiaolu felt that he was about to cry.
He thought that the golden teeth would at least hesitate to refuse.
I didn't expect that the line of the golden tooth boss suddenly became soft.
"Come here, kid."
Gold teeth boss waved, smiling, knocking on the carpet beside him, "sit down, I'll teach you to play."
……
They played "strong hand" for a long time.
I said I would only play one game, but I played one game after another. Maybe "strong hand" is really fun.
"This is the opportunity card, this is the public fund card. When you come to this question mark, you have to draw the card. Do you understand?"
"Ha, I have a waterworks and a railway company. You're dead, kid!"
"In this way, if you buy all three plots of the same color, the rent can be doubled, right, boss? So you're going to pay me, aren't you, boss? "
"Hey, hey, get out of jail card!"
"What, income tax? There are other things like that
"I won, I won again, right, boss, ha ha ha, boss?"
They played one game after another. Two pieces wandered and wandered on the "streets" that had already turned into ruins. They owned and lost again and again. Bai Xiaolu completely threw himself in and completely forgot his purgatory in the depth of the wasteland.
"Come again, come again!"
The boy blushed, waving toy bills and deeds, exclaimed excitedly, "I'll beat you this time!"
This time, the golden tooth boss spread his fingers, gathered the pieces and dice, and shook his head at the boy.
"Enough, kid. It's over."
Golden tooth is smiling and hoarse.
Bai Xiaolu was stunned, and the smile and blush on his face gradually solidified, stiff and dissipated.
"Can't you play another game? Just one game! "
The boy begged and he wanted to cry again.
"One more game, it's still over."
Gold tooth boss spread out his palm, let the chess pieces and dice roll in the palm, collision, murmur, "everything, is going to end, you listen, the music is over."
I don't know when the singing of yesterday will stop. In the small living room, only the boy can't help sobbing.