Journey 1995:Non-Stop

Chapter 54 Rescue Lao Guo
Taking a taxi is fast. We arrived at the police station in less than ten minutes. At that time, there was a lot of people gathered outside.

The two men pushed through the crowd and entered the police station. Yan Hui saw Lao Guo's father at a glance and hurried over to greet him.

"Are you with my son?" Father Guo saw Old Song and immediately led the two of them outside. "Come on, let's talk outside. It's not convenient here."

After the three of them left the house, Guo's father called them into the van and quickly asked Old Song, "Who did he hit? Did he use a knife or anything? How is the victim?"

"No, he just watched other people fighting and went to join in the fun. Then someone hit him, and in order to escape, he overturned the other person's stall."

"What stall? Is it worth a lot of money?" Guo's father asked.

"It's worthless, just a mess," Old Song shook his head. "It's just some newspapers and stuff. Actually, it had nothing to do with him, but when the police came, most of the others stopped doing anything. He didn't know what happened, but he did it right in front of the police, and I didn't even realize it."

"He really didn't hit anyone?" Guo's father asked again.

"No, I'm sure."

"I'll beat up that brat when we get back! Well then, if you two don't have anything else to do, go back. I'll stay here with you."

"Okay uncle."

Lao Guo's father was waiting here. Yan Hui and Lao Song did not leave, but started chatting at the door.

"Old Guo is really awesome, he's a real man!" Yan Hui concluded the matter.

Yan Hui didn't expect that Lao Guo could do such a thing, and he was actually caught. He is really amazing.

"Yeah, that's amazing. Others were scared when they saw the police, but Lao Guo was not afraid at all!" Lao Song's eyes lit up.

"Let's stay here for a while and see if Lao Guo can come out. If he doesn't come out in two hours, we'll go back. His father is here anyway."

"Yeah, okay."

The two waited at the door for more than two hours, and asked several people in the meantime. Finally, they realized one thing: Lao Guo would not be able to come out tonight.

Guo's father also had a brief exchange with the police. No one knew what they talked about afterwards. After the conversation, he got in the car and took Yan Hui and the other person back.

After returning home, Yan Hui naturally went back to bed to sleep. The next morning, at dawn, he went to find Lao Song. The two of them simply ate some steamed buns and prepared to go to the police station again.

It was too cold in the morning to ride a bicycle, and they were reluctant to take a taxi, so they could only walk there little by little.

"It's really cold," Yan Hui gritted his teeth. "I don't know if Lao Guo will be cold, and I don't know if there's a place to sleep."

"Didn't you say yesterday that we had a place to sleep?" Old Song stamped his feet as he walked. "It's so cold, and the Chinese New Year is still two months away. Is this fair? I can't go back until next month."

"I'll leave after Lao Guo finishes dealing with this matter. It's too cold."

"You are so happy. I can't leave even if I want to. I have to go back with my dad and my brother."

"By the way, Lao Song, are you guys still busy?"

"The store isn't busy anymore, but I've been developing weapons lately, so I'm pretty busy every day."

"Developing weapons? Are you talking about the last time?" Yan Hui suddenly thought of something.

"Yeah, I'm almost ready to build the 'Zhuge Crossbow'."

"Is this true? Just you?"

"No, there's Lao Guo too. We worked on it together. The weapons we made are really cool. Lao Guo even showed them off yesterday."

Yan Hui quickly interrupted Lao Song: "What do you mean? Are you saying that Lao Guo was still carrying a weapon yesterday?"

"Well, he has a wooden sword that he made himself, and he carries it on his back."

"It's bad." Yan Hui thought of the scene when he was riding on the train.

The last time he got on the train, he was seen carrying a wooden stick in his bag by the police, who came over to question him. Now that Lao Guo was also carrying a wooden sword, this was really a bit troublesome.

The two chatted and encouraged each other, and arrived at the police station an hour and a half later, almost freezing. When they arrived at the police station, it was already busy. Yan Hui didn't see Guo's father there, so he took the initiative to ask the police about Lao Guo's situation.

"Who are you to him?" The policeman asked suspiciously when he saw that Yan Hui did not look like an adult.

"I'm his brother."

"Brothers?"

"almost."

The police didn't ask any further questions. "He got into a fight with a weapon yesterday, but he's underage. Your family should quickly prepare some money to compensate the stall owner. Everything else will be easy to handle."

"Ah? How much is the stall?" Yan Hui asked.

"I rounded up yesterday and lost about 80 yuan in total."

"That's fine. I can pay the money now." Yan Hui breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that the police did not deliberately ask for more money.

"One more thing, what's wrong with that wooden sword of his? It's so sharp, it's killing me!"

"Children are ignorant. Uncle police, he didn't hurt anyone, did he?"

The "little kid" police officer was silent for a moment, "Your family members, please wait."

The two nodded to show that they understood, and found a place with few people to chat.

During this period, Guo's father also came. Yan Hui did not mention the money issue to him, but said that Lao Guo was fine and he and Lao Song would definitely be able to solve it.

Guo's father happened to be busy with something, so he gave some instructions and left.

At noon, Yan Hui and his companion spent 80 yuan and finally "redeemed" Lao Guo.

As soon as Lao Guo left the police station, he looked around.

"What's wrong?" Yan Hui asked.

"Where's my dad? He didn't come, did he?" Old Guo asked nervously.

"gone."

"What if he didn't come? He left?"

"How could your father not come when such a big thing happened to you?" Yan Hui held his forehead.

"This is troublesome. How can I avoid this beating?"

"Hurry, tell us about your heroic deeds." Yan Hui urged.

"Well," Lao Guo thought for a moment, "is there anything to eat? Find me something to eat, and I'll tell you all about it!"

The three of them found a place nearby and listened to Lao Guo vividly recount his heroic deeds.

Last night, one of the two groups that got into a fight was a group of local thugs from the 724th Bureau. They were quite well-known there. While they weren't exactly collecting protection money everywhere, they did have a few shops around them that acted very aggressively.

The other group of people were from the timber market. It was said that Xiaobao and others were also there, but there were too many people yesterday and Lao Guo didn't see Xiaobao.

Anyway, after the clash, the two groups got into a violent fight. Lao Guo was just a spectator, but when he heard someone at the market was being beaten, he got angry and charged in with a wooden sword, but was quickly disarmed. To vent his anger, he closed his stall.

The above short paragraph is the effective information summarized by Yan Hui after listening to Lao Guo’s talk for half an hour.

Yan Hui and Lao Song did not refute Lao Guo. They cooperated with each other and sent Lao Guo back home. They stayed at the door of Lao Guo's house for a few minutes. After hearing the screams of ghosts and wolves howling inside, the two left with satisfaction.

From beginning to end, Yan Hui never told Lao Guo that he helped pay the 80 yuan ransom.

(End of this chapter)