Chapter 1: The Entanglement of Fate and Enmity, Haicheng's Solitude

  In a well-decorated house with three rooms and one living room, Li Huqiu met the girl named Yingying again. "Hello, my name is Li Huqiu, a rascal from Harbin South Station. If you think I'm not too bad to be friends with, would you like to be friends?" The girl stretched out her hand and shook hands with Li Huqiu's large hand, saying: "My name is Gu Yingying, and I am a classmate and neighbor of Xiaodao." She also said somewhat apologetically: "I'm sorry earlier, I know you're kind-hearted, but what they said was too disgusting. And you seem to be very familiar with Song San, so they were eager to take revenge on him, that's why they chased you with a knife. Actually, I knew that even if you didn't run away at the time, they wouldn't dare do anything to you." Li Huqiu smiled and said: "It's okay, I beat them all up." Gu Yingying was shocked when she heard this.

  Ye Xiaodao walked out of the bedroom, holding a large paper bag in his hand, and said: "This is what I promised you, I hope you can remember your promise. Now that I know your name is Li Huqiu, these three words represent you as a person. I don't want these three words to become synonymous with an untrustworthy and despicable person one day."

  Li Huqiu smiled and took the package, saying: "You should actually study hard. You're very interesting to talk to. There are people who spend money to hire thugs to kill their fathers, but they do it for fame or profit. What's your reason? Can you tell me?"

  Ye Xiao Dao's face suddenly turned extremely ugly, and he said coldly: "Take what you need before I change my mind, and get out of here quickly."

  Li Huqiu picked up 100,000 yuan from the paper bag and said while putting it away: "Consider this money as a loan to you, remember to return it when I come back."

  "Li Huqiu!" Li Huqiu turned around, looking at Ye Xiaodao with a puzzled expression. Ye Xiaodao waved his hand and said: "Thanks for what happened just now, maybe we can be friends."

  Li Huqiu burst out laughing and said: "I have always been one who borrows from friends but never returns."

  Gu Yingying chased out, in the corridor of Ye Xiaodao's house, she said to Li Huqiu: "Xiaodao's sister was raped by Song San, don't doubt it, you didn't hear wrong, that beast got drunk and raped his own adopted daughter, after waking up with a hangover, he was afraid of losing face, and even sent someone to drown Xiaodao's sister in the river." Li Huqiu heard this, his expression slightly trembled, his eyes twitched lightly, and said: "Heavenly crimes can be forgiven, but self-inflicted crimes cannot be survived!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and went downstairs, halfway through, he suddenly turned back and said: "You take care of Xiaodao, tell him not to act foolishly, those few kitchen knives are not enough for Song Yujia's side, Li Guangming alone can handle them, wait until I come back to talk about it."

  Ye Jiqiong is the big brother of the Knife Gun Cannon, eight years ago he was arrested and put in prison for fighting and robbery. All members of the Knife Gun Cannon are grateful to him. Song Yujia is no exception, she even adopted Ye Jiqiong's twin children. Li Huqiu has a good relationship with him, so he knows about his past with Ye Jiqiong. He can't believe that this beast has become so shameless, not even sparing the daughter of his sworn brother who has helped him greatly. Li Huqiu actually had the idea to get rid of him in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to Ye Xiaodao's request. After knowing what Song Yujia did to Ye Jiqiong's daughter, his determination became even stronger.

  The howl of a lone wolf on the grassland, the heartbeat of a vagabond in the city, both are equally lonely. The wolf is searching for a pack to accept it, the vagabond is searching for a harbor to wait for him. For Li Huqiu, Little Swallow is not just his adopted daughter he takes care of, while taking care of and protecting Little Swallow, that heart which has been frozen by the harsh reality is also being warmed up by Little Swallow's innocence and love. No matter how ugly this world is, that child belongs to him, her dependence on and concern for him are sincere, with her around, the vagabond has a home.

  Zhang Manli has been playing a role similar to that of a mistress in this house, but Li Huqiu is very clear that this woman does not love him as simply as Xiaoyanzi. She is just too lonely and helpless, and what she needs is only Li Huqiu's protection. Since Li Huqiu grew up physically, Zhang Manli has tried to get close to Li Huqiu many times, but was rejected by Li Huqiu every time. Firstly, he didn't want to take advantage of her vulnerability, and more importantly, Li Huqiu had been practicing martial arts for over a year. Dong Zhaofeng told him that if he wanted to practice martial arts to the extreme, he should not waste his energy on women too early or too much. Because young people's self-control is always poor, once they understand the taste of it, they will be indulgent and never get tired of it, which will lead to a huge loss of energy and make it impossible to practice martial arts.

  Li Huqiu handed the money to Zhang Manli and told her that from now on, this house was hers. He temporarily entrusted the child to her care. If Li Huqiu didn't return, he asked Zhang Manli to use the money to start a business and send the child to an orphanage. He wanted her to take care of the child until she turned 18 and became an adult. Li Huqiu was extremely grateful.

  Zhang Manli took the money with a serious expression and said: "Huqiu, I know you don't trust human nature at all, but this can't be blamed on you. If one's own parents can abandon their own child, and if one's own father wants to bully his own daughter, what bad things won't people dare to do? But I want to tell you that I'm not someone with a heart of a wolf or a dog. You can go wherever you want in the world, just leave the child to me. If you really don't return, I'll raise her until she's able to support herself."

  Li Huqiu walked up and hugged Zhang Manli, smiling: "I just inexplicably like you as my sister, no other thoughts. You're unlucky, born to a bastard father, then met that beast Daqi Ganzi, suffered too much misfortune, but now it's all over. You're not someone anyone can bully at will, nor are you a woman attached to me Li Huqiu. You're my sister, I respect and pity you from the bottom of my heart. The past days have gone far away from you, in the future you'll meet a suitable man, get married and start a family, but this man obviously won't be me, this rogue."

  Before leaving the gate, Zhang Manli led Xiaoyanzi to see off Li Huqiu. The big girl and the little girl sang together to bid him farewell, from then on Li Huqiu knew that there were three people in this family who sang out of tune.

  With Zhang Manli's tears in his pocket, Xiaoyanzi's smile and Zhang Tiejun's 10,000 yuan, Li Huchu boarded the southbound train with the title of Huaxia Thief King in mind.

  The iron stream rushes forward, and the city that carries childhood memories is quietly exiting the line of sight. There are many people on the train, and the smell of sweat and new green leather seats in the carriage makes people drowsy. In the aisle, between carriages, there are people everywhere.

  Although the old cripple and Song Yu Jia are a pair of vicious wolves, their teachings to Li Hu Qiu are indeed the true and righteous way of humanity. Song Yu Jia once said that good people will have good fortune, and Li Hu Qiu has remembered it in his heart. So far, despite Song Yu Jia himself having fallen to the point where everyone wants to kill him, the Li Hu Qiu he educated still yearns for good fortune. This is truly a richly ironic thing: the vicious wolves raised a tiger cub but cultivated a kind and fierce tiger that has learned the ways of the vicious wolves.

  When the train arrived at Shuangcheng, an old lady got on. As she had boarded at the starting station of Nanzhan, she naturally had a seat. The spring breeze of reform hadn't yet blown away the backward appearance of the northern land, but it had first blown away the strong human smell that people used to have. The old lady got on from the third carriage and walked backwards looking for her seat, passing through three carriages and climbing over countless large and small packages, until she finally arrived at Li Huqiu's carriage. Li Huqiu promptly discovered the old lady's predicament and stood up to offer his seat to her, earning a thank you from the old lady. He had cultivated his moral character but was now in trouble with his legs.

  In the early 1990s, there was a saying about trains: "One is many thieves, two is expensive goods, and three is cold water and ticket inspectors' faces."

  From the moment he got on the train, Li Huqiu discovered two small thieves active in this carriage. Perhaps because neither of their techniques were skilled enough, they worked together to commit crimes. Along the way, they had already made two moves, but due to hunger and cold, they only managed to grab two empty bags that didn't make a sound. So far, the two thieves had gained nothing. With Li Huqiu's trained eyes, he saw that this carriage was full of potential gains. He set his sights on a fat man with a big belly and thick waist, who from the moment he got on the train, had been eating and drinking heavily, clearly an old hand at taking trains for business trips. Usually, people like him only carried enough money for meals, accommodations, and snacks bought outside the station.

  If a traveler has more valuables on him, he will generally be more low-key and try not to draw attention. But there are also clever ones who do the opposite, pretending to be high-profile in order to prevent theft, dressing up as if they have no money and nothing to worry about. This method is just right for dealing with those two half-bottle swindlers in the train car. However, Li Huqiu's thief eyes saw through the fat man's disguise, and he analyzed several situations to determine that the fat man had a lot of money on him.