In the winter of 1998, the snow in Northeast China was extremely heavy.
When Mr. Huo Qi died, he still held half of the IOU in his hand. The IOU was crookedly written with "50,000 Yuanzheng" and was signed by a name that no one had ever heard of. His body lay in the reeds by the Songhua River for three days. When he was discovered by an old sheepherder, he was frozen to death and one of his eyes was pecked out by a crow.
This incident caused quite a stir on the road. Huo Qiye is not a big shot, but he is still a figure in Jiangbei. He has opened a casino, loan sharks, and bought used military coats from Russia in the early 1990s. He has seen the world. Just such a person, died by the river, without a penny on his body, but still with the IOU.
Some said it was done by enemies, some said it was gangsters who exploited gangsters, and some said Huo Qiye lent too much money and could not get it back, so he was silenced. Everything is said, but no one dares to check.
Huo Qiye's son was only nineteen years old at the time and was studying auto repair in a technical school. He heard that his father had died and came back to hold the funeral. When the coffin was carried out, he knelt in the snow and stared at the half of the IOU without saying a word.
Later the IOU disappeared.
Later, the nineteen-year-old young man disappeared into the snowy night in Jiangbei.
No one knows where he went.
No one cares either.
The world is like this - the death of a person is like a piece of snow falling in the snow, and it is covered by new snow in a blink of an eye, as if nothing happened.
But that boy from the Huo family came back ten years later.
When he came back, he no longer called him Huo boy. Everyone on the road called him——
Huo Yan.
