Chapter 21 There is some evil in the world that is unimaginable
"Come on, I can't do that kind of immoral thing, and sooner or later I will be punished. Although the mouse's tone was flat, he was clearly angry when he spoke the word retribution, and Haji didn't understand where his anger came from.
"Retribution? Who has ever seen retribution? If retribution really had to be so spiritual, it would have been communist-proletarian-righteous by now!" the mouse pouted and smiled, got up and left.
Haji finally understood that this was a gang of beggars, or rather the so-called gang of beggars. It's just that this beggar gang seems to have very strict gang rules, and the rat is one of the workers. Listen to that means that the mouse wants to leave this beggar gang, and there is still some agreement between the two sides. The other party doesn't seem to want the mouse to leave, obviously not wanting to let go of such a cash cow.
Also, rats who seem to be able to write well with a brush are very popular in begging with calligraphy. Anyway, Haji thinks that his daily income has easily surpassed that of the average working worker. Although he didn't have exact data, looking at the daily consumption of the mouse, he felt that it should be about the same, at least much better than other beggars on the same street.
Of course, Haji didn't know what the relationship between the other beggars and rats on this street was, and whether they all belonged to the same beggar gang. To be honest, before he knew about this, Haji had a little sympathy for the beggar Mouse, but after knowing that he belonged to a gang of beggars, Haji looked down on him a little.
When Haji was a software engineer in his previous life, he was basically an otaku who stayed in front of the computer, so he was still more concerned and familiar with some information on the Internet. At that time, there were many begging homeless people in the city where Haji was located, and when I began to hear about Haji's previous life, Li Wenhui, would give more or less charity when he met these beggars. But later, after seeing more and more beggars, and seeing some things on the Internet that exposed these beggars taking advantage of people's kindness to cheat, Li Wenhui no longer gave money to these beggars, because Li Wenhui felt that the behavior of these beggars was really hateful.
It turned out that at that time, Haji learned that in some places, people from village to village went out to beg, and even those who had land and land at home and could go out to work did not do it. It's just blindly scattered to major cities to beg, make a living from it, and get rich with it. Don't look at them as not producing, but because of the abundant income brought by begging, the villagers in the village rely on the money earned by begging, and every family has built a big tiled house, and they all drive cars when they go out, and those villages have become famous beggar villages.
If this is not excessive, in fact, some of the things that Li Wenhui learned later are even more excessive. Because he heard that these people, in order to arouse people's sympathy and ask for more money, even did not hesitate to burn and injure underage children, and disguised them as disabled people, and then let them beg. What's more, in order to make a fortune, some people even resort to unscrupulous means, abducting and buying and selling young children, and then beating them alive, making them disabled, and then forcing them to beg. It is truly outrageous that some children who are not deeply involved in the world have been abducted, and when their parents find them, they have become physically disabled people.
At first, Haji also suspected that Mouse was such a person. But later, when I saw that he had a calm temperament and a good handwriting, I thought that maybe he just became like this because of an accident. But looking at the current situation, Bao Buqi Mouse is also a member of such a beggar gang, and may even be such a victim. It's just that the rat doesn't talk about these situations, and Haji has no way of knowing. No way, Haji can't ask, and the mouse can't talk to Haji.
But who would have thought that although Haji didn't ask, the mouse said it himself, telling his own story. It's not that the mouse himself is a psychopath, it's that he seems to need to talk about it, and he happens to have Haji as the person to talk to.
People are like this, and there is always a need to release when there is too much stress. The rat was now in need of a release, and all he could talk to was Hadji, a Labrador who didn't seem to understand much of what people could say.
"I'm not a mouse, my name is Zhou Hao, and they gave me the name of a mouse......" Zhou Hao, the beggar who was called a mouse, said faintly, his tone was heavy and numb.
"I wasn't disabled, I had hands and feet, and I was healthy. But then I did something wrong once, and I lost them all. Zhou Hao's eyes were empty and extremely depressed, and it was obvious that what happened to him made him painful and numb: "My parents are both teachers, and they should be regarded as high-level intellectuals. They have been very strict with me since I was a child, and they have taught me the three characters to write and practice calligraphy since I was a child. And so I grew up until I was nine years old, and I felt more and more tired, and life became more and more boring, and then I ran away from home......"
Sure enough, Haji's heart moved, knowing that he might have guessed correctly, that he was an unfortunate man.
I only heard Zhou Hao continue: "I met a person at the train station, and that person saw that I was hungry and gave me some food. Later, he asked me where I was going, and I said I wanted to travel and see the giant pandas. He said he could take me, and I thought he was good, so I followed him on the train. ”
When he said this, Zhou Hao's originally innocent face suddenly became a little hideous, and it seemed that recalling the more and more things made him extremely painful: "I took the train with him for almost a day, and I didn't have any thoughts of going home." Later, he took me off the train from a small train station and told me that there were wild giant pandas in the mountains, and they were very beautiful. I believed it and went with him. Later, for some reason, I ate something I shouldn't have eaten, and then I fell asleep. When I woke up again, I was like this. ”
When he said this, Zhou Hao's bare stump twitched weakly, as if he was telling the sky about his pain.
"Woo~~" Haji felt Zhou Hao's heartache, and couldn't help but comfort the other party in his own way.
Hearing Haji's voice, Zhou Haoji's eyes seemed to feel a trace of vitality from the numbness. He glanced at Haji, gently brushed the hair on Haji's neck with his hand, and continued: "I have been working for them for twenty-seven years, and they have been sold several times like goods. Every time, it is indispensable to be beaten and scolded. I know that I am their cash cow, and I live without any dignity and do not need dignity. ”
"Over the years, my health has deteriorated, and it has become worse and worse. Zhou Hao continued, numb as if he was telling someone else's story: "They began to dislike me, and then set me a task to redeem me after I earned 100,000 yuan." After redemption, I will be a free man, and no one will care about me, so that I can earn a lot of money to support myself. ”
"People like us don't live long, we are hungry and full all day long, and our bodies are already bad. Even if I regain my freedom one day, it won't be long before I can live, and even I wonder if I will ever live to the day when I regain my freedom. Zhou Hao looked at the ground a meter away, and his whole person was still insensitive, as if the story he was telling had nothing to do with him.
But after saying this, Zhou Hao's eyes suddenly brightened, he looked at Haji and said: "Wait, I will be free at the end of the year, will I take you around the world at that time, okay?" I don't have much money, but I will ask for money, you can't be hungry or bitter with me." When I die on the road one day, you can dig a pit and bury me. Or leave me alone, just let the old eagle (crow) and the worm eat me. The foreigner's Bible says, "Dust to dust, dust to dust, how can it not be a lifetime?" When that time comes, you will be free. ”
When Haji heard Zhou Hao's depressing and sad words, he couldn't help but want to persuade him. But now he is just a Labrador, how can he be persuaded to do so? In fact, Haji is very curious, why didn't Zhou Hao call the police and go home to see his parents? He has been away from home for more than 20 years, and his parents must have been looking forward to his return, right?
As if he guessed what Haji wanted to ask, or that he really had a good idea, Zhou Hao actually took the initiative to mention his parents: "I'm like this now, I can't go home." How can they go back? Just because they were disobedient and unwilling to study, and now they are missing arms and legs, how can they have the face to go back? If they really go back, won't it drag them down?"
Is there really no way back? Just let those beggars bully and oppress them? Can people in their thirties live like this? Haji is very unbearable and embarrassed.
Zhou Hao's age is older than Li Wenhui in Haji's previous life, perhaps because he has lived again, Haji has reorganized his previous life. If he didn't take money so seriously and his girlfriend's appearance so much in his previous life, maybe he wouldn't have had so much pressure on his life at all, so that he collapsed early when he was in trouble, and finally lost everything.
If there was a chance to do it again, Haji would never have made such a stupid mistake, and would definitely put family, family and friendship in a more important position. Let your family live a little easier and happier, let yourself live a little more naturally and freely, not be burdened by money, and have time to experience the happiness and satisfaction of life, but unfortunately all this is impossible to achieve.
But if Haji's Li Wenhui in his previous life could not be realized, it did not mean that Zhou Hao could not realize it? After all, he was still young, only in his thirties, and he could still write a good hand, so it was a pity to give up like this. Presumably, his parents are also like Li Wenhui's mother, who are grieving the loss of their son all day long? Since he can make up for this mistake, why doesn't he make up for it? Does he have to be like Haji to know that he regrets losing everything?