Chapter Twenty-Three: A Sad Past
When the two walked out of the theater, the streets were brightly lit and bustling, and the lively night scene of the magic city began to show off its charm again and again.
"Go to that theme restaurant, it tastes good. Xiao Bei pointed to the retro building not far away.
This is a restaurant built by the river, and the window is the famous Chinese financial center - Lujiazui, skyscrapers like stars and moons around the Oriental Pearl, the style is extraordinary. The decoration of the restaurant is also very exquisite, with strings of bright red lanterns hanging on the roof, and the walls are majestic calligraphy, distant and fresh paintings... Even the tables, chairs and tableware are imitated in the style of the Song Dynasty, and the ancient style is full of romance.
On the desk by the window of the dining room, a beautiful long-haired woman in white Hanfu sits, she smiled at everyone, and gently plucked the exquisite guzheng in front of her with her slender hands, and a beautiful music flowed out with her fingertips. At this moment, the customers were completely relaxed, and they were intoxicated by the wonderful tune while quietly savoring the food.
"It is estimated that the boss here is a very sentimental person, because ordinary restaurants will deliberately put on those energetic music to create a noisy and impetuous environment, so that customers do not have much good mood to be nostalgic, and leave after eating, so as to make way for later people, but this boss doesn't seem to care about these, and on the most expensive land in the country, he made this kind of naΓ―ve and capricious move, which is against the rules of business and will miss out on the silver of the white flowers!" Li Shaohui praised the boss here sincerely while enjoying the food.
And such an atmosphere naturally touched Xiao Bei, she no longer made noise, and sat there quietly thoughtfully.
After a long time, Xiao Bei sighed and said, "Shaohui, do you want to hear a story?"
Li Shaohui looked at Xiao Bei unusually, and secretly thought to himself that what she was going to talk about next must be her past.
Xiao Bei was born in a small county in Changchun City, Northeast China, when she was young, the Northeast was still the country's heavy industry base, her parents as formal employees of state-owned enterprises, although they are both at the bottom, but the income is still much higher than the average family, and the life is richer, that is, her father is not very good-tempered, often quarrels with her mother over trivial matters, but in general, her childhood is still relatively happy, it is worth remembering.
It's just that during the reform and opening up period, her parents' company eventually closed down due to poor efficiency. This made Xiao Bei's well-off family fall into an embarrassing situation, Xiao Bei's mother later had to follow her neighbor to get a street food stall, but this kind of business of watching the sky and eating can only barely make ends meet.
Xiao Bei's father is an unobtrusive person, when he first became unemployed, he scolded and complained about the incompetence of the enterprise and social injustice, but after a few months, the family who looked at the pot was about to be uncovered had to find a job, but in the state-owned enterprises, they were used to reading the newspaper and drinking tea, how could they bear the hard work of working? And he didn't have much ability, so he wandered outside for a few months, and he couldn't find a decent job, which made him very annoyed, so he simply lay at home and drank heavily, sometimes unhappy, and angrily fisted Xiao Bei's mother and daughter.
If you have nothing to do, you will have trouble, and later Xiao Bei's father learned to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble under the seduction of fox friends and dog friends. Once he ran out of money, he would ask Xiao Bei's mother for it, but whenever Xiao Bei's mother hesitated a little, his fist would fall like raindrops.
If the family really can't come up with the money, Xiao Bei's father will also do the ruin of pawning the family property, so the eleven or twelve-year-old Xiao Bei can only hug her mother and cry bitterly every time she sees the things in the house decrease one by one after her father is angry.
The days are getting poorer and poorer day by day, Xiao Bei's mother is getting haggard day by day, less than forty years old, she is already wrinkled and full of gray hair, but Xiao Bei's father not only did not repent, but intensified the abuse of their mother and daughter, and finally in Xiao Bei's second year of junior high school, the family could not open the pot, and Xiao Bei could only drop out of school with hatred.
Xiao Bei, who didn't go to school, suddenly lost her direction and became idle, she also wanted to do odd jobs to improve her life and share her mother's worries, but because of her beautiful appearance, she would be bullied by those bosses every time, so her original intention was broken by the cruel society again and again, and then she was disappointed that she was seduced by a gangster, and at the age of 14, she confessed her beautiful body at will.
She said that that night, in fact, she also hesitated, refused, and resisted, but under the attack of the sweet words of that little gangster and first love, she finally collapsed and half-pushed and half-obeyed.
After that, the thug led her and a few like-minded younger brothers to start collecting protection money when gangs and factions were still popular on campus at that time.
Motivation is a persistent long process, but the fall is in an instant, not long after, Xiao Bei, an obedient and sensible girl, has become a thorough little sister, she rides a big 28 every day, with a cigarette in her mouth, wearing a leather coat and leather pants, dangling at the gates of various campuses.
It's just that there must be enmity in the rivers and lakes, and revenge must be avenged, Xiao Bei and her group of people inadvertently provoked a group of children in the military compound, and those children are not even afraid of death.
As the defeated party, she naturally has to "cede the land and pay compensation", and Xiao Bei is the only resource that the defeated side can take because of her good looks, so she acts as a victim.
Under the coaxing of her gangster boyfriend, she used a "beauty trick", dressed up beautifully, and went to apologize to a few bear children in the military compound, at first these bear children didn't plan to do anything, but that day they happened to be on the back mountain in the wilderness, watching such a bright girl come out of front of them, they couldn't help but move their hearts, one of them was responsible for sentry, a few were responsible for holding Xiao Bei, and then the eldest of them took off his pants in Xiao Bei's desperate struggle...
And then for the sake of fairness, those bear children even did the blessing and sharing the deeds.
When Xiao Bei recalled this tragic past, the tears in her eyes fell gloomily, crossed her face, and dripped in her sad heart, her eyes were like a wounded kitten, with deep fear and infinite ferocity...
is such a nightmare, Xiao Bei chose to forgive others under several begs for mercy from her gangster boyfriend.
But the matter didn't end here, slowly, the social order improved, and the group fight to collect protection money has become an outdated trick, and Xiao Bei, who has no source of income, and the little gangster boyfriend have also fallen into a state of starvation.
In the end, he was still a gangster and smart, he rented a dilapidated room, cleaned up briefly, got a few sofas and a bed, and started selling skin and meat for a living, and the protagonist of this skin and meat is naturally Xiao Bei.
Xiao Bei began to rather die than obey, but the gangsters used both grace and power, sweet words and threats of beating, which made Xiao Bei fall into obscenity and had to obey.
It wasn't until one night, when Xiao Bei was tossed by a perverted foreigner until two o'clock in the morning and almost couldn't walk, that she unexpectedly learned that her little gangster boyfriend actually carried her behind her back and used the money she earned to raise a mistress.
At that time, when Xiao Bei, who was hit by five thunders, found the gangster in a dilapidated guest house, the gangster was lying on the junior and sweating profusely on the ground.
When the thugs saw Xiao Bei, they were stunned for a few seconds, then became angry, picked up the beer bottle on the table, and smashed Xiao Bei's head viciously without saying a word.
Xiao Bei was knocked to the ground by this sudden attack, and the warm blood also stayed down her face, like red tears flowing from her heart, shocking and miserable.
But this little gangster didn't get rid of his hatred, he tortured Xiao Bei again, Xiao Bei who beat him was unconscious, and the junior who beat him ran out in horror...
I don't know how long it took, when Xiao Bei woke up, except for the lifeless bloodstains on the ground, there was only soreness and black bruises all over her body, she got up in despair, looking at the messy sheets and the dark night, and suddenly smiled inexplicably, the smile was hysterical, with the madness of liberation, like a ghost.
"From now on, the old lady will be self-reliant, and no longer rely on any man, those stinky men are just a plaything and a tool in the eyes of the old lady. This was Xiao Bei's poisonous oath at that time.
After that night, Xiao Bei, who was homeless, could only drag her scarred body to the broken home, but as soon as she arrived at the door, her mother's cries of grief and despair came.
In the years after Xiao Bei dropped out of school, her father had grown into a complete bastard, doing everything about pornography, gambling and drugs, not to mention a lot of debts outside, and raising women, and everything that could be pawned at home was also taken, except for pots and pans.
And on the night Xiao Bei was beaten home, his father was leading a random woman to ask Xiao Bei's mother for money at home.
"What are you doing like a slut?" As soon as Xiao Bei entered the house, she saw the woman her father leading her pushing her mother, and couldn't help but run forward and fight with the woman.
"Ah, you little, you're finally willing to come back, look at your appearance, it must have been repaired by that little cub, right?" Xiao Bei's father was ashamed after seeing Xiao Bei, "This TM is completely a white-eyed wolf, and he has made a lot of money selling skin and meat outside, but his father is stunned that he can't touch a single light, and he is all cheap for that good little beast." β
"Get out, you lead that slut for me to get out, the farther you go, the better. Xiao Bei pushed the woman to the ground and looked at her father coldly, the father and daughter had been bitter for all these years, and they had no affection for each other for a long time.
"Damn, you're still turning the sky upside down?" Xiao Bei's father said, and gave Xiao Bei a slap.
Xiao Bei's face was hot and painful, I don't know how many times it was, but this time, she didn't get angry, the corners of her mouth pulled hard, she laughed, she turned around and took out a fruit knife in the back room, and in her father's frightened eyes, stabbed his thigh, once, twice, three times...
"Ahh At the moment when Xiao Bei's father fainted, the woman lying on the ground screamed and ran out.
"Belle! you--you--how can you do this? he's your father!" Xiao Bei's mother complained in fear as she bandaged Xiao Bei's father in a panic.
"Mom, why are you still protecting him? How has this old beast bullied our mother and mother in the past few years, you don't know, you can beat him if you want, and scold when you want... He deserved to come to this point. Although Xiao Bei was also scared at the time, she no longer relented when she thought of what her father had done over the years.
Later, Xiao Bei persuaded her mother again: "Mom, why don't you go with me, let's escape to a strange place together, where we will depend on each other and live again." β
However, Xiao Bei's mother is a traditional woman with a deep-rooted traditional idea of marrying a chicken and marrying a dog and a dog, and she believes that the misfortune of marriage is fate and cannot be escaped.
So in desperation, Xiao Bei had to flee her hometown alone and came to the bustling magic capital, and then was introduced by her fellow villagers to become a princess in heaven on earth and start a new life.
"Do you know? In the two short years I have been in Shanghai, I have had five boyfriends, except for those prostitutes, and they have bought bags, clothes, and rented houses for me, to meet all my needs, but as long as my wife is unhappy that day, I will still kick them away. Xiao Bei's tone of voice was a little shameless pride.
Li Shaohui listened with both sympathy and disgust, poor people must have something to hate, he sighed and persuaded: "The past is over, living in the present is the most important thing, you eat first, don't think about those unhappy things anymore." β