Wedges(3)

It's been more than a year since I went abroad to study, and I don't know what kind of things I'll encounter when I go out this time, and I don't know how long I'm going to go, so Jiang Wuwei decided to go home first and then leave.

Jiang Wuwei has two families, one in the south and one in the north, and his parents have lived apart for many years because of their respective jobs. It wasn't until her mother retired a few years ago that she came to her father's side, but there have always been two families in Wuwei's heart.

Wuwei's father, Jiang Zhenwu, is a typical northern man, who joined the army from the countryside and came to the army, relied on his own efforts to promote in the army, and went to the military academy to become a reconnaissance company commander. His mother, Shangguan Wenlan, was a petite girl from a southern water town, born in a magic family. My mother's grandfather was a famous magician in Shanghai before liberation, and after liberation, the family became performers in one of China's famous acrobatic troupes. Shangguan Wenlan inherited her father's career and also became a magician, and her specialty is performing poker magic. All kinds of poker are unpredictable and fascinating in her hands. Shangguan Wenlan is not only good at magic skills, but also very beautiful, no matter where she performs, she will attract a large number of admirers, so she has become a pillar in the art troupe.

When the acrobatic art troupe went to the army to give a condolence performance, Jiang Zhenwu and Shangguan Wenlan met inadvertently, and the two fell in love at first sight, and finally they were combined.

Wu Wei always felt that the union of his parents was incredible, the difference between the two was too great, whether it was family, identity or cultural background, there were no similarities, there were countless people who pursued his mother, and the conditions of any one person were much stronger than his father, how could his mother fall in love with such a soldier as his father at first sight? Wuwei had asked his parents many times in a half-joking manner, but he did not get a reasonable answer. His own explanation is that the union of parents is a miracle.

In the memory of Wu Wei, the parents only had very little time to live together, no more than two months a year. His father, who was a northerner, was a soldier in the military camps of the South, while his Southern-born mother was settled in a city in the North. The two are thousands of miles apart, and only once a year of family leave can keep them together. Later, my father became a battalion commander and wanted my mother to join the army, but my mother had her own career and she didn't want to give up, so she never joined the army.

Parents married for six or seven years before they had children, Jiang Wuwei was born in the acrobatic troupe, Wuwei was chubby when he was born, especially loved, and became the baby in the art troupe.

After Wuwei was born, he lived with his mother in the acrobatic troupe, when he was the only child in the troupe, so he became the baby of everyone, and he didn't need his mother to coax him at all.

Jiang Wuwei grew up day by day under the care of his uncles and aunts, and from the beginning of climbing on the carpet, he was teased and rolled by the uncles and aunts in the group, and he was pulled by his legs and learned to turn his heels as soon as he could walk, so Wuwei has trained a good body since he was a child.

Jiang Wuwei followed his father to the south alone when he was five years old, and when he came back three years later, he had a younger sister, and when he grew up, he guessed that the reason why his father took him to the military camp at such a young age was because his mother was pregnant and couldn't take care of him.

Leaving his mother at the age of five, Wuwei developed the habit of independent life since he was a child, and the life in the acrobatic troupe and the barracks shaped Wuwei's character, exercised his personality, and also allowed him to learn things that other children could not learn.

When Shangguan Wenlan was pregnant and couldn't perform on stage, she didn't lose the work in her hands, and she practiced with poker all the time. Wuwei's love for poker can be said to have been cultivated before birth, and it should be said that it has a lot to do with prenatal education.

After Wu Wei was born, his mother held him in his arms, and he kept playing all kinds of tricks with poker in his hand. The first toy that Wuwei grabbed in his hand was the playing cards used by his mother to practice, and since then the playing cards have never left Wuwei.

After Wuwei will leave, he will watch his uncles and aunts practice and perform in the practice room and on the side of the stage, and these uncles and aunts also like the fat Wuwei, and they always love to teach him a little trick to tease him in the gap between the exercises.

After the age of five, Wuwei followed his father to the south, at this time his father was already the commander of the divisional reconnaissance battalion, Wuwei stayed in the military camp for 10 years, although he returned to his mother in the north for another year, and his primary and secondary schools were spent in the south. For as long as he can remember, Wuwei has been watching the soldiers crawl and roll around next to the training ground, and when he is older, he will run behind the soldiers, and when the soldiers are resting, he will be alone on the training ground.

Wu Wei always follows the warriors' butts, and the fighters like to play with Wu Wei when they are fine, training Wu Wei as the best entertainment, Wu Wei brings joy to the fighters and also exercises themselves, each of these scouts has their own tricks. Wuwei always pestered the fighters who were eight or nine years older than him and asked them to teach themselves. The warriors not only taught Wu Wei to grapple and fight, but also taught him to play with various firearms. The smart Wuwei can learn everything as soon as he learns, and by the time he goes to middle school, he will be like a veteran.

During the holidays or after school, Wuwei often practiced sanda combat with the scouts without telling his father, and was often beaten to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen.

In my father's reconnaissance camp, there was a sanda champion of the whole military region named Ma Tao, who worshipped Uncle Ma Tao as a teacher and learned sanda. Ma Tao used his own original training method to train the teenage Wuwei, who used his arms apart, tied ropes to two trees, and quickly hit his face with his fists wearing boxing gloves, and he could only swing his head to the sides to dodge, using this method to train his eyes and dodge ability. At the beginning, at the end of each training, Wuwei was beaten to the point that his nose and face were swollen, and blood flowed. But in the end, he developed Wuwei's extremely agile reflexes, and he didn't blink his eyes when his fists reached his eyes, and this special training method gave him a sharp gaze like an eagle.

Dad is busy with his own work, rarely finds out that Wuwei was beaten, sometimes he is very injured, in order to prevent being seen by Dad, Wuwei touches Dad's time and avoids the opportunity to meet him. Wuwei followed his father in the army, and usually went to the canteen alone to eat, and sometimes the father and son couldn't speak a word for a few days. I couldn't hide from being seen by my father, so I lied and said that I had fallen on my heels.

In the 10 years spent in the barracks, because his mother was not around, his father was busy with work and rarely took care of him, and the special environment and experience not only exercised Wuwei's ability to live independently, but also developed his wild and strong character. In the barracks, Wu Wei secretly practiced a strong skill, grappling and fighting, especially free fighting, many fighters are not his opponents, all kinds of firearms are also proficient, blindfolded and all kinds of light weapons can be quickly disassembled and assembled, and the veterans in the reconnaissance company are no different. By the time he graduated from high school, the Scout's inaction had been basically mastered.

In addition, Wu Wei has been practicing playing cards in his hand since he was a child, and he throws poker to play when he is free, and over time he has practiced a flying card stunt, the thin playing cards can shoot out like a flying knife in his hand, and can hit any object not more than one centimeter within ten meters, and a hundred shots.

The special growth environment has created a prodigy with both civil and military skills, his father's wish is to let Wuwei go to the military academy, but he didn't expect him to like archaeology that can't be beaten with eight poles, and he was easily admitted to the archaeology major of a famous university in Beijing, and the father and son have been awkward for a long time for this matter. At this time, his father was already a division-level cadre, and his mother couldn't turn his father to the south, but Wuwei went to school in the north again, and he didn't know why he couldn't live with his mother.

The parents were very surprised that Wuwei suddenly came back from abroad, and Wuwei told the teacher about the murder of the teacher, told his father and mother to come back to attend the teacher's funeral, and concealed the matter of accepting the teacher's last wish, and he didn't want to add unnecessary worries and worries to his parents.

Wuwei spent a week happily with his parents, and then said goodbye to his parents in a hurry and set off for Beijing. He has already considered the plan of action, and according to the teacher's prompts, he is going to focus on looking for Uncle Shi in Las Vegas in the United States, because there is the largest gambling city in the world, and Uncle Shi has the greatest chance of appearing here.

Wuwei turned a corner on the way back to the capital and went back to his hometown to see his grandparents. Wuwei lived with his grandfather until he was five years old, and his grandfather's family had no boys, and Wuwei's mother was the eldest daughter, so his grandfather was very fond of him. When Wuwei was "100 years old", his grandfather gave him a lot of family heirlooms, which were real jade Guanyin carved from Hetian seeds, and the milky white mutton fat jade carved was fine and lifelike. Wuwei believes that this Jade Guanyin is his talisman, which can bring good luck to himself and help him turn evil into good fortune, so he has always carried it with him.

Grandpa was also very surprised by Wuwei's arrival, how could he come back from the UK before the holidays? Wuwei smiled and said that he had transferred to the United States to go to school, so he came back to see.

Hearing that Wuwei said that he was going to the United States, his grandfather asked him to visit his apprentice after he arrived in the United States, and if there was anything, he could ask him for help.

Wuwei still has a deep impression of his grandfather's apprentice, he often played with him when he was a child, his grandfather's apprentice was an orphan, his grandfather always treated him as a son, he and his mother were also called sisters and brothers, Wuwei has always called him uncle, and he also regarded his grandfather's family as a relative. Once an acrobatic troupe went abroad to visit and perform, my grandfather's apprentice was favored by an acrobatic troupe in the United States and wanted to hire him with a high salary.

Wuwei stayed with his grandparents for two days, and then embarked on a journey to North America......