Chapter 296: Nameless Fire
After taking a shower in the bathroom, Huang Chengcheng found two sets of clothes and put them on for himself and Kaohsiung respectively. Carrying a suit and leather shoes full of mud in his hand, Huang Chengcheng's face was more bitter than bitter gourd, and told Wu Di not to forget to send it to the laundry tomorrow to clean it up. Wu Di continued to go back to the dormitory to sleep, while the three of us took out a few large cushions and sat on the floor in the front store, resting while drinking water against the counter. Kaohsiung seemed to be in a good mood and took out two more cans of beer from the refrigerator. Huang Chengcheng asked: "Boss Gao, I will never take your car again in the future, it is too dangerous." ”
I said, "It's not the car's problem, it's that you can't drink before driving!" Kaohsiung didn't refute either, holding the pendant in his hand and smiling while watching. Huang Chengcheng asked what kind of singer this is, so that you have to fight hard to find it back, is it more valuable than Long Pokun's dragon riding itself.
"It's my sister. Kaohsiung said slowly. Huang Chengcheng and I looked at each other and were surprised. I thought that the beauty was a singer or movie star, but I didn't expect it to be Kaohsiung's sister. I asked if it was my sister or that kind of distant relative, and he glared at me and said of course it was my own sister. "My parents gave birth to two of us, and I was the eldest in the family. He said.
Huang Chengcheng asked, "Do your family still live in Chaozhou?"
Kaohsiung raised his head and drank a can of beer, pinched it hard and let go of his hand, and the beer can fell to the floor: "My parents are all dead." "Huang Chengcheng and I were very surprised, I thought to myself, no wonder Kaohsiung would value his sister's photos so much, it turned out that the family was no longer there, only this sister was left, of course it was very precious.
I asked, "Where does your sister live now? I must have not seen her for a long time, right?" Kaohsiung said that it had been more than ten years, but he did not know where. I didn't understand, so I continued to ask, and Kaohsiung was very angry: "What is there to ask? I don't know is not know!" Huang Chengcheng and I stopped talking, so we had to drink water. And Kaohsiung seemed to want to use beer to relieve hangover, and opened a can and poured it in a big gulp, I don't know how big his stomach is, how can he drink so much.
Throwing away the second empty can, Kaohsiung leaned his head against the counter and closed his eyes: "I don't know where it is, it's been eleven years, I don't know ......where it is" Huang Chengcheng coughed dryly twice, and comforted him and said that sooner or later, I and Boss Tian can also help you find it. Boss Tian is proficient in the Internet, let him post it on the Internet when the time comes, maybe there will be news soon.
Kaohsiung shook his head: "It's useless to find it, she won't recognize me at all." "Huang Chengcheng and I are even more strange, I saw that he seemed to have something to say, so I asked what conflicts had happened between you and your sister, and they have been cut off for more than ten years, and they still don't want to recognize you. Kaohsiung sighed: "My fault is all caused by me." After I asked, he finally put down the half can of beer in his hand and told us why.
He told me and Huang Chengcheng that Kaohsiung was not his original name, but a fake name that he changed after running away from Guangdong to Southeast Asia. The previous real name no longer makes sense, so it wasn't told to us. At that time, he was only in his twenties, and he dropped out of school early because of his poor family. His sister has just gone to college, and because she is smart and studious, she is not doing well in her studies. His parents are ordinary workers and their incomes are not high, so Kaohsiung thought that he could find a lucrative job to supplement his sister's school fees. Later, he was introduced to help an electronic smuggler in Chaozhou run goods and earn some hard-earned risky money.
In the nineties of the last century, Chinese mainland did not have the rise of the Internet, and the people basically used DVD players to watch movies and listen to songs, so VCD and DVD players at that time were selling very hot, and pirated CDs were also very marketable. Kaohsiung worked hard to deliver goods from the dock to several major electronics markets in Chaozhou, and gave almost all the money he earned to his sister to do tuition and living expenses to reduce the burden on the family, and my sister was very grateful.
The accident happened in the winter of one year, and there was a very good neighbor in Kaohsiung, who lived in the alley next door, and the two of them could be said to have played since childhood. That guy is better at gambling, he lost all the money he earned from his hard work, and in order to make money, he even went to borrow usury behind his wife's back, but he lost all his money again, and he couldn't afford to pay it back at all. was arrested and beaten by the moneylender and asked him to find a way to repay the money. When Kaohsiung learned about this, he rushed to the rescue, but he had no money, and the money lending company didn't recognize anything but money.
In order to save his friend, Kaohsiung took the debt on himself, so as not to affect his friend's wife and children, he paid the interest first, thinking that he would earn a good monthly income for helping the smuggler run the goods, and he would be able to pay it off in two months at most. The moneylender couldn't get any money when it saw it, so it had to reluctantly agree. Unexpectedly, there was an accident, Kaohsiung accidentally had a car accident when driving a delivery in a heavy rain, and lay at home for more than half a month, so the smuggler found another person to help, during this time Kaohsiung naturally had no money to take, and had to pay for medical expenses and car repairs, so it was impossible to pay off the debt at the specified time.
He came to the money-lending company to explain clearly, but the boss of the company thought that Kaohsiung wanted to release his pigeon and had no intention of repaying the money, so he was angry and angry, so he asked the thugs to go to Kaohsiung's house at night and set fire to it as a warning. The Kaohsiung family lived in an old building in the old city, which was in disrepair, and the thugs of the money-lending company were outlaws with lawsuits on their backs, and they were ruthless, poured a lot of gasoline and then set fire to it. That year, there was a cold snap in Guangdong, the winter was colder than usual, and it was the middle of the night, and many residents were sleeping under the covers with their heads covered. In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew again, and the fire helped the wind to burn the whole building, and by the time the fire trucks arrived, it was too late, and at least a third of the residents were burned to death, and many others suffered burns.
Kaohsiung escaped that night by moving goods in a smuggler's warehouse, and his sister was fine living in a university dormitory, but his parents were not so lucky and were burned alive at home. The two were grief-stricken, and the younger sister later heard a friend in Kaohsiung talk about loan sharks, only to know that the elder brother was in trouble for others, and when he was angry, he didn't even want to study, and left Chaozhou without a trace. Kaohsiung's home was shattered in an instant, he pretended to disappear for half a month, secretly followed the owner of the moneylender for several days, and then found an opportunity to stab a few times in the bathroom of a certain KTV, and then escaped.
Since his home is no longer there, Kaohsiung has no intention of staying in Chaozhou, he has already found a way back, and a friend who traveled with him first ran from Chaozhou to Guangxi, and then quietly crossed the border and fled to Vietnam. The friend's name is Deng Sheng, an Indonesian, who used to do business with the Chinese boss in Guangdong for several years, and then saw the opportunity to secretly eat a lot of the boss's goods, and was also planning to run away. The two hit it off, incognito, and settled down in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam first. It is bordered by Cambodia in the north and Malaysia across the sea in the south, so the geographical location is good. Kaohsiung no longer has a home, he is discouraged, his temperament has changed greatly, and he just hopes to live one more day and enjoy one more day.