The brook is in a hurry to flow to the sea,

The tide is eager to return to the land.

In front of the hedge of green trees and white flowers,

He waved goodbye so easily.

And twenty years after the vicissitudes of life,

But our spirits return night after night.

When the breeze blows,

Then it turned into a garden full of tulips.

We all know that Xi Murong wrote "A Tree That Blooms", but few people know that Xi Murong also wrote Qilixiang, green trees and white flowers, and a garden full of tulips.

I don't know why, Chen Kun's mind was full of Xi Murong's Qili incense all night.

When I opened my eyes, it was slightly bright, and there was the sound of my mother getting up to make breakfast outside.

Soft light filtered through the glass of the windows, and some years of wooden window frames were mottled with paint. It is long since I can see the bright red color that I used to have.

Chen Kun's room is small, with a single bed and a desk.

On the wall is the graffiti that Chen Kun used to paint on the wall when he was a toddler, showing his teeth and dancing his claws.

The house is small, two rooms, the whole compound is a brick and wood structure of some years, a two-story house, with a patio and a long alley similar to a passage, up and down is actually not small, but there are many people living there.

Most of the dozen or so families living here are the same as Chen Kun's family, with either one or two rooms, and some of the children have become adults or even married and have children, and more than a dozen people live in this crowd.

A few years later, such a house had an exclusive term called a pigeon cage.

The area where Chen Kun's house is located is almost the same, most of them are buildings before liberation, and there are not a few in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but most of them are dilapidated.

Narrow alleys, dilapidated courtyards, and even some collapsed houses are left unattended, full of weeds.

A handful of red brick houses stand out.

This piece was also considered a shanty town in this era.

The conditions at home are not good, Chen Kun knows, in fact, their family did not live here before, and they used to live in a high-rise building, bright and bright.

My mother has never worked since I married my father, and my father is a person with a somewhat complicated evaluation, but in general, he is actually quite capable, and his family was also prosperous when Chen Kun was younger.

At that time, Chen Kun was only five or six years old, his family ran a hardware factory, and he already had a car in and out, and he followed his parents to SH, BJ, Hangzhou and even Shenzhen at a young age.

In that era, this was a great thing, in Chen Kun's memory, in that glamorous home, there were always full of friends, and the most frequent was Uncle Xia, who always carried a gun, and he had the impression that his father had a lot of friends in the public security system, and Uncle Xia was one of his father's best friends.

Forget who said: When people are young and proud, they are easy to get carried away, and my father's later process is like a TV dog's bloody routine, I have money, I gamble money, and I spend all day drinking to find a woman outside, and the only thing I am glad for is that my father is not dyed white.

My mother cried and made trouble, and then my father came back less and less.

Little Chen Kun doesn't know much about this, but every time his father comes back, Chen Kun has candy to eat, and he is still happy.

In the end, the factory that had not been taken care of closed down and the bank could not pay it back. The factory was abandoned, and the family's tall building was sold. Fortunately, my father never stopped coming home.

On the day of the move, Chen Kun thought that he had forgotten the scene, and at this time, lying on the small single bed seemed to be just yesterday.

The money to buy the house was borrowed from a scraped together source, and at that time there was not much furniture in the house, two beds, two cabinets, a sewing machine, and a few tables and chairs. In this way, my mother was still worried about moving. The new home is far away.

My mother wanted to find some friends to help with the move, but my father disagreed. When friends come, they will definitely pay for the car. I have the impression that my father has always been very strong.

He said, "I can do it alone, make a few more trips." ”

When he moved over the weekend, my father borrowed a cart and stacked large pieces of furniture on top of them and tied them with twine. The mother carried her clothes and quilts on her back, and prepared to carry all kinds of bits and pieces to take the tram over. His father asked Chen Kun to ride the tram with his mother and help her carry something. The mother asked Chen Kun to help his father hold on to the furniture so that he would not fall and hurt others. Chen Kun listened to his mother, but even if Chen Kun raised his hand, he couldn't reach the chair stacked on top of the cart. He said he was holding on, but in fact he was just walking behind.

My father was in a good mood and said, "This car is big, and it pulls a lot, so let's finish it in two trips." ”

Chen Kun used to see people using board carts, usually pushing. But this time the things in the car were too heavy to push and have to be pulled. An iron ring was nailed to the front of the car, which was specially used to tie the belt. The two handlebars of the cart can only be used for balance, and the real struggle is the strap that is squeezed diagonally on the chest. My father put a towel over his shoulder so that he wouldn't get torn by the belt, an experience he had gained while in the engineering team. He leaned forward as if he was about to fall to the ground, kicked his right leg hard, and then gave a low grunt from his throat, and the cart started. A few years later, Chen Kun saw a picture in a Chinese textbook called "The Slender Man of the Volga", and the people in it were what his father looked like at this time.

Along the way, every few minutes, my father asked, "Are you tired?" and Chen Kun replied, "Not tired." At other times, his father told Chen Kun the names of places along the way, accompanied by coughing from time to time. The belt must have made it difficult for him to breathe, for his heavy breathing was mixed with the sound of grinding wheels rubbing against each other. And Chen Kun kept staring nervously at the crumbling chair on the roof of the car, not listening to what he said at all.

After walking for nearly an hour, my father parked the cart on the side of the road and sat next to it to rest. He lit a cigarette, handed Chen Kun five cents, and let him take the tram. Chen Kun refused, because Chen Kun's little heart was always afraid that the top chair would fall and hit his father, and Chen Kun had to help him keep an eye on it. The father urged him several times, and when he saw Chen Kun's resolute attitude, he gave up.

A man on a bicycle approached him and asked, "Are you going to sell this furniture?"

His father looked at him and smiled, and said, "Look at how much you give, and sell as much as you give." ”

The man didn't ask again. Wait for my father to finish smoking and get back on the road.

Chen Kun asked, "How far is it?"

He replied, "It's not far, it's already halfway there." ”

On the rest of the way, my father still asked for a few minutes if he was tired, and Chen Kun still answered the same. However, in the afternoon, my father resolutely refused to allow Chen Kun to accompany him.

It was a summer, the sun was shining, and Chen Kun was standing behind his father, watching his father's back dragging the cart away.

Lying on the small bed, Chen Kun's eyes turned red, and he especially wanted to smoke a cigarette at this time, but Chen Kun didn't dare at home.

Chen Kun got up, got out of bed and slowly got dressed.

In the past few years, my father has been driving cars for the transportation team, running around the country, and his income is actually okay, but his father is not good at managing money.

As the old saying goes, if you don't manage your finances, your money doesn't care about you, and your family conditions still haven't improved much.

Pushing open the door, there were boiled eggs and a glass bottle of milk on the small dining table, and his mother came over to help arrange Chen Kun's collar and touched Chen Kun's hair.

"Go to school early after breakfast and study hard. Mother spoke softly.

Although he knew that Chen Kun's grades were poor, he still stubbornly believed that it was just a child who was playful, and his son just didn't work hard.

The mother went back to the room to sleep in the cage, and Chen Kun sat alone at the dining table, tears falling silently, and the years did not leave too many traces for the young mother.

My mother didn't make breakfast before, and my mother's only hobby in my impression was that she liked to play mahjong, and she could enjoy it for a dime, and sometimes she couldn't get up in the morning when she played late.

So most of the time Chen Kun didn't eat breakfast at home, and his mother would give two yuan, and the two yuan at that time in the nineties and years could have a hearty breakfast.

It's just that later my mother found out that Chen Kun often went to the game hall or the pachinko room with two yuan, and then her mother would prepare breakfast before Chen Kun went to school, two boiled eggs, a glass of milk, and often two yuan was still on the table.

At this moment, there were still two yuan on the table, but Chen Kun couldn't pick it up.

With his bag on his back, he gently pushed open the door and looked back at the room.

He said, "Mom, I'm leaving." ”

Turning his head, his heart was heavy. The house is small, but the home is warm.

Shaking his fist, Chen Kun whispered to himself: "Study hard, plan how to make money, and give your parents better, because they are worth it." ”

The morning wind is a little cool, filled with the rich fragrance of camphor trees, narrow alleys, and the bluestone-paved ground is messily covered with the old leaves that fell from the camphor trees yesterday, and the colors are colorful.

The passing breakfast cart carried white water vapor, and the long water vapor pulled the lines all the way forward.

Chen Kun felt a deep tremor from his body to his soul, raised his head, Chen Kun wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, some things were not forgotten, he said to himself: "Hey, boy, from today onwards, I will not live up to the rest of every day." ”

When I came to the school, some students in the classroom had already arrived, and the originally noisy classroom suddenly quieted down, and I was a little afraid to see Chen Kun come in, in fact, Chen Kun's every move on the rooftop yesterday was seen through by many people in the parallel classroom of Class 6.

Some people behind his back say that Chen Kun is a big hooligan, and there are many estimates of big bastards, but there is no one who dares to say it in person.

Chen Kun doesn't care about this, in fact, he is already past the age of enjoying the fear of others, and for the current Chen Kun, getting pork ribs is just a very small thing after being reborn.

I have to take the high school entrance examination in a few months, so at least I have to change to a better school. Then you have to think about how to change the trajectory of your life, so you have to have a team, right? Chen Kun really feels that he doesn't wait for me, so much time to think about the complex psychological actions of these classmates.

Chen Kun put his schoolbag on the desk, got up and picked up the trash can in the back, and took out all the things in the drawer, a mess, a big mess, magazine covers with images of beautiful women, signed photos of the Crazy Boy series, cigarette cases, martial arts novels, and small notes passed during class.

Chen Kun didn't care about it, he disposed of it as garbage, and swept it all to the trash can with his head down.

A pair of white Li Ning sneakers appeared in front of him, and when he looked up, he was Li Qianruhua's smile, and he never found that his little girlfriend had such deep dimples, and her smile was very cute.

Li Qian said softly, "What are you doing?"

Chen Kun smiled: "Clean up, throw away all these messes, I want to study hard." ”

The smile can really be transmitted to the pupils, and at this moment, Li Qian's eyes are full of smiles as if they will overflow next.

"That's good. Li Qian's tone was brisk, and she couldn't hide her happiness.

"Well, that's good, but I'll have to trouble Miss Qian to help me make up for the lessons. ”

Chen Kun's mood also became inexplicably lighter.

A sentence of Miss Qian made Li Qian inexplicably a little shy, and gently put the homework book in her hand on the desk.

"I'll put it here, you can take a look, it's best to write it yourself last night, I'll go first, you can really ask me if you don't understand anything about learning. ”

Chen Kun nodded, inexplicably sweet in his heart.

cleaned up the desk and spread Li Qian's homework book on the table, Juanxiu's words were very neat and beautiful, and some of them were pleasing to the eye.

Chen Kun's handwriting is actually very good, of course, what I am talking about here is Chen Kun's handwriting many years later, and now it is actually not very good.

At this time, I picked up the pen and knew how to write, but it didn't look so good with it, and Chen Kun shook his head and said: "Novels are also deceitful, what can be the same as what is written decades later? How can it be? It's all deceitful." ”

But Chen Kun knows that after practicing for a while, the previous feeling will be able to come back.

Liu Hui knocked on the back door of the classroom, then walked in, and nodded to Wang Han to say hello.

He came to Chen Kun's desk and greeted, "Kunzi." ”

Chen Kun smiled and put his homework book and Li Qian's homework book into the drawer. stood up and walked out of the back door with Liu Hui.

At this time, it was still early for class, and the two came to the end of the corridor, and several other students playing here saw it and hurriedly walked away.

Liu Hui took out a cigarette, Chen Kun took one, and the two of them blatantly smoked in the classroom corridor.

"Kunzi gives it to you. Liu Hui handed over two cyan banknotes, which will be replaced by a more colorful fifth set of renminbi in two years.

Chen Kun took the money and took a deep puff of his cigarette, "I'll pay you back on Monday." ”

"I pressed the New Year's money, my parents didn't know, I also have pocket money, you were really good at Kunzi yesterday, but you really gave them pork ribs to smoke?" Liu Hui knew that Chen Kun's family conditions were not good, and he hoped to relax the hearts of his little friends.

"You have to give some sweetness to beat a stick, otherwise you don't want to be annoyed by their revenge every day? I gave the cigarette, and it was too inferior to come to find trouble, so it would be untenable, and it was estimated that I received the cigarette, and if I still planned to make trouble with me, there was no one to help them at that time. ”

"So the cigarette is gone, and that's the end of the matter. ”

Chen Kun patted Liu Hui on the shoulder and said, "Be a man. ”

Liu Hui nodded contemplatively, the children of this year are actually precocious, through yesterday's events, Liu Hui admired Chen Kun in his heart, and asked himself that he would never be able to do it, even if Chen Changqing helped to suppress the field, he couldn't do it, so yesterday Chen Kun borrowed money from himself, and agreed without saying a word.

First, he really regarded Chen Kun as a brother, and secondly, he really admired Chen Kun, at this time, when he saw Chen Kun analyzing himself, he couldn't help but think of what his son Liu Yuanshan said, people have to find someone who is more capable than themselves to play, in order to learn things.

As for money, Liu Hui really doesn't care about it, although at this time, the monthly salary of ordinary workers is only four or five hundred, and two hundred yuan is really not a small number, Liu Hui still feels that it is worth it to help his friends.

Chen Kun wrote down this feeling, and the money must be repaid.

extinguished the cigarettes, went back to the classroom, took out Li Qian's homework book again, and copied it.

While writing, I was thinking about my thoughts, in fact, it was nothing if Chen Kun didn't write the homework, it belonged to the varieties that the teacher gave up, and the team leader who collected the homework generally didn't dare to accept Chen Kun's homework.

But change is not all the beginning, for Chen Kun this is a good start, in fact, learning is not the most annoying thing for Chen Kun, even if he doesn't read a book for a day, as long as the seat changes little this year during the exam, Chen Kun has a way to mix in a key high school, but Chen Kun really hopes that his academic performance can get better, just hoping to live up to his parents' expectations.

Of course, the first thing is the problem of money, when buying cigarettes yesterday, Chen Kun passed by the newsstand and saw that Ma Baochuan had been promoted to secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection.

A lot of gossip news in later generations jumped into Chen Kun's mind at once, Chen Kun knew how to get money, although there was a lot of risk, but Chen Kun felt that this risk was worth taking, and decided to explore the road tomorrow.

After all, a person in his thirties does not have two yuan in his pocket, which is really uncomfortable, and many of Chen Kun's follow-up plans are inseparable from the support of money.

What really gives Chen Kun a headache is how to launder money, without making people doubt where the money comes from, otherwise there is no way to use the money openly, Chen Kun's current age is a problem, otherwise there are many ways to launder it.

It seems that we still need to find a reliable person, at least in the early stage, Chen Kun bit the pen and was in a daze.

Time flows in thought.

Chen Kun seemed very quiet all day, except for going to Wang Xiaozi to get cigarettes at noon, Chen Kun was very serious in all class time, even if it was recess time, either he scribbled on his seat, or he asked his little girlfriend if he didn't understand some questions.

During this period, he and Liu Hui smoked two cigarettes in the aisle.

When it was time to get out of school, a few people with ribs were really waiting at the door, and Chen Kun didn't plan to go to the rooftop, and handed over the cigarettes in the black plastic bag with the surprised eyes of the school security guards, and several people giggled, as if they had been friends for many years.

Inadvertently, I found that Heizi was standing on the other side of the street with a few people, and when he saw Chen Kun looking over, he smiled toothily, and left directly without saying hello.

Chen Kun smiled, understanding that Heizi or Chen Changqing was afraid that he would suffer a loss, so he came to take care of it, but now he was fine, and he didn't plan to come over to say hello, so he left directly.

Chen Kun thought to himself, in fact, these two people are not bad, maybe they inadvertently found one or two members of their team.

Of course, all the problems have to wait for the results of Chen Kun's initial exploration tomorrow.