I got on the bus and sat on the bus on the way back.

Chen Kun took off his schoolbag, put it in the gap under his feet, looked at the rice fields outside the window, and smiled proudly.

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when Chen Kun returned home, and his father would not come back from a business trip recently, and his mother probably went to the chess and card room again.

There was no one in the house, and Chen Kun opened his door, and the sunlight was shining through the window.

Chen Kun immediately put the schoolbag on the ground, opened the zipper, took out the three bags of things from it, and put them on the ground, but his mood was difficult to calm down from beginning to end, and he only felt that the heart in his chest was about to jump out.

Trying hard to suppress his emotions may be an important turning point in his life, and it is also a moment to confirm the great energy of his prophetic vision. It's not clear what looks into the future.

His hands trembled a little excitedly, Chen Kun took a package, and used the scissors that he usually did by hand to cut the linen rope tied to it.

Peel off the layers of these black packages, and inside is a transparent plastic bag, and inside the plastic bag is black and blue, neatly stacked 100 yuan bills!

At first glance, Su Can was still a little dazzled when he saw this kind of ink and black and blue banknotes, and felt that the fifth set of red RMB was issued this year, and Chen Kun, who was used to seeing red hundred-yuan banknotes, saw so many black and neat banknotes at first glance, both familiar and unfamiliar, and the mood at the moment was like a boat in the ocean, at this moment the waves were surging, the sea was full of dark clouds, and the wind was surging.

Where can ordinary people in this era see so much money?

One is the bank, where thick stacks of neatly stacked bills can be seen in the drawers that the tellers occasionally pull.

There is another one that is probably in the movie.

With an average income of a few hundred yuan in this era, this bag is enough for most people to struggle for a lifetime.

Rao is Chen Kun has the experience of being reborn, and it is difficult to calm down at this moment.

The money is stacked one by one, each package has five rows, each row is a bundle, and a bundle should be 10,000 yuan, so one pack, there are 500,000 yuan.

Chen Kun dug three bags from the pool, and what was placed in front of him was 1.5 million yuan!

When he heard the name Ma Baochuan earlier, it was in the mouth of Uncle Xia at the family gathering, and he thought that this name was so familiar at that time.

It wasn't until that day when he bought cigarettes and passed by the newsstand and introduced Ma Baochuan at length that Chen Kun knew that he had gone from the city to the province and served as the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee.

However, in a few years in the future, his problems will be exposed, and the words "the umbrella of the underworld" and "huge greed" will be shockingly revealed.

Su Can also learned from the news of later generations that he owned 21 properties inside and outside the province, including some tourist cities, and he hid a huge sum of 20 million in the pool of Yuzhang Villa, he and his wife went to live once or twice a month on average, thinking that he was born in the army and had worked as a criminal policeman, and threw the money into the pond, as long as he didn't confess, it was really impossible for anyone to know.

That villa later became an anti-corruption attraction, Chen Kun went to visit, this time, seeing the scene a few years ago, it is also an old horse to know the way.

The difference is that Ma Baochuan has just taken up his new post and is in the province.

Chen Kun leaned on the edge of his bed a little weakly, looking at the neatly stacked coins on the desk, Chen Kun took a deep breath, this is the energy of rebirth.

Opened the cabinet door under the desk, this cabinet is located on the lowest level of the drawer, full of Chen Kun's toys from childhood to adulthood, clay dolls, some pictures, glass beads, basically belongs to the kind that no one has turned except Chen Kun, at this time I took out some scattered objects, pulled out two of the three bags of money I brought back, and stuffed the others into it.

Putting the package containing the money into his backpack with the pictures taken out of the cabinet, and carrying two bundles of banknotes to his body, Chen Kun took a deep look at his small room.

Push the door and go out.

The alley is still long, and along the way, Chen Kun greeted his familiar neighbors, of course, it doesn't mean that some neighbors are so harmonious, but Chen Kun can't stand it and is in a good mood.

Along the way, I pondered that the contents of the backpack had to be disposed of, and that I had to find a bank to save the money.

In 2000, the country implemented the real-name system, and the anti-money laundering law was only implemented in 07 years.

The front face of ICBC has not changed for a hundred years, and in the surprised eyes of the counter staff, Chen Kun made a card and deposited 18,000.

With the remaining 2,000 yuan in his pocket, Chen Kun planned to go shopping, in his previous life, Chen Kun didn't have the experience of shopping with so much money, and he was worried all day, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to relax.

So Chen Kun wandered around the street and found it very interesting, in fact, when it came to buying, he really didn't think about buying anything.

I just went to a video store, and the store still has those card tapes, which in this era to buy audio tapes, using a walkman is a sign of the trend.

Although the CD is said to be available, it is just too expensive.

Chen Kun didn't even have a tape recorder, so he naturally went shopping around and didn't think about buying it.

As soon as I turned out of the store, I heard a girl shouting "Chen Kun" behind me.

Chen Kun looked back and laughed, it was his little girlfriend Li Qian.

At that moment, Chen Kun greeted with a smile: "Miss Qian, it's a coincidence, where are you going?"

Li Qian saw him joking that he wrinkled some thick thick eyebrows, and then saw that he was carrying this old backpack, and the upper of his feet was full of mud and slightly depressed, and he smiled and said, "I go to the bookstore to buy an extracurricular book, where are you going to make up for the class?

Bookstore, Chen Kun frowned and thought, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he couldn't grasp the thought for a while, and secretly said in his heart: "Maybe I should go and see it" and said at the moment, "Let's go shopping together." ”

Li Qian nodded, "Let's go." ”

The mainstream Xinhua bookstore is actually a little far away from here, the tram is three stops away, and the two young people don't feel far away when they go shopping, walking and laughing all the way, occasionally buying some snacks and snacks on the roadside, and time flies quickly.

When she arrived at the destination, Chen Kun was a little surprised, Li Qian brought Chen Kun to a foreign language bookstore, in fact, she had long known that Li Qian's English was very good, and she was still surprised to see her pick up some foreign works in English.

It's like finding a grizzly bear in a flock of sheep.

This made some of the sense of superiority brought by Chen Kun's rebirth instantly fade away, and there are still a group of geniuses in this world to catch up.

Li Qian took the book, leaned against the bookshelf, looked at Chen Kun who was in a daze, smiled and said: "Actually, my mother is a high school English teacher, I started learning English when I was very young, this is actually not that difficult, you can try." ”

Chen Kun smiled bitterly, yes, I should work hard, although I am also learning English in junior high school quite badly, but when such a girl tells you, in fact, this is very easy, you can try, how can you bear to refuse?

Li Qian is a good girl, this Chen Kun knows, every time the two of them get along, this girl intentionally or unintentionally hopes that Chen Kun can spend some time studying, and she is not very in favor of him associating with people outside the school, and she guides Chen Kun very carefully in her studies, and she is actually a very good girlfriend.

At this time, Chen Kun heard Li Qian say this, and immediately asked: "Recommend some teaching materials to me, I'll try, let's communicate more." ”

Li Qian smiled slightly, looked very happy, casually put down the book in her hand, walked quickly with Chen Kun in the reading area, picked up a set of textbooks that traveled all over the United States, and handed it to Chen Kun.

Qiao smiled and said: "This set of books is very good, this new version still comes with a CD, you try, it's easy to understand, and if you take the time, you will definitely be able to learn it well." ”

Chen Kun nodded.

"Traveling in the United States" is a very well-known oral textbook in China in the 90s, I remember that I often saw it in the window of bookstores at that time, and the Taiwanese translation of "Happy American Language" (Family Album U.S.A.) is a set of daily American language textbooks that have sold millions of copies in mainland China and are used simultaneously in 35 countries around the world. Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, produced by Prentice Hall, INC., and exclusively licensed, it was decided after extensive consultation with English language teachers in 105 countries around the world. This textbook represents the highest level of international production at the time, and its writer and director William Greeves and the animation production group Dovetail Group have won several Emmy Awards. Chen Kun, who left the school in later generations, once thought about learning yin by himself, and bought this set of textbooks, but when he saw Li Qian handing it to him, he was really full of emotion in his heart.

The two walked around the bookstore again, and when they left, Chen Kun rushed to pay, Li Qian smiled and waved his hand, until Chen Kun said that this was a gift for her, and then nodded with a red face, Chen Kun went to pick up the stored schoolbag, Li Qian held the book and waited, in fact, looking at the book that Li Qian bought, Chen Kun was very surprised.

Chen Kun is no stranger to this book, and later generations have read its translation and watched the movie adaptation.

"To Kill a Mockingbird", which is not so well-known in the country now, is one of the two books that Obama publicly gave to his daughter.

After taking the bag, Chen Kun asked, "How did you remember to read this book?"

Li Qian was a little surprised and said, "Do you know this book? I have read the translated version, so I have always wanted to buy the original version." It's a sad story, but my dad recommended it to me because he thought he could learn about the Puritan culture in the United States and about the racial divide in those days. ”

Li Qian thought for a moment and then said: "I think we can feel how the Italian writer Beccaria's view in "Crime and Punishment" "from luxury and weakness produces the mildest virtues, how humanity, charity, and tolerance for human error, and the so-called justice, which is misinterpreted as the so-called "simplicity" and "faithfulness", misunderstand and oppress people. ”

Chen Kun thought to himself that the children of the director of discipline were different, how old was he to read this book, twenty-five or twenty-six?, his eyes swept over the portraits of celebrities hanging in a row above the bookstore, Newton, Stalin, Confucius, and secretly said in his heart, "Geniuses, I am chasing you." ”

signed Li Qian's little hand very easily, Li Qian struggled, and it was up to him if he didn't break free, but his little face quickly turned red.

Chen Kun held his hand and said, "I also read the translation, and I think this is a story about prejudice, because it should tell the story from embracing prejudice to abandoning prejudice." ”

Li Qian glanced at him strangely, as if to say that you have really seen it.

Chen Kun smiled and raised the hand he was holding: "Jem, Scout, and Diel's prejudice against Arthur, the "weirdo";

the prejudice of a group of whites against blacks such as Aunt Alexandra;

the prejudice of the maid Caponi against Raymond, a white man who is married to a black man;

Mr. Ewell's father-daughter prejudice against Tom Robinson.

The children don't know where to start insisting that the "weirdo" Arthur is a complete demon,

But then they found out that the truth was not what they insisted on.

They begin to understand, silently accept the stranger's gift, and are eventually saved by the stranger Arthur. And what about Tom as a robin?

He didn't end up so lucky,

"From the moment Mayella opened her mouth and shouted, Tom was dead. ”

Chen Kun gently squeezed Li Qian's hand and said with a wicked smile: "Of course, there is also your prejudice against me, bad boys don't necessarily don't study, are we a combination of bad boys and good girls." ”

Li Qian blushed and glanced at him with a roll of her eyes.

Chen Kun continued: "This world has never been fair, it was and will not be, and it will not be in the future. Discrimination and privilege, race and class. This is the deep-rooted root of human nature, it is the arrogance and selfishness engraved in the genes, in fact, the author only said two things, education and fairness, I remember there is a sentence in the book: when they played with the two air guns, my father said: "It doesn't matter how many blue birds you shoot, but remember, killing a robin is a sin." Because they only sing songs to others, and do nothing bad. ”

Chen Kun winked at her and said, "I'm a bad boy, maybe I'm also a robin, maybe it's yours, do you still want to go to the United States now?"

Li Qian suddenly laughed: "Haha, do you say the same to other girls? How do you know that I want to go abroad?" and then said softly: "I don't necessarily go to the United States, but I will definitely go out." ”

Chen Kun was slightly silent, with the impression that Li Qian did go to study abroad after graduating from high school, and there was no contact after that, so he smiled at the moment: "Good genius, I will try my best to catch up with you." ”

"Something else." Chen Kun raised the hand he was holding and made a funny expression, "There are no other girls, you are my only girlfriend." ”

This expression directly made Li Qian laugh.

There will be an end to the long road, Chen Kun sent Li Qian to the tram station, there were many people at the station, Li Qian withdrew her hand, Chen Kun didn't care about other people's eyes.

At this time, the two of them said goodbye, and they both felt a little interesting about this unexpected date in the afternoon, and felt that they had some new understanding of each other, which felt very strange and fresh.

Watching the tram leave slowly, and Li Qian for an afternoon, he was embarrassed to smoke, at this time Chen Kun smoked a cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, slowly lit the fire, and spit out a smoke ring.

The smile in his eyes slowly settled, just like in Killing a Mockingbird, the world is never fair.

The station is not far from the place where his father used to run a factory, Chen Kun smoked a cigarette, walked slowly, turned two corners, the former fish pond has become a building, the stinky ditch at the entrance of the street has been filled into a green belt, and the once towering factory has become a ruin, the wooden shed has long since collapsed, and the larger timber has been carried home to build a house.

Weeds are overgrown in a piece of broken bricks and tiles, the factory has been abandoned for so long, there are no people in this area for a long time, and the surrounding area of the place where the factory can be opened is not prosperous, Chen Kun kept walking inside, found a flat cement floor and put down the backpack, lit a cigarette again, squatted down, took out the pictures in the bag and the black packaging bag that contained the money before, lit it with a lighter, the plastic burned and emitted a pungent smell, it will slowly get bigger, Chen Kun put the backpack on it.

The flames spit out greedy tongues and devoured the backpack and everything that could burn, Chen Kun smoked quietly, this picture was weird and terrifying.

Looking at the firelight, the slogan of the movie "The Crucible" flashed in my mind - we fought all the way, not to change the world, but not to let the world change us.

People always look at the world with prejudice, others are to themselves, or they are to ribs, and what about Heizi and Chen Changqing?

Wait until the fire is clean.

Chen Kun picked up the stone and covered the traces after burning, knowing that there was not a trace to be seen.

Clapped his hands, picked up the newly bought books, turned away and said secretly in his heart: "Maybe I should talk to them tomorrow." ”

The remnants of the sun behind him are like blood.