Chapter 12: The Beggar's Emperor

Jack tinkered for a long time, and finally put on the contact lenses, only to see that his two eyes were like drops of ink falling into the clear pool, and the fog was cloudy, and he looked like a blind man who had been blind for many years.

"Shall we lie like this?" Jack looked at himself in the broken mirror and worried.

Lin Yong thought deeply for a moment and said:

"Of course...... Not good, but we're going to do it.

You are not as pitiful as others look, and in the realm of begging, you are not as good as others. When you're weak, you're eliminated, and that's the way the reality is, even more brutal than you see. You either choose to move forward or be left behind by others, and no one remembers you, only you remember yourself. Perhaps deception will destroy your conscience, but that only proves that your conscience is not strong enough, and that you are more blind than the real blind. You can only cherish the fire in your arms and take it to the highest place when you unload the arms of the false evil and ugly. Our ultimate goal is not to live on this, but to do something else with the money we have begged for.

It took me two days to realize a truth.

There will always be truth, falsehood, good and evil in this world, and if you walk with only good thoughts, you will not be able to survive at all, you can only be destroyed.

You can only take truth and goodness as your heart, and hypocrisy and evil as tools. Can't be reversed! Do you understand? ”

Jack said stupidly, "I didn't understand anything except the first sentence." I only know that it's not right to deceive people, and if you do too many wrong things, you will follow the wrong ones. ”

Lin Yong smiled bitterly and shook his head, he and Jack are the same in some places, but some places are completely different, starting from this simple choice, Lin Yong himself didn't realize that the two had parted ways.

Man has two worlds, one is his inner world and the other is the external objective world.

Jack just wants to defend his inner world from being destroyed, and Lin Yong ......

But I want to change the world while defending my heart!

This is destined for Lin Yong to do more. He knew deep down that he couldn't do it without the evil way! It's contradictory to his heart, but he has to endure this pain, because in order to change the world, you have to become like the world before you can enter it and not be destroyed.

Lin Yong thought for a while and said, "Let me ask you in another way, if we donate 20% of the money we begged for this trip to the orphanage, will you still wear glasses?" ”

"No."

"Then the orphan will be at least a hundred dollars less, and you will be responsible for it."

"But it's not right to deceive!"

Of course it's not right, but what if that's the only way to do good? So is it still good or not? ”

"I ...... I do not know. Why does good have to be based on doing evil? I don't care if I do good or not, I just can't do evil! ”

"But what if a kind person is in front of you and can only live one?"

"This kind of thing didn't happen to me!"

"Nope! It has already been born in you! The oppression of peers, the cold eyes of the world, and even a quarrel with family members are all infinitely smaller versions of contradictions and sacrifices! You've defended yourself countless times with evil thoughts, and this has never been cut off. The reason why you are afraid to do evil now only proves that your good heart is weak! You haven't even shown yourself, you are a selfish person, but you have built your vain castle in your heart, and you hide in it to deceive yourself, and you can't stand a trace of truth! I do not deny the greatness of your thoughts, even the preciousness of them, but I also denounce your fragility because you cannot see the world clearly. Evil has always been armed with good, so why is good necessarily isolated? If you do this, it will only get worse and worse, and in the end, your good thoughts will be squeezed and calcined by the evil thoughts of the world, and finally destroyed with you, so cruel that you will not be left with even a trace of ashes. Again, good is the heart, evil is the tool, think about it yourself, whether you want to donate 100 yuan for orphans. ”

Jack slowly put his glasses back on: "I see......"

Lin Yong paralyzed in the wheelchair and made a loveless expression: "East 19th Block, pay attention to you are a blind person now, walk slowly." ”

………………

Five hours later, when Lin Yong threw the two hundred and forty-five dollars into the donation box of the orphanage, Jack also had a relieved smile on his face.

These are two difficulties, first whether to cheat or not, and then whether to donate. One is the generation of evil and the other is the generation of good. Those who have good are stuck in the first step, and those who have evil are stuck in the second step, but in general, this approach makes the whole world a little better. This revolution of the soul uses false evil thoughts to achieve the hope of a comeback of good.

Lin Yong turned around and smiled and said to Jack, "Do you still regret it?" ”

Jack smiled and shook his head: "No regrets!" ”

At this moment, Lin Yong passed by a public phone booth. Holding the coin in his hand, Lin Yong asked Jack to push him into the phone booth.

After putting Jack out of the phone booth, Lin Yong took a deep breath, slowly lifted the phone, threw in the coin, and quickly pressed a long list of phone numbers on the dial.

Doodle...... Doodle......

"Hey~"

Hearing this lazy and haggard voice, Lin Yong's heart was beating loudly, as if he had flown to the other side of the earth in an instant.

"Mingling...... You okay? ”

After this call, there was no response on the other end of the phone for a long time. Lin Yong could hear the other party's somewhat disordered breathing from the vibration of the earpiece.

Lin ...... Lin Yong? Is that you~? You're alive? You're alive! ”

"Shhhh I was seriously injured, but everything was fine. ”

"Where are you?" Mingling hurriedly asked.

Lin Yong turned his head to look at Jack outside the phone booth, thought for a while and said: "I'm in the United States now, I'm calling you from a public phone, but I don't want you to see my current appearance, or I will be healed soon, and I will return to you as soon as possible." This call just wants you to know that I'm okay, okay, don't cry, I just can't bear to shed another tear for me. ”

The other side said angrily: "Who shed tears for you~ It's good for you to die outside~"

Gentle and soft-spoken, affectionate.

After Lin Yong and Mingling Wen exchanged a few words, he hung up the phone.

Pushing the wheelchair back in addition to the phone booth, Jack hurried over, a trace of casual worry flashing on his face:

"Are you leaving?"

Lin Yongyi frowned: "Who said I was leaving?" ”

Jack smiled and didn't ask any more: "That's good, I'll buy you something to eat!" ”

…………

The days that followed became fixed.

Every day, Lin Yong had to spend more than twenty hours in his sleep in the hungry ghost road, experiencing a tragic trek and migration, not only facing the urging of the black feather warriors, but also facing the attacks of powerful ghosts from time to time. In the process of traveling, Lin Yong has to immerse his mind in Su Ji's dream world every day to experience nightmares, which can be said to be a torturous period that Lin Yong has experienced in his life.

In reality, Lin Yong took Jack to perform various begging tricks and wander the streets and alleys of Los Angeles.

As the bills were put into his pocket, after half a month, Jack's thin body gained weight twice, and the place where he lived changed from a cement pipe to a cheap basement.

By the fourteenth day, Lin Yong and Jack had saved up to $6,000! It's all loose change, packed in a box, and it's a thick stack, and it's hard to count the money.

"OMG! We made so much money! That's more than I want in a year! Where are we going today? Jack said to Lin Yong with great interest.

Lin Yong looked at the six-thousand-dollar box, thought for a while and said, "We won't beg today." ”

"What? So where do we go? ”

Lin Yong said with a bitter face: "Do you know that I already have lice on my body?" I've never been this dirty since I was born! Let's find a hotel today to rest, tomorrow we have big things to do! ”

"Hotel?" Jack looked terrified.

"What? Have you forgotten what a hotel is? I'm a human being, too! I need to shower, change clothes, shave! What do you think is the difference between me and the savages now? ”

Jack looked reluctant: "But we can't enter the hotel at all!" ”

Lin Yongyi frowned: "Why?" ”

Jack continued: "What else do you have on your body but bandages? My ID is also wanted by the police, and once it is used, it won't be long before the police break down the door, this is Los Angeles, and I need an ID for everything! ”

Only then did Lin Yong react, this Jack fell to this step, and to a certain extent, it also had a lot to do with his identity. After thinking about it, Lin Yong continued:

"Then let's find a hotel that is not a hotel!"

"What do you mean?"

I saw Lin Yong flatten his sleeves, and a white arm actually stretched out from the plastic sheet, and then put his kneeling legs flat from the wheelchair with both arms.

Then, he stood up.

Jack was stunned......

“f…… f……**!! What the hell is this? Jack hurriedly rubbed his eyes: "Am I right? You've ...... already in the "

Lin Yong twisted his body, his bones made a crisp clicking sound, and he bent over and stretched his legs twice:

"You read that right, I was almost fine five days ago, and it's okay anyway, just let you push me for two more days."

Jack knelt in front of Lin Yong with a plop: "This is a miracle!" You really are God! But...... Why is God yellow...... Isn't that right? ”

"If there are so many people who believe in the long bag on the Buddha's head, who do you talk to to reason? Is it strange that God is yellow? Alright, take off your glasses too, hurry up and pack up, we have limited time! ”

Jack stupidly followed Lin Yong out of the basement and went to the nearest subway station.

It took a long time for Jack to react: "I...... Where are we going? ”

Lin Yong stood at the ticket vending machine on the subway and looked at the map of Los Angeles: "Where is the most luxury houses in Los Angeles?" ”

"Mansion, what are you going to do?"

"Don't talk nonsense, show me."

Jack reached out and pointed to the top left of the map.

Lin Yonghu touched the beard on his chin suspiciously:

"Beverly Hills?"