Chapter 1 The Beginning
The southeastern United States, Atlanta, Georgia, home of the great Martin Luther King Jr. On a May morning www.biquge.info 1986, in a cramped apartment in Atlanta, a black mother and son began their day. Mother Jessica, serving breakfast, habitually picked up today's newspaper, and sat across the table from her son Tiger while eating breakfast, but his eyes were fixed on a report on the back of the newspaper. A report on the World Cup in Mexico in '86!
"Tiger, watch your milk!" Jessica looked up from the newspaper and reminded her son in a daze.
Tiger lowered his head and ate his breakfast seriously, but the information flashed quickly in his mind. The Mexico World Cup in August 6 was the king of Argentina, Maradona's journey to the king, the famous hand of God, and many people scored a classic goal, which made England unable to let go for many years afterwards.
Black Little Boy, Tiger Washington. He is nine years old. Born in September 1977 in Atlanta to a single-parent family. But he also has a name - Wang Lin.
Wang Lin was born in September 1977 into an ordinary family in southern China. Parents and an older sister, an older brother, an ordinary family of five. There are too many coincidences with the current Tiger, but it is completely different.
In July 2016, on my way to work in the morning, I was hit by a speeding truck. When he woke up again, it was September 11, 1977, the day he was born, but everything around him had changed, and he had become an American baby. A different country, an unfamiliar environment, a language that I don't understand at all.
Tiger once laughed at himself and thought, 'Could it be that the underworld is too busy, and Meng Po and her old man mistakenly sent Wang Lin, who did not drink Meng Po soup, to reincarnate in advance. Or maybe it's a parallel dimension of legend.
Mother Jessica Washington, a Black woman with a degree in finance from USC. Independent, tenacious, kind, gentle, beautiful and talented. She can be considered a perfect woman, but she has become a single mother, which puzzles Tiger, but he is not curious to seek answers.
Wang Lin, an ordinary man, has experienced simplicity and calm in his 39 years of life. In China in the 70s, my parents only had a salary of more than 10 yuan a month, and it was actually very difficult to support a family of five, but they already had an enviable 'iron rice bowl'. Wang Lin, as the youngest child in the family, did not have any preferential treatment. At that time, there was no concept of spoiling children.
Since he was sensible, he and a group of children of the same age went up the mountain to steal sweet potatoes, went down to the river to catch fish, and roasted them with branches to eat. When I was in elementary school, because of my poor grades, I was chased and beaten by my father with a stick. After graduating from junior high school, I went to a technical school, learned a skill, and began to work in my parents' factory. When it comes to marriage, the times are different, and if you want to get a daughter-in-law, the first requirement is to have a house. At the age of 30, he married an ordinary but very kind woman and gave birth to a child, and at the age of 35, when the salary finally rose to 3,000 yuan a month, the state-owned factory completed the last road and became a laid-off worker.
Housing prices are always high and look down on all living beings, and Wang Lin and his wife and children can only live in the old house of the bankrupt factory, riding motorcycles to and from the city every day. Prices are skyrocketing day by day, and you need to work two jobs to meet the burden on your family.
This is the life of an ordinary public, without major waves, but ordinary and strong, but the bitterness and satisfaction in the middle are never less.
Tiger, who was born in the United States, started his life from scratch, and can only speak yes and no in English, and has grown to the point where he is now completely free to communicate. At the age of seven, Tiger entered school like the average American boy. But a month later, I got into a fight with my classmates because of racial discrimination.
In Martin Luther King Jr.'s homeland, blacks were just as discriminated against. The unfair treatment of the school angered Jessica. The resilient mother brought Tiger back and applied for homeschooling, teaching her son herself at home.
In Jessica's opinion, Tiger has a hobby that leaves people speechless. Saving! From the age of 7, Tiger will help his neighbors in the community with small things, cleaning, taking care of small animals, etc., earning some small income, and then saving it all, always in and out.
But after breakfast, Tiger took out all his savings he had saved for 3 years and handed them to Jessica, who was tidying up the kitchen.
"Mom, I want to use the money to buy football lottery tickets." Pointing to a newspaper report, Tiger looked at Jessica seriously.
"Football? This year's NFL season is over. ”
"Football! Mom, not rugby. The Football World Cup in Mexico in 10 days. Tiger rolled his eyes, co-authoring Americans to think of rugby as football.
"Alright! Honey, it's football, but do you know football? ”
"I don't understand." Tiger shrugged and spread his hands, "But Mom, when I saw this report on football this morning, a voice in my head told me that Argentina is the champion, and West Germany is the runner-up. I know it's incredible, but trust me, Mom, it's all true. ”
Jessica propped her forehead and said, "Tiger, these may just be hallucinations caused by not sleeping well last night." ”
"Mom, why did the hallucinations appear in Argentina and West Germany? I'm not familiar with them. You see, we don't know football, but we know the outcome of the game, and it can't be an illusion, and I believe in that feeling very much. "Tiger doesn't know much football, but he was a basketball lover in his previous life, so watching TV is always a sports channel, and I don't know how much information about the Football World Cup is, but the Hand of God of 86 appears too often, so I remember it inadvertently.
The 9-year-old son of a money fan suddenly had to use up all his savings to buy a lottery ticket that he didn't know how to play at all. ou! Jessica has the urge to go berserk.
"Ok!OK, so what do you need me to do?" Jessica raised her hand in surrender, looking at her serious and stubborn son in front of her, she suddenly felt. Maybe letting this stinky boy lose all his savings would be a good in-depth education.
"Mom, you need to help me place a bet, you have to know that he will open in 10 days, and we will buy at a high rate now." Tiger whispered mysteriously.
Jessica laughed, thinking, 'With your savings of less than $176, how much can you get with a higher multiplier?' Forget it, let's make up the $200 for you! It seems that Tiger's childish little act completely delights Jessica.