Chapter 1: Grandma's Ring
"Jiu'er, when you get to the city, you must listen to your mother and help your mother do more work, it is not easy for your mother to be outside alone for all these years."
Zhang Heng looked at his grandmother, who was getting older and older, nodded vigorously, and said seriously: "Grandma, I'll come back to pick you up when I go to the city to make a lot of money!" ”
"Hehe, grandma believes that Jiu'er will definitely be able to make a lot of money, Jiu'er is going to college, but Jiu'er has to promise grandma that she must not learn to gamble, and you can't gamble if you have more money!" The old man said earnestly.
Zhang Heng naturally knew what his grandmother meant, and nodded vigorously!
It's night! Zhang Heng was lying on the wooden bed, but he couldn't sleep!
When he was eight years old, his father ran away, owed a lot of gambling debts, and disappeared without a trace, leaving behind him as an eight-year-old, his two-year-old sister, and his mother, who was at a loss for what to do.
Relatives said that his father must have died outside, and his grandfather also said that he had never had a father, but Zhang Heng firmly believed that his father was still alive, but he didn't have the face to come back.
The Zhang family is a big family, with a large population, but quite poor, the grandmother gave birth to eight sons and a daughter, and his grandfather is the youngest son, and gave birth to five sons, and his father is also the youngest son, and there are eight cousins above him, he is Xiaojiu, and he was born with the nickname of "Jiu'er"!
After his father ran away, his mother saw that he couldn't repay his father's debts and went out to work in the city, and he also lived with his grandmother, who was also his father's grandmother, who is now 90 years old, but her body is very strong, and she will definitely live a long life.
Zhang Heng doesn't blame those uncles and uncles, nor does he blame his own grandparents, because the Zhang family is so poor, every family is almost overborn, and almost all of them have paid fines for a little extra money, and they can only barely survive by farming.
My father owes 300,000 yuan and ran away, 300,000 yuan is a huge amount of money in this small mountain village, and my relatives were able to help me make up more than 100,000 yuan to help my father pay off the debt ten years ago, Zhang Heng really couldn't complain.
He actually wanted to go to the city to work and earn money for a long time, but his mother insisted on letting him study, now he is eighteen years old, graduated from high school this year, his grades are not bad, and he was admitted to an undergraduate university in the city where his mother worked, and his mother has also earned a lot of money over the years, although he still owes some debts, but it is not a problem after a while.
The twelve-year-old sister went to her mother to help the year before last, and her sister was only ten years old when she left, Zhang Heng has not celebrated the New Year for her mother and sister for two years, and she doesn't know if her mother's health is better, is her sister getting taller, and is she tired of helping her mother work?
He has always had a dream, that is, to earn a lot of money, to buy a big house in the city, and to build a beautiful building for his grandmother in the village, to put white tiles on the outside, to lay red floor tiles on the ground, and to cover the roof with cement boards, which is convenient for drying grain in summer!
When he had money, he let his mother and grandmother play at home every day, and he didn't do farm work or work, and let his sister study and go to college......
There are also relatives who lend money to his family to repay their debts, and if they borrow 10,000, they will repay 100,000 yuan, and they will pay back at least ten times as much to their relatives.
Also, when he has the money, he can confess to the squad leader, he has liked the squad leader for several years, but he never dares to say it, and he doesn't even dare to write a love letter!
I heard the teacher say that you can fall in love casually in college, so he has to hurry up and make a lot of money to confess before the class president falls in love, so this summer vacation is quite critical, fortunately, the key university that the class leader was admitted to is in the same city as him, and it seems that it is not very far away. I just don't know what the city outside is like, is it possible to make a lot of money as long as you are willing to endure hardships! He hadn't been to the city once he was so old, but he had heard his mother talk a lot about his relatives, and he remembered it all.
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The next morning, Zhang Heng got up early, such as when he used to study, he would walk an hour on the mountain road to go to school, getting up early has become a habit, since his father ran away, he has never slept once!
The memory of his father in his mind is already very vague, but from the perspective of his youth, his father is a talent, in the words of the girls in the class, he is handsome! He also inherited his father's genes, and he thinks he is still very handsome, but it is undeniable that he is still very inferior, otherwise he would not dare to confess to the squad leader!
In the words of the village elders, children who are surrounded by their parents will always be "male", and when their parents are not around, they will look "dying".
After getting dressed on the bed a few times, with a slight force on the waist and abdomen, a standard carp stood upright, obviously lying down, and stood firmly on the ground.
Suddenly, Zhang Heng's whole body shook like a swing, starting from his bare feet to his neck, trembling as if he was crazy, accompanied by a crisp sound like a twisted bone vein.
Suddenly, Zhang Heng's ten fingers crossed each other, and the five fingers of his right hand were pressed, and another dense sound came, and then he changed his left hand and pressed it, and then the ten fingers were separated, and the fingertips of both hands were clasped with each other to press the second knuckle to bend, and there was a crisp sound, and finally the fists were clenched, as if the air was bursting, and there was a crackling sound!
After this set was done, the bare feet rang four times, the waist rang eight times, the neck sounded six times, and the ten knuckles of both hands sounded thirty times, a total of forty-eight times, coherently, like a burst of artillery that makes people's hearts tremble!
Since he was ten years old, he suddenly discovered that he could make the bones of his whole body tremble, and since he was twelve years old, he found that he could "micro-control" the muscles of his whole body, and when his mind moved, a certain muscle in his body would tremble.
You can run 11 seconds in 100 meters, do 50 pull-ups at a time, throw 28 meters in the shot put, and do 200 push-ups with one hand......
But he never showed this, he never participated in any sports in school, let alone participated in any competitions, even if he knew that as long as he could run 100 meters into the 12-second college entrance examination, he would not show it, because he had no extra time to exercise, and he did not have the money to participate in any activities! also because he has low self-esteem and seems a little withdrawn!
And his thin and thin body has not aroused the suspicion of his classmates, in school he is just a marginal person with acceptable academic performance, maybe some classmates will forget his name and forget him after a while.
However, he himself knows that if he talks about fighting, he will be beaten by him if he chooses ten boys in the class to go together, but he never fights, does not cause trouble, and is even a little cowardly in the eyes of his classmates, just because he is afraid of hurting his classmates, he has no money to pay, and he doesn't want his grandmother to worry about him!
Shaking his head, he muttered, "What's the use of being able to fight?" Can you make money? ”
After thinking about it, he lit the kerosene lamp on the bedside table, his room was built next to the pigsty, and there were no wires installed in it, and he had been using the kerosene lamp for lighting since he was a child!
With the help of some dim kerosene lights, he packed a few clothes into his school bag, and took out a few old books from under the wooden box, this is his "martial arts secrets", every young man in the village is a "hero" dream, and so is he!
A copy of "Chen-style Taiji" published in 63, a book of "Shaolin 72 Stunts" published in 78, and a hand-copied "Five Elements Boxing" by brush, these three books are his treasures.
The first two were found by him from the waste paper pockets discarded by his classmates at the end of the semester, and the latter one was left by his deceased grandfather. Carefully put the three "cheats" into the school bag, straddle it over the shoulder, and throw a punch at will, good guy, there is a faint sound of breaking the air, at least half a meter away from the kerosene lamp, but the wind blowing up by this random punch actually knocked out the oil lamp.
Zhang Heng grinned, rubbing his hands, the palms and backs of his hands were covered with thick calluses, the palms of his hands were calluses grown from farm work, and the backs of his hands were all punched out of the rough pine bark with his fists, although he was still an eighteen-year-old poor boy, but when he entered the city, he could at least use a pair of fists to protect his mother and sister.
Also, if one day he sees his father who has escaped and disappeared, he wants to use these fists to make his father kneel in front of his mother and grandmother and confess his mistake...... Maybe he will be able to forgive his father then!
Opened the wooden door, walked through a small alley, on the left is the pigsty, the four fat pigs fed in it have been sold, sold for more than 6,000 yuan, although the pigs are basically raised by him, he didn't ask for any money, all left to his grandmother's usual use, so that he can rest assured.
As soon as he walked out, there was a small dam, opposite the ancestral house, and there were only two rooms in total, a hall and a house, so he could only sleep next to the pigsty, which is also common in the village, and some of the children in the village even lived above the cowpen.
The kitchen of the ancestral house is at the door of the hall, there is only one stove, there is no cover, only the tile beam above can shelter from the rain, the grandmother is already cooking, and when she looks closer, she is cooking mash rice balls for him.
"Jiu'er, go wash your face, you have to catch the car early after eating!" Grandma said kindly.
Zhang Heng responded, and not long after he was eating the mash in the bowl, his grandmother also cleaned up, rubbed her dry hands on the cyan waist, and said loudly: "Jiu'er, Zuzu gave you a ring, which was handed down by the ancestor of the Zhang family, and your grandfather gave it to me when I got married, and I have been wearing it for more than 70 years, and now Zuzu will give you the ring, and when you have a daughter-in-law in the future, you will put the ring on your daughter-in-law, and also bring your daughter-in-law back for Zuzu to see, so that Zuzu can close his eyes with peace of mind when he leaves." ”
Zhang Heng had a meal on his hand, and a parting sorrow rolled to the tip of his heart, his grandmother was his grandfather's child daughter-in-law, ten years older than his grandfather, and married into the Zhang family at the age of seventeen.
Grandma has worked hard all her life, and Zhang Heng once again swore in his mind that he must earn a lot of money so that his grandmother can enjoy her old age in peace.
It's not that a few grandfathers are not filial, in fact, every month eight grandfathers will pick some food to send to grandma, and they will also send some money and meat to grandma during the New Year's holidays. If his grandmother lived with a certain grandfather, the money and food would not be good for him.
Deep sigh! The relatives are not bad, and they don't take care of him, otherwise they wouldn't have made up hundreds of thousands of dollars to lend to his family ten years ago to pay off the debt, and he hasn't paid it back yet, and his mother has only paid back the hundreds of thousands owed by his father outside these years, Zhang Heng nodded secretly again, he has to find a way to repay the money he owes to his relatives, and he can't let his mother work hard.
Thinking about it, Grandma had already taken off the ring on her hand, and said: "Ancestor has already found someone to see it in the early years, this ring is copper and worthless, but you have to put it away, if you drop Ancestor, don't agree!" ”
Zhang Heng didn't refuse, nodded heavily, thinking that he must open his eyes to buy a big gold ring for his grandmother in the future!
Putting the ring on his hand solemnly, Zhang Heng said loudly: "Grandma, after I leave, you can go to live at Grandpa Seven's house, Grandma Seventh is a good person and will take care of people." ”
"Zuzu can save it, don't worry too much about family affairs, go out and have a good time with your mother, and help your mother do more work." Grandma said sharply.
Zhang Heng nodded again, then dried the mash in the bowl in one bite, stepped on his backpack and set off......
Grandma sent him to the entrance of the village, along the way several grandfathers also came out, all sent him a red envelope, grandpa and grandma also came, grandpa and grandma did not love him, just because there are too many grandchildren in the family, they are in this room, he has three cousins, two cousins, and five cousins, grandparents can't take care of it at all, and grandparents are also in their sixties, and they follow the uncle's family to live, and there is not much money in their hands!
Out of the village, Zhang Heng touched the dozen or so red envelopes in his arms, and nodded again, he must earn a lot of money and come back!
Walking on the country road, it takes an hour to see the road, and it takes half an hour to get to the town, and then to the city where my mother is.
He has a set of "stunts" that he dreams about, that is, he thinks of other beautiful things in his head when he walks, and when he wakes up, it is usually an hour later, and he arrives at the school gate as soon as he raises his eyes. I often do this when I practice the "Martial Arts Cheats", and when I come back from the dream of "wandering", I have generally punched thousands of punches.
At this time, Zhang Heng is preparing to rely on "distraction" again to solve the boredom of walking, and is planning to "fantasize" and the better life of the squad leader in the future, last time I have thought of the critical moment, the squad leader has just conceived his child, this time to dream, the squad leader will definitely give him a big fat boy.
Suddenly, my mind moved, and the bronze ring on my left hand looked very dazzling in the rising sun, or because my grandmother usually wore it on her hand, so it became brighter and brighter!
Suo took off the ring and studied it, at this time almost all of his spirit was placed on the ring, which was similar to the state when Bai Yue was dreaming, but his body was as if he had given an order, and his feet were still non-stop, walking on the mountain road, if he encountered a rugged or pothole, he could instinctively dodge it, which was a physical instinct that had been cultivated for many years.
The ring in his eyes made him a little stunned, because the carving was so expressive, and the ring was carved with a small fire in the cave, and several naked children shivering around it, and some shriveled fruit on the stone platform beside it, and a few rough stone axes on the ground.
What does that mean? Zhang Heng was puzzled, this ring is completely different from the perennial "Fu" and "Shou" old rings in the countryside, what does it mean that this ring is carved out of a cave? And the situation in this cave is so expressive, as if he has come to life, plus his powerful "white dream" ability, for a moment, as if he is in the cave, the stone axe on the ground in his eyes infinitely magnified, and as if he can grasp the axe as long as he wants, a few beggar-like children look frightened, as if they really saw him, and in his eyes these children do not look normal, the forehead bone is protruding, the face bone is deeply concave, like an incomplete monkey head, like the primitive man drawn in the book......
He was about to take a closer look, suddenly, his footsteps stopped consciously, and he actually arrived on the side of the highway when he came back to his senses, Zhang Heng was even more surprised, although he used this trick to "dream in vain" to hurry, but he didn't feel so fast, just now it felt like it was only a few minutes, and he didn't think that it would be an hour's journey.
When I looked at my watch, it was indeed an hour later, and it was already eight o'clock in the morning, when I suddenly saw a passing car coming in front of me, I hurriedly put the ring on my hand and waved my arm to show that the bus stopped!
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