Section 4 Shen Tong's past
Leaning on the back of the wooden chair, the curved back of the chair just pressed against the two muscles behind him, making him feel like he was enjoying a massage, and his whole body was much more comfortable. This kind of engineering shape originated from the Yuan Dynasty, which is obviously full of the wisdom of the ancients, and a simple chair alone has such an effect, which shows that the wisdom of the ancestors is far beyond our imagination. It's just that at this moment, after Shen Tong ended the call with his daughter, he was obviously more and more helpless about his situation.
Shen Yan obviously didn't know about his father's situation at the moment, in fact, compared to usual, Shen Tong really hadn't changed.
It is said that the daughter is the lover of her father's last life, and the two of them are no exception, and she was quite spoiled by Shen Tong when she beat Xiao Shen Yan. In the case of Shen Tong's heart-to-heart questioning, he also generally learned about his daughter's current situation.
Now that Shen Yan is in her sophomore year, her good study habits since childhood have ensured her excellent academic performance, which allowed her to successfully enter a key university in the city after the college entrance examination. It is naturally a very happy thing to be able to go to school in this city, in addition to activities with her classmates, she can basically reunite with her family once a week, which is enough to envy people who are far away from home.
In the middle of the study, there is a simple chandelier, and the ceiling around it is inlaid with lattices to echo the lamps, making the space above the head also look very exquisite.
It's just that Shen Tong at this moment no longer has the heart to care about all this, he just wants to figure out what has happened in the past ten years, why can't he remember anything about it?
His eyes gradually dispersed, and Shen Tong's thoughts also returned to the previous scene with his memory. It seems that he wants to find the memories that have been inexplicably lost in the past ten years by recalling his past.
In his vague memory, Shen Tong came to a remote and impoverished village, and like most people, he was also a farmer's child, a doll who grew up in the countryside.
It was already eight years ago, and when he remembered, the night in the countryside was pitch black, there was no light in the house, only kerosene lamps could illuminate the darkness of the night. So when he was young, he liked to watch the fireflies flying around, and the light in the grass echoed with the stars in the sky.
When he was about four or five years old, he remembered that his home was connected to electricity and his parents bought the first television in the village.
It's just that at that time, the TV was a snowflake jumping, and there seemed to be only two or three channels. However, this did not stop the curiosity of the villagers, and every day after dinner, his house was always crowded with people, and it was always lively. And grandpa also started a small shop business at that time, thanks to the attraction of that TV, all kinds of things in the shop are very popular, it can be said that the memory at that time is the most vague and the most beautiful, in that era, his father as a middle school teacher has a stable income, his uncle is the captain of production, in the village is also very prestigious, living in such a rich and warm and happy family, his childhood naturally became the object of envy of others.
Especially Shen Tong's uncle, I don't know why he didn't marry a wife, so all his love is on this nephew, and it can be said that he is obedient to him.
However, the world is always full of uncertainties, and when he was about six years old, his parents divorced.
For Shen Tong at that time, he didn't seem to feel any difference in life. However, that happy and beautiful life seems to have gradually left him with his mother's remarriage. Although, at night, he still goes to the river with a flashlight to catch toads with his friends in the village, although on vacation, he still goes to dig birds' nests with them. But seeing others soiling their clothes and going home with his mother to help wash them, he could only watch his old grandfather work behind him, and the loss and inferiority complex in his heart gradually deposited.
Growing up in this environment where he lost his mother's love, Shen Tong became more and more introverted, he began to become less talkative, and began to become less fond of playing with other friends, he gradually fell in love with reading, and fell in love with a person who was quietly indulged in the book, as if only the world in the book could make him find happiness, as if only the world full of imagination could make him find the happiness of his lost childhood.
When he was 12 years old, his father was hit by a whizzing car on his way home from school.
That year, the family spent all their savings and borrowed a lot of foreign debts, but they still failed to rescue his father from critical illness, and 12-year-old Shen Tong became a complete orphan.
In his mind, he will always remember the scene when his father's cold body was sent home. That day, the snow was so heavy and the road was so slippery, he ran all the way home crying and screaming, and he didn't know how many falls along the way. But he could only hold his father with a cold body, and he couldn't get any answer, the heart-rending cry, the pale and helpless picture, just forever imprinted in his heart, so that he could never forget.
It was also in that year that the almost desperate uncle stepped down from the position of production captain and collapsed.
Shen Tong, who was lying there, had tears in the corners of his eyes, and his heart was like a knife. He hasn't touched this past buried deep in his heart for a long time, because he knows that every time he opens that memory, no matter how tenacious his heart is, and no matter how beautiful he is in front of others, it is always difficult to control his feelings.
His thoughts dispersed again, and Shen Tong tried to calm himself down. This time, he saw himself stepping into the school where his father worked, and saw the uncles and uncles who hugged him when he was young, but this time, they no longer smiled when they saw him, and the pity and sympathy in those eyes made the young child more silent and autistic again.
He was obsessed with arcades and all sorts of things, except that he didn't like school and didn't want to come into contact with the eyes that made him feel pain and sadness.
During that time, in front of the various rockers in the game hall, there was always a child in tattered clothes and a thin body. Sometimes, he shook and shouted vigorously, shouting at the person jumping up and down in the game console, and at that moment it was as if he was fighting inside, punching and kicking Sizhou. More often than not, however, he could only quietly huddle and watch the other children yelling and cheering excitedly.
He began to skip school and began to avoid classes.
But the uncles and uncles who worked with his father always took the trouble to run to his house and bring him back to the classroom, even if his grades were at the bottom of the school at the moment, even if everyone already felt that the child was hopeless. But the pity in their hearts always makes them want to help him a little more, pull him a little more.
Finally, in the third year of junior high school, his grandfather, who got up before dawn every day to cook for him and waited for him to come home at the door every night, also passed away. However, he didn't get to meet this grandfather who gave all his love to him, because at that time he was still in the game hall stunned and watched others shouting and watching others elated. When he returned home and saw the loved one who could no longer get up to greet him, he knelt in front of the bed and cried for two whole days.
He took the ten yuan that his grandfather had firmly held in his hand, and he knew that it was the living expenses that his grandfather had left for him to save money.
He was 14 years old that year, and in more than half a year, he was about to end his junior high school life.
That year, it was freezing and heavy snow closed the road. Thick layers of snow obscured the roads and turned the whole world white. When everyone was immersed in the joy of building a snowman and playing with snowballs, he walked to the school with trembling steps in his thin clothes, and walked into the classroom that he had stayed for two years, but still felt strange to him. The atmosphere of the school was warm, and the students who were already in the third year of junior high school were naturally nervous about studying, and no one noticed that at the edge of the corner of the classroom, in the position where few people usually sit, there began to be a fool who was still wearing single clothes in the winter, looking at the book word by word, reciting the poems and operas in the book sentence by sentence, and reciting mathematical formulas.
It should have been the most dedicated period of his life, and it should have been the most dedicated day in his life.
This shivering child, who has no meal and is frozen most of the time, finally survived the most difficult winter and finally ushered in a good season for the Spring Festival Gala to bloom.
In this world, there are not too many fools, and for most people, the intelligence is actually similar. The reason why there are good or bad grades is just that everyone's level of effort is different, and their interests and hobbies are different, and judging whether a person is smart or not obviously cannot be judged by the quality of the grades.
In fact, in this world, many students who do not do well in school have made amazing achievements in other fields.
And Shen Tong showed amazing concentration and strong memory in that half a year. From the bottom of the initial grade ranking to the final high school entrance examination, he charged all the way with an almost miraculous and even amazing speed, and finally graduated with the top five in the class and the top 30 in the school, and was admitted to the normal school, embarking on a road that is completely open in the eyes of everyone.
However, when he took the admission letter during the summer vacation, but saw the scene of the uncle getting drunk and crying, he didn't say anything, he didn't complain, he just quietly looked at this home that once brought him infinite happiness in childhood, but now it is dilapidated and leaking everywhere.