Chapter 1: Young Ye Fan
"Ahem, ahem......"
"Grandpa, it doesn't matter, right?"
The lights on the streets in the British Concession of Shanghai are facing an old man and a young man in the distance. A boy who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old walked aimlessly in the British Concession with an old man who looked like he was ten years old. This young man's face looked a little pale, his name is Ye Fan, he grew up with his grandfather since he was a child, and he didn't learn anything else by his grandfather's side, so he learned a special skill.
Ye Fan wore a gray coat with more than a dozen patches on his upper body, and the thumb of a pair of cloth shoes was still exposed, his head was close to one meter eight, probably malnourished for a long time, Ye Fan's face was a little pale, and the most striking thing was his pair of bright eyes, deep and bright like dazzling stars in the night sky.
The old man is Ye Fan's grandfather, Ye Fan has been dependent on his grandfather since he was a child, but except for knowing that his grandfather's surname is Ye, nothing else has been found. With white hair covering his face, he couldn't see his face clearly, he was hunched on his back under Ye Fan's support, and he couldn't stop coughing. Seeing that his grandfather was coughing so badly, Ye Fan asked worriedly.
"Grandpa, there's a house in front, let's go in and rest."
Ye Fan helped his grandfather into a house that was almost ventilated on all sides, such a house was rare or even disappeared in the concession, and a little bit of it was taken up by the thugs, and it was good to be able to find a temporary foothold in the concession. Ye Fan put his grandfather in a corner, found a piece of cotton wool in the pile of debris, covered the cotton wool on his grandfather's body, and gently beat his grandfather's back, maybe Ye Fan's beating of his back had an effect, grandpa's cough became a little lighter, and seeing that his grandfather's condition had improved, Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ahem, come to Ye'er, grandpa will have a few words with you."
Ye Ye pulled Ye Fan to his side.
"Ahem, Ye'er, everything has to be looked at, people are inherently dead, grandpa can live at such an old age, he is already content, if grandpa suddenly ...... one day"
Before Ye Ye could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Ye Fan. Grandpa has always said these words these days, but he has never said it so ugly like once, Ye Fan tried to touch his grandfather's forehead, it was a little hot, it seemed to be hotter than yesterday, it seemed that if there was no medicine to treat it, grandpa might really die.
"No, grandpa, don't worry, I'm here, it's going to be fine! Woo......"
Ye Fan cried with tears, Ye Fan already knew the following words, this is the sixth time that his grandfather has said it in three days.
"Silly boy."
Ye Ye smiled and stretched out his withered, black and thin hand to gently wipe away the tears on Ye Fan's face.
Although Ye Fan is sixteen years old, he is also a child who has never experienced life and death.
"Ye'er, come, talk to grandpa for a while."
Ye Ye struggled to sit up and leaned against the wall, Ye Fan quickly stuffed a ball of cotton wool behind his grandfather, so that his grandfather would be more comfortable.
"Ye'er, do you know why grandpa named you Ye Fan!"
"Huh?"
Ye Fan was stunned, he had been calling Ye Fan for sixteen years, and he had never thought about what the meaning of this name was, could it be that his parents gave him before he died?
"As many people as civilians, so the text cannot be far away. This is a sentence in "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhuge Liang", in order to hope that you will spend an ordinary and ordinary life, you must know that many people have been mixed in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and then they know that peace is a blessing. ”
When he said this, Ye Ye suddenly stopped talking, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, obviously remembering the past that he didn't want to mention.
Ye Fan didn't understand it even more, ordinary parents all hope that their children can get ahead, be superior, and at least be an official, but how does grandpa want to be an ordinary person?
As many people as civilians, so its text cannot be far away. Although I don't know what it means, it definitely doesn't sound like a compliment, although Ye Fan doesn't think he has any ambitions, but he is not the kind of person who is willing to be mediocre, after hearing his grandfather say this, he was naturally unconvinced, in his immature heart, since his grandfather said this, it is not good to see himself, to sum up, Ye Fan is a little unhappy.
"You! You! Listen to grandpa, there will be no mistake! ”
Ye Ye shook his head and stopped saying anything, it was obvious that Ye Fan didn't listen to his words, although he was doing it for Ye Fan's good, but Ye Fan couldn't listen to it, and Ye Ye couldn't help it. He is about to die soon, and what he is worried about is that Ye Fan has embarked on the same path of no return as himself, and now Ye Ye regrets teaching Ye Fan these skills. The only expectation is that the old guys who know themselves are buried early.
"Grandpa, can you tell me why? Is it looking down on me? "Since you have never planned to train yourself to get ahead, why do you force yourself to learn those skills from an early age? Isn't it true that you can learn those things yourself so that you can live a better life one day?
"What Grandpa taught you is not to ask you to eat on those things that are not on the table in the future, but to hope that you will not suffer in this in the future! You must know that the rivers and lakes are sinister! Ye Ye persuaded bitterly, his only eldest grandson, under his own stimulation, already showed signs of going astray, and what he had to do now was to pull him back to the right path.
"Grandpa, you always say that the rivers and lakes are sinister, but can you tell me where the rivers and lakes are? Also, if you won't let me eat by what you taught me, why do you teach me? ”
Faced with Ye Fan's series of questions, Ye Ye chose to be silent, and his grandfather didn't want to recall, nor did he want to mention the past to Ye Fan.
……
Neither of them spoke, and the scene was suddenly a little depressing.
"Grandpa, don't worry, you can rest first, I'll go find you medicine."
After being silent for a while, Ye Fan walked out of the broken house with red eyes, just now Ye Fan knew that his grandfather must have remembered something sad, when he was a child, he once asked his grandfather the reason, but his grandfather never mentioned it, once his grandfather beat himself hard, which made Ye Fan unimaginable, and he couldn't imagine that his grandfather, who was usually kind to him, would be so angry. Except when he was training himself, his grandfather had never beaten himself, and there is still a three-inch-long scar on his back, which is still shocking after ten years.
Since then, Ye Fan has learned to be obedient and has never asked his grandfather about his past, but on a specific day every year, his grandfather always hides in a place where no one is and silently sheds tears in front of a photo.
Why didn't Grandpa tell him about his background? Why do you want to teach yourself so many skills? And where are the rivers and lakes that grandpa keeps talking about? Grandpa's words seemed to be hiding something.
Ye Fan walked alone on the street, feeling confused, he really didn't know where to go, whether to choose the ordinary road arranged by his grandfather, or to grope for a new way.
! Who can show me the way, as long as I can eat enough!!
"Oops! Not good! ”
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