Chapter 34: Zhao Gang
Zhao Gang is Zhao Jie's younger brother, and since he was a child, he has loved this younger brother very much.
Their hometown is in a remote mountain village.
The village is surrounded by mountains, there are no roads, there is a lack of materials, the villagers are very poor, and the village has a strong clan tradition. Because there is no other source of income in the village except farming, Zhao Jie's father went out to work with other young adults in the village when he was very young.
His father, who climbed mountains and waded through waters, went to a place far away from home. In the first few years, I would send money home on time, but what came back later was my father's cold corpse. Other fellow workers in the village said his father died in a small coal kiln to make more money. The uneducated mother, relying on the compensation stained with his father's blood, pulled her two sons with hard work.
However, some people in the clan looked at the orphans and widows very unpleasantly, they not only tried every means to bully Zhao Jie's family everywhere, but also racked their brains to drive them out of the village and occupy their family's land.
Although the mother tried her best to raise the two babies, it was still difficult to get out of the financial dilemma of more and less entry, so the family could only barely maintain food and clothing. There is an old saying in the countryside: Half the eldest eats the poor, and Zhao Jie is this kind of kid.
He seems to have a big stomach by nature, and when he was born, he ate more than other children, and when he grew up, the amount of food was even more amazing. Every day after eating the last meal, I look forward to the next meal, and from time to time I steal a potato and sweet potato to cushion my stomach, and I still feel that I can't eat enough. The mother had no other choice but to save more of her rations for him, and the younger brother also saved his own food and left it for Zhao Jie to eat on the grounds that he didn't like to eat.
He knew how much his family cared for him, and he tried his best to restrain his appetite, but the amount of food was still amazing. In the long run, except for him, who is tall and strong, everyone else in the family is sick and malnourished, especially his younger brother Zhao Gang, who is like a fragile little bean sprout, which looks very guilty to Zhao Jie.
Therefore, Zhao Jie is very doting on Zhao Gang's younger brother, and he is also doing his best to protect his family. The children in the village fought, and none of them could beat him, and on weekdays, even if the other children were together, they didn't dare to provoke him, and the days would have gone on peacefully.
But when Zhao Jie was 10 years old, the village built a road, surrounded by mountains, and the beautiful scenery attracted many investors. Someone wants to build a cultural film and television city in the village, and this good news that can change the fate of the villagers makes the barren village suddenly boil.
The inch of land in front of the interests made some people in the clan red-eyed, and they forced Zhao Jie's mother to remarry for the sake of Zhao Jie's family's property. In the end, her mother threw herself into the well in a fit of rage, and the two underage children were also coaxed out of the village.
The two children came to the outside of the unaccompanied mountain, with no other relatives and friends, to take refuge in, and without any financial resources, they could make a living. Zhao Jie could only lead his younger brother, begging and wandering all the way, and later moved to Dongyang City.
Although Zhao Jie is not yet an adult, he has no skills, and he does not have any academic qualifications that can be used, but he is very strong, strong in fighting, righteous and generous, and those homeless people who pick up rags and beg are also willing to listen to his command. Gradually, Zhao Jie contracted a scrap collection station, and after making some money, he set up a construction team and started a decoration business.
Later, he got involved in real estate, and within a few years, he and his younger brother lived the life of a small nouveau riche.
After they became rich, Zhao Gang was even more obedient to Zhao Jie's requirements, and he couldn't wait to give him the best things in the world. Fortunately, his younger brother is naturally cowardly, and for so many years, he has acted very peacefully, and he has never caused any trouble, let alone made any out-of-the-ordinary requests, Zhao Gang trusts him very much.
But time passes, and people change.
Zhao Gang, who lacked maternal love when he was growing up, fell in love with a woman who was older than him, and he was obsessed with this woman with the opposite personality. This woman is very wealthy, usually in and out of very tall places, and is passionate about drag racing. She knew that Zhao Gang's brother Zhao Jie was rich, so she kept prying him and asked him to go to his brother to ask for a sports car as a birthday gift.
In order to win her heart, the cowardly Zhao Gang worked hard for the first time.
He grinds hard with his brother every day and asks for a sports car as a birthday present. In fact, when he first heard this outrageous request, Zhao Jie did not agree. After all, my younger brother is only fifteen years old, and according to the law, he can't even take the driver's license test, so how can he buy him a sports car as a birthday gift?
However, under the instigation of that woman, Zhao Gang was determined to ask his brother to buy him a car, and even did not hesitate to run away from home. In the end, Zhao Jie had no choice but to give in and bought him a new sports car a few days before his brother's fifteenth birthday. For the sake of his younger brother's safety, Zhao Jie hired a driver for him and did not allow Zhao Gang to drive by himself.
On Zhao Gang's fifteenth birthday, it was raining heavily in Dongyang City, and Zhao Jie planned to celebrate his younger brother's birthday at home, but his younger brother had to go out. also said that he grew up and wanted to celebrate his birthday with his friends, but Zhao Jie had no choice, so he asked the driver to drive him out.
I heard that Zhao Gang and they had a lot of fun that day, and everyone drank a lot of wine, but the woman called and asked Zhao Gang to drive to pick her up, and then there was a car accident. Zhao Jie also arrived at the scene of the car accident, and the scene was very tragic.
Zhao Gang's small sports car crashed head-on into An Zhi's father's car, killing three people on the spot. For the other two survivors, the situation is also not optimistic. The woman Zhao Gang liked survived, but she also became a vegetative person with one leg missing, and there was a survivor, a little girl named An Zhi, who heard that her situation was very special.
When I first met An Zhi, Zhao Jie had just come out of the morgue in grief. At that moment, his face was full of tears, and his legs were as heavy as lead. With tears in his eyes, he trembled and walked to the white bench at the door, and suddenly found a little girl sitting on the chair who did not cry or make trouble.
The little girl had a pale face, no blood on her lips, no expression on her face, her eyes were hollow, and she stared at the door of the morgue in a stupid daze. If it weren't for the fact that the little girl's face and body were covered in blood, and her hair and clothes were very messy, Zhao Jie would even treat her as a sad ghost.
The girl was very quiet and in a daze, looking very well-behaved and obedient, like sitting at the door, waiting for her parents to go to the morgue to do errands. Everything around her seemed to be isolated, whether it was the voices in the hallway, the noise in the hospital, or the questions of others, she could not hear them.