Chapter 1 Leaving the Country
Xuan Ziyi realized that she had grown up on the tenth day after she got her college diploma, and at five o'clock that morning, she was ready to leave home to help out at the nearby breakfast restaurant as usual.
She has been working as a temporary job at the breakfast shop for five years during the winter and summer vacations to earn some money to supplement her tuition, and although she graduated and got a new job offer, she still responded to the plea of the breakfast shop owner to help out before she could take up her job. She was just about to go out when her mother's screams came from the house, and then she saw her brother Xuan Ziqiang rushing out frantically with a bag.
"He's crazy, he's going crazy!" The mother chased after her clothes without tidying up properly. Watching the mother and son running all over the street, Xuan Ziyi has become accustomed to it, she will never be surprised, the brother who was overly pampered and cared for has never done anything serious when he grew up, he has always been like this, he never went to school after graduating from junior high school, and he became a street gangster hated by everyone early.
That night until twelve o'clock in the evening, my brother still did not return, and the next night he was not seen. It wasn't until noon on the tenth day that the police in police uniforms found Xuan Ziyi's home. They said Mr. Xuan was involved in a murder and robbery case.
Xuan Ziyi had only learned "one night of whiteness" in textbooks before, and now she finally saw it in reality, the saddest thing is that it happened to her parents, and her parents were really white-headed overnight.
The frightening thing was still to come, and soon after her brother was imprisoned, it was full of debt collection calls and debt collectors.
What made her even worse happened on an incredible night, it was a thunderstorm night, Xuan Ziyi was invited by several classmates in college to attend a graduation party, eat and sing. The party ended at a KTV called Happy Chang, and it was already late at 23 o'clock at night.
After Xuan Ziyi said goodbye to her classmates, she didn't take a taxi in order to save a few dollars, and went straight home alone. The thunder that night was particularly muffled, stuffy and dizzy, occasionally lightning thunderclaps, Xuan Ziyi walked on the road alone, a little timid, the pedestrians on the road were scarce and became single digits, Ziyi used all her strength to concentrate on both hands, and used both hands to support the not thick, dotted umbrella full of chrysanthemums.
Xuan Ziyi slowly moved hard in the direction of her home, which was about 3,000 meters away from this KTV, and with her walking speed, she thought that she should be able to do it in forty minutes.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, the rain was pouring down, her legs and feet were completely soaked, and her umbrella bones were blown back by the wind N times, causing her whole body to be wet, and she planned to rest in the pavilion when she passed by the small roadside park, because her hair and eyes were already soaked with water.
Finally came to the small park, and by the faint light was about to roll up the wet pants stuck to her legs, when suddenly a dark shadow flashed behind her, hugged her, and covered her mouth with the other.
She struggled with her mission, and for a moment she felt dizzy, and smelled a strange smell from the hand that covered her mouth. When she realized it, she was completely unconscious, and when she woke up again, she knew what had happened to her......
She wanted to cry without tears, tidied up her clothes, struggled to stand up, completely ignored the wind and rain, rushed to her home, threw away the dotted chrysanthemum umbrella in the wind and rain, and floated alone.
Xuan Ziyi didn't say anything to her gray-haired parents when she got home, she took her pajamas and rushed into the bathroom, locked herself in it for a full hour, her mother came to urge her several times, she always said it was not good.
The next day, she didn't go out, and on the third day, she still didn't go out, no matter how her parents asked her, she didn't say it, she knew that if she said it, how could her parents, who had been white-headed overnight, face such a fact again.
She understands that the family in front of her needs her to be strong to survive. Once something happens to her, her poor parents will be old and helpless, maybe there is never a quiet time in life, and the quiet years you want are nothing more than spending every day in peace and joy. But the reality is cruel, most people in this world can be peaceful, but not happy. Without peace, there can be no joy.
The harassment of those debt collectors became more and more frenzied, and people kept coming to the door to collect debts, some with IOUs written by their brothers, and some saying that Xuan Ziqiang owed them money without anything at all. My parents have all the money they have left over the years. Ziyi, who went to college, wanted to call the police, but was stopped by her kind and honest parents, and her parents in her hometown thought it was pointless to call the police.
The two old men always thought that this was really a debt owed by their son, and they should pay it back. When more and more people ask for debts, the elderly begin to be overwhelmed and do not know what to do.
Finally, after a month of suffering, Xuan Ziyi's parents began to feel that they had no face to see and could not bear all this, Xuan Ziyi suddenly became sober, and she began to have a new idea: to take her parents out of this place, she gave up the OFFER that had already arrived, and symbolically called the HR of the company that sent her OFFER, and had to give up the job on the pretext that she could not report on time because of something at home, and she made the final decision: that is, to take her parents away from home.
During the month of this retreat, Xuan Ziyi had actually been surfing the Internet, looking for a place to go, and she had gone through almost all of China and chose Shenzhen, which she thought would be a place full of hope.
So, after discussing with her parents, she unanimously decided to leave.
The week before they left, they cleaned the house very clean, and sealed all the doors and windows. Xuan Ziyi only bought three train tickets to Shenzhen.
So, on a starry night, the family quietly did not say goodbye to anyone and went to the train station in the night.
The next morning, they stepped on the train to Shenzhen in the early morning, and when they got on the train, Xuan Ziyi did not look back, because she wanted to say goodbye to everything here as soon as possible.
She does need to say goodbye to those pasts, and while saying goodbye is hard, it's even harder not to say goodbye!
Xuan Ziyi is confused about her future life, but she also understands that the authors of countless biographies she has read are telling her that if you don't want to cut off from the past, you can't be reborn. Freshmen need courage, and they also need you to have the guts and courage to gamble, because there is no way back.
On the train, Xuan Ziyi looked at the world outside the train through the window of the train, and when the familiar buildings in the distance left her sight farther and farther away, and the car shuttled on the top of the high mountain, Xuan Ziyi was excited and joyful. She was looking forward to that new world.