Chapter 1: The Strange Chest (1)
My name is Xu Zhihan, and I am a sophomore student at Panhu No. 1 High School in a very small city in Anhui Province.
Well, I'm not a student anymore, I'm a courier at SF Express.
My father's name is Xu Guangbo, and he is a famous gambling king in Panhu City.
When it comes to gambling king Xu Guangbo, three-year-old children in Panhu City know it.
"Xu Guangbo? Is that the gambling king who jumped from the twelfth floor and fell to his death? Oh mom, what a miserable death. ”
You are not angry Xu Guangbo, I am a dad, why do you want to jump off the building? As the saying goes, gambling is not about losing money. Why can't you pretend to be like this and smear our Xu family's face.
I heard my grandfather say that our ancestors were also famous families in Xuji Village. There are tens of thousands of acres of farmland, and most of the shops in Panhu Town are surnamed Xu.
Grandpa's father was in charge of most of the street's shop. At that time, it was called Shaodongjia, and now it is called president. In Panhu Town, it is called a majesty, and the mayor of the town respects him for three points.
At that time, Panhu Town was now Panhu City. Alas, it would have been nice if I had been born at that time. You can also touch the light of my ancestors, majestic and majestic.
will not follow this Xu Guangbo and lose the reputation of a notorious gambling king's son.
The gambling king will bet on the king, which is better than jumping off the building and committing suicide because of the loss of gambling. And the reputation of this bad seed is much better.
You're relieved to be gone, so I'm being pointed at everywhere I go. How to be a person?
But now I don't care. If you point to it, you can't hang it because you're afraid of people pointing at me. Even if I die, it doesn't matter, but I still have a vegetative mother.
After hearing that my father had committed suicide by jumping off the building, Keling's mother did not catch up in one breath, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, and she became a vegetative person due to lack of oxygen for too long.
Mom, you know that you're a vegetative person, but you're miserable for your son and me. Otherwise, I would have gone to Shanghai with my friends to work, and no one there knew that I was the son of the gambling king who committed suicide by jumping off a building overnight.
This gambler can really become rich overnight. In the same way, it is possible to become a beggar overnight.
And my father became a dead man, leaving behind his wife and children to suffer in this world.
Yes? Snowing?
Let's just say that the wind is so biting cold. Clusters of snowflakes floated in the sky.
Hurry up and finish the courier, and go home to see my mother, can it be cold? Turn off the electric blanket when you leave the house in the morning. I'm not at home for fear of accidents.
"503 Express." Riding an electric tricycle to Building 5 of Luyuan Community.
Nowadays, people love to shop online. There may be elderly people in this house who bought an electric massage sofa. It's big and heavy, and it's hard to move.
When my mother is well, I will help her buy one when I earn money. Long-term massage helped her recover.
When I heard the door open, I shouted upwards, "Come down and help me carry it, it's hard to move." ”
Knock knock, down a man in his thirties. He looked at me for a moment, then slipped the strap with one hand.
"Oh, it's too heavy, you can send it."
Damn, I know that I will be sent by myself. What qualities does this person have? I really want to punch him.
But the customer is God, not only can't he beat him, but he can't even say a bad word. This has to be complained to the company for dismissal, and I dare not say that the salary deduction is ironclad.
Alas, what is this to treat the courier as a human being? It's like being a cow.
The sofa is packed in a cardboard box into a large square. It's really hard to move alone, so I had to beg the man: "Big brother, I'm not lazy, this volume is too big to go upstairs, or you can help me carry it on my shoulder." Can you hold it for me when you go upstairs? ”
"Okay." The man reluctantly agreed.
I took off the big padded jacket issued by the company, grabbed the packing belt with one hand, and held the bottom of the cardboard box with the other, and the man helped again. The one or two hundred pound cardboard box fell on my shoulder.
I'll go, it's fucking heavy.
Don't look at me as only seventeen, but I'm tall and I studied martial arts a few times when I was a kid. The weight is not a problem for me.
Grandpa said that when I was a child, I was born only four pounds and eight taels, and my mother's milk was not much, so I relied on milk. By the time he was five years old, he was still lean. My grandfather sent me to a martial arts school to learn martial arts. I didn't expect that I was very interested in martial arts. He studied very seriously, and at the age of twelve, he won the runner-up in the National Children's Wushu Competition.
Later, my grandfather said that martial arts could only be used as a physical strength in this era, and could not become a proper career. It made me concentrate on my studies again.
I carried the sofa to the corner on the first floor and stopped. The carton is wide and tall, and it is impossible to get by.
I had to put the cardboard box down.
"Big brother, this is too high to pass. I'll lift it twice. I begged the man again.
"How do you lift this? It's hard to lift. That's what you're doing, you can't do it, what can I do? The man shook his head, his hands still swinging.
Looking at the man's cowardice, I scolded his mother a thousand times and ten thousand times in my heart. Damn, I don't have any morals.
I couldn't help it, I bent down and prepared to carry it again.
Suddenly, I remembered that in the past, when my family bought a refrigerator, the porter tied it to the box with a rope, and carried the tall and big refrigerator to my house by himself.
But at that time, my family lived in a villa, and the refrigerator was on the first floor. It's not like it's the fifth floor. But the principle is the same.
"Big brother, please come to my carriage and bring me the rope. This box is holding me back. I said to the dead man.
This time, he was very diligent and turned around and ran to get it.
When he brought the rope, I bolted it as the porter did. Then squat down slightly and put the rope mouth on your shoulders one by one. Stand up again and bow your back forward slightly.
Hey, it feels much more convenient than carrying. This is really as my grandfather told me, you have to learn which line you want to do, and you can produce champions in the industry.
When I was in junior high school, my grandfather used to say these things to me. I annoy him. I really regret thinking about it now, why don't I listen to his old man more? If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you.
Although it is a high-tech era, everything is scientific. But many life philosophies and experiences are still experienced by the elderly. Admittedly, life experience is also something that my generation growing up in computer games has to learn.
Grandpa once said that people can live many kinds of lives in this life. There are extrinsic reasons and there are intrinsic reasons. Don't look at you now living in a villa, eating well and dressing well. When you buy something, you can pick it up and take it. Maybe one day disaster will strike suddenly. Life will change dramatically.
I was so scoffed at what I heard. I thought, this old man is old and confused, right? Are you not satisfied with such a carefree and good life? It's all here for no reason.
Unexpectedly, just two years after my grandfather's death, the family has really undergone earth-shaking changes.
I sometimes ask, did he curse it?
Grandpa, your old man is asking the gods to bless us. You can't leave us alone and let us suffer.
Recently, I've been missing my grandfather so much, and I'm always thinking about the bits and pieces I've been with him since I was working.
Thinking about it, the 5th floor is here.
"Just leave it here, right?" I carried the carton to the 503's room. Put it on the ground: "Sign it." ”
Although I thought of an idea to deliver the goods to my home, I was still a little angry in my heart. I said to the hanging man in a stiff tone. He took out the slip from his bag and handed it to him to sign.
I began to untie the rope from the box.
"You're the son of the gambling king, right?" The man asked suddenly.
I looked up at him, and saw the hanging man's eyes full of contempt.
A flame of anger rushed from the soles of his feet to his head. Like a burning flame, it is on the verge of erupting at any time.
But what my grandfather had said to me suddenly came to my ears: irritability is a sign of incompetence.
A person's short temper means that the person's life will be miserable. Because others can see your weaknesses in your irritability, so that it is easy to subdue you. Everything about you will be subject to others.
I tried to calm down and smiled at the man, "Yes, my dad is Xu Guangbo from the famous Panhu City." I think back then, you probably nodded when you saw him, right? ”
After listening to my words, the expression on the man's face suddenly froze, and he unnaturally returned the signed slip to me.
I took the order, turned around and stepped out the door.
Damn, what's that? When my dad was in the limelight, he was like a dog, and when he saw him, he didn't wag his tail.
I got on the tricycle with a huff, and as soon as I accelerated, I quickly left the Luyuan community.
There is one last and smallest package left. The address is also the farthest, in the cement plant that has been abandoned for many years.
It's a suburb. Most of the people in the factory have already bought a new house with a mortgage in the city. The rest are old people. Usually there are few express deliveries, and it has been more than three months since I ran this piece to meet this order.
I rode for about twenty minutes to the cement factory. Find the old staff dormitory area.
Staff dormitories are built on a hillside. The house was in disrepair and looked very dilapidated from a distance.
Building No. 5 of 19, I followed the list to find the last house near the side of the mountain.
There was a knock on the door of Number 5.
"Yang Sanbao Express." I knocked on the door and shouted the name of the recipient on the list.
It took a long time to hear a noise inside.
I shouted again: "The courier has arrived." ”
It took another ten minutes for the door to be pulled open from the inside. A thin old man stood by the door. The green military coat on his body almost enveloped his entire body. Like a round wooden barrel as thick as the top and bottom.
"Is your name Yang Sanbao?" I asked the old man.
The short old man stared at me for a long time before a word came out: "Yes." ”
"Your courier, can you write? Sign it. "I handed the old man a courier and a pen as thin as a document. Then he pointed to the place where the list was signed and said to the old man.
The old man took the list I handed him, picked up the pen and wrote the words "Yang Sanbao" on it.
Wow, this old man doesn't look at others as old and short, but his words are vigorous and powerful. Not only is it beautiful, but it also penetrates the back of the paper.
I couldn't help but glance more at the old man's face. The face is thin and dry, but the eyes are dark and bright, and there is no old and dizzy look.
"Can you do me a favor, young man?" The old man asked me suddenly.
I asked him, "What's the matter?" ”
"Help me remove a box from the top of the cabinet. I'm too old to move. After the old man finished speaking, he let go of half of his body and made a gesture to call me into the house.
I'm definitely going to help with this little thing. It's also the right thing to do for an old man of this age, right? Who doesn't have an old age?
Without hesitation, I agreed, "Okay." And he lifted up his feet and stepped into the house.
Although this house is small, there are only old-fashioned one-bedroom apartments, but the inside is neatly cleaned and clean. The furniture is polished and shiny without a trace of dust.
I looked up and saw a landscape calligraphy painting hanging on the wall behind the sofa. Looking at the paper, it seems to be some years old, and it has turned slightly yellow.
I recognized the words on it as written by the old man, and it was the same as the pen he had signed just now. The lower right corner of the painting is also printed with a red seal of Yang Sanbao.
My grandfather also loved to draw and write. I also learned it from him, so I was very sensitive to calligraphy and painting when I saw it.
"Sir, are you a painter?" I asked the old man on a whim.
"A painter can't talk about it, he just likes it. The lad came and helped me get the box down. ”
The old man called me to the room and pointed to an old-fashioned suitcase on the large closet.
I'm tall and I can reach it with my hand. Walked to the large closet, holding the suitcase in both hands and preparing to lift it.
Grass, what's so heavy in it? The strength of my hands is not small, but the box does not move at all.
I tried a little harder to move the box, but I still couldn't move it. I'm a little surprised, this box is not very big, just like the kind of suitcase that those anti-Japanese youths in the Republic of China in the TV series carried when they traveled.
How much can a box of this size hold? It can't be shaken.
My reluctance was hung up, and I still didn't believe in this evil. I shifted my legs to a different position and used all my strength to carry the box again.
Hey, this is really evil, no matter how hard I try to make that box grow on it. Motionless.
I pushed hard again, and pulled with my hands. The box seems to be competing with me, but it doesn't move.
"What's the matter with your box, sir? Why can't you move? I turned back to the old man.
The old man smiled at me and said, "If you can't move, forget it." Thank you, lad! ”
"What's in there? So heavy? I asked the old man curiously.
"If you don't remember, forget it today." The old man smiled and made a gesture to see off the guest.
I turned and left the room and walked out of the old man's house.
On the way back, I kept thinking about the strange box. Why can't it be moved?
At this time, the snow in the sky became heavier and heavier. Walking on a bicycle feels like the sky and the earth have become one, and the car and the person walking in the snow like me are the dividing signs.
When I got home, I was busy taking care of my mother and forgot all about the strange box.