Chapter 51: The Story Begins
I guess he saw my doubts, and before I could ask, Mu Gang said, "Don't ask, listen to me patiently." Faced with this boy who only had a month left to live at most, I nodded, indicating that I would listen patiently to him.
"You haven't heard of my hometown at all, and as for the village where my family is located, it's a more remote existence, and you can't imagine how poor we are there." Mu Gang was a little short of breath, but he still used the most bland tone to narrate this period of the past, and there was a maturity on his face that did not fit his age, which made people feel distressed.
In Mu Gang's narrative, I imagined the scene Mu Gang depicted, a barren village, isolated from the world, and at that time I had no idea that a story I had overheard contained a crucial clue to the way of heaven, but I didn't know it yet.
The village where Mu was just born should be called Sha Village, because it is full of memories of Sha. There is sand all around, and there is very little vegetation, probably because it is all sand, so there is not much arable land at all. So the vicious circle is getting poorer day by day.
Mu Gang was born in Shacun, twelve years ago.
Barren mountain village, going to school? Inexistent! Even if you don't say whether you have money or not, even if you have money, your children have to go to a poor county more than ten kilometers away to go to a poor school with less than 30 students. Therefore, even if the parents don't care, the children can't bear it. As a result, the children here have no concept of going to school, and their whole life is just to play in the sand when they are young, and when they grow up, they can work, help their parents share the labor force, marry a wife and have children, and thus start the next reincarnation.
Originally, Mu Gang was also going to be reincarnated like this, this was their fate. However, seven years ago, Mu Gang was taken out of that place by his parents and actually fostered in medical school. At that time, Mu Gang was still young, and he didn't know what the price his parents had spent meant to the people of Shacun! He only knew that the time he spent with his parents was only a few days when he was picked up during the winter and summer vacations!
He didn't know how much it would cost his family a year, but the people who adopted him from the medical school were very strict with him, and he thought about running away, but the price each time was a scar from being beaten, and it wasn't until he understood that he couldn't escape anyway, so he gave up resisting.
"Actually, I know I can't run either, I don't know the way if I don't have money, where can I go?" Mu Gang showed his signature indifferent smile: "My character is created in this environment, I have no sense of security and warmth since I was a child. "Yes, the environment in which I grew up can affect a person's personality the most, and most people are very extreme and extremely sensitive.
Four years ago, during the Chinese New Year, he was taken back for the New Year, and when he complained to his mother, he was called out by his grandfather. Led him into the house and told him something. The very specific Mu Gang didn't understand at that time, at that time he only remembered, thinking that back then, the Mu family was also very beautiful, but then something happened, in order to escape, he had to come to the sand village where birds don't, and it has been many generations since he came here.
The family feels that only knowledge can change their fate, so they don't hesitate to spend a lot of money, and they must let Mu Gang go to study and be admitted to university, maybe they can save this village, save the fate of these people, and pull them out of this difficult cycle of generations.
"Big brother, you know what? We have a great piece of gold in our house, and it is also the last fortune. My parents gave this piece of gold to others in order to study, and they adopted me, and my parents knew that they were not good to me, but they asked me to endure it, because I was a man! There was a rare flash of determination in his calm eyes.
So Mu Gang stopped running away, he was going to start studying seriously, although Mu Gang was still very young at the time, his sensitive heart felt that his home was different from other people's homes in Shacun, and his home must be hiding a big secret! And the responsibility of saving their family seems to be on Mu Gang alone.
But Mu Gang didn't ask in detail, and of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to tell others.
Time passed little by little, and another three years passed, and he matured very quickly in this environment, except for textbooks, he used all the time he could use to read books.
This year, Mu Gang was eleven years old, because of his excellent grades, plus the results obtained from participating in the primary school Olympiad, he was sent to a key junior high school in Beijing, this school is a boarding school, and there are scholarships, which means that he can try to go back to the home of the medical school that is full of bad memories, for him this is the result of hard work, which makes him believe in the power of struggle.
When he returned to Shacun during the summer vacation of this year, he found that it was really difficult for him to change here, which can exhaust a person's heart of struggle, and make a energetic person unable to lift his spirit to do anything, he felt his pressure again, he was sensible, he must take his family to the big city, and he must not let his family repeat this reincarnation.
Once he had an idea, it was crazy growth, and he tried his best to think of a way, until he remembered what his grandfather said a few years ago, remembered that his home was different from other people's homes in Shacun, and remembered that his home actually had a large piece of gold, and he already understood the value of gold. Their family must have a big secret!
Once he remembered this, after a few days of observation, he felt more and more that there was something wrong with his family! After staying in Beijing for so many years and seeing so much, the things at home made him even more convinced of his judgment.
First of all, his own home, there are a lot of requirements for everything, all kinds of rules and regulations constrain him, I didn't understand it when I was a child, I thought it was just an adult who controlled him, but now he is more and more aware that these rules seem to be written in books, quite a bit of everyone's demeanor, such as getting up at 5:20, taking warm water orally after getting up, and then what should be done; Then eat according to sitting, how to eat with vegetables; how to sleep; How......
In addition, Mu Gang found out that his father, the father who only knew how to work in the fields, in Mu Gang's several deliberate temptations, he found that his father's views on some literature and history were more powerful than his teachers, is this still his father who has never read? Finally, Mu Gang couldn't hold back anymore, on a sultry summer night during this summer vacation, he couldn't help it, and ran out with his father after dinner, saying all his questions. It was on this day that his father confessed an incredible family history to Mu Gang. On this day, his father told Mu Gang that he should come to inherit his family's craftsmanship.