One afternoon at the end of July, he found a missed call on his mobile phone, which was from Bai Sumei, and he had a sense of foreboding, because Bai Sumei and he had been in contact with each other on WeChat, and they rarely talked to each other.

Sure enough, when he called back, he heard Bai Sumei sobbing on the other end of the phone.

"What's the matter, Meimei? What happened? He asked eagerly.

Applejack...... Applejack, they ......," Bai said.

"What's wrong?"

"Applejack, the five of them are going to be taken away."

"Taken by whom? Where to take it? ”

"The police have contacted their relatives, and their relatives will come to Shenzhen in the near future to take them back to Liangshan."

"Why?" Tang Long asked in surprise.

Bai Sumei twitched her nose, took two deep breaths, and slowly talked to Tang Long, Tang Long quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter: On the evening of July 23, Ajie came to Shenzhen Gymnasium to participate in a fighting match called "Unbounded Zhenwutang" according to the arrangement, because there were some domestic star boxers to fight that night, and a number of TV stations and online media came to broadcast live interviews, so Pengqiang Fight Club also attached great importance to this game, and sent Coach Ma Long and Sun Dalei from the Philippines to lead the team as Ajie's sideline coach. As a warm-up exhibition match, the first match was between Ajie and a 14-year-old fighter from a club in Shenzhen. In the first game, the two sides were slow and evenly matched. After the start of the second game, Applejack, who had already figured out his opponent's bottom, rushed and slammed into the fight, his opponent quickly couldn't parry, and retreated while fighting, only to be swept by Applejack's high whip leg at the temple, and his consciousness was a little confused, but the referee didn't count the seconds on him, and then Applejack hit the opponent's nose with a straight punch, and the left and right two swing punches hit the opponent's head, the opponent's nostrils were bleeding, collapsed to the ground, unconscious, and was rushed to the hospital, and the blood spilled in the ring cast a shadow on this round of the match.

I thought that the teenage fighter who was knocked out by Applejack would be sent to the hospital and would wake up quickly under the treatment of doctors, but he was concussed by Applejack and was in a coma for more than ten hours, until he woke up at five o'clock in the afternoon the next day, and he kept vomiting. The injured parents were furious, believing that the referee had not been professional enough to cause his child to walk around the door, and he felt that when Applejack swept his child in the head, he should have counted him down or ended the game, believing that his child would not be able to continue the game at that point. So in a fit of rage, the injured person's parents broke the news to the media. After in-depth research, the media found that the young boxer who beat the child to a concussion that night was an orphan from Daliangshan District, so with this as the topic, the Pengqiang Fight Club recruited Daliangshan orphans to learn fighting and criticized it in an unrealistic way, the media claimed that the club owner recruited Liangshan orphans to practice fighting, and played commercial games to make money, and questioned their lack of compulsory education and the health risks brought by playing games, which caused a thousand waves for a while, and enthusiastic netizens criticized Pengqiang Fight Club one-sidedly, He criticized the club's owner, Jin Tianya, as a "black-hearted businessman", "using minors to make money", "abusing children", and "depriving children of their right to compulsory education...... The police immediately came to the Pengqiang Fight Club to investigate the legality of recruiting underage children to practice fighting and fighting, while the education department of Liangshan ordered the local education department at the lower level to contact the children's relatives, take the children back to the local school to study, and distribute a few hundred yuan of relief money to them every month.

The village party secretary of Nanshan Village, where the children are located, was dismissed by his superiors because he supported the children to come to Shenzhen to practice martial arts. On August 1, the relatives of these five children will come to Shenzhen to pick up Liangshan.

"They used to dream of getting out of the mountains and becoming a boxer, and when they came to Pengqiang Fight Club, their dreams were clearly visible, no longer so vague, and now they ...... Now, to destroy their dreams, why...... The world is so cruel? Bai Sumei said on the other end of the phone and cried again.

On the evening of July 31, the club held a farewell dinner for Ajie and her five children in a seafood restaurant, Jin Tianya and Bai Sumei sent WeChat messages to Tang Long, inviting him to come and get together with the children, Tang Long hesitated for a long time and finally did not come to the dinner.

At half past nine the next morning, he took the subway to the Pengqiang Fight Club, and downstairs in the club, he saw a police car. When he walked into the club, he saw that in the No. 1 and No. 2 training areas, the fighters were training intensely under the leadership of Coach Zhang and Coach Ma Long as usual, but he didn't see a single child. In addition to these fighters he knew, he also found that there were many more. Outside the fitness area and training area, there are many strangers holding mobile phones and taking pictures of the training fighters.

The doors of the coach's office and the head coach's office were open, and they were full of people, and there were five children sitting on the sofa in the head coach's office, each of whom was next to an adult, some in their forties, some in their sixties and seventies, all with solemn faces. There were also two policemen sitting in the office, and next to the policemen were Bai Sumei and Jin Tianya. Jin Tianya was talking to the policemen about something.

There was no music playing in the club today, and the atmosphere inside was a bit dull and weird, Tang Long came to the fitness area, found a stool to sit on, and watched the fighters train. At the end of a round of training, the bell rang, and Coach Zhang motioned for everyone to rest for a while.

Coach Zhang and some of the fighters turned around and saw him at the back of the crowd, Sun Dalei nodded at him, and he smiled at Sun Dalei in return. Wang Gang glanced at him and motioned for him to come over for training, and he shook his head at Wang Gang.

Coach Zhang parted the crowd and walked over to him.

"Young man, why haven't you been training for so long? If you don't practice for three days, remember to study hard and practice hard. ”

"Thank you Coach Zhang for the reminder, I have been feeling unwell recently and need to take a break, so I basically stay at home every day to recuperate."

"I hope you return to the club soon, there are still many games waiting for you!"

"Okay, I'm here today, mainly to see off those five children."

"Uh-huh, okay."