A semester passed quickly.

That means I haven't seen Hao Junqi for three and a half years. I am sixteen years old, and Hao Junqi is fifteen years old. If Hao Junqi is still studying, if she doesn't repeat a grade like me, she will also finish the content of the first and second semesters of junior high school.

Still not a little bit from her.

Uncle Zhu said that as long as there is news of Uncle Hao, he will find a way to tell me.

Zhu Jinshan said that as long as he knew where Hao Junqi was, he would definitely write to me; He wrote down the detailed address I had written to him on the wall of his house.

My grades were getting worse and worse, and only Chinese exceeded 60 points in the three main subjects of language, mathematics and English.

Actually, it's no wonder that my grades aren't bad. People who know the nicknames that everyone gives me are not surprised.

Everyone calls me "the god king". As the name suggests, I was often distracted in class.

My thoughts often ran to the bluestone road in Dongmen Village, to Grandpa Hao's thatched hut, to the uneven stone wall that was split in half, and to the two jujube trees on the east side of the thatched hut......

Hao Junqi's voice often rings in my ears, and Hao Junqi's tearful cheeks often flash in front of me.

Hao Junqi is right, as long as you always think about it, then you don't give up.

As soon as the final exam results came out, my father beat me up. He whipped my calf with a bamboo whip, and each whip showed a mark on my calf. He gave me a dozen strokes. I held back the pain and didn't cry or scream. And my expression in exchange for another punishment - kneeling in front of the wall for half an hour. My knee swelled for days because of this.

My father thought I was humiliating him. He couldn't figure it out.

To be honest, now that I think about it, I can really accept my father's outbursts and his violent beatings. You know, how much effort my father put into my studies. He spends all his free time outside of work on me. When there is a social, he can push it, but if he can't push it, he will come back after eating.

My father was a very drinker, but for the sake of my studies, he didn't drink at the banquet. At night, for fear of affecting my studies, he even interfered with my mother's TV. During my study time, he would never watch TV. He also checked my homework, helped me answer to the reference book, and memorized my English words. He's doing really much. So how can I bear to give him such a reward?

My father beat me violently, and I went to my grandmother's house for a few days. I showed my grandmother the place where my father beat me, and she was so distressed. She couldn't wait to go to Hua'an No. 2 Middle School to reprimand my father.

I lived at my grandmother's house, stretching out my hands for food, and opening my mouth. My grandmother bought medicine to rub it for me, and she cursed my father as she wiped it. I either watch TV or martial arts novels all day long. Jin Yong Gulong's novels, I asked my grandmother to buy them for me in sets, and the wonderful martial arts of the characters in the book certainly made me envious, and the youthful sprouts of young boys and girls made me think about it.

After the swelling in my knees subsided, I used to go to the small shop near my grandmother's house to spend the pocket money that my grandmother gave me. In this small shop, I met Brother Jun.

"Hi, Brother Jun."

"Zheng Qihang? Why are you here? "It's strange to say, my friends never call me "God King". They always call me by first name.

"I'm playing at my grandmother's house."

"I'm playing at the big fat man's house. Everyone ran out of cigarettes and told me to buy them. Do you want to play with me? ”

"No, I told my grandmother that I would go back in a few minutes."

"So what does it matter? Make a phone call to your grandmother and say that you have met a classmate and go to the same school to play for a while. There's a phone in this store, and I'm familiar with it. ”

My heart was moved.

I used the phone in the small shop to call my grandmother's house, and asked my grandmother for leave according to Brother Jun's instructions. My grandmother was very uneasy, but she reluctantly agreed on the premise that I would be back in an hour.

The big fat man's house is also near the shop, but it is just in the opposite direction from my grandmother's house.

When I was in school, I had a good time with these people, but I never went to their house. This is the first time. The big fat man's grandparents were not at home, and the stinky salted eggs, the big fat man, and a brother class nicknamed 'Flat Mouth' were all huddled in the big fat man's bedroom. There were cigarette butts in the room, and there was a miasma of black smoke.

They were playing cards.

They sat directly on the big fat man's bed and played cards.

"Brothers, who's coming?" Brother Jun said.

"Whoever the is here. What about smoke? "The stinky salted egg doesn't lift his head.

Brother Jun threw the cigarette on the bed, "I said you guys should fucking stop, Zheng Qihang is here." ”

When they heard my name, they all looked up at me. The stinky salted egg threw the cards and got out of bed and hugged me.

"What the hell did you throw a card? Do you want to rely on money? Damn, Lao Tzu has a good handful of cards mixed up by you. Flatmouth said.

"Yes! How about knocking this card out of the hand? The big fat man said slowly.

"I said you guys weren't fucking righteous enough. What is a handful of cards? Two bucks is enough, right? Zheng Qihang is coming to us for the first time. "Stinky salted egg said.

"It's okay, you guys play." I say.

"It stands to reason that this money has to be paid by Zheng Qihang." Flat-mouthed said.

Brother Jun said: "your flat mouth, do you want to have a flatter mouth?" You are so unreasonable to make trouble, we Zheng Qihang still dare to come? ”

"Am I joking?"

"It's okay." I said, "Everybody, brother." Do you think I don't want to come? You know my dad, too. Tell the brothers that he repaired me again. My knees are just right, swollen. ”

"Fuck, how can there be a dad like this? Only you can stand it. If I were me, I would have run out early. Brother Jun said.

"I'm here at my grandmother's house."

"Isn't my grandmother's house my own? I'm telling you, the next time he does this to you, you will run to the big fat man, stay for a few nights and not go back, and scare them to death. Brother Jun said.

"Yes," said the stinky salted egg, "I use it a lot. It works as soon as you use it. ”

"Yes," said the big fat man, "the stinky salted eggs are my regular customers here." His old lady was very hurtful and had a terrible temper. The night the stinky salted egg first came to stay with me, his wife stayed up all night. ”

"I said you still don't play cards? Will we talk about these birds next time? Flatmouth said.

"yes, play cards, play cards." The big fat man said.

"Zheng Qihang, do you want to come?" Brother Jun asked.

"I won't. You guys play, I'll see. I said.

"It's simple. Close the cards. Whoever finishes first wins. Two cents for a card. Doubled the lock-up. Why don't I let you try it? ”

"I'll take a look at a few first."

I watched them play a few games. Brother Jun insisted that I smoke a cigarette, so I learned to smoke one.

Speaking of cigarettes, during the past semester, my best friends used to smoke during recess or gym class by the toilet in the playground. I am their lookout.

I really don't know if they have a habit of smoking, but many times, when they encounter a "critical situation", they take a few puffs and throw the cigarette into the urinal, and the look of an addict makes people laugh. But I've never smoked. Inside, I was really afraid of my father.

I didn't expect the smoke to taste like this, a little bitter, a little spicy, and after smoking, my mouth always unconsciously produced saliva.

The smell of cigarette smoke prompted me to spit non-stop. However, when they handed me a second cigarette, I lit it.

Later, when the flat mouth lost the money, he scolded and left, and I went up.

The first time I played cards, the first time I gambled money, I couldn't help but panic, but a few good cards in a row made me feel more confident.

I don't know if everyone is born with a gambling nature. Personally, I feel like there is. The reason why some people do not gamble all their lives is because he has strong restraint, or external factors restrain him, so that his gambling spirit is not stimulated.

It's easy to find such a person around us, especially a woman, who seems to be an introverted and reserved person, but once she is exposed to gambling, she will become a completely different person in the casino. Don't be afraid of big, the more you lose, the more you gamble, the more you gamble, the more you lose, no matter how much you borrow from usury, you will not be soft, and you will not hesitate to abandon your children.

I could have been such a person, and if it hadn't been for an event that later happened that completely changed my fate, I would definitely have become a gambler.

That afternoon, as soon as I got into gambling, I was completely overwhelmed by the thrill. I completely forgot the promise I made to my grandmother. I lost all the twenty dollars my grandmother gave me (to be clear, twenty dollars was not a small amount at that time) and I still won't finish. It was already dark. I borrowed gambling money from the big fat man who won the most, but the big fat man didn't agree.

"You can't borrow money at the table, don't you know the rule?" The big fat man said.

"How can there be such a rule? Who made this rule? "I'm furious. I lost money and I was in a bad mood.

"Who decided this? Anyone who gambles knows it. If you want to borrow, you must borrow from others. ”

"Is there anyone else here? I said that if you don't want to borrow it, forget it, what excuse do you make? ”

"Where can I make excuses?" The big fat man was not angry at all, "You ask if the stinky salted egg and Brother Jun are so particular." ”

"Yes, Brother Jun?"

"Absolutely. And the gambling table is very particular and superstitious. Lending money to others will you lose money. Brother Jun said patiently.

"If you want to pull the bill, there is an opportunity. Isn't this a holiday? You can gamble every day. "Stinky salted egg said.

"You can come tomorrow." The big fat man said.

"Okay, it's still the four of us tomorrow." I say.

But the next day I couldn't go to play cards because my father took me back. It was my grandmother who never saw me coming home, and I couldn't find anyone everywhere, so I called my mother. My parents thought I was missing, so they and my grandmother looked for me everywhere. They looked for me for three hours. It wasn't until everyone was sitting in the living room of my grandmother's house in despair that I appeared in front of them. As you can imagine, no matter how much my grandmother insisted, my father did not agree with me to continue to live in my grandmother's house.

And as soon as I got home, I immediately fell from heaven to hell.