Chapter 14: A Troubled Fate
Security guard Xiao Zhang's full name is Zhang Dagui, and his father is an ordinary migrant worker in the city, because he has not studied for a few years, so he can only work on some construction sites to make money. However, he also thought that his son would be rich and wealthy when he grew up in the future, so he gave Zhang Dagui this name.www.biquge.info It's a pity that not long after Zhang Dagui was born, their family ushered in the first big change.
Zhang Dagui's mother was not them and the same village, but his father met when he was working in the city, and then he didn't know if it was a coincidence or a trick, the two did not register their marriage, but they had Zhang Dagui's child. In the early 90s, the cost of hospital abortion was too expensive for Zhang Dagui's parents, so they had to secretly give birth to Zhang Dagui.
However, not long after Zhang Dagui was born, and before he was even weaned, his mother left Zhang Dagui, who had only been a full moon for a long time, because his mother thought his family was too poor, and ran away with other men. Until so many years have passed, Zhang Dagui is now 25 years old, and he still hasn't found his own mother, or rather, he has given up looking for this woman who doesn't even exist in his memory.
Later, in Zhang Dagui's memory, his father had to send him back to his rural hometown to be raised by Zhang Dagui's grandmother in order to raise him, and he himself worked day and night to make money, just to make Zhang Dagui's life better, but it may also be because of the departure of Zhang Dagui's mother, which stimulated his father. Anyway, in Zhang Dagui's childhood memories, there is almost no figure of his father.
However, Zhang Dagui was also very sensible when he was a child, although the conditions at home were more difficult, but at least his grandmother treated him very well, and he has always been very considerate of his father. Even thanks to his father's efforts, the family situation began to gradually improve, and those years can be said to be the best time in his memory.
However, the good times did not last long, when Zhang Dagui was ten years old, his father continued to overdraft his physical work because he had not had a good rest, and when he went to work on the construction site, he had an accident and fell off the scaffolding several meters high. Although he was fortunate in misfortune, he saved his life, but because of this, he broke his legs and lumbar vertebrae, and could no longer stand up.
What's even more infuriating is that the contractor at the construction site at that time saw that Zhang Dagui's father had lost his ability to work, so he drove him home directly, and did not compensate him for a penny, completely ignoring the feelings of Zhang Dagui's father who had worked hard for him for many years.
After being driven home, Zhang's father, although he had also asked someone to ask the contractor for compensation many times, but he had not been able to reply for a long time. Moreover, even so, it was still not enough money for Zhang's father to receive the best treatment, and in the end, he even missed the best treatment time, so Zhang Dagui's father could no longer stand up on his own.
As for the elderly grandmother, because she was busy raising money for Zhang's father during the day, seeing Zhang's father's appearance at night, she washed her face with tears in her heartache, and finally fell ill, and she was stubborn, in order not to add burden to the family, she refused treatment, and soon after, she passed away.
The death of his grandmother stimulated Zhang Dagui's father even more, making his will completely depressed, and he borrowed wine to drown his sorrows all day long. In Zhang Dagui's memory after he was 10 years old, in addition to sleeping, his father was drinking, or he was drunk, where was the home still like a home? Other relatives in the family, for fear that they would open their mouths to borrow money, also avoided their family one by one, as if their father and son were viruses.
Such a change made Zhang Dagui see the coldness of the world at a young age, and he was sensible, he never complained about anything on his lips, but silently hated these in his heart.
Fortunately, at that time, he met a kind teacher, a young teacher who volunteered to teach in a poor rural area. He not only helped Zhang Dagui pay his tuition, but also helped his family from time to time, so that the father and son, who had no income, could barely rely on it.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Dagui is even more diligent and hard-working, because the teacher once told Zhang Dagui that he can only change his life if he studies hard, is admitted to university, and finds a good job.
Finally, the emperor lived up to his hard work, Zhang Dagui with his unremitting efforts, finally admitted to a nationally famous university, when he received the admission notice, he almost jumped up excitedly. However, on the day he received his acceptance letter, he received another letter, a suicide letter from the teacher who had always supported him and encouraged him.
It turned out that the teacher was excited to ride to his house after learning the news that he was admitted to university, but there was a car accident on the way. He was hit by an overloaded truck that was detouring the mountain road in order to avoid high-speed tolls and traffic police interrogation, and almost died on the spot. According to the person who sent the letter later, before swallowing his last breath, the teacher asked passers-by to deliver the letter to Zhang Dagui with a slurred speech.
Zhang Dagui clearly remembered that when he received the last letter, it was a feeling that was more heart-wrenching than the loss of his loved ones, and he didn't pay attention to how the person who sent the letter left in the end, he just held the letter like that, and sat stupidly for a day and a night.
It was a thick letter wrapped in an old-fashioned waxy yellow envelope, and on one corner of the envelope, there was a black-red blood stain, which was the teacher's blood.
Inside the envelope was a piece of paper and a stack of money, all stained with blood that had seeped into it. Zhang Dagui still remembers the content of the letter clearly, and he even recited it completely in front of us.
[Congratulations, Mr. Zhang:
You've finally taken the first step toward changing your life. Come on, I'm sure you can do it. The money in the envelope is all my savings over the years, this is your first tuition fee in college, and it is also a congratulatory gift from your teacher, please don't refuse.
Teachers come to this rural area to teach, and the happiest thing is to see your growth. So the teacher still wants to keep watching, to see you find a good job, to see you get a good girlfriend, to see you get married and have children, and be happy. Although I am only ten years older than you, I feel like you are my child, and your growth gives me a sense of accomplishment, makes me feel that my choice was not wrong, and gives me the confidence to continue to persevere.
Come on! Let's work together, and I want to raise more and more children like you. 】
When Zhang Dagui said this, he paused, as if he was recalling the teacher in his memory, and we were all silent, because we also deeply felt the greatness of this young volunteer teacher.
After being silent for a long time, Uncle Wang spoke in a solemn tone: "Since you used to have such a good teacher, why are you embarking on such a path now?" Are you worthy of your teacher's expectations of you? ”
"Because he is no longer there, just because of the highway toll of dozens of yuan, he has buried such a good person, what an unfair world this is, hehehe......" Zhang Dagui laughed more ugly than crying, and then said: "Moreover, he lied to me, saying that if you are admitted to college and find a good job, you can change your fate?" Lies, all lies! ”
In our silence, Zhang Dagui continued to tell the story of his ill-fated fate.
(To be continued)