Chapter 175: Illusion
"Moved away? Do you know where to move? I asked anxiously.
The old lady wanted to hit me with a stick, "You said you kid didn't study well and gambled?" How many possessions have been lost, so go back to sleep, I don't know. ”
When I heard this, I recognized the old lady ruthlessly in this casino, "My friend left a letter and came out, do you think the three of us seem to be people who can gamble, I feel that this is not normal, and my friend has entered a pyramid scheme." ”
The old lady looked around and looked at us, "What you said is true. ”
"It's true, 100% innocent."
The old lady glanced at the park in disappointment, "I don't know where they went, my old man also left a letter and left, the letter did not let me enter the park, this is not here to watch, today is also strange, we live opposite, in the middle of the night I always hear the sound in the park, today quiet even can be heard." ”
I turned my head to look at the boss, who said coldly, "Go in and take a look." ”
"Did something really happen to them?" The old lady tensed.
I shook my head, "It's okay, it's just going to gamble, there is a big game today, your old man must be there to join in the fun." ”
"No, he must have gambled."
"Auntie, it's really fine, I promise with this life, I will bring your old man back safely." I comforted. The old lady then returned to her house suspiciously.
The boss greeted me, the first one entered the park, halfway through, the lights inside, instantly extinguished, it was dark in front of me, and after getting used to it, I felt that everything in the park had changed, it had become a small village more than ten years ago, loess road, not far away and small hills, the village had its doors open, and occasionally I would see a few old people sitting at the door of their homes, looking at the silly music in front of them, but there was nothing in front.
I looked at the boss, "This is the environment?" ”
The Boss nodded.
The further you go into the village, the poorer it becomes, and in the end it is all in ruins, and some of the houses are only half of the houses left, the other half has collapsed, and the remaining half is also crumbling.
"Village chief, please, lend me some money and pay it back next month." A swarthy, thin man bent over his knees and begged for a fat man who slipped naked.
The village chief took out the money from his pocket, which was all piece by piece, counted dozens of pieces, and handed it to the thin man, "Hey, hurry up and hire a midwife, and when the child is born, I will find you a job on the construction site." ”
The man nodded, "Thank you, village chief." "Watch the village chief leave.
After the village chief left, he rode a dilapidated car to the west, and the surrounding scenery was as fast as a man's bicycle, and after a long time, the man's bicycle stopped in front of a family, and the man rushed into the yard, and happened to see an old lady who was over sixty years old.
As soon as the old lady saw him, her face immediately changed, "How many times have I told you, no money, don't say anything, you can't even support yourself, and you still raise children." ”
The man hurriedly took out the money, "Mrs. Chen, this is money, you can go with me, my wife can't give birth." ”
As soon as the old woman saw the money, her eyes lit up, she took the money, counted it, and found the man's two yuan, "My mother-in-law Chen saw that your family was pitiful, so I took the money back to buy some meat for my wife and children." ”
The man thanked him repeatedly, and drove the old woman to the house, so fast that Mrs. Chen in the back seat was shocked, and scolded, "What about your kid rushing to death?" Slow down, my wife and son are about to be torn apart by you. ”
When the man returned to his door, the old woman couldn't stand still, blew her beard and glared at the man, "Go and boil the water." ”
Our vision entered the house, the four walls of the house, a pot, a bowl, a few pairs of chopsticks, the bottom of the grain tank, the man sitting by the stove boiling hot water, tears in his eyes, muttering: "How can I live this day." ”
If I want to wipe myself with a knife, I hope to find a good person to reincarnate in the next life, but when I think about it, we were so miserable in the orphanage at that time, and we didn't want to die, this is life.
"Is the water boiling?" Mrs. Chen's voice came from the back room.
The man came back to his senses and said repeatedly, "It's coming, it's coming." ”
"Put it at the door of the house, and men can't enter the house."
I have always been submissive to men outside, and I can only describe it in one word, which is the injustice of the world. The law that the strong love the weak has not changed to this day.
Soon there was a cry in the back room, and the man stood at the door excitedly, shouting inside, "Is it a man or a woman?" ”
"Boy, with a petal." There was a sense of joy in Mrs. Chen's tone inside.
Mrs. Chen came out, scooped up a basin of water, washed her hands, said a few polite words, took the man's candy, and went out, without giving it away.
The man entered the back room, and our eyes also entered the back room, a woman with a sallow face, a scarf around her head, and a child in her arms, barely squeezed out a smile when she saw the man. "Jingcai, look at our son."
I chuckled in my heart, this is Zhang Jingcai, and the later Zhang Kaihong?
Looking at the child's smiling face, Zhang Jingcai nodded with satisfaction and touched the child's little face, "I'll cut some meat, you wait." ”
The woman took the man's hand, "No, I'm in good health, don't waste money." ”
Zhang Jingcai said, "Wait for me to enter the mountain tomorrow morning and shoot a pheasant for you." ”
The woman didn't speak, looked at the empty home, only four earthen walls, lowered her head, and her eyes were endlessly disappointed. Some of them were seen by Zhang Jingcai in his eyes and hurt in his heart.
"Cui, I heard that working on the construction site makes a lot of money, and when you and the child are well, I will go to the city to work on the construction site, and we will also rebuild the house in the new year."
The woman who heard this raised her head, "Aunt in the backyard, the old man of his family went out to save him and didn't come back, don't you have anything to do, leave us orphans and widows to do chores?" ”
"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Zhang Jingcai smiled at the woman.
The surrounding scenery is flowing rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, the child can climb, and the days are tighter, the man is carrying a burden, and he has countless patches on his body, and he is dressed neatly than he saw before.
"Cui, you greet Xiaohu at home, and I'll be back for the New Year."
The woman nodded, tears in her eyes.
"Jing Cai, it's time to go." A gruff voice greeted outside the door.
"Here we are." Zhang Jingcai replied loudly, turned his head and whispered softly to his wife and children, "I'm leaving." ”
The scene became a construction site, a man's busy voice, everyone else became a phantom, getting up early and greedy for darkness, from spring to summer, and from summer to autumn, until the New Year, Zhang Jing counted the money.
The surrounding scenery became on the way home, and finally I saw a woman leading the doll to walk, and the doll fell after two steps, looking lovely. got out of the car, the people in the car dispersed in a hurry, and the family of three returned to their home, Zhang Jing handed over the money he earned to the woman, and even spoke with momentum.
"Cui, the money here has paid off the famine, and the rest is enough for us to live, and it will definitely get better in the future, and we will build a house next year, and we will live a well-off life." Zhang Jingcai looked proud.
The woman was even more happy in her heart, hid the money in the quilt, and took out a few cents from her pocket, "Then you look at your son first, and I'll sell you meat." ”
After the woman left, Zhang Jing looked at his son, "Xiaohu, do you miss your father?" ”
The child looked at Zhang Jingcai strangely, ran to the side, hid, and babbled vaguely. Zhang Jingcai took out a toffee from his clothes pocket and shook it in his hand, the child wanted to go over, but he didn't dare, Zhang Jingcai simply opened one and put it in his mouth, leaking a satisfied expression. Seeing this, the child leaned over little by little, stretched out his little hand, Zhang Jing smiled, opened a piece of candy into the child's palm, waited for the child to put it in his mouth, and picked up the child.
Children who have candy to eat are sweet, it was so good at that time, this child's age and era, almost the same as when I was a child, I was in an orphanage at this time.
The woman came back from buying meat and saw that the two were having fun, and scolded: "You father and son don't know how to help me." ”
"Because my mother is the mistress of this house." Zhang Jingcai said in a child's tone.
"At first, I thought that the child would be a stranger to you, and I didn't want to be close to you, or the relationship between father and son, naturally close, are you tired on the construction site, do you eat well?" The woman asked.
Zhang Jingcai replied casually: "Okay, I make white flour steamed buns every day, I often go to the restaurant, and I can rest every month." ”
What Zhang Jingcai said, we can all see it clearly, eating wowotou, sleeping on straw mats, and having one day off every month, but Zhang Jingcai works overtime, because this day's salary is more than half.
The scene keeps changing, the remnants of his house have become a new house, Xiaohu has become a half-sized child, the man has changed from the original cement worker to the contractor, and the life is in full swing, Zhang Jing is a little ignorant, deducting the wages of the workers and bullying the weak.
The picture becomes the same as normal time, a worker wearing a hard hat, smoking a cigarette, and flattering. "Head, are you going to play two at night?"
Zhang Jingcai raised his head and squinted, "What are you playing?" ”
As soon as the man saw the door, "It's just going to gamble!" Small gambling pleasure, you are the head, you don't know. ”
These words were obviously provoking Zhang Jingcai, and Zhang Jingcai still drilled in. "I'll talk about it after work."
I said how to find the cow fat, dare to love the two of them are the same kind.
After getting off work, the helmet found Zhang Jingcai, the two had a simple meal, took Zhang Jingcai to an underground casino, which was full of smoke and smelled everything, and took Zhang Jing to finish two, Zhang Jingcai found a table to gamble by himself, won or lost and made a lot of money, and finally returned to the construction site with great satisfaction, and sent the money home.
The more money wins, the more Zhang Jingcai finishes a project, he simply gives up his business life directly, and directly stuffs himself in the casino, during which he was arrested several times, and the crackdown at that time was not strong, and it was released in two days. The gambling dogs all hold such confidence that they will win, lose all of them, grit their teeth and put the base on the gambling table, and the more serious you are about gambling, the more you have lost.