There was a child, who was born on the Halloween of the lunar calendar, who was dark and thin, with yellow hair and leprosy on the back of his head. His eyes are big and small, and his face and body are covered with black spots, and everyone calls him a ghost. After Ah Gui was born, those people also laughed at Ah Gui's father for being a green-haired turtle, saying that this was not his species, but the seed of an ugly prostitute who had sex with his wife, and he had to raise a son for someone else.

Ah Ghost is indeed not like his father, his father has a fierce face, but he is not ugly, but his father decided that this is his own son for his own reasons, and he chops down a gossip neighbor with a kitchen knife.

Ah Ghost's father is a ruffian hooligan, living on protection money, idling around all day long, and doing some things like stealing chickens and dogs. The neighbors around their house didn't want to see their family, and the neighbors around them hated them even more.

Ah Ghost also has a younger brother named Ah Bai, 4 years younger than him, born with white hair, different from the ugly Ah Ghost, Ah Bai's appearance follows his mother, he is very beautiful, and his skin is as white as porcelain.

Ah Gui's mother is a gentle woman, other children say that Ah Gui's mother is a broken shoe, he always fights with others for this, and when he comes home at night, his nose and face are swollen, and his clothes are torn.

Every time Ah Ghost's father saw him like this, he wanted to beat him, but his mother held him in her arms and didn't speak, just crying.

At night, in the dim light of dozens of watts of old light bulbs, the mother sewed and mended the clothes for Ah Ghost.

"Cub, why are you fighting with people again today?"

"They spoke ill of their mother, begging for beatings. ”

"You don't care what others say, promise your mother not to fight with others in the future, okay?" Mother's eyes were red, she was a gentle woman, she was very good to Ah Ghost and Ah Bai, but she always cried at every turn.

"Okay, Mom, don't cry, I won't fight with anyone anymore" Ah Ghost hugged his mother's waist and said. He wanted to see his mother laugh, not to see her cry. Every time she cried, he felt very uncomfortable.

Ah Ghost repeatedly promised not to fight, even if others called him ugly, saying that he was an ugly ghost, he would not pay attention to those people, at most he would scold a few words back, and if others wanted to beat him, he would run.

But whenever someone talks about his mother with disgusting words, he always can't control his anger, and rushes up to fight with others, regardless of whether that person is a head or two taller than himself, like a madman. His thin arm was no longer as thick as his thigh, and he bit others, bleeding from the bite, like a mad dog. Over time, those people finally didn't dare to speak ill of his mother, at least not in front of him.

When Bai was three years old, their mother died.

Before dying, his mother called Ah Ghost to the bed, held his hand and said, "Cub, you are your brother, you must protect your brother well in the future."

Ah Bai was a three-year-old kid at that time, and he didn't understand what death meant, thinking that his mother didn't want him anymore, so he cried loudly.

Ah Ghost also wanted to cry, but he held back his tears and promised his mother that he would take care of his younger brother.

Ah Gui's mother's illness was actually not particularly serious at first, but it dragged on for too long, and their family had no money to go to the hospital, so her mother endured it and gradually worsened. Ah Ghost watched his mother cough occasionally from the beginning, and then coughed more and more frequently, and one day he began to cough with blood in his mouth, and his mother died soon after.

Ah Gui's father is a gambler, and when he wins, he is in a good mood, and he is very good to Ah Ghost and Ah Bai, buying them snacks and playing with them. But after losing money, it was as if he had become a different person, punching and kicking Ah Ghost and his younger brother. The ghost's father gambled more and more, borrowed a loan shark, and couldn't pay it back, so he was tied up with a cement block and thrown off the bridge in the north of the town. The debt collectors kicked them out of their homes, and the brothers began to wander.

Ah Ghost later joined a gang, worshipped the master, and became a pickpocket. His first three pickpocketing failures and the third time he met a bald fat man wearing a gold chain.

"The little bastard raised by the bitch stole it from Lao Tzu's head" The fat man slapped the ghost.

"You're not allowed to scold my mother," the ghost spat out the bloody teeth in his mouth and bit down on the fat man's fat hand.

"I'm X, loosen up, you bitch," the fat man shouted.

The fat man beat the ghost hard and dumped the garbage in the trash can on the body of the money-stealing kid. Before leaving, he spat a mouthful of phlegm in Ah Ghost's face.

"What a fucking bad luck," the fat man scolded and walked away.

Ah Ghost was beaten and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and he lay on the ground, lost three teeth, and there was a dull pain under his ribs. There are rotten banana peels, bloody sanitary napkins, and all kinds of dirty and smelly garbage. He lay in the gloomy alley, looking at the blue sky through the gap between the tall buildings, remembering his mother's appearance, and began to cry. That day was his eleventh birthday.

After crying for a while, Ah Ghost wiped his face with his dirty sleeve and continued to look for a candidate for stealing.

He succeeded in stealing for the fourth time, and it was a young man dressed in ordinary clothes, perhaps a college student, who had traveled far for the first time to go to school in a big city. Ah Ghost took advantage of the fact that he was looking around and was defenseless, and made a cut in his backpack, and found a stack of money from it, a lot of money, maybe this guy's tuition plus living expenses.

Ah Ghost thought about it, took half of it, and stuffed the other half back. It's very dangerous for him to do this, a pickpocket is like walking on a wire rope coated with fire oil, you have to be careful, and you have to leave as soon as you get it, and every extra move you make, stay for a few more seconds, the more dangerous it becomes. The flames that burn along the wire rope will burn you to death, and no one will have mercy on you, because you are a thief who steals money, damn it.

Ah Ghost rented a house, took some money to buy two bottles of baijiu and a roast chicken and a few cold dishes, and honored the master who taught him pickpocketing, an old man whose right hand was cut off by his wrist. Then I went to a Western-style fast food restaurant and bought two hamburgers, and my younger brother had been outside watching other children eat through the large glass window of the floor, drooling. The two brothers are one by one, the younger brother is relatively clean, but the elder brother is dirty and smelly, those diners are far away from them, the waiter is a little unhappy, but he is glared at by the elder brother's fierce gaze, and he does not dare to speak. A teenager with fierce eyes like a female dog guarding her cubs.

My brother's pickpocketing skills are getting better and better, and their money is gradually increasing, and they have money to buy new clothes. My brother sometimes thinks that after a while I should send my brother to school. It's better to go to school, my younger brother has been smart since he was a child, and he looks like a handsome scholar, maybe he can be admitted to college. After graduating, like those people, I wore a white shirt, tie, suit pants, and a black briefcase to work every day. Live like a decent person, eat and dress well every day, and don't be afraid.

The younger brother grew up slowly, and unlike the black and thin elder brother, the younger brother was born more and more handsome. As good-looking as her mother, Ah Ghost thought, no, even more beautiful than her mother.