Chapter 1: The Tiger Falls to Pingyang
The setting sun shone on the dark land, and the clouds in the sky were burned blood-red.
Under the dead tree, a young man was holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and his deep eyes were staring ahead, except for the sadness in his eyes, who knew what he was thinking?
"It's me who is too weak. ”
Looking at the flat-roofed houses at the bottom of the mountain, Li Xiuyuan sighed, and the sadness in his eyes was slowly hidden.
A few years ago, he was still the enviable young man of the Li family in the flower market, drunk on money, and never knew what money was, but now he has been reduced to living in slums.
If it weren't for the enthusiasm of those poor people, maybe he would have been reduced to the streets, and it would be difficult for him to even eat a mouthful.
The change in the family half a year ago hit him too hard, and even ......
"Li Xiuyuan, you're lazy here again, don't you want to eat!"
I saw a girl in white emerging from the mountain in a huff, her hands on her waist, and her pretty face was full of dark clouds.
Since Li Xiuyuan came to the slums, he eats her family, lives in her family, and even asks her to wash his clothes.
If it weren't for her parents to let the girl understand this down-and-out young man, the girl couldn't help but blast Li Xiuyuan out.
What if it's a big or young, it's already in the past, and Li Xiuyuan can't even get past the hurdle in his heart, so what is there to talk about living again!
"What is urging, don't let people rest yet. Li Xiuyuan spit out the dog's tail grass irritably, and slowly stood up from the ground.
It's not that he hasn't worked for half a year, and even his slender hands are covered with calluses, but this girl is like looking for nothing every day, so he doesn't even have a chance to breathe.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the girl in front of him, let out a sigh of relief, and walked down the hill by himself.
Although annoyed this girl, Li Xiuyuan was very grateful to their family after all, without her family, Li Xiuyuan would have become a frozen bone on the street.
"What's the drag, I really think I'm the young master Li!"
The girl kept up with Li Xiuyuan's pace and chattered endlessly.
Li Xiuyuan put his hands in his pockets, silently bearing this inexplicable irritability, until he walked into the slums, the voice in his ears dissipated.
It's not that he can't accept the life of the poor, on the contrary, he likes it.
At least the people here are welcoming, simple, not like the metropolis, either for money or for women, and then there is an endless struggle.
He once thought that his friend, after the defeat of his family, was unwilling to give him even a steamed bun.
As for the woman he loves deeply, after he is down, let alone continuing to be together, it feels like a waste of saliva to even help him or even connect to the phone.
"Heh, that's the reality. ”
Li Xiuyuan laughed at himself, picked up the wooden pole in his hand and began to push the grinding disc, the work he was doing now was for the donkey, but he was very satisfied.
At least this job can give him peace of mind and give him a bite to eat.
After pushing the grind, Li Xiaoyao stretched his waist, took off his clothes and wiped his sweat. Half a year ago, the weak body now has muscular lines.
"Xiao Li, eat two meat buns first, your body is important. ”
A bag of meat buns was suddenly handed to Li Xiuyuan, and he was greeted by the long-lost smell of meat. In the slums, meat is a food that is rarely eaten once a month.
"Mom Zhang, are you getting rich?" Looking at this small bag of meat buns, why do you have to have seven or eight, so it doesn't cost seventy or eighty yuan?
The people in it live in abandoned flat and wooden buildings, and even more than a dozen people can lie in the garbage station, and they can take out seventy or eighty yuan to buy sandwich buns at a time, which is definitely the largest of the big ones.
The meat bun was placed in front of Li Xiuyuan, and his first reaction was not to take it and eat it, but to be surprised.
Counting it, I haven't eaten sandwich buns for more than ten years, I used to disdain to eat them, but now I can't afford to eat them.
For his grinding work, he is ten yuan a day, and he is only three hundred a month. Three hundred miles, and two hundred and eight have to be given to the girl's family for food and accommodation.
"How can I make any money, that is, my son has a job in a small county town, and he can earn more than 1,000 a month, I am happy. Mama Zhang grinned, her face covered with a kind smile.
"Hehe, then you're welcome. ”
Li Xiuyuan wiped his hands with his clothes and carefully put the meat bun in his mouth. There are more than a thousand jobs, and no one looks at them in any city, but the slums are different.
There are many people whose families are ruined here, many of whom don't even have a hukou, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is difficult for people here to find a job.
If he hadn't come to this place in person, Li Xiuyuan would never have imagined that there was such a poor and backward place in today's society.
After eating a sandwich bun, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and stretched out his hand towards the bag again.
Seeing this, Zhang's mother smiled and did not stop him. Everyone knows Li Xiuyuan's identity, and everyone thinks that Li Xiuyuan is not arrogant and looks down on them.
They like to listen to Li Xiuyuan talk about the world of flowers outside, that world, but they have always looked forward to it.
It's a pity that Li Xiuyuan said very little, for the flower capital outside, it was like a wound that was difficult to stitch, and it hurt into the bone marrow when he mentioned it, and he couldn't breathe.
"Smack!"
As soon as he took the bun into his hand, there was a huge pain in his back, which made Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but let go of his hand, and could only watch the bun fall to the ground.
Li Xiaoyao subconsciously squatted down and picked up the bun, hurriedly wiped it with his hands, and picked off the sand grains on it one by one.
The sandwich bun looked a little cleaner, and after another kick in his hand, the sandwich bun fell directly into a parabola into the distance.
Seeing this situation, Li Xiuyuan didn't go to pick up the buns, he raised his head and stared at the person with his eyes. Even if the other party came around more than ten at once, there was no trace of fear on his face.
"Li Dashao, you are also too poor, you used to look down on the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and now you have bent your waist for a sandwich bun?"
When the green-haired bastard saw Li Xiaoyao glaring at him, he immediately laughed wildly a few times and made mockery.
Li Xiuyuan has been hiding from them for half a year, and now it is difficult to find it, and it is necessary to beat the water dog.
"Get out!"
Li Xiuyuan was not afraid of them, if it weren't for the boss of this group, his father would not have committed suicide by jumping off the building, and his mother would not have been sold into a nightclub.
Compared to his parents, his downfall is nothing!
What he hates is himself, why he is so weak, why he is blindly running away.
Do these people really have to be so terrible?
Li Xiuyuan's eyes stared at the green-haired bastard, this time, he was not running away, let alone the idea of running away.
Since it's been chased, there should be an end!
Li Xiuyuan glanced at the steamed bun in the distance and slowly stood up from the ground.
"This steamed bun is worthless to you, but it is a big meal for everyone here, what right do you have to waste!"
The anger in Li Xiuyuan's eyes kept flashing, and his fists clenched together.
"Are you trying to do it?"
The green-haired bastard's tone was full of sarcasm, and his head was raised even higher, and he was unwilling to give Li Xiuyuan even a straight eye.
A wreck that watched his father jump off the building and his mother was taken away, he didn't dare to do it if he borrowed a thousand guts.
The green-haired bastard didn't care if Li Xiuyuan was only sixteen years old at that time, let alone how many people were grabbing Li Xiuyuan at that time, and even the gun with the black hole was on top of Li Xiuyuan's head.
He only knew that Li Xiuyuan was a waste that even his father couldn't save.
As for the Tao in it, he didn't bother to think about it.
But in the next moment, he was stunned.
Sharp pain came from his cheek, and he watched as a tooth flew out of his mouth and fell into the distance.
The smell of blood instantly spread throughout the mouth!
But that was just the beginning, and the hard fist rained down like a raindown, striking every part of his face.
Blood stained the fist, and the fist seemed to be dirty with blood, and before the blow was struck, he shook his hand vigorously.
Li Xiuyuan's expression became more and more indifferent, but the speed of his fist hitting did not decrease, and he chose to let go until the green-haired bastard had become a pig's head.
"Do you think ......" Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand and wiped it on the green-haired bastard's clothes, and the coldness in his eyes was even worse.
"I don't dare beat you dog?"