Smack-

A clear slap in the face.

"Chen Ping! Don't be embarrassed!"

Huang Zhao pulled the collar of a student wearing a school uniform with one hand and pushed it viciously against the wall, raised his hand and slapped the other party's white cheek, and in an instant, a faint red and swollen palm print visible to the naked eye appeared.

"Huang Zhao, I really don't have any money......"

Chen Ping covered his face, his eyes dodged, he didn't dare to face Huang Zhao directly, his voice was full of cowardice and fear, and he could even hear a trace of crying.

Smack-

Another slap in the face.

"Chen Ping! What did I tell you yesterday? Ask your mother for books and miscellaneous fees under the pretext of paying for books! You shit! Don't you even know how to tell lies?"

Huang Zhao laughed angrily, and after slapping him, he still didn't seem to be angry, and grabbed Chen Ping's collar and slammed his fist against the other party's head.

"But I really don't have any money at home. ”

Chen Ping dodged Huang Zhao's fist in embarrassment and sniffled.

"No money?!No money to read a book!"

Huang Zhao grabbed the strap of Chen Ping's schoolbag, pulled it off hard, and immediately broke the belt, and then pulled the schoolbag off Chen Ping's back, and all the textbooks in the schoolbag fell to the ground and stepped on it hard.

"Chen Ping, Lao Tzu told you, if you don't have money tomorrow, you won't want to enter this school gate in the future!

After venting wantonly, Huang Zhao pointed at Chen Ping and threatened with a hideous expression, and then beckoned a few friends who were watching the play next to him to leave the alley.

Not long after they left, Chen Ping silently squatted down, he picked up the shabby schoolbag covered with dust and footprints, and slowly packed the textbook into the bag, leaving two lines of tears on his red, swollen and aggrieved face unconsciously.

After packing his schoolbag, he did not leave the alley, but squatted under the wall, holding the schoolbag in his arms and sobbing silently, until it was getting dark, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and slowly got up to leave.

Chen Ping was born in a single-parent family, his parents divorced and separated since he was a child, the reason was that his father had an affair after making money in business, Chen's mother who could not accept this fact took the initiative to file for divorce, and the child was left to Chen's mother to raise under negotiation, and Chen's father went to the bustling big city with the object of the affair.

Chen's mother was an ordinary female worker in a local textile factory, and as the factory's economic efficiency became worse and worse, coupled with the loss of Chen's father's child support, the life of both mother and son became increasingly embarrassing.

Chen Ping, who has no father, has often been ridiculed by his classmates since he went to school, so his personality has become weak and inferior, and his academic performance is still good. However, when he chose a school after graduating from primary school, he could not afford to go to a good middle school due to family difficulties, so he could only go to the local No. 13 Middle School with a poor academic environment.

And Chen Ping's miserable life officially kicked off.

Throughout the three years of junior high school, he was the target of bullying in the class, especially Huang Zhao.

Huang Zhao is a well-known poor student in the thirteenth middle school, he is idle all day long on campus to form gangs, plus he has an elder brother who mixes society, but any students he doesn't like will punch and kick unscrupulously, and these students dare not tell their teachers and parents for fear of retaliation afterwards, which further breeds his arrogance.

Since the second year of junior high school, perhaps at the instigation of his gangster brother, Huang Zhao actually teamed up with fox friends and dog friends in the school to extort and extort weak and bullying classmates in turn, known as protection money, and anyone who did not pay would be blocked in the alley after school and threatened to be beaten until the other party was willing to pay.

Chen Ping is just one of the victims.

Chen Ping's family was poor, and the protection fees were often in arrears, so it was natural that Huang Zhao would become the target of his key lessons.

What happened in the alley just now was just an ordinary microcosm of his entire three years of junior high school.

Chen's mother is the norm because of the efficiency of the factory, so every day Chen's mother will give Chen Ping five yuan to buy brunch, and this money is all handed over to Huang Zhao, resulting in Chen Ping not eating brunch for two years and being hungry, and his body is malnourished.

Chen Ping is forbearing, and he will graduate from junior high school in two more months, as long as he is admitted to a good high school, he can be completely free from Huang Zhao's clutches, so his grades have always been in the upper reaches of the class, and he will definitely be able to go to a good high school if he plays normally in the future.

Returning to the humble home of less than 30 square meters, Chen Ping hurriedly washed his face with cold water while his mother had not returned from work, trying not to let his mother see the strange appearance on his face, and then found a sewing kit and sewed the broken strap of the schoolbag again.

"Chen Ping, Mom is back, see what I brought you?"

At about seven o'clock in the evening, Chen's mother returned home, and as soon as she entered the door, she happily called Chen Ping's name.

When Chen Ping came out of the bedroom, with a blue overalls and a haggard face, Chen's mother shook it with a smile in front of Chen Ping with a white plastic bag full of blood stains in her hand.

"Lao Zhou, who sells meat, left some pigs in the water before closing, and my mother gave them to me directly when she was passing by to buy vegetables. ”

Chen's mother usually goes to buy vegetables when the market is about to close, because at this time, the vegetable and butcher sellers will give a fairly cheap price in order to sell the leftover vegetables and meat, and if the relationship is good, they will even sell half and give half away.

"Do you want me to help deal with it?" Chen Ping hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"No, your task now is to study hard! Have you finished your homework today?" Chen's mother shook her head, carrying the pig's water and vegetables, and prepared to go to the cooking table outside the house.

"I've finished writing, and I'm reviewing my homework just now. Chen Ping said.

"Then you will obediently go back to your room and continue to study, and your mother will call you out to eat when she cooks the meal. Mother Chen said.

"Good!"

Chen Ping nodded.

Looking at his mother's slightly rickety back, he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, his mother's salary is just enough to cover the family's food and clothing every month, and the annual tuition fees are accumulated little by little, in the face of Huang Zhao's threats and blackmail, in addition to the brunch money, how can the family have extra money to give each other.

I heard that he can apply for poverty grants and scholarships when he goes to high school, and if he works hard, he will be able to help his mother relieve the burden on his shoulders!

High school!

Two months to go!

Now, however, he could not ignore an important issue.

If he doesn't want to be beaten, where will he get money for Huang Zhao tomorrow?

In the past, he could borrow some from friends who had a little fun when he was a child, but now these friends have long distanced themselves from him because of the money, and they obviously don't think of him as friends anymore.

After dinner, Chen Ping turned off the lights and prepared to go to bed at ten o'clock.

Lying on the bed, Chen Ping felt so tired, so tired, that tears flowed down unconsciously.

It's night.

He had a dream.

He dreamed of a white world, and he seemed to be walking aimlessly, walking continuously, as if he was going to the end of the world, out of the white world in front of him.

For a long time, for a long time.

He saw a black dot in the distance.

When he rushed forward, he saw a man.

A man sitting in a chair reading quietly.

And this person looks very similar to him, more precisely, he looks like himself ten years later.

"Who are you?"

In the dream, Chen Ping asked.

"My name is Chen An. ”

He closed the book and looked at him with a joyless and sad expression.

Chen An...... My name is Chen Ping. Chen Ping said.

"I know. Chen Andao.

"You know me?" Chen Ping wondered.

"Because I am you, and you are me. Chen Andao. "I have always lived in your body. ”

Chen Ping felt frightened.

"You're not me! Get out of me!"

"I can't get out, because I said, I'm you. Chen An said calmly.

"You lie!" Chen Ping shouted.

"You are me in countless parallel universes, I am you in countless parallel universes, under normal circumstances, they will never interfere and intersect with each other. Chen An still said calmly. "But because of an accident, I came here, residing on another me in a parallel universe, and now, you know?"

"I ...... I don't understand! I don't want to know!"

Chen Ping covered his ears and shouted, as if he couldn't accept this absurd fact.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. ”

Chen An sat back in his chair and continued to look at the books in his hand.

"I will not interfere in your life without your consent. ”

As soon as the words fell, the white world began to collapse, and Chen Ping fell into the endless abyss as if he had stepped on the air.

Ahh

Chen Pingwu woke up from the bed violently with his hands and feet, and when he realized that it was a dream just now, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and cold sweat broke out on the back of his face.

Picked up the electronic watch without a strap next to the bed and looked at it, 6:23.

The alarm clock will not ring until 6:30 p.m.

Anyway, he didn't feel sleepy, Chen Ping simply got up and prepared to brush his teeth and wash his face to school.

"Chen Ping, woke up so early?"

As soon as he got out of the bedroom, Chen An immediately saw his mother who was about to leave for work.

"I woke up early, so I thought I would go to school early. ”

Chen Ping took the cup with a toothbrush and toothpaste on the small windowsill in the living room.

"Well, pay attention to safety at school, mom went to work first, the money is on the table, don't lose it when it will be put away, remember not to spend it indiscriminately, eat well." Chen's mother hurriedly went out after a few words.

Looking at the five yuan on the table, Chen Ping stared for a long time.

Once in order to have money to pay protection money to Huang Zhao, he did not hesitate to deceive his mother several times and lost the money, so since then, every time his mother will ask him to put the money away.

Silently put the money on the table into his pocket, which was not enough for the fifty yuan protection fee that Huang Zhao asked for.

What should he do?

Will it be time to ask Huang Zhao for two more days?

On weekends and holidays, he can go to the street to pick up waste paper, bottles and cans to sell, and spend more time picking up some to always get together.

But will Huang Zhao agree?