Zhao Mingwang saw the scar on Yongzi's arm, was stunned, didn't withdraw his hand, and patted Yongzi on the shoulder.

"Brother, don't be afraid, since you paid me the protection fee, I will protect you in the future! From today onwards, you will be my little brother!

When you are a big brother, you won't beat you, but if someone bullies you, you tell me, you know?"

Zhao Mingwang tried his best to speak to Yongzi in a hearty voice, hoping to give this scarred and gloomy little boy a little encouragement.

Yuko was just silent.

Zhao Mingwang stretched out his hand to pull him up and asked, "What's your name?"

Yuko didn't speak, just looked at him.

After staring at each other and being silent for a long time, as if knowing that Zhao Mingwang would not beat him, Yongzi finally spoke: "Can I go?"

The voice is subtle, like a mosquito and a fly.

Zhao Mingwang didn't bother anymore for a while, just nodded at him in a daze.

Standing in place, Zhao Mingwang watched Yongzi's short and thin figure walk farther and farther, feeling the bad touch of the crumpled banknotes in his hand, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

That day, Zhao Mingwang showed the two cents he collected to his "eldest brother", and the eldest brothers laughed at him, not only did not take away his two cents, but also threw him twenty yuan and asked him to buy some milk to drink.

The matter of collecting protection money is over, and I don't know if he has passed the test.

But that night, Zhao Mingwang, who had been idle, idle, and running errands for the big brothers, suddenly felt something different.

Those things that are different may be sympathy, it may be protectiveness, it may be responsibility.

From that day on, Zhao Mingwang went to the gate of the primary school every day to wait for Yongzi, waited for him to get out of school, and followed him to send him home.

At first, Yongzi was afraid of being beaten by him when he saw him, so if he had any money, he would take the initiative to give it to him.

Later, after getting acquainted, it seemed that Zhao Mingwang would not beat him, and he slowly stopped taking the initiative to pay for it.

Zhao Mingwang collected more than five yuan from him back and forth, all of which were saved for one dime and two cents. z.br>

To collect protection money is to protect people, so when Zhao Mingwang saw other senior students bullying Yongzi, he stepped forward and beat those people away.

"Why don't you resist!"

Zhao Mingwang hated iron but not steel, because Yongzi didn't know how to fight back when he was bullied, so he only held his head and was beaten.

"You're a boy, you'll be a man when you grow up, you have to be brave!"

The nickname Yongzi came from here, because Zhao Mingwang hoped that he could be brave, so he was called so later.

That time, Yongzi was no longer silent.

He said, "You don't understand, if you fight back, it hurts even more in the back."

Zhao Mingwang was stunned again.

He didn't know how many beatings Yuko had to take before he summed up this experience.

After that, in addition to following the big brothers in the society, Zhao Mingwang spent the rest of his time going to find Yongzi, squatting at the gate of Yongzi Primary School and on the way to and from school, just to protect the younger brother from being bullied as the eldest brother.

This kind of days lasted for more than a year.

In the past year or so, Zhao Mingwang and Yongzi have become familiar with each other.

Zhao Mingwang knew that the protection money that Yongzi handed over to him was all earned by picking up garbage by himself, and he also knew that Yongzi was often beaten, bullied by the gangsters in the senior grades, and beaten by his father when he went home.

Zhao Mingwang solved the matter of bullying Yongzi by senior students, after all, the gangsters in elementary school must be afraid of the gangsters in society.

After Zhao Mingwang found those little gangsters and warned them again, there was no one in the school to bully Yongzi.

But when Yongzi went home to be beaten, Zhao Mingwang couldn't solve it.

At that time, Zhao Mingwang didn't know that there was a word called "domestic violence".

Yongzi's father was an alcoholic and gambled.

Gambling money has lost all the money in the family and owes it

has a lot of debt, no money to support his family, not to mention, and robbed Yongzi to pick up garbage to gamble.

Alcoholism is also very serious, often getting drunk until he gets drunk, and beats people when he drinks too much.

Debts and beatings, Yongzi couldn't stand it after a few years of beatings, so he didn't get a marriage certificate anyway, so he ran away. took advantage of his youth, went on a blind date again, and found a new family.

After his wife ran away, Yuko's father became even more emotionally unstable, from getting drunk and beating people again, to starting to fight when they didn't get along.

Yongzi usually has to go to school, and once Yongzi's father beat him and left the injury that was seen by the teacher, and the teacher directly called the police.

Faced with the police's questioning, Yuko's father stiffened his neck and emphasized over and over again, "This is my family's family affair! I'll teach my son a lesson, and it's your!"

The Women's Federation knew about the situation and went to mediate, but it was useless.

After the police left, Yuko's father beat Yuko again, with a stick, and almost didn't kill him.

"You little bunny! It's not good to learn anything, it's good to learn to complain! It's your mother's seed! It's not a good thing!

Next time, if you dare to sue again, see if I don't kill you!"

At a young age, Yongzi didn't understand the law, nor did he understand the world, and after the police came and went, he only understood that not to ask for help from outside was to help himself.

Yongzi's father also learned to be cunning after that time, beating Yuko to find places on his body that were blocked by clothes, or to find some painful but inconspicuous ways to torture him.

Take a cigarette butt and burn it, let him eat the ashes, prick it with a needle, and put ground pebbles in his shoes......

Torturing his son seemed to bring a strange pleasure to the man who was captured by pornography, gambling and drugs, and this pleasure made him more and more immersed, and also made Yongzi sink more and more in the mire, about to suffocate.

Zhao Mingwang originally felt that he was already miserable, having parents is equal to nothing, supporting himself and not even being able to go to school.

After meeting Yongzi, Zhao Mingwang knew that there were children who were even worse than him.

It's better to have parents than not, and you have to suffer both physically and mentally.

Zhao Mingwang wanted to help Yongzi and free him from suffering, but there was nothing good to do.

He himself is still a minor, and he can barely support himself, and he lives by being a dog for social people. What he can do for Yuko is to share a little of his own lunch and dinner, and he can't even find a hiding place that can keep him from going home.

The most important thing is that if there is no guarantee that he can escape completely, Yuko will not try.

Otherwise, if they are caught, they may be beaten to death.

That's it, Yongzi was numb, Zhao Mingwang was in a hurry, time passed little by little, and another year passed.

Until one day, Zhao Mingwang went to wait for Yongzi at the school gate when he was out of school as usual, but he didn't wait for anyone.

I asked Yuko's classmates, and the classmate said that Yuko skipped school today, didn't ask for leave, and didn't come to school.