The evening sky was a little overcast.

The dark clouds pressed down layer by layer, like a big black pot lid upside down, which made people feel a sense of depression.

Ji Sheng stood beside the earthen stove in the kitchen of his hometown.

My father broke off the dried rape stalks and stuffed them into the stove, picked them up with a burning iron, and babbled about the trivial things that happened in the factory.

The mother sat at the door peeling potatoes, and there was no response.

Ji Sheng was very worried, and he wanted to open his mouth several times to say something, but he never got the words out.

He didn't know how to tell his parents about it.

In other words, I am even more afraid that my parents will be angry when they hear it.

But if you don't talk about it, you can't do it.

Ji Sheng hesitated, but still cautiously spoke, "Dad, Mom, I'...... I'll tell you something, don't be angry after you hear it. ”

The father didn't care, and said casually, "What's the matter?" ”

My mother didn't take it seriously and still peeled the potatoes with a peeler.

Ji Sheng took a deep breath and said in an almost trembling tone, "I...... I owe more than 300,000 outside. ”

Bang dang.

The peeler in the mother's hand made a crisp sound as it fell on the concrete floor.

Ji Sheng's eyes flickered when he saw his father's action of stuffing firewood behind the earthen stove.

Alas.

I guess my parents are going to get angry.

Ji Sheng's whole heart is like fifteen buckets of water, and he is ready to meet his parents' angry scolding.

But to his surprise, his father immediately stuffed the firewood into the stove again, and just asked lightly, "How can you owe so much?" ”

Ji Sheng secretly glanced at his mother, and found that he pretended to be casual and picked up the peeler, and continued to peel the potatoes.

It's just that Ji Sheng can clearly see that his mother's hands are trembling slightly, and he feels very uncomfortable, but the repayment of the loan is imminent, so he still said truthfully: "Didn't I tell you a few months ago that I opened an online store, specializing in the business of selling old things?" ”

"Hmm." Father replied lightly.

Ji Sheng continued, "When I first met Boss Hao, he said that he could make a lot of money selling thrift business, and I didn't believe it at first, but he was willing to give me a thousand yuan of goods on credit for me to try it first, and also helped to tinker with the online store......

He gave the general situation.

It's nothing more than that the 1,000 yuan of goods that he bought and sold without capital at the beginning were sold out in a day or two, and then he took thousands of dollars of goods out of his own pocket.

As Boss Hao said, the thrift business is really good.

In just two or three months, Ji Sheng earned 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which is much better than his hard work in the unit.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, one day Boss Hao found Ji Sheng, saying that many small and medium-sized enterprises would be closed due to the influence of national policies, and Boss Hao's thrift production factory was one of them.

Ji Sheng finally found a way to make a fortune, where he was willing to lose, so he begged Boss Hao for help.

Boss Hao was also very interesting, and helped introduce him to the sales manager of a large manufacturer, but he didn't accept orders of less than 500,000 yuan.

Ji Sheng invited him to eat and gave gifts, so to put it mildly, the sales manager relented, but the order amount could not be less than 350,000.

Three hundred and fifty thousand orders.

According to Ji Sheng's previous online store sales, he could sell out in half a year at most, and he could earn tens of thousands of dollars at that time, he gritted his teeth, borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from a friend, and borrowed 200,000 yuan from an online loan, counting the tens of thousands in his card, he finally managed to get together 350,000 yuan.

Of course, Ji Sheng was not so stupid, he didn't give a penny to the other party before he received the goods.

The other party was quite trustworthy, and asked people to send goods worth 350,000 yuan the day after Ji Sheng signed the contract.

For this reason, Ji Sheng also rented a small warehouse to store the goods.

"Then ......" Speaking of this, Ji Sheng's heart was like a knife, "My online store immediately lost business." ”

There was another sentence he didn't say later, and then the police also came to the door and told him that Boss Hao and the sales manager were fraudsters, and they had used similar means to defraud many young people who dreamed of making a fortune, and the total amount of fraud exceeded 50 million, and the money had already been squandered, and there was a chance that it would not be recovered.

The money can't be recovered.

Friends are not in a hurry.

But those online loans are like a talisman, especially a few formal borrowing channels, like a knife hanging over his head, as long as he can't pay back the money, what awaits him will be to become a dishonest person.

Once he becomes a "lai" and is blacklisted, even airplanes, high-speed rail, and out-of-town accommodation will become problems, and if the situation is serious, after he gets married and has children, his children will not be able to go to key schools.

Life will be difficult to move an inch.

None of these are the main ones.

The most important thing is that those online loans will definitely blow up his address book.

At that time, Ji Sheng's debts outside will be known to everyone.

People want faces, trees want bark.

If it really happens like that.

Ji Sheng really has no face to live, "That's probably the case." ”

Father's tone was still very calm, but Ji Sheng could hear a slight trill in his words, "More than 300,000? How can the family get so much money at once? ”

Ji Sheng hurriedly said: "It's not more than 300,000 yuan at a time, it's about 20,000 yuan a month." ”

"Oh, you go and tidy up the hut, and I'll talk to your mom about it." His father seemed to want to break him apart.

Ji Sheng didn't know if his parents would help him through this difficulty, but he still stood up, "I'll sort it out." ”

The mother lowered her head and said nothing.

Ji Sheng felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and he had an urge to cry.

……

Walked a few dozen meters to the west.

A dilapidated two-room tiled house came into view.

This is the old house of Ji Sheng's family.

It was full of his grandfather's relics and things from his childhood, such as books and toys.

Ji Sheng took out the key and opened the door and went in.

A stale smell came to my face, with a hint of stink.

"I guess another rat is dead."

Ji Sheng muttered, looking at the miscellaneous boxes stacked horizontally and vertically inside, he didn't know how to start for a while, these dilapidated things have been stacked for several years, and his parents are busy with work and fields on weekdays, so they don't have time to tidy up.

A few years ago, when Ji Sheng was still in school, every time he had a holiday, his parents always asked him to tidy up, and he agreed verbally every time, and forgot about it afterwards.

"Pay off your own verbal debts from previous years."

Ji Sheng didn't expect this job to fall on his head.

He decided to start sorting out the boxes at the door.

The first thing that catches your eye is a basket, the kind of strap-weaved basket that used to hang from the back of a bicycle.

"This basket is older than me, it is said to be more than 30 years old, and my dad used it to sell cigarettes."

Seeing this basket, Ji Sheng was quite touched, and he could recall how hard his father had been telling him about how bitter he had before.

Take this basket, for example, which witnessed the life and death of his father.

Ji Sheng remembers that his father said that it seems to be 1988, when his father had not yet met and married his mother, because the carpenter sometimes did not work, and his father started a small business in order to subsidize the family, such as selling cigarettes.

In the eighties, there was no such thing as a tobacco monopoly, and this monopoly law was passed in '91.

Ji Sheng's father made a small difference by selling second-hand smoke.

But once a few ruffians robbed a good cigarette, it would be fatal, a cigarette cost dozens of yuan, which was a huge amount of money in that era.

You must know that the average annual income of farmers at that time was only more than 500 yuan, where did Ji Sheng's father have so much money to lose people?

The father, who couldn't think about it for a while, actually committed suicide by throwing himself into the river on the day of the winter solstice.

It's the coldest time in the day, jumping into the icy river.

Thinking of this, Ji Sheng couldn't help but feel sad for his father, he suffered so much when he was young, and now he is in his fifties, and he still has to be gnawed by him.

"I was so useless, not only did I not make more money for my parents to live a good life, but I also wanted them to help me pay off my debts."

Ji Sheng couldn't help but blame himself again, and his eyes turned red.

It's just that who would have thought that those two fraudsters would spend a few months not to mention the layout, and deliberately let him "earn" tens of thousands of yuan first.

The basket was quickly organized.

Next to it is a small wooden box.

When Ji Sheng saw this small wooden box, he was still sad and aggrieved, and he couldn't help but smile, because this small wooden box once brought "sweetness" to his childhood.

When he was a child, his family was very poor.

Since the sale of illicit cigarettes was not allowed in 91, when Ji Sheng's father was not working at the construction site, in order to subsidize the family, he would ride a bicycle to sell popsicles in the summer, and this wooden box was used by his father to hold popsicles.

Although his father sells popsicles, Ji Sheng basically couldn't eat them when he was a child, because his family was too poor and sometimes he couldn't afford to eat, so how could he eat popsicles?

The first time Ji Sheng ate a popsicle, he remembered that it was a thunderstorm.

That day, my father's popsicles were brought back by heavy rain before they were sold out, and seeing that the popsicles couldn't be sold and were about to melt, he gave them to Ji Sheng and his cousin to eat.

This is Ji Sheng's first time eating popsicles.

Even after more than 20 years, he still remembers it very sweet, and that popsicle is full of sweetness.

It's just that Ji Sheng thinks back now, but he feels that the sweetness of his childhood is based on the bitterness of his parents.

"Alas, I really don't know how my parents survived that era, I really want to go and see it."

Ji Sheng said to himself.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when he finished saying this, he suddenly heard the sound of the mobile phone "dripping".

Ji Sheng was busy tidying up, and he didn't care too much about his mobile phone.

Textbooks for the first grade.

Yo-yo that I used to play.

There are also MP3s and Walkmans from later high school.

It's all the beauty of youth in memory.

Ji Sheng sorted out these things with nostalgia, and before he knew it, the things in the room were almost sorted out.

The phone rang.

Ji Sheng saw that it was a WeChat voice, and answered it casually, "Hey, Mom, what's the matter?" ”

"Eat."

"Okay, here we go."

Hanging up, he was about to put his phone away.

Suddenly, Ji Sheng saw a golden door sign appear on the screen of his mobile phone.

He was stunned, he didn't remember that he had downloaded this software, could it be that some junk software was automatically downloaded?

Delete it.

Ji Sheng didn't think much about it, and reached out and pressed to delete it.

But strange things happened, and there was no way to delete them from the desktop.

Ji Sheng felt a little surprised, and said in his heart that this junk software should not be as rogue as a certain 60, right? He directly clicked on the phone settings and wanted to find the software to delete.

But still no!

Well?

What's going on?

Ji Sheng is a little unhappy, the current junk software is too inappropriate, it is hidden so deep that he can't find it?

He didn't believe in evil anymore, so he just clicked on it to see what it was.

Press it.

In an instant, a golden image popped up on the screen, and then there was an energy gauge-like thing buffering in the middle.

It reads: Energy harvested complete.

Energy progress (100/100).

There are also two words below.

Energy?

What energy?

Ji Sheng felt a little inexplicable, but out of curiosity, he tried to click "Open".

A bizarre scene is born!

A soft glow enveloped him.

Then, Ji Sheng only felt that his body was light, and his eyes swayed inexplicably.

When he regained his vision, he found himself standing on a huge "electronic scale" with the words "0kg" clearly written on it.

0kg？

What does this mean?

Ji Sheng felt inexplicable, but he was suddenly teleported to this unfamiliar space, and he was a little flustered in his heart, he didn't care about what to study, and hurriedly wanted to find a way out.

There is a door right in front.

He couldn't help but reach out and push.