2023, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Wencheng, on the Nameless Tomb Mountain, the winter chill is especially obvious.

The freezing rain had just passed, and there was an icy smell in the air that made people feel suffocated.

The branches were covered with frost, and on the grass near the tombstones, the bitter cold wind froze all the grass seedlings, leaving only a few dry stubble, which hung gloomily like the wreckage of grief.

At this time, the sky was gray and dark, and it was as if the whole world had been plunged into darkness.

At the top of the mountain, in front of a row of frozen tombstones, a man of about 50 years old sits on his knees, holding a family photo in his right hand, with obvious cuts on his middle three fingers, which have been cut off by something.

He was not afraid of the cold wind, and he didn't care about the freezing and wet ground, he held a bottle of Lao Bai dry in his left hand and drank it, muttering something expressionlessly.

"Mother-in-law, you left the year before last, and this year is not over the New Year, and your father-in-law is also gone.

It's good to be gone, I know you've had a miserable time all these years, and you often wash your face with tears. ”

On the heads of the two old tombstones, there are several strings of crystal frost, as if they are frozen tears, frozen in the cold environment.

After glancing at the avatar, his mood fluctuated a little, and he continued to murmur:

"I want to leave too, but my parents are alive, I can't be so selfish, I still have to survive."

"I'm not a human being, I didn't take care of my wife and daughter, I can't wait for my father-in-law to fan me to death back then!"

The more Fang Bai spoke, the more excited he became, tears couldn't help but slide down onto the family photo, and his scarred right hand couldn't help but wipe it, only to find that the tears fell more.

In the photo, in addition to him standing in the middle, there is also a four-year-old cute girl holding a rag doll and a beautiful woman wearing a big skirt, a family of three with a smile on their faces, which seems to be able to melt everything.

Recalling these two people who often haunted his heart, Fang Bai's heart was as sad as being cut by a sharp knife, remorse, guilt, despair, and desolation.

In October 2001, a five-year-old girl was hit by a car at the entrance of the kindergarten and died.

The two families fell into extreme sadness after learning the news, and the wife was extremely self-blaming, thinking that she had not taken good care of the children, and had to bear the fingers and fingers of the people around her, and finally collapsed and committed suicide after a few days of depression.

The father-in-law slapped Fang Bai a few times and scolded him for not taking care of the family.

At that time, the successive loss of loved ones made Fang Bai choked with grief and couldn't cry, his soul seemed to be drained, his body was just an empty shell, and he was expressionless every day, and many people mocked him behind his back:

"This kind of person, who often runs business outside, has long been trained to be a multi-faceted person, has no warmth, and he has not shed a single tear when his wife and children die."

"My wife is so beautifully dressed, my children are not well educated, and it is useless to make more money, maybe the money I earn is not very clean, and karma will be retributed."

At that time, Fang Bai hoped that his father-in-law could beat him up so that he could get a little relief from his guilt.

Maybe my father-in-law saw that his eyes were dull at that time, and after slapping him a few times, he fell to the ground and cried bitterly, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, who was more sad than him!

Fang Bai was in a daze for a few years, and he didn't know how to get through the years of collapse, and his beard and hair grew and he didn't know how to trim them, all of which his father used scissors to help him cut blindly.

His parents persuaded him to marry again many times, but his mentality has changed and he can't get out of that psychological shadow.

The more Fang Bai recalled, the more tears he had, and he didn't know how much he drank, and he fainted in a daze.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying at the head of the bed, with some sharp pain in the middle three fingers of his right hand.

Woke up in pain!

He stared at the middle three fingers of his right hand, which had been severed from the middle and had now been connected and sutured, but the wound was still red and swollen, leaving a bright red bloodstain, and he couldn't bear to look at it directly.

This is when he was 18 years old, he mistakenly operated the shearing machine, resulting in the cutting of the middle three fingers of his right hand.

Glancing away, my eyes shifted to the simple, cramped, dimly lit environment of the ward: concrete floors, slightly gray walls and gray sheets, four simple wooden beds, an old red thermos next to the bed was particularly conspicuous, there was no air conditioning or fan, and from time to time there was a noisy sound from the corridor.

In the ward, there are two pale patients lying on the bed, as well as three family members, two of whom are holding handmade bamboo fans and waving them mechanically, chatting about some daily life to relieve boredom.

The strong smell of medicine, the pungent disinfectant water, the rancid sour smell and the sour smell of shoes mixed together to impact Fang Bai's sense of smell.

At the same time, the nerve endings at the wound constantly sent tingling signals to his brain, making him can't help but bare his teeth.

He suddenly realized that this was not a dream!

Definitely not a dream!

"I'm dripping, how can this be?"

This is exactly what it was like after the surgery, and there was no pain at all when I woke up.

The room in front of him is too familiar, Room 303 of Dongzhou People's Hospital, where he once spent two extremely difficult weeks of his life.

For the first few nights after the operation, the pain in his fingers kept pounding on the nerves in his brain, making it difficult for him to sleep, and the memory was deep in his bone marrow.

I remember that time, confusion, numbness, remorse, sadness, all kinds of complex emotions filled his heart.

After a while, Fang Bai figured out the situation.

He was born again!

It's just, how did he go from 2023 to 1990 again?

If so, it would be good if he was reborn, even if three fingers were severely injured, at least he could save his wife and daughter.

In those years, every time he recalled holding the body of his wife and daughter who left coldly, he was like a helpless baby, wanting to cry without tears, and he couldn't live in pain!

He had never been so eager to be born again!

I hope God will give him another chance, let him do it again, and let him make up for his regrets.

It's just that I can't imagine that I'm really reborn!

Fang Bai's body trembled a little with excitement, and he burst into tears.

At this time, the door creaked, and a thin middle-aged woman walked in, about 160 centimeters tall, dressed simply, combing a bundle of long yellow hair, holding a bag of apples, and a sad face with a yellowed and rough face, without any brilliance.

The first thing the woman saw when she entered the door was Fang Bai, walked to his bedside, put the fruit on the tin cabinet, and said gently: "Son, my mother bought you apples, and the doctor said that vitamin supplements are good for recovery." ”

She sighed, noticed the tears in Fang Bai's eyes, and couldn't help but wipe them away for him, she was most afraid that the child wouldn't be able to think about it.

The family's already difficult life is even worse now, and she knows that her son is very uncomfortable at this time, and she must be strong.

After thinking about it for a while, he nagged again: "Hey, don't think too much about the past, there is still a long way to go in the future." ”

"Mom, I'm fine, I can't do physical work with my right hand, and I have my left hand, so I can do other things." Fang Bai struggled to squeeze out a smile.

His family is in a rural village near Yongjia County, Wencheng, where the nine mountains are half water and half fields, and the actual per capita arable land is less than one-third of the land.

Therefore, they could only go to the city to work as a few odd jobs to make ends meet, generally working in shoe factories, valve factories, button factories, and foundries.

A few years ago, the private sector had just opened up, and it would have been possible to find jobs, and if only a few years earlier, it would have been nice not to starve to death.

"Well, while you have just finished the college entrance examination for two or three months, why don't you repeat your studies for a year and go to college, maybe you can be admitted to the undergraduate program with hard work, and you don't have to worry about money."

"Mom, I'll think about it." Fang Bai nodded.

In this era, it is very difficult to be admitted to the undergraduate program, and his college entrance examination score is still 40 points away from the second line, which is not very bad.

I didn't go to undergraduate, and considering my family's poor financial situation, I didn't even want to go to college, and I wanted to come out early to earn money to support my family.

After the college entrance examination, he plans to work in a factory, on the one hand, to accumulate funds, and on the other hand, to familiarize himself with the various processes in the big factory, so that he can go out and work alone in the future.

On the Wencheng side, the poor think of a way out, so there are many large and small workshops, even if there is only a small lathe, and even no equipment can become a small boss.

Fang Bai was an apprentice in a machine shop, and while operating a shearing machine, he accidentally cut off his fingers.

At that time, a burst of distress made him sit on the ground in pain, his left hand covered his right hand, he felt that the sky had fallen, and he roared in pain, and the entire workshop workers were shocked.

In the end, he picked up the severed finger himself and went to the hospital accompanied by the old master.

Except for the old master, no one else, including the boss, the personnel department and other workers, came to visit him in the hospital.

According to the situation in the previous life, the factory owner did not bear the responsibility for medical expenses and hospitalization expenses, thinking that Fang Bai did not comply with the equipment operation specifications and caused trouble, and he was not a regular employee, and the boss did not even want to settle his salary, and scolded him for being an "unlucky ghost"!

At that time, Fang Bai and his family did not understand the law, and at that time, they could not go through the labor arbitration compensation mechanism.

This kind of accident often happens in machinery factories, most bosses only care about interests, and now they want him to lose money, they must not be happy, don't even think about it!

In this life, Fang Bai didn't want to just forget it!

The money his parents had saved was used to pay for his medical bills and hospitalization, not to mention that he had a younger sister who was in junior high school to take care of.

"Then think about it, I'll peel an apple for you."

His mother saw that he was silent for a while, then took out a key made of hemp rope from her pocket, took out a knife, and wiped it on her own garment, before she picked up an apple and began to peel it.

Her knuckles were covered with calluses, carved with the traces of time, and a thin layer of peel rolled up in a circle and fell into the garbage shovel, all of which was very sad in Fang Bai's eyes.

After peeling the apple, he handed it to Fang Bai, and Fang Bai took it with his left hand: "Mom, you can also peel and eat it yourself." ”

"Mom tasted it when I bought it."

Fang Bai was stunned for a moment, his mother was reluctant to eat, persuasion was useless, he sighed in his heart, suppressed his tears and did not shed his tears, and took a bite of the apple without being angry.

Apples are not cheap these days, maybe six or seven catties are worth a day's income of the people, and rural families are reluctant to spend money to buy them.

The conversation between mother and son was heard by everyone in the same ward, and one of them, an old woman who was about seventy years old, muttered: "It's really pitiful, my finger was broken at a young age, and it will be difficult to find food in the future, and it will be difficult to please a wife." ”

Fang Bai's mother was a little unhappy when she heard the Ou language spoken by the old woman: "You don't have to rely on manual labor to make money, it's okay to rely on culture when you read good books, and you can also ask for a literate person to ask for a wife in the future." ”

"Then you have to go to a good university, it's not like you didn't get into college."

"My son's grades are not bad, and he can repeat his studies to a better university."

"It's hard to get into college now if you repeat your studies, it's not easy to marry a literate wife, and the bride price is a lot."

Fang Bai glanced at his mother and signaled her not to continue arguing with the old woman, who was too bored and would definitely chatter endlessly, wishing that someone would fight her.

I can't beat it, and I'm afraid that the other party will be wild and spicy and lie on the ground and touch porcelain, wouldn't it be asking for trouble.

As soon as the old woman finished speaking, a little girl of about 167 heads, with two pigtails, walked in, and was about seventeen or eighteen years old.

She wore a literary khaki plaid skirt, revealing a small white and smooth heel, white board shoes, and a pure white T-shirt tied into the skirt, showing a slender and elastic waist, and the front was rounded, slightly blocking the view of looking down.

At this time, her delicate face was full of panic, her snow-white forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and a line of sweat on her left cheek flowed down and flowed into her white neck.

Seeing Fang Bai lying on the hospital bed, Pear Blossom cried on Fang Bai with rain in an instant.

"Fang Bai, woo, I finally waited until I came back from the National Day holiday, waited for you to get off work in your factory, and heard your colleagues say that you had an accident and were sent to the hospital, I thought you were gone, and I cried.

I searched several wards to find you, where did you get hurt? ”

"Silly melon, it's not a big deal, it's fine." Fang Bai felt her violently trembling body, like a helpless flower swaying in the storm.

His left hand caressed her little face full of tears, and the tears slid down the back of his hand, reflecting her clear and bright eyes.

Seeing this, Fang Bai's eyes were full of tenderness and distress, he knew that Qin Shuyu rarely took the initiative to communicate with others, unless he had to.

The two met because of the high school table, Qin Shuyu was a little afraid of society at the beginning, and after most of the year, he didn't take the initiative to say a word of gossip to Fang Bai, let alone other boys, who seemed a little cold, Fang Bai would only respond to "um" and "oh" when she asked.

Fang Bai's personality is more jumpy, helping her block many suitors, and the love letter was confiscated by him without heart and lungs, and his grades were also affected.

Qin Shuyu was a little reluctant to see Fang Bai's grades drop, and helped Fang Bai solve the problem in the first semester of high school, at first he only wrote and didn't speak, but later he exchanged more words and talked more.

But to the other boys, they still have the same cold expression that rejects people thousands of miles away, and most of the suitors are missing, and even the girls are reluctant to communicate with her.

After the second year of high school liberal arts and sciences were classified, they were still in the same class, and there was no male and female table together, but the two were also in the front and back rows, and they remained until they graduated from the third year of high school.

Qin Shuyu didn't know what love was, and she hadn't thought about falling in love, so she felt a little lonely when she didn't see Fang Bai for a few days during the holidays.

During the winter vacation of the third year of high school, the two accidentally touched their mouths while shopping, Fang Bai joked that the relationship between husband and wife would be settled after the mouth, and Qin Shuyu, who had no knowledge of love, would take it seriously, so the two of them decided on the relationship between lovers, but their parents and school didn't know about it.

Fang Bai also called her a "stupid melon" because of this incident, and Qin Shuyu felt that it was still intimate when she heard it.

Now, Qin Shuyu was relieved when she heard Fang Bai shouting like this, she stopped crying, and only then did she notice the women next to her and the people in the ward, she was slightly embarrassed, and quickly wiped away her tears.

Clear-eyed people know the relationship between this beautiful girl and Fang Bai, and the old woman who had just exchanged scolding with Fang Bai's mother couldn't see that others were good, so she said coldly: "Three fingers are cut off, it's not a trivial matter, and I can't do heavy work." ”

Fang Bai's mother, Liu Fengqing, glared at the old woman with a bad stomach, wanting to destroy her son's good deeds, but there was no door!

But it's the first time she has seen her son and girl so close, she looked at it carefully, she was dressed neatly and neatly, with a slight scale on it, so she didn't have to worry about the child's milk powder, the back was a little smaller, but it was also passable, this is really her son's girlfriend?

You'll have to ask for it later.

Qin Shuyu was frightened when he saw the wound on Fang Bai's right hand, and he was so distressed that he cried again: "You also said it's okay, your fingers are broken, it must be very painful, right?" ”

"A little bit."

Fang Bai comforted, and helped her wipe her tears, "It's really fine, it's already connected, don't worry, it's just that it may not be able to do heavy work in the future." ”

Unexpectedly, Qin Shuyu said solemnly: "Fang Bai, it will get better, even if you can't do heavy work, it's okay, when I graduate from college and work, I will support you." ”

"Then I'll be a rich woman in the future, and I still graduated from a prestigious school, haha."

Fang Bai joked that Qin Shuyu's grades were very good, and he was admitted to Shencheng University of Finance and Economics majoring in accounting, and the accounting alumni of this school are "stepping on the sewing machine".

When the old woman next to her heard this, she stretched out an old face, her son was almost 35 years old and didn't get a daughter-in-law, and a poor and crippled person actually had such a clever object.

And why is there such a stupid girl, she is still a college student, is she stupid to read, and she feels a little bad in her heart.

Her broken wife told her that the water was out and she wanted to drink water, she immediately turned on the battle mode like a big with erect hair and yelled at her wife: "My head is full of water, what else to drink!" ”

The whole ward was frightened by her, and looked at her in unison.

The old woman snorted, picked up the thermos, and turned around to leave the ward quickly.

After the old woman left, Fang Bai saw his mother's impatient and inquiring eyes, and casually prevaricated and said, "Mom, this is my high school classmate Qin Shuyu. ”

Liu Fengqing glared at him, he was still a high school classmate, so he was stupid.

"Hello Auntie!"

Qin Shuyu was a little restrained, but still greeted Fang Bai's mother.

The eyes under the thick eyelashes are as smart as water, even in the dim light, they are still as bright as pearls, demure and well-behaved, this alone conquers Liu Fengqing: Where did this kid find the little girl, and his father has a very good eye.

"Eh, hello Xiaoyu, she looks so beautiful.

Hey, it's just that my Fang Bai is unlucky enough for this. ”

Liu Fengqing naturally looked at his son's, and finally got a cheap daughter-in-law, but he would not push it away at will.

Seeing the old woman who was angry out of the ward again, Liu Fengqing was very satisfied, who said that his son couldn't find a daughter-in-law, isn't this in front of him, and it's beautiful.

"Auntie, forget it in the past, I don't care, as long as Fang Bai figures it out." Qin Shuyu comforted, and at the same time looked at Fang Bai gently.

She's just socially aware, but that doesn't mean she has a low IQ, and it's not that she can't say something nice.

Fang Bai listened to Qin Shuyu's words, and also thought of his father-in-law's house, and felt a little guilty.

His father-in-law opened a small mechanical workshop, the main equipment is a second-hand CA6140 ordinary lathe and a second-hand Z3032 wall vertical drill, specializing in processing.

In this era, a small workshop with a total value of tens of thousands of yuan of equipment is really remarkable.

It's just that his father-in-law is used to waiting for orders to come to the door, and he doesn't get bigger quickly.

Fang Bai couldn't do hard work after being injured in his previous life, so he became a second-way dealer in industrial valves, stumbling and working for more than two years before he got a little better, and then helped his father-in-law pull a lot of work, and the two drank and called each other brothers.

Until one time drinking, Fang Bai missed a word, and his father-in-law found out that his daughter was abducted by him, chased him for three streets with a wine bottle, and scolded him, "Little bastard, I will make money with you as a brother and brother, and finally I want to take advantage of my daughter!"

Don't run, little bastard! ”

In fact, his father-in-law didn't look down on him, Fang Bai was still very capable in running business, but he definitely didn't want to marry his daughter who had gone to college to someone who had broken his finger and never went to college.

Later, he couldn't resist his daughter's tough attitude, so he had to give up.

After the two got married, his father-in-law asked Fang Bai to continue to grow the small workshop with him, he was inside and Fang Bai was outside.

His father-in-law is a daughter, and he had a young son in the early years, but he drowned, and then he didn't dare to have another life, and he was also a hard-working person in the final analysis.

After Fang Bai and his father-in-law partnered, the small workshop did a good job, although it did not have its own brand and technology, but the market demand was large, and the orders of the large factories could not be completed, so they only worked for the large factories, and they could also let them quickly pull up a processing plant with thirty or forty employees within a few years, and bought a small car, which was considered a local tyrant at the end of the 90s of the 20th century.

It's just that later, Fang Bai's daughter's accidental death also took away his wife, and the double blow made the family collapse instantly, and both of them were immersed in grief and had no intention of running a business.

The processing plant slowly declined, and when Fang Bai woke up a few years later, he had missed the opportunity for the best development.

In fact, after experiencing the taste of losing a loved one, money is really not very important to them, and there is no more meaning to it!

Fang Bai returned to his life, in fact, the pursuit of money was not strong, and the two families could live happily and peacefully.

However, according to his current poverty situation, he will definitely not be able to marry Qin Shuyu in the future, so that the children will have a better living environment, and the once unforgettable pain will definitely not let it happen, absolutely not!

Fang Bai lay on the bed and recalled the events of his previous life, during which the nurse came in to disinfect and change the dressing for him once.

Qin Shuyu was physically and mentally exhausted, took the stool, tightened the skirt with his legs, and then rested directly on the side of his bed for a while, and when he woke up, he was afraid that Fang Bai would be bored, so he went to buy some things outside the hospital.

More than ten minutes later, Fang Bai saw the swinging skirt at the door, and knew that Qin Shuyu was back, carrying a bag of fruit and two newspapers in her hand.

Liu Fengqing hurriedly took the fruit, smiled and said that Xiaoyu was too polite, Qin Shuyu said that it was nothing, and the patients and family members in the house felt that Qin Shuyu was a well-informed girl.

Fang Bai saw the newspaper and wanted to learn about the current news through the newspaper.

After taking the newspaper, a virtual screen suddenly popped up in front of him, startling him, and he thought it was due to excessive blood loss.

【Fang Bai】

[Age: 18 years old]

[Index finger: LV1, all books touched by the right hand will double the learning memory and comprehension ability]

[Middle finger: LV1, all the machines and equipment touched by the right hand can be analyzed for failure]

[Ring finger: LV1, shake hands with others, you can know the other party's information and current inner thoughts in the past day, limited to one person per day]

[Hint: LV1, 20% finger rehabilitation, 10% increase per level of rehabilitation, do you use this function?] 】

After watching the content of the screen, Fang Bai was really sure that he was no longer dazzled.

In the past few years, he has read a lot of novels, and he has a strong adaptability to this kind of new things, and he has obtained a golden finger!

Moreover, it is still three gold fingers!

I'm dripping!

Silently using the rehabilitation function, there was a burst of comfort in the middle third finger, and there was no stinging sensation!

Also, you can move slightly, but that's all, after all, you just had surgery.

However, Fang Bai saw hope!

As long as he upgrades to LV8, his fingers will be fully restored!

Surprise fell from the sky, and a smile appeared on his face.

Qin Shuyu saw Fang Bai smiling, and asked curiously, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"Uh, it's nothing, you're tired and need to rest more, I'll read the newspaper again."

Fang Bai saw Qin Shuyu looking over, but he didn't notice the virtual screen in front of him, it seemed that he could only see it by himself.

Qin Shuyu said "um", and then lay on the side of his bed and planned to squint for a while, she took the train from Shencheng for more than ten hours to return to Wencheng, she just arrived this morning, and she went to find Fang Bai before she had a good rest, who knew that this incident made her physically and mentally exhausted.

Fang Bai's mother didn't want to disturb the young man's good deeds, so she left the ward and went out for a walk.

Fang Bai stroked Qin Shuyu's shoulder with his left hand, and he didn't care about the eyes of the others in the ward.

Qin Shuyu twisted and approached him, feeling that Fang Bai's hand was on her to feel relieved, and she fell asleep again after a while.

Fang Bai continued to operate the virtual screen, and after a silent recitation, the screen turned off;

I read it silently again, and it was opened again, which was so convenient.

The system doesn't beep and there is less interaction.

Silently open the upgrade request, which is quickly displayed on the virtual screen.

[Index finger upgrade method: admitted to ordinary undergraduate + LV1, key university undergraduate + LV2, admitted to key university graduate + LV1, admitted to top university graduate + LV2, doctoral degree + LV2, academic honor + LV0.01-LV1]

[Current Education: High School Graduate]

[Middle finger upgrade method: personal wealth of 100,000 yuan to LV2, every ten times to upgrade one level]

[Current wealth: 2.13 yuan]

[Ring finger upgrade method: Upgrading to LV2 requires 20 contacts, and the number of contacts will be upgraded by one level for every two-fold increase.] +1 for Ordinary People, +2 for Elite Connections, +3 for Top People】

[Current number of contacts: 0]

Fang Bai quickly understood that this upgrade method was very rough and intuitive, and it felt quite reasonable and reasonable.

With such a requirement, the system wants him to become a scholar and a scientific and technological talent, and at the same time he can accumulate huge wealth in business, and it would be a waste of this golden finger if he lies flat.

At the same time, they put forward higher requirements for their own connections, not only to know, but to be familiar with each other's situation, the two sides have a certain cooperative relationship, or when they need each other, they can help themselves, which can be regarded as a network.

A successful businessman definitely needs contacts and resources in various fields, establishes cooperative relationships, shares resources and experience, and jointly promotes business development, otherwise it is difficult to grow his career.

The business world is also a circle of people.

After reading these functions, Fang Bai probably understood how to go in the future.