When I came back from the police station, it was already past ten o'clock at night.

In the small inland county town of the millennium, every house was electrified.

But whether you can afford it or not is another matter.

Li Yu's family is poor, eating is a problem, and he can't afford to pay the electricity bill, so he can only light a kerosene lamp.

A kerosene lamp was lit to illuminate the parents' room.

The other room in the tiled room is Li Yu's room, living room and dining room, and it is so dark that you can't see anything.

Because the facts are relatively clear, disputes arising from water disputes.

Li Youtian and Luo Minxia, two adults, did not do anything, it was the underage Li Yu who injured the Wu family's father and son, and finally negotiated compensation for medical expenses and education.

The police station also knew about the Li family's family situation, and they couldn't get any more.

And it was the Wu family's repeated provocations, and the mistake was the first.

After some reasoning about the facts, the Wu family finally agreed.

As for how much to lose, Li Youtian didn't say, and Li Yu didn't ask.

Long before returning home, Li Yu had returned to normal.

He wasn't really stupid, he was just too happy to make those actions that ordinary people couldn't understand.

After all, it is a rebirth, and God has given him the opportunity to live again and make up for his regrets.

It's hard for anyone to suppress the excitement in their hearts.

When the passion subsides, the adrenaline is no longer secreted, and exhaustion and soreness strike one after another.

But he didn't plan to rest, he knew that Li Youtian had something to say.

In the dim light, Li Youtian, who is only thirty-five years old, looks like an old man in his sixties and seventies.

But his voice was very powerful: "Xiao Yu, you have grown up and become sensible...... But don't be so impulsive in the future, you can't afford the consequences, you know? You have to study hard, not for this family, but for yourself. ”

Li Youtian is afraid that Li Yu will become a different person from now on, like those little ruffians in society, who do not learn and have no skills, fight and brawl, and ruin his own future.

Li Yu's junior high school grades are still very ideal, there is no problem in taking the county high school and entering the key class, and he will be admitted to a university in the future, and the task of the second elder will be completed for more than half of it.

The old peasant believed in only one truth: "Going to college is the only way out." ”

Because they came from the era when college student bags were distributed, they know too well the importance of reading.

Hearing this, Li Yu almost couldn't hold back his tears.

In his memory, Li Youtian has always been taciturn and rarely makes big senses.

As for the active concern, there are even fewer of them.

Only now did I find out that it was not nothing, but hidden in the bottom of my heart.

Father's love is like a mountain, and he is silent.

Li Yu couldn't say it, he thought it was a dream, so he was so impulsive and desperate.

I had to say "um" softly and respond silently.

But in his heart, he was thinking about how to make money without delaying his studies.

The situation at home is too bitter.

There is a courtyard next to the two tiled houses, and there is a kitchen covered with asbestos tiles next to the courtyard, and behind the tiled houses is a dry toilet and a pigsty, and there is nothing else.

From elementary school to high school graduation, Li Yu did not dare to invite his classmates to his home.

He is embarrassed to invite people and not even have a place to stay.

"Okay, you go to sleep, class is tomorrow Monday."

Li Youtian's words are equivalent to saying that everything should not be asked, and he will bear it alone.

Losing money is also his business, Li Yu only needs to read good books.

"Well, then you guys should rest early."

Li Yu went back to his room and did not light the kerosene lamp.

After waiting for a while, getting used to the darkness, he took in the room.

Faintly visible, there is a wall calendar on the wall next to the bed, with the date below the wall calendar and the portrait of his old man on it.

He would never have imagined that more than 20 years after the new century, there are still people who miss him.

There was a radio on the table diagonally opposite, and it wasn't until '06 that the Li family had their first television.

I usually watch cartoons and TV series, and either go to a relative's house or a neighbor's house.

His new clothes are also rubbed against relatives and neighbors.

Only every year during the Chinese New Year, on the first day of the first month, there is a new set of clothes to wear.

As for the second elders, Li Yu couldn't remember whether they had changed into new clothes, only remembered that they would always wear those old clothes back and forth.

"Now that I'm living again, I must change the status quo!"

Li Yu leaned on the head of the bed and began to think about how to make money.

After the millennium, the country gradually entered a period of rapid development.

Real Estate, Finance, Internet, Entertainment, Sports......

The development opportunities of all walks of life are in Li Yu's mind.

But what about foresight?

To seize these opportunities, you need capital, you need context.

Without these, who would believe him just because he was a fifteen-year-old stinky boy who had not dried up?

Li Yu shook his hands, they were all empty, and they didn't occupy either.

Although the palm is empty, fortunately he still has a pair of fists.

"Then I'll rely on a pair of fists to hit the sky!"

……

At six o'clock in the morning of the next Monday, the biological clock woke Li Yu up on time.

The second elder had already gone out, and a purple five-cent was placed next to his pillow.

This is for Li Yu to eat breakfast, and you can buy two fried baba.

Packed up and went out with an army-green canvas schoolbag embroidered with five big red characters: "Serve the people".

Li Yu's family lives in the west of the city, and the middle school he studied is Yangcheng County No. 3 Middle School, which is a long way from the development zone in the east of the city, and it takes 10 minutes to ride a bicycle and at least 20 minutes to walk.

Li Yu doesn't have a bicycle and can only walk.

The No. 2 Middle School is quite close to Li Yu's house, but that middle school is close to the south of the city, and that area is the area where the government institutions are located.

If you want to enter the second middle school, you must have a hukou in the south of the city.

Unfortunately, his family's household registration is in the west of the city, so he can only go to the No. 3 Middle School in the east of the city to study.

The No. 3 Middle School accepts students from outside the southern part of the city, including those from the township.

They are all poor students......

To get to the east of the city, you have to cross the cross street in the center of the city.

There is a large open space here, and if there are any activities or festivals on weekdays, it is the most lively and the most people gathered.

When Li Yu passed by, he happened to see someone building a high platform with wooden planks.

It was almost finished, and in the middle of the platform was a van and motorcycle.

There are three words on the van: Grand Prize.

On motorcycles, it is: first prize.

The banner on the top of the high platform is made of red paper, and the white paper is cut into a font and pasted on the red paper.

The words spelled out on white paper read: "2 yuan + luck = van".

On the left and right sides of the high platform, there are also big red letters.

On the right: Try your luck.

On the left: Welfare Lottery.

Li Yu suddenly remembered that this was the welfare lottery that emerged in the eighties.

In the hot summer of '87, the first lotteries began to appear for the first time in a provincial capital in the north of the country.

Before that, gambling had been banned in the country for a long time.

"Lottery" is another foreign word, which has the meaning of getting something for nothing.

That's why our clever public servants have given it a localized name: Social Welfare Prize Fundraising.

But as soon as the people heard what "prize fundraising",Feel like a liar,Almost no one believes,The initial welfare lottery sales met considerable resistance,The vast majority of lottery tickets are digested internally.

Until the rise of the nineties instant lottery, the jackpot in the most conspicuous position, 2 yuan can fight, successfully aroused the Chinese people's dream of getting rich overnight.

Instant lottery fires are blooming all over the country.

But this trend has been blowing from the north to the coast to the inland, and from the big cities in the interior to the counties and towns below.

Like many policies and opportunities, inland counties are always half a beat slower.

"If I'm not mistaken, the van was drawn by Wu Yong in the end."

And since having this van, the Wu family's life has been getting better and better day by day......