Fate is such a thing, which has been mocked by many people. In the vast world of ups and downs, there have been indomitable ink writers, great calligraphers, or whatever. But no matter how strong the loud sound they played, or how hoarse they shouted an exhilarating cry to choke something's throat, they could not see through it, they could not escape, and they could not fight it.

There is a chasm between life and death, and that is the life of a person.

A literary celebrity once said: A real warrior dares to face the bleak life......

However, there are always few warriors, creation always makes people, and people always have to eat.

The earth may be vulgar, the earth may stop tomorrow, but, for some, at least today, now, they are alive!

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"Bang Dang~"

"Brother Yun, your treasure has fallen!" A childish voice with a little hoarse behind him.

"Whew~~ You... Aren't you still behind, put it in your back basket, and give it to me later?huhu~~"

The thin figure in front of him didn't look back, panting, and the rusty iron hook under his hand kept searching for the "treasure mountain" under his feet.

"Ahh

"What's up?"

"Hey~ Brother Yun, I'm back... The money from the sale will be mine. ”

"Whew~~"

With a long exhale, the boy climbed to the top.

Slowly turned sideways, pulled away the messy black hair that was blocking his eyes, brushed the fat jacket full of oil stains and dirt, wiped the black face that seemed to be dirtier, and looked at the huge back basket below, the young man raised his slightly rough brows.

"Okay, but what about the big bundles of soda bottles that you kid had in my truck last month?"

"Ahh

"What?!trifl? That's all a red angang ticket, you kid really doesn't have a backache when you stand and talk. Okay, let me ask you again, which one of the old books last month had no conscience, and said that he would split the account five or five times, and as soon as he crawled the pee, your kid sold it to Old Man Wang, and your brother and I didn't even get a penny, you say, how can this be calculated?"

"Ah, that's... That's because..."

"Huh?"

"That's because..."

"Besides, if I hadn't pulled you out of the garbage heap that year, you kid would still have the gas to pull calves with me here? If it weren't for grandpa's pain, you have to tighten up, and deduct a share from the meal every day, the key is that grandpa's share is deducted from me, an old one, a small one, all of them have to be provided by me... Alas, you say, what is the calculation of this?" said this, the thin shoulders of the young man seemed to reveal a weariness that was not commensurate with his age.

"That's not all... Because, huh~ Brother Yun, what can you do. Hee-hee~~ Come on, Brother Yun, I'll press your shoulder. ”

Panting, he struggled to crawl next to the young man, and said hippie with the same black little face under the big back basket.

"Hey, you stinky boy," the young man laughed with an old-fashioned smile.

This is the 90s of the 20th century AD, the southwest border of China Luojia Ancient Town in winter quiet and ordinary day. This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, simple and natural, and the smoke is perennial, and it is known as the reputation of the ink town. However, the reason why this town still retains the original clean land is not that the people here care about the environment, and it is very far-fetched to say that the local environmental protection bureau has done protection measures in place. Rather, it is because this "ink" town, which seems to be far away from the hustle and bustle of the modern city, but has long been soaked by the commercial atmosphere of the city like white paper falling into an ink pool, there is a huge garbage disposal site thirty miles to the east, which is always emitting the pungent stench of domestic food waste and other things, as well as the residual copper stench in the air.

A big boy and a young man who are talking are here.

Looking at the older one called Li Yun, the younger one was called Li Bao, and when they heard the name, they knew that they were two brothers. However, before he met his grandfather, Li Yun was not surnamed Li, and Li Bao may still be in his mother's womb, waiting to be discarded by animal men and women who are not responsible or cannot afford it after he is born, and then Li Yun will be dug out of the fresh garbage heap like a dead dog on a sunny afternoon and get a new life.

Most of the people who come here to pick up waste are also the permanent residents of this area. It was a harsh winter, and although it was the southern border, there was also a warm sun, but in this place where the wind was leaking everywhere, it became a very luxurious thing to have a stable place to sleep. Besides, it's a bit remote here, there are more monks and less meat, although there is a lot of garbage, there are good things, but it's not enough. Therefore, in the early years, those who had a little strength withdrew from this area and turned to the county towns further south to make a living.

Now, this area, called the treatment station, is actually a landfill, and it is the medium for the survival of the old, young, sick and disabled who are still here. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water, relying on the garbage... Naturally, you can't eat garbage, at least not all of it, but there are still plenty of things that can be used in the mountains of garbage.

The roots of the brothers Li Yun and Li Bao are here. Every time the smoke and dust cross, a large number of trucks dump indiscriminately, such as daily necessities, clothes and meals, waste books and newspapers, cans and beverage bottles, old pots and rotten stoves.... For them, it is a belongings made in heaven.

Due to the long-term survival of the cold from the leftovers, both brothers were in a state of severe malnutrition. Fortunately, Li Yun is more capable, and Li Bao is not too troublesome. In addition to collecting some ordinary things and having a few more eyes, they can also find "real gold" from time to time such as gold necklaces and silver earrings. When they get these good things, they generally have two choices, they add some food when they are hungry, and stock up on some food when they are full.

However, they rarely go to the second-hand markets in the town or county, because they are far away and have no money. At first, it was the old man Wang's dilapidated Dongfeng brand old truck, resold for some money or rice and grain materials, and the old man Wang was the only resident administrator of the processing field, and he didn't hear any descendants, he was seventy or eighty, but he was an old and treacherous guy, bullying the Rainbow Dash brothers who had never seen the world and didn't know the goods. Every time he ate meat, the brothers could only have some leftover soup and bones, and the exchange for very little was pitiful. Later, one day, Brother Yun found a book with the golden things he picked up, went back and asked the grandfather who still knew a few words in the Taoist temple, knew the value of these yellow and white things, and spent a bag of Kaifeng Hongta Mountain, and promised to keep the good cigarettes he found in the future, and the resale of precious metals was taken over by the old smoker-like sanitation truck masters. Although they also earn some intermediate fees, they are much more upright than Old Man Wang, probably because Li Yun and Li Bao are pitiful, except for the cigarette money, they don't take much. On this matter, it also caused the old man Wang and those masters to quarrel a few times about robbing business.

Tasting the sweetness brought by the green ticket and the red ticket, Li Yun decisively decided to give up the painstaking method, and after several experiments, the magnet in the Baoshan pile finally taught Brother Yun the truth that opposites attract.

Today is the day of the garbage dump routine, and it is also the day of the two brothers' usual "treasure hunt". They all had a big basket in their hands, a hook for sucking iron, and a big pocket with a small pocket on their waists, all of which were now bulging.

"Poof~~ Brother Yun, don't say it, your self-made suction hook is really good, since you use this thing, we can catch a lot of good things even if we go out at night to find things. The dirty little hand wiped the snot, and Bao raised the rusty iron hook in his hand.

"That's right, don't look at who your brother and I are? It's all up to you and me, so we don't have to be treated by the old man Wang. Brother Yun immediately had a stinky expression, and his dark eyes shone with pride.

"It's here again, hey, hey! But, Brother Yun, you see it's a gloomy day, I'm afraid it's going to rain..."

"What? gloomy, what are you talking nonsense about? Or are you stupid to pan for gold? This blue sky and white day, cloudless, I can't even see the shadow of a dark cloud, I'm afraid it's not going to rain, I'm afraid someone wants to slip away." Looking up at the blue sky, Brother Yun looked away, looking at his somewhat clever, somewhat silly, and somewhat cute slug brother with a smile.

"Hey~ Can you not tell such a clear truth, but, our brothers are here before dawn today, it's been a long time, besides, you see, we have almost searched for this thing, we can't leave it for Aunt Zhang and them at all, after all, I drank her milk when I was a child, and, this, this is almost time to eat, Brother Yun~~~" As if often recognized, Ah Bao didn't blush at all, but shyly started with Li Yun.

"The starving ghost was reincarnated, didn't those steamed buns choke you to death just now? I haven't even said I'm hungry, you mumble a fart!" Li Yun said angrily.

"I can't say that, even if neither of us is hungry, but grandpa... I'm still hungry, and you know grandpa is old..."

"Count your kid as filial piety, and know that you care about grandpa's life and death. Don't worry, grandpa will not die of hunger in the view, although the incense in the view is broken, but grandpa still served those ancestors for so many years, and those immortals in the sky will not watch grandpa starve to death. Glancing at the lonely green peak in the distance, Li Yun looked slightly dazed and muttered.

"Brother Yun, when did you become a god like your grandfather? If the heavenly fairy grandfather is in charge of life and death in the world, will the two of us be working hard here to eat?"

"Okay, you dare to say that grandpa is a god, wait until I go back and tell him, and see how he repairs you. ”

"Grandpa can't beat me anyway," Po muttered quietly.

"What did you say?"

"No, nothing. ”

"Okay, let's play with you, we can still eat grandpa's in one bite? The rice jar at home has not yet seen the bottom, and when I came out in the morning, I had already put the sweet potato porridge in the pot for my grandfather. It's rare for the weather to be so good today, but why are you talking about Aunt Zhang, you kid has only drunk an aunt's milk? Besides, how many things can we pick up in such a big place? Let's go to that pile and take a look, I just poured it today, and if you're lucky, you might be able to find some good things. With that, the boy swooped and shrank downhill.

"Ahh

"If you kid doesn't want to be here in the middle of the night like last year's Chinese New Year's Eve, don't give me a rambling machine there, come down and work quickly." Brother Yun'er's impatient voice came from below.

"Then let's search, I guess I can find a big gold chain, and I don't have to worry about this idea. The objects found on his body were tied up firmly, and Po prepared slowly.

"Wow !!"

At that moment, a thunderbolt thunderbolt fell in the sky.

"Boom !!"

A purple-black lightning bolt fell from the sky like a huge sharp blade, and impartially plunged into the garbage mountain where Li Yun was.

Smoke and dust all around, and crackling arcs sizzled. All this happened almost instantly, and Po stared blankly at the dust in front of him, as if he had not yet eased up.

"Smack!"

"Oh no! Brother Yun! Look at my brain. ”

gave himself a mouth, Ah Bao recovered from the huge shock, although the whirring lightning just now was very scary for a little kid like him, but thinking that his eldest brother was still down, he couldn't take care of it, even if Brother Yun had done something bad about stealing chickens and dogs before and was split by God, how could I, as a younger brother, have to live to see people, and die to see corpses, thinking of Brother Yun'er's scorched scorching...

"Bah, what do you think, Brother Yun'er is blessed with a great life, he will be fine. patting the bully's little chest, Po calmed down a little, and decided to live or die, go down and take a look.

"Brother Yun~~~"

Po carried the basket on his back, pestled his feet with an iron hook, and carefully shrank down while shouting into the smoke.

No one responded.

Shrinking to the ground, looking at the residual arcs that appeared from time to time in the cold around him, Po swallowed his saliva, and still raised his feet and walked forward.

"Brother Yun~~~"

"Clouds..."

"Shh!!h

"Hmm..."

Being covered from behind, Po instinctively wanted to move, but when he heard the familiar voice, he knew that his eldest brother was not dead.

"Don't make a noise! Look over there!"

Following the direction pointed by Li Yun, Ah Bao was surprised to find that the garbage mountain that had been split by lightning just now was glowing with a faint purple light.

"Hey, Brother Yun, Brother Yun, what are you doing, come back quickly, be careful, be careful of electricity!" Since he was a child, he has been exposed to the old books and the chatter of Old Man Wang, and Ah Bao also knows that people are electrically conductive. And, when he was five years old, after seeing the crooked-necked tree on the cliff outside the Temple of Broken Dao being struck by lightning, he became even more afraid of this thing.

"It's okay, the big battle just now didn't scare you Brother Yun, I want to see if a ghost can come out on this sunny day?" waved his hand, ignoring Ah Bao's call from behind, Li Yun crawled towards the glowing place step by step, as if a voice in his heart was also telling him to let him pass.

Although he said that he was not afraid, Li Yun was still a little cautious, and slowly stretched out his head to look at the glowing thing at a distance of half a person.

Whoosh!

"Ah!!h

"Brother Yun?!"

Li Yun only saw a purple ball of light suddenly enlarge in front of him, and then his brain was torn with pain, and his eyes went black.