District 9

At the family dinner.

Qin Yu's head was buzzing and he said: "Uncle, I really can't drink anymore. This wine is too strong. If I drink any more, I will have to lie down under the table."

"Oh, what's going on here! Come on, drink some more. If you drink too much, you'll fall asleep at home." Lao Fu was still urging him to drink.

"No, we have to go back later." Qin Yu waved his hand and said, "Drinking too much will delay things."

"Go back? Aren't you staying at home tonight?" Mother asked with a frown.

Fu Xiaohao was silent for a long time, then shook his head and responded: "We can't stay here today. We came to Fengbei because we had something to do."

"Ahem...!" When my father heard this, he coughed violently twice again: "Is there still one day to go before something happens?"

"Well, I came here with...accompanying some leaders. They will only stay for two days." Fu Xiaohao didn't know how to explain it to his father, so he could only lie: "We have to go back at night."

"Just one more day, your eldest brother hasn't even seen you yet..." After listening to Fu Xiaohao's words, the mother immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks.

"It's really not possible." Fu Xiaohao shook his head.

Lao Fu was silent for a few seconds, then immediately waved his hand and said: "Okay, the child has something serious to do, so he can leave if he wants. What's the point of staying at home for two more days? If you turn around, you still can't keep him?"

Fu Xiaohao was silent.

"Come on, finish your glass of wine and I'll see you off later." Lao Fu greeted.

…

After Fu Xiaohao said he was leaving, the atmosphere at the banquet became a little sad for no reason, so he didn't continue eating for a while before Lao Fu took the initiative to disperse.

Before leaving, her mother secretly hid in the kitchen wiping her tears while Fu Xiaohao kept comforting her.

Qin Yu took out the three thousand cash he had prepared in advance from his bag, secretly stuffed it into Lao Fu's hand and said, "Uncle, take this money."

"What are you doing?" Lao Fu was stunned for a moment.

"Xiao Hao saved my life. You must accept this money as a favor." Qin Yu said with a very serious face: "...Don't refuse. It's boring to push back and forth."

Lao Fu was silent for a while, then clenched his fists and replied: "Thank you. Then I won't be so polite to you anymore. Let Xiao Hao repay the money."

"Hey." Qin Yu smiled and nodded.

After the two of them finished talking, Lao Fu carefully put the money in his pocket, walked out of the room and shouted: "Okay, don't cry anymore. It's getting late, so let them go back quickly..."

The mother wiped her tears, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go quickly."

Ten minutes later.

Fu Xiaohao and Qin Yu got into the car together and embarked on the return journey under the setting sun.

At the entrance of the dilapidated courtyard, a family of three stood in a daze for a long time. After seeing the car disappear, they were reluctant to leave.

…

On the way back.

Qin Yu lay in the passenger seat and said with a flushed face: "I always thought that children who can go to the police academy, no matter how poor their family conditions are, must be better than ordinary people. But I didn't expect... your family is in such a situation. "

"Haha, actually you are right." Fu Xiaohao said with a chuckle: "There are more than 6,000 students in the entire police academy, but I am probably the only one who is as poor as my family."

Qin Yu was silent.

"Brother, do you know how Zhenzhen and I met?" Fu Xiaohao asked.

"How did we meet?"

"We met during a fight." Fu Xiaohao explained with great interest: "This bastard was in the same dormitory as me and entered the school on the same day. At that time, I had no money in my pocket and couldn't take anything from home. So I earn my daily expenses from doing part-time jobs on campus... Although it’s not much, I can still support myself if I save some money.”

"Then what?" Qin Yu asked.

"I was cleaning the school at that time, once in the morning and once in the evening, and I could earn a total of 50 cents." Fu Xiaohao bared his teeth and said, "But it was not enough to eat three meals a day, so I bought breakfast. Because breakfast It’s cheap, and there are steamed buns and steamed buns, so you can save them for lunch. Then Ding Guozhen saw him a few times, and he always gave me his leftover rice... At that time, I didn’t know he was kind, so I just felt... felt.... "

"Do you think he is pitying you and deliberately disgusting you?" Qin Yu asked proactively.

"Yes, that's why I beat him." When Fu Xiaohao said this, his face became serious inexplicably.

"I can understand your feelings." Qin Yu nodded.

"Zhenzhen said that I have low self-esteem, but in fact I want to be strong and have this self-esteem." Fu Xiaohao looked at the windshield in front of him blankly and said in a hoarse voice: "...Brother, a family like Zhenzhen can't support a family like this." A police officer may be a little frugal, but do you know what kind of effort it takes to provide a police officer in my family?"

Qin Yu was silent, looking at Fu Xiaohao who was blushing, and was going to just listen quietly.

"Because I wanted to go to school, my eldest brother went out to work with my dad to make money when he was 13 years old. On the first day he went out, he squatted outside the greenhouse for a day and looked at the water pipes. When he came back, he was freezing and crying, saying that he would die tomorrow. He didn't go... My dad beat him to death, saying that since his grades were not good and he couldn't pay for his debt, he would have to work to support me... because I had good grades. Later, I was admitted to the police academy. , my mother couldn’t afford to support me alone with the money the two of them earned, so she made clothes for others all day long... I could earn 20 cents a piece." Fu Xiaohao held back the tears in his eyes. , gritted his teeth and said: "So my tuition is not something I was born with, but it was made by my mother stitch by stitch! It was made by my dad and my brother, who were looking at water pipes for others outside and shoveling ice skates! !”

Qin Yu was speechless.

"So brother, I have to look like a person. What I carry on my shoulders is not myself, but the hope of the whole family. I can't change where I was born, but I have to change where I die." Fu Xiaohao frowned and said word by word: "Other people will miss their hometown when they are away, but I don't... I don't have any nostalgia for Xinnan... I have thought about it since I was a teenager. , I must leave there and take my family to a good place."

Qin Yu turned to look at Fu Xiaohao. Looking at his expression, he suddenly understood where the ruthless energy and spiritual energy in this boy came from.

People like Fu Xiaohao and such experiences may be destined to be different from others. Or maybe he will either soar or perish.

Qin Yu lowered his head and lit a cigarette. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Xiao Hao, don't be impatient. Sooner or later, I will let you get up too."

"Brother, you are my noble man. No matter when the time comes, if you don't kick me out, I won't leave." Fu Xiaohao responded with a smile.

…

It's about eight o'clock in the evening.

In Fengbei City, Cha Meng knocked on Coco's door, frowned and asked, "Is Xiaoxun here with you?"

"No." Coco put on lipstick and shook her head: "Didn't you say you would take a rest and then have dinner together? Isn't he in the room?"

"Where did this kid go?" Cha Meng said speechlessly, "Tell him not to wander off anywhere."