fighting boy

"Xiaolong!" Yu Shanchao yelled his name on the fighting ring, but he couldn't hear clearly, his eyes were swollen from the beating, and he felt his head was spinning, his feet were floating and he couldn't stand still.There was thunderous applause in the stands, but none of it was for him, but for the winner.

He shook his head, bit his back molars, and calmed himself down. His narrowed eyes were blood-red, like a wolf cub on the verge of extinction, he charged fiercely at his opponent.Never defeated, resolutely undefeated, even if beaten to death.

The next second, the opponent's heavy punch hit him in the face. He was in a trance and had no time to dodge and fell to the ground. The sound of the referee's countdown rang in his ears. He wanted to get up, but his body trembled uncontrollably.

This was the first setback he encountered after performing on stage. After waking up, he lay on the resting bed, his fists angrily hitting the bed board, and tears of unwillingness overflowed his entire eye sockets.

Yu Shan was rolling hot boiled eggs around his eyes, seeing his appearance, he said calmly, "Do you still remember the story about Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu I told you?"

He nodded: "I remember."

"You look like Zhou Yu who is about to die of anger, is it worth it?"

He shook his head: "Not worth it."

"Are you still angry?"

He wiped away the tears from his eyes, not letting them stay: "Don't be angry."

"What should I do?"

"Practice boxing, beat him next time."

Yu Shan tapped his forehead lightly: "Wolf cub, if you don't fight, you will die!"

"It's a lot of fun fighting with people, as I said."

"Hey, you're a quick learner!"

He learns really fast, and the small textbooks that Yu Shan privately kept could no longer satisfy him. He used the pocket money given by his coach to buy stacks of old books and a rechargeable miner's lamp outside. Things that make him happy.Through books, he began to understand the world he never knew.

"Brother, what do you want to do in the future?"

"Be a star, a kung fu star."

"why?"

"I want my mother to see it and make her regret throwing me away."

"When you grow up, your mother may not recognize you."

"I can recognize it, look," Yu Shan pointed to a thin scar on his eyebrows, "This is a mark, she made it when she played with me when I was a child, she recognizes it."

He stretched out his hand, and lightly touched Yu Shan's brow bone. The rebellious and immature boy's outline and the thin scar on his brow bone were deeply imprinted on his heart.

"Brother, I think you can be a star."

"Oh! How did you see that?"

Pointing to the celebrity posters on the wall, he said, "You look better than all of them."

Yu Shan smiled and patted his hair: "You are the only one who can say it!"

Yu Sen carried simple luggage and stepped out of the dilapidated minibus. He was tightly packed and wore the most low-key black jacket, but he was still being watched.A few little girls stared at him behind him, muttering softly.He walked a few steps quickly, throwing away those children.

He followed the mobile phone navigation and walked in the predetermined direction. Every step he took, his heartbeat increased a little bit, until he saw that familiar face at the gate of the town primary school.

It was the time when the school ended in the afternoon, and Yu Shan stood at the gate of the school wearing a security uniform, watching the children walk out of the campus one by one.

"Goodbye, uncle!" A child waved his hand to greet him.

He also smiled and waved his hands: "Goodbye, kid!"

The children were all gone. Yu Shan handed over to his colleagues in the evening shift, changed into casual clothes and walked out of the school. He pushed a tattered bicycle across the road, and when he passed by Yu Sen, he heard someone call him: "Brother .”

Yu Shan turned his head curiously, and saw a young and handsome face, he was very familiar with this face, because all the little girls at school liked it, and there were many posters of him hanging on the wall of the school canteen.

"You are... Yu Sen?" Yu Shan opened his eyes wide in disbelief, but saw that the lips of the person opposite him were trembling, and his eyes were red.

"Hmm...brother, it's me, Xiaolong." Yu Sen's voice trembled with his lips.

"Little... little dragon?"

Yu Shan's head was blank for a moment, his hand holding the bicycle loosened, and he was confident that the bicycle almost fell to the ground, and was supported by Yu Sen.

When he saw that popular star on TV before, he really doubted it, because this person had a little resemblance to Xiaolong's appearance when he was a child, and he even bought an entertainment magazine to find out, but the entertainment magazine said that Yu Sen's family was well-off , Parents are low-key invisible rich.He thought about it too, how could orphans like them become stars.

"Xiaolong!" Yu Shan wanted to hug him, but in the end he just hit his chest with his fist, "It's promising!"

Yu Sen followed Yu Shan back home. Yu Shan had a small house in a small town with one bedroom and one living room, and he lived alone.

"Brother, you don't have a family?"

"Yeah, a bachelor! Girls these days are high-sighted and don't like us." Yu Shan lit a cigarette and held it in his hand, then shook out another cigarette from the case, and hesitated the moment he handed it out one time.

Yu Sen stretched out his hand to smoke the cigarette, held it in his mouth, leaned over slightly, and motioned for Yu Shan to light it for him.When the two cigarettes touched, sparks suddenly lit up.

He took a deep puff of the cigarette, looked at Yu Shan who was a little embarrassed, and said slowly, "Brother, I miss you very much."

The cigarette in Yu Shan's hand dropped.He hurriedly picked it up, and paused for a moment, as if hesitating whether to continue smoking or to put it out in the ashtray, and finally, he chose to put it out.

"Xiaolong... why are you here?" He didn't dare to speculate on the reason why this big star who just won the best actor award at the International Film Festival appeared in this dusty town, and he didn't dare to link this reason with himself. .

"I made a special trip to see you." Yu Sen looked at him gently, never taking his eyes off his face, "It took me a long time to find out your address."

Yu Shan still couldn't get back to his senses, he laughed aloud: "You still remember brother, he is a star now, he is very busy..."

"Not busy," Yu Sen said, "this time I will rest for two months... um... Can you take me in for these two months?"

Yu Shan's jaw was about to drop: "Okay... okay..."

He looked around at his cramped and cramped house: "Here... I've wronged you, it's just... just one bedroom..."

"It's okay." Yu Sen waved his hand, "Didn't we all sleep together when we were young, I don't take up space when I sleep."

Yu Shan nodded and blinked again. In fact, what he wanted to say just now was to let Xiaolong sleep on the bed and sleep on the sofa by himself.

"Brother, let's go out for dinner."

"Okay, I haven't seen you for so many years, my brother invites you."

There are no high-end restaurants in the town, so Yu Shan dwarf picked a small restaurant and asked for a private room.The waiter was not attentive, and he led people into the private room with a cold face and disappeared.They sat facing each other without speaking, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

"Ahem~" Yu Shan smiled awkwardly, "The small place is not very good, so don't hold it against you."

"How come, as long as my brother brings me something to eat, it's fine."

Yu Shan secretly sighed, my son, my mouth is sweeter than before.

When ordering, Yu Shan handed over the menu: "Xiaolong, come and order, what do you want to eat, don't be polite to me."

Yu Sen took the menu with a smile and ordered a few light dishes.Yu Shan took the menu and flipped through it again, and said to the waiter, "Two servings of donkey meat on fire."

"Brother..." Yu Sen's face was full of surprise.

"What's the matter? Don't you like this? You ate ten of them at once..."

"I couldn't sleep at night, you helped me rub my stomach in the middle of the night." Yu Sen took his words.

Yu Shan squeezed his wrist, the scene at that time is still vivid in his memory: "Hands are sore from kneading."

"Brother, I feel bad." The boy cried out in a low voice, rolling on the bed in pain.

"I told you to eat so much," the young man Yu Shan reprimanded softly, "it's not that you don't eat the next meal, and you eat like a wolf every time you eat."

Although he blamed him, Yu Shan stretched out his hand, gently rubbed Xiaolong's stomach, and asked him, "Is it better?"

"It seems to be better...Brother, donkey meat fire is really delicious, I want to be a fire seller in the future."

"Look at your talent," Yu Shan said, "there are so many delicacies in this world, after you have tasted them all, it's not too late to decide what to sell."

This is Xiaolong's third year in the Youth Fighting Club. He is ten years old and still looks like a child. Yu Shan is fifteen. He has already jumped 1.7 meters and is running towards 1.8 meters.

The income of the club is good, and the children's dormitory has been repaired. Basically, there are two people in one room. The children choose by themselves, and Xiaolong and Yu Shan share one room.

When he was not boxing, Yu Shan would often take Xiaolong out for a walk. Their favorite place to go was the school in the city. The students wore school uniforms and performed radio gymnastics, raised the national flag, and sang the national anthem on the playground. They climbed on the fence On the railing, follow the salute and sing the national anthem.

"Brother, do you want to go to school?" the young Xiaolong asked.

The boy Yu Shan scratched his head: "Brother is over age, I'm afraid the school won't accept him."

In the private room of the restaurant, Yu Sen held a thick piece of donkey meat on fire and took a bite. It tasted good, but it wasn't the same as when he was a child.

Seeing him take a bite and then put it down, Yu Shan asked, "Why? It's not tasty."

"No." Yu Sen picked up a vegetable and put it in a bowl, "The manager has very strict requirements. You must control your diet, otherwise it won't look good on camera."

"Is acting in a movie hard?"

"It's okay, it's much more relaxed than when I was boxing before. I have someone to take care of what I eat and wear, and I don't have to worry about anything. I just need to play a good show—how about brother? Are you tired from work?"

Yu Shan shook his head: "I'm not tired. Besides guarding the gate, I also help the school with chores. We don't have anything else. We have strength."

Yu Sen felt that every communication between him and Yu Shan seemed smooth, but was blocked by an invisible gap. Yu Shan was very polite, but also very distant.He knows that this is the unavoidable estrangement caused by long-term different living environments.He felt a little sad, but he also had the patience to resolve this invisible obstacle with a long time of getting along.

After dinner, Yu Sen offered to go for a walk together, and walked slowly on the streets of the town side by side with Yu Shan. There were few vehicles passing by, and the street lights were dim so that people's faces could not be seen clearly. They chatted casually. .

"Brother, do you want to change jobs?"

"Me? I'm afraid I can't do anything else."

"It's not as complicated as you think, it's just... the life assistant, who takes care of food and housing, and the salary is also high."

"Life assistant? What do you do?"

"It's very simple to take care of the actors' daily life and accompany them on filming."

"Take care of who?"

"I……"

"..."

Yu Shan was silent, he thought for a while, and said, "Xiaolong, do you feel that my brother's life is not satisfactory and want to help him? Actually, it doesn't have to be like this. Do you know why my brother is working as a security guard in the school?"

Yu Sen: "Well, I know, you used to like to take me outside school to play, you like school."

"Not going to school is the biggest regret in my life. No matter how many books I read, I can't make up for it. Staying in school and watching those children come in and out, I feel satisfied."

Yu Sen nodded: "Okay, as long as I like it."

But bro, what about the biggest regret of my life?

When sleeping at night, Yu Sen was leaning against the wall next to the bed, occupying only one-third of a double bed.

Yu Shan said to him: "The bed is too big, don't squeeze against the wall."

Yu Sen moved in slightly.

Yu Shan always felt that this scene seemed familiar, as if Xiaolong slept like this for a while in his youth.