Against the current Hengdao

Yan, who is kind and strong in adversity, of course did not choose to organize a collective lottery to drown anyone after returning home.

She just fell in love with the homeless boy whose face was red and chapped with mud at that time, thin as a stick, but at least his bones were strong and his limbs were healthy, and he could still fight with dogs for food. The child's mentality of making up for it is due to the need to add a strong labor force to the family in the future, or it is simply foreseeable that the rural people will not be able to afford the elderly care too much, and the medical insurance and social security are unreliable, and they need a healthy man to retire plan for a rainy day.

Yan Xiaodao, who has no father or mother of unknown origin, has become a new member of this dilapidated and impoverished family.The extra bed in the family can't be given to him, so he can only give him some sweet potatoes and potatoes for each meal. There is not enough rice and noodles, and vegetables and meat can only be distributed to the paralyzed patients.Yan's couple and their sick child who can't take care of themselves are sleeping on the big bed, and they are sleeping on the other side of a curtain who also has no ability to take care of themselves. Yan needs to wake up often to take care of his ex-husband who eats and drinks.Yan Xiaodao was sleeping by the door, and the two pigs at home were arched outside the leaky wall.He has become an older brother and needs to help take care of his younger brother who is one year younger than him.

Remarriage with the patient's ex-husband is the condition proposed by Yan when he was looking for a second husband. This is quite common in northern rural areas where it is difficult to marry a wife.The older the family and the poorer the family, there is nothing to choose. Some women even bring their former in-laws into the house, which makes the already struggling livelihood even worse.

But Yan could not accept the kind "suggestion" of other people's gossip, leaving her ex-husband on the side of the road to die, her conscience could not do it.

The only gratifying thing is that the Yan Xiaodao he picked up is indeed a capable and hard-working child. He will always do more work than talk, don't talk nonsense, don't eat free food, and won't let the person who raised him reward him for nothing Rice, from childhood.

Yan Xiaodao, who had cut his hair and washed it in the pond, turned out to be a handsome young man with handsome facial features, which made the Yan family startled, and felt that they had made money.At that time, Yan felt comforted in his heart, and even began to imagine that this industrious and sound elder son would look good and have skills when he became an adult, so that he could marry a virtuous and capable daughter-in-law for the family, and life would be hopeful.

The relatively best life in the family was only those one or two years. Yan’s husband often went to nearby villages and towns to pick up short-term workers. Where there was a shortage of working hours, he would go there to fill the vacancy. The salary was higher, and he could often go home to take care of him.

However, the family suffered heavy blows from the third year. The man was once called by a fellow villager to pick up a short-term worker, a water tower project contracted by a well-known construction engineering company in the province.Before the Spring Festival, the working hours are shortened to catch up with the construction period, and the production safety measures are useless. If there is no accident, it can save time and money, and if there is an accident, it will be all over.The scaffolding of the water tower collapsed from the top, instantly shattering the hopes of more than a dozen impoverished families into a nightmare...

What was more cruel than the accident itself was that Yan's husband did not die, but was smashed into a semi-vegetative state.

Workers who died directly received compensation first, and those who were half-dead had not had time to receive their due compensation, and the person in charge of the engineering company ran away at this time.The town officials who were jointly and severally responsible for the safety supervision of the accident were temporarily dismissed from their positions, while the well-established head office with strong assets abandoned unfinished projects and left in a hurry. Litigation.

Yan's husband has been in and out of various hospitals for two years, exhausting all the family savings and hundreds of thousands of foreign debts. He has borrowed money from relatives and neighbors, and no one wants to see their despondent family.This man couldn't figure out how he was so unlucky back then, he didn't just kill him, and he didn't leave some money for women and children.

At this time, all that was left to Yan was a sick number and a debt, and she only had a knife to rely on.

Yan Xiaodao used the broken scooter that had brought him home to take the man's body up the mountain for burial.

Followed by debt collectors from all walks of life, including powerful gangs of rural loan sharks, who usually rely on fraudulent fund-raising to defraud villagers of their money, and then lend them out. Two groups of people.

Their family often woke up early in the morning to see an ax stuck in the door.As for the dilapidated door of Yan's house, the ax almost couldn't get through.

Yan Xiaodao does various jobs in the nearby villages to earn money to pay off the family's debts. It seems that there is no work that he has never done.

It was around that time that Yan Xiaodao met his godfather, a peddler who sold shoes and women's clothes at a farmers' market in the center of the town.Qi Baoshan was only in his early twenties back then, with a fair face and kind face, he was loyal and hit it off with him, he took the initiative to call him "godson", bought him steamed buns every day, and gave him a little money.It's a pity that this godfather didn't earn much money from setting up a stall, and was driven around by road bandits and city administrators between night markets every night with all his belongings on his back. He was also a poor bachelor.

Grandpa Qi was still at Uncle Qi's age, and teased him half-jokingly: "Son, do you know why I only fall in love with you and ignore others? I met a very effective half-immortal in Huima Town, give me Forget it! He said, I will meet an orphan whose parents are unknown, who will be a lucky star who will be promoted and made a fortune in my life... Do you believe me?"

The usury gang came to the door, and they couldn't find any property, so they asked their family to take a labor force to pay the debt in the mine and coal mine.This is also a good way for the boss of the nearby coal mountain to coerce and order cheap labor.

Yan said, my man is gone, the last man was still paralyzed on the bed in the back room, and there is no one at home.

Those people pointed to the ten-year-old Yan Xiaodao who was feeding pigs in the pigsty outside the door and said, lying!Isn't there a man in your family?

Yan Xiaodao was taken to Meishan by those people, and Yan was unable to stop and snatch his son back, so he fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

In other words, Yan Xiaodao was not forced to be kidnapped by those people. He told his adoptive mother that it would be no big deal if he went down to dig coal for a few years and came back. I could pay off all the family debts.

In those few years, the Yan family did not see their son several times. Every time they met, it was like waiting for the last moment of despair in hope.Under the coal mountain, people always die quietly with the lid covered. Maybe some accident happens in three or two months, and a few suffocated black dead people are pulled out from the underground mine, and some funeral expenses are sent to send these low-fate people free and cheap. If you drop it, no one will take pity on it.Yan had a premonition that maybe one morning, she would receive bad news from Meishan, crushing her last hope in life.

However, before the bad news about Xiaodao came, the family burden was let go first.

On a rainy night, Yan's ex-husband reached for a strip of cloth and a sock from the curtain, and tied a rope with the strip of cloth and the sock. After moving for half a night, he finally put his head on the bed In the noose circle, he lay down with his neck crooked, and hanged himself with great difficulty.A few days before this man left, he left a last word for Yan: "I haven't loved you for many years, and I want to do a good thing for you."

Yan Xiaodao took a half-day leave from Meishan, brought back some money and gave it to his adoptive mother to pay off the debt, and then dragged the adoptive mother's original husband to the mountain with a cart and buried him next to his successor husband, so that the two men who were very humble when they were alive Let's make do with it.

A few months later, the other burden in the family, perhaps unable to bear this life without joy and dignity, also let go.Yan Xiaodao’s handicapped and handicapped younger brother once played with matches when no one was at home and ignited the torn cotton wool. The bed caught fire, and then the house and the pigsty also caught fire. The younger brother was finally able to control his own destiny for the first time in his life, and was killed in the fire.

Yan Xiaodao dragged his silly brother up the mountain and buried him next to the two men.

On the mountain ridge after the snow, the mother and son looked at the three small graves, their faces were as firm as a rock, unable to shed tears.

At that time, Yan's mother asked Xiaodao in a low voice: "Tell me, are our mothers too hard-working? We have suppressed the whole family..."

The fateful mother and son finally got the fate of being dependent on each other.

Yan Xiaodao didn't know how to shed tears since he was a child, and he didn't believe in fate.No matter how big things happen on the road of life, they cannot be solved by winning sympathy with tears or looking at themselves with sorrow and sighs.He must be tougher than his life.He has always chewed his life in his mouth crunchy.

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The person who narrated the past was calm and occasionally humorous. Yan Xiaodao rested his left arm on his pillow and looked at the starry sky. He was very pleased to have someone beside him who made him willing to tell these stories that he disdained to share with outsiders.After many years, he was calm and cheerful as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with others.

However, the people who listened to the story were not calm at all.Ling He's face flickered under the starlight, first showing concentration and pity, then moving and admiring, and finally at a certain turning point in the story, the situation suddenly changed, his face suddenly became dark and gloomy, and his whole body changed. cold.

Yan Xiaodao realized that the bed was a bit cold, but it was quite warm just now, and Ling He's body seemed to change seasons suddenly.The toon tree has stubbled, and the rapeseed flowers are about to bloom all over the mountains. Mr. Ling has traveled from spring to winter again?

Yan Xiaodao reached out and shook Ling He through the quilt: "Cold?

"Do you want a quilt?

"you caught a cold?"

When dealing with the people he respects and cherishes in his heart, Yan Xiaodao is willing to abide by the rules of love and courtesy, touching is through the quilt.He wanted to feel the heat on Ling He's forehead, so he lightly pressed the back of his hand on it, feeling that the skin on the back of his hand was more delicate than the palm of his hand, so he wouldn't look too rude.

"I understand." Under the starlight, Ling He smiled sadly, "Then, your godfather Qi Baoshan came back, he saved your fate, and he paid back your mother's love for you. I gave you today, a debt that I would never be able to repay if I worked my whole life!"

"...Yes." Yan Xiaodao often admires Ling He's mind.It is very comfortable to chat with people like Ling He. He is good at observing people's opinions, draws inferences from one instance, and can guess the end of a series after listening to the beginning of a story. He is naturally suitable to be a director of life dramas.Yan Xiaodao was also afraid of meeting that kind of idiot who didn't know how to understand, and would be so sloppy to chat for a long time.

Ling He let out a long breath, with a cold expression on his face: "Mr. Yan, you continue to talk, I want to hear how Lord Qi behaved chivalrously in front of you back then."

In the spring of the new year, on an ordinary day, Qi Baoshan came back to his hometown from the south, completely unexpectedly.

When this person left, he didn't have 200 yuan in his pocket. He said he was going to the south to "go to sea" to do business. When he came back, he was wearing a light gray cashmere coat with a good texture.Qi Baoshan took a black luxury car with a driver and bodyguards, followed by several cars, and went directly to the village to find someone.

It was Yan Xiaodao who Qi Baoshan was looking for, and found that the original site of Yan's house was in ruins, and then he found the Yan family who was staying in a neighbor's dilapidated tile house.

Qi Baoshan got the whereabouts of Yan Xiaodao, and immediately drove to Meishan without stopping.

In the words of Yan's mother at the time, this adopted godfather is really nostalgic and loyal!Qi Baoshan's luxury car climbed up to the foot of Meishan Mountain, got off and told the bodyguards to bring the person in charge of the mining area over, and asked bluntly, "Where is that boy from Yan's family? Get him out, I'm going to take him away now."

The owner of the mining area can no longer recognize the traces of the shoe peddler who set up a stall and sold shoes from the style of the person in front of him, but still the same sentence, we have contracted miners in our mine, can you take them away at will?He's not done yet!

Qi Baoshan scolded, contract with your mother, detain twelve or thirteen-year-old children in this mass grave and serve as coolies for you. One day, if they are abused by you to death, they will be thrown into the waste well and filled directly. Use it until you die!You think I don't know what kind of business you cannibals and blood-drinking wolves do, and how you coal mines get rich!

The little boss saw that this person was arrogant, so he had to say that their family owed usury, so they just patted their ass and left, and the money was not paid off.

Qi Baoshan asked, how much do you owe?

The little boss held out five fingers.

Qi Baoshan asked, fifty thousand?

The little boss sneered, 50!Usury loans with rolling interest, that's the price, and their family has to pay it back for a lifetime!

Qi Baoshan turned his head and gave a wink. The bodyguard took out a red and blue woven bag from the back of the car, and counted out 50 cash in bundles. The piles full of money were photographed on the black and shiny soil of Meishan Mountain.

Only then did the little boss realize that something was wrong, 50 in cash was not too much money, so he hurriedly asked his subordinates to find where Yan Xiaodao was, and which well he was in, and quickly go and bring the child up.

Qi Baoshan rubbed two Wenwan walnuts in his hand, and said slowly: "If my godson comes out without missing arms or legs, I will take him away, and the money in this bag will belong to you. If something is missing, or his life is gone , huh... Let's count how many pieces of paper there are in the 50 cash, and I'll cut you guys into pieces."

When Yan Xiaodao came up from the well, he had short black hair and his face was soaked in cinders and oil stains so that he could hardly recognize him, but that desolate and poor body could not hide the heroic spirit on the top of his eyebrows and the clear and open eyes , I have been a very hard bone since I was a child, and I will not bow my head and admit defeat. Everyone's demeanor seems to be innate.Qi Baoshan likes small knives, appreciates them from the bottom of his heart, and is also proud of his discerning eyesight. When admiring a person, he doesn't have to care that the other person is just a weak child with yellow teeth!

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Ling He smiled at that time: "What a righteous Lord Qi, his love for you is as deep as the sea, and his kindness is as heavy as a mountain! Mr. Yan, in the future, you must not let him down, and you must not betray him."

That smile was a bit desolate and tragic, and his eyes seemed to have seen the second half of his life after three springs and five summers, continuing the past and opening up the future.While speaking, Ling He had a throbbing pain in his chest, which was more painful than directly sucking up a tube of nicotine, and his whole body was immersed in disappointment and icy cold.

Let yourself go a little far, and you will feel pain when your heart is moved. Today I know it's over.

Before this night, the short and charming relationship, and some sweet and sweet feelings that are about to move, are like a dream left in the world.Now, both of them have fallen back into the enchantment of ghosts and monsters again.These are two parallel worlds, and now a dream has woken up.

Yan Xiaodao also saw that Ling He's mood was not right.

Every time Lord Qi was mentioned in the conversation, Ling He's face would change.This is normal and unavoidable, after all, the two families have a "feud" in the rumors.

Yan Xiaodao deliberately eased the atmosphere, laughed at himself and said, "At that time, I should not die, or Master Qi missed me and fell in love with me. He is superstitious about the fortune-telling by the half-immortal Taoist in the town, thinking that It was I who helped him turn his life around and make his fortune prosperous. The Taoist priest passed away two years ago, and he specially brought me back to pay homage to him. He opened an altar, chanted scriptures, and sat on a lotus to invoke the spirit of the Taoist priest. It took a lot of thought.”

Ling He also smiled and said: "Master Qi is affectionate and righteous, and has the demeanor of a man in the world. I didn't know him before, and I underestimated him too much."

Both seemed to be back in a cheerful and talkative atmosphere again.Ling He looked at Yan Xiaodao: "Mr. Yan, I forgot to ask, are you Geng this year?"

Yan Xiaodao said: "28."

Yan Xiaodao took advantage of the situation and asked: "You?"

Ling He rolled his beautiful eyelids: "I told you that I will take the college entrance examination this year."

Yan Xiaodao buried in the quilt with deep laughter: "Have you ever passed the college entrance examination as a foreign student? You are studying for the American imperial college entrance examination!"

Ling He laughed with innate pride and arrogance, and suddenly brought up another topic: "So, Mr. Yan, your godfather suddenly made a fortune in the south about 15 years ago. Come back to you with a big bag of cash, and you will be rich and prosperous from then on. He started from nothing, what business did he do to get rich overnight?"

Yan Xiaodao was taken aback for a moment, and answered frankly: "I was young at the time, and I heard that taking advantage of the imperfect laws and regulations at that time, I was involved in smuggling clothing, electrical appliances, motorcycle trade, etc. In the past so many years, I didn't ask any more questions."

Ling He easily let go of this question and smiled slightly, but the quilt on both of them trembled.

Ling He suddenly rolled over and leaned close to Yan Xiaodao, with the tip of his nose almost touching the tip of his nose, widened his slender and handsome eyes, and whispered a pillow whisper: "This is really a legendary life, the ups and downs of destiny The joys and sorrows are incomparable, it’s incredible! Mr. Yan, think about it, it’s more reasonable for a peddler who set up a shoe stall to get rich overnight more than ten years ago, or it’s a cold wind overnight for a rich family from the Ling family. Wouldn’t it be more reasonable for the building to collapse and become a prisoner and beggar who can be slandered by passers-by in a blink of an eye from a box full of gold and silver?”

Yan Xiaodao quickly fell silent, speechless.

To be honest, neither makes sense.Lord Qi must have concealed something, and there may be another story about the quarrel with the Ling family.However, this question is beyond Yan Xiaodao's age, qualifications and duty. What can he say at this moment?

He stared at Ling He's talking phoenix eyes.

Ling He's expression was gentle, he didn't want to persecute him with verbal guns and swords, and happily covered his face: "Mr. Yan, go to sleep."

In the sound of light sleep breathing, Yan Xiaodao faintly heard someone sniffing and snorting under the quilt: "You are too old, Mr. Yan, I am 23, go envy and envy..."

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