I surrender my foe with a kiss

On August 8, when it was still completely dark, Xu Cong got up from the bed.

After waking up every day, his right leg would become sore and numb, and he couldn't move for a while. He had to massage carefully for a while before he could get off the ground slowly.

Today, he was very anxious when he was massaging, and he would turn on his phone to check the time from time to time.Finally, before his right leg fully recovered, he endured the pain and got off the ground, leaning on the wall to get to the kitchen step by step.Relying on memory, learning how my mother used to do, fire and cook.

In the past, he only knew how to study, and his parents were reluctant to let him do any housework.Therefore, it was extremely difficult for him to make this meal.I just boiled porridge, heated steamed buns and eggs, took out some pickles from the jar, put them all in a thermos bucket, and limped out the door.

When he got downstairs, he wanted to buy some milk in the small shop.It's a pity that it's still dark and there isn't a single shop open.He could only give up and walk towards the subway station in the silent morning fog.

Three days ago, a phone call shattered his originally peaceful life: "Your father broke his back, and he is in a coma. Hurry to the hospital."

Until now, thinking of the content of that phone call, he would feel a palpitation in his heart.

Coupled with what happened to Xiao Ci later... more things happened in these three days than in the past ten years.

After many nights without a good rest, Xu Cong dragged his heavy body down as soon as the subway doors opened.

It is less than six o'clock now, and the first subway in Guangzhou has not come yet.The subway station is sparse, and there are already some early risers waiting for the subway.Xu Cong walked through the crowd with a lame leg.From time to time someone glanced at him with curiosity and inquiry in their eyes.Xu Cong's face turned red, and he buried his head deeper and deeper, until it almost drooped on his chest.

Half an hour later, Xu Cong walked out of the subway station and walked for a long time before arriving at the orthopedic hospital.

At this time, the sky was already bright, but the orthopedic hospital, as the oldest hospital in the city, was located in an extremely remote location. Xu Cong passed several garbage stations along the way, and the smell was unpleasant.The orthopedic hospital is located in a low-lying area, located among several hundred-year-old banyan trees. The environment is humid and dark, and it is almost a corner where the sun cannot shine.The walls of the hospital are mottled and mottled, the dilapidated iron gates are full of rust, and weeds grow wildly in the garden in the center of the hospital.Standing in front of the hospital, Xu Cong watched as the ambulance stopped and came again. Nurses hurriedly carried stretchers to the hospital. The wounded lying on the hospital were either crippled with broken arms or motionless covered in bandages. Accompanying her were the family members who were devastated and desperate.The sound of crying, moaning, and sobbing has never stopped since he arrived here.

The whole hospital was dilapidated and depressing, like a huge tomb.

Most of the people who come here to see a doctor are low-level working people like Xu Cong's family.

The environment is indeed bad, but the low price still makes the orthopedic hospital the first choice for this group of people.

But such a hospital is about to face demolition. When the time comes, people are injured, where else can they go to see a doctor?

In the past ten years, Xu Cong has stepped into this hospital countless times, but it was always his parents watching his legs with him.Today, the situation changed, he stood outside, and the person lying in the ward who couldn't get up became his father.

Whether it's biological or not, Xu Cong has no time to worry about those anymore.

Xu Cong took a deep breath, and finally stepped into the gate of the hospital with heavy steps.

At this moment, on the other side of the city, the sun is shining brightly and the sky is full of auspicious clouds.

The second and third graders of Huacheng Middle School have officially started school.

Xiao Ci stood under the shade of the tree, the dazzling sunlight made him unable to open his eyes.He narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Huazhong opposite through the street full of people and cars.

There, the school gate became completely new after a summer vacation.It has been enlarged several times, the silver-white stone is clean and bright, and the words "Huacheng Middle School" on the arch are majestic, setting off the campus surrounded by flowers in a clean and artistic atmosphere.Under the school gate, students, parents, guards, teachers, everyone chatting loudly, laughing, full of vigor and vitality everywhere.

Xiao Ci was wearing a hat, and his silent facial features were hidden in the shadows.He walked towards the gate of Huazhong School step by step, raised his head, and the gold-plated characters were shining brightly in the sun.He looked at the strange door in front of him, feeling empty in his heart.

He remembered a year ago, when he just stepped into the flowers, he was still a young man full of expectations.At that time, although he was confused, although he was full of unknown fears about the future.But he is determined to study hard, and when he finds his brother in the future, he will provide the best life for his brother at all costs.Even if there are all kinds of suffering ahead, he can still rely on his shoulders to bear it.

But what about now?

Now he stands here, but he doesn't know where he is.Those once shining prospects and dreams have all faded and merged with this gloomy world at some point.He listened to the laughter of those people, looked at the joy of those people, distant and ethereal, as if it came from another world.

Xiao Ci didn't know what the meaning of his life was.

I don't know where someone called his name with a smile: "Xiao Ci!" He suddenly lowered his head in a hurry, lowered the brim of his hat, and ran away against the flow of people like a shady mouse.

Everyone was going to school, but he ran farther and farther away.Fleeing to a deserted place, leaning on the cracked electric pole, leaning over and gasping for breath.

For the first time in his life, he skipped class and skipped school.

On the sunny street, he wandered like a lonely ghost.After nine o'clock, his cell phone rang one after another.First came Lao Yan, then Jiang Chao, Cheng Huan and Bai Yunduo.The harsh ringtone annoyed him so much that in the end he simply turned off the phone and didn't care about anything else.

He wandered to a bar far from the school.

The bar has just opened and there are no customers yet.The light inside the bar was dim, and a handsome guy with yellow hair was standing at the counter, wiping glasses.This guy has a tattoo of a snake with teeth and claws on his neck, from his Adam's apple all the way to his collarbone, which is extremely flamboyant.There is a shining silver earring on the earlobe of the left ear, and the eyebrow on the right side is broken, which is ruffian and sullen.

When he looked up, he saw a young man in a white shirt and carrying a schoolbag coming outside. The young man had delicate features, red lips and white teeth, and he looked very good.Standard student attire, but there is a faint ruthlessness in the eyebrows and eyes.I don't know if he didn't have a good rest, but this young man's complexion is very bad, his sunny appearance has a melancholy and cold temperament.

Huangmao wiped the cup in his hand calmly: "Are you an adult? Child. This is not the place you should come to."

Xiao Ci ignored him, but pulled away the chair and sat down straight away, tapping his knuckles on the table: "Serve the wine."

Huang Mao went over and put a glass of lemonade on his table. The moment he opened his mouth, he was full of social atmosphere: "Drinking? You have to pay for drinking."

Xiao Ci raised his eyes slowly, bloodshot eyes in dark circles: "Look down on me?"

His voice was hoarse and his eyes were cold and hard. Instead of looking like a half-grown boy, he looked like a man who had experienced many vicissitudes.Even Huang Mao had to admit that when he was caught in the eyes of this young boy just now, he felt palpitations for a moment.

This is interesting, Huang Mao took a picture of the price list on his desk, and deliberately teased: "Do you have money?"

Xiao Ci seemed a little dazed by the heat. He tugged at the neckline and undid the first button of his shirt, revealing his reddish delicate skin.Annoyed: "How much?"

He took out the lighter, lit the first cigarette in his life, tore open the zipper of his schoolbag, and threw a wad of brand new hundred-dollar bills into his face: "Is that enough?"

The dazzling lights of the bar kept flickering, the young man's cheeks were bright and dark, Xiao Ci narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly exhaled an intoxicating smoke.

Among the banknotes flying all over the sky, the corners of Huang Mao's mouth gradually curled up: "Enough."

"A surgery will be arranged tonight, is 30 enough?"

In the hospital corridor, Xu Cong pinched his fingers into the pale and cold tiles, watching the conversation between the doctor and his mother, it was the first time that he fell into such great sorrow because he had no money.

"Doctor," my mother begged, "Our family took out all the money we usually have for food. It's really a waste of money, but we can only get together 17 yuan. See, can we arrange the operation first, and the money later? We will make it up to you, and you can sign it and make a deposit."

The doctor said helplessly: "You are always like this, and it is difficult for us to do so. Our medicines and medical equipment cost a lot of money every day. If we are like you, then our hospital may simply close down. You can no longer visit your relatives. Would you like to borrow some?"

"The 17 yuan has already borrowed all the money from all relatives. The child's father and I came to work in the countryside. We really have no money." The mother took the doctor's hand, her voice became lower and lower, seeing Tears were about to fall: "Doctor, please, please help us, your great kindness, our family will always remember it in our hearts."

The doctor couldn't help it because of her begging. After all, according to her age, the old woman in front of him could be a fucking person, so he couldn't be cruel.However, he really couldn't agree to the old woman's request, otherwise, in the end, if the patient ran away without paying the money, he would not be able to bear the responsibility.

The two were completely deadlocked.Xu Cong stretched out his hand when he came to eat, and opened his mouth when he came to eat. He was well protected by his family for ten years, and the first time he encountered difficulties was a catastrophe.The doctor's words buzzed in his ears, messing with his brain.

He couldn't help thinking of the embarrassing but forced smiles on the faces of those relatives when he went to borrow money with his mother the day before yesterday.I also thought about the cost of treating my own legs, which may have cost 30 in these years.How much money was spent, his parents never told him, but he couldn't think about it.If it weren't for him to go to various cram schools, his parents wouldn't be so downcast.Even, if he hadn't been in this family from the very beginning, then my father probably wouldn't have worked on the construction site late at night in order to make more money, causing him to stumble and fall and break his lumbar spine.

All of this actually started because of him.

But the final pain is borne by the father and mother.

His parents gave him the best, but when they suffered, he could only stand by and watch.

How can I pay off what I owe them in this life?

The doctor finally adjusted his glasses, sighed and said, "In short, if we don't have enough money, we can't start the surgery for you. If there is no other way, you should consider asking for donations from the public. For example, water drops or something , Recently, many family members of patients are using it. Some of them have already made up enough money for the operation.”

Hearing this, the mother straightened her stooped waist, and she looked happy as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "Water-drop chips? Can water-drop chips save the life of the child's father? What about that... Where can I buy it? how……"

The doctor said: "Ask your child, he should have heard of it."

The mother immediately turned around, "Congcong, the doctor said you know, have you heard of water drops?"

Xu Cong paled and nodded slightly.

After the doctor left, my mother said, "Then you get it done quickly, and tell mom how to get this high-end gadget, so that when you go to school, mom will use it too."

"Mom," Xu Cong said with a wry smile, "I can do this myself. You can go in and see Dad."

Xu Cong's mother had a headache when she looked at the mobile phone. After listening to Xu Cong's words, she said, "It's okay. If it doesn't work, you must tell your mother."

Xu Cong nodded, then walked to the corner of the corridor, opened the window, took a deep breath, and made a call with his mobile phone.

"Hey, Teacher Yan..."

The call was made to a math teacher surnamed Yan from Huacheng Middle School. After the high school entrance examination results came out, this teacher went to his home to recruit students.

Due to the decline in school performance, Huazhong has not grabbed top students for many years.This year, Huazhong's teacher had the courage to attack him, the top ten in the city, because Huazhong had one thing - money.

It was the money that Jiang Chao's father invested in Huazhong.

At that time, Lao Yan went to Xu Cong's home to enroll students and promised them that as long as Xu Cong filled in Huazhong on the volunteer form, Huazhong would provide Xu Cong with a huge scholarship every year.

Xu Cong's family conditions are difficult, facing the temptation of huge scholarships, Xu Cong's parents have not been tempted.But Xu Cong was spoiled by his family at that time, and he didn't know the real situation of his family very well. He wanted to be admitted to the best high school.Therefore, when he saw the joy of his parents facing the temptation of money, his little face couldn't help drooping.

He even felt that all his hard work had been in vain for nine years.

However, he was slightly relieved to be behind.

After Xu Cong's father chatted with Teacher Yan, he turned around and found that his son's expression was wrong. He changed his previous approving expression and said, "Where Xu Cong will go to school needs to be considered again."

This "consideration" is actually driving away customers.

Xu Cong's father "got" such a son when he was nearly 40 years old, and he really spoiled him so much that he had nothing to say.Afterwards, his father knew that Xu Cong was not talkative, so he took the initiative to encourage him to apply for the middle school attached to Normal University.

Only then did Xu Cong feel happy, feeling that he was one step closer to his dream.

However, he hadn't been happy for a few days. As soon as the admission notice arrived, something happened to his father...

"Student Xu Cong, what's the matter?" On the other end, the man's deep and magnetic voice woke Xu Cong up, and Xu Cong said, "Mr. Yan, I..."

Halfway through his speech, the words that followed were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.

He thought that in front of his father, it was not worth mentioning which school he went to for high school.

However, when it came time to give up the dream that he had insisted on for nine years, these words were still so heavy.

After a long time, he said tremblingly: "Mr. Yan, if I want to go to Huazhong to study in high school now, is there still a chance to transfer over my student status?"

After hanging up the phone, he froze for a long time, and then took out the admission notice from the middle school attached to Normal University from his schoolbag.

The admission notice was mailed a while ago. At that time, his father was not at home, so he never had a chance to show it to his father.

He came to the hospital with the admission notice today just to show it to his father to make him happy.

but……

He could no longer go to the High School Attached to Normal University to study.

With trembling hands, he tore up the admission notice one by one, as if tearing his own heart.

He used a fire to burn up his dreams.

What I said to Xiao Ci at the time didn't take my heart out.

What he expressed at the time was: the dream is to be admitted to the best university in China and to study in the middle school attached to the Normal University, which is just a choice made to realize the dream.

However, this is not true at all!

In fact, he never dared to take it as his dream to be admitted to the best university in China.

He knows his level well, he knows that he is smarter at best, and compared with those real geniuses, he is actually far behind.

He really worked so hard, coupled with his extraordinary performance, that he was lucky enough to rank among the top ten in the city.

The so-called admission to the best university in China is just a fantasy of his.

And since he entered junior high school, he has regarded it as the highest goal, and the one who encourages himself to move forward every day is the High School Affiliated to Normal University!

Xu Cong quietly looked at the ashes floating in the sky.

That was the place where he dreamed of going to study.

"Oh, why don't great intellectuals even read books?" Xiao Ci was drunk on the chair, and there were piles of empty wine bottles on the table and on the floor.Huang Mao held Xiao Ci's mobile phone and said while patting his flushed cheek.

The child's mobile phone password is set the same as if it is not set. Enter "0000" and you can log in directly.It wasn't that Huang Zihao wanted to peek at his cell phone, it was because the kid was so drunk that he couldn't wake up after pushing, but the cell phone on his body kept ringing non-stop.For the consideration of other guests in the bar, he had no choice but to act as a "hacker who cracked the password" once.Unexpectedly, the first battle was won, and the child's cell phone was easily opened.

The lock screen shows two teenagers standing shoulder to shoulder, one of them is the drunk child in front of him.He is much more sunny in the photo than he is now.The person hooking his shoulders was half a head taller than him. He was handsome, the kind of outrageously handsome that made people want to slap him.The two faced the camera, obviously neither of them smiled, but it seemed that as long as the two of them got together, there would be smiles in their brows and eyes.

There were more than a dozen missed calls on the kid's cell phone. It looked like he had played truant from school, and the teacher and classmates in the class called.Huang Zihao hooked his mouth, turned the phone in his hand, swiped his fingertips back and forth a few times, and then deleted all these records.

However, he kept an eye out, he remembered that the kid came at ten o'clock in the morning.He only deleted the extra missed calls after ten o'clock.And those before ten o'clock are still kept.

At this moment, the sky outside is already dark.

Yes, this kid is the most persistent guest he has ever seen, from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening, a full twelve hours.Except for going to the toilet a few times when I couldn't bear it, I sat in my seat and drank at other times.

It's really the kind of drinking one bottle at a time, after drinking one bottle, another bottle, after drinking one bottle, another bottle.In the few years Huang Zihao has been in this business, he has never seen a person who drank like this.

Tsk, Huang Zihao couldn't help but look a little deeper at Xiao Ci, this kid has a future.

"Hey," Huang Zihao patted him on the shoulder, "Get up, our store is closing."

Xiao Ci held an unfinished bottle of beer in his hand, and leaned his face sideways on the spilled wine on the table. He was so drunk that he couldn't hear a word at all.

Huang Zihao went around behind him and pulled his shoulders to lift it up. Who knows, it would be better if he didn't mention it, but Xiao Ci's stomach was tossed when he mentioned it. "Wow—" with a loud sound, he spat it all out.

Huang Zihao didn't have time to dodge, so he vomited all over his ripped pants.

"Oh," Huang Zihao lamented, "This time, I'm really serving the uncle."

He put Xiao Ci back on the seat, let the boy lie down on the back of the chair, and planned to go backstage to change his pants.

"Stay here, don't run around." He originally wanted to slap the young man on the forehead to show his anger, but remembering the young man's stubbornness in the morning, he finally stopped.

Today is a working day, and all the guests have left at this moment, so he has nothing to worry about leaving the boy here alone.

After changing his pants and coming out again, the boy woke up, lying on the table, with sleepy drunken eyes, slowly looked to the left and then to the right, as if he was wondering where this was.Apparently he hasn't woken up yet.

The young man's nose flapped slightly, looked down slowly, and then struggled to get up.Getting up this time made Huang Zihao amused - this kid was so excited, he actually saw the filth after being spit on the ground, and wanted to grab the mop in the corner to clean it.

Good guy, he's so drunk that he still doesn't forget to clean himself.

"Okay, okay, let me do it." Huang Zihao said, bringing the mop to mop the floor.Xiao Ci didn't eat a single meal all day, so most of what he vomited out was alcohol, which took a long time.Huang Zihao cleaned the floor in a short while.The tables were wiped clean, the air freshener was sprayed, and the bar was tidy again.

Xiao Ci sat up, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at him vigilantly: "Who are you?"

Huang Zihao pulled out a chair and sat opposite him: "I am your grandfather."

Xiao Ci: "Get lost."

"Okay, okay," Huang Zihao raised his hands in surrender, and then said to him very seriously: "Actually, I am your little brother."

"..." Xiao Ci was still drunk, looking at him with half-belief, and it took a long time before he said, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Huang Zihao cupped his hands at him, "Brother."

"..." Xiao Ci: "I don't remember what younger brother I have. Why do you want to be my younger brother?"

"..." Huang Zihao said, "Because you are older than me, so I want to be your younger brother."

"..." Xiao Ci took a while to react: "Get lost!"

"Well, to tell you the truth, it's actually because you are not an ordinary person. You are the most special one I have ever met, so I am willing to be your little brother."

When he said this, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looked at the other person seriously without blinking his eyes. It really made people think that what he said was true, but they didn't dare to believe him completely.

"What's so special about me." Xiao Ci didn't know what to think, and his voice lowered, "I'm just an ordinary person..."

"You can drink." Huang Zihao pried open a bottle of beer, gulped down a few gulps, and burped, "At least I've never seen a person who can get himself drunk and get up to drink again. Get drunk again and get up again and continue to drink.”

Huang Zihao raised his eyebrows, and the one with the truncated eyebrows flicked, especially viciously: "Tell me, what happened to you and made you drink like this?"

Huang Zihao leaned closer to him, and laughed again as soon as he spoke: "Did your girlfriend sleep with your boyfriend?"

"Get out!" Huang Zihao and Xiao Ci cursed at the same time this time, after cursing, Huang Zihao laughed ferociously to himself.

"You can't do it," Huang Zihao clinked glasses with his empty wine bottle, "Swearing people back and forth is just this one sentence, what's the difference with a school chicken? Come on, tell your story, my brother will teach you how to scold a heartless scumbag .”

After hearing this, Xiao Ci snorted and stopped talking.Huang Zihao said, "Why, you don't believe me?"

Xiao Ci said, "I'm afraid you won't believe me if I tell you."

It was the first time Huang Zihao heard Xiao Ci say such a long speech, and said: "You just look down on me, I am in this line of work, why have I not been in touch with all kinds of teachings and nine streams? How can I still be scared by your story?"

"If you don't want to say it, then so be it." Huang Zihao fetched two clean glasses, filled them with beer, and poured the beer until it couldn't stop frothing along the rim: "Let's exchange our own glasses with each other." Story, after telling your own story, take a sip of the wine in your glass and swallow the story. Don’t tell anyone what happened tonight, how about it? "

Some things have been kept in my heart for a long time, and I just want to find a place to pour them out, otherwise I will keep them in the backlog, and I will only become sick.Listening to what he said, Xiao Ci really felt a little impulsive.After all, he couldn't say a single word of these words with the closest person.But with a stranger who can say goodbye forever in the blink of an eye, there is no such concern.

Huang Zihao is good at observing words and expressions, seeing the hesitation on Xiao Ci's face