The Guide to the Tear-offs in the Online Supporting Circle Part 2: Peak Acting Skills

Everything seems to be turning in a good direction. Xie Zhengyan has initially grasped the knack of screenwriting, and the writing of the script will be smoother in the later stage. He plans to finish the draft before New Year's Day, take a good rest during the holiday, and then visit his second uncle who has not been in touch for a long time.

On December 12st, Mr. Ah Shui called him. The old man said in a worried and angry tone that Xie Tiande was currently facing an unprecedented crisis and asked him to come and express his condolences.

"Your second uncle recently got a bonus of 10 yuan, and your second aunt and cousin found out about it, and they all came to him to ask for the money. Your second uncle's social security is still more than 7 years away from receiving a pension. Standard, this money was originally intended to be used to supplement social security and take care of your grandma. These two heartless people don't care about your second uncle's difficulties and only want to embezzle his property. They have been running to the store every day for the past few days You pestered him in the house and went to work. Your second uncle was forced to suffer. Yesterday your second aunt came again and got into a fight with your mother without arguing. Your mother blamed your second uncle for causing trouble and affecting her. Doing business, I want your second uncle to go away from now on. When your second uncle packed up and left, he suddenly squatted at the door of the shop and cried loudly. ah."

Ah Shuigong also explained the origin of the bonus.It turned out that Xie Tiande worked in a chemical factory in Shanghai more than ten years ago. The factory was a collectively owned enterprise. In the late 90s, the economic downturn closed down, but the land was returned to the factory.Later, when the real estate agent came to buy the land, the factory leader colluded with the street office to sell the land privately, and divided up the proceeds and embezzled it privately.This lawsuit dragged on for many years, until the new leader came to power and ordered the courts at all levels to deal with corruption cases that had accumulated over the years. Only then did the relevant departments enforce the law impartially, punish the defendant in accordance with the law, and recover part of the stolen money.According to regulations, the land purchase money should be shared equally among the 200 regular employees who were originally in the factory. Xie Tiande was one of them. After a few years, he finally received the late dividend. Unexpectedly, this "flying windfall" turned out to be a blood-stained scourge , attracting hungry flies and leeches.

His ex-wife didn't know where to get the news, and came to say that he didn't give his daughter a penny after the divorce, and asked him to pay her 12 yuan in one lump sum for more than ten years of child support.Xie Yiyi came alone behind her mother's back, and asked her father to take the 10 yuan for her to re-study and apply for the film and television school tuition in the next year.Both parties were pressing on people, coaxing or coercing with sweet words, trying to find every excuse to squeeze the last drop of bone oil from Xie Tiande.

Xie Zhengyan was on fire. After work, he went straight to Xie Tiande’s residence. He lived in a shared house in an old community in Zhabei. He had two roommates. One was Afen’s mother and son. During this period, she accompanied her son to Beijing for medical treatment and was not at home. The other household is a young couple who came to Shanghai from the Northeast to work. The man's name is Tie Zhu, and the woman's name is Tie Zhu's wife. Xie Zhengyan also knows both.Walking to the downstairs of the unit building, I saw Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law chatting with a few old ladies, pointing upstairs from time to time, as if they were discussing what they had seen in their own house.Seeing Xie Zhengyan approaching, Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law came to a sudden stop, twisting a weird smile on her face like twisting a towel, and said, "Xiao Xie, are you here?"

Inspired by her reaction, Xie Zhengyan speculated that the second uncle was currently in a critical situation, so he rushed back to the fifth floor in one step and three steps.Upstairs, the front door was ajar, he pushed the door open, and there was no one in the house, only to see Xie Yiyi standing at the door of the second uncle's house with her back to him, and turned her head when she heard footsteps.Her eye sockets were pitch black, and she couldn't see any emotion, but Xie Zhengyan felt that there was a needle hidden in each of them, sharp enough to pierce a steel plate, and fear prevailed in her heart, and she didn't dare to approach right away.

Xie Yiyi seemed to have been negotiating with Xie Tiande for a long time. Now that an outsider came, she didn't plan to talk nonsense, and said to the room with a straight voice: "Father, I have to catch the last bus back to Ningbo and come back after New Year's Day. You must remember me If you do, you must not give the money to your mother. She will only use it to please her younger brother and uncle, and will not spend a dime on me. I have not lived a good life with her these years, and I have been used as a babysitter since I was a child. The money I earn from doing housework is more than ten times more than her cost of raising me. How dare she ask you for another 12? You should give me all your money. I am your daughter, and I am the only one who is related to you by blood. Everyone else is outsiders."

When she said this, she seemed to be reciting an article, with a straight tone, neither sad nor happy.However, Xie Zhengyan saw a whole life of warmth and coldness between the sentences, and his mood was like rice porridge overturned on the mud floor, mixed with black and white, unable to distinguish between anger and sympathy, and resentment was especially desolate.Then I heard Xie Tiande sighing in the room, the sound was like a long cotton thread, floating out, I don't know where it landed, he must be more confused than everyone else, love and hate can't find the right direction, everything is wrong , there is no way to look up.

Xie Yiyi didn't look at Xie Zhengyan when she left, and the two rubbed shoulders. Her brisk steps brought out a gust of wind, conveying more deeply the cold determination of refusing to give in.Xie Zhengyan closed the door and ran into the second uncle's room. The tangy smoke caused a sharp pain in his lungs, and he coughed up big tears in a moment.Xie Tiande quickly extinguished the cigarette, and put the cigarette butt in the ashtray in front of him that had already been inserted into an arrow stack by countless cigarette butts.Xie Zhengyan knew that his second uncle had quit smoking for many years, and he would not have lifted the ban if he hadn't been extremely depressed.

"Second Uncle~"

He walked to Xie Tiande's side, and sat next to him on the edge of the bed, he had prepared many words of comfort when he came, but now they were all scattered in disorder, because most of the words of comfort are empty words, they can't save the fire or solve the problem.

Xie Tiande sighed again, this may not be out of his subjective will, excessive worry will lead to stagnation of liver qi, and stagnation of liver qi will cause chest tightness and shortness of breath, sighing becomes a physiological reaction, involuntarily revealing the distress that he wanted to cover up.

He really didn't want his nephew to worry, so he grabbed the back of his hand and shook it tightly, and said softly, "It's okay, second uncle is okay."

After speaking, he got up and opened the drawer, took out a newspaper package and handed it to Xie Zhengyan. When he opened it, he found a thick stack of brand new hundred-yuan bills.

"This is the [-] that I borrowed from you last time. Add the interest and make up the whole number. It's a total of [-]. Take it."

Xie Zhengyan hurriedly said, "Second Uncle, I'm not short of money yet, so don't worry."

Xie Tiande waved his hand to block the conversation: "You listen to Second Uncle, this money must be taken back. Second Uncle was going to look for you tonight, and you came at the right time, just in time to talk to Second Uncle."

"Well, Second Uncle, tell me what you are unhappy about, it will make you feel better."

Xie Zhengyan helped Xie Tiande to sit down, and when he heard him sigh for the third time, he was so distressed that he wished to share half of the pain for him.Xie Tiande stared blankly at the floor, his expression was as sluggish as an old carpet that had been destroyed by the rainy season, and after a while he asked slowly: "Xiao Yan, do you still recognize Yiyi when you see her this time?"

Xie Zhengyan said: "I haven't seen her for more than ten years. She has changed, and she looks very strange."

"Oh~ not only you, but even I don't recognize her. She was so cute when she was a child. She was the closest to me. I squatted in the yard to wash clothes. She immediately moved a small bench under my buttocks and bought it for her. She always gave me the first bite of food, and always told me that when I grow up, I should study hard, find a good job, and earn a lot of money so that I can enjoy myself. At that time, I really had a daughter who had everything. It is God's greatest gift to me. But now... Now everything has changed. Although she is still willing to call me Dad, she no longer kisses me.

The day before yesterday I bought some new clothes for her and went to her school to find her. She told me in advance that she didn't want her classmates to know that she was a child from a single-parent family. She told me to meet her roommates. Don't say I am her father, but say yes Her father's friend was entrusted to deliver things to her.I listened to her and saw her roommate claiming to be her uncle, and guess what her roommate told me?The girl smiled and asked me, 'Uncle, did you just come back from America? 'I was confused, and the girl said that Yiyi told them that her father was working in the United States as a doctor, and that she would take her there in the future. 'My mind was empty at that time, and when Yiyi went back to the dormitory, she saw that I was also cold, and urged me to leave after taking the clothes, as if she would lose face if she said one more word to me.I was stunned for a long time, seeing her and the classmates walking far away, I also walked back slowly, and immediately woke up when I walked out of the school gate.This child has no feelings for me now, she wants a rich father who is a doctor in the United States, not me, a poor and rustic wimp..."

As soon as Xie Tiande's voice trembled, Xie Zhengyan already burst into tears, holding his hand and choking: "Second uncle, don't be angry, because that kind of white-eyed wolf is not worth it, cut off relations with her, lest she come to drink your blood again Eat your flesh."

Xie Tiande shook his head with difficulty, there seemed to be a heavy metal shield hanging over his head, he could never escape from the shadow.

"Xiao Yan, the second uncle has been like this for the rest of his life. You have to live well. I will pay you back 10 for the 5 yuan. Yesterday, I took another [-] yuan and sent it to A Fen, asking her to give it to A Mingzhi. Sickness. There are [-] left, just let them toss, and the second uncle can't control it if he doesn't want to."

Xie Zhengyan thought that the second uncle was going to give up on himself, and tried to persuade him: "You can't have this kind of thinking. Life is your own, and you have thought about it for others. What should you do? You can keep the money for yourself. Now I have found a good part-time job, and I will soon If you get the money, I will help you pay the rest of the pension, so that you can retire early and enjoy the blessings. Yiyi does not recognize you, but I do. From now on, you will be my father, and I will be your son and serve you lifetime."

When he talked about the emotional part, his voice was soaked in tears, and he had tasted the harm caused by the family. It is because of the existence of the second uncle that he still believes that "family love is priceless". He doesn't mind taking his livelihood on his shoulders. He is also willing to combine their happiness into one family. As long as the second uncle agrees, he can change the address at any time and call him "Dad".

Xie Tiande was also extremely sad, turned his face to the other party, couldn't bear to look at him, and soon retracted the hand that was tightly held by him.

"Silly boy, you still have a long way to go. You can't take the burden of Second Uncle. Go back. Second Uncle is tired and wants to rest."

He opened the shriveled cigarette case, took out a crumpled cigarette and lit it. Xie Zhengyan opened his mouth bluffly, and he kept waving his hands.

"Go back, go back."

He had no choice but to obey the instructions, retreated to the door and heard his second uncle say, "Turn off the light for me."

The lighting was lost, and the room could not be seen. The only flaw was the flickering sparks on Xie Tiande's cigarette butt. When the spark was on, it was very fierce, wheezing and moving quickly, and desperately wanted to swallow the whole cigarette. After dark, it stays on for a long time, indicating that the smoker is thinking.Xie Zhengyan thinks that the second uncle's thoughts at this moment are probably like smoke lingering around him, some go back to the past, some linger in the present, have any of them been shared with the future?

He hopes that the answer is yes, and that his second uncle still has confidence in life.

"Second Uncle, I'll come see you tomorrow."

He went home with a lot of unease, so worried that he couldn't start writing the script, but before he could hoard these unease into overnight dishes, after 5 o'clock in the morning, a man from the Northeast called with shocking news.

"Xiao Xie, I'm your second uncle's neighbor Tie Zhu! Your second uncle hanged himself, come quickly!"

Thunder resounded in Xie Zhengyan's mind, setting off a storm that blotted out the sun and covered the sky, so he wrapped a down jacket over his pajamas, stumbled to Xie Tiande's house with his slippers on.When I arrived, I saw a police car parked downstairs, the upper and lower floors of the entire residential building were brightly lit, and the community security guards were coming in and out. When I went upstairs, I saw seven or eight strange men and women standing outside the door, all dressed like him Not neat, probably the neighbor who was awakened.

The police from the police station arrived at the scene before him, and preliminarily judged that the tragedy happened around two o'clock in the morning. When I came out to go to the bathroom, I accidentally knocked over something, so I didn't think much about it.When Tie Zhu got up to pee in the middle of the night, he saw the light in the bathroom, walked in and saw Xie Tiande hanging from the drainpipe, his stiff body was shaking slightly with the rope...

"Oh, you didn't see the situation at that time. I was so scared that I almost peed my pants, so I quickly called my daughter-in-law. My daughter-in-law was so courageous, she asked me to bring scissors, and climbed up on the stool to cut the rope. When she was put down, it was already It's hard and cold, half of my tongue sticks out, and I'm out of breath."

The couple looked at their watches, and it was 4:[-] in the morning. The sound Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law heard in the middle of the night was probably the sound of Xie Tiande kicking the bench when he hanged himself.The left-behind policeman told Xie Zhengyan that an ambulance had come, and after the inspection it was announced that he died of suffocation. He and two other colleagues also checked briefly. Except for the strangle marks on the neck, the deceased had no other trauma on the body surface.They also found the suicide note left by the deceased on the bed, which had been sealed in a plastic bag. Xie Zhengyan was asked to check to see if the handwriting on it belonged to the deceased.Judging from the traces left at the scene, the possibility of suicide is very high. Of course, if the family members have doubts and apply to the police for investigation, they will fully cooperate.

"I want to see my second uncle first, where is he now?"

The policeman pointed to Xie Tiande's closed door and said, "It's still parked on his bed. We just want to wait for the family members to arrive before calling the funeral home's car."

Accompanied by the police and Tie Zhu and his wife, Xie Zhengyan opened the door. The big lights and small lights in the room were all on, and the light shone on every corner, and it was more clearly applied to the figure in the center of the bed covered with a quilt.All the household items in the room had been tidied up, and a clean as new ashtray was placed on the bedside table, as if it had never been stained, giving Xie Zhengyan the illusion that he had never been here last night.Tie Zhu enthusiastically lifted a corner of the quilt for him, Xie Tiande's face was revealed, his eyes were slightly closed and his expression was as usual, surprisingly peaceful.

"When the person left, his tongue was hanging out, and Tie Zhu and I rubbed and stuffed it. It took a long time to fix it, so it wouldn't be scary to watch."

Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law's voice was high, a bit like asking for credit. Xie Zhengyan knew that it was just the rusticity of a countryman and did not contain any malice, so he replied to her sincerely: "Thank you", and then asked them to let him say goodbye to his second uncle alone.

When the outsider left the field, his strength immediately shattered like an eggshell, and the sweaty pajamas he had been wearing when he ran wildly were now sticking to his vest coldly, and he was chasing each other and sweeping his limbs with tremors like needles. Drive away his heat.He quickly fell to his knees trembling by the bed, clutching the sheet with his hands convulsively, and buried his face in the quilt to block out the wailing.Surviving the first wave of collapse, he looked up at his second uncle's face through layers of tears, all kinds of past events emerged in his mind, recalling his love and care for himself, recalling his integrity, kindness and admiration His noble character, no matter how big or small, never misses a single thing.

Such a kind elder, kind and good man was forced by the world to hang himself on the scythe of death like a duck with a hemp rope, how cruel the fate, how unfair the world is!

I don't know how long it took, the chaotic wave swept away with grief and indignation, and more thoughts settled down.Looking at the second uncle's remains, he could vaguely see a sense of relief after being relieved. Thinking about the last conversation between his uncle and nephew last night, he believed that the second uncle set out with the idea of ​​abandoning the old and starting anew.For him, staying in the devastated world is no different from death, and leaving completely is the real survival. He was fed up with the muddy way of living, so he left so simply, tidying up the room before leaving, and not adding anything to others. trouble.

Xie Zhengyan understands the feelings of the second uncle. As the same kind, their lives seem to be fragmented. What is missing is happiness, and what is real is suffering. They have experienced too much misfortune, and seen too much calculation and pain.He hated all this, and at this moment, he really wanted to leave with his second uncle and go to heaven to find rest and happiness.

Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law had already knocked on the door twice, but he was still sobbing, crying like a broken wooden frame collapsed on the ground, and he had to cover his mouth to prevent outsiders from hearing.The night is fading, the window is white, and time crushes everything mercilessly, sweeping away the traces of the night and bringing a refreshing dawn.Every day is a new life, but there is no second uncle in the new life he is about to face.