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At night, Xu Wenyuan suffered from insomnia for the first time. He tossed and turned in bed.

The new bed is very soft and smells of washing powder, unlike the quilt in his hometown, which has a damp musty smell because it is not often dried in the sun. His father sometimes sprinkles medicine on it, and some cotton in the quilt has been washed away. He can't manage it even if it's agglomerated.

Thinking of his father, he suddenly remembered that he forgot to call back today to report his safety, but it didn't really matter, his father probably couldn't figure out what happened when he came out.

And he doesn't have a mobile phone, which is a big problem. Although he brought money, judging from the current situation, this money may not be able to sustain him for a week.

So it is imperative to find a job as soon as possible.

Although the family who adopted him were all good people, they didn't owe him anything, and he couldn't take it for granted.

Xu Wenyuan sometimes thinks angrily, just give up and forget it. People's lives are probably arranged after birth, and no matter how hard they work, it is useless.

Because his grandparents were married by consanguineous relatives, Xu Wenyuan had a foolish father whose intelligence was only at the age of six or seven.

His grandparents bought his mother from outside with money. There are hundreds of people in their village and there are no daughters. Most of the daughters-in-law are bought.

The girl was completely kept in the dark when she married back then, not knowing that she might spend her whole life with such a mentally retarded man in the future, until it was too late to find out the truth.

Although she was traded like a commodity, after all, she is still in her prime, and still has a beating girlish heart. She has longing for the future, love, and married life. At least she shouldn't be trapped in the ravine like this now. Ri sleeps with a man who can't even communicate normally every day, it's so hopeless.

When Xu Wenyuan was just born, the girl often hugged him and shed tears day and night, and said something he couldn't understand. He kept saying "run" and "get out of here" over and over again.

After a few years of such dark days, his mother finally broke down and tried every means to run outside. After several failures, on a certain snowy night, she secretly boarded a car to the county seat, and never heard from her again.

At first Xu Wenyuan thought his mother would leave for a while, and kept asking his grandparents, "When will mother come back?" Later, when he grew up, seeing the two old people sighing, he suddenly understood, and since then Never mentioned fucking again.

His family is not the only one in the village. There are also other families without mothers. Later Xu Wenyuan found out that it was because none of them married voluntarily.

But the family has a father, as well as other elders, and for the whole family, his father is always the most heartless.

Xu Wenyuan lived a stable life with his grandparents for a few years, raised pigs, planted vegetables, harvested crops and sold them, but it was all right.It's a pity that time waits for no one. His grandparents are old, sick from overwork and depressed, and finally passed away one after another when Xu Wenyuan was eight years old.

From that day on, Xu Wenyuan could only support the house by himself. At a young age, he had to make ends meet, cook, wash clothes, clean up, grow vegetables, or dig wild vegetables from the ground to sell, because his father was not in good health, Most of the money in exchange was spent on medicines.

Xu Wenyuan's father was sometimes sober and sometimes confused, and when he got into trouble, he would smear shit on the wall, pour out all the vegetables his son had dug up, and dirty the dishes he had just washed. Xu Wenyuan could only clean up silently every time. again.

Once he just folded the dried clothes neatly and put them on the bedside, his father didn't know what happened, he grabbed them like a banner and ran outside, the clothes were dragged all the way in the pond, black and dirty.

He suddenly felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, and felt that it was unfair, why should he bear all this alone, he pushed his father down into the pond, and cried at the top of his voice: "Can you let me go! Please! Already!"

The man's clothes and pants were all soaked. He sat in the pond and stretched out his hand to his son: "Don't cry, don't cry, Erniu don't cry, daddy will give you a whirr..."

Xu Wenyuan really felt wronged, but what's the use of scolding?What's the use of complaining?No matter how resentful you are, people still have to live. No one will help you, they will only watch you laugh.

Children of the same age as him in the village have all gone to school one after another, and Xu Wenyuan has no books to read.

The adults pointed behind their backs and threatened their children, "If you don't obey, the idiot next door will come and eat you."In the hearts of those children, Xu Wenyuan's father is a fool who can eat people, and he is a fool born of a fool.

They took advantage of the opportunity to bully him. Once they snatched one of his shoes and threw it into the river. He jumped barefoot into the icy river water for a long time in winter, but found nothing. Finally, he came back dripping wet. A high fever developed that night.

If it weren't for his father's yelling so miserably that attracted the neighbors, Xu Wenyuan would have died.

Sometimes he felt that it would be better to die, because he would not have to worry about anything after death, but he would see no way out at all when he was alive.

But his life was too hard. In the year of birth, the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck three times and he survived. He was rescued by the midwife by accident. This time, God still didn't accept him.

Not only did he not accept him, but he was also kind to him, which made him meet such a noble person as Xu Yongshan.

Xu Yongshan met this child when he was on a business trip.At that time, he wanted to expand his business and engage in organic agriculture, so he planned to find long-term and stable raw material suppliers in small villages.

When he saw Xu Wenyuan for the first time, the child was being besieged by a group of peers. Others threw stones at him, egg shells at him, and even spat at him. Wild vegetables, do not hide.

His expression and eyes are very calm, without anger or resentment, not even light, as if being able to live peacefully every day is all he has.

Later, Xu Yongshan and the local people inquired about the situation of this family, and went to observe him several times.

He felt that this child had extraordinary endurance, which was not found in children in the city, and he should not be buried here by life.

Xu Yongshan thought of the pampered son at home, so he came up with an idea.

He gave Xu Wenyuan 100 yuan to buy some delicious food, which was almost a huge sum of money for such a poor family in such a mountain village at that time.

As a result, the child refused after looking at it.

Xu Yongshan asked: "Do you want to go with me?"

"No."

"I'll take you out of here and go to the city, buy you new clothes and delicious food, let you study, and I have a big house at home."

"No."

"Don't you want to read?"

"think."

"Don't you want to live in a big house and have new clothes?"

"think."

"Then follow me."

"Don't go."

Xu Yongshan was very helpless when the child refused to eat oil and salt.He glanced at the man sitting on the ground playing with mud in the back room, and suddenly added: "There is a good hospital in the city, and your father's illness may be cured."

This is of course an expedient measure, but it still stopped the boy's hand from lifting the pot.

Xu Yongshan said: "Only by going out from here can your father be saved. If you save your child, you also save yourself."

After a long, long time, Xu Yongshan felt that this might be the most correct decision he had ever made in his life, but also the most wrong one.

Xu Wenyuan lay on the bed and couldn't sleep, and he didn't know how long it had been, when suddenly a head came down from above, which startled him a lot.

"Hey, haven't you slept yet?"

"Ah."

"It's okay, it's normal for the first day, and I'll just get used to it in the future. In fact, I can't sleep, why don't we chat?"

Xu Wenyuan glanced at the moonlight outside the window: "Go to sleep, I won't wake up tomorrow."

"It's okay, I'm still resting tomorrow! I'll talk about another five yuan."

As Xu Zhiyuan spoke, he jumped off the upper bunk, because he came out of the bed without pants, and his two long, thin and white legs dangled in front of Xu Wenyuan's eyes.He got into the blanket, his cold skin pressed against Xu Wenyuan.Xu Wenyuan carefully avoided a little bit and leaned in.

"Hey, let me ask you, are the persimmons in your place soft or hard?"

"The hard ones are crispy persimmons."

"Then I like it! I like hard ones! They are sweet and big! Tell me about your persimmons."

Xu Wenyuan thought for a while: "Actually, persimmons are very common in our place. There are a large number of them in the wild, and they can be grown at home. The old man thinks it is auspicious."

"why?"

"Because there is such a saying? Everything goes well and everything is auspicious."

Xu Zhiyuan laughed loudly: "It's superstitious!"

"It's just a thought."

Sometimes the poorer you are, the more spiritually you need some sustenance to live.

"There are so many persimmons, what should I do if I can't finish them all?"

"There are birds that people can't finish eating, magpies and sparrows, and birds that can't finish eating will drop into the ground to make fertilizer..."

Xu Wenyuan didn't know why his younger brother had an inexplicable attachment to persimmons. He could only babble for most of the night, from beating persimmons with bamboo poles every year, to other fruit trees in the mountains behind them, to catching tadpoles and frog.

He avoided all the bad things, Xu Zhiyuan was fascinated by it.

When the belly of the fish was floating outside the window, Xu Wenyuan heard the sound of even breathing, with a faint fruity smell.

He turned his head and found that his younger brother was sleeping soundly. After observing for a while, Xu Wenyuan felt that his younger brother was really good-looking. His eyelashes were thin and long, and his skin was white and tender, like those stars who came out of pictorials, and his skin was sticking to him. , slippery and greasy.

Xu Wenyuan couldn't hold back, and poked his brother's face, Xu Zhiyuan turned over with a "hmm", hugged his brother's arm and rubbed it back and forth, rolled the blanket down again and fell asleep thoroughly.

Xu Zhiyuan has a habit of sleeping - grabbing things.If you don't have anything, you can catch someone.

The bed was a little small, and the blanket was a little too small, unable to cover the two adolescent boys, so Xu Wenyuan could only stick to Xu Zhiyuan as much as possible, turning over as if he was wrapping his brother in his arms.

When he was drowsy and about to fall asleep, Xu Wenyuan thought that he still wanted to earn money, and if possible, he wanted to buy all kinds of sweet things for his younger brother.