hole in one

From the age of four to 12, when people mentioned Wang Nan, they always added a word of pity.

It's not that Wang Nan is missing arms or legs, or has some irreparable misfortune on his face, or has some incurable disease. On the contrary, although Wang Nan is not very strong, he has never been seriously ill. A common cold and fever, which child No?Even if he does it more often, it's not a big deal.Moreover, this child belongs to Qiao Lichang, and has fully inherited the advantages of his parents. He has phoenix eyes, high nose and chin, and is very delicate.Of course, his limbs are also sound.

People say he is poor because his parents are divorced.

It was a relatively conservative era, and divorce was still a very shameful thing, especially among children, whose parents divorced, it was like the end of the world, and the child whose parents divorced seemed to be Alien creature.

Among the adults, they also disdain Wang Nan's parents' divorce.

Originally, Wang Nan's parents were ordinary people, and Wang Nan's mother was a street sweeper.At that time, street sweeping was not like the glorious sanitation workers in the early days, nor was it like the work of public institutions that ensured income from drought and floods later. When a job came out, I wished that six or seven college students would fight for it.

At that time, a street sweeper was a street sweeper, a job that people would deliberately keep a distance from even if they didn't talk about it.

Moreover, Wang Nan's mother, Jiang Xiaolian, looks... not very good, and she can't be called ugly, but she has to get up at three or four o'clock every day to sweep the street, and she is naturally very haggard in the wind and sun, and her background is not very good. The already yellowish skin was made even more dull. People who are less than 30 years old look like they are almost forty.

In people's minds, such a woman naturally has to live a life of duty, and it is good not to be rejected by her husband, and she is still talking about divorcing her husband?Could she find a better one after divorce?Or have you found it?

Because of this incident, there was no shortage of topics among the neighbors in that section, such as Jiang Xiaolian was raped when she was sweeping the street in the middle of the night, and why Jiang Xiaolian went to sweep the street early in the morning. The wild man has a hookup and so on and so on...

These words are conveyed clearly and clearly, because there are places, time, characters, and events, which are completely in line with the four elements of the narrative, so when people look at Wang Nan, they feel more suspicion and pity.

Of course, no matter what people say, Jiang Xiaolian divorced Wang Nan's father, Wang Jingui. People don't know what Jiang Xiaolian got in this marriage, but at that time, everyone had no property.Wang Jingui is an employee of the machinery factory, so he has a fund-raising house with a layout of two bedrooms and one living room. Looking at it now, the kitchen and bathroom are pitifully small, but at that time, it was already quite good.

But this house is the family room of the machinery factory, Jiang Xiaolian is naturally not qualified to live here, divorced, she took Wang Nan back to her natal home.Her father passed away early, and she had an older brother and two older sisters, but they both got married and moved out. Her mother was the only one in her natal family, and she guarded three brick houses with a total area of ​​[-] square meters. There is no contradiction.

The family room of the machinery factory is in the eastern suburbs, and her mother's house is in the south of Daqianmen, a few kilometers away, so the rumors can't spread for a while. Of course, the most important thing is that after Jiang Xiaolian went back, she took care of her mother and children, honestly. At work, I didn't get particularly intimate with any man, and I didn't buy clothes to make my hair. There is really no market for those rumors.

Wang Nan was young at that time and didn't understand these things, but he could also feel the changes in the eyes of people around him, and he could hear from time to time: "Wang Nan's child is strange, he grew up when he saw it. You're so smart, it's just... poor..." Such words.

At that time, Wang Nan didn't know what pity was. He just instinctively didn't like people talking about him like this, and instinctively didn't like people seeing him like this, but he couldn't do anything about it. Fighting with others can't change the fact that his mother is a street sweeper, nor can it change the fact that his parents are divorced.

But even though his family was different, he went to kindergarten like everyone else, went to elementary school, and then when he was in fifth grade, his life changed again-his mother remarried.

Jiang Xiaolian's remarriage was to a bicycle repairer, and she set up a stall next to the street entrance of their house. Wang Nan would see that person every day when she went to school, and knew that his left leg was a little lame. He didn't have a bicycle. I didn't pay much attention to it, and never thought that this person would become his stepfather one day.

At this time, his grandma had passed away, and the two of them lived in a 30-odd-square-meter house. The kitchen was in the yard and the toilets were public. They live alone, but Jiang Xiaolian and his wife naturally live in the same house, which has no effect on Wang Nan, except that there is one more person on the table when eating.

That person treated Wang Nan neither good nor bad, and Wang Nan didn't feel anything towards him, so after more than a year of living in peace, his mother became pregnant again and gave birth to a half-brother for him.

For the arrival of this little boy, his stepfather is naturally very happy. A son in his 40s is really a lifeline. Jiang Xiaolian is also very happy, and puts all her body and mind into this son. body.

Of course, it’s not that she doesn’t like her eldest son and doesn’t love this child who has been dependent on each other for more than ten years. It’s just that Wang Nan is already eleven or twelve years old and can go to school by herself, cook noodles for herself, and wash her own clothes. Now, I can already take care of myself.But this newborn child was so petite and weak, it was time for her to take care of him.Moreover, the arrival of this child also marks that she really has a brand new family, and she has a deeper relationship with her current husband Zhang Quan.

In this case, Wang Nan was naturally ignored.

He passed his first graduation exam just like that, and then he was assigned to an ordinary middle school that was neither good nor bad, and after that, he changed.

Of course, this is people's impression. People used to think of Wang Nan, except for his pity, is his silence.This clean and handsome boy has never talked too much. Although his academic performance is not particularly good, he can still be ranked in the top of the class without causing trouble.

But after coming to Eighteenth Middle School, he seemed to be having fun all of a sudden. He talked more than before, and made a bunch of bastard friends. He was obviously a student in the key class, but he talked with those students who were less advanced every day. Mixing together, they also steal other people's wine bottles and pull out other people's valve cores.

At the beginning of these changes, people also said that Wang Nan was a good boy, but was ruined by his parents. After that, they said that Wang Nan did not learn well, and he would definitely be sent to prison in the future.And the teachers treated Wang Nan from the pity of saving Wang Nan at the beginning to the helplessness at the end.

When Wang Nan first entered the Eighteenth Middle School, he was still in the top ten of the first key class. Therefore, when he changed, he was called by the teachers of various subjects to talk, and he also invited parents twice, but when he was in the second year of junior high school , except for the algebra teacher Yun Yong who was just assigned to the school, no teacher is willing to pay attention to this child anymore.

"Wang Nan, you are actually very smart. Take a look at your paper. Although your score is not high, the points you lose are all based on the basics. Your thinking in solving the questions is still very spiritual!" Yun Yong looked at The student in front of him spoke earnestly. As a newly assigned teacher, he was enthusiastic and ambitious, "Although it is already the second semester of the second year of junior high school, as long as you work hard, you will definitely catch up. You may even pass the exam. One high!"

Wang Nan lowered his head and said nothing, Yun Yong sighed angrily, "Did you hear what I said?"

"Ah, I heard the teacher, thank you for your hard work, I will work hard."

Although he spoke sincerely, Yunyong couldn't hear the perfunctory in it. He really wanted to beat him up. He raised his hand, and finally just slapped the paper on the table over there: "Think about it carefully." Well, life is your own, whether you want to be famous or go to prison, it is your choice!"

Wang Nan took the paper, folded it, put it in his schoolbag, and stood there. Yun Yong glanced at him and waved his hand: "Let's go."

Wang Nan bowed and walked out. After he left, the Chinese teacher who was clearing the table over there said: "Xiaoyun, I don't know how many teachers have told him what you said, but if it is of any use, he will now It won't be like this anymore."

"I just think it's a pity for him."

"It's a pity, why not, but there are too many people who are pity, and we are not his parents, at most we can only talk about him, not to mention, his parents don't care."

"I know his mother, his father... what's going on?"

"Who knows, maybe he got married early and had a child, maybe he was forgotten a long time ago, anyway, I never saw his father. And mother, you also know that a street sweeper has no knowledge and culture, and his heart is not on him , I came to school twice, and I still hugged my youngest son, do you think you will take care of him?"

"...he is really pitiful."

"Poor people have their own hateful things. There are many divorced parents, and some parents are not there, but people can also work hard to improve themselves."

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While the teachers in the office were discussing like this, Wang Nan was rubbing his stomach and thinking, where can I get some more money, he didn't eat breakfast, and he couldn't stand it for a while, of course, as long as he went home, he would always There is something to eat, but he really doesn't want to go back.

When he was thinking this way, he came to the stairs, and just as he turned a corner, he saw Fang Wenzhuo. Fang Wenzhuo was lowering his head, with his foot against the wall. He didn't know where he was thinking. At first, when he saw it was him, he immediately ran up and wrapped his arms around his neck: "Old Yun didn't say anything about you, did he?"

He smiled softly: "What else can you say about me?"

"Forget it, don't think about it, go play with me in the afternoon."

"playing what?"

"Billiards! Haven't played it before."

"I do not know."

"Don't you still know how to learn? Then you didn't know how to play games before, but now, you are the number one expert in Street Fighter! Let's go, let's follow brother, you won't suffer."

Wang Nan nodded without much hesitation. He was not very interested in billiards, but he knew that he would follow Fang Wenzhuo and have something to eat.Many people believed that Fang Wenzhuo was responsible for half of Wang Nan's turning bad. Wang Nan learned how to play games with him and made a bunch of bad friends with him.

People don't know what Fang Wenzhuo's family does, but they only know that he is never short of money, and he is generous in spending. When a few friends play together, eat and play games, he always pays, and he is tall and strong. Fighting is also ruthless enough, so there is a circle of people around.

Wang Nan and him didn't have much contact with each other. Although Fang Wenzhuo was also in the key class, they were in the first class and the second class. Wang Nan was not very good at dealing with others. I didn't think about going to make up for it.

They officially met in the first year of junior high school. At that time, their algebra teacher was an old gentleman. It takes one or two hours to complete the homework before passing the test.

Although Wang Nan could not be said to be a good student in the past, he still did his homework and was never left behind. But that day because his younger brother was sick, he followed him to the hospital to accompany him, so the homework was not completed.Because he has no precedent in the past, it is easy for him to pass the test with other teachers, but the old gentleman is unselfish, no matter what his reasons are, he treats them equally.

Eighteenth Middle School had one main subject teacher in charge of two classes at that time, and Fang Wenzhuo's second class was also taught by this old gentleman, so Wang Nan and Fang Wenzhuo met that day.

Fang Wenzhuo is a frequent visitor to the office. When he saw that Wang Nan was a new face, he immediately became interested, and sneaked over to him: "Brother, I haven't seen him before."

"the first time."

"Welcome, welcome, everyone will be brothers from now on!"

As Fang Wenzhuo spoke, he stretched out his hand and opened his mouth to say something, the old gentleman over there glared at him: "What are you muttering about! You're not honest here, Fang Wenzhuo, pay attention!"

Fang Wenzhuo didn't speak any more, just stuck out his tongue, and then gestured to Wang Nan. Wang Nan had never seen him like this before, so he smiled immediately.At this time, Wang Nan just thought that Fang Wenzhuo was weird and interesting, and he was different from the people he knew in the past. He didn't think that Fang Wenzhuo was serious when he said that he was a brother. When they came out of the office that day, Fang Wenzhuo invited him to dinner. After that, I often play with him. For others, he is degenerate, but for himself, he has never been happy.