Reborn to Strive

At 2022:3 pm on March 14, [-], the local station of J City.

The hostess, in her early thirties, was wearing a suit and was broadcasting the news: "Mr. Shi Zhen, a well-known entrepreneur in this city, died in the hospital at five o'clock in the morning on the 12th at the age of 46."

The host said some information about Shi Zhen, and said: "In the past 20 years, Mr. Shi has donated 7000 million yuan to charitable organizations. According to Mr. Shi's will, after his death, all assets under his name will be donated. To charity..."

The TV screen became the scene of the memorial service.

Shi Zhen is a big taxpayer in J City, but the memorial service was arranged very simply, which was in line with his long-standing habits of thrift and thrift.

But at the moment, this simple memorial service is packed.

These people are old and young, men and women, rich and poor, and all of them are sad.

They were more or less helped by Shi Zhen.

Shi Zhen has no son or daughter. Apart from making money in his life, he has been doing charity. It seems that making money is also for charity. How can such a person not be respected?

At five o'clock in the morning on March 1994, 3, under the newly built Wenhua Bridge in J City.

Wenhua Bridge spans a large river in the suburbs of J City.

In the past few years, City J has been undergoing heavy construction. The riverside of this river has been built with stone slope protection, and a spacious bridge has also been built on the river, allowing four cars to drive side by side. There is also a sidewalk on each side.

The bridge is very big, and the bridge hole under the bridge is naturally not small.

Since the bridge was built, the children of the surrounding farmers love to play on and off the bridge, and there are also beggars who set up sheds under the bridge and live there.

Shi Zhen woke up from the cold.

City J is located in the Yangtze River Delta, the summer is long and the winter is short, but March is still a bit cold, even if Shi Zhen is wearing a big padded jacket and wrapping a few snakeskin bags around his body, it still can't stop the chill coming from all directions .

After all, the place where he lives is not a warm house, but a bridge hole.

After waking up, he looked around, wrapped the snakeskin bag tightly around his body, got up and sat down against the stone beside him, motionless.

Shi Zhen is no stranger to this place.

That year, he left the small mountain village where he lived with his cousin Shi Xinghuo. He walked for half a day on the mountain road, then took a half day on a tractor, and then took a bus for another day. Finally, he came to J City. Not much left.

He was reluctant to spend money to live in a hotel, and he didn't think that the place to sleep at night had to be a house, so he lived under a bridge in the suburbs of J City, which was newly built and surrounded by farmland.

He and Shi Xinghuo lived in the bridge hole for almost a month, and finally found a job, so they changed to live in the construction site.

Shi Zhen was also born in the Yangtze River Delta.

In this province of Z, since ancient times, there are seven parts of mountains, one part of water and two parts of fields. There are rich coastal areas and small villages in the mountains.

At the time of his death, the province of Z was already well-developed, and his hometown was also developed into a good place for tourism and vacation. People in the village came out to work, and those who opened farmhouses opened farmhouses. Mountain villages are still poor.

The road has not yet been repaired, and it is inconvenient for people in his area to come out, and everyone does not like to go out. Year after year, they grow just enough food to live on.

The only source of income for the villagers throughout the year is to sell shiitake mushrooms—every family grows shiitake mushrooms using the old method handed down from their ancestors, and after the dried shiitake mushrooms are dried, they are picked out on a load and exchanged for money.

For a long time, Shi Zhen thought that he would spend his whole life farming in the mountains. He was in good health, worked neatly, and was good at growing shiitake mushrooms. He would definitely save money. When he saved enough money, he could marry a wife , and then have a child to grow mushrooms like him.

But in the 90s, the changes in the outside world still affected their village more or less.

He was the first in the village to come out to work.

Last year, an intern teacher in his early twenties came to their place. The intern teacher was from J City. After coming to them, he was shocked by their poverty.

The teacher taught in their elementary school for more than a month, and after eating pickles mixed with shiitake mushrooms for more than a month, he suddenly developed appendicitis.

He happened to be looking for his younger sister, who was in sixth grade, on business. When he saw it, he carried him out of the mountain overnight and sent him to the county hospital for surgery. After that, the teacher always talked to him and advised him to go out to work.

He is not a person who is content with the status quo. When he was young, he had an ambition that could not fit in his thin body, and at that time, people in the nearby villages had already gone out to work... He immediately decided to go out.

But he had no money at the time, so he planted shiitake mushrooms for a year to save money, and only after the Chinese New Year passed this year did he bring his cousin Shi Xinghuo out.

Coincidentally, he is also full this year.

He and Shi Xinghuo came to J City and saw a world outside that shocked them.

There are five or six-storey small buildings everywhere, and occasionally taller buildings can be seen here. There are many cars here, and the people here are all well-dressed.

The fire in his heart was ignited, and strong emotions rushed out from the bottom of his heart—he wanted to make money, he wanted to buy a car, and he wanted to live the life of a rich man!

For a long time after that, he has been moving forward bravely towards his goal.

Shi Zhen let out a long breath, and the hot air condensed into a cloud of white mist in the morning light.

And at this moment, there was a rustling sound from the side.

Under the bridge hole, not only he and Shi Xinghuo live, but also an old lady. The old lady is a beggar. She built a small nest under the bridge with bamboo, wood, plastic sheeting, etc., and carried a cloth bag during the day. Beg nearby and come back to sleep at night.

The old lady was a little afraid of him and Shi Xinghuo. Although he and Shi Xinghuo were poor, they thought they were different from this kind of old beggar woman. In addition, they didn't understand the language well. In their previous life, they lived together under the bridge for almost a month. Did not say a few words.

Yes, last life.

Everything in front of him is very real. If there is no accident, he should have returned to his time 28 years ago.

Shi Zhen took a deep breath.

The cool air sucked into his lungs, and he raised the corner of his mouth to smile, but he didn't.

The old lady next door used broken bricks to build a small stove outside her den, and carefully plastered it with mud. She was cooking porridge on this stove with shaking hands.

Shi Zhen looked at her for a while, stood up, and began to clean up the broken bricks and cement blocks and other construction waste under the bridge hole.

There are many things like this here, Shi Zhen didn't take care of them before, but today he removed them all and piled them in the corner.

He also picked up some usable broken bricks and stacked them neatly next to the old lady's shack.

His movement was not small, Shi Xinghuo woke up after him, he got up in a daze, and asked: "Ah Zhen, what are you doing?"

Shi Zhen said: "Clean up here, and you come to help."

Shi Xinghuo said: "Oh!"

After Shi Xinghuo finished answering, he started to work with Shi Zhen, asking a few words from time to time: "Do you want this?"

"Where is this?"

When Shi Zhen answered him, he shouted loudly: "Oh!"

Shi Xinghuo is four years older than Shi Zhen. When his mother was pregnant with him, he got what they called icteric hepatitis, that is, hepatitis A. He took a lot of medicine. I don’t know if it’s because of this. Shi Xinghuo was born a bit stupid. After six years of elementary school, he can only recognize a dozen or so characters, and he has to rely on his fingers for addition and subtraction within ten.

Therefore, although he is Shi Zhen's cousin, he listens to Shi Zhen in everything.

The reason why Shi Zhen brought him out this time was because Shi Xinghuo was obedient and secondly because Shi Xinghuo's parents begged him.

Shi Xinghuo was known for being stupid in his village, and even in several nearby villages. Who didn't know that when he was studying, he could only draw circles in the exam?

Their family didn't have much money, and it was difficult for Shi Xinghuo to marry a wife, so his parents wanted him to go outside and try his best. If he could make a thousand or eight hundred dollars, he might be able to say that he was a somewhat crippled wife. up.

In 94, the monthly salary of ordinary workers in J City was about two to three hundred, but in the isolated mountain village, it was very difficult for everyone to earn ten yuan, and 1000 yuan was enough to pay the bride price.

Shi Zhen has saved some money one after another over the years. This time he came out with a total of more than a hundred yuan. Shi Xinghuo's parents also gave him 20 yuan. After deducting the fare and other expenses, he still has 89 yuan on hand. Yuan five jiao.

The money was not small at this time. They lived in the bridge hole before, mainly because he was afraid that he would be hungry if he couldn't find a job, so he didn't dare to spend it recklessly.

He is always careful.

Shi Zhen is the best fighter among the younger generation in their village, and he has a great reputation. Although Shi Xinghuo is stupid, he has a strong body. The two of them didn't clean up the bridge hole before, so they didn't think about it. In an hour, the place was cleaned up.

The bridge hole, which was originally a mess, looks much better now.

After tidying up, Shi Zhen started to tidy up his belongings again.

All his and Shi Xinghuo's belongings didn't add up much, so he put their clothes and shoes into a snakeskin bag, took out a bag of fried rice noodles and a pickled rabbit leg, and handed them to the old man who had already cooked porridge and was eating. Mrs.

When he came out, he brought a lot of food. The pickled rabbit legs were marinated by himself, and the fried rice noodles were made by grinding the rice in a mill.

These are what he and Shi Xinghuo ate for the past few days.

The old lady was startled and accepted it.

Shi Zhen picked up the snakeskin bag and said to Shi Xinghuo, "Let's go!"

"Oh!" Shi Xinghuo responded loudly.

Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo left, and the gray-haired old lady with a stooped back saw that the stones and bricks under the bridge that used to trip her were gone, so she swallowed.

Shi Zhen didn't have a watch, so he didn't know the exact time, but the sun had already come out, and it was probably past seven o'clock.

Shi Xinghuo felt a little wronged: "Ah Zhen, I want to eat rabbit legs."

Shi Zhen said: "There is nothing delicious about rabbit legs, I'll buy you meat buns."

Shi Xinghuo was immediately happy: "Oh!"

Shi Zhen took Shi Xinghuo to the direction of the bus station.

Next to the newly built station in City J, there is also a newly built hospital. Although the surrounding area is empty, it has gained popularity and opened several breakfast shops.

Small steamed buns cost one yuan and five one cage, big meat buns cost one yuan and three. Shi Zhen looked at them and bought big meat buns for four yuan.

The meat buns are about the size of an adult's fist, and most people will be full after eating three. For girls with small appetites, one is enough.

But Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo are both good eaters, if they let go, Shi Zhen can eat five or six meals in one meal.

Shi Zhen gave Shi Xinghuo six meat buns, and Shi Xinghuo started to chew on them, saying, "The buns here are really delicious, I've never eaten such delicious buns before."

Their village doesn't grow wheat, and everyone doesn't cook pasta. Shi Xinghuo used to go to the nearby town with his parents to go to the market to eat steamed stuffed buns a few times, so it's no wonder that now he is happy to eat an ordinary meaty stuffed bun.

Shi Zhen was very hungry. He ate his six meat buns in one go, took Shi Xinghuo into the bus station, went to the window and asked in the dialect of J City, "Do you have a ticket to Changxi City?"

"Yes, there is one every half an hour, and it will leave at eight o'clock."

"I'll buy two tickets." Shi Zhen took out ten yuan and bought two tickets.

City J is a prefecture-level city, while Changxi City is a county-level city below City J.

In the Yangtze River Delta, there are many top [-] counties, and Changxi City is one of them. In fact, Shi Zhen mainly developed in Changxi City in his previous life.

What's more, he started his fortune from a town below Changxi City.

That town is called Anshan Town, where his favorite people live.