Shengsheng

Many years later, when Liang Sheng looked back and thought about it, he would feel that this period of time could be called the most isolated and helpless moment in his life.

During those three days, he was trapped in an isolation ward of less than fifteen square meters in Zhongshan Hospital, unable to go anywhere.

Every morning when I wake up, the smell of disinfectant is all over my nose.

At that time, there were nearly six undiagnosed 'pneumonia fever' patients living in the ward opposite him.

However, considering the problem of cross-infection, the ward and the ward where the infectious department is temporarily set up here are separated by reinforced vacuum glass, and the curtains are tightly drawn, so that no sunlight outside can be seen.

For this reason, he suffers from retching every day, and his body and soul are also undergoing double blows and tests from the outside world.

At the same time, the 'SARS' outside has completely broken out.

The transportation that was originally under negotiation at the factory was also put on hold because the national disease control department temporarily restricted the entry and exit of personnel.

Hong Kong and many places in Hanoi, Vietnam have also been affected one after another, and the number of confirmed deaths reported in various places is also increasing.

Therefore, the World Health Organization has also officially included the disease "SARS" in the global health warning, and began to organize special personnel to come to China to cooperate with the investigation.

These things seem to have something to do with ordinary people like us.

But in the final analysis, it still appears more in various social news and broadcasts, and has a sense of distance from the lives of ordinary people.

However, under such a premise, Liang Sheng has invested a lot of time and money in China's local "SHOPPINGMALL" not only has not been rewarded, but this treasure he has bet heavily on is also facing the risk of breaking the capital chain like jumping off a cliff.

His career was just getting started at that time, and it wasn't long before everything was on the right track.

Once the capital chain is broken, the fresh food supply channel is temporarily locked due to SARS, and the financial turmoil caused by the national epidemic will make it difficult to turn back funds in the stock market, which will destroy all his efforts so far.

Am I really going to...have nothing all over again this time?Turned back into a pauper?A pauper with nothing?

——During those days, Liang Sheng, who was trapped in the isolation ward in Guangzhou, always thought so in his heart.

Because although he was lucky enough to live his life again, in the final analysis, he was just an ordinary person.

As the old saying goes, good luck does not always favor a person.

Physical illnesses, career failures, the setbacks, tribulations, and ups and downs that everyone will have in life, Liang Sheng has tasted enough this time.

He even began to feel that God is actually very fair. While giving him a chance of rebirth that is difficult for ordinary people to come across, he also put the same terrible "SARS" in front of him.

But fate, does fate really want to treat him like this this time?

And in the process of thinking wildly due to the torture of the disease, his low-grade fever symptoms started again.

The lungs began to swell in a small area, and the number of white blood cells shown in the physical examination was still decreasing.

In the inpatient department, although the doctors and nurses who were in charge of taking care of him didn't say anything to him clearly, they could tell from their eyes that the situation was already very bad.

But Liang Sheng, who was born with a tough life and was born with a hard bone, didn't seem to want to give up easily.

Therefore, although his condition has not been well controlled at present, he still keeps in touch with the people in the Guangzhou branch factory outside through the only one-step telephone installed in the ward, and on the other hand, he gritted his teeth and took medicine every day. .

It is probably the first time in this life that doctors and nurses have seen a patient who is so 'fearful of death' and wants to live so much. In addition to active treatment, they will often tell him some medical-related texts.

"'SARS' is an occasional upper respiratory infectious disease. Its early onset symptoms are very similar to the well-known 'viral pneumonia', so it is ignored by people, because chest X-rays and blood phases alone often cannot see the symptoms. Find out the difference, but the lung infection caused by the former is extremely fast, the blood phase is lower than 4000, and the diagnosis can be confirmed if antibodies can be found in the blood..."

"..."

"However, a common mistake that needs to be corrected is that 'SARS' is not a terminal illness. Even after being infected, it is possible to be treated as long as you seek medical treatment in a timely and correct manner. This is entirely based on the patient's cooperation in the treatment process. degree and the degree of development of existing medicine."

"..."

"The most important thing is that we need to find out the contact history of 'SARS' patients from the existing confirmed cases, so that we can judge the area where the disease is currently spreading and the harm caused, so as to cut off the epidemic as quickly as possible. The speed at which the disease spreads minimizes losses..."

What these doctors heard intermittently also imperceptibly explained the seriousness of the current situation itself.

Under such circumstances, Liang Sheng had no choice but to retreat.

In addition to constantly insisting on waiting for the possibility of survival, it is not even certain whether he will eventually escape from this nationwide disease storm.

And in this storm after storm, the only thing that makes him feel a little lucky is that in the world he is living in at the moment, even if he can't make it through this time, there is another person's name, also It's called... Liang Sheng.

【"March 2003, 3."】

【"I don't know if I can survive tomorrow morning."】

["But I want to write something now, write it down, in case something happens to me later, at least... At least let Shengsheng know where I am going, and know that he was not abandoned irresponsibly like our parents were once .”]

【"Shengsheng... you, you may not know, brother, brother's body seems... maybe he is sick."】

【"There used to be a saying that good people don't live long, and evils last for thousands of years. What this old man said...is really right sometimes."】

【"Brother used to be a troublemaker, he was carefree all the time. In this life, he was determined to be a good person, but...but he always hit a wall, but even so...Brother really doesn't regret it...Be a good person, really It feels pretty good, so... you grow up, and you have to be a good person."]

【"Shengsheng...Brother had a dream last night... dreamed that you finally grew up..."】

【"The kind we grew up together, not the kind that leaves you alone, not the kind that leaves you alone in the world... No one wants us anymore, brother wants you, no matter where I go, I will find you. "]

This is a passage written by Liang Sheng himself in the hospital book in the ward later.

He has a low level of education, so there is no falsehood in every word and sentence, and they are all from the heart, which is the most true and true truth.

In addition, the palms of his hands are full of calluses accumulated from the hard days of delivering goods. In order to be able to hold the pen, and he has a low fever and has no way to contact outsiders, he has to lie on the small table with great difficulty. Write these things one stroke at a time.

Swish - Swish - Swish.

Every time he wrote a word, Liang Sheng twisted his bones that had been tortured and destroyed by the germs, and Liang Sheng, who looked pale as if he had lost his vitality, felt that he was about to lose his temper.

But even so, he still persisted, persisted.

Just wait for the disaster to pass.

Just waiting for the chance to let him survive in the cracks.

Even at that time, he himself didn't know whether he could wait or not.

"Shengsheng... Please wait for me... Be sure to wait for me..."

……

Regarding the home in City Y, that is, with Xiao Liangsheng and Jin Ping - these two days have been passed safely.

Although during the first few days of the SARS outbreak, many districts and counties around City Y were also affected.

But generally speaking, as a third- and fourth-tier city with a small population, City Y is somewhat different from the current dire situation in coastal metropolises with mobile ports and airports.

But small cities also have problems with small cities. Sometimes the information is blocked, and they will become more flustered in the face of such a catastrophe.

And these days, the prices of Banlangen and 84 disinfectant in various places are also skyrocketing again and again.

Many traders took this opportunity to drive up the prices on a large scale. Five times, ten times, and twenty times the high prices could not stop the ordinary people outside who were afraid of death from rushing to hoard these medicines.

There are people outside who talk about it in panic every day.

Whoever drinks which kind of blue root produced by which kind of new factory will work, and the germs will not dare to get on the body easily.

For this reason, Jin Ping, who was concerned about the safety of her family, even asked acquaintances to go to several districts and counties to buy a few boxes at a high price. Before the "high price tide" of Banlangen spread further, she quickly gave the Banlangen, which was worth [-] yuan at the time, to her old Cao. Sent it with friends and acquaintances.

Originally, in this situation, it was difficult for everyone to find a medicine.

Without knowing whether the specific drug will work or not, and everyone's fear of unknown infectious diseases, any ordinary person will inevitably be somewhat selfish.

But Jin Ping and his wife have been sincere and kind people for half their lives.

Even when the 'SARS' swept across the country and made people panic, this ordinary but simple couple also sincerely gave their all to treat the old neighbors and old neighbors.

During the process, Lao Pang's family, accountant Erhua's family, cashier's family, employees of several factories, and Grandma Lin's family all got the hard-won 'banlangen'.

The money for selling medicine is almost equivalent to the value of a 50-square-meter house in this era.

Therefore, the old neighbors are very grateful for the emotional relief at the time of crisis. Many families who could not sell Banlangen at all at that time and could only do it in a hurry couldn't help crying.

And under the premise of ensuring that everyone around has received the medicine, even if it is not clear whether this Radix Banlangen is useful or not, and how much preventive effect it can play, everyone is at least a little bit calmer.

It just so happened that on the morning of the 28th, both Lin Tong and Cao Maocai, who had no signs of fever for the time being, also received their first physical examination reports.

Although one of Lin Tong and Cao Maocai went to the next city during the Spring Festival, the other encountered a disease ambulance from Zhongshan Hospital on the way.

However, after a week of temporary isolation, both body temperature and all aspects of the body index tended to be stable.

This is undoubtedly a great thing, seeing Grandma Lin's family and Jin Ping and Xiao Liangsheng's family, who had been nervous for several days, heaved a sigh of relief because of this.

But at this moment, on the other side, another bad news suddenly came.

It turned out that Lin Tong's mother, who had already divorced his father and remarried, had symptoms of the disease immediately because she was engaged in a nurse-related job, and was quarantined.

It is said that during the Spring Festival, she came into contact with a rural pregnant woman who was infected with SARS, and developed coughing and other problems eight hours after she personally gave her the infusion.

In the following days, she worked as an emergency room nurse, an angel in white in an ordinary position.

The receiving hospital arranged continuous overtime work, and even couldn't go home to celebrate the New Year with relatives, which delayed the best time for examination and diagnosis.

Afterwards, she seemed to have noticed the abnormality in her body, so she sent her son back to City Y immediately. It was also after that that SARS broke out, and more cases were diagnosed one after another.

On the 1st, Lin Tong's mother, whose life and death were unknown in a neighboring city, heard that she had been quarantined.

Her current husband didn't know where he heard that they might have medicine right now, and he specially carried fruits, nutritional supplements and a bag of money to turn the cart and knelt at the door of Lin's house, crying and begging.

But Banlangen, after all, is just a preventive effect.

Even the doctor said that this could not save people's lives at all, but this man refused to leave like crazy, and only said that even if his wife had a chance of surviving, he would give their family a cow and a horse for the rest of their lives.

Lin Tong's family had been arguing for many days over this, and his paralyzed father and grandma didn't know what to do when they were at home.

It is true that many years ago, Lin Tong's mother left her husband and son and went to the next city to remarry.

But at this juncture, even if she is as mean and crazy as Grandma Lin, it is the first time she can't say a curse word when she learns that the 'broken shoe' she has cursed for half her life is about to die.

Because everyone knows that such a thing as death and life really only come once in a lifetime.

Everyone is born with relatives and children. In the face of real death, even a lunatic cannot be ruthless.

"...Shengsheng, you may think it's bad for me to think so. I think I'm bad, but when my mother threw me away, I really hated her, hated her as a bad woman..."

"..."

"I thought about the day when she was old and no one would take care of her, and my stepfather would not want her in the future. She turned into an old lady who was no one wanted and came back crying and begging my son to support her. I also thought about whether I would Give her money, and let her live on the street like our family has such a poor day..."

"..."

"I really... hated her, and blamed her, and I still hate and blame her. I think she is not a good mother, but I also really... don't want her to die... not because I have anything to her I don't want to part with it, because she saved someone, and I can't bear to let her die as a good person, just like my grandma said, why should a good person die, and a scourge should die, even if she is a bad mother, She's a bad woman, as long as she's a good person, she doesn't deserve to die..."

This was the first time that Xiao Liangsheng learned from Lin Tong what he thought of his mother.

But this is obviously a poor child's unreserved hatred for the biological mother who abandoned him, but at this moment, it sounds sad and helpless for some reason.

And the next day, without Xiao Liangsheng's knowledge, Grandma Lin's family actually entrusted someone to give the woman's current husband the ten bags of banlangen and 300 yuan that had been hard-won earlier, and let him That's it.

In the end, Grandma Lin and Papa Lin didn't ask the man for the medicine money.

And the 300 yuan, according to the daily life of Grandma Lin's family, should have been saved by the old lady and the paralyzed father Lin, who worked frugally for two months in the cannery.

But this time, Grandma Lin, who has been crazy all her life, was very straightforward and silent.

It was the first time that she spoke like a normal old lady to the empty yard and the old stove at the door.

"The daughter of any good family should not spend her whole life guarding a paralyzed... let's go... let's all go, my son, my grandson, our old Lin family will not owe anyone anymore..."

These words seemed light and fluffy, and wiped out all the entanglements of love and hate in the past in the Lin family.

Grandma Lin, who had scolded her daughter-in-law for half her life, never scolded her since that day. Instead, she followed other people around the old alley and waited quietly for the disease to pass.

In the next few days, the news of 'SARS' concentratedly appearing on TV became more and more intensive.

All over the country, no one knows about 'SARS'. Even the babbling children of this period may have left in their hearts the most painful memory of this disease wave and this era.

Xiao Liangsheng's school and many outside units are still closed.

Teacher Wan, the teacher in charge, called several times, and also paid special attention to his self-study at home during the winter vacation.

Knowing that he didn't miss any homework these days, Teacher Wan's tone was obviously very relieved.

I also told him on the phone that he should not be nervous, that school will start when SARS passes, and let everyone go back to the classroom to study well.

Regarding this, although Xiao Liangsheng didn't say anything clearly.

But in fact, in his heart, he has always hoped that everything in front of him will return to normal soon, school, outside, including the person he has been thinking about in his heart, can go home early.

However, the only thing that made him a little worried was that.

He hasn't called his brother since three days ago.

In the past, even though his brother was busy sometimes and couldn't answer, he would make up a phone call to him afterwards with a smile on his face, and then coax him well.

But this time, it was completely impossible to get through.

Xiao Liangsheng didn't want to trouble others at this juncture when everyone was in a hurry. In the current environment of the outbreak of the disease, all highways leading to other provinces have temporarily stopped running, and it is extremely dangerous to go to the provincial capital to find someone.

But he was really worried about his brother, and also nervous about whether he was doing well outside.

And coincidentally, that night, he also had a very strange dream.

In the dream, Xiao Liangsheng dreamed about something that happened 15 years later.

He dreamed of a person, and in the dream, there was a person who looked exactly like him, a failure in life, lying in a pool of blood beaten by several people with a grotesque smile.

He looked at that person so desperate, so painful.

Then I lived like a trapped animal in this terrible world, and finally died. I don’t know why, and suddenly cried uncomfortably.

[Yo, isn't this Brother Liang?Still testify in court?Why bother?That little bitch is nothing more than a pair of rotten shoes... Are you going to be a hero to save the beauty? 】

【Heh, I just like to meddle in my own business, can you bastards manage it...】

[Say it again, grandson! 】

It was this dream that made the ignorant Xiao Liangsheng feel uneasy when he woke up the next morning.

So after thinking about it, he was still a child the next day, so he boldly used his landline at home to make a cautious call to the G Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention according to the impression he remembered.

——The reason why Xiaoliangsheng knew the phone number of the provincial CDC.

In fact, it is also due to the fact that he has been paying attention to the national broadcast outside during this period of time.

From the beginning of the 'SARS' outbreak, he has been paying attention to the increase in the number of people in the CDC every morning. He heard the radio saying that citizens can give timely feedback on the surrounding situation through the hotline.

[Press 9 to 2 and then transfer to the manual station, Province G, downtown, Level [-] Infectious Diseases Department. 】

Through his own limited knowledge and experience as a child, he remembered that all the adults in the face of this disaster were unknown to remember the details, and tried his best to find Liang Sheng, who had been missing for half a month. whereabouts.

And when the hotline staff member on the other side answered the call in person, Xiao Liangsheng, who was only 14 years old this year, even though he was already a big child, still quietly started crying because of inner anxiety.

"Hello, hello? This is the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. What can I do?"

"Auntie, hello, I want... I want to check how many hospitals in the center of Province G have a second-level infectious disease room..."

"Ah, kid? May I ask why you asked this question?"

"...Because, I want to find my brother... I want to know where my brother is now..."

"Um, I can check it for you here, but do you remember your brother's name and ID number?"

"I, I remember..."

"..."

"He, his ID number is 320XXXXXXXXXXXX... His name is Liang Sheng, a new student..."

2003 3 Month 2 Day.

It was this life-saving call that woke up Liang Sheng, who had been in the isolation ward all night with pulmonary edema, and waited for dawn with his eyes open.

At that time, he had not fallen asleep for almost ten hours.

In the past two days, being locked up in the ward and unable to go anywhere, he began to miss home crazily, his relatives and friends who were still in his hometown.

But at this juncture, he knew that even if he called back, it would be of no real use.

In his previous life, he was born in City Y, and later he traveled all over the rivers and lakes in Province G. He didn't expect that he would return to this place after going around in this life, waiting for the torture of fate.

He didn't know how to tell Xiao Liangsheng himself and explain his current situation clearly, and he was even more afraid that death as a close relative would be too cruel for a child who hadn't grown up at this time.

So Liang Sheng simply ran away like the most irresponsible person in the world, and temporarily cut off all possible connections with City Y.

"Brother...Brother...Woooo..."

In his dreams for the past few days, he always dreamed of his own voice.

But when he woke up, he couldn't see anything in front of him.

At this moment, the lamp above his head, the pale wall, the intravenous drip and the ventilator next to him destroyed Liang Sheng's firm will to survive bit by bit.

He began to doubt himself whether it was possible for him to get out of this disease isolation ward.

He also began to seriously think about whether he would really die this time.

The virus in his body unscrupulously eroded his body, brain, and thoughts, making him weak and timid from a hard bone.

Liang Sheng began to be crazily afraid of death, but wondered if he would really die.

And under such circumstances, without warning, he suddenly saw a nurse with a big mask rushing in from the corridor.

At first, Liang Sheng thought she was here to change his dressings, but after the nurse who had been working in the infectious disease department came in, she was just in a strange mood. After wiping her eyes with red circles, she began to say to Liang Sheng ,

"Bed 23, come to the infection room to answer the phone, there is your number."

"……my phone?"

"Yes, your brother, and your family, Mr. Liang, your family called you from City Y."

"..."

Thinking of that moment later, Liang Sheng wondered if he was dreaming when the nurse told him that City Y called.

But when he was pushed by the nurse and passed the phone from the infection room, wearing protective clothing on the third floor and the third floor outside, and heard the voices of Brother Cao and Jin Ping scolding and sobbing uncontrollably, he on the other end Still woke up all of a sudden.

Because the other end of the phone is the voice from the family, and only the family will say such things to him at this time.

"...You, you, you are so confused...how can you be like your big brother! You don't call home about this kind of thing...Ah Sheng...if you didn't find the hospital's phone number, We contacted the hospital through Mr. Qu, Secretary Xiao Jiang and Assistant Mao, we really missed it... What are you trying to do..."

"..."

"Ah Sheng, let's not go into a dead end, just, we are really starting all over again this time, we are still young, we still have a family, we are exhausted, it is windy and rainy, our family is together, we If you can get through this difficult time, we believe in you..."

"..."

"Do you want to eat something... Can the ward deliver things now? We have already packed our things at home, and we have already agreed with the doctor over there. Change clothes, and bring enough food and drink. Tomorrow morning Just go over and accompany you to take care of your illness, Asheng, did you hear..."

Obviously, they are some simple words that are common in every household.

But it is no exaggeration to say that Liang Sheng had been strong for half his life, and his heart, which had never softened towards anyone, suddenly became sour.

He buried his head without saying a word, trembling, afraid that such a big man like himself would burst into embarrassing tears in front of his family.

But in the next second, when he heard the voice that was familiar to him and belonged to another him in the world, Liang Sheng still didn't hold back all of a sudden, and tears fell directly.

"elder brother……"

This is the sound of the sound.

Liang Sheng knew that he heard correctly, and it was impossible for him to hear wrong.

But at this moment, I am facing this person who is the most precious and cherished person in the world to me.

He was on the verge of speaking, but he couldn't say a decent word like a big brother, trembling for a long time, bent down like the weakest coward in the world, and slowly spit out these few words.

"Shengsheng, I... don't want to die... Brother, I really don't want to die..."

"...Brother, uh...Brother..."

"Sound... sound..."

"elder brother……"

It was this sentence that opened the emotional gate of fear and fear in the two people who had been separated for several days.

The two brothers wailed on the phone.

Xiaoliangsheng even heard the cries of himself and the other party clearly.

They were all crying very loudly.

It seems that these two orphans who have always depended on each other want to vent all the grievances, sadness, and sadness in this world at once.

And the souls and wills that are tightly bound together by the two seem to merge with each other again, and it is difficult to separate.

—Brother, death is really a terrible thing in this world.

I was terrified, terrified.

So, please don't die in the future, please, please don't die.

——Last time, it was you who traveled thousands of miles to save my life.

——This time, I will keep your life.

"...Brother...Please persevere, you will definitely survive, believe...I...Brother..."

"..."

"Because you told me...the two of us...are called Shengsheng...Xinsheng...have you forgotten?"

……

2003. 3, 3

Jin Ping and Cao Maocai rushed from City Y to Guangzhou Zhongshan Hospital with Xiao Liangsheng, determined to tide over the difficulties with Liang Sheng.

At the same time, with the release of the "Atypical Pneumonia Prevention and Control Technology Plan" issued by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the vigorous 'SARS' tide in the records of later generations also officially kicked off.

According to later medical records, this was the largest infectious disease outbreak in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In just a few months, according to non-authoritative statistics, nearly a hundred doctors and patients fell to the front line and never woke up again.

Red banners hung on the gates of the Capital Hospital, Guangzhou Hospital, and the Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan University, proclaiming the "medical spirit and fight against SARS" to the end.

But in fact, most of the lives infected on the front line did not wait for that moment.

People from all walks of life were too panicked, and they were too scared in their hearts. People who have experienced that year will say that.

Children can't go to school, workers can't go to work, the whole city is empty, there are no people in the shopping malls, and there are no people on the roads. No one knows how far the epidemic has spread.

Mature vinegar, disinfectant, thermometers and purple light lamps have become the must-haves for every family, and they are sold out by businessmen.

The person lying outside the CDC room had a high fever and disappeared within a moment.

The doctors and nurses were so tired that they could not sleep for several days and nights. Some of them said with a pale face that they would let me sleep for 5 minutes, and then they did not get up even after being shot outside the operating room.

Doctors and nurses dare not go home to face their relatives. Some really want to disinfect their whole body more than three times, and then see each other through the window of the disease control room with tears in their eyes.

Obviously the person is still alive, but it seems that he is experiencing a parting from life and death in advance.

No one thinks about making money when the country and the people are in crisis.

Everyone only thinks that more people can survive, overcome this seemingly insurmountable difficulty, and survive the disaster that weighs on the country.

Even an old man like Grandma Lin who has been ordinary all his life, a child like Xiao Liangsheng who is still waiting in Y City, has an infinite future.

If one more person survives, the relatives can feel at ease, the elders will be stable, and life will never lose hope.

Strange to say, in Chinese family culture and values, people never seem to be afraid of disaster and death.

Before countless natural disasters and man-made disasters in modern times, only the country and the people need it, and there are always those Chinese who are willing to make efforts for the happy life of more people who are willing to stand up.

It seems that there is a kind of fearlessness in the blood of the nation, which is both brave and sincere.

As if for the country, for the family, for the person, as long as the two words of love and righteousness are attached, death is no longer a terrible thing.

Since ancient times, heroes, regardless of gender, age or age.

Throw your head and sprinkle your blood, the rise and fall of the country is everyone's responsibility.

……

"On April 2003, 4, the World Health Organization officially announced that the causative agent of SARS was a new coronavirus and named it SARS virus."

"On April 2003, 4, Deng Mou, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, who was infected on the front line of fighting against SARS, died in the line of duty. Beijing confirmed the first batch of six designated hospitals for SARS."

“2003年5月21日，北京最后一名非典病例张某从北京地坛医院出院。截至5月23日，北京市747名密切接触者全部解除隔离，北京地区非典患者的救治工作已经结束。”

"On May 2003, 5, the Chinese government determined that the chain of SARS transmission was completely cut off in China."

……

This vigorous national disease disaster came to an end at the end of this year after sweeping the world for half a year.

In 2004, the top leader at that time, that is, the old leader Liang Sheng saw on TV when he went to the provincial capital for the first time to pursue his life dream, personally issued an approval document, affirming that the disease 'SARS' had already passed away. Local is completely cut off.

This year, 'SARS' not only affected all social classes, but also greatly restricted the economic development of China's local commercial trade and coastal transportation.

Fortunately, everything eventually stopped in time.

After a year and a half of depression, the historic moment of China's financial industry has finally arrived!

——04年8月25日早上8点20分

Longjiang skyrocketed, legendary businessman Qu Chao's auction house sold [-] million yuan, a legend of retail investors!Become the best retail investor in Binjiang who is truly admired by thousands of people!

"Congratulations! Secretary Xiaojiang! Brother Qu! Come, to celebrate the first 'SHOPPINGMALL' in China to be established in Z City next month, and also to celebrate the end of our high school entrance examination and being selected for the provincial team, let's raise our glasses to celebrate together okay haha?"

"Okay! Let's also celebrate the third anniversary of Boss Xia Liang surviving a catastrophe haha! Yes, and also, Boss Liang has bragged that sooner or later he will be richer than my boss. Are you convinced this time?"

"Convince! Convince! Brother Qu has been my idol in Liang Sheng all my life! I am No.1 on the road to making a fortune and pursuing my dreams!"

"Hurry up, everyone, stop talking! Eat quickly! Lao Cao, Da Sheng, Xiao Sheng, Xiao Jiang, and Boss Qu, sit down and eat together..."

It was still the familiar lazy tone, the old neighbors in the group of memories, and the small yard at No. 16 Shiliu Lane, Y City.

Time flies, and it has been three years since SARS officially ended.

Lin Tong and Liang Sheng have finished their high school entrance exams, and today everyone celebrates moving into a new house in their new house

Lin's father, Lin Tong's family, came to eat, and Liang Sheng invited Qu Chao and Jiang Qingquan, who were busy working in the provincial capital, to officially visit their new home.

Because it is New Year's Eve.

So during the day, everyone made dumplings together at home, and baked sweet potatoes and chestnuts in the stove. The chestnuts were mountain chestnuts sent by Jin Ping's hometown, which were very fragrant and sweet.

The first time Qu Chao saw Xiao Liangsheng, he generously gave Liang Sheng three boxes of five-star Moutai wine as a meeting gift, and asked Jiang Qingquan to deliver it directly to his door

Xiaoliangsheng can no longer be called Xiaoliangsheng now, he is a young man through and through.

Catch up with the fact that there are so many guests at home today, and his face has already shown the appearance of a young man. While helping to entertain guests at home, he has been working hard on his homework upstairs.

He didn't talk much, and he was a tall, thin boy.

A pair of eyes are also different from his long-term living environment, they look very clean.But in a blink of an eye, the child who looked like a stuffy gourd ran upstairs, so that others didn't see him speak much.

Because his brother Liang Sheng had just bragged about it to everyone downstairs several times, so everyone already knew about it.

Liang Sheng's grades in the senior high school entrance examination this year are very good.

Not only did he live up to the cultivation of his famous Zhejiang University teacher every Saturday for many years, this time he was also selected by the best Mathematical Olympiad team in the province, the gold medal coach Xue Feng's team with the No.1 result in Y City.

Putting this on ordinary children, it is undoubtedly the most exciting step in life through their own efforts. No wonder his brother is so happy.

After a long time of excitement and excitement, at night, after everyone had the New Year's Eve dinner, Liang Sheng also had a few drinks with Qu Chao, and then went out to drink and chat.

In the past three years, the business benefits of 'Maojin' have increased day by day.

What Liang Sheng promised back then to give Qu Chao half of the provincial capital had been fulfilled long ago.

They changed from the identities of investors and investees to partners in business cooperation, and Liang Sheng himself really broke through from an unknown vegetable market worker.

It happened to be the New Year's Eve tonight, and the two were sitting at the door chatting about next year's investment project.

On the TV of the neighbor next door, a TV talk show of the legendary female singer Teresa Teng was playing, interspersed with an old song of hers.

With fashionable curly hair and a long white dress, Teresa Teng's voice and smile are in front of people's eyes. The bright appearance of the legendary female singer lights up people's eyes like a lark, and her soft and sweet dimples faintly flicker on the TV.

Qu Chao couldn't help but be fascinated by it, and Liang Sheng was also amused when he saw this, and made fun of the other party.

"To be honest, Brother Qu, you also envy the kind of little days sung in this song."

"Well, envy."

"Hey, it's rare to see you being so honest."

It's rare to take the opportunity to hurt this big boss who has always been moody, and Liang Sheng also laughed.

"Liang Sheng, do you think that I was born so smoothly in my life? Do you know what happened to my leg? Also, how did I get the first pot of gold in my life?"

"...No, I don't know."

Liang Sheng was stunned when he was asked such a rhetorical question suddenly.

"Actually, I was born an abandoned baby."

"..."

"Liang Sheng, have you seen those abandoned babies who were abandoned by their parents on the side of the road and died? In the past seven years or so, there would always be such a fruit basket at the gate of the toll booth in various vegetable markets across the country from time to time. Floral cloth, but no one dares to pick up this kind of basket casually, because it usually contains a child who was abandoned not long after birth."

"..."

"Newborn babies are discarded casually, and most of them will die overnight. However, I was thrown into such a basket by my parents because of congenital disabilities in less than 20 days."

"..."

This story had a great impact on Liang Sheng's thinking.

He had imagined the story of Qu Chao's past a thousand times, ten thousand times, but he never thought that a person like him would be an abandoned baby, and finally walk on a path that most people can't imagine by himself.

So after holding back for a long time, Liang Sheng, who was born in a difficult life, didn't dare to say anything else to provoke others' sad things, but had a rare empathy and asked Qu Chao beside him,

"Then have you ever thought about... going to the original place to find your family?"

"... No, everyone has their own life. Some things have gone through so many years, and there is no need to bother them now. They should have long forgotten that there was such a disabled child."

"..."

"I haven't been back to my hometown for almost ten years. In the past two years, Jiang Qingquan has been helping me run back and forth. I built roads there and sponsored some students whose families couldn't afford to go to school, but I never went back. I Have you ever wondered what the woman who gave birth to me would look like, she should be beautiful, um, maybe just like Teresa Teng on TV.”

"Life and death are impermanent, so we all have to live well."

Qu Chao, who was leaning on crutches, answered so lightly, and it seemed that there was something wrong with him.