I don’t know how long I watched, but Li Ergou’s voice came from the side.
"Brother Zhang, you are a person with a story, right?"
I don't know when Li Ergou came to Zhang Yifeng.
Zhang Yifeng said calmly: "No matter who you are, they have a story, and so do you."
"Brother Zhang, can you tell me your story?"
"My story? It's too long to tell. It's rare for you to take the initiative to talk to me, so how about you tell me your story?"
Li Ergou was stunned: "Talk about my story? What's so interesting about my story?"
Zhang Yifeng said calmly: "Everyone's life is a story book with ups and downs. You are the protagonist in your own story. You are the same, tell me your story."
Zhang Yifeng is in a very uneasy mood now. He just wants to listen, not talk.
"My story...I am the protagonist?" Li Ergou's eyes flashed, and then he said, "My name is Li Ergou. I was born in Lijia Village. My mother has been sick all year round, and my father is not only an alcoholic but also a gambler.
"
Li Ergou paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and then continued: "When I was a child, no one liked to play with me, and my father didn't care about the life or death of my mother and I. When I was five years old, my mother was seriously ill.
The family couldn't get rid of the problem. In order to take care of my mother, I stole other people's things for the first time and was beaten for the first time. After that, every time I went out to steal something, I had to take Dahei with me. Sometimes when I was discovered, Dahei would
They helped me block the villagers and let me leave. However, a year later, my mother still fell seriously ill and died."
"After my mother died, everyone thought I would change my bad habit of stealing because I stole things for my mother. But I let the villagers down and I continued to steal."
"Why?" Zhang Yifeng asked calmly.
"Why?" Li Ergou smiled, "It's very simple. Because my father is not dead yet! As long as he is not dead, no matter how he treats me, no matter how sorry he is to my mother, he will still give birth to me, raise me and give me flesh and blood."
Relative! So, I couldn’t let him starve to death. So he was being collected by the villagers for debts. I asked Dahei to scare those debt collectors. So, he had no food and no money, so I went to steal and rob, even if
I was beaten with scars, and I will repay the debt he owes and the debt I owe!"
His voice was decisive, without any hesitation.
Zhang Yifeng took a deep look at Li Ergou and found that the old village chief was right. Li Ergou had a cold appearance but a warm heart.
"What happened next?"
"Maybe it was retribution. The year after my mother passed away, my father also died of excessive drinking. Before he died, I don't know if it was because of his conscience, but he told me that the reason why he was so bad to my mother and me was
The reason why I am addicted to drinking and gambling is because I am not his flesh and blood... I was born to someone else. Before my mother and father got together, I dated someone else and got pregnant unexpectedly. He knew it, but he didn't say it.
, he said that he was deeply in love with his mother, but he didn’t know how to treat a woman who, although he loved her, would not tell the truth to him. He said that even if his mother told him that I was not his, he would agree to put her
I was born and raised to be an adult, but my mother didn’t. Instead, she always thought that my father didn’t know anything.”
As Li Ergou talked, tears fell down in big drops. Only he himself knew how tragic his life was.
"Woof!"
Seeing Li Ergou crying, Dahei stood up and yelled at him, then stretched out his paw to touch his face, as if wiping his tears.
"Dahei, I'm fine." Li Ergou touched Dahei's head and continued, "Dad does love his mother, and it is precisely because of love that he has expectations and therefore hatred in his heart. He expects
When my mother gave birth to me, she told him the truth. He felt that the reason why she did not tell him the truth was because she was worried that he would not want me and would abort me. However, after she gave birth to me, she did not tell him the truth either.
He was very angry, but he couldn't bear to take action against the woman he loved, so he could only hide this sorrow in his heart, but he still foolishly hoped that his mother would tell him: In fact, my son is not your flesh and blood, but the fate between me and that person.
, but I gave birth to it because I couldn’t bear to abort it. My husband, I hope you can forgive me.”
"But as time went by and I got older, my father began to give up. He knew that his mother had no intention of telling him all this. So, he started gambling and became addicted to alcohol, because only drinking and gambling could make him forget.
These troubles! So, he ignored my mother and me."
Zhang Yifeng didn't speak, just listened quietly.
"Brother Zhang Yifeng, do you know? I have hated my father since I was a child, because since I was sensible, my mother has always done the housework, and my father only knows how to drink and gamble. I have always thought that my father is the most irresponsible person in the world. But
Now, I finally understand why my mother told me not to hate my father before she died and to take good care of him. Maybe my mother knew that she had hurt my father."
Zhang Yifeng sighed, everyone has their own story and world. If you are not in other people's world, it is really difficult to distinguish right from wrong.
"Er Gouzi, speaking of it, you are the one who has been hurt the most. Both your mother and your father have hurt you. You have resisted all the things they did not dare to bear. Er Gouzi, you still hold grudges now.
Your parents?"
Li Ergou nodded: "Hate, why don't you hate, they ruined my childhood and my life. But, what can I do except hate. Even if I hate again, they are still my parents, and they will be my parents forever."
I raised them and they didn't die young. Besides, they are not bad people. But since my father died, I gave up my original name and called myself Ergouzi, because I was like a stray wild dog. No one loved me."
"Woof!" Dahei suddenly barked.
Li Ergou looked at it and smiled: "I'm sorry, I made a mistake. Even if I don't have my parents, I still have you by my side. You are my relative."
Dahei nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his tongue and licked Li Ergou's face.
"So, is this why you want to leave Lijiacun?" Zhang Yifeng spoke again.
"Yes. In the whole village, I, Li Ergou, am just a beggar, a person with a bad past. I am a thief, the son of a drunkard and a gambler. Here, I can only live alone with Dahei.
Alive. But once we go out, I can have a new starting point, a new beginning. I can go to another village. In the new village, everything I have is a blank sheet of paper. No one knows my past.
No one despises my birth. It is enough that I can live happily with everyone and not be excluded. In this way, I can know that I really exist and that I can be recognized by everyone."
Li Ergou's eyes were shining with light, which was his longing for the future.