"Jiu'er, when you get to the city, you must listen to your mother and help her with more work. It's not easy for your mother to be alone outside these years."
Zhang Heng looked at his grandmother who was getting older and older, nodded vigorously, and said seriously: "Grandma, I will come back to pick you up after I go to the city and make a lot of money!"
"Haha, grandma believes that Jiu'er will definitely make a lot of money. Jiu'er is going to college, but Jiu'er has to promise grandma that she must not learn to gamble, and she can't gamble even if she has a lot of money!" the old man said earnestly.
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Zhang Heng naturally knew what Grandma Grandma meant, and nodded vigorously!
It's night! Zhang Heng is lying on the wooden bed, but he can't fall asleep!
When he was eight years old, his father ran away, owed a huge gambling debt, and disappeared without a trace, leaving behind an eight-year-old him, a two-year-old sister, and a bewildered, as if...
The mother who has stepped down from the sky.
Relatives all said that his father must have died outside, and his grandfather also said that he should just pretend that he never had a son like his father, but Zhang Heng firmly believed that his father was still alive, but he just didn't have the face to come back.
The Zhang family is a big family, with a large population, but it is quite poor. Grandma gave birth to eight sons and one daughter, while his grandfather was the youngest son and gave birth to five more sons. His father was also the youngest son, and there were eight sons above him.
A cousin, he is Xiaojiu, and he has the nickname "Jiuer" since he was born!
After his father ran away, his mother saw that she could not repay the debts owed by her father by farming, so she went out to work in the city. He also lived with his grandmother, who is also his father's grandmother and is now in her nineties.
Although he is very old, his body and bones are very strong, he will definitely live a long life.
Zhang Heng doesn't blame his uncles, nor his own grandparents, because the Zhang family is so poor, almost every family has more children, and almost all of them have to pay fines for the little money they have, so they can only make ends meet by farming.
His father ran away owing 300,000 yuan. Three hundred thousand yuan was a huge sum of money in this small mountain village. Ten years ago, his relatives could help scrape together more than 100,000 yuan to help his father pay off the debt. Zhang Heng really couldn't complain anymore.
coming.
In fact, he had long wanted to go to the city to work and earn money, but his mother insisted on letting him study. Now he is eighteen years old and graduated from high school this year. His grades are not bad and he was admitted to an undergraduate university in the city where his mother works.
My mother has also earned a lot of money in these years. Although she still owes some debts, her life is not a problem.
The twelve-year-old sister went to help her mother the year before last. She was only ten years old when she left. Zhang Heng has not celebrated the Chinese New Year with his mother and sister for two years. He doesn’t know if his mother’s health is better or if his sister has grown taller.
,Are you tired of helping your mother?
He has always had a dream, which is to earn a lot of money, buy a big house in the city, and also build a beautiful building for his grandmother in the village, with white tiles on the outside and bright red floors on the ground.
Bricks and cement boards should be covered on the roof, which is convenient for drying grain in summer!
When he had money, he let his mother and grandma play at home every day, not doing farm work or working, and also let his sister study and take the college entrance examination...
There are also relatives who lend money to his family to pay off their debts. If they borrow 10,000 yuan, they will pay back 100,000 yuan. They must pay back at least ten times to the relatives.
Also, when he has money, he can confess his love to the monitor. He has liked the monitor for several years, but he never dared to say it or even write a love letter!
I heard from the teacher that you can fall in love casually in college, so he has to hurry up and earn a lot of money to express his love before the monitor falls in love. Therefore, this summer vacation is very critical. Fortunately, the monitor is admitted to a key university with him.
It seems that this city is not very far away. I just don’t know what the city outside is like. Is it possible to make a lot of money as long as you are willing to endure hardships? He has never been to the city once in his life, but he heard from his mother
He had many conversations with relatives and he remembered them all in his heart.
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The next morning, Zhang Heng got up early. For example, when he was studying in the past, he would walk for an hour on the mountain road to go to school. Getting up early has become a habit. Since his father ran away, he has never slept in!
The memory of his father in his mind is already very vague. But from the perspective of a young man, his father is very talented. In the words of the girls in the class, he is extremely handsome! He also inherited his father's genes.
He thinks he is still very handsome, but it is undeniable that he still has low self-esteem, otherwise he would not dare to confess to the class monitor!
In the words of the elders in the village, children with their parents around them will always be more "robust", while children without their parents will always look "bad".
I put on my clothes in a few moments on the bed, and with a slight exertion on my waist and abdomen, I performed a standard carp thrust. I was obviously lying down, but I stood firmly on the ground.
Suddenly, Zhang Heng's whole body began to tremble as if it were swinging, starting from his ankles all the way to his neck, trembling like crazy, accompanied by a crisp sound like bones twisting.
Suddenly, Zhang Heng crossed his fingers with each other, pressed the five fingers of his right hand, and another burst of dense sound came. Then he switched to his left hand and pressed, then separated his fingers, clasped the fingertips of his hands together to press the bend of the second knuckle, and another burst of brittle sounds came.
It made a loud noise. Finally, I clenched my fists, and it crackled again as if the air had been crushed!
After doing this set, the ankles clicked four times, the waist clicked eight times, the neck clicked six times, and the knuckles of both hands clicked thirty times, a total of forty-eight clicks, one after another, like a burst of artillery that makes people's hearts tremble!
At the age of ten, he suddenly discovered that he could make all the bones in his body vibrate. At the age of twelve, he discovered that he could "micro-control" the muscles of his body. When his mind moved, a certain muscle in his body would tremble.
I can run 100 meters under eleven seconds, I can do fifty pull-ups at one time, I can throw the shot put twenty-eight meters, I can do two hundred push-ups with one hand...
But he never showed it. He never participated in any sports in school, let alone participated in any competitions. Even though he knew that as long as he could run 100 meters under 12 seconds, he would get extra points in the college entrance examination, he never showed it.
Because he has no extra time to exercise and no money to participate in any activities! Also because he has low self-esteem and seems a bit lonely!
And his thin and frail body has not aroused any suspicion among his classmates. In school, he is just a marginal figure with acceptable academic performance. Maybe some classmates will forget his name and who he is after a while.
However, he himself knows that if it comes to fighting, any ten boys in the class will be beaten up by him. However, he never fights or causes trouble. He is even a bit cowardly in the eyes of his classmates because he is afraid of getting hurt.
My classmate has no money to compensate, and he doesn’t want his grandma to worry about him!
He shook his head and murmured: "What's the use of knowing how to fight? Can you make money?"
While thinking, he lit the kerosene lamp on the bedside table. His room was built next to the pig pen and there were no wires installed in it. He had been using the kerosene lamp for lighting since he was a child!
Under the dim kerosene light, he packed a few pieces of clothing into his schoolbag and took out a few old books from under the wooden box. This was his "martial arts secret book". Every young man in the village had it.
A "hero" dream, and so does he!
A "Chen Style Tai Chi" published in 1963, a "Seventy-two Shaolin Skills" published in 1978, and a calligraphy book "Five Elements Boxing" in small regular script. These three books are his treasures.
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He found the first two books from the waste paper pockets discarded by his classmates at the end of the semester, and the second one was left by his deceased grandfather. He carefully put the three "secret books" into his schoolbag, put them over his shoulders, and casually
Throwing out a punch, good guy, there was a faint sound of breaking through the air. He was still at least half a meter away from the kerosene lamp, but the wind caused by this random punch actually made the lamp go out.
Zhang Heng grinned and rubbed his hands. The palms and backs of his hands were covered with thick calluses. The palms of his hands were calluses grown from farm work, and the backs of his hands were all made by punching the rough pine bark with his fists. Although he is still
He is a poor eighteen-year-old boy, but after entering the city, he can at least protect his mother and sister with a pair of fists.
Also, if one day he saw his father who had run away and disappeared, he wanted to use these fists to make his father kneel in front of his mother and grandma and admit his mistake...then maybe he would be able to forgive his father!
Open the wooden door and walk through a small alley. On the left is the pig pen. The four fat pigs fed inside have been sold for more than 6,000 yuan. Although he basically raised the pigs, he gets a share of the money.
He didn’t ask for it, and left it all to my grandma for daily use, so that he could leave with peace of mind.
As soon as he walked out, there was a small dam, and the ancestral house was opposite. There were only two rooms in total, a main room and a living room, so he could only sleep next to the pigsty. This was also common in the village. Some children in the village even lived there.
Above the cattle pen.
The kitchen of the ancestral house was right at the entrance of the main room. It had only one stove with no cover, and only the tile beams above could protect it from the rain. Grandma was already cooking, but when she looked closer, she was cooking glutinous rice dumplings for him.
"Jiu'er, go wash your face quickly. After dinner, you have to catch the car early!" Grandma said kindly.
Zhang Heng responded, and not long after he was eating the glutinous rice in the bowl, Grandma Zu also packed it away, rubbed her dry hands clean on her green apron, and said: "Jiu'er, Zu Zu will give you one."
This ring was passed down from the ancestors of the Zhang family. Your grandfather gave it to me when I got married. I have worn it for more than seventy years. Now my ancestor has given it to you. When you have a daughter-in-law, you will give it to your daughter-in-law.
Come on, bring your wife back and let Zuzu see her, so that Zuzu can rest assured and close his eyes whenever he leaves."
Zhang Heng slapped his hand, and a feeling of parting sadness rolled into his heart. Grandma was the child bride of grandfather. She was ten years older than grandfather. She married into the Zhang family at the age of seventeen. At that time, the Zhang family was still a rich farmer.
After having too many sons, the family became poor.
Grandma had worked hard all her life. Zhang Heng once again mentally vowed that he would make a lot of money so that Grandma could enjoy her old age.
It’s not that a few grandpas are unfilial. In fact, eight grandpas will pick up some food and send it to grandma every month. During the holidays, they will also send some money and meat to grandma. The reason why grandma has to live alone is that
It was entirely because of his presence that all the money and food given by the grandfathers were spent on him. If the grandparents lived with a certain grandfather, all the money and food would be used by him.
He sighed deeply! It’s not that his relatives were bad or that they didn’t take care of him, otherwise they wouldn’t have lent hundreds of thousands to his family ten years ago to pay off the debt. They still haven’t paid it back. My mother has been working part-time these years.
It was just about repaying the hundreds of thousands owed by his father outside. Zhang Heng nodded secretly again. He had to find a way to pay back the money he owed to his relatives, and he couldn't let his mother worry about it anymore.
While she was thinking wildly, grandma had already taken off the ring on her hand, and said: "Zuzu had someone look at it earlier. This ring is made of copper and is not valuable, but you have to keep it. If you drop it,
Zuzu will not agree!"
Zhang Heng did not refuse, and nodded heavily, thinking that he would spend a lot of money to buy his grandma a big gold ring in the future!
Putting the ring on his hand solemnly, Zhang Heng said: "Grandma Grandma, after I leave, you can go and live at Grandpa Seventh's house. Grandma Seventh is a nice person and will take care of others."
"Don't worry, Zuzu. Don't worry too much about things at home. Live a good life with your mother when you go out, and help your mother with more work." Grandma said quickly.
Zhang Heng nodded heavily again, then emptied the bowl of glutinous rice in one gulp, got on his backpack and set off...
Grandma and grandma sent him to the entrance of the village. Several grandpas came out along the way, and they all gave him a red envelope. Grandpa and grandma also came. It’s not that they didn’t love him, but because their grandson was too much.
There are too many. In their room, he has three cousins, two cousins, and five cousins. His grandparents cannot take care of them at all. Moreover, his grandparents are in their sixties and live with the uncle's family.
I don’t have much money on hand!
After leaving the village, Zhang Heng touched a dozen red envelopes in his arms and nodded again. He must earn a lot of money and come back!
I walked vigorously on the country roads. It took me an hour to walk until I saw the road. I then transferred to another train and reached the town in half an hour. Then I transferred to another train to go to the city where my mother lived.
He has a "special skill" for daydreaming, which is to think of other beautiful things in his mind while walking. When he wakes up, usually an hour later, he is at the school gate. He is also often practicing "martial arts secrets"
When I do this, when I come back from daydreaming, I have usually punched thousands of times.
At this time, Zhang Heng was preparing to rely on "wandering" again to solve the boredom of walking. He was planning to "fantasize" about a better life with the squad leader in the future. He had already thought of the critical moment last time. The squad leader had just become pregnant with his child. This time he will continue.
In his dream, the squad leader will definitely give birth to a big fat boy for him.
Suddenly, my mind moved. The copper ring on my left hand looked extremely dazzling in the rising sun. Perhaps it was because my grandma usually wore it on her hand, so it became brighter and brighter as she wore it!
He simply took off the ring and studied it. At this time, almost all of his energy was focused on the ring. It was almost the same as when he was daydreaming, but his body seemed to have given an order, and his feet still kept moving, walking vigorously on the mountain road.
If you encounter bumps or potholes, you can instinctively dodge away. This is a body instinct developed over many years.
The ring in his eyes made him a little surprised, because the carving was so vivid. The ring surface was carved with a scene in a cave. There was a small fire in the cave, and several naked children were gathered around and shivering. There was a scene on the stone platform next to it.
Some shriveled fruits and a few rough stone axes on the ground.
What does this mean? Zhang Heng was extremely puzzled. This ring was completely different from the old "luck" and "longevity" rings in the countryside. What does it mean to have a cave carved on the surface of the ring? Moreover, the scene in the cave is so vivid, as if it has come alive.
Generally speaking, coupled with his powerful "daydreaming" ability, for a moment, it seemed as if he was in a cave. The stone ax on the ground was infinitely magnified in his eyes, and it seemed that he could reach it and he could grab the ax if he wanted to.
Several children who looked like beggars looked at him with horror, as if they had really seen him. In his eyes, these children looked abnormal, with protruding forehead bones and deep concave facial bones, like the heads of monkeys that had not fully evolved.
The primitive people depicted in the book...
He was about to take a closer look when suddenly, he stopped consciously. As soon as he regained consciousness, he was at the edge of the road. Zhang Heng was even more surprised. Although he used this "daydreaming" method to rush on the road in the past, it didn't feel so fast. Just now
It felt like it only lasted a few minutes, but I didn't expect it to be an hour's journey.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was indeed an hour later. It was already eight o'clock in the morning. Suddenly I saw a passing vehicle coming in front. I quickly put the ring on my hand and waved my arms to signal that the bus had stopped!
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