Liu Gen was furious when he heard Xiangzi cursing those innocent people who died in the mining accident, bastards, and grabbed Xiangzi's dirty vest: "You said those people who risked their lives to make money for your Liu family are bastards! Then who do you think you are?"
?You are a parasite! A parasite that is fed by the sweat and sweat of those 'bastards' you call them! You have the nerve to call them bastards! I think you are the bastard!" Pushed Xiangzi away.
Xiangzi cried and pointed at the willow root and said: "Do you know how my mother died? If those bastards hadn't been too aggressive, could my mother have hanged herself to death? This has not happened to you, of course you can use a bystander
Come and teach me a lesson! But what if the person who was forced to death was your mother? Do you think that your mother deserves to die? Wuwu..." Xiangzi squatted under a sycamore tree with his head in his hands and burst into tears.
Being robbed by Xiangzi's attack, Liu Gen felt that what he just said was a bit too much. He walked forward, knelt down, patted Xiangzi on the back and said, "What are you screaming about?" Liu Gen knew Xiangzi's temper well, and he didn't do it.
Instead of persuading him, she was scolding him: "Look at you now, you look like an aunt! You look so sullen! If you were a man! You should act like a man, pick yourself up and pay off your father's debt."
This debt! I will do great things for you in the future so that you can hold your head high and live like a human being! Get up!" Liu Gen grabbed the dirty vest on Xiangzi's back like a chicken.
Lift Xiangzi, then turn his body over with both hands, let him lean against the trunk of the sycamore tree, shake Xiangzi's body and say: "Xiangzi, please wake up! You are not the person you used to be! Stop dreaming! You
Face reality! You know? Face reality!”
"Liu Gen..." Xiangzi threw himself into Liu Gen's arms like a child and cried: "My father told me before he left that he might never see me again after he left.
Face the reality, live well, and live well for the future of our old Liu family... I know what dad means when he says this. He surrendered because of me. He doesn't want me to hide with him all my life.
Tianya, dad wants to risk his life in exchange for their forgiveness and let them give me a way to survive... Wuwu... Mom is gone. If dad is gone too, what should I do in the future... Wuwu... My bank card at home
, everything froze. My father was worried that those angry people would beat me to death, so he took me in a hurry to escape. The money he brought with him was not much, and it had already been used up... Wuwu... you say
What should I do next..."
Liu Gen knew in his heart that Xiangzi had never had to worry about food and drink since he was a child. He was a young man who had nothing to eat but clothes to eat. He had never suffered any hardships. After experiencing such a big blow, an ordinary person would have collapsed long ago. It is not easy for him to survive until now.
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"Don't you still have me? Well, don't cry. Many people are looking at us. People who don't know better think that we are in that kind of relationship." Liu Gen patted Xiangzi's back with both hands: "In the future, if
If you are willing, treat me as your brother, and if you have my willow roots to eat, your Xiangzi share will be indispensable!"
Xiangzi slowly left Liu Gen's arms, wiped his tears and nose with his hands and said, "Do you know how happy I was when I saw you just now? I was as excited as if I had seen a savior or my own brother! These days,
There are only two thoughts in my mind, one is to find food to fill my stomach, and the other is to jump into the sea to eat for fish and shrimps! I am a wanderer with a broken family, if you don't mind how depressed I am now
Xiong Yang, from now on, you will be Xiangzi’s brother who I can’t kill..."
"Good brother, why would I dislike you? You didn't dislike me back then. After my father fell ill, it was you who gave me the greatest help. If you hadn't let me work as a nurse in your family's coal mine during the holidays to earn money, I would
I'm afraid I won't even be able to finish high school! Come on, follow me back to the dormitory." Yanagi put his arm around Xiangzi's shoulders and said.
"No, I'd better go back to the grove by the sea. If your classmates see me like this, it will only embarrass you, Brother Gen." Xiangzi stopped crying and no longer called Liu Gen by his first name, but changed his name to '
Brother Gen'.
"Don't say such stupid things! What's wrong with you? Take a bath, get a haircut, change into clean clothes, and shave your beard. You'll still be the handsome, invincible Xiangzi.
! Oh... By the way, I have to move your things from the grove by the sea to the school." Liu Gen stretched out his hand and grabbed Xiangzi's beard, and said with a smile: "The way you look now reminds me of your idol.
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"My idol? Who is it?" Xiangzi asked with tears in his eyes.
"The Count of Monte Cristo." Liu Gen said cheerfully: "Have you forgotten? We just met each other. During the winter vacation of our freshman year of high school, you hired me to help look after the coal mine at your family's coal mine. I knew in my heart that it was because of your change.
You are trying to help me. You stole one of the guns in your father's collection. I remember it was an AK47 pair? You often took me to the mountains and forests to learn shooting. Once, we were walking on the road, and you asked me with the gun on your shoulder.
'Liu Gen, do you know who I admire the most?' I know that you usually like to watch movies starring Stallone and like to shoot guns, so I said without thinking, 'Stallone!' But you shook your head and said, 'Tch! Stallone is old.
Damn! His muscles are not as good as yours! My idol is the Count of Monte Cristo! 'I didn't know who the Count of Monte Cristo was at that time. Later, you read the novel to me and I realized what kind of person he was.
Haha... The way you look now, with your long hair and beard, you really look a bit like your idol described in the book!"
Xiangzi was amused by Yanagi Gen. He touched his knotted hair and unkempt beard and asked, "You actually still remember these things. Haha...really? Do I really look like the Count of Monte Cristo now?"
"It's so similar!" Liu Gen said with a smile: "Haha... How could I forget? After your father found out, not only did he not blame us, he also tried every means to find bullets for us to practice, and also helped me correct my shooting skills.
Posture."
"Haha... Yes, my father always said that I am not as good as you in anything. He admires your marksmanship and said that if you were a soldier, you would be a very good sniper!" Xiangzi was brought back by the beautiful memories mentioned by Liu Gen.
Going back to those unforgettable days in the past, I felt much better: "Then I have to keep my hair and beard, and I can't waste such a good prop."
Liu Gen was stunned and laughed: "I was just kidding, you really think of yourself as the Count of Monte Cristo!"
"I'm telling the truth. If Xiangzi, who I can't kill, doesn't live a decent life, he will never cut his hair or shave off his beard!" Xiangzi vowed.
"Well done! This is the unbeatable Xiangzi that I, Liu Gen, knew in the past!" Liu Gen accompanied Xiangzi and walked towards the grove by the sea.
"Brother Gen, has Xu Yazhi been admitted to college?" Xiangzi suddenly asked about the girls in their past class.
"I really don't know about this, but based on her grades, she should be able to pass the exam." Liu Gen told the truth. He rarely interacted with other classmates, especially girls. Beautiful girls like Xu Yazhi were secretly teased by boys.
She is said to be an ice beauty, which always gives people a feeling of superiority. Although Yanagi has been in the same class with her for three years in high school, the two of them have never exchanged a few words: "Why do you ask about her?"
"Haha... This is the only secret I haven't told you." Xiangzi smiled sheepishly and said, "I have always had a crush on her."
Liu Gen was not surprised. There were many boys who had a crush on Xu Yazhi. She was good-looking. Not to mention the boys in the class, even the boys in other classes liked her.
"Does Xu Yazhi know that you have a crush on her?" Liu Gen asked.
"I secretly wrote her love letters, haha... several of them, but she never replied to me." Xiangzi scratched his scalp and said.
"Oh, by the way, when you said that, I really thought of something. After the accident in your coal mine, she quietly asked me if I knew your whereabouts?" Liu Gen thought of one night half a year ago.
After the self-study, Xu Yazhi deliberately stayed in the classroom, and after everyone had left, she walked to Liu Gen's seat and asked if there was any whereabouts of Xiangzi, because Liu Gen was the last to leave almost every night during self-study.
"Really? Xu Yazhi really asked you about me?" Xiangzi was so excited that he stopped and asked.
"When did I lie to you?" Liu Gen saw the light of hope in Xiangzi's eyes, and he thought to himself that it seemed that he had to find a way to find out the whereabouts of Xu Yazhi, maybe she could make Xiangzi cheer up again.
"Haha... That's great! This shows that she cares about me!" Xiangzi turned around and ran a few steps forward, jumped up high, and reached out to grab the leaves of the sycamore tree on the roadside.
"I will help you find out which university she went to as soon as possible." After Liu Gen said loudly, he also ran forward, caught up with Xiangzi, put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Xiangzi, it seems that Xu Yazhi doesn't mean anything to you.
No, at that time I thought she was just asking me a general question. Now that I think about it, she looked a little shy when she asked me. What does this mean? There is only one explanation, and that is that she has you, the invincible Xiangzi, in her heart! "
"Haha..." Xiangzi is more energetic than he was after eating two bowls of noodles just now: "It's been more than half a year, maybe she has a lover now?"
"No, she is a famously cold beauty, and her ice-like heart will not be moved by other boys so easily. I believe in my judgment, Xu Yazhi will not fall in love with a boy so quickly." Liu Gen actually said.
I'm not sure, this is just to give Xiangzi a hope.
"But something big happened to my family, maybe she..." Xiangzi thought of his current situation again and said a little lonely.
Liu Gen immediately interrupted him: "If she had no interest in you, she wouldn't have asked me about your whereabouts after you and Uncle Kui escaped. This shows that she secretly cares about you! Besides, you are not
Coal mine operators, the explosion that killed people has nothing to do with you."
"Brother Gen, thank you for thinking so. It would be great if Xu Yazhi thought the same as you."
"Don't worry, she must think so too." Liu Gen took the opportunity to persuade Xiangzi: "However, from now on, you must cheer up and find something legitimate to do, so that when Xu Yazhi sees you, she will not look down on you.
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"But I am so embarrassed that I will scare people away wherever I go. How can they want me, a loser? Besides, I don't know anything, so I ran out with my father in a hurry without even bringing my ID card." Xiangzi didn't bring his ID card with him.
Thinking about finding something to do, he also tried to find a job as a coolie to earn some money, but when people heard that he didn't have an ID card, they didn't dare to hire him.
"You are not a seventy-year-old with broken arms and legs. You are young and strong, and this is your capital! We are a big man with a handle! If you have lost the courage to survive, it is really better to jump into the sea and become a fish and shrimp to eat.
!" Although Yanagi Gen's words were a bit crude, Xiangzi was not annoyed.
"That's right, we are a responsible man! We want to live our lives like a man!"
Liu Gen murmured in his heart: Xiangzi doesn't have an ID card, this is really a troublesome thing!