Liar
Wu Liang asked in confusion: "Uncle, what do you mean by this?"
The security guard sneered and said: "There is a saying that you can see your old age at the age of three. Although this boy Korong has pretended to be humane in recent years, like a filial son, he has been a ruthless character since he was a child. There is one thing I have never forgotten the matter."
After that, the security guard told the two of them a story from more than twenty years ago.
At that time, Korong's father was not dead yet, and his name was Huarong, who was only four and a half years old.
Security guard Qu Zhong is also young. His son Qu Chao is a few months older than Hua Rong and is almost six years old. However, Qu Chao's development is slightly delayed and his body shape looks not much different from Hua Rong.
They are both children in the same village. Qu Chao and Hua Rong often play together.
At that time, Hua Rong's family's financial situation was not good, and they never bought him toys, and they even bought very few snacks. Qu Chao's family's conditions were slightly better, and Qu Zhong's mother and daughter-in-law were more spoiled with children. I often buy a lot of snacks and toys for Qu Chao.
With a lot of snacks and toys around him, Qu Chao became like the king of children in the village. Children all liked to come to Qu Chao's house to play with him.
In the impression of Qu Zhong's family, among the children who came to play with Qu Chao, Hua Rong was the most polite.
The other children would treat Qu Zhong and others as if they were nothing every time they came in. They would rush into Qu Chao's room and occasionally make faces at Qu Zhong, which was considered to be a sign of respect.
Only Hua Rong would smile shyly every time he came to Qu Zhong's house, greet Qu Zhong and others politely, and call "Uncle Qu", "Aunt Qu" and "Grandma Qu" one after another, very well-behaved. cute.
At that time, Qu Zhong liked the obedient and sensible Hua Rong very much, and often advised his son Qu Chao to play more with Hua Rong. Qu Chao was obedient and often shared his snacks and toys with Hua Rong.
One day, Qu Zhong's cousin in the city came to the countryside to visit his aunt, Qu Zhong's mother, and brought his child a popular Tetris game console.
Qu Chao couldn't put it down while holding the game console. He no longer went out in the wild and stayed at home to play every day. This novelty was the first in the village. No one had ever seen it before. Children in the village also flocked to it. We crowded into Qu Chao's room and watched him play together.
As time went by, watching Qu Chao play naturally became unsatisfactory. The children all wanted to ask Qu Chao to borrow it, but Qu Chao himself hadn't played enough yet, so naturally he was unwilling to lend it to them.
In the evening, when everyone left Qu Chao's house and went home to eat and sleep, Hua Rong, who was walking at the end, suddenly also borrowed a game console from Qu Chao.
Qu Chao naturally refused at first, but Hua Rong persuaded him: "You have been playing all day during the day, and you have to sleep at night, right? Do you think this will work? You can lend me the game console before going to bed, and I will take it back." For fun at home, I will bring it to you when you get up early tomorrow morning. It will not delay your play, but it will also allow me to enjoy myself."
Qu Chao thought for a while and was still hesitating. Qu Zhong happened to hear Hua Rong's words and felt that this kid was quite smart and sensible enough to consider Qu Chao's feelings, so he persuaded Qu Chao to lend Hua Rong his game console to play with. One night.
Hua Rong got the game console and was extremely happy. He said a few words, "Thank you, Uncle Qu, thank you, Brother Chao." He also discussed with Qu Chao to return it on time at six o'clock the next morning, and then he jumped up and down and held it. He ran away with the game console.
Qu Chao didn't have the game console in his hand, so he had dinner early and went to bed, shouting that he would get up at six o'clock the next morning to open the door for Huarong.
For this reason, Qu Zhong still despised his son from the bottom of his heart. Usually, his son would not get up until seven o'clock. After getting up, he would take his time washing and eating, and he was not in a hurry to play the game console.
After lending the game console to Huarong, his son said that he had to get up at six o'clock every day to play the game console. Although Qu Zhong did not directly expose his son's reluctance to borrow the game console, he still felt a little ashamed in his heart.
Unexpectedly, when Qu Zhong came back from working in his vegetable garden early the next morning, he heard his son crying.
It turned out that Huarong did not return the game console as agreed.
Qu Zhong glanced at the time, it was already half past seven in the morning.
Looking at his son who was sitting in the yard crying and looking a bit useless, Qu Zhong reprimanded helplessly: "I guess Hua Rong fell asleep unknowingly after playing in the middle of the night. He hasn't gotten up yet. Why don't you cry at home?" , if you’re in a hurry to play, can’t you just go to his house and find him?”
After listening to Qu Zhong's scolding, Qu Chao rubbed his eyes and groaned and walked towards the direction of Huarong's house.
Unexpectedly, within a few minutes, Qu Chao came back crying.
It turned out that Hua Rong's family members said that Hua Rong went out at 5:30 in the morning, saying that he was looking for Qu Chao to return the game console, and he never came back after that.
Hua Rong's family thought Hua Rong was playing at Qu Chao's house, so they didn't pay attention. Now they heard Qu Chao say that Hua Rong didn't come to his house at all, and they became anxious.
The village is not big. How could the child be missing this early in the morning? Is something going to happen
Qu Zhong quickly called his wife and together with many villagers helped find Huarong in the village.
Soon, everyone found Hua Rong in the river at the entrance of the village.
Hua Rong was standing in the water, soaked all over, occasionally bending down and touching something in the river with his hands.
The villagers asked him to come up, but he ignored them and continued to stand in the river and work on his own.
Hua Rong's family members hadn't rushed over yet, so it was no big deal to see the child standing in the river. They didn't rush into the water to pull him out. They just told Hua Rong that their family members were looking for him.
When Qu Zhong saw this scene, he vaguely felt that it was probably related to the game console. Summer had not yet entered, the river was cold, and Ruo Huarong had been standing in the lake for more than an hour...
Qu Zhong quickly pushed away the crowd standing on the river bank, strode into the river, and brought Hua Rong ashore.
Hua Rong was extremely reluctant at first, but when he turned around and saw that it was Qu Zhong who had brought him ashore, he suddenly burst into tears.
Seeing Hua Rong's face covered with mud, water and weeds, and turning blue from the cold, Qu Zhong quickly took off his coat, put it on Hua Rong's body, and asked distressedly: "Child, what are you doing? What's wrong?"
Hua Rong cried for a while, and then told Qu Zhong the whole story with a look of grievance.
Early this morning, Hua Rong went out with his game console and planned to return it to Qu Chao before six o'clock. In order to repay Qu Chao, Hua Rong planned to go to the river to catch two fish and give them to Qu Chao to raise.
Hua Rong was good at swimming and had great fishing skills. Qu Chao had always been envious of him and often talked about this with Qu Zhong.
Unexpectedly, when Hua Rong bent down to fish in the river, the game console accidentally fell out of his pocket and fell into the turbid river water. He didn't know where it sank.
Hua Rong was so anxious that he kept searching in the river, but he never found the game console that fell into the water.
(End of chapter)