twenty years later
"Stop teasing the child, hurry up and call the master back for dinner."
Because of the birth of a child, Xu Meihua, who became a little plump, glared at her husband and asked him to go to the park and call the master who was playing chess back for dinner.
"Master is just a hobby now. If I go there and interrupt the master's thoughts, I'm afraid I will be cut off by him."
Xiao Binbin, who is a little skinny, is sitting on the blanket in the living room, holding a small toy in his hand to tease his one-year-old son. This fat little doll can't speak clearly, and he stretches out his hand to think while murmuring. To reach the toy in Dad's hand, saliva drooled down his neck.
Three years ago, Xiao Binbin and Xu Meihua got married. Xu Meihua was two years older than Xiao Binbin, but neither of them minded it. The two grew up together and had similar life experiences, which made them cherish the hard-won experience. happiness.
Since they got married, neither of them has ever blushed or quarreled. Xiao Binbin performed, and Xu Meihua was in charge of negotiating business performances. One made money and the other managed money. Over the years, the two have successively confessed their four sisters. As they get married and start a business, they can finally rest for a while. During this period, the crystallization of their love was born, and life became sweeter because of the arrival of this little guy.
Now all the villagers in Shi'ao Village have moved to the foot of the mountain. Xiao Binbin has made a lot of money over the years, but he still lives in the village. He built a big villa at the foot of the mountain, next to the small house of the master's house. In order to take care of the master nearby.
"If you want to go, you can go, otherwise what will happen to the master if you are hungry, and besides, if the master does not come back after playing chess, you can't buy a cup of milk tea and cake for the master to fill your stomach."
Xu Meihua gently kicked her husband's flank with her toes and said angrily.
Since he got old, the master has particularly liked this kind of sweet and soft food, but Xu Meihua felt that eating too much was unhealthy, and stopped Jiang Liu not to let him eat more. After counting the time, it had been two days that the master had not let the master drink milk tea. Well, it's not too much to have a drink today.
"Good good."
Xiao Binbin put the toy in the fat son's hand, then put on a big padded jacket and gloves and hat. After opening the door and going out, he shivered violently, and hurriedly stomped his feet and rushed into the snow.
"Master, I'll give—"
Xiao Binbin bought Jiang Liu's favorite black tea latte, and bought him a ham pizza with double cheese, but just as he was excitedly running to the village where the elderly were playing chess, he saw the master with big eyes on him. Staring with small eyes, he silently drank the last sip of milk tea, threw the milk tea bottle into the trash can beside, wiped his mouth, as if nothing had happened.
"Come on, hiccup-"
Jiang Liu hiccupped, and his breath had the sweet taste of milk tea.
"You came just in time. I'm halfway through the chess game. I'm just hungry. If you leave something, you can go home first, and I'll be back after the chess game is over."
Jiang Liu chased people away in disgust, Xiao Binbin put down the milk tea and pizza in his hands, and walked to the outside of the village.
Feeling that his master is obsessed with playing chess these days, purely to hide from his daughter-in-law and steal the food that he is not allowed to eat on weekdays!
Xiao Binbin scratched the back of his head, wondering if he should take care of his master. But after thinking about the old man's angry and lecturing appearance, he shrank his neck and didn't dare to care.
Anyway, he takes his master for three or four full-body physical examinations every year. Since the master likes to eat these, let him eat it. If the three-high problem is detected at that time, the master will change it.
Just when Xiao Binbin was about to go home, he met Xu Quanjun who was going home for the holiday.
"How have you been all these years?"
It's a little embarrassing to meet the former brothers and sisters.
"have a drink?"
At the invitation of Xu Quanjun, Xiao Binbin called his wife, and then followed Xu Quanjun to a mutton restaurant at the head of the village, where he ordered a pot of lamb bones and two bottles of beer.
"I'm so sorry!"
Xu Quanjun drank a bottle of wine, looked at Xiao Binbin and said.
After that incident, he went back to school, but his grades were not very good. He didn't get into high school, but went to technical school. Fortunately, he has a sweet mouth and a flexible mind. Later, he went out to become a salesman. Guarantee plus commission can also earn one or two thousand a month.
It's just that it's not easy to earn this money. He vomits at the wine table, and he has to be a grandson for a client. In addition, Xu Quanjun's education is not high. Even though his performance is better than many of his colleagues, his promotion speed has always been slower than others.
Now he is also 29. Because his girlfriend's family wants a high dowry, and he also asks for a full-payment house in the city center, he has not been able to negotiate. He is obviously two years older than Xiao Binbin, but he is not yet married.
And Xiao Binbin is different.
Xu Quanjun raised his head and glanced at him. In recent years, his acrobatic troupe has made a lot of money from tours everywhere. I heard that Xiao Binbin alone costs eight or nine thousand yuan for a commercial performance. In three or four venues, you can easily get tens of thousands of dollars.
The decoration materials for the small bungalow he built were the best. When he hired the construction team, he spent 600,000 to 700,000 yuan.
Xu Quanjun has been thinking, if he hadn't hurt the master's heart, maybe everything would have been different.
It's just that Xu Quanjun is also very satisfied, because he hurt the master's heart at the beginning, but the master has never done anything to retaliate against him. Now he can earn 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a month, and slowly save money to marry a wife, he is also satisfied.
"By the way, do you know how Wang Gouzi is doing recently?"
Xu Quanjun changed the subject: "No, I can't call him Wang Gouzi anymore, they changed his name to Wang Nian'en."
"He was admitted to the civil service. Although the salary may not be as high as mine, the benefits are good, and it's good to talk about it. Their unit has a strong yin and yang, and many elder sisters want to help him as a matchmaker. It's very good."
Wang Gouzi's brain may not be as flexible as Xu Quanjun's, but he is a solid enough person, and good-hearted people support him to study, he will study seriously, and finally he is admitted to a college, which is one of the few local college students.
"Did you know? His parents came back to find him, because they thought he could make money, but Wang Gouzi learned to be smart this time, and didn't listen to his parents' nonsense. He kicked people out, and the other party threatened to Go to the leader of Wang Gouzi's unit to make trouble. Wang Gouzi said that if they dare to make trouble, they will dare to let them go on TV again to let them know that abandoning them will also lead to jail time. Wang Gouzi's parents were frightened and did not dare to Come back again."
Xu Quanjun laughed, this is their parents.
"Let's come up when we think we're good, bah, does it have anything to do with him when we're good?"
Xu Quanjun babbled, and Xiao Binbin listened quietly.
"I really regret it, but I still can't hold back my face."
Finally, Xu Quanjun said this.
"Wait, I'll go get some water."
After drinking two bottles of wine, Xu Quanjun stood up and said that he was going to the public toilet outside to go to the toilet. Xiao Binbin didn't think much about it, but after waiting for half an hour, Xiao Binbin realized that something was wrong.
He stood up and found something on Xu Quanjun's place.
A piece of paper, and a card.
It was written on the paper that Xiao Binbin was asked to say sorry to the master on his behalf. There was 50,000 yuan in the card, which was regarded as the apprenticeship ceremony when the master raised him for a year. The password of the bank card was the master's birthday.
It was only after Xiao Binbin walked out of the box that he realized that Xu Quanjun had paid the bill. The old couple of the Xu family had long since passed away, and the old house of the Xu family had collapsed long ago. Xiao Binbin realized only now that perhaps Xu Quanjun was waiting for him specially.
In the end, the 50,000 yuan was donated by Jiang Liu to those children who needed the money more, in the name of Xu Quanjun.
The end of the play
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Extra Story (Last Life)
"Welcome to the World Extreme Discovery Channel. The guest we invited today is Jiang Binbin, who broke the Guinness World Record not long ago."
On the live channel of a certain satellite TV, the host applauded and welcomed the guests this time.
Speaking of Jiang Binbin, he is also a little red man on the Internet recently, and the other party detonated the Internet with his strange ability to shrink his bones.
His height is about 165 centimeters, but when he shrugged his shoulders up and down, the bones of his body seemed to be rearranged, all the gaps disappeared, and the skeleton was shrunk to a minimum. He was obviously an adult, but he was able to wear the clothes of two or three-year-old children on his body. .
In the Guinness Book of World Records, he relied on this ability to fold himself into a square ball, and then put himself into a small box of 40×40CM. Such a stunt is breathtaking.
This seems to have broken through the limits of the human body. Compared with ordinary jiu-jitsu, everyone is more curious about how he can flexibly control his bones.
At this time, Jiang Binbin also appeared in the live broadcast room. He was not tall, and he was very thin. He was really inconspicuous in the crowd, but such a thin and small man created many miracles for everyone.
The host and Jiang Binbin pulled home, and then asked where Jiang Binbin learned his skills.
"My surname was not Jiang before, and my surname was Xiao, just because my master's surname was Jiang. Later, when I had the ability, I changed my surname."
Xiao Binbin, no, he should be called Jiang Binbin now.
He was sitting on the sofa in the live broadcast room, narrating in an extremely calm tone.
"I was very poor when I was young, so poor that you can't imagine. At that time, my father abandoned my mother, me and my two younger sisters. After that, my mother was diagnosed with uremia. I was only four years old at that time, two years old. For more than a year, our whole family lived on the wild vegetables I picked up, until my master returned to his hometown to take apprentices."
Thinking of that past, Jiang Binbin's eyes were very complicated, with nostalgia and pain.
"My master is the best person I've ever met. He taught me skills and lent me money to let my mother see a doctor first. He knew that my family was poor, and he excused every day that he didn't want to eat leftovers. I took home the food and meat that I had eaten, and gave it to my mother and my two younger sisters. At that time, I had two junior brothers and sisters. Although it was very hard to learn skills, we were very happy."
"and after?"
The host couldn't help but ask, it was Jiang Binbin's luck to meet such a good master.
"And then—"
Jiang Binbin's eyes were a little dazed, "After that, my master left, and the two younger brothers also left, leaving me alone."
"why?"
The host did not understand the direction of the incident, nor did the audience watching the live broadcast.
"Because of a self-righteous good-hearted person, she ruined our peace and ruined my master."
"Remember the child abuse case that caused a sensation on the Internet 23 years ago? A girl posted a video online. In the video, the master taught us a few brothers. Learning this skill is different from other skills. The joints were practiced, so the master had to remove the joints on our bodies one by one, and then return them to the front. Because of this video, my master was attacked and abused by many people, even though many people in the village helped the master to explain, angry netizens I can't even hear it."
"They think my master is perverted, otherwise why would he teach us such skills, but if life is not really difficult, who would want to learn such skills?"
Jiang Binbin clenched his fists tightly. He looked at the camera, as if he wanted to accuse the person who participated in the cyber violence 23 years ago in front of the camera.
"They thought they were righteous, but what was the result of their righteousness?"
"They attracted a few hungry wolves. Those couples who abandoned our three brothers were like vultures who smelled carrion. They used the pressure of public opinion to bite a piece of meat from my master, and then those who played in front of the camera were like vultures. People with loving fathers and mothers have once again disappeared from our side after asking for enough benefits."
"My two stupid juniors believed their parents' nonsense, betrayed their master, and said those things that went against their hearts in a large audience. Everyone cheered because they felt that they had seen justice, huh, the result, it's not another time. being abandoned."
"The man who is nominally my father kidnapped my sister, locked me in the demolition house, and forced my mother to admit the master's fault. After getting the money, he dumped my two sisters like throwing garbage. I threw it back, and I walked out of the woodshed, but my master was gone, and he left this sad place with what he thought was the betrayal of everyone."
Jiang Binbin's eyes were red, and he was already trembling with excitement.
"Do you think you have brought justice? You are just enjoying the pleasure of pointing the ants from above!"
Many people in front of the camera were silent. Many of them vaguely remembered what happened back then. They always thought they were right, but Jiang Binbin's accusation accused them and proved them wrong.
"That year, I lost my master and my mother, and my home was destroyed!"
Jiang Binbin gave a miserable laugh and stopped talking.
*****
Because of this interview, old things that had been covered for more than 20 years were brought up again, and they wanted to find more evidence to prove that Jiang Binbin's statement was wrong.
The more you can check, the more it proves that what he said is the truth.
The charitable organization that vowed to support Shi'ao Village at the beginning forgot about the children in the barren village after the news broke, and only a very small number of people received assistance.
Xu Quanjun and Wang Gouzi, who had been on TV accusing Jiang Liu, one of them dropped out of junior high school and became a street hooligan, the other was abandoned by their parents again, and suffered from the torture of their souls. Own.
Only Xiao Binbin, who never showed up, was tied at home by Xiao Guohui according to him.
And the only apprentice who didn't show up, in the end, taught himself what they thought was extremely cruel, and he was the best among them.
But is he lucky? not necessarily.
Not long after the incident, his mother died. He was only 7 years old and had to take care of his two three-year-old sisters. He had suffered all kinds of hardships and sins. If it hadn't happened in the first place, perhaps He will have an easier time with the help of his master.
Not only these people, but also the two police officers who were in charge of the case at the beginning were demoted to the township police station because of the pressure of public opinion, and they have not been promoted for decades.
On the other hand, Xiao Guohui and others took the 50,000 yuan they lost, and some donations from good-hearted people, and they were at ease without any psychological burden.
Black and white, is this really the fairness and justice they want
Netizens began to mobilize their strength to find Xiao Guohui and others, and Gu Xinxing who thought they had posted the video with good intentions, and another online violence began again.
Jiang Binbin watched this absurd performance quietly.
Many years later, Jiang Binbin was interviewed again, and someone asked him if he hated the kind people who had funded them, those who thought they were doing good deeds.
Jiang Binbin answered in this way.
"I don't hate them, they are good people, they just live in an ivory tower that has never experienced wind and rain, but my master and I, many people like us live in the world, and the world is destined to have a lot of pain and hardship."
For example, the skill he has learned seems inhumane, but it is indeed a lifeline for many people who are struggling on the line of life and death.
Because of poverty, because of wanting to live, these livelihood skills that require sweat and blood will always exist.
In this world, studying is not the only way out.
"Maybe one day, the skill of shrinking the bones will be in my generation, or one of my generations will be cut off. That's also a good thing. My master and I are not obsessed with passing this stunt from generation to generation, just Because someone needs it, so I teach that person, if one day, it is cut off, it means that there will be no more people who need it, and there will be no more poor people."
Across a time and space, when the two masters and apprentices said these words, it seemed that they had a brief reunion.