The next day I missed class again and found Hu Wei's home according to the address registered in the school file.
"A good person is ridden by others, and a good person is bullied by others. Power can suddenly come at any time, and then suddenly suppress the common people. Hu Wei, who was studying well, caused an unnecessary disaster just because his personality was a bit outright, ruining his future and losing his wealth.
Actually, I feel very sorry for Hu Wei. But what? My father is a deputy mayor. He is young and has a promising future. He also has the backing of his backers. He flew to Jiangcheng just to get gold. He will have a great future in the future. Not to mention Hu Wei, a humble citizen, even my mother, who is a representative of the Municipal People's Congress and has a net worth of tens of millions, cannot afford to offend others.
What can happen now? Why do people fight against officials? The procedures for dropping out of school have been completed, and the compensation has been paid out. I can only live with this dumb loss!
Hu Wei's family lives in a fire-kang building built thirty years ago. This kind of fire-kang building is often seen in some movies. I don't know how to describe it. It has dark corridors, uneven floors, and is built in the corridor. The stove, kitchen cabinets placed outside the door, several households share the same faucet, and there is no internal bathroom, so you need to go to the public toilet outside the building.
I vaguely remember that in my previous life, for some reason, I lived in a place like this for a few days. I really can¡¯t remember whether I was staying at a relative¡¯s house or a classmate¡¯s house. But I can vaguely recall the scenes I saw when I woke up every morning. Families were washing, lighting fires, and cooking in the corridors. The children were crying, the adults were shouting, the elderly were coughing, and the sounds of pots and pans were gathering. Symphony, and the queue of people waiting for a seat outside the public toilet
This is a slum in the city, and the living conditions of the people are even far worse than those of rural families with single-family houses.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It was really in vain, and I had to take out my Motorola brick. Relying on the faint green light above, I stumbled forward with one foot high and one foot low.
While walking and asking around, an auntie who was squatting at the door of her house doing laundry kindly took me to the door of Hu Wei¡¯s house. From her pale face and rickety back, I could see that her family must have had an unfortunate story.
The door of Hu Wei's house is painted with light yellow paint, and there are faint graffiti left by children when they were naughty. The kitchen cabinets outside the door are quite neat. But it can also be seen at a glance that it is an old piece of furniture.
After knocking on the door a few times, a lifeless voice came from inside asking "Who is it?" Then the sound of leather shoes was heard, and then the door was opened with a cry.
"Hi." I chuckled and said hello to Hu Wei, who looked at me in astonishment.
He looked behind me and found that I was alone. He asked blankly: "How did you find my house?"
I didn¡¯t answer but asked instead: ¡°I am a guest from afar. Why don¡¯t you invite me in?¡±
"Oh, oh, come in quickly!" He nodded quickly, took two steps back and let me in.
I have to say that this guy is indeed quite strong in physique. When I compare myself to him, who has already grown to 1.75 meters, I am almost a head shorter than him. His broad shoulders and thick back remind me of American football players. It's the football player we often talk about, and those thick thighs, ***. I doubt if he could kick Zhao Zilong to death if he used all his strength.
¡°However, his fighting ability is very mediocre. He relies entirely on his physical advantages and strength to fight without any skills. Although he and Zhao Zilong's group could fight one against five, if he and I were on the right side, he might not be able to win me. However, I have become much more settled in the past few years. When something happens, I always find others to settle things, and rarely do it myself. I don¡¯t have time to practice my skills, so I¡¯m really not sure whether I can bring him down.
As soon as you enter the door. There is no living room in sight, it is directly the master bedroom of Hu Wei's house, which is his parents' bedroom. It is also a place where their family of three lives and activities. I didn't need to look much to guess the layout of this silkworm residence. It was less than twenty-five square meters in total. The room commonly known as the "big house" contains almost all of their family's belongings. The space that was used as a kitchen during construction was converted into a "small house", which is Hu Wei's own little world and his bedroom. Other than that, there is no living room, no bathroom, no balcony, nothing.
¡°However, this home is very clean and tidy, items are placed in an orderly manner, the floor is covered with floor leather, and there are shoe racks and slippers at the door.
While untying the laces of my 3515 military shoes, I said, "I heard you dropped out of school."
"Yes." His voice was a little absent-minded.
"What are your plans?"
I put the shoes I took off next to the pair of military shoes with at least size 44 on the shoe rack. It can be seen at a glance that the two pairs of shoes are produced by the same manufacturer. It can be seen that although this family is poor,, but I am still willing to spend money on my children.
He said calmly: "My cousin found me a temporary job as a snow plow at the cemetery. I will go there tomorrow."
"Oh? How much is it for a day?" I followed him to the room and sat down on the chair.
He grinned, but did not smile: "Ten yuan, if there is snow, we will sweep it, if there is no snow, we will have a holiday."
"What about the future? What are you going to do in the future?" I didn't mention anything about the previous fights or dropping out of school. Those things are in the past, right? What I should do now is to look forward.
"Maybe I will study by myself for a period of time, and then take the adult college entrance examination. Or I can find a way to find a job, or learn a trade." After he finished speaking, he looked at me and asked me the purpose of my visit.
I chuckled and said, "I'm here for two things. One is to help my mother find you. As you know, my mother is the principal of our school. She asked me to ask you. If you don¡¯t want to go to a sports school out of town, she can help you contact her, and if your family has financial difficulties, her newspaper can help you out.¡±
Hu Wei¡¯s body froze for a moment, and I kept looking at his eyes. At that moment, I seemed to see the light of excitement.
¡°She, she said she could help me contact sports schools in other places?¡± There was uncontrollable excitement in his voice.
"Yes. Maybe you don't know that she is the deputy to the People's Congress of our city, so it is not difficult to do this." I said slowly with a smile: "As for the tuition, you don't have to worry at all, I can do it The decision is yours, as long as you are willing to go, you can let my mother support you free of charge in the name of the newspaper."
Hu Wei was so moved that his lips trembled a little, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "Why are you so nice to me"
"Well, how should I put it" I pondered for a moment and said to him honestly: "Actually, my mother and I are quite guilty when this happened to you. As a classmate, I knew that Zhao Zilong and the others were going to It's my fault that I made trouble for you but didn't help you earlier. As a principal, she also failed in her duties when she saw her students had no choice but to drop out of school because of a fight that was caused by provocation. What's more, she is still Representative of the National People's Congress. I tell you the truth, you can only grit your teeth and endure this loss. You can't even petition for prosecution, because they are not at the same level as you. Zhao Zilong's background is such that even our family can't afford to offend him."
When I said this, Hu Wei¡¯s eyes flashed with anger and unwillingness, and he clenched his fists tightly.
"Have you ever been bitten by a dog?" he asked suddenly.
I shook my head in surprise: "No, what's wrong?"
"When I was young, my grandfather's neighbor had a native dog. They were very careless and often forgot to fasten the chain, and the dog ran away. I was bitten by that dog three times." Hu Wei said coldly. : "I was only eleven years old at that time, and I couldn't run away from it, but I didn't dare to hit it. After being bitten for the third time, I finally couldn't bear it anymore, so I ran to my grandpa's kitchen to find a meat cleaver. , go find that dog to take revenge.¡±
"Did you kill that dog?" I had already guessed the ending of the story, and I secretly guessed what the dog looked like. Hu Wei was only eleven years old at the time, so I'm afraid the dog wouldn't be very big.
His eyes were full of haze, and he nodded seriously: "I only stabbed it three times, and it ran away. I chased it. When I caught up with it, it was already dead. I didn't need to hit it again."
I pictured in my mind a little boy in his early ten years, holding a sharp knife in his hand and chasing a local dog covered in blood. Behind them were countless stunned children and a line of dripping blood
Thinking of this, I scratched my head and asked, "You don't want to kill Zhao Zilong three times, do you?"
He laughed self-deprecatingly, sat down on the bed opposite my chair, sighed and said: "I did think so, but after I calmed down, I thought more. Killing people is not killing dogs. I can become a dog-killing person." Hero, if you kill him, who will provide for my parents in the future?"
The atmosphere was a bit depressing, so I changed the topic and asked about his family situation: "Have uncles and aunts gone to work? I see it says on your file that they are all workers in the fourth service?"
Hu Wei nodded. I didn't say much on this topic because Jiangcheng No. 4 Garment Factory has been in a state of semi-stop production since the year before last. Sitting in this house with almost bare walls, talking about this topic will only make him angry. The mood is even more depressed.
"I just said that I have two things to tell you today. I have already said one thing, and there is another thing." I smiled slightly, stood up and patted his shoulder and said, "No matter how fast you go to the sports school, you have to go to the sports school quickly." It¡¯s next semester. You have no homework and nothing to do this winter vacation. So don¡¯t go to the cemetery and come work in my cousin¡¯s company!¡±