After living together for more than ten years, Yang Xiao once looked down on this neighbor. I always feel that his quality is not good, his moral character is poor, and his behavior is very ordinary.
Another point that must be mentioned is that Li Xiaoqiang is not very good at educating children. He always only knows how to educate his son with sticks.
Every time his son made a mistake, he was beaten violently. Even if the door was closed, the neighbors could hear clearly. Especially after the exam, there were all kinds of ghosts and wolves howling.
This incident left a big shadow on Yang Xiao's childhood.
But he was such an unwelcome neighbor. Later, something happened that completely changed Yang Xiao's outlook.
When Yang Xiao was in high school, his father became seriously ill. After being diagnosed as incurable by the hospital, his condition deteriorated rapidly.
In order to satisfy his father's wishes, Yang Xiao took his father home from the hospital. He wanted to spend his last days at home.
In just a few days, my father passed away and left forever. Yang Xiao was only sixteen or seventeen years old. Faced with such a life change, he didn't know how to deal with it.
At this time, neighbor Li Xiaoqiang stood up.
Running up and down, busy in front of and behind, while helping, he explained to Yang Xiao some rules and traditions left by the elders.
Yang Xiao recalled that at that time, his father's death had a huge impact on him, and his brain was left blank for a long time.
He was never ready to face the death of a loved one. Or, he simply does not have enough experience and understanding of death.
He has not yet come into contact with society, and his mind is more fragile than he imagined. Yang Xiao didn't even know how to comfort his mother who was also in great grief.
It was at this moment that made him extremely sad that Li Xiaoqiang came to his family's aid and was of great help.
Not only did he help contact and handle the funeral affairs, but he also helped Yang Xiao keep vigil for several nights in a row, just because he was worried that he would be scared if he was a baby and couldn't handle it.
Yang Xiao didn't know how many times he said thank you to him. Every time, he answered readily: "It's okay, we are all from the village. This kind of thing will happen to everyone, so we should help."
The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring of water. Yang Xiao shed tears and always remembered it in his heart. At the same time, I also discovered how narrow-minded I once was.
Later, the older Yang Xiao got, the deeper his understanding became. In the adult world, it is often difficult to define a person by simply being good or bad.
More often than not, everyone has bright spots that cannot be ignored, and of course, there is also a dark side that cannot be told to others.
People are inherently complex.
No matter what, since they met here, Yang Xiao couldn't ignore it. Yang Xiao noticed that even though he hadn't seen him for only three years, Li Xiaoqiang's energy and energy were no longer as glorious as before.
The old man in front of him was wearing a cheap gray coat. Not only was his back stooped, but his complexion was also very dim. There was no energy in his eyes, as if he was only deeply tired.
Calmly, Yang Xiao followed him and looked at the old man quietly.
Li Xiaoqiang came to the venue alone. Yang Xiao found that after he walked inside for a long time, no one noticed this bad old man.
Obviously, he doesn't understand real fighting, and he can't tell which contestant is better.
Looking at the hot scene at the betting site, he held one hand tightly in his arms. After a long time, he mustered up the courage to take out a crumpled envelope.
Yang Xiao looked at the thickness, and there should be about 20,000 yuan in it.
It can be seen that Li Xiaoqiang is struggling. Obviously, this amount of money is definitely a huge sum of money for him.
I just don’t know why he came here to gamble. Yang Xiao already had some vague guesses in his mind.
"On the third stage, I buy player No. 65 to win!"
On the screen, it was displayed that the odds of number 65 were currently 5.5 to 1. In other words, as long as Li Xiaoqiang wins, plus the principal, he can get back 100,000 yuan.
"Okay, dear guest, this is your voucher, please keep it properly." The young lady in charge of handling the business helped him handle it within a few seconds and handed over a slightly transparent card.
Li Xiaoqiang carefully put the card away, and then hurriedly went to the third arena.
He knew that the game would start in ten minutes.
Praying in his heart, Li Xiaoqiang knew that he had no way out. The 20,000 yuan is already the family's last savings.
However, for the sake of his children, he had to take it out.
Twenty thousand yuan is simply not enough. To save his son, he needs at least one hundred thousand! But where does he have so much money?
Over the years, the unfilial son he gave birth to has ruined his family's fortune. Even the house where Li Xiaoqiang lived was mortgaged to pay off his son's debts.
At an early age, he did not really retire, but lived in a slum and worked odd jobs every day to make a living.
Every time he thinks about his happy life in the past, compared with the extremely miserable life now, Li Xiaoqiang always bursts into tears.
He had never been able to figure out why he had reached this point, but now he understood that he did not blame others for everything. If he had to blame, he could only blame himself. He failed to educate his children to become talents and let them go astray.
Li Zheng is now uneducated and has become an old gangster. As his father, he should bear the main responsibility.
Li Xiaoqiang understood that this should be his last time helping Li Zheng pay back the money. Twenty thousand yuan, this is the inheritance left by his wife.
Even if he was so poor that he had to sleep under a bridge or dig through trash cans, Li Xiaoqiang was not willing to touch the 20,000 yuan.
Because this is the last thought his wife left for him and his children.
But now, Li Zheng was caught. The other party said that it is natural to pay back debts. If they do not repay the 100,000 yuan owed by Li Zheng tonight, they will follow the rules of the road and give Li Zheng a "three swords and six holes"!
He stabbed him three times in the stomach, each stab piercing his stomach. If he was lucky and didn't damage his important organs and internal organs, he could survive.
However, if he is not careful, his internal organs will bleed, which could endanger his life.
At the beginning, Li Xiaoqiang directly stated that he would let Li Zheng die and he would never care about this unfilial son again.
However, he finally relented.
On the way here, he knelt in front of his wife's portrait and cried like a child.
His world has collapsed. After his spirit was completely crushed, he had completely given up on treating Li Zheng.
In the rented house, he took a shower and cleaned himself up. He took the money and went to the venue introduced by those people.
"Give it a try and your bicycle will turn into a motorcycle. What if you win?"
This group of gamblers, like this, pulled their children into the whirlpool and couldn't extricate themselves.
Li Xiaoqiang hated gambling deeply and wished he could send all these harmful scum to prison.
However, he knew that he had hated gambling all his life, but now he needed this only way to save his child's life.
I can't say it, it's really ironic.
Li Xiaoqiang knows very well that nine times out of ten he bets, he will lose. However, if this last straw is not grasped, Li Zheng will really be dead.
Those crazy people, even if Li Zheng dies, they probably won't let him go. His organs are also a huge asset.
After watching for a long time in the venue, he finally made up his mind and bet on number 65.
When the 20,000 yuan turned into a voucher, Li Xiaoqiang's heart was completely empty.
He doesn't even care whether he can win or not.
Winning is good, it can help Li Zheng pay back the money, and the child can survive. But what about next time? He has no money anymore. If Li Zheng continues to gamble, it will only delay his path to the abyss.
If you lose, it's over.
His father can't save him, so let's go to hell with him.
A deep wry smile appeared on his face. Li Xiaoqiang touched his face and realized that he was already in tears.
