Li Zhongsheng's voice was the only one left in the living room. He was telling a story, a story related to his childhood.
Li Zhongsheng's parents divorced when he was a child. His father unfortunately fell into a pond and died after being drunk. Because life was difficult in remote areas, his remarried mother took him to live with a new family.
Li Zhongsheng was seven years old that year.
Reorganizing the family itself had many problems. His stepfather already had two sons at home, and later he and his mother gave birth to a daughter. There were so many trivial things in life, and Li Zhongsheng was ostracized.
His stepfather also beat him many times. The last time, Li Zhongsheng was knocked unconscious. After waking up, he was lying at the door of Chen's old house. It was Mr. Chen who saved him.
Later, he accepted Li Zhongsheng as his disciple. At that time, Mr. Chen was already in his sixties.
As he grew older, Li Zhongsheng later learned that it was his mother who sent him unconscious to the door of Chen's old house in the next village, hoping that the respected Mr. Chen could save his life.
When Li Zhongsheng was twenty years old, he had already reached the age of marriage according to the custom there. His stepfather came to ask him to go back and get married again and again. The target was a business family in the city. If he asked him to marry into his wife, the other party would give his stepfather a large sum of money. .
The key is that the woman to be married is disabled.
Li Zhongsheng naturally would not agree, but scoundrels have no bottom line. In the end, Li Zhongsheng was forced to say goodbye to his master, senior brother and others and go to work alone in the magic city.
In addition to still having contact with his master and senior brother, Li Zhongsheng seemed to have completely disappeared. As time went by, his stepfather no longer had an excuse to cause trouble in the Chen family.
"Dad, how are they doing now?"
"Your grandma passed away due to illness very early. Your aunt married locally. Although her life is not rich, her family is very good. As for that family, it can only be described as a mess."
"The old man is a heavy drinker and is often drunk. The eldest son does not do his job properly, and he finally got a wife and drove her away. As for the second son, he committed a crime in his early years and spent several years in jail. After he came out, he did not want to repent and was idle all day long. Later, I hooked up with a widow and gave birth to a son, who is now over ten years old."
Sure enough, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.
"Dad, it's been so long. Even if you go back to visit your master, will they still come to make trouble?"
"Don't use normal people's thinking to guess their moral bottom line, otherwise Master will not let me go back forever."
"Dad, are you going to avoid them all your life?"
"More than twenty years have passed in a flash. Xiao Mo, your master will celebrate his 100th birthday on July 8th. I will go back no matter what this time. I'm really afraid that one day..."
Li Zhongsheng's voice was a little choked.
Li Mo was silent for a while. The love between his father and mother was probably related to his childhood. He knew that a happy life was hard to come by, so he had to live every day well so that he would have no regrets.
"Go back, you must go back. When the time comes, our whole family will follow you back."
Li Mo also felt uncomfortable. No wonder he had never mentioned anything about his hometown in his whole life.
This time I not only want to go back, but I also want to go back in glory.
I have to do something for my parents.
"Mom, when we are free, Dad and I will accompany you back to the previous orphanage to have a look. I also know that you often gave money to the orphanage before. Now our lives have changed a lot, and we have greater ability to go to the orphanage." Give me more help.”
Shiyi rubbed her eyes and hugged her son happily.
"Thank you Xiao Mo."
"Mom, I will be with you in the future." Li Mo said firmly, then took a jewelry box from his backpack, opened it and handed it to his mother, "Mom, this is the Erlongxizhu that I found at Liulichang in Kyoto. The bracelet is a fine product that came out of the palace in the late Qing Dynasty. I have processed it, you can try it on."
"From the palace?"
Shiyi took it out and looked at it, finally there was a smile on her face.
"Xiao Mo, isn't this bracelet an antique? Is it too expensive?"
"This is not expensive. Mom can wear it if she likes it."
Shiyi put it on her left wrist, looked at the light and said, "It's so beautiful, Xiao Mo. I'll wear this bracelet with two dragons playing with beads first, and then pass it on to my daughter-in-law."
"Xiao Mo, please pay more attention to Senior Sister Chen Feng's matter and resolve it as soon as possible. Your senior master's 100th birthday party will be held in more than ten days, so we will try our best to get back as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, there will definitely be news tomorrow."
Li Zhongsheng seemed to be relieved of a heavy burden. He stood up and took his wife's hand and said, "Let's go back to Yu Linglong."
After they left, Li Mo took a hot bath first, and when he came out, he saw Yingying still watching TV.
"They say sleep is the best way for you girls to be beautiful. Why don't you go to bed early?"
"First, my grandpa will come over, and in a few days you will have to attend the 100th birthday party. Our graduation trip can only be pushed back again and again. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and I am afraid that the final travel plan will be ruined."
"There's no time to change the plan. Why don't we learn a driver's license together before I come back? Then we can go on a self-driving trip wherever we want to go."
"My graduation trip!"
Liu Yingying sighed, a little regretful.
"Go to bed early and don't get panda eyes tomorrow."
"Tch, you have panda eyes."
Liu Yingying muttered, then turned off the TV, took a breath and went back to the room to rest.
Li Mo got up at around five o'clock the next morning, washed up, changed into sportswear and went out for a run. Practicing martial arts or not practicing martial arts will end up in vain, so he must persevere.
It was already half past seven when I got home dripping with sweat. Breakfast was set on the table, including eggs, fried dough sticks, white porridge, tofu curd and spicy soup.
It was still steaming early, so she must have just bought it. Liu Yingying was watering the green plants on the balcony, bending down from time to time to repair them with scissors.
"Yingying, what are your plans today?"
"I'm going to accompany my grandpa to Xijiangkou Old Street. He wants to buy some pastries he likes to eat and take a walk to relax." Liu Yingying walked back to the house and saw that Li Mo's head was covered with sweat, "You go and wash it first A bath, I bought everything early."
"I'll check the time today. If I can make it, I'll go with my master." Li Mo entered the bathroom, and soon there was the sound of water running inside.
After taking a shower, Li Mo sat at the dining table, took the chopsticks handed over by Yingying and said, "Is it from the breakfast shop at the entrance of the community?"
"Well, what's wrong?"
"The tofu puffs they make are not delicious, so don't buy them next time. If you want to talk about specialties, it's the chive cake shop next door. If you haven't tried it, buy one and give it a try next time."
"You're not at home. I just eat some rice porridge and eggs alone. How could I buy so much? If the tofu puffs don't taste good, don't eat them. When you go out later, you can go to the gate of the community and buy something else. By the way, tomorrow night Don’t forget your classmates’ dinner party, I heard that the class star of your class will also attend.”
Li Mo took a bite of the fried dough sticks, which were crunchy. He ate the spicy soup and shook his head and said, "I don't know very well. In fact, I don't really want to attend that dinner party. In the past, I was no different from a transparent person in their eyes at school. I usually didn't We don’t talk much, so eating together would be boring.”
Liu Yingying peeled an egg and put it in his bowl, then took out a piece of paper and pointed to the corner of her mouth.
"That was before, now no one dares to look down on you. Will you drink tomorrow night? If you do, I will pick you up then so that you don't find your way back."
"Hahaha, it's not cold now, so at worst I can sleep on the roadside. Okay, don't worry, I won't drink. By the way, go back and see Master and tell him, I got some tours Jinling Museum’s free electronic coupons will be given to customers who come into the store to buy porcelain.”
"good."
Before breakfast was finished, Niu Sanpang called.
When Li Mo connected, he heard the almost roaring voice of the third fat man: "Master Li, you really don't know if you don't check. That bastard is indeed dirty. Even before all the accounts have been checked, more than three million yuan has been discovered." Hole, those losers didn’t even notice this moth. Mr. Li, I’ll get on the plane and rush to the Magic City in a moment, and I’ll contact you when I get there.”
"Don't worry, luckily I found it early and died first."
