Special Chapter. Wise Man 1

"Azhi, go back to the house with mom!"

Ran Zhi looked at the people outside the room with a horrified expression. Their smiling faces with contemptuous and provocative expressions made people feel a little uneasy and scared. There were many onlookers around, but no one dared to come over. Help this poor person.

Ran Zhi looked at everything in front of him in horror. His mother was crying silently. Then Ran Zhi was pulled into the house and the door was closed little by little. In the last scene, Ran Zhi saw his father being knocked to the ground. Then these people He surrounded his father and started punching and kicking him.

The sobs kept echoing in Ran Zhi's ears. He looked at the door in horror. His mother hugged him tightly. Only his mother's warmth made Ran Zhi feel a little relieved, but Ran Zhi could feel his mother trembling slightly. With.

boom

The door to the room was smashed open, and his father fell in. There was blood on his cheeks. Ran Zhi looked at everything in front of him weakly and horrified. His father was held up by two people. He seemed to have lost all his strength and was violently shaking. Panting and coughing, the leading man looked very fierce. He squatted down and pulled his father's hair.

"Your wife looks pretty good, so give it to us."

For a moment, his father became excited, but was soon beaten again. His mother was pulled up. Ran Zhi sat on the ground in shock and bewilderment. He was so scared that he could do nothing or move anything. Only 8 The year-old Ran Zhi could only watch everything happen blankly, without crying or shouting, he could only watch blankly.

"The house is for you!"

Finally, when Ran Zhi saw his father spit out these words, the people who were holding his mother laughed and let go of their mother. Her mother cried, but she ran over first and hugged the frightened Ran Zhi.

A group of people laughed and looked at their father who took out the house deed step by step. Then they asked his father to sign a contract and walked away with smiles.

Many neighbors nearby came over. Some were comforting the mother, while others were comforting the father who was sitting motionless on the ground. For 2,000 yuan, the house was gone and they would have to move out in a few days.

Ran Zhi didn’t know how much 2,000 yuan was. He only knew that if he had one yuan of pocket money, he would be very happy on weekdays and could spend it for several days. But what Ran Zhi didn’t understand was why no one was willing to help and why everyone didn’t resist. , Ran Zhi often saw this kind of thing on this street. It happened every week. This group of people would come over fiercely, beat them and take away some valuable things, and even take away the women and children of the family.

With the help of others, the house was tidied up. Some neighbors who had a good relationship with my parents in the past chipped in a little money and gave it to my parents.

"It's okay, Azhi, it's okay. Let's go somewhere else. A friend of my father's knows a good job there."

Ran Zhi looked at his father blankly, while his mother, who was packing things behind him, was still sobbing softly. The dim sunlight shone at the door of the house, and the surrounding area began to darken.

After just a touch of blood red, the city fell into darkness for an instant, but after a short while the lights came on. Ran Zhi looked into the distance. The light was like running water, slowly lighting up from top to bottom, and finally reached the bottom floor, with only the street. Some dim street lights turned on. The electricity at home had been out for several days, and the water was the same.

"Dad, let's go there!"

Ran Zhi said, raising his hand and pointing to the brightly lit place in the distance. His father just shook his head silently, and Ran Zhi couldn't help but shake his head when he found his mother behind him.

"We can't go to that place Azhi."

"Why dad!"

Ran Zhi had been there once with some friends nearby. Everything there was completely different from the street where he was, with clean and spacious streets, people in novel and beautiful clothes, and magnificent high-rise buildings.

The father was silent, with a troubled look on his face. He seemed not to know how to answer his son's question, and could not answer it, because even he himself did not know why. In the end, the question turned into a question. The father gently patted Ran Zhi's head and urged him to Go get your stuff sorted.

Ran Zhi glanced at the brightly lit place again, and finally closed his eyes. Everything immediately fell into darkness, except that there was a little redness in the darkness under his eyes.

Ran Zhi has grown up a bit. He is already 11 years old and has some strength. He helps his father at the construction site every day. In front of him is a large area of ​​houses under construction. There is endless work to do every day. Every day Ran Zhi is able to get to a salary of 4 yuan.

Ran Zhi, who was carrying some materials and sending them over, saw what his father and the foreman were talking about. Looking at his father, his head was lowered, and his face looked very troubled. Ran Zhi put down the materials and walked over.

His father's salary is 10 yuan a day, which is twice as much as his own. Ran Zai also wants to be like his father soon. Now that he has strength, he can earn more money. Now his life is a little more comfortable, because both his father and he are working on the construction site. My mother would work in some nearby snack shops.

"You have only been here a while. If you don't make friends with us, how can you continue to work here for a long time?"

Seeing the foreman patting his father on the shoulder and his father nodding with a submissive look, Ran Zai didn't know what was going on.

"Just have some fun."

Finally, his father uttered these words, and many people around him smiled. This smile made Ran Zhi look a little uncomfortable.

night

It was the time when Ran Zhi hated it the most. There was only a dim light at home, and the house was dark. Ran Zhi wanted the house to be brighter, so he proposed to his mother to buy a better lamp with his wages, but his mother rejected it.

What Ran Zhi didn't understand was that he and his father had money now, so why did they have to be so frugal? His father hadn't come back yet. Ran Zhi didn't know what was wrong. He had obviously gone to work with his father, but it was already 10 o'clock in the evening and his father hadn't come back yet.

Tired, Ran Zhi fell asleep after dinner. In a daze, Ran Zhi heard a sob. He got up from the bed and looked at his mother who was sitting at the table wiping tears through the crack in the door. His father looked a little dull and he was eating.

Looking at his parents' expressions, they all looked uncomfortable. Ran Zhi didn't know what happened. His parents had never had too intense a quarrel. They were both honest and decent people. Ran Zhi had basically never seen his parents have too intense conflicts with others since he was a child.

"It's okay, it will only take one or two times at most."

Looking at his father's worried look, his mother could only nod. Seeing the two hugging each other again, Ran Zhi felt a little relieved.

The days working on the construction site passed quickly, because every day was very tiring. He didn't have to think about anything. He worked when he woke up, ate when he was hungry, and rested when he was sleepy.

Every day was numb for Ran Zhi. He was a little tired of such endless days. Today was payday again. After Ran Zhi received his salary, he felt a little happy, but his father was pulled over by the foreman again.

Looking at his father's embarrassed look, Ran Zhi secretly followed him this time. Every time his father asked him to go back first, but this time Ran Zhi didn't listen to his father.

A group of people were talking to his father with a smile. Ran Zhi listened for a long time before he understood that they wanted to pull his father to play cards, but his father obviously didn't want to go. Looking at the fat foreman with yellow teeth tiptoeing and hugging his father, his originally kind face disappeared.

"Have you thought about it? If you don't go today, how can we be friends in the future?"

"I've been there several times, why is it always me?"

Some people around laughed and started to push my father, trying to force him to go. At this time, Ran Zhi couldn't hold it back, but he didn't go over. He saw that his father, who was always kind and friendly, had an angry expression on his face.

"I said I won't go, so I won't go. I've already lost thousands of dollars to you. What else do you want? Shouldn't you leave people a way out?"

Looking at his father's angry roar, the people who pushed him loosened their hands for a while. The foreman was stunned, and then he immediately laughed and pushed his father away.

"Didn't you win a few times? How do you mean that we are bullying you together, right!"

After the foreman winked, a group of people dispersed, and then they left. Ran Zhi ran out at this time. He realized that these people had dragged his father to gamble. Ran Zhi had seen too many gamblers. They were always poor and destitute. They were not good people.

"Azhi, it's okay."

Looking at his father's gentle expression, Ran Zhi was still a little worried, because he saw the expressions of those people when they left, which were vicious.

Ran Zhi's worries came true. In the following days, when his father and himself were working on the construction, either the construction tools were lost or they were assigned to some work that was difficult for one person to complete, and the result was that they did not do their work well.

"Go away, you are not needed here."

In just half a month, his father and himself were fired. Seeing his father begging, no matter what his father said, the person in charge was determined to fire his father and himself, and Ran Zhi began to argue with the person in charge.

"Listen, kid, I don't care what happens to you. I don't care about this matter. If you are threatened by others and deliberately excluded, you should go to the local administrators to talk about this matter, not to me. What I need is someone who can complete the work every day. I don't care about the rest. Get out of here. This is your salary for the past few days."

Pah

Watching the person in charge angrily smash two paper envelopes filled with money on the table, some scattered banknotes inside spilled out, and the person in charge turned and left, Ran Zhi stared at the person in charge in a daze, and when he looked at his father again, he lowered his head and bent over to pick up the money, and bursts of laughter came from all around.

Ran Zhi has seen this situation countless times. Not only his father, but many other people living at the bottom of the society are like this, cowardly and timid, and can only swallow their anger for any humiliation. For the first time, Ran Zhi felt that such a life, if it is like this for a lifetime, is too sad.

The days of wandering began. Every time their family went to a place, it was more difficult to get a stable job, and life was always very busy.

It is difficult to stay in one place for a long time. Now Ran Zhi finally understands why his mother is so frugal. It is rather difficult to find a long-term and stable job. Ran Zhi can only go to some construction sites with his father as a temporary worker. The salary of temporary workers is very different from that of regular workers, which is something Ran Zhi had never thought of.

Looking at the houses and high-rise buildings that he and his father had helped build, Ran Zhi wanted to ask the city's managers why they had paid blood and sweat, but they couldn't even have enough food and clothing, and had to suffer some vicious oppression, especially those gang members, who were even more unscrupulous, thinking that they would always have a good relationship with the managers.

No matter where you go, you can always see all this, those guys who live a comfortable life by oppressing others, and most of the bullied people are always cowardly, obviously angry and unwilling, obviously humiliated, but unable to resist. For Ran Zhi, the bottom is like a cage that will imprison people's thoughts and personalities.

Most people in the cage are like this, and they don't have the strength to resist at all, because they are tired every day, running around every day, and don't even have a little time. Ran Zhi doesn't know how long this day will last before he can get peace.