Yu Liangmu

The hometown where You Liangmu and Cheng Kai lived since they were young is a distribution center for middle peasants. To put it bluntly, it is a dilapidated town that relies on farming for its livelihood.

It's not that the people here have never thought about getting rid of poverty. They thought about it. Many years ago, some people said that the ecology here is good, and any rough scenery will kill the Quartet, so it can save the development of tourism.

But later, the money for development was scraped away by the mayor.

As a result, this poverty can't be lifted for a while, only the mayor takes the money to have fun, and the townspeople collectively fall into the vicious circle of poverty, and they can't live or die to reach the "post-rich"...

Fortunately, the government of Z did not give up on them, and the Municipal Education Bureau actively responded to the call of "making more intellectuals in the countryside", and gave this broken town that could not be supported by the mud a place in a key middle school, as well as a scholarship.

You Liangmu was 15 years old that year, and together with him and Cheng Kai, there were only a dozen students in the town who were in the third grade of junior high school, and they were all born at the right time.

You Liangmu remembered that when he heard the news, he was still working in the field, facing the loess and back to the sky, sweating profusely from exhaustion, just to dig out fresh cassava.

"Ah Liang!!!"

His uncle shouted excitedly, limped across the field, his trouser legs were covered with mud, and hurriedly sent him good news——

There is an opportunity to go to the city to attend high school, and there is a scholarship.

You Liangmu straightened up, his voice trembling uncontrollably, he couldn't quite believe it: "Really, really?"

You Qichao jumped on his feet and grinned, and said beamingly, "Really! You just pass the exam! If you get the first place in the high school exam, you can study!"

A bunch of proclamations of the glory of the ancestors came out of the man's mouth. You Liangmu was a little dizzy when he heard it. He felt that there were water droplets in his eyes to join in the fun. He wiped his dirty hands on his face, the tears disappeared, and there were a few black lines mud marks.

The boy had a big painted face and a golden smile.

"Uncle, I must study hard!"

You Liangmu is not smart, but it doesn't matter, after all, there are not many serious learners in the town, all of them are cheated.

He thought that as long as he was willing to work hard, it was still possible to win the exam and get a place.

Ever since, in the third year of junior high school, he studied desperately.Even though the level of teaching in the town is comparable to that of fake wine, but with his determination not to associate with garbage, he still insists on hanging on the beam and trying to become a talent by himself.

In the end, God really opened his eyes to this troubled young man, and let him get the first place in the exams every time in the junior high school in the town full of trash.

He's taller than a dwarf.

During the period, some people persuaded him and looked down on him.

"Stop reading, you are a scholar who is useless, and you are still a poor scholar. Doesn't that mean it is broken, and it is even less valuable! Go to the city to find a job, enter a factory or set up a stall. You are better than young. Get two more years of work experience, and the salary of two or three thousand will be enough for you."

——A peer in the town who went to work illegally at the age of 14 advised him like this.

You Liangmu shook the dog's tail grass in his hand, and smiled cheerfully, "Hey...it's okay."

The other party persuaded, "If it doesn't work, go catch a rich woman. You look fair, and rich women in the city like this kind of thing! As long as you are willing to spare, and learn a few tricks to serve others, you will be funny, and you won't get any money. ah."

Throwing away the bald dog's tail grass, You Liangmu said persistently: "Maybe I'm destined to bring Wenchangxing... It's a shame not to study, and it's a waste of destiny to violate the horoscope. If you do it, you will be punished... You say I dare Don't you want to read?"

You Liangmu is quite sure that he can go to high school.

Of course, it's not unreadable in the end.

Didn't pass the exam doesn't mean he didn't pass the exam, he passed the exam, but was told that he didn't pass the exam.

In the midterm entrance examination where the rain leaked from the roof, You Liangmu finished the exam with an umbrella, and it was no doubt that he won the top spot. However, the final result was...

Failed.

He failed to get a place to study in the city's key high school, let alone the scholarship he urgently needed. Both of these things fell to the ignorant and incompetent son of the mayor's family.

You Liangmu was kept in the dark at the time, thinking that he was learning bravely every day, but he still lost to a little bastard who wandered around every day and was idle. Such a blow made him really feel that his life was quite bleak.

Coupled with the fact that his grandfather died later, he was depressed and his family was poor. In order to help the family, he naturally dropped out of school and entered the society early to make a living.

I won't repeat it later.

It wasn't until a few years later that the mayor's fraud and stealing a place to send his son to a key high school was revealed, and You Liangmu didn't know that his place had been stolen.

He suddenly realized a truth: "Shoot the bird that stands out".

Because he was the best one, he became the most innocent one.

Since then, You Liangmu has believed that "everyone has his own destiny".

He believed that it was fate that he was abandoned by his biological mother, that he could not read books was fate, and later, he believed that it was fate that he had to help his uncle pay his debts, and that it was fate that he was abandoned by Tang Yunqian.

He believed in fate more and more, believing that he was destined to be a lump of mud by birth.At least, this predestined theory will make him feel better and reduce unnecessary struggles.

Looking back now, it has been almost ten years, and everything seems to have happened yesterday. Fortunately, he no longer feels anything.

"You Liangmu, back then... I..."

Right now, he was choking on the meal, and Cheng Kai seemed to want to say a few words about the past, whether it was an explanation or a grooming for himself.

But when he looked at You Liangmu's face, he didn't know how to speak.

You Liangmu didn't look at his face, but only looked at the watch in his hand, thinking how many months' salary it would take to buy it.

Perhaps, someone like Cheng Kai, who has studied in a good university and has a good job, can buy it in two or three months, but he himself has been working for three to five years, and he is not willing to buy it for the rest of his life.

"There's nothing to talk about," You Liangmu shrugged and said to Cheng Kai, "Everyone has his own destiny."

Everyone has their own destiny, as long as we attribute the bad things in life to these four words that contain the deep meaning, everything will be much easier.As long as you believe in your fate and accept your fate, everything can be seen through.

He knew that no matter what he did, he couldn't change the reality, so he could only lie flat on his back, be a salty fish that no one paid attention to, and lived his life sloppily, and he was quite comfortable.

I remember the first time he went online that year, he pondered for a long time in front of the computer in the Internet cafe, and finally gave himself a very simple online name, "Lucky Good Wood".

And soon, he discovered that the names of surfing netizens are also very interesting, "I can't spend enough money", "Looks like Yanzu", "Riding high on the boss's head", "Ten pounds thinner"... and so on , which opened his eyes to the old-fashioned and occluded.

I don't know how many of these strange names are realistic, but You Liangmu thinks most of them should be pure fiction.

It turns out that everyone is the same as him, the more they get nothing, the more they will write those things and desires into fictional names to satisfy their wishful thinking and vanity for a short moment.

After so many years, the "lucky boy" who robbed him of his life now has a good career and a bright future, and he is sitting in front of the unfortunate You Liangmu, treating him to expensive meals at high-end restaurants. Price meals.

In the long-distance running of life, these two friends who don't know whether they are friends or not, one of them has long since lost the other, throwing a large distance, and running in an unattainable distance.

Cheng Kai looked into the man's eyes and said to him: "You Liangmu, if possible, I would like to make it up to you."

"what……?"

"I owe you too much, too much."

"Uh."

"For so many years, I've been wondering if we were...were friends, but if it wasn't for this matter, we might...maybe not be in touch like we are now. We might—"

"Forget it, our relationship...hey, it's always been like this." You Liangmu scratched his head, not understanding why the other party suddenly seemed to be very emotional, which was inexplicable.

"You said you hate me..." Cheng Kai suddenly grasped You Liangmu's hands tightly as if he had made up his mind, "But I don't want you to hate me."

You Liangmu was stunned immediately, "Hey, don't do this."

He thought, after so many years, Cheng Kai should have been brooding over this matter, that's why he was so excited at this moment, and started directly.

"Sorry." Realizing his resistance, Cheng Kai withdrew his hand, took a deep breath, and adjusted the surging emotions in his chest.

You Liangmu was a little helpless, "No matter what you say, things have already happened, and no one can change anything."

He still remembers that when he was 21 years old, there were many major events in his hometown, and the storm was devastating——

The goddamn mayor was reported, and some related households were dismissed together. The case of the mayor sending his son to high school for personal gain many years ago was also exposed.

Overnight, You Liangmu became the poor kid who was robbed of the chance to study.

All kinds of miscellaneous people swarmed in, including the new mayor who was appointed as a new official, and some carrying cameras and microphones. They rushed all the way with great fanfare, and rushed directly to the door of You Liangmu's hometown, saying they were condolences and interviews.

This battle scared the sow who poked her head out to join in the fun and went back to the pigsty to obediently bow to the cabbage.

At that time, You Liangmu was wearing a straw hat, rolled up his trouser legs, and pulling a five-yuan plastic mop, concentrating on feeding the chickens in the yard of the old house.

He just happened to go back to his hometown to see his grandma, why did he encounter such a troublesome situation...

Everyone surrounded him like a wolf, snapped pictures, and there were a few recorders and the like, making a big fuss about his rough experience and tragic life experience.

"Now that your former mayor has been brought to justice, what do you think?"

"What do you want to say to your old self?"

"Do you still plan to continue your studies?"

"Have you considered asking the society for help?"

"..."

The reporters asked a lot of questions one after another, but You Liangmu didn't pay much attention to it, as if the question was a rotten egg that fell on him, and he could only bury his head to avoid it, and sprinkled a handful of rice bran and vegetable leaves by the way.

At that moment, chirping, he was like a crane, surrounded by chickens, crowing continuously.

There is nothing to answer, he just wants to ask everyone present, who can give him the chance to start his life again?

He didn't want these fruit baskets, he didn't want these sympathy items, he wanted a chance to study, he wanted the acceptance letter with gold characters and bright red stamp.

——The one stolen by Cheng Kai.

You Liangmu thought about it again, maybe it's useless to hold it in his hand.

Because, at the age of 21, he has been working in the society for six years. He has long been accustomed to this mediocre mode.

So, after so many years, when he said to Cheng Kai who was trying to make up for himself, "Nothing can be changed", this was indeed his sincere words.

He said he accepted his fate, which is also true.

Now in the restaurant, two men are smiling at each other just like this, with two distorted smiling masks that are about to split open, revealing two faces that no one can smile at.

Between them, there may be only resentment and guilt left, and there is a past that cannot be washed away and is unwilling to talk about.

"Let's eat," You Liangmu picked up a cold baby dish in soup and started to mumble.

Cheng Kai looked at him quietly, feeling suffocated in his heart, wanted to say something more, but forcibly held back.

In such an atmosphere that was on the verge of collapse, Cheng Kai was fidgeting. Suddenly, he saw an acquaintance walking into the door of the restaurant.

This was like an opportunity for him to end the silence and embarrassment, so he quickly opened his mouth and said to You Liangmu: "I, I saw the boss of our company, uh, I'll go over to say hello, you can eat first... ...."

You Liang didn't lift the wood, "Oh."

Cheng Kai got up sullenly, left his seat as if fleeing, walked quickly to his boss, and greeted him respectfully: "Mr. Tang."

Tang Yunqian was slender and neat, with a suit jacket on his forearm, the collar of his shirt was slightly open, his face was sharp, but still eye-catchingly handsome.

Hearing the sound, he looked at Cheng Kai who was walking over, and he was not surprised to see his subordinates here, after all, this is a restaurant very close to the company.

Tang Yunqian also greeted the other party lightly, "Kevin."

Cheng Kai asked, "Are you coming here for dinner too?"

"Well, let's talk about something."

"That's quite a coincidence. I came here for a casual meal with my friends. I didn't expect to meet you just in time."

Cheng Kai and the immediate boss were polite, said a few words casually, and lifted his chin towards You Liangmu, indicating that his friend was over there.

Tang Yunqian looked around and saw his friend.

I don't know if there is a sense in the dark, You Liangmu happened to look over, and before he could look back, he collided with Tang Yunqian.

"..."

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