Chapter 8

VIII

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From dropping out of school to that one-to-many fight, a whole year, Wei Qian has been living a mechanical and day-to-day life, this life is like a piece of coarse sandpaper, a little bit of young jumping off the gas on his body like a dead skin to grind down.

The door to the future in front of him slowly closed, time pushed him to run for his life, Wei Qian originally thought that such a day will be very painful, but later he found that once a person is in the "painful days", but the "pain" of the feelings of less sensitive, he He could still find some fun and enjoy it for a long time, and the year went by very quickly.

One of them was made by Wei Zhiyuan.

Xiao Yuan is not like Xiao Bao, Wei Qian said what he would listen to, generally do not have to bother with him more words, but did not expect to go to school this thing, this pup even learned to struggle.

Wei Zhiyuan was reluctant to go to school. He had lived in a deformed environment and knew a lot about survival-related things, but was shockingly lacking in the common sense that normal children should have. He had no concept of school. Xiaobao told him that going to school meant sitting in a classroom and learning how to read and count, and Wei Zhiyuan thought about it and decided that he had no interest in reading and counting either.

The little boy stubbornly believes that going to school means doing nothing and being lazy and relying on his big brother to support him every day.

It made him dread going to school--even though that fall, Wei Zhiyuan had been picked up by Wei Qian for a whole year, and had hung out with Xiaobao for ten mature years, and even often pinched and fought together, he still had the fear that he would be left behind at any moment.

Wei Zhiyuan takes contributing to the family as a way to alleviate this fear, doing chores and collecting bottles to sell for spare change are the ways he contributes, when he is "deprived" of the opportunity to contribute, Wei Zhiyuan subconsciously feels that this is a precursor to his abandonment, and so begins his fierce resistance.

Wei Qian every day busy as a dog, of course, will not be able to understand the children and teenagers that a little twisted little mind, he just in the morning of the school day, simple and rough Wei Zhiyuan and Song Xiaobao from home, despite Wei Zhiyuan's pounce back to lock the door, and then all the way to even drag and drop the two of them to the school.

In the meantime, Wei Zhiyuan behaved like a cat with fried hair, being carried by Wei Qian together with a person and a schoolbag, his feet did not touch the ground, hanging in mid-air, scratching and then biting in the position of a dog paddle, causing passers-by to watch from time to time.

When I went out, I met SanFat, who was happy to see him: "Yo, Qian'er, what are you doing? He struggled so much, did you finally decide to slaughter them for meat?"

Wei Qian fiercely slapped Wei Zhiyuan on his ass, "Do you hear me, disgraceful thing, a pig to be slaughtered is more like you than you see death!"

Wei Zhiyuan blushed and declared, "I'm not going to school!"

Song Xiaobao uproariously set up Yangzi, bouncing alongside, cheerfully saying in a learned tongue, "Then I don't go to school either!"

Wei Qian was just about to speak when another declaration of freedom with a sobbing voice suddenly exploded around him, a little boy, who was also forcibly carried to school by his father, cried all the way to his liver and said sadly, "I don't want to go to school!"

The boy mom followed closely with small broken steps, rambling on the side of the bear child ideological education, Wei Qian listened sideways for a while, and found that she talked from scientists to make a lot of money, and from the vision of the future to buy soy sauce elbow in the evening, astronomy, geography, up and down five thousand years, everything is not included.

The teenager who was the elder brother couldn't agree with this kind of cumbersome education method, he took the simple route, and immediately sneered, turned his head and swept the two bear children with a noble and cold glance, and said coldly and ruthlessly, "Did I ask you two for your opinions? Did you two say 'no'?"

A word out, threw the ground, Wei Zhiyuan suddenly did not say anything, Song Xiaobao was purely follow the trend, immediately also see good not to make trouble, even next to that has been coaxed bad bear child followed a huff, inexplicably do not dare to cry.

Wei Qian put Wei Zhiyuan down at the entrance of the school, rushed to the elementary school with a lift of his chin, and said in an amnesty-like tone, "Go in."

Song Xiaobao took two steps, looked back, realized Wei Zhiyuan was still in the same place, and hesitantly stood again.

Wei Qian's patience completely ran out and sank his face to look at Xiao Yuan, "Against you, what do you want?"

Wei Zhiyuan stalked his neck and didn't say anything, Wei Qian sneered, "Love to go or not, who still begs you, if you have the ability to roll ah."

Wei Zhiyuan instinctively took a step back, he was not afraid of his big brother's anger, but he was afraid of his big brother's impersonal cynicism like this.

Wei Qian was too lazy to spoil his problems and turned around.

Wei Zhiyuan heart aggrieved, all along, he has been trying hard to get closer to this person a little bit, want to do more for this person a little bit more, but it seems that no matter how he is, the other party is unappreciative, the big brother is like a person he can never please, always give him such a turn away from the back, and even the smile is so rare.

Wei Zhiyuan suddenly pounced up and shone a bite on Wei Qian's wrist.

Wei Qian instinctively retracted his hand a don't wrist, the teenager's abrupt and hard wrist bone knocked into the boy's incisors, Wei Zhiyuan suddenly loosened his mouth, Wei Qian looked down and saw the child spit out the first small milk teeth that fell out.

Wei Zhiyuan's expression at that time simply froze, no one ever told him about changing teeth, teeth were knocked out and knocked out he could understand, but he fell off himself, how he could not understand.

In Wei Zhiyuan's perception, arms and legs could be cut off, and they wouldn't die if they were cut off, but would they fall off by themselves for no reason?

Wei Zhiyuan stood there sullenly, staring blankly at his fallen incisors, a shocked and fearful expression on his face, as if he were one of those people in a TV show who had just heard that they had a terminal illness.

Wei Qian managed to be entertained by his bizarre expression, his gloomy face nearly failing to tense up as he hurriedly turned around and walked away with a smile on his face, even forgetting to take into account the fact that the puppy had bitten him.

Wei Zhiyuan upset, but there is also the only chaos, Song Xiaobao, a comrade who is not enough to accomplish anything, see, in the side of the fussing yell: "Aigoo, your teeth fell out, I think it must be poisoned deeply, time is running out!"

Wei Qian spent five dollars to acquire an old TV that someone else threw away and didn't want, and went home to fix it, Song Xiaobao is watching martial arts movies these days and learned a mouth full of bullshit lines.

The speaker is unintentional, Wei Zhiyuan's face turned white when he heard her words, and instinctively raised his eyes to look for Wei Qian, only to find that the person had already left. For a moment, great desolation surged into Wei Zhiyuan's heart, his soul was lost, muddled, and he was pulled into the school by Song Xiaobao, thinking blankly, "I'm going to die."

Wei Zhiyuan no longer struggled with Wei Qian about going to school - he was going to die, and all the struggles were meaningless.

During that period of time Wei Zhiyuan dreamed in the middle of the night, often sitting up in a darkness, feeling his more and more active several other teeth, conscious that his life is not long to go, he suffered the torment and stabbing pain of life and death inside, almost greedily looking at Wei Qian's calm sleeping face, as if he wanted to imprint his big brother in his brain and take him to the next world.

A month later, Wei Zhiyuan's teeth fell out of three, talking began to leak, he stopped talking, put on a silent posture of waiting for death.

During this period, while other children had yet to learn Hanyu Pinyin, Wei Zhiyuan had already taught himself the common characters at the back of the textbooks with his extraordinary learning ability and unusual motivation - his motivation was to leave a suicide note before he died.

For this suicide note, Wei Zhiyuan specially asked his teacher to teach him how to use the dictionary, and every day after class time and play time, he tried his best to recognize the words in the old dictionary lent to him by his teacher.

Therefore, Wei Zhiyuan's mind was not distracted, thinking that there was no need for a dying man to make friends with his classmates, so he was indifferent to everyone, and rightly did not notice that there were hordes of little open teeth in the class who spoke in leaky language just like him.

Finally, when the midterm exams were about to be held, Wei Zhiyuan recognized hundreds of Chinese characters with the perseverance of a "dying man" and got a perfect score in the language test.

He was "not surprised" and didn't care about the teacher's praise at all, and finished his masterpiece - a suicide note - before his teeth fell out.

On that day it happened that both Pocky and Sanfat were having dinner at Wei Qian's house, and Wei Zhiyuan solemnly handed over the suicide note to Wei Qian.

The three fat people do not four six asked, "Yo, brother, just two months of school and will write love letters to your big brother ah?"

Wei Qian took it with chopsticks in his mouth, unwrapped it in a couple of times and started reading it with interest, Wei Zhiyuan swept him a glance and lowered his head in a somber mood, "It's a suicide note."

Three Fatty didn't hear, "What is it?"

Wei Zhiyuan said calmly like a soldier about to die, "It's a suicide note, I'm about to die."

Everyone gazed at him with an eerie look.

In the middle of the day, Asako asked, "How, how did you ...... you, how did you tell that you were about to die?"

Wei Zhiyuan felt a blockage in his throat, which made his voice sound breathless, "I've lost several teeth, and several others are active as well."

The three fat faces full of horizontal meat twitched a bit, carefully asked, "Then you just ...... didn t feel that there were new teeth growing out of the place where the teeth had fallen out?"

Wei Zhiyuan finally couldn't help but choke, "Isn't that a flashback?"

The crowd was silent for two seconds, then Three Fatty and Wei Qian looked at each other and burst into a fit of laughter at the same time, the only one who was still generous was Asako, who barely managed to suppress it, "Pen--Yeh don't, don't laugh, you ...... don't --joke at him, he, he is still small ......"

Wei Qian choked on his own saliva and rolled onto the sofa, coughing uncontrollably, coughing as he laughed, tears coming out of his eyes.

Big brother in the family is always end, a meticulous smile of the parents, has never been in front of them so unrestrained laughter, Wei Zhiyuan almost frozen, for a time even the "parting of life and death" are forgotten.

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He didn't expect that the big brother, who was oblivious to any pleasing he could do, would be so amused by an ominous suicide note.

So later Wei Zhiyuan do not know out of what idea, he secretly put the "suicide note" collection.

Later, when Wei Qian became famous in Le's nightclub, both Xiao Bao and Xiao Yuan had already settled into the second grade.

It is said that a lot of people on the spot on that day was Wei Qian was subdued, and at that time happened to be in the local a big man from the south of the Hu four masters also quite appreciated him, secretly asked people to pass him a business card, attempting to poach. Unfortunately, Wei Qian was dragging his family around and couldn't get away, so he had to reject Master Hu's good intentions.

From then on, "Little Wei" became "Little Brother Wei".

Wei Qian's arm is indeed a fracture, to the hospital to fix it, Le's attitude towards him again three hundred and sixty degree turnaround, very attentive to personally drive him home, and called the hemp, so that hemp to help take good care of it, the near future do not have to come to work, the wages as open.

Asako also works under Lok in order to support his family - Asako is responsible for cleaning the nightclub every morning during the early hours of the day.

He cleaned up diligently, but unfortunately not much success, if not because of Wei Qian's sake, Brother Le may not even remember him. On the contrary, the three fat, with the age, he began to and Le brother gang gradually estranged, even if still lotus roots, but also just remember the buddy righteousness, occasionally something when you can give a favor, support a hand.

Three Fatty seems to be more passionate about the family craft of killing pigs and selling meat.

Wei Qian dragged a broken arm back home to rest when the two cubs came back from school.

Wei Zhiyuan pounced over without even putting down his bag, "Brother!"

Pocky was busy stopping him with one hand, "But, but ...... can't pounce on him, he ...... his armpits... ..."

Wei Zhiyuan frowned tightly, "What happened to the arm?"

Wei Qian held his cigarette and said vaguely, "The dog bit it."

Song Xiaobao said heartlessly, "How can a dog bite be wrapped up like a dumpling?"

Wei Zhiyuan's little face was taut, and he still wanted to ask questions, Wei Qian already obviously didn't want to say anything, he put on a serious expression, "Go do your homework, what's the point of wasting words? You guys stay out of the adults' business."

That's all it took to get rid of the two kids without a word.

Pocky looked at the reluctant Wei Zhiyuan, rubbed his hands together again, and turned his head to Wei Qian and said, "Late, evening Silk--San Brother will cook, cook for you, I, I still, I still have to go--go to the ......"

Although Le generously let him off the hook, Pocky didn't dare to take it seriously.

Pocky looked at Wei Qian with some embarrassment, stuttering and trying to explain to him. Pocky is such a solid-hearted person, he won't be able to sneak around if he's asked to, Wei Qian didn't know him on the first day and waved his hand, "Alright, I know, go ahead, you!"

With difficulty, Asako commanded, "Pen-yea don't touch the water, little, careful ......"

Wei Qian: "Come on, do me a favor and say less, your old man will save energy and I can live two more years."

With Ma Zi gone and San Fatty cooking in the kitchen, Wei Qian was bored and casually picked up a copy of Xiao Bao's extracurricular reading material for them and read it.

The reading material is handed out by the school and given to second graders, usually inspirational stories about heroes and such, and after reading it, they are asked to write a book report, and sometimes parents are asked to supervise and sign their homework.

Wei Qian read a few, suddenly felt quite a bear bag, the story, people are either young for the motherland to throw their heads into the blood, or disabled, overcome all the difficulties still study every day, as if anyone's difficulties are bigger than his, but people can still be a role model.