Chapter 27: Hemp ropes always break at the thinnest part, and misfortune always finds the unfortunat
Chapter 27: Hemp ropes always break at the thinnest part, and misfortune always finds the unfortunate.
"Uncle was a big boss in the 1990s?"
Lu Yuanqiu let out an “Oh!”
How should I put it? The uncle in overalls does have a special temperament. If he doesn't speak, you really can't tell what's wrong with him.
He was a handsome man, and his clothes, although a little old, were actually very clean, with a faint scent of laundry detergent.
Lu Yuanqiu patted the uncle in overalls on the shoulder, with a smile on his face that showed a bit of emotion and helplessness.
"Then how did he become like this... Do you understand, sir?"
Having nothing to do, Lu Yuanqiu asked curiously.
The sanitation worker put his broom on the steps beside him, looked up at the sky, and started chatting: "Yes, I know him. He lives in the same alley as me."
Lu Yuanqiu looked in the direction of the urban village he pointed.
He had been there once. The houses were very dilapidated, the electric wires were twisted like a pretzel above the head, and the alleys inside were winding and twisty, just like a maze.
Lu Yuanqiu remembered that the urban village there seemed to be demolished 16 years later and a park was built.
"He was the boss of a big company, managing hundreds of people, and his wife was a ba...ba, a dancer."
Lu Yuanqiu continued: "Ballet?"
The old man nodded immediately: "Yes, that guy, the ballet dancer, his wife looks like a star, with such a great temperament, the couple looks like jackals, tigers and leopards standing together..."
Lu Yuanqiu interrupted: "A talented man and a beautiful woman."
Uncle: "Yes, they are a talented man and a beautiful woman, very pleasing to the eyes."
Lu Yuanqiu: "What happened next?"
Lu Yuanqiu looked at the silly look of the uncle in overalls sucking on the lollipop and knew that there must be a turning point.
Grandpa: "Later, it seems that someone plotted against this kid. His company went bankrupt and he lost a lot of money. His house and car were sold, and his family could only squeeze into a shabby rental house."
Lu Yuanqiu: "Ah...it's really miserable."
"It's not over yet." The old man turned his head to look at the young man and smiled lightly, but there was a bit of compassion in his vicissitudes of life smile.
"He has a son and a daughter. Even if the family of four is poor, they can still make ends meet."
"One day my wife fainted during a dance class and was diagnosed with leukemia."
"The sky fell, there was no money to treat it, and she died after a year...all her hair fell out, she was such a beautiful woman, oh."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuanqiu fell silent.
The old man continued, "After his wife died, this guy just continued to live with his son and daughter."
"A few years later, God was blind. My son was hit by a car a few nights before his high school entrance exam. The little boy thought he was fine, so he limped home with the 500 yuan the driver paid, but he died that night."
"Oh, 500 yuan for a life."
Lu Yuanqiu's breathing almost stopped.
Grandpa: "How does the saying go? Fate chooses..."
Lu Yuanqiu said in a deep voice: "A hemp rope will break only at the thinnest part, and misfortune will only come to the unfortunate."
Uncle: “Yes, yes, yes!”
"and then?"
"Then he couldn't bear so many blows in a row and became stupid." The old man spread his hands and then sighed: "His life was really too hard."
When Lu Yuanqiu heard this, he silently turned around and looked at the uncle in overalls who was eating a lollipop.
"delicious!"
He smiled sincerely at Lu Yuanqiu, shaking the lollipop in his hand and stamping his feet happily.
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly looked up: "Doesn't he have a daughter..."
The old man said this, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The most pitiful one is his daughter. When the family went bankrupt, the child was only three years old. After she became sensible, she has never had a good life."
"After my brother died, my father became stupid again not long after. A little girl, so young, went to school and took care of her father at the same time. She took such good care of him. What a rare child."
The old man raised his hand to indicate the girl's height.
Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but said, "Master, you...are you kidding me? How can anyone be so unlucky?"
The sanitation worker stood up upon hearing this and smiled at Lu Yuanqiu: "You think I'm joking, which only means that you are living a happy life, young man." "Let's go, there is still a street to clean."
"Damn, I've been talking for so long and I don't even have a cigarette..." The sanitation worker walked away muttering.
Lu Yuanqiu sat there quietly and looked at the uncle in overalls beside him again.
The handsome man shook his head like a child: "Delicious, really delicious, the lollipop is delicious!"
Lu Yuanqiu didn't speak for a long time.
After sitting for a while, he walked to the store, bought a big bag of bread, and put it in the arms of the uncle in overalls.
When he stood up, he found that Lu Yidong had already walked out of the school gate and was waving at him.
Lu Yuanqiu took out a prop, which was a small mustache.
He pressed his chin against the phone screen and practiced speaking: "Wadashiwa is Lu Yidong's uncle..."
……
Lu Yuanqiu just finished the parent-teacher meeting and returned to Lucheng No. 7 Middle School during the evening study session.
Fortunately, Lu Yidong's head teacher did not make things difficult for him, and the parent-teacher meeting went quite successfully. In fact, the head teacher of the second grade almost recognized him.
But after the parents' meeting, Lu Yuanqiu realized that what his sister meant by not being in the top 20 in the class was actually the bottom 10...
No wonder I refused to tell my parents the truth this time.
When he returned to the classroom door, Lu Yuanqiu found Bai Qingxia just walking out of the office.
"Where did you go this afternoon?"
"Why are you going to the office?"
The two looked at each other, stopped almost at the same time, and asked at the same time.
The sudden tacit understanding made Bai Qingxia lower her head in embarrassment.
Lu Yuanqiu smiled and said, "I'm going to hold a parent-teacher meeting for my sister. What are you doing in the office?"
Bai Qingxia shook her head gently: "Nothing."
After she finished speaking, she walked into the classroom. Lu Yuanqiu followed her without asking any questions.
During evening self-study, while others were doing their homework, Lu Yuanqiu was just reading theoretical knowledge in the book. He didn't plan to do any homework during this period, except for English.
All the teachers have given up on him anyway.
After reading through the compulsory mathematics course, Lu Yuanqiu closed the textbook and looked at the group of poor students in the back row.
There are 53 people in the class, which means he has to beat 18 people to get into the top 35.
But Lu Yuanqiu knew that entering the top 35 in the class was far from his goal.
Lu Yuanqiu has absolute confidence in English. He even thinks that his English is far better than others in the class, and it is possible that Bai Qingxia may not be able to score higher than him.
But I am not sure about other subjects, especially the two science subjects of mathematics and physics.
As he watched, Lu Yuanqiu's eyes fell on Zheng Yifeng who was sleeping soundly.
Zheng Yifeng's grades in the class were always around the tenth from the bottom, but in his previous life's college entrance examination, this guy scored over 600 points.
He is truly a legend.
It was his English teacher Su Miaomiao who made him make a complete change.
Later I heard that he married Su Miaomiao and had a child, and the family of three lived a very happy life.
However, it is only the first semester of senior year, and Zheng Yifeng’s turning point will occur in the next semester.
For the sake of a woman, Zheng Yifeng, the "Sleeping God", turned the tide from the bottom ten in the class to over 600 points in the college entrance examination in just one semester. In Lu Yuanqiu's heart, he is considered a real man.
Putting down the book, Lu Yuanqiu walked out of the classroom and went to the toilet.
After coming back, he suddenly found that Bai Qingxia was missing, and her schoolbag was also missing.
"Where did Bai Qingxia go?"
Lu Yuanqiu pulled the person at the front table and asked.
"I don't know. She just left with her schoolbag on her back, and the head teacher didn't do anything about it."
(End of this chapter)