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Chapter 4 The Second Strike

All afternoon, Fu Ping'an's mood was very depressed, and even forgot to steal the sunflower seeds in Mulan's barn. Every minute was a torment for him. The first time he broke up in his heart in his life was so bitter. Until the teacher announced that he had finished school, he still sat in his seat.

"Can you go?" Chen Kai asked him, they were on the same road and often went home from school together.

"I want to be quiet." Fu Ping'an said.

"Jingjing? Are you looking at Ma Xiaojing again? You are so frank." Chen Kai pretended to be shocked.

Fu Ping'an had no intention of taking the matter and waved his hand powerlessly. Sun Jiebao came over and shook his eyes and said, "Let's go, let's go, let's stay alone for a while." Chen Kai seemed to understand and left with his schoolbag, but within a few minutes the two of them ran back and were out of breath: "Insurance, the sports student is blocking you at the school gate!"

It was really raining again. Fu Ping'an stood up, picked up his schoolbag and went straight to the playground. Thinking about something was wrong, the sports students were all from the school, and they must know this shortcut. There were a few people outside the wall to guard him, so he turned to the direction of the school-run factory, which was a piece of land facing the street of the school. At first, he set up a small printing factory and then sublet it to someone else to open a store. Fu Ping'an said a few nice words, and then opened the door. The three best friends slipped out from here. A crisis turned into invisible. Fu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief and secretly admired his wit.

Suddenly he thought of a question and asked two good friends: "Do you two have any plans? About life."

Chen Kai said: "My dad has planned it for me a long time ago, I can just listen to him anyway."

Sun Jiebao said: "Of course there are, I have twelve sets of life planning roadmaps, from choosing a university, major, to internships, charging, quitting and starting a business, and even to what to buy in the first car and what to buy in the second car.

There are all things, if you want to hear, let’s find a place and I’ll teach you classes.”

Fu Ping'an said, "No need." He felt sad. Even Jaguar and Fat Kai had life plans. It seemed that he was the only one who was confused.

After returning home, Fu Ping'an's inferiority complex finally partially relieved because there was another person who was even more chaotic than himself, Fan Dongsheng, whose younger brother was in the second grade and studied hard, failed every subject, and he thought about unifying the second grade and beating the seniors of the third grade all day long. He had no idea what high school to take. With his younger brother at the bottom, Fu Ping'an felt good for a while, but it was only a moment.

Fu Ping'an spent the next two days in depression, and the sports students continued to block him outside the school, fighting wits and courage on both sides, like cats and mice, adding a touch of stimulation to the monotonous study life.

On the evening of February 16th, Fu Ping'an escaped by chance again. He returned to the downstairs with his schoolbag and found that the door of the convenience store was open. It must be that his mother had returned. He walked over and found that there was no one in the store, and there was no familiar sound of mahjong behind him. However, from a distance, he smelled a strong smell of smoke. When he walked into the store, he opened the curtain and saw a group of uncles, grandpas and aunts sitting together smoking cigarettes and frowned. Fu Dongmei was in the center.

It was my father’s accident, and Fu Ping’an felt relieved. Fu Dongmei saw her eldest son coming in and said, “Ping An, go upstairs to do homework. An old man said seriously: “Ping An is eighteen years old, he is an adult, so he should take responsibility, sit down.”

Fu Ping'an sat down and listened to the adults discussing the matter. From the conversation, we can hear that something happened to her father. After the New Year, he had a car accident in Shenzhen. It was quite serious. His mother rushed over and decided to take the person back immediately. God knew how she transported her paralyzed father back to Huaimen alone. Fu Ping'an dared not think about the hardships in the middle.

Now that people have returned, they have been admitted to the hospital, but how to solve the high treatment costs is the biggest problem that has troubled the Fu family. The family had some savings, but was taken to the south by Fan Dong to start a business a few years ago. They lost all their money. It can be said that the family is barely left, so they invited these relatives, friends and old colleagues to discuss countermeasures.

The uncles and men were very righteous. They packed up 51,000 yuan on the spot and paid 51,000 yuan. At least they paid the hospital deposit. But what to do in the next few decades? They had to come up with a long-term solution. They talked all over the place and finally put their ideas on Fu Ping'an.

"I think Ping'an should not go to university. Now that the education level is rampant, the university diploma is meaningless. It's better to work early to help your family relieve some pressure." said an old man.

This proposal was immediately echoed by everyone, and everyone agreed that an 18-year-old male laborer spent money to college at this critical moment, just a blind man who was in vain to light a lamp and throw tens of thousands of yuan into the water. It was better to go to work early to earn money and support the family.

Fu Ping'an's hair was standing up all over his body. He never expected that something happened to his father and the board was hit on him. Going to college was his dream. If it weren't for this dream, he would not go to the general high school three years ago but to the vocational high school. No, this would definitely not work, and he had to fight!

He quickly prepared his draft. It was 2008. His university diploma was indeed not as valuable as before. However, if he didn't even have a university diploma, wouldn't it be even more difficult to get through. He would always be at the bottom of society. Just when he was planning to citations and persuade these uncles and uncles who were causing trouble, another uncle spoke.

He said: "Ping'an, do you know why you take your mother's surname?"

This is an old joke. When I was a child, uncles and men always liked to tease him and my younger brother. Over time, the standard answer came out, which is "I was born by my mother, and my brother was born by my father." Of course, this is a vulgar joke. Fu Ping'an was not Fu Dongmei's illegitimate son before marriage, and Fan Dongsheng was even more unlikely to be born by Fan Dongsheng. His parents had a good relationship and were each other's first love. Today, he would like to write this old joke again.

Sure enough, the old man continued, "You brought you here, your brother is the biological child. Your parents have raised you for eighteen years. Now that your family is in trouble, you should repay you."

Fu Ping'an was hit by lightning. This blow was ten thousand times greater than a broken heart. He turned out to be an orphan! His mind was completely confused, as if he was speechless.

"Old Cao! What are you talking about?" Fu Dongmei was a little angry, but now that things have come to this, she agreed and then sighed and said, "Don't make things difficult for the child, after all, high school is about to be finished."

An aunt said, "Yes, otherwise the money would not be spent in vain in the past two years."

Fu Ping'an didn't listen to what the uncles and men said next. He only remembered that the mouths of these people kept opening and closing in the smoke, and his mother kept nodding, replenishing the teacup in front of everyone...

No one noticed that Fu Ping'an had already left. He took a box of five-dollar cigarettes and a lighter from the shelves, went to the Internet cafe first, and then went to the riverside, and sat by the cigarette for a night. Many unsolved mysteries were answered, such as why the younger brother and himself looked very different, and the IQ was also very different. Fu Ping'an was 1.7 meters tall when he was sixteen years old, while Fan Dong and Fu Dongmei were less than 1.7 meters tall. It turned out that he was not his biological child.

Fu Ping'an thought a lot about the future. His teacher often scolded his classmates with one sentence: He can't walk away, but he will retreat. Yes, many students are still the flesh of their parents. They have to rely on the teacher's supervision to learn, as if they are studying for their parents. Fu Ping'an used to be such a person. He has a high IQ, but he never spends energy on studying. He has no plans for the future. He is a monk and hits a bell for one day. Unexpectedly, such heartless days come to an abrupt end. From now on, even if he works harder, it is useless. The door to university has been closed. He can't complain. It's not that his parents don't allow him to study, but that the conditions at home really do not allow him. At this critical moment, he really can't afford the tuition fee.

Where to go, no one advises you. Fu Ping'an felt unprecedented helplessness and loneliness. Should he follow the advice of adults and drop out of school to work, or insist on taking the college entrance examination, and then repay his family after his studies are successful, he is undecided. As for his life experience, it is second to be more kind than to raise one's kindness. Fan Dong and Fu Dongmei are their own parents!

The cold and long winter night finally passed, and the fish belly appeared in the east sky, and sanitation workers and morning exercisers appeared. Fu Ping'an's feet had a cigarette butt. He sighed and was about to get up, but found that his feet were numb and he couldn't stand up.

A nice voice came from behind: "Are you... okay?"

Fu Ping'an turned around and was shocked. It turned out to be a three-leaf clover girl.

The girl looked worried: "I saw you sitting here last evening. You were still here in the morning. Is there anything wrong?"

Fu Ping'an's nose felt sour. He was cared for when he was the loneliest. It was too warm. He stuttered: "It's okay, I'm fine, but... it's really nothing."

The girl did not leave, but sat down next to Fu Ping'an and watched the morning glow with him.

"Do you know, my parents have been using you to inspire me."

Fu Ping'an was stunned. Where did he start?

"You live in Room 603, Unit 5, right?" said the girl, "I live in Building 6, and our window is opposite. My parents used you as a role model throughout the first semester of high school, because you turned off the lights later than me. I was not convinced at first, but later I found that you not only slept later than me, but also got up earlier than me. When I got up at five o'clock in the morning exercise, you had already returned from morning exercise. Do you know that you have always been under my pressure, but the pressure to be the first place is also very high. Right, classmates, I believe that with your perseverance and intelligence, you will definitely be able to solve the problems you face well."

After saying that, the girl stood up: "Classmate, come on!" Then she waved her fists and ran away.

After such a riot, Fu Ping'an's mood improved a little, and he completely understood that no one could count on this matter, and could only rely on himself. Kong Que said that running alone on the road of life was purely pretending to be a real lonely runner.

Fu Ping'an went home first, but he didn't return all night. I guess everyone in the family was very anxious, but when he entered the door, he found that only his younger brother was sleeping soundly and woke Fan Dongsheng up. The younger brother rubbed his eyes and said, "Fu Ping'an, what are you doing?"

"Where is Mom?" Fu Ping'an asked. He thought his mother would look for him all night, but the answer made him feel cold.

Fan Dongsheng said: "Mom is in the hospital to accompany our father. I want to accompany her. She said that the child cannot be fucked. By the way, where have you gone? Mom is looking for you everywhere."

Fu Ping'an said that I was on the riverside of the morning exercise road, and I could find it after a little search. After all, I was not my biological child, and I would not be interested in searching. He would have been angry and tantrums in the past, but after knowing his life experience, he did not dare to be pretentious, so he washed his face and went downstairs.

He went to the school first and asked the class teacher for leave, saying that his father was seriously injured and needed care. Teacher Ni was half-believing and half-doubted, but he still approved the leave. Then Fu Ping'an went to the hospital and met his father in the ward of the inpatient department.

Fan Dong injured his spine in a car accident and could not move below his waist. He had a bad temper on his face and had a bad temper. Fu Dongmei was exhausted and lost weight in just a few days. Her already irritable temper was even worse. The two were quarreling in front of patients all over the room. When they saw their eldest son coming in, they stopped arguing.

Fan Dong said dad is fine, please go to school safely, it’s enough to have your mom here.

Fu Dongmei also said that you can't help, so she hurried back to school, go to school honestly, and finish high school first and then talk about something else.

The family suddenly became so strange. Fu Ping'an was very sad. He nodded, turned around and left, and returned to school to continue class. His mind was absent-minded and his heart was not depressed. He finally got up to noon and carried his schoolbag to the school gate. Chen Kai ran over and said, "You are crazy, they are blocking you at the school gate!"

Fu Ping'an shook his head, and the repeated heavy blows made him numb. Compared to fate's teasing, what did the sports student's revenge count?

"I don't want to hide anymore. I can't escape the hurdles in my life." After Fu Ping'an said that, he walked towards the school gate firmly.
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