7. Shen Zi extra: The green mountain people outside the mountain (Part 2)...

Chen Yi's father is a disabled person. He had a high fever when he was a child and caused deafness in his right ear. When he was young, he worked as a worker and the machine malfunctioned, and three fingers of his right hand were broken. He and Shen Yi's mother were colleagues from the same factory. He got married by someone's introduction. Chen Yi was born a year later.

However, the facts are not just that simple. When he was eight years old, he remarried to a cadre family with Shen Yan's grandmother. This seemingly very ordinary thing now, decades ago, would inevitably cause a certain range of storms. The twists and sorrows of the previous generation are unknown, but Chen Wei has never felt the scene of having fun in the same room with his grandparents during the Chinese New Year.

"Grandpa" had two children before marrying Shen Shi's grandmother, one man and one woman. When she grew up, she worked in the provincial party committee. The civil servant position was like family practices, and only her father was a small worker in a small factory that specialized in supporting the disabled.

Shen Wei's personality of not relying on the sky or the earth or not passing through the back door may come from his father. He must have self-knowledge and draw a clear line. He is deaf in his right ear and cannot hear a lot of things clearly, but what the old neighbors are saying can even think of it.

What's more, his eyes were bright, and how could he not understand the so-called eyes of half-brothers and sisters?

My father often told her, I can’t say anything about your grandma’s choice when she was young, but I want others to know that I don’t want them to do anything.

Chen Yi turned his gaze out the window again, and the junior high school students who were holding their arms and holding their backs to exchange business cards were blurred and unreal by the white fog they exhaled from the window. The right way was to use each other. He and his father were going alone and would eventually be bleeding.

"I said, is your car yours?"

Ye Cong was really surprised when he heard this. He thought about it before answering: "I borrowed some money from my dad and bought it with a loan."

Chen Zi nodded and stopped talking.

"What, you regret it." Ye Cong smiled, and finally couldn't help it. He opened the window on the side of the driver's seat, lowered his head and lit a cigarette.

Chen Zi looked at him with a confused look on his face, and Ye Cong couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

"You really don't know what I mean..."

Chen Zi did not ask curiously. She just clarified her question very seriously: "I just want to know how you drive such a good car so young. I don't understand a lot."

Ye Congran laughed silently.

Sure enough, I was still the somber person in junior high school.

Chen Zi stayed on campus for many years and studied electrification. He focused on textbooks. He really never understood the outside world, how to make money, how to sign a contract, what kind of people are buying a house worth tens of thousands per square meter. How many years does it take to accumulate with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan?

She has never been good at indirect clichés, and the question just now is not compliment or envy.

For Chen Zi, this was just a question she couldn't understand.

Where did your money come from?

However, when Chen Zi heard that he had borrowed money from his father, he felt a sudden enlightenment. It was just the primitive accumulation of capitalism.

Just like that unrelated aunt could make her son who had a poor grades spend money to get her best major in Zhenhua and then into the best major in the province. Shen Yi didn't care about it at all, and no one would believe it.

Sadly, they would not believe that Shen Zi, who has been competing for the first place since childhood, has never cared about it.

Don’t envy others, don’t laugh at yourself without them. If you have the ability, try to win it yourself.

Ye Cong vomited a long smoke ring, as if he guessed what Shen Zi was thinking.

"Do you still want to go sing with them?" he asked an irrelevant question.

Chen Zi shook his head: "I don't want to."

"Then why don't you leave?"

She was stunned. The tone of this sentence was not good, but the question was very real.

Yes, why didn't she leave? Because she had no choice but to follow her aunt's advice, she should come out to contact old classmates, let go of her "vanity", "see the society", "know how much she deserves"... She actually planned to "see" all the way to the end.

Even this kind of thing is serious, with a beginning and an end. Chen Wei doesn’t know whether he should admire himself or be sad for himself.

With a wry smile, she put her hand on the door handle and said, "You are right. I don't want to participate, so let's go."

Unexpectedly, the other party threw down the fierce "seat belt" and stepped on the accelerator. Shen Zi was pushed hard to the back of the chair by speed. She had been at the desk all year round and had a slight hunchback and cervical spine disease. She suddenly straightened up and even she could hear a slight sound of being stuck.

She turned around and the students who were thrown at the restaurant door took a while to react. They ran to the side of the road to look around, their faces getting smaller and smaller, and finally submerged in the night.

"I dare say that they must have thought we were going to check in."

Before Chen Wei could react, he smiled evilly.

"I hate others making up rumors the most. Since this is the case, we might as well confirm it. What do you think?"

Chen Zi's pale face, which had been pale all year round, finally returned to a little bloody color because of Ye Cong's muddle words.

Very angry.

Ye Cong's car drove farther and farther, towards the direction of the suburbs. Shen Yi sat calmly in the passenger seat, and asked in panic because the surrounding scenery had deviated from her usual range of movement.

"You are quite calm, aren't you afraid that I will bully you?"

Chen Zi turned his head and looked at the reversing mirror on this side of his side, "How could you have a good impression of me?"

Ye Cong was stunned for a moment and laughed again, "Shen Yi, you have grown up with preservatives for so many years. How could it not change at all? You even said a word."

Facing Chen Yi's puzzled look, he shrugged: "To be honest, this is the first time I heard of the word "good" from you back then. People with good learning have a big vocabulary..."

The car finally stopped at the door of a factory building. Ye Congxian got out of the car and went around to Shen Zi's side to help her open the door, saying, "Get down and take a look."

"This is……"

"It's mine if it's built here."

“What to sell?”

"clothing."

"Are you the boss?"

"kindness."

Chen Yan racked his brains and felt that he should ask something else.

"Do you want to ask me where the money comes from, whether it is my parents, what clothes do I sell, when did it start, how is a company established, how to register, how much is the start-up capital...well?"

Chen Zi nodded seriously, and his appearance made Ye Cong laugh again.

"I never thought I could tell the first place this when I was in junior high school."

Chen Zi felt a little uncomfortable.

This discomfort is like not regretting being questioned constantly, which makes her feel a deep sense of powerlessness. She did not hinder anyone. She studied hard, worked hard, sat quietly in her seat, never laughed at anyone, nor persecuted or hindered anyone. Why are everyone willing to use the reason of "destiny to mess with people" to come to her to find a sense of balance?

However, her natural spirit of not giving up forced her to endure and she must listen humbly.

I don’t know if this psychological struggle was reflected on my face, Ye Cong patted her shoulder apologetically and said, “I don’t mean that.”

Just as Chen Zi turned his head and wanted to say something, his warm hand accidentally brushed her cheek.

Both of them were so embarrassed that they were silent for a while, and Ye Congcai spoke in a somewhat astringent voice.

"I was really stupid in junior high school. I didn't study hard. I was busy in billiards and Internet cafes every day. It was really very... My parents were busy and didn't have time to close me. The change box was placed on the table. When they found that I had emptyed it, they beat me up and gave me a few lessons. Before I could give me time to squat in the corner and reflect deeply, the two of them were busy again."

"I was on the eve of the third year of junior high school and was about to take the high school entrance exam. At that time, the family was still not very good, but they still decided that studying was the right way. No matter how bad my grades were, I would have to stuff me into a school at least at the key level of the district."

Spend money into the key points of the district.

Chen Wei suddenly remembered that he was determined to do his own thing back then, and he did not fill in anything except Zhenhua on the application form, and all the key points in the city’s key districts were blank.

She went to Pugao.

Her parents never complained about her failure in the high school entrance examination. She stood up by herself and said seriously that she wanted to go to the general high school senior high school when her parents were trying to raise money to send her to the self-funded student department of a key school.

I am willing to accept the loss. There will always be a next time, she will not lose forever.

When I recall all this, I still feel a little painful. Ye Cong, who had been in the middle school in front of me, actually went to the district key point.

"I didn't go."

Ye Cong seemed to be able to understand Chen Zi's thoughts. Chen Zi didn't know if he was particularly keen or he was particularly easy to understand.

"I can go out with a bunch of people every day because I am still naive and ignorant. I also think in my heart that since my parents say that, I can have a school to continue to go to high school, so I don't have to worry about anything. I have never thought about how difficult it is for my parents to make money, or whether I am the same as studying."

Ye Cong's calm attitude made Chen Zi feel very ashamed of his petty treacherous just now.

"Later one day, my friend and I went to the newly opened billiard hall of Yibai to play. I passed by the clothing in the underground passage and saw my mother carrying a large woven bag several times larger than a sack. Sweat was flowing down her face, and the rope was pulled to make her hand red marks... I only realized that they had loaded goods from other counties and transported them to the train station and ignored them. These two people were reluctant to spend money to hire a car, so they carried it themselves."

"It was only then that I felt that I was so fucking bastard."

"What happened later?"

Ye Chong took a sudden sip of smoke and then slowly spit it out. In the vast night, smoke and white vapor rose. Chen Yan felt that there was a piece of his heart, just like the white in front of him.

He imagined seven or eight interesting reactions from top students in his mind, such as being furious, blushing, trying to cover up, or something else?

Unexpectedly, the other party looked him up and down seriously, as if he had thought about it very seriously.

Then he asked calmly, "Where is the right match?"

As Ye Cong recalled, Chen Zi also remembered this past event and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Actually, after I was defeated, I often followed you. Actually, I was pretending to be mature and gangster at that time, and I was quite childish. I only realized later that I should be..." He paused and scratched his head, "It's... I like you. Later, I didn't know where you got into the exam. I think you must be fine. You must have gone to Zhenhua and never asked about your grades. In fact, it's probably because I'm inferior. I don't want to ask, the gap is too big. Once I went to the train station to deliver goods. When I passed by Zhenhua, I walked around two times and thought I could meet you."

"I'm so sorry, I only found out later."

"So I feel unhappy when I see you at this class reunion. But I am actually very happy. Over the years, you have not changed, but... it's just the kind of spirit of being very serious and persistent in doing everything. I am very happy."

"You said so much, just want to encourage me?" Chen Zi smiled. She took off her glasses and gently rubbed her eyes.

"Actually, I don't know why, I really don't know."

Chen Zi shook his head: "I don't care. I'm very happy to hear it."
To be continued...