Author: No two people

Rhubarb "joined", although it is still in custody, it is said that it has been at least five years.

In fact, in this era when many things are unclear, my usual friends, including myself, are basically in peace. Even if there is a slight deviation, it is detention at most.

Unexpectedly, rhubarb, which has been successful for half a lifetime, has caused such a big disaster. I felt a little shocked at first, but when I think about it, I feel that everything has a foreshadowing. Nearly 42 years of smooth sailing, he stumbled, which is both accidental and inevitable.

I have known rhubarb for more than 30 years. Our father is in the same scientific research unit and then lives in the same family building. The two families have a good relationship. Frankly speaking, when I was a child, I didn't like rhubarb very much, because he was the "other people's child" that my mother often used to spur me, and most of my mother's tricks of "repairing" me came from the "personal guidance" of rhubarb.

We have been in the same class since childhood. The difference is that I am a poor student who makes parents and teachers have a headache, and he is a "flower in the bud of the motherland" in the eyes of teachers and parents. This naturally created our completely different childhood experiences-one was a spoiled child, and the other was a negative example of everyone shouting and beating.

The most embarrassing thing is at the parent-teacher meeting-his father proudly accepted the praise and shared his educational experience, while my father gnashed his teeth with anger and kept standing with his head down-because it seems that any bad behavior reported by the teacher will be named. So, after every parent-teacher conference, I was beaten upstairs, and he smiled and held various awards downstairs.

However, our relationship at that time was not bad. At least, we "got what we needed". I helped him clean up his bullies, he helped me with my homework and handed in notes during the exam. We have a tacit understanding with each other. As for the result, probably I drifted away on the way to fight, and his academic performance was climbing.

In all junior high schools that speak with academic achievements, rhubarb has become a "national treasure protected animal" and learned to "follow the trend".

That was during the 1994 World Cup. We went to the video hall near our home in cut class to watch the football match. We met some gangsters who blocked the road and robbed us. In order to save the pocket money we squeezed out of our teeth, I took the lead in launching an attack, and rhubarb did not hesitate to join the battle.

The battle was fierce, and as the "main attack", I was naturally scarred. When the director of the security department of my father's unit came to the rescue armed to the teeth, I not only held a stolen triangular army thorn in my hand, but also carried a military schoolbag around my neck with a lunch box hanging on it. Even I didn't know that the grandson had hidden a brick in the bloody schoolbag before the security officer opened it for inspection.

Fortunately, in those days, even if the fight of this nature was finished, there would be no claim and no "touching porcelain", but it was inevitable to investigate the responsibility of the security department of the father's unit.

Dahuang denied that the schoolbag was his (at that time, all the students were carrying military green schoolbags, and most of them had no books but lunch boxes), and even "asserted" that he only drew his sword to help when he saw the road was rough, and the lunch boxes inside had no names anyway. Although I don't admit that the schoolbag is mine, obviously, all my explanations are taken as sophistry-not to mention the security officer handling the case and rhubarb's parents, even my own father doesn't believe that a good boy like rhubarb would do such an "unnatural" thing-it must be me, not me.

After that night, I became famous in World War I, with a sword and a brick hanging on my chest, which made me even more notorious. Rhubarb, on the other hand, has become a model of being brave and accepting all kinds of flowers, applause and rewards from his father's unit.

"I said rhubarb, why do you have a brick in your bag?" I remember asking him later. At that time, I felt that I was used to the idea of planting rhubarb. I didn't bite when there were too many lice, but I was always curious about the bricks in his schoolbag.

"I exercise." Rhubarb replied with great power.

"Do you know how to throw that thing in someone's face when exercising?" I'm a little annoyed. "If you don't tell the truth, I'll hit you!"

Even I didn't expect that rhubarb was angrier than me and growled at me. "You go to the sports school for training every afternoon. What if others want to bully me?" Can't I take something to protect myself? "

There seems to be nothing wrong with what he said. He does help me with my homework every day, but I didn't finish my "work". At that moment, I really envied rhubarb. Sun Tzu's life is so good that he can get away with doing bad things.

Throughout junior high school, rhubarb schoolbags have been carrying bricks, and once they really came in handy.

When I was in the third grade, I fought on the bus and robbed rhubarb's schoolbag as a weapon. As a result, this "soft weapon" that may rebound at any time directly hit my head. After eight stitches, my head seemed to be smashed open and I was admitted to a key high school.

Since then, rhubarb has become more "worshipful" to the plank brick in the bag, but in the later use, the magical plank brick did not produce any special effect, and his grades also plummeted until he failed in the college entrance examination in Sun Shan.

However, his father just thought it was a mistake and he didn't lose any temper. He just actively spent money to dredge all kinds of relationships and sent him to another high school with a good enrollment rate. A year later, rhubarb successfully entered the Japanese department of one of the most famous engineering colleges in this city.

Everything is still going well.

1999 saw rhubarb again at the beginning. At the beginning of the second semester of my sophomore year, my buddy Qin Dong and I worked part-time outside the school. A "computer room" with only eight computers was officially profitable, but we stopped worrying about money and received a "demotion notice" from the school. Although the demotion is expected, how to explain it to my family is still a headache.

What makes me speechless, however, is that the rhubarb who heard the news actually bumped the bus for more than two hours with two sets of 65,438+10,000-ring "earth red" firecrackers, and deliberately ran downstairs to our boys' dormitory to make a chicken fly a dog to jump to celebrate our return to the same starting line.

"I said the elder brothers, are you simpleton? ! "This is the first sentence that Qin Dong, an important suspect who set off firecrackers for no reason, was called by the school police to ask questions. And rhubarb just silently took out a brick from his schoolbag with a "photo of life" of a sexy female star on it, and went over and said, "What? Not satisfied with the practice? "

Qin Dong has never served anyone in his life, but at that time, he really admired the rhubarb who crossed mountains and rivers to frame him, carried bricks with him, and even took the initiative to make friends with the idiot who came out of this prestigious school.

With us is Duan Jun from the same school. Duan Jun is a classmate of Rhubarb, which may also be the reason. The relationship between them is quite good. If rhubarb has a soft spot for "physical hygiene", then Duan Jun's obsession with games is simply outrageous. Duan Jun, like rhubarb, is an honest-looking man. He dare not fart when he is given a mouth, but his eyes are always rolling.

Under the planning of Qin Dong, that night, four men whose relationship is as complicated as blood marriage got together and had a good time, thus beginning the grievances for more than ten years. Moreover, the important woman in rhubarb's life appeared at our party.

Qin Dong and I have been arguing about whether Sister Hua looks like or not. Sister Hua is six years older than us. She is the owner of the bath center next to our computer room. She was also our common goddess in those years. We dare not expect anything from her website, just regard it as a place to spend the night.

"Hey, you two, does that girl in the bar look like Aoi sora?" Once, although his eyes were blurred, rhubarb, who was drunk and didn't know the way, never left Sister Hua sitting in the bar. He even took out the bricks in his schoolbag and showed us the photos of Teacher Cang's life.

Qin Dong and I looked at each other. Experts are experts after all, but Sister Hua wears more clothes and really looks like them.

What happened later is not suitable for detailed description here, but rhubarb, who has never had a girlfriend, disappeared after "falling" that night. We haven't seen each other for a month. When this grandson staggered into our computer room like winning the lottery, our goddess Sister Hua followed him impressively.

"Come, let me introduce you to my girlfriend ..."

"Sister, have you been kicked by a donkey?" Qin Dong, who was lying on the kang reading a novel, got a fright and rolled off the kang.

I seem to understand something. According to Colonel Dahuang, this boy should have found out that he lost his virginity for the first time in his life after an awakening, so he went to Huajie for compensation in a rage, and then he touched countless Huajie with his innate virtue of "innocence". Sure enough, Sister Hua smiled and said, "What a good big boy, unlike you two little villains!"

"Elder sister, you really should see your eyes ..." I was speechless. It is understandable to say that my mother has been confused by this grandson's honesty for so many years, but Sister Hua has never seen any man. Is she blind?

Regarding the relationship between floret and rhubarb, everyone, including Qin Dong and me, is not optimistic, thinking that it is only a short spark. After all, no matter whether floret is six years older than Dahuang or his previous career, this seemingly outrageous and bizarre relationship is doomed to be unlucky-of course, the most violent reaction is undoubtedly Dahuang's parents, who even came to my house to question my parents, thinking that I was a notorious bad boy and led his son astray.

Theoretically, they are right. After all, I'm also the "elder" of Dahuang and Sister Hua, but this buddy's later performance is totally improvisation.

In fact, this underappreciated relationship continues to make rhubarb live under greater protection. Floret not only became the girlfriend of Rhubarb, but also became a "protective umbrella" to remove all obstacles in Rhubarb's future growth. In Qin Dong's words, that is-"floret has done all the work of rhubarb, his mother, his sister, his old aunt and his boss. Together with all the ghosts and monsters along the way, they were settled down. "

After they got together, in order to avoid suspicion, floret transferred the bath center that worked hard for money every day, ran to the university where Dahuang was located and opened a clothing store, and wholeheartedly accompanied Dahuang to study. Of course, this experienced woman is undoubtedly the first real life mentor of Dahuang. She not only took good care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also used her philosophy of life and contacts to help him save the day when his academic performance was in crisis. Rhubarb, who successfully rose to junior year, not only became the president of the student union, but also prepared for party member under the various operations of Sister Hua, enviing a group of us.

Of course, during this period, Dahuang will also use the management knowledge learned at school to catch up with a good market and abruptly turn Huajie's small clothing store of more than 50 square meters into a chain company with six branches in this city. When Dahuang was about to graduate, Sister Hua not only bought a wedding room of more than 200 square meters in the most expensive residential area in this city, but also used relationships and a lot of cash to help Dahuang find a job in an important functional position of state-owned enterprises that everyone envied.

When Dahuang graduated this year, Sister Hua gave him an imported Bora with more than 300,000 yuan. That year, the money was enough to buy more than 100 mini-cars that Qin Dong drove all over the street to deliver printers. At that time, rhubarb was in high spirits and promising, and even the leaders of their units sometimes took care of him to borrow the car to mend the window.

Although the relationship is still opposed by Dahuang's parents, in 2003, the two held a low-key and luxurious wedding. The only people who really showed up that day were me who came back from abroad, Qin Dong who gave lectures to major hospitals in Beijing to promote anticancer drugs, and Duan Jun who joined the real estate industry after mixing in the IT industry. There were only 10 people left, and none of the parents participated. But for this wedding, rhubarb spent nearly 300 thousand. Floret's wedding dress was specially designed for me to accompany them to Italy. It cost 1.6 million-it was a set of two rooms and one living room.

At the wedding, in the emotional blessing of a famous CCTV host invited by Qin Dong, floret cried, rhubarb cried, and everyone present cried. And I envy rhubarb very much. I don't believe there is anyone happier than marriage in this world.

In 20 12, my family returned to China, and I saw them again. My brothers have achieved a lot.

Qin Dong and Duan Jun are both famous in the industry, and Dahuang, who finished his MBA in a prestigious school, became the youngest official cadre in that famous state-owned enterprise earlier. He is very powerful and promising, and even his car has been replaced by BMW 7 Series. Sister Hua, who takes care of her eldest children wholeheartedly at home and looks beaming, can definitely be compared with teacher Cang, who is about 10 younger than her.

What makes them happier is that with the birth of two children, the parents of Dahuang and Sister Hua really accepted them. Rhubarb, which has a double harvest in marriage, career and family, makes Qin Dong and I more and more "disgusted". Maybe it's a habit of walking all the way. This boy's virtue of pretending to force prices is almost embedded in his bones. Coupled with the habit of state-owned enterprise leaders to say only the first half of the sentence, I really want to hit that big round face that is so happy that I don't know much about it.

Qin Dong and I always say, "Compared with our gullies and all kinds of big pits, this boy rhubarb is really lucky. He has become an elite without any sin."

It's a pity that after Qin Dong's daughter-in-law and I showed disgust at our close relationship with Sister Hua, Sister Hua, who was hiding in her heart and could never get through, took the initiative to alienate us. Even when we are busy, we get together for dinner every new year, and she finds all kinds of reasons to shirk it.

With the booming work and business of rhubarb, Sister Hua went home to teach her husband and son, and dared not give any more advice to rhubarb. The two brothers with growing wings "dislike" each other, but their friendship is still there, and they have become the strong backing of rhubarb.

Qin Dong's connections helped Dahuang settle everything outside the unit, including engineering disputes, the old man getting sick, and Sister Hua gave birth to two children. For Duan Jun who switched from IT to real estate, the government relationship of Dahuang can also help him. With the black-and-white style of play of the two brothers, even the leaders of the rhubarb unit asked them from time to time, and rhubarb, which combines all kinds of superiority, began to walk sideways in the unit, feeling that the world was in my hands.

At that time, rhubarb often said, "I am a person who can get along well in state-owned enterprises." What storm have I never seen? " We all want to give him a few naked eyes, and there is nothing to worry about.

Compared with Qin Dong and my pure support for my buddies, Duan Jun obviously has too many routines and always lets rhubarb "take risks" in exchange for equal value. Qin Dong and I basically don't want to associate with him more.

Therefore, during the large-scale restructuring and reorganization of state-owned enterprises, rhubarb used his power several times to benefit Duan Jun, and Qin Dong also reminded him many times, but he felt that all good things in the world were like rhubarb taking things out of his own pocket and didn't listen at all. We don't have to say much. After all, he has always been helped along the way. Fate always seems to be on his side.

This life lasted until 20 18. Qin Dong and I met with waterloo in our respective fields almost at the same time, and fell into a well-planned scam hand in hand. After being cheated to death, Qin Dong chose to convert to Buddhism, while I started the road of redemption after self-isolation, and lost contact with most relatives and friends, including Dahuang and Sister Hua.

I never dreamed that I would see Sister Hua again in the bath center.

In September 2020, after the epidemic eased, at the suggestion of an old friend, I began to send wedding cars to the wedding company, and I just achieved self-reliance. Whenever I am tired, I go to the bath center for a bath and massage.

This time, just as I was lying on the sofa with my eyes closed and sleepy, a towel with a suitable temperature for ironing my feet flew to my face: "Boy, did you rob the bank successfully?"

I turned around and found that the woman standing in front of me with a smile turned out to be floret who had not seen me for a long time. I was so happy that I got carried away and hugged Sister Hua. But she was surprised to find that she was wearing the uniform of a massage attendant and looked haggard.

"Elder sister, what's the matter with you? What happened? What about rhubarb? " It must be a major change to see Sister Hua back in her old job. How can I not worry? Sister Hua bowed her head and adjusted her clothes. She said flatly, "Let's go and buy you something to drink. Let's go downstairs and talk slowly."

There are no guests in the restaurant in the afternoon. Sister Hua asked the waiter for a pot of Pu 'er tea, and she explained it in the dim light.

She is a woman who has seen the world. Although I interrupted her impatiently, she spoke clearly but slowly. Slowly, I understood why.

They naturally heard about me and Qin Dong. During that time, Dahuang, who wanted to help us tide over the difficulties, also went to my mother's and my ex-wife's house several times, bringing a lot of gifts and cash each time, but he never got our contact information. I probably know all this, and it's not a big accident. Although they "dislike" each other, they are still buddies after all.

However, with the economic recession and the reform of state-owned enterprises in recent years, rhubarb, who holds important positions, has been unable to be immune to it. Not only is his income greatly reduced, but even his iron rice bowl, which he has always been proud of, is in jeopardy. He wanted to leave a way out for himself and took a fancy to the education industry. In 20 19, he invested more than 3 million yuan to open a comprehensive training center with an area of more than 2,000 square meters. After smashing the wall, tearing down the shed and redecorating it, we began to recruit people at the end of the year. Unexpectedly, he encountered an almost catastrophic epidemic.

Rhubarb had a smooth journey, and now he is too conceited to listen to anyone's advice. Floret asked him to stop several times, but he simply refused because he didn't know how to do it. Originally, he was not short of money, for fear of bad influence. At the beginning of the epidemic, he could only return all the tuition fees collected by the enrollment group and the salaries of more than 30 faculty members. As a result, the money at home has been spent.

When the epidemic eased and was ready to rally, rhubarb discovered that less than half of the employees who had been paid for more than half a year actually came back. Moreover, those elites who teach have settled down online, and they are too lazy to come back to earn that little dead salary.

No matter how big the body is, it can't stand the toss. When the increasingly tight capital chain began to recruit again like gambling and hired a professional enrollment team again, he just happened to catch up with his mother and father-in-law being hospitalized at the same time. The two young children need money everywhere, so his situation is even worse.

"The grandson of rhubarb is still resilient." Hearing this, I couldn't help interrupting again, although Qin Dong and I both fell into suicide gambling after the capital chain was in a hurry. I know the consequences too well.

"Yes, at this point, your brothers are so single-minded." Sister Hua couldn't help laughing. "These are not. Lei Gang Jr. is in Grade One, and Xiaodong is going to school again. This is another ... "

I couldn't bear to listen any longer, so I asked my heart directly, "Where's my sister and grandson?" If he wants to know what you did, he must not take this bath. "In fact, at this point, I understand how much money rhubarb needs for such a big stall and all kinds of misfortunes.

"You really don't know? Or pretend to be with me? " Sister Hua suddenly changed her face. Seeing that I didn't look like a fake, she sighed and said, "He went in and hasn't been sentenced to a detention center. The lawyer said that he can't get out for five years."

"ah? Why? Economic problems? " The news shocked me even more than my reunion with Sister Hua in the bath center, but considering that the whole society is fighting corruption now, it is entirely possible that he made mistakes in important positions and was short of money.

Floret stopped talking, continued to drink tea slowly, hesitated for a long time, and suddenly looked up and asked me, "How much does Duan Jun owe you?"

"ah? Why do you ask? Sister, don't you know me? I can't keep money in my hand. He took a lot of money from me, but it was 35 thousand every time. I really can't remember. "

"You are like this, why don't you care whether he wants it or not?" Floret was pouring tea when suddenly his hand stopped in the air and his eyes were fixed on me.

"Elder sister, even if I break his bones, how much can he give?" I suddenly have a bad feeling that rhubarb should have something to do with Duan Jun.

Floret stared at me stupefied for a long time, then shook his head. "No, you didn't tell the truth. He must be much better than you and Dong Zi now. Even if I give you 10000 yuan, it's better than working with your ass for a month, right? "

Seeing that my little mind was punctured on the spot, I can only tell the truth: "How snobbish Duan Jun is. I know it all too well. For me, this boy doesn't need to deal with me. Didn't he give Dong Zi money? I'm unlucky enough now. If I go there and ask for trouble, I won't make a mistake if I give myself trouble again. "

Floret actually cried this time, and the more she cried, the sadder she became. Only then did I understand why-

It turned out that after Qin Dong and I died one after another, when Xiao Lei, the eldest daughter of Dahuang, went to junior high school to choose a school on 20 19, she could only find Duan Jun, who was well-connected in real estate development. Duan Jun received him a "relationship dredging fee" of 400,000 yuan back and forth, but the money was not taken back. Money was tight at that time, and I didn't say much about the feelings of my old classmates for many years.

By 2020, rhubarb, who was really cornered by life, wanted to find Duan Jun for cash turnover, but Duan Jun turned his face and denied people. Rhubarb first argued with him, and then there was a physical conflict. Finally, the soldier who couldn't stand it got a fat beating.

How can the rhubarb, which has always been above, tolerate such a thing? If it were me at that time, I would immediately lie on the ground and call the police. Even if some hooligans are more suspected of touching porcelain, the compensation after the arrival of the police is really not a civil dispute. At least it's not a big problem to solve the immediate urgent problem. But unfortunately, in desperation, rhubarb actually took out a weapon-although he didn't carry a brick with him at that time, he brought a dagger directly.

Duan Jun is a notorious developer boss, and default is common. Dealing with this means of debt collection at home, those various tricks are absolutely invisible in schools and textbooks. As long as people put on airs a few times, they will be trapped if they can't swallow this evil rhubarb.

In fact, rhubarb didn't use a dagger and didn't have the courage to kill people. But in the face of disloyal brother and two bluffing "running dogs", he was furious and thought he was defending himself. The dagger that came out didn't even know where it was, but it had penetrated one person's spleen and cut another person's hamstring. Before he could catch up with Duan Jun who fled in a hurry, he was knocked down by the police who had already received an alarm call and rushed to the scene.

After all, you don't have to cry into tears to describe Sister Hua. This time, no one can help rhubarb at all. Let's not say that debt disputes are a matter for the court. It is a serious criminal case that one person was seriously injured and two people were slightly injured just by taking the initiative to make trouble on someone else's site and carrying controlled knives with him.

This year, rhubarb was 42 years old. This time, fate was not on his side. Moreover, without teachers and parents, sister Hua and several brothers, he directly handed himself over to the police and the court in the first major crisis in his life. This time, there is no tolerance, no partiality, only the seriousness and justice of the law.

The case of rhubarb is still under trial. Even if Duan Jun and two other victims issued an understanding agreement shortly after the incident, rhubarb could not escape legal sanctions. According to floret, Duan Jun later ran away without a trace, and the matter of rhubarb also drove him to the wall.

Today, Sister Hua is still working as a massage girl in the bath center, and the pressure of raising two children on her own left her no choice. She still kept the changes at home from the old people on both sides, as before.

Title: Stills of "Twenty Years Past in Northeast China"