Chapter 67
A person's courage can be trained, but a person's conscience can also be wiped out by such incidents.
After experiencing this incident, An Jing's personality changed drastically. Even he himself knew that he had become more gloomy and depressed, and less kind and understanding.
Of course, he wasn't a very lively person to begin with, and years later, he still kept wondering why Zhang Zhimin did this. Was it simply because he was a bit pretty? Or maybe he thought he was easy to manipulate? Or maybe he was jealous.
After Zhang Zhimin became famous, An Jing also paid attention to him for a while. It turned out that his family was not as well-off as he had imagined.
The so-called Anguo Hallelujah University of Arts was a fake master's degree bought with money, and his age when he enrolled was totally inconsistent with his peers. He was much older. An Jing guessed that he had made up for it in order to gild his reputation. As for art, art is like calling a horse a zebra.
An Jing concluded that Zhang Zhimin envied him, or even envied him, his family, his appearance, his knowledge...
Everything he obtained easily was as difficult as climbing to the sky in Zhang Zhimin's eyes, so he hated himself.
Thinking of this, An Jing laughed and was speechless, and at the same time, an inexplicable anger rose up in his heart, and many truths about his father came to his mind.
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"Blue Island is a new piece of juicy new meat. Now that we're here, we're part of the base. You know what the land is like. Keep your mouth shut and be careful with your words and actions. Don't offend anyone. Don't read the negative reviews of the base online. Know your own life and don't show off."
An Jing nodded, impatiently and absent-mindedly.
An Xingmin adjusted his cuffs and sprayed some hair wax on them. He said, "To put it bluntly, most people in this world spend their lives just trying to make a living. But An Jing, our family is different."
"I don't think so," An Jing muttered casually, poking his father's unpalatable dish with a fork. "What's the difference?"
"You're much richer than most kids! You'll have plenty of food and clothing, and you'll hardly ever have to worry about money. Not only that, I've also bought you a trust fund. Even if Blue Continent goes bankrupt, you'll always have the opportunity to escape."
"Like this." An Jing didn't quite understand. He chuckled, "Honestly, Dad, aren't you tired? As far as I can remember, our family has always been like this since I was a child. It's a very tense and defensive atmosphere. It's all for a little money, so what? Don't you think living like this is...particularly hard?"
"Just for some money?" An Xingmin's eyes suddenly widened, also amused, and replied: "What you eat, wear and use now, which one is not bought with money? Oh, I really am..." He showed a crooked mouth that wanted to slap An Jing a few times.
"The money I'm giving you is also inherited from your grandparents! Your grandparents' generation, ah, it makes me want to cry when I think about it now. When they were young, they sold daily necessities on the border. They had no choice. They were born there, and they always carried knives when they went out. They called it serving in the army, but they just knew a local tyrant and worked as their dog to pay them protection money."
An Jing, who was only sixteen years old, was stunned by what he heard. This was the first time his father talked about the past of his ancestors.
An Xingmin seemed to have been provoked into a conversation, chattering on non-stop: "I was in my twenties back then, just like you, caught in the riots. My first wife died that way, and we didn't even get a marriage certificate. Tsk... there wasn't even a Civil Affairs Bureau. Then, when I made some money, I told my parents I wanted to immigrate. Xia Country was so poor. Thinking about it now, I still think I was so far-sighted! I was right to run away! Haha, luckily our family lives on the border, so we're well-informed and well-informed."
What? His dad has another wife!
An Jing was stunned and dumbfounded after hearing this. He thought that his father was the one who really went with the flow. No wonder he immigrated for the second time.
An Xingmin knocked on the table and said, "I knew it—you should be bold and daring when you're young! It doesn't matter if you make mistakes, so you don't regret it when you're old! Later, I met your mother in Anguo. She was so beautiful, I really liked her and married her. To be honest, it was because of my visit to Anguo that I got connected. I heard that the top leaders were secretly building an underwater base. I was wondering at the time, what was the point of all this?"
What does he think of my mother with this tone? An Jing was very angry.
"So what about your first wife? Then, my mother is just..." An Jing hesitated, then pursed his lips and learned to remain silent.
"The result!" An Xingmin, indeed deaf, chattered excitedly to himself, "Two years later, I don't know if it was a natural disaster or a man-made one, but fluorescent skin disease came and miasma was everywhere. Hahahaha... Seriously, I'm so grateful, I'm so lucky to have come to Blue Continent and perfectly avoided it! Sometimes I really feel that I'm lucky, and that I've made the right choices every step of my life."
An Jing understood and nodded bitterly, not looking very happy. After all, with the way his father lived, he lived in fear and had no place to live, without even a sense of home.
"--Also, I have a premonition. An Jing, you're my son, and what I say is from the heart. Blue Continent won't last forever. Really, how can an underwater base be inhabited for long? We came here to avoid disaster. When the miasma on land disappears one day, son, we'll leave again. I still have the property rights in Xia Country, as long as that company doesn't fail. People should cherish their lives and live happily, right?"
An Jing nodded twice, but seemed to be resisting in his heart. He found that he was a very nostalgic and homesick person. He had felt lonely since he was a child, and what he wanted most was a sense of security. Unfortunately, he was always running around for An Xingmin.
"I..." An Jing wanted to say something.
"Why?" An Xingmin asked. "Ask your grandparents? They died a long time ago. It was after they were hacked to death by the Black Gang that I decided to emigrate. At that time, Xia Country was in chaos, especially the border. Now that I think about it, your grandfather had a bad temper and foul mouth, offending people without knowing it. I don't even know who killed them... Later, I went home and didn't dare to go out. I almost starved to death. Uncle Liao found me, covered my mouth and stuffed me onto the boat, and told me to sneak across. I didn't even dare to cry."
An Jing: "Who is Uncle Liao?"
An Xingmin finally blinked, a glint in his eyes as he said, "I really thank Uncle Liao, my neighbor. Although he was ugly, unmarried, and childless, he was incredibly kind and treated me so well. It must have been fate. I'll never forget how he saved my life... When we were doing business together at the docks, my mother seemed to have helped him, but I've forgotten. I haven't seen him since. I asked around, but they said he was dead."
An Xingmin seemed to be in deep sorrow, muttering, "Uncle Liao is a good man. I hope you will be reborn into a good family in your next life."
An Jing fell silent. An Xingmin poked his forehead with his thumb and asked jokingly, "You look unhappy. Are you scared?"
"No... I just feel that compared to you, Dad, what I've been through is nothing." An Jing sighed and thought to himself, maybe the reason I didn't become twisted is because I have a strong father to back me up.
In fact, An Xingmin's attitude towards relationships between men and women has also subtly influenced An Jing. He has also said that as long as one is not sick, one can be completely free in terms of sex.
"I think Zhang Zhimin is too low." An Jing suddenly said.
"Why are you talking about that person again? Oh, are you a woman? You started to whimper when your legs were touched twice." An Xingmin crossed his legs, looking a little disgusted.
An Jing twitched his lips, also disgusted by his father's damned sexual indulgence, and replied, "If she was prettier, I'd think it was a good deal."
"Hahahahahahaha..." An Xingmin seemed to have been tickled funny and laughed out loud.
Then he put his palm against his forehead, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Dad will introduce you to someone, it won't hurt you. Or, you can just relax a little, there's a university in Lanzhou, just have fun. Remember to use a condom, don't get her pregnant."
"No!" An Jing cursed his father internally for being such a loser. He stood up abruptly, rarely showing his anger. He protested, "Dad, I'm not as lewd as you think, am I?! Ah, sometimes I despise you so much. And, you just said you had a wife... Ahhh!"
An Jing grabbed the sofa next to him and slammed it twice, as if to vent his frustration. He asked cautiously, "Dad, are you sure I'm your only son?"
"Really." An Xingmin tired of laughing, cleared his throat, and replied solemnly, "You should be thankful that you are the firstborn son, otherwise, this family might be very noisy."
What a great dad! Do I have to thank you? Haha.
An Jing rolled his eyes and commented on him.
At the same time, the expression on his face that was joking with him suddenly turned cold. He spoke awkwardly and pretended to be good, then lowered his head and pinched his father's shoulder. He felt complicated and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Then Dad, give me some pocket money for living expenses?" An Jing suddenly figured it out and said with a smile, "Well, I saw a new game recently, it seems very high-tech, hehe."
"Okay, okay, okay, it's your turn."
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An Jing discovered that he was actually a otaku.
Of course, he is not fat nor ugly, he is just too lazy to dress up and currently does not feel the need. Besides, the Blue Island base is currently vast and sparsely populated, and with the Internet so developed, he can surf the world.
Then he discovered, no, he had discovered a long time ago, that his family was actually extremely wealthy. And he blamed it on his father who was so damned daddy.
A Little Grass: What is a subway?
Netizen: Are you serious, are you from outer space?
An Jing frowned, then gave up arguing and did some searching. He realized that the subway was a type of bus buried underground. He then searched for bus and shared bikes...
Having seen it on the street before, An Jing found himself completely intrigued. Finally, he was stunned to discover that the car he had ridden to school since childhood was actually a private car.
Other children don’t have this condition.
Thinking of this, An Jing felt a strange emotion rising in his heart.
No, no, An Jing shook his head. He was only five or six years old at that time, so it was normal that he didn’t know. After living in the underwater base for several years, he almost forgot the concepts of the sun, stars and moon.
Honestly, An Xingmin always talked about Anjing's happiness, but he didn't feel that way. Or perhaps, abalone and lobster were just so commonplace to him that he didn't find them anything new. But he also knew that others envied his life, which made him feel even more frustrated.
Draw? No, An Jing couldn't do that. He couldn't even find the meaning of his own existence. He felt disgusted by any man besides his father.
The shadow cast by that incident was so great that it was equivalent to deleting the options of love and friendship in his life.
An Jing pulled up his collar and looked out the window like Shouzhen. All the trees were dead. They were brought from the mainland and planted there, but because there was no photosynthesis, only dead branches and leaves were left.
"My dad went to so much trouble to escape here..." An Jing laughed, as if mocking himself. "Haha, maybe people are just mean, craving things they don't have. I actually want to go back to land."
An Jing pointed his finger at the sky above him and said thoughtfully, "What's above the sea? The sun, the moon, the stars, the blue sky, the white clouds...what do they look like?"
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