Lin Lidongguang finished junior high school with much difficulty. He studied in the first grade for five years and his grades were always ranked last in the class. Not to mention taking the high school entrance exam, even the principal was unwilling to accept him to repeat the junior high school.
Lin Lidong's mother pleaded with him, and the principal offered an idea: "This child is simply not cut out for study. Even if you make him go through junior high school a hundred times, he'll still be ranked last. He's naturally active and has a bit of stubbornness in his bones. Why not enlist in the army? With some hard work, he might become a talented person in the future!"
In this way, Lin Lidong joined the army as a scout and stayed in the army for eight years.
For normal soldiers, the service period is actually not that long. They either retire and go home after two or three years, or they can continue to serve after being promoted in rank.
But Lin Lidong was different. Even in the army, he still had two extremes. He excelled in daily training and various missions, achieving top grades. This didn't stop him from being willful and mischievous, especially given the underworld atmosphere he'd experienced in school, which made him value brotherhood.
Sometimes when his comrades in the same company had a disagreement with people from other companies, before his comrades could even say anything, he would be the first to "seek justice" for them...
The army leaders saw that he was a good candidate, so in many incidents they only gave him serious warnings and punishments, and tried their best to give him opportunities to stay in the army so that he could shine in the future.
But what was to come would eventually come. Eight years into Lin Lidong's military service, his unit moved to a new location, and soldiers from two locations were merged and relocated to the newly built barracks. On his first day, while eating in the cafeteria, a soldier cut in line in front of Lin Lidong.
If it were an ordinary recruit, he would have tolerated it, as one more person wouldn't delay the team too much. But Lin Lidong was stubborn and was not happy about it at the time, so he pushed the soldier out of the team.
The soldier had some experience and was a non-commissioned officer. He was used to being arrogant in his own army. When he saw that Lin Lidong was just a small soldier, he also got angry. The two of them started fighting after just a few words!
The soldier was tall and strong. He stretched out his arm and grabbed Lin Lidong's neck. Lin Lidong was not to be outdone. His arms were not as strong as an adult's, so he kicked him in the crotch.
The soldier was in so much pain that his facial features were distorted. He also became furious. He grabbed Lin Lidong's neck and pushed him forward several meters, pressing him to lie on the dining table, and slapped him several times!
Lin Lidong's lower body was powerless, and he couldn't get up. His ears were buzzing from being slapped, and the cruelty hidden in his heart suddenly burst out. He snatched the chopsticks from the hand of the soldier sitting at the table eating, and stabbed them into the soldier's eyes!
This incident caused the soldier to lose the sight in his left eye, and Lin Lidong was directly expelled from the army. If he had inserted the chopsticks two inches deeper, the soldier might not have even saved his life, and he would have had to go to court-martial!
After leaving the army and returning home, Lin Lidong received two more pieces of devastating news. His sister, Lin Lixin, was diagnosed with heart disease. She was said to have been born with heart problems, but the symptoms only began to show up in adulthood. His mother, struggling to earn money to pay for her daughter's medical treatment, ultimately failed to recover and collapsed from exhaustion.
Not long after Lin Lidong returned home, his mother passed away. In her final moments, she used her last bit of strength to place Lin Lixin's hand in his and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom has never asked you for anything in my life. Now I only ask one thing of you: take good care of your sister. She is your only relative..."
This sentence made Lin Lidong mature overnight. He changed his willful and reckless character and began to work day and night to make money, just to cure Lin Lixin's illness.
Lin Lidong was born with a hardworking character. He tried his best to do everything. In order to make money, he worked three jobs a day and sometimes even found some night work at night. Although the money he earned was considerable, it always seemed like a drop in the bucket when he was devoured by the disease.
As the days passed, Lin Lixin's illness became more serious. She couldn't get angry, couldn't do heavy work, and could only rest at home most of the time.
Lin Lidong even gave up everything for the sake of making money. He put all his energy into Lin Lixin and never planned for himself, so he was still a bachelor in his thirties.
Life was so bitter, but God still did not favor this brother and sister. One day in the middle of the night, Lin Lixin suddenly fell ill, his breathing became rapid, his face turned purple, and his whole body was shaking violently. He couldn't even take medicine.
After being rushed to the hospital, he was successfully out of danger, but needed to be hospitalized for observation for a period of time.
This was a considerable expense. Lin Lidong said that it was okay in front of the hospital bed, but in fact he kept banging his head against the wall outside the hospital, not knowing where to get the money.
As he bumped into something, a loan advertisement on the wall caught his attention. Although he knew that these were all usurious loans, Lin Lidong no longer cared about that. He contacted the other party to explain his purpose and successfully got 30,000 yuan.
The 30,000 yuan solved his immediate problem, but the interest that followed was far beyond Lin Lidong's imagination. After a month, the 30,000 yuan had become 50,000 yuan. After two months, the 50,000 yuan had become 100,000 yuan...
When the outstanding balance rose to 150,000, the loan company began to send people to collect the debt. A few thugs came, and the leader was a yellow-haired man with a nose ring on his face and chewing gum in his mouth. He filled a mineral water bottle with gasoline and carried it into the house.
With Lin Lidong's income, repaying the principal of 30,000 yuan was already a struggle. The money had increased fivefold in three months, so he definitely didn't have the money to pay. The yellow-haired man was also a professional debt collector, full of bad intentions. He had two of his men hold Lin Lidong down, then began searching the house for valuables.
After searching around, he finally found Lin Lixin's room. When he pushed the door open, he saw Lin Lixin sleeping on the bed. The warm sunlight shone on her delicate little face, making her look like a fairy who had descended to earth.
This scene immediately gave the yellow-haired man evil thoughts. He said with a lewd smile, "No money, huh? Fine, let your sister pay you 10,000 today. If you still don't have money, I'll come for 15 consecutive days. By then, the 150,000 will be paid off, but we'll have to calculate the added interest separately."
After saying that, he closed the door, unbuckled his belt and threw himself on the bed.
Lin Lidong hadn't struggled before because he knew there was nothing valuable in the house, but he hadn't expected the yellow-haired man to set his sights on his sister. Hearing the screams from the room, he immediately turned hostile, broke free, kicked the door open, and rushed in.
Entering the room, Lin Lidong punched twice, grabbed the yellow-haired man's nose ring and pulled it down, tearing his nose apart. Then he grabbed his collar and dragged him back to the living room. He picked up the mineral water bottle filled with gasoline, unscrewed the lid, turned the bottle mouth downwards, pressed it against the yellow-haired man's head and squeezed it hard, dousing his entire head with gasoline!
Before the yellow-haired man could react, flames flew out of the lighter in Lin Lidong's hand. "You can touch me, but if you touch my sister, you're looking for death!"
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