The fourth time, a neighbor came to the door and Lao Pu asked him to take over for a while.
In about half an hour, he helped Lao Pu win 120 yuan.
Lao Pu said that he was lucky and that the money had changed his fortune, and he insisted on giving him sixty yuan. He couldn't refuse, so he accepted it.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh time, he came out and won every time.
He used the winnings to buy a pair of gold earrings for his wife, roller skates for his son, a doll for his daughter, and a 17-inch color TV for his family.
He told his family that Lao Pu had asked someone to find him a job looking after the warehouse. From then on, he went out late and came back early, and basically lived in Lao Pu's house all the time.
But gambling is not only governed by probability, it is also governed by metaphysics. If someone wins, someone loses, and there are also people who set up traps.
Later, Hu Yitong's luck at the poker table was not so good.
He sold the gold earrings he bought for his wife, the TV, and other items in the house that could be sold.
Later, in order to pay off his 8,000 yuan gambling debt, he personally sent his drugged wife to Lao Pu's bed...
In 1992, Hu Yitong and Zhao Yaping divorced.
Daughters go to their mothers, sons go to their fathers.
A good family was torn apart from then on.
After Zhao Yaping moved away with Hu Guile, Hu Guiyuan, who had just started high school, moved directly to the school dormitory. During the winter and summer vacations, he went to the construction site to move bricks and carry cement to earn a living. He did not return to that home for the next two years.
With the help of Lao Pu, Hu Yitong rented the yard to a family named Xu. He received 2,000 yuan in rent a year. He moved directly into Lao Pu's house with the money.
But within three days, the two thousand yuan was lost again.
Lao Pu didn't chase him away, and always took him along for a bite when he ate or drank. Occasionally, he would swindle some money from friends and relatives, and he would go to the table to play a few games. Later, his relatives and friends all treated him like the plague, and on the rare occasions when he could get money, he would just watch others play.
In just two or three years, Hu Yitong transformed from a spirited young man into a slovenly, unkempt gambler with sunken eyes and a wandering gaze. His once happy family life had long since faded from his memory. He even forgot that he had a son who needed his support after the divorce...
This son didn't intend to rely on him for support.
His parents' divorce, broken family, and guardians' failure to fulfill their responsibility to raise their underage children did not affect Hu Guiyuan's academic performance, which was the best in his grade.
He was different from other rebellious teenagers. He skipped this stage directly. His daily homework, after-school work, and precise planning for the future made him as self-disciplined as a clockwork robot. He had no time and mood to complain about life. He had to hurry to earn his current living expenses and college tuition.
In July 1994, he received the admission letter from Q University. At that moment, he knew that he had escaped the difficulties caused by his father's sudden change in personality and his mother's divorce and departure with his sister.
His future is different.
But this fucked up life always goes against his wishes, and it dealt him a fatal blow when he was most satisfied and happiest!
He fell from the scaffolding at the construction site, fell into a coma, and broke one of his legs. Everything seemed exactly like the time his father was robbed many years ago.
But he is much worse off than his father.
Hu Yitong was taken care of by his family at the time, and the medical expenses did not affect the family's normal life.
Not only was he left without anyone to take care of him, but his unscrupulous father also searched his luggage in the shed and took away all his savings.
It was already late October when he was finally allowed to walk after his legs were dragging on.
The foreman still had a conscience and paid all his medical expenses and the remaining wages, but he had already missed the registration time for university and the tuition he had saved was squandered by his father.
After being discharged from the hospital, Hu Guiyuan borrowed a small tricycle from a coworker, went to the shed, loaded his belongings, and returned to the Hu family compound. The compound was rented out, and the lease hadn't expired yet, but he didn't care. He took out the axe he had prepared and chopped down the wooden door in a few strokes.
The tenants' family happened to be there. They first stared at him in amazement as he broke into the house. Then the women all burst into screams, and the three men nervously picked up stools.
Hu Guiyuan frowned and picked his ears. It was too noisy.
He approached step by step, and the tenants retreated step by step. Finally, he chopped the table with an axe and said, "This house is no longer for rent. Hurry and move out. If you don't move out today, I will burn you down. Don't blame me for not warning you first."
The Xu family father and son looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, the elder Xu Tianfang stepped forward and said, "Are you the landlord? Hu Yitong rented this house to us. The rent is paid annually, and this year's rent is only due in three months. There's no reason for you to ask us to move out!"
Hu Guiyuan: "Don't worry, I'll go deal with Hu Yitong now. After I deal with him, I'll talk to you about the rent."
After saying that, he went out and pushed the tricycle into the yard. Before leaving, he raised his axe and nodded to the Xu family members: "Keep an eye on it for me, don't make it dirty."
Everyone in the Xu family was frightened by his axe. After he left, Xu Huaiwen tremblingly asked his father, "Is this Hu Yitong's son, Hu Guiyuan?"
Xu Tianfang nodded with a dark face.
Xu Huaiwu saw that the man must have gone far away, and suddenly he became powerful, waving his hands and saying, "Where's the knife? Give me the knife. This little brat dared to come to our house and provoke thorns. He doesn't take me, Master Wu, seriously. I'm going to chop him up."
As soon as he finished speaking, his brother Xu Huaiwen slapped him hard on the back of the head: "What the hell are you pretending to be? Get out of here!"
Xu Huaiwu touched the back of his head, stiffened his neck, and looked indignant.
Huaiwen ignored him and asked his father with a serious expression: "Is this kid crazy? Should we move?"
Xu Tianfang frowned and thought for a moment, then said to him, "Follow him quietly and see where he goes. If he's really crazy, we'll move. I'll let your mother and the others clean up first."
Xu Huaiwen nodded and walked out immediately.
He quickly caught up with Hu Guiyuan. The boy carried an axe and ran to Lao Pu's house at the speed of light.
Without knocking or calling out, he just took a big axe and chopped the wooden door into pieces in just three or five hits.
There was no gambling at Old Pu's house during the day. Hu Yitong and Old Pu were sleeping soundly in the house with their legs spread out. Even though the door was smashed like that, they were not woken up.
Hu Guiyuan did not hesitate and directly lifted the curtain and entered the house. Seeing that the two men were still sleeping, he took a basin of tap water from the yard and poured it on their heads.
After two howling sounds, Lao Pu and Hu Yitong were awakened. They sat up in panic and saw a young man who looked familiar, holding an axe and chopping around the room.
After chopping the table, he chopped the cabinet, then he chopped the chair, and after chopping the chair, he jumped onto the kang.
With a cry of "Ah", Lao Pu and Hu Yitong rolled and crawled to the ground.
"You...you you you, who are you?"
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