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Bi Tielin took a step forward and rubbed the top of Bi Yue's head with his big, bony hands.
In my memory, my eldest niece was a quiet child who was often bullied by boys of the same age in the village.
The little girl in that impression would raise her tearful eyes and look at you expectantly when she was wronged.
Instead of being like this now, squatting down with her arms around her body and her head down, not wanting anyone to see her tearful eyes.
Even her crying was restrained and endured, as if she was forcing herself to hold it back!
In Bi Tielin's eyes, this Bi Yue was truly promising! Just look at his niece's self-protective actions and you can see that it's better to rely on yourself than on others.
I heard from his eldest brother that his niece's college entrance examination score was the best in the county and she was even famous in the city. With her outstanding results, she was admitted to a school in Kyoto.
No wonder he's become so successful. Without a bit of tenacity, with the level of education in this small place, he'd never be able to get out.
During these years in prison, he also understood a truth: the so-called "genius" is actually forced to work hard every day for ten or eight years!
In his office, there were petty thieves and lockpickers, self-taught, capable of breaking anything they couldn't. There were also those imprisoned for fraud and accounting fraud, who'd have to study for days to master the game, poring over countless books to find loopholes. They came from all walks of life, all kinds of people.
He also specifically deals with those who "have special skills and are capable"! He never associates with violent elements. In his opinion, that is brainless. He would rather deal with more economic criminals than murderers and arsonists.
This is how it should be in this era!
Of course, he hated that woman so much that he gnashed his teeth and wanted to destroy her to ashes, but he would not give anyone the chance to send him to jail again.
He will hold on to the rest of his life and not let anyone manipulate his destiny!
Society will not treat a person well for no reason unless he proves to society that he deserves such good treatment!
…
Bi Tielin saw that Bi Yue's mood had stabilized somewhat. The sound of his niece moving her legs, probably because she was tired of squatting and listening, also stopped his thoughts:
"Want to stay in seclusion for another hour? Then go burn paper for your grandfather?"
"Uncle, please go back. I'm fine." He spoke with a nasal tone.
Bi Tielin felt in his pocket, crumpled a dozen ten-dollar bills into a roll, and reached out to grab Bi Yue.
Bi Yue felt her uncle sway for a moment, and then something appeared in her palm. Her mind was dazed, and she opened her palm to take a look in the moonlight. Bi Yue opened her red and swollen eyes in shock and exclaimed, "Uncle!"
She wanted to ask, "Where did you get the money from?", but she held it back in time.
She had been back a few days ago, and there weren't many leisure activities in the village. Every household stayed indoors until dark, and they loved visiting each other. Especially since the Bi family had something to do these past two days.
Bi Yue quickly suppressed the question on the tip of her tongue, lowered her voice, and asked cautiously:
"You know everything? Did my father tell you?" He thought it was the money given by Bi Tiegang.
Bi Tielin had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and rugged features. He narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this, and thought for a moment: "Come on, follow me, let's chat for a while, and then we'll go burn paper."
He never had a long chat with his elder brother on the bus or train, and it was not convenient for him to chat because he didn't have a seat and was surrounded by people.
But on the train, the eldest brother proudly and loudly mentioned that both his niece and nephew were admitted to university, and that the family had produced two "literary stars", and asked him if he was happy!
Bi Tielin also always thought that it was too difficult for his family to visit him over the years.
This time, when he was released from prison, he ran into his eldest brother as soon as he walked out the door. He was wondering if this was the money he had been saving for travel expenses. When he got home, he ran into his father...
There is an empty space behind the mountain.
"Come on, Yueyue, tell your uncle about the major events in our Bi family over the years."
Big deal?
Bi Yue looked at Bi Tielin seriously.
It started with her younger uncle, and then her grandmother passed away. She had a lot of anger that she couldn't vent, and her original body became depressed. Is this a big deal?
If she was not mistaken, her uncle was different from the prisoners she had imagined, even more resolute than many ordinary people. What was the difference? Why did she have this intuition?
Eyes, eyes are bright and never dim!
Maybe she should say something about the past, and only tell her uncle because he can understand.
"They took you away from me when I was so young...
Grandma took her last breath in front of me...
We didn't even have the money to go to university; my father had gone to the mountains and was lame. We were able to go to school thanks to the money our family pooled together, stashed away in our cotton hats. Without that money, Dacheng and I would have been separated, hamstrung by travel expenses. The school had secretly withheld the bonuses and subsidies it had received...
I have to save half of the monthly allowance from the university for Bicheng, as he's growing up and won't have enough to eat. I also have to use the rest to buy medicine for my grandfather...
Gradually, I became malnourished and sick. No one knew I was sick because I looked like a healthy person, but in fact I was too lazy to walk, exercise, or talk, and my thinking was stagnant...
In order to avoid being noticed and being accused of mental illness, I clumsily and laboriously imitated others’ smiles over and over again. I ate by chewing and swallowing mechanically until I didn’t want to eat anything anymore…”
Bi Tielin's heart felt like it was being torn out by someone.
He had to blink his eyes and look up at the sky to avoid crying in front of his niece and looking embarrassed with tears and snot!
"Later, I became a tutor... selling fried dough sticks... What should I do? I was so poor, was it fate?
But when I walked out of that dull world, I told myself that my resurrection was like being reborn, and to be reborn I had to either change my fate or not believe in it… The plastic bag bruised Dacheng’s shoulders and ribs… We boarded the international train…”
It turns out that my niece has changed because of all these experiences.
Bi Tielin swallowed the bitterness rising in his throat:
"Child, keep the money safe. Your father won't know about it. Buy some candy." He walked away quickly, then suddenly stopped.
Bi Tielin didn't look back. He assured Bi Yue in a steady and powerful voice:
"Yueyue, from now on, you, Dacheng, and Goudan can study as long as you want. Your uncle will support you!"
Bi Yue trotted forward. She said this to arouse her uncle's fighting spirit. The uncle and nephew thought the same thing!
The uncle secretly gave money to his niece, fearing that she would suffer because of the money. The niece opened her memory and relived it, so that she would no longer feel helpless. From then on, the Bi family had a younger uncle to keep her company. After all, her father's legs were so bad that he would fall if he walked a little faster.
More importantly, it is also to encourage my uncle to be brave enough to fight and get out of the mountains:
"Uncle, the villagers in the village may be simple and honest, but since you came from there, I'm afraid they'll look at you with tinted glasses after a while. There's a lot of excitement out there. You should spend more time with grandpa and grandma, and then go to Kyoto!" (To be continued.)
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