monologue

Chapter 76 Martial Arts Master (1)
Do you know what is the most regrettable thing in my life?I didn't get into college.It has been several years since the resumption of the college entrance examination. My classmates are all studying hard and working hard. What am I doing?Mix society!In the year of high school graduation, more than a dozen people in our class were admitted to college, and of course I failed.But at that time, most of the people in the class failed the rankings, so I didn't care at all, thinking that it was normal to fail the rankings.At that time, the enrollment rate in college was less than [-]%. I didn’t study hard at all, and I never thought that I would go to college one day. It was only later that I regretted it when I remembered the absurdity of that time.

After high school I started doing nothing.At that time, martial arts movies had just emerged in China. Did you know "Shaolin Temple"?I watched ten games in a row!I didn't buy a ticket, I just sneaked into the cinema to watch it.I was so fascinated that I thought: If only I had that kind of martial arts.So I went around looking for someone who knew martial arts.Not to mention, I actually found one later, and he was my former Chinese teacher.

At the beginning, I just heard that he knew martial arts, but I didn't believe it at all.The Chinese teacher is a thin old man who doesn't look like someone who knows martial arts.Shan Yong, a classmate who failed the exam with me, said that he had personally seen our Chinese teacher pin the principal to the ground with a single touch.

I asked Shan Yong: "Really?" Shan Yong said: "If I lie to you, I will be your grandson." I didn't think Shan Yong was lying, so I thought in my heart: I must invite the Chinese teacher out for a meal. If he really has kung fu, I will worship him as my teacher.Chinese teacher surnamed Yan, less than 1.6 meters tall, single.After Shan Yong told about him, I suddenly felt that this person was very mysterious, and that he really looked like a legendary martial arts master.

My first time stealing money from home.The money at home is kept in the cabinet in the parents’ bedroom. I never thought that one day I would steal the money there, but that time I stole it to treat the Chinese teacher to dinner.

Together with Shan Yong, I found Teacher Yan.Teacher Yan lives in the school, just a single room.Unexpectedly, Teacher Yan remembered my name. He said, "Lei Meng, you are not a good student and you don't like studying. What do you want from me?"

I said: "I don't like reading, I want to practice martial arts. I heard that the teacher knows martial arts?"

Teacher Yan asked me: "Why do you learn martial arts? Martial arts are useless. No matter how powerful martial arts are, they are not as good as guns. It is useless if you learn them."

I lied to him and said, "I want to be a soldier. Only after I learn martial arts will I have more opportunities."

Teacher Yan nodded and said, "If you can't get into university, it's a good way to join the army."

Seeing that he did not deny that he knew martial arts, I hurriedly said to him: "I would like to invite the teacher out for a meal. I wonder if the teacher can agree."

Teacher Yan said: "Where did you get the money? Let me invite you. I have never accepted an apprentice in my life. You want to worship me as a teacher with just a meal? No way!"

Maybe I tickled his itch, and he immediately went with us to a small restaurant outside the school gate.Thinking about it now, I still feel strange, maybe he was really lonely at that time.After arriving at the small restaurant, he randomly ordered a few dishes and ordered a bottle of the cheapest high-grade liquor, and we started drinking.Soon the three of us finished a bottle, and I found that he was a little excited, so I went to ask for another bottle.Teacher Yan had no objection, so he continued to drink with us.

Shan Yong didn't drink much, and soon started talking nonsense: "Mr. Yan, I saw you fighting with the principal, you are so powerful."

Teacher Yan waved his hand at him and said, "He's not a thing. He bullied the school's female teacher. I didn't like it, so I taught him a lesson. He even threatened me! Who am I? Heir to a family of martial arts!" He said, Picking up the wine glass and pinching it, when he stretched out his hand, the wine glass had become a small pile of broken pieces.

Shan Yong was dumbfounded, and I was also taken aback. Without thinking about anything, I knelt down on the ground, kowtowed to him, and said, "Teacher, accept me as an apprentice." Hastily knelt down.

From that day on, Shan Yong and I became Master Yan's apprentices.To be honest, Mr. Yan's Chinese class is not very good, but his martial arts is really good.

My parents are ordinary cadres with low wages, and they put the money in the cabinet after they are paid every month.I insisted on paying the bill that night, and the next day my father found out that the money at home was short, and asked if I took it, and I said yes, I took it to treat my classmates to dinner, but was severely beaten by my father.At that time, I thought, in the future, I can no longer steal money from the family, and it will not be easy for my parents.

So I went to Shan Yong to discuss.Shan Yong said: "It's not easy. We have learned martial arts now, just drive out those who collect protection fees on the street, and then there will be no money?" When I heard this, I thought this method was good, so I borrowed Teacher Yan. When I go out to drink, I deliberately provoke those who collect protection fees.Teacher Yan drank alcohol and defended his shortcomings. Of course, Shan Yong and I will not suffer.He made a move immediately, and immediately showed his talents. We beat those gangsters until we cried for their parents.Teacher Yan was dragged into the water by us.

In the following time, we fought with those people in the society almost every day.Those people have never learned kung fu, and in the final analysis, they dare to work hard.But Shan Yong and I were more ruthless than them. In addition, we had already learned some superficial skills. In less than half a year, we established a foothold on several nearby streets.

One night, we had just parted ways after drinking with Teacher Yan, when a beautiful girl came up to me and said to me, "Lei Meng, I like you."

I never thought a girl could be so bold.But she was really pretty, and I drank again that day, so I took her to a hotel to get a room.What surprised me was that she was still a virgin.I asked her why she liked me, and she said: "I watched from a distance when you fought several times, you are a hero."

Since then I have often been with her, and she is Song Mei.I think she and I are the same kind of people, both are rebellious and want to live differently from other people.Moreover, she is so beautiful, and it is very face-saving to take it out.But her parents didn't know about us, and I didn't bother to ask who her parents were.In fact, I know that although I am famous in the society, many people hate people like us. Once her parents know about our relationship, it is very likely that she will no longer be my woman.

But it didn't take long before Song Mei's parents found out about our relationship.Her father came to the door aggressively and scolded all eight generations of my ancestors in front of my parents. I was so angry that I slapped him a few times.

My father beat me up a few times since I started that path, but at the time I felt like I was on my way to success and I couldn't listen to my father at all.Once I was beaten by my father, so I said to him harshly: "If you hit me again, I won't recognize you as an old man!"

My mother has always loved me, so she advised my father not to meddle in my affairs.My mother said: "He is still young, and he will gradually get better in the future." In fact, my father saw that I couldn't turn back and couldn't control me anymore, so he had to accept that reality.

That day, Song Mei's father came to scold me, and I couldn't help but slapped him a few times. As a result, he had a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital.My father was so angry that he picked up a kitchen knife and kicked me out of the house.He said to me viciously: "From now on, I will not have a son like you!"

I haven't seen Song Mei since then, and I don't care.At that time, I was so famous that there were beautiful women around me all the time.Except for Teacher Yan and Shan Yong, everyone else almost forgot that I had a relationship with Song Mei.Since I was kicked out by my family, I have been looking for a house outside, eating, drinking and having fun with my brothers every day.During that time, I lived a fairy-like life. The protection fees were collected by the brothers below, and beautiful women accompanied me every day.After more than half a year like that, one night, Teacher Yan came to me.I found that his appearance was not quite right, he was so thin that he was out of shape, so I asked him what was the matter.He said, "Come on, let's go drink."

The two of us went to a restaurant, and I found that his hand holding the glass was shaking.He sighed and said to me: "This may be the last time I drink with you. I shouldn't have taught you martial arts before, otherwise you wouldn't be what you are now. I suffered karma and got liver cancer. It's late."

At that time, I was very shocked. I knew what the advanced stage of liver cancer meant, but I didn't know what to say for a while.Teacher Yan looked at me and said: "You are still young, it is too late to stop now. Teacher is a person who is about to die. As the saying goes, 'When a person is about to die, his words are also good', you just listen to me."

I said, "What else can I do but be like this?"

The teacher said: "You are still young, you can support yourself no matter what you do. If you continue like this, you might end up in jail someday. I already regret that I taught you and Shan Yong martial arts, otherwise God would not give me This kind of retribution. Shan Yong listens to you, as long as you behave yourself from now on, he will not continue on this road. Listen to me, otherwise I will not be safe when I go underground. "

I said yes to him.But it was only a verbal agreement, because I didn't know what other way I could go.After drinking, we came out of the restaurant, and suddenly found a group of people surrounded us.I know the leader. His name is Liu Hongwei. He used to be the leader of the neighborhood. When I fought for the territory with him, I broke his leg.

At that time, I knew it was bad when I saw him. Liu Hongwei brought nearly 20 people with machetes in their hands.Teacher Yan also understood what was going on all of a sudden, and said to me in a low voice: "Catch the thief first and catch the king! You go and restrain the leader, and I will deal with the people around and open the way for you."

Just after he finished saying that, he rushed towards the person closest to him, grabbed the machete from that person's hand with a dodge, and threw it at me.I stretched out my hand to take the machete, and directly slashed at Liu Hongwei, completely ignoring those who were rushing towards me.I have already experienced Master Yan's kung fu, so I don't need to have any worries.

In fact, it only took a few seconds, and I rushed in front of Liu Hongwei in an instant.Liu Hongwei didn't expect our reaction to be so fast, he raised the machete in a hurry and slashed at me.Without thinking about it, I moved towards his hand that raised the knife from bottom to top, and his arm fell to the ground with the knife all at once, and he let out a scream.Those people brought by Liu Hongwei were stunned for an instant, and they all stopped attacking.At this time the police came, and those people started running around.

I was going to run, but suddenly I found Teacher Yan lying on the ground with blood all over his body.I threw down the machete in my hand, squatted next to Teacher Yan to look, and found a knife stuck in his body, right where his liver was.He grinned at me and said, "That's good, you don't have to wait to die."

After he finished speaking, he died.The police surrounded us, and Liu Hongwei and I had no choice but to arrest them without a fight.

My father hired a lawyer for me. Although I hurt others in self-defense, I was finally sentenced to ten years in prison because of intentional wounding, several hooligan disturbances, and suspicion of gangster crimes.

In fact, I once thought that I would end up like that, but I was too young at that time, and those things were too easy to get, so I was addicted to it and couldn't extricate myself.After Teacher Yan said those words to me, I also had the idea of ​​stopping in my heart, but I couldn't make up my mind for a while.But what I never imagined was that God never gave me a chance to stop, and sent me directly to prison.Teacher Yan also died like that.I know that those people wouldn't be able to hurt him if he hadn't had advanced liver cancer and was extremely weak.From then on, I really believed in fate.

Prisons also have the phenomenon of the jungle.There was a boss in the cell where I was. When I entered the cell, there were two people who knew me. The boss was afraid that I would take his place, so he directly attacked me.Although I was already disheartened, I couldn't let others bully me casually. My ruthlessness came up all at once, and it took only one movement to dislocate his shoulder joint, and immediately calmed down the prison cell. Everyone in it.

I no longer have any interest in things like being the boss. After being imprisoned, I have been thinking about what Teacher Yan once said to me. I just want to behave well, get a reduced sentence, and then go out and start a new life earlier.Because of this, the prison boss and I became friends.He was a casino master, and someone cheated in front of him, and he chopped off that person's hand. As a result, the person died of excessive blood loss, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.After we became friends, I told him about myself and what Teacher Yan had said to me. After hearing this, he said: "My life is over, and I am old when I leave here. You It’s different, if you perform well, you will go out in seven or eight years. People like us have no future in the mainland, and they will be discriminated against when they go out. You’d better go to Hong Kong or Macau.”

I said, "I don't know anything except martial arts, and I don't speak the language. Can I live in Hong Kong and Macau?"

He smiled and said: "Do you know what I did before I came in? I am a casino master. I can teach you gambling skills and Cantonese. After you leave here, go to Macau. Macau is a world-renowned gambling city. As long as you learn my gambling skills, it is impossible to go there without developing. I was already old when I left here, and you have to support me by then. How about it? Would you like to learn?"

At that time, I felt strange, and asked him: "Since you are a casino master, why didn't you go there before?"

He sighed and said, "I can't help it. My former boss was kind to me, and it would be unreasonable for me to leave him. You and I are both people in the rivers and lakes. We can't help ourselves. You are different now, and your family is different. I recognize you, and I have nothing else to worry about. People say that this life is long or short, you can't just waste your life like this, can you? I'm helping you, and I'm also helping myself. "

Not only is there no freedom in the prison, but it is also very boring. I think his words are very reasonable, so I agreed to him.This person is very knowledgeable, I don’t know how he got all kinds of gambling equipment, so he started to teach me gambling, and told me a lot of casino rules and anecdotes about the world, and soon my Cantonese also failed. Well said.A few years passed in a flash, because I performed well in the prison, and after three commutations, I was released from prison after only serving six years.When he left the prison, he said to me: "Your gambling skills have already surpassed mine. After you go out, find someone who is my former friend. Then he will find a way to help you smuggle to Macau. "

Out of prison, I didn't go home.It's not that I don't miss my parents, it's that I'm afraid to see them.My parents visited me more than once while I was in prison, but I never saw them.It's not that I'm cruel, it's that I don't want to make them sad. I'm sorry for them in this life as a son, and I have to repay the favor in my next life.I think the boss of the cell is right, people like me can only become a burden to our parents.

I went to find the person the boss mentioned. He gave me some money and called my friend in Guangdong. I took the train to Guangdong that night.Before leaving, I sneaked downstairs to my parents' house.I don't know if I can come back in this life, I can only look at the windows of my house from a distance, and I can say goodbye to my parents.

(End of this chapter)