The Dream of Conviction Chapter 1—Telephone
Gu Xiaobei stared at the computer screen casually, but didn't know what to look at. The pointer flew around on the green grassland, like a headless fly. Most of the systems in this era were Windows 7, and the default wallpaper of the system was replaced with a dark blue background four-leaf window. Gu Xiaobei had been installing this system for a long time and thought it was better to have an old-fashioned grassland, green, so he changed it back.
The middle-aged uncle Lao Lu secretly glanced here and said loudly
"Xiaobei, your Uncle Lu hasn't played ranking for a long time. I don't see any customers today. Why don't you help me get points?"
"I don't want to fight." Gu Xiaobei said with no strength.
"Then don't occupy the pit and stop stooling. Change your position with you, Uncle Lu, quickly." Uncle Lu laughed, feeling that he had requisitioned some labor for free.
"Okay, okay, okay." Gu Xiaobei thought to himself that you can't win anyway, so he agreed readily.
So Gu Xiaobei sat on the cashier of this "Hospital" supermarket. As the only second retail supermarket in the old community, the business will not be too good or too bad. Uncle Lu will watch those familiar faces travel back and forth every day, chatting occasionally, and the days will pass.
Gu Xiaobei is the most free guy in the eyes of the brothers in the community. No one cares about it. He is taken care of by his grandmother since he was a child. Whenever the sun sets and his parents are taken home for dinner, he will drift by the river alone. He feels like a stone in his hand, jumping on the water surface, and I don’t know when it will fall. Gu Xiaobei’s parents went out to work when he was six years old, and his grandmother always says that his parents will come back if he is older. Until now, Gu Xiaobei is an adult, but his parents are still on the other end of the phone.
Every time he looked at his parents in the photo, he felt it was nonsense. He thought to himself that since he was leaving, why did he only take away the little boy who was slightly shorter than him in the photo and not take away his grandmother.
He felt that perhaps one day he had some serious illness, and his parents would come back when they were so weak that they could only blink their eyes, but what was the point of coming back then? He felt that since the age of six, his relatives were only grandma, because for many years he felt only disappointment in the conversation on the phone.
Gu Xiaobei likes to read the comic "My Hero Academy". He feels like the protagonist of Victoria's teenager Midoriya. When everyone regards personality as a basic condition, he just doesn't have the one. Yes, the protagonists are almost all different, but unfortunately, he is different from others in the most mediocre item.
What's even more sad is that the young man from Midoriya has his Uncle Ou, but he is always alone.
Gu Xiaobei became a "hero" when he was eleven years old and saved Uncle Lu's store "hospitality". That night, the thief neatly pried open the iron door of the roller shutter and quietly pushed the door up. One was out and the other went in to steal money. The thief outside sighed that the business was too easy, and then found a little boy walking around the road with a basketball in his arms, not knowing what to do. He was about to ask his accomplices for his opinion, but found that the boy shouted "Catch the thief" and then smashed the basketball towards the electric car beside him.
The thief cursed and wanted to come forward to catch him, but found that he had already spread his legs and walked far away.
In the year when there was no surveillance in the old community, Gu Xiaobei did save Uncle Lu's store, and since then Uncle Lu's family has formed an indissoluble bond with Gu Xiaobei. Since that year, Gu Xiaobei has regarded this retail store as his second home. Aunt Lu likes to treat Gu Xiaobei as a big nephew, and she has watched Xiaobei grow up.
"What? I'm in a bad mood?" Uncle Lu came over again at some point and quickly pulled out a pack of shriveled "Hongta Mountain" from the inconspicuous corner of the glass cabinet. He liked the most seven yuan per pack of Hongta Mountain, and the price was very consistent with his identity as the owner of the "dashed shop".
"No, I just have nothing to do."
"As I said, don't waste it. Please help me during the summer vacation, and then go to college. Uncle Lu will give you a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan and treat you to restaurants from time to time. How about it?" Uncle Lu lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and sniffed the clouds and blew the mist?"
"Okay, go to your ranking." Gu Xiaobei said angrily and said unhappyly.
"It's big or small, I dare to talk to you Uncle Lu like this..." Before he finished speaking, Zhi heard the sound of an electric motorcycle coming from outside the store. Uncle Lu suddenly became hoarse, hurriedly put out the cigarette and stuffed it into an old can. He ran out in three steps.
But as soon as I arrived at the door, I saw my wife and Gu Xiaobei chatting at the door. Uncle Lu secretly went to see Aunt Lu's expression, but found that Aunt Lu was not looking at him, so I had to come forward with a funny look to help get the food.
Aunt Lu was very enthusiastic and asked Gu Xiaobei to stay for dinner when he came up. Gu Xiaobei said that his grandmother had cooked the meal and was going back. She was just helping Uncle Lu get the cashier. Uncle Lu also hurriedly smiled and went up to cooperate, claiming that he went to the back warehouse to get what the customer wanted. Although the store was empty at this time, there were no customers at all.
After Gu Xiaobei said goodbye, he ran away.
Aunt Lu suddenly remembered that her daughter had taken the final exam today, so she also remembered that Gu Xiaobei was about to enter university and could give her a good reference for her daughter in the future.
Aunt Lu's daughter will go to high school next year. The college entrance examination is an extremely important step in life. Aunt Lu originally wanted to make peace with
Gu Xiaobei learned the scriptures and found a direction for her ignorant daughter, but Gu Xiaobei was gone. So she decided to bring some gifts to visit her door another day, otherwise she would miss the opportunity when she went out.
In her mind, contemporary young people should be like Gu Xiaobei. Although she only refers to the "glorious record" when Gu Xiaobei escaped from the middle of the night and forgot to take the key to stroll on the street. She subconsciously believed that Xiaobei must be a child with great potential, and even she had the idea of waiting for her daughter to grow older to see if there is a possibility of matching.
Gu Xiaobei knew that he was just a useless man. When others were living a good life in the story, he stayed in that small room to play games, watch anime, and practiced shooting in the dilapidated basketball court in the community.
In addition, his life was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.
When someone was being carried by his parents to learn this and that, he sat on the rusty railings of the rooftop, staring at the distant sky in a daze.
Looking at the shadows that were stretched out under the setting sun, I felt that I would live my life in vain. If I thought too much, I would go home with my shoulders down, otherwise my grandma would be anxious again.
Gu Xiaobei felt very unwilling to accept it, but he was powerless.
It's another midsummer graduation season.
People of the same age would post the troubles of being bound by their families and being urged by their families on social software, indicating that they yearn for the carefree freedom of a person. Whenever they see such words, Gu Xiaobei would say self-deprecatingly: "This is not freedom, this is obviously loneliness."
"Xiaobei, go and collect the clothes on the balcony before coming to have a meal."
Grandma's voice came from the kitchen
Gu Xiaobei took off his shoes and agreed, and brought the newspapers inserted in the iron box at the door. Grandma liked to sit on the old man's chair on the balcony to read the newspaper. Gu Xiaobei felt that grandma was the kind of person who was very learning. Over the years, she read more newspapers than Gu Xiaobei's books.
Gu Xiaobei collected his clothes and looked out the window. The sky was still filled with sunset accompanied by fire clouds, surrounded by extremely beautiful clouds rendered by golden rays. The garden below was still the couple who always liked to take a walk after dinner.
He thought, yes, he was going to go to college soon, and grandma would be alone. He didn't care. He got used to it, but he couldn't let it go if his grandma was just alone.
"By the way, Xiaobei, your father has called, you can go back later."
"I understand." Gu Xiaobei was stunned for a moment
The clothes hanger in your hand landed on the ground
Chapter completed!