Buy a house with 30,000 yuan and live in a small town

Chapter 355 A gift from God

The savings were small. After the funeral, Richard calculated that he didn't have to pay tuition for public schools. The saved money would be enough for him to survive the four years of high school. And he can also work part-time to save money for college.

But something unexpected happened. One day when he came home from school, he found that his home had been burglarized and the money left by his adoptive parents had been stolen. He immediately called the police and contacted the bank, but the money was never recovered.

The adoptive parents probably anticipated that such a day would come, so they had already left a will and gave the ownership of the property to Richard. During the previous funeral, a lawyer came over and suggested that he sell or rent it out, and that he would find a cheap place to rent a house, so that he would not have to live too hard.

Richard didn't want to.

His adoptive parents loved him very much, and the house was the only thing they left behind. It was full of beautiful memories of family and love, and he couldn't bear to part with it.

When I was in the second grade, a man who claimed to be my adoptive father's cousin suddenly came to my door and took away the house using "legal and compliant" means.

Richard's part-time income is not much, so he can only rent a very cheap place. The conditions in this kind of place are poor and there are problems with public security, but he can't help it.

The accommodation is dilapidated and the water and electricity are often cut off, especially when the weather is hot and there is no way to take a shower. Even though Richard knows how to flush in public toilets, sometimes he still goes to school smelling bad.

His original friends gradually distanced themselves from him after his adoptive parents passed away. This situation now gave some bad boys a reason to bully him.

Richard didn't want to cause trouble at first because his adoptive parents raised him so well that he hated those behaviors and didn't want to become like that himself. He just wants to work and study in peace, finish high school, and then go to college. When he gets rich, he can take back his adoptive parents' house.

But his forbearance only made these people worse. Bullying him in school was a common occurrence. They even went to the place where he worked part-time and disrupted his work.

After that, every time Richard got a part-time job, they went to make trouble. In the end, no store near the community was willing to hire him.

Richard was cut off from his financial resources. After spending all the money, he went to the community rescue center to receive free food and queued up with a group of homeless people. However, this kind of free food is not available every day. A homeless man told him that he could also go through the trash can behind the restaurant. There would be a lot of food that the customers couldn't finish or that the restaurant had disposed of on expiration date.

Sometimes Richard would go to the back of the restaurant to try his luck after drinking cold water all day, and he would be so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore.

To be honest, when he first went there, the shame of losing his dignity covered him from head to toe. The thought of looking for food from the garbage made him even more nauseous and wanted to vomit, but he couldn't vomit anything out. .

That time, Richard met the homeless man who told him this method, and the homeless man greeted him: "Hey, you're here!"

As he spoke, he handed the pizza in his hand to Richard: "This packaging box is clean. I just heard the clerk say that the customer only tasted one bite and didn't think it was delicious, so he didn't want it."

Richard couldn't reach out his hand.

"Take it, this is a gift from God." The homeless man put the pizza box into Richard's hand, turned around and went to dig through the trash can, and found a bottle of Coke that had just expired. He was dancing with joy, "Let's go, let's find a A place to sit. Eat and drink. It’s a lucky and perfect day.”

After finishing "dinner", Richard thanked the homeless man and said he was going back to the rental house. The homeless man held the remaining half bottle of Coke "Tontonton" and took a few big sips. He waved to him and looked up at the street lamp. His tone was either sad or resigned, and he said: "When I first came to the lower world, Just like you. But living is more important, just get used to it.”

Richard didn't go through the trash cans many times, but he would meet this homeless man almost every time, and sometimes he would feed stray cats food.

The homeless man saw Richard with obvious injuries almost every time.

There seems to be a tacit understanding between the two. They don't ask about each other's past, nor talk about you and me now, let alone their respective futures. When they meet, they will dig through the trash can together, and they will both do it for a "God-given gift". Laugh heartily.

In his free time, Richard would pick up some junk and sell it for money. However, picking up rags is also divided into areas, and he will not have good luck every time.

One day at the end of the month, Richard went to sell junk after school, and was blocked by those bad boys again. He was beaten and his money was robbed. He returned to the rental house with a bruised face.

As soon as I entered the house, there was a knock on the door. It was the landlord who came to collect the rent.

Richard reached under the bed and dug out a small, flat iron box. There were only a few coins and banknotes in it. The total amount was less than ten dollars, which was not enough to pay the rent. He asked the landlord for mercy. him for a while.

The landlord had heard about his situation, and seeing him looking like he had been beaten up again, he suddenly asked: "How are your grades in school?"

Richard didn't understand why he asked this and replied, "Straight A's."

The landlord looked into his eyes and made sure that he was not lying. He pulled up an old chair and sat down: "There are no children like you in this area. Most people, let alone children, even adults, encounter someone like In such a predicament, you may give up on yourself, but it is really rare that you can still maintain hope for the future. "

Richard said: "I want to go to college."

The landlord smiled, not mockingly, but with a hint of appreciation: "Son, going to college is not that easy, and it's not something you can just talk about. Alas, I'll give you some grace, next month. I’ll come back when the time comes.”

Before leaving, the landlord said again: "Weak people cannot survive in the wild."

"I'm not weak." Richard whispered, "I just want to live peacefully and get out of here."

The landlord pointed at his swollen eyes: "So, are you safe? In the environment you are in now, not resisting means being weak, and being weak means you can be bullied."

After that, Richard hid a knife on his body. When he was bullied by those bad boys again, he resisted desperately and gave each of them a stain. His eyes were particularly sinister: "If you want If I die, I will drag you to hell."

After several times, these people finally became afraid, and word of Richard's ruthlessness spread, so some people came to him and asked him to help. The money offered was quite large, but Richard refused without hesitation.

He knows very well that those things must not be touched, not even a little bit, otherwise, his life and future, as well as his entire life, will be dragged into the endless swamp until he rots in it and can never climb out.