Countdown to Poverty Eradication

A raucous crowd gathered.

There is the sound of fire trucks.

He raised his head with the wonton in his hand, and saw the small rented house on the second floor where he lived was in flames, and black smoke drifted into the dark sky along with the flames.

The shelter he found with difficulty after wandering around for a long time was destroyed like this.

He is homeless.

A text message sounded from the phone.

"I hope you can think about it carefully."

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Di Ye opened his eyes in his sleep, and at some point the pajamas on his body were already soaked with sweat, he panted heavily and lifted the sweat-soaked bangs on his forehead, still in shock for a while.

His heart was pounding in his chest, as if it was about to pop out of his throat. Di Ye licked the dry roof of his mouth with his tongue, and groped in the dark to put on his slippers. He stood up, and Lu Xun fell asleep on the bed. Very familiar, the left shoulder covered with hickey marks was exposed outside the quilt, Di Ye pulled the quilt up, and walked out lightly while pulling the slippers.

After he walked into the restaurant downstairs and drank a large glass of boiled water, his dry mouth and throat gradually became moist, and the violent heartbeat in his chest gradually subsided.

The night in Yancheng was still very cold and damp, and Di Ye couldn't help shivering after sitting on the chair for a while. He stood up and turned on the air conditioner in the restaurant, and his body temperature finally returned to temperature.

In recent days, he always dreams about things that happened before, and sometimes dreams about things that happened after he was with Lu Xun in his previous life.

Di Ye thought it was an unlucky omen, so he tore off the sweat-soaked pajamas stuck to his skin, as if a big stone had been pressed against his heart, making him a little out of breath.

He has never lived a peaceful life since he was 17 years old. The current stability is hard-won, and Di Ye doesn't want anyone to destroy it.

He has lived a life of trembling like walking on thin ice enough, and he has lived a new life. He must learn to let go of what should be let go, and let the previous entanglements and grievances die with himself in the previous life.

He put down the cup heavily, the cold white light made him look a little unkind, maybe he spent too long with Lu Xun, he also got some kind of traits from Lu Xun, and gradually turned into a refined egoist .

Lu Xun's house is extremely spacious, every corner here is like a delicate pictorial, there is no clutter.

The neon lights of Yancheng reflected Di Ye's eyes through the large, spotless floor-to-ceiling window in the living room. In this position, everything in sight seemed so small, and the entire Yancheng seemed to be right under his feet.

Di Ye stood in front of the window and watched intently. Suddenly, a soft blanket was draped over his body. He turned around, and Lu Xun was standing behind him looking at him with gentle eyes.

"Sorry, did I wake you up?" Di Ye asked.

Lu Xun shook his head: "No, I woke up when I turned around and found you were not there."

He was wearing the same style of silk pajamas as Di Ye's, which was so light and thin that the dense hickey marks on his skin could even be seen through the thin material.

Di Ye hugged Lu Xun, pulled the blanket on the other side of his body and draped it over the two of them, put his arms around Lu Xun's waist and said helplessly, "You can continue to sleep, I just suddenly suffered from insomnia."

Lu Xun knew that Di Ye hadn't slept well recently. He asked the doctor to prescribe some sleeping pills for Di Ye to drink, but it didn't help. The indicators of the physical examination were also very normal. He touched Di Ye's wet clothes, He said very distressed: "You have been sleeping restlessly these days, is there something bothering you? If so, don't hide it in your heart alone, tell me and share it with me, okay?"

Di Ye smiled: "It's nothing, I dreamed about the past, and you know that I had a miserable life before I met you."

Lu Xun leaned on his shoulder and asked, "About Huo Linfeng?"

Di Ye: "For a part, Huo Linfeng was the second trough in my life. I was able to catch my breath after he was forced to be sent abroad by his father. Otherwise, I wouldn't have met you."

Lu Xun slowly leaned up to kiss Di Ye's chin, and said vaguely: "The first time you seduced me, was it because Huo Linfeng was planning to return to China at that time, or else so many people threw olive branches at you, why do you want to see me?" Hit me..."

Speaking of the "seduce" past, both of them regarded it as an interest, Di Ye made no secret, and said with a smile: "There were many reasons for seducing you, partly because Huo Linfeng was going back to China, and I urgently needed to find a backer. The backer can't be lower than Huo Linfeng, can't be too ugly, can't have any bad habits, and must ensure that he likes men."

Thinking of this, Di Ye couldn't help laughing: "At the beginning, when I listed these conditions together, I was very worried. Only few people met the first condition. Chen Xi and I chose you. But it is rumored that you are not human, and you are as cold as a block of ice. I watched some of your interview videos, and I think they are really right. Your smile is full of ice, and there is no temperature at all. It is very stylized Commercial smirk."

Lu Xun listened attentively, and couldn't help saying, "You're still here."

"I can't help it. At that time, I didn't even know whether you liked men or not, but Huo Linfeng was going back to China in more than a month. I thought about it and gritted my teeth. At that time, I asked a man named Zhou Ge to help me It cost me [-] yuan to find a way out, and I only need a meal for Brother Xu's face."

Lu Xun's eyes flashed when he heard the word 'Brother Zhou', and he said thoughtfully: "Business opportunities are everywhere."

Di Ye spread his hands: "There are business opportunities everywhere. I was a temporary waiter at the time, and when I entered the venue, I saw you sitting on a booth, exuding a cold elite atmosphere, like shooting the cover of a magazine. I was a little bit discouraged, but In a blink of an eye, I’ve come here, and I’ve paid the money, so it’s okay to hit the wall, anyway, I’m handsome and I’m afraid of someone.”

Lu Xun smiled. Big brother Lu, who is unattainable in the eyes of others, does not have a cold face at this time. As soon as he sees Di Ye, his heart is full of tenderness, even if his face is expressionless, his love for Di Ye It will also come out of his eyes, like this kind of thing, really can't hide it no matter what.

As soon as they talked about this past event, both of them were a little excited, and Lu Xun then asked, "Then what's the other reason?"

Di Ye hesitated and said: "Don't laugh at me. At that time, I was out of revenge, and I couldn't do anything to him, but I knew he would force me to submit as soon as he came back, so I told him before he came back. Let others be together, and see how he feels at that time, and, at that time, my father was seriously ill, and I needed money."

Having said that, Di Ye is unwilling to continue.

He seldom talked about his family. Di Ye's mother passed away before he went to university. Lu Xun never saw him contact his family. Very hard.

Lu Xun really wanted to know about his past, but the thing that kept Di Ye silent must be the scars that he didn't want to show in front of others.Now that he occasionally spits out a sentence or two, it is a symbol of his gradual relaxation of psychological defenses.

But what happened before he was away from his family? After a long time of investigation, he couldn't find out. Lu Xun still wanted to listen to Di Ye, but Di Ye glanced at his watch and hugged him back to the bedroom to sleep. Life is not easy, Di Ye has nightmares again and again, and the smart chip and wireless charging technology researched by Lu Xun Company have encountered some difficulties.

Although Lu Xun does not need to do it himself, the company's major decisions and business strategies are always accompanied by Lu Xun's shadow. Sometimes Lu Xun flies around all day long, and can fly to three cities in one day.

Di Ye's insurance business has started to flourish, but he is also in a dilemma in the postgraduate entrance examination. He has four job numbers under his job number. The atmosphere in class 24 is also very good, the colleagues are harmonious, and the joy is endless every day. Except for the brain-dead aerobics, Di Ye is very satisfied with this place.

But if he wants to seek higher development, he must step out of his comfort zone. He understands this in his heart, but when it comes to implementing it, it is not very comfortable both physically and psychologically.

Fortunately, with the backing of Lu Xun, he has no worries. Most of his money has been remitted to his family, so he doesn't have to worry about renting a house after losing his job.

Seven years have passed, and some things should be let go. After remitting the last deposit, he let go of the burden in his heart. From then on, he will never think about right or wrong, and he will only live for himself.

In March in Yancheng, the temperature gradually warmed up, and the damp and cold air finally became warmer.

Di Ye negotiated a batch of jewelry insurance in February, and the combined salary of January and February was 20.

He remitted all the 20 to that familiar card number, and exhaled the depression that had lingered in his heart for a long time.

So far, the sum of the money he has remitted to this card number is exactly five million yuan.

Di Ye himself couldn't believe that he could earn so much in seven years, 500 million won't be able to buy a house in Yancheng, but it's enough for a person to settle down in a third-tier city.

Seven years of time, 500 million yuan, I don't know if I can repay the 17 years of nurturing.

Di Ye walked to the riverside in Yancheng, he took out the old black wallet that he carried with him, and took out a family photo hidden inside the wallet.

The deep creases on it run across the entire photo, like a gleaming knife.

Di Ye pinched the photo with his fingers and tore it apart forcefully along the creases. The four smiling faces on it were divided into two halves. Di Ye threw half of the photo into the river, and the thin half of the photo was blown by the wind on the river. In a whirl, it slowly floated down on the surface of the river, bit by bit silent.

The remaining half of the photo was held in his hand with great care. In the photo, he was leaning against a thin woman when he was young. His eyes were dark and bright, and he leaned on the arms of the thin woman and looked happily at the camera. smile.

It was a period of carefree days, and everything in the memory was shining brightly. It was the happiest time in his life so far, but with her death, everything could not go back.

In April of Yancheng, when Liang Xu walked out of the gate of flame, a man in sloppy clothes suddenly jumped out from the bushes at the gate and threw him to the ground.