Cai Gen looked at the crazy old man, and with each question, he stepped forward step by step, dragging his twisted thighs, and drew a bloody mark on the milky white floor.

He stubbornly handed the bean bun forward, getting closer and closer to the bar, as if he could smell the blood on the bean bun.

I wanted to turn around and run, but my legs didn't seem to be my own, and I forgot how to step on my legs.

The hand holding the cigarette began to tremble, and he wanted to speak, but his jaw was a little wooden, and he tried hard to squeeze two words out of his mouth.

"Don't."

After speaking, it seemed to feel too direct, and he tried to open his mouth for a moment, moved a little, and added,

"I don't eat sticky food, heartburn."

The old man was obviously not satisfied with this answer, and became more and more excited,

"Then why did you buy it the year before last?"

Cai Gen seemed to try to recall, and replied uncertainly,

"Maybe, in hand, have spare money?"

The old man was enraged by Cai Gen's words and continued to ask loudly

"Then why didn't you buy it last year?"

Cai Gen was so frightened by the sudden loud sound that his hands trembled, and the cigarette fell on the bar, so he quickly picked it up.

However, the vermilion plywood on the bar counter was still scalded with a black spot.

Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder made Cai Gen forget the old man in front of him, and began to wipe the black spot with his hands, but the black spot was very stubborn, and the bar was no longer perfect.

The old man looked at Cai Gen, who suddenly wiped the bar, and did not answer his words, he was even more angry, and asked loudly again,

"Then why didn't you buy it last year? Still agree to change the meal for me? ”

Cai Gen, who was tormented by the black spots, was still trying to wipe the black spots on the bar, and his emotions began to change from fear to chagrin, and replied casually,

"In my hand, I don't have any spare money."

After saying that, I regretted it a little, and it was better not to provoke him again, adding again,

"Look at you pathetic."

When the old man heard this answer, he was obviously stunned, and he was no longer so excited, like a pleading, like a complaint,

"Then why don't you pity me this year?"

Cai Gen was completely impatient, pressed out the cigarette that he hadn't smoked for six puffs, and shouted,

"What the hell do you want?"

The old man didn't expect the other party to be so tough, and all of a sudden, as if he had lost all his strength, he sat down on the ground,

"I hate you, I hate why you didn't buy my bean buns, why didn't you let me change my food, why didn't you pity me."

Cai Gen looked at the old man like this, and he was also helpless,

"You said that you were injured like this, so you went to the hospital, did the owner escape? What's the use of you hating me? ”

The old man didn't seem to hear Cai Gen's words, and muttered to himself there,

"If you buy my bean bag, I can go home early, 20 miles away, I won't be hit by a car and die, I feel aggrieved, I feel bitter."

Cai Gen was stunned for a moment, this information was a little unexpected, and then he stared carefully at the old man sitting on the ground.

Not only the thighs are twisted and deformed, but even the chest is sunken.

Is this a dead man? Hit by a car in the afternoon and killed?

Retracted his gaze and looked at the two gods of wealth on the bar, one was still heroic, the other was still kind, but he turned a blind eye to the old man.

Calling your wife? It seems too late. Call 110? What do you say? There's a dead old man selling bean buns in my shop?

took out a cigarette, his hand trembled a little, lit it twice, lit the cigarette, smoked hard, gritted his teeth,

"Okay, uncle, then you can tell me, how bitter are you? With that, you can go. ”

The old man heard Cai Gen's words this time, as if it was very important, and began to complain seriously,

"My life is hard, I didn't have money to study when I was a child, I can only dig in the soil, fortunately I have a smart girl, study well, but my daughter is also hard, she died at the age of 7, I was a big man who pulled her up, do you know how bitter it is?"

Cai Gen nodded and listened, took a puff of his cigarette,

"My daughter is very competitive, she was admitted to a university in the provincial capital, she also found a good job in the provincial capital, she is going to get married, my debt for the children's school has not been paid off, I can't afford to pay the dowry, I... I'm sorry for my daughter. ”

Cai Gen continued to nod and took another puff of his cigarette,

"My daughter has a child, everyone is raised by her mother, I am an old man, I can't help anything, I feel bitter."

Cai Gen may not agree with this, did not nod, and took a puff of cigarette,

"My grandson is 8 years old, I have met 3 times, a few days ago he said that he came to see me in the New Year, and told me that he wanted to touch the screen mobile phone, our family has been dry for 3 years, and there is really no money in the field, more than 1,000 yuan, I can't afford it, I'm sorry for my grandson, I'm sorry for his grandmother, I'm useless."

When Cai Gen heard this, he wanted to say something, but he gave up and took a puff of cigarette again,

"The year before last, you bought my bean bags, I thought to myself, is this a rare commodity in the city, as soon as winter comes to the city to sell bean bags, ask from door to door, sell from door to door, come in the morning and go back and forth at night, more than 20 miles away, I can't even eat at noon, I'm a bad old man, I'm bitter."

Cai Gen listened silently, let the cigarette burn by itself, and didn't smoke,

"Today, I didn't sell a bean bag, looking at the New Year, why am I embarrassed to see my grandson, watching TV all say touch porcelain, I want to touch it too, in case I can get a mobile phone money, but my life is hard, I caught up with a female driver, and mistakenly used the accelerator as a brake, do you say I'm bitter?"

When Cai Gen heard this, he didn't want to listen to it a little, but he didn't dare to interrupt the old man's narration, just wait.

"You said that in my life, I was busy with my parents when I was young, and I was busy with my daughters when I was older, and I didn't enjoy any blessings, so I died, do you think my life is hard?"

When Cai Gen heard this, he finished the last puff of cigarette, pressed the cigarette butt, and said to the old man,

"I'm done with my cigarettes, you're done, let's go."

When the old man heard that he was allowed to go, he began to get excited again,

"I'm not reconciled, I can't just forget it, I'm so miserable, it's not fair."

Cai Genqiang held back the impatience in his heart and said as calmly as possible,

"It's all said in the book, there are eight sufferings in life, your little suffering is nothing, let's leave quickly."

The old man is very stubborn and more reasonable,

"I don't understand the eight hardships, anyway, I can't just forget it, I've suffered all my life, and it's over? I'm not reconciled. ”

Cai Gen took a look, this old man is still energetic, what can you do if you are unwilling?

Immediately, his heart relented again,

"Old man, let me tell you, who doesn't have a little bitterness in their hearts when they live a lifetime? Who can live more freely than the other?

It's all the same, do what you should do, do what you can do, you should be content, relax your heart, and go. ”

"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you have to be responsible for me, it's all because of you that I'm so miserable."

Cai Gen saw that the old man had already begun to mess around, so he didn't speak anymore, and silently lit another cigarette.

In the past, this old man who sold bean buns was not like such a person, Cai Gen recalled hard.

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Locked in material desires, I feel that my life is sad; It is still true to sex, and I feel the coke of my life. Knowing that it is sad, the dust is broken; Knowing its cola, the holy realm is self-attaining. Quoted from "Caigen Tan"