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A true story of karma

Cause and effect 2024-09-23

It was hot in summer, and my roommate bought a big watermelon with money and came back. He couldn't wait to cut it open, and couldn't help but feel disappointed.A few small drops of water were smeared on the faint pink melon meat."Damn it, the watermelon is not red!" the roommate cursed hatefully.I can understand the feeling of roommate being cheated as a consumer, but I don’t hate the person who sells melons. I remember that the person who sells melons to us was a middle-aged couple with a friendly smile on their faces. The farmer dressed up, and their children were standing next to them... I was the first to pick up the watermelon, bit it and sucked, and smiled. The watermelon was not red, but it was still sweet.

I remember it was in the 1980s, I don’t remember how old I was at that time, and I remember my brother seemed to have already been in school.The memory of how old it was is relatively vague for a child, but the scene was clearly remembered in his mind at that time.My mother collected watermelons from all over the floor, pushed a two-wheeler, and took the two brothers to a nearby middle school to sell.

“Is this melon red?” A middle-aged man wearing dark green clothes and a solemn face came out of the school, looking like a leadership figure in the school."Red!" Mom replied with a mercy."You can confirm after seeing it!" The man looked disdainful and picked up one in the pile of melons, patted and knocked it with his hands, and suddenly broke it hard, and the watermelon was divided into two pieces.

The man was furious: "Can this melon be called Hong?" With a "bang", he threw the watermelon to the ground, and the melon meat splashed everywhere.“I’ll change one for you."Mom said hurriedly."No need, you don't have to lie here!" He snatched the stalk from his mother's hand, and stumbled on his thigh, and the stalk was immediately bent.My mother wanted to stop her, but she was pushed to the ground by him.Then, the man overturned the two-wheeler, and all the watermelons rolled on the ground, flattened and broken.The man didn't stop and stepped onto it until the red melon meat was sprinkled all over the floor and the juice flowed.

The man was so fierce that my mother was so scared that she hugged me and my brother who were crying, trembling and she didn't dare to make a sound.The lively people around him surrounded him and pointed at him, but no one supported justice. Isn’t there any one of the big trucks of melons red? In a blink of an eye, all the trucks of watermelons turned into pieces, a mess.After the man destroyed a truck of watermelons with great pleasure, he said fiercely: "Don't sell melons at the school in the future!"

Afterwards, my brother told me that he wanted to stab the man a few times.I don't feel surprised by my brother's bizarre thoughts.In my memory, the melon is red, and I don’t understand why that person had to open his eyes and say lies and insisted on saying that the melon is not red.When I was a child, my family was very poor, so poor that the old mud house had no door to shelter from the wind and rain. I could only use a few bamboo pieces and some hay to weave a piece of door-shaped things to block the door.In fact, that is not needed. The walls inside the house are in a bleak state and the thieves will not visit them at all.In order to help with the family plan, my mother took care of us and planted some watermelons in the field and sold them for some money after the harvest.At that time, my brother often helped weed and watered the fields, and his young hands were also covered with calluses, while I was dealing with the insects in the fields.It was really heartbreaking and angering that the cold-blooded doctor Qiao Feng was not saved when he saw that he had not yet sold it. All the results, all his efforts, and all his efforts were ruthlessly smashed. It was really heartbreaking and angering! My brother was not a young Qiao Feng. When Qiao Feng was in a cold-blooded doctor, he would crawl into the dog hole in the middle of the night and stab him to death, and avenge his grudges.Now that I think about it, I didn't do that at that time. I endured the situation and took a step back and the sky was wide open. The man was rude and was bullying the ragged women and children. After we suffered grievances, we had to flow into our stomachs. If we were poor and were bullied, what could we do?

My brother told me that it’s not that our watermelon is not red.The man was the owner of the convenience store in the middle school. At that time, there was an unwritten rule. The monopoly of the convenience store in the school's convenience store not only covers the entire campus, but also involves the surrounding areas around the school.That time, our melon cart was parked outside the school. The man thought he had violated his territory and deliberately provoked and destroyed it. He really had the true nature of a villain in martial arts novels.He has a unique business in the school and has a rich income. In fact, he just needs to drive us away like beggars. Why smash the whole car of watermelon? He doesn't even let us go of such a little livelihood?

In the 1990s, I entered that middle school. My brother pointed to a hunchbacked old man sweeping garbage in the distance and said, "Do you still remember that person? He is the one who smashed our watermelons before."Obviously, after many years, my brother and I have not forgotten that shocking scene.Brother said that the man used to rely on his relatives as principals to occupy the operating rights of the school’s convenience store. Now that his relatives have stepped down, he has lost his job.It is said that he has two sons, one murders and the other taking drugs, and he lost all his family property and had a miserable old age.Looking at such a trivial old man, I have no hatred in my heart, but I will not sympathize with him.Why didn’t he sympathize with the women and children who sold watermelons in hot weather back then?

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