Chapter 1: Crossing

In 1980, New York State.
This is a poor community.
Poor surroundings, rude people, and terror and violence make up everything here. The sounds of cursing, the sound of smashing glass, the sound of guns, all kinds of sounds fill this place, nourishing sin.
In a dark alley, there was a person lying face down. He was lying there motionless, and only blood spread from under him, and he did not know whether it was life or death.
No one came to save him, and no one paid attention to him.
Not long ago, a battle took place across the street from here. A group of Caribbeans and a group of blacks fought. They even fired. Now those people have run away, but people nearby didn't dare to open the doors and windows.
Occasionally someone had to pass by and was in a hurry, and would not even pay attention to the people lying in the alley next to him.
Of course, even if they saw it, they wouldn't take care of it--it was something the police would take care of.
Of course, the police may not be able to come for a while, and those in uniform are busy catching the troublesome black people next door.
Suddenly the finger of the lying man moved.
Cheng Hao felt that his body was weak, and there was a crack in his stomach.
He was in a car accident, but it still happened.
At that time, he had parked his car and was heading for a first blind date in a cafe not far away. A luxury car on the road suddenly ran out of control and rushed towards him.
He received training from an early age and was very alert. If he was the only one, he would definitely be able to avoid it, but in front of him, a young mother was holding a schoolboy carrying a schoolbag. Both of them carried the ancient poem together and found no danger.
He pushed the mother and son away, and he was seeded.
Now ... is he seriously injured? Why didn't anyone come to save him?
Cheng Hao lay down for a while, slightly regaining his strength, and at this time, there was still no noise around him.
Is there something wrong with his ear? There was a car accident on the street. Why was nobody watching?
Cheng Hao moved, opened his eyes, and then saw some old houses.
He was clearly on the bustling street, why now ... suddenly appeared in the village in the city?
Cheng Hao was stunned, followed by a faint, and some memories that did not belong to him appeared in his mind.
As if watching TV, he saw the life of a teenager.
He could not empathize with all the experiences of the young man, but he summarized the young man's life.
The boy's name is Cheng Jinhao and he was born in 1964.
Both his parents were from Hong Kong and had a wealthy family. Before he was born, the young couple spent four months on a boat and came to the United States to study.
It was during studying in the United States that they gave birth to Cheng Jinhao.
According to the amendment to Article 14 of the 1868 Constitution of the United States, all children born in the United States can acquire American citizenship. The young couple applied for Cheng Jinhao's American citizenship. The young Cheng Jinhao became a Chinese American.
Jin Hao did not grow up in the United States. Soon after his birth, he returned to Hong Kong with his parents and grew up in Hong Kong.
Cheng Jinhao's parents loved him very much. According to the couple's plan, Cheng Jinhao would finish high school in Hong Kong and then go to college in the United States, but an accident occurred during this period.
When Cheng Jinhao was 13 years old, his mother died of illness, and his father could not bear the blow. He went abroad and lost contact with his family.
The Cheng family is a big family. The grandfather of Cheng Jinhao has three wives and has nine children. Cheng Jinhao has more people in this generation. Because Cheng Jinhao's grandfather is still there, the Cheng family has not separated, but they do not live Together. Cheng Jinhao's parents have been living outside with Cheng Jinhao.
Before Cheng Jinhao's father left, he entrusted Cheng Jinhao to his brother and mother, his uncle Cheng Jinhao.
Suddenly his mother was gone, his father was gone, and he was sent under the fence ... Cheng Jinhao's temperament changed during the period of rebellion. He had a bad grade and started to hate school. Was fired.
His uncle changed a few schools for him. As a result, he hadn't studied for a few months and he didn't say anything. He also had contacts with people in the society.
Cheng Jinhao is too frustrating, and if he goes on like this, he will accidentally learn ... When Uncle Cheng was so anxious, he listened to his wife's persuasion and decided to send Cheng Jinhao to the United States to study. He believed that American private schools should be able to pass Cheng Jinhao Well-educated, no longer poor, locked up in the school and no fox friends and dog friends, Cheng Jinhao will certainly not cause anything.
Only 15-year-old Cheng Jinhao was sent to the United States in this way.
Uncle Cheng Jinhao read this, and uncle Cheng entrusted his wife to do it. He asked his wife to find a good private school to send Cheng Jinhao in, and then to find someone familiar to take care of Cheng Jinhao. However, there are also many people going to the United States. It is entirely possible to find a suitable family and let Cheng Jinhao live there when he is not at school.
Cheng Jinhao was unwilling to go to the United States. After all, he was unfamiliar with the place, but what Uncle Cheng decided did not turn against him, he was sent to the United States.
After being locked on the boat for a few months, Cheng Jinhao calmed down. He also wanted to wait for the United States to study hard and take the university that his parents studied. As a result, after he arrived in the United States, everything he encountered was completely different from what his uncle said .
He was not sent to a good private school, but to a public school in a poor community. Not only that, but the family he was hosting was not an intellectual family. On the contrary, the family was male. The gambling of alcoholic girls is not serious at all.
In the United States in the 1970s, the standard of living of the people far exceeded that of other countries, but there are many places here that are very chaotic.
There are some of the best schools in the world, but there are also schools that are full of drugs and violence and few people learn.
Cheng Jinhao was sent to a school where few people were studying.
This school recruits low-income low-income people. The school exempts these students from tuition and provides them with breakfast and lunch for free, but those students do not come to class at all, they only come to school during mealtime-in The children studying here are basically very poor. Even if they do not eat free school lunches, they also rely on free lunch coupons issued by social workers or food provided by relief centers.
This is an incredible place for Cheng Jinhao, who has been used to the life of a rich man since he was a child.
What makes him even more angry is that he wants to live here.
He was staying in a host family with only a very small and dirty room. They hadn't bought him clothes and didn't give him food, so that he could only wear dirty and eat uncomfortable free meals at school.
He had been noisy, noisy, wanted to go home, and then beaten by a host family man, and that's it, even in school, he became the bottom of being bullied.
The poorer the place, the worse the discrimination is, and there are very few Chinese in this place ... Cheng Jinhao is lonely. He is at the bottom of the discrimination chain and has been cleaned up several times.
However, Cheng Jinhao has not been aggrieved since he was a child. He studied martial arts in the Hong Kong Martial Arts Museum when he was young, and was in a period of rebellion that he was not afraid of. He also felt that he was abandoned by his family. After being fierce, he would fight back after being beaten several times, and even learned to chase others.
Coinciding with the popularity of Chinese kung fu in the United States, no one dared to provoke him for a while. He also got a few men, and once again became a bully in school.
Not only that, he was just a petty fool in Hong Kong, and he got deeper and deeper here. He stole things, robbed, and even played guns.
He has fallen.
An unaccompanied teenager cannot fail in such an environment.
In the beginning, Cheng Jinhao thought about contacting his family, but the news he sent out was so overwhelming that he couldn't be contacted at all, or maybe no one wanted to care about him ... For a long time, he only thought that he had no family.
After being able to get money by various illegal means, Cheng Jinhao left the host family, left the community that he hated, and went to other communities to hang around.
Today, this place is Cheng Jinhao's latest destination.
Soon after he came to this community, he wanted to find a place to steal some money and then go to find a place to live, but he didn't want to come suddenly. He stabbed a few knives into his stomach, and he just lay down.
After reading the memories, Cheng Hao "sucked" in his heart.
Cheng Jinhao is dead, too much blood loss.
As for him ... he should have died, but I do n’t know why. After he died, he passed through here and became Cheng Jinhao.
Realizing this, Cheng Hao suddenly thought that he needed help now.
Otherwise ... he's afraid he will die again.
The man who fought for Cheng Jinhao was trying to kill Cheng Jinhao. His start was very heavy. It was incredible that he could live.
Probably because he was wearing it, this body actually had some strength, Cheng Hao crawled forward slowly, and finally climbed out of the dark alley.
There is a small street outside the alley, which is a little dirty. The surrounding houses look similar to those in the early twentieth century in the country. Occasionally, there are dozens of high-rise buildings. Only people on the street are mostly black. , A few are white, none of whom Cheng Hao is familiar with.
These people's eyes were full of disgust.
Cheng Hao had climbed out of the alley and called for help to a passing person: "Ineedhelp ..."
However, the man ignored him at all, and instead scolded him, and those words had a strong accent, and Cheng Hao didn't understand it very much, even if that man still kicked Cheng Hao's On his shoulders, kicking him on his back to the sky, he left with a smile.
Cheng Hao only felt that his strength had been exhausted and he could not sustain it. At this moment, a young man with his head down and black hair turned from the street corner ... that was a yellow race!
Cheng Hao, who was surprised when he met in his hometown, felt it. He didn't know where the strength came from. He crawled over and hugged the man's leg: "Help!"