Today is the day when Gu Tao was released after serving his sentence. Gu Zihao was overjoyed. He stayed up all night last night and made various preparations to pick up his father.

Before dawn, he called Xiao Yun and his sister. Before 8 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yun drove the two siblings to the gate of the prison.

Gu Zihao had been walking back and forth at the door for half an hour, Xiao Yun put his hands in his pockets, and saw that he was overly anxious, so he lightly patted his shoulder to comfort him, "Zihao, don't be nervous."

"Yes, yes, I know." Although Gu Zihao said he was not nervous, he still wandered around, "Brother Xiao, my heart is beating so fast, and I can't tell how I feel now. of……"

"I understand." The two of them were used to teasing, but Xiao Yun rarely said seriously: "Gu Zihao, you have a family, a complete family."

"Yes, I know, I know." Gu Zihao repeated the words over and over again, raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, his eyes were red, "Brother Xiao, I finally waited for this day, I waited for a long time, almost ten years, I..." He choked up, unable to speak anymore.

Although Xiao Yun was a bystander, he could understand his feelings. The two of them often had dinner together, sang, and ate together these years. Occasionally, when he was drunk, he would reveal his thoughts with red eyes. Reunion has been Gu Zihao's wish for many years.

The last time he received the news that Gu Tao had commuted his sentence and was about to be released from prison, he called Gu Zihao immediately. He still remembers the way this big boy cried with tears streaming down his eyes.

His nose suddenly became sour, and he turned his head to look back. The woman stood quietly by the car door, her figure shrouded in the morning light, and she stared ahead motionlessly.

Xiao Yun was tightly grasped by a feeling that this girl was not happy, even a little irritable.

No, it's impossible, he must be overly sensitive, and psychological factors are at work, his father was released from prison, as a daughter, how could he be unhappy?

Gu Ziyang stared blankly at the closed iron door in front of her. The memory flew back to 20 years ago. She remembered that there was a small storage room in the back room of her hometown, and she brought a squatting toilet. There is a ventilation window, equipped with an anti-theft iron bar, made of the same material as the iron bar in front of it.

Ever since he was a child, whenever Gu Tao felt unsatisfactory, he would take it out on her, beat her up, scold her for losing money, or take her to the storage room and lock her up.

Even though Chen Fang was dazzled by crying outside, he also locked the door tightly, not letting Gu Ziyang see any light.

Once she stayed there for half a month, just because Gu Tao lost money playing cards, and when she came back, she saw her doing homework.

"What school does a girl have to go to every family!"

"I still want to marry in the future! A waste of my money!"

"It's all the tuition that that prodigal old woman secretly paid for you. If she doesn't come back, I won't break her legs!"

He scolded more and more vigorously, Gu Ziyang shrank in the corner and dared not speak, but her younger brother said, "Dad, stop scolding sister."

After hearing what he said, Gu Tao became furious, "I am her old man, so I can scold you if I want to! Brat, how dare you talk back to me?! Tell me, did your sister teach you to do this?"

Gu Zihao was yelled at and burst into tears.

"Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry! And you!" He pointed to Gu Ziyang who was shrunk aside, "I feel upset when I see you. I lost the card game today because of you!"

He lifted Gu Ziyang's collar, ignored her struggle, dragged her to the hut, and threw her in.

During those days, she ate the shriveled steamed buns thrown in by Gu Tao every day, and she couldn't even drink her saliva. Her dry and molted lips could only be moistened by rain and tears.

Her body shrunk into a small ball, and she looked up at the moon outside the iron window every night.

Her wish is simple, she wants to have a hot meal, she wants to go outside to bask in the sun on the grass, she wants to run and play with her classmates, she wants to attend classes and learn knowledge.

But these things that are easy to get in the eyes of ordinary people, why are they so far away in her place?
Hearing the quarrel outside the storage room, the sound of throwing things, and crying, she gradually became numb...

Gu Ziyang's 20 years were like an often difficult and long penance. She ran with bare legs and stepped on the scorching sand, but she still couldn't see the end.

This man has been in prison for nine years, eleven months and 23 days. The days are as hard as usual, but her heart is much warmer.

She counted with her fingers when he would come out every day, hoping that time would pass slowly, but this day still came.

"Brother Xiao, why haven't you come out yet? Otherwise, I'll go to the door and ask." He raised his face, frowning, with an anxious expression on his face, and a few bean-sized beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

"It's okay, don't worry, I said today will be fine." Xiao Yun thought for a while, and then said: "After all, there are still many procedures to go through, and it won't be that fast."

"Oh, then, that's good." Gu Zihao calmed down slightly.

Several people looked at the gate at the same time, and after a while, the iron gate slowly opened, and a middle-aged man with white hair, disheveled and haggard came out slowly.

With a limp on his legs and a bag on his shoulders, he came out step by step.

The prison guard patted him on the shoulder, "You have been rehabilitated. After you go out, you must find a job and stop doing illegal things. Go back and live with your wife and children, understand?"

"Okay, thank you, I understand." Gu Tao nodded again and again, saying words of thanks to the prison guard.

Gu Ziyang's legs suddenly trembled, it was an instinctive reaction, after so many years, she was still very afraid of Gu Tao.

Gu Zihao ran over in a big stride, hugged Gu Tao, and immediately burst into tears, his hands were full of bones, he burst into tears, "Dad, you've lost weight!"

He looked at Gu Tao carefully. In his blurred vision, the man's face was full of wrinkles, the hair on his temples was already gray, and there were two deep nasolabial folds on both sides of his lips. If others didn't know his real age, they might think he was over 60 Years old.

"Dad, you're old, you're really old." He rested his head on Gu Tao's shoulder, and his old shirt was wet with tears.

"Son, let Dad take a good look at you." Gu Tao wiped away the tears on his face, and Gu Zihao's cheeks that were covered with calluses and rough hands were painful.

"My son, my son, has grown so tall that Dad almost can't recognize him." Tears rolled down his wrinkled and stained face.

Gu Zihao hugged Gu Tao tightly, and the father and son hugged each other tightly, choking for a while.

At this moment, Gu Tao's heart was full of pity, and he regretted it.

If time could turn back, he would do everything possible to suppress his temper, but unfortunately there is no if.

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