Shengsheng

Having made up his last bit of determination, Liang Sheng, with a sigh of relief in his chest, continued to travel south by train alone.

At this time, he had been out for almost seven or eight days.

During this process, he didn't call Jin Ping and the others who were staying in Y City to report that he was safe. He only thought about everything until he found someone, and didn't want to think about anything else.

His destination this time is Maocun, Hexi, a poor county that is rumored to be well-known far and near. Because the locals love to have children, there are often seven or eight daughters in a family, and they are all named Zhaodi Pansi, who is famous all over the country.

And the actual situation of this village committee composed of seven or eight brigades was only after Liang Sheng found it himself that he discovered that it was much bigger and more complicated than he had imagined.

First of all, the villages here are not divided by ancestral surnames like most places, because there are two villages with private coal mines, so a few years ago, many people with foreign hukou came to settle here.

What the Gannan police gave him at the beginning was just a certificate and a vague place name, and he had to go door to door for the rest of the clues about Wang Ziqiang's brother's house.

Liang Sheng was not sure whether the person who had a good relationship with Wang Ziqiang was a local, let alone deduce his relationship from these pitiful clues.

But this search for a needle in a haystack is not only a waste of his already tight time, but also very likely to miss Xiaoliang Sheng who may still be staying in the local area at this moment, and is still waiting for him to save him.

Regarding this point, Liang Sheng obviously thought of it on the way to catch the train.

In particular, he also heard a Huzhou fellow who knew about his current situation on the train say that the locals here actually have bad credit.

If the family conditions are not good, they are greedy for petty gains. If they rush to the door, they may not be found, and they will have to be ripped off. This is definitely not the best policy.

In addition, many families here have illegally resold and adopted boys and girls. Outsiders come to find them who have never admitted it. They must first find out which family really has a new child of unknown origin recently. It's so convenient to start looking for someone.

So Liang Sheng, who had learned his lesson this time, didn't go to the police station or the government department to wait, or went to the local family with a photo to ask if any children had been sent here.

Instead, according to the situation described by the Huzhou fellow, he rented a tricycle in the town, wrote a sign on the back of the car that said 'receive eggs with fingerprints', bought a loudspeaker and walked around, and was initially targeted by him. I started wandering around the seven or eight villages.

"'Fingerprints—collect eggs——'! The fingerprints of each member of the family will help collect five eggs! Two yuan each, and you will not lose any money! After checking your household registration book, you will settle the settlement immediately—"

The voice recorded in the front loudspeaker of the tricycle was deliberately turned up to the maximum volume by Liang Sheng, and it was played repeatedly in front of these suspicious villages over and over again every day.

An egg is charged at a sky-high price of two yuan, and a family member's fingerprint is stamped on it. After checking with your own household registration book, you can get the money immediately.

Saying it like this makes people think it's a "good thing" that is just a dream. In this way, it spread wildly among several impoverished villages in Hexi.

At the beginning, the locals still didn't believe it, they just thought it was a scam made by some fool and liar, which made people laugh out loud.

But later, many people from various villages who were brave enough to exchange eggs for money all came back and said, yes, this is the real thing.

In the past two days, there was a young man from out of town who was collecting eggs on a tricycle. It cost two yuan each, and he just exchanged his household registration book and fingerprints.

So all of a sudden, half of the people in Mao Village in Hexi took out their eggs and household registration books in exchange for the real gold and silver that fell from the sky.

Those whose families raised four or five children were even more grinning from ear to ear. They just happily showed off the white paper they covered in front of the fellow villagers who had previously laughed at their own piglets. red handprint.

"Eight yuan, my family changed eight yuan today!"

"Haha, my family also exchanged 12 yuan! Six eggs and twelve! It's really amazing!"

"My family is the same! If I don't have to check the fingerprint household registration book, I really want to have another one with my daughter-in-law! These are all living banknotes!"

The huge incentives from money and benefits made these villagers in Hexi who have been farming for a living for many years very happy.

The exchange of eggs and handprints for cash and banknotes spread more and more widely, and almost no one in the whole local area did not know this anecdote.

This tricky method is obviously much more efficient than going door to door and passively looking for people in every village alone.

At the same time, Liang Sheng also collected these originally scattered local household registration information one by one through this behavior of collecting eggs at a high price.

And after three days, from more than 400 households in nearly eight villages, he really found a family that he thought was extremely suspicious, and there were many suspicious points in itself.

The reason why this family is suspicious is that Liang Sheng has personally seen a girl from this family who came here with a big bowl of eggs.

He looked like he was fifteen or sixteen years old, with small eyes, big face, and long braids. He didn't bring his household registration book, but he just took a piece of white paper with seven or eight handprints on it.

Liang Sheng asked her to show her household registration booklet, but she curled her lips and said that her family had children but no household registration, and the government would not provide it.

And if Liang Sheng asked a few more questions, this wild girl with big arms and round waists immediately widened her eyes and started yelling at him in her native dialect.

"Ah, you are talking about Sun Hu's daughter from the North Village of Hexi Village... Oh, I heard that she came from other places and worked in the provincial capital before. There must be three daughters in his family, but I haven't heard of any Boy...his wife died two years ago, and he lived alone with three girls, burning coal for the coal kiln in the next village, and I don't know the rest..."

"..."

"Have you seen him go out by himself a month ago? It seems not, but someone seems to have come to his house? He drove a big motorcycle, said to be from the Dog Beating Team outside, and there was a car in the back of the car." There are a few sacks, it is said to be kittens and puppies stolen from other places, but there is no sound of barking..."

This was the clue that Liang Sheng himself asked from the locals when he realized that something was wrong.

Because he had been collecting eggs outside the village for the past two days, some local people took advantage of him and told him something.

And from the moment I heard the keywords of the dog-fighting team, sacks, and puppies that can't bark, my mind went blank.

Still waiting anxiously, Liang Sheng, whose forehead was covered with beads of sweat, quickly contacted the police at the local police station with his own proof, and brought people to the house of Sun Hu, who was suspected of being a serious suspect overnight. It was already time for him to arrive. Hexi's fourth day.

At three o'clock in the morning on July 2002, 7.

Sun Hu's home was destroyed in one fell swoop by police officers from the Hexi Branch who drove there overnight based on clues.

As an informant, Liang Sheng was unable to follow the police. It was around five o'clock when he finally received a call from the police.

It is said that the police found an 11-year-old boy with his feet chained and two other iron cages that were already empty in the locked kitchenette of his home.

According to Sun Hu's eldest daughter, a month ago, his father's friend Uncle Wang sent three puppies to his home. Two of them were given away cheaply, and only one was left because it was skinny and hard to sell.

Oh, by the way, that child also said that he was screaming and was waiting for his brother to come.

The police finally said this to Liang Sheng on the phone.

The skinny boy sitting on the bench in the police station didn’t wear pants or slippers, his bare legs were covered with a pair of cartoon briefs, his hair, head, face and hands were all black.

Liang Sheng, who hadn't slept all night, was looking at him, but he didn't dare to speak.

Comrade Xiao Sun, the policeman who came to help enthusiastically, was vaguely asking him something worried, but Liang Sheng, who was sweating on his back and forehead, couldn't hear anything.

But seeing the child's snotty snot hanging under his nose, his body movements also showed stiffness and timidity.

A pair of eyes that were supposed to be shining were as stupefied as the other children in the town, and he didn't dare to open his mouth to recognize himself casually.

"... sound?"

Liang Sheng, who was carrying a lot of things in his hands, let out a nervous cry.

25 days, a full 25 days.

There was clearly a few steps between the two, but the child whose cheeks and neck were as black as briquettes and whose expression was a little numb and dull heard it, but bowed his head and didn't respond.

Liang Sheng, who was busy carrying a luggage bag, felt cold when he saw this, and he was a little afraid of recognizing the wrong child, so he hurriedly grabbed him and wanted to ask another question.

But just as his hand lightly touched the hand of the little child with his head buried, two hot tears dripped on the back of his hand.

Tick, tick.

Tears rolled down the little mole's nose that the child brought out from the mother's womb.

After a long time, a heart-rending sound, like a small mosquito, rang in his ears with dazed fear.

"...Why did you come here..."

This sentence, which seemed to be slightly complaining to the adults, made the heart of Liang Sheng, who had been looking for him for so many days, sore.

But he followed the clues given by the police from his local police station and stayed in a cart for four or five nights. He ran from City Y to Gannan with a little luggage and dry food, and from Gannan to Maocun in Hexi in person. this moment.

His throat, eye sockets, and even his heart were filled with a feeling of soreness, anger, but relief and joy.

That is the child in front of me.

His soul, his childhood, his other life, finally, finally, he managed to get back by luck, and he didn't lose him in this absurd and terrible world.

In this world, there is nothing better, happier, and more worthwhile... He knelt down and kowtowed to thank God for his pity.

"Sound...?"

"..."

"...Shengsheng, do you still recognize who I am?"

"..."

"Brother was wrong...I should have come earlier...Brother bought roast duck, cooked vegetables, big apples, and soft drinks on the way, and brought them here for you...Look, they are all your favorites? Do you still recognize me? Shengsheng, do you still recognize me? Brother has been looking for you for many days, and brother is here to find you..."

Liang Sheng held back this word for almost a month.

He thought every day that he would be crazy if he couldn't find someone, but he never knew that he could be crazy if he found someone.

He wished he could show his heart to this injured little guy, to see his sincere apology to him,

At first, he was avoiding him with some precautions, but seeing Liang Sheng's thin chin pointing out, and his eyes were red and blood red, he couldn't help but miss him in his heart, so Bianbian's mouth suddenly turned red The child with circles of eyes whimpered and opened his mouth.

"...Whoa, Fei, Brother Feilong, whoa, I really miss you..."

"..."

"I really want to go to you, but I can't find it. You haven't come in those days. I'm so worried about you, and I'm so scared. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Liu Xiu are going to send me to be a child in someone else's house. But...but when I left, I couldn't find my way home anymore, and I couldn't find my way back after I left, so I used chalk and stones to draw circles at the door of that villain's house...to draw small fish... ...Why didn't you come to save me, Brother Feilong, didn't you say you would definitely come...Is it because I'm disobedient..."

"..."

"I'm sorry, Brother Feilong...I was really wrong, didn't I, didn't I even want me...Why did you come here now..."

"..."

The child who was hugging him and refused to let go cried out of control and wet the eyes of Liang Sheng who was kneeling in front of him.

At this moment, he didn't care about the integrity of a man and the dignity of an adult, so he just stretched out his hand and held the child whom he had searched for thousands of kilometers into his arms tightly, one big and one young buried their heads and cried together.

He didn't know that he was sad and angry, but every time he heard Xiao Liang's voice say a word after being sent away for so long, he wanted to beat himself to death.

He hadn't shed a tear for anyone in half his life, really.

He didn't cry when his parents were lost and homeless, he didn't cry when others scolded him as a bad boy, he didn't cry when he insisted on his last conscience and bottom line and lost his life.

He thought that his heart was strong enough, realistic, and strong enough to face the darkness, indifference, coldness, and unknown dangers of this society.

But he was really afraid, afraid that he would let down such waiting, such feelings, and such belief and unconditional deep love for him from another living life.

And thinking like this, he couldn't care less about other things. The emotional Liang Sheng wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and took out the ID card and photo from his pocket, hugged him again and roared,

"I came into this world with no one to rely on! I will only take care of you! In this life, I don't care who else you can take care of!"

"Wuuu, Brother Feilong... Brother Feilong..."

"I'm not called at all...what Brother Feilong, you little fool..."

"..."

"My name is also Liang Sheng, but my student is a freshman. Didn't I tell you already?"

"... the new student's... Liang...sheng?"

"Yes! New student! That's my name! We were born to be brothers... I just don't care... I don't want you... Go, go home with my brother now, Uncle Cao and Aunt Jin are waiting for us to go home... okay?"

"...Okay, woohoo...Okay! I want to go home, I really want to go home... woohoo...I'll go home with you...Brother Liang Sheng...I don't cry, and you don't cry...Let's go home ..."

2002 7 Month 25 Day.

This was probably the happiest day for Cao Maocai and Jin Ping, who had spent so many days in fear in City Y since Liang Sheng left home.

Because they had just had dinner, and they were watching the show at home when they received a call from the Hexi Branch Bureau thousands of miles away.

At that time, it was vaguely on TV that Changping fishing village finally ushered in the merger of the four districts. Once the dam was demolished, the river water would benefit all directions.

Some families are happy and some are sad. Every new measure of the government makes the little people in the torrent of the times even Cao Maocai, who is busy with business these days, not sure what to do next.

Just at this time, the phone rang, and it was Jin Ping who stood up to answer the phone, but at first she was a little dazed, but the more she listened, the more her eyes became redder.

And under her husband's anxious questioning and watching, she covered her mouth and sobbed again. After a long time, the woman whose eyes were full of tears of excitement and joy said sobbingly,

"Old Cao! Ah Sheng's phone call... He said that he is already on the train, our Y City and Changping are finally going to merge! Our business has hope... He also said, boy, the child is really looking for They're back! The child and Asheng are going home! Lao Cao! They're going home! They're going...to go home together!"

……

'People's fragility and strength are beyond one's imagination. '

'Sometimes, I may be so fragile that I burst into tears with a single sentence, and sometimes, I find myself gritting my teeth and walking a long way. '

——"Life" Maupassant

——Student · article end

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