"What about your mother?"
"My mom...my mom is...gone."
Hearing him say this, the ticket seller felt that the child was quite pitiful.
But this letter... this letter... it's obvious that it's written by a child.
"Sorry, we still can't sell you a ticket. How about you ask your family's elderly to buy it for you? Do you have grandparents?"
"My grandfather is in poor health and can't come. My grandmother has bound feet and can't walk far."
"Well... well, there's nothing we can do about it. You can call your grandparents, or any other elders in the family. Anyway, we can't sell tickets to a child as young as you."
What should I do if I can’t buy a ticket?
Wang Chenchen took Wang Zhi away.
Wang Zhi's face was filled with worry. "Brother, is there no way I can go find Mom?"
Wang Chenchen shook his head and asked him, "Do you know where your grandmother's house is?"
His own grandparents are not good enough, his mother had cut off ties with them a long time ago.
When he first came back, he went to look for them, but they said there was no grandson like him.
Wang Chenchen knew that they despised him because he was a child born out of wedlock and looked at him as if he were a stink bug.
He had no friends in the village and was laughed at by his classmates at school. They all laughed at his mother for being shameless and that he was a shameless son of illegitimate children.
The bad words spoken by villagers are much more unpleasant than those spoken by city people.
There is no harm without comparison. Only now does he realize how good it is to be with Lu Jiangting.
"I know." Wang Zhi said.
Wang Chenchen was delighted and said, "Then let's go find your grandma and ask her to buy us tickets."
Wang Zhi nodded in agreement, "Okay."
They slept at the train station that night. Wang Chenchen, based on his experience, took Wang Zhi and hid at the train station for the night.
The next day they took a bus back. Wang Zhi's grandmother was in a village on another hillside.
He said his uncle was a bad guy and he couldn't let his uncle find him when he went to see his grandmother.
They sat in a haystack near the village, waiting for their uncle to leave before going in through the back door to find their grandmother.
Grandma was feeding chickens and was very surprised to see Wang Zhi.
She didn't dare to speak loudly, so she put down the basket gently and came out quietly.
My son is not at home, but my daughter-in-law is here.
The last time his daughter ran away, her son threatened her, telling her not to see Wang Zhi again and not to have any relationship with his daughter's family.
She used to be able to go see Wang Zhi, but after that incident, she didn't dare to go anymore.
"Xiaozhi, why are you here?"
"Grandma, my brother and I came to ask for your help."
Tang's mother looked up at the older child. This must be Wang Chenchen, the child of her son-in-law and sister-in-law.
"What help?" She was not happy.
I think it must be this older one who instigated her little grandson to come.
"Please buy us a train ticket." Wang Chenchen explained the whole story.
Tang's mother was shocked.
"What? You two kids, you're going to South City?"
"Yes."
"How can that be possible? What if something goes wrong?"
She pulled Wang Zhi aside and said, "Xiaozhi, listen to grandma, don't listen to him. Go home quickly. Your grandma must be going crazy if you haven't been home all night."
Wang Zhi kept shaking his head, "I won't go back. Grandma will beat me to death if I go back."
He recounted how Jiang Mei had treated him worse and worse over the past year, and even asked him to wash clothes in the river, where he nearly drowned. Not only did Jiang Mei not comfort him, she also beat him.
He showed her the injuries on his body.
Wang Chenchen also showed her his injuries.
Tang's mother gasped at the sight.
"How did you do that? How can you hit such a young child like that?"
Wang Zhi cried and said, "Grandma, please help us. I want to go to South City and find my mother and sister. I don't want to stay with you anymore. You will beat me to death sooner or later."
This is her own grandson. Her daughter has a miserable life, and the child suffers as well.
Tang's mother wiped away her tears and said, "Okay, grandma will help you. You just hide here, grandma will be here soon."
"good."
How could she let the two children go alone? She decided to send them off herself.
She earned only a handful of change from selling the vegetables she grew and the eggs from the chickens she raised, which was not enough for the bus fare.
Helplessly, she could only take out the money she had saved.
A heavy silver bracelet given by my mother's family.
Originally, her family was well-off, but later her parents were persecuted and all the belongings in the house were lost. Only this bracelet was saved by hiding it in a pit toilet.
She had hidden it for a lifetime, but in order to send her grandson to her daughter, she decided to sell it.
Before leaving, she told her daughter-in-law that she would be gone for a while. "The chicken at home seems to be overheated, so I don't eat much. I'm going to buy some oxytetracycline."
"Well, go ahead. Remember to come back early to make dinner."
"Why."
Tang's mother agreed and left through the back door carrying a package.
I met a neighbor at the entrance of the village. She said she was going to visit her parents and would be back in a few days.
The neighbor didn't think much of it.
Tang's mother took her two children to sell the bracelet first. It was a heavy bracelet left over from the previous dynasty and only sold for a few dozen yuan, barely enough for the train ticket.
Wang Chenchen's train ticket was half price, he paid for it himself, and Wang Zhi didn't ask for any money.
The three of them bought some dry food and set off for South City.
They left, and Jiang Mei and the eldest brother of the Tang family had a huge fight.
Jiang Mei searched for a whole day and night but couldn't find anyone.
Later she found that the money she had hidden under her pillow was gone. After crying for a while, someone told her that they saw the two children go to Tangjia Village.
Wang Zhi's grandmother lived in Tangjia Village. She thought it was Tang's mother who instigated her child to steal money, so she rushed to Tang's house with a knife to argue.
Boss Tang was still wondering, how could the old lady in their family have any family at all?
Her parents have been dead for many years, and she has not been in contact with her brothers for a long time. Why should she go to her parents' home?
When Jiang Mei came over and made a fuss, his mind raced and he understood instantly.
"Oh, my old lady probably ran away."
"Run away? Where did you run to?"
"Wang Zhidu was taken away, where else could he go? He must have gone to look for my shameless sister."
"Huh? What should I do then?"
"What should we do?" Boss Tang sneered, looking at Jiang Mei and said, "You said my mother encouraged Wang Zhi to steal money, then you need to produce evidence."
"Everyone's gone. Where can I get the evidence?"
"Then go and catch them back. Catch them and confront them. If they really do steal, I'll admit it."
"Bah, you wish for it. South City is so far away. It would take six days to go there and back, and the travel expenses alone would be over a hundred yuan. The little money I lost is more than enough for the travel expenses. I'm not going."
Jiang Mei snorted and said, "That's your mother, you should go."
Tang Lao Da said, "I didn't lose any money, so I'm not going. If you don't want to go, then don't ask me for the money you lost. It's none of my business if she sold your grandson."
It's not that she would sell her grandson. Jiang Mei just felt that Tang's mother took them to South City.
Putting aside the issue of the lost money, she felt mixed emotions after her two children left.
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