That afternoon, Huo Chengwang cried with all his strength, and in the end he collapsed to the ground.
Huo Jianguo accompanied him silently, his eyes red.
Until night fell, Tang Chunlan and Huo Yubo cooked a pot of rice porridge in a tattered pot.
Huo Chengwang held the bowl of hot rice porridge and began to tell them about their experiences in the past two years.
"When something happened at home, after you left, we also boarded the train to South City."
"Before we boarded the train, the people took away all our belongings. We only had two changes of clothes."
"We traveled for several days before finally getting off the train. However, we never saw anyone coming to pick us up, and we couldn't find the way back home, so we had no choice but to wait at the train station entrance for a whole day."
"It was not until the evening of the next day that people from Huangjia Village came over. They said they had remembered the time wrong, but judging from their subsequent actions, they must have done it on purpose." Huo Chengwang's voice was still a little hoarse, and his hand holding the bowl tightened involuntarily when he talked about these past events.
"Huangjia Village is very remote. It was raining heavily when we arrived. The person who came to pick us up only brought his own hat and raincoat. We had nothing, so we had to follow him back to the village in the rain."
"When we arrived at the village, they gave us this shabby hut. My dad couldn't bear to see his grandchildren getting wet in the rain, so he took us brothers and me to get some branches and straw and barely made a place to shelter from the rain."
"But maybe it was because he was older and weaker than us, but he had a fever on the first day."
"We originally wanted to let him rest at home, but the village chief said we were sent down here for reform and had no right to rest. My father didn't want to argue with the village chief just after arriving in the village, so he dragged his sick body to work with us."
"It's all my fault. I didn't pay attention. He had a fever and worked so hard every day. How could his body withstand it? He collapsed in less than a week."
"I went to ask the village chief to take my father to see a doctor or buy us some medicine, but he said we couldn't leave the village and there was no medicine in the village."
"I even knelt down before them. In the end, I wanted to fight them to the death, but they were outnumbered and we couldn't win. There were children at home, and in the end, my father..."
Huo Chengwang couldn't continue talking here. Huo Jianguo clenched his teeth, and even his mouth was filled with a faint smell of blood.
"My dad's illness came on suddenly and fiercely, and there was no medicine. He died less than a week after he fell ill. At that time... he kept muttering about grandpa, grandma, and you..."
"It's my fault. I'm stupid. Why didn't I find out earlier? If I had found out earlier that something was wrong with his body, he wouldn't have..." Huo Chengwang shed silent tears.
"This matter has nothing to do with you, don't blame yourself." Huo Jianguo's voice was very hoarse.
"I think there are a few people missing, besides your dad..." Huo Jianguo couldn't continue.
"My younger brother...is no longer in the picture. And his wife, not long after Dad passed away, found out she was pregnant. It was considered a happy event at the time, and it helped us recover from the grief of Dad's passing."
"But... when my sister-in-law was six months pregnant, we went out to work and someone in the village... My sister-in-law couldn't bear the humiliation and hanged herself, resulting in two deaths..."
"My younger brother couldn't accept his wife's departure, so he secretly went to settle accounts with those who bullied his wife. When we found him, he was already... dead..." Every time Huo Chengwang said a word, it was as if a sharp thorn was piercing his heart, causing him to twitch with pain.
"These beasts!" Huo Jianguo's eyes turned red and he clenched his fists tightly.
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