Xu Daming and Liu Xiaocui, carrying rolls of bedding and a few pieces of clothing and luggage, stood at the prison gate, looking at each other in silence.
A taxi whizzed past them and quickly backed up.
"Hey, do you want a taxi?" The young driver rolled down the window and asked them.
"beat"
"No fight"
Xu Daming and Liu Xiaocui glanced at each other and said at the same time:
"No fight"
"beat"
The driver laughed and said, "There are no buses here. You have to walk on your own. The nearest bus stop is five kilometers away." As he said this, he got out of the car, opened the trunk, and motioned for them to put their luggage in.
The two men sat in the back seat of the taxi in silence. When the driver asked about their destination, they didn't know where they were going.
In the past five years, no one from their family has come to visit them. Liu Xiaocui has repeatedly clamored to see her child. After the prison guards helped to make inquiries, they only said that the child was taken away by his grandparents to be raised. They have been contacted, but they refused to bring the child to see them.
There was no choice, so they decided to go to the nearest bus stop first. After all, they didn’t have much money in their pockets and didn’t know where to stay tonight.
The two of them took their tattered luggage and took a bus across most of Beijing, returning to the village where they had rented before going to prison. They had thought about it, as they had just paid three months' rent when they went to prison. Although five years had passed in a flash, the landlord must have rented the house to someone else, but with the rent in hand, the landlord had to give them a place to live.
When I got there, I saw that the village had been demolished, the film and television city had been expanded, and a film and television training school and a five-star hotel had been built next to it.
Where can I find someone like this?
The two decided to find a temporary job in the local area and then figure out where to find their son.
As a result, released prisoners encountered many difficulties in finding re-employment. The few hundred dollars left in their pockets were quickly spent, and they could not find any jobs at all.
There was no other way, so they could only use the little money they had left to buy two train tickets back home.
After getting off the train, they didn't even have money to take the bus, so they walked all the way back. They threw the tattered bedding away on the way. Firstly, they thought it was unlucky, and secondly, it was really dirty and rotten. Moreover, they were so tired and hungry that they couldn't carry it at all.
Others who went out to work hard came back with nothing, not to mention wealth. But these two were like beggars. They walked back to the village in the middle of the night, broke the lock of Xu Ermin's house, and broke into the house directly.
But having a house alone is not enough; you also need to eat. It was the middle of July in the Gregorian calendar, and the corn seedlings in the field had barely grown to the height of a forearm, and his family had not planted any seeds on their land.
The village chief said that the land had been rented to the Santong family for five years, and the lease had just expired. They could grow crops on their own in the future. The village chief also said that he could lend them some seeds, but when they asked about the situation of Xu Ermin's family, the village chief knew nothing about it.
Two people went to the police and said that all their family members were missing. After investigation, the police said that this was not true. Your family just doesn't want to contact you, so the case cannot be accepted.
The villagers were also talking about their arrival, saying all kinds of things.
The land was eventually rented to Santong. With the rent money, the two of them cleared the old debts and planted vegetables together with Xu Ermin's private plot. They ate a small part of it themselves and sold most of it at the market. The money they earned was just enough to live on.
The world is so big, they have no money in their pockets, and they don't know where to find anyone. And even if they do find someone, except for the eldest child, the other five children are not yet adults...
Over the years, they have also received some legal education in prison, and they know that they have an obligation to support their children before they reach adulthood. Even if they really find their children, they may not be able to afford it.
It’s unnecessary to think about these things now. I’m busy from morning to night just to make a living.
Xu Daming and Liu Xiaocui comforted each other: This is their hometown, they will come back sooner or later.
Ling Shuang had been asking the village chief to keep an eye on the whereabouts of these two people in the village. Seeing that they had no fighting spirit and seemed to have accepted their fate, he no longer paid any attention to them.
At this time, Xu Xi was already a junior in college, but she was studying medicine and still had many years to go before graduation. She also had a boyfriend who was a national defense student at the University of Science and Technology of China. They were high school classmates, and although they were rarely together, their relationship was still very stable.
The other children of the Xu family also lived an orderly school life. Ling Shuang had always informed the children about the situation of Xu Daming and Liu Xiaocui, but except for Xu Fufu who made a fuss about looking for his parents a few years ago, the other children did not have too deep a dependence on this couple of parents.
Later, even Xu Fufu gradually forgot the memories of his past life with his parents.
However, Xu Xi still discussed with his younger brothers and sisters that when they started working and became capable, they would support their parents according to the law, and when their parents could no longer move, they would pay to send them to a nursing home.
At this stage they are still young and it is not time for them to fulfill their obligations.
The children quickly reached a consensus. Their busy studies and daily lives made them put the matter aside. In their minds, their parents were in their prime and could support themselves by doing anything.
Later, when Liu Xiaocui turned fifty, someone from the town came to take her to apply for a retirement certificate. It was Xu Xi and others who bought her the seniority, and Liu Xiaocui began to live a life of receiving a pension.
Five years later, Xu Daming also "retired".
Maybe it's because their lives in recent years have not been so difficult, giving them the leisure to indulge in delusions, or maybe it's because their children bought them work years and helped them with their retirement, making them gradually forget their past treatment of their children. In short, they tell everyone that they miss their children very much.
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