"I know I'm young and I have some health problems from the past, so everyone is taking care of me."
"But I can't be so selfish!"
His tone was excited and sad. He was angry at his own powerlessness, but also grateful for the care of his whole family.
"So this is how you repay your family?" Zhang Weifen said coldly, "You sneaked overseas and made your whole family suffer for you! You'll never be able to hold your head up for half your life!"
An Jingzhi lowered his head, making it impossible to tell his emotions, but his whole body was trembling slightly.
"Mom, I have no choice. I can't bear to see you starving for me. I don't have much labor, and I still eat up all the food at home. I don't deserve it."
"I thought back then that if my family wasn't around, we could save more food."
"But then I thought, my parents worked so hard to raise me, I can't just give up my life like this."
"After much deliberation, I finally decided to go overseas."
"I didn't tell my family before I left because I didn't want them to be implicated."
"But I also know that in that era, running away would definitely bring consequences to my family."
"I've inquired about it. As long as you don't know about my situation, you won't be affected too much. At most, you will be on the farm for a few years for reform."
"Back then, our brigade was poor, and not many families had enough to eat. We all worked anyway, and if everyone in our family went to work on the farm, the farm would definitely not watch you starve to death."
"Without me as a burden, my family can support the whole family by working on the farm."
An Kangtai, who had been silent, couldn't help but open it.
He swallowed, his throat dry. "You ran away just to save food for your family?"
An Jingzhi looked at An Kangtai deeply: "Brother, you and my second sister have taken care of me since I was a child. My second sister starved herself to death for me. I can't watch you get into trouble too."
"Back then, you fainted from hunger while working in the fields and almost fell headfirst onto your hoe. I was so scared..."
"I'm afraid you'll be like my second sister and never get up again."
An Jingzhi kept making up stories until he even started to believe them himself.
In fact, the original owner's second sister did starve to death in order to save food for him.
But the truth was that she kept crying out for hunger in front of his second sister. Everyone was hungry at that time, and he knew that his second sister loved him, so he pretended to be faint in front of her, causing her to save all the food for him and starve herself to death.
As for his family saving food for him, that is indeed true.
The crying child gets the milk. The original owner was a person who never treated himself badly. In order to let other relatives eat more, the family members would drink more water and pretend that they were not hungry.
Only the original owner kept saying that he had contracted a disease during the famine. He had no strength in his body, could not work, but could still eat.
Seeing that his family really couldn't provide food, he thought of sneaking abroad.
At that time, the closest place to the mainland was Hong Kong Island.
The original owner pretended to be weak in front of his family, but no one tolerated him outside.
He was sold to a coal mine by the ship boss and worked there for several years before he secretly escaped.
After that, he lived a gangster life of fighting and killing.
It wasn't until An Jingzhi traveled back in time that his identity was cleared.
An Jingzhi's tearful performance moved the whole family.
But An Ruyu felt something was wrong.
In order to save food for his family, he deliberately fled overseas and sent his entire family to a farm for labor reform?
The farm would not let their family starve to death, so would the villagers just watch his family starve to death?
This doesn't make sense.
But then I thought about how my uncle had witnessed his second aunt starve to death in front of him, and that he was only fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, so it seemed that it made sense for him to have such thoughts.
Even Zhang Weifen and the others were a little moved.
An Jingzhi glanced at them and continued to exert more strength.
He took off his suit and unbuttoned his shirt, revealing the dense wounds underneath.
These are the injuries left from working in the illegal coal mines, as well as the traces left from living in Hong Kong Island for so many years.
"Back then, I smuggled myself to Hong Kong Island with someone. As soon as I got off the boat, I was sold to an illegal coal mine, where I worked for three years. I finally found a chance to escape, but I couldn't speak the language and couldn't understand what they were saying."
Pointing to a mark on his shoulder, he said, "This was caused when I lost my strength while digging coal and fell to the ground and was beaten."
Pointing to a scar on his waist, he said, "This is the scar left when I escaped. If I hadn't met a kind person who saved me, I might have died outside."
After all, he was their own biological son. Although Zhang Weifen and the others spoke toughly, they were actually relieved after hearing An Jingzhi's explanation.
Seeing his scarred torso wrapped under his stylish suit, Zhang Weifen tried hard not to touch the wounds on her son's body.
He said stubbornly: "This is what you deserve."
An Jingzhi smiled bitterly, "Yes, I can't do any work, I can't share the burden of the family, and I eat up so much food at home. This is what a son deserves."
He could sense a slight tremor in Zhang Weifen's voice.
Now let him light the final fire.
He pointed to a scar on his chest. This scar seemed smaller than the others, but the wound was also more hideous.
"My son has no skills or talents, and he can't understand what people say. After escaping from the illegal coal mines, he worked odd jobs everywhere. People often bully me because I can't speak the language."
"Later, I had no choice but to join the gang because I couldn't make ends meet."
"The wounds on this body are all from the fighting and killing over the years."
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