580: No one knows where he went
There was a heavy atmosphere in the warehouse, making it hard to breathe.
After a long while, Lao Wu suddenly dropped the willow branches and basket in his hands, raised his head and looked at Lao Pu. A strange look appeared in his cloudy and cold eyes. After a long while, he trembled and asked:
"What did you say?"
"We found your son."
Lao Wu suddenly stood up, but perhaps because he stood up too quickly and caused insufficient blood supply to the brain, or because he was too excited, he had just stood up and hadn't even stood firmly when he staggered and fell to one side.
Fortunately, there was a sack nearby and he fell on it.
Lao Pu hurried over to support Lao Wu:
"Are you okay? Don't get excited. Don't get excited."
Lao Wu grabbed Lao Pu's arm with his backhand, his voice trembling unnaturally:
"You, you said, what, you——"
Yu Jiahui also came up and without further ado, he took out the photo and handed it to Lao Wu, asking in a businesslike tone:
"Look at this person, do you know him?"
Lao Wu seemed to be too old and his eyes were blurry to see clearly. He tried to get closer to the photo, so close that his nose almost touched it. He rubbed his eyes and looked at it for a long time. He finally recognized the person in the photo.
Lao Wu suddenly gasped, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Lao Pu was afraid that Lao Wu would be beaten, so he shouted in fear:
"Lao Wu, Lao Wu, calm down—Jia Hui, what should we do?"
Yu Jiahui was quite calm. He bent down and picked up Lao Wu.
"What else can we do? Take him to find his son!"
So, Lao Pu drove the carriage towards the field office again.
This time there were three old men in the carriage.
The three of them sat quietly in the carriage, facing the cold wind in the first month of the year, and no one spoke.
Lao Wu has woken up from his coma, but he looks like he is in a daze. His eyes are unfocused, with a thin layer of mist in his eye sockets, and his facial muscles are tense.
Seeing how pitiful Lao Wu looked, Yu Jiahui felt less disgusted with him.
No matter what, it is a miracle that his own son, who has been living away from home for ten years and is mentally ill, is still alive.
Both Yu Jiahui and Lao Pu, two outsiders, were shocked by this, let alone Lao Wu.
No one could empathize with the shock and fluctuation in his heart.
The carriage arrived at the site.
Yu Jiahui called the headquarters office and told Zhou Ziheng that the skinny monkey's relatives had been found and that he was taking people to identify them and where the skinny monkey was.
Zhou Ziheng was also quite surprised to hear the news. He didn't expect that Shouhou's relatives were actually in the fifth field, and in the eighth company.
In this way, it seems that Shouhou has a good relationship with the Yu family.
It was not convenient to talk too much on the phone, so Zhou Ziheng told them that Shouhou was now receiving treatment in the farm hospital and asked them to go directly to the hospital.
After Yu Jiahui hung up the phone, he found a car and took Lao Wu to the headquarters alone.
Sitting in the truck, Lao Wu's dull eyes seemed to come alive. He moved his eyeballs with great effort, his eyes wandering as he said:
"If I'm dreaming, don't wake me up."
Yu Jiahui: “…” He didn’t dare to say a word, for he was really afraid that if he made a sound he would wake up from his dream and then find out that this was all their wishful thinking.
He felt a little sympathy for Lao Wu and hoped that this dream could last until Lao Wu could see his son, even just once, so that the old father could see what his son looked like and have no regrets in this life.
Yu Jiahui was worried that the night might lead to more trouble, so he asked the truck to take them directly to the hospital entrance.
We got off the car at the hospital gate.
Looking up at the hospital building, I remembered that when I first came here a year ago in the 1970s, I was hit by Zhou Ziheng's car on my first day and broke my bones. I stayed in the hospital for a while.
At that time, Lao Wu was staying in the bed next to him. The two of them often quarreled in the ward and even had a fight before being discharged from the hospital.
Unexpectedly, the two of them are back together again.
I don't know if there is some kind of fate at work.
The two entered the hospital building.
Just when I didn't know who to ask, Zhou Ziheng came up quickly from behind:
"Uncle Yu."
Yu Jiahui looked back:
"Xiao Zhou, why are you here? If you're busy with work, don't go out. We can find someone ourselves."
Zhou Ziheng said:
"Let me take you there. I brought the people here."
As he spoke, Zhou Ziheng looked at Lao Wu who was standing next to Yu Jiahui. Lao Wu looked very pitiful, with a tense expression and his hands trembling constantly, which made people feel a little sorry for him.
Is this man the skinny monkey's father?
It's hard to tell, the father and son don't look much alike.
However, not all fathers and sons look alike.
Zhou Ziheng first took them to find a doctor who was responsible for treating Skinny Monkey.
The doctor led them upstairs and said as they walked that this patient not only had a mental illness and was unable to communicate normally, but also had manic symptoms and would indiscriminately attack anyone who approached him, and he was also malnourished for a long time.
Although he appeared to be agile and extraordinary, his internal organs had actually aged prematurely. If he continued like this, his life would be in danger at any time.
I can’t imagine how he managed to survive alone in the mountains for such a long time.
As the doctor spoke, he took them to the ward on the top floor, at the end of the corridor.
There is an iron gate in the corridor, which is obviously used to guard some dangerous patients or patients who have committed crimes.
There was a glass window on the door of the ward. The doctor first took a look through the window. The skinny monkey inside was tied to the bed, and his limbs were constantly twisting and struggling.
The doctor took a look inside and then turned back to look at Lao Wu:
"Want to go in together?"
Lao Wu was a little timid. He stood there, his body swaying slightly, as if he was about to fall at any time.
Yu Jiahui made the decision for Lao Wu:
"Come in, take a look inside."
We have come such a long way, just to come
Want to see your son?
The doctor opened the door, took Lao Wu into the room, and closed the door again.
Yu Jiahui and Zhou Ziheng stayed outside waiting.
Not long after, the sound of Lao Wu crying loudly was heard from inside.
Judging from the sound, it should be correct.
The skinny monkey turned out to be Lao Wu’s ten-year-lost son.
I didn’t expect that the rumors left behind ten years ago would still have a follow-up today.
Yu Jiahui breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like everything was settled.
Zhou Ziheng felt relieved when he knew that Shouhou had finally found his family.
This matter was finally resolved satisfactorily.
Not only did it cut off Yu Daye's retreat, but it also helped Shouhou find his relatives.
Yu Jiahui instructed:
"Since the skinny monkey is Xiao Wuzi from our Eighth Company, let's stop the search for his relatives in the other branches. Oh, and don't tell anyone about the skinny monkey finding his relatives for now. If that bastard knows the skinny monkey is here, he might come over and sneak him away. We must keep it a secret, understand?"
Zhou Ziheng nodded:
"Uncle, don't worry, I will keep it a secret."
"Oh, by the way, what's that bastard been up to lately? Do you know where he went?"
"I heard from the people at the Second Division that the boss did go to the Second Division after leaving home and asked them to take him to the logging company. But the truck owner at the Second Division didn't take him with him, as I asked him to. He went alone. I heard that when he came back the next day, he was in rags. It seemed that he had a hard time living alone in the mountains."
"Should!"
"After he returned to the Second Division Field Office, he stayed there for only one day and then left again."
"Where did you go?"
Zhou Ziheng shook his head:
"I don't know. No one knows where he went."
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