Soon, Zhang Hongying and the old lady tidied up their new residence with the help of Ye Jiaying.
After tidying up the living quarters and drying the bath water, Zhang Hongying easily moved a large basin of bath water to the toilet in the corner of the yard without Ye Jiaying's help.
The two took turns taking a shower and changing into new clothes.
The old lady also helped Mr. Zhang Hongying trim his hair and beard.
Old man Zhang Hongying liked his beard very much and didn't want her to trim it.
The old woman whispered something to him, but he finally agreed.
After some tidying up, the two of them looked brand new.
The old lady's name is Sun Xiujuan and she is fifty-eight years old.
She is less than sixty years old, but her hair is all white and her body is hunched. She looks like she is in her seventies. She is also a pitiful person.
She is not an elderly widower, she has five children.
But every family has its own problems. During those special years, the family job was given to the eldest son, and the younger son went to join the army.
The three daughters in the family had no jobs, so they all went to the countryside.
Later, when they returned to the city, they only wrote to say that they had gotten married there, and they never came back.
The old man passed away three years ago.
Her eyes were sick, she didn't understand what it was, but she ended up having surgery and one of her eyes was removed.
Her eyesight was not good, so she could not help at home and even caused trouble. At that time, her eldest son's child was in elementary school and there was no need for her at home, so she was kicked out by her eldest daughter-in-law.
Her second son is serving as a soldier in the border area and rarely comes home. She doesn't want to affect her child because of her own affairs.
I can only wander around.
Later, she met Zhang Hongying, who was also a wanderer like her. At first, they lived separately in places not far from each other. Later, when they got to know each other, they lived together and relied on each other.
After hearing about what happened to old lady Sun Xiujuan, Ye Jiaying's first reaction was that he could sue him, as it was illegal not to support the elderly.
Sun Xiujuan smiled when she heard her say that.
"They say children are a debt. Maybe I owed them in my past life. Now I'm living a good life on my own. I live one day at a time."
"You raised him, and he's supposed to take care of you in your old age."
Sun Xiujuan smiled again and shook her head.
"What should or shouldn't be? I'm living a better life now than before. When I was at my eldest son's house, I could only eat one meal, but I had to cook for their family of four, do the laundry, clean the house, and even look after their faces. Now it's so good, I can feed the whole family."
As she spoke, she smiled, but that smile made people feel sad.
Ye Jiaying didn't know what to say.
She herself is unwilling to seek justice, and no one else can help her.
Seeing that she was in good condition, Ye Jiaying took her to buy groceries.
Grandma Sun’s cooking skills are very good, so Ye Jiaying doesn’t have to go back to eat fast food anymore.
The next morning, Grandma Sun began to clean diligently.
Mr. Zhang also worked hard to help move the goods.
Ye Jiaying couldn't stop it.
"We agreed before that we would help with the work and you would provide a place to live. You don't have to pay us. Just a place to live and food to eat."
Grandma Sun’s thoughts were simple: having a shelter from the wind and rain and having something to eat was enough.
What else could they be dissatisfied about if they no longer had to be exposed to the wind and rain outside?
Ye Jiaying had no choice but to agree.
She just opened the shop door and took old man Zhang Hongying to the Public Security Bureau.
I want to see if I can contact Mr. Zhang’s family at the place where they reported the case and take him back.
As a result, I went to several places, but none of them was the police station where I reported the case.
The public security system is not yet connected to the Internet, so it is a bit difficult to find it.
Ye Jiaying looked at the system tasks carefully again and finally found the report record near the hospital where Mr. Zhang had been treated before.
Ye Jiaying couldn't just tell people, "I found the old man who was missing in one of your previous cases. Please quickly notify someone to come and pick him up."
She could only say that she met an old man who must have been separated from his family and hoped that he could help find his family.
In order to help them identify the person as quickly as possible, she even took the risk of saying Zhang Hongying's full name and southern accent, suggesting that she should not be from Beijing.
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