September 1, 1985, was the day Bi Yue and Bi Cheng started school.
And on the last day of August, it seemed so restless.
Bi Tiegang, holding the train ticket, boarded the train to the Northwest late that night.
Bi Tiegang originally wanted to leave a few days ago, but on the other hand, the old man's health was getting worse and worse, and he wanted to take care of him personally for a few days. He wanted to make whatever the old man wanted to eat and someone at home could prepare it.
On the other hand, he went to the employer's house twice to ask for the work payment. Bi Tiegang was reluctant to spend the money because he was afraid that by the time he came back, the work would be completed and the temporary workers would have disbanded. Where would he go to ask for the money and seek justice?
That's how it wasted some time.
Farmland is for food, ensuring food security, but it doesn't bring in much money. Especially in Northeast China, where the produce from the land is not worth much, every household has it.
Since the household registration began in 1982, the Bi family has also owned a few acres of land. The amount is not large, but it is basically supported by Liu Yafang alone.
Bi Tiegang, the pillar of the Bi family, often goes out to build houses and work as a laborer to earn money to buy medicine for his grandfather and cover daily expenses for the family.
So that night, Liu Yafang, who had been working hard during the day and shouldering several bundles of land, slept particularly soundly.
Not to mention any noise in the cabin, even thunder outside probably wouldn't wake her up.
Bi Sheng sat up in a daze and scratched his butt. He really couldn't hold it in any longer, otherwise he would have wanted to continue holding it in and sleep.
The twelve-year-old boy was still in a daze. When he had to pee very hard, his shoulders shook, and the breeze outside blew, and the boy woke up.
Being young, he couldn't control his gluttony, and when he woke up, he would think about doing bad things. He would think about food 24 hours a day.
Bi Sheng thought for a while when he entered the house, then turned a corner and went straight to his grandfather Bi Fu's hut.
He was thinking about the trough cake on the kang cabinet in that room.
There are about ten pieces of tiaozi cakes, all bought by his father for his grandfather. Don’t let them go bad, he can use them as a buffer.
Bi Sheng climbed onto the kang carefully, then half-knelt and stretched out his arms to pull the thin hemp rope that tied the trough cake through the old man. He was holding his breath and trying hard when his grandfather Bi Fu suddenly opened his confused eyes.
But this time it was different. The difference was that his eyes were the brightest they had been since he got sick, as if foreshadowing that he would take another look at this world.
Bi Fu said: "Shengsheng."
Bi Sheng was startled and stopped pulling the rope to look at his grandfather. Normally, his grandfather called him Gou Dan'er. What was going on?
"Yueyue, Dacheng." The old man called out slowly, and his oral pronunciation was very clear.
"Grandpa? Grandpa?" The young boy touched the old man's chest with his little hand:
"What's wrong with you? What do you want? I'll get you some trough cakes."
The child also had intuition, but he looked a little panicked.
Grandpa Bi Fu looked carefully at Bi Sheng's little face, which was quite different from his older brothers and sisters, with an expression that looked like he wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
He used all his strength, but there was no shrillness in his voice.
It was like the young Bi Fu, standing on the hillside, calling the children home for dinner with such calmness and strength. It was also like seeing his eldest son Tie Gang holding his sister Jin Zhi with one hand and his younger brother Tie Lin in his arms...
Grandpa Bifu laughed, and after he finished laughing, he shouted:
"Tielin! Tielin!"
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When Liu Yafang got off the kang, she almost fell headfirst.
She felt her whole body trembling, and her feet felt like they had no roots!
The sound of her old son crying loudly in the hut, and the old man calling his younger brother-in-law, all told her:
It’s over, it’s over! The old man is in trouble!
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Only daughter-in-law Liu Yafang and youngest son Bi Sheng were left in the Bi family. Liu Yafang pushed the old man and cried:
"Dad! Dad! Didn't you say you wanted to eat canned peaches? I haven't bought them yet! You haven't even had the bite you wanted! And Tielin, why can't you wait and see what he thinks? Can you feel at ease leaving like this?!"
Liu Yafang knelt on the kang, patted her chest and cried while looking towards the door.
Crying about the helplessness and length of so many years;
The old man was crying because he hadn't waited for his brother-in-law to come back yet, and his adopted sons and daughters were not around;
I also cried because the old man said what he wanted to eat the night before, but left without any warning early in the morning.
At the same time, Bi Yue and Bi Cheng were still asleep, and Bi Tiegang was standing at the connection of the train smoking.
In a prison in the northwest, Bi Tielin was handcuffed and was being led by the prison guards to walk left and right.
In the meeting room, a middle-aged man wearing a Zhongshan suit and glasses opened the briefcase he carried with him.
Uncle Bi, Bi Tielin, has thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was imprisoned for seven years, starting at the age of 23, the best time of his life, and is now 30 years old.
There was no stupidity or confusion from being in prison for a long time in his eyes, nor was there any slowness or dullness. Although he was wearing a prison uniform, he sat upright in front of Mr. Chen's secretary.
When he found that the prison guard had uncuffed him and walked out of the visiting room without any supervision, Bi Tielin thought about it and guessed that it was almost right. Because the old man was secretly taken out, a few days before he was released, he patted his shoulder and said to him:
"Tie Lin, if we meet again one day in the future, you have to call me uncle. You won't suffer any loss if you recognize me. I am a very capable uncle!"
His "uncle" taught him how to read and write, and how to talk about the outside world. But when his "uncle" was provoked and bullied, he was punished again...
Bi Tielin never asked any questions. He sat calmly in front of the visitor.
The middle-aged man began to murmur in his heart, no wonder his leader was concerned about this person.
"Do you know Mr. Chen?"
"You're talking about Mr. Chen Fengxiang, right? How is his health now?"
A note was pushed in front of Bi Tielin:
"He misses you very much and thanks you for taking care of him for the past four years. He also asked me to tell you that your paperwork will be completed in two days. He'll give you two weeks to go back home to see your family. After a month, he'll be waiting for you in Kyoto. Here's the address, don't lose it."
The middle-aged secretary looked at Bi Tielin in front of him meaningfully.
Even though this guy is in prison, he may still have to be respectful to him in the future.
Because this person was his benefactor, the person who cared most about Mr. Chen during those years of persecution. So once Mr. Chen settled down, the first thing he did was to "rescue him."
The circumstances are different, this kid's fate has really changed!
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Only a few days were left, but old man Bi Fu never waited for this day.
When Bi Tielin saw his elder brother Bi Tiegang, he touched his brother's leg and said, "Brother!" The two brothers hugged each other and cried bitterly.
People always want to control the direction of their destiny in their lives.
But life will tell you that it is supposed to be like this, full of regrets, bitterness, and mixed feelings.
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