Your loneliness is more moving than this world

Chapter 16 The Lover on the Other Side (5)
Papa Ming was so excited that he grabbed Papa Ning's arm and asked, "Brother, when did you come back? Everyone is asking around for you these days, you...how dare you come back to the village? Come on, go home!" "Father Ning stood still, looked at everyone, and said: "I won't go in, third brother, it's okay, there is no one on the street at this time, I will come back to have a look at everyone, and I should leave after I finish." Yu's mother said: " Have you been back to your house?" Papa Ning said: "Sister-in-law, I didn't go back, I just found out that my wife was in the hospital to accompany her dad to the village these days, you also know her temper, it's not good to see her... ..." "Okay, let's go, come in with me, don't stand and talk on the street, what kind of thing is this?" Ming's father became anxious.Ming's mother echoed and said: "Yes, let's go in and talk, this street is often passed by people and cars at night." Ning's father said: "It's not in the way, I don't care about these now." Yu's father stood up and said: "Brother , if you still trust me as a brother, you should consider turning yourself in. There are so many people helping you to file a lawsuit, so what if you have been locked up for a few years? Our fat factory manager recently came back and turned himself in, and he hasn't been sentenced for a few years. Wait When you come out, the child happens to grow up too, and our life will be better."

Mingming dragged Xiao Ning and ran over from the yard. When Xiao Ning saw her father, she gasped for breath and didn't know what to say for a while.Ming's father said: "Look, the children are here, so you can go in and stay here tonight. Let's find a way together for the future." Ning's father touched Xiao Ning's head and said with a wry smile: "You don't understand. My crime is too great. The government will not let me go. I don't want to go to jail. After so many years, I should show my wife and children some face." "Son," Father Ning lowered his head and said Xiao Ning said, "Take good care of your mother, you will be the only man left in the family. You three also remember that no matter whether you can go to college or not in the future, you must look like a human being. Our generation is not promising. , being bullied, remember to fight for your breath."

Papa Ning stopped, remained silent for a moment, turned around, looked at Papa Ming and said, "Third Brother, if one day you hear that I'm gone, remember to collect my body, and think of a way to get rid of it without cremation." Don't cremate me, bury me in our family's ancestral grave, next to the old man. My wife's father is terminally ill, in case he dies one day..." He pinched his nose and continued, "I'll trouble everyone to make arrangements, don't Leave her alone as a woman."

"Dad!" Xiao Ning cried and knelt down on the street.

6.
Ming's mother, as the last batch of laid-off technical employees of Niuye, bought out her seniority just like everyone else.On Children's Day, she took her son and daughter to Beijing for a trip. Perhaps because she had money, she stopped being harsh on her children. She stayed in a hotel, took a taxi, visited Haidian Industrial Park, and bought whatever the children wanted along the way. .Knowing how sad her mother was, she didn't want anything but food, but Xiaoyue bought a big bag of toys, just a few Barbie dolls.

For the rest of the day, she waited for the news that Yu's father had applied to the district government to open a store, while helping her husband sell balloons on East Street.She bought a bicycle and asked Mama Yu to take her to learn to ride on the path by the Liulihe River. Then she changed her previous work clothes and became an aunt in a white coat selling balloons.As a woman, Ming's mother has no regrets in her life. She was young, beautiful, and beautiful. She went to the best school in Niucheng, and after graduation, she was assigned to the most famous company here. The engineer has been in love, and has never been hurt by anyone except him. Now, she has a husband who loves her, a handsome son, and a lovely daughter, and she will soon have a real career of her own.

Mama Ming's former superior, surnamed Zheng, no longer had a good reputation and was expelled from the party. She reported to the factory on time every day and accepted disciplinary investigations from the province.Those who fawned on him in the past have distanced themselves from him one after another, and those who fawned on him ruthlessly blocked him and his money from the door.Powerless and desperate, he wandered alone in the workshop where he had worked when he first entered the factory. He stepped on the two centimeters of dust on the aisle and touched the rust spots on the machine. Suddenly, his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground. on the ground.

In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, people found Ning's father's body under the bridge of Liuli River. He was floating on the water with a bulging belly and circling with the wind, holding a long branch in his mouth.At ten o'clock, under the watchful eyes of hundreds of Guojia Villagers, Papa Ning was pulled into the air by the rope of the crane. The police rushed over and pulled out a plastic bag from his fastened belt. Inside was a suicide note written in pencil. and a triangular cloth pouch.

Sister Ning came from Beijing with her newlywed husband to attend the funeral, and cried loudly while hugging Mama Yu at the gate of the courtyard.Mother Ming took out a set of filial piety clothes for Sister Ning to put on, and then she watched the man next to Sister Ning make trouble.Mama Yu grabbed the filial gown from Mama Ming's hand and said, "Forget it, let him wear one too. Let's follow the two of them in to see Mama Ning. There are so many people today, we can't make trouble anymore, it's not good looking."

Sister Ning and her husband stood in front of Mother Ning with their heads bowed. Mother Ning said with swollen eyes, "You're back?" "Mom..." Sister Ning cried and pulled her husband to kneel down. Just come back, go inside and kowtow to your father and grandfather." Sister Ning wiped her tears with her hands and said, "Mom, did my father commit suicide or was he killed by others? Did the police give an explanation? "Mother Ning said: "Forget it, girl, don't ask, no matter how he died, he died anyway. He died with your grandfather. Both of our family's debt collectors are dead."

Yu's father ran around for many days, and finally bought the two largest stores beside the national highway.Ming’s mother hired people to carry out renovation work. Mingming, Xiaoning, and I spent the summer vacation doing physical work in the store with the adults shirtless all day long. What happened at home over the past year has made the children grow up a lot. They truly understand To the hardships of survival.

Due to our hard work, Ming's mother dismissed several temporary workers, but the overall work progress did not decrease. Within a month, the two storefronts were merged into one, and the renovation of the upper and lower floors was also announced.On the acceptance day, Ming’s mother gave each of us [-] yuan in pocket money in front of everyone, and promised us a week’s vacation.Mama Yu obviously didn't agree with this approach. She said to Mama Ming: "It's enough to give them two days off, why give them money back? These bastards will definitely go out to make trouble again when they have money in their hands." Mama Ming smiled Said: "The three of them have worked no less than workers this month. This little money is nothing, and the children have grown up."

We walked into the first Internet cafe on Gonggong Road together, staring at the English prompts on the computer screen and hurriedly scrambling. Xiao Ning pushed back the keyboard and said, "Forget it, ask the network administrator to come over and teach us, network administrator!" Xiao Ning raised her arms and shook. He raised his head from a distance and said, "Here, here, wait a minute!" Mingming stood up slowly, staring at Zheng Lin next to the network administrator in a daze, Zheng Lin glanced at us, took off the headset and went to the front desk to return the card.Mingming pushed the chair away and walked out, Xiao Ning pushed me and said, "Hurry up and stop him, something will happen." After Zheng Lin returned the card, she walked out of the Internet cafe quickly, and Mingming quickened her pace to keep up. Card! Return the card!” Xiao Ning turned around and said, “Let’s go out and buy some food, and we’ll be right back.”

In Niu Ye's family home, the security guard closed the retractable door, came over and asked, "Where did you come from, who are you looking for?" Mingming ignored it, and continued to stretch his neck and call Zheng Lin's name from inside.Xiao Ning ran over and grabbed him, and said, "Why are you crazy!" Mingming stopped, looked at us sadly, and I gasped and said, "Go back, the Internet cafe is still holding down our money." Mingming's tears Dripping from the corner of his mouth, he was kicked to the ground by the flying feet behind him.

Er Paozi ordered several of his subordinates to grab me and Xiao Ning, and he pulled Ming Ming's hair to pull him over. He freed up one hand and slapped Xiao Ning and me in the face and said to Ming Ming: "Did you see it? See it? Don’t you? You guys who come from chicken coops have to beat like this, it’s fun to fight like this!” Then he slapped Mingming’s face and muttered: “I told you to call me a girl from our hospital! Call me a girl from our hospital!” “Two Paozi!" Xiao Ning spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, rushed forward with all his strength, and put Er Paozi's chin on his head, and Er Paozi retreated in response, I took the opportunity to break free from the people around me, and together with Xiao Ning, I pulled up Mingming who was on the ground and ran away.Er Paozi covered his face and said, "Catch them!"

The Niu Ye gang was getting closer and closer, and it was obvious that we couldn't outrun them, the kids who usually play football. Come up, crackling and fisting at us.Hou Lizi stood up, roared and rushed towards the crowd, opened his arms and threw Er Paozi over, Er Paozi quickly got up, and together with Niu Ye gang, punched and kicked Hou Laizi, Hou Laizi was covered in dirt, curled up on the ground in pain dry number.

In a panic, we slipped into a nearby alley, and then our hearts turned cold. This is the alley where we stole the iron. It is a dead end, and the end is the end. Since the Public Security Bureau cracked down on the theft gang, the fence here has been raised. double, and filled every wall with glass shards.

I, Mingming and Xiao Ning stood with our backs to the wall, staring at the entrance of the alley, our minds went blank.Xiao Ning wiped his mouth and said, "We fought with them today, and took out bricks!" We turned around and pulled out a few green bricks from the old wall, knocked each other to reveal the sharp edges, and Xiao Ning held the bricks in his hand and said, "Later Let's fight Er Paozi alone, Xiao Yu, hug his legs and block the others for me, even if I bite him today, I will kill him."

What happened that day has become the most unforgettable memory in my life. To this day, I am afraid of seeing blood on the side of the road. The red color seeping into the soil makes the pictures stored in my mind as clear as embroidery in an instant. The sticks on the wall of the detention center are more frightening, more tense than the girl's spread body, more painful than the coffins of relatives, they are hibernating in my heart, always in a casual place, at a casual moment It spread suddenly, making people sick and helpless.

Amid the screams, we leaned over and sprinted for ten meters, bumping into Er Paozi's body in two up and down directions.Er Paozi got up, but I firmly pressed his legs again. Xiao Ning pressed Er Paozi's neck with one hand, and continued to beat his head with the other until his limbs became limp and he stopped struggling.The surrounding fists, shoe soles, and steel pipes hit me like raindrops. I yelled, picked up the bricks on the ground, got up, and joined Mingming's battle group. A crazy lion.

Niu Ye's gang stopped fighting, took a few steps back in unison, and stared dumbfounded at what happened in front of them: Er Paozi, who had passed out, was on all fours, his face was bloody, and his facial features could no longer be distinguished.Xiao Ning knelt on the ground, lifted wet red bricks like a madman, and beat Erpaozi's elbows, knees and other joints. People, tell you to beat people..."

The police appeared in the alley, grabbed our hands one by one, and staggered us out of the alley.Workers are crowded with passers-by.

Obviously he was the most seriously injured among the three of us. He was hit on the head by a steel rod. The wounds on his chest and right arm combined required more than 70 stitches, leaving many scars that would last forever; I was also broken Erpaozi's army stabbed two centimeters into his head and left thigh; Xiao Ning broke a finger; Hou Lizi broke two ribs.

Er Paozi was the main injured person in the Niu Ye gang. He lost one eye, shattered a testicle, disfigured his face, lost his hearing in both ears, and suffered comminuted fractures of his right arm joint and left knee. In short, he became the most famous disabled person in the southern suburbs of Niucheng.Two years later, his father spent money to help him buy a high school diploma, helped him set up a shed on the bank of the Liuli River, and helped people in several nearby villages repair bicycles with one hand and one foot.

Two months later, Mingming and I came out of the detention center, and our family members lined up in front of the van. At that time, we already knew that Xiao Ning was serving his sentence. With Niu Ye helping several children to testify, he was arrested for serious injury. Sentenced to four years.Mingming and I went together to kneel down in front of Mama Ning according to what the family had discussed before. Mama Ning burst into tears instantly, stretched out her hand to support us, and said, "Get up, son, why are you kneeling?" We dare not get up, Papa Ming Said: "Why are you in a daze, call me!" Mingming and I raised our heads and said: "Godmother." Ming's father grabbed Ning's mother and said: "Sister and sister, from today onwards, these two are your own sons, you should fight if you want If you want to scold me, scold me." Yu's father said, "Remember to be filial to your godmother from now on, do you hear me?" Mingming and I nodded, and Ning's mother wiped away her tears, smiled, and said, "Okay, okay, be good , all get up."

On the back seat of the van, Xiaoyue squeezed next to Mama Ning and said, "Auntie, can I call you godmother in the future?" Mama Ming and Mama Yu laughed, Mama Ning hugged her to her lap and said, "Of course I can. , you are my daughter too."

On the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when "Jiaguo Hotel" opened, Ming's father brought his daughter to the store early in the morning, blew up hundreds of balloons, and hung them in every corner of the restaurant and guest rooms.At noon, Papa Yu and Papa Ming, wearing suits and ties, stood on the side of the road to greet the old workers and leaders who came to congratulate them. Soon, the reception area was full of people.After the dried fruit and cold dishes were served, Mama Ning, Mama Ming, and Mama Yu stood on the podium as representatives of the hotel management, wearing red flowers on their chests, and spoke on the podium. While eating melon seeds, he shouted at Yu's father: "Guo Lao Si, your wife is the manager, so what kind of official are you here?" Yu's father said impatiently: "I have no official!" The middle-aged woman shouted: "You are so lucky!" Alright, fourth child, we can eat soft food again." Everyone laughed again.

Ming's father ran to the car, held the hand of the leader wearing glasses and said, "Why are you here?" The leader wearing glasses smiled and said, "It was your sister-in-law who informed me to come. When I passed by here yesterday, she and two other The lesbians took us in for a tour. Okay, Lao Guo, you are awesome. You have such a big career and hired so many laid-off workers. You are simply a big star in our Niucheng! I have reported the situation to the district here, and let them support you as a model entrepreneurial unit in the future. If you need anything in the future, just mention it. The leaders in the district will do their best to support you, and I will support you. No, I will support you. I’ll bring them here today to eat with you.” Ming’s father grinned foolishly, and he turned his head and shouted to the back: “Mom Mingming, stop talking now, move that big table out, and the leader will come and see it again. Here we come."

After the female managers finished their speeches, the ceremony reached its climax. The waiters in white coats lined up with hot dishes and walked out of the hotel entrance. Mingming and I lit [-] firecrackers on the roof of the second floor. Standing up next to him, staring at the firecrackers with a smirk.

Looking at the long Liuli River and the villages beside it, Mingming said quietly: "Xiaoyu, what do you think this place will look like in ten years? Will it be the same as the city?" Ten years or so, you can see that many places along the coast have started to build buildings. In five or six years, everyone in our village can live in buildings. At that time, we will be real city dwellers.” “City dwellers So what?" He turned his head and said, "I just look down on the city people here, I agree with your dad on this point, in the whole Niucheng, where are there any city people? I’m still from a small place.” I said, “Well, a small place is a small place, I really like it.” He looked into the distance again and said, “I don’t like it, I’m going to Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing in the future These places. Beijing is so big that you can’t even imagine it. That’s called a city. Niucheng? Forget it. You’ve heard of it too. So what? A small place will always be a small place, and a small place can’t keep the things of Niu X.” I said, “If we want to go out, we have to go to college. Because of what happened a while ago, now the entire Niucheng, except the Tenth Middle School, No one dares to ask us, do you think a well-known crappy school like Tenth Middle School can be admitted to university?" Mingming said: "I have to go to Beijing if I can't pass the university entrance exam, I don't want to stay here anyway. Hey, when the time comes we Let's go together, and Xiao Ning, as long as the three of us are together, we can get along well anywhere."

I stopped talking and continued to stare into the distance with him.The people eating downstairs became more and more lively, Ming's mother called our names over and over again, I patted Mingming on the shoulder, stood up and glanced at the clouds in the sky, and walked towards the stairs.

(This article was originally called "Once Upon a Time in Niucheng")
He lost for more than 20 years, but he won so thoroughly once.None of this has anything to do with fate, it’s just a matter of human nature. Once the treasures become smart, few people will be their opponents anymore, because they have things that we have never had or dare not have.

(End of this chapter)