Chapter 3 Reasons for Leaving Home
Hao Caiyun came to Beijing to start drifting in Beijing in 2005 with Zhang Guihua from the same village.
In the past, she only knew how to farm, cook, and take care of her husband and children in the village.
She grew up on the grassland and had a cheerful personality. When she married Wu Xiongfei, she was also because of her parents' orders. If she had known that Wu Xiongfei was a coward, she would not have married her to fight with her mother-in-law and father-in-law every day.
The mother-in-law eventually fell ill in bed due to illness. As the eldest daughter-in-law, she took care of her mother-in-law without grudges until the last moment of her life.
But because the news of her mother-in-law's death did not tell her eldest son who was preparing for the high school entrance examination, her relationship with her eldest son quickly deteriorated.
Of course, she dared to admit now that when she was young, she had a little temper. She would beat the child if she had a disagreement.
The night before her eldest son Wu Yong ran away from home, she slapped Wu Yong with a belt because of the fight with her classmates at school.
Wu Yong seemed to follow her, and had a very tough temper, but he just refused to bow his head and admit his mistake.
She was angry and stopped, and the belt was cracked.
On the night when Wu Yong was beaten, he ran to the grave in the wilderness alone, and grandma shouted in the middle of the night.
Wu Yong left a note and told his family not to look for him, so he disappeared with more than 200 yuan in the drawer.
Hao Caiyun was very angry at first and thought Wu Yong was simply unfilial! Later, after calling the police, he learned that if the child was unwilling to come back, he would basically not be able to find his whereabouts.
At that time, let alone the village, there were few cameras installed in the county town. If you want to find a child who ran away from home, where can you find it?!
Hao Caiyun started to regret crying and blamed Wu Xiongfei for not stopping her when she beat the child.
After such a riot, my father-in-law, who was immersed in the sadness of her mother-in-law's death, learned the news of her eldest grandson's loss. He ran to Hao Caiyun's house, scolded her, and gave her a firm slap when she was excited.
Throughout the whole process, Wu Xiongfei, as her husband, squatted at the door to smoke dry cigarettes, and he was really impartial and no one helped.
Before Hao Caiyun got married, she was the youngest sister in the family. Her parents had never moved a hair, let alone shave her ears.
Facing her father-in-law who was unwilling to make trouble every day and her cowardly husband, Hao Caiyun packed up her clothes and led her youngest son back to her parents' home.
Hao Caiyun's parents are old and need someone to take care of them. Now they are living in their son's house and let their daughter-in-law take care of them.
When Hao Caiyun first took his youngest son back to his parents' home, his sister-in-law was so enthusiastic that she made delicious food every day. She also patiently persuaded the eldest son to run away from home and comforted Hao Caiyun. Maybe the child would come back by himself if he missed home in a few days.
But after living in her parents' home for a long time, not to mention that her sister-in-law's face has been getting longer and longer, even her own parents have been persuading her to be almost the same. She has already gotten married and always has to go back to her husband's house to live a good life.
Hao Caiyun couldn't stay at her parents' home, so she had to take her youngest son back.
Her actions of returning to her parents' home did not have any impact on her father-in-law and remained in constant trouble.
Because the crops in the field were about to be harvested, Hao Caiyun endured the autumn harvest and finally broke into a fight with his father-in-law.
Since then, my father-in-law has not come to her house to make trouble, so he has stood at the entrance of the village and cursed the streets. He said that she was a star of the demise and a debt collector who criticized her mother-in-law and her children.
Zhang Guihua, the village is in love with her, gave her an idea and asked her to go to the old charlatan from the next village to calculate and see if she could find the whereabouts of her eldest son Wu Yong.
As long as the child can be retrieved, her father-in-law will calm down and no longer find fault and scold the streets.
Hao Caiyun originally didn't believe this, but at first he refused Zhang Guihua's proposal. Later, he always had nightmares at night, dreaming that his eldest son Wu Yong had no food to eat and went to steal buns and was beaten with blood on his face.
Hao Caiyun couldn't stand the torment in her heart, so she chose to go to the next village to take a look.
The old charlatan in the village next door twisted a goatee's beard with his fingers. After hearing Hao Caiyun talk about the causes and consequences of the child's loss, he stuffed three copper coins in her hand.
Hao Caiyun took it in his hand and looked at it. Qianlong Tongbao was written on the copper coin.
Following the guidance of the old charlatan, he held the copper coins in his palm and shook them, letting them go on the kang table. He shook them three times in total, and the old charlatan squinted his eyes and looked at them three times.
Hao Caiyun paid 200 yuan in the hexagram, and the old charlatan said: Go to the north to find it, the child is heading to the big city to the north.
You know, the 200 yuan at that time was worth so much. Hao Caiyun felt distressed for several days because of this. He secretly decided that if he couldn't find Wu Yong, he would come back and smash the old man's stall.
In a big city, Hao Caiyun only knows about Beijing.
The youngest son was going to leave before the Spring Festival, but his youngest son was sick. Hao Caiyun accompanied his youngest son Wu Ye to hang a drip in the township health center for a few days, and he felt very sad about Wu Ye's dependence on him.
Whether Wu Yong or Wu Ye, they are all the flesh and blood born from her, Hao Caiyun, who was pregnant for ten months. The eldest son was wandering, so she had to look for him. The younger son was crying and she couldn't rest assured.
Even if you are reluctant to leave, you will eventually make a decision.
After the Spring Festival, Hao Caiyun and Zhang Guihua from the same village came to Beijing by train.
At the beginning, the two of them found a housekeeping company from the small advertisement for the telephone pole and planned to be a nanny. When they wanted to be a nanny, they would clean, cook, take care of their children, etc.
As a result, the housekeeping company was a liar. He cheated almost all of his belongings on the grounds of training fees and clothing fees.
Hao Caiyun and the other two slept on the street, worked as dishwasher and cleaner. They chased passers-by and sent flyers, but were chased by sanitation workers and posted small advertisements.
In order to stay in Beijing, Hao Caiyun had the opportunity to find a son. Zhang Guihua wanted to stay in Beijing to avoid her husband who was drunk all day long.
No matter how difficult it was outside, Hao Caiyun never thought of going back. Because when she left home, she had sworn to her irritating father-in-law that she would never go back if she didn't find her son.
Over the years, she often sent things to her family. Some were for her younger son Wu Ye, some were for her husband and father-in-law, and some were for her younger brother-in-law's family.
The eldest niece Wu Min suddenly came to join her. Hao Caiyun was upset, thinking about whether it was the food she sent back, which made her brother-in-law think she was doing well?!
It takes only twenty minutes to ride a bicycle from Dongguantou to Liuliqiao.
Hao Caiyun rode his bicycle towards Liuli Bridge in the cool breeze.
On the way, she recalled her niece's appearance eight years ago and had two braids on her head. She didn't know what she looked like now at 18 years old.
Then I naturally thought of my eldest son Wu Yong, who was only 16 years old when he ran away from home. Now he should be a 24-year-old man!
If, still alive.
I don’t know if it was the wind too cold or the mood swings, but Hao Caiyun couldn’t see the road ahead clearly. His eyes were a little red and a little wet.
Turn in from the blue sign at the intersection of Liuliqiao Passenger Station, and you can see the newspaper booth on the side of the road at a glance.
There is a gray telephone pole next to the newspaper booth with two small advertisements posted on it.
The white paper of the revelation of the child was posted on a two-meter high position, which Hao Caiyun borrowed from the newspaper booth before and stepped on it.
The sanitation worker always cleans up with a small shovel, so she simply put it higher, so that the sanitation worker would give up.
A black and white photo was printed on the Revelation of the Son, which was brought by Hao Caiyun from his hometown, the only thing used to commemorate and recall.
In the photo, Hao Caiyun and her husband Wu Xiongfei were sitting on a chair, holding their younger son Wu Ye in their arms. The little boy standing beside Wu Xiongfei with a red face is his eldest son Wu Yong.
Chapter completed!