Chapter 125: Turning Back to the Shore
Sister Xiaoru came out of the 'Happy Garden' and led the iron egg in the direction of grandma's house, and grandma asked her to go home and get something.
When he walked to the door of the house, the sharp-eyed Tie Dan said, "Mom, is it the thief standing at the entrance of the village?"
Sister Xiaoru was thinking about things in her heart, and she didn't notice the figure in front of her, but when she looked up carefully, she knew that it must be him, so she said to Tie Dan: "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”
The boy was the thief Xiaoyu who Sister Xiaoru caught and brought back at Zhengzhou Station, and it has been more than half a year since she sneaked away.
Xiaoyu looked at the slightly bare mountain, he was in a daze, and his heart was also in chaos, he didn't know if he really wanted to come back here, and he hadn't made up his mind yet.
Even when there were already two people standing behind him, one big and one small, he didn't pay attention, and his eyes never left the distance.
Sister Xiaoru motioned to Tie Dan not to speak, and the two of them stood quietly half a meter behind Xiaoyu.
When Xiaoyu decided to go back to the 'Happy Garden', he turned around and almost hit two people, hurriedly stopped his body preparing to move forward, and then saw the two people standing in front of him, and immediately panicked, and stammered: "Ah, Ah, Ah, Auntie, sister, sister, sister." ”
He never imagined that at such a time and place, he would meet the tigress who had shouted so many times in his heart.
In the three days he lived at home, he quickly saw things at home clearly, only to hear the children call her Sister Xiaoru, and today I was nervous and almost called my aunt like the first time, but I still changed my voice in a panic.
Sister Xiaoru said calmly: "Aren't you quite sharp-toothed? Why are you still stuttering today?"
Xiaoyu glanced at Sister Xiaoru, glanced at the iron egg again, and slowly lowered her head.
Sister Xiaoru saw the thick bandage on his hand, hanging from the triangular scarf on his chest like a wounded soldier, and asked, "Why are you injured? Didn't you run away? Why did you come back again?"
After a series of questions, Xiaoyu just bowed her head and didn't say anything, and she didn't look up.
Sister Xiaoru saw that he was silent, knowing that he must have suffered some grievances or beaten by someone, and there was a story behind it, so she thought about it and said: "If you come back voluntarily this time, then you will obediently go home with me, if you still want to run, then where did you come from, you are not welcome here." ”
Xiaoyu, who lowered his head, did not say anything.
Sister Xiaoru still didn't react when she saw him, so she pulled the iron egg and walked back, and after walking a few steps, the iron egg looked back, but Xiaoyu still lowered her head and didn't move.
After walking for more than a dozen steps, when Tie Dan turned back again, Xiaoyu slowly followed with staggering steps.
In the garden, the children are all in the classroom for classes and activities, and there are several elderly people talking in the cafeteria, and Daji squats at the door of the classroom, waiting for the children to come out to play with it.
Sister Xiaoru led Tie Dan into the restaurant, and Tie Dan said that I would go to class and run away.
Sister Xiaoru said to her grandparents: "Xiaoyu is back. ”
The grandparents didn't react for a while, and Sister Xiaoru said again: "It's the child I brought back from the station." ”
Grandpa and grandma suddenly realized, and grandpa asked, "Where is it?"
At this time, Xiaoyu slowly appeared at the gate of the 'Happy Garden', saw that there was no one in the garden, and stood there with his head down.
Daji saw the light rain at the door, so he got up and ran towards him, and after seeing him for a few days, he knew that it was his own person.
When the grandfather saw it, he hurriedly walked out, and said, "Why is the child injured?" followed by Uncle Ball.
Grandpa didn't know what to say to Xiaoyu at the door, Xiaoyu nodded and let grandpa pull him into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, his grandfather said, "Hurry up and warm up, and run around with injuries on your body, and tell grandpa what is going on in a while." ”
Grandma Tie Dan was the closest, so she handed a small bench behind Xiaoyu and said, "Sit down, kid." ”
Before Xiaoyu sat down, she looked up and saw Uncle Ball, and her left hand went to her neck to pull something out.
A crimson rope was pulled out by him, and there was a crystal clear round jade plaque hanging underneath, about the size of a walnut, and the carved pattern on it was not clear.
He walked up to Uncle Piqiu with a shy face: "Uncle, this is yours, return it to you." ”
Uncle Piqiu pretended to be angry and said, "You stinky boy, do you know or not, I thought I would never find the only thought left to me by my father and mother, and it made me sad for several days." ”
Xiaoyu whispered, "Uncle, I'm sorry." ”
Uncle Piqiu played with the jade card in his hand a few times, and said, "You came back voluntarily this time?
Xiaoyu said: "I came back by myself, I won't run away, and I will make this place my home in the future." ”
Grandpa said, "You're so old, you don't have any relatives at home?" Xiaoyu shook his head.
Uncle Piqiu looked at the jade plate in his hand, as if talking to himself, and seemed to say to Xiaoyu: "Since you like it and don't leave, Uncle will give you this family heirloom jade plate, you can protect it." As he spoke, he walked over, tiptoed and hung the jade plaque around Xiaoyu's neck, and stuffed it into his neck.
Uncle Piqiu said while doing it: "Stinky boy, it's right for you to come back, everything you did before is gone, and everything starts again when you come to our house." ”
Grandpa said next to him: "Look at how good your uncle said, everything is new from now on, and old accounts are no longer allowed to be mentioned." ”
Xiaoyu looked at Uncle Piqiu and Grandpa gratefully, and crystal tears were rolling in her eyes.
Grandma hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, the child has walked all the way, he must be tired, sit down first, and if you have anything to say, let's go back for a long time." ”
In the afternoon, Xiaoyu took the initiative to tell her family everything:
Xiaoyu's family is in a town in Anhui, his father and mother are from the countryside, selling baked cakes in the town market for a living, I don't know where my grandparents and grandparents' house are since I was a child, only a distant uncle comes to the house for a year and a half, but every time my mother is unhappy, the two people will quarrel, my father is short-tempered and loves to drink, as long as he drinks alcohol, he will take Xiaoyu's mother out of anger.
The craftsmanship of the two people is good, and they can earn a lot of money in a month, but they can't save money, and their father will eat and drink a lot of money when he has a little money in his hand, and he doesn't care about Xiaoyu's mother's kind words and persuasion, and if he talks too much, he will attract a punch and kick from his father, and his mother will be bruised all over her body and begging for mercy before she stops.
The next day, I still have to get up early and return late to do business. Mother hugged Xiaoyu more than once and said If it weren't for you, my mother would have wanted to die a long time ago, and this is not a human life.
Such days lasted until Xiaoyu was nine years old, when Xiaoyu, who was already studying, came home from school in the afternoon, he saw a police car parked in front of his house, who knew that as soon as the neighbor saw him coming back, he said to the police: The children of this family are back.
Xiaoyu was stopped outside the door and didn't even let the house in, the police took Xiaoyu into the car, and when she saw her parents again, she was at the funeral home, Xiaoyu passed out crying, and she became an orphan.
The police later told Xiaoyu that his father was drinking at noon that day, but his mother did not dare to stop him, and when Xiaoyu left school, he saw that his father was still drinking, so he prepared to go out at night. I was almost a baked cake, and I didn't know what my mother said, which caused my father to be furious, and the neighbors heard a burst of punching, kicking, and crying.
After more than an hour, the neighbors felt that they should go out of the stall, why didn't there be any movement, and the neighbors who set up the stall together shouted twice, but no one answered, the door was not closed, and when they went in, they ran out with a "mom" sound.
The police also told Xiaoyu that her mother hanged herself, and her father also chose to hang herself out of self-blame and remorse, and both husband and wife died.
Xiaoyu lived in the town's shelter for more than a month, and his distant uncle picked him up.
After his uncle told him that they were thieves stealing everywhere, Xiaoyu said that he would not do anything, and he chose to resist resolutely with a clear conscience, and clamored for the recovery of the shelter.
It was what his uncle told that completely broke his last line of defense.
Uncle told Xiaoyu: Do you know? Your father used to be in our group, and I was brought into this business by him, and we have long since cut off all contact with our family, which is why you can't see your grandparents, and your father has been in prison twice. Your mother was deceived by your father's rhetoric, although she later found out, so she persuaded your father to wash his hands. Say that you will not steal again in the future, and follow your father with all your heart. Your mother said that she can make baked cakes and can set up a baked cake stall to feed the family.
Your father agreed, but then he always regretted it, he was not used to that kind of poor life, and he often quarreled for this, your father beat your mother drunk, but he still loved your mother deeply, otherwise he would not have gone with your mother.
Xiaoyu was completely dumbfounded, it turned out that this was the case, he no longer had the courage to resist his uncle. He slowly accepted the training and teachings of his uncle, and learned how to turn the money and things in other people's pockets into money and things in his own pocket.
There are six people in their gang, four adults, two children, and the other is the own son of one of the members, his name is Dongdong, and his mother has long left their grandfather.
Their gang often rotated locations, and also agreed to get separated or arrested, so they went to a few places where they would often go to find them or wait for them.
They are often active at train stations, bus stations, and large shopping malls. Almost all of them are large cities in the north.
Uncle also taught him how to pretend to be pitiful, how to steer the rudder when the wind blows, how to observe words and feelings, and how to win the sympathy of others and flee.
As the saying goes, there is no one who walks by the river without getting his shoes wet, and he has been arrested many times, and some have been arrested by the victims, just like Sister Xiaoru arrested him that time, and he was arrested by the plainclothes police, but every time he is either educated or sent to the shelter, it has become his daily routine.
Xiaoyu is also becoming more and more skilled and old, and gradually becomes the main force, and several puppets read and praise Xiaoyu is a natural thief. But when Xiaoyu heard these words, she had another idea in her heart.
I have been a thief for almost four years unconsciously, and I am thirteen years old, Xiaoyu thought: Do I really want to be a thief for the rest of my life?
Zhengzhou Station was once planted in the hands of Sister Xiaoru, that time he was held high in the air by Sister Xiaoru, thinking that this time it was really over, and he had to fall half to death, so he was really scared and cried, and almost peed his pants.