In 1991, a poor boy in order to study ran to the power plant to steal cables, at that time the copper in the cables was particularly valuable, he wanted to sell money to make up for 320 yuan of tuition and miscellaneous fees, stole several times in a row, stole more than 200 catties, but once, he met his father on the way, an honest old farmer, carrying two chickens was going to the town market to exchange a few dollars for the New Year.

After the farmer figured out that his son had stolen something, he dragged him back to return the cable.

His son cried and said, "I want to study, what will happen to my tuition?"

The cable was never returned.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, the matter was somehow known to the local police station, and several policemen rushed into the farmer's house and detained the two men to the ground.

At night, the whole police station is filled with the fragrance of stewed chicken, and the elder wears a big-brimmed hat and holds a fat chicken leg in his hand, nibbling left and right, looking majestic and solemn, very dictatorial.

The peasant was handcuffed to the railing by the wall, his clothes were torn, his body was stained with blood, and he lay on the ground and groaned, saying, "I did it, and you let my son go." ”

His son stood by, too frightened to speak.

The director picked his teeth and asked him, "How old are you?"

The son replied, "15 years old, student." ”

The director patted his head with his oily hand: "Little rabbit, don't learn from your father, grow up to be a good person!"

In the summer of 1992, Zhang Yunqi, who was reborn from the afterlife, had just graduated from junior high school and scored first in the county in the high school entrance examination. In addition to the guilt of his father Zhang Liushun's life, he still remembers that in the bungalow with the smell of stewed chicken, he took the first ethics lesson in his life: be a good person!

Twenty-six years have passed since this past, but he still remembers the scene vividly.

On the day of the accident, the eldest brother went to the city to send New Year's dishes to the eldest sister's house, and the mother took the two younger sisters to the family in her mother's house, and in the second half of the night, she panicked and took the 46 yuan borrowed from everywhere to the police station, and led herself out.

He cried, he told his mother the truth, and his mother, who had always been grumpy, did not scold him, saying, "This has nothing to do with you, and don't tell anyone else." Remember, it's your dad who stole it!"

Poverty leads men to sin, women to depravity, and children to darkness. In the days and nights that followed, Zhang Yunqi often remembered this sentence. Yes, he was the one who stole the cables, but Dad took the blame for him. Because of 200 catties of cables, his father was sentenced to two years and four months, which is rare in later generations, but in that special historical period of chaos and crackdown, such a tragedy did indeed happen to his father.

This is the pain and regret of Zhang Yunqi's life.

He doesn't regret stealing cables, when a person is so poor that he has no way out, when a poor sour boy who is desperate to change his fate through knowledge can't afford to read, there is no reason to do anything, he just hates the cowardly and incompetent self in his previous life, and he doesn't have the courage to pay for his mistakes.

Now, after 26 years, looking at his gray-haired father, Zhang Yunqi waited for the surging tears to flow into his stomach through the nostril tube before he said, "Dad, how are you doing in there?"

Zhang's father said: "I'm okay, it's easier to do some simple manual work in it, son, why are you here alone, your mother and eldest brother?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "Big brother and Chunlan Xiaoxiao didn't know that I came to see you, but my mother knew that the prison visit was arranged for me by Zhang Haijun's brother-in-law Ji Chong, who was the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Dad, now the family is doing very well, I sold flue-cured tobacco with my eldest brother for more than two months during the summer vacation, and made a lot of money, my eldest brother bought a new tractor, and now he is engaged in transportation, and he has an income of dozens of yuan every day, and the debts of his mother's surgery have been paid off, she is now in good health, and the eldest sister gave birth two months ago and gave birth to a male doll. ”

"That's good, that's good. Dad Zhang nodded happily, and then he thought of something, and said a little nervously: "Son, you dropped out of school at the beginning of the year?"

"No, my mother later borrowed money from my uncle to make up enough for tuition. ”

"Your uncle is willing to borrow money?"

"My mother begged him at the door of his house for a day, and then said that he would pay him three times the principal when he sold the flue-cured tobacco. ”

Dad Zhang was silent for a while and said, "Son, how are your high school entrance examination results?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "No. 1 in the county. ”

Zhang Liushun kept nodding: "Okay! Very competitive, very competitive!"

Zhang Yunqi said: "Dad, before the high school entrance examination, I filled in the secondary school in the provincial capital, but the leaders of the first middle school in the city wanted me to go to their school, and I also wanted to study in high school, and the road will be wider in the future, so I agreed. ”

Dad Zhang asked, "Then you can be admitted to college, right?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "I must be able to!"

He was silent for a long time, and said word by word: "Study economics, don't come back to be a farmer." ”

Zhang Yunqi said: "Okay, study economics!"

At this time, the prison guard next to him said that the visit time was almost over.

Zhang Yunqi immediately stood up, watching the prison guards handcuff and leg cuffs to Zhang's father, Zhang's father got up and prepared to leave the prison visitation room, Zhang Yunqi couldn't help it, and said, "Dad, I will find a way to let you come out early." ”

Dad Zhang stopped, looked at his son, and was silent for a while before saying: "I'm fine in it, I'll come out in two years, son, if you do something wrong, don't always blame yourself, let alone others, correct it well, study hard, work hard to be admitted to university, and strive to be a useful person to the country in the future." ”

Zhang Yunqi nodded heavily.

Zhang's father turned to leave.

In the prison visitation room, Zhang Yunqi watched the rickety figure leave, and when the figure completely disappeared, tears moistened his face in an instant.

I don't know how long it took before he reached out to wipe away his tears and strode out of the Guiping County Prison.

At this time, there was a singing voice on the radio of Guiping County Prison: "Forget grievances, leave the truth and start over, accompany the lights of thousands of homes in the world, there are not many stories, just like an ordinary song, the past and the future are considered together." ”

Volume 1: The Epilogue of the Age

[Testimonials at the end of the volume]

In a person's life, there will always be some mistakes, some mistakes may not be important, but some mistakes make us regret for life, missed girls, done stupid things, those young and frivolous in youth are full of regret and unwillingness, but let us never forget.

When I was writing this episode, I kept thinking about a friend when I was a child, he had a bad problem with petty theft, and once stole one of my tape recorders, but his parents at home did not give him a good education, and this bad habit has not been changed, and later, I remember that when I was in my third year of high school, one day my brother called me and said that my friend died, and he was riding a motorcycle to grab a passerby's bag, because the speed was too fast, and he was hit and killed by a big truck.

That year, he was seventeen years old.

Similarly, Zhang Yunqi also made a mistake that made him regret it for the rest of his life at an age of less and no more, but the prodigal son did not change his money, he had the determination to change, and rebirth also gave him a chance to change. The next volume, the king of Jiangchuan passers-by. Let's take a look at how Zhang Yunqi struggled hard for his mistakes!

See you in the next volume.