"When the time comes, we will be together every day and never separate!" This sentence still echoed in my ears as if it had been yesterday, and the next time I saw the person who spoke was three months later, Zeng Bixian had gone through a lot of hardships to see a prisoner undergoing labor reform in Shayang Farm Prison in Jingmen, Hubei Province.

Sitting in the interview room of the prison, Zeng Bixian and Huang Cheng's grandmother anxiously waited for the familiar figure to appear from the small door behind the wooden fence, Zeng Bixian kept tears streaming down her face, she never dreamed that things would develop into such a situation, that night Huang Cheng promised not to leave him, Zeng Bixian completely believed Huang Cheng's words, after some warmth, Zeng Bixian quickly fell asleep, and when she woke up, there was no Huang Cheng around, Zeng Bixian didn't think much about it, because to prepare for returning to the army, Huang Cheng must be very busy.

Unexpectedly, while Zeng Bixian was asleep, Huang Cheng still came to the door of the Red Star Hotel at ten o'clock in the evening as promised, through the glass on the wooden door of the hostel, Huang Cheng saw the "big wave" Ni Qingxia holding a cigarette in her mouth, looking at herself with a blurred eyes, as if she expected that she would definitely come, the corners of her mouth were lightly raised, and she smiled secretly. Pushing the door into the hostel, "Big Wave" led Huang Cheng to the innermost room on the second floor, and before he reached the door, he heard bursts of scolding from the room.

"Slut, hurry up and get two more bottles of wine for Lao Tzu, fuck, quickly bring wine to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is not happy, you don't want to be happy!"

The sound of a wine glass hitting the ground made Huang Cheng and the "big wave" outside the door stunned, and Huang Cheng frowned,

"Ni Qingxia, what do you want me to do?"

"This kind of brute doesn't have to reason with him, just like before, beat him up, and you don't care about the rest!"

Huang Cheng never thought that he just didn't want this kind of scum to harass Zeng Bixian, so he entered the room and gave the half-drunk person in front of him a little lesson, never thought that such a tall man, five big and three thick big man would die violently in the guest room on the second floor of the Red Star Hotel the next day.

A week after Huang Cheng returned to the army, he was escorted into a jeep by two people from the public security bureau from the liberation car used to learn auto repair, and directly detained in the second city watch, and it was here that Huang Cheng knew that the so-called "big wave" goduncle had died violently in the hotel, and from the injuries on the deceased's body, plus the signs of fighting in the hotel room, and the report of the hotel neighbors, Huang Cheng was charged with premeditated murder. A month later, after the efforts of Huang Cheng's father and the investigation and evidence collection of the local police, it was found that the deceased was not violent to death, but gas poisoning, Huang Cheng was not convicted of intentional murder, but the suspicion of fighting could not be washed away, and he was finally sentenced to three years in prison.

By the time Zeng Bixian knew all this, it was Labor Day two months later, because Huang Cheng's mother and grandmother left Huanggang and returned to Wuhan shortly after Huang Cheng joined the army, which made Zeng Bixian unable to inquire about Huang Cheng's evaporation after returning to the army. Zeng Bixian, who had not received a letter for more than two months, couldn't help but go to Wuhan to visit Huang Cheng's grandmother and mother during the May Day holiday, and inquired about Huang Cheng's news by the way, but she didn't expect to hear that Huang Cheng was now serving a sentence in Shayang Farm Prison after Zeng Bixian fainted on the spot, and when she woke up, she was already lying on the intensive care bed in the Army General Hospital, Huang Cheng's father notified Zeng Bixian's mother to come to the hospital to pick up Zeng Bixian home, Teacher Zeng didn't say anything, and silently returned to Huanggang with the weak Zeng Bixian, Zeng Bixian didn't know what happened in the hospital, only knew that her mother and Huang Cheng's father's face was very ugly, Zeng Bixian was very scared and didn't say a word, The mother when she was expressionless, from childhood to adulthood, such a mother is more terrible than a mother who is full of nagging and chattering, her look of disgust makes her embarrassed, and her disdainful demeanor makes her ashamed.

When I returned home, my mother handed Zeng Bixian a yellow medical record book, and on the first page of the medical record, the words early pregnancy after the diagnosis were written in cursive pen pen, like a thunderstorm on the ground exploded in Zeng Bixian's mind, the postponement of her menstrual period has always been considered an endocrine disorder, I didn't expect that there was already Huang Cheng's flesh and blood in the stomach, this child came at an inopportune time, but I met Huang Cheng's accident at such a juncture, I thought that Huang Cheng's family already knew about it, maybe it was because of this that my mother lost face in front of Huang Cheng's father, Zeng Bixian looked at her mother with shame,

"Xiaoxian, what do you want to do with this matter? It's still early, hurry up and go to the hospital for an abortion, you are a teacher, you can't make our family a joke at school because of this incident!"

"Mom, I'll take care of this when I'm done teaching this graduating class, and I'm not going to make our family a joke for the school!"

Zeng Bixian did not stay at her mother's house that night, but returned to her single dormitory and cried alone until dawn. More than a month later, after the graduation examination of the four graduating classes was over, as soon as the graduation ceremony ended, Zeng Bixian took simple luggage and all her savings and went to Wuhan without hesitation, she had already asked her grandmother to take her to the prison to see Huang Cheng, she must tell Huang Cheng that she would wait for him to come out in Wuhan, and wait for him to come out with their children.

In the meeting room, Zeng Bixian finally saw Huang Cheng with sunken cheeks and a haggard expression, Huang Cheng in prison clothes was obviously a lot thinner, Zeng Bixian was very distressed in her eyes, tears burst out of her eyes, all blamed on the night of the accident, she fell asleep heartlessly, if she was awake and kept Huang Cheng, it would not have happened, Huang Cheng's accident was completely to protect herself, Zeng Bixian thought about it and felt that she was simply the culprit, the initiator of ruining Huang Cheng's good future, when she thought of this, tears flowed down uncontrollably, and when she saw Zeng Bixian who kept wiping tears next to her grandmother, Huang Cheng was stunned at first, and then sat down indifferently on the seat behind the wooden fence,

"Bixian, don't cry, I don't know what to say when you cry!"

"Huang Cheng, why have you been hiding it from me, it's not that I found Wuhan, I don't know about it!"

"What's in it for you to know, doesn't it just make you sad?"

"Then you know it will make me sad, why did you go to the Red Star Hotel that night, just because Ni Qingxia said that her goduncle was going to bully me, don't you think she was lying to you from the beginning? She just wanted to borrow your hand to help her get rid of the person who always blackmailed her. ”

"It's too late to say this now, it's already happened, Bixian, listen to me, you're not young now, I know that there are many outstanding young people out there who are pursuing you, don't delay me for three years, people like me are not worth it!"

As soon as she heard this, Zeng Bixian, who had just stopped her tears, burst into tears again.

"Huang Cheng, you know that it is impossible for me to marry anyone else except you in this life, so don't say such things to hurt me! Whether it is three years or thirty years, I will wait for you!"

"Bi Xian, life is very long, I can't be so selfish, I think about it a lot, if you stay with me after I go out, it will only make you unable to hold your head up in front of others for the rest of your life, I don't deserve you to wait for me!"

"Huang Cheng, you are indeed very selfish, you want to be a good person, do you want me to remember you for the rest of your life? But have you ever thought about what is the point of me holding my head high without you? You have come to this point for me, whether you want to or not, I will wait for you to come out, wait for you to come out and marry me, wait for you to come out and take me and our children away to fly away, to live in a place where no one knows us. ”

Huang Cheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but look at Zeng Bixian's abdomen, the slightly bulging abdomen surprised Huang Cheng, and the days and nights that lingered with Zeng Bixian during the family leave were like images in Huang Cheng's mind, but he didn't expect a new life to be quietly conceived in Zeng Bixian's belly, Huang Cheng was surprised and had nothing to say,

Grandma quietly wiped her tears on the side, and couldn't hold back anymore at this time,

"Xiao Cheng, transform well, strive to come out as soon as possible, I will take good care of Teacher Xiao Zeng's future affairs, you don't have to worry, we are all waiting for you to come out, you don't have any messy ideas, there is still a long way to go." Your aunt will come to see you next month, and she said that when you come out, she wants you to go to Japan to help her take care of her business, and then you can take Teacher Xiao Zeng and your children over to start a new life, wouldn't it be great!"

Huang Cheng nodded with red eyes, the visiting time was over, and at the request of the uniformed staff, Huang Cheng glanced at Zeng Bixian fixedly, turned around and walked into the small door without looking back, Zeng Bixian's tears burst out of her eyes again.