Chapter 1 Mom and Daughter's College Dreams
"I've got to find you!"
Liu Gangdan grabbed the steel bars of the cell and shouted, his voice was weird, and he went straight into the dark night sky.
"Is there anything wrong with Liu Gangdan? You will be released from prison tomorrow, let's be honest tonight and don't make trouble!"
The kind prison guard came over rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"Eighteen years, eighteen years, eighteen years in prison, I must find you! You, you, you, none of you can escape!"
"Liu Gangdan, if there is any problem, legal means to solve it! The outside world is changing with each passing day, but it is not the world of eighteen years ago. ”
"The law can't help me, eighteen years ago, those women, one was willing to beat and the other was willing to suffer, I helped them, they used me, and immediately turned their faces and sued me for violation!"
"You will be released from prison tomorrow, I will retire at the age of 60 tomorrow, you are also 38 years old, impulse is the devil, you should understand this truth, when you encounter a problem, the first thing that comes to mind is the legal means, not the willful"
"Legal means, I am a prisoner who has been released from prison, an expert of their experts, and the mayor's wife of the mayor's wife......"
The sunshine of March shines through the glass window into the outpatient room of the gynecologist. Gynecologist Zhang Shiqiu sent off the last female patient, stood up, shook her sore cervical vertebrae, threw away her disposable gloves, walked out of the experts' outpatient room, locked the door, and was just about to leave.
"Specialist Zhang, there's another patient waiting for you!" a man's voice came from behind him.
"It's twelve o'clock, why are you so late?" Zhang Shiqiu didn't twist his head, and opened the door again.
"You are a well-known gynecology expert in the province, there are too many people to see a doctor, I wait for everyone else to run out, and then come in to see a doctor!" The man followed Zhang Shiqiu into the outpatient room.
"Let the female patients come in, and the male family members go out first!" Zhang Shiqiu said as he put on gloves.
"It's me who sees the doctor!"
"What are you kidding? Here in the gynecology clinic, you have the wrong number. Zhang Shiqiu suppressed the fire.
"I'm hanging Dr. Zhang Shiqiu's expert number, the expert number is so expensive!"
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"You've found the wrong doctor, comrade!"
"It's you, Dr. Zhang Shiqiu, don't you recognize me? What a noble person forgets things, the black Mercedes in the hospital garage is yours, that car is so expensive! Eighteen years ago, the rice commune, the reeds were swinging, the sun was so warm in the spring and March, and it was not ......cold without clothes."
"Vice Mayor Zhou's wife?" Pan Hong, Vice Mayor Zhou's wife, is holding a parent-teacher meeting in her third year of high school.
"Excuse me, who are you? I'm attending my daughter's parent-teacher conference, I'll call you later." Pan Hong walked out of her daughter's classroom.
"I'm also here to attend my daughter's parent-teacher conference!"
"Who are you?"
"You intellectuals, how can you forget things when you become nobles! Eighteen years ago, the rice commune, the reeds were ...... swaying."
"Don't come, don't come......"
"My daughter Pan Jingru is in her third year of high school, why can't my daughter's father come?"
"Don't come, don't come!" Pan Hong suddenly fell into the ice cave, and her brain seemed to be frozen, although the sun at the end of May was already a little hot.
"I'm already here, isn't it the vice mayor's wife who got the Nokia mobile phone? The black Audi in the parking lot is your car, right? That car is so expensive!"
"She's not your daughter, don't come, my daughter is about to take the college entrance examination!"
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"University admission notice, get your ID card, get the university admission letter, is there anyone in the yard?" the green postal electric car stopped at the door of Zhou's house, which was full of strange flowers and plants, and the green postman shouted at the gate.
Flying out of the yard was the tearful Pan Hong, she snatched the big envelope from the postman's hand, looked at it squarely, looked at it backwards, covered her mouth, covered her chest, cried, watched, laughed, watched, cried, laughed, cried......
The postman looked at it with a smile, this time is also the happiest time of the year for the postman, watching the senior high school students and their parents get the admission letter, some are enjoyable, some are uncomfortable!
But today's performance of the person who is obviously the mother of the candidate is just too much.
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Tears welled up in the postman's smiling eyes.
The green postman didn't stop Pan Hong, who was out of control, and the postman just watched quietly.
Pan Hong, just let the tears flow, crying, laughing, laughing, crying......
Two people, a postman and a mother, stood on the street, and one looked quietly with sparkling eyes......
One cried and laughed......
I don't know how long it took, Pan Hong finally calmed down a little. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I'll give you the child's admission ticket. Pan Hong said in a thick nasal voice.
"Just sign and receive it in this notebook, you don't need to take your ID card and admission ticket. ”
"Why?" Pan Hong asked as she signed.
"Your tears...... I just decided that after delivering the email today, I will resign and resume ....... ”
"Why?"
"I remembered my mom. ”
"She must be nice to you. ”
"Well, she used to hit me so hard. ”
"Why?"
"For this. The postman pointed to the college admission letter in Pan Hong's hand.
"I also hit my kids a lot. ”
"Mom will never hit me again. ”
"Why?"
"She's gone......"
The young postman turned his head and stepped into the car and left, Pan Hong looked at the green back of the postman wiping his tears as he walked, and shouted: "Child, you come tomorrow, I will give you all the college entrance examination materials!"
The young postman in the distance, wiping his tears and twisting his face, nodded towards Pan Hong, and his green back disappeared around the corner of the street... It's not good, it's not good...
What do we really need to live? What do we really need is very different, and the happiness that the same thing brings to different people is so different, just as a padded jacket is for the inhabitants of the tropics and the inhabitants of Siberia.
We must not laugh at the overjoyed man who gets something that you seem ordinary, or at the scavenger who fights on the garbage heap for ownership of a rusty piece of scrap metal.
You don't know the joy of fish?
If we want to be human, away from animal nature, please don't laugh at anything.
Although her daughter Jingru didn't want to have any contact with the Zhou family compound anymore, for the sake of her mother, in order to give her mother a big reward for her eighteen years of enduring humiliation and hardship, she hesitated for a long time when filling in the address for the admission notice, and still firmly typed down the address of the compound that had made her suffer for eighteen years on the keyboard: No. 33, Hongyang Building, Jiefang Road.
Jiefang Road, what a good name, when Jingru was very young, he thought about one day liberating his mother, he imagined that he was the People's Liberation Army, and led his mother out of the yard of Hongyanglou where many exotic flowers and plants were planted.
After Jingru received a call from her mother, the bell rang for the rest in the workshop of the electronics factory, and Jingru, who was wearing work clothes, was the first to jump up from her seat, ran to the public phone in the corridor of the workshop, and called Murong Moses.
"Moses, my acceptance letter has been received!"
"Congratulations, Jingru!" the tone was not excited at all, and even vaguely cold.
"That's it?"
"You come to Shanghai, I invite you to dinner. Moses hastenly added.
"What's wrong with you, Moses, have you been unhappy?"
"There's no one who can make me unhappy. ”
"Yes, there's one person who can upset you. ”
"There are no such people. ”
"As soon as I went to college, I saw a strange idea and ran away with others. ”
The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds.
"Hey, hey, is it dead?"
"Acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome. Moses gave the full academic name of AIDS word for word on the phone.
"Moses, today is the day of the great joy of Princess Ben, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"My place as a graduate student has been replaced. ”
"Ahh
"What else do I have besides good grades and good academic studies? I'm so confident. ”
"In the second year of undergraduate, you published a paper in an academic journal and attracted the attention of the academic community, and for more than half a year, you have been in the experimental base with the professor, who else in your college is better than you. ”
"The backstage is better than mine. ”
"Why did you tell me now?"
"I heard the gossip before the Spring Festival, and I was afraid that it would affect your college entrance examination, so I didn't tell you. ”
"I'm sorry, Moses, but I blame you wrong. ”
"Nothing? A person without a father and mother, is he afraid of losing something?"
"You have Murong's mother, so many sisters and brothers in the orphanage, and my ......"
"I've applied to Yale University for graduate school, and I'm going to tell those students that there is no place to stay here, there is a place to stay here. ”
"If you don't stay anywhere, you will go to Yale!"
"Thank you for your encouragement, Jingru. ”
"Moses, if you go to Yale in the United States, when will I catch up with you?"
"Why can't you catch up?"
"I went to junior high school, you went to high school, I went to high school, you went to college, I originally thought that I would go to college, you would be able to catch up with you when you went to graduate school, but I didn't expect that this time I ran farther and ran to the other side of the earth. ”
The more Jingru spoke, the more sad she became, and she almost shed tears, but the person on the other end of the phone couldn't see the tears.
"You also got into Yale. ”
"I still have my mother, and if my mother didn't have me, I wouldn't know how my mother would live. ”
"Aren't you in Henan?"
"Did you know at this time that I wasn't in Henan?"
"Where are you?"
"Where am I supposed to be, Moses?"
Jingru hung up the phone, tears already flowing down her cheeks into a stream.
"Jingru, where exactly are you? Hey, hey, hey...... Why are you hanging?"
Jingru walked back to the assembly line, next to the operating table, put on a hat, put on protective goggles, and began to solder one circuit board after another......
Do people really change?
Jingru remembered the early morning when she first met Murong Moses: it was when Jingru was in the third grade of elementary school, October 25, and it was Jingru's birthday.
Jingru's birthday has always been spent quietly by her mother, boiling two red-skinned eggs and rolling on Jingru's body, that is called rolling luck, rolling the eggs of luck and letting Jingru eat them.
But on this 10th birthday, my mother went to other places, and Jingru went to school without eating breakfast. Xiao Jingru would rather be hungry, this little girl who can't call her dad since she was a child doesn't want to go to the kitchen to see the so-called grandparents and fathers.
The little belly is empty, and I don't feel hungry, because the grief has filled the belly!
Xiao Jingru hoped that her mother could come back from a business trip, but her mother did not come back until her birthday on October 25.
Jingru is disappointed, Jingru is sad, because in this world, there is no second person who knows that today is Jingru's birthday.
When Jingru walked to the school gate, a green liberation sprinkler truck came to the corner of the street, and the sprinkler played the music of "Happy Birthday to You" while walking......
Listen to the music of the sprinkler truck "Happy Birthday to You" and walk forward......
A fifth-grade boy saw it and quickly chased after Jingru, and he caught up with little Jingru.
"Classmate, you've walked past the school gate, what are you chasing the sprinkler for?
Xiao Jingru turned her face, her little face full of tears.
"It's my birthday!"
The little boy was silent.
The little boy hesitated, spread his legs and chased after the sprinkler truck in front of him, and he flew past the sprinkler as if he were flying over, and then stopped in front of the sprinkler truck.
Out of the window of the cab of the sprinkler was a fierce head full of beards.
"Bunny, what are you doing?
I saw the little boy say something to the bearded driver with his face up, and pointed to Jingru behind the car.
The sprinkler truck lights up with double flashing lights for emergency stop.
The little boy ran back again, ran to Xiao Jingru, took Jingru's little hand, and walked towards the sprinkler truck.
The bearded driver jumped out of the cab, opened the co-pilot's door, and carried Xiao Jingru and the little boy into the cab. The sprinkler happily sang "Happy Birthday to You" and sprayed sparkling water as it drove off the street......
This is the first time Jingru met Murong Moses.
Murong Moses was thrown at the door of the children's welfare home as soon as he was born, leaving nothing behind his parents except for a packet of milk powder and a feeding bottle. As soon as Murong's mother opened the door early in the morning, she saw the baby boy who was already dying in the package.
The babies who are left at the door of the children's welfare home are often congenitally disabled, and often in the dead of night, two abandoned babies were frozen to death at the gate of the orphanage because they were found at 7 o'clock in the morning. Murong's mother held the dead baby and shed tears, she cried and said, "I'm sorry, child, Mom is late, Mom is late!" Since then, Murong's mother has gotten up at least twice a night to check on the door of the welfare home, because she has placed two mechanical alarm clocks at the head of her bed. Make sure you can get up twice a day in the middle of the night and check at the gate. Murong Moses was the sixth child picked up by Murong Moses' mother, and Murong Moses was the only healthy child.
Murong's mother was originally a Catholic nun, but at the age of fifteen, she became obsessed with studying the Torah and became obsessed with Judaism, believing that Jews with a population of less than 18 million had more than 170 Nobel Prize winners, and Jews in other fields were also masters, so she decided to convert to Judaism.
Since ancient times, Judaism and Catholicism have been at odds, because it was the Jews who betrayed Christ, and the Romans crucified Christ.
Murong was expelled from the monastery, but the Jews were extremely strict with those who joined Judaism, and non-Jews had great difficulty converting to Judaism, and almost completely refused to join non-Jews.
Murong's mother felt the narrowness and indifference of religion, so she walked out of the monastery and came to the children's welfare home.
God was too busy, so he sent his mother to the world, but God was really too busy, and there were always some children who didn't have a mother.
Murong prayed to God: "Send me to the children who need their mothers the most!"
Murong's mother gave her only healthy child the name of a well-known Jew: Moses, who led the Jews in the diaspora out of Egypt and freed Moses from the oppression and slavery of the Egyptian pharaoh.
When Murong Moses was two or three years old, he would help Murong Moses do things and help her disabled brothers and sisters, which was deeply liked by the mothers in the welfare home. As an orphan with no father or mother, Moses did not know his true birthday, and although Murong's mother deduced that Murong Moses' birthday was three days forward from the day he picked up Moses, Moses always thought it was a fake birthday. He longed for the day when he could meet his biological parents and know what his real birthday was.
Moses, an outcast, never asked Murong's mother who his biological parents were, but when did Moses stop searching?
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Seek, seek, seek, ......seek,
Perhaps it was a similar fate that sharpened the two of them into tuning forks of the same frequency, one of which was struck by fate and made a sound, and the other would make the same resonant sound.
From the day she chased the sprinkler, Xiao Jingru became Murong Moses' little heel.
Fate is sometimes a stubborn witch, and Moses is four years older than Jingru, which is doomed that Jingru will not be able to catch up with Moses no matter how hard she tries in this life. Jingru is in the second grade, Moses is in the fifth grade, Jingru is in the first year of junior high school, Moses is in the first year of high school, Jingru is in the first year of high school, Moses is in the first year of Shanghai, Jingru is in the first year, and Moses is graduating in the fourth year. Originally, Moses could stay in Shanghai, but Jingru thought that she could catch up with Moses this time, but Moses' Baoyan was in vain. This time, Moses ran even further, not only in the mountains but also in the Pacific Ocean, which is the widest in the world.
The next morning, as soon as Jingru walked into the workshop, she heard someone shouting in the corridor of the workshop: "Who is Pan Jingru, phone, Pan Jingru, phone, hurry up!"
Jingru hurriedly ran out of the workshop, and the microphone of the public phone was hanging from the wires and playing on the swing. Jingru ran over, she was worried that it was her mother who called, her mother had said more than once that she wanted to buy a mobile phone for Jingru, but Jingru refused, Jingru said that she would work in the summer to earn money to buy it herself.
Jingru bent down and picked up the earpiece, "Hey, Mom, what's the matter?" There was no sound in the earpiece, the other party should have hung up the phone. Jingru hung up the receiver in disappointment, returned to the workshop, walked a few steps, and looked back at the payphone on the wall, but the phone did not ring again. Jingru walked back to the workshop slowly. As soon as she entered the workshop door, the rapid ringing of the public phone came from behind her, and Jingru immediately turned around and rushed towards the phone.