Chapter 12: Lies and Family Affection
"That day, I was catching crabs in the small river on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, and I was stunned by a passing woman, and then I was taken to another place......
"Later, I was sold to a mute, who was an orphan left in Northeast China after the defeat and surrender of the Japanese in 1945, and after about half a year, he took me to Japan by boat to smuggle ......"
"In the first few years, I didn't have a fixed residence, I stayed in Yokohama, Kyoto, and Osaka, and then I was dumb and couldn't do well, so we lived in Kobe, and after he passed away last summer, I planned to smuggle back, because I heard that my sister and brother-in-law were in Cloud City, so I came here first......"
"Smuggling and helping people to smuggle are both illegal, and it will be very troublesome if the police know about it, so before I got on the boat, I swore with the person who answered me that I would keep each other tight-lipped and not disclose the details of the smuggling to anyone......
Du Qiushi was born in 1973, only 22 years old in 1995, Du Qiu is about 4 years old apart from him, but it is difficult for a man in his 20s to distinguish the age from his appearance, he has an ancestral copper coin as a token, and his appearance is similar to his "nephew", there is no problem with impersonation, under the preconceived thinking, even if the made up resume and story are vague and bizarre, Du Chunhua also accepts them all, believes it, and is better than the Su brothers and sisters. It turns out that you went to Japan, no wonder there has been no news at all for so many years, how can that dumb man ...... Did he make you suffer?"
"He has a bit of a weird temper, but he is very good to me, at first I was young, he worked everywhere to support me, I wanted to buy me everything, and then he got old, and I became me to support him. In order not to make his mother sad, Du Qiu made up a few warm chicken soup stories, and then comforted: "Japan has a developed economy, even if it is a black job, you can make a lot www.biquge.info of money a day, and there is no shortage of food and drink. β
"That is, Japan is a developed country, and its per capita income is several million yen a year, and if you calculate it, you can earn more than 10,000 yen a day, which is much better than the domestic conditions. Lin Dawei played a round on the side and persuaded: "Chunhua, don't think nonsense, Qiu Shi is so tall, he must not have lacked food and clothing." β
"Nonsense, he smuggled over, he didn't even have an identity, and he was so young when he went that he couldn't go to school and study, how could he not suffer from working as a black worker!"
Reunited after many years of separation, under the violent emotional impact, the logical thinking ability will be seriously reduced, is the most suitable time to ambush for the crossing, Du Qiu began to take the initiative to guide the topic, for the various knowledge and skills he mastered smoke bombs, said: "Sister, do you remember the calligraphy you taught me when I was a child?" The Japanese are very fond of Chinese calligraphy, I made a lot of money by selling characters at first, and later I also taught myself some electronic and computer technology. β
Du Chunhua laughed when he heard this, his smile was full of remembrance, and his tone became closer, and said: "Back then, our father was busy building a school, and he didn't have time to care about you, let me teach you enlightenment, you always go against me, your writing is messy, like a ghost drawing a symbol, and calligraphy like you can be sold for money?"
Although she was talking about another person, Du Qiu felt the same way, and laughed, and the smile was also full of remembrance, because he was always against his own mother in the process of practicing calligraphy when he was a child, he glanced at Lin Jinyan, who was sitting next to him and playing "Contra", and then opened his backpack, took out a specially made notepad before, displayed the words on the sleeve, and said: "This is what I wrote yesterday, how do you read it?"
The dignified and beautiful calligraphy made Du Chunhua surprised and delighted, so he reached out and took a closer look, Lin Jinyan put down the game controller, climbed into her arms to join in the fun, and read it out loud: "I know these words, Jin Sheng Lishui, jade out of Kungang, is in the "Thousand Character Text". β
"That's smart. Lin Dawei was very proud of his son's performance, rubbed his little head and praised it, and then laughed and teased: "Chunhua, I think this character is better than yours, delicate and beautiful, but you, who are sisters, are not as good as your younger brother, and you are really regressing more and more." β
"You don't know calligraphy, what nonsense, these words ......" Du Chunhua only mentioned it and didn't say more, she stroked the words on the envelope, her eyes turned red again, and recalled: "You practiced these eight words on the day you disappeared, and the calligraphy is still in my hometown, if my father sees that you haven't forgotten it all these years, and you write so well, you must be very happy." β
As long as Qiushi comes back, even if he can't write anything, our father is very happy. When Lin Dawei said this, he patted his thigh and stood up, and asked: "I was so busy just now that I forgot to call my hometown to report the good news, Chunhua, are you or me?" Or let Qiushi fight by himself?"
Du Chunhua looked at Du Qiu, Du Qiu hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Is there a phone in my hometown?"
"No, I can only call the village committee and let someone convey it. β
"Then don't call yet, I'm smuggling back, this matter is not clear on the phone, say less our dad is cranky at home, it is easy to talk about it too much, and now it's almost the New Year, I'm going to go back to my hometown tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and when the time comes, face to face, it's easy to say anything. β
"Then don't fight yet, our dad has been waiting for more than ten years, and he doesn't care about these few days. Du Chunhua also agreed not to call, and said: "You just came back from Japan, I don't know how troublesome the domestic Spring Festival is, you can't go back if you want to, Dawei, you ask a friend to help book another train ticket, and let Qiushi go home with us." β
"Sister, when are you going back?"
"The Children's Palace plans to hold a New Year art show on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve on the 23rd, and there are leaders in the city to attend, so I can leave on the 24th." While explaining, Du Chunhua took out a notepad from the envelope, and then sighed softly, and said: "This kind of book was sold in the Children's Palace a few days ago, the quality is good, but it is very expensive, where did you get it?"
"I actually made these books with a few friends. β
"You did it?"
Du Qiu made a table of Japanese food yesterday, in order to let the Su brothers and sisters turn their attention from China to Japan, and today he brought a notepad, so that Du Chunhua can turn his attention from Japan to China, in short, he wants to cut the fictional 15-year abduction timeline into pieces, so that the audience's focus quickly shifts between China and Japan, so as to ignore the unwarranted "smuggling" process, seeing that Du Chunhua is curious and surprised, it obviously has an effect, so he explained slowly: " I once met a fellow villager in the same county in Japan, and after I heard him say that after I disappeared, my father recruited a son-in-law for the incense of the Du family......"
Lin Dawei, who was making a phone call to book a train ticket, stiffened, turned his head and laughed at him twice, Du Chunhua was also a little embarrassed, bowed his head and said nothing, and cleaned up the building blocks that Lin Jinyan threw on the sofa.
"That fellow doesn't know our family, the reason why I know about this is because my brother-in-law was admitted to Yuncheng University in 1985, becoming the first high-achieving student to be admitted to a key university in the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, it was a sensation at the time, but he only knew that his brother-in-law was admitted to Yunda and stayed in Yuncheng to settle down, but he didn't know where he lived, so I went to Yunda to look for clues after returning to China, and by chance met a pair of brothers and sisters in the school library......"
After Du Qiu introduced the process of making a notepad in detail, he began to fill in the pit for his father, and said: "I found my brother-in-law on New Year's Day, but I looked embarrassed at the time, so I didn't recognize him, and I only borrowed 2,000 yuan from him in the name of my fellow countryman as the capital to make a notepad." β
"Yes, yes, that's it. Lin Dawei's heart, which had been hanging for a long time, suddenly fell back into his stomach, and he said in a loud voice: "Actually, you should have made it clear at the time, your family doesn't care if you are embarrassed or not, as long as people come back safely." β
"Where did you meet Akimi on New Year's Day, and why didn't you tell me when you came back?
"Look at you, you always ask questions, since Qiu Shi doesn't want to say, don't ask more. Lin Dawei panicked again, so he repeated the old trick, picked up Lin Jinyan, and greeted loudly: "It's half past six, let's go for a walk, go out to eat, let's talk while eating." Son, are you hungry, what do you want to eat at night?"
When Du Chunhua went back to the bedroom to change clothes, Lin Dawei looked at death as if he were at home, and begged Du Qiu for mercy: "Qiushi, I was just acting on the scene that day, and I definitely didn't have two hearts for your sister, and I will never do it again in the future, let's skip it and not mention it, okay?"
"Brother-in-law, what are you talking about, I just asked you to borrow money that day, and I didn't see anything else. β
"Good brother, it's righteous enough! If you need help in the future, just come to your brother-in-law, and your brother-in-law will go to the soup and fire. β
Daddy, do you know why Mom named your son Jinyan......
Because you always brag and make promises, and you don't repent no matter how much you suffer......
In Du Chunhua's eyes, Du Qiu is his younger brother who has been separated for 15 years, in Lin Dawei's eyes, Du Qiu is a stranger who has only met once, and in Du Qiu's eyes, these two are close relatives who have raised him for more than 20 years, and their cognition is very different from each other, and there will naturally be various loopholes. "Sure enough, my sister and brother are different, I have been with Chunhua for more than ten years, and I don't know as much about her as you do, and I have never seen her smile so happily as today. β
Of course, after all, he is a son who has been raised for more than 20 years, and no matter how bad he is, he is more intimate than you, a reckless man who doesn't understand taste......
Du Qiu said before that he met a fellow countryman in Japan, which was false, but he said that Lin Dawei was a son-in-law, but it was true, Du Qiushi was the only male in the Du family, after he disappeared, his grandfather in order to continue the incense, brought Lin Dawei, who was both parents dead and his brother and sister-in-law did not like it, to be a child son-in-law, Lin Dawei was only 14 years old at the time, more than a year younger than Du Chunhua, although the two grew up and got married under the arrangement of their grandfather, but after the son was born, they slept in separate rooms very tacitly, and the marriage was in name only.
In fact, Du Chunhua already knew that Lin Dawei was messing around with girls outside, but she just didn't care, because in her opinion, this guy was not so much a husband as half a younger brother.
And Lin Dawei also has a knot, he is a person with strong self-esteem, because of family reasons, food, clothing, housing and transportation in his youth, reading and studying in his youth, all expenses are handled by Du Chunhua, the ridicule of outsiders and the gratitude of the heart impact each other, and finally twisted into an extreme respect, seeing Du Chunhua is like seeing a cat and mouse, only promised, there is no majesty, once after he got drunk, he said to Du Qiu, who was still in middle school at the time: Your mother is an ice sculpture of the Bodhisattva, extremely holy, even if I take off naked, I dare not get close, and I don't even dare to look at itγ
All in all, there is only family affection between parents, no love, and there are too many differences in personality, hobbies and life concepts, if you use an analogy, Lin Dawei is Lu Zhishen in "Water Margin", bold and righteous but reckless and impulsive, while Du Chunhua is "Dream of Red Mansions" Xue Baochai in , gentle and intelligent but stubborn and conservative, the two often talk to each other, unable to communicate, and always have conflicts when they are tied together, it is better to be happy when they are separated, it is for this reason that Du Qiu is not interested in caring at all after breaking his father's affair on New Year's Day.
On the way home, Du Qiu sat in the back row, teasing Lin Jinyan, and pretending to be unintentional and said, "Sister, let me tell you something." β
"What?"
"After I came back from Japan, I felt that the 'real' of Qiu Shi and the lost 'loss' were homophonic, so I removed it and called myself Du Qiu to outsiders. β
"Okay, remove it, you can call it Du Qiu in the future, don't want that word, our dad will definitely agree." β
Sure enough, it's still the mother who sometimes doesn't believe in anything, and sometimes she is very superstitious......