Chapter 23: Mother's Despair

This has to be said from the beginning.

After the gas explosion in the coal mine, Yan Baoping, who was increasingly emaciated, lay on the bed in the rental room with a sad face, she actually didn't go anywhere, Cao Hongwei's accidental death made her grief unbearable, but what made her even more unacceptable was that her husband's name did not appear in the death list exposed by the coal mine. She asked her son to ask for an explanation, but the mine did not give a reason, but the pension was paid a lot, and an additional 20,000 yuan was added, on the condition that their family could not tell anyone that Cao Hongwei was dead, and they had to take the initiative to resign on behalf of Cao Hongwei, so that outsiders would not know that her husband died in the coal mine. This kind of thing is still unacceptable to others when they hear it, let alone the family of the victim, but Yan Baoping silently accepted this hush money, if the money can be exchanged for her husband's life, she will never ask for it, and she is willing to post 20,000 yuan. But Cao Hongwei is indeed dead, this is a fact that cannot be changed, people are under the eaves, no matter how much trouble they make, they can't break the sky, so she and her son asked for more money to come back with the help of Tao Sansheng, and they resigned themselves to thinking that it could only be so, her original plan was: her husband is gone, then leave some money for her son to live, otherwise there may be no money and money, and she also believes that this is something that Cao Hongwei is willing to see.

After signing the relevant agreement with the mine, Yan Baoping quickly got the money as promised, totaling 220,000 yuan, she and her son Cao Bao reluctantly buried Cao Hongwei's body in the ancestral grave of the old Cao family, but according to the agreement, they did not dare to erect a monument for fear of being discovered, and the external world announced that Cao Hongwei resigned as the mine hoped, and then went out to work, and she herself couldn't figure out how long such a self-deceptive lie could be hidden.

Staying in his hometown, many people come to inquire every day, some are neighbors, some are relatives of the Cao family, and the basic questions are why Cao Hongwei didn't do anything in the coal mine without saying a word, Yan Baoping can only barely prevaricate every time she copes, but when she really mentions it, she can't help but feel hurt in her heart, and she shed tears in front of people a few times.

Her abnormal behavior has caused false rumors among relatives and friends, some say that their husband and wife have a conflict, and some gossip is that Cao Hongwei cheated and ran away, in short, all kinds of rumors have come out, for Yan Baoping, these are all salt on the painful wound, and it is also a great disrespect to the dead husband, and Xue Kui, who heard the news, was also afraid of causing trouble, so he persuaded Yan Baoping to quickly find a place to avoid the limelight. Yan Baoping herself was also overwhelmed, and finally decided to leave overnight, let Cao Bao spend money to hire a car, and took herself to the small house that her son rented when he was working in the city.

Yan Baoping didn't want to cause too much trouble to her son, and what she could do by herself would never trouble her son and daughter-in-law, and even went to the toilet on crutches alone, but the housework was really powerless and couldn't be helped. Even so, her daughter-in-law is still very disgusted by Yan Baoping's arrival, originally after Cao Hongwei's death, her daughter-in-law felt that her father-in-law died when she was newly married, which was very unlucky, and now her in-laws are crowded into this not spacious house, and she has to take care of her broken leg, so her attitude is very bad, and after Cao Bao left home, she was even more cold-eyed and complaining.

Yan Baoping could only lie in bed all day long sighing, recalling the days with Cao Hongwei over the years, although it was hard, but always happy, her husband worked hard, he was not afraid of hardship, and he took special care of himself when he went home, and never let her do heavy work. It is precisely because of Cao Hongwei's hard work day and day that she can take care of the children at home with peace of mind, and pull Cao Bao to adulthood, and marry a daughter-in-law.

And now, Yan Baoping is still worried about her son Cao Bao, because Cao Bao said to herself that she would go to other places for a few days, in this special time period, she naturally didn't want her son to leave for so long, but Cao Bao insisted on going, and she couldn't stop it, so she could only tell her son to be safe and go early and return early. But after Cao Bao arrived at the destination and called home to report that she was safe, she hadn't contacted her for several days, Yan Baoping didn't dare to take the initiative to find Cao Bao, for fear of disturbing her son's business, so she had to ask her daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law also said that she didn't get Cao Bao's message, and complained that Yan Baoping was worried about it, saying that Cao Bao would not have time to pay attention to himself because he was busy before, so just wait.

Yan Baoping said in her mouth that she knew, but her heart was still up and down, she held the phone in her hand, and after thinking about it, she still dialed Cao Bao, and sure enough, a sweet voice came from the other end of the phone: "I'm sorry, the phone you dialed cannot be connected for the time being, please broadcast it later." ”

This is the last voice Yan Baoping wants to hear, and she didn't want to dial it again every other time, but she still couldn't get through, this is Cao Bao's only contact information. The uneasiness of the mother and son suddenly came to her heart, and that ominous premonition immediately lingered, making her feel inexplicably uncomfortable. Yan Baoping felt breathless, so she turned on the TV with the remote control, wanting to watch the TV show to relieve the depression and worry in her heart, but she unconsciously tuned the TV to the life service channel in the province, which is generally broadcast to the content of the missing person notice and life hotline help, and only the province can receive the signal.

It was also a coincidence that Yan Baoping happened to see a report that she couldn't believe in her dreams, a notice, not looking for people, but identifying corpses.

Yan Baoping felt that this must be a dream, how could her son Cao Bao's name and photo be put on TV? This is absolutely wrong and impossible. But when she reacted and listened to the unreachable chime on her phone, reality filled her mind again.

That's right, it's Cao Bao, her only son, Cao Bao, who died, died in the provincial capital, and the TV released the information.

Under the disturbance of the thunderbolt on a sunny day, Yan Baoping's vision was completely covered, her ears were buzzing, her brain was blank, she didn't know anything, she couldn't understand anything, only her son's voice and smile seemed to fill the small rental house, this is impossible, this is impossible! Yan Baoping reached out to reach, but she couldn't touch it, she wanted to scream, but she couldn't make a sound in her throat, this was irrepressible grief and despair. She had completely lost control, she didn't know what to do now, what to say, she crawled out of bed with a smile, or rolled off the bed and fell to the ground, but Yan Baoping didn't feel pain, she continued to struggle, crawling outside, getting closer and closer to the window.

At this moment, the door of the rental house was knocked violently, and someone was anxiously asking outside, wanting to know the situation inside, but Yan Baoping didn't hear these at all, there was no problem with her ears, but her brain was no longer listening, and there could only be auditory hallucinations of Cao Bao's voice, and everything else was automatically blocked.

Yan Baoping climbed to the window, she continued to crawl, leaning on another unbroken leg, standing up, holding her hand against the window, and seeing the ground dozens of meters high below. is still like that, the scenery outside does not make Yan Baoping feel that she is in a high-rise building, but is full of Cao Bao's shouts, as if there is a son below. With difficulty, she lifted her injured leg and hung it on the windowsill, then propped her hand on the windowsill and groped her way outside......

The door of the rental house, which was not very solid, was violently slammed open, and people who came could see Yan Baoping's extremely dangerous state at a glance, her two arms, one leg and head were already outside the window, leaving the other leg and lower body still on the windowsill, and she was about to turn over and fall to pieces in the next second. Without saying a word, they rushed to the front, hugged Yan Baoping whole, and dragged her back into the house, due to excessive force, Yan Baoping's body fell directly backwards, and also smashed the nose and eyebrow bone of one of the rescuers.

The two people who entered the door were the heavenly gods Kuangsuo and Liu Zichen, and they finally found the location where Cao Bao rented in the city through visits and investigations, and rushed here non-stop, intending to enter directly to inquire about the situation here. But they knocked on the door for a long time, and there was no response inside. They learned from the experience of Li Yiting and Wan Yongkun who were too cautious in monitoring Cao Bao, and decided not to wait any longer, so they chose to break in, and just saw Yan Baoping about to jump off the building, of course, they had to rescue immediately, and at the moment of life and death, the brave Liu Zichen's eyebrow bone was hit by Yan Baoping's elbow who was dragged down, and he was broken and bleeding on the spot.

Liu Zichen didn't have time to pay attention to his small injury, because Yan Baoping, who was rescued, seemed to be crazy, desperately got up and continued to climb up the window, Liu Zichen had to try to hold her. But Yan Baoping, who was strongly stimulated, was really desperate, didn't listen to anything, just bent on jumping off the building, and her strength was very strong, which made Liu Zichen tired, so with the help of Kuang Shuo, he could close the window tightly first, and then dragged Yan Baoping to the bedside, but he couldn't get it.

Yan Baoping's mouth has been shouting Cao Bao's name, after the obsession of rushing out of the building faded, her empty consciousness gradually returned to reality, but the reality is always more cruel, she finally recognized this fact, that is, her son Cao Bao has gone with his father, their originally happy family of four almost in the blink of an eye, the family has been ruined, leaving two weak women, this is the result that any ordinary person can hardly bear, let alone a mother who has been cold, full of grievances and has been in grief for a long time can accept.

Yan Baoping couldn't stop crying, shouting her son's name to her heart's content, maybe only in this way can this poor woman's collapsed emotions be released a little, but this is obviously not enough, she has already been heartbroken, liver and intestines, recalling the warm happiness and sudden catastrophe on weekdays, this extreme gap makes her a housewife who does her duty, how can she bear it?

Liu Zichen tried to comfort her, but in the face of Yan Baoping, who was lost and depressed, she couldn't say more comforting words in addition to empathy, and at the same time, the pain of losing her husband and son is something that most people can't understand, let alone explain. As time passed, Yan Baoping became more and more sad the more she cried, and finally cried until she couldn't breathe, after some struggle, she fainted directly, Liu Zichen was busy with Kuang Suo, and sent her to the hospital for rescue first.

Since man is alive, he is fortunate in misfortune.