Chapter 29: Returning Home
The father finally thought about it and said, "I can't let my wife drink the northwest wind outside, I live here alone." "Then you can do it yourself. If you want to live, you live alone, and if you don't stay, you go out too. ”
My father thought to himself, how could he bear to leave her alone at such a time when he and his mother had come all the way to come here and had endured so many hardships along the way? I'm out too. After my father finished speaking, he quickly went downstairs.
As soon as I walked out of the courtyard gate, the gate slammed shut. The sound of the door was like a hammer hitting my parents' hearts, and it didn't seem to break their hearts.
The father went out to the mother and told her about not letting them live together. Mother said that if she didn't let us stay, let's just squat outside this gate all night. The father said, "That's all there is to it." "But I'm hungry, are you hungry?"
"Fools don't go hungry. But we have to endure it first. With that, the father put his luggage in the corner and took out the blanket. My parents spent the night crouching by that wall.
When they woke up the next day, they were so hungry that they didn't have any strength. My father scratched his scalp with his hand and said to my mother, "When I didn't fall asleep last night, I was thinking that we might have fallen for Liao Zuofang."
He didn't want to care about us, so he used this method to trick us. Then we retreated and stopped looking for him. That's not the way to go. Everything else is easy to say, but if you don't eat, how can people live?"
"Then what do you say to do?" "Let's go to him again and give him soft words first. If he wants to leave him, we will stay with him and not leave, and we will die before his door. ”
The mother thought for a moment and said, "That's all there is to it." "Remember," said my father, "that he brought us last night, and I thought in my heart that he might not have any good intentions, so I quietly remembered the way." "Then we'll go to him the same way we came." Mother said.
My parents endured hunger and came to Liao Zuofang with their luggage.
But he said that Liao Zuofang sent my parents away last night, thinking that my parents would not look for him again, or could not find him at all. Early the next morning, I sat in my office and leisurely held the filter.
Unexpectedly, my parents broke in again. Seeing this, several girls hurriedly called Liao Zuofang. As soon as Liao Zuofang heard that my parents were here again, she hurriedly stood up and greeted her.
My father said to him, "Mr. Liao, I see that you are also a person who runs around. Besides, our baby is still in contact with you often, and his novels are still with you. If his novel succeeds, we might be able to give you some kind words from him, and even if it doesn't, we'll at least make friends.
We'll take a truck, but we'll have to eat halfway through. Even if a stranger comes to you, I think you'll take care of it. Give us some money, so that we don't go hungry on the way. Do you think that's good?"
When Liao Zuofang saw that what my father said was true, he stood there, scratched his scalp for a long time, and took a few steps back and forth, finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind to say, "Okay then." I'm going to borrow some money for you. ”
"You run such a big company, you don't even have a few dozen dollars, and you still have to borrow it?" "Old man, you probably haven't seen the world. If we were a big company like ours, there would be no poor people in the world.
I'll be honest with you, most of our information department is a lie. You are so old, you have experienced a lot of things, and you should know that people are not so easy to deceive, and even your baby is afraid that we will secretly publish his book.
Therefore, it is not easy to eat by deceiving people. Now that you've opened your mouth, I have no choice but to survive. "Thank you so much!"
After his father finished speaking, Liao Zuofang hurriedly waved his hand impatiently and said, "Forget it, forget it-" Then, let my parents sit at the entrance of the information department and wait for him, and he will come when he goes.
After about an hour, Liao Zuofang finally returned. He said to my parents, "I borrowed money from all over the world, and finally managed to scrape together 20 yuan for you." Don't be too little, take it and go. After saying that, he didn't even enter the Ministry of Information and left straight away.
My parents got the 20 yuan given by Liao Zuofang, picked up their luggage, and walked to the Fengxin County bus station. When I arrived at the bus station, my father and mother discussed that they would take the bus with their stomachs first. Otherwise, I would have no strength, and I would go to Nanchang to find the train station.
But they didn't want to go to a restaurant to eat, so they just walked around the station. My parents suddenly saw a middle-aged woman set up a table on the edge of the iron railing of the station, and a large, thick plastic film was placed on the table. On the film were pieces of white sticky stuff, which looked like food.
My father asked the woman how much it was. The woman said one dollar a piece. My father bought two of them. I didn't expect that thing to be very hungry. As soon as they ate it, they didn't feel hungry.
So my father asked the woman what it was. The woman replied, "It was rice cakes." When my father heard this, he said to his mother, "you, let's go home and feed ourselves with this thing." If you're thirsty, find a place to ask for boiling water to drink, what do you say?" "My mother said,
But if we go back and still find the baby?" "How can we find it? What if he goes home." Wouldn't we be working in vain?" "I think so, let's take the truck and ask along the way, if we can't find it, we have to resign ourselves to fate." "Okay then. Father said.
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