Chapter 35: People Are Not Things
After simply cleaning a bedroom in the east room that could still be used with electric lights, Chen Zimo found two bedding and laid them out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's cold, there's less covering, and people can't stand it.
After doing all this work, when Chen Zimo went to the kitchen, he suddenly muttered in his heart: "Why should I be so active, go and clean up a bedroom for him, and lay a futon for him to sleep?" He's good, it's hard to eat, just waiting to enjoy the ready-made? In the past two years, you shouldn't have dried those beddings, they were all damp and rotten! It also saves me from being kind enough to offer filial piety! ”
Walking into the kitchen, Chen Zimo was stunned to find that the table had been cleaned up.
And the father, I don't know when he has left.
Where did he go?
Chen Zimo frowned and walked outside the door, looked around, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly ran to the backyard, while he couldn't help but scold: "You criminal, dare to go to the backyard casually, I'll let you spit out all the dumplings you eat!" ”
After searching the corners of the houses in the backyard and finding no human figures, Chen Zimo breathed a long sigh of relief:
OK.
Chen Zimo pursed his lips, thinking to himself that he didn't let his father into the backyard, did he also mean that there were no three hundred taels of silver here?
I went back to the front yard and looked around, but I didn't find my father.
Chen Zimo frowned and walked to the door of the street and looked out. From east to west, the street is warmly lit by the light emitted by the street lamps and the red lanterns hanging on the doors of every house. The children were running and playing......
A lively and festive New Year's atmosphere.
"As soon as I got home, my ass was still hot, so I ran out!" Chen Zimo turned back angrily, closed the street door, and plugged the latch shut.
"Don't go home!"
Chen Zimo inexplicably blocked his breath in his heart, but when he reached the corner of the shadow wall, he stopped and hesitated for a while, turned around and walked back to the gatehouse, and opened the street door - Chinese New Year's Eve, before the time to close the street door.
Chen Zimo gave himself a soft heart and found a suitable reason.
Blood kinship, is it so easy to give up?
Standing in the threshold, Chen Zi was silently worried, would his father ...... Did you trouble Li Zhizhong?
This possibility is very large.
When his father was arrested and imprisoned, Chen Zimo was still young and ignorant, but as he grew older, he had heard his grandfather tell it in recent years, and he had also heard people in the village talk about it.
Such a character, on the day he came home from prison, happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, but he saw his biological son, whom he hadn't seen for several years, being beaten and beaten, and threatening to tear down the family's house...... How could he tolerate it? didn't hit someone immediately, which already shows that he has endurance far beyond ordinary people.
However, he will not give up!
"No way!"
Chen Zimo couldn't help but worry anxiously, what should my father do if he went there to kill and injure someone, if he was just released and arrested and imprisoned? Or what if he was injured by the Li family? Thinking of this, Chen Zimo turned around and picked up the firewood knife placed at the entrance of the door, opened the street door, and strode out.
But after running a few steps, he hesitated to turn around and go home.
Don't go!
"How he loves it, it's best to fight to the death with the people of Li Zhizhong's family." Chen Zimo was indignant.
He didn't know that if today's incident was changed to before his father was imprisoned, it would not be to trouble Li Zhizhong now, but no matter how many people on the other party were, and no matter who was at fault first, he would pick up the guy and do it directly, even if he lost the battle and was injured...... It has to be done too! But after squashing in prison for nearly six years, Chen Jin is already in his early forties, and his temperament has been much more restrained.
After eating the dumplings that his son made and cooked alone, Chen Jin cleaned up the kitchen, washed all the pots and pans, and found that his son was still cleaning up the bedroom for him in the east wing.
After being away from home for many years, my son ignores his love, so he always has to find someone to ask about how his son has been doing over the years and what has happened recently. A child who is only 14 years old, why did he provoke Li Zhizhong, so that Li Zhizhong, who is the village chief and an elder, came to the door with several children and nephews to beat people? .
In more than five years, a lot has changed in the village.
Many of the former dilapidated bungalows have been turned into two-story buildings. The original muddy and potholed street has been built into a smooth cement pavement. In the past, few families in the village were willing to hang lanterns at the door of the street, but now, almost every house has a red lantern hanging on the door...... Walking on the street, Chen Jin suddenly realized that there were no lanterns hanging on the street door of his house, and then thought of his son dressed like a beggar, Chen Jin became more and more sad, remorseful, and blamed himself - when he was arrested and imprisoned, the child was still young!
In the past few years in prison, when Chen Jin really missed and worried about his son, he would comfort himself and imagine that the neighbors would help take care of him, and the children who used to be in the village would help. Also, the ex-wife should also come to visit the son, right? Perhaps, she knew that she was in prison and her son was uncared for, so she would take her son to the capital......
Chen Jin wrote to his ex-wife in prison, talking about his imprisonment and hoping that his ex-wife would take his son away, but he did not receive a reply from his wife.
Now it seems that the ex-wife must not have come back to visit her son.
As ruthless as back then?
Chen Jin smiled bitterly and shook his head, it was not his wife's ruthlessness back then, the biggest responsibility still came from himself.
Thinking and recalling all the way, Chen Jin came to Hou Qiang's door with his memory, and found that before he was imprisoned, it was still the edge of the village, with few houses, but now it has become a street, and there are more than 20 households in the east and west.
"Is it Hou Qiang's family?" Chen Jin stood in the doorway and shouted inside.
The first to respond to him was the fierce roar of the two house dogs, and then someone in the house responded, "Who? ”
"Hadrons." Chen Jinsha raised his voice hoarsely: "I am Chen Jin." ”
"Chen Jin?"
The door curtain suddenly opened, and Hou Qiang ran out quickly with a surprised face, until he looked up and down a few times in front of Chen Jin, and then hugged Chen Jin: "My God, when are you coming back?" This, this...... Have you eaten it? ”
"I ate it at home, and my son gave me dumplings." Chen Jin smiled: "When it was dark, I came back." ”
"Let's go, let's go inside!" Hou Qiang thought of something, and suddenly felt a little worried in his heart - when Chen Jin came back from prison, he must have felt distressed and blamed himself when he saw that his son was living so poorly, and then he heard that everyone in Li Zhizhong's family bullied his son and injured his son twice...... With Chen Jin's character, what will he do?
Hou Qiang didn't dare to imagine.
Sitting in the house, Hou Qiang beckoned his daughter-in-law to quickly make tea and pour water, while taking out a cigarette and handing one to Chen Jin, helping to light it, and said after consideration: "Jinzi, you just came back, there were some things, I shouldn't have told you at this time, but I am now the security director of the village, so I ......"
"Yo, you're an official?" Chen Jin smiled and said, "Cheng, I understand what you mean, I just came to you to ask about something." ”
"What's the matter?" Hou Qiang's heart suddenly hung in his throat.
"As soon as I got home, Li Zhizhong and a few people were beating my son and saying that they would tear down my house." Chen Jin said with a smile, as if he was talking about what happened in someone else's family, and it was someone else's child who was beaten.
But the more he had such an attitude, and Hou Qiang, who was familiar with his character, became more nervous and worried.
Looks like something is going to happen.
"Brother Jin, ...... you drink tea" Hou Qiang's daughter-in-law made the tea and brought it over, and poured Chen Jin a cup of tea with an embarrassed smile on her face - think about how majestic Chen Jin was back then, and after he was imprisoned, he prevented his husband Hou Qiang from adopting Chen Zimo, Hou Qiang's daughter-in-law is really scared now, will Chen Jin blame me?
Chen Jin smiled and nodded: "I'm causing trouble to my younger brother and sister." ”
"Brother Jin, you're welcome, you're here to your own home." Hou Qiang's daughter-in-law squeezed a smile and said enthusiastically: "You just came back, and the family's New Year's goods are not complete, right?" If there is anything missing, there is no place to buy it for the New Year, so I will talk to Qiangzi and take it from our house first...... Hey, why didn't you bring Zimo here? ”
"Thank you, brother and sister, Zimo's child is reading at home." Chen Jin smiled politely.
Hou Qiang waved his hand and blinked, motioned to his daughter-in-law to go to Zhang Luo for a few dishes, then lit a cigarette and smoked, and said: "This is a long story, Jinzi, I have to say ugly things in front first, you can't still be like the temper you used to be, after all, you just came out of prison for so many years, for the sake of the child, you can't do anything too radical, in case you kill and injure someone, if you go in again, who will take care of the child?" ”
"Well, you're right, I'll listen." Chen Jin smiled and nodded.
"This ...... Alas, let me tell you first of all, since you were sentenced to prison, let me be silent about the life you have lived all these years. Hou Qiang sighed, drank tea and smoked a cigarette, not in a hurry, concisely and concisely told about what happened to Chen Zimo over the years, as well as the recent conflicts with Li Zhizhong's family, and then sincerely persuaded him: "Jinzi, Li Zhizhong did this thing, his mother is not authentic, but you can't blame him all, Zimo, this kid's temper is up to you, strong, so many people say peace from it, he is stunned that he is expensive and refuses to sell, and things are getting more and more stiff." ”
"Heh, I didn't expect the little rabbit cub to be brave and not small!" Chen Jin smiled self-deprecatingly, Chen Jin, who was much more open-minded and patterned than anyone in the village, was not very angry about the conflict between his son and Li Zhizhong's family, and even being beaten several times by the crowd, at least, he could not bear to act rashly. Moreover, he was still a little relieved in his heart, because he remembered that his son was a coward when he was a child, and Chen Jin often encouraged, reprimanded and even beat his son because of this, but now, his son dared to clash with Li Zhizhong and his family members head-on several times......
Not bad.
It's Lao Tzu's seed!