Chapter 271: Left-behind Children
"Uncle, you don't care if they feed you French fries. Don't you like Wenwen anymore? The little witch had red circles under her eyes, and two big crystal tears were already rolling in her eyes. If Wang Yong's words are wrong, then it will immediately rain down! Wang Yong has no doubt about this.
"Oh, my uncle is watching TV, you can also look at it, how bitter the children on TV are!"
Wang Yong pointed to the TV carrying more than 50 catties of water in a bucket on his back, staggering through the snow that did not reach the instep. Just a few steps later, a heel fell into the snow, and the short little boy not only did not cry, but also laughed happily at the camera.
His name is Liang Xun, he is fourteen years old this year, he has long messy hair that covers his ears, he is more than a meter tall on his head, and he looks like he is eight or nine years old at most. His parents went out to work, his older siblings went to school, and he was the only one who stayed in the dilapidated home.
On such a big mountain, he was the only one, and the nearest house was more than two hundred meters away, and a pig was his best companion. And this kind of life, he has been for four or five years. Except for his sister, who is in middle school on Sundays, who comes back to see him, he is alone with Piggy when he is at home.
On the snow-covered mountain road, a small figure staggered forward. When he arrived at a well a few hundred meters away from his home, his bare little hands covered a kettle, and one by one he filled the fifty-pound bucket in the back basket.
An old woman felt sorry for him and asked him to carry less, but his answer was, there was no way!
Oh, yes! The distance from home is too far for Liang Xun, and it is too cold! Carry a little more, although it is more tired, but it can be less cold.
The temperature is minus six or seven degrees, the altitude is more than 2,000 meters, and a 200-meter path covered with heavy snow. It seems so long. Liang Xun was very struggling with every step, and his small body had already been bent over by premature exertion. But the satisfied smile that often appeared on his face made Wang Yong feel so ironic!
Left-behind children are a term that has often been mentioned in recent years.
When Liang Xun said with tears in his eyes: "I am alone at home every year", the choreographer asked him: You are so young, how can you take care of yourself?
The lonely and suffering child's answer was, "No matter, just take care of yourself." ”
When he said this, the two lines were full of sadness, puzzlement, hope, and tears of pride slowly down his cheeks.
A pinch of sauerkraut. A bowl of bud rice is his food. Long-term malnutrition has slowed down the child's development. Short and thin, it was hard to believe that he was fourteen years old.
"Have you eaten any of those good things?"
The choreographer asked in a low voice.
"Tofu!"
The answer without a pause made this originally lively fast food restaurant quiet. People all stared at the screen with wide eyes and unblinking, looking at the distressing child.
He tilted his head and thought about it, then added: "Tofu skin." Then he tilted his head and thought for a while, and then smiled and said, "I can't remember!" ”
One sentence made many people cry like rain! Fourteen years old. It is at the age of flowers, when most children are still enjoying the life of being taken care of with food and clothes, Liang Xun, a left-behind child in the mountains. I've been living alone for four or five years!
In addition to going to school every day, I also have to do laundry, cook, and carry water. Chopping wood, feeding pigs, a qiē life. He needs to cook it himself.
"I lost it for four or five years, and I was alone at home, and I don't know how I got over."
After saying this, many people in the restaurant burst into tears and couldn't control themselves. But soon the people stopped their tears, their faces were flushed, their eyes were angry, and they were furious.
Because the manager of this store felt that putting this kind of film would affect the appetite of customers, and it would also affect his business, so he secretly used the remote control to change another one.
On the TV screen, the city's neon dissatisfied streets, high-rise buildings, and crowded streets, from time to time, there will be a family of restaurants and restaurants, big fish and meat, all kinds of delicacies, people sitting around the table pushing cups and changing lamps, or excited, or full of bitterness, or laughing.
What a wonderful irony! What a contradictory social reality!
The restaurant was filled with guests who were immediately furious! They condemned the owner of the restaurant. But after the negotiation was fruitless, no one said anything more, but returned to their seats, and went on eating their own food, either silently, or smiling, or whispering, or looking up at the bustling street with cars and cars outside the window.
Wang Yong couldn't help it, picked up Wenwen, and looked up at the third aunt. The third aunt seemed to have a heart for herself, and was cleaning up the food on the plate. As if he felt Wang Yong's gaze at him, he glanced up at Wang Yong.
"You guys go to the car first, I'll clean up, let's go home!"
Wang Yong nodded, hugged Wenwen, who was silent, biting her fingers and thinking about something, turned around and left the place that made him feel depressed.
"Uncle, where are the child's parents?" Wenwen said suddenly.
Wang Yong didn't know how to answer the child, did he want to tell her that the child's family was poor, and his parents had to go to a far away place to work and earn money, so that the child could go to school and the family to eat and drink. But even though Wenwen is already very precocious, it is certain that these things are still too difficult for her to understand.
Wenwen, who has been pampered since she was a child, has been under the care of her parents, grandparents, and grandparents, and it is estimated that it is difficult to understand why this happens. Maybe in the young head, every child should have parents who love him like her, everything goes along with his grandparents, and there are countless toys and pocket money.
"Uncle?"
Wenwen shook Wang Yong's head, and was very angry that her uncle was silent at every turn and ignored herself.
"Well, the child's parents went to work far away."
"Then why don't you bring that kid along?"
"Because the kids have to go to school?"
"But Wenwen's previous class also had children's parents who came to work, so they brought the children with them! I'm still a classmate with Wenwen! ”
The little girl looks like you're lying, I don't believe it. This made Wang Yong not know what to say, he was not very good at communicating with people because he was introverted, and the only thing he could do at this time was to be silent.
Silently opened the car door and put Wenwen on the passenger seat. Buckle her seat, close the door, and go around the front of the car. I opened the door on the other side and got in.
Wenwen was still waiting for her uncle's answer without blinking, and the little girl's heart was full of too much incomprehension. She couldn't understand why the little one wasn't with his parents. Don't understand how he lives alone? I don't understand how a person can sleep at night without the company of his parents, parents or grandparents?
She has too many incomprehensions waiting for her uncle's answer, but she doesn't know that there is a kind of pain in this world, which is called involuntarily. Is there a parent who is willing to leave his children behind and go to a distant and unknown place to work hard?
However, this world is like this, full of too much helplessness, too much unsatisfactory.
The poverty of the family forced those parents to leave the country for the sake of life and family. For the sake of the children, he worked hard, exchanged his sweat for that pitiful salary, and supported his family.
"Because the child's family is very poor, his parents have to go far away to earn money for the child's education."
"But she can go with her parents!"
"Everything costs money in the city, and his mom and dad don't have that much money."
"Is it okay for Wenwen to give him money?"
The little girl took out the large stack of hundred-yuan bills stuffed in her pocket and grabbed it in her hand to show Wang Yong. The innocence of the little girl's face, the child's heart may be how simple it is! In her little heart, these two pieces of money can buy so many things. Enough to eat with my uncle and grandmother. With this money, I will definitely be able to reunite that child with his parents.
Wang Yong is very pleased with the kindness of the child. Although Wenwen has been favored by her elders. But there are no bad habits. Except for the occasional love to play tricks on oneself and make oneself cry and laugh, I can't see the "princess disease" of the children in the city at all.
This beautiful and lovely little girl has kindness and love in her heart that matches her appearance. Wang Yong happily touched Wenwen's little head. Rubbing her hair in a mess.
The little girl was reluctant, so she glanced at it and pouted. He looked at this bad uncle with a very unhappy face.
"Alright! Wenwen is a beautiful girl, she needs to laugh more. It's so ugly! ”
"Humph!" The little girl turned her head and ignored this bad uncle who messed up people's hair. Just when I saw my grandmother coming out of it with something, the little girl immediately had a smiling face. But after the grandmother got into the car, the little girl immediately changed her face and told her grandmother about her uncle.
"Grandma, grandma, uncle messed up people's hair, look, look, look?"
"Oh, okay, okay, grandma comb Wenwen again, and soon Wenwen will be back to that beautiful, cute little girl who everyone loves!"
"Yes! Let's ignore the bad uncle, okay? ”
The little girl still holds a grudge, and she didn't forget to tell Wang Yong at this time. Wang Yong listened to the little girl's words, shook his head, started the car and prepared to go home.
Along the way, even Wenwen, a little girl, rarely spoke, and everyone was still thinking about the scene they had just seen on the TV in the restaurant. Thinking about what will happen to that poor little friend? What will happen to him in the future? His mom and dad would come back to him and never leave him alone to go to a distant city to earn money.
The car stopped steadily in front of the third uncle's shop, and Wang Yong helped Wenwen open the car door. The little girl was still angry, and when she was picked up by Wang Yong from the car, she deliberately turned her head not to look at him. As soon as she was let down, the little one ran in as fast as he could.
Saying goodbye to the third aunt in front of the car, Wang Yong sat in the car and just wanted to drive to Mr. Wang's house, so he returned the car. Wenwen ran out, shouting as she ran: "Uncle, uncle, grandpa also has that kid on TV, don't be angry, come and watch!" ”
When Wang Yong heard Wenwen's delicate children's voice, his heart was sour, and he almost burst into tears. The little guy always thought that he was depressed because he couldn't continue to watch TV, and he had trouble with himself along the way, probably on purpose, so that he could coax her and talk to her so that he could make himself happy. But he was silent all the way, speechless all the way.
The little girl was still angry when she got out of the car, but when she ran to her grandfather's house, she immediately found the TV show for her uncle. Don't say that the guests in the store and the third uncle are watching, the third uncle is chatting with the godfather and godmother, Wang Qian, Yuanyuan and the uncle and aunt at the table in the store, the TV is turned off just now.
"Okay, is it okay for uncle and Wenwen to look at it together?"
"Good! All right! Seeing that her uncle finally spoke again, Wenwen clapped her hands happily and jumped and jumped. After that, he suddenly stopped, pulled the corner of his skirt with a pair of small hands, twisted his body and looked at Wang Yong and said, "Uncle, can we let Aunt Wang watch with us?" “
"Wenwen is in charge, if you say let it, if Wenwen doesn't let it, her uncle will kick her out!"
"Not good, not good! Aunt Wang is a guest, how can she drive the guests out? The little girl's serious appearance amused Wang Yong at once.
"You little clever ghost!" Wang Yong reached out and tapped his finger on Wenwen's nose.
Walking into the store with Wenwen in his arms, Wang Yong didn't even need to greet everyone. Because everyone has been attracted by the plot on TV, their eyes are looking at the TV screen, and they don't blink, they don't notice Wang Yong coming in at all.
Because of the love of his parents in the city, his younger brother felt that Liang Xun had taken away the love of his parents. Parents don't love themselves anymore, and my younger brother feels very wronged, crying again and again, and no longer likes Liang Xun, the new brother from the depths of the mountains.
However, when the new brother used his only twenty yuan to buy himself a small Monkey King doll, the younger brother called the person who was shorter than himself for the first time "brother". The two small bodies hugged each other, and the smile on their faces was so moving, and all the unpleasantness disappeared at this moment.
The younger brother fought with his classmates for his brother, but he was severely reprimanded and punished by his mother. The parents quarreled violently because of disagreements. When his younger brother pushed Liang Xun out of the door, Liang Xun sat at the door very sadly and cried. It's so sad to cry, so heartbreaking.
Liang Xun has been firmly tied to this family, and the care of his parents and the companionship of his brothers that he has never had have made him feel the warmth of home. And today, because of himself, he let his younger brother be wronged, let his parents quarrel, this family is full of sorrow, and Liang Xun can't hold back his tears of guilt anymore!
As soon as the picture turned, in order to no longer suffer from water shortage and no longer suffer from the suffering of carrying water, Liang Xun Village built a water fort in the village. The foggy mountains are full of old people and women, and most of the young and middle-aged people have gone out to work in order to make ends meet. The hardships of life are left to these left-behind old people and children.
Grandma in her sixties, grandfather in her seventy-nine, hunched over, kept waving a heavy iron pickaxe, lifting, smashing down, lifting again, smashing down again.
The gray hair and beard, and the ravines on the face are full of the vicissitudes of time. This may be the cruelty of reality! What a contradictory world it is! Poor and rich, happy and crying, reluctant and unhesitating, lonely and worried. This world, maybe I should be able to change a little more.
Thinking of this, Wang Yong stretched out his hand and dialed Wang Qian next to him, and gestured outside. Then discuss with Wenwen and let him sit there by himself and watch, and his uncle will go out for a while. Wenwen hugged Wang Yong's neck and didn't let go, Wang Yong hugged Wenwen out of the house under Wang Qian's envious and jealous gaze. (To be continued......)
PS: The first watch is more than 4,000, and there is another watch at night!