On May 12, 2008, in the early morning of a suburban farmhouse in Wenzhou City, SC Province.

This was an ordinary day, but in the near future, it will be thoroughly remembered by the whole Chinese people.

Jiang Chaoyang, as usual, got up at six o'clock, and he had to make breakfast before the others got up.

skillfully lit the fire, grabbed the loofah next to him and couldn't see the background color and symbolically brushed it in the cauldron a few times, in fact, he also knew in his heart that these few strokes were useless at all, but it was better than nothing, so it should be regarded as a comfort to his heart.

After "brushing" the pot, he poured water and rice, began to boil porridge, and took advantage of this time to poke open the eye of the small stove, and when the fire came up, he set up a pan on it, and began to fry eggs - of course, this egg is not something that anyone can eat if they want to, and there are so many of them that they can eat eggs, and it is definitely not a commodity that they are waiting to sell.

Five or six yellow eggs were fried, and the porridge in the big pot had no sign of boiling, so he covered the pot, replaced the pan on the small stove with a steamer, added water, put it in the steaming drawer, and took out the frozen steamed buns from the refrigerator and put them in the steamer. After all this, his busy morning work time has finally passed. Next, he can calmly open a few pickle jars, take out some of them, and then sit down and slowly chop the whole plate, waiting for the porridge and steamed buns to be ready.

At six forty o'clock, Jiang Chaoyang was completely idle, the porridge in the cauldron had begun to waft out of the rice fragrance, and the steamer had already come out of the steamer, everything was in time, while no one had come to the kitchen yet, he quickly hid the bowl of an egg that had just been deliberately fried behind the pyre. It was a corner where no one paid much attention, and when everyone had finished breakfast, he could hide in a corner where no one was there and enjoy this rare meal.

Stealing eggs is something that you can't do often, and if you are discovered, you will inevitably be beaten. But the last time Jiang Chaoyang ate it secretly was more than ten days ago, he really drank white porridge every day, and he was so greedy that he had the courage to make a move, but he couldn't steal it first. Because those people have poisonous eyes. The corners of his mouth, even if there is a little oil star, will not escape their eyes.

At 7 o'clock, the courtyard began to hear the occasional shouting and scolding, and occasionally the short cries of some children, but they stopped immediately. From time to time, the whole courtyard would fall into a terrifying silence.

Even if I've been living here for more than two years. Jiang Chaoyang was still afraid to see the children.

In the compound. There were sixteen or seventeen children of different ages, more boys than girls, and all of them disabled. Broken legs and arms are the most commonplace. Although they were wrapped in plaster, they could still see that several of the children were stinking because their wounds were repeatedly cut open and infected, deliberately making them decompose, and they looked miserable.

Presumably, everyone understands who lives in this small farmhouse courtyard. Yes, you guessed it, they are a gang of beggars controlled by three adults who earn money by begging for money with some bought or abducted children.

Wenzhou City is a small place, and you can't make a lot of money on this one-third of an acre, but this kind of place is hidden and inconspicuous, but it is the best choice to be a den.

Jiang Chaoyang was one of the unlucky children who was abducted by them. It stands to reason that Jiang Chaoyang is already fourteen years old, he was twelve years old when he came, and he knows everything he should know, and the risk of children of this age being abducted and trafficked is relatively low, so why would he still be fooled?

Alas, thinking of the dizzy things he had done in the past, Jiang Chaoyang couldn't help but want to slap himself a few times!

He is a left-behind child, living with his grandparents, his parents have gone out to work in the big city to earn money, leaving them three sisters and brothers, he is the eldest in the family, there is a sister and an elder brother, because his parents are biased and small, he has more new clothes to wear than his sister and brother since he was a child, because every time his parents come back, he will buy him a lot, his sister and brother are very red-eyed, and often bully him in places where grandparents can't see, and his parents are far away, it is not easy to call several times a year, and it is too late to finish thinking about it, Where is the time to file a complaint?

When he was twelve years old, his parents came back from other places, and the eldest sister was already fifteen years old and was about to go to high school.

They have been in the big city for a long time, and they also understand that without culture, they can only rely on selling some hard work in their lives, and they regret that they did not study hard at the beginning, even if they go to a technical school and learn technology, they are a hundred times stronger than they know nothing now. They do not want their children to follow their old path and become the second generation of migrant workers, always at the bottom of society, doing hard work, no dreams and no hope.

That was the first time Jiang Chaoyang left the small mountain village where he was born and raised, and he went to the city where his parents worked like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and he couldn't pull it out. The thought of going to school and living here in the future made him so beautiful that he even woke up from a dream.

But when school started, his parents suddenly wanted to send him back to his hometown, and he reacted, they were always saying that it was nothing for him to get his sister here to go to high school, and he wanted to stay because of wishful thinking.

But he really didn't want to go back, what's so good about that poor ravine? Even the electric light is reluctant to light, as soon as it gets dark, his grandparents immediately bombard him to bed, he wants to watch TV, he wants to read books, he doesn't want to do anything, he doesn't even have his own mobile phone, he used to think that his parents were partial to him to buy him good-looking clothes, only to find out in the city, it turned out that his mother was working in a garment processing factory, and the clothes they brought home were defective products from the assembly line of the processing factory, and his mother bought them back at a very low price, as for all he could wear, because his mother didn't know enough about their three children, I always bought a little smaller, and only he could wear it.

thought it was the darling of his parents, but in the end he found that it was nothing, Jiang Chaoyang was extremely disappointed in his heart, his parents had already bought a ticket to return to his hometown in three days, and it was still a hard seat on the slow train. He now knows that trains are also graded, there are high-speed rail, bullet trains, express and slow trains, the last time he came, he took the cheapest thing, not even air conditioning, he had to take this kind of car when he went back, and when he thought of the stuffy ride of more than 20 hours, he wanted to cry aggrievedly.

But he was only twelve years old, and his parents would not listen to him. And he knows it, too. It is not easy for parents to bring their sister to the city to go to school, and she has to spend half a year's income for one child, and she really can't afford to take another one over. Jiang Chaoyang's young heart. For the first time, I experienced despair.

That. His parents had gone to work, no one cared about him, and his sister had happily sorted out her new school bag. Waiting for a week to go to a new school and prepare for the high school entrance examination, my brother stupidly only knows that he is desperately eating all kinds of food, and he can't wait to be a little pig to eat every day, and no one understands him.

He wandered aimlessly around the streets of the city, the city is very modern, very advanced, very perfect, but all this has nothing to do with him, he is incompatible with everything modern, in two days, he will still have to return to the poor and backward small mountain village, guarding the adobe house where his grandparents have lived all his life, if there is no accident, he will join his parents in the future, and contribute to the construction of this beautiful city, but he will never be able to find his place in this city for which he may have paid sweat and blood.

His dazedness, frustration, anger and unwillingness made him unconsciously go farther and farther, and when he came back to his senses, he was too far away from home, there were strangers everywhere, he couldn't find a trace of familiarity, he was penniless, even if he knew the address, it was useless, and at the age of twelve, he had no common sense to ask the police for help, so he had to search for it, and go in one direction according to the pitiful little memory. He even had some thoughts in his mind that he shouldn't have, if he disappeared for a while, would his parents be reluctant to send him away after finding him?

Then he met two adults, a woman, and three adults, and they looked so kind, and the woman squatted down and asked him if he was lost, and bought him something delicious, and he didn't see it when he gobbled up what he was eating, and the three of them had a sinister look in their eyes.

Before he had finished eating, he suddenly felt very sleepy, and could not help falling into a deep sleep, and when he woke up again, he was in this unknown farmhouse, and for a long time he was afraid that they would break his legs and throw him into the street to pretend to be pitiful and beg for money. At that time, he already knew that these people were specially helping to get some children to come over, break their legs or make them seriously ill, and take them to the street to beg, these children were replaced very quickly, firstly, because they always stayed in one place and did not get some new goods, their little tricks would be debunked sooner or later, and they would be changed quickly to keep them fresh, and second, if those children died in their hands, it would be particularly troublesome, so every once in a while they would sell some children who were more seriously ill and did not look good to people who had other needs. What will happen to those children, Jiang Chaoyang didn't even dare to think about it.

In comparison, those children who were sent by their biological parents to beg for money are much better than their abducted children, at least those three adults are ruthless, and they don't dare to get the children with masters to death, what will the parents do when they come to ask for someone? Anyway, they just have a few children, they don't lack that little money, and the money these children beg for far exceeds their pay.

Jiang Chaoyang's luck lies in the fact that not long after he came, the child who was originally in charge of cooking fell into the cauldron because he accidentally did not stand firm when serving the meal, and his face was burned in a large area, so the three of them took him directly to beg, what a suitable injury that can soften people's hearts, the young girl's face was scalded by water, and the family had no money to treat it, so she could only be taken by her mother to beg for medical expenses.

But Jiang Chaoyang stayed at home to be responsible for cooking after being tried out of the craft because he could cook some simple meals at home, and for about two years, Jiang Chaoyang went out of this yard only a handful of times, and he almost forgot what the outside world was like.

I don't know if his parents have looked for him, he thought, even if they call the police to look for him, the chance of finding him is very small, he is now in the southwest of China, the city where he disappeared, in the southeast coast, a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, the probability of being able to get together again, I'm afraid it is low.

So Jiang Chaoyang didn't think about running away very practically, he conscientiously cooked three meals a day, occasionally stealing an egg or stealing a piece of meat, nostalgic for the good days when his parents came home and the whole family could eat meat at a meal.

At the end of the simple breakfast, the children who were about to be taken away for begging were only given a bowl of porridge and a few slices of pickles each, and they could not be allowed to eat too much, it was the request of the adults who controlled them, and they were too full, what if they got up and wanted to escape? There is no comparison, they can all eat and drink enough, what if they don't work well?

Therefore, Jiang Chaoyang at least doesn't have to break his hands and feet, at least he can drink porridge and drink to his heart's content.

Adults each leave with a few children of different ages, they drive to nearby cities, Wenzhou City is a small place, even if they beg in a fixed place every day, even if these children look very pitiful, they can get very little money, so they generally choose to drive a long way, to several larger cities around, such as Dujiang City, Mianjiang City, do not come back at noon.

Jiang Chaoyang had nothing to do after washing the dishes and chopsticks, lying under the eaves to bask in the sun, and by the way, he ate the fried eggs that were already cold, and squinted to make up for sleep. The time came to two o'clock in the afternoon of May 12, 2008, Jiang Chaoyang was sleeping soundly, suddenly the sky shook, the earth roared, the house in the small courtyard creaked, and after a while, the whole collapsed. Jiang Chaoyang woke up as early as the beginning of the shaking of the earth, he rolled on a lazy donkey, dodged the half of the beam that smashed down his head, crawled to the open space in the middle of the courtyard with his hands and feet, and sat on the ground trembling.

Then he heard a cat's cry coming from the locked house on his left, which had not yet completely collapsed. yes, there was a kid who had a high fever and was talking nonsense all the time, and he was sent to feed her some food, and then the adults locked her back in her room before leaving.

The little girl seems to be only 5 or 6 years old this year, she was abducted by them, she looks white and beautiful, and the clothes she wears are so good-looking, I know at a glance that her family must be quite rich, I don't know if her parents can find her back.

The little girl was frightened, and she was sick the next day, and the three adults felt very unlucky, and they kept wanting to sell her, but no one wanted to ask for it, she was very sick, and she didn't know if she could get better, and she didn't look like an ordinary child, I don't know if there would be trouble after taking over, so the little girl was kept at home, feeding her some food and the cheapest cold medicine every day, and she was so half-dead.

Jiang Chaoyang selfishly felt that it was better to die than to live like this, so when he heard the cry, he didn't show much kindness to save people. He has grown so big, and no one has ever been kind to him, and he has also suffered a lot to survive in this den of thieves with all his hands and feet, why can others be helped without doing anything? He's not that bad.

It's not easy to live yourself, where can you control others? (To be continued.) )