Chapter 87: Tomb Sweeping
"Well, you need money everywhere else. I thought this place would be able to stay, so I stayed here for a few days. Hearing Jiang Yan's words, the old man nodded and said.
"Then" Jiang Yan forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart, "Then your son, don't care about you?" ”
"He doesn't know!" The old man's voice was a little choked.
"You're here, he doesn't know?" Jiang Yan couldn't understand, "Didn't you come to see him?" ”
"Yes! Don't ask, young man, thank you for being kind enough to send me back! The old man seemed reluctant to say much about the subject.
Seeing that the old man was reluctant to speak, Jiang Yan did not force it. He took out his wallet and took out the thousands of yuan in it and handed it to the old man: "I don't know what your difficulties are, but I feel really uncomfortable to see you picking up waste to support yourself at such an age, and living in such a place." I've got some money here, you take it first."
Before Jiang Yan could finish speaking, the old man interrupted Jiang Yan's words: "Young man, I know you are kind. But the old woman still has hands and feet, and she can still support herself, so the old woman doesn't need to give alms, you better take it back! ”
Listening to what the old man said, Jiang Yan also knew that the old man didn't want other people's charity, but he really wanted to help the old man.
Looking at the scrap products on the side, Jiang Yan said, "I'll buy your scrap products, you can take the money!" ”
"How can you get so much money for these waste products! Besides, it's useless for you to buy my scrap! I don't sell! The old man still refused.
"Then let's calculate how much these scraps are worth and how much I will give you, and I will collect all the scraps after you. As for what I bought it for? You can rest assured, I will not lose money, I can sell to the scrap recycling station again without losing money. Jiang Yan didn't give up.
"Alas, young man, you are a good man!" Looking at Jiang Yan's persistence, the old man nodded and said.
After leaving the old man's "home", Jiang Yan felt depressed in his heart, and he felt that there were a lot of words in his heart that were unhappy.
"Jiang Yan's mood is heavy at this moment, and I don't know what words to use to express my heart. She, a 60-year-old man, went out to pick up waste every day in such weather, carrying dozens of pounds of waste and walking five kilometers to trade, just in exchange for a day's living expenses; She was just sixty years old, but she was oppressed by a miserable life like an eighty-year-old face. ”
She traveled thousands of miles from Hunan to the capital to see her son. But I don't know what made him come to the capital for three months, living alone in a dilapidated house that is about to be demolished, and making a living by picking up waste every day. I could hear the pride he felt in his son, but I don't know what the old man's son, what are you doing, what reason do you have for the old mother who gave birth to you and raised you to live such a miserable life. ”
Before leaving, Jiang Yan wanted to give her some money so that she would not live in that dilapidated house anymore, and let her stop picking up waste, even if it was only for two months, it would be good in the past hot summer! But even with such hardships in life, she still has her own persistence, she said that she has hands and feet, and she does not need charity. ”
Here, Jiang Yan appealed to the people she saw, she didn't need the handouts of money, she didn't need the sympathy of pity. But as a person with a conscience, please give her some help in time as much as you can! Even if people nearby put some useless waste in front of her door, even if people on the road help her carry a mile of pockets! ”
"It's not easy for her, that person I don't know the name, as the son she is proud of, how can you bear to see her living such a life?"
Jiang Yan, who couldn't calm down for a long time, posted a long paragraph on Weibo, and many people saw this Weibo, although they didn't know whether it was true or not, it didn't affect everyone's discussion.
"If this is true, then the old man's son is simply not a thing! That's my own mother! ”
"I really admire this old man! Obviously life is so difficult, can you still have such a backbone! ”
"Support Jiang Yan, when you are doing your best, please give this strong old man some help!"
"Stupid Jiang Yan, if you use such an old man to hype yourself, aren't you afraid of retribution?"
"That's it! How do people care about your, and use you to worry about it? Maybe people like to suffer, what do you care? Wouldn't you order anything other than grandstanding? ”
"The two fools upstairs go home and eat Xiang! Don't come out and bite people! ”
"I'm a fool of your mother, and if you don't have compassion, please don't lose the bottom line of being a man, okay? Do you have to let everyone know that you're not human? ”
"I don't understand, for a person like Jiang Yan, why every time he does something, so many people stand up to accuse him, oppose him, and sing him down? What was wrong with what he did? What is a violation of moral conscience?
He has been doing things quietly and diligently, but it seems that no matter what he does, there are always some people who don't like him!
At first, although I would complain about him, I really didn't like this person much. I just look at it from an objective point of view, as if I don't understand why so many people always find all kinds of reasons to criticize him, and I didn't understand why so many people like him, obviously he has so many shortcomings.
But now, I get it. Probably because he has never been treated gently by this world, but he can still treat this world well!
How can we not like such a person? From now on, the road will turn to a fan! ”
Regarding Jiang Yan's Weibo, everyone has mixed reviews, some praise him, and some scold him. He didn't care about any of this.
Lying on the bed, Jiang Yan thought a lot. This night, he lost sleep!
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Jiang Yan got up and went out after washing. Despite the insomnia night, despite the turmoil in his heart, he did not forget to send the landlord and aunt away today.
But when he knocked on the door of the landlord's aunt, there was no response. When he took the key to open the door and saw that there was no one inside, although he was in a bad mood, Jiang Yan couldn't help laughing: "Hey! This landlord aunt! Isn't it just going out for a few days without saying goodbye? It's like who would be sad! ”
"Gotcha! I don't need to send it, and I can save it! My least favorite thing is to see people off! Alas! Life has been sad since ancient times! After muttering a few words to himself, Jiang Yan turned around and closed the door and went out.
First, he took a taxi to the parking lot and drove his car, and Jiang Yan, who had a little confusion in his heart, drove away in Changping District.
Half an hour later, Jiang Yan parked the car in front of the martyrs' cemetery, picked up the flowers and wine he bought on the road and walked in.
Whenever Jiang Yan was in a bad mood, he felt bored and didn't want to communicate with people, and he would come here, and this habit had been more than three years.
Here, lying his brother!
Five years ago, Jiang Yan, who had just come to Beijing, found his first part-time job in his life. On the day of the salary, Jiang Yan was still very excited when he got the first money he earned, even if it was late at night.
There is an old saying that happiness is sorrowful, and in a small alley not far from the school, Jiang Yan also encountered robbers for the first time in his life.
At that time, Jiang Yan didn't have the ability he has now, and Jiang Yan, who swore to defend his salary to the death, accidentally pulled off the robber's face scarf, and didn't notice the fierce light in the robber's eyes. Fortunately, before the dagger was plunged into his heart, a passing armed police soldier heard the movement and rushed to save himself.
It was only afterwards that Jiang Yan learned that he was a murderer who was on the run when he took his life to rob the robbers, and when he learned that he really almost lost his life, Jiang Yan was naturally very grateful to his life-saving benefactor.
After coming and going, Jiang Yan slowly got acquainted with this life-saving benefactor called Wang Tiezhu, who was more than ten years older than himself and was the only son in the family. Growing up without a father, he was raised by his mother alone.
Wang Tiezhu was very competitive, and was admitted to the military academy in the capital in college, and after graduation, he became an armed police soldier, and became an officer within a few years.
Three years ago, Wang Tiezhu, who led the team on a dangerous mission, died, and Jiang Yan, who got the news, sat alone in front of Wang Tiezhu's tomb for a long time. He thought about helping him take care of his old mother, but he didn't know the news of his mother at all, and he had also been to the armed police force where Wang Tiezhu was, but he didn't get the news he wanted at all. Second, he didn't have that ability at that time, so Jiang Yan shelved this idea.
Now, the old man he met last night once again aroused Jiang Yan's thoughts, so he came here again.
"Lao Wang! Here I go again! Putting the flowers in front of Wang Tiezhu's tomb, Jiang Yan poured two glasses of wine and sat on the ground, "Old Wang! There are a lot of things I don't dare to say to others, so I can only run here to tell you, don't bother me! ”
After taking a sip of wine, Jiang Yan poured another cup in front of Wang Tiezhu's tomb: "Yesterday, I met an old man. When I saw her, I remembered my mother! Don't worry, Lao Wang, I said that if you leave, my mother will be taken care of by me! Although I'm a good braggadocio, I'm still reliable! ”
Jiang Yan sat alone in front of Wang Tiezhu's tomb, as if the two were sitting at the table drinking and gossiping: "Old Wang! It's not that my brothers don't do things, I also went to the army at the beginning, but I didn't ask for the news of our mother and was kicked out. I know you've been thinking about this, don't worry, I'll go tomorrow, tomorrow I'll go to investigate. Now that I have the ability, I'll take my mother over when I find out! ”
While speaking, Jiang Yan poured another glass of wine in front of the tomb: "Come, you drink!" Brother will be accompanied by you to drink, by car! I know you're a drunkard when you're fine! ”
"I don't understand! Why is there such a big gap between this person? You said that the old man I met yesterday, what a bastard his son is, let him live like this alone" Jiang Yanzheng said when a voice came out coldly behind him.
"My son is not like that, he also wants to be filial to me. He just can't do it! Jiang Yan, who was frightened into a cold sweat, turned his head when he heard the familiar choking sound, and saw the old man from last night standing behind him, with tears in his eyes.
"Is that you? Are you Lao Wang's mother? Jiang Yan was shocked.