Chapter 31: The tragic death of his parents
readx; Chinese New Year's Eve, the goose-feathered university fluttered and fell to the ground, the trees on both sides of the street were also covered in silver, and the sound of firecrackers outside the window was deafening, waking up Gu Chen, who was still sleeping. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
I took the alarm clock and saw that it was almost nine o'clock.
Gu Chen got up and finished washing, and saw Gu Xingxing holding his mobile phone on the sofa alone and dialing non-stop.
"Where's your parents? I'm going to go to the grave in a while" This town custom, on the morning of the 30th to go to worship the ancestors.
"Mom and Dad didn't come back last night, and they didn't answer the phone," said Xing Ying also anxiously.
"What did you do yesterday, why haven't you come back yet" Gu Chen felt that something was wrong, the three of them in the New Year today were supposed to be family reunions.
"It seems that yesterday someone said that Qingchang Petroleum forcibly expropriated our family's farmland, and my parents have never come back since they left," Gu said.
"You stay at home, I'll go out and have a look" Before Gu Chen's words fell, two uniformed policemen pushed open the door, "Who is Gu Jie's family."
Gu Jie is Gu Chen's father.
"I'm Gu Jie's son," Gu Chen was stunned, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, something would happen to his parents, right? .
"Your parents have an accident, and they are ...... in the government compound"
Before the police could finish speaking, Gu Chen took Gu Xingyun's hand and ran out.
The township government is located in the center of the town, Gu Chen and Gu Xingxing trotted all the way to the government, and found that a large number of town residents were pouring in front of the government.
Seeing Gu Chen and Gu Xingxing coming, the crowd subconsciously moved out of the way, looking at Gu Chen, Gu Xingxing's eyes showed a trace of pity, yes pity.
Gu Chen walked through the crowd and saw the scene in front of him, Gu Chen's eyes were stunned, there were five corpses lying in front of the government, and the corpses were covered with white cloths.
Gu Chen walked gently in front of the five corpses, his hands trembling to uncover the white cloth, and when he saw the two bloody faces, he fell to his knees with a thud, and tears flowed down his faces.
"Mom and Dad, what's wrong with you, you were fine yesterday, why are you going to do it today..."
"How could my parents be gone, say, say" Gu Chen grabbed one of the policemen and asked.
"Yesterday, the excavator was operated improperly, an accident occurred, and your parents were unfortunately killed, you can rest assured that we will deal with it properly" The policeman slapped Gu Chen away and grabbed his hand.
"Damn, what is the improper operation, it is clear that you are careless of human life, do not agree with your requisition of farmland, you actually hire members of the underworld, beat and intimidate, and finally deliberately crushed to death the innocent people who obstructed your construction with an excavator," another family member of the deceased cursed indignantly.
"Folks, let's all disperse, I promise to give you a satisfactory answer, let's all disperse" At this moment, the mayor of the town appeared at the right time.
"You're all bought, the oil devils are complicit in you, a nest of snakes and rats," someone in the crowd roared and shouted.
An uncle of Gu Chen's own family, who worked in the town government, quietly walked up to Gu Chen and told Gu Chen: Yesterday, more than 100 "armed personnel" of the Qingda Petroleum Organization took advantage of the approaching New Year to quietly go to Gu Chen's house to cultivate the land.
"If you don't find out the culprit today, don't want to leave, my parents are dead in vain, I want to send Lao Tzu away in a word, don't even think about it" Gu Chen listened to his uncle's words and said undoubtedly.
"Hand over the perpetrators and give justice to the dead" The crowd of onlookers was indignant.
At this moment, four or five pickup trucks came into the street, and the pickup truck compartment was full of people, and thirty or forty people with iron rods, wooden sticks, and machetes came out of the cars.
Holding a weapon and rushing to the crowd of onlookers, "Hit me, kill me" led by a middle-aged man in a suit and tie stood at the gate of the government and looked down on the crowd condescendingly.
The police did not know when, and there was no trace of the withdrawal.
How could a defenseless peasant beat a mafia element with a weapon in his hand, and after a while, the onlookers were beaten by the mafia and their heads were bleeding and bruised all over their bodies, and they kept wailing.
"Stop, Chinese New Year's Eve, I don't want to kill, go back, the family of the deceased stay, I will give you a satisfactory answer, the middle-aged man in a suit said, under the attack of sticks and candy, many townspeople can only succumb to their obscenity and disperse."
Gu Chen and more than a dozen other family members of the deceased stood at the door sadly, looking more and more cold.
"Brother, my parents are gone, and we are still being bullied by them, what should I do" Gu Xingxing lay on Gu Chen's shoulder and cried with pear blossoms.
"Xingxing, don't be afraid, there is a brother here" Gu Chen comforted Gu Xingxing in a low voice.
"Okay, don't cry, people can't be resurrected after death, everyone will pay 100,000 yuan, go in and sign a contract with me to be exempted, take the money back, 100,000 yuan is a lot, how many years will it take you to earn it back."
"I slaughtered you and gave you 100,000 yuan, do you agree?" Gu Chen stared at the middle-aged man with a slanted eye.
"Hmph, where did the little rabbit come from, I will explain it to you today, do you like the money, do you want to sue, go casually, go to the county? City? Provincial? ”
"Xingyi, take your parents home with your brother" Gu Chen walked beside his parents' corpses, wanting to take his parents home.
"Wait, don't take someone with you after signing the contract," the middle-aged man mocked.
Gu Chen stared at the middle-aged man with sneer, "Boy, it seems that you don't give up if you don't get to the Yellow River, hit me, kill this kid."
The underworld elements, as soon as they rushed up, Gu Chen was kicked to the ground in an instant, holding his head in both hands, and a group of people pressed Gu Chen,
"Don't fight, don't fight, I'll sign, I'll sign," Gu Xingxing pulled away from the crowd vigorously, and her thin body shrank back.
"It would have been nice to say that earlier," the middle-aged man stopped beating Gu Chen's underworld elements, full of arrogance.
......
The kind-hearted villagers pulled Gu Chen's parents in a car to the morgue in the town.
"Brother, are you okay?" Gu Xingxing helped Gu Chen, who was covered in bruises, on the way home.
"It's okay, Xingxing," Gu Chen smiled reluctantly at Xingxing.
Back at their home on West Street in the town, the brother and sister looked at the empty home, and overnight, they were separated from their parents.
"Mom and Dad's bones are not cold, bury my parents tomorrow, let's bury them as soon as possible." Gu Chen said in a deep voice.
"Woo woo, I miss Mom and Dad," Gu Xingxing wailed.
"Good girl, let's cry" It's good to cry out, Gu Xingyun lay on Gu Chen's shoulder and cried.
Gradually, Gu Xingxing was tired of crying, and slept in Gu Chen's arms, her long eyelashes were wet with tears, and her face was full of tears.
Gu Chen hugged Gu Xingxing and put Gu Xingxing on the bed, Gu Chen held Gu Xingxing's hand with one hand, Gu Xingxing was often awakened at night, Gu Chen had been sitting by Gu Xingxing's side like this.
The next day, Gu Xingxing woke up slowly, "Brother, haven't you slept all night?" I dreamed that my mom and dad were making my favorite snack, woo woo.... I miss my parents."
"Be good, be strong, don't you still have a brother?"
In the morning, many relatives came to Gu Chen's house, and with the help of relatives, Gu Chen's parents were buried in the ancestral grave of the Gu family.
Gu Xingxing watched the loess gradually bury the coffin, and finally couldn't help but lose her voice in pain.
"Xingxing, don't cry, be strong" Gu Chen held back his tears and gently pulled Gu Xingxing away.
A ridge of loess, the two Gu Chen's closest relatives left completely.
"Brother, my parents are gone, I only have you as a relative"
Gu Chen patted Gu Xingxing kissed Gu Xingxing and didn't say anything.
The relatives patted Gu Chen Gu Xingyun's shoulders one by one and sighed in a low voice.
When Gu Chen and Gu Xingxing were left in front of the grave, looking at the photos of their parents on the stone tablet, Gu Chen secretly swore in his heart that he would not avenge this revenge and be a son of man in vain.
The brother and sister stood for a long time before they helped each other back to their home on West Street.