Liang Guocheng stepped up the aisle and touched the familiar black door, his heart suddenly sour, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh. He has lived on campus since he was in middle school, and he reunites with his family during the winter and summer vacations every year. At that time, he was a young man with strong flesh and blood, full of hope for the end, and a young man who was determined to serve the country with knowledge; Now I have come back and am disabled on crutches, or I am illegally smuggled back to China, and there is no hope for someone who does not know the end.

He snapped the knocker and snapped, snapped, knocked a few times. After a pause, I heard the door open inside: "Who?" Three watches in the middle of the night. ”

The door opened, and Liang Guocheng saw the old man at home: "Uncle Cao, it's me." ”

The old fellow stared at him for a moment, stare at him in a daze; As if suddenly frightened, he took a step back, pointed at him with his finger and trembled, and said, "Are you?" You are? You're alive? ”

Liang Guocheng knocked on the door and saw an acquaintance, and he was full of it. The old man treated him like a dead man again, apparently a little upset. Pointing to his nose and saying, "Let's take a look, I'm Liang Guocheng, I'm coming home!" ”

Uncle Cao stepped forward again, looked at Liang Guocheng, and touched his face with his hand. As if he had just been confirmed, he slapped his thigh and said, "It's really a little young master!" Are you still alive? ”

Liang Guocheng felt that he had something in his words and asked, "Of course I live!" Who said I was dead? ”

Uncle Cao shook his hand and squatted on the ground: "You kid, it's too late, it's too late." ”

Liang Guocheng was confused: "Is there something wrong at home?" ”

Uncle Cao stood up abruptly again, angrily pointed at him with the cigarette pouch in his hand and trembled: "After the Korean War is over, the whole country is celebrating victory. The owner received a notice of your death, and your grandfather's kind old owner carried it back at that time, and passed away before dawn the next day. ”

"What about my parents?"

"They also passed away the next year because of Si'er."

Liang Guocheng couldn't help crying. He returned to China with great hardship because he had a home in China and relatives who loved him, but now he was captured because he was injured and thrown out of the prisoner of war camp thinking he was dead, and he was put on the death list. It is equivalent to killing three relatives indirectly, and he has no close relatives, and now he is almost an orphan.

Fortunately, there is still this shop, which can be regarded as their home for him, without this home, there is not even a place to live tonight. Thousands of miles from the northeast to Shanxi, it was too tired and cold. Now that he is home, the guy will get him food to eat, and then he wants to go into the house to warm up and sleep. He turned around and tried to enter the door, but Uncle Cao stretched out his hand to stop him.

"You're not the shopkeeper anymore. I'm not your buddy anymore. I now have a new term, a worker in a state store. That is to say, this store is no longer your family, but now it is national. After Uncle Cao finished speaking, he was a little proud.

Liang Guocheng was anxious. Without a store, he would have neither relatives nor a home. If there is nothing, this cold day can only freeze and starve to death. When he was in the Northeast, he chatted with Li Guizi, and probably knew that China had a public-private partnership with the old private shops, and the state still retained private shares in the stores. Even if a loved one dies, he should also be the legal heir, he can still have a home, and he can live a worry-free life. Why did his store become state-run?

He asked eagerly: "Other people's families are public-private partnerships, why did my family go to the public?" ”

Uncle Cao sighed and said, "Before the public-private partnership, the civil affairs department sent him a notice of death. Then the old owner and the owner died of each other, because your family has no heirs, and it is not that the state does not give you shares. Later, I found out that you have an uncle in the country, and according to the policy, he can inherit the shares. However, he was a poor peasant before liberation, and he had already drawn a clear line with your family, and he resolutely did not want the floating wealth of the landlords and capitalists. ”

Speaking of Liang Guocheng's uncle, he had met once or twice when he was at home, and his image was blurry. Liang Guocheng's grandfather has two sons under his knees, and his hard life can be regarded as accumulating a lot of wealth. There are dozens of acres of land in the village, and there are grain shops in the city. Because his wife died early, after the two sons became a family, the old man divided the family for the two sons.

The property was divided into a part of the grain store in the city with a back yard, a share of the land and a house in the village, and Liang Guocheng's father chose to go to the city to do business, and his second uncle naturally stayed in the village. Originally, one was doing business, and the other was farming, although he was not rich and expensive, but he also had no worries about food and clothing. Later, his second uncle accidentally made friends and learned to smoke a big cigarette, and in only a few years, he lost his family business and became a poor man.

Xiaoyu's father was a cloth wholesaler in Shanghai, and he wanted to expand his business in several provinces, so he chose the honest Liang Yuanchao. If he was only engaged in the grain business, his family could not afford to go to Beijing to go to university except for daily expenses. Later, after he doubled as a cloth retailer, the business became bigger and bigger, and he went to Beijing to go to university, and then he had a relationship with Xiaoyu.

His second uncle's real name is Liang Yuande, and after losing the family business, his wife and children also stayed away from him. Since then, he has been even more broken and broken, living without overnight food in the summer, no winter clothes, stealing the owner and stealing the west, and the neighbors see him like hiding from the plague god. When he was helpless, he also came to Liang Yuanchao.

In order to make him quit smoking, Liang Yuanchao did not give him cash, but only bought him clothes and gave him some food. But after a few days, the clothes were changed into cigarettes, and the food was sold for money, and when it ran out, it was found again. Before the liberation, no one knew how he came into contact with the People's Liberation Army. After liberation, he actively participated in the peasant association, successfully quit smoking and became a cadre, and is now the village secretary.

Liang Guocheng wanted to cry without tears, and responded to the party's call to "resist US aggression and aid Korea, protect the family and defend the country" and is now physically disabled, and he does not even have a place to stay. It is now starting from the Northeast, running for a few days in a row, cold and hungry, I thought that no matter how hard I was outside, I would have the care of my family at home, and I immediately became a treasure.

The reality is that there is not even a place to live, let alone a hot meal. Wherever you go tonight, you can't sleep on the streets. If you sleep on the streets of the city, you may be caught by patrolling police. He is still a black household, smuggled back from North Korea, and is still not recognized by the organization. The most important thing is to have a family, but only his uncle, whom he has only met a few times, is his only relative.

He said goodbye to Uncle Cao and walked towards his old village. The old village was twenty miles from the city, and he entered the village at dawn. Northerners have the habit of waking up early, with women serving breakfast and men carrying water to clean the yard. The village is filled with smoke, showing a vibrant scene. Liang Guocheng has left the village with his family for many years since he was a child, and his impression of the village is vague. He inquired all the way, and the second uncle had lived back in his old house.

It turned out that Liang Yuande sold out his land because of smoking a lot of cigarettes before liberation, and sold his family's house to the landlord of the village. After the liberation, the land reform confiscated the floating wealth of the landlords, and the houses were distributed to the poor. Liang Yuande lost his family business before liberation, and after liberation, because he did not have any production tools and land, his composition was determined to be abject poverty, and because on the eve of liberation, he risked his life to work for the party. He was divided back into the old yard house, but now it was not his family, and there were four families living in the whole yard.

Liang Yuande is the secretary of the village branch, and his home is a high-rise house due north. I got up early today, and I was not busy working in the field in winter, sitting on the square table and chair in the living room and smoking cigarette bags. In order to resist the cold wind in the north, thick curtains are hung on the doors in winter.

The curtain was lifted, and someone entered his house. Recently, he has been a little annoyed, it turns out that the working group is in the village, and has repeatedly advertised that there is something to find them, but in history, the Chinese are afraid of officials, and few people look for them. He had only taken over as secretary for a few days after the working group left, and the people looking for him had almost leveled the threshold. Even some people ran away and pigs came to him after they baked their nests, as if he were half-immortals.

"Second uncle!" Liang Guocheng took the initiative to say hello.

Because he goes to school all the year round and doesn't see Liang Guocheng much, he still has the impression that he is still a child. After the liberation, because of the division of the two classes, contact was almost severed. It wasn't until the government informed him that he had inherited his brother's fortune that he learned that his parents and sisters-in-law had all died, and that even their only child had died in the Korean War.

Although I was also sad when my mother died, I remembered that when they found his door when he was in the most difficult time, they only gave him some food, and did not give a dime to pick the door, and he had nothing in his heart. He put down the cigarette pouch in his hand, stood up and stared at him for a while, shook his head and said, "Who are you?" ”

"Second uncle, it's me, Xiao Chengzi!"

When Liang Yuande heard that he was dead, the government let him inherit the property. Don't be that liar, but I think it looks a little like that. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Xiao Chengzi has already died in North Korea." ”

Liang Guocheng clarified himself, holding two crutches and explaining: "I was just wounded and captured, but I came back late." ”

Liang Yuande asked in surprise: "Were you captured by the enemy?" ”

He hurriedly told the story of being captured from beginning to end, and repeatedly explained that he was captured only after he was wounded and covered his comrades who had fainted. He also talked about the suffering in North Korea and the help of his comrades-in-arms along the way back from smuggling. When he began to believe that Liang Guocheng was his brother's child, there was also a trace of joy in his heart. Because although he has started a family and has smoked a lot, he has never had children under his knees.

According to the traditional concept of the Chinese, "there are three unfilial pieties, and no future is great" has always been a major matter on the head. He also considered adopting a child, which was not his own. Although he has a grudge with his eldest brother, his children have only met a few times since they were children, and they have only met him a few times.

When Liang Guocheng talked about being captured later, he lived in North Korea for a few years, and smuggled back to his country. He frowned, his first reaction was that he might betray the revolution, and that the kid had become a shameful traitor. He considered himself a person who had contributed to the liberation of Taiyuan, regarded his family as a revolutionary family, and despised those landlords and old fortunes before liberation.

Now he looks down on Liang Qide, and only people from bourgeois families can betray the revolution. The traitors of the revolution must not be allowed to stay and insult a revolutionary family. In order for him and his family not to be affected, only the righteous destruction of relatives can clear himself.

He changed his face and grinned and asked him to sit down. He said to the old woman in the back room, "His aunt, Xiao Chengzi is here." Get him something to eat. I'll go out for a bit. ”

Since Li Guizi's house came out, he has been worried all the way, and now he finally feels like he is going home. Eating hot hometown meals, the home is warm and warm, and I dozed off while eating. I haven't slept well for a few days, and the second aunt has finished the futon and fallen asleep comfortably. Xiangxiang, who was sleeping, woke him up with a noise.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was pulled off the kang by two people. He put him on the edge of the kang and tied him with rope. He was a little frightened, didn't know what was going on, and looked for his second uncle with his eyes for help. Seeing him standing at the door of the house and tiptoeing into the house, he called out to the second uncle, and he lowered his head and turned around and walked out of the door. No matter how high his ideals are, as long as his conscience is not extinguished, he will not be able to face reality!