Chapter 25: The Past Is Unbearable (2)
On summer nights, there are always a lot of bugs chirping outside the house. In this way, the whole environment is more tranquil.
Looking at the sleeping Qianyan, looking at this empty house, Ye Feng suddenly felt understandable, no wonder so many families in this time and space like to have a few more children. Aside from other factors, this liveliness alone is incomparable to a thin family.
Of course, in addition to the chirping bugs, there are also annoying mosquitoes. Unfortunately, there are no mosquito repellent artifacts such as mosquito coils in this plane. Yes, it's just wormwood picked by the lake and hung on the wall to repel mosquitoes with its scent.
But Ye Feng felt that the effect was not good, and it was better than nothing.
It's a pity that Ye Feng doesn't know how to extract technology, nor can he make those magical tools, so he has to hold a big pu fan to fight mosquitoes for Qianyan, and also fan himself to cool down.
I've been here for several months, except for drying some dried fish and planting some potatoes and sweet potatoes, but I haven't thought of what to do to make a fortune, which makes Ye Feng very discouraged.
No, you have to speed up and find ways to get rich.
Only when you are rich can you have silver. With silver, you have the confidence to find relatives and help others.
While thinking, he fanned Qianyan while paying attention to the movement in the yard.
Chen Jixing was reluctant to raise a dog, saying that not only did he have lice, but he also wasted food in vain. In this regard, Ye Feng is not easy to say. It's okay on weekdays, but at a time like now, it's nice to have a dog.
When Ye Feng felt that he couldn't hold it anymore and began to doze off, and he didn't dare to fall asleep, suddenly, he heard a knock on the door. At the same time, the barking of dogs in the vicinity also began to sound.
Suddenly, Ye Feng was completely sleepy, and came to the courtyard and asked who was outside the door.
Hearing the familiar voices of Ye and Chen Jixing, Ye Feng opened the door, let the two in, and quickly closed the door.
The Ye couple looked tired and disappointed. Fortunately, this is not the first time they have been disappointed, so they don't look too sad.
It's just that he is really tired, whether it is body or mind, Chen Jixing didn't say a word, after putting down his burden, he went to the stove to drink a big bowl of cold water, and went directly into the house to sleep without washing his feet.
But Ye didn't know what he was thinking, so he sat in the hall in a daze.
Ye Feng saw that the Ye family didn't plan to sleep yet, and it was not yet time to go to bed, so after thinking about it, he pulled the Ye family to the kitchen.
On the one hand, if the Ye family told these past events, he might feel a little better. And the stove room is far away from the sleeping place, so it will not disturb Chen Jixing and Qianyan father and daughter.
On the other hand, Ye Feng really wanted to know what the two of them were doing today and what their plans were in the future.
After all, if you are looking for someone, one day is not enough.
The Ye family had already regarded Ye Feng as his younger brother, and saw that Ye Feng took care of the family so well. Before last year, Ye Feng was not there, so they all put Qianyan in the Zhao family's house or Da Niu's mother's house.
But no matter how good other people's homes are, where is it good to have your own home.
Seeing that Ye Feng dragged himself to the stove, Ye Shi understood that Ye Feng must have wanted to know about the past, and he really wanted to find someone to talk to, so he didn't hide it, and told Ye Feng what happened.
It's just that after listening to it, Ye Feng felt that the past could not be dissipated like smoke many times, but might turn into a knot of sorrow and linger in his heart forever.
It turned out that there was really a sister on Qianyan, called Chen Qianyu. This is also the first child of Ye and Chen Jixing.
With the level of knowledge of the couple, they naturally can't come up with such a good name. At that time, it was Ye who was ruthless, and bought two catties of pork and a box of dim sum, which was given by Master Cen, who was still teaching in a private school in a neighboring village at that time.
This Master Cen has come to get benefits, and secondly, he has to show off his knowledge and talents, and because almost all the children of Chenjiacun's generation have learned from the word "thousand", and see Qianyu, this child is smiling, and his big eyes seem to be able to speak, so he also tried his best to give such a beautiful name.
Maybe you will feel that this name is nothing special, and it is not worth the silver and pastries that Ye Shi has to pay.
You think that way because you don't know the names of the other girls in the village. When you find a lot of "Xiaohong", "Xiaocui", "Peach Blossom", "Chrysanthemum", and "Fat Ya" in the village, you suddenly find a girl named "Qianyu", that feeling......
In this way, a box of dim sum and two catties of pork is also worth it, after all, the name has to follow people for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, a good name sometimes doesn't mean a good fate.
Because she is a girl, she has become a money-losing commodity in the mouths of Mrs. Liu and the Huang family, which is really in the way of their eyes. It's just that the Huang family is just proud, because her firstborn is a son.
However, Mrs. Liu was a little unwilling, after all, the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law both gave birth to sons one after another, and it stands to reason that this pregnancy should naturally pass on to the Ye family.
However, the Ye family failed to inherit this luck, could it be that the fortune-telling Taoist priest lied to her?
But after thinking about it, the Taoist priest's words didn't seem to be false, after all, he had made a straight judgment, saying that he was a blessed person, saying that his three daughters-in-law, including her youngest daughter Chen Wumei, would give birth to sons, and people would be prosperous and blessed.
And this judgment was realized one by one in the Huang family and the Zhu family, but it was broken in the Ye family, how can this be done? Will this affect my daughter? Even, will it affect your happiness in your old age?
Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu was in a hurry, seeing that Ye and Qianyu were also more impatient and unfriendly, always afraid that they would delay their daughter.
It's just that, no matter how bad it is, this is also her own granddaughter, and they live together, and they have to meet every day, and this Qianyu looks really cute, so although she regrets it in her heart, Mrs. Liu didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
It's because the Ye family can endure anything.
As long as you are kind to her Qianyu, dirty work, work in the field, work at home, do whatever you see, and have no complaints, you can be a male laborer.
Eight years ago, Qianyu was just over a year old at that time, and he had just learned to walk, and he smiled at everyone he met, not to mention how well-behaved and cute he was. The couple kept them as treasures, and even Chen Jixing, who was a little disappointed at the beginning and was not a brat, fell in love with this eldest daughter completely.
This child is indeed a little different, he speaks earlier than the average child, and he understands things earlier. Many times, she can guess something based on the behavior of adults. And Master Cen, who occasionally came to Chenjia Village to recruit apprentices, thought about whether this child was destined for him because of the gift, and often teased her, and occasionally taught her a few lines of poetry.
No, after learning to speak, the thousand words she read in her mouth were not pigs, cats, and dogs, but poems that the villagers couldn't understand.
One day, Uncle Li, a five-guarantee household and outsider in the village, died.
Because no one came to confess his relatives until he died, and he was a desperate household, the village chief mobilized the whole village to help send him on his last journey.
Of course, the villagers will not refuse.
After all, the dead are the greatest, and Uncle Zhao has been alone all his life, and he is also an excellent person. Since everyone can't help him during his lifetime, he can only have one last lively time when he dies, and it is not in vain for everyone to get acquainted.
The village chief took the lead in donating a few taels of silver and was responsible for the expenses such as buying the coffin. Naturally, the villagers were not so rich, but no one came empty-handed. This family took half a piece of bacon, that one pulled a few green vegetables, and the other brought half a bowl of vegetable oil.
Even Aunt Cha, who knew that she was taking advantage of a dime on weekdays, actually brought a green vegetable.
For a while, the people in the village were busy.
Men do manual work, move tables and chairs, chop firewood, and build long sheds; The woman scrubs the dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs, selects vegetables, washes vegetables, cooks rice, and steames vegetables. Ye saw that Qianyu was having fun with his friends, so he went to the stove to help steam the vegetables.
It's just that I'm a little worried about it, so I come out from time to time to take a look.
Who knows, but with a stick of incense, the child disappeared when he came out again. Ye Shi didn't care a few times and shouted a few times, but there was no response, and he searched carefully a few times, but he still couldn't be seen, so he panicked.
There was someone who was good with the Ye family, so he began to help find it. The result is still nowhere to be seen. The disappearance of the child is a big deal, and everyone knows about it for a while.
So everyone stopped what they were doing and looked for it together, but in the end they still didn't find it.
Ye fainted from crying at that time.
Huang pretended to care for a few words, and then went to sleep by himself. It was the Zhu family, who still had a little conscience, and helped the Ye family find it all night. This is also why Ye doesn't think Zhu hates it.
That night, Ye and Chen Jixing led a few villagers who had a good relationship on weekdays to hold torches and shouted loudly in the field and by the water over and over again. When I arrived at the lake, I used a bamboo pole to top the bottom of the lake, which looked very pitiful.
The Zhao family, who had always been good friends with the Ye family, couldn't help it anymore, and took advantage of the night to pull the Ye family aside under the pretext of helping to find someone, mysteriously, as if he was afraid that someone would see her.
Seeing that Ye's eyes were swollen from crying, Zhao, who originally regretted that he shouldn't have come, relented, plucked up his courage, and told everything he saw and thought.
"I remember very clearly, Da Niu's mother was a little apprehensive at first, and she thought about it for a long time before saying it to me," Zhao said embarrassedly.
"Big sister, let's talk about it first, you can't tell Qianyu that I said it, don't say it to anyone. Her man...... If I knew I was talking about it, I don't know what I would have said. ”
At that time, the Zhao family was newly widowed, with Chen Qianliang, who was about the same age as Qianyu, and faced the pressure of the clan asking her to remarry, and life was a sad time. If Mrs. Liu knew that she told the truth to the Ye family, I was afraid that this day would be even more difficult.
Mrs. Liu didn't dare to provoke the grumpy bull mother, but she definitely dared to have a way to make the Zhao family not a person inside and out.
"I was so desperate that I thought that Qianyu's child had probably fallen into the lake. But as soon as I heard Qianliang Niang say this, I knew that there must be some reason here. Qianyu's loss must have something to do with my good mother-in-law, so I grabbed Qianliangniang's hand, nodded solemnly, and swore never to tell anyone. ”
"It's really a coincidence. Didn't we cook in the kitchen, I went to the thatched house in the backyard due to internal urgency, and found that Uncle Zhao's thatched house was really unusable, and the roof on the roof collapsed, so I went home to go to the toilet. When the results came out, I saw Li Xiangu walking in the direction of the city with Qianyu, and your mother-in-law followed behind. I didn't think much about it, after all, your mother-in-law followed, and Aunt Li is also a child who likes to tease children on weekdays. That's why I didn't tell you either. ”
Zhao said to Ye while reminiscing.
Zhao said this, Ye suddenly remembered, indeed, Zhao said halfway that he wanted to go to the toilet, and when he came back, he went into the stove room and greeted her.
"Later, when you said a thousand words were gone, I didn't dare to say anything. If I look away, isn't it provoking the relationship between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? But I thought about it carefully, and I felt that it was impossible to be wrong in broad daylight. That's why I'm here to tell you. Da Niu's mother also said that she also saw it and said that it was ...... said that your mother-in-law was talking to that Li Xiangu, and I don't know what I said......"
After speaking, Zhao went home with the sleeping Qianliang.
It's just that she was very worried in her heart, because she told Ye what she said, and Ye would definitely not be able to help but confront Mrs. Liu.
In this way, it is inevitable that Mrs. Liu will not trouble her.
Before she got married, she had heard that the widow's life was difficult. Now that the man is dead, he has a personal experience.
Hearing this, Ye stayed in place without saying a word as if he had been struck by lightning, and looked at Chen Jixing, who was also frightened. In this gaze, there is incomprehension, unwillingness, and more anger.
Whisper? What else can I say, it's not that I want her to have a son.
Chen Jixing was squatting next to him in a daze, because Zhao didn't see it when it was dark, otherwise she wouldn't have said it. Chen Jixing squatted like that, listening to Zhao say those words that made him tremble.
He was completely frightened, motionless, and suddenly had a bad thought in his head. His mother doesn't like Qianyu, that's a fact that everyone knows. Now, Qianyu is gone, she must be inseparable.
It's just that when he came back to his senses, the Ye family was gone, and Chen Jixing secretly said that something was wrong, and he chased after him. In this case, if he is not present, his mother-in-law may not know what to do with his mother.
After chasing for a while, I saw that the Ye family was running home with a deep foot and a shallow foot in front.
The Ye family was angry, and he was young, so it took Chen Jixing a while to catch up. But the Ye family couldn't catch it at all like crazy, and only thought about running to the old mansion.
When he entered the house, Ye couldn't care about etiquette anymore, and couldn't help but wake up Mrs. Liu, and she was questioned by splitting her head and covering her face.
Mrs. Liu was also weak at this time, seeing that the Ye family was crazy like she was going to eat people, she naturally knew that she couldn't hide it, so she had to say 1510: "Then, I can't be blamed for this, I heard Li Xiangu say, as long as you bring the girl Qianyu to another Taoist temple in the city, and let her kneel in front of the statue of Guanyin Niangniang for one night, your second child can give birth to a child." ”
She said that she had a weak heart, but then she became angry again, "I'm also doing this for your good, so that San'er will have a future." Why are you panicking, and you didn't tell you because you were afraid that you would ruin such a good thing. Wait until dawn tomorrow and go to the city to pick up the child. ”
Hearing this, Ye Shi didn't say anything, and immediately pulled Chen Jixing, and the two of them didn't care that it was dark and the road was difficult, so they immediately set off to the city. I don't know why, she always doesn't believe Mrs. Liu's words.
Since it is to worship the Bodhisattva, it is enough to go to Lijia Village to worship, why do you have to go to the city?
As we all know, Li Xiangu was a native of Lijia Village before "entering the Tao", so there is also a Taoist temple on the back mountain of Lijia Village.
If you are so reluctant to seek the near and far, you will be tired.
When it was almost dawn, the two of them fell because it was dark, their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and Ye's hair was even more disheveled, red and swollen. I finally found out where the Taoist temple was, but what I saw was empty.
Ye was the first to understand that his heart was not good, and he and Chen Jixing rushed to the county office. I thought that this Li Xiangu only set off yesterday, and she was alone, with a child, and she couldn't go far.
If you report the case, you may be able to stop it.
Who knows, as soon as the two arrived at the yamen, they saw that a bunch of people had already gathered in front of the yamen, pointing and pointing, but they couldn't squeeze in at all. When everyone saw them like this, they looked pitiful, and they knew the reason, so they made way out.
After entering, I found that there were several couples standing in the yamen, or full of anxiety, or crying, and when I asked, I found out that their children were also taken away by Li Xiangu!
And the children who were taken away by Li Xiangu were both boys and girls. Li Xiangu's excuse for taking away the girl was to pray for the birth of a son, and the excuse for taking away the boy was to strengthen his body, and the title of the gold list.
When the yamen received the report, he was also panicked, because he lost seven or eight children at once, and they were all related to that Li Xiangu, and it looked like a long-planned abduction. If you can't find it, it's a trivial matter to blame the boss and lose your job.
After all, every county has lost children, but it's really rare to lose seven or eight at once like this.
Therefore, as soon as they received the report, the officials hurried to the Taoist temple. It's just a pity that by the time they arrived, the Taoist temple was already empty, and the children were naturally gone.
At this point, everyone realized that Li Xiangu's identity as a Taoist aunt was fake, and she was actually a flower child. Even if she wasn't Hanako, it was she who tricked the child out and sold it to those real Hanako.
I have to say that this is really selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, under the banner of Daogu, but what he is doing is abducting children, even the Bodhisattva dares to deceive, it is really a dog's guts, and he should go to eighteen layers of hell.
The yamen had no choice but to let the families of the lost children register and make a register, and then let them go home and wait for news.
After going back, the Ye family naturally quarreled with Mrs. Liu.
Ye's is not a pungent temperament on weekdays, and he can endure anything. But I didn't know what was going on at noon that day, my temper changed greatly, and I quarreled with Mrs. Liu endlessly, and I was still clamoring to split up, and finally alarmed the village chief.
No matter how much the village chief coordinated, she couldn't even threaten to divorce.
The two sides were at a stalemate, at this time, I don't know who of the three of Huang, Zhu or Mrs. Liu pushed Ye's hand, Ye's was already exhausted and very weak after a night of tossing, and he didn't support it for a while, and fell heavily to the ground.
And that's not all.
In this fall, Ye Shi only felt unbearable abdominal pain, she screamed in pain, and then warm liquid flowed out with her legs, and she fainted on the spot.
The crowd was in a panic and called the doctor. As soon as the doctor diagnosed and treated, he shook his head with some regret and said, the child is three months old, and according to the pulse, it should be a male fetus. It's a pity that the fall was too heavy and I couldn't save it.
Ye suddenly had a miscarriage, which hurt him very much, and he learned that the son in his womb had lost his life. Thinking of the trials and tribulations he suffered after he got married, as well as the thousands of words who didn't know his whereabouts, the Ye family has been breaking up since he woke up.
Mrs. Liu knew that she was at a loss, and she also understood that it would not be good for her to continue to make trouble, after all, her youngest daughter Chen Wumei had not yet left the cabinet, so she agreed after thinking about it. But except for pots and pans, the rest are unwilling to divide anything, so separating the family is equivalent to leaving the house.
Ye gritted his teeth and agreed.
Fortunately, both of them are young and healthy, and more than a year later, the couple has a thousand words.
Master Cen was pitiful to the two, he didn't want anything, and took the initiative to name Qianyan. When Ye heard this name, his heart was full of gratitude. Although it can't be replaced, there is a comfort in the end.
Since then, every year on the day of Qianyu's abduction, on June 1 every year, the couple will go to the city once. Go to see if there is any news from the Yamen, and go to the famous Big Buddha Temple on the outskirts of the city to worship the Bodhisattva.
Finally, I went shopping, looking forward to meeting each other while shopping. But Ye Feng knew that even if he encountered it, he wouldn't recognize it. After all, Qianyu was just over a year old when he left, and now, he should be eight or nine years old.
After listening to Ye's story, Ye Feng sighed, and had already burst into tears, for the harm of superstition, for the ignorance of Mrs. Liu, and for the slim hope of finding abducted children in the vast sea of people.
In modern society, although the illegal and criminal act of child abduction and trafficking has been effectively curbed, the temptation of huge profits makes traffickers take risks, and children are still lost and abducted every year.
In the end, only a very small number of successful ones were found, and they were all supported by modern technology such as all the parents of the lost children going to the public security organs to collect blood for free and register DNA.
However, in these ancient times, what did parents rely on to find their lost children? Although I used to be a volunteer to find relatives, I still feel the same confusion when I think about it now.
Perhaps, all people can do is to be like Ye and Chen Jixing, after going to the Yamen for the record, there is only endless waiting.
If you're lucky, you may be able to wait until the day when your family is reunited. However, many more, perhaps, like modern families who have lost their children, have waited all their lives until they regretfully leave this world.
Die with a grievance or everlasting regret.
Besides, it's just a son who is lost, but it's just a hard life as a coolie, becoming a flower child or a thief. Losing a daughter like Ye's is the real pain.
Qianyu is a girl, and it is the best ending to be sold to a legitimate family as a child daughter-in-law or maid. If they enter those dirty places, even if they are found, no matter how much Ye and Chen Jixing want to recognize this daughter, it will never be possible.
In this damn time and space, reputation and prestige are often much more important than lives. And the clan power is sometimes far more powerful than the government.
A child whose life is tainted is forever excluded from the clan.
Therefore, even if Chen Jixing and Ye found poor Qianyu, if she really fell into the dust, what should Ye do when the time comes?
Thinking of this, Ye Feng's heart ached. But compared to Ye's, what is this pain?
In this world, there are many people who are heartbroken because of despair, but the heart of a mother like Ye, who is heartbroken because she lost her child, may be the most painful.
Ye Feng began to think, what can he do?
You have to do something about it!
So, he secretly vowed that when he had the financial means, he would definitely go to various places to do a propaganda tour, calling on all families who had lost their children to gather together to fight and prevent human traffickers;
When he has the ability, he must call on the whole country to take action, donate money, raise a fund, set up a special fund, deposit it in the bank, and use the proceeds to provide a little financial assistance to the families of the lost children;
When he has the financial means, he will definitely set up a special tracing agency, organize a group of volunteers, and set up branches across the country, responsible for counting the information of local lost children. Hold regular family tracing meetings to organize parents who have lost their children and orphans who can't find their homes to gather together to recognize each other's relatives;
When he has the financial ability, he will definitely write some of his own ideas and submit them to the judicial department, share with them how modern society prevents and punishes the heinous behavior of child trafficking, and work together to formulate laws and regulations suitable for this time and space.
When he has the financial means, he will definitely ......
What's more, if everything the master said is true, then Ye Feng himself is also a child who has been trafficked.
Where are his parents?
Now that he had a chance to come to this plane, and unfortunately was an abducted child, he would do something!
The author has something to say: The reason why the article set the date of Qianyu's abduction on June 1 is because this day is International Children's Day. It is a hope that no more children will be trafficked in the world. And a few years ago, I happened to see a column called "Waiting for Me". If you have time, I recommend you to watch CCTV-1's large-scale public welfare search column. The program will help people find their relatives for free, and will also popularize some anti-trafficking and anti-domestic violence policies and regulations. Those who have energy, ability, love and ideas can even try to join the ranks of tracing volunteers.