However, when he stood at the gate of the familiar and unfamiliar courtyard, looking at the big lock hanging on the courtyard door, his heart fell to the deep valley in an instant.

"Comrade, who are you looking for?"

A middle-aged man with a medium head, wearing circled glasses, and a plain-looking man pushed a bicycle out of the courtyard next door, apparently going to work.

"Are you Uncle Li?"

Ye Mingyi slowly pretended to be overhead, looked at the man who asked him, and in an instant, his eyes lit up, and he confirmed again: "Uncle Li, you are Uncle Li, right?" I'm Mingyi, do you remember me, I'm Ye Mingyi. ”

"Mingyi?"

The middle-aged man stared at Ye Mingyi and muttered in his mouth, and when he found that the face in front of him was six or seven points similar to a person's face, a touch of panic flashed in his eyes: "You really have to be Mingyi?" Forcibly calming down, he said truthfully: "I do have the surname Li, and I do know a child named Mingyi, but I don't have any impression of you." "Steady, don't panic, listen to what the other party has to say first.

"Uncle Li, I'm Mingyi, can you tell me where my mother and my younger siblings are now?"

Ye Mingyi walked two steps away from the middle-aged man and stood still, tears flashed in his eyes, and his voice sounded particularly hoarse: "It's been more than twenty years since I left home, Uncle Li, just tell me, whether my mother and my younger siblings have moved away, or are they ......?"

"Let's go into the courtyard and sit down."

The middle-aged man turned the head of the bicycle and quietly invited Ye Mingyi into his yard.

"Dad, this is ......" The middle-aged man's daughter-in-law walked out of the house and saw her man pushing a bicycle back into the courtyard, followed by a tall and handsome gay man, who was busy greeting people and asked the man in a low voice about Ye Mingyi's identity.

"Go to your class, men's business is not in charge."

The tone of this speech is machismo when you hear it.

"Then I'll go, don't be late." There was no displeasure on the woman's face, as she spoke, she looked at the two wings on the east side of the courtyard, and shouted in a voice that was not particularly loud: "Guoqiang, Guoyan, hurry up and wash up, otherwise, you will be late for work!" ”

"Got it, Mom."

The voice of an adult man wafted out of one room, but in the other, it was as quiet as ever.

The woman shouted at the door of the silent wing room again: "Guoyan, if you are late again, this month's salary will be deducted from the factory." ”

"Mom, can you stop being verbose, I'll squint again and get up immediately."

The girl's obvious voice of getting up came to the courtyard, which made the woman's face hot for a while, and she smiled at Ye Mingyi embarrassedly.

Ye Mingyi nodded politely, and was invited into the living room by the middle-aged man, which was arranged in a main room.

"More than 20 years have passed, and your kid has been gone for more than 20 years, but you know that your mother's eyes are red and swollen from crying every day to find you......" The middle-aged man made a cup of tea and put it in front of Ye Mingyi, and then looked a little melancholy, slowly recounting those old events. Hearing that his mother took his younger brothers and sisters to find him after he left home, and then never returned to Beijing, the tears in Ye Mingyi's eyes fell uncontrollably: "What about my father, has my father ever come back?" Trying to contain his emotions, he raised his hand to wipe his tears and asked the middle-aged man in a choked voice.

"No, your dad hasn't come back."

The middle-aged man said, sighed lightly, and comforted Ye Mingyi: "Don't be sad, no news doesn't mean that your father and mother and your younger brothers and sisters have had an accident, maybe they are living well in other places." ”

(End of chapter)