Chapter Twenty-Three: Getting Out of Prison is Like a World Away
After the first month of the new year, after the second day of February, the atmosphere of the year slowly receded, the weather began to gradually warm, and the work in the fields could begin to be done one after another.
Wang Chenglong still has a period of time after leaving school, and he can help her mother bring her younger brother and Guisheng.
In the toilet in the backyard, the feces accumulated in a winter have been piled up into icebergs, if they don't fall into the ground, it will be difficult to clean up when the weather warms up.
Spread a layer of fine soil in the frame of the rack car, and then use a shovel to smash the frozen manure open, cart after cart, trip after trip, all to fatten the land and make a good harvest this year. In one morning, a woman can pull back and forth twice, taking advantage of the fact that the ground is not completely thawed, and do the odds and pieces that can be done first.
What to plant in the vacated land this year, Wang Defa woman still didn't think well, an acre of winter wheat has been planted, leaving a piece of land, she wants to plant some corn, the weather is warm and buy a pig baby to raise, the feed is also available, the pig can't eat, and the sale can also subsidize some households. Since Wang Defa went in, the family has not raised New Year's pigs. I can come back this year and raise a pig for a good New Year.
In the past five years, women have not managed this family as rich and wealthy as others, but it can definitely be said to be in order. This is already very remarkable, and everyone also appreciates Wang Defa's woman, a woman, in such a situation, can insist on guarding the child and guarding this broken family, and there is no second one within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
After the end of this year, the woman has obviously changed a lot from previous years, she has the motivation to do everything, and she also has a hope, all because Wang Defa is coming back. So, what is home? Home is to have women, men, and children, as for the era of Wang Chenglong, it is difficult to say that home is still not this definition, at least for now, a family is inseparable from men and women.
During the visit, the official said that Wang Defa would be able to go through all the formalities by the end of March and be released from prison in early April. The woman counted every day with her fingers crossed, and the closer the time came, the more nervous she became. She didn't know what she was worried about, and she didn't know what Wang Defa should do from the moment she stepped out of the iron gate. Why do you want to do so much, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.
Wang Chenglong has already started school, Wang Laidi and Wang Guisheng can only let Wang Defa's elderly mother watch, the child is older, and he is also naughty, and he either fights or quarrels one day. There's no way, now there is a shortage of people at home, so I can barely watch it without falling or knocking.
As in previous years, women are scheduled to see Wang Defa on Saturdays, so that Wang Chenglong can still be at home for a while.
This Saturday is the last visit in five years, and Wang Defa is about to come out. The woman cleaned herself up a little and went to the county on a tricycle early in the morning.
"When we come over next week, we'll be able to go home."
"yes, I know."
"When I came, I brought you a new dress and shoes, and I threw away all the things I used in them, and brought them home to be unlucky."
"Okay, there's one thing, I want you to communicate with you, I don't want to go home after I go out, I want to go outside." Wang Defa said.
"Not going home? What are you going to do if you don't go home? It's been five years, I've been both a man and a woman at home, and I finally waited for you to come out, but you're going to run away again? ”
"It's not that I want to run, I really don't know how to go back, I don't have the face to go back."
Wang Defa got to the point, he didn't have the face to go home to meet people, and it was also the fear of the blank in the past five years that made him want to escape.
"I have been sitting in the class room for five years, why can't I go back to my own home, you are thinking too much, I will take the child to pick you up next week, no matter how hard you feel in your heart, as long as you cross that hurdle, it will be fine slowly." Don't think about anything else, don't you have to face everything? ”
"I'll see it then, so go back first."
"Okay, let's come over early next week, I'll go back first, don't think about anything, we'll wait for you to go home."
A woman's wisdom lies in the fact that she understands everyone in her family, what Wang Defa thinks in her heart, in fact, she knows it very well. Yes, not to mention Wang Defa, even she herself is not psychologically prepared for this man to be released from prison. When Wang Defa was arrested, the Wang family felt the scolding of the whole team and even the whole town, and five years later, when he returned to the same place, who knows what the situation will be.
When a woman comes home, in addition to the normal work at home and in the field, she will pack up the things she can think of to bring to Wang Defa every day, for fear that she will leave behind the things she wants to use. At the same time, every night at dinner, she had to mention to the three dolls that Dad was coming back, and tried to see how the three of them reacted.
The boss Wang Jackie Chan knows best, she knows that this man is going to be released from prison, and she still wants it a little from the bottom of her heart, but the mantra on her lips is: "I won't go!" ”
When the second brother Wang Laidi and Wang Guisheng heard that they could go to the county seat and take a tricycle again, they would only say happily, "I'll go!" I'll go too! ”
The woman knows that Wang Chenglong's work is not easy to do, and the doll has her own thoughts and concerns when she grows up, but she feels that picking up Wang Defa back this time is a good opportunity to draw an end to the past five years. At the same time, it is also the best time to open a new page in this home. Wang Chenglong has to go, and there are still a few days to do her work slowly.
There are not many things prepared by women, but they are all new. A new set of dark gray tunics was recently made according to Wang Defa's size, and the shoes were the new cloth shoes she had in the house in winter.
"Jackie Chan, you have to go with your mother to pick up your father on Saturday."
"I've already said I'm not going, I'm not going."
"You heard my mother say, I didn't mean to force you, you are also a student baby, and you have also studied, your father is at fault, he has broken the law, but I told you, he has done something wrong, he has paid the price for five years, think about it, he is your father, you are his daughter, sister, brother and I all go, why? Because we are the closest person to him now, if even we can't forgive him and accept him, then who else can accept it, right? After all, the past has passed, and when your dad comes out this Saturday, all this will come to an end, and our family will be a complete family. If you don't go, how uncomfortable it will be when your father steps out of the iron gate. ”
"I just don't want to go, I don't want to go whatever you say." Wang Chenglong's tone softened a little, but he stubbornly didn't want to go. When the woman heard the tone of the child's voice, she felt that there was still hope, after all, it was a piece of flesh that fell from her body, and she knew her child.
The week was very fast, and on Saturday morning, when the sky was still dark, the two little ones were already restless on the kang, shouting that they wanted to go to the county seat. The woman had already gotten up and started to pack her things, Wang Chenglong was lying in the bed, awake, but he didn't say anything or move. Seeing her younger siblings making a fuss, she took the quilt and covered herself inside.
After packing up for Wang Laidi and Wang Guisheng, the woman walked up to Wang Chenglong, lifted the quilt and said: "Jackie Chan, be obedient, get up and leave quickly, today is an important day for our whole family, you hurry up, you have to go early, don't let your dad wait in a hurry." ”
Wang Chenglong didn't speak, but got up and started getting dressed. The woman doesn't talk much, and the kid needs to give herself a reason.
When he was about to go out to take a tricycle on the street, Wang Chenglong followed behind, and the woman didn't say anything, and after finding the tricycle, she helped the three of them into the basket.
The bumps along the way, the four of them didn't say anything, Wang Chenglong didn't know what he was thinking, Brother Lai and Guisheng looked outside, looked at it for a while, and then retreated to the side of the road behind them, thinking it was very good-looking, and they were never tired of it.
When I arrived at the county detention center, the public family had already gone to work, and there were too many people who couldn't go in at a time, so the woman asked Wang Chenglong to watch his younger brother and sister outside, and went in with his own things.
She could see that Wang Defa was more nervous than usual, and his speech was incoherent. The woman didn't want him to stay here for a second longer, so she gave him what she had brought and said, "Don't think about anything, change quickly, and leave when you're done!" The dolls are waiting outside, I'm afraid they'll run around. ”
"Is Jackie Chan here too?"
"It's coming!"
Wang Defa has mixed feelings in his heart, recalling the regret when he moved forward five years, and comparing the anxiety that he is about to go out now, life is like this, everyone is a first-time person, and many things can only be experienced while walking, thinking while experiencing, and changing while thinking.
The woman waited for about ten minutes, Wang Defa came out of it with a new look, and simply said goodbye to the people who worked in the public house, and was taken by the woman's arm and walked out.
On the high wall, wrapped in barbed wire, Wang Defa's mood became a little heavier with every step he took, and the iron gate facing him was opened by two people who could just pass through it.
This iron gate is usually opened few times, and each time it is opened, it is accompanied by the sound of metal diaphragm teeth. Outside the iron gate, Wang Chenglong held his brother with his left hand and Guisheng with his right hand, heard the sound of the iron door, turned around and stood in place looking at the figure inside, and slowly came out of the crack in the door. He saw the figure that longed and hated.
After the door behind Wang Defa and his woman was closed again, Wang Laidi and Wang Guisheng rushed to their mother, and Wang Chenglong stood in place. Don't look at the three-year age gap, there is still a big gap in the thoughts in my heart.
The two little ones didn't run to Wang De, but ran to find their mother. The child ran to him, Wang Defa squatted down, tears in his eyes were already rolling. The woman taught the two dolls to call them Dad, but no one opened their mouths, just awkwardly let Wang Defa hold them in her arms.