Four hours by train, two and a half hours by car, at three o'clock at noon, Xing Yi arrived at the bus station in his hometown of Jinxiu County.

That's right, this is the scene of the old station when I was young, a two-story house, blue bricks and black tiles, a big wall clock on top of the ticket gate, the swing of the clock, the ticking sound can be heard when you stand in the yard.

The weather was very bad, it had rained heavily before, the ground was wet, the potholes were filled with water, and thick clouds hung overhead, which made Xing Yi very worried.

In the previous life, on the day he came back, due to heavy rain and sudden flooding, the Wanhe stone bridge on the way to Ma'anshan was washed away, and the farm bus stopped, and half a month later, he was able to cross the river by boat to visit his parents.

And there seems to be a newspaper in the window, publishing relevant reports. He didn't remember the specific contents, but he paid attention to the whole shop window, and didn't see the newspaper with the disaster, and the corner of his eye swept the calendar next to the big wall clock: June 11, 1997, it turned out that he had returned a day earlier than in his previous life.

The first thing you see is a pictorial of the countdown to the college entrance examination, with dozens of passionate smiling faces of students in the distance, and the distant view is an endless blooming sunflower, and the counting frame is located above the picture, in the blue sky.

Today is the twenty-eighth day of the countdown.

He stared at the pictorial for a while, and he had a soft spot for it.

In his previous life, he had collected a collection of college entrance examination questions for more than 20 years, filled a large wooden box.

He often had trouble sleeping at night, and later went to the hospital for a check-up, but no problems were found, and the doctor recommended counting every night before going to bed to solve math problems. It's also good that the collected college entrance examination questions have a use.

Before going to bed at night, I took out the question set, first covered the answers, and then went to do the questions, repeated many times, and memorized a lot of answers, but the sleep problem was not solved.

I remember clearly that the hobby of collecting college entrance examination questions began this year.

Adjacent to the pictorial there is a big red paper, which is a poster about the sale of lottery tickets, and in two weeks, the relevant units will sell scratch lottery tickets in the West Gate Square.

For the first time ever, lottery tickets were sold openly in the city.

The face value of each ticket is two yuan, and there are 100 tickets in each box, and the winning face is large, and the prizes are rich, which are towels, water cups, rice cookers, cassette recorders, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, and motorcycles.

It was a spectacle indeed, and early in the morning there were 100 people entering, approaching the familiar group they knew, holding up the round bills and the second round bills to buy them, usually five at a time, and some buying ten.

Lottery players get the lottery ticket, turn around and start scratching the number, the whole process is varied, quite exciting, there are no scruples to scratch in public, a few people around to watch the scrape, there is a separate back to hide from the scrape, of course, most of them are empty numbers, nothing, pick up the round, two pick up the circle on the water.

Some people sigh, some choke their wrists, some shake their hands, the lottery tickets are thrown to the ground, and their heels are trampled. Scrape out towels, water cups, etc., take them to claim the prize, hesitate a little, and pay for it again. Scrape out the rice cooker, cassette recorder, and naturally be happy for a while.

On the morning of the first day, shortly after the lottery went on sale, a person spent 500 yuan and got a quarter box of lottery tickets, from which he scratched out the three jackpots of televisions, refrigerators, and motorcycles, which caused a sensation for a while.

The streets and alleys were talking about it, and the great temptation made him follow the flow of people once. Although I went, I stood thirty meters away, watched for a while, and left, people just arrived at the new unit, mainly work, other things are inconvenient to think about, just look at the excitement, understand the situation.

Later, I heard that Yang Linxiang, the driver of the company, had not been free in those three days, and went to buy it every day, and I don't know how much money it spent, and the biggest prize was a glass water cup. He's a driver, and he's out a lot of time, so he's just useful.

Yang Linxiang usually doesn't talk much,People are more straightforward,The pursuit of the lottery is also very persistent,After there is a lottery station on the street,One thing to do after work every day,Is to buy lottery tickets。

According to Yang Linxiang's economic strength and courage analysis, it is impossible for him to buy a box at one time, just buy a few pieces and try his luck, and the grand prize is still far away from him.

If he knew in advance what box the jackpot was going to be in which set, what bother with it? Go directly to the group, wait in line to get to the name, take out 2,000 yuan, shout I want the box, and find a place to avoid scratching those tickets after getting it, that's the jackpot, drink yo, don't go crazy.

It's a pity that Yang Linxiang is not a prophet and is not so lucky.

Xing Yi lowered his head and thought, the amount of money on his body is far from enough, if he really wants not to lose this opportunity, then he has to find a way to raise two thousand yuan before the lottery ticket goes on sale.

At a time when the average office worker's monthly salary is three or four hundred yuan, this seems to be a bit difficult.

I couldn't help but raise my head and look around.

Except for the occasional passer-by or two, nothing could attract attention, so I had to look back at the window.

Next to the scratch prize poster, there is a small missing person notice.

A three-and-a-half-year-old child, three and a half years old, went out of the house with his grandmother and was wearing shorts, plastic sandals, and a hand-woven gauze vest.

Xing Yi also remembered this matter clearly.

That was one day, he was watching TV at home alone, and the channel was tuned to the "Baby Come Home" column, and the name of Jinxiu County was displayed at the bottom of the screen, which attracted his attention.

It's about the countryside, a remote village, there is a child, with his grandmother to the countryside, somehow suddenly lost, the family searched around, posted notices, no news, grandma almost went crazy, sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

Twenty-three years later, he returned.

From the day her grandson was lost, her grandmother fell ill and lay down for three years, dying, not eating water and rice, but she still missed her grandson, kept beating her heart, and finally died with hatred.

The child's father has been running outside for more than ten years, no matter where there is news, movement, immediately rushed out, more than ten springs, summers, autumns and winters, ran through more than ten provinces and hundreds of counties, until exhausted, and did not stop, because of overwork, the mental blow was too big, slowly, insane, one cold winter, people found him on the streets of a distant township......

The TV reporter interviewed the mother, who was looking for something in the old cabinet, and had to hold her son tightly with one hand. The mother's tears were dry, and her dry eyes were staring at this person, and she almost wondered if it was her own son.

In front of the camera's lens, the police station chief explained their continued efforts, as well as the extremely effective work carried out by the teams organized by several local caring people, and I am really grateful to them for being able to reunite their relatives after 23 years.

Faced with the situation of this family, the young director also had tears in his eyes and his voice was choked...... The day did come too late.

Xing Yi got closer, looked at the time carefully, and the notice was posted, half a month.

If the family had known that the child was still alive earlier, the situation would have been different, and the grandmother would have had hope, and when she got up from the hospital bed, the father's spiritual support would have been strong, and the confidence in finding her son would have been stronger.

The notice indicated that the contact location was Zhumatai Village, Niujiaying Township, and the contact person was Zhao Fumin and Zhao Xinzhen.

We have to find these two people as soon as possible, let them know that the child will definitely be found, hope is still there, build confidence, and be strong.

After the work arrangement is decided, find a way to go to Zhumatai Village.