Leaving the detention center, her mother-in-law and Cao Lan felt very uncomfortable, and He Beitao became mute. The mother-in-law looked at He Hao and said: My good grandson, your father can't speak, I hope you will speak sooner. He Hao, who is a toddler, doesn't understand anything, and Cao Lan also hopes that he will learn to speak earlier.

In Cao Lan's impression, some children who are over one year old can spit out the word "mom" or something or spit it out overlappingly, Cao Lan tried to teach it a few times, but he couldn't. One and a half years old, two years old, and even three years old, He Hao can't speak, and sometimes he can't say "ah", but he can't say anything or can't speak clearly. Cao Lan and her mother-in-law were very anxious, and a question mark pressed on their hearts, this child was likely to be mute.

After a while, He Hao still couldn't speak, and they were sure that he was mute. Can dumbness be cured? Cao Lan asked, of course the experienced mother-in-law knew that mute could not be cured, especially viviparous mute, but she would rather not believe in her own rational judgment, and she would also take He Hao to see a doctor, mainly to ask the doctor, now that medicine is developed, can mute be cured?

When he arrived at a hospital, the doctor in a white coat pulled He Hao in front of him and asked him to open his mouth, but he closed more and more tightly, urging him, and he cried timidly. The doctor took the opportunity to pry open his slightly open mouth with a piece of medical wood to examine it, and found that his tongue was shorter than that of ordinary people, so he sighed and said: It is a viviparous mute, and it cannot be cured.

The family gave up on treatment for He Hao. The mother-in-law hoped that her son would return home with her daughter-in-law to have another child after his sentence was completed, and she thought that her daughter-in-law could not be dumb every child she gave birth to. But her wish was frustrated, and before her son was released from prison, Cao Lan left the house, and in the words of her mother-in-law's jealousy, she ran away with a wild man outside. People in the village said that Cao Lan also had her difficulties, her husband was serving a sentence in the number, and the family was lost, and she was very embarrassed financially, Cao Lan couldn't stand it, her mother-in-law was old, her feet were steelless, her hands were iron, everything depended on herself, she had to go out to work, she couldn't resist the temptation outside, and it was normal to run away with a wild man.

After his mother left, he was not yet 5 years old, and his grandmother could take care of him, but he also needed his mother very much. In his impression, his mother often wears a yellow floral spring dress, a shawl and black hair, floating over from time to time, covering half of her face, there are always tears on her face, how good to know that his mother has cried, but I don't understand why my mother is crying?

After his mother left, although he couldn't make a sound, he kept gesturing, and his grandmother knew that he wanted his mother, but there was no way. It's not good to coax left and right, so grandma asked passers-by, where did you see Cao Lan? If you see it, I will ask you to bring a letter and let Cao Lan come back and see her child, the child needs her.

Whenever grandma asked passers-by like this, He Hao listened quietly, and I don't know if he could hear it, anyway, he didn't make any noise at all. It's a pity that no passer-by can give the letter to the He family, in the initial period of He Hao's desire for his mother has increased unabated, that time out of the door, there is a woman with black hair and shawl on the village road far away, the back is very similar to his mother, He Hao stood on the field for a long time, looking intently, until the back went farther and farther, and then disappeared.

He Hao was disappointed again, as he grew older, he gradually had a vague impression of his mother. Dad came back from prison, because he was restless, and he didn't get along well with his grandmother, grandma often complained that he shouldn't do things that hurt nature, he vomited and left, and he didn't care about his son, he didn't have any feelings with his son, he left, and never came back.

Grandma is old, He Hao is mute again, there is no school for the deaf and dumb nearby, even if there is, grandma has no ability to send him to school, so he has no chance to go to school and becomes an out-and-out illiterate. However, He Hao is not stupid, his grandmother is old, and whatever he tells him to do, as long as he can do it, he will not shirk it. When he was a teenager, his grandmother often asked him to go up to the mountains to chop wood, and in the mountains and forests, because outsiders or teenagers of the same age did not know how to speak dumbly, he lost the opportunity to communicate with others.

Coincidentally, there was a female mute in the mountains and forests who was about his age, Long Duoyun, who was also collecting firewood, and was also very lonely, but he met him and fell in love with him, and they talked and communicated in mute, and naturally became friends.

4 years later, his grandmother, who lived on the relief of the village with the minor He Hao, unfortunately died, and when the villagers took the place of the funeral, Long Duoyun also rushed to hang his filial piety with a black veil on his sleeve.

Soon, Long Duoyun became He Hao's daughter-in-law. Before this, Long Duoyun's father was very opposed, saying that how should two mutes live together? But what is it good for Long Duoyun to live or die, her father considered that it was impossible for normal people to look down on a mute girl, so he had to agree.

A few years later, the mute couple gave birth to a baby boy, and the family was very happy, but after 3 years of raising them, they still couldn't talk like a normal child, and they knew that this child, who was also mute, was very disappointed.

Due to the embarrassment of life, the mute child often catches colds, and the parents who are also mute have no money to treat him. That time the child coughed and cried heavily. Long Duoyun asked He Hao if he had any money in sign language, He Hao replied in sign language, and opened her wallet to see that it was empty.

Long Duoyun's hand was inadvertently raised, and he touched a shiny silver hairpin on her head, which was given to her by her mother as a dowry when she got married.

At this time, she pursed her lips and smiled, knowing in her heart that she had no money to treat the child, so she would give this silver hairpin to the doctor as a countervail, wouldn't it? She thought so, and she did it. Carrying the child into a hospital in the city, she didn't know that she needed to register, so she went directly to a department, and the doctor in the white coat was giving the patient a pulse, which came in order, and she didn't have time to pay attention to the others.

Long Duoyun put down the child on his back, and then sent the silver hairpin that he had taken off his head early to the doctor, who looked at her inexplicably and pointed at her, and asked her what she was going to do, of course she couldn't speak, she could only use sign language to express her meaning, the doctor didn't understand sign language, but he saw that she was dumb, and saw that she was shaking the silver hairpin with one hand and holding the coughing child with the other, and understood half of the meaning. Then he said, "Do you want me to treat this child?" She nodded, and shook the silver hairpin in front of the doctor.

The doctor said I don't want this thing, I want a prescription, you go to register, after registration, I will use your prescription to see your child, and then prescribe, you go to the pharmacy window to pay for the medicine.

Long Duoyun had no money to pay for the medical bills, and was bent on using this silver hairpin as a countervail, and the doctor didn't understand what this meant, so she was very anxious, so she pushed the child with a cold and a runny nose in front of the doctor, and the doctor took out a written prescription for her to look at and said: You go to the window to register, get the prescription for me, and then see your child.

Seeing that she was mute, she couldn't hear or speak clearly. The doctor had no choice but to get up and take her out, pointed to the window of the row of people standing in line on the left side of the hospital hall, and said, "You go there to stand in line and register."