In the winter of 1951, during the day, the courtyard at No. 98 Nanluoguxiang was still the same as usual, and everyone went to work and did not go to work at home with their children doing chores.

At this time, a middle-aged man about 40 years old, wearing black cloth pants, mille-feuille shoes, and a blue cotton jacket, hurriedly walked from the main gate to the courtyard, shouting as he walked:

"Silly pillar, come out quickly. Something big is wrong". From the middle courtyard, the door of the main room was opened, and a young man of about 1.7 meters was fifteen or sixteen years old, and asked in confusion: "Uncle Yi, why is this?" Don't be in a hurry to tell me what's going on, I'm here."

At this time, the other residents of the courtyard heard the movement and opened the door from their rooms and walked out, all of them asked with curiosity: "What's this, what's the matter, Master Yi is in a hurry, what happened to the He family." At this time, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Silly Zhu, you have to be stronger,"

At this time, the young man said: "Uncle Yi, I am a little confused about what you said, why do I have to be stronger, what happened here." The middle-aged man said at this time: "Silly Zhu, your father and the white widow who came to visit relatives in Baocheng ran away and went to Baocheng, the leader in the factory told me, saying that he resigned this morning, the letter of introduction, the afternoon train, last night when a few of us were drinking, why did you leave without saying a word" At this time, the young man hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Uncle Yi, don't lie to me when I am young, my father ran well, and he didn't do anything." "Why did I lie to you about such a big thing, now it is spread in the factory, saying that the chef of the third canteen and a widow surnamed Bai left their two children to go to Baocheng," said the middle-aged man at this time.

The crowd of onlookers next to him opened their mouths and said, "No, although Master He doesn't usually look like he doesn't talk much, he doesn't look like a person who can do things like this" "Yes, you can't just leave without saying a word, the stupid pillar and the rain are still there." "Listening to the people around me, I feel that my brain is a little up." Pillar go home and look for it, see if your father has left a letter or something. At this time, the middle-aged man said. The boy recovered from the panic and uneasiness of hearing the news, turned around and went back to his room to start searching, and after a while found a letter and 500,000 yuan from under his father's pillow. A few words were written on the envelope, "Yi Zhonghai" This is the name of a middle-aged man, it seems that my father has long had the idea and preparation to run away, but I didn't expect it to be so well hidden, and no one found out.

The young man took out the letter and money out of the door and handed them to Yi Zhonghai: "Uncle Yi, I found a letter and 500,000 yuan, your name is written on it, you can quickly see what is written in the letter." Yi Zhonghai hurriedly took it: "Okay, I'll take a look." opened the envelope, took out a piece of paper, looked at it, was silent for a long time, and said: "Zhuzi, your father did go to Baocheng, and it was written that the 500,000 yuan was left for your two brothers and sisters, so that you don't worry about him and live a good life by yourself" The other people around were shocked, and a middle-aged woman said at this time: "This He Daqing ran away and left a 16-year-old child and a 7-year-old doll, and only gave 500,000 yuan, which is how to let the two children live." Others also said: "Yes, is this to let the two children die?" "Why don't you find the street office, see if the street office can contact He Daqing" This is a woman who looked at a woman about 30 years old, and others echoed "Yes, why don't you find the street office, the two children are so old, what can I do without a father."

Listening to the discussions of the people around him, the young man's brain seemed to explode. Silly Zhu's face was pale, and he couldn't believe that his father would leave him and his 7-year-old sister and run away, and the person who couldn't accept it for a while fell backwards. "Silly pillar, what's going on". Seeing that the boy fainted, Yi Zhonghai hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the boy and shouted loudly, "Pillar, silly pillar, wake up." The other people around hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Silly Zhu, what's the matter, why did you faint all of a sudden." The people around him understood that this was their father's runaway, and it was difficult to accept it for a while. At this time, Yi Zhonghai said, "Li family, please go to the street office and talk to Director Wang about this matter, and let him see what to do." "Okay, Master Yi, I'll go over now," said the woman, who was about 30 years old, and walked towards the gate.

Most of the people in the courtyard work in the rolling mill, among which Yi Zhonghai lives in the middle yard and is now a level 6 fitter without a subsidy of more than 700,000 yuan per month, and the husband and wife have no children.

There is also a 5-level forging worker Liu Haizhong lives in the backyard and is also in the rolling mill, but not a workshop, with a monthly salary of more than 600,000 yuan, a family of 5 people in addition to the husband and wife and 3 boys, the eldest son Liu Guangqi is 12 years old this year and just graduated from primary school and is in the first year of junior high school, the second son Liu Guangtian is 8 years old this year, and the third son is 6 years old.

The Jia family has two mothers and sons, living in the front yard, the son is just 18 years old this year, he just entered the factory this year, worships Yi Zhonghai as a teacher, and is now an apprentice, 185,000 yuan per month. There is a family at the gate opposite the door of Jia's house in the front yard, the man is a teacher, the eldest son Yan Jiekuang is 9 years old this year and just entered the second grade, the second son Yan Jiefang is only 5 years old this year, the third is 2 years old this year, and the husband is a teacher in Hongxing Primary School with a monthly salary of 275,000.

There is an old lady in the backyard who is a five-guarantee household, who has no children or daughters and is alone, and the street office pays 100,000 yuan every month. The wife of the Xu family in the backyard works as a servant in the capitalist Lou's house, and the husband works as a projectionist in a rolling mill, and the two have a son, Xu Damao, who is 15 years old this year and graduated from junior high school in just one year after the second year of junior high school, but his studies are not very good, and he may not be able to go to high school. There are still a few families in the courtyard, adding up to more than 100 people and 20 households, and several households were assigned to the courtyard after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

At this time, He Yuzhu in the middle courtyard of the He family house was placed on the bed, his face was full of sweat as if he was having a terrible nightmare, the stupid pillar in the dream was also his father ran away at the age of 16, leaving himself and his sister two, at that time he was not old enough to go to the factory to take over, he could only take his sister to pick up garbage, relying on the neighbors in the courtyard to give some food for 2 years, if it were not for the street office Director Wang often received some food, he was good to say that his sister was afraid that it would have been gone.

In the dream, he was in a mess, from entering the factory at the age of 18 until Jia Dongxu died, an uncle let himself help the Jia family, it was just a meal in the early stage, and in the next few years, Qin Huairu kept borrowing money, saying that it was tuition and supplementing nutrition for the child. It wasn't until 65 years that the grandson of the Jia family stole the chicken, and he was forced to admit that he stole the chicken due to Qin Huairu's tears and the pressure of stealing the factory chicken, which caused his sister's mother-in-law to hear the news and wanted to cancel the wedding, and the sister and brother-in-law begged for a long time before the wedding was rearranged to the National Day of the following year, and these were not until the later sister told herself, and Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao reported that the Lou family and the Lou family ran away, and he was taken off by Qin Huairu until 76 years before getting married, and the two have no children of their own after marriage, Silly Zhu always thought it was his own problem, and never said what Qin Huairu was, until Lou Xiao'e returned with his son in the 80s, and he knew that he couldn't give birth, until his sister returned to the courtyard and told him that Qin Huairu had already been on the ring, and he wanted to divorce, but the three uncles in the courtyard did not agree to divorce him and Qin Huairu, and then Lou Xiao'e opened a hotel, Qin Huairu arranged for his three children to work in the hotel, and the scenes were interpreted in a dream as if they were in a movie. Until more than 2,000 years ago, Lou Xiao'e and Qin Huairu, who were in their 70s, died early, the three children of the Jia family kicked themselves out of the courtyard, and they lived in the bridge cave homelessly.

Suddenly, a voice came out of the dream, "Silly pillar, silly pillar, have you seen it, this is your future life, what a ridiculous life, after decades of hard work but in exchange for such an ending" "I don't, I don't want this, this is not me, this is absolutely impossible to be me, this is all fake" The stupid pillar on the bed trembled all over his body "This is also your real life, I am you are me, I am dead, but I am not reconciled, why did I work hard all my life but finally froze to death in the bridge hole, I hate, I hate" The voice from the dream came again. "Who are you, why are you talking in my head" There was no voice in my head again, and after a while, a leisurely voice sounded again, "I am you, I am a stupid pillar frozen to death in the bridge hole, whether you can accept it or not, this is the end of you and me, but I am unwilling, I want to live again, live for myself again, I don't want to live in other people's calculations for the rest of my life, accept my memory, and live a life that belongs to you and me instead of me, don't follow my old path" After speaking, the voice disappeared. The silly pillar on the bed receives memories in his dreams that belong to him and do not belong to him. After a long time, Silly Zhu woke up, opened his eyes and saw everything in the house, all of this is so familiar, there are his previous memories and memories of decades in his dreams, I am He Yuzhu, relive a lifetime, is this true or false, for a time and a half years old children can't accept this kind of unbelievable thing.

After a long time, there were bursts of crying outside the house, and the stupid pillar on the bed opened the door and looked at the crying little girl at the door, He Yushui's own sister, in her dream, she had begun to owe her since she took over the Jia family, and even almost caused her not to get married. "Silly brother, did Dad really run away, does Dad don't want the two of us anymore" The little girl said while crying. Silly Zhu squatted down and picked up his sister, wiped his tears for his sister, "Don't cry, my brother is still there" turned around and walked into the house and put my sister on the chair, picked up the towel in the basin next to her and wiped her sister's face, and said, "Rain, Dad did go to Baocheng, I just knew it in the afternoon" This is He Yushui crying louder "Why, why doesn't Dad want the two of us, I miss Dad, I'm going to find him, I want Dad" He Yuzhu's skull hurt even more, He Daqing ran away and only left 50 yuan for him and Yushui, The two brothers and sisters didn't work early and finished painting one day, they were not young enough to enter the factory to take over the requirements, and they remembered that they went to Baocheng with the rain to find He Daqing, but they were rejected by the white widow, and they didn't see He Daqing for two days, so they had no choice but to take the rain back to BJ. "Don't cry in the rain, wait for my brother to find the street office in the past two days and then take you to find Dad" He Yuzhu said, "Really, brother, really go to Dad" He Yushui stopped crying and asked a little expectantly after hearing this, He Yuzhu nodded.

At this time, a voice came from the courtyard, and then I heard "Silly pillar, open the door." Director Wang of the Street Office is here, "Coming, coming," He Yuzhu replied. Then I opened the door and saw Yi Zhonghai and a blue-faced woman about 40 years old standing outside the door. "Uncle Yi, Director Wang, come in" He Yuzhu hurriedly made way for the two of them and let the two of them enter the house. Director Wang advanced Yi Zhonghai and then saw He Yushui still sobbing next to the table after entering the house. Director Wang saw that he was distressed and stepped forward to pick up the rain to comfort him, and then said to He Yuzhu, "Zhuzi, I just found out about your father, I went to the rolling mill to understand the situation", "Director Wang, I just said to Yushui, I want to find you in a few days to see if we can arrange for our brother and sister to go to Baocheng to find my father and see what the situation is on his side" He Yuzhu said. Yi Zhonghai next to him looked at He Yuzhu with some differences, and felt that the stupid pillar was a little different from before, but there was no way to say where it was different, maybe it felt wrong.