Chapter 25: Thousands of miles to find a husband, disappointed

In the blink of an eye, in late May, Sister Yun saw that I really helped her find Wang Xiaofeng, so she said: "Shenzhen is far away in the south, we are here in the northwest, the distance is too far, and there are few people in the past, even in the county, it is difficult to find out about him; I won't bother you. There was still some time before the wheat harvest, and I decided to go to Shenzhen to find him in person. If I can't find him this time, I won't come back. I said, "Don't talk nonsense, if you don't come back, what will Huzi do?" She laughed again. said: "As long as he is still in Shenzhen, I will do everything possible to get him back." I said, "Now there are more open cities, not only Shenzhen, but also Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and the whole province of Hainan." Zhao Mingren has not been able to find him in Shenzhen, maybe Xiaofeng has gone to other cities. Sister Yun sighed: "He is going to other cities, and he doesn't come to him, there are so many open cities in the south, I have no choice, so I have to squat at home and wait for him!" If he is still alive and has a little conscience, and cares about the relationship between husband and wife, he will send a letter, and if he does not come, he will explain the situation, so as not to worry the whole family. If he's gone, blame me for wronging him. If he changes his mind and has a new love, I will die and live by myself with Huzi. I said, "You have a lot of imagination!" I thought of everything. Where is it so complicated? Sister Yun said: "These days, I think about it every day and night, I think about these situations, and he will always be one of them." I said, "Maybe there are exceptions." Where is Xiao Feng doing business at the moment, wait for him to make a lot of money and then write to you, or personally return to his hometown with a lot of money. All of them are capable. Sister Yun said: "This situation is better. I can't wait, I'm sure I'll make a trip myself and get to the bottom of it! ”

Sister Yun returned home and told her in-laws and parents that she still hadn't heard anything about Xiaofeng from me, and that she was going to Shenzhen to find Xiaofeng in person. The parents on both sides couldn't think of a better way than to cry and sigh. Another day passed, Sister Yun handed over her son Huzi to her in-laws to take care of, took the coil, and went to Shenzhen alone.

Sister Yun came to Shenzhen and found Zhao Ming, a classmate of Wang Xiaofeng who worked in an electronics factory, according to the mailing address. Zhao Ming said that since receiving her letter, he has been looking for Xiaofeng, but has never found him; But he also got a clue about Xiaofeng: a month ago, a co-worker told him that he had met his fellow countryman Wang Xiaofeng on the beach in Shenzhen, but he was not familiar with Xiaofeng and hurried over without speaking. After he learned the news, he went to the beach twice in person but did not meet Xiaofeng; I don't know if this worker saw the real Xiaofeng, or if he saw the wrong person.

Sister Yun felt strange and asked, "Didn't Xiao Feng say that he was doing business, what was he doing on the beach?" Zhao Ming said that there are often some traders on the beach who buy and sell smuggled small household appliances, because they are smuggled goods and do not pay customs duties, so they are very cheap. Some unscrupulous traders often come here to buy them at a low price, and then get them to sell them at a high price in other places to make a huge profit. The cheapest is an electronic watch. This kind of watch, in Hong Kong and Macau, is just a children's toy, a few cents a piece; Sell it for a few bucks on the beach; If you get it to other places on the open sea, you can sell it for more than 10 yuan or even 20 yuan. Because of the small profits, the general small businessmen do this kind of business. However, the risk is also very high, and if you are caught by the anti-smuggling team, you will be fined for a minor amount of money, and you will be fined for a serious time and go to jail. He estimated that Xiao Feng might be doing this kind of business when he went to the beach. Sister Yun became frightened when she heard this, and said, "He came out to work, how can he do such a criminal thing?" Zhao Ming said that he just estimated it this way, and it may not be true. Although Sister Yun couldn't believe it, she decided to go to the beach to investigate in person.

The next day, Sister Yun went to the beach. Sure enough, after a while, someone came up and asked her if she wanted an electronic watch, and praised that this kind of watch is cheap, accurate, and does not need to be energetic, which is more trouble-free and money-saving than mechanical watches, which is the direction of the future development of watches. Sister Yun asked him how much it was, and he said to buy one piece, fifteen yuan, and buy two, twenty-five yuan. Sister Yun heard Zhao Ming say that this kind of watch only costs a few yuan to buy on the beach, so she shook her head and said, "No, it's too expensive." Then the man said, "It seems that you know the market." Okay, two pieces, eighteen dollars, take it. Sister Yun said: "One of my relatives is also engaged in this kind of business, one piece, it will be sold for six or seven yuan, and if you buy two, it will be ten yuan at most." The man said, "What is the name of your relative?" Sister Yun said: "It's called Wang Xiaofeng, with a Shaanxi accent." The man shook his head: "I don't know." Sister Yun said: "You tell me where he is, two yuan, eighteen yuan, I also bought it." The man smiled, still shaking his head: "You just give me twenty yuan, and I still don't know it." Since they are all peers, I can't lie to you about this. In the end, Sister Yun bought two electronic watches for fifteen yuan, and instructed the watch seller: "You help me inquire, I met a Shaanxi man named Wang Xiaofeng, please tell him that his family came to him and lived in Shenzhen Electronics Factory and his fellow countrymen, and he would know." The man agreed.

Sister Yun was on the beach, and met a few more people selling electronic watches, she also lost no time in asking about it, but the answer she got was the same: I don't know, I have never seen such a person.

In the next few days, Sister Yun was still wandering aimlessly on the beach, asking people when she saw them, but still no one knew about Wang Xiaofeng. She had to decide that the person Zhao Ming's co-workers saw was not Wang Xiaofeng at all. Perhaps, as Liu Ying guessed, Xiaofeng is really no longer in Shenzhen, and has gone to other open cities. Where the hell did he go? Zhuhai, Xiamen, or Hainan? No one knows, let alone looks.

On the fourth day, Sister Yun returned to the electronics factory to find Zhao Ming, and recounted the situation of looking for Wang Xiaofeng in the past few days and her suspicions. Zhao Ming had no choice but to admit that his co-worker might have seen the wrong person; Because Wang Xiaofeng has not worked in the electronics factory for a long time after all, and he doesn't like to talk very much, and not many people know him. How do you look for it? Zhao Ming suggested that she go to the recruitment points of several large companies to find out if Xiaofeng was looking for a better job, because Xiaofeng was a high school graduate with a higher education than him, and what Xiaofeng meant was to seek a job that engaged in mental work.

Sister Yun also thinks that there is such a possibility, because Xiaofeng has always valued mental work and despised physical labor. So she began to look for Wang Xiaofeng at the recruitment points of major companies.

There are new companies opening in Shenzhen every day, and companies are recruiting workers every day. Sister Yun was first literate, and while watching advertisements, she visited, and went to one recruitment point after another to look for it, hoping to meet Wang Xiaofeng. The front of the recruitment point was crowded with all kinds of applicants, noisy, crowded, and overwhelming; Male, female, urban, rural, educated, uneducated, with different clothes, different hairstyles, different accents, different images and temperaments. She stood next to her, watching groups of people come and go, go and come, until the recruitment point closed and got off work, and she never saw Wang Xiaofeng appear. She was disappointed, so she had to rush to another recruitment office to investigate, and the result was the same.

For three days in a row, Sister Yun shuttled back and forth at various recruitment points, and people with a northwest accent occasionally went up to ask, but she always hoped to come and went disappointed. Sometimes she even thinks that I should apply for a job and stay in Shenzhen to work, and see where Xiaofeng has gone and what he is doing. But think about what I said, now that there are so many open cities along the coast, Xiaofeng may go to other cities, it will be even more difficult to find, and the money brought is not enough; Thinking of her young son Huzi, her disabled father-in-law, and the ripe crops in the field, she still decided to go home and wait for Xiaofeng's news. A week later, Sister Yun said goodbye to Zhao Ming in tears and returned to her home by car.

I heard that Sister Yun came back from Shenzhen, and I wanted to know where Wang Xiaofeng had gone and how it was; Because this is an unfinished task given to me by Sister Yun, Wang Xiaofeng's situation is uncertain, Sister Yun's emotions will not settle down, and I also feel guilty. It happened to be a Sunday, so I bought some snacks and borrowed them to go home to visit my grandparents and visit Sister Yun.

I haven't seen her for a few days, Sister Yun is a lot haggard, her clothes are no longer as bright and tidy as when she went, her eyes are no longer so bright and bright, her face is not so fair and ruddy, and she has lost a lot of weight, her face is sad, and she looks tired. It was with tears in her eyes that she told me about the process and results of her search for Wang Xiaofeng in Shenzhen. After listening to this, I had an ominous feeling in my heart, although I didn't dare to say it, I was thinking in my heart, Zhao Ming couldn't find it, Sister Yun couldn't find it in person, I couldn't find him anywhere, Wang Xiaofeng was about to be more than lucky! Xiaofeng's parents didn't speak after seeing me on the side, and finally couldn't help crying: "My hard-working son, you left so silently, leaving your parents alone, what can you do when you get old?" When Sister Yun heard this, she thought about her and Huzi's future life, and she also cried.

What should I do in the face of a cry? You can't watch them cry like that. So I had to hold back my tears, repeat the old trick, and say loudly, "You are so rare and strange! The special economic zone is not just Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Hainan, all of them, where are they not open? Where not to recruit? Wang Xiaofeng has been in business for several years, and he is better than a monkey! He was originally just a student who loved to learn, he had never done business, and after two years, he became a 10,000-yuan household, a leader in getting rich, and was praised by the township government. He is also flexible and good at looking for opportunities, and if he can't open a store in the township, he immediately thinks of the county seat; The rent in the county seat was expensive, so he immediately went to Shenzhen; If he can't find a suitable job in Shenzhen, won't he go to Zhuhai, Guangzhou, and Hainan to have a look, break through, find a suitable job for himself, and seek new development? There is no letter for the time being, indicating that he has not yet found a suitable unit and a suitable job; Once he finds it, he will immediately send a letter and money to surprise you! If you don't find it for a while, you will think nonsense; Where did you think of it? I won't go far, think about the benefits! Since the reform and opening up, so many people have come back from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to visit their relatives, and their families originally thought they were gone, but now they are not back well? ”

Maybe it was because of my trust, maybe it was helpless, or because they still had hope for Wang Xiaofeng, but they didn't think I would say this, they really stopped crying, and talked about Wang Xiaofeng's shrewdness and ability and where he might go. Thank God, it's good that you don't cry, as for where Wang Xiaofeng went, only he knows, where do I know? I just don't believe he's going to die so easily.

Then came the tense summer harvest and summer planting, Sister Yun and the two families were engaged in continuous busy and overloaded labor, getting up early and going to bed late every day, tired and sore back, and weak limbs, temporarily putting Wang Xiaofeng's affairs aside. By the end of the harvest, Sister Yun was thinner, her clothes were looser, and her eyes were bigger, but she lacked her former look. ——As the dearest person, even if she endured heavy manual labor, how could she have forgotten the matter of her husband Wang Xiaofeng, who had no news in the depths of her mind! Alas! Wang Xiaofeng, when you were at home, you loved Sister Yun and Huzi so much, and honored your parents, if you were still alive, why couldn't you come to a letter and report your situation to the family? Are you so willing to let your wife, son, and parents endure endless pain and torture? This is by no means Wang Xiaofeng's usual behavior. Gradually, even I decided that he was more than lucky.