Chapter 7: Desperate Survival

Home is the homecoming of the wanderer, a haven from the wind, a place full of happiness and warmth.

After hundreds of miles of long march, I finally returned home, everything in the house was the same, except for my mother's gray hair and my father's wrinkles, which were also the last days of my life.

I knocked lightly on the door with my right hand a few times, the door opened, and it was my mother who opened the door, and before my mother could react, I had hugged my mother tightly, and my tears could not stop gushing out.

"Wow, woo, woo, woo...... Mom, I'm back, Taowa is back, I miss you, I miss you. ”

"Are you? You're Taowa, it's okay, it's okay! It's okay to come back!" my mother was stunned in her heart, and when she saw my face clearly, tears flowed down her eyes, patting me on the back and comforting me softly.

"Mom, I was wrong, I shouldn't have lied to you, I was fired from the school, and I wasn't admitted to any civil service, what my grandfather said was true, I believed it, I really believed it. ”

"Taowa, don't say it, Mom knows everything, you go and talk to your dad! It's been so many years, this matter has hurt you, Mom will boil water for you to wash and wash." ”

"Woo! Mom......!"

"Why are you crying? How old are you, don't cry! Mom is going to boil water for you," the old mom wiped her tears and went to the kitchen.

Wiping the tears from the corners of my eyes, I walked into the long-lost home in a few steps, at this time my father was sitting on the stool, looking at me with bloodshot eyes, his hands were shaking, and the cigarette ash in his hand was shaking off his thighs, "Is the child you? You should have come back a long time ago!"

"Dad! It's me! I'm Taowa, I'm back! Dad!" I said, and I couldn't help but burst into tears.

"It's good for the child to come back, it's all bad to blame Dad, I should have called you back when you quit school, we already knew about you, but this is your grandfather's arrangement, we are powerless, calling you back will hurt you, if you know that you are living so hard, Dad is not willing to say anything, all this would rather let Dad bear it alone. ”

"What?"

"Dad, you said you already knew about dropping out of school? How do you know? Don't you know about my physical condition? Dad, what's going on?" I said with tears in my eyes.

"This has to start from four years ago, when I went to work on the Deyang construction site with a few friends, I thought that we were not far from your school, I wanted to go to see you, but I called you several times and didn't get through, so I ran to your school, and asked for a long time to find your squadron teacher, he told me everything, and I was so scared that I didn't eat a bite of food for a few days, and your mother was even more seriously ill for a month!"

"Finally I remembered one thing, the night before your grandfather died, he told me that you were twenty-five years old and had a knot of death, and that you must go through all the hardships of the world, and that you must be human beings for two lifetimes to break this knot. ”

"At that time, your grandfather said this to me, I didn't believe anything, now it seems that as your grandfather said, everything in the world has its own fate! If you want to change your life against the sky, you will inevitably be condemned by heaven, of course, your current suffering is only the beginning, and the future road is well grasped, and Dad can't help you," Dad sighed in his heart and told me the reasons one by one.

"Dad, are you telling the truth, and do I really have hope?" I asked weakly, my trembling hands intertwined.

"Taowa, you ask my father! How do I know? This is also what your grandfather told me, to be honest, your grandfather's words, your father still doesn't believe much, but there are some things that people have to believe, the night your grandfather left, I asked me to leave a letter for you, saying that you will give it to you when you are almost twenty-five years old, and now you can take it to see!"

As he spoke, Dad turned around and found a yellowed envelope under the bed, which was still sealed and had not been cut.

I took the letter with my already trembling hands, and pressed it against my heaving chest······