Chapter Nineteen Who Am I
Who am I? Where do I come from and where will I go? Why has fate arranged for me like this... It has been several days. Chen Long has not been able to eat well and cannot sleep. His head is about to explode!
Through his eldest sister's recollections of childhood events, and through his own recollections, he slowly had a comprehensive recollection of the process of his abduction...
It was dark, rainy, and the wind was blowing wildly. People on the street were running around to find shelter. His parents didn't know where they were busy. He saw a letter with a stamp on the table, and he already understood what the letter was.
Something, he had seen adults putting letters into mailboxes on the street, saying that they could send the letters out... So he picked up the letters on the counter and ran out. He turned a corner and ran not far down the street.
There was a mailbox where he could send letters, and he tried hard to put the letter into the mailbox. But he was too short, and he couldn't reach the mailbox, and he couldn't put it in. Suddenly, there was a big hand behind him.
I snatched the letter from his hand, picked him up and ran quickly. At this time, heavy raindrops started falling with the strong wind, hitting my face, making it difficult to open my eyes... everything happened too fast
So that he had no time to react, could not see the face of the person holding him, and his mind was just blank...
After being carried for a long time in the strong wind and rain, he was put down and dragged to continue running. At this time, he finally realized that something was wrong. The people dragging him were not his family members! So he started crying loudly.
Struggling... He cried desperately, struggled desperately, and broke free several times and ran away, but in the end he was caught and couldn't escape his clutches. He was yelled loudly and beaten hard!
In the wind and rain, he called his father and mother, crying to the sky and the earth, but no one appeared to save him...
This terrifying scene of crying and struggling in the storm has always been deeply imprinted in the depths of his memory. He often dreamed of being frightened and woke up in his dreams... As he grew up in chaos, he thought it was just a nightmare. Gradually, he thought it was just a nightmare.
As a result, he was assimilated into the complicated daily life of this family and spent every bad day in the hard years.
Chen Long remembers that he was always beaten and scolded by Chen Dexiu when he was a child. Of course, he was not the only one, but his elder siblings also grew up being beaten and scolded by him. Even his mother suffered the same experience and was often bullied and beaten.
When he was a child, Chen Long looked forward to growing up quickly, and then he would be able to resist Chen Dexiu. Then he could protect his sister and younger siblings, and stand on his mother's side against Chen Dexiu...
But the bad life never got better. Later, Chen Dexiu rarely stayed at home, and even when he returned home, he couldn't help. Every time he came back, he always smelled of alcohol, and almost everyone in the family became his punching bag.
He scolds anyone he catches. So everyone in the family is afraid of him and avoids him. If he doesn't come back, the family will live in peace. The children in the family are raised by their mother while farming...
He was already old enough to study, so he went to a primary school in a nearby village with his eldest sister to accompany him. Being smart, he successfully entered junior high school.
In the second year of junior high school, Chen Dexiu lost a lot while gambling outside and was forced to pay a debt. In order to pay off the gambling debt, he just moved and sold everything valuable at home. Even all the grain and oil that his mother had worked hard to farm were moved away.
I sold it to pay off my debt.
After that incident, the whole family entered the lowest point of life. Like the eldest sister, Chen Long resolutely dropped out of school and returned home to support a home that could be in danger at any time with his mother.
The eldest sister later got married early. Fortunately, she was married in a neighboring village, only about 20 minutes away from home. So even though she was married, she could still go home often and even come back with her brother-in-law to help.
In order to increase the family's income and expenses and support his two younger siblings in their studies, he once went to the town to sell popsicles, went to the abandoned reservoir to catch fish and sold them, and went up the mountain to collect Chinese herbal medicines to sell. Later, he followed some casual construction workers to the surrounding villages.
, hiring handymen in towns and counties.
Later, I saved some money. When I was 22 years old, I spent 20,000 yuan with a few older bachelors from surrounding villages. Through the introduction of a border matchmaker, I married a foreign girl who was about the same age as him. I finally completed my marriage.
Marriage matters.
Unfortunately, a few years after the two children were born, the virtuous wife accidentally fell off her feet and died while she was not familiar with the mountains while going to the mountains to collect herbs and chop firewood...
Then, my elderly mother accidentally fell down half a year ago, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and suffered a stroke, which left the left side of her body paralyzed. She spent a lot of money on rescue treatment and finally saved her life, but now she can only live in a wheelchair. My mother is unable to live.
She takes care of herself and needs someone to accompany her and serve her every day.
The family had been supported by the mother's hard work in farming. Later, the eldest sister and he dropped out of school and came back to help, and the family burden on her was relieved. During the six months of mother's hemiplegia, the eldest sister basically came back to take care of her every day. Chen Longcai
He has the energy and time to cultivate and care for the crops in the fields, and find time to go to the surrounding areas to work as various handymen to earn money. Especially for the two children, since they lost their mother, if the eldest sister had not come back to take care of them, it would be really difficult for him to endure these hard days...
The eldest sister has been helping his mother to support the family over the years, and everything he has done for this family is immeasurable. It was the fearless and selfless behavior of his mother and eldest sister that deeply taught him how to behave.
In Chen Long's small circle of activities, apart from going to the county town to find handymen, most of the rest of the time is looking for some handymen in the town. Such as repairing and demolishing old houses, building buildings, moving, building roads, etc.
Pull water, electricity, etc.
As the urbanization of cities across the country continues to progress, many people, especially young people, have gone to distant big cities to find jobs and development. But he is the only one who has been living in such a poor mountain village, suffering a hard life.
His eldest sister, including his mother, had persuaded him many times before, telling him to go to farther places, especially big cities, to find work and development like others, but he never left home. In fact, it was not that he didn't want to go,
It's just that he has never been able to let go of this family. Although the family has always been very short of money...especially after he got married and had these two children, he couldn't bear to leave this family.
Now, his life experience was suddenly exposed and confirmed in him, so all his life thoughts were disrupted!
No matter how miserable people are, no matter how poor or tired they are, they are not afraid of it. At least it is a peaceful and peaceful life. However, life's great joys and sorrows, especially bad events, can really happen in three days.
Torture people until they become gray-headed!
In the past two days, the eldest sister, in addition to recalling and confirming what happened to him back then, also constantly enlightened and persuaded him. She asked him to go to the provincial capital no matter what and look for the recipient according to the address left in the letter, hoping that he could
To find his biological parents, he also hopes to find a higher-paying job in the city...
However, this was an absolutely difficult decision. What should he do and how to choose? Why did fate play tricks on his life like this? He suddenly felt that he was standing at a vast crossroads in life, not knowing which way to go.
Chapter completed!